If a developer writes an application, it it doesn't infringe any copyrights....
But RUNNING the application DOES. Is the application still infringing?
This is why you should be afraid.
What about thinking about writing the application? After all, you have to think about the code before you write it. Isn't that, in effect, Thoughcrime? (I think I owe royalties to Orwell now)
Intel's ATOM CPU was not aimed at the "UMPC" market, though most certainly can be used in this fashion. Intel's Atom is aimed at the ARM market. They targetted it for the mobile phone/handheld device market.
Atom WAS meant for the Mobile Internet Device / Low power laptop market. NOT the handheld market. UMPCs were a niche market that is halfway between the two above. They did neither well, and will die appropriately.
ARM is, and always will be, in a market that is completely different from Intel. Their chips consume 10x less power than the Atom ever will. For every die shrink that brings Atom's power consumption down, will bring ARM's down as well.
Microsoft isn't going anywhere, Linux and Apple aren't going to squeeze them out, and the EEE PC is just a fad. As soon as the "average joe" gets his hands on one and realize it won't play his video games, he's going to take it back and that's that.
The average joe DOESN'T PLAY WARCRAFT. The average joe plays Yahoo games. Or [insert online gaming portal here]. The average joe checks his e-mail. The average joe shares pictures. The average joe uses youtube.
All of these things can be done EASILY by ANY OS. Microsoft Windows, Apple OSX, or Linux [insert distro here].
OS's are becoming irrelevant. The world is going connected, people will be storing their information online. Games are played on consoles. People just need something cheap, that will connect them to the internet and read e-mail. Sometimes play web games and browse youtube.
Microsoft: 1. "We love Silverlight!" 2. "We love Ruby!" 3. "We love Ruby so much, we're making Ruby.NET***!" 4. "Hey look, Silverlight and Ruby.NET play together!" 5. "Hey everyone, develop for Silverlight and Ruby.NET!" **Everyone embraces Silverlight and Ruby.NET** 6. "We're discontinuing Ruby.NET, please refer to Silverlight."
***Not compatible with normal Ruby
P.S. Oddly enough, my CAPTCHA today is "strategy". Intelligence perhaps?
Whatever you do, *DON'T* put RFID tags on your socks.
They're missing for a reason. If you find them, a paradoxical black hole will open up in your dryer and engulf the entire planet. Trust me, I've done the math.
Initially they were saying they wouldn't get the expected $4.7 billion in the auction. Instead, it got up to that amount on local regional licenses alone. The C block had two options, a regional option or a carrier could buy rights to the whole nation, whichever was bid higher would be the result.
If the FCC cared about the interests of the consumers, they would have opened up the C-block auction to non-incumbents only. This would have forced carriers to expand to areas they don't already cover, and increase competition.
Cellulose is plant matter. You know. Grass clippings, corn stalks, etc. I see you really must like eating GRASS CLIPPINGS along with the COWS. Similar intelligence, perhaps?
Then they download the files--frequently videos, sometimes as long as 20 to 30 minutes, with names like "children kiddy underage illegal.mpg" and much more obscene--to their own machines.
Last time I did that all I got was a bunch of viruses.
Do you own Intel integrated graphics?
Even though the site says 1403 driver version, I found I couldn't install SP1 with my Windows Update-approved 1409 Intel graphics driver. I had to install the 1433 one from Intel's website before SP1 would show up.
I had an unsupported SigmaTel sound driver in my laptop. I couldn't install the much-needed SP1.
Instead I uninstalled the offending sound driver, then installed SP1. Afterward, I reinstalled the driver without a hitch. I don't see the big deal.
But I lost 4 hours of my life figuring out why SP1 wouldn't install.
I'm pissed at Microsoft for neither releasing SP1 fast enough or reliably enough. Along with probably everyone else.
However, I'm not going to go all hippie-like and say Vista isn't an upgrade. There are many things Vista has that would make XP a better operating system (I/O scheduler, UAC, Explorer error handling, 3D accelerated GUI, etc). They should really backport these features to XP and release it as a $30 upgrade. That'd be nice.
