Agreed, this is what Slashdotters have been saying for over a decade now, but still there is no political apetite from either side of politics in just about all western countries from actually addressing this at the cause.
Meanwhile patent wars are being fought all over the world hurting consumers world wide because at the end of the day they are the ones that are paying for this nonsense. At least there is someone out there trying to fix something. Yes it's like pissing into the ocean but if a few stupid patents get squashed that's still better than none.
Until Edge supports Inbox by Gmail and AdBlock Plus, I am sticking with Chrome.
Personally I haven't used Firefox in years, way to bloated.
I'm a long time Linux user, but I must say Edge is pretty nice.
Speak for yourself, in Australia we are getting charged all up $1100.
$US650 for the unit itself
$US130 for "shipping"
Which is $US780 which ends up being $AU1108.98
Ouch
There is a provision its just not enforced. Whenever someone files a false DMCA claim they are guilty of perjury (which carreis a 5 year jail term).
So when Viacom went after YouTubers who were covered by the fair use provisions, Viacom committed perjury, but nobody pressed charges against Viacom.
If people used MPAA and RIAA content that were strictly under fair use (and lets face it, they do it all the time) somebody needs to charge them, not sue (as they drag it out) but proceed in criminal charges (which legal work is done by the prosecutor) against these organisations. That way you could see Dodd go to jail.
So what law are they violating? I am talking about China not the US. A Chinese company does not have to answer squat to Apple nor the US legal system.
They could make a doll with a penis on the head of Obama and the US Government couldn't touch them.
Selling these dolls in the US is another matter (the Steve Jobs ones), but those that want them could simply import directly from China.
Don't get any phone on Vodafone or any of their resellers either (in Australia, I hear they are OK overseas). Doesn't matter what phone you have you will lose signal at the drop of a hat.
We are the borg, lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and
technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us.
Resistance is futile.
You have always been able to install unofficial apps on Android. The incentive to root your phone (not sure about tablets) is with alot of handset makers, they are painfully slow to provide updates for ROM's phones if they provide them at all.
HTC is a big culprit: their Gingerbread update took forever and only the Desire/Z/HD & Incredible got the upgrade at all.
To be fair, malware started appearing on Mac after their move to Intel from PowerPC. The Mac benifited from 2 types of obscurity before the switch. Not only were Mac's not widely used back then, the PPC arch was not widely used either.
This is going to be a disaster. Look there is a vast difference in styles between British and American shows that just don't cross over very well. Im not saying American TV is bad (reality TV is very bad but thats a worldwide problem) but whenever the Americans try to adopt another countries show it loses what made it appealing in the first place.
I remember the horrible mess that was the US version of The Office, as well as the Australian show Kath & Kim.
I remember Hollywood wanted to mess with Red Dwarf, replace The Cat with a female, which alone would have ruined it. What?
Please America, you do you're own thing well and other countries do their thing well. When you try to "Americanize" an overseas franchise you kill the charm that made it good in the first place.
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Suddently SCO's "$699 so we won't sue you" is sounding like a bargin.
Actually Netanyahu leads a minority Government, where his party does not have a majority but he has the confidence of the Parliment (namely his party and other parties in a coalition). Out of a 120 seat parliment, his party only got 12 seats (compared to the current opposition party's 28).
Bibi is not only held by his own party, but he has to make his coalition partners happy, unfortunatally for many people (particuarly the ones in Tel Aviv) this means pandering to the ultra-orthodox extremists like Shas.
I think its more that the new GUI's are less functional and oversimplified to the point where it becomes unusable. Remember Linus' rant regarding GNOME 2? The one where he famously said "if you treat your users as idiots, only idiots will use it"?
I think its the same sort of issue, most people had more tolerence for less options than Linus. He prefered KDE3 which despite was nice, was pretty bloated at the time. The new GUI's crossed the line for alot more people.
My issue with iOS is stuff like multitasking and options were made a headache because Jobs wanted one button, the walled garden apprach also limits what you can do with the device.
My issue with GNOME 3 is it removed basic principals like minimising and maximising windows (something I do quite a bit). My issue with Windows 8 is that too, despite I see its potential on tablets using Metro on a PC is terrible given you have to mimick finger swipes with your mouse. It makes no sense.
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Agreed, this is what Slashdotters have been saying for over a decade now, but still there is no political apetite from either side of politics in just about all western countries from actually addressing this at the cause.
Meanwhile patent wars are being fought all over the world hurting consumers world wide because at the end of the day they are the ones that are paying for this nonsense. At least there is someone out there trying to fix something. Yes it's like pissing into the ocean but if a few stupid patents get squashed that's still better than none.
