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What? That's so wrong it's not even funny any more. If you look at the advances in efficiency (on all fronts - energy consumption, manufacturing, maintenance, ...), comfort, safety and basically all facets of personal transportation, it's nothing short of amazing. Today you can buy a new car for 4 months middle class wages and it'll be miles beyond anything you could buy just 25 years ago. (ok maybe not counting some things like leather seats, but apart from a few exceptions like that).
It would probably be more effective and work faster if victims of this nonsense just started showing up at these people's houses with ski masks and baseball bats.
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Amen brother. Honestly, as I said in the post, I truly believe this could be a new natural user interface. Just as touch interfaces have been all the rage in the tech world since made mainstream in the first iPhone in 2007, Assistant will bring AI to the mainstream in a way that will finally be useful and relevant to most people at most times.
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There are some truly disturbing answers to this floating around. I guess trigonometry is too much to ask?
Here's a very simple trick that works for programming languages with a C-style syntax: strip out everything except parentheses, braces, and semicolons and compare. I know that it was used successfully in an algorithms course (shortest paths, flows, that kind of stuff) which had stand-alone implementations of the algorithms as assignments.

Edit: Of course there was a manual inspection step involved as well, this matching process was only used to flag suspicious instances.
Scrolls is just an English word. You shouldn't be able to trademark it in the first place.
Oops. I forgot to check it. Thanks for pointing out.
Interesting concept, I never even considered Apple offering additional Assistant features as a premium service. Imagine if you paid an additional $4.99 a month through iTunes for a Assistant Pro app that had greater power. Would you pay for that?
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>Can you give me a single example of a large-scale society without effective government that hasn't devolved into a nightmare scenario?

Of course not. Any time it has been tried (e.g. Spain, some of those under Lenin), other governments have recognized the danger and responded immediately to destroy the movement before it can take off.
> They tell you your business model is broken

And they have a point.
It is still a highly synthetic violation from a particular and recent legal theory however you slice it.
Wouldn't you say it's a short term business though?

People expect email to be free, and have tons of storage. Likewise they will now expect services like dropbox to be free and offer a ton of storage.
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The post I was responding to said:

"Even just supporting the Euro zone will already be good progress, as it covers most of the wealth in Europe."

The point I was making was that even if Stripe supported the Eurozone countries, that could have it's own problems too. That probably wasn't too clear. The Euro could well slide massively in value versus the dollar which could impact Stripe's expansion to Europe, as there is huge uncertainty about the Euro here at the moment. I mean would you look forward to expanding to a region whose currency could actually collapse?
What a lot of people seem to lose sight of is that IP is supposed to be a compromise - somewhere between producers and consumers. It gives producers temporary property rights on something that is not naturally rivalrous or excludable in order to give them an incentive to produce said goods.

These days, that compromise is, in some ways, probably tilted too far towards producers (or some categories of producers at least), but with no intellectual property at all, that would tilt things too far the other way.
But what is to keep the virtual assistant from playing music in your stead?

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If I have a slow connection, it'll be equally slow regardless of the app. So the speed comparison is on top of that.

Amazon Silk-like technology may make sense for ecommerce content (yet to be seen), but it doesn't make sense for complex search queries. The longest time is probably spent in understanding the query and ranking results, not in downloading the content of the results. For the same reason, local caching makes no sense, except for some personal data, which Google also has access to (openly or secretly).
Look around you. Entertainment cartels are pushing draconian legislation across the world, making copyright infringement a criminal felony, with harsher penalties than manslaughter; they are threatening to disconnect people from the internet, which in many cases would compromise their livelihood; they are pushing DRM into software and hardware, so that you don't own your device, they do; they support Chinese-style firewalls to blacklist "pirate" websites. All this regardless of whether I actually want to buy their crappy products.

If that's not digital slavery...
Typical no-shops are 60 days, and startup-sized acquisitions can be closed in that period.

A motivated buyer can turn it around in 30 if necessary.
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> but Cmd-X will still be cut and Cmd-V will
> still be paste

Says you. Didn't you hear? We've entered the post-PC era. ;)
The phone company steals from me every time my DSL fails and I spend an hour on the phone with a tech or by another replacement modem.

