meh, if that's the case then you could just download one song, once, and then download the additional (non identical) data to turn it into a whole music collection.
It's not just that. Sitting too close to the TV (especially CRTs) strains your eyes. That's because the light itself is non parallel (single source) and your eyes have to adjust their focus to see the whole picture. Your eyes actually correct the light but over prolonged time you tend to get headaches and tired.
soccer is a contact sport. The rules permit contact if you play the ball before you make contact with the player and also contact shoulder-to-shoulder is allowed.
I'll go one further and say that a bigger mac mini with a full size hard drive instead of a laptop one would do a lot to quash the whole gap in the market debate. There are some good external hard drives but they add a lot to the cost and push the cost up too close to iMac territory.
Instead Apple could actually lower the price while speeding up the computer. Changeable video cards etc. are a whole step up and involve a lot more support from Apple. Given the size of the mini I'd prefer to see a PC card (or expresscard slot) instead of PCI.
Apple can try to defend itself using other tactics, but invoking the contract with the labels won't stick for sure. The EC regards only how the product is presented to the consumer, it does not deal with how the company came to get hold of it. From the EC point of view, Apple is enforcing regional discriminatory pricing for goods, which is something strictly forbidden by the Rome Treaty.
They can use discriminatory pricing, but they can't forbid me, a Portuguese, from purchasing a song from the German iTMS. Not that I could do that, they speak gibberish out there;-)
But the thing is that Apple want to lose this case. They'd much prefer to run a single store with every song available everywhere in Europe. It's a lot less administration and they don't like having to explain why songs are available in the UK but not in Ireland (no free single of the week for us either).
The record labels mostly don't care either. They get paid either way. It's the distributors that are the ones at fault. If Apple could have they would have started selling music worldwide from day one. It's obvious. Video is an even bigger thing. But Apple had to agree when the labels insisted -- under pressure from the distributors -- to these measures because they couldn't exactly sue the labels while begging them to allow music to be sold online.
This is perfect. If Apple lose they are forced to sell music to people they're not allowed to. Distributors don't really have much place in the iTS model. They're anachronistic middlemen. The EU are now threatening to get rid of their influence. Break out the champagne!
Remember it's the distributors who held up iTS Australia and Japan, even recently. DRM was always an inconvenience to Apple. It's fundamentally a restriction and it can only decrease the user experience. The fact that they find DRM distasteful is why they're far and away the best at selling it. With Apple it's always been about as little restrictions as they can get away with.
The hard drive and back-up were erased. The off side tape was the 3rd back-up.
I don't know if the paper was envisaged as an original backup or an archive. I imagine they just didn't feel comfortable shredding the documents. Re-scaning came after trying to recover the electronic copies.
This could be an interesting method to ease restrictions on Blu-Ray DRM. A hardware manufacturer could agree to add a watermark to rips of HD movies in return for (the device) being allowed to rip HD movies.
This would permit (some) fair use but would also be a useful way to stop the most damaging copyright infringements. Naturally, we're not likely to see it implemented this way. The MPAA have no interest in sharing. You can put a downloaded movie onto your iPod (Which is the point of iTS), but burn a copy: never!
In the UK an award of 1p damages would almost certainly lead to the plaintiff having to pay costs. If you go to the high court and you're awarded damages less than the maximum from the next court down then you usually have to pay expenses. Also if the defendant offers to settle and you are awarded less than the offer, you pay costs. It's fair.
This action by the RIAA is about precedent. They've almost certainly paid far, far more in legal fees than they stood to gain. The defendant would have been liable for such costs and the RIAA would have pursued them aggressively. They lost and they're trying to weasel out of paying costs, not because they care about the money (it's a drop in the ocean to them): it's purely punitive for them. Any expense and hassle they can cause will discourage people from exercising their rights to defend themselves. They don't care about losing a million or two on this case as long as it doesn't affect their other cases.
An iPod comes ready to go. You don't need to format it, if you have iTunes already you don't need to install software. Sometimes there's a firmware update required but that's not ideal.
If you buy a Dell you can pop in a CD or DVD straightaway. You can connect to the Internet, setup most printers etc. It's not that hard to get Linux up to (and way beyond) that level of functionality. But there is a considerable advantage to having a distro imaged on there. For one thing you don't have to choose a distro. One has already been installed. You can change them easily.
