I do own several Macs as well as an iPod, an iPod shuffle and an iPhone. Doing a lot of graphics design work, there wasn't really a big choice of good operating system for the task.
Stories like this, however, make me less and less fond of Apple.
I seriously don't understand why it hurts them to have competing software (!) out there which brings their devices to a greater number (!) of people (i.e. Linux users).
Personally I'm fine with iTunes (I rarely use it though, I play my music over a Squeezebox) and it's not too bad on OS X (it's terrible on Windows though). If there were better or more lightweight alternatives (like Amarok), I'd use them and still buy Apple products.
Bottom line: I can understand why they want to control the user experience for their customers. But I don't understand why they want to restrict the small community of power users to that user experience as well. It's not like I'd call Apple support if my Amarok stopped syncing my iPod...
Thanks! My original post wasn't meant to provocate, I simply didn't know. What exactly makes the Apple License incompatible with the GPL? A (very quick) websearch didn't give me any useful information.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always thought that the only thing that makes the Apple Public License incompatible to the GPL is the fact, that you have to redistribute modified code under the Apple Public License and not the GPL.
You are - I hope - aware that the DMCA only applies to the US. And there are indeed *some* developed countries outside the US and they provide content and platforms for your web 2.0 too!
When corporations have a firewall, they are creating a "gated community" where they provide additional restrictions on acceptable behavior in order to create a more predictable environment.
Said environment is not "the Internet", though.
The internet isn't totally free, never was, and never will be.
You might be right about the "will not be" part but currently, the Internet is, in general terms, totally free.
It's funny that a lot of advertising agencies believe that they can actually duplicate the hype that has started around several services or products. And Microsofts advertising company just joined the club!
You are absolutely right in that the government should protect consumers and that their demand to withdraw the ad was justified.
However, the question raised in the article, and the question I responded to was...
What should the web look like? Should government authorities be the ones making that decision?"
And I still believe that No, the government does not have the right to make that decision.
On a side note, here in Austria comparative advertisement (which is often misleading) is allowed [1]. And I've heard/seen a lot of advertising which is based on false statements or otherwise misleading information.
The real problem is, Macs are pretty stable. Apple buys (or lets manufacture) a set of hardware and creates drivers for these hardware parts. There are only a few CPUs, a few Mainboards etc in all of Apple's computers and there are only a few drivers, all of them very stable.
Now Psystar is creating custom kernel extensions for a wide range of (cheap) hardware and runs their modified OSX on top of an EFI emulator. There's bound to be problems. And Psystar won't be the company it's taken out on: If your operating system crashes, you don't go to the hardware vendor, you go to the operating system vendor. In this case, Apple could lose potential customers because they aren't satisfied with OS X. Plus, they get bad publicity, which hurts their sales.
...from location and time they can project your income bracket.
And how exactly are they going to do that? I can give you that data right away and you tell me how much I earn... Age: 25, Gender: Male (duh, this is Slashdot), Location: Austria, Europe.
In Austria it's the same. Most people bring their own bags (canvas or cotton for example) or boxes. You can still buy plastic bags for 0.2 EUR (=0.30 $) or paper bags for about 0.2 $.
Could this be used to extract full strands of DNA? If so, could the extracted DNA be used to clone the original animal?
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If I had modpoints, I'd mod the parent up. Seriously though, he's right. The story concludes with the author reminescing about 'the old days' of usenet... To quote:
"It's hard to completely kill off something as totally decentralized as Usenet; as long as two servers agree to share the NNTP protocol, it'll continue on in some fashion. But the Usenet I mourn is long gone"
Your points are valid. BUT: I have a lot of music which I downloaded because I thought it was good, listened to the album once and THEN deciced it was crap that I would never buy.
I didn't delete the MP3s though but keep them on my storage although I 1) don't listen to it. Ever. 2) don't share it with other people. Just because I have the space and I'm too lazy to delete it.
BTW: I buy about 10% to 20% of the stuff I download after having listened to it for a few times.
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I do own several Macs as well as an iPod, an iPod shuffle and an iPhone. Doing a lot of graphics design work, there wasn't really a big choice of good operating system for the task.
Stories like this, however, make me less and less fond of Apple.
I seriously don't understand why it hurts them to have competing software (!) out there which brings their devices to a greater number (!) of people (i.e. Linux users).
Personally I'm fine with iTunes (I rarely use it though, I play my music over a Squeezebox) and it's not too bad on OS X (it's terrible on Windows though). If there were better or more lightweight alternatives (like Amarok), I'd use them and still buy Apple products.
Bottom line: I can understand why they want to control the user experience for their customers. But I don't understand why they want to restrict the small community of power users to that user experience as well. It's not like I'd call Apple support if my Amarok stopped syncing my iPod...
