Legal precedent only means anything when the rule changes the interpretation of a law, not when the rule is about facts. The rule did not clarify the law, it simply affirmed the law.
Well I do not believe this prediction. If the court had meant for the record companies to stop, they would have awarded attorney's fees this time around.
What that judgement tells me is that the courts are still in the record company's pockets, even when they are wrong, which they are more often than not. They could not say the law was not what it is, but they did the next best thing by killing Veoh another way.
This can happen as many time as needed, lather, rince and continue.
I am concerned about the privacy issues as well, but I am also concerned about availability. Google is well known for dropping services at whim, and I am concerned about some service that has become essential to me being dropped.
I would prefer to pay for these services to not only have privacy of my data, but also if it could provide some assurance that the service will not be dropped overnight.
The title sounds a little sensational, but the reality is less so. Please read PJ's post at Groklaw. Patents are good, just some claims in them were dismissed.
Microsoft had already agreed to license the patents, so the real fight was over the RAND rate for those, and the possible penalties for willful infringement. Seems like that part is mostly over.
I find it funny that people are claiming that C is a bad language, yet they use no such words to qualify assembly.
C is a bad language to the extent that it lets do what you want, even if that means shooting yourself in the foot. A language that would marry C's strengths while providing safeguards against buffer overruns and other ills would be an oxymoron.
If you have a section of code that is particularly time critical, you could write it in assembly as many people do. I prefer to actually write it in C but check the assembly output from the compiler, and optimize the C source until I am happy with the result. In all cases I have been able to achieve my objectives this way without actually having to insert a block of assembly (not all compilers let you do that in-line). The resulting code is still very easy to read (for me down the road or anyone else) while being efficient.
C is not the Swiss army knife of software (even though if one language qualified, C would be the closest), but it has its areas of expertise. In the world of small embedded systems, there is simply no alternative worth considering (and few alternatives available.)
For desktop applications, not so great (and I speak of experience.)
Why would they? When you buy food at the grocery store, you do not pay for the bag. At least you do not pay directly, at the cost of the food in the bag. The bag is only useful to carry the food to your home, just like the TCP header.
Why would you pay for the TCP headers (bag) which carry no useful information to you?
If it were not for Google News, I would not be a subscriber to Time. After freeloading for a while, I decided to do the right thing (and get the paper copy, which is nice to have) and get a paid subscription. The main idea being that I want to support this paper, and the best way for me to do it is to get a subscription.
Reducing tax rates increases economic activity and productivity. This results in increased GDP and therefore increases net revenue to the state from taxes.
yes, we saw how wonderfully that worked under Bush junior in the last 10 years.
When such principles have absolutely never ever been proven in practice, they should just die.
I started with Slackware up to about kernel 2.2.6, which I used for a while (console only), then I went all hog with the GUI and Ubuntu for the machines I manage about 4 or 5 years ago.
I think my ISP uses Debian.
I also use Debian for ARM on a small ARM SBC for some fun projects.
I get my internet hookup through Cox. Don't get me wrong, they are somewhat better than a bunch of other providers I keep hearing about. I am overall satisfied with their internet service (television service is another matter, I have DirectTV).
However, like most others, they have a data cap. Interestingly, the data cap does not apply to some of the services they provide, only to the rest of the world.
So I can watch internet television THEY provide to my heart's content, but for anybody else, there is a cap.
I am afraid in this context freedom means freedom for corporations to abuse the privilege of using a national resource (spectrum) and establish monopolies.
My view of freedom is more like freedom for the citizen to enjoy efficient usage of this national resource at a low cost driven by effective competition.
If the present status-quo non-compete (tolerated if not encouraged by the government) of the cable industry versus wireless telcos is any indication, competition and low prices are not in the future for Americans, unless something changes.
The ribbon interface is an absolute waste of time compared to the old menus, well beyond the time it would normally take to get used to something new. It is not just a matter of training. It is just simply vastly inferior by requiring more clicks for most operation and using more screen real estate in the process.
I am unfortunately not surprised they took a similar route with the OS itself, which is too bad considering that the OS itself seems to have gotten worthwhile improvements in speed, boot time and memory usage over Win 7.
I have a Droid Razr and it is actually quite nice to read ebooks on it. I do not have a tablet or ebook reader, but I found that the Razr is quite sufficient.
