Recording: "Welcome to The Apple Shop.
Please, dial 1 if your call is in any way related to the fruits, apple or cider;
Dial 2 if your call is related to the Apple Computer, Ipad or Iphone device."
2
Recording: "Sorry, you dialed the wrong shop. Long before the computer company opened a shop near Norfolk, UK, we The Apple Store have specialized in offering... (advertise)."
I do, and the boiling temperature is sensible to atmospheric pressure. It roghly drops 3.3C each km. Where I live, in Brasilia, water boils at 96C. In La Paz, Bolivia, water boils at 88C.
According to the Slashdot article below, "A couple of weeks ago you had a chance to ask Canonical Ltd. and the Ubuntu Foundation founder, Mark Shuttleworth, anything about software and vacationing in space."
I think it's the second uglyest yatch in the whole world. I've never seen or known of any yatch uglyer than this, but the world is big, you know, so this one must be the second.
I think actually it would take an effort greater than what they gave to XBox. I don't know if Microsoft would be rewarded for it. Right now Windows 8 feels completely alien, but Microsoft is unifying the interface for the computer, videogame and phone. Nearly absent from the phone market, they have a natural tendency to grow. I would bet they expect to grow in all markets because of the interface, but they can as well shrink because of that.
Netbooks are not commonly known to have good hardware integration. It probably just has lots of BIOS bugs (doesn't follow specifications), and needs a specific firmware or driver to run graphics.
I got two netbooks back home, both runs Ubuntu very well, thank you, I bought them last year. Video acceleration runs great, no hacks during boot needed.
On the other partition, there is a Windows 7 installation refusing to update the graphics driver because I "accidentaly" uninstalled the shitty upgrade software from the vendor (along with lots of other pre-installed crapware). I tried the reference drivers but it refuses to install (really, it says I should use the vendor's shitty upgrade software).
Probably in a few years, your wife's netbook could run only Linux, or other Free Software, as the drivers developers and vendor won't be supporting it anymore. No crazy hacks would get anything else to run on that machine.
Brazil Constitution was a reaction to that period in which it was ruled by the military, appointed by the state (themselves), and most civil liberties were suspended. It was written from scratch by a Constituent Assembly elected in 1986 (wikipedia), many different parties represented there. I agree that constitution itself is not a representation of how freedom really is. Anonimity itself gives only a perception of safeness, and you can always act anonymously regardless of what the constitution says.
I agree that the constitution should have granted, to the individual, the right to be anonymous. Brazil constitution says, translation is mine (IANAL):
IV - It is granted the freedom to expression of thought, being denied anonymity.
Reasoning in Brazil's Constitution is you can't be anonymous as you publish diffamatory content or hate speech, or else it can be taken down judicially. And you can be prosecuted by publishing diffamatory content if identified. It is a controversy if this clause applies to other areas besides freedom of expression of thought.
On the other hand, my perception is that veiled persecution is stronger through major companies than by any other means, and that this is as anywhere else. Most major companies acting in Brazil are originally from other countries, maybe it is common practice.
Being myself a brazilian I say this troll's views on brazilian government are somewhat wrong. I don't deny the existence of corruption in Brazil, but it's not as bad as in the other part of the world (Brazil is ranked #73 in the 192 countries participating in Corruption Perceptions Index).
In reality, there are some very successful brazilian business. The "bribe hell" he talks about is probably the fate of businesses that would not want to pay due taxes (counts as corruption). Problems in law are constantly being reviewed, public opinion has usually been taken in consideration.
Also, corrupt politicians in Brazil do not have the power to take down anything, and the brazilian law that forbids anonimity, in the same paragraph ensures the freedom of expression of thought.
The "reasons we buy" argument is completely fallacious.
