It would apply to recordings made in the USA, and probably such recordings where rights were assigned to a US entity before 1972. Anything recorded outside the US are not subject to the USA's strange mess of IP law.
Want to list the real world, non-developer tasks that iPhone can't do.
In 6 months with mine, a cheapskate 3G, I haven't found one yet. Granted, I don't want to program it or program another puter remotely. I don't want to hack into Norad to find alien contact conspiracies, either. I just record complex, multitrack audio with it. Write ideas down as I get them, log my cycling using a GPS, play the odd game, read a book, listen to music, surf a bit, check mail, take photos. I keep meeting people online and IRL who tell me my iPhone can't do these things because of Apple's "walled garden". Funny, I can do them and at a fraction of the cost of some platforms. (Compare Luci Edit SD on Windows Mobile at AU$700 with iSaidWhat?! for iPhone at AU$1.19, or Multitrack at AU$20 for example.)
And one API, one development architecture, verification by Apple that the code isn't an exploit, all make iPhone very secure. PDF exploit aside (it'll be closed within the month with a simple update) most of the anti-iPhone talk on Slashdot is along the lines of, "I'd never use one because they can't do..."
Anybody who hasn't used one for real world ongoing, everyday tasks, anybody who has only used a demo in an Apple store, isn't qualified to comment.
Honestly, what walls? I haven't struck any in my use of it and I'm pretty demanding.
Lets see, half the apps on iTunes equate to a flashlight, a farting toy and a few other toys? Hmm, then how come I have an office app compatible with Macroslop's offering, several music apps including a 16 track recorder, a few MIDI apps and various audio field recorders I use for work (all mission critical quality) and any number of really good communications and network tools, such as GPS apps, social apps, oh why do I bother feeding the trolls?
Simple - 130,000 apps. If there is a wall, it's a long long way away and it's hardly East Germany inside. Seriously, the people hating iPhone and iPad today are the descendents of those who burned crosses 100 years ago.
In iPhone's "walled garden" one presumes this app would be rejected. I'm cynical enough to think the odd one might get through, but most won't.
This is one reason why, even though I looked into Droid first, that I ditched Droid and went for the iPhone. The walled garden has its advantages. (I am feeling quite smug at the moment.)
This is classic profile reversal. Nearly all serial killers have narcissistic personality disorder, so "the media" turn this around to lump the two together as a given.
A high proportion of iPad early adopters may fit this profile, as might early adopters of the mobile phone 15 to 20 years ago, or early adopters of the motor car. As the device becomes less an object of hype and people realise the iPad fits their needs (rather than non-iPad users ideas of everybody's monochrome, vanilla needs), this profile will lose relevance.
Hmm, it's illegal to berate people on the basis of race so the bigots all buy PCs and spout crap about "typical" Mac users instead these days. Your type used to hang "strange fruit" from Alabaman trees barely 100 years ago, therefore your ideas count for nothing.
If any of you PC bigots have ever owned an Apple product I might listen to your "product advice" about build quality, but I'll choose the "poor reliability" of my Macbook at home over the "mission critical performance" of the Dell on my desk at work, anyday.
I agree, Team Firefly Night Rides and Steve's Wooden Bicycle are both gone forever, too.
Also, I've always taken the view that what I say in public is out there and there's nothing I can do but be honest if asked directly. We have to own our own responsibility and not expect others won't do background checks on us, then accept that, if our past is a problem for an employer, we probably wouldn't fit into their work culture. I've always gone for jobs where my music and cycling were not a problem. It's about making your weaknesses into strengths.
Just as society evolved to make it it illegal to discriminate against people because of their ethnicity or belief structure, society will probably evolve just as easily to make discrimination on the basis reasonably distant past acts illegal, too. There is already precedent for this sort of approach in some jurisdictions - the statute of limitations. A good law might deem post data older than 5 years in a social context and 10 years in a career or education context irrelevant and make it unlawful to be used in assessment of your fitness as a person.
Well, the Relative Dimension In Space approach is a third, and very elegant, way to do time/space travel, too. It's everywhere and everywhen all at once, simply relocate the projection into spacetime, while the "interior" of that projection sits at the "centre" of the universe, never moving.
Grid loads are a side issue, anyway. The real issue is relocation carbon emissions from the exhaust pipe to the coal-fired smoke stack.
Electric cars don't reduce CO2 emissions by all that much and will cause more reliance on brown coal. (80% of the world's electricity is coal fired.) They'll also add other factors into the sustainability equation - lithium for batteries, tech waste disposal and the CO2 externalities of those factors.
