Anticompetitive behaviour is not defined by whether the code that causes the issue can be turned off by somebody who knows where to look for it, it's defined by the intention of having the code in there as the default.
If a ford had a valve under the hood, down behind the engine in a hard to get at place, that caused a GM parked next to it to melt down, that would be anticompetitive behaviour.
To use a public network, the iPhone has to use public standards, chips, interfaces, protocols, etc.
Yeh, there will be a heap of proprietory stuff in there, not least of which is Mac OS X, but it's only a matter of time before somebody hacks iPhone an unofficial SDK. DVD encryption couldn't be cracked, Generic PCs and Apple TV couldn't run Mac OS X, iPhone can't have an SDK. Yeh, right.
The US has never left its wild west phase, sheesh! Why else is the low IQ cowboy chasing oil in Iraq (with the help of the feral eybrows from my own country, I'm ashamed to admit.)
...and never will be that name brand PCs are cheaper than Macs. When you factor in life of product costs, because Apple make the whole widget, there's not the pressure to spend on as many software upgrades, either, and in my experience they retain a degree of competitive usability for longer than PCs in given tasks. I use a Mac at home for music making and a PC at work for editing spoken word audio, and my 3 year old laptop blows the 1 year old PC desktop at work into the weeds for power and performance. The PC probably didn't cost my employer what it would have cost me to buy, but I would have spent as much on buying that model as I did on buying the iBook. It's sad, really, because common sense says there should be no difference.
What lack of quality freeware? He IS talking about the same Mac OS X that I use, isn't he? On my Mac there are 4 paid application suites, the OS (hey, I upgraded, so sue me), iLife (upgrade again), Final Cut Express (iMovie is OK for home movies...) and Office (I use NeoOffice, but the kids refuse to, "We have to use Word for schoolwork, we're not allowed to use anything else." Bollocks, but have you tried to tell a teen they're wrong?) Every other function on my iBook is freeware, from AU plugins I use in Garage Band, Audacity (quality freeware!) and FCX, to NeoOffice, to Audacity, to my songwriting management software, text editors, development web server, and the list goes on. What a blockhead, sheesh.
They make 6 fair points, the first four are opinion in the form of FUD, not reasoned argument. As for points 5 and 10, new music IS discovered through open sharing channels, it's just that the marketing machines of the major labels have so much of the market swamped with "washing machine rhythms" and warbling, "autotuned" organic robots in skank fashion, that even in cyberspace, nobody can hear you dream. (...and this is what they really want the sales revenue for, to drown us in radio payola and product placement.) FCUK Sony, FCUK EMI, FCUK the labels, let musicians be free of middle-men, so that the music may flow freely and new economies grow to pay them.
People already do inadvertant text replies. You know, you're thinking what an arse "Bill" (not his real name) is, so you go to text "Jenny" (not her real name), "Hey, Jen, Bill's an arse!" and accidentally send it to Bill because his is the name in your mind and the first of the two parties in your alphabetised directory. Predictive text only exacerbates this, of course.
Somewhat less "buggy" than Macroslop Oriface 04 on my G4 iBook, I'll tell you! Concern over the "warning" on the NeoOffice website is just their honesty being misconstrued, I'd guess. I want to move my kids to New Zuhland, they have Macs in the schools there still! Macroslop's hegemony over Australia is about complete:-(
Listen, iPod users, it's simple. (I actually get quite fed up with having to explain this, especially to people who should know better...)
When you buy your tunes from iTunes, burn a CD of them, then reimport that at 320kb/s MP3. Seriously, the losses of this process are negligible and DRM is removed. At no point is anybody locked into Apple's hardware. This is perfectly legal because it's what the Fairplay DRM allows out-of-the-box, it's not a loophole, it's designed to work this way.
About 6 years ago, I interviewed a young woman for a video I was making who hard a central nervous system disease that caused her enourmous pain with fine-motor movements. Basically, typing for her was like having her hands attacked by bees. To complete her degree, she had to use speech recognition software. She did her degree in the late 90s! Speech recognition was obviously "good enough" for her 10 years ago.