HTC steals from me every time the USB cable doesn't dock securely in the port.

Microsoft steals from me every time Windows crashes.
Don't consumers have some protection here? I mean, they probably bought the wifi at a common store. You don't normally walk out of Walmart with a box containing a product you expect to not legally be able to use.
I am not really commenting on dropbox itself. Not sure what their long-term model is going to look like, just that they found one for now.
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He wasn't relying on copyright laws, which is what the parent poster was implicitly talking up with his statement; i.e. a world without copyright laws did in fact produce a Mozart, and it will keep producing it regardless of legislation.
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>Similarly to C++ relation to C, Azure+ is Azure done right and useble

There's a certain class of people who will see this and think "Ha! The product must be a thoughtless inconsistent kludge of new features, tacked haphazardly onto a perfectly fine strong, simple, performant base for popularity's sake".
Although, i suspect there's very little overlap with your target audience.
Legally I believe that's an issue between the consumer and the merchant and/or manufacturer.
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My longest performance was 9 hours, I don't drink, all of my 24 albums are licensed under Creative Commons and have never been sold for money.

I make electroacoustic music, and would be thrilled to have the Assistant in my band. I'll let it do the arrangements for my more elaborate compositions.
That's a bad test though. Its not brittle but assuming it was written in a Tdd manner there should be at least two chances for the developer to catch the bug if they don't use the constant they are testing in the test.

I have no source on this but isn't it bad practice to use constants in your tests? I personally use a new string with the expected value. It forces me to look twice and really consider what I am doing.
They'd be nuts to do that. They are getting $7/month from me, for a few private repos, and I bet I'm not the only one. If they up the number of private repos, I'll stick with them, rather than porting my inactive ones to bitbucket. But I doubt they'll make them completely free, even though the competition is free.

They have a great business model - free repos for OSS drives users, then they get users to pay a smallish (in absolute terms) cost for private repos. All they need is the million odd developers who use their system for OSS, and they will shake a few bucks out of each somehow. There's no need for them and BB to compete as though they were selling commodity products. Both are competing on getting people used to their interface (by OSS products) and then charging then whatever they think won't cause too much pain.

That said, people with lots of small repos are feeling unnecessary pain from Github's pricing scheme.
14-year old Mozart would be at home with todays file sharers and sheet transcribers.
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They kind of have to, protecting your trademark is part of your obligations. They seem to have a good case for it too, it s not like their claim is unsubstantiated.
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> he is still violating their trademark

This is what people are debating here. The name of the game os "Elder Scrolls." Should they be able to block anyone from having a game with either of those two words in the title? It would be like someone making a franchise "The Dark Knight" video game getting sued by the makers of "Alone in the Dark" because the titles share the word "Dark." This is not to mention the fact that no one refers to any of the Elder Scrolls games by the name 'Elder Scrolls.' People call them by the release/episode names (e.g. Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is just referred to as "Morrowind" far more frequently than "Elder Scrolls III").

[edit] Better example: Sid Meier suing Disney over a Pirates of the Caribbean video game infringing on his Pirates![1] game.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Pirates!
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$0 is a price. Compare how much Google charges you to watch videos or search the Internet, and then look at the value of the company.

Yeah. Turns out that charging $20 for a CD is not a winning business model.
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The voice recognition on my Android phone is marvelously useful while driving; I hold my search button, say "navigate to Schlotzsky's", and it pops up a map, finds the nearest Schlotzsky's, plots directions to it, and I'm off. No hunt-and-pecking on a keyboard without tactile feedback, no navigating through twelve menus or trying to remember how to spell "Schlotzsky's". It's an awesome feature, and it's something that the iPhone needs to at least match.

