Slashdot may love getting on it's high horse and calling him a hypocrite but he probably does have the right to do this.
Given the number of times someone in a band will be required to give away their music, whether it's to contracted producers, sound technicians, radio DJs who want to be able to play some of their stuff before/after and interview or one of the many other types of people they'd work with who need their music. They will have been given permission to hand out out their own music or at the very least a 'you have permission unless we say you can't' type arrangement.
It's a bit ironic but don't get carried away. Even if by some chance he didn't have permission, the second you asked the record label they'd give him a public ok.
I caught my first ever virus using Firefox thanks to some sort of PDF exploit. Was browsing normally, got a popup that flashed up for a brief second and I saw it was a PDF of sorts. My hdd started thrashing and my anti-virus started giving me dozens of warnings.
Managed to make sure there was no trace of the virus on my system but it serves as a warning to people who assume Firefox is perfectly safe providing you are careful.
There's a difference between 'looks like' and 'is'. Most notably in terms of fonts where using copyrighted fonts, even for 'generic' looking fonts can easily land you on the receiving end of a lawsuit.
Given that vector Clip Art shares a lot of parallels to fonts, why should they be different?
They were using the term Netbook to sell a product before the current 'Netbooks' were even conceived, they have been selling and maintaining their Netbooks since then.
'Netbook' for budget ultraportables was coined and popularised by Intel and their partners. Although a catchy nickname and it captures the nature of the product, it's not a descriptive name in itself.
Psion have every right to go after Intel who've done all they can to associate their atom and celeron based systems with the term and are now trying to claim that it was common usage, not their marketing that came up with the term. Intel are clearly realising how they're in major danger of losing and are now spamming countersuits to put them out of business through legal fees as well as trying to spread hate for Psion through tech sites.
What x264 has going for it, are the same things Xvid and Lavc (ffmpeg/mplayer) have going for them... Lots of people spending lots of time, dedicated to improving the encoder, for everyone's benefit. Whether you love or hate open source, perceptual coding is really the canonical example where proprietary software just can't compete. Actually LAME, Musepack, et al, fall into this category as well, on the audio side of the spectrum.
But then the best performing.x264 decoder by a fairly large margin is CoreAVC which is a commercial product.
There's something that's never addressed with electric cars: heating and air conditioning.
Whilst you could sweat it out in a baking hot car, you can't drive with misted up or frozen wind shield. Heating and cooling both use huge amounts of power
IANAC but the article sounds like it's another way of oxidising Aluminium. I can see this being very impractical for a few reasons. Main one it's incredibly hard to store aluminium in a way where it won't oxidise, especially as this would work would need it to be powdered and without that layer of oxidised aluminium on the top, it's incredibly reactive and dangerous.
You're then left with a large pile of Oxidised aluminium which I don't believe has any use apart from the production of 'pure' aluminium (which requires lots of electricity). Ultimately I can't see this offering much benefit over existing methods of hydrogen production
Anyone who grew up on the Amiga will remember the anti-piracy measures. The most common were more than happy to let you copy a disk but they came with a booklet of unphotocopiable paper or clever card slider systems which you used to generate a passcode when asked for.
These only served to control access, not to prevent copying. Anyone who'd want to play would need the security device. It'd effectively limit a game to a single household. All the contents of a booklet or an algorithm were stored on the disc and would deny access if you couldn't type in "word 5, paragraph 9, page 20".
It's an incredibly crude system compared to digital signitures, encryption keys and serial numbers but it's certainly comparable to some DRM measures in place today. It just only made use of the technology available at the time.
This is the daily Microsoft article on Slash Dot... But there's no negative spin! I'm dissapointed, all they had to do was stick in an 'only' and you've changed a positive story into a negative.
Yeah we could have a platform independent language that compiles efficiently into a type of code easily run by virtual machines.
Not sure about the name Javascript though, think it sounds a bit complex and we need to distinguish it from the browser only one. Lets just call it Java
You cannot remove Safari in OSX. As many have pointed out, OSX needs the webkit rendering engine to function.
You bring up Google. Why should we be happy replacing one monopoly with another, especially one using it's dominance in the search engine market to conquer other markets?
An internet browser is NOT another market. You need an internet browser with an OS, it's a required function that people expect. You need it to perform basic actions just like you need a basic text and image editor. The Netscape ruling was done at a time when the internet wasn't an integral part of the OS because only a minority had the internet. That's not the case today. The Netscape ruling is outdated.
