. ..the value of a company isn't the same as the value of its tangible assets.
Because. ..it has loyal customers, who have a cash value that the buyer is willing to pay to acquire It is not just some accounting fiction dreamed up to deal with someone mysteriously paying more for a company than it's worth, Good Will is the explanation for why it is worth more than its tangible assests.
If Google manages to generate a huge amount of the non-accounting, karmic Good Will through its actions, that doesn't mean it gets to increase the goodwill number in its quarterly report.
Is not Google for sale on the open market? Look at its stock price. Compare that to its tangible assests.
Personally, I want companies to start thinking about the free publicity of doing what's good for the consumer. I want companies to start thinking about the value of all the publicity they can get from altruistic acts. I want the leadership of companies to see altruistic acts as having positive economic affects.
There is even a name for this. It's called "Good Will."
Traditionally it has been considered one of a company's assests that even carries a cash value.
The conduits were not at different depths, nor were they really that far apart (about 3 inches) They put the bright orange plastic sheet ("Hey backhoe guy! Stop digging now!") right on top of the conduit
This is the sort of shit that happens all the time, because people do what they know they're "supposed to," but have no idea why.
. ..it REALLY depends on the companies/media/product involved and who has more leverage.
It always does, doesn't it? Still, the situation is hilarious and most people don't even realize it exists, even though they are aware of all the individual facts of the matter.
On the whole people aren't very good at putting two and two together at all, let alone getting the right answer.
6. Refrain from using the term "intellectual property" . ..
As a corallary explain to them that one of the reasons for buying physical media is because it is property. They own it, not license it. They may use it as their property and its cash value is retained by them as an asset.
The idea that one might live one's life in private and without fear of molestation is a *very* recent phenomenon.
"Matsuo Munefusa, alias Basho (1644-94), was a Japanese poet and writer during the early Edo period. He took his pen name Basho from his basho-an, a hut made of plantain leaves, to where he would withdraw from society for solitude."
I have never argued that graphics makes gameplay suffer. That would be, well, stupid.
. ..of course every game these days is 3D and you might not like that and prefer your platform games.
I have no use for platform games, and oddly enough, it is the 7 year old game that I play that is 3D, not the 5 year old one. However, in the right context good 2D art is superior to mediocre 3D modeling.
The Constitution is a legal document written by lawyers, using legal definitions and intended to interpreted as such.The creation of definitions is often arbitrary, but they are defined in the first place to remove that arbitrariness, particularly in law, which I think we can perhaps agree should not be applicable arbitrarily. At least not under a Constitutional government.
The context of limited time with regards to copyright already existed under British law which allowed for copyrights in perpetuity.
The reason for the particular phrasing is because, in fact, reasonable men were arguing about it and could not come to a mutually agreed upon "reasonable" limit to monopoly terms, the idea of "limited" already being understood to include multiple generations (unto the seventh generation and such).
Are there many definitions of "limited" depending upon the context? Certainly.
But we're talking about a particular context here, not "some" context, and thus a specific definition of "limited."
Not in perpetuity. Something less than forever.
I do not agree with current copyright law, in part because I am Jeffersonian in my view of this matter, and in part because much of current copyright law is in violation of all legal principles as they have ever been defined or understood before.
But this particular ruling is not, no matter how badly it sucks.
The flaw is in the Constitution, not the ruling, just as it was for issues of slavery, which all reasonable men, by the very virtue of reason, must abhor; and yet was an American institution we had to fight a civil war over to finally see abolished.
The solution is simple. Place an explicit limit on terms of rights in the Constitution, or remove the clause outright.
He's right! You sound exactly like that guy in the Onion article!:)
I've got a lovely Sony about two feet from me. I've been out looking at and lusting over wide screeens. I can't remember the last time I turned it on, but I do remember times when I've left it on for days at a time, because at that time it interested me that much.
Unfortunately a classic example of a mathematical amateur making a mathematical judgement.
No, the question before the judge was one of law, not mathematics, a field in which the judge is an expert. What is the legal definition of "limited."
I think, however, that you will find the mathematical definition of a set of limited counting numbers (since by axiom our units are years) is any noninfinate set.
Any reasonable person would've said limited with respect to a person's lifetime.
What has this got to do with mathematical definitions? "Reasonable Person" is a legal term.
Slashdot Mirror
Show of hands:
How many people here have purchase Google stock because they liked Google?
AHA!
KFG
. . .the value of a company isn't the same as the value of its tangible assets.
.it has loyal customers, who have a cash value that the buyer is willing to pay to acquire It is not just some accounting fiction dreamed up to deal with someone mysteriously paying more for a company than it's worth, Good Will is the explanation for why it is worth more than its tangible assests.
Because. .
If Google manages to generate a huge amount of the non-accounting, karmic Good Will through its actions, that doesn't mean it gets to increase the goodwill number in its quarterly report.
Is not Google for sale on the open market? Look at its stock price. Compare that to its tangible assests.
KFG
I just wanted to point out that good will is only quantified if there is a sale of the company
Of course. When else could it be quantified?
It's not tracked like stock value.
What do you think comprises a stock's value? Sale of stock is sale of the company.
BTW, what happens to goodwill over time?
You resell it. Assuming, of course, you have maintained it. What happens to stock prices over time?
I only took a little accounting course last year.
Nothing personal, but may The Lord preserve us from people who "took a little foo course".
KFG
A company can only accrue good will (the accounting kind) if it is purchased by another company for more than its net worth.
And what do you suppose accounts for someone being willing to pay more than net value for it?
How about for it's "customers"?