Hypothetical situation: Say enough worms are out out there, and they each patch the system after propagating, denying the same vulnerability. Well, since there are finite lines of code and finite resources, then there are finite vulnerabilities.
Ironically, then the most virus and worm-laden computers would be the most secure computers on the planet, since there would eventually be no more bugs for the Microsoft worm to exploit and patch the system.
Hrrm... I think I see where they're going with this. They can force the virus makers to do all their operating system security work for them! Genius! Now, just to figure out how to get rid of the viruses and worms afterward...
As far as I understand Beacon is merely some AJAX code that resides within the affiliates webpage.
Your own computer gets this code, and communicates with Facebook directly, looking at your cookies to see if you're affiliated with Facebook. Since the transfer is local you can block it, but still these websites have the malicious AJAX code residing within their pages.
You have to block "http://www.facebook.com/beacon/*", which can be done using the FireFox BlockSite plugin, among other methods.
Need to cut the problem at the source: the advertisers themselves. This wasn't easy to find in google, but here's a list of sites that have privacy-violating Beacon code embedded in them.
Boycott the following sites:
eBay Fandango College Humor Busted Tees iWon Citysearch Pronto.com echomusic Travelocity Allposters.com Blockbuster Bluefly.com CBS Sports Dotspotter ExpoTV Gamefly Hotwire Joost Kiva Kongregate LiveJournal Live Nation Mercantila The NBA The New York Times Overstock.com (RED) Redlight Seamless Web Sony Online Entertainment Sony Pictures STA Travel TheKnot TripAdvisor Travel Ticker Typepad viagogo Vox Yelp WeddingChannel.com Zappos
TFA is misleading, as the original patent doesn't specifically have anything to do with the visual interface. The visual interface may be covered by a prior patent that is being refereced.
What the company is claiming is a method of linking several voice messages to certain caller identities, and then allowing the user to select an identity and play back a specific voice message associated it. Essentially combining an answering machine with caller ID. The patent was issued in 1994.
As I see it, Apple has three choices: 1) Settle. Companies usually list exorbitant damages ($300 million) to get the attention of other companies or scare them. Apple could likely settle for 10 times less ($30 million). 2) Litigate. They could try to find prior art, or try to invalidate it through other arguments. 3) Change. They could change the iPhone system to display all the voicemail messages in chronological order, then allowing the user to select a time-ordered message and it displays caller information in a separate menu. They could use a marking system to identify if you've already checked a message or not.
Most companies do #1, or try to do #2 and then do #3 when they lose.
Hrrm... perhaps I should patent number 3 now, and then sue when the implement my patent to get out of the other patent...
In the ideal world, there would be no government regulation.
However, because radio waves are a government regulated commodity, Joe Schmoe can't hijack, for example, FOX's airwaves and broadcast his own competing opinion. Sure, it starts a "signal strength" battle, but energy is a limited commodity itself. Eventually Joe Schmoe can win, only a smaller area. Many Joe Schmoes can pool their resources and win a bunch of smaller areas.
To an extent, the Internet has given Joe Schmoe and Media Conglomerates a level playing field. For the first time, their voices can be heard equally. That is, until Net Neutrality gets bashed in the face.
However, this is merely a leveled playing field. For every website/blog started by Joe Schmoe, the Media Conglomerates can start one. The Media Conglomerates still have the airwaves... which are protected from Joe Schmoe by the Government, thereby creating it's own necessity to regulate the Media Conglomerates.
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If a developer writes an application, it it doesn't infringe any copyrights....
But RUNNING the application DOES. Is the application still infringing?
This is why you should be afraid.
What about thinking about writing the application? After all, you have to think about the code before you write it. Isn't that, in effect, Thoughcrime? (I think I owe royalties to Orwell now)
Correction: Ex-Microsoft employee....
1. The case is about public obscenity.
2. The case itself would provide a precidence for the judge's own defense in his ensuing criminal public obscenity trial.
3. Conflict of interest established.
Irony implies you wouldn't expect judges to have midget transexual transpecie gay porn.
Atom WAS meant for the Mobile Internet Device / Low power laptop market. NOT the handheld market. UMPCs were a niche market that is halfway between the two above. They did neither well, and will die appropriately.