When I buy a car, I don't have a choice of different radio manufacturers. I'm stuck with whoever they choose, although I may get a choice between different models from that company, I can't request that my bundled radio is a sony instead of a panasonic. The radio is integrated with steering controls and air conditioning and incredibly hard to replace. However you expect a car with a radio, people would be loathe to buy a car without a radio.
Quite often these radios are awful quality and use non-standard interfaces with steering wheels too.
Try to run a pub without an alcohol licence, see what happens. If it's known that the pub causes a lot of trouble, the police can set conditions otherwise they'll strip their licence. A pub that lets clients get heavily drunk , violent and cause problems for the town.
They can't make them put in a camera but they have a very strong way of persuading them. One of the conditions of getting an alocohol licence is ensuring your customers aren't a nuisance.
A call is not public, it's an encrypted transmission or through a non-public circuit. When you're in public anyone can see you and you'd expect people to be able to see you. When you're on the phone, especially in a private location, you don't expect people to be able to listing in fully (other than people nearby hearing you talk).
It's the same distinction that makes taking someone's picture legal but sticking a camera up their skirt illegal.
and yet the police have much lower corruption that in the US. The Demenzies case got so much focus because it's so incredibly rare for police to shoot someone dead in the UK (happens maybe 2-3 times a year). The police have far more oversight here than in lots of countries.
Of course that doesn't mean they're not given stupid powers through anti-terrorism laws
It could be argued they're the most high crime parts of Chicago because the crimes are being spotted more? After all, a city with no police officers at all has zero crime.
1: You don't create jobs by adding unfair competition to struggling companies(how can companies compete with someone getting guaranteed money with no need to turn a profit?)
2: I'm pretty sure there are international laws in place which don't look too kindly on this.
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That's not how prior art works. It requires a product implementing the patent to have been produced or prototyped.
By that Jetsons example, if someone invented a teleporter, he wouldn't be able to patent it because Star Trek had them.
You'd like to hope if you put unleaded petrol in a diesel car that it wouldn't explode in a huge fireball causing you a painful death.
Slashdot may love getting on it's high horse and calling him a hypocrite but he probably does have the right to do this.
Given the number of times someone in a band will be required to give away their music, whether it's to contracted producers, sound technicians, radio DJs who want to be able to play some of their stuff before/after and interview or one of the many other types of people they'd work with who need their music. They will have been given permission to hand out out their own music or at the very least a 'you have permission unless we say you can't' type arrangement.
It's a bit ironic but don't get carried away. Even if by some chance he didn't have permission, the second you asked the record label they'd give him a public ok.
I caught my first ever virus using Firefox thanks to some sort of PDF exploit. Was browsing normally, got a popup that flashed up for a brief second and I saw it was a PDF of sorts. My hdd started thrashing and my anti-virus started giving me dozens of warnings.
Managed to make sure there was no trace of the virus on my system but it serves as a warning to people who assume Firefox is perfectly safe providing you are careful.
There's a difference between 'looks like' and 'is'. Most notably in terms of fonts where using copyrighted fonts, even for 'generic' looking fonts can easily land you on the receiving end of a lawsuit.
Given that vector Clip Art shares a lot of parallels to fonts, why should they be different?
They were using the term Netbook to sell a product before the current 'Netbooks' were even conceived, they have been selling and maintaining their Netbooks since then.
'Netbook' for budget ultraportables was coined and popularised by Intel and their partners. Although a catchy nickname and it captures the nature of the product, it's not a descriptive name in itself.
Psion have every right to go after Intel who've done all they can to associate their atom and celeron based systems with the term and are now trying to claim that it was common usage, not their marketing that came up with the term. Intel are clearly realising how they're in major danger of losing and are now spamming countersuits to put them out of business through legal fees as well as trying to spread hate for Psion through tech sites.
Yeah what kind of crazy system rewards the people who invented something and gives them some control over their invention?
What x264 has going for it, are the same things Xvid and Lavc (ffmpeg/mplayer) have going for them... Lots of people spending lots of time, dedicated to improving the encoder, for everyone's benefit. Whether you love or hate open source, perceptual coding is really the canonical example where proprietary software just can't compete. Actually LAME, Musepack, et al, fall into this category as well, on the audio side of the spectrum.
But then the best performing .x264 decoder by a fairly large margin is CoreAVC which is a commercial product.
There's something that's never addressed with electric cars: heating and air conditioning.
