Weren't we just a few years ago complaining that browsers displayed pages differently and we were looking for all browsers to adapt open standards so they would look alike?
Now we have someone upset because he wants to make someones page look different and they don't want it. My how times change
There is a poster on every other general tech site who says "" loves Apple". If every tech site except the dedicated windows/linux site loves Apple, isn't there the slight chance there is a decent reason for it? I'm guessing you aren't the biggest fan of Apple since you felt the need to make this routine Apple bias post.
I can't wait till someone makes it possible to filter out the hate from any and all threads that pertain to said company. Threads would be probably less than half as long:)
"When the Nexus One was released, the motorola droid wasn't out yet, the closest competitor to the iPhone on android was the mytouch 3g and HTC hero on sprint (i'm referring to US market not european market)."
The Droid came out October17, 2009 and the Nexus came out January 5, 2010
The idea seems good enough but then they might just start making stuff up to get settlements since their income is based on it. . i'm guessing dealing with the SEC is similar to the IRS where you're assumed guilty until you can convince them you're innocent. If the lawsuits start piling up, a cost/benefit analysis might show its easier to settle and pay a small fine to the SEC and not admit wrong doing instead of fighting it.
Most people probably can't explain the "WHY" of a stocks movement from day to day. Are you expecting people to not buy stocks? If everyone was on the same page about financial products, we'd be pretty close to 'perfect markets' and no one would make much money. It's because so few have any idea why something is worth what it is in a market that people bother to get in to it: to make money off someone else's misunderstandings.
I can't find the very first story that had the initial details, but at first no big site physically had it, and pics were posted from the guy who found it. The story said he was charging people to spend time with it. So engadget I believe passed on paying this guy for it. How gizmodo got it? Maybe they offered him some random tech device in exchange for it or maybe he was just a big fan of Gizmodo. Also there is the good chance that after Apple wiped it, the person who found it had no use for it and just gave it to Gizmodo in exchange to hang with the giz crew and have them pay for dinner. He was probably smart enough to know that putting it on ebay would have Apple knocking on his front door.
I feel like you're switching the scenario in mid question.
An international corporation to minimize taxing of say 500 million is opting to report that 500 million in a country where the tax rate is lets say 20% vs 35% or so here. A US individual who made 500 million mostly outside the country based on the foreign exclusion rules, would report x amount in country A and the rest in the U.S. If said U.S. citizen was a dual citizen between US and country A, he might have more wiggle room on where he could report his taxes. The international corporation is a citizen of whatever country it wants to setup shop in and call home for the moment so it gets the luxury of picking the lowest tax locales.
How can one side do their job if the other doesn't point out the exploit?
I feel the same about AV software. If the big AV companies don't have at least a few virus/worm writers on the payroll, how else do they know if their defense software is any good?*
*Less assume for a moment that AV software is somewhat decent.
So how do you compare them? A vocal minority has been calling for HTML 5 to kill the need for flash video and now that people can play with HTML 5, they want to know how close it is to doing it. Besides that, every new product by a company is compared to the the current version of the sitting industry heavy weight, version doesn't matter. If you are late to the party, everyone expects your version 1 to be up to snuff with whatever version the competition has.
Perhaps it's the fault of the W3C for making the direct comparison to Flash (i don't hear much mention of Sliverlight) or maybe its the fault the vocal minority for presenting HTML5's video as a potential Flash killer, but now the comparison is out there and there is no getting around it.
Is that like saying Coca Cola couldn't sue you for offering cash for (either in its entirety or a part of) their secret coke recipe unless they are willing to show you an NDA that has their coke recipe?
You don't have to assume that since Apple's lawyer pretty much said anybody you could get some information worth anything is under an NDA and breaking it. Let's assume there exists a list somewhere of everyone who is SUPPOSED to have seen it and in turn is under an NDA. If you get useful information from someone who isn't on that list, I have no doubt Apple will sue that person to find out who on that list they got it from and go after them. If by some chance, the person the source got it from wasn't on the list, the cycle starts over again. In the end, Apple is gonna find someone to take the fall.
I think it would if the defense got the right lawyer.
Example: Your direct supervisor tells you, you can go home early, no need for you today. You leave. For one reason or another, HIS supervisor felt you shouldn't have left and fires you. I'm pretty sure with the right lawyer one can argue, you had a reasonable expectation that it was okay for you to leave and not suffer the consequences, despite what the policy and your supe's supe said.