Ultimately, unless an OEM with linux pre-installed is cheaper (even slightly) it's a waste of time. If I get Windows pre-installed I can always put it on a partition for the odd time (like today) when you need to update the firmware on your phone/GPS etc. and the tool is Windows only.
Of course, pre-installed Linux means driver compatibility has already been sorted. That's useful even if you don't install their linux.
And yet the paper would argue that it's allowed to protect its sources. You can't have it both ways privacy is not a privilege that may be conferred by a newspapers whim.
Either the press has the freedom that allows it to publish anonymous sources or it doesn't. If they have the right they should have respected the bloggers rights.
If they preinstall Linux, even for specific customers, then they are distributing Linux. In that case they are distributing GPL software. Hence, anyone who's interested in what Linux they're putting on these computers should just ask HP for the source code to all the GPL's software.
Might be useful to see what if anything HP are doing to ensure compatibility with their hardware.
If you suspect something then you are a threat. They need to get rid of you anyway they can. If they can also pin it on you then they can deflect the blame. If they're careful they can fire you without enough proof for a criminal investigation (so no one looks too closely).
Once there's someone who got fired for it they can change the practise and keep the money. Or they could keep stealing, have you disclose to someone else and get caught. Even if they stop an audit could reveal the sortcoming. Someone would miss the money eventually.
The police don't always need to be involved. Director can steal from another firm, blame and fire patsy. Then compensate the firm quietly when they come looking for the money. Your company pays up to protect it's reputation (worth more than the small amount they don't know you stole) and no one is ever the wiser. Patsy stays quiet because the police might get involved and they'll happily cut their losses and move into another field. Better than (risk of) jail.
If that was the case he'd already have been fired for gross incompetence and his name would be mud. That's why you have to tread really carefully. If your boss (or the person you tell) is in on it they're gonna frame you.
mail.app and iCal (especially iCal server) are big parts of Leopard.
I think Apple are taking enterprise very seriously. But they're still doing it their own way and they aren't rushing anything. They know they're not ready for everyone yet and Jobs is insistent that Apple don't compromise itself by chasing after big customers at all costs. Good design is the priority and everything else will follow.
I was just a presentation of related research on Friday in Dublin, Ireland.
Quite interesting stuff. It should be a lot cheaper than existing methods where you have highly trained staff spending large amounts of time doing this work. Instead, you get a robot to do it for far less (and cut out trips to the hospital so patients can convalesce at home or in a nursing home).
They also allow precise measurement of the progress you're making. How much force, how accurate your motion, how steady your speed - everything can be recorded and optimised for even better therapies.
I was sitting there listening to everything being explained and thinking about how to do it with a Wiimote but these particular robots aren't passive. They actively move your arm at first because stroke victims don't have the strength. Maybe for milder strokes though.
Right, so if I were to become an undead vampire I wouldn't be able to access my contacts list on the phone anymore? Bummer (not so much for them, though).
That's what/. is for. Mention the article here and it'll be mercilessly edited by hundreds of bored/.ers
You shouldn't give up so easily. If your edits were good then put (some of) them back up. If that editor continues to amend the page then the article will start getting more attention and other editors will weigh in. At that point it's not his article anymore.
Karma would be doled out by an algorithm that would assess your edits based on how much, how often and by whom (their karma) your edits get edited in turn.
If you troll you end up with karma in the toilet and your edits are brought to the attention of other editors who "metamod" your down.
If other people who watch the page give positive feedback on your edits then your karma improves and other editors will be quicker to trust you.
The system wouldn't be foolproof but it wouldn't need to be. All it would need to be is more efficient at correcting bad edits and retaining good edits than the current system. Trolls would be caught quicker and it would take them longer to do less damage.
At the moment a large number of trolls just replace entire articles with a single line. This sort of edit could be fixed automatically so editors don't have to waste their time doing it. As articles become more "mature" it should become harder to make big edits to them.
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meh, if that's the case then you could just download one song, once, and then download the additional (non identical) data to turn it into a whole music collection.
