Yeah, I've played with a GPS unit hooked up to my 2 meter mobile rig doing just that. It's cool, although in the end I decided it didn't really do enough for me to justify the hassle since it's sort of a kludge on the IC-2200H.
WD-40 is good stuff but for really stuck/rusty machinery, Zepreserve is better. No connection to Zep, Inc., I just work at a place that harvests and processes salt and so have to deal with a whole lot of rusty machinery.
I consider the probability of Amazon going bankrupt to be very small
Of course, go back a few years and you'd hear people saying the same thing about General Motors. Up until the Eighties, GM was considered a huge industrial powerhouse that couldn't possibly fail. Not so much any more. But if you never re-read your books, you definitely have a point--it really doesn't matter if Amazon or whoever goes under.
The thing that worries me is this: if all publishing goes electronic, with DRM, what happens to public libraries? There are a lot of new books that I'd like to read but don't care to buy; I go to my local library for those. I don't know how they could continue to exist beyond repositories of old books in a world of electronic publishing.
He no doubt meant to type "Montana" and typed "Missouri" instead, just one of those dumb errors we all make from time to time. He did type "Missoula, Missouri," after all. I was just giving him some friendly guff for it.
As far as the flood goes, there is indeed evidence of an ice dam bursting and releasing the water from a huge glacial lake* which scoured the badlands of eastern Washington state. However, that happened on the opposite side of the continental divide from where the Missouri River runs in eastern Montana.
*And wouldn't you have liked to watch that from a safe vantage point?
And there was a giant lake in Missoula Missouri, which periodically broke-through the glacier/ice dam and flooded Washington State (hence the weirdly-carved landscape).
And you, my friend, need to look at a map. Under no circumstances could a lake in Missouri flood the state of Washington. The Rocky Mountains would preclude that.
By the way, Missoula is in Montana.. Nice place, been there a number of times.
I don't know what Apple is thinking. Up until now, it's all been good for them because of the lack of serious competition. With Android-based phones cranking up, how long will it be before Apple loses their market share due to these shenanigans?
Android is not and was never intended to be an iPhone competitor. Check out the specs and you'll see that it's really targeted as a replacement for Windows Mobile and was specifically designed to run on existing hardware that's currently running WM.
As far as software stores goes, Android is no threat to the iPhone. By design, apps for Android have to fit into onboard storage; they are not allowed to run from add-on memory cards. Since Android itself uses up over 300MB, users are pretty limited in what they can run and any complex game is out of the question.
Android will no doubt do well in it's intended task of killing Windows Mobile (which is not a bad thing at all) and may eventually have a larger market share than the iPhone, but that will be a market of cheaper, less capable smart phones. It will not cut into the iPhone's key market all.
It's "good" old Trusted Computing, the kind that does not trust the user.
And judging by the latest iPhone trojan, which only works if a user is dumb enough to jailbreak their phone then leave the default ssh password (which is "alpine", btw) in place, it would appear that Apple is right not to trust them.
I'm not sure why these smaller companies keep trying to take on the big boys, though, when they know they'll get crushed, like a nut.
Check out the Groklaw article on the case. It appears that getting sued by Apple was part of Psystar's business plan from the get-go. They actually marketed the idea to VC outfits as a reason to invest in the company.
What Psystar was more than anything else--certainly more than a computer manufacturer--was a case of investor fraud. Standby for shareholder lawsuits in 3...2...1...
The license is not legal. I never agreed to it prior to purchase. I was never given opportunity to negotiate the terms. I don't even know what terms they have dictated in their silly documents. The terms are draconian and unenforcable.
You did agree once you once the box, however. Apple's license is printed, admittedly in tiny little print, on the outside of the retail package and it clearly states that if you don't agree with the terms of the license, you should return the software unopened. As soon as you break the seal, that's legally the same as agreeing to the terms of the license.
You may consider the terms draconian but they are indeed enforceable, as the lawsuit in question here proves.
Don't large PC manufacturers do something like this for whatever system they're installing?
Sure they do. And they have a license from Microsoft that allows them to do that legally. Apple, on other other hand, did not grant Psystar any sort of license at all to install OS X on their computers, let alone one that allowed them to create cloned copies.
It seems counter-intuitive but the sun's corona is brighter than it's actual surface. It's possible that some cooler ejecta from a solar flare could cast a shadow.
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The possibilities here are so boundless that it simply boggles the mind.
Yeah, I've played with a GPS unit hooked up to my 2 meter mobile rig doing just that. It's cool, although in the end I decided it didn't really do enough for me to justify the hassle since it's sort of a kludge on the IC-2200H.
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WD-40 is good stuff but for really stuck/rusty machinery, Zepreserve is better. No connection to Zep, Inc., I just work at a place that harvests and processes salt and so have to deal with a whole lot of rusty machinery.
More like:
"Spock.....there's.....a man....on.....the wing!
If you want to do Shatner right, you've got to include both the unnecessary pauses and the emphasis on the wrong words.
That was a great old Twilight Zone episode, though.
Bah! Whatever could come of that?
All I can say is those damned balloons better stay the heck off my lawn.
