I think so far as Slashdot and EFF are concerned, the actual issue is a virtual irrelevance. Whether you're voting on a world-changing issue in the seat of national government or a proclamation to put an extra stop sign on the corner of Turkey and Buzzard streets in Bumsville Idaho, the damn things need to work correctly.
Maybe I'm biased - ok, definitely I'm biased - but this just doesnt feel like "open source" to me so much as "beta-testing with a peek at the code" or, to be blunt, "do our debugging for us."
Says Jennifer Pariser, the head of litigation for Sony BMG: 'When an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song. When an individual makes a statement like that, I suppose we can say that person is completely out of their moldy gourd.
In other news, it would be better if I were spending my Monday morning sitting poolside with a tall glass of iced orange juice and a Game Boy while beautiful women fanned me gently with palm leaves, but it's just not in the cards somehow.
Jules' Undersea Lodge is an underwater hotel built in what used to be La Chalup Research Laboratory, a 1970s underweater research station. Whether in the near or far future, there's bound to eventually be a market for a similar concept in space tourism.
I can totally understand Apple's desire to punish those who attempt to work around artificially imposed limitations in their communications hardware. After all, it's not like the company even owes its existence to a couple of guys who made and sold toll fraud devices for a living... oh, wait.
Most of the time, thanks to a combination of the User Agent Switcher and boredom, I'm usually seen from the other end to be browsing on a Commodore 64, a GE washing machine, or a potato with wires stuck into it.
Seriously, one downside of Tivo'ing (or Myth'ing for the zealots) everything is that you FF through the ads and just never see the promotions for silly new shows. You also miss the movie promotions. So what then? True. If only a nerd-focused website I visited often would point me to reviews of.... heyyyyy!
There's a big difference between sharing your choice of reading material with a couple hundred strangers in an airport you'll probably never see again, and having your choice of reading material noted by authority figures who then log it along with their impressions of you in a permanent database of questionable merit for the Department of Homeland Security.
Additionally, it seems this procedure also applies to books in your luggage, which you may have deliberately chosen not to read in public.
Filthy astronauts, driving their moon-buggies through our neighborhoods at all hours of the night, playing that theme from "2001" real loud on their cosmo-blasters!
I agree. I like SL a lot and see so much potential for it as a platform, and while it's far from perfect 99% of the problems I have with it are policy and business decisions on the part of Linden Labs. Ever since I started SL I've been looking forward to a day when I could fire up my own server and run that sort of thing myself. It has the potential to be an open platform for any sort of MMO you like, a modern resurrection of the BBS era with added polygons, or any of the other things they were hyping "Virtual Reality" to be 15 years ago.
All the others with 2.5mm and other proprietary ends that work on nothing else are solely the fault of the OEMs. Nobody asked them to do it, it never made sense to do it, and it's just a huge pain in the ass for everyone. It makes a whole lot of sense to an OEM who wants to be the only one who can sell their customers a cable despite an open standard. It's the same reason for every standard out there which suppliers have taken it upon themselves to add their own "enhancements" to.
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I think so far as Slashdot and EFF are concerned, the actual issue is a virtual irrelevance. Whether you're voting on a world-changing issue in the seat of national government or a proclamation to put an extra stop sign on the corner of Turkey and Buzzard streets in Bumsville Idaho, the damn things need to work correctly.
Also, Dude, "hook-beaked lizard" is not the preferred nomenclature. "Saurian American," please.
Maybe I'm biased - ok, definitely I'm biased - but this just doesnt feel like "open source" to me so much as "beta-testing with a peek at the code" or, to be blunt, "do our debugging for us."
He had only gotten that far because he remembered that in Latin, "George Lucas" begins with an "I."
Good point. Make that two Game Boys, and a link cable.
In other news, it would be better if I were spending my Monday morning sitting poolside with a tall glass of iced orange juice and a Game Boy while beautiful women fanned me gently with palm leaves, but it's just not in the cards somehow.
"Nice PC you have here. Shame if something were to happen to it..."
Jules' Undersea Lodge is an underwater hotel built in what used to be La Chalup Research Laboratory, a 1970s underweater research station. Whether in the near or far future, there's bound to eventually be a market for a similar concept in space tourism.
But, Planet Express is usually so reliable!
I can totally understand Apple's desire to punish those who attempt to work around artificially imposed limitations in their communications hardware. After all, it's not like the company even owes its existence to a couple of guys who made and sold toll fraud devices for a living... oh, wait.
Most of the time, thanks to a combination of the User Agent Switcher and boredom, I'm usually seen from the other end to be browsing on a Commodore 64, a GE washing machine, or a potato with wires stuck into it.
I'll just bet the water it contacted was, upon further study, found to be wet.
"I tawt I taw a chaotician!"
*CHOMP*
"I did! I did taw a chaotician!"
There's a big difference between sharing your choice of reading material with a couple hundred strangers in an airport you'll probably never see again, and having your choice of reading material noted by authority figures who then log it along with their impressions of you in a permanent database of questionable merit for the Department of Homeland Security.
Additionally, it seems this procedure also applies to books in your luggage, which you may have deliberately chosen not to read in public.
ISBNs are nobody's intellectual property apart from the ISO. It's an international standard described by ISO TC 46/SC 9.
"Digitivity?" Isn't that the futuristic manger scene describing how Robot Jesus was born?
I think I may have a new favorite expletive.
I hadn't thought of it quite like that before, but it makes a whole lot of sense.
..I regret to inform you that our manned expedition to the Red Planet Mars has encountered a slight difficulty.."
Filthy astronauts, driving their moon-buggies through our neighborhoods at all hours of the night, playing that theme from "2001" real loud on their cosmo-blasters!
I agree. I like SL a lot and see so much potential for it as a platform, and while it's far from perfect 99% of the problems I have with it are policy and business decisions on the part of Linden Labs. Ever since I started SL I've been looking forward to a day when I could fire up my own server and run that sort of thing myself. It has the potential to be an open platform for any sort of MMO you like, a modern resurrection of the BBS era with added polygons, or any of the other things they were hyping "Virtual Reality" to be 15 years ago.
It's evident that E for All know full well who PA are, as they were spamming^H^H^Hguerilla-marketing^H^H^Hspamming outside PAX.