You probably never have experienced how fast and reliable such a sat link is (it's not).
I've talked to quite some cruise passengers, and most of them avoid using the sat link. It's very slow, unreliable, and expensive to boot (they generally have to pay by the minute instead of always on). That's just used by a couple thousand people, while here it's about a slightly larger community.
Microsoft may simply say that the market value of a certain version of Windows (say a Laptop Edition) is $10 for a copy, and that this is to be sold pre-installed on hard disk only. Then they have the Full Version - this is sold to retailers at $100 a copy, in fancy box with CD, making the market value of this version at $100. It's easy to argue that this are different versions of the software. They may even add/remove functionality to these versions. Different product, different price.
Or how about MS declaring the market value of the software to be $10, with digital distribution, and then selling the installation keys to OEM manufacturers only with restrictions on resale (only to be sold bundled with something else). Then if MS sells the same with box and CD to retailers at $100, that'd be above market value, right? That $90 extra would cover the cost of the box design, the material for box/CD and printing cost, the transport cost, handling, etc.
Figuring out what "market value" for a product should be is ambiguous and arbitrary at best. Just look at those "anti-dumping" charges the US likes to put on various Chinese made products. The US government declares these products to be sold at "lower than market value" or "lower than cost" - no idea how the US government can really know the cost of production of a Chinese company.
People doing development work on their laptop are a tiny minority in this world (/. is not representative for this world).
Most people use their laptop for browsing, e-mail (if not in the browser), playing a movie, organising their photos, and maybe typing a resume or so. That's about it. For those people, pretty low-end hardware will do just fine.
I've always gotten myself low-end (cheap) hardware. Last year's models. Doing fine, I can do all of the above (which is probably >90% of the time I spend with the computer), and develop web pages, and fiddle with FreeCAD and even Blender though the latter is pushing it. I'm not however doing enough serious work with it to spend a lot of money to make these application go a little faster. It's not worth it for me. I can wait a few more seconds for a quick render, and the final renders well that takes maybe an hour or two... when I'm sleeping.
Market value... very ambiguous. What is the actual market value of a product? The regular retail price? The cnf price (not really applicable to software which doesn't have shipping cost)? Or some wholesale price? All these prices one could argue to be "market value".
Of these, retail price would be the worst, as it would effectively lead to government-supported price fixing. Manufacturer states retail price as "market value" and all have to sell at that price.
The classroom is a place to meet new people, as is the work floor. It just happens naturally there, people are partnered up to do tasks, you have to work together, etc. When you take a bunch of strangers and start to introduce them to one another, good chance that at least here and there romantic sparks fly. Add to that that most students are in their early 20s, an age for many people to start looking for a life partner, and the great number of marriages that follows is just expected.
The greater number in religious studies is also not too surprising as the people there will have strong religious beliefs, and strongly religious people like to marry people that are also strongly religious and of the same faith. Here is even more reason for people to actively search for a partner within their study group, as it's much less likely to find a suitable partner (i.e. sharing the religious beliefs) randomly in the outside world.
The bigger issue is going to be: how are they going to inject it into the existing market, and be able to pass it off as the real thing? There are only a couple thousand black rhinos left, so there can't be more than a couple hundred genuine horns in the market per year. Now these guys want to try and flood that market with thousands of horns, and think they can make the buyers believe they can supply thousands of horns? Good luck with that!
This is an illegal market so the people operating in it will be really wary and careful. Not just for fear of the authorities, also for fear of imposters trying to sell them fake products. After all if you're paying tens of thousands for just one horn, you're not going to some new guy on the block. At least not with a very thorough background check to make sure he's "legitimate" so to say - not a mole, or an imposter selling fakes...
Ever heard of PGP? The versions that used the large encryption keys (>1024 bits at the time, iirc, or maybe even smaller keys), used to be banned for export under certain US military laws. The rest of the world had to do with a weaker version of PGP. Not that the full version wasn't available to us anyway...
Are they actually buying licenses, or just downloading it from somewhere? OP talks about increasing market share for Win7 - not about a surge in number of licenses sold by MS.
Much more reasonable than the theory that many people would rush out to shops to buy a Win7 license just to be able to get Win10 later.
Basically no-one every buys Windows as separate retail copy. It comes bundled with a new computer. It is interesting of course how Win7 is still gaining market share.