"It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong." (Jeremy Bentham)
<quote> And to be brutally honest, how is it really fair to ask them to? If they paid for the R&D, why should someone else be entitled to it without paying a cent? Is it some first-world tech company's fault that your country is poor, that your government is too corrupt to invest in its infrastructure instead of padding El-Presidente's pockets, that your education system is a joke? </quote>
To be brutally honest: yes it is. Corruption works both ways, and both are equally guilty, the one being corrupted *and* the one who corrupts. Companies do not only pay for R&D, they pay for monopoly, they pay to get others out of competition, they pay to keep entire countries in misery and poverty. So, honestly, blame the system or whatever, they take part on keeping it the way it is, it is their fault.
The problem is, it is destroying the environment. People will have to be living in bubbles if nobody takes action, and companies do not care if they have to commit suicide to make money. Environmental concerns are calculated, into their revenues, to maximizes profit.
That is not news, at least in Brazil. I have been to at least five speeches about the same topic in the last 6 years. By November 2007, five years in development inVesailus software became Free Software, using the CC-GPL license (a non official GPL translation license used in Brazil).
From the Wikipedia article (in portuguese): https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/pt/wiki/InVesalius "By 2010, the software was already used to build more than 1500 prototype models..."
A 2008 article (in portuguese), showing a prototype picture: http://cienciaecultura.bvs.br/scielo.php?pid=S0009-67252008000100004&script=sci_arttext
SVN site (in english): http://svn.softwarepublico.gov.br/trac/invesalius
Yesterday I read Steve Jobs was dead. Today, as I read that Dive into Python was gone offline, I thought: "No! Not Mark Pilgrim!" Thank God he's alive. Hope he ressurects Dive into Python soon. You can only make so much impact on people this once, like Jobs did.
In Portuguese, "sexta-feira" ("Friday") is shortened as "sex", same way as Friday is abreviated "Fri". If you try to ban "sex" searches in Brazil or Portugal, you ban pages written on Friday, or about things happening Friday.
Microsoft made this stupid mistake in MS Word where weekdays are capitalized by default. Problem is weekdays are not capitalized in portuguese. Also, "terça-feira" ("Tuesday"), is shortened as "ter". But "ter" in portuguese is a verb, and a very common one, it translates as "to have". So how stupid is it to not only have weekdays capitalized as default when it is not, but also the verb "to have"?
You must not just assume sex means sex just because in english it does. In foreign countries it just *isn't* obvious.
My mistake, you're right. By Copyright Law, you can use original works as long as you don't accept an EULA, which is a contract.
But, at least in the case of software (and it is very criticized, there's no agreement on enforceability), acceptance of an EULA may occur when you unwrap the contents of a box, or when you use it. It is a contract that you submit to regardless of having read it, agreed to it or signed it, it is assumed you have, and the enforceability is supposed, based in this premise.
Anyway, it is not the case of the GPL, which focus on giving certain rights, restricted by Copyright Law. GPL mentors are probably critics of EULAs.
If it were an EULA, it would not be wise to ignore it, because regardless of Copyright Law, you would risk going to court to determine if you are bound by the license.
From the wikipedia: "Copyright gives the creator of an original work exclusive rights for a certain time period in relation to that work..."
The keyword is "exclusive". It means you have no right at all, unless you accept a license agreement, like the GPL. To use it, you have to accept the license.
Some things are restricted by licenses, and others are not. Here are some examples:
When you buy software, you in fact are buying licenses, and paying for services (support, copying). You have to explicitly agree to a license in case of Windows Vista.
When you own a tv set in England, you have to pay a TV license for your home, renewed every year; in many other countries, this license is granted you without you having to pay for it.
I can buy or own a car without having a driver's license. But I can not use it without that license.
How old do you think the idea behind this patent is? In 1998, I remember downloading a Debian distribution. Lots of "other media" along with the media player and music. Everything through the internet. The GIF format itself, that would also qualify as "other media" was introduced in 1987.
You have a faulty patent system (which, by the way, you want everyone else in the world to adopt). Want to know what's wrong? That the patent system and the court room system are symbiotic.
The patent concept is based on some legal steps you have to do to give you the monopoly on something you know how to do. But patents like these are giving you monopoly on something you don't know how to do. There is nothing but an outline of the basic idea. And it's valid until refuted by the same legal system that granted it.
