That analogy almost works. The difference being AOL was an over inflated company(see all stock, no substance) and TW didn't stop to consider that. TW was very old school(they actually liked for things to work) as opposed to AOLs we'll figure it out at some pt routine. They were a horrible mismatch from the start. Had TW's management been able to run AOLTW instead of AOLs management running it, things probably would have been a lot better for AOLTW. Apple isn't all stock. They have a model that seems to be working and probably will for the forseeable future. (Everyone saw AOLs high prices, sucky service wasn't going to hold). Disney has a whole lot of crap that people are willing to pay for. I don't think this deal will happen but it would definitely work out a lot better than the AOLTW fiasco.
Are you familiar with the Neo Geo, not the CD system but the $500-$600(back in the early to mid 90s) cartridge system? You know the one with the $200 games? Yea they sold a bunch of those in Japan. A Japanese company can sell almost anything over there as long as it doesnt suck in performance.
Names don't need to be descriptive if you're a BILLION PLUS DOLLAR CORPORATION WHOSE NAME IS SYNOMYMOUS WITH THE PRODUCT. Do ACs always miss the obvious by so much?
Uh not quite. It's illegal if the purpose is to wipe out the competition so you can THEN RAISE your prices once people are dependent on them. That's what the problem with Taiwan and the ram prices back in the day. The U.S. saw the goal as to gain a huge market share and if possible wipe out U.S competition in the ram industry and then raise prices later when they are the biggest player if not the only player on the block. The feds know MS isn't going to wipe Sony or Nintendo out with this pricing as well as that Sony is planning to do the same thing. They also know MS doesn't have a plan to raise the prices of the X360 if by some chance Sony and Nintendo got out of the console market.
Seriously unless you got an OS or some other software package thats going to stimulate the economy or create a surplus OR if you have a confirmed list of corporations/individuals who are looking for a way to increase their profits by billions of dollars solely to donate it to some great cause, quit your bitching or as you call it "random thoughts". Nevermind, we'll just call it what it is, bitching.
Please start charging to post as soon as you can. Then just maybe people will actually read other people's posts before posting the exact same thing over and over.
Have you seen the results of the other E3s? We'll focus on Sony specifically. I remember when the PS2 was first announced. I also remember it having alot of hype up until release. Do we talk about games? Remember Final Fantasy 7? The hype only built up after E3 until it was released that following September.
Stopping to think about it you might be right in some regards, Nintendo just might suck at marketing. Sony on the other hand seems to be the current kings of marketing as I can't remember the last time there WASN'T hype for something Sony.
You are at least right on the last part. This is the EU not the US. Exactly what is the EU going to do to put MS in a world of pain? I think you underestimate what being a global 'monopoly' having already defeated your home country's DoJ can do for a company.
Like some guy said earlier in this thread. MS Europe is essentially just a guy with a presence so they can sell there, nothing more. EU can't shut MS down, can't break MS up, and if MS set up their hierarchy correctly, the EU can't even lock their accounts or force them to pay anything. Non compliance = quite a few bad days maybe. Non compliance != world of pain by any stretch.
I think it's safe to say that Google is bigger than your average ISP and infinitely bigger than Grokster. If the MPAA|RIAA wants to bring a fight to Google's front door, I think Google has both the EFF and more importantly the CASH to handle it.
I'm EST so I don't know for sure but arent the article post dates in EST as well as saying Month and day? I would think that would give it away even for those who usually celebrate it. We're a crazy bunch.
Ok I was sorta right: "How can a school use my Social Security number?
Publicly-funded schools and those that receive federal funding must comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act in order to retain their funding (FERPA, also known as the "Buckley Amendment," enacted in 1974, 20 USC 1232g). One of FERPA's provisions requires written consent for the release of educational records or personally identifiable information, with some exceptions. The courts have stated that Social Security numbers fall within this provision.
FERPA applies to state colleges, universities and technical schools that receive federal funding. An argument can be made that if such a school displays students' SSNs on identification cards or distributes class rosters or grades listings containing SSNs, it would be a release of personally identifiable information, violating FERPA. However, many schools and universities have not interpreted the law this way and continue to use SSNs as a student identifier. To succeed in obtaining an alternate number to the SSN, you will probably need to be persistent and cite the law. Social Security numbers may be obtained by colleges and universities for students who have university jobs and/or receive federal financial aid. In Krebs v. Rutgers, the court ruled that SSNs are "educational records" under FERPA (Krebs v. Rutgers, 797 F. Supp. 1246 (D.N.J. 1992)).
The FERPA text can be found at the web, www.cpsr.org/cpsr/privacy/ssn/ferpa.buckley.html. For the U.S. Department of Education's web site on FERPA, see www.ed.gov/offices/OM/fpco/ferpa/index.html.
Public schools, colleges and universities that ask for your SSN fall within the provisions of another federal law, the Privacy Act of 1974. This act requires such schools to provide a disclosure statement telling students how the Social Security number is used. If you are required to provide your SSN, be sure to look for the school's disclosure statement. If one is not offered, you may want to file a complaint with the school, citing the Privacy Act.
