Mind you, this has to get past the same Supreme Court that said Costco was Violating Rolex's trademark by importing watches from other (cheaper) markets for sale in the US. Right of First Sale is not their forte.
It's not quite the Apple TV, Boxee or Roku killer... yet. While the SoC supports a fair number of codecs, only a small number are licensed at this point (see the Pi FAQ), and if you have hopes for Flash and Silverlight based streaming services (Netflix, Hulu, etc.) , that's not going to happen unless Chrome or Firefox release a browser with embedded support.
It's no secret that one of the reasons Intel is subsidizing manufacturers over $100M for the Ultrabook project is to keep ARM at bay. This is compounded by Microsoft offering a ARM version of Windows. Apple putting out a really nice A8 MacBook Air could really shake things up.
However, the real issue Apple is going to have is MacOS or iOS. There's a lot of compelling reasons to move to iOS for Apple, but ultimately the closed nature of iOS would likely alienate the large programmer base they have built up.
You have to have juice in order to get the feds to move on something. Example, Microsoft accidentally ships an Xbox prototype to the wrong address. Who shows up after the delivery? FBI. Why? Money and power makes the world go round.
Civil law is not about what's right or wrong. It's about being the last man standing. It's about having the fortitude and war chest to defend what is yours. I've actually seen a case where a small company tried to defend it's patents against a larger one. The large company fly the lawyers in the meet with them. They took one look at the offices of the small company and told them point blank "You don't have the money to win this, we're not giving you one cent. Good day."
Concur. The issue may be that a lot of political rallys are held in venues that don't do have reason to hold ASCAP license. There could also be an issue if the campaign is putting videos up of the rallies.
I tend to agree. I would say that Phones in Japan have been much smarter and data heavy than the US equivalents for some time. So it's not like the Android phones are replacing a bunch of Nokia Feature phones. For that reason I also think NTT DoCoMo knows what it's talking about as far as optimization.
This could be interesting datastorage. Recent articles about the NoSQL implementations at FB and other new media companies have indicated that 80+% of the data is actually stored in memory (with a write behind to disk). This coule end up being a specialized server product.
I know the area. There's no reason to build out there. The land is just as expensive as downtown Minneapolis, and there's almost no one to peer with for upstream connections. And it's not like Minnetonka is all that far from Minneapolis. Seems like a good way to lose money on a datacenter.
You wouldn't have to nationalize it per se. You could put export duties on it that would make it basically outprice the market. The GOP would never allow nationalization nor export duties.
Most ethanol plants can convert to cellulosic. It's basically an additional tank at the beginning of the process where there is some additional fermentation. The problem more or less is the plants are based on the "corn shadow". That is how close they are to fields that grown corn. The whole Corn ethanol idea had some problems to begin with. 1) Plants weren't placed near trail or pipelines. A considerable amount of the cost of ethanol is taken up by poor planing for transportation costs. 2) Using corn ties you to a market fluctuations and demand for prime lands. For instance, Wheat in Europe and Australia has been off. Farmers switch to wheat, where are you going to get your corn.
Plants need to located in areas that are close to transportation AND can use sub-prime land that otherwise would not be used for food plants. All that said E85 is cheaper than oil sands. Oil sands need as much energy in Natural gas in order to heat the oil out of the sand. Putting a pipeline in for oil sands basically throws in the towel to oil $100barrel.
Real energy policy in the US would be to convert tractor trailers to Nat Gas and put the pipeline in for conventional ND oil and midwest cellulosic ethanol.
PS, the North Dakota reserves are bigger than saudi arabia's. At the current rate we could actually be 100% oil independent by 2020. However, oil is priced on a global market, meaning we'll still pay whatever the cartel wants us to pay.
In Europe the market gets to decide if they want GMO food. That happens because they have labeling and menu laws that require the disclosure. It's capitalism at work. BASF is free to grow all the GMO it wants. But they have to sell GMO to the consumers. Here in the US you can pretty much put what you want into foods without nearly as much disclosure.
Seriously, we went down this road already. Y2K, 1999. My lord the number of mediocre developers. And the H1B limits were substantially higher then too. It just compounded the problem.
Yes and no. Hard drives is a bit of an interesting business. Western Digital and Seagate are still market leaders globally because certain components are still only made in the US. The real precision work isn't done overseas. Which is why the chinese never got a foot hold in the market. What's happening overseas is more akin to final assembly. And before Thailand was the Hard Drive capital, Singapore held that title. So it's not like there aren't alternative facilities. Still, these companies made a big investment in Thailand, given the prices of SSD are still pretty darn high, a supply shortage and a price hike isn't exactly a bad thing really.
