Why is that a cheese, taking years to craft and refine into a product for which the producer is happy in terms of recipe and methodology, is any less protected than a simple song?
Most likely it has something to do with how true and accurate reproductions of the song can be (and similarly for video products), both in terms of the original notation or recorded performance.
Cheese is an agricultural product and technically can never be replicated perfectly identically.
Trademark and production process patent seem to be the way to go there...
Do they want a full-width notch instead of a part-width notch?
Yes. Ideally, on both the top and bottom, and put some freaking speakers there while you've got the real-estate. I'm sure it seems wasteful, but that's roughly the area I put my thumb when I'm holding the phone in landscape (mainly to shoot video, like god intended).
And it's called a "bezel". You're allowed to say it; it's not a dirty word.
Stuxnet messed with industrial process controls, and supposedly caused things like centrifuges to spin at self-destructive speeds. Depending on how this new one actually works and what it affects, "violent" might not be as inaccurate as you think.
The types of Barley you use for beer making is completely different than animal feed.
Both 6-row and 2-row could be used for making beer, depending on the type of beer, manufacturing process, and how stringent your definition of "beer" is. But the distinction isn't important... in the big picture, both types of barley need similar growing conditions and hence are competing for the same chunks of land. Farms will plant whatever gets them the best money, so a decrease in optimal barley growing space means either beer or meat will get more expensive.
A docking station clamshell [*] might outsell both.
Manufacturers have been trying this for years. The ASUS PadFone is probably the craziest combination... a phone that docks to a tablet which can then slot into a keyboard docking station. I'm sure Acer's been trying something as well, although they might not be crazy enough to actually market it.
They... don't seem to outsell anything.
I'm inclined to think that the root of the problem is that nobody has quite nailed down the secret sauce to make a mobile phone operating system work well enough in laptop form factor to get people to spend the extra money on a proprietary dock.
I have to admit, I'm slightly curious as to how Emil knows so much about the private reactions of most Fortune 500 executives... I mean, that's some NSA level business espionage there.
I suppose Emil could be full of shit, but that would be highly irregular for a long-time Slashdot reader.
if the end result is the Monsanto board of directors kicking away their lives at the end of a rope.
Honestly, I'm mildly surprised that people aren't already hunting down HMO execs and pharma bros in the streets of the United States. When you have a confluence of easy access to firearms, desperate and angry victims, a culture that appears to accept violence as a solution to personal grievances, and assholes like Shkreli, you kinda expect a few people would connect the dots.
Who the hell is paying $400,000+ for these things?!
A very typical retirement plan is for people to sell their house, buy an RV, travel for a few years/decades, and when they start to get tired of the nomadic life they buy a condo wherever they find themselves spending time.
If you sell a $1.5m house, a $400k RV isn't a bad deal...
I've seen handwashing protocols which recommend leaving the bathroom by using a paper towel in hand when opening the door, propping the door with a foot, throwing out the towel, and then leaving.
I think those showed up at work (an airport) when there was one of those international travel scares.
One of the poweful options considered - that would permanently repel all current threats but didn't make it into final release, was making the power supply option off by default.
Well, they did try it, but they discovered a vulnerability with Intel processors...
So jail anyone who takes the time to clean up another's mess?
If Thailand doesn't want its people importing another's mess and those people do it anyways (i.e. without permits, as the summary says), then what's so unreasonable about a jail sentence?
America's problem is that they keep jailing the wrong people for the wrong things.
Thailand should send back every device to the company who built it.
Someone in Thailand is importing that stuff. Their address is likely on the crate. Put them in prison, give them the job of properly recycling everything, and don't release them until the job is done.
The cost of migrating to the new system is offset by the benefit.
There's cases where it's clearly the case. Migrating from CVS to GIT, for example, is a non-brainer in most (but not all) cases.
In most cases these sorts of migrations just push the cost of parallel maintenance further down the stack, inflating it in the process. It becomes yet another platform compatibility issue that has to be dealt with in hundreds/thousands/millions of places because it's generally not feasible for the entire ecosystem to flip over to the new system.
You just said the cost of introducing new thing is more expensive than the cost of introducing new thing + keeping old thing + maintaining a system to provide choice between said things.
Unless your maintenance philosophy is "users; fuck 'em", the cost of introducing new things includes the cost of users+downstream dependencies migrating to the new system, as well as the cost of easing that migration. If you ignore those externalities then absolutely yes, the math is in favour of dropping the old system like a hot potato and moving everything to the latest and greatest once it's feature equivalent and stable. Sooner even, because who really needs happy, loyal customers anyways?
It's not that I don't understand the cost, it's more that the cost of maintaining parallel anything has rarely been a major consideration in the open source world, usually because the maintainers tend to be entirely different groups.
I also understand the cost of deprecating something and switching to something else. It's rarely cheaper than parallel maintenance, even when the end-product is better.