This isn't really any different, if your superior says its okay for you to do something, and someone over his head comes down on you for it, you have a defense.
while not quite a 'service', they provided a free browser and the haters took them to court over it. They provided a media player and they had the EU book thrown at them.
I always wonder if those chanting firewire is dead ever even heard of digital camcorders. Almost every digital camcorder out there has some variation of a firewire port on it.
Delaware and Nevada don't approve of what you are trying to insinuate about companies who setup in their state. To say that MS or those other companies are committing any sort of 'crime' requiring 'justice' is saying that the aforementioned states are accomplices in the act. You want Washington and other states to drag Nevada and Delaware to court accusing them of conspiracy to commit tax evasion?
If states wanted to avoid this, they would all have the same tax structures. They don't and states like Nevada and Delaware know this and make it attractive to companies to setup shop there. The better question should be how can Washington and other states learn how to manage their money better so they can pull a Nevada or Delaware and still be sitting pretty.
The difference is (and I've seen this argument made before because I've seen another site aimed more at pc gaming do this) is with poker and other casino games, there is some 'chance' involved.
Removing the cheating factor from a console game, the amount of 'chance' is about zero. i.e with most FPS, players remember where weapons spawn and when, so map control isn't a luck game. In RTS, he who knows the correct build order will win most of the time, etc.
This is under the assumption that its only the players betting. I didn't read the article so I don't know if it allows spectators to bet on the results. IF it allows that, that opens a new can of worms, because spectators have no control over the event and are just hoping
My personal suspicion is that Apple planned the next iPod Touch to be called the Touch HD, Microsoft got wind of it, and decided to pre-announce to "reserve" the name in the public's mind.
Giving dell the benefit of the doubt, I have to agree with you. The women who are 'offended' and say they could care less about the girly stuff shop at Dell's primary website or a competitors main site and there is nothing really to be gained from them. The Della site is targeted at the 'other women' who don't shop at Dell's main site because they don't feel its aime at them.
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Weren't we just a few years ago complaining that browsers displayed pages differently and we were looking for all browsers to adapt open standards so they would look alike?
Now we have someone upset because he wants to make someones page look different and they don't want it. My how times change
There is a poster on every other general tech site who says "" loves Apple". If every tech site except the dedicated windows/linux site loves Apple, isn't there the slight chance there is a decent reason for it? I'm guessing you aren't the biggest fan of Apple since you felt the need to make this routine Apple bias post.
I can't wait till someone makes it possible to filter out the hate from any and all threads that pertain to said company. Threads would be probably less than half as long :)
Can you say "wholly owned subsidiary"?
You can dl a quality free Flash developer tool?
"When the Nexus One was released, the motorola droid wasn't out yet, the closest competitor to the iPhone on android was the mytouch 3g and HTC hero on sprint (i'm referring to US market not european market)."
The Droid came out October17, 2009 and the Nexus came out January 5, 2010
The idea seems good enough but then they might just start making stuff up to get settlements since their income is based on it. . i'm guessing dealing with the SEC is similar to the IRS where you're assumed guilty until you can convince them you're innocent. If the lawsuits start piling up, a cost/benefit analysis might show its easier to settle and pay a small fine to the SEC and not admit wrong doing instead of fighting it.
It's more cost effective if they can get the DoJ to do it for them.
Most people probably can't explain the "WHY" of a stocks movement from day to day. Are you expecting people to not buy stocks? If everyone was on the same page about financial products, we'd be pretty close to 'perfect markets' and no one would make much money. It's because so few have any idea why something is worth what it is in a market that people bother to get in to it: to make money off someone else's misunderstandings.
I can't find the very first story that had the initial details, but at first no big site physically had it, and pics were posted from the guy who found it. The story said he was charging people to spend time with it. So engadget I believe passed on paying this guy for it. How gizmodo got it? Maybe they offered him some random tech device in exchange for it or maybe he was just a big fan of Gizmodo. Also there is the good chance that after Apple wiped it, the person who found it had no use for it and just gave it to Gizmodo in exchange to hang with the giz crew and have them pay for dinner. He was probably smart enough to know that putting it on ebay would have Apple knocking on his front door.
I feel like you're switching the scenario in mid question.
An international corporation to minimize taxing of say 500 million is opting to report that 500 million in a country where the tax rate is lets say 20% vs 35% or so here. A US individual who made 500 million mostly outside the country based on the foreign exclusion rules, would report x amount in country A and the rest in the U.S. If said U.S. citizen was a dual citizen between US and country A, he might have more wiggle room on where he could report his taxes. The international corporation is a citizen of whatever country it wants to setup shop in and call home for the moment so it gets the luxury of picking the lowest tax locales.