ARM is, and always will be, in a market that is completely different from Intel. Their chips consume 10x less power than the Atom ever will. For every die shrink that brings Atom's power consumption down, will bring ARM's down as well.
The average joe DOESN'T PLAY WARCRAFT. The average joe plays Yahoo games. Or [insert online gaming portal here]. The average joe checks his e-mail. The average joe shares pictures. The average joe uses youtube.
All of these things can be done EASILY by ANY OS. Microsoft Windows, Apple OSX, or Linux [insert distro here].
OS's are becoming irrelevant. The world is going connected, people will be storing their information online. Games are played on consoles. People just need something cheap, that will connect them to the internet and read e-mail. Sometimes play web games and browse youtube.
Microsoft:
1. "We love Silverlight!"
2. "We love Ruby!"
3. "We love Ruby so much, we're making Ruby.NET***!"
4. "Hey look, Silverlight and Ruby.NET play together!"
5. "Hey everyone, develop for Silverlight and Ruby.NET!"
**Everyone embraces Silverlight and Ruby.NET**
6. "We're discontinuing Ruby.NET, please refer to Silverlight."
***Not compatible with normal Ruby
P.S. Oddly enough, my CAPTCHA today is "strategy". Intelligence perhaps?
I wish... grocery shopping would be a whole lot more exciting then.
Whatever you do, *DON'T* put RFID tags on your socks.
They're missing for a reason. If you find them, a paradoxical black hole will open up in your dryer and engulf the entire planet. Trust me, I've done the math.
For the love of god... not the socks.
The FCC doesn't know jack anymore.
Initially they were saying they wouldn't get the expected $4.7 billion in the auction. Instead, it got up to that amount on local regional licenses alone. The C block had two options, a regional option or a carrier could buy rights to the whole nation, whichever was bid higher would be the result.
If the FCC cared about the interests of the consumers, they would have opened up the C-block auction to non-incumbents only. This would have forced carriers to expand to areas they don't already cover, and increase competition.
Cross your fingers for whitespace devices.
Cellulose is plant matter. You know. Grass clippings, corn stalks, etc. I see you really must like eating GRASS CLIPPINGS along with the COWS. Similar intelligence, perhaps?
CELLULOSE IS NOT FOOD!
Cellulostic Ethanol: Educate Yourself!
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Trim your post a bit SMALLER and you might have gotten +5 Funny.
A LITTLE overzealous with the innuendos, huh?
One might say the third was OVERCOMPENSATING for the first two.
Last time I did that all I got was a bunch of viruses.
Zing! (No, I really don't download child porn)
We will pretend we didn't hear that in the interest of thoroughly flogging Sony.
Let the hate commence!
Do you own Intel integrated graphics? Even though the site says 1403 driver version, I found I couldn't install SP1 with my Windows Update-approved 1409 Intel graphics driver. I had to install the 1433 one from Intel's website before SP1 would show up.
I had an unsupported SigmaTel sound driver in my laptop. I couldn't install the much-needed SP1.
Instead I uninstalled the offending sound driver, then installed SP1. Afterward, I reinstalled the driver without a hitch. I don't see the big deal.
But I lost 4 hours of my life figuring out why SP1 wouldn't install.
I'm pissed at Microsoft for neither releasing SP1 fast enough or reliably enough. Along with probably everyone else.
However, I'm not going to go all hippie-like and say Vista isn't an upgrade. There are many things Vista has that would make XP a better operating system (I/O scheduler, UAC, Explorer error handling, 3D accelerated GUI, etc). They should really backport these features to XP and release it as a $30 upgrade. That'd be nice.
Hypothetical situation:
Say enough worms are out out there, and they each patch the system after propagating, denying the same vulnerability. Well, since there are finite lines of code and finite resources, then there are finite vulnerabilities.
Ironically, then the most virus and worm-laden computers would be the most secure computers on the planet, since there would eventually be no more bugs for the Microsoft worm to exploit and patch the system.
Hrrm... I think I see where they're going with this. They can force the virus makers to do all their operating system security work for them! Genius! Now, just to figure out how to get rid of the viruses and worms afterward...