Whilst you could sweat it out in a baking hot car, you can't drive with misted up or frozen wind shield. Heating and cooling both use huge amounts of power
IANAC but the article sounds like it's another way of oxidising Aluminium. I can see this being very impractical for a few reasons. Main one it's incredibly hard to store aluminium in a way where it won't oxidise, especially as this would work would need it to be powdered and without that layer of oxidised aluminium on the top, it's incredibly reactive and dangerous.
You're then left with a large pile of Oxidised aluminium which I don't believe has any use apart from the production of 'pure' aluminium (which requires lots of electricity). Ultimately I can't see this offering much benefit over existing methods of hydrogen production
That's not true.
Anyone who grew up on the Amiga will remember the anti-piracy measures. The most common were more than happy to let you copy a disk but they came with a booklet of unphotocopiable paper or clever card slider systems which you used to generate a passcode when asked for.
These only served to control access, not to prevent copying. Anyone who'd want to play would need the security device. It'd effectively limit a game to a single household. All the contents of a booklet or an algorithm were stored on the disc and would deny access if you couldn't type in "word 5, paragraph 9, page 20".
It's an incredibly crude system compared to digital signitures, encryption keys and serial numbers but it's certainly comparable to some DRM measures in place today. It just only made use of the technology available at the time.
People laugh at Microsoft because they said they made 36 changes to the beta and they presented a list of 36 changes? Those fiends!
This is the daily Microsoft article on Slash Dot... But there's no negative spin! I'm dissapointed, all they had to do was stick in an 'only' and you've changed a positive story into a negative.
This is most troubling!
Japan is the location of choice for under-endowed transvestites?
(probably better innuendos to be had out of that post but I had to try...)
*in your best schoolgirl voice*
Kawaii~~~
or alternatively
*breathing heavily and drooling*
Moe~~~
Yeah we could have a platform independent language that compiles efficiently into a type of code easily run by virtual machines.
Not sure about the name Javascript though, think it sounds a bit complex and we need to distinguish it from the browser only one. Lets just call it Java
You cannot remove Safari in OSX. As many have pointed out, OSX needs the webkit rendering engine to function.
You bring up Google. Why should we be happy replacing one monopoly with another, especially one using it's dominance in the search engine market to conquer other markets?
See, this is the stupid part.
An internet browser is NOT another market. You need an internet browser with an OS, it's a required function that people expect. You need it to perform basic actions just like you need a basic text and image editor. The Netscape ruling was done at a time when the internet wasn't an integral part of the OS because only a minority had the internet. That's not the case today. The Netscape ruling is outdated.
When I buy a car, I don't have a choice of different radio manufacturers. I'm stuck with whoever they choose, although I may get a choice between different models from that company, I can't request that my bundled radio is a sony instead of a panasonic. The radio is integrated with steering controls and air conditioning and incredibly hard to replace. However you expect a car with a radio, people would be loathe to buy a car without a radio.
Quite often these radios are awful quality and use non-standard interfaces with steering wheels too.
You could argue it's much much harder to do sound when none exists whereas a crowded street provides them all for you.
It's not exactly unusual for pubs to have CCTV, like anonymous, I call BS.
Try to run a pub without an alcohol licence, see what happens. If it's known that the pub causes a lot of trouble, the police can set conditions otherwise they'll strip their licence. A pub that lets clients get heavily drunk , violent and cause problems for the town.
They can't make them put in a camera but they have a very strong way of persuading them. One of the conditions of getting an alocohol licence is ensuring your customers aren't a nuisance.
mmmm straw man.
A call is not public, it's an encrypted transmission or through a non-public circuit. When you're in public anyone can see you and you'd expect people to be able to see you. When you're on the phone, especially in a private location, you don't expect people to be able to listing in fully (other than people nearby hearing you talk).
It's the same distinction that makes taking someone's picture legal but sticking a camera up their skirt illegal.
and yet the police have much lower corruption that in the US. The Demenzies case got so much focus because it's so incredibly rare for police to shoot someone dead in the UK (happens maybe 2-3 times a year). The police have far more oversight here than in lots of countries.
Of course that doesn't mean they're not given stupid powers through anti-terrorism laws
It could be argued they're the most high crime parts of Chicago because the crimes are being spotted more? After all, a city with no police officers at all has zero crime.
1: You don't create jobs by adding unfair competition to struggling companies(how can companies compete with someone getting guaranteed money with no need to turn a profit?)
2: I'm pretty sure there are international laws in place which don't look too kindly on this.