Bio-crude from farm waste is the only viable solution to the problem of fueling personal motorised transport sustainably. Nothing solves the problems of too much private car ownership and the unsustainability of manufacturing so many cars.
I agree with this, even as an iPhone fanboi. Government services should be platform neutral, and currently, the only way to do this to any degree of universality is to use mobile optimised web apps.
Most of these special purpose corporate service apps are buggy as all hell and designed by chimp. At least with web apps there's hope of governments and corporations employing somebody with a broad background and familiar with web standards.
And you thought the shift from Rudd to Gillard was quick? Wait until these guys get going. Sadly, I think if this caught on, Australia would degenerate to a car driving, foreigner hating, forest felling, coal burning, fascist nightmare state.
The "Kookaburra" melody is validly copyright. Larrikan's ownership of it is perfectly legal (if immoral.)
The problem as I see it is the transcriptions of the two songs they were working off. As a musician, I still have trouble swallowing this judgment on the basis that, to my ears, Colin Hay's flute riff is no closer to the actual melody than an inversion or similar variation of it. If inversions of a tune are covered by that tune's copyright, then copyright really is broken.
On the subject of the judgment, it's actually a lighter assessment of royalties due than Larrikan's lawyers were trying for.
Criminals use note pads (the old paper and pen variety), criminals use telephones, criminals use (dah dah daaahhh ) iPhones and the internet in general. FFS, there is so much stupidity in law enforcement and enforcement policy worldwide.
The article finishes with the mention that Brazil has no law to force him to give up his password. Surely the US, with its codified right to not self incriminate (ie the "right to remain silent"), has no such law either? Just askin', ya know.
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It would apply to recordings made in the USA, and probably such recordings where rights were assigned to a US entity before 1972. Anything recorded outside the US are not subject to the USA's strange mess of IP law.
Want to list the real world, non-developer tasks that iPhone can't do.
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In 6 months with mine, a cheapskate 3G, I haven't found one yet. Granted, I don't want to program it or program another puter remotely. I don't want to hack into Norad to find alien contact conspiracies, either. I just record complex, multitrack audio with it. Write ideas down as I get them, log my cycling using a GPS, play the odd game, read a book, listen to music, surf a bit, check mail, take photos. I keep meeting people online and IRL who tell me my iPhone can't do these things because of Apple's "walled garden". Funny, I can do them and at a fraction of the cost of some platforms. (Compare Luci Edit SD on Windows Mobile at AU$700 with iSaidWhat?! for iPhone at AU$1.19, or Multitrack at AU$20 for example.)
And one API, one development architecture, verification by Apple that the code isn't an exploit, all make iPhone very secure. PDF exploit aside (it'll be closed within the month with a simple update) most of the anti-iPhone talk on Slashdot is along the lines of, "I'd never use one because they can't do
Anybody who hasn't used one for real world ongoing, everyday tasks, anybody who has only used a demo in an Apple store, isn't qualified to comment.
Honestly, what walls? I haven't struck any in my use of it and I'm pretty demanding.
Lets see, half the apps on iTunes equate to a flashlight, a farting toy and a few other toys? Hmm, then how come I have an office app compatible with Macroslop's offering, several music apps including a 16 track recorder, a few MIDI apps and various audio field recorders I use for work (all mission critical quality) and any number of really good communications and network tools, such as GPS apps, social apps, oh why do I bother feeding the trolls?
Simple - 130,000 apps. If there is a wall, it's a long long way away and it's hardly East Germany inside. Seriously, the people hating iPhone and iPad today are the descendents of those who burned crosses 100 years ago.
In iPhone's "walled garden" one presumes this app would be rejected. I'm cynical enough to think the odd one might get through, but most won't.
This is one reason why, even though I looked into Droid first, that I ditched Droid and went for the iPhone. The walled garden has its advantages. (I am feeling quite smug at the moment.)
Meh, don't feed the trolls.
This is classic profile reversal. Nearly all serial killers have narcissistic personality disorder, so "the media" turn this around to lump the two together as a given.
A high proportion of iPad early adopters may fit this profile, as might early adopters of the mobile phone 15 to 20 years ago, or early adopters of the motor car. As the device becomes less an object of hype and people realise the iPad fits their needs (rather than non-iPad users ideas of everybody's monochrome, vanilla needs), this profile will lose relevance.
So much hot air about iOS by so so many where so few have even used an iPhone.
I'll be sticking to this method, really.