When the school is a private institution, your only recourse is to work with the administration to change the policy or at least to let you use an alternate identification number as your student ID."
I'm 99% sure there is currently law that states no organization(short of the feds) can make you use your SSN as an ID number and they have to change it at your request. I know the DMV(I'm in VA) had to change my Driver ID when i requested.(It used to be my SSN)
He's an anarchist. He would make it a point to enjoy the freedoms even if they weren't granted to him by the government(civil disobedience, law breaking etc). There isn't any real irony here.
So.... what's the point? Adobe makes a kickass product thats easy to use and they protect their investment. Sounds like they're doing everything right. Adobe is king. It's ok since they're Adobe:)
I would love to be able to surf the web through photoshop. Then I wouldnt have to miminize or keep PS in a window. Photoshop doesnt like to be minimized.:(
Uh, in business(or real world networks as you call it) THEY PAY US to increase their bottom line. In this wonderful world of college, WE PAY THEM, those non profit organizations. So, unless someone wants to provide a cost breakdown showing that somehow they are paying for the bandwidth and not my tutition dollars, they sure as hell better let me use the net as I please(within the law of course). Unitl they do, its MY money and MY bandwidth.
I don't have an exact source for this but I have read at numerous spots over the years that Adobe doesn't really care as much as some. They are aware that their software gets pirated and treats it more often than not as training ground for people who will work at corporations and HAVE to buy their software because it is what they will be using to make money. The HS/college student rocking the illegal Creative Suite for lens flares isn't making them lose any sleep.
I'm all for "choice" and all that stuff. But to new users who get this OS with a computer and can't play music cause there isn't a player on it this is complete crap. I hope MS puts a giant link on their desktop for "click here to download media player to play music". Stupid media player makers who keep complaining....
Wouldn't this be the first modenrn OS that doesn't let you play music out the box?
Oh shut up already. Geezus. Could you be more cynical?
News flash: putting your name on the largest amount of money ever given out during a lifetime does NOT make you a bad person. And I'm not sure what type of world you live in, but in the REAL world, the amount does count. Because last time I checked the amount of money Gates has donated has done alot more to help the world than whatever you have given.
In 25 years I'll be 47. Unless something really bad happens to me I'd take immortality at that age. I'm willing to settle for a fully functional cryo chamber to hold me till the immortality kinks are worked out though. My cryo chamber has to be like those dream machines in Vanilla sky.
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That analogy almost works. The difference being AOL was an over inflated company(see all stock, no substance) and TW didn't stop to consider that. TW was very old school(they actually liked for things to work) as opposed to AOLs we'll figure it out at some pt routine. They were a horrible mismatch from the start. Had TW's management been able to run AOLTW instead of AOLs management running it, things probably would have been a lot better for AOLTW. Apple isn't all stock. They have a model that seems to be working and probably will for the forseeable future. (Everyone saw AOLs high prices, sucky service wasn't going to hold). Disney has a whole lot of crap that people are willing to pay for. I don't think this deal will happen but it would definitely work out a lot better than the AOLTW fiasco.
Are you familiar with the Neo Geo, not the CD system but the $500-$600(back in the early to mid 90s) cartridge system? You know the one with the $200 games? Yea they sold a bunch of those in Japan. A Japanese company can sell almost anything over there as long as it doesnt suck in performance.
Names don't need to be descriptive if you're a BILLION PLUS DOLLAR CORPORATION WHOSE NAME IS SYNOMYMOUS WITH THE PRODUCT. Do ACs always miss the obvious by so much?
Uh not quite. It's illegal if the purpose is to wipe out the competition so you can THEN RAISE your prices once people are dependent on them. That's what the problem with Taiwan and the ram prices back in the day. The U.S. saw the goal as to gain a huge market share and if possible wipe out U.S competition in the ram industry and then raise prices later when they are the biggest player if not the only player on the block. The feds know MS isn't going to wipe Sony or Nintendo out with this pricing as well as that Sony is planning to do the same thing. They also know MS doesn't have a plan to raise the prices of the X360 if by some chance Sony and Nintendo got out of the console market.
LOL, economic drain, yea that's it.
Seriously unless you got an OS or some other software package thats going to stimulate the economy or create a surplus OR if you have a confirmed list of corporations/individuals who are looking for a way to increase their profits by billions of dollars solely to donate it to some great cause, quit your bitching or as you call it "random thoughts". Nevermind, we'll just call it what it is, bitching.
when you're dividing out, you're dividing by 0.
a^2=ab so ab-ab=0
Amen. Maybe he was just testing to see if his server could withstand a /.ing.
Please start charging to post as soon as you can. Then just maybe people will actually read other people's posts before posting the exact same thing over and over.
But they're obligated to try. Calm down.
Have you seen the results of the other E3s? We'll focus on Sony specifically. I remember when the PS2 was first announced. I also remember it having alot of hype up until release. Do we talk about games? Remember Final Fantasy 7? The hype only built up after E3 until it was released that following September.
