What I don't understand is why Fusion Garage owns any of the intellectual property whatsoever...
Probably because they worked with them to develop the final prototypes, although that's just speculation.
From the TFA it's not even clear that Arrington properly retained sole ownership of the "CrunchPad" trademark, it's all intermingled and joint.
Actually, I thought he made it pretty clear that TechCrunch retained sole ownership of the "CrunchPad" trademark when he said "we solely own the CrunchPad trademark."
You'd think the least he would have done is had non-compete language in the recision provisions of their joint venture
Except this isn't COMPETING. They're still trying to sell the product, just without TechCrunch's involvement.
Basically what Fusion Garage did is they hired Arrington as a consultant and marketer (as they say, an "evangelist") and now they're telling him to take a hike, and this ostensibly-smart "insider" finds himself without recourse.
Except they can't do that without his permission. They're at a stalemate where neither one of them can make the product.
It was a manga first, actually, and THAT was excellent and groundbreaking.
Osamu Tezuka is one of the most important names in cartooning and animation. Let's hope the movie lives up to his name.
It seems Sega is exempt from that clause, because some of its games on the iPhone are emulators running original ROM code."
It's not as if this is new behavior for Apple. There's been at least one other case of an app by a big developer breaking the SDK agreement and getting approved, even though they fully and publicly admitted to it.
Google acknowledged breaking the official rules of Apple's iPhone software development kit when it created the latest version of the Google Mobile application for the iPhone, but denied a more serious charge.
...that Google might have learned something from the massive backlash against Amazon for supposedly doing something similar?
I suppose we'll have to wait and see what gets flagged as "inappropriate." Whatever the case, I'm guessing that people won't care nearly as much as t hey did with Amazon.
ISPs and cable companies have a history of trying to avoid competition like this. A similar municipal wi-fi initiative was stifled in Pennsylvania a few years ago.
The result of the duopoly that currently defines "competition" is that prices and service suck.
Firefox would be authorized right now, assuming it didn't get stuck in Apple's little black box for some stupid reason. Apple has been allowing third-party browsers on the phone for some time now (http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/23/0539240).
Are you serious? You allowed the teacher to go into your backpack, which is your private property, and take something which belonged to you, while doing nothing about it? Not even the cops can go into your backpack like that.
I'm not sure how it would stand legally in this case if the teacher were to go into your backpack, but don't think that you have an absolute right to privacy in school, especially before college. You have less rights than you think you do. The school is legally allowed to go into your backpack for the same reason the school is allowed to search your locker.
Even in college things don't necessarily get much better. The tech department at my university (I've talked to someone working with them) has the capability to clone a student's hard drive over the network if deemed necessary. It's not as illegal as you might think.
Really? The IE team lately has been doing a great job listening to web designers and developers. IE8 uses a standards-compliant rendering engine by default solely because the web design and development community asked for it.
As far as Acid3, even Firefox 3 only gets an 18/100 (of course if you let it sit for a while it goes up as well).
Wait, what? Who said you have to lock the sidebar to a fixed width? If you have an elastic layout, just make the sidebar elastic and it'll scale up right alongside the content. If it's a fixed width layout, your divs should probably be a fixed width anyway. The only real place to run into problems is in the padding and borders: people often forget that they get tacked onto the width of the element.
CSS is only horrible at making block elements share horizontal space if you don't know how to make block elements share horizontal space. Fixed, elastic, and fluid two-column layouts are easy. Three-column layouts are harder, but it can be done in any of those configurations, and without sacrificing semantically correct code or scalability.
John Gruber of Daring Fireball mentioned that the iPhone SDK Agreement forbids third-party applications from forbidding a JavaScript interpreter. (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/10/30/opera-iphone)
Technically, t's not made clear in the article that there is a JavaScript interpreter in Opera Mini for iPhone, but it wouldn't really make much sense for it not to include one, as it wouldn't hold up against Safari for iPhone without one.
"Under the plan, Reiser's cooperation could reduce his April conviction from first-degree murder to second degree."
Even the title of the Wired article is misleading; from what it says, he hasn't "offered" anything. The above quote indicates that he won't even have a large role in the discussions.
If that's your fear, you can probably rest easy. Chris Wilson and the rest of the IE team have done a fantastic job of listening to the web design community's concerns about IE7 and IE8.
...except for the fact that it doesn't pass Acid2. What other browser does significantly better at standards compliance? Safari 2 (or really any browser using an up-to-date WebKit), Opera 9... and oh yeah, IE8. IE8 will do better at standards compliance than Firefox.
P.S. Your link is outdated. Both Opera 9 and Safari 2 beat Firefox 2. Check here.
Why do these monsters always seem to appear in cities? There's been so many movie monsters popping up in New York, Tokyo... eventually, probability dictates that one should pop up in the middle of nowhere.
That's what my monster movie's gonna be about: a giant monster that pops up in the middle of Kansas. It'll terrorize a corn field and like two farmers.
What about when Google "invaded our privacy" to place ads in our emails?
Not universal condemnation. The moronic people thought Google was some evil corporation hell-bent on compromising our privacy, and the people with at least an ounce of common sense realized that it was harmless, that no human is accessing the information, and that the info is being used solely for advertising purposes.
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There actually is something stopping them, that "something" being the fact that they don't own the intellectual property for the device.
What I don't understand is why Fusion Garage owns any of the intellectual property whatsoever...
Probably because they worked with them to develop the final prototypes, although that's just speculation.
From the TFA it's not even clear that Arrington properly retained sole ownership of the "CrunchPad" trademark, it's all intermingled and joint.
Actually, I thought he made it pretty clear that TechCrunch retained sole ownership of the "CrunchPad" trademark when he said "we solely own the CrunchPad trademark."