One should be careful not to start off with contempt of cop out of the gate. At least if you have places to go.
Ground Rules:
TSA are not law enforcement agents. They cannot detain a person, but they usually have a Law Enforcement Officer nearby to do their bidding. Some cases the search may be a transit cop of some sort. So really the first question in your mind is do you want to be on that train or not. And even if you do want to get on the train, the most important thing to keep in mind is lying to LEO usually carriers a far bigger penalty than anything else you might be facing. In particular if they are Federal LEOs.
Why Lies Matter:
Why that matters is because in public places there is no recording of what you say to the LEOs. It's their word against yours. Which means you could face jail time just because the officer recollects something different from you. You cooperate with the least number of words as the law requires (identifying ones self.) "My standing policy is to not make statements without consul, I'm afraid I'll have to be silent." From there it's a waiting game with facial expression of you'd like to help them out, but darn, it's just your policy.
Search:
You want on, you say you consent to the search. You don't, say you don't consent to a search. They say you can't get on, nod that you understand, walk away.
Really there isn't much to C&D letter. Now if Apple actually were to sue on behalf of the Jobs Estate they would need to some sort of agreement to even have standing in court.
On the other hand, Jobs did have a pretty significant about of stock, depending on how it was set up his family members or their trustee (if he put it some or all into trust) would have a spot on the BOD. So it's not inconceivable they would leverage Apples strong ties in China for legal action.
Comcast has a special Tivo, as did DirecTV. That leaves Cox, Time Warner, Charter, and Adelphia. They could also go after Motorola and Scientific Atlanta.
What they need to do is make the cost of licensing the Tivo UI and scheduler to be roughly the same as the annual pay-out for the patent royalties. Still If AT&T has paid out, I wonder who's next?
Indeed, they are back in action. But the DirecTivo is a sad sad device. While it has a nice interface, but is missing many features that the current DirecTV DVRs have. Most notably, the Home Media Option that allows the DVR to share programs with other STBs on the Coax.
Job's d-bag parking goes back to the 80's and 90's. Jean-Louis Gassee once commented "I didn't know you could use them for the emotionally handicapped".
One report says that an Apple Employee covered the Handicap logo with a Mercedes logo and Jobs was none too pleased. Would be interesting to know if he did that at Pixar as there doesn't seem to be many stories about Steve Jobs at Pixar.
A lot fo american companies went into Russia in the 90s and most of them got burned. The corruption in Russia makes Chinese corruption look quaint. One company I worked for would send crates full of high tech computers and equipment to the factories in Russia, only to find a bunch of rocks in the crates when they opened them up in the factory.
Utility companies usually don't actually collect bills from the boxes, or from the mail. A contracted bank actually collects and processes the bills for the merchant. The service is called "Lock Box". The same sorters that process the banks checks can be used to process the utility payments. The cost is quite a bit cheaper than credit cards. Which makes you wonder why credit cards cost so much to begin with.
Checks cost very little to process since check21 came around. A company like Verizon will usually pay a large bank for a lock-box service. With the lock box the bank actually opens the envelopes and feeds it all into check sorter. The cost is actually quite small per transaction because banks have a ton of check sorter capacity as people have moved to online billpay. Now for credit cards a company as large as Verizon likely pays a fixed rate + actual interchange. Which is likely much smaller fee wise than a small business would pay. It's still going to be much larger than a physical check.
Of course it's not like checks should cost less, it's just credit cards are priced outrageously.
Generally if you have employees you'd want to get away from filing as a Schedule C. A good accountant would move you towards a structure where you would draw a fairly low salary while being provided with various fringe benefits (company car, expense accounts, etc.) I once complained to my father about taxes and he said "Taxes? With a good accountant taxes are a second form of income!" Certainly I do much better as a consultant wrapping my work in an LLC than I would as a W2 employee both in terms or pay and taxes.
I would also say if I had a large company there are a slew of shelters one can take in the international sector. I.e. Google transferring IP and business units to Irish shell companies. Banks that put token executives in Switzerland for some massive tax shelters. In the end these tax dodges hurt the economy because it makes small businesses less competitive. Small business is where jobs start.