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Most likely it has something to do with how true and accurate reproductions of the song can be (and similarly for video products), both in terms of the original notation or recorded performance.
Cheese is an agricultural product and technically can never be replicated perfectly identically.
Trademark and production process patent seem to be the way to go there...
Yes. Ideally, on both the top and bottom, and put some freaking speakers there while you've got the real-estate. I'm sure it seems wasteful, but that's roughly the area I put my thumb when I'm holding the phone in landscape (mainly to shoot video, like god intended).
And it's called a "bezel". You're allowed to say it; it's not a dirty word.
Stuxnet messed with industrial process controls, and supposedly caused things like centrifuges to spin at self-destructive speeds. Depending on how this new one actually works and what it affects, "violent" might not be as inaccurate as you think.
Both 6-row and 2-row could be used for making beer, depending on the type of beer, manufacturing process, and how stringent your definition of "beer" is. But the distinction isn't important... in the big picture, both types of barley need similar growing conditions and hence are competing for the same chunks of land. Farms will plant whatever gets them the best money, so a decrease in optimal barley growing space means either beer or meat will get more expensive.
Manufacturers have been trying this for years. The ASUS PadFone is probably the craziest combination... a phone that docks to a tablet which can then slot into a keyboard docking station. I'm sure Acer's been trying something as well, although they might not be crazy enough to actually market it.
They... don't seem to outsell anything.
I'm inclined to think that the root of the problem is that nobody has quite nailed down the secret sauce to make a mobile phone operating system work well enough in laptop form factor to get people to spend the extra money on a proprietary dock.
In completely unrelated news, Foxconn has been replacing the suicide nets around their factories with spikey fences and high-speed video cameras...
What proportion of Amazon workers at their minimum wage level are living in areas where $15/hr isn't close to a living wage?
I don't know the answer, but it seems rather relevant to deciding if it's a good or bad change.
Oh, man, that's kicking while they're down.
I was thinking more about Intel's marketing and communications people.
I assume "works for Intel" is still fair game, right?
I have to admit, I'm slightly curious as to how Emil knows so much about the private reactions of most Fortune 500 executives... I mean, that's some NSA level business espionage there.
I suppose Emil could be full of shit, but that would be highly irregular for a long-time Slashdot reader.
master -> lobbyist
slave -> politician
Nonsense. What matters is that the boy and the girl both got the same pay for the hack.
Honestly, I'm mildly surprised that people aren't already hunting down HMO execs and pharma bros in the streets of the United States. When you have a confluence of easy access to firearms, desperate and angry victims, a culture that appears to accept violence as a solution to personal grievances, and assholes like Shkreli, you kinda expect a few people would connect the dots.
Well, in his defense, there are a lot of bad apples in the FCC from the Obama years. Pai himself being a prime example.
A very typical retirement plan is for people to sell their house, buy an RV, travel for a few years/decades, and when they start to get tired of the nomadic life they buy a condo wherever they find themselves spending time.
If you sell a $1.5m house, a $400k RV isn't a bad deal...
I've seen handwashing protocols which recommend leaving the bathroom by using a paper towel in hand when opening the door, propping the door with a foot, throwing out the towel, and then leaving.
I think those showed up at work (an airport) when there was one of those international travel scares.
... that's why I don't have Facebook apps on my phone, or allow most apps access to the microphone.
"Road Follower" would probably be accurate, but maybe not as marketable.
Well, they did try it, but they discovered a vulnerability with Intel processors...
Well, it uses the expression "shots fired..." in a headline describing an obscure publicity stunt...
If Thailand doesn't want its people importing another's mess and those people do it anyways (i.e. without permits, as the summary says), then what's so unreasonable about a jail sentence?
America's problem is that they keep jailing the wrong people for the wrong things.
Someone in Thailand is importing that stuff. Their address is likely on the crate. Put them in prison, give them the job of properly recycling everything, and don't release them until the job is done.
There's cases where it's clearly the case. Migrating from CVS to GIT, for example, is a non-brainer in most (but not all) cases.
In most cases these sorts of migrations just push the cost of parallel maintenance further down the stack, inflating it in the process. It becomes yet another platform compatibility issue that has to be dealt with in hundreds/thousands/millions of places because it's generally not feasible for the entire ecosystem to flip over to the new system.
Unless your maintenance philosophy is "users; fuck 'em", the cost of introducing new things includes the cost of users+downstream dependencies migrating to the new system, as well as the cost of easing that migration. If you ignore those externalities then absolutely yes, the math is in favour of dropping the old system like a hot potato and moving everything to the latest and greatest once it's feature equivalent and stable. Sooner even, because who really needs happy, loyal customers anyways?
It's not that I don't understand the cost, it's more that the cost of maintaining parallel anything has rarely been a major consideration in the open source world, usually because the maintainers tend to be entirely different groups.
I also understand the cost of deprecating something and switching to something else. It's rarely cheaper than parallel maintenance, even when the end-product is better.