Well, Apple's policy is basically, "We won't go out of our way to help you mess with our products, but we won't really try to stop you..."
Contrast that to M$, who'll throw a chair^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsic a lawyer on you if you do not submit to their system.
I agree with the spirit of your post (Don't sue me!), but the RIAA didn't invent the CD form-factor; Phillips did (They did the physical part of the CD, Sony did the electronics and encoding).
I remember a story a few months ago where the RIAA basically said, "Backups of music CDs are illegal because, if you lose one, you can just buy it again. Our prices are very reasonable..."
Actually, the ending of that version was made up, but the rest was true (Except the product...). Actually, the caller was the rep's boss, and later, his wife...
There was a way to avoid the fine, for over a year MS could have done SOMETHING (And by that, I don't mean making unreadable source avaliable under a no-compete NDA). MS just decided to gamble that the EU wouldn't have the guts to see the fine through, and it seems they've lost.
Well, back in the '70s, he, along with Paul Allen and Chair-Man(TM), did write a couple BASIC interpriters... The hard part (floating point code) was written by Paul Allen.
Actually, most of the code was tested on an 8080 emulator on a PDP-11. I even heard a story a while back (I'm not sure about the validity of this) that he got in some trouble because he stole the system from his university...
You might have wanted to use the impossible triangle. The waterfall thing can exist in 3d space; this program probably doesn't care about the laws of gravity.
Then again, it would be cool if all of (Insert name of cartel here (**AA, M$, etc))'s computers blew up whenever someone carried something illogical near a webcam!
Oh no, they've got Web 2.0; the site you're paying just has to pay more, that's all.
Static: 100 bits/cent Javascript: 50 bits/cent AJAX: 1 bit/cent Access to customers' eyes: priceless (But, hey, we'll take 50% of your monthly income before taxes)
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Only those profiting from these pests want them to exist,
Well, I know of a few Congresscritters whose campaigns are financed by the cockRIAAoches...
Well, you know, it takes time to change all the references from KDE to Freespire in the codebase ;)
Well, Apple's policy is basically, "We won't go out of our way to help you mess with our products, but we won't really try to stop you..." Contrast that to M$, who'll throw a chair^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsic a lawyer on you if you do not submit to their system.
I agree with the spirit of your post (Don't sue me!), but the RIAA didn't invent the CD form-factor; Phillips did (They did the physical part of the CD, Sony did the electronics and encoding).
Wow, I think we've found a new Dvorak!
I remember a story a few months ago where the RIAA basically said, "Backups of music CDs are illegal because, if you lose one, you can just buy it again. Our prices are very reasonable..."
Actually, I think both use the same DRM system...
That's the beauty of virtualization (read, a custom, virtual TC chip with readout of all stored data, and other such stuff)
"I will f------ kill you and your families."
Sheesh, what's next? Throwing chairs at their doorstep?
Actually, the ending of that version was made up, but the rest was true (Except the product...). Actually, the caller was the rep's boss, and later, his wife...
There was a way to avoid the fine, for over a year MS could have done SOMETHING (And by that, I don't mean making unreadable source avaliable under a no-compete NDA). MS just decided to gamble that the EU wouldn't have the guts to see the fine through, and it seems they've lost.
if a given install was legit last week, how could it possibly become pirated next week?
Last week the chocolate ration was only 20 grams, but this week it's going up to 18 grams! All hail our benevolent chair-throwing overloards!
Competition? In the technology industry? Wow, this really is news!
The WRT54GL has (IIRC) 4MB of RAM and 12MB of ROM. It runs a Linksys variant of Linux out of the box, and can be customized by loading OpenWrt...
3.1-95
XP-Vista (Someday in the far, far future)
Why, everyone knows that the only valid benchmark is bogomips!!!
Some of we peopleses does wishes which yous canning uses bestest grammerish withs theses nicerest fonteses.
Yeah? Well, I suggest a whole beowolf cluster of the things! (Unless you're in Soviet Russia, where the beowulf cluster of toasters suggests you)
a skin-on-aluminum frame folding kayak instead. Geek factor - high.
So it runs Linux?
No?
Does it at least have a big Tux decal on the side?
The RIAA
Well, back in the '70s, he, along with Paul Allen and Chair-Man(TM), did write a couple BASIC interpriters... The hard part (floating point code) was written by Paul Allen.
Actually, most of the code was tested on an 8080 emulator on a PDP-11. I even heard a story a while back (I'm not sure about the validity of this) that he got in some trouble because he stole the system from his university...
So, seeing as their code is integrated into the Linux kernel, it has to be GPLed, right?
A bit of a story from the Macintosh
You might have wanted to use the impossible triangle. The waterfall thing can exist in 3d space; this program probably doesn't care about the laws of gravity.
Then again, it would be cool if all of (Insert name of cartel here (**AA, M$, etc))'s computers blew up whenever someone carried something illogical near a webcam!
Oh no, they've got Web 2.0; the site you're paying just has to pay more, that's all.
Static: 100 bits/cent
Javascript: 50 bits/cent
AJAX: 1 bit/cent
Access to customers' eyes: priceless (But, hey, we'll take 50% of your monthly income before taxes)