Until Edge supports Inbox by Gmail and AdBlock Plus, I am sticking with Chrome. Personally I haven't used Firefox in years, way to bloated. I'm a long time Linux user, but I must say Edge is pretty nice.
Speak for yourself, in Australia we are getting charged all up $1100. $US650 for the unit itself $US130 for "shipping" Which is $US780 which ends up being $AU1108.98 Ouch
You know sometimes think the cancer killing Steve Jobs in 2011 was a travesty. Shoulda happened in 2005
No that would be my grandmother taking 'selfies' again.
But this... is Chewbacca. That does not make sense.
I'm all for Microsoft bashing but the "bought opinions" accusation is so 1990's.
Man, I forgot Starbucks was still in business over in the US. You poor bastards.
Does that mean we can install KDE 4.9 over the top of Windows 8?
There is a provision its just not enforced. Whenever someone files a false DMCA claim they are guilty of perjury (which carreis a 5 year jail term). So when Viacom went after YouTubers who were covered by the fair use provisions, Viacom committed perjury, but nobody pressed charges against Viacom. If people used MPAA and RIAA content that were strictly under fair use (and lets face it, they do it all the time) somebody needs to charge them, not sue (as they drag it out) but proceed in criminal charges (which legal work is done by the prosecutor) against these organisations. That way you could see Dodd go to jail.
Ah, but Apple has aquired a patent on lawsuits
If they own a website in the US: valid If they offer to ship to California but the site is hosted in China: not valid.
So what law are they violating? I am talking about China not the US. A Chinese company does not have to answer squat to Apple nor the US legal system. They could make a doll with a penis on the head of Obama and the US Government couldn't touch them. Selling these dolls in the US is another matter (the Steve Jobs ones), but those that want them could simply import directly from China.
Don't get any phone on Vodafone or any of their resellers either (in Australia, I hear they are OK overseas). Doesn't matter what phone you have you will lose signal at the drop of a hat.
The correct saying is "have a cup of concrete and harden the fuck up"
We are the borg, lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
You have always been able to install unofficial apps on Android. The incentive to root your phone (not sure about tablets) is with alot of handset makers, they are painfully slow to provide updates for ROM's phones if they provide them at all.
HTC is a big culprit: their Gingerbread update took forever and only the Desire/Z/HD & Incredible got the upgrade at all.
Oh, my! Next it will be: In Soviet Russia TV owns YOU!
I thought that was America from the 1970's onwards?
We got around the rsyslog issues, had to change our build scripts from scratch but we got there.
Im just glad upstart's init support isn't broken considering its a one hit wonder and already has been replaced by systemd in Fedora
To be fair, malware started appearing on Mac after their move to Intel from PowerPC. The Mac benifited from 2 types of obscurity before the switch. Not only were Mac's not widely used back then, the PPC arch was not widely used either.
You haven't used Oracle RAC & ASM then haven't you?
This is going to be a disaster. Look there is a vast difference in styles between British and American shows that just don't cross over very well. Im not saying American TV is bad (reality TV is very bad but thats a worldwide problem) but whenever the Americans try to adopt another countries show it loses what made it appealing in the first place.
I remember the horrible mess that was the US version of The Office, as well as the Australian show Kath & Kim.
I remember Hollywood wanted to mess with Red Dwarf, replace The Cat with a female, which alone would have ruined it. What?
Please America, you do you're own thing well and other countries do their thing well. When you try to "Americanize" an overseas franchise you kill the charm that made it good in the first place.
Suddently SCO's "$699 so we won't sue you" is sounding like a bargin.
Actually Netanyahu leads a minority Government, where his party does not have a majority but he has the confidence of the Parliment (namely his party and other parties in a coalition). Out of a 120 seat parliment, his party only got 12 seats (compared to the current opposition party's 28).
Bibi is not only held by his own party, but he has to make his coalition partners happy, unfortunatally for many people (particuarly the ones in Tel Aviv) this means pandering to the ultra-orthodox extremists like Shas.
I think its more that the new GUI's are less functional and oversimplified to the point where it becomes unusable. Remember Linus' rant regarding GNOME 2? The one where he famously said "if you treat your users as idiots, only idiots will use it"?
I think its the same sort of issue, most people had more tolerence for less options than Linus. He prefered KDE3 which despite was nice, was pretty bloated at the time. The new GUI's crossed the line for alot more people.
My issue with iOS is stuff like multitasking and options were made a headache because Jobs wanted one button, the walled garden apprach also limits what you can do with the device.
My issue with GNOME 3 is it removed basic principals like minimising and maximising windows (something I do quite a bit). My issue with Windows 8 is that too, despite I see its potential on tablets using Metro on a PC is terrible given you have to mimick finger swipes with your mouse. It makes no sense.