Damn you guys are all sticking up for Apple. Fact is they could put copy protection into the beta. Feels like entrapment to me. They should have protected their software better. That's like posting the root login to your webserver on the net and prosecuting people who log in. Is that ethical?
I really dont think he would have had to make a case that it wasn't him, he could have just said "well I was just expecting apple to disable my license or something, I didn't know I was subject to pugnitive damages, you'd think apple would know better than to trust people on the internet like that". I certainly hope they were thoughtful enough to fine him $500 or something, even $100,000 to apple is chump change. If word gets out that they settled on anything over $1000, I'll never buy an apple product again.
There aught to be some laws against that sort of lawsuit, it is really up to apple to make their software copy proof. Aren't they the pioneers of DRM? Fuck!!!!!
Ew Ew.. both of those sound so unappleaing to me. Besides, that would never happen, microsoft isn't developing an OS for linux geeks. Its much simpler than that, being able to see a description along with an image without downloading a thumbnail.
I would like to be able to create arbitrary "pointers" to other files in the system (and have those pointers reconfigured when a file is moved), that way I can say "this photoshop file is associated with this html webpage". Too bad its all gonna be in XML.
Hah, they probably operate one little celeron box with steam shooting out of it.
On a different note, I used to own wirehead.com (which I was very fond of) until some guy bought it off me for $2500, anybody think that was a lousy sell? This was in 1997/1998. The guy who bought it still has it, but I'm sure he has probably gotten better offers. Not sure if he is partial to it or not.
Looking back I wish I still had it when I consider that I can make $2500 in two weeks, and at the time I sold it I spent all the money on parties and liquor and stuff (I was 17 give me a break).
Feel free to post your domain and how much you sold it for.
Yes, wasn't this the fate of the sega saturn? Or was it the atari jaguar? It used multiple processors which made it a fast and cheap system, but developers steered toward the ease of programming on the N64
I have experience with J2EE and LAMP and I'm pretty excited about rails. The problem with J2EE and LAMP is the ORM tools weren't very easy to use. PHP has a project called propel, which is almost identical to the apache torque project, and similar to hibernate, and it is not as easy to use as activerecord. Rails is built on top of the ORM framework, the form elements tie into your database objects quite easily. On top of all that, Ruby has a much more powerful OO implementation than PHP and Java (and it blows Perl entirely out of the water). It makes it really easy, and almost unavoidable to write well designed applications without much extension of the base classes.
I agree with you for the most part, but America has always come out on top when it comes to innovation. I think the key to innovation these days is creating a friendly business environment. The United States and Japan have lead the way in "corporatizing" the business world (and the rest of the world in a sense) and both countries have benefitted from a huge amount of revenue.
It could be argued that any wealth we gain from abstaining from the Kyoto treaty will only cause us to fall behind in the long run (just as Spain did in the 17th century) I would tend to think that any technological advances are short lives in this day and age, something you hinted at. Curious thing is, we are on the forefront of technology right now, and we have some of the strictest environmental regulations in the world, and also some of the best government sanctions for environment friendly research.
Now let me be frank. If you take a good look at the Kyoto protocols and the state our world is in right now, you quickly realize that this is to be taken as seriously as anything else the UN has to offer. The ACTUAL benefit may be negligable, but you will definately feel it in your day to day lives, increased energy costs, retarded technological advancement and a all around more stagnant economy. Giving countries a quota to meet up to will end up daring one country to break the rules. Corruption ensues. The actual environmental benefit is trivial at best, I've read.
The solution? Let each country deal with its own issues. If one is to gain economimcally from stricter environmental regulations, then other countries will follow. The main determinant here will be air quality. I moved out of southern california because of the poor air quality. Some days I would go outside and the "smog alert" was high, and I serioulsy couldn't breath a whole breath of air without my lungs hurting... but people continue to live there. Why? Well they chose material goods or whatever over air quality. If the price of gasoline goes over $2 everyone starts screaming for government intervention, you think they are going to take kindly to $3+ per gallon with the Kyoto treaty?
I, for one, see a technological revolution just over the horizon. Fuel cell technology, solar, wind and earth power, nuclear energy. If people just let nature run its course, we will move through this, it WILL become economically rewarding to pursue so called "green" technologies, and perhaps the government can speed this along with tax breaks and other incentives. With a stagnant economy you can expect those advances to take longer.
