I don't know who to root for here. If apple wins then all CD/downloadable music is then by the nature of the distribution system given a derivative allowed copyright license when sold. As the only way to play it is to make several derivative copies of the material. Where the base structure is rearranged and then finally processed Digital to Analog.

1) CD/base store
2) CD buffer, linked associated chain
3) dram copy of data, another linked associated chain with OS and application page tracking
4) audio card input buffer, another linked associated chain
5) audio card processor, digital to analog conversion and final digital encoded analog value, then analog sound

The RIAA and MPAA are going to want to weigh in on this if it goes anywhere.

It was not a free market system. A faulty accounting system allowed the mines to extract profits without being responsible for the damages.

Now the tax paying public is cleaning up. So the "free market" now has tax payers paying while the company exits with its profits.

A proper market accounting system would have made the mining corporations pay for the cleanup.

So what happened here was a broken market system where the costs of the mines was not properly applied.

Unless they have specific permission from the owner of the copyright work for any such modification. Any operation such as this would be an unauthorized derivative work and be in violation of the original copyright. The variations would be derivative works, not works in their own rights. Their creation would have to be authorized by the owner of the original copyright material.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work

Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following: (1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies...; (2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work; (3) to distribute copies...of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending....

Ok I was wrong there that was an Atom not an ARM notebook.

This is ARM
http://armnews.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/dell-announce-notebook-with-arm-processor/

"I have yet to see any." Then you are not looking. It seems last year there were many. It seems there are fewer this year but still.

An example -

Go to www.dell.com
Select "for home"
select "laptop/notebook"
select "OS Ubuntu"

Tada :

http://www1.ca.dell.com/ca/en/home/Laptops/laptop-inspiron-10/pd.aspx?refid=laptop-inspiron-10&s=dhs&cs=cadhs1&~oid=ca~en~70702~inspnnb_10vu_en_feat_1~~

The fastest processor is not always the best for all applications. Certainly most desktops these days have more than enough power for those that browse the web. So why not save the cost of the big overpowered processor (and the big overpowered OS) where possible.

And in embedded designs the fastest processor is almost always an overdesign. All those kiosks for cash machines, ticket sales and cash registers do not need the latest fast processors. The do fine with a slower processors.

There is certainly a big market for an OS that does not tax the processor and is able to provide the minimal OS functionality dedicate application devices need.

The definition of traffic to give priority to is usually - mine is important. The other guys is not.

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What about a large bunch of coders working at home who all need to download the latest build. To be nice they have set up a torrent site. Opps that gets downgrade so they decide to ship it all as email attachements because that has higher priority.

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What about people that play games for a living. Yes the gold farmers. Who says there work is less work than the executive who remote desktops in to read email rather than using a remote email client.

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What about the movie reviewer who needs to download and review the latest movie.

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Yes some of these are stretching it but defining work/play and priority vs not priority needs to read the minds of the end user not look at the traffic type.

Make your named socket a .pst file and outlook can access your real email database through the defined interface.
Nice and spiffy and you don't end up tied to the Microsoft format.

Early '90s SCO would have been Santa Cruz Operations which sold the "UNIX" business to Caldera which renamed itself SCO in 2003 to muddle the ownership issues. The original SCO renamed itself to Tarantella and was bought by SUN which is now Oracle.

It was/is a great mess.

Darl was hauling in a pretty pile for driving SCO into oblivion.

Last year while in BK he hauled in $492k.

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1102542/000095013409004254/v51630e10vkza.htm

This from a 60 person company. That was losing money like crazy.

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1102542/000095013409001443/0000950134-09-001443-index.htm
$13M revenue, $8.7M loss

Nice 0.5/13 -> 1/26 of the revenue was paid to Darl

Found the link in a BoingBoing comment
http://www.ralphlauren.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3558821&camp=affiliate_k108283
She looks more human here.

I suspect they will be able to identify two markets
A) those who react positively to targeted ads. Those they will target as much as possible
B) those who react negatively to targeted ads. Those they will target more subtly. IE follow the Steak ad with a soap ad.

They will use the targeting criteria to place people into pool A or B.

You obviously missed the part about "being able to tinker with everything".
The windows 7 source code is not available to be tinkered with.

So windows 7 and really any proprietary software does not meet the basic mission requirements.

The hardware is fixed. I don't see why boot can't be just load/uncompress an active image.

If it is an issue I am surprised there is not a military mirror.

Why would not CyberCommand (or whatever it is called) maintain a mirror of OS they approve of.
It is easy enough to set up and they can log all the machines to make an inventory. Even make sub-mirrors for different commands.