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Mind you, this has to get past the same Supreme Court that said Costco was Violating Rolex's trademark by importing watches from other (cheaper) markets for sale in the US. Right of First Sale is not their forte.
It's not quite the Apple TV, Boxee or Roku killer... yet. While the SoC supports a fair number of codecs, only a small number are licensed at this point (see the Pi FAQ), and if you have hopes for Flash and Silverlight based streaming services (Netflix, Hulu, etc.) , that's not going to happen unless Chrome or Firefox release a browser with embedded support.
It's no secret that one of the reasons Intel is subsidizing manufacturers over $100M for the Ultrabook project is to keep ARM at bay. This is compounded by Microsoft offering a ARM version of Windows. Apple putting out a really nice A8 MacBook Air could really shake things up.
However, the real issue Apple is going to have is MacOS or iOS. There's a lot of compelling reasons to move to iOS for Apple, but ultimately the closed nature of iOS would likely alienate the large programmer base they have built up.
You have to have juice in order to get the feds to move on something. Example, Microsoft accidentally ships an Xbox prototype to the wrong address. Who shows up after the delivery? FBI. Why? Money and power makes the world go round.
Civil law is not about what's right or wrong. It's about being the last man standing. It's about having the fortitude and war chest to defend what is yours. I've actually seen a case where a small company tried to defend it's patents against a larger one. The large company fly the lawyers in the meet with them. They took one look at the offices of the small company and told them point blank "You don't have the money to win this, we're not giving you one cent. Good day."
Concur. The issue may be that a lot of political rallys are held in venues that don't do have reason to hold ASCAP license. There could also be an issue if the campaign is putting videos up of the rallies.
I tend to agree. I would say that Phones in Japan have been much smarter and data heavy than the US equivalents for some time. So it's not like the Android phones are replacing a bunch of Nokia Feature phones. For that reason I also think NTT DoCoMo knows what it's talking about as far as optimization.
This could be interesting datastorage. Recent articles about the NoSQL implementations at FB and other new media companies have indicated that 80+% of the data is actually stored in memory (with a write behind to disk). This coule end up being a specialized server product.
I know the area. There's no reason to build out there. The land is just as expensive as downtown Minneapolis, and there's almost no one to peer with for upstream connections. And it's not like Minnetonka is all that far from Minneapolis. Seems like a good way to lose money on a datacenter.
You wouldn't have to nationalize it per se. You could put export duties on it that would make it basically outprice the market. The GOP would never allow nationalization nor export duties.
Most ethanol plants can convert to cellulosic. It's basically an additional tank at the beginning of the process where there is some additional fermentation. The problem more or less is the plants are based on the "corn shadow". That is how close they are to fields that grown corn. The whole Corn ethanol idea had some problems to begin with. 1) Plants weren't placed near trail or pipelines. A considerable amount of the cost of ethanol is taken up by poor planing for transportation costs. 2) Using corn ties you to a market fluctuations and demand for prime lands. For instance, Wheat in Europe and Australia has been off. Farmers switch to wheat, where are you going to get your corn.
Plants need to located in areas that are close to transportation AND can use sub-prime land that otherwise would not be used for food plants. All that said E85 is cheaper than oil sands. Oil sands need as much energy in Natural gas in order to heat the oil out of the sand. Putting a pipeline in for oil sands basically throws in the towel to oil $100barrel.
Real energy policy in the US would be to convert tractor trailers to Nat Gas and put the pipeline in for conventional ND oil and midwest cellulosic ethanol.
PS, the North Dakota reserves are bigger than saudi arabia's. At the current rate we could actually be 100% oil independent by 2020. However, oil is priced on a global market, meaning we'll still pay whatever the cartel wants us to pay.
In Europe the market gets to decide if they want GMO food. That happens because they have labeling and menu laws that require the disclosure. It's capitalism at work. BASF is free to grow all the GMO it wants. But they have to sell GMO to the consumers. Here in the US you can pretty much put what you want into foods without nearly as much disclosure.
Seriously, we went down this road already. Y2K, 1999. My lord the number of mediocre developers. And the H1B limits were substantially higher then too. It just compounded the problem.
I was under the impression that Pathfinder (essentially a licensed fork of D&D 3.5) was outselling Wizards of the Coast D&D these days.