Of course, if you're talking about using SR as a form of voice compression algorithm, turning voice into text, transmitting it and reconstructing it as "voice" at the other end, no, it's not "good enough" yet. It's all relative.
I'm sure, faced with the young lady in question's dilemma, you'd probably choose SR technology, even at gen 1 level, rather than be unable to use/.
...Flickr own the hardware, Flickr make it clear they own you virtual ass in regard to using the service.
It's unseemly, but frankly, it's Flickr's bat and ball, they can take it home if they want.
Do you "need" to pull that trailer, or is it just a "want"?
Besides, stop promoting the Prius as an environmentally friendly car, people. The battery contains toxic chemicals which have to be mined, processed, and at the end of the car's life, disposed of. The damned thing still uses petroleum, and wears tyres out at the same rate as any other car in its class. The paints are petroleum based, and the trees that Toyota claim to plant to counteract the carbon emissions of all the vehicles are mono-cropped pine plantations which destroy the soil ecosystems where they're grown.
Everything is connected. The single, root cause of environmental degradation is not SUVs, not Priuses, not industry, not George "Dubya", not John Howard. The cause of environmental degradation of this planet is too many "rats" in the cage. We need to cut the world's population to one tenth of its current level in one generation or we're screwed.
Fact is, if we do that, we're screwed. Well, 9 tenths of us are;-)
How could tabbing have been granted a patent anyway? It's just a virtual representation of a mechanical system used in card files - pryor art by any definition. J. H. Christey, there is some angrifying twaddle pedalled in the US courts.
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Anticompetitive behaviour is not defined by whether the code that causes the issue can be turned off by somebody who knows where to look for it, it's defined by the intention of having the code in there as the default.
If a ford had a valve under the hood, down behind the engine in a hard to get at place, that caused a GM parked next to it to melt down, that would be anticompetitive behaviour.
To use a public network, the iPhone has to use public standards, chips, interfaces, protocols, etc.
Yeh, there will be a heap of proprietory stuff in there, not least of which is Mac OS X, but it's only a matter of time before somebody hacks iPhone an unofficial SDK. DVD encryption couldn't be cracked, Generic PCs and Apple TV couldn't run Mac OS X, iPhone can't have an SDK. Yeh, right.
The US has never left its wild west phase, sheesh! Why else is the low IQ cowboy chasing oil in Iraq (with the help of the feral eybrows from my own country, I'm ashamed to admit.)
...and never will be that name brand PCs are cheaper than Macs. When you factor in life of product costs, because Apple make the whole widget, there's not the pressure to spend on as many software upgrades, either, and in my experience they retain a degree of competitive usability for longer than PCs in given tasks. I use a Mac at home for music making and a PC at work for editing spoken word audio, and my 3 year old laptop blows the 1 year old PC desktop at work into the weeds for power and performance. The PC probably didn't cost my employer what it would have cost me to buy, but I would have spent as much on buying that model as I did on buying the iBook. It's sad, really, because common sense says there should be no difference.
Nikola Tesla.
What lack of quality freeware? He IS talking about the same Mac OS X that I use, isn't he? On my Mac there are 4 paid application suites, the OS (hey, I upgraded, so sue me), iLife (upgrade again), Final Cut Express (iMovie is OK for home movies...) and Office (I use NeoOffice, but the kids refuse to, "We have to use Word for schoolwork, we're not allowed to use anything else." Bollocks, but have you tried to tell a teen they're wrong?) Every other function on my iBook is freeware, from AU plugins I use in Garage Band, Audacity (quality freeware!) and FCX, to NeoOffice, to Audacity, to my songwriting management software, text editors, development web server, and the list goes on. What a blockhead, sheesh.
They make 6 fair points, the first four are opinion in the form of FUD, not reasoned argument. As for points 5 and 10, new music IS discovered through open sharing channels, it's just that the marketing machines of the major labels have so much of the market swamped with "washing machine rhythms" and warbling, "autotuned" organic robots in skank fashion, that even in cyberspace, nobody can hear you dream. (...and this is what they really want the sales revenue for, to drown us in radio payola and product placement.) FCUK Sony, FCUK EMI, FCUK the labels, let musicians be free of middle-men, so that the music may flow freely and new economies grow to pay them.
