@Annalee Newitz: Last I checked, saying that one should do something is different from saying that something is important to do. But more importantly, one person doing so doesn't prove either.
It's quite the opposite: I am not "just" disagreeing with you. I agree with you but think you've used a bad example, a bad argument, and no logic to make a claim I would otherwise support.
@Pope John Peeps II: What's funnier is there is ZERO logic to this post. "Ultimately I think VanderMeer's experiment is proof that rich, difficult works of philosophy are just as important to the scifi author's intellectual life as science journals and novels are," implies, at best, that Jeff's work will get better for which there is zero evidence (yet) and, at worst, that his previous work was uninformed and not good.
@lachlan.hunt: Apple could sue you; it's just not financially worth it to bother.
@Kaiser 'Christmas-powered LEGO Cookies' Machead: Actually, indirectly, they are. Apple has from the very beginning asked that all of the OpenPros be recalled and destroyed. Whether or not that happens is another matter, but Apple definitely wants it to happen and it's a real possibility.
@verythrax: What you don't get is they made virtually no investment, and this legal battle will cost them (even if their legal team is providing services pro bono) more than the value of the free publicity.
@phreakincool: Because nothing goes better with model pics you can find anywhere than lame motivational posters, bad photoshopping skills, and classical music?
"and hopefully inspires many to try it." That one clause tells how pathetic this campaign will be. It's marketing guys, you don't have to insert the "hopefully" just because deep down you know nobody gives a crap.
Wow, the cutbacks have cut so deep, Denton is doing the graphs again! Yay, puke green! At least someone's a winner.
@jmo7: The misuse argument is going no where. The previous dismissal makes it clear that the judge and law support the notion of a "Mac," a hardware and software package, as a perfectly valid product category and one that is rock solidly protected. Misuse of copyright may work when Disney claims any cartoon mouse is their copyright; it's not going to work when a company is saying Apple can't prevent an unauthorized third party from putting valid copyright on pieces of crap. (We aren't talking about an independently developed OS which works similarly, looks similar, and is called Golden Delicious. We are talking about a company distributing computers with APPLE's MacOS on it without authorization. How simple does it have to get?) Anyone who doesn't think Apple's copyright claims (not going so far as to raise their EULA claims, but simply their copyright claims) aren't impeccable is a moron. Or stupid. Or an idiot.
What people are ignoring is that Apple's already won. Even if Psystar can argue they have a legal right to hack Mac OS, they can't demonstrate that they have any right to distribute Apple's copyright without Apple's consent unless the antitrust claims (which they've abandoned) had merit. Even if Psystar has a right to circumvent Apple's weak protection (highly questionable), how are they going to prove they have a right to distribute Mac OS? They can't, that's impossible.
@faticone: Which they did. RTFA. When you are trying to make an app not look useless, but pretty and cool, you skin it to look like a Mac.
@Jordan Golson: Owen's former minions aren't sad they've been forgotten, they're pooped from working real jobs.
@MrDo: It's funny that Californians still haven't learned the lesson of a more than ten year old episode of the Simpsons.
@Tim Faulkner: I should also note that $50 bucks more is the minimum price difference. If you don't schedule it appropriately, the Acela can be as much as $150 more than the standard half-hour longer train fare at which point a shuttle flight can be cheaper depending on your final destination and how quickly you can get in and out of the airports involved.
@jk: I'm mostly saying that the U.S. is not like Europe or Japan. You don't have the entire populace buying into regional travel on public transportation and you don't have the ability to invest in and sustain a major public work that also involves acquiring large amounts of land, environmental reviews, altering the landscape, etc, etc, etc... California likes to think they are more like Europe than the rest of the U.S., but relatively simple and imperative projects like the Oakland bridge and (less imperative) current BART or CALTRANS extensions are deadlocked for years, way over budget, and under-deliver on the promises.
The Acela definitely manages to sell tickets, my point is: it's not necessarily your average joe. (I'd like to think a half hour of my time is worth 50 bucks, but more often than not -- most of these trips will be for recreation -- it's not.) 20 years from now the train may be done and most people will still probably choose a flight or driving because the cost versus time saved isn't that great for the vast majority of people.