What is the legal value of such an included license, really? You don't have the issuer's signature on it. You could argue it's "signed" if you download from the maker's web site, but not if you're downloading from a third party source, where the package could have been altered.
Nope! My shares went down in the last crash, noone compensated me!
You buy shares in a company, knowing that the company may go bust or the overall market may go bad (in the latter case you still may receive dividends). You also know that the company may issue more shares in the future.
Taxi medallions are bought knowing there is a fixed supply of them, and that there will not be issued more. This the government has guaranteed those that buy or hold those licenses, this is what gives value to the medallion. If the government suddenly changes its mind and starts issuing new medallions to everyone that asks - or starts auctioning off new supplies - they should compensate losses for value lost due to this change. That's normal practice when a government changes a law that significantly affects the value of certain assets, as basically the government is breaking a law (albeit the legal way). That's also what gives people trust in the government and the rule of law.
These execs were arrested for running an illegal company. Drivers may be arrested for driving an unlicensed taxi. I do suspect the former is the more serious charge, especially as the business of Uber has been declared illegal already in France, and the bosses decided to continue anyway: that's contempt of court, and courts tend to not be happy with that.
If you want to stop a business, you have to chop off its head, i.e. go after the bosses. The bosses of Uber don't care for drivers to get arrested, that's just collateral damage to them. They still make lots of money off the other drivers. Getting arrested themselves may finally get the message home that they have to follow the rules and regulations of the country they operate in, whether they like those rules and regulations or not.
They may need a physical presence for other reasons, such as managing payments (much cheaper and faster to keep that within the borders of a country, or at least the Eurozone). Or dealing with complaints of drivers and customers. Or dealing with promotion of the service.
Only if the GPL code is part of your own work. OP is talking about bundling software, and then it's no problem to mix licenses: there's a lot of GPL software in my Linux Mint installation, but not all software that's bundled with it and essential for the whole to work is GPL software.
"Work Better" is arguably a combination of common words, it is not a name. If some glass window factory had happened to have registered "windows.com" before Microsoft did, MS would've had a really hard time claiming it's cybersquatting. Especially if said window factory would use it themselves and not offer the site for sale. Cybersquatting is usually defined as registering a domain with someone else's trademark as name, or the name of a celebrity or so, without the intention to seriously use it yourself and then trying to sell the domain to that person or company.
This is not someone registering say cocacola.com or pepsi.com, or even microsoft.com to stay with the previous example. That are clearly brand names and were at the time the Internet started well established names. It's hard to argue you want to use such domain names for your own use, unless you happen to be a Mr. Pepsi - it could be a valid surname after all.
No license: default copyright. No-one is allowed to redistribute without your express permission.
The dependencies I assume will be distributed within your package; and I assume their licenses in turn allow this, as this are open source licenses.
If so, you would be able to choose any license you like for your code - or indeed simply nothing special at all - and choose based on your preferences/philosophy on the level of freedoms given for use of your work.
It's not a dumb idea, it's just a solution that's not for the masses. I know that. My comment was mainly targeted at the idea that unfamiliar domain name means mails get deleted.
What I also wonder is whether Google instantly informed the person in question of the demand (thereby basically ignoring the gag order which they didn't think was valid anyway).
And is such a gag order even legally bounding the moment it's issued even if the receiving party has strong grounds to believe it is not? Because if it is, just by issuing gag order anyone could stop any information from being released for quite a while, at least until the court decided it's invalid. In this case Google seriously believed the order was invalid, or they wouldn't go to court over it.
Any suggestion on how to deal with mails with attachments? SA doesn't check those. And I get heaps of those "transfer done, please check your account", "here's the B/L for your shipment" and "please review this PO for your product" kind of mails that all end up in my inbox, and are apparently sent through real mailservers as they pass through greylisting.
My basic two-stage filtering takes care of most crap, the rest can be dealt with by hand. I could tighten SpamAssassin but then I may start getting false positives which is worse.
1) Greylisting. This takes care of almost 90% of spam at the door: from 350-400 spams a day I went down to about 40-50 spams a day. All mail sent through properly managed servers (i.e. servers that retry delivery as requested by the greylisting software) arrive, albeit with a slight delay the first time around.
2) SpamAssassin. Picks up about 90% of the spam that still comes through; mostly failing on spam with large attachments. Greylisting's delay allows for more of the spam domains to be in the RBLs by the time the mail arrives on my system for even better filtering.
