IANAL, but I believe the answer to that has already been established: "Yes." You're allowed to do whatever you'd like to do with the data on that disk--for your own personal use. I can buy a book, take a picture of each page, run it through an OCR reader and make my own version of the book which I could then put on whatever device I'd like.
The issue comes up when you then distribute that data to other people. You've now stepped outside the bounds of "your own personal use."
That's not to say that the people who own the copyright particularly like that you can do this. They'd much rather you buy the hardcover, the paperback, and two or three different encodings of the e-book. They'll go out of their way to make it more difficult for you to do this.
I bought a 17" MacBook Pro back in 2010 to replace my desktop and it worked out wonderfully. It was, as I called it, transportable. No, I wasn't going to use it flying in coach (I did use it once when I got bumped to business class and it worked okay). I wasn't going to whip it out in the chic little coffee shop. But it was a life-saver for getting real work done in hotel rooms and the like.
The MacBook Pro has had mostly storage upgrades--from a 5400 RPM hard drive to a 7200 RPM drive to a Flash drive. Memory came maxed out, but if I could have, I would have upgraded the memory. Plenty of ports for external devices for when I was at home or in case I needed something on the road.
I'm fine with a larger laptop which is upgradable--a transportable desktop replacement. Within certain realms of reason, I'm happy to sacrifice weight for a degree of upgradability, a large number of built-in ports, and a decent sized screen (with high-definition screens, I can get away with a smaller screen with a higher resolution as long as my eyes hold out).
Here in California, we're getting the idiots with the drones that are flying above the wildfires (because, let's face it, they are pretty impressive). The problem is that those drones are sitting right where the airplanes that are dropping water on the fire want to go.
Well, it's not so much about my right to repair. You're right--I'm probably not going to fix my own cracked iPhone screen.
As an Apple customer, it's more about my right to take my phone to the local fix-it shop when the screen cracks rather than making an appointment at the Apple Store and driving 45 minutes for a repair that'll take them 5 minutes to fix.
I use a black & white monitor, you insensitive clod!
(I'm reminded of a comedian's comment on the waste of advertising color television sets on television: "If you have a black and white TV, you can't see the color. If you have a color TV, you can't see how much better the color is. And if you have their color TV, they already won you over!")
Apple in no way is a monopoly power in the smartphone market [...]
True. But it certainly has monopoly power in the iPhone Apps market.
Microsoft insisted that they did not have a monopoly in the personal computer market. After all, Apple was there. But Microsoft did have a monopoly in the Intel-based PC market. At the time, Apple used PowerPC processors, so they couldn't claim that Apple was a competitor.
First, if I'm contributing money to my family and I'm unable to do so because I'm killed, it's reasonable to expect the person who killed me to be responsible for that. Second, the lifeblood of corporations is money--you can't put a company in jail. So how else do you control corporations that are ultimately only interested in money?
Don't get me wrong--it sounds like lawyers decided that they might hit a payday so they're giving it a shot.
If that's the cost of getting employees to stay late, it's a great investment.
Depends on why they're staying late.
During "crunch" times--usually a few months before shipping--a company I used to work for would bring in dinner. I know more than a few people who would hang out, let the company buy them dinner, and then go home shortly afterwards. These were usually the same people who would snag a half-dozen free sodas to take home on the way out (and, no, they weren't working from home).
I'd be more interested in things getting done. If people are staying late in order to get things done, that's great and I have no qualms about feeding them as a way of thanking them. But I've seen it turn into a "Hey, free food, let's stick around! Maybe we'll get a foosball game going after dinner. Look at us, we stayed at work 'til 11:00 playing ping-pong!"
Venture capital poured in, and its valuation surged from $US12m in early 2014 to $US525m by mid-2015. Beepi moved out of its cramped office and into a glassie building where the chief executive zipped around on his own Segway. Staffers enjoyed quinoa salad and turkey meatball lunches and dinners when they often stayed late, and unwound with ping-pong or Nerf guns.
By Monday afternoon, visitors to Open Data received a different pop-up notification, which clarifies that data on the site will still be available come Friday.
As long as the lowest cost means of producing hydrogen starts with oil or natural gas, it is not a green fuel.
I'm not sure about that. It's somewhat akin to the argument about electric cars and where the electricity comes from. Is your electric car "green" if the electricity to power it comes from coal?
The advantage to something like this is your car is being powered by hydrogen. You can get that hydrogen from fossil fuels. You can get that hydrogen from water. You can get that hydrogen from the solar wind. However you can economically produce hydrogen--and that will change over time--won't matter to the car. As long as you're delivering hydrogen, it's all good.
And much like the argument about using "dirty" means of producing electricity, it's much simpler to regulate the pollution from a factory or 20 producing hydrogen than it is to regulate the pollution from 10,000,000 vehicles.
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I'm okay without the FTL travel, but I totally need to be able to tell it to beam me someplace else.
IANAL, but I believe the answer to that has already been established: "Yes." You're allowed to do whatever you'd like to do with the data on that disk--for your own personal use. I can buy a book, take a picture of each page, run it through an OCR reader and make my own version of the book which I could then put on whatever device I'd like.
The issue comes up when you then distribute that data to other people. You've now stepped outside the bounds of "your own personal use."
That's not to say that the people who own the copyright particularly like that you can do this. They'd much rather you buy the hardcover, the paperback, and two or three different encodings of the e-book. They'll go out of their way to make it more difficult for you to do this.
Indeed.