Also, people would specialise in this system but not the little defenseles guy that had a revolutionary new idea. The little defenseless guy is both clueless and defenseless, he couldn't care less. While the patent specialist works for corporations that exploit either this little defenseless guy, or the system.
The Beatles were splitting when I was born. I started listening to them when I was 16 (decided the White Album to be a proper background music for me writing this post). I like classical music, some blues and jazz, a little 60s music, a lot 70s and 80s music, and specific bands and musicians from the 90s and 2ks. I'm from Brazil, and listen to lots of brazillian music as well, some influenced by The Beatles like Mutantes, Tom Ze and Caetano Veloso. In Brazil, The Beatles is one of the few foreign bands still being recorded and transformed by brazillian musicians.
Real music lovers would listen to any music. Some music survives for ages, today you can find a good deal of good classical music, good early blues, good jazz and various flavours of rock and roll. On the other hand, most music disappear with time (thankfully sometimes). You have to respect music that survives, today (at least in Brazil) it is easier to find an early Beatles CD in a music store than most of what was very popular in the 80s. And I think some Beatles records would be a success if released today.
Add to it that Steve jobs is a Beatles fan, and that long before Steve Jobs co-founded the Apple Inc., The Beatles founded the Apple Records as a division of Apple Corps. This is not only a business deal, it also personal and good marketing.
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... (or even this new Linux thing)
It spells GNU/Linux.
Recording: "Welcome to The Apple Shop.
Please, dial 1 if your call is in any way related to the fruits, apple or cider;
Dial 2 if your call is related to the Apple Computer, Ipad or Iphone device."
2
Recording: "Sorry, you dialed the wrong shop. Long before the computer company opened a shop near Norfolk, UK, we The Apple Store have specialized in offering... (advertise)."
I do, and the boiling temperature is sensible to atmospheric pressure. It roghly drops 3.3C each km. Where I live, in Brasilia, water boils at 96C. In La Paz, Bolivia, water boils at 88C.
According to the Slashdot article below, "A couple of weeks ago you had a chance to ask Canonical Ltd. and the Ubuntu Foundation founder, Mark Shuttleworth, anything about software and vacationing in space."
What bad luck you're asking it now.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/12/09/1828238/mark-shuttleworth-answers-your-questions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
I think it's the second uglyest yatch in the whole world. I've never seen or known of any yatch uglyer than this, but the world is big, you know, so this one must be the second.
I think actually it would take an effort greater than what they gave to XBox. I don't know if Microsoft would be rewarded for it. Right now Windows 8 feels completely alien, but Microsoft is unifying the interface for the computer, videogame and phone. Nearly absent from the phone market, they have a natural tendency to grow. I would bet they expect to grow in all markets because of the interface, but they can as well shrink because of that.
Ants may have discovered TCP; but they are ignorant of the secret of aggressive litigation...
Ants are separated by caste in Queen, male, worker, soldier. Next evolutionary step: the lawyer caste, that sue other colonies foodless.
Netbooks are not commonly known to have good hardware integration. It probably just has lots of BIOS bugs (doesn't follow specifications), and needs a specific firmware or driver to run graphics.
I got two netbooks back home, both runs Ubuntu very well, thank you, I bought them last year. Video acceleration runs great, no hacks during boot needed.
On the other partition, there is a Windows 7 installation refusing to update the graphics driver because I "accidentaly" uninstalled the shitty upgrade software from the vendor (along with lots of other pre-installed crapware). I tried the reference drivers but it refuses to install (really, it says I should use the vendor's shitty upgrade software).
Probably in a few years, your wife's netbook could run only Linux, or other Free Software, as the drivers developers and vendor won't be supporting it anymore. No crazy hacks would get anything else to run on that machine.
But in DC it is illegal and near impossible to get one. And he did....
No sir, we don't have assault rifles here, try the TV Department.
Brazil was a dictatorship.