Do you pay them anything? If not, how do they pay for that service? It'd suck were they to shut down and suddenly no-one had any option to reach you by e-mail.
I would just buy my own domain name and figure out my own hosting solution for the email
Sounds like a great way to make sure you get your mail blocked all over the place because they don't recognize the domain name.
Huh? That just doesn't make sense. No-one blocks mail because they've never seen that domain before, or everyone should have to be on the few domains everyone knows, like gmail.com.
I currently own almost ten domains, running four web site of which three maintained and the fourth well I basically never took it down, the domain is one that I owned for over a decade. No problems with mails getting lost for "unknown domain" or so, it all seems to go through just fine.
All is running on a cloud server, costing me $2750 a year (divide by 7.8 for US$). Web sites, e-mail, MySQL database, and a few more services. Good deal.
Why is 3000 friends better than 3000 likes on a business page? I'd rather say "different". It's a different purpose and expectation when one likes a business or befriends a person.
Then the point where Facebook gets to decide who is going to see what. I'm quite unhappy with the feeling that I see only like 10% of what pages that I like post. I want to see ALL they post, there may be something of interest that I otherwise miss. So also looking from the reader's POV it sucks, and decreases the usefulness of Facebook drastically.
Some friends of mine I know better by their nickname, or even only by their nickname. Once a friend of mine called me in her capacity as staff of an organisation I volunteered for, introducing her with her formal name. Took me a moment to realise who I had on the phone.
Both my parents use different first names in daily life than the names listed in their passport. Everyone knows them by that name, using their official name would cause serious confusion. My mum has four given names, a maiden name and my father's name all listed in her passport. If Facebook insists on real and complete names, that'd be a practical problem. It's almost 50 characters in all.
My wife has formally only a Chinese name, but in daily life uses an English name. Common practice for Hong Kong Chinese - some opt to have their English name (often adopted during primary school, not given at birth, though the latter happens more and more nowadays) registered on their ID card, others don't. She also doesn't have her English name registered. So while most call her by that name, only some use her Chinese name, it's still a nickname.
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You probably never have experienced how fast and reliable such a sat link is (it's not).
I've talked to quite some cruise passengers, and most of them avoid using the sat link. It's very slow, unreliable, and expensive to boot (they generally have to pay by the minute instead of always on). That's just used by a couple thousand people, while here it's about a slightly larger community.
Still the question: what is "market value"?
Microsoft may simply say that the market value of a certain version of Windows (say a Laptop Edition) is $10 for a copy, and that this is to be sold pre-installed on hard disk only. Then they have the Full Version - this is sold to retailers at $100 a copy, in fancy box with CD, making the market value of this version at $100. It's easy to argue that this are different versions of the software. They may even add/remove functionality to these versions. Different product, different price.
Or how about MS declaring the market value of the software to be $10, with digital distribution, and then selling the installation keys to OEM manufacturers only with restrictions on resale (only to be sold bundled with something else). Then if MS sells the same with box and CD to retailers at $100, that'd be above market value, right? That $90 extra would cover the cost of the box design, the material for box/CD and printing cost, the transport cost, handling, etc.
Figuring out what "market value" for a product should be is ambiguous and arbitrary at best. Just look at those "anti-dumping" charges the US likes to put on various Chinese made products. The US government declares these products to be sold at "lower than market value" or "lower than cost" - no idea how the US government can really know the cost of production of a Chinese company.
People doing development work on their laptop are a tiny minority in this world (/. is not representative for this world).
Most people use their laptop for browsing, e-mail (if not in the browser), playing a movie, organising their photos, and maybe typing a resume or so. That's about it. For those people, pretty low-end hardware will do just fine.
I've always gotten myself low-end (cheap) hardware. Last year's models. Doing fine, I can do all of the above (which is probably >90% of the time I spend with the computer), and develop web pages, and fiddle with FreeCAD and even Blender though the latter is pushing it. I'm not however doing enough serious work with it to spend a lot of money to make these application go a little faster. It's not worth it for me. I can wait a few more seconds for a quick render, and the final renders well that takes maybe an hour or two... when I'm sleeping.
Market value... very ambiguous. What is the actual market value of a product? The regular retail price? The cnf price (not really applicable to software which doesn't have shipping cost)? Or some wholesale price? All these prices one could argue to be "market value".