I bought a 17" MacBook Pro back in 2010 to replace my desktop and it worked out wonderfully. It was, as I called it, transportable. No, I wasn't going to use it flying in coach (I did use it once when I got bumped to business class and it worked okay). I wasn't going to whip it out in the chic little coffee shop. But it was a life-saver for getting real work done in hotel rooms and the like.
The MacBook Pro has had mostly storage upgrades--from a 5400 RPM hard drive to a 7200 RPM drive to a Flash drive. Memory came maxed out, but if I could have, I would have upgraded the memory. Plenty of ports for external devices for when I was at home or in case I needed something on the road.
I'm fine with a larger laptop which is upgradable--a transportable desktop replacement. Within certain realms of reason, I'm happy to sacrifice weight for a degree of upgradability, a large number of built-in ports, and a decent sized screen (with high-definition screens, I can get away with a smaller screen with a higher resolution as long as my eyes hold out).
It's not quite that easy.
Here in California, we're getting the idiots with the drones that are flying above the wildfires (because, let's face it, they are pretty impressive). The problem is that those drones are sitting right where the airplanes that are dropping water on the fire want to go.
So they're a bit high up for water hoses.
...and AT&T can charge $20/month to automatically remove it!
Yes. Yes they could.
Is it likely? No.
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That should help improve the efficiency.
the Interlink.
Well, it's not so much about my right to repair. You're right--I'm probably not going to fix my own cracked iPhone screen.
As an Apple customer, it's more about my right to take my phone to the local fix-it shop when the screen cracks rather than making an appointment at the Apple Store and driving 45 minutes for a repair that'll take them 5 minutes to fix.
I use a black & white monitor, you insensitive clod!
(I'm reminded of a comedian's comment on the waste of advertising color television sets on television: "If you have a black and white TV, you can't see the color. If you have a color TV, you can't see how much better the color is. And if you have their color TV, they already won you over!")
Apple in no way is a monopoly power in the smartphone market [...]
True. But it certainly has monopoly power in the iPhone Apps market.
Microsoft insisted that they did not have a monopoly in the personal computer market. After all, Apple was there. But Microsoft did have a monopoly in the Intel-based PC market. At the time, Apple used PowerPC processors, so they couldn't claim that Apple was a competitor.
Their family members died, not them!
Well, there are two ways to look at it.
First, if I'm contributing money to my family and I'm unable to do so because I'm killed, it's reasonable to expect the person who killed me to be responsible for that. Second, the lifeblood of corporations is money--you can't put a company in jail. So how else do you control corporations that are ultimately only interested in money?
Don't get me wrong--it sounds like lawyers decided that they might hit a payday so they're giving it a shot.
Uh...so does the truck. That's sort of the issue here--trucks blocking the street while delivering packages.
RIP-dead. Send-flowers-dead. Worm-food-dead.
"It's pining!"
"It's not pining, it's passed on! This is an Ex-Phone!"
If that's the cost of getting employees to stay late, it's a great investment.
Depends on why they're staying late.
During "crunch" times--usually a few months before shipping--a company I used to work for would bring in dinner. I know more than a few people who would hang out, let the company buy them dinner, and then go home shortly afterwards. These were usually the same people who would snag a half-dozen free sodas to take home on the way out (and, no, they weren't working from home).
I'd be more interested in things getting done. If people are staying late in order to get things done, that's great and I have no qualms about feeding them as a way of thanking them. But I've seen it turn into a "Hey, free food, let's stick around! Maybe we'll get a foosball game going after dinner. Look at us, we stayed at work 'til 11:00 playing ping-pong!"
Perhaps a variation on Yogi Berra's famous line: "Nobody uses them--they're too popular."
FTA:
Venture capital poured in, and its valuation surged from $US12m in early 2014 to $US525m by mid-2015. Beepi moved out of its cramped office and into a glassie building where the chief executive zipped around on his own Segway. Staffers enjoyed quinoa salad and turkey meatball lunches and dinners when they often stayed late, and unwound with ping-pong or Nerf guns.
Fox News is trying to create a more diverse workplace.
"We got blondes, redheads, brunettes..."
Do you really think someone would make a unique virus [...]
Depending on what sort of AV software you're using, making it "unique" can be as simple as adding few dozen bytes to the end of a file.
I was just going to ask: Did they look under the seat cushions on the couch? Or check under the seat in the car?
By Monday afternoon, visitors to Open Data received a different pop-up notification, which clarifies that data on the site will still be available come Friday.
On Saturday, though, you're SOL...
Are you sure you're not missing a letter?
At least I know that my autonomous vehicle will have had training on how to deal with a carjacker or with someone trying to run it off the road.
They'd need to render 48-64 bit color to emulate what might be possible in the real world to get accurate depth information.
Or use radar.
As long as the lowest cost means of producing hydrogen starts with oil or natural gas, it is not a green fuel.
I'm not sure about that. It's somewhat akin to the argument about electric cars and where the electricity comes from. Is your electric car "green" if the electricity to power it comes from coal?
The advantage to something like this is your car is being powered by hydrogen. You can get that hydrogen from fossil fuels. You can get that hydrogen from water. You can get that hydrogen from the solar wind. However you can economically produce hydrogen--and that will change over time--won't matter to the car. As long as you're delivering hydrogen, it's all good.
And much like the argument about using "dirty" means of producing electricity, it's much simpler to regulate the pollution from a factory or 20 producing hydrogen than it is to regulate the pollution from 10,000,000 vehicles.