It's a semantic argument. No, Apple doesn't specifically outlaw open-source programs from its app stores; however, its license agreement is in direct conflict with the GPL (and probably other open-source licenses). That doesn't mean there aren't GPL programs in the app store, but it does mean the people that put them there are violating the GPL.
Steve Jobs just died because he tried "alternative medicine" and tried to treat cancer with diet and exercise. If he'd had the traditional doctors take care of his pancreatic cancer with surgery six months earlier he'd probably (90% chance) still be alive.
Citation please? According to the American Cancer Society, the average 5-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is only 6%. (http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@nho/documents/document/acspc-024113.pdf) Jobs died eight years after his first diagnosis meaning he lived longer than 94% of people with pancreatic cancer, so I'd say he beat the odds regardless of his choice of treatment.
I don't see how Slashdot's system is that different. Moderators are selected based on past moderations, and the layers are circular. If others have moderated you nicely, you get to moderate yourself. The internal bias created by this system is not that different than the bias created by a tree system, and I don't see how it's worse.
The hierarchical nature of the system could be advantageous in certain applications. In a general content system like Slashdot it wouldn't make much of a difference, but in something like Wikipedia you could have a top-level moderator in each of several disciplines (history, art, physics, medicine, etc) who would have the expertise to evaluate sub-moderators in those disciplines (or perhaps in sub-disciplines if the sub-moderator's expertise is more specialized).
Yes, I meant function is the in the general sense, not a programming sub-routine (which can be called a function, method, procedure, etc. depending on what programming language you use).
You can't copyright a recipe but you can copyright a cookbook. Likewise you shouldn't be able to copyright a software design/function but you should be able to copyright a software implementation of that design/function.
Really? If "Europe's Largest IT Company" can't stop their internal email system from receiving 90% spam then they aren't very good at IT. I've had the same work email address for over 10 years and it attracts lots of spam, but our IT department (2 guys) manages to filter virtually all of it. Could it possibly be that this IT company is looking to create a non-existent problem that they just so happen to be selling the solution to?
Ever look at the fine print on an old LP? Same thing applies. You have never "owned" the music, you just have a limited playback license tied to the physical object.
That doesn't mean the license is not transferable. You can put anything you want in fine print, that doesn't mean it's the law.
...Except when they killed almost 3000 in one day...
... 10 years ago, and not a single one since. 3000/10 = 300 per year (and falling). In medicine, a drug that saved 300 people per year but killed 100 people per year due to side-effects would never be approved.
How many of those smartphones are high-end models that are comparable to the iPhone?
We are talking about smartphones here which implies a certain minimum (touch screen, installable apps, etc). Smartphones are the high-end of the general phone market and a suppose you could say that there is a high-end of the high-end, but that is always a moving target which each new release leapfrogging to become the new high-end. Some of Samsung's smartphones are comparable with iPhone 3GS (which Apple still sells by the way), some are comparable with the iPhone 4 and it's upcoming releases will be comparable with the 4S.
Google Translate is an app on Android Marketplace. It is not part of the OS, thus the carrier cannot stop you from upgrading it. Also if you're so bent out of shape about carrier restrictions then buy an unlocked phone like the Nexus S (or root your carrier subsidized phone).
There are ways to sequester CO2 that don't require much energy input, like planting trees or spreading iron in the ocean to encourage algae growth. Other climate engineering ideas don't involve sequestering CO2 at all but rather reducing the amount of sunlight absorbed on earth and increasing the amount of sunlight reflected back into space. These can vary from orbiting mirrors, to really high smoke stacks on existing coal-fired plants, to painting your roof white. Many are local and scalable so that the effects/unintended consequences can be measured on a small scale before deploying widely.
Maybe you don't watch the news but governments have shut down cellular networks in Egypt, Iran, Syria and Libya this year. And if you think it's only third-world dictatorships, they also did in San Francisco and talked about doing it in London.
Thanks for proving my point. During the time period your talking about, Ford Motor Company was not a corporation, it was a privately owned company run by a man who realized that you couldn't sell millions of cars without paying the people who make them a good enough wage to actually buy a car. Ford did not go public until 1956. Publicly traded corporations are answerable only to the shareholders rather than the vision of the founder and a race-to-the-bottom chasing short-term profits takes priority over the good of the customers, the workers, the community and even the long-term viability of the corporation itself.
Social security was NEVER intended to be a retirement fund. It was never advertised as a retirement fund. Now its being used as a retirement fund.
Intended or not, corporations saw Social Security as a excuse to drop employee pensions (and take the difference as profits). At one time, even "menial" workers got decent pensions as part of their employment package. After 30 years of downsizing, rightsizing, off-shoring and union-busting, most people's only options for retirement are to gamble what little savings they have on the stock market (we all know how that worked out) and fall back on Social Security for the rest. The problem is not the "entitled" poor and retired, it's the entitled corporations who have sucked this country dry and given nothing back.
Perhaps the Murdochs can share a cell with Conrad Black. They can spend their time talking about the glory days of the newspaper business and how much better they are than the common people.