Brazil Constitution was a reaction to that period in which it was ruled by the military, appointed by the state (themselves), and most civil liberties were suspended. It was written from scratch by a Constituent Assembly elected in 1986 (wikipedia), many different parties represented there. I agree that constitution itself is not a representation of how freedom really is. Anonimity itself gives only a perception of safeness, and you can always act anonymously regardless of what the constitution says.
I agree that the constitution should have granted, to the individual, the right to be anonymous. Brazil constitution says, translation is mine (IANAL):
IV - It is granted the freedom to expression of thought, being denied anonymity.
Reasoning in Brazil's Constitution is you can't be anonymous as you publish diffamatory content or hate speech, or else it can be taken down judicially. And you can be prosecuted by publishing diffamatory content if identified. It is a controversy if this clause applies to other areas besides freedom of expression of thought.
On the other hand, my perception is that veiled persecution is stronger through major companies than by any other means, and that this is as anywhere else. Most major companies acting in Brazil are originally from other countries, maybe it is common practice.
What a troll! Interesting? I hope not.
Being myself a brazilian I say this troll's views on brazilian government are somewhat wrong. I don't deny the existence of corruption in Brazil, but it's not as bad as in the other part of the world (Brazil is ranked #73 in the 192 countries participating in Corruption Perceptions Index).
In reality, there are some very successful brazilian business. The "bribe hell" he talks about is probably the fate of businesses that would not want to pay due taxes (counts as corruption). Problems in law are constantly being reviewed, public opinion has usually been taken in consideration.
Also, corrupt politicians in Brazil do not have the power to take down anything, and the brazilian law that forbids anonimity, in the same paragraph ensures the freedom of expression of thought.
The "reasons we buy" argument is completely fallacious.
"It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong." (Jeremy Bentham)
<quote> And to be brutally honest, how is it really fair to ask them to? If they paid for the R&D, why should someone else be entitled to it without paying a cent? Is it some first-world tech company's fault that your country is poor, that your government is too corrupt to invest in its infrastructure instead of padding El-Presidente's pockets, that your education system is a joke? </quote>
To be brutally honest: yes it is. Corruption works both ways, and both are equally guilty, the one being corrupted *and* the one who corrupts. Companies do not only pay for R&D, they pay for monopoly, they pay to get others out of competition, they pay to keep entire countries in misery and poverty. So, honestly, blame the system or whatever, they take part on keeping it the way it is, it is their fault.
The problem is, it is destroying the environment. People will have to be living in bubbles if nobody takes action, and companies do not care if they have to commit suicide to make money. Environmental concerns are calculated, into their revenues, to maximizes profit.
Would it be the mild violence and crude humor of crashing your plane on others?
That is not news, at least in Brazil. I have been to at least five speeches about the same topic in the last 6 years. By November 2007, five years in development inVesailus software became Free Software, using the CC-GPL license (a non official GPL translation license used in Brazil).
From the Wikipedia article (in portuguese):
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/pt/wiki/InVesalius
"By 2010, the software was already used to build more than 1500 prototype models..."
A 2008 article (in portuguese), showing a prototype picture:
http://cienciaecultura.bvs.br/scielo.php?pid=S0009-67252008000100004&script=sci_arttext
SVN site (in english):
http://svn.softwarepublico.gov.br/trac/invesalius
Yesterday I read Steve Jobs was dead. Today, as I read that Dive into Python was gone offline, I thought: "No! Not Mark Pilgrim!"
Thank God he's alive. Hope he ressurects Dive into Python soon. You can only make so much impact on people this once, like Jobs did.
Yes! It was like finding a needle in a needlestack.
I was quoting The Big Bang Theory.
I agree, at this cost you wouldn't customize this costume.
What do you mean? It's not a costume.
In Portuguese, "sexta-feira" ("Friday") is shortened as "sex", same way as Friday is abreviated "Fri". If you try to ban "sex" searches in Brazil or Portugal, you ban pages written on Friday, or about things happening Friday.