KFG
Personally, I want companies to start thinking about the free publicity of doing what's good for the consumer. I want companies to start thinking about the value of all the publicity they can get from altruistic acts. I want the leadership of companies to see altruistic acts as having positive economic affects.
There is even a name for this. It's called "Good Will."
Traditionally it has been considered one of a company's assests that even carries a cash value.
Ahhhhh, how times change.
KFG
I believe you have lay them anew.
KFG
. . . and I see it at least daily during construction season
Well, that only makes sense, doesn't it?
I mean, if you're going to build a dike you need a backhoe, right?
KFG
The conduits were not at different depths, nor were they really that far apart (about 3 inches)
They put the bright orange plastic sheet ("Hey backhoe guy! Stop digging now!") right on top of the conduit
This is the sort of shit that happens all the time, because people do what they know they're "supposed to," but have no idea why.
KFG
. . .it REALLY depends on the companies/media/product involved and who has more leverage.
It always does, doesn't it? Still, the situation is hilarious and most people don't even realize it exists, even though they are aware of all the individual facts of the matter.
On the whole people aren't very good at putting two and two together at all, let alone getting the right answer.
KFG
Couple hundred for a used PIII from the City Mission, with Mandrake preinstalled. Fourty bucks to put a burner in it. Software is free.
If they were burning in bulk two grand for a DVD publisher would be nice.
The government can't even run a cheap skunkworks on the cheap.
KFG
If the monkey clans don't have any contact, how is it explained that the second group seems to be copying the first group ?
Quantum flux deep juju.
KFG
Is this actually the case?
Yes.
KFG
Awwwwwwwwwwww! That's so cuuuuute.
Is it housebroken?
KFG
When you are selling something it is always the best policy to lie with the truth.
KFG
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!
.they will make you an offer and you can gladly take their money.
Give the man a prize.
If you include company's logo in your video game without asking you are likely to get a nastygram from their lawyers insisting you remove it.
If you contact them and ask them how much they want to license the logo to you they will quote you a price and gladly take your money.
But. . .
If you contact them and ask them what they will pay for product placement . .
Learn the equation. Work the side that works for you.
KFG
1. Buy media. . .
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6. Refrain from using the term "intellectual property" . .
As a corallary explain to them that one of the reasons for buying physical media is because it is property. They own it, not license it. They may use it as their property and its cash value is retained by them as an asset.
Do not buy "IP," buy property.
KFG
The idea that one might live one's life in private and without fear of molestation is a *very* recent phenomenon.
"Matsuo Munefusa, alias Basho (1644-94), was a Japanese poet and writer during the early Edo period. He took his pen name Basho from his basho-an, a hut made of plantain leaves, to where he would withdraw from society for solitude."
KFG
Can someone with one of these beasts tell us how long the thing runs unplugged?
Couple of nanoseconds.
KFG
Do any of them autoexecute with root by clicking on an email?
KFG
"We Just Don't Give A Shit"
Can't use that. It's an AT&T trademark.
Although their tag was, "because we don't have to."
KFG
Gameplay need not suffer,
.of course every game these days is 3D and you might not like that and prefer your platform games.
I have never argued that graphics makes gameplay suffer. That would be, well, stupid.
. .
I have no use for platform games, and oddly enough, it is the 7 year old game that I play that is 3D, not the 5 year old one. However, in the right context good 2D art is superior to mediocre 3D modeling.
KFG
The Constitution is a legal document written by lawyers, using legal definitions and intended to interpreted as such.The creation of definitions is often arbitrary, but they are defined in the first place to remove that arbitrariness, particularly in law, which I think we can perhaps agree should not be applicable arbitrarily. At least not under a Constitutional government.
The context of limited time with regards to copyright already existed under British law which allowed for copyrights in perpetuity.
The reason for the particular phrasing is because, in fact, reasonable men were arguing about it and could not come to a mutually agreed upon "reasonable" limit to monopoly terms, the idea of "limited" already being understood to include multiple generations (unto the seventh generation and such).
Are there many definitions of "limited" depending upon the context? Certainly.
But we're talking about a particular context here, not "some" context, and thus a specific definition of "limited."
Not in perpetuity. Something less than forever.
I do not agree with current copyright law, in part because I am Jeffersonian in my view of this matter, and in part because much of current copyright law is in violation of all legal principles as they have ever been defined or understood before.
But this particular ruling is not, no matter how badly it sucks.
The flaw is in the Constitution, not the ruling, just as it was for issues of slavery, which all reasonable men, by the very virtue of reason, must abhor; and yet was an American institution we had to fight a civil war over to finally see abolished.
The solution is simple. Place an explicit limit on terms of rights in the Constitution, or remove the clause outright.
KFG
He's right! You sound exactly like that guy in the Onion article! :)
.better graphics. . .
I've got a lovely Sony about two feet from me. I've been out looking at and lusting over wide screeens. I can't remember the last time I turned it on, but I do remember times when I've left it on for days at a time, because at that time it interested me that much.
. .
Are, like art, subjective.
KFG
Unfortunately a classic example of a mathematical amateur making a mathematical judgement.
No, the question before the judge was one of law, not mathematics, a field in which the judge is an expert. What is the legal definition of "limited."
I think, however, that you will find the mathematical definition of a set of limited counting numbers (since by axiom our units are years) is any noninfinate set.
Any reasonable person would've said limited with respect to a person's lifetime.
What has this got to do with mathematical definitions? "Reasonable Person" is a legal term.
KFG
What do you think polygons, textures, normalmaps, etc are?
Exactly.
Your brain can add details but only if it thinks the details belong there. And you never get close enough to see the lack of detail.
How much detail is there in a Seurat?
KFG