The fact that you aren't being charged for the air you breathe is putting a huge crimp in the oxygen-distribution-management industry. Your sense of entitlement is costing jobs!
I'm terribly sorry! I wasn't aware of all the money that goes into producing and distributing oxygen. Silly me, I thought it was generated by natural processes and sent all over the world by diffusion.
Since it costs so much, maybe we can negotiate a fair compensation. Show me all the hard work done by oxygen producers and distributors, and I'm sure we can agree on a reasonable fee.
The other problem with rapid prototyping is that the materials available aren't always the best for whatever the part's function will be. I've only had a couple encounters with rapid prototyping machines, but none of them really used materials designed for high-stress situations.
GPLv3 is intended to keep a company from inserting covered by one or more of their patents from then suing downstream users of the modified code.
If they insert patented software into a GPL project, they still have to license the new patent-encumbered version to other users under the GPL. Wouldn't that make it hard to make an infringement case when the licensees do things like modify and redistribute the code, which the license explicitly allows?
It's still a valid question: why would a cell phone on an airplane cause more interference to cell phones on the ground than another cell phone on the ground would cause?
I think the original poster was responding more to the tone of the summary which seemed... angry that they even attempted something to conserve energy.
You and the OP must be reading a different summary than what I'm seeing. The one I see complains that they produced energy conservation legislation that doesn't conserve energy. It's kinda like "security theater" -- people who complain about it aren't saying that improving security is a waste of time. Now we've expanded from security theater to energy-saving theater.
Someone had this idea. It didn't work (surprise, surprise) and now you have people complaining, "I can't believe you even TRIED this?!?"
There was also the part when they were considering it when those people were all saying, "Don't bother, it's not going to improve anything."
I wouldn't go that far, but I kinda wonder what happens if these guys happen to write some open-source code that happens to get incorporated into a rhythm game. Have they broken the prohibition by writing code that goes into a rhythm game?
Within the US would you be allowed to charge someone from, say, NY a different price than someone from NJ? (apart from tax & shipping?)
Different tax rates seem to be part of the issue here (or so it seems from reading other comments). TFA also suggests that prices vary according to the countries' currencies. I don't know how quickly exchange rates shift, but I could imagine Apple setting the price point equal everywhere and then exchange rates shifting to create price disparity.
TFA also says it was only a single 20-minute session of gaming. Unless there's something really serious in the game, 20 minutes really isn't enough to matter. Show me results after playing for at least an hour every day for a week or two.
I'd consider it "efficient" rather than low end. It's efficient because it will not come with a load of hardware that is not needed at a cost that is not needed.
Agreed. If they were sold on the U.S. markets, I'd probably buy one myself. I've been looking for a "low end" system for quite a while, but nobody seems to want to sell them. All the smaller notebooks have to have some extra special feature so they can still sell for 800-1200 or so.
I've never used an iDrive control, but I can definitely say the (rather simplistic) menu system in the Prius is more than I want to deal with while driving in even light traffic.
Do the terms of service say anything about assigning the copyright to Turnitin? Or perhaps expressly allowing this use? If so, is that enforceable given that the school (probably) required students to use Turnitin?
If not, does this constitute fair use? I would argue that it doesn't, since Turnitin is doing it for commercial gain.
You also seem to be overlooking the fact that patent examiners aren't generally "laymen", but people with degrees in the hard sciences.
I would guess that the average patent examiner isn't exactly the cream of the crop in his field. The average degree holder in the field can get a job with reasonably low stress and reasonably good pay. The USPTO offers neither and thus cannot attract the talent and expertise they need. An improvement in working conditions and pay is the only way they'll attract better examiners. However, they don't need to pay the examiners nearly as much as an expert witness (they make hundreds per hour).
When the "world" ranks the tech of a country by its "politics" and "regulatory environment" then we have to judge the world. IMO, tech exists outside of said constrictions.
Right, how could the political and regulatory climate possibly be affecting things like broadband penetration and pricing, sharing of technological advances, and the like?
You might have a machine that solves any problem you give it, but if nobody has access to it, it may as well not be there.
The unfortunate side effect of that solution though is we're in for quite a shock (and one hell of a high tide) in a couple of years time when the moon comes crashing on Mount Fiji...
That's ok. I'm sure we've all had plenty of moon-stopping practice playing Majora's Mask.
Since the term "journalist" still connotes someone with an attachment to a news organization and a focus on fact over opinion (as well as other standards), it souds like a good but still imperfect match for describing bloggers. I think "columnist" is a better description of the function of bloggers, and a syndicated columnist is a blogger's closest analogue in traditional print media. Now we can argue over whether columnists are journalists.
Tough call; I'm in favor of an attempt to enforce the GPL (and potentially get validation from a US court that it is, in fact, a legally enforceable license).
