All Google can claim here is fair use, but it won't stop the issue of copyrighted APIs being shown to be stupid. If you reuse APIs to help developers with a familiar language and for them to reuse their code....that qualifies as fair use without even thinking about it. Oracle have tried to dance around this with ridiculous notions that because Android isn't completely Java compatible then fair use can't apply because it isn't interoperable.
According to the Federal Appeals Court-- whose opinion is the only one that matters (since the Supreme court declined the case)-- you are wrong. APIs can be copyrighted. End of discussion.
Alas, that will not stop them being wrong I'm afraid. This has also been debated, and overturned endlessly, throughout the 80s and 90s with things like DR DOS.
There are the way a bunch of lawyers would like things to be in an industry they know nothing about, and the way things actually are. You might not like that, and you might not agree, but that is neither here nor there. There is no software industry of any kind with copyrighted APIs.
Indeed so. Software is in a whole heap of trouble of APIs are copyrighted and you have to go to court to prove whatever laughable versions of fair use is in vogue this week.
The Netflix Open Connect Appliance takes 4U of space in the ISP's data center, space that a paying colo customer could be leasing. This is why Comcast refused the appliance, as the opportunity cost of not being able to lease the real estate to a colo customer outweighed the cost of poor quality service to its subscribers.
Indeed so. The incentive here is all on Netflix's side.
I do not think you are aware how Netflix actually distributes content.
Yes, I am.........
Every reasonably-large ISP is offered a Netflix-cache which is a physical box they provide. The ISP then installs the box in their network, and the Netflix customers in that ISP now get their content from the box.
Not every ISP can provide local caching for Netflix at all, and that cache still needs to be populated. ISPs also have to have an incentive to do this so it is something Netflix have to subsidise, which for them is worth it to save as much bandwidth into and out of Amazon as possible.
The neat thing is that for participating ISPs, Netflix has no extra expenses when a customer picks a high bandwidth stream, and for the ISP it is great as well because they only have to transport the stream in their own network, which in many cases is close to free.
You're being incredibly optimistic and naive here I'm afraid. This has to be paid for, by Netflix mostly, and bandwidth wherever it is is never free. This is the extreme lengths Netflix has had to go to to save costs. Caching is certainly employed widely, but this is a pretty extreme thing to be doing. Space, power and bandwidth in an ISP's datacentre is not free I'm afraid.
It doesn't. GP is probably just a disgruntled ex-employee who used to work in a datacenter that was phased out in favor of Amazon cloud.
That tells you everything you need to know. After a few years, or even a few months depending on the size of the system, you could have bought hardware many times over and had it pay for itself. That's the whole point of building infrastructure. Trust me, I've been there....many years before you most probably.
We're doing the same thing where I work. The former primadonnas are being shown to the door.
The monthly bills will hit home sooner rather than later, as they have done and are doing at many organisations. But hey, look on the bright side. It's natural selection;-). I also had a good chuckle and the primadonna comment. You do realise you still have to build system infrastructure on top of Amazon and do sys admin work, or pay a monthly fee for that as well? You do realise that, right?:-)
This just doesn't help people on mobile connections. It also helps Netflix. Also witness their re-encoding job a while back.
Netflix is still beholden to the Amazon platform they sit on, regardless of what discounts they get, so cutting storage, bandwidth and other costs becomes very important. The trouble with cloud platforms is that they look very attractive to accountants because they don't see a huge amount of upfront costs, but, over time that catches up with you. When you build your own infrastructure that pays off over time, otherwise your provider simply takes a large cut out of your revenue every month. Those same accountants then look at the mammoth bill every month and start asking for ways to cut it. I've seen it everywhere cloud stuff has been deployed.
They have a reasonable looking outlook Netflix, but the fact that they don't control their own platform is still a large risk IMHO.
Cloud storage? Check. Storage can just be plucked out of someone's arse? Check. You can all retrain depending on what ridiculous ideas I pull out of thing air at any given time? Check.
Normally, I would say that this is a bad thing, but Xamarian's pricing is brutal anyone who just wants to play around, explore, and possibly try to sell an app or two if they're halfway decent.
Sounds like you have no business model and no idea.
QT is even worse. Their documentation actually states "Please consult a lawyer before using QT for commercial development". Their pricing is so brutal they don't even advertise it on their website.
It's Qt. Qt is open sourced, and now LGPLed which is a stick people have loved to beat it with over the years, so it really isn't hard to get started.
I don't know if you've noticed, but commercial development tools to tend to cost a bit of money. That isn't going to change any time soon. I've heard the endless whining at Qt over the years in particular.
How about you can the fucking idiots who modded this shite 'insightful' read the summary and TFA - or is that too much to ask? Silly me. It's Slashdot.