Hmm, it's illegal to berate people on the basis of race so the bigots all buy PCs and spout crap about "typical" Mac users instead these days. Your type used to hang "strange fruit" from Alabaman trees barely 100 years ago, therefore your ideas count for nothing.
If any of you PC bigots have ever owned an Apple product I might listen to your "product advice" about build quality, but I'll choose the "poor reliability" of my Macbook at home over the "mission critical performance" of the Dell on my desk at work, anyday.
Organic espresso? Go fuck yourself.
Since hemlock, actually, or even since walking up to a large predatory cat and slapping it on the nose.
They probably don't delete it, they probably archive it securely for legal purposes and anonymously for research purposes.
I agree, Team Firefly Night Rides and Steve's Wooden Bicycle are both gone forever, too.
Also, I've always taken the view that what I say in public is out there and there's nothing I can do but be honest if asked directly. We have to own our own responsibility and not expect others won't do background checks on us, then accept that, if our past is a problem for an employer, we probably wouldn't fit into their work culture. I've always gone for jobs where my music and cycling were not a problem. It's about making your weaknesses into strengths.
Just as society evolved to make it it illegal to discriminate against people because of their ethnicity or belief structure, society will probably evolve just as easily to make discrimination on the basis reasonably distant past acts illegal, too. There is already precedent for this sort of approach in some jurisdictions - the statute of limitations. A good law might deem post data older than 5 years in a social context and 10 years in a career or education context irrelevant and make it unlawful to be used in assessment of your fitness as a person.
Also, brb, building a TARDIS.
Well, the Relative Dimension In Space approach is a third, and very elegant, way to do time/space travel, too. It's everywhere and everywhen all at once, simply relocate the projection into spacetime, while the "interior" of that projection sits at the "centre" of the universe, never moving.
and surely all that was needed was to remove the offending blog accounts rather than the whole freakin' server?
No nation can call itself democratic when it dedicates resources to hiding activities from the people who empower that government.
This is what you get for not having compulsory voting.
In the 1980s they started downing E and listening to Art of Noise, that's what happened ;-)
Grid loads are a side issue, anyway. The real issue is relocation carbon emissions from the exhaust pipe to the coal-fired smoke stack.
Electric cars don't reduce CO2 emissions by all that much and will cause more reliance on brown coal. (80% of the world's electricity is coal fired.) They'll also add other factors into the sustainability equation - lithium for batteries, tech waste disposal and the CO2 externalities of those factors.
Bio-crude from farm waste is the only viable solution to the problem of fueling personal motorised transport sustainably. Nothing solves the problems of too much private car ownership and the unsustainability of manufacturing so many cars.
I'll second that motion.
Bags I the patent on doing a shit. I'll be as rich as shit! ;-)
Why not work on regular old websites?
I agree with this, even as an iPhone fanboi. Government services should be platform neutral, and currently, the only way to do this to any degree of universality is to use mobile optimised web apps.
Most of these special purpose corporate service apps are buggy as all hell and designed by chimp. At least with web apps there's hope of governments and corporations employing somebody with a broad background and familiar with web standards.
And you thought the shift from Rudd to Gillard was quick? Wait until these guys get going. Sadly, I think if this caught on, Australia would degenerate to a car driving, foreigner hating, forest felling, coal burning, fascist nightmare state.
Oh, it already has...
The "Kookaburra" melody is validly copyright. Larrikan's ownership of it is perfectly legal (if immoral.)
The problem as I see it is the transcriptions of the two songs they were working off. As a musician, I still have trouble swallowing this judgment on the basis that, to my ears, Colin Hay's flute riff is no closer to the actual melody than an inversion or similar variation of it. If inversions of a tune are covered by that tune's copyright, then copyright really is broken.
On the subject of the judgment, it's actually a lighter assessment of royalties due than Larrikan's lawyers were trying for.
Bottled water? And what about the secret sleeper cell in the Evian plant?
How is developing for multiple platforms pandering to one? Dickhead.
/. sooner. I would KILL to play lemmings again ;-)
I notice now that he's copped a takedown shakedown from Sony. Of course. I need to get to
Criminals use note pads (the old paper and pen variety), criminals use telephones, criminals use (dah dah daaahhh ) iPhones and the internet in general. FFS, there is so much stupidity in law enforcement and enforcement policy worldwide.
The article finishes with the mention that Brazil has no law to force him to give up his password. Surely the US, with its codified right to not self incriminate (ie the "right to remain silent"), has no such law either? Just askin', ya know.