It's not just that. Sitting too close to the TV (especially CRTs) strains your eyes. That's because the light itself is non parallel (single source) and your eyes have to adjust their focus to see the whole picture. Your eyes actually correct the light but over prolonged time you tend to get headaches and tired.
soccer is a contact sport. The rules permit contact if you play the ball before you make contact with the player and also contact shoulder-to-shoulder is allowed.
I'll go one further and say that a bigger mac mini with a full size hard drive instead of a laptop one would do a lot to quash the whole gap in the market debate. There are some good external hard drives but they add a lot to the cost and push the cost up too close to iMac territory.
Instead Apple could actually lower the price while speeding up the computer. Changeable video cards etc. are a whole step up and involve a lot more support from Apple. Given the size of the mini I'd prefer to see a PC card (or expresscard slot) instead of PCI.
Might have felt good but you should have reread the parent. Caiman was 6 cents cheaper and *included* shipping.
Apple can try to defend itself using other tactics, but invoking the contract with the labels won't stick for sure. The EC regards only how the product is presented to the consumer, it does not deal with how the company came to get hold of it. From the EC point of view, Apple is enforcing regional discriminatory pricing for goods, which is something strictly forbidden by the Rome Treaty.
They can use discriminatory pricing, but they can't forbid me, a Portuguese, from purchasing a song from the German iTMS. Not that I could do that, they speak gibberish out there ;-)
But the thing is that Apple want to lose this case. They'd much prefer to run a single store with every song available everywhere in Europe. It's a lot less administration and they don't like having to explain why songs are available in the UK but not in Ireland (no free single of the week for us either).
The record labels mostly don't care either. They get paid either way. It's the distributors that are the ones at fault. If Apple could have they would have started selling music worldwide from day one. It's obvious. Video is an even bigger thing. But Apple had to agree when the labels insisted -- under pressure from the distributors -- to these measures because they couldn't exactly sue the labels while begging them to allow music to be sold online.
This is perfect. If Apple lose they are forced to sell music to people they're not allowed to. Distributors don't really have much place in the iTS model. They're anachronistic middlemen. The EU are now threatening to get rid of their influence. Break out the champagne!
Remember it's the distributors who held up iTS Australia and Japan, even recently. DRM was always an inconvenience to Apple. It's fundamentally a restriction and it can only decrease the user experience. The fact that they find DRM distasteful is why they're far and away the best at selling it. With Apple it's always been about as little restrictions as they can get away with.
That idea is 3 days early
Actually paper was 4th redundant system.
The hard drive and back-up were erased. The off side tape was the 3rd back-up.
I don't know if the paper was envisaged as an original backup or an archive. I imagine they just didn't feel comfortable shredding the documents. Re-scaning came after trying to recover the electronic copies.
Sure, they're easily that dumb. Most can't tell the difference between a .vcf and .vbs
Or cost. There's always cost.
This could be an interesting method to ease restrictions on Blu-Ray DRM. A hardware manufacturer could agree to add a watermark to rips of HD movies in return for (the device) being allowed to rip HD movies.
This would permit (some) fair use but would also be a useful way to stop the most damaging copyright infringements. Naturally, we're not likely to see it implemented this way. The MPAA have no interest in sharing. You can put a downloaded movie onto your iPod (Which is the point of iTS), but burn a copy: never!
In the UK an award of 1p damages would almost certainly lead to the plaintiff having to pay costs. If you go to the high court and you're awarded damages less than the maximum from the next court down then you usually have to pay expenses. Also if the defendant offers to settle and you are awarded less than the offer, you pay costs. It's fair.
This action by the RIAA is about precedent. They've almost certainly paid far, far more in legal fees than they stood to gain. The defendant would have been liable for such costs and the RIAA would have pursued them aggressively. They lost and they're trying to weasel out of paying costs, not because they care about the money (it's a drop in the ocean to them): it's purely punitive for them. Any expense and hassle they can cause will discourage people from exercising their rights to defend themselves. They don't care about losing a million or two on this case as long as it doesn't affect their other cases.
or iPods with no music on them.
oh wait.
An iPod comes ready to go. You don't need to format it, if you have iTunes already you don't need to install software. Sometimes there's a firmware update required but that's not ideal.