Our well-paid IT industry jobs will provide the money we need for the stable and the pony food.
Oh wait...
Thanks! My original post wasn't meant to provocate, I simply didn't know. What exactly makes the Apple License incompatible with the GPL? A (very quick) websearch didn't give me any useful information.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always thought that the only thing that makes the Apple Public License incompatible to the GPL is the fact, that you have to redistribute modified code under the Apple Public License and not the GPL.
Why exactly would that be a problem for Linux?
You are - I hope - aware that the DMCA only applies to the US. And there are indeed *some* developed countries outside the US and they provide content and platforms for your web 2.0 too!
When corporations have a firewall, they are creating a "gated community" where they provide additional restrictions on acceptable behavior in order to create a more predictable environment.
Said environment is not "the Internet", though.
The internet isn't totally free, never was, and never will be.
You might be right about the "will not be" part but currently, the Internet is, in general terms, totally free.
You said it the other way round, though :) Was a bit confusing.
Of course you're right, gravitational forces play a (very big) part in retaining an atmosphere.
That must be some really cool bone fragments. Maybe they were accompanied by some pieces of eyes, because they could actually read the captcha, too! :>
Mars having 1/3 the gravity has more to do with its thin atmosphere than any lack of magnetic field.
You aren't trying to tell me that atmosphere increases gravitational forces, are you?
Not if you're married.
You must be new here... Slashdot users are married to porn!
Gotta go, wife is calling...
If you have to explain your ad to the world you should know you have done something seriously wrong.
It's funny that a lot of advertising agencies believe that they can actually duplicate the hype that has started around several services or products. And Microsofts advertising company just joined the club!
http://www.vimeo.com/ if the video is below 500 MB. They also serve HD content which is pretty nice.
You are absolutely right in that the government should protect consumers and that their demand to withdraw the ad was justified.
However, the question raised in the article, and the question I responded to was...
What should the web look like? Should government authorities be the ones making that decision?"
And I still believe that No, the government does not have the right to make that decision.
On a side note, here in Austria comparative advertisement (which is often misleading) is allowed [1]. And I've heard/seen a lot of advertising which is based on false statements or otherwise misleading information.
[1] http://www.fachverbandwerbung.at/de-service-faq.shtml#5 (in German, unfortunately)
Should government authorities be the ones making that decision?
No.
Why is the question even in TFA? There is not a single reason why the government should have any say about the web.
They do have Norton Antivirus installed.
No joke. However, this tells us what operating system they run. Which is a joke if you ask me...
The real problem is, Macs are pretty stable. Apple buys (or lets manufacture) a set of hardware and creates drivers for these hardware parts. There are only a few CPUs, a few Mainboards etc in all of Apple's computers and there are only a few drivers, all of them very stable.
Now Psystar is creating custom kernel extensions for a wide range of (cheap) hardware and runs their modified OSX on top of an EFI emulator. There's bound to be problems. And Psystar won't be the company it's taken out on: If your operating system crashes, you don't go to the hardware vendor, you go to the operating system vendor. In this case, Apple could lose potential customers because they aren't satisfied with OS X. Plus, they get bad publicity, which hurts their sales.
porn.
everything's been done in porn...
Unless you were joking, though that wasn't exactly a great success either.
Proves that Grand-grand-grandparent was right. Us germans really have no sense of humour :(
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Please. If you want people to believe you speak german, next time don't run the phrase through babelfish.
...from location and time they can project your income bracket.
And how exactly are they going to do that? I can give you that data right away and you tell me how much I earn... Age: 25, Gender: Male (duh, this is Slashdot), Location: Austria, Europe.
In Austria it's the same. Most people bring their own bags (canvas or cotton for example) or boxes. You can still buy plastic bags for 0.2 EUR (=0.30 $) or paper bags for about 0.2 $.
Could this be used to extract full strands of DNA? If so, could the extracted DNA be used to clone the original animal?
If I had modpoints, I'd mod the parent up. Seriously though, he's right. The story concludes with the author reminescing about 'the old days' of usenet... To quote:
"It's hard to completely kill off something as totally decentralized as Usenet; as long as two servers agree to share the NNTP protocol, it'll continue on in some fashion. But the Usenet I mourn is long gone"
You must be new here.
Your points are valid. BUT: I have a lot of music which I downloaded because I thought it was good, listened to the album once and THEN deciced it was crap that I would never buy.
I didn't delete the MP3s though but keep them on my storage although I 1) don't listen to it. Ever. 2) don't share it with other people. Just because I have the space and I'm too lazy to delete it.
BTW: I buy about 10% to 20% of the stuff I download after having listened to it for a few times.