Yes and no. Hard drives is a bit of an interesting business. Western Digital and Seagate are still market leaders globally because certain components are still only made in the US. The real precision work isn't done overseas. Which is why the chinese never got a foot hold in the market. What's happening overseas is more akin to final assembly. And before Thailand was the Hard Drive capital, Singapore held that title. So it's not like there aren't alternative facilities. Still, these companies made a big investment in Thailand, given the prices of SSD are still pretty darn high, a supply shortage and a price hike isn't exactly a bad thing really.
One should be careful not to start off with contempt of cop out of the gate. At least if you have places to go.
Ground Rules:
TSA are not law enforcement agents. They cannot detain a person, but they usually have a Law Enforcement Officer nearby to do their bidding. Some cases the search may be a transit cop of some sort. So really the first question in your mind is do you want to be on that train or not. And even if you do want to get on the train, the most important thing to keep in mind is lying to LEO usually carriers a far bigger penalty than anything else you might be facing. In particular if they are Federal LEOs.
Why Lies Matter:
Why that matters is because in public places there is no recording of what you say to the LEOs. It's their word against yours. Which means you could face jail time just because the officer recollects something different from you. You cooperate with the least number of words as the law requires (identifying ones self.) "My standing policy is to not make statements without consul, I'm afraid I'll have to be silent." From there it's a waiting game with facial expression of you'd like to help them out, but darn, it's just your policy.
Search:
You want on, you say you consent to the search. You don't, say you don't consent to a search. They say you can't get on, nod that you understand, walk away.
Really there isn't much to C&D letter. Now if Apple actually were to sue on behalf of the Jobs Estate they would need to some sort of agreement to even have standing in court.
On the other hand, Jobs did have a pretty significant about of stock, depending on how it was set up his family members or their trustee (if he put it some or all into trust) would have a spot on the BOD. So it's not inconceivable they would leverage Apples strong ties in China for legal action.
Comcast has a special Tivo, as did DirecTV. That leaves Cox, Time Warner, Charter, and Adelphia. They could also go after Motorola and Scientific Atlanta.
What they need to do is make the cost of licensing the Tivo UI and scheduler to be roughly the same as the annual pay-out for the patent royalties. Still If AT&T has paid out, I wonder who's next?
Indeed, they are back in action. But the DirecTivo is a sad sad device. While it has a nice interface, but is missing many features that the current DirecTV DVRs have. Most notably, the Home Media Option that allows the DVR to share programs with other STBs on the Coax.
Job's d-bag parking goes back to the 80's and 90's. Jean-Louis Gassee once commented "I didn't know you could use them for the emotionally handicapped".
One report says that an Apple Employee covered the Handicap logo with a Mercedes logo and Jobs was none too pleased. Would be interesting to know if he did that at Pixar as there doesn't seem to be many stories about Steve Jobs at Pixar.
A lot fo american companies went into Russia in the 90s and most of them got burned. The corruption in Russia makes Chinese corruption look quaint. One company I worked for would send crates full of high tech computers and equipment to the factories in Russia, only to find a bunch of rocks in the crates when they opened them up in the factory.
Utility companies usually don't actually collect bills from the boxes, or from the mail. A contracted bank actually collects and processes the bills for the merchant. The service is called "Lock Box". The same sorters that process the banks checks can be used to process the utility payments. The cost is quite a bit cheaper than credit cards. Which makes you wonder why credit cards cost so much to begin with.
Checks cost very little to process since check21 came around. A company like Verizon will usually pay a large bank for a lock-box service. With the lock box the bank actually opens the envelopes and feeds it all into check sorter. The cost is actually quite small per transaction because banks have a ton of check sorter capacity as people have moved to online billpay. Now for credit cards a company as large as Verizon likely pays a fixed rate + actual interchange. Which is likely much smaller fee wise than a small business would pay. It's still going to be much larger than a physical check.
Of course it's not like checks should cost less, it's just credit cards are priced outrageously.
Generally if you have employees you'd want to get away from filing as a Schedule C. A good accountant would move you towards a structure where you would draw a fairly low salary while being provided with various fringe benefits (company car, expense accounts, etc.) I once complained to my father about taxes and he said "Taxes? With a good accountant taxes are a second form of income!" Certainly I do much better as a consultant wrapping my work in an LLC than I would as a W2 employee both in terms or pay and taxes.
I would also say if I had a large company there are a slew of shelters one can take in the international sector. I.e. Google transferring IP and business units to Irish shell companies. Banks that put token executives in Switzerland for some massive tax shelters. In the end these tax dodges hurt the economy because it makes small businesses less competitive. Small business is where jobs start.