People already do inadvertant text replies. You know, you're thinking what an arse "Bill" (not his real name) is, so you go to text "Jenny" (not her real name), "Hey, Jen, Bill's an arse!" and accidentally send it to Bill because his is the name in your mind and the first of the two parties in your alphabetised directory. Predictive text only exacerbates this, of course.
Somewhat less "buggy" than Macroslop Oriface 04 on my G4 iBook, I'll tell you! Concern over the "warning" on the NeoOffice website is just their honesty being misconstrued, I'd guess. I want to move my kids to New Zuhland, they have Macs in the schools there still! Macroslop's hegemony over Australia is about complete :-(
We're all doomed, doomed, I tell ye. - (Fraser, from Dad's Army)
Listen, iPod users, it's simple. (I actually get quite fed up with having to explain this, especially to people who should know better...)
When you buy your tunes from iTunes, burn a CD of them, then reimport that at 320kb/s MP3. Seriously, the losses of this process are negligible and DRM is removed. At no point is anybody locked into Apple's hardware. This is perfectly legal because it's what the Fairplay DRM allows out-of-the-box, it's not a loophole, it's designed to work this way.
Lets face it, nerds love playing with all sciences, and sciences that make loud bangs are REAL fun ;-)
(This statement is satire, so if you're an FBI agent looking for terrorists, grow a sense of humour, OK.)
They do seem to be pointing an unloaded gun, don't they? :-/
Well, if they include this technology in Macroslop Idiot Exploiter 8, it'll kill it stone dead then. ;-)
About 6 years ago, I interviewed a young woman for a video I was making who hard a central nervous system disease that caused her enourmous pain with fine-motor movements. Basically, typing for her was like having her hands attacked by bees. To complete her degree, she had to use speech recognition software. She did her degree in the late 90s! Speech recognition was obviously "good enough" for her 10 years ago. Of course, if you're talking about using SR as a form of voice compression algorithm, turning voice into text, transmitting it and reconstructing it as "voice" at the other end, no, it's not "good enough" yet. It's all relative. I'm sure, faced with the young lady in question's dilemma, you'd probably choose SR technology, even at gen 1 level, rather than be unable to use /.
...Flickr own the hardware, Flickr make it clear they own you virtual ass in regard to using the service. It's unseemly, but frankly, it's Flickr's bat and ball, they can take it home if they want.
Yeh, right. 2020 is when the effects of peak oil are going to stall the car industry.
...replace your PC with Apple gear, jeez. Surely there are better things to raise adrenaline levels over.
Do you "need" to pull that trailer, or is it just a "want"? Besides, stop promoting the Prius as an environmentally friendly car, people. The battery contains toxic chemicals which have to be mined, processed, and at the end of the car's life, disposed of. The damned thing still uses petroleum, and wears tyres out at the same rate as any other car in its class. The paints are petroleum based, and the trees that Toyota claim to plant to counteract the carbon emissions of all the vehicles are mono-cropped pine plantations which destroy the soil ecosystems where they're grown. Everything is connected. The single, root cause of environmental degradation is not SUVs, not Priuses, not industry, not George "Dubya", not John Howard. The cause of environmental degradation of this planet is too many "rats" in the cage. We need to cut the world's population to one tenth of its current level in one generation or we're screwed. Fact is, if we do that, we're screwed. Well, 9 tenths of us are ;-)
...get paid by cheque?!
:-(
I'd have to Photoshop the electrons flowing between my employer and my bank
Yup, later this year vote Labor in kangaroo land.
Amen, brother! Get your arse out of there, STAT!
Put 'em in reverse order, or slashdot might get cancelled, too ;-)
At least their planes don't crash... ...yet...
How could tabbing have been granted a patent anyway? It's just a virtual representation of a mechanical system used in card files - pryor art by any definition. J. H. Christey, there is some angrifying twaddle pedalled in the US courts.