The Russians have invested heavily in electronic warfare and jamming systems, and they have said relatively little about them. I for one would be very uneasy as to how networked and full of electronics western military hardware is. Drones have already been GPS hijacked. Heck, western ships have ethernet LANs on them and Microsoft has been developing Windows for Submarines. Crazy.
outside of a few concept sports cars, diesel isnt about speed but torque.
It's about low-end power, not torque.
Unfortunately, in the US the diesel engines that exist there are there out of necessity because no one could shove a gasoline engine in. The economics and consumption are just too obvious. Beyond that, very little investment, if any, has been made in diesel in the US. A European car diesel takes a surprisingly short amount of time to warm up. Certainly in the 90s, you only used a diesel car if you were on the road permanently as a rep or something. Lack of enthusiasm for diesel kind of makes sense because gasoline is still so cheap. However, if gasoline/petrol becomes uneconomical to produce as the price falls further, as strange as that might sound.....that might shake things up slightly.
As usual, you have politicians and vested interests talking out of their arse and lurching from one crisis to another. The vast majority of pollution in any city is produced by a few hundred thousand large trucks, lorries, buses and vans which are usually given emissions exemptions. Good luck stopping them from running diesel. Banning diesel cars will do nothing for this (especially modern diesel cars which really are much more efficient even allowing for VW's stupidity) and might well make the situation worse. A lurch back to petrol/gasoline for Europe means producing more of a fuel that takes more energy to produce and transport as well as having to burn more of it by volume. Nobody seems to ask just how much in the way of emissions are produced on a journey outputting a certain amount of power.
We're likely to hear more anti-diesel rhetoric in the future. With the ever falling oil price and no floor to it in sight petrol/gasoline is simply going to be uneconomical to produce at some point. The only thing to do is to then try and ban the cheaper alternative through laws and regulations. There's a bit of distortion going on at the moment.
Its news, but it's not as big as many people think. When someone can physically get to your machine you're going to need an awful lot more than a bootloader password to secure things.
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All Google can claim here is fair use, but it won't stop the issue of copyrighted APIs being shown to be stupid. If you reuse APIs to help developers with a familiar language and for them to reuse their code....that qualifies as fair use without even thinking about it. Oracle have tried to dance around this with ridiculous notions that because Android isn't completely Java compatible then fair use can't apply because it isn't interoperable.
According to the Federal Appeals Court-- whose opinion is the only one that matters (since the Supreme court declined the case)-- you are wrong. APIs can be copyrighted. End of discussion.
Alas, that will not stop them being wrong I'm afraid. This has also been debated, and overturned endlessly, throughout the 80s and 90s with things like DR DOS.
There are the way a bunch of lawyers would like things to be in an industry they know nothing about, and the way things actually are. You might not like that, and you might not agree, but that is neither here nor there. There is no software industry of any kind with copyrighted APIs.
Indeed so. Software is in a whole heap of trouble of APIs are copyrighted and you have to go to court to prove whatever laughable versions of fair use is in vogue this week.
The Netflix Open Connect Appliance takes 4U of space in the ISP's data center, space that a paying colo customer could be leasing. This is why Comcast refused the appliance, as the opportunity cost of not being able to lease the real estate to a colo customer outweighed the cost of poor quality service to its subscribers.
Indeed so. The incentive here is all on Netflix's side.
I do not think you are aware how Netflix actually distributes content.
Yes, I am.........
Every reasonably-large ISP is offered a Netflix-cache which is a physical box they provide. The ISP then installs the box in their network, and the Netflix customers in that ISP now get their content from the box.
Not every ISP can provide local caching for Netflix at all, and that cache still needs to be populated. ISPs also have to have an incentive to do this so it is something Netflix have to subsidise, which for them is worth it to save as much bandwidth into and out of Amazon as possible.
The neat thing is that for participating ISPs, Netflix has no extra expenses when a customer picks a high bandwidth stream, and for the ISP it is great as well because they only have to transport the stream in their own network, which in many cases is close to free.
You're being incredibly optimistic and naive here I'm afraid. This has to be paid for, by Netflix mostly, and bandwidth wherever it is is never free. This is the extreme lengths Netflix has had to go to to save costs. Caching is certainly employed widely, but this is a pretty extreme thing to be doing. Space, power and bandwidth in an ISP's datacentre is not free I'm afraid.
It doesn't. GP is probably just a disgruntled ex-employee who used to work in a datacenter that was phased out in favor of Amazon cloud.
That tells you everything you need to know. After a few years, or even a few months depending on the size of the system, you could have bought hardware many times over and had it pay for itself. That's the whole point of building infrastructure. Trust me, I've been there....many years before you most probably.
We're doing the same thing where I work. The former primadonnas are being shown to the door.