What's Apple going to do beyond that, though? They can't build a keynote on "Hey, now we have this feature that our competitor has". It has to be something bigger and better. Android exposes speech input backed by Google's unfathomable processing power and recognition dataset to every application that wants to use it; what can Apple put on a phone that will be significant enough to not be a "me too"?
Don't think so. The value of service for the Dropbox user grows over time (as the number of stored files and their revisions grow). Having a competitor that will simply be free is not enough for those users to start considering switching. So I think Dropbox is fine in the long run.
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Next up: "Apple sues makers of 'Pod People' video game for trademark infringement. Apple legal says, 'We sorta have to or people will get confused.'"
This one hits real close to home for aspiring entrepreneurs.
Even I have made something like that! Except it's not a blog, and pretty featureless. But it can be combined with sshfs or whatever that lets you poke with the source text files.

https://github.com/Zash/WikiDav
One of the most exciting technologies in electric cars is regenerative braking or KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System). As the name says: breaking fuels the batteries (some of the solutions don't even use the batteries but are totally mechanical-based, which make them even more 'pure' - there's a Porsche model using that).
In hybrid cars the energy could be recovered from the combustion engine heat, exhaust gases heat, etc. I suppose, in future, we'll be able to extract/recover some energy from almost everything (like radio or A/C) making the cars super efficient.
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Mozart didn't have copyright on his works.
I'm not one of these guys, but I would think it's pretty easy to justify actually.

Say you're just some guy who has one brilliant idea in his life. You lack any kind of talent or resources to bring this idea to market but you came up with it so surely you should be able to benefit from it, right?

Trying to execute on it is a no-go because the idea is so good that some big company is going to catch on to what you're doing and devote vastly more resources than you could ever get access to to steal your idea out from under you.

So, instead, you patent it. After all, this is what patents are for. But now that you've done that, now what? It could take longer than the life of the patent for you to produce anything on this if you ever can at all.

Is it ok to sell your patent? Then you could get your FU money now without all the risks involved in actually trying to implement it (the big guys can just make something close enough that people will buy it without violating your patent). Everyone wins then because the thing will get made, but the little guy doesn't get left out. Except, of course, when a patent troll company is the buyer.

But the patent troll company, no doubt, see themselves as saving the little guy and then litigating to get enough money to save more little guys out there.
This may be another flame war, but I don't use IDEs specifically to prevent me from writing the kind of code that I don't want to work on.
Most people define loss as the difference in assumed outcomes between scenario #1 and the illegal scenario #2 - a business has never been entitled to the full value of a person's enjoyment of a product. That's why most people scoff at the amounts cited by the record labels.
You mean last two months' rent. The two you pay in advance.
I think there's a problem with thinking about it as just "maths". Of course ordinary people aren't going to need multivariate calculus every other day of the week, and some topics are deservedly esoteric.

Arithmetic is used by everyone every day. Statistics is used by a lot of people too. Computer science is an oddly named branch of mathematics.

"Mathematics" is a very broad field, although the term is easily misunderstood. It's very easy to think of real-world applications for game theory, graph theory and cryptography. For instance, considering everyone's position in a business deal, or fuzzy optimisation of critical paths when you cook dinner.
There has been mention that the Model S will have a swappable battery. How that works (since it's a sizeable percentage of the cost of the car), I don't know.
I hope it works out for them.

As a former customer, I like how Sprint stores often have repair counters so the phone doesn't have to be sent away, and I was always happy with their customer service.

As the #3 and always foundering, they really did seem to work harder.

I still can't imagine the calculations behind the rumored "4G" WIMAX iPhone. I would assume it has to be a WIMAX upgradable to LTE.
Straw Man argument, fanboy.

I thought that Siri was acquired by Apple in 2010.
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It's a reasonable amount of time to stop for lunch, though. Since these things are primarily going to be charged at home, you'll almost always be starting long trips with a full charge, and 4-5 hours is more than most people want to drive before taking a break anyway.
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You only have to pay for the gap time until a new tenant moves in. Basically the renter provides vacancy insurance, not a guaranteed sum.
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It is trademarked within context, it is violated in its own context (video games).
They don't care if you want to buy their products. They simply care that, if you do not, you do not also take those products without paying for them. If people were not taking for free things that cost significant money to produce, and did not keep ignoring the light-handed laws that already exist, there would be no need for more draconian measures. But most importantly, what does any of this have to do with whether or not you are entitled to a free copy of the new Bieber album? Don't take things that don't belong to you, and you don't need to worry about having your internet taken away. It's pretty much the same as drunk driving and everything else.
Trademarks tend to be tied to a specific type of business. A better analogy would be if Apple sues an mp3 product named "Pod: The Music Player".
So one should rent from a Yakuza, now that these bribes are illegal to pay.
what are the current equivalents of a mobile App Store for (pirated) music? There are definitely a bunch of places you can find it if you look, but few of them are as "one-stop-shop" as current app stores.