How can one side do their job if the other doesn't point out the exploit?
I feel the same about AV software. If the big AV companies don't have at least a few virus/worm writers on the payroll, how else do they know if their defense software is any good?*
*Less assume for a moment that AV software is somewhat decent.
So how do you compare them? A vocal minority has been calling for HTML 5 to kill the need for flash video and now that people can play with HTML 5, they want to know how close it is to doing it. Besides that, every new product by a company is compared to the the current version of the sitting industry heavy weight, version doesn't matter. If you are late to the party, everyone expects your version 1 to be up to snuff with whatever version the competition has.
Perhaps it's the fault of the W3C for making the direct comparison to Flash (i don't hear much mention of Sliverlight) or maybe its the fault the vocal minority for presenting HTML5's video as a potential Flash killer, but now the comparison is out there and there is no getting around it.
Is that like saying Coca Cola couldn't sue you for offering cash for (either in its entirety or a part of) their secret coke recipe unless they are willing to show you an NDA that has their coke recipe?
I don't see their legal team agreeing with you.
You don't have to assume that since Apple's lawyer pretty much said anybody you could get some information worth anything is under an NDA and breaking it. Let's assume there exists a list somewhere of everyone who is SUPPOSED to have seen it and in turn is under an NDA. If you get useful information from someone who isn't on that list, I have no doubt Apple will sue that person to find out who on that list they got it from and go after them. If by some chance, the person the source got it from wasn't on the list, the cycle starts over again. In the end, Apple is gonna find someone to take the fall.
Google would just buy you send you on your merry way.
I think it would if the defense got the right lawyer.
Example:
Your direct supervisor tells you, you can go home early, no need for you today.
You leave.
For one reason or another, HIS supervisor felt you shouldn't have left and fires you.
I'm pretty sure with the right lawyer one can argue, you had a reasonable expectation that it was okay for you to leave and not suffer the consequences, despite what the policy and your supe's supe said.
This isn't really any different, if your superior says its okay for you to do something, and someone over his head comes down on you for it, you have a defense.
while not quite a 'service', they provided a free browser and the haters took them to court over it. They provided a media player and they had the EU book thrown at them.
Doesn't MS own most of their lawyers?
I always wonder if those chanting firewire is dead ever even heard of digital camcorders. Almost every digital camcorder out there has some variation of a firewire port on it.
Delaware and Nevada don't approve of what you are trying to insinuate about companies who setup in their state. To say that MS or those other companies are committing any sort of 'crime' requiring 'justice' is saying that the aforementioned states are accomplices in the act. You want Washington and other states to drag Nevada and Delaware to court accusing them of conspiracy to commit tax evasion?
If states wanted to avoid this, they would all have the same tax structures. They don't and states like Nevada and Delaware know this and make it attractive to companies to setup shop there. The better question should be how can Washington and other states learn how to manage their money better so they can pull a Nevada or Delaware and still be sitting pretty.
The difference is (and I've seen this argument made before because I've seen another site aimed more at pc gaming do this) is with poker and other casino games, there is some 'chance' involved.
Removing the cheating factor from a console game, the amount of 'chance' is about zero. i.e with most FPS, players remember where weapons spawn and when, so map control isn't a luck game. In RTS, he who knows the correct build order will win most of the time, etc.
This is under the assumption that its only the players betting. I didn't read the article so I don't know if it allows spectators to bet on the results. IF it allows that, that opens a new can of worms, because spectators have no control over the event and are just hoping
so fast?
Perhaps we have different concepts of time. I've been reading about Linux trying to breakout on the desktop for over a decade.
My personal suspicion is that Apple planned the next iPod Touch to be called the Touch HD, Microsoft got wind of it, and decided to pre-announce to "reserve" the name in the public's mind.
*cough* http://www.htc.com/www/product/touchhd/overview.html *cough*
Giving dell the benefit of the doubt, I have to agree with you. The women who are 'offended' and say they could care less about the girly stuff shop at Dell's primary website or a competitors main site and there is nothing really to be gained from them. The Della site is targeted at the 'other women' who don't shop at Dell's main site because they don't feel its aime at them.
Yea I bet. I'll believe it when someone can show me the modified EU taxes and fees for 2010 reflecting the 1.45 billion Intel 'donated'.
The people aren't going to see any benefit from this.