please explain how Apple is responsible for the progression from floppies to hard drives, or from parallel ports to USB ports.
They weren't responsible for either one of those things. However, they were the first major manufacturer to ship computers with a USB port and without a floppy drive. They took the first step in the direction of where current computers are in those respects.
I don't hate Apple [...] but what I hate is the religion around Apple products.
I understand that. I have computers running OS X, Windows XP and a couple of different flavors of Linux. All of these operating systems have their fanboys but to me, they're just tools. My Mac is my day-to-day computer, the one I use the most, and I don't think Apple is any more evil than any other large corporation but that doesn't mean I won't jump on them when I think they've screwed up.
And I guess that some Apple-Fanboy-Slashdotters have had their modpoints yesterday, they spent it on me (GP post), which proves my point. They have a very poor sense of humour.
Apple fanboys are not the only ones. Go check my recent posting history and you'll see how the anti-Apple crowd reacts to even the most rational posts that happen to challenge their world view.
Given that the US is a country of immigrants and therefore anyone and everyone looks like an immigrant, police can detain you until you prove that you are a citizen.
I'm a native-born US citizen of Italian descent who is frequently mistaken for a Latino, even by actual Latinos who come up to me and start speaking Spanish. I also travel through Arizona on a fairly regular basis. I will be curious to see if I'm ever asked to prove my citizenship. Sure hope I'm not going to have to start carrying a passport to in order to keep from being shipped to Mexico.
Immigration (the concept, not the people) and thinking it's possible to fence the US is a load of crap. How about we stop trying to demonize absolutely everything and stop spending too much of my tax dollars on policing such moronic ideals? Can we at least focus on the simple problems of life first, like health, education, employment, and shelter? Apparently not if we want to keep a select few in filthy wealth.
Someone making a reasonable statement being modded down as troll because just someone else with mod points disagrees with what they said is becoming all too common on Slashdot. I'm about ready to take my karma and go home.
Anyone remember the talk to jesus app for Mac OS 7? I loved that thing I could totally port that to android. Anyone still have a copy? (My old mac drive died years ago)
The one where you hammered nails? Yeah, I do. The same guy wrote one called "Rupture the Rapture" where you tried to shoot down souls rising to heaven. It was great. Wish I still had a copy.
If your had read any of the articles about this over the last couple days you wouldn't even be asking this question. However, since you're obviously clueless about it, here, once again, is the relevant California law:
California Code - Section 485
One who finds lost property under circumstances which give him knowledge of or means of inquiry as to the true owner, and who appropriates such property to his own use, or to the use of another person not entitled thereto, without first making reasonable and just efforts to find the owner and to restore the property to him, is guilty of theft.
So the answer is, no, it's not stolen if it's lost. However, it is stolen if someone picks it up and sells it to another party without making "reasonable and just efforts" to return it to the owner. Calling Apple's tech support line, which is staffed by people who would know absolutely nothing about a lost iPhone prototype and might not even be Apple employees, could hardly be considered a reasonable effort.
The lack of even the most basic knowledge of how our system of justice works is just appalling. Do they put you kids through a civics course in school anymore?
Or, for that matter, watch an episode of Law and Order. Kids these days, I'm tellin' ya...
I'm not convinced that licensing will help. Some people are just ripe for manipulation by marketing and scams.
Take some of my fellow amateur radio operators, for instance. These are supposed to be a bunch of hard-core techies who have to pass a test and be licensed before they can go on the air, yet a whole lot of them will pay out good bucks for fancy-looking antennas that are advertised to have a flat 1:1 SWR across the entirety of the amateur radio bands in a unit the size of a breadbox with "no lossy traps." Yeah, right, ain't gonna happen, the laws of physics prevents it and the small amount of antenna knowledge required to refute these ridiculous claims is on the test the ham had to pass to get his ticket. Still, a lot of them still fall prey to magical thinking.
I am tired of companies changing the rules but saying you can opt-out. How about we get to "opt-in" if we want Facebook to share our data with 3rd party websites??
I am willing to share certain information with just my Facebook friends, but I don't want it shared with every website on the Internet. Sheesh.
Agreed. I closed down my Facebook account because of this. And, yes, I did actually have a few friends.
I still think there should be a course given for a Internet License. This way if you dont base your not aloud to go on the internet. Well atleast in large corperations/government facilitys. cough cough (where i am). These people just can't stop clicking on stuff. They never read just click
Such poor spelling, punctuation and grammar skills and you're working in a government facility? Man, I can only hope it's not my government you're working for.
Simply make the original remake scene a parody of the original in German.
[...]
In fact, they could start by having Hitler complain about the other satires being taken offline.
Yeah, that's a great idea--having Ganz recreate the scene as a parody of the original would not only protect the clip from copyright concerns, it would be very funny.