The monthly bills will hit home sooner rather than later, as they have done and are doing at many organisations. But hey, look on the bright side. It's natural selection ;-). I also had a good chuckle and the primadonna comment. You do realise you still have to build system infrastructure on top of Amazon and do sys admin work, or pay a monthly fee for that as well? You do realise that, right? :-)
This just doesn't help people on mobile connections. It also helps Netflix. Also witness their re-encoding job a while back.
Netflix is still beholden to the Amazon platform they sit on, regardless of what discounts they get, so cutting storage, bandwidth and other costs becomes very important. The trouble with cloud platforms is that they look very attractive to accountants because they don't see a huge amount of upfront costs, but, over time that catches up with you. When you build your own infrastructure that pays off over time, otherwise your provider simply takes a large cut out of your revenue every month. Those same accountants then look at the mammoth bill every month and start asking for ways to cut it. I've seen it everywhere cloud stuff has been deployed.
They have a reasonable looking outlook Netflix, but the fact that they don't control their own platform is still a large risk IMHO.
Says the Anonymous Coward.........
Cloud storage? Check. Storage can just be plucked out of someone's arse? Check. You can all retrain depending on what ridiculous ideas I pull out of thing air at any given time? Check.
This is Slashdot, or at least it was.
What an absolute load of total and utter dogshit. I shouldn't really need to elaborate why.
That's nVidia's attitude rather than how their drivers work. I can't see what you're trying to argue here.
Normally, I would say that this is a bad thing, but Xamarian's pricing is brutal anyone who just wants to play around, explore, and possibly try to sell an app or two if they're halfway decent.
Sounds like you have no business model and no idea.
QT is even worse. Their documentation actually states "Please consult a lawyer before using QT for commercial development". Their pricing is so brutal they don't even advertise it on their website.
It's Qt. Qt is open sourced, and now LGPLed which is a stick people have loved to beat it with over the years, so it really isn't hard to get started.
I don't know if you've noticed, but commercial development tools to tend to cost a bit of money. That isn't going to change any time soon. I've heard the endless whining at Qt over the years in particular.
....a 9mm is not for killing people. It's about stopping a threat.
I love the mental gymnastics Americans perform in order to justify why they are entitled to carry a weapon that kills people.
Whoosh. This shouldn't brick a system.
How about you can the fucking idiots who modded this shite 'insightful' read the summary and TFA - or is that too much to ask? Silly me. It's Slashdot.
The Russians have invested heavily in electronic warfare and jamming systems, and they have said relatively little about them. I for one would be very uneasy as to how networked and full of electronics western military hardware is. Drones have already been GPS hijacked. Heck, western ships have ethernet LANs on them and Microsoft has been developing Windows for Submarines. Crazy.
outside of a few concept sports cars, diesel isnt about speed but torque.
It's about low-end power, not torque.
Unfortunately, in the US the diesel engines that exist there are there out of necessity because no one could shove a gasoline engine in. The economics and consumption are just too obvious. Beyond that, very little investment, if any, has been made in diesel in the US. A European car diesel takes a surprisingly short amount of time to warm up. Certainly in the 90s, you only used a diesel car if you were on the road permanently as a rep or something. Lack of enthusiasm for diesel kind of makes sense because gasoline is still so cheap. However, if gasoline/petrol becomes uneconomical to produce as the price falls further, as strange as that might sound.....that might shake things up slightly.
As usual, you have politicians and vested interests talking out of their arse and lurching from one crisis to another. The vast majority of pollution in any city is produced by a few hundred thousand large trucks, lorries, buses and vans which are usually given emissions exemptions. Good luck stopping them from running diesel. Banning diesel cars will do nothing for this (especially modern diesel cars which really are much more efficient even allowing for VW's stupidity) and might well make the situation worse. A lurch back to petrol/gasoline for Europe means producing more of a fuel that takes more energy to produce and transport as well as having to burn more of it by volume. Nobody seems to ask just how much in the way of emissions are produced on a journey outputting a certain amount of power.
We're likely to hear more anti-diesel rhetoric in the future. With the ever falling oil price and no floor to it in sight petrol/gasoline is simply going to be uneconomical to produce at some point. The only thing to do is to then try and ban the cheaper alternative through laws and regulations. There's a bit of distortion going on at the moment.
The City of London police are a private police force for the square mile. They're constantly looking for pies they can stick their fingers into.
Its news, but it's not as big as many people think. When someone can physically get to your machine you're going to need an awful lot more than a bootloader password to secure things.
Because complicating the shit out of a bootloader before an OS is even running seems like a great idea.
There's not exactly many eyes on this code.
They'd be best served getting their platform off Amazon.
What ruined Star Wars for me can be described with one word: Ewoks ... Everything else is a mere annoyance, even Jar Jar Binks.
If you think the Ewoks are worse than Jar Jar then you won't find many who will go along with that one.
Honestly, if you think Star Wars IV hasn't aged well, watch the prequels. They are excruciatingly bad.
Having a plane that can be kept in the air as much as possible trumps technology every time.