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For once I'm actually rooting for telecom lobbyists.
It's a semantic argument. No, Apple doesn't specifically outlaw open-source programs from its app stores; however, its license agreement is in direct conflict with the GPL (and probably other open-source licenses). That doesn't mean there aren't GPL programs in the app store, but it does mean the people that put them there are violating the GPL.
Citation please? According to the American Cancer Society, the average 5-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is only 6%. (http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@nho/documents/document/acspc-024113.pdf) Jobs died eight years after his first diagnosis meaning he lived longer than 94% of people with pancreatic cancer, so I'd say he beat the odds regardless of his choice of treatment.
The hierarchical nature of the system could be advantageous in certain applications. In a general content system like Slashdot it wouldn't make much of a difference, but in something like Wikipedia you could have a top-level moderator in each of several disciplines (history, art, physics, medicine, etc) who would have the expertise to evaluate sub-moderators in those disciplines (or perhaps in sub-disciplines if the sub-moderator's expertise is more specialized).
Yes, I meant function is the in the general sense, not a programming sub-routine (which can be called a function, method, procedure, etc. depending on what programming language you use).
You can't copyright a recipe but you can copyright a cookbook. Likewise you shouldn't be able to copyright a software design/function but you should be able to copyright a software implementation of that design/function.
Really? If "Europe's Largest IT Company" can't stop their internal email system from receiving 90% spam then they aren't very good at IT. I've had the same work email address for over 10 years and it attracts lots of spam, but our IT department (2 guys) manages to filter virtually all of it. Could it possibly be that this IT company is looking to create a non-existent problem that they just so happen to be selling the solution to?
Lossless compression and transparency are nice, but unless it allows for looping animated pictures of cats, I'm sticking with GIF.
That might explain why phone manufactures like Samsung and HTC (who make both Android and Windows phones) are willing to take the deal but B&N is not.
That doesn't mean the license is not transferable. You can put anything you want in fine print, that doesn't mean it's the law.
I'm picturing Steve Jobs in Jedi robes standing next to a display of Android phones saying "These aren't the Droids you're looking for".
You must have dictated it with Siri.
... 10 years ago, and not a single one since. 3000/10 = 300 per year (and falling). In medicine, a drug that saved 300 people per year but killed 100 people per year due to side-effects would never be approved.
We are talking about smartphones here which implies a certain minimum (touch screen, installable apps, etc). Smartphones are the high-end of the general phone market and a suppose you could say that there is a high-end of the high-end, but that is always a moving target which each new release leapfrogging to become the new high-end. Some of Samsung's smartphones are comparable with iPhone 3GS (which Apple still sells by the way), some are comparable with the iPhone 4 and it's upcoming releases will be comparable with the 4S.
Google Translate is an app on Android Marketplace. It is not part of the OS, thus the carrier cannot stop you from upgrading it. Also if you're so bent out of shape about carrier restrictions then buy an unlocked phone like the Nexus S (or root your carrier subsidized phone).
Unlikely, except perhaps for Nokia, since the others are all Android phone makers and the patents Samsung is using were borrowed from Google.
You don't get to wear your pajamas.
There are ways to sequester CO2 that don't require much energy input, like planting trees or spreading iron in the ocean to encourage algae growth. Other climate engineering ideas don't involve sequestering CO2 at all but rather reducing the amount of sunlight absorbed on earth and increasing the amount of sunlight reflected back into space. These can vary from orbiting mirrors, to really high smoke stacks on existing coal-fired plants, to painting your roof white. Many are local and scalable so that the effects/unintended consequences can be measured on a small scale before deploying widely.
Maybe you don't watch the news but governments have shut down cellular networks in Egypt, Iran, Syria and Libya this year. And if you think it's only third-world dictatorships, they also did in San Francisco and talked about doing it in London.
Thanks for proving my point. During the time period your talking about, Ford Motor Company was not a corporation, it was a privately owned company run by a man who realized that you couldn't sell millions of cars without paying the people who make them a good enough wage to actually buy a car. Ford did not go public until 1956. Publicly traded corporations are answerable only to the shareholders rather than the vision of the founder and a race-to-the-bottom chasing short-term profits takes priority over the good of the customers, the workers, the community and even the long-term viability of the corporation itself.
Intended or not, corporations saw Social Security as a excuse to drop employee pensions (and take the difference as profits). At one time, even "menial" workers got decent pensions as part of their employment package. After 30 years of downsizing, rightsizing, off-shoring and union-busting, most people's only options for retirement are to gamble what little savings they have on the stock market (we all know how that worked out) and fall back on Social Security for the rest. The problem is not the "entitled" poor and retired, it's the entitled corporations who have sucked this country dry and given nothing back.
A better (and legal) form of protest is to give the game a one star rating on Amazon and note the DRM problems in your review.
There's your problem. These symbols that you're translating as "Door of Heaven" should be something more like "Star Gate".
Perhaps the Murdochs can share a cell with Conrad Black. They can spend their time talking about the glory days of the newspaper business and how much better they are than the common people.
The "against" part is assumed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odds#Ratio_presentation