Microsoft made this stupid mistake in MS Word where weekdays are capitalized by default. Problem is weekdays are not capitalized in portuguese. Also, "terça-feira" ("Tuesday"), is shortened as "ter". But "ter" in portuguese is a verb, and a very common one, it translates as "to have". So how stupid is it to not only have weekdays capitalized as default when it is not, but also the verb "to have"?
You must not just assume sex means sex just because in english it does. In foreign countries it just *isn't* obvious.
My mistake, you're right. By Copyright Law, you can use original works as long as you don't accept an EULA, which is a contract.
But, at least in the case of software (and it is very criticized, there's no agreement on enforceability), acceptance of an EULA may occur when you unwrap the contents of a box, or when you use it. It is a contract that you submit to regardless of having read it, agreed to it or signed it, it is assumed you have, and the enforceability is supposed, based in this premise.
Anyway, it is not the case of the GPL, which focus on giving certain rights, restricted by Copyright Law. GPL mentors are probably critics of EULAs.
If it were an EULA, it would not be wise to ignore it, because regardless of Copyright Law, you would risk going to court to determine if you are bound by the license.
No that's not right.
From the wikipedia: "Copyright gives the creator of an original work exclusive rights for a certain time period in relation to that work..."
The keyword is "exclusive". It means you have no right at all, unless you accept a license agreement, like the GPL. To use it, you have to accept the license.
Some things are restricted by licenses, and others are not. Here are some examples:
When you buy software, you in fact are buying licenses, and paying for services (support, copying). You have to explicitly agree to a license in case of Windows Vista.
When you own a tv set in England, you have to pay a TV license for your home, renewed every year; in many other countries, this license is granted you without you having to pay for it.
I can buy or own a car without having a driver's license. But I can not use it without that license.
Only you would not make this statistic. Accidental deaths is not equal to deaths.
http://www.the-eggman.com/writings/death_stats.html
Motor Vehicle Accidents 43,354 1.8%
Firearms 28,663 1.2%
Pretty Close, huh?
How old do you think the idea behind this patent is? In 1998, I remember downloading a Debian distribution. Lots of "other media" along with the media player and music. Everything through the internet. The GIF format itself, that would also qualify as "other media" was introduced in 1987.
You have a faulty patent system (which, by the way, you want everyone else in the world to adopt). Want to know what's wrong? That the patent system and the court room system are symbiotic.
The patent concept is based on some legal steps you have to do to give you the monopoly on something you know how to do. But patents like these are giving you monopoly on something you don't know how to do. There is nothing but an outline of the basic idea. And it's valid until refuted by the same legal system that granted it.
Also, people would specialise in this system but not the little defenseles guy that had a revolutionary new idea. The little defenseless guy is both clueless and defenseless, he couldn't care less. While the patent specialist works for corporations that exploit either this little defenseless guy, or the system.
> ... that there's a special place in hell for patent trolls.
Yes! There are bridges in Hell. Unfortunately, they'll feel at home.
The Beatles were splitting when I was born. I started listening to them when I was 16 (decided the White Album to be a proper background music for me writing this post). I like classical music, some blues and jazz, a little 60s music, a lot 70s and 80s music, and specific bands and musicians from the 90s and 2ks. I'm from Brazil, and listen to lots of brazillian music as well, some influenced by The Beatles like Mutantes, Tom Ze and Caetano Veloso. In Brazil, The Beatles is one of the few foreign bands still being recorded and transformed by brazillian musicians.
Real music lovers would listen to any music. Some music survives for ages, today you can find a good deal of good classical music, good early blues, good jazz and various flavours of rock and roll. On the other hand, most music disappear with time (thankfully sometimes). You have to respect music that survives, today (at least in Brazil) it is easier to find an early Beatles CD in a music store than most of what was very popular in the 80s. And I think some Beatles records would be a success if released today.
Add to it that Steve jobs is a Beatles fan, and that long before Steve Jobs co-founded the Apple Inc., The Beatles founded the Apple Records as a division of Apple Corps. This is not only a business deal, it also personal and good marketing.