If you buy a Dell you can pop in a CD or DVD straightaway. You can connect to the Internet, setup most printers etc. It's not that hard to get Linux up to (and way beyond) that level of functionality. But there is a considerable advantage to having a distro imaged on there. For one thing you don't have to choose a distro. One has already been installed. You can change them easily.
Ultimately, unless an OEM with linux pre-installed is cheaper (even slightly) it's a waste of time. If I get Windows pre-installed I can always put it on a partition for the odd time (like today) when you need to update the firmware on your phone/GPS etc. and the tool is Windows only.
Of course, pre-installed Linux means driver compatibility has already been sorted. That's useful even if you don't install their linux.
And yet the paper would argue that it's allowed to protect its sources. You can't have it both ways privacy is not a privilege that may be conferred by a newspapers whim.
Either the press has the freedom that allows it to publish anonymous sources or it doesn't. If they have the right they should have respected the bloggers rights.
If they preinstall Linux, even for specific customers, then they are distributing Linux. In that case they are distributing GPL software. Hence, anyone who's interested in what Linux they're putting on these computers should just ask HP for the source code to all the GPL's software.
Might be useful to see what if anything HP are doing to ensure compatibility with their hardware.
oh please, 7of7? That's borg if ever I saw borg.
If you suspect something then you are a threat. They need to get rid of you anyway they can. If they can also pin it on you then they can deflect the blame. If they're careful they can fire you without enough proof for a criminal investigation (so no one looks too closely).
Once there's someone who got fired for it they can change the practise and keep the money. Or they could keep stealing, have you disclose to someone else and get caught. Even if they stop an audit could reveal the sortcoming. Someone would miss the money eventually.
The police don't always need to be involved. Director can steal from another firm, blame and fire patsy. Then compensate the firm quietly when they come looking for the money. Your company pays up to protect it's reputation (worth more than the small amount they don't know you stole) and no one is ever the wiser. Patsy stays quiet because the police might get involved and they'll happily cut their losses and move into another field. Better than (risk of) jail.
If that was the case he'd already have been fired for gross incompetence and his name would be mud. That's why you have to tread really carefully. If your boss (or the person you tell) is in on it they're gonna frame you.
mail.app and iCal (especially iCal server) are big parts of Leopard.
I think Apple are taking enterprise very seriously. But they're still doing it their own way and they aren't rushing anything. They know they're not ready for everyone yet and Jobs is insistent that Apple don't compromise itself by chasing after big customers at all costs. Good design is the priority and everything else will follow.
That would be the end of my slashdotting then
I was just a presentation of related research on Friday in Dublin, Ireland.
Quite interesting stuff. It should be a lot cheaper than existing methods where you have highly trained staff spending large amounts of time doing this work. Instead, you get a robot to do it for far less (and cut out trips to the hospital so patients can convalesce at home or in a nursing home).
They also allow precise measurement of the progress you're making. How much force, how accurate your motion, how steady your speed - everything can be recorded and optimised for even better therapies.
I was sitting there listening to everything being explained and thinking about how to do it with a Wiimote but these particular robots aren't passive. They actively move your arm at first because stroke victims don't have the strength. Maybe for milder strokes though.
Right, so if I were to become an undead vampire I wouldn't be able to access my contacts list on the phone anymore? Bummer (not so much for them, though).
What about flesh eating zombies?
That's what /. is for. Mention the article here and it'll be mercilessly edited by hundreds of bored /.ers
You shouldn't give up so easily. If your edits were good then put (some of) them back up. If that editor continues to amend the page then the article will start getting more attention and other editors will weigh in. At that point it's not his article anymore.
Karma would be doled out by an algorithm that would assess your edits based on how much, how often and by whom (their karma) your edits get edited in turn. If you troll you end up with karma in the toilet and your edits are brought to the attention of other editors who "metamod" your down. If other people who watch the page give positive feedback on your edits then your karma improves and other editors will be quicker to trust you. The system wouldn't be foolproof but it wouldn't need to be. All it would need to be is more efficient at correcting bad edits and retaining good edits than the current system. Trolls would be caught quicker and it would take them longer to do less damage. At the moment a large number of trolls just replace entire articles with a single line. This sort of edit could be fixed automatically so editors don't have to waste their time doing it. As articles become more "mature" it should become harder to make big edits to them.
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