The default display (for ebooks) is white characters on black background and that is easy to read. It is easily changed to black-on-white if you prefer, but the white-on-black has the advantage of saving quite a bit of battery life (feature of the AMOLED display compared to LCD).
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When I saw that the second advert was over a minute, I gave up too.
It is unbelievable that somebody would actually propose something like that.
How about DNA? How about the thought that somebody could patent my own DNA and there is nothing I can do about it? Revolting.
It's not like an idiot about to rape somebody will change his mind after thinking of science...
What a well formed posting, thank you!
Legal precedent only means anything when the rule changes the interpretation of a law, not when the rule is about facts. The rule did not clarify the law, it simply affirmed the law.
What that judgement tells me is that the courts are still in the record company's pockets, even when they are wrong, which they are more often than not. They could not say the law was not what it is, but they did the next best thing by killing Veoh another way.
This can happen as many time as needed, lather, rince and continue.
They are paying you, just not in cash. They are paying you by providing valuable services for free.
I would prefer to pay for these services to not only have privacy of my data, but also if it could provide some assurance that the service will not be dropped overnight.
Commenting on my own post: "Patents are good" is meant in the context of this case. For my opinion about software patents in general, see http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/intro/index.html
Microsoft had already agreed to license the patents, so the real fight was over the RAND rate for those, and the possible penalties for willful infringement. Seems like that part is mostly over.
C is a bad language to the extent that it lets do what you want, even if that means shooting yourself in the foot. A language that would marry C's strengths while providing safeguards against buffer overruns and other ills would be an oxymoron.
If you have a section of code that is particularly time critical, you could write it in assembly as many people do. I prefer to actually write it in C but check the assembly output from the compiler, and optimize the C source until I am happy with the result. In all cases I have been able to achieve my objectives this way without actually having to insert a block of assembly (not all compilers let you do that in-line). The resulting code is still very easy to read (for me down the road or anyone else) while being efficient.
C is not the Swiss army knife of software (even though if one language qualified, C would be the closest), but it has its areas of expertise. In the world of small embedded systems, there is simply no alternative worth considering (and few alternatives available.)
For desktop applications, not so great (and I speak of experience.)
Nothing to be found here. Yet, I have no email. Running Firefox with default settings.
Just letting someone have a peek at the source code does not quite make it GPL.
You don't spam the phone by sending text messages... you spam the phone by sending "emails" to @
I would like to hear what they tell the judge when he asks where did they think the messages would end up if not on a cell phone as a text message?
Why would you pay for the TCP headers (bag) which carry no useful information to you?
So there you go.
Reducing tax rates increases economic activity and productivity. This results in increased GDP and therefore increases net revenue to the state from taxes.
yes, we saw how wonderfully that worked under Bush junior in the last 10 years.
When such principles have absolutely never ever been proven in practice, they should just die.
I think my ISP uses Debian.
I also use Debian for ARM on a small ARM SBC for some fun projects.
That would eliminate the problem with people not taking all their PTO in the year.
However, like most others, they have a data cap. Interestingly, the data cap does not apply to some of the services they provide, only to the rest of the world.
So I can watch internet television THEY provide to my heart's content, but for anybody else, there is a cap.
How is that for net neutrality?
there is no conflict here necessarily if we can get good laws written by technically competent people who care about our privacy and rights
Is that supposed to refer to our elected officials?
I hope everyone sees the funny part in that statement.
My view of freedom is more like freedom for the citizen to enjoy efficient usage of this national resource at a low cost driven by effective competition.
If the present status-quo non-compete (tolerated if not encouraged by the government) of the cable industry versus wireless telcos is any indication, competition and low prices are not in the future for Americans, unless something changes.
The ribbon interface is an absolute waste of time compared to the old menus, well beyond the time it would normally take to get used to something new. It is not just a matter of training. It is just simply vastly inferior by requiring more clicks for most operation and using more screen real estate in the process.
I am unfortunately not surprised they took a similar route with the OS itself, which is too bad considering that the OS itself seems to have gotten worthwhile improvements in speed, boot time and memory usage over Win 7.
The default display (for ebooks) is white characters on black background and that is easy to read. It is easily changed to black-on-white if you prefer, but the white-on-black has the advantage of saving quite a bit of battery life (feature of the AMOLED display compared to LCD).