If I had the bucks, I'd fund the thing myself, then release it into the public domain. Maybe there's some wealthy benefactor out there...?
Solution? Hire Bruno Ganz and a ragtag group of aspiring actors and reshoot the scene... Then use this new version as the basis for Downfall parodies?
You'd have to use a different script as well, of course, since the screenplay itself is copyrighted. But since most of us outside Germany have no idea of what Ganz is actually saying during that scene anyway, pretty much anything similar would do.
Jeeze, talk about sloppy editing. What that should have said was:
That's the case for nerds like us but for a large portion of the population, it's not so obvious. Since Apple sells a lot of phones to non-nerds, having information leaked prematurely about a new model coming soon could have a detrimental effect on sales.
These days, it's a given that any tech gadget that comes out has a V.Next well under way. [...] f you are buying an iPhone today, your first question is "When did the last version come out?"
That's the case for nerds like us but for a large portion of the population, it's not so obvious. Since Apple sells a lot of phones to non-nerds, having the information about a new model coming soon could have a detrimental effect on sales.
I was under the impression that for the most part political speech enjoyed a far higher level of protection than most and this seems to fall very clearly into that category.
I don't think there's any legal precedent concerning freedom of political speech versus possible copyright violation, which is what makes this case interesting and important to watch.
As far as the Downfall bunker scene meme goes, the author is right--almost none of those videos are actual parodies of the movie. They're satire of an entirely different subject, which is not protected as fair use and makes them vulnerable to a takedown notice. I still think the producers are being short-sighted by doing it, however, because it's been priceless advertising for what was otherwise an obscure German-language film. I'd never heard of it until I started seeing the clips on YouTube but I ended up renting it.
I have dealt with several different cable and internet companies and I have to agree that IMO Comcast is by far the worst.
Starting yesterday I've been doing some remote tech support helping my troglodyte brother-in-law set up his first (!) computer on the Internet and I have to say that Comcast's registration procedure has to be the worst I've ever encountered. He's also paying $5 a month more than I am for broadband and getting a slower connection.
Sounds to me like the Golden Poo Award was richly deserved.
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please explain how Apple is responsible for the progression from floppies to hard drives, or from parallel ports to USB ports.
They weren't responsible for either one of those things. However, they were the first major manufacturer to ship computers with a USB port and without a floppy drive. They took the first step in the direction of where current computers are in those respects.
Except that your cell phone probably takes better pictures.
Bigger != Better
Plus, if his cellphone camera is anything like mine, the lens always has fingerprints on it.
Well, excuse me for not really caring that much about Apple products to look up statutes for a state 3000 miles away.
You didn't have to look them up. They had been posted at least twice in the very thread in which you posted your message.
I don't hate Apple [...] but what I hate is the religion around Apple products.
I understand that. I have computers running OS X, Windows XP and a couple of different flavors of Linux. All of these operating systems have their fanboys but to me, they're just tools. My Mac is my day-to-day computer, the one I use the most, and I don't think Apple is any more evil than any other large corporation but that doesn't mean I won't jump on them when I think they've screwed up.
And I guess that some Apple-Fanboy-Slashdotters have had their modpoints yesterday, they spent it on me (GP post), which proves my point. They have a very poor sense of humour.
Apple fanboys are not the only ones. Go check my recent posting history and you'll see how the anti-Apple crowd reacts to even the most rational posts that happen to challenge their world view.
Given that the US is a country of immigrants and therefore anyone and everyone looks like an immigrant, police can detain you until you prove that you are a citizen.
I'm a native-born US citizen of Italian descent who is frequently mistaken for a Latino, even by actual Latinos who come up to me and start speaking Spanish. I also travel through Arizona on a fairly regular basis. I will be curious to see if I'm ever asked to prove my citizenship. Sure hope I'm not going to have to start carrying a passport to in order to keep from being shipped to Mexico.
Immigration (the concept, not the people) and thinking it's possible to fence the US is a load of crap. How about we stop trying to demonize absolutely everything and stop spending too much of my tax dollars on policing such moronic ideals? Can we at least focus on the simple problems of life first, like health, education, employment, and shelter? Apparently not if we want to keep a select few in filthy wealth.
Someone making a reasonable statement being modded down as troll because just someone else with mod points disagrees with what they said is becoming all too common on Slashdot. I'm about ready to take my karma and go home.
Anyone remember the talk to jesus app for Mac OS 7? I loved that thing I could totally port that to android. Anyone still have a copy? (My old mac drive died years ago)
The one where you hammered nails? Yeah, I do. The same guy wrote one called "Rupture the Rapture" where you tried to shoot down souls rising to heaven. It was great. Wish I still had a copy.
Those iPhone users are all pipe-smokers anyway.
Like, hey, no waaay, dood. We smoke mostly, like, you know, blunts.
Is it stolen if you lose it?
