You purchasing a piece of gum from a store might not be intended to be a contract, and Stallman might tell you that it's not, but in the end it's the judge's call whether something is a contract or not. And, by and large in common law jurisdictions such as most of the United States, any agreement of any sort whatsoever will be interpreted under the law of contract. "But your honor, I didn't mean to have a contract!" has about as much weight as "But your honor, I didn't mean to kill that man!"
I was actually just thinking about this, and here's a thought. If you have actually been damaged by someone refusing to distribute the source code as required by the GPL, you may be able to bring a lawsuit as an intended third-party beneficiary of the contract between the copyright holder and the licensee. If you really want a good time, and you and other people have had small but measurable damages, you could bring a class action.
You can install it later on, but the attempt at the Guinness record title is for the number of downloads in a 24-hour period, so do what I did and download it for later.
People are generally, as a whole, ignorant of *ST/*DT and when to use each one. It's sad that the one area that, at least in the US, our government isn't coddling us is its repeated, confusing, and useless changes in our daylight saving time system. No Child Left Behind... so long as the little ones can figure out when to show up for school this week.
You got that far? I saw which "editor" (a term used too loosely) posted the story and knew that the tags should be !news and kdawsonsucksandisretarded. Of course, I had to read the blurb to know that this is also askslashdot.
Do you really think that either (a) the people in the Middle East who hate the West do so only because there are Western troops in the Middle East or (b) removing those troops now will end that hatred?
The comment I was responding to indicates that you at least give preference to theories that give results that support your views on religion, regardless of your other criteria expressed elsewhere. That's all I was saying.:)
If Apple hadn't made a deal with Cingular, now AT&T Wireless, would the iPhone have made enough business sense to bother bringing it to market? I don't know the answer, but whatever it is will have bearing on whether your point holds water.
That's exactly my point: People on both 'sides' are doing the same irrational thing. The real problem is that too many people believe that there are two sides: religion and science. This is no more true than saying that up is the opposite of south.
To me it seems appealing that the multiverse is in some steady state even if the universe isn't because that avoids the Big Bang being some sort of unique, magic Act of Creation. Setting aside the illogical assumption you make that a steady state disproves divine creation, I have to ask this... Are you saying that, whereas many rational thinkers in both the religious and scientific communities agree that religion and science are orthogonal, you specifically find scientific hypotheses to be appealing because they tend to prove otherwise? Can you explain how that is even a little bit different from someone else hand-picking the hypotheses he wants to believe based on which of them tend to suggest divine creation?
I don't know about the rest of Slashdot, but I tend to go with the scientific hypotheses that are borne out through observation and experimentation, rather than those that pander to my subjective desires about my views on religion being proven right or others' religious views being proven wrong (which is more often the desire people seem to have, and is typically indistinguishable from Schadenfreude).
Wait... 12.3 - 11.6 = 0.7. Does the definition of "a couple" now include 7/10 as a possible meaning?
It's also possible that "slimmer" meant the average depth over the entire area of the device. Think of how much thinner something seems when the edges taper off compared to something the same maximum thickness but uniform thickness over its area. And remember, Apple cares a great deal about aesthetics.
Where I live, we have two providers: Alltel and Verizon. I'm already pissed off about the buy-out, of course, but of relevance here is the fact that, for me, it's not that I'm unwilling to switch - it's that I'm unable to. The iPhone and OpenMoko are GSM-only for the foreseeable future, and I'm going to be stuck with crappy Verizon software, without even the ability to install Alltel software on my phone the way that all my Verizon friends have done because Alltel will be no more.
On a side note, I like how Verizon says they'll let you cancel your Alltel contract when they complete the buy-out. Fat lot of good that does me, since they'll at that time have a monopoly on my region.
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He should have waited until they could make a third movie. There were too many unanswered questions after the first two. :(
And that, everyone, is the best Slashdot tag evar.
You purchasing a piece of gum from a store might not be intended to be a contract, and Stallman might tell you that it's not, but in the end it's the judge's call whether something is a contract or not. And, by and large in common law jurisdictions such as most of the United States, any agreement of any sort whatsoever will be interpreted under the law of contract. "But your honor, I didn't mean to have a contract!" has about as much weight as "But your honor, I didn't mean to kill that man!"
If it's so far from your area of expertise, why are you so certain that licenses are not a type of contract?
I was actually just thinking about this, and here's a thought. If you have actually been damaged by someone refusing to distribute the source code as required by the GPL, you may be able to bring a lawsuit as an intended third-party beneficiary of the contract between the copyright holder and the licensee. If you really want a good time, and you and other people have had small but measurable damages, you could bring a class action.
Rosa Parks had two arms, you insensitive clod!
You can install it later on, but the attempt at the Guinness record title is for the number of downloads in a 24-hour period, so do what I did and download it for later.
They absolutely can blame your obsolete client. You should have used Firefox 3.
People are generally, as a whole, ignorant of *ST/*DT and when to use each one. It's sad that the one area that, at least in the US, our government isn't coddling us is its repeated, confusing, and useless changes in our daylight saving time system. No Child Left Behind ... so long as the little ones can figure out when to show up for school this week.
You got that far? I saw which "editor" (a term used too loosely) posted the story and knew that the tags should be !news and kdawsonsucksandisretarded. Of course, I had to read the blurb to know that this is also askslashdot.
As long as it's not Christianity, I'm sure the ACLU would tell us that's okay.
Do you really think that either (a) the people in the Middle East who hate the West do so only because there are Western troops in the Middle East or (b) removing those troops now will end that hatred?
How is this responsive to my point that religion and science are orthogonal?
The comment I was responding to indicates that you at least give preference to theories that give results that support your views on religion, regardless of your other criteria expressed elsewhere. That's all I was saying. :)
If Apple hadn't made a deal with Cingular, now AT&T Wireless, would the iPhone have made enough business sense to bother bringing it to market? I don't know the answer, but whatever it is will have bearing on whether your point holds water.
That's exactly my point: People on both 'sides' are doing the same irrational thing. The real problem is that too many people believe that there are two sides: religion and science. This is no more true than saying that up is the opposite of south.
I don't know about the rest of Slashdot, but I tend to go with the scientific hypotheses that are borne out through observation and experimentation, rather than those that pander to my subjective desires about my views on religion being proven right or others' religious views being proven wrong (which is more often the desire people seem to have, and is typically indistinguishable from Schadenfreude).
Wait ... 12.3 - 11.6 = 0.7. Does the definition of "a couple" now include 7/10 as a possible meaning?
It's also possible that "slimmer" meant the average depth over the entire area of the device. Think of how much thinner something seems when the edges taper off compared to something the same maximum thickness but uniform thickness over its area. And remember, Apple cares a great deal about aesthetics.
2022: Naysayers: Good riddance! It didn't work with every dialect of Swahili, anyhow. I told you this iPod thing would never take off!
Great historical rundown. Possibly today's best comment.
Available in 22 countries, none of which is Rural America.
Where I live, we have two providers: Alltel and Verizon. I'm already pissed off about the buy-out, of course, but of relevance here is the fact that, for me, it's not that I'm unwilling to switch - it's that I'm unable to. The iPhone and OpenMoko are GSM-only for the foreseeable future, and I'm going to be stuck with crappy Verizon software, without even the ability to install Alltel software on my phone the way that all my Verizon friends have done because Alltel will be no more.
On a side note, I like how Verizon says they'll let you cancel your Alltel contract when they complete the buy-out. Fat lot of good that does me, since they'll at that time have a monopoly on my region.