Not just a loss-leader, it's also about control. If MS can control the application that most users browse the Internet with, that gives them a lot of leverage to embrace and extend. They can enforce their own proprietary standards (with IIS and so on), and lock out everyone else.
You're assuming that E-Bay wants to to fix this.. I tend to think that the rules favour sellers by design, since they are the ones paying E-Bay for the auctions.
All promotion costs are paid for by the artists.. The artists don't see a dime of profit from royalties until their debt is paid back to the record company.
Good point about going after other P2P apps. I was thinking their main goal is to implement this feature, then lobby to governments to force other P2P apps to follow suite as a way to combat piracy, and collect royalties on the patent at the same time. Win-win for Sony if it would have worked.
Pod and iPod have totally different meanings. I could understand if Apple is worried about people using the term iPod, but Pod is a common word. What's next, Apple trying to stop people from using the word Book since it might be confused with iBook?
Its one thing to have an accidental character in your text, its another to completely mess up the rest of the line.
Sounds like you should be using Microsoft products. Excel and Word will detect your caps lock is on, and turn it off automatically for you. Drives me nuts, since I usually notice it's on after I type the first word, then turn it off, but Word has already turned it off, so I turn it back on, ugh. (and yes, I know you can turn off the autocorrection feature).
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The AOL software is down right angelic compared to the Jessica Simpson Screensaver!
What, like Apple does? (they are at the bottom of the green list)
Wait 'till ya see the movie!
Yes, and the penalities are actually much less for stealing property, if you get caught.
Microsoft is all about innovation .. who are we to critisize?
The post I replied to had no mention of the word Website..
Your analogy is flawed, those are made up words that were trademarked and then became common words. Not common words that were trademarked.
This technology will just encourage unlawful face transplanting. Haven't you seen that John Travolta movie?
Not just a loss-leader, it's also about control. If MS can control the application that most users browse the Internet with, that gives them a lot of leverage to embrace and extend. They can enforce their own proprietary standards (with IIS and so on), and lock out everyone else.
You're assuming that E-Bay wants to to fix this .. I tend to think that the rules favour sellers by design, since they are the ones paying E-Bay for the auctions.
All promotion costs are paid for by the artists .. The artists don't see a dime of profit from royalties until their debt is paid back to the record company.
Hey, why not, it didnt hurt Bob Chaney!
Good point about going after other P2P apps. I was thinking their main goal is to implement this feature, then lobby to governments to force other P2P apps to follow suite as a way to combat piracy, and collect royalties on the patent at the same time. Win-win for Sony if it would have worked.
Yeah, but Sony can't use that to track pirates or enforce their DRM related activities.
Pod and iPod have totally different meanings. I could understand if Apple is worried about people using the term iPod, but Pod is a common word. What's next, Apple trying to stop people from using the word Book since it might be confused with iBook?
I use scroll lock in Excel sometimes, it causes the arrow keys to move the spreadsheet around, intead of the cursor.
Sounds like you should be using Microsoft products. Excel and Word will detect your caps lock is on, and turn it off automatically for you. Drives me nuts, since I usually notice it's on after I type the first word, then turn it off, but Word has already turned it off, so I turn it back on, ugh. (and yes, I know you can turn off the autocorrection feature).
Be carefuly not to stab her with the bottle opener, she won't be as much fun when deflated.
The audio quality on YouTube is horrible due to lossy compression...
Where? I've been paying Equifax for mine..
But a lot of people don't download the updates, which could be the reason for the warning.
You only bought the license to watch Stargate on DVD, so they will happily replace the defective media for you.
I know you're making a joke, but the damn shrink wrap on DVD's is harder to open than the CSS.
But AOL has a killer demographic for advertisers: Clueless noobs with more money than brains. This is an advertisers wet dream.
Just a guess, but STOP is shorter than PERDIOD, and probably an abreviation for FULL STOP (which is the British term for period).