If your had read any of the articles about this over the last couple days you wouldn't even be asking this question. However, since you're obviously clueless about it, here, once again, is the relevant California law:
So the answer is, no, it's not stolen if it's lost. However, it is stolen if someone picks it up and sells it to another party without making "reasonable and just efforts" to return it to the owner. Calling Apple's tech support line, which is staffed by people who would know absolutely nothing about a lost iPhone prototype and might not even be Apple employees, could hardly be considered a reasonable effort.
IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY.
Welcome to America, son.
The lack of even the most basic knowledge of how our system of justice works is just appalling. Do they put you kids through a civics course in school anymore?
Or, for that matter, watch an episode of Law and Order. Kids these days, I'm tellin' ya...
I'm not convinced that licensing will help. Some people are just ripe for manipulation by marketing and scams.
Take some of my fellow amateur radio operators, for instance. These are supposed to be a bunch of hard-core techies who have to pass a test and be licensed before they can go on the air, yet a whole lot of them will pay out good bucks for fancy-looking antennas that are advertised to have a flat 1:1 SWR across the entirety of the amateur radio bands in a unit the size of a breadbox with "no lossy traps." Yeah, right, ain't gonna happen, the laws of physics prevents it and the small amount of antenna knowledge required to refute these ridiculous claims is on the test the ham had to pass to get his ticket. Still, a lot of them still fall prey to magical thinking.
I am tired of companies changing the rules but saying you can opt-out. How about we get to "opt-in" if we want Facebook to share our data with 3rd party websites??
I am willing to share certain information with just my Facebook friends, but I don't want it shared with every website on the Internet. Sheesh.
Agreed. I closed down my Facebook account because of this. And, yes, I did actually have a few friends.
I still think there should be a course given for a Internet License. This way if you dont base your not aloud to go on the internet. Well atleast in large corperations/government facilitys. cough cough (where i am). These people just can't stop clicking on stuff. They never read just click
Such poor spelling, punctuation and grammar skills and you're working in a government facility? Man, I can only hope it's not my government you're working for.
I'm sorry to tell you this, but you've been duped. Mr. Jahoni has already agreed to transfer that money to my account.
and they're on fire.
Simply make the original remake scene a parody of the original in German.
[...]
In fact, they could start by having Hitler complain about the other satires being taken offline.
Yeah, that's a great idea--having Ganz recreate the scene as a parody of the original would not only protect the clip from copyright concerns, it would be very funny.
If I had the bucks, I'd fund the thing myself, then release it into the public domain. Maybe there's some wealthy benefactor out there...?
The term "groundbreaking" was added by smackay, the submitter. It was not used in TFA.
Solution? Hire Bruno Ganz and a ragtag group of aspiring actors and reshoot the scene... Then use this new version as the basis for Downfall parodies?
You'd have to use a different script as well, of course, since the screenplay itself is copyrighted. But since most of us outside Germany have no idea of what Ganz is actually saying during that scene anyway, pretty much anything similar would do.
Jeeze, talk about sloppy editing. What that should have said was:
That's the case for nerds like us but for a large portion of the population, it's not so obvious. Since Apple sells a lot of phones to non-nerds, having information leaked prematurely about a new model coming soon could have a detrimental effect on sales.
These days, it's a given that any tech gadget that comes out has a V.Next well under way. [...] f you are buying an iPhone today, your first question is "When did the last version come out?"
That's the case for nerds like us but for a large portion of the population, it's not so obvious. Since Apple sells a lot of phones to non-nerds, having the information about a new model coming soon could have a detrimental effect on sales.
I was under the impression that for the most part political speech enjoyed a far higher level of protection than most and this seems to fall very clearly into that category.
I don't think there's any legal precedent concerning freedom of political speech versus possible copyright violation, which is what makes this case interesting and important to watch.
As far as the Downfall bunker scene meme goes, the author is right--almost none of those videos are actual parodies of the movie. They're satire of an entirely different subject, which is not protected as fair use and makes them vulnerable to a takedown notice. I still think the producers are being short-sighted by doing it, however, because it's been priceless advertising for what was otherwise an obscure German-language film. I'd never heard of it until I started seeing the clips on YouTube but I ended up renting it.
Disclaimer: IANAL, just an interested layman.
"Driving efficiencies by leveraging our core competencies while eliminating non value add activities in new game changing markets"
That makes my head hurt...
I have dealt with several different cable and internet companies and I have to agree that IMO Comcast is by far the worst.
Starting yesterday I've been doing some remote tech support helping my troglodyte brother-in-law set up his first (!) computer on the Internet and I have to say that Comcast's registration procedure has to be the worst I've ever encountered. He's also paying $5 a month more than I am for broadband and getting a slower connection.
Sounds to me like the Golden Poo Award was richly deserved.
Who is this bad guy, with multiple asses?
The Tali-buns.