Of these, retail price would be the worst, as it would effectively lead to government-supported price fixing. Manufacturer states retail price as "market value" and all have to sell at that price.
The classroom is a place to meet new people, as is the work floor. It just happens naturally there, people are partnered up to do tasks, you have to work together, etc. When you take a bunch of strangers and start to introduce them to one another, good chance that at least here and there romantic sparks fly. Add to that that most students are in their early 20s, an age for many people to start looking for a life partner, and the great number of marriages that follows is just expected.
The greater number in religious studies is also not too surprising as the people there will have strong religious beliefs, and strongly religious people like to marry people that are also strongly religious and of the same faith. Here is even more reason for people to actively search for a partner within their study group, as it's much less likely to find a suitable partner (i.e. sharing the religious beliefs) randomly in the outside world.
And that's just one of the issues.
The bigger issue is going to be: how are they going to inject it into the existing market, and be able to pass it off as the real thing? There are only a couple thousand black rhinos left, so there can't be more than a couple hundred genuine horns in the market per year. Now these guys want to try and flood that market with thousands of horns, and think they can make the buyers believe they can supply thousands of horns? Good luck with that!
This is an illegal market so the people operating in it will be really wary and careful. Not just for fear of the authorities, also for fear of imposters trying to sell them fake products. After all if you're paying tens of thousands for just one horn, you're not going to some new guy on the block. At least not with a very thorough background check to make sure he's "legitimate" so to say - not a mole, or an imposter selling fakes...
You must be new here.
Ever heard of PGP? The versions that used the large encryption keys (>1024 bits at the time, iirc, or maybe even smaller keys), used to be banned for export under certain US military laws. The rest of the world had to do with a weaker version of PGP. Not that the full version wasn't available to us anyway...
Are they actually buying licenses, or just downloading it from somewhere? OP talks about increasing market share for Win7 - not about a surge in number of licenses sold by MS.
Much more reasonable than the theory that many people would rush out to shops to buy a Win7 license just to be able to get Win10 later.
Basically no-one every buys Windows as separate retail copy. It comes bundled with a new computer. It is interesting of course how Win7 is still gaining market share.
What is the legal value of such an included license, really? You don't have the issuer's signature on it. You could argue it's "signed" if you download from the maker's web site, but not if you're downloading from a third party source, where the package could have been altered.
>need to compensate who bought the medallions
Nope! My shares went down in the last crash, noone compensated me!
You buy shares in a company, knowing that the company may go bust or the overall market may go bad (in the latter case you still may receive dividends). You also know that the company may issue more shares in the future.
Taxi medallions are bought knowing there is a fixed supply of them, and that there will not be issued more. This the government has guaranteed those that buy or hold those licenses, this is what gives value to the medallion. If the government suddenly changes its mind and starts issuing new medallions to everyone that asks - or starts auctioning off new supplies - they should compensate losses for value lost due to this change. That's normal practice when a government changes a law that significantly affects the value of certain assets, as basically the government is breaking a law (albeit the legal way). That's also what gives people trust in the government and the rule of law.
These execs were arrested for running an illegal company. Drivers may be arrested for driving an unlicensed taxi. I do suspect the former is the more serious charge, especially as the business of Uber has been declared illegal already in France, and the bosses decided to continue anyway: that's contempt of court, and courts tend to not be happy with that.
If you want to stop a business, you have to chop off its head, i.e. go after the bosses. The bosses of Uber don't care for drivers to get arrested, that's just collateral damage to them. They still make lots of money off the other drivers. Getting arrested themselves may finally get the message home that they have to follow the rules and regulations of the country they operate in, whether they like those rules and regulations or not.
They may need a physical presence for other reasons, such as managing payments (much cheaper and faster to keep that within the borders of a country, or at least the Eurozone). Or dealing with complaints of drivers and customers. Or dealing with promotion of the service.
Only if the GPL code is part of your own work. OP is talking about bundling software, and then it's no problem to mix licenses: there's a lot of GPL software in my Linux Mint installation, but not all software that's bundled with it and essential for the whole to work is GPL software.
Not just that.
"Work Better" is arguably a combination of common words, it is not a name. If some glass window factory had happened to have registered "windows.com" before Microsoft did, MS would've had a really hard time claiming it's cybersquatting. Especially if said window factory would use it themselves and not offer the site for sale. Cybersquatting is usually defined as registering a domain with someone else's trademark as name, or the name of a celebrity or so, without the intention to seriously use it yourself and then trying to sell the domain to that person or company.