Ugggh, Thanks a lot.
Now when machines take over the world we're going to have to peddle our fat asses off instead of sitting in a tank of goo eating food all day.
I mean... I for one welcome our new bicycle-toting machine overlords. Please bring the goo-tanks.
Hrrrmm... I always thought Microsoft's philosophy was "Embrace, Extend, Destroy".
But now they're adopting standards?
Either:
1) Someone spiked my coffee.
2) I'm dreaming.
or
3) Steve Ballmer hasn't heard about this yet.
Godwin would be proud...
As far as I understand Beacon is merely some AJAX code that resides within the affiliates webpage.
Your own computer gets this code, and communicates with Facebook directly, looking at your cookies to see if you're affiliated with Facebook. Since the transfer is local you can block it, but still these websites have the malicious AJAX code residing within their pages.
You have to block "http://www.facebook.com/beacon/*", which can be done using the FireFox BlockSite plugin, among other methods.
Need to cut the problem at the source: the advertisers themselves. This wasn't easy to find in google, but here's a list of sites that have privacy-violating Beacon code embedded in them.
Boycott the following sites:
eBay
Fandango
College Humor
Busted Tees
iWon
Citysearch
Pronto.com
echomusic
Travelocity
Allposters.com
Blockbuster
Bluefly.com
CBS Sports
Dotspotter
ExpoTV
Gamefly
Hotwire
Joost
Kiva
Kongregate
LiveJournal
Live Nation
Mercantila
The NBA
The New York Times
Overstock.com
(RED)
Redlight
Seamless Web
Sony Online Entertainment
Sony Pictures
STA Travel
TheKnot
TripAdvisor
Travel Ticker
Typepad
viagogo
Vox
Yelp
WeddingChannel.com
Zappos
Source: http://www.facebook.com/press/releases.php?p=9166 (found from a blog)
It goes something like this:
1. Tell Microsoft you're going to teach high school kids Linux.
2. Micrsoft bitches out Adobe to send free products.
3. ???
4. Profit!!!
*Note: Step 2 may be replaced with "Microsoft assassinates high school teacher"; Step 4 remains unchanged.
In other news, Randy Marsh was quoted as saying:
"This is the best laptop in the world..... of Warcraft."
TFA is misleading, as the original patent doesn't specifically have anything to do with the visual interface. The visual interface may be covered by a prior patent that is being refereced.
What the company is claiming is a method of linking several voice messages to certain caller identities, and then allowing the user to select an identity and play back a specific voice message associated it. Essentially combining an answering machine with caller ID. The patent was issued in 1994.
As I see it, Apple has three choices:
1) Settle. Companies usually list exorbitant damages ($300 million) to get the attention of other companies or scare them. Apple could likely settle for 10 times less ($30 million).
2) Litigate. They could try to find prior art, or try to invalidate it through other arguments.
3) Change. They could change the iPhone system to display all the voicemail messages in chronological order, then allowing the user to select a time-ordered message and it displays caller information in a separate menu. They could use a marking system to identify if you've already checked a message or not.
Most companies do #1, or try to do #2 and then do #3 when they lose.
Hrrm... perhaps I should patent number 3 now, and then sue when the implement my patent to get out of the other patent...
In the ideal world, there would be no government regulation.
However, because radio waves are a government regulated commodity, Joe Schmoe can't hijack, for example, FOX's airwaves and broadcast his own competing opinion. Sure, it starts a "signal strength" battle, but energy is a limited commodity itself. Eventually Joe Schmoe can win, only a smaller area. Many Joe Schmoes can pool their resources and win a bunch of smaller areas.
To an extent, the Internet has given Joe Schmoe and Media Conglomerates a level playing field. For the first time, their voices can be heard equally. That is, until Net Neutrality gets bashed in the face.
However, this is merely a leveled playing field. For every website/blog started by Joe Schmoe, the Media Conglomerates can start one. The Media Conglomerates still have the airwaves... which are protected from Joe Schmoe by the Government, thereby creating it's own necessity to regulate the Media Conglomerates.