Large torrent sites, like The Pirate Bay or Demonoid, are one-stop-shops for music & film downloads.

does pirated music often outrank the artists/album name/track titles in general internet searches?

No, not for the band/track/album name, but for "$ALBUMNAME torrent" or "$ALBUMNAME download" pirate sites are high up.
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I think it's more like:
"[...] that nobody else uses a term you have trademarked in a way that could allow consumers to be confused or misled into thinking that they (the non-registered mark users) are affiliated or speaking on your behalf"

In short, will normal people think "Wow, Bethesda is making something called The Elder Scrolls: Scrolls" or "Mojang presents: The Not-As-Young-As-They-Used-To-Be Scrolls: Get off my damn lawn! (in affiliation with Bethesda/Zenimax)"

It's entirely possible for different companies to hold a mark on the same (set of) words, as long as no opportunity for confusion arises. Thus, Apple (Computers) are distinct from Apple (Record Label), although there was some drama when Apple the former fired up the iTunes store and started to compete with the latter. I think they just threw money at it til it went away though.

I guess the trial question would be if the use of the word 'scrolls' in relation to computer gaming is sufficiently confusing, or whether people should be able to distinguish between "The Elder Scrolls(tm)" fantasy first-person RPGs, and "Scrolls" the trading/playing-card game.

As silly as the confusion seems to most gamers, a brief glance at http://scrolls.com could maybe almost be confusing to a newcomer.
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> And what happened to the Quake 3 duel? It'd have been a win-win PR maneuver too.

The Bethesda/Zenimax lawyers "declined"
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90% of musicians make music nobody even heard of.

Face it, we're not born with a burning desire to buy Metallica albums. You grow up listening to radio or watching tv, getting exposed to certain types of music (typically between 2 and 6 minutes, most on 4/4, with accompanying lyrics sung by one or two artists) and that's the music you'll end up wanting "that bad" -- pure coincidence?

Artists who succeed following traditional models (who, incidentally, are the most supportive of draconian copyright laws) are the ones who marketed themselves more heavily and got more access to traditional media: they went on TV, did interviews and concerts, paid for airplay... -- without any of that, they wouldn't be "popular". To do this, they had to borrow a lot of money from their label, and often will see very little financial reward.

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More like "we sorta have to or the next guy with a name that actually will cause confusion will point to this case we avoided and say 'look! They lost the protection on their mark because they didn't go after these other people!' and he might win"

Much like Apple Records suing Apple, Inc. Sure they lost, but they pretty much had to make the attempt or risk losing in a later case because of not suing earlier.
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Notch is trying to own the word "scrolls" in all media. This has implications not just for that single company, but every gaming company that ever wants to use the word "scrolls".

To me, that's scummy behaviour. People should not be able to trademark single words across all forms of media. It does not matter if they made minecraft or not, they do not deserve to own the word 'scrolls'. It's an english word, it belongs to all of us.
That's exactly how trademarks don't work. Windows. Apple. McDonalds (a proper name!). Name combinations: Pizza Hut, Quaker State, Bank of America.
Exactly!! When the control is given to VPAs, its gonna be a big mess. To some extent it may help. More over, user ends up conflicting with VPAs rather than getting things done. Then comes "tips for hacking VPAs". I feel speech-to-text with little intelligence should be good enough.
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So this is for Windows people who want to run PHP in the cloud? Is that a big enough market to sustain a SAAS company?
I'd think most Windows people gravitate toward Microsoft/.NET based web technologies.

Btw, how is it different from PHP Fog?
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