You'd think the least he would have done is had non-compete language in the recision provisions of their joint venture
Except this isn't COMPETING. They're still trying to sell the product, just without TechCrunch's involvement.
Basically what Fusion Garage did is they hired Arrington as a consultant and marketer (as they say, an "evangelist") and now they're telling him to take a hike, and this ostensibly-smart "insider" finds himself without recourse.
Except they can't do that without his permission. They're at a stalemate where neither one of them can make the product.
It was a manga first, actually, and THAT was excellent and groundbreaking. Osamu Tezuka is one of the most important names in cartooning and animation. Let's hope the movie lives up to his name.
It's not as if this is new behavior for Apple. There's been at least one other case of an app by a big developer breaking the SDK agreement and getting approved, even though they fully and publicly admitted to it.
According to the online poll accompanying the article, 98% of respondents think it's an invasion of privacy.
That's as big a landslide as it gets, folks.
Of course, Vista and 7 tried to be a $500 way of running Windows apps, while XP was a $100 way of running Windows apps.
And that's why XP is still vastly more popular than Vista.
Google employees no longer have to worry about tall grass during fire drills!
...now, they have to worry about goat shit.
...that Google might have learned something from the massive backlash against Amazon for supposedly doing something similar?
I suppose we'll have to wait and see what gets flagged as "inappropriate." Whatever the case, I'm guessing that people won't care nearly as much as t hey did with Amazon.
This isn't all that rare on Twitter. #amazonfail is a good example of the Twitter jumping to conclusions and blowing something way out of proportion.
ISPs and cable companies have a history of trying to avoid competition like this. A similar municipal wi-fi initiative was stifled in Pennsylvania a few years ago.
Amen to that.
Browsershots doesn't work if you use any of the behavioral features of CSS (:hover, etc) or Javascript.
Firefox would be authorized right now, assuming it didn't get stuck in Apple's little black box for some stupid reason. Apple has been allowing third-party browsers on the phone for some time now (http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/23/0539240).
As far as Skype (and any other VoIP applications for that matter), it is allowed so long as it only works over the Wi-Fi connection and not the cellular network. http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/apple/voip-on-apple-iphone-a-no-go-unless-over-wifi.asp
Wikipedia admins have always been power hungry, and Jimbo Wales has has almost always backed up the admins, whether or not it helps out the end user.
Are you serious? You allowed the teacher to go into your backpack, which is your private property, and take something which belonged to you, while doing nothing about it? Not even the cops can go into your backpack like that.
I'm not sure how it would stand legally in this case if the teacher were to go into your backpack, but don't think that you have an absolute right to privacy in school, especially before college. You have less rights than you think you do. The school is legally allowed to go into your backpack for the same reason the school is allowed to search your locker.
Even in college things don't necessarily get much better. The tech department at my university (I've talked to someone working with them) has the capability to clone a student's hard drive over the network if deemed necessary. It's not as illegal as you might think.
That's why I have my hard drive encrypted :)
I doubt it has anything to do with leap seconds, if your computer ran for 6 years it survived the leap second of 2005.
As well as the leap year of 2004, leap years being the problem with the Zunes.
Really? The IE team lately has been doing a great job listening to web designers and developers. IE8 uses a standards-compliant rendering engine by default solely because the web design and development community asked for it.
As far as Acid3, even Firefox 3 only gets an 18/100 (of course if you let it sit for a while it goes up as well).
Wait, what? Who said you have to lock the sidebar to a fixed width? If you have an elastic layout, just make the sidebar elastic and it'll scale up right alongside the content. If it's a fixed width layout, your divs should probably be a fixed width anyway. The only real place to run into problems is in the padding and borders: people often forget that they get tacked onto the width of the element.
CSS is only horrible at making block elements share horizontal space if you don't know how to make block elements share horizontal space. Fixed, elastic, and fluid two-column layouts are easy. Three-column layouts are harder, but it can be done in any of those configurations, and without sacrificing semantically correct code or scalability.
Wow, CNN is on a roll today!
John Gruber of Daring Fireball mentioned that the iPhone SDK Agreement forbids third-party applications from forbidding a JavaScript interpreter. (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/10/30/opera-iphone)
Technically, t's not made clear in the article that there is a JavaScript interpreter in Opera Mini for iPhone, but it wouldn't really make much sense for it not to include one, as it wouldn't hold up against Safari for iPhone without one.
"Under the plan, Reiser's cooperation could reduce his April conviction from first-degree murder to second degree."
Even the title of the Wired article is misleading; from what it says, he hasn't "offered" anything. The above quote indicates that he won't even have a large role in the discussions.
If that's your fear, you can probably rest easy. Chris Wilson and the rest of the IE team have done a fantastic job of listening to the web design community's concerns about IE7 and IE8.
They're not out to screw us over.
...except for the fact that it doesn't pass Acid2. What other browser does significantly better at standards compliance? Safari 2 (or really any browser using an up-to-date WebKit), Opera 9... and oh yeah, IE8. IE8 will do better at standards compliance than Firefox. P.S. Your link is outdated. Both Opera 9 and Safari 2 beat Firefox 2. Check here.
Heh - that made me laugh. Actually, I just write how I speak. Perhaps it should have been "and, like, two farmers."
Why do these monsters always seem to appear in cities? There's been so many movie monsters popping up in New York, Tokyo... eventually, probability dictates that one should pop up in the middle of nowhere. That's what my monster movie's gonna be about: a giant monster that pops up in the middle of Kansas. It'll terrorize a corn field and like two farmers.
What about when Google "invaded our privacy" to place ads in our emails?
Not universal condemnation. The moronic people thought Google was some evil corporation hell-bent on compromising our privacy, and the people with at least an ounce of common sense realized that it was harmless, that no human is accessing the information, and that the info is being used solely for advertising purposes.