I consider the probability of Amazon going bankrupt to be very small
Of course, go back a few years and you'd hear people saying the same thing about General Motors. Up until the Eighties, GM was considered a huge industrial powerhouse that couldn't possibly fail. Not so much any more. But if you never re-read your books, you definitely have a point--it really doesn't matter if Amazon or whoever goes under.
The thing that worries me is this: if all publishing goes electronic, with DRM, what happens to public libraries? There are a lot of new books that I'd like to read but don't care to buy; I go to my local library for those. I don't know how they could continue to exist beyond repositories of old books in a world of electronic publishing.
He no doubt meant to type "Montana" and typed "Missouri" instead, just one of those dumb errors we all make from time to time. He did type "Missoula, Missouri," after all. I was just giving him some friendly guff for it.
As far as the flood goes, there is indeed evidence of an ice dam bursting and releasing the water from a huge glacial lake* which scoured the badlands of eastern Washington state. However, that happened on the opposite side of the continental divide from where the Missouri River runs in eastern Montana.
*And wouldn't you have liked to watch that from a safe vantage point?
And there was a giant lake in Missoula Missouri, which periodically broke-through the glacier/ice dam and flooded Washington State (hence the weirdly-carved landscape).
And you, my friend, need to look at a map. Under no circumstances could a lake in Missouri flood the state of Washington. The Rocky Mountains would preclude that.
By the way, Missoula is in Montana.. Nice place, been there a number of times.
Just read it in William Shatner's voice and it'll sound fine.
The reader would have to put pauses in all the wrong places and emphasis on all the wrong words to do that:
"We come...in peace!"
Chuck Norris doesn't use a cell phone. He uses a brick with a note attached.
Couldn't they just make OSX longer?
Once Apple gets to OS X v.10.9.9, they'll be going hexadecimal with the next version: OS X v.B.0.
No, we gotta throw California in there too.
I don't know what Apple is thinking. Up until now, it's all been good for them because of the lack of serious competition. With Android-based phones cranking up, how long will it be before Apple loses their market share due to these shenanigans?
Android is not and was never intended to be an iPhone competitor. Check out the specs and you'll see that it's really targeted as a replacement for Windows Mobile and was specifically designed to run on existing hardware that's currently running WM.
As far as software stores goes, Android is no threat to the iPhone. By design, apps for Android have to fit into onboard storage; they are not allowed to run from add-on memory cards. Since Android itself uses up over 300MB, users are pretty limited in what they can run and any complex game is out of the question.
Android will no doubt do well in it's intended task of killing Windows Mobile (which is not a bad thing at all) and may eventually have a larger market share than the iPhone, but that will be a market of cheaper, less capable smart phones. It will not cut into the iPhone's key market all.
I found no shortage of ancient life when I was in Miami last year.
It's "good" old Trusted Computing, the kind that does not trust the user.
And judging by the latest iPhone trojan, which only works if a user is dumb enough to jailbreak their phone then leave the default ssh password (which is "alpine", btw) in place, it would appear that Apple is right not to trust them.
Yep, it would.
I dunno. Go ask Salman Rushdie, he oughta know...
I guess I should be extradited to Saudi Arabia since that message can be read from there.
Probably not prosecutable in Saudi Arabia as crime since you posted it on a U.S. server. Bet you got a fatwah on your ass, though.
Steve Jobs can't possibly own a large piece of Psystar, the poor guy only receives $1/year in salary!
Yeah, poor guy. Stuck with nothing but Apple stock options, bummer...
I'm not sure why these smaller companies keep trying to take on the big boys, though, when they know they'll get crushed, like a nut.
Check out the Groklaw article on the case. It appears that getting sued by Apple was part of Psystar's business plan from the get-go. They actually marketed the idea to VC outfits as a reason to invest in the company.
What Psystar was more than anything else--certainly more than a computer manufacturer--was a case of investor fraud. Standby for shareholder lawsuits in 3...2...1...
The license is not legal. I never agreed to it prior to purchase. I was never given opportunity to negotiate the terms. I don't even know what terms they have dictated in their silly documents. The terms are draconian and unenforcable.
You did agree once you once the box, however. Apple's license is printed, admittedly in tiny little print, on the outside of the retail package and it clearly states that if you don't agree with the terms of the license, you should return the software unopened. As soon as you break the seal, that's legally the same as agreeing to the terms of the license.
You may consider the terms draconian but they are indeed enforceable, as the lawsuit in question here proves.
Despite their high cost relative to other vendors, I was thinking about buying a Mac
Citation needed, otherwise I call bullshit. It's easy to make a statement like that but unless you can prove it, it's totally meaningless.
I'm not the "typical" Apple customer - I do my own hardware upgrades, change my own iPod batteries, and I don't even own a turtleneck.
Jeeze, I don't know how many times this has been repeated here on Slashdot but some people just never seem to catch on. One more time:
Steve Jobs does not wear a turtleneck, he wears a mock turtleneck.
You got it now?
Don't large PC manufacturers do something like this for whatever system they're installing?
Sure they do. And they have a license from Microsoft that allows them to do that legally. Apple, on other other hand, did not grant Psystar any sort of license at all to install OS X on their computers, let alone one that allowed them to create cloned copies.
It seems counter-intuitive but the sun's corona is brighter than it's actual surface. It's possible that some cooler ejecta from a solar flare could cast a shadow.