Either that, or it becomes a really verbose BSD license. I personally prefer BSD, but I think this would be a Bad Thing.
collusion (oligopoloy) is essentially the same thing as a monopoly. i suppose that you could get a dozen providers to collude... but the temptation might be too great for a small player to undercut the rest of the cartel.
having a choice between your local cableco monopoly and the local telco monopoly is not competition. that's being forced to choose the lesser of two evils. in many cases, for internet access, that lesser evil is the cableco monopoly.
in that situation, the enemy of your enemy is necessarily your friend.
My family lives too far from the CO/DSLAM to get DSL service, meaning the only broadband is Comcast. The response was "screw this -- it's dial-up."
That's not without its inconveniences, of course.
if there was competition there would be no such thing as net neutrality because neutrality would be standard operating procedure for every provider lest they lose customers to a competitior..
Or they might collude with a competitor. (Granted, that's not real competition either, but it would be something to watch out for)
Users will never regulate the internet, but we are left with some choice as to who will. Government or the ISPs? There is slightly less conflict of interest on the government's part, and the ISPs are generally clear about their intent to demand money from content providers. I'd love to see a free-market solution, but competitive broadband is largely a myth.
You still cooperate with local jurisdictions when operating outside your own -- unilateral police activity outside one's jurisdiction is suspicious in itself. It looks like TFS left that part out -- the NYPD did work with the local authorities when operating outside New York.
However, TFA (and the summary) also includes another detail which I mentioned above and you ignored -- the fact that they were investigating perfectly legal activity. They spent quite a bit of time investigating people and groups who showed no signs of trying to incite violence. It is rather difficult to justify this level of investigation on the grounds of "preventing violence." What might they have been planning? Speaking outside of the "free speech zone"? This country is a free speech zone. We may as well have "religious freedom zones," "habeas corpus zones," or "firearm ownership zones."
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And if it hasn't, "any time now" on an astronomical scale is... well... longer than I want to wait.
Since it costs so much, maybe we can negotiate a fair compensation. Show me all the hard work done by oxygen producers and distributors, and I'm sure we can agree on a reasonable fee.
The other problem with rapid prototyping is that the materials available aren't always the best for whatever the part's function will be. I've only had a couple encounters with rapid prototyping machines, but none of them really used materials designed for high-stress situations.
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I see "Silver" ratings on almost all of them, but the numbers put Apple highest.
It's still a valid question: why would a cell phone on an airplane cause more interference to cell phones on the ground than another cell phone on the ground would cause?
There was also the part when they were considering it when those people were all saying, "Don't bother, it's not going to improve anything."
I wouldn't go that far, but I kinda wonder what happens if these guys happen to write some open-source code that happens to get incorporated into a rhythm game. Have they broken the prohibition by writing code that goes into a rhythm game?
TFA also says it was only a single 20-minute session of gaming. Unless there's something really serious in the game, 20 minutes really isn't enough to matter. Show me results after playing for at least an hour every day for a week or two.
I've never used an iDrive control, but I can definitely say the (rather simplistic) menu system in the Prius is more than I want to deal with while driving in even light traffic.
Do the terms of service say anything about assigning the copyright to Turnitin? Or perhaps expressly allowing this use? If so, is that enforceable given that the school (probably) required students to use Turnitin?
If not, does this constitute fair use? I would argue that it doesn't, since Turnitin is doing it for commercial gain.
You might have a machine that solves any problem you give it, but if nobody has access to it, it may as well not be there.
Your inability to recognize a position between two extremes does not mean that there are no such positions.
Since the term "journalist" still connotes someone with an attachment to a news organization and a focus on fact over opinion (as well as other standards), it souds like a good but still imperfect match for describing bloggers. I think "columnist" is a better description of the function of bloggers, and a syndicated columnist is a blogger's closest analogue in traditional print media. Now we can argue over whether columnists are journalists.
My family lives too far from the CO/DSLAM to get DSL service, meaning the only broadband is Comcast. The response was "screw this -- it's dial-up."
That's not without its inconveniences, of course.
Why not? Record labels do it all the time.
Users will never regulate the internet, but we are left with some choice as to who will. Government or the ISPs? There is slightly less conflict of interest on the government's part, and the ISPs are generally clear about their intent to demand money from content providers. I'd love to see a free-market solution, but competitive broadband is largely a myth.
You still cooperate with local jurisdictions when operating outside your own -- unilateral police activity outside one's jurisdiction is suspicious in itself. It looks like TFS left that part out -- the NYPD did work with the local authorities when operating outside New York.
However, TFA (and the summary) also includes another detail which I mentioned above and you ignored -- the fact that they were investigating perfectly legal activity. They spent quite a bit of time investigating people and groups who showed no signs of trying to incite violence. It is rather difficult to justify this level of investigation on the grounds of "preventing violence." What might they have been planning? Speaking outside of the "free speech zone"? This country is a free speech zone. We may as well have "religious freedom zones," "habeas corpus zones," or "firearm ownership zones."