This is not someone registering say cocacola.com or pepsi.com, or even microsoft.com to stay with the previous example. That are clearly brand names and were at the time the Internet started well established names. It's hard to argue you want to use such domain names for your own use, unless you happen to be a Mr. Pepsi - it could be a valid surname after all.
No license: default copyright. No-one is allowed to redistribute without your express permission.
The dependencies I assume will be distributed within your package; and I assume their licenses in turn allow this, as this are open source licenses.
If so, you would be able to choose any license you like for your code - or indeed simply nothing special at all - and choose based on your preferences/philosophy on the level of freedoms given for use of your work.
It's not a dumb idea, it's just a solution that's not for the masses. I know that. My comment was mainly targeted at the idea that unfamiliar domain name means mails get deleted.
What I also wonder is whether Google instantly informed the person in question of the demand (thereby basically ignoring the gag order which they didn't think was valid anyway).
And is such a gag order even legally bounding the moment it's issued even if the receiving party has strong grounds to believe it is not? Because if it is, just by issuing gag order anyone could stop any information from being released for quite a while, at least until the court decided it's invalid. In this case Google seriously believed the order was invalid, or they wouldn't go to court over it.
Any suggestion on how to deal with mails with attachments? SA doesn't check those. And I get heaps of those "transfer done, please check your account", "here's the B/L for your shipment" and "please review this PO for your product" kind of mails that all end up in my inbox, and are apparently sent through real mailservers as they pass through greylisting.
My basic two-stage filtering takes care of most crap, the rest can be dealt with by hand. I could tighten SpamAssassin but then I may start getting false positives which is worse.
1) Greylisting. This takes care of almost 90% of spam at the door: from 350-400 spams a day I went down to about 40-50 spams a day. All mail sent through properly managed servers (i.e. servers that retry delivery as requested by the greylisting software) arrive, albeit with a slight delay the first time around.
2) SpamAssassin. Picks up about 90% of the spam that still comes through; mostly failing on spam with large attachments. Greylisting's delay allows for more of the spam domains to be in the RBLs by the time the mail arrives on my system for even better filtering.
Spamgourmet sounds like fun until they shut down.
Do you pay them anything? If not, how do they pay for that service? It'd suck were they to shut down and suddenly no-one had any option to reach you by e-mail.
I would just buy my own domain name and figure out my own hosting solution for the email
Sounds like a great way to make sure you get your mail blocked all over the place because they don't recognize the domain name.
Huh? That just doesn't make sense. No-one blocks mail because they've never seen that domain before, or everyone should have to be on the few domains everyone knows, like gmail.com.
I currently own almost ten domains, running four web site of which three maintained and the fourth well I basically never took it down, the domain is one that I owned for over a decade. No problems with mails getting lost for "unknown domain" or so, it all seems to go through just fine.
All is running on a cloud server, costing me $2750 a year (divide by 7.8 for US$). Web sites, e-mail, MySQL database, and a few more services. Good deal.
Why is 3000 friends better than 3000 likes on a business page? I'd rather say "different". It's a different purpose and expectation when one likes a business or befriends a person.
Then the point where Facebook gets to decide who is going to see what. I'm quite unhappy with the feeling that I see only like 10% of what pages that I like post. I want to see ALL they post, there may be something of interest that I otherwise miss. So also looking from the reader's POV it sucks, and decreases the usefulness of Facebook drastically.
Some friends of mine I know better by their nickname, or even only by their nickname. Once a friend of mine called me in her capacity as staff of an organisation I volunteered for, introducing her with her formal name. Took me a moment to realise who I had on the phone.
Both my parents use different first names in daily life than the names listed in their passport. Everyone knows them by that name, using their official name would cause serious confusion. My mum has four given names, a maiden name and my father's name all listed in her passport. If Facebook insists on real and complete names, that'd be a practical problem. It's almost 50 characters in all.
My wife has formally only a Chinese name, but in daily life uses an English name. Common practice for Hong Kong Chinese - some opt to have their English name (often adopted during primary school, not given at birth, though the latter happens more and more nowadays) registered on their ID card, others don't. She also doesn't have her English name registered. So while most call her by that name, only some use her Chinese name, it's still a nickname.
Make up a foreign ID. They can't know how it all should look like, let alone that they can verify the validity.