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I really dont think he would have had to make a case that it wasn't him, he could have just said "well I was just expecting apple to disable my license or something, I didn't know I was subject to pugnitive damages, you'd think apple would know better than to trust people on the internet like that". I certainly hope they were thoughtful enough to fine him $500 or something, even $100,000 to apple is chump change. If word gets out that they settled on anything over $1000, I'll never buy an apple product again.
There aught to be some laws against that sort of lawsuit, it is really up to apple to make their software copy proof. Aren't they the pioneers of DRM? Fuck!!!!!
Ew Ew.. both of those sound so unappleaing to me. Besides, that would never happen, microsoft isn't developing an OS for linux geeks. Its much simpler than that, being able to see a description along with an image without downloading a thumbnail. I would like to be able to create arbitrary "pointers" to other files in the system (and have those pointers reconfigured when a file is moved), that way I can say "this photoshop file is associated with this html webpage". Too bad its all gonna be in XML.
Hah, they probably operate one little celeron box with steam shooting out of it.
On a different note, I used to own wirehead.com (which I was very fond of) until some guy bought it off me for $2500, anybody think that was a lousy sell? This was in 1997/1998. The guy who bought it still has it, but I'm sure he has probably gotten better offers. Not sure if he is partial to it or not.
Looking back I wish I still had it when I consider that I can make $2500 in two weeks, and at the time I sold it I spent all the money on parties and liquor and stuff (I was 17 give me a break).
Feel free to post your domain and how much you sold it for.
The ColdFusion server with linus's comments is down. Is this any surprise? What did he have to say?
Yes, wasn't this the fate of the sega saturn? Or was it the atari jaguar? It used multiple processors which made it a fast and cheap system, but developers steered toward the ease of programming on the N64
I have experience with J2EE and LAMP and I'm pretty excited about rails. The problem with J2EE and LAMP is the ORM tools weren't very easy to use. PHP has a project called propel, which is almost identical to the apache torque project, and similar to hibernate, and it is not as easy to use as activerecord. Rails is built on top of the ORM framework, the form elements tie into your database objects quite easily. On top of all that, Ruby has a much more powerful OO implementation than PHP and Java (and it blows Perl entirely out of the water). It makes it really easy, and almost unavoidable to write well designed applications without much extension of the base classes.
Yeah but can a tank climb a building and snatch helicopters out of the air like king kong?
I agree with you for the most part, but America has always come out on top when it comes to innovation. I think the key to innovation these days is creating a friendly business environment. The United States and Japan have lead the way in "corporatizing" the business world (and the rest of the world in a sense) and both countries have benefitted from a huge amount of revenue.
It could be argued that any wealth we gain from abstaining from the Kyoto treaty will only cause us to fall behind in the long run (just as Spain did in the 17th century) I would tend to think that any technological advances are short lives in this day and age, something you hinted at. Curious thing is, we are on the forefront of technology right now, and we have some of the strictest environmental regulations in the world, and also some of the best government sanctions for environment friendly research.
Now let me be frank. If you take a good look at the Kyoto protocols and the state our world is in right now, you quickly realize that this is to be taken as seriously as anything else the UN has to offer. The ACTUAL benefit may be negligable, but you will definately feel it in your day to day lives, increased energy costs, retarded technological advancement and a all around more stagnant economy. Giving countries a quota to meet up to will end up daring one country to break the rules. Corruption ensues. The actual environmental benefit is trivial at best, I've read.
The solution? Let each country deal with its own issues. If one is to gain economimcally from stricter environmental regulations, then other countries will follow. The main determinant here will be air quality. I moved out of southern california because of the poor air quality. Some days I would go outside and the "smog alert" was high, and I serioulsy couldn't breath a whole breath of air without my lungs hurting... but people continue to live there. Why? Well they chose material goods or whatever over air quality. If the price of gasoline goes over $2 everyone starts screaming for government intervention, you think they are going to take kindly to $3+ per gallon with the Kyoto treaty?
I, for one, see a technological revolution just over the horizon. Fuel cell technology, solar, wind and earth power, nuclear energy. If people just let nature run its course, we will move through this, it WILL become economically rewarding to pursue so called "green" technologies, and perhaps the government can speed this along with tax breaks and other incentives. With a stagnant economy you can expect those advances to take longer.