Good point. Personally, I don't see why any restaurant would want to use this. Why make an automated way to give away free lunches to people because they wait? If a customer complains about waiting too long, then you give them the coupon.
I suppose the flipside to that is that the customers who don't complain, but decide that they don't want to come back to the restaurant because they had to wait...
While I realize that your comment was probably sarcasm, the dictionary definition of piracy does include duplication of copyrighted material.
1. practice of a pirate; robbery or illegal violence at sea.
2. the unauthorized reproduction or use of a copyrighted book, recording, television program, patented invention, trademarked product, etc.
For a UDP packet, an ICMP destination port unreachable is the equivalent of a TCP RST packet. It tells the sender of the packet that the destination device is not listening on that UDP port. They drop your UDP packet, and send an unreachable in it's place. Accomplishes the same thing.
I don't think that it's a coincidence that this is the major porn veiwing public, nor that most adds (and add supported sites) are for porn While I won't argue that a significant part of the Internet is dominated by porn, I find it hard to agree that the majority of the ads, and ad supported sites are pornography based. If that were the case, sites like Yahoo, New York Times, and other non-porn based websites would be getting very little ad revenue, and therfore would be shutting down due to lack of income to pay for the site.
It's too bad this Linus guy's direction becomes set in stone and we're stuck with a very rigid product that can't be modified to suit our individual needs.
You obviously know nothing about Linux. One of the most powerful things about Linux is the ability to customize and add/remove what what you do or do not want. Thats why there are so many distributions and different projects that do similar things.
IANAPL, but I believe that just because you release a game, that doesn't really affect patents unless YOU actually patent it.
Here's what I got from my company's patent lawyer. Once you announce a product to the public, you have 1 year to patent it. I'm pretty sure that in the US, it's first to invent, not first to patent. So say you invent something, and make it public, open source or otherwise. 10 months later, someone else releases something that does the exact same thing and submits a patent. As long as you submit your patent in the next 2 months, and can prove that you had you invented it before they did, you will get the patent.
Also, in the US, patents have a 20 year period that they are valid. Things that were created in 1977, even if they were patented back then, are not valid patents anymore and therefore anyone can use that technology.
I like how they said that it was the defendant's fault because he didn't tell them that it was his daughter. As if any child-protecting parent is going to say "Hey don't sue me, sue my kid!"
Such stupidity.
Actually, I think (NAL) it's legal because there is an actual product being sold.....and you don't necessarily have the whole "piece of their action" thing going. Per the U.S. Federal Trade Commission:
"Pyramid schemes now come in so many forms that they may be difficult to recognize immediately. However, they all share one overriding characteristic. They promise consumers or investors large profits based primarily on recruiting others to join their program, not based on profits from any real investment or real sale of goods to the public. Some schemes may purport to sell a product, but they often simply use the product to hide their pyramid structure."
... and if they show up for their normal time, but spend all day on Slashdot or on personal projects, they still get their regular pay.. So do regular salaried employees. What's your point?
I dont think Apple cares about whether users use iTunes or not. I read somewhere, that iTunes is basically break-even profit-wise. The ONLY reason they have iTunes, is to have a music delivery system to support their iPods. They make all their money on the hardware, not the software. Its the same with the PC hardware. When you buy a Macintosh computer, you are paying for the hardware not the software. The software OS is only a way to let you use the hardware. Thats why they dont have a serial number to install OSX. They know that you have to have bought the hardware to run it on, so they've already made the money there.
The iTV is not meant to be a replacement for Tivo, at least by my understanding. Essentially what it is, is the same thing that the AirportExpress does. It allows you to stream the movies/TV shows from your PC (using iTunes) to your nice big TV instead of your computer monitor. It doesnt have a built-in tuner, so you can't watch live TV. I was really excited about it when I first saw it, but then realized that it's not a DVR.
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Good point. Personally, I don't see why any restaurant would want to use this. Why make an automated way to give away free lunches to people because they wait? If a customer complains about waiting too long, then you give them the coupon.
I suppose the flipside to that is that the customers who don't complain, but decide that they don't want to come back to the restaurant because they had to wait...
While I realize that your comment was probably sarcasm, the dictionary definition of piracy does include duplication of copyrighted material.
1. practice of a pirate; robbery or illegal violence at sea.
2. the unauthorized reproduction or use of a copyrighted book, recording, television program, patented invention, trademarked product, etc.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/piracy
Umm, paint and paint thinner? I'll agree that it's more difficult and probably expensive than a website restore, but it's definitely not permanent.
No kidding. Aren't humans essentially organic material? How does this break down the food and dirt and not the skin?
For a UDP packet, an ICMP destination port unreachable is the equivalent of a TCP RST packet. It tells the sender of the packet that the destination device is not listening on that UDP port. They drop your UDP packet, and send an unreachable in it's place. Accomplishes the same thing.
You obviously know nothing about Linux. One of the most powerful things about Linux is the ability to customize and add/remove what what you do or do not want. Thats why there are so many distributions and different projects that do similar things.
IANAPL, but I believe that just because you release a game, that doesn't really affect patents unless YOU actually patent it. Here's what I got from my company's patent lawyer. Once you announce a product to the public, you have 1 year to patent it. I'm pretty sure that in the US, it's first to invent, not first to patent. So say you invent something, and make it public, open source or otherwise. 10 months later, someone else releases something that does the exact same thing and submits a patent. As long as you submit your patent in the next 2 months, and can prove that you had you invented it before they did, you will get the patent. Also, in the US, patents have a 20 year period that they are valid. Things that were created in 1977, even if they were patented back then, are not valid patents anymore and therefore anyone can use that technology.
I like how they said that it was the defendant's fault because he didn't tell them that it was his daughter. As if any child-protecting parent is going to say "Hey don't sue me, sue my kid!" Such stupidity.
"Pyramid schemes now come in so many forms that they may be difficult to recognize immediately. However, they all share one overriding characteristic. They promise consumers or investors large profits based primarily on recruiting others to join their program, not based on profits from any real investment or real sale of goods to the public. Some schemes may purport to sell a product, but they often simply use the product to hide their pyramid structure."
I dont think Apple cares about whether users use iTunes or not. I read somewhere, that iTunes is basically break-even profit-wise. The ONLY reason they have iTunes, is to have a music delivery system to support their iPods. They make all their money on the hardware, not the software. Its the same with the PC hardware. When you buy a Macintosh computer, you are paying for the hardware not the software. The software OS is only a way to let you use the hardware. Thats why they dont have a serial number to install OSX. They know that you have to have bought the hardware to run it on, so they've already made the money there.
The iTV is not meant to be a replacement for Tivo, at least by my understanding. Essentially what it is, is the same thing that the AirportExpress does. It allows you to stream the movies/TV shows from your PC (using iTunes) to your nice big TV instead of your computer monitor. It doesnt have a built-in tuner, so you can't watch live TV. I was really excited about it when I first saw it, but then realized that it's not a DVR.