Stopping to think about it you might be right in some regards, Nintendo just might suck at marketing. Sony on the other hand seems to be the current kings of marketing as I can't remember the last time there WASN'T hype for something Sony.
You are at least right on the last part. This is the EU not the US.
Exactly what is the EU going to do to put MS in a world of pain? I think you underestimate what being a global 'monopoly' having already defeated your home country's DoJ can do for a company.
Like some guy said earlier in this thread. MS Europe is essentially just a guy with a presence so they can sell there, nothing more. EU can't shut MS down, can't break MS up, and if MS set up their hierarchy correctly, the EU can't even lock their accounts or force them to pay anything.
Non compliance = quite a few bad days maybe.
Non compliance != world of pain by any stretch.
I think it's safe to say that Google is bigger than your average ISP and infinitely bigger than Grokster. If the MPAA|RIAA wants to bring a fight to Google's front door, I think Google has both the EFF and more importantly the CASH to handle it.
I'm EST so I don't know for sure but arent the article post dates in EST as well as saying Month and day? I would think that would give it away even for those who usually celebrate it. We're a crazy bunch.
Ok I was sorta right:
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"How can a school use my Social Security number?
Publicly-funded schools and those that receive federal funding must comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act in order to retain their funding (FERPA, also known as the "Buckley Amendment," enacted in 1974, 20 USC 1232g). One of FERPA's provisions requires written consent for the release of educational records or personally identifiable information, with some exceptions. The courts have stated that Social Security numbers fall within this provision.
FERPA applies to state colleges, universities and technical schools that receive federal funding. An argument can be made that if such a school displays students' SSNs on identification cards or distributes class rosters or grades listings containing SSNs, it would be a release of personally identifiable information, violating FERPA. However, many schools and universities have not interpreted the law this way and continue to use SSNs as a student identifier. To succeed in obtaining an alternate number to the SSN, you will probably need to be persistent and cite the law. Social Security numbers may be obtained by colleges and universities for students who have university jobs and/or receive federal financial aid. In Krebs v. Rutgers, the court ruled that SSNs are "educational records" under FERPA (Krebs v. Rutgers, 797 F. Supp. 1246 (D.N.J. 1992)).
The FERPA text can be found at the web, www.cpsr.org/cpsr/privacy/ssn/ferpa.buckley.html. For the U.S. Department of Education's web site on FERPA, see www.ed.gov/offices/OM/fpco/ferpa/index.html.
Public schools, colleges and universities that ask for your SSN fall within the provisions of another federal law, the Privacy Act of 1974. This act requires such schools to provide a disclosure statement telling students how the Social Security number is used. If you are required to provide your SSN, be sure to look for the school's disclosure statement. If one is not offered, you may want to file a complaint with the school, citing the Privacy Act.
When the school is a private institution, your only recourse is to work with the administration to change the policy or at least to let you use an alternate identification number as your student ID."
You can find other info at
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs10-ssn.htm
Hope this helps.
I'm 99% sure there is currently law that states no organization(short of the feds) can make you use your SSN as an ID number and they have to change it at your request. I know the DMV(I'm in VA) had to change my Driver ID when i requested.(It used to be my SSN)
He's an anarchist. He would make it a point to enjoy the freedoms even if they weren't granted to him by the government(civil disobedience, law breaking etc). There isn't any real irony here.
So.... what's the point? Adobe makes a kickass product thats easy to use and they protect their investment. Sounds like they're doing everything right. Adobe is king. It's ok since they're Adobe :)
I would love to be able to surf the web through photoshop. Then I wouldnt have to miminize or keep PS in a window. Photoshop doesnt like to be minimized. :(
Uh, in business(or real world networks as you call it) THEY PAY US to increase their bottom line. In this wonderful world of college, WE PAY THEM, those non profit organizations. So, unless someone wants to provide a cost breakdown showing that somehow they are paying for the bandwidth and not my tutition dollars, they sure as hell better let me use the net as I please(within the law of course). Unitl they do, its MY money and MY bandwidth.
I don't have an exact source for this but I have read at numerous spots over the years that Adobe doesn't really care as much as some. They are aware that their software gets pirated and treats it more often than not as training ground for people who will work at corporations and HAVE to buy their software because it is what they will be using to make money. The HS/college student rocking the illegal Creative Suite for lens flares isn't making them lose any sleep.
I'm all for "choice" and all that stuff. But to new users who get this OS with a computer and can't play music cause there isn't a player on it this is complete crap. I hope MS puts a giant link on their desktop for "click here to download media player to play music". Stupid media player makers who keep complaining....
Wouldn't this be the first modenrn OS that doesn't let you play music out the box?
I definitely made the association with 24 the moment i read the summary. Art mirroring life...
Oh shut up already. Geezus. Could you be more cynical?
News flash: putting your name on the largest amount of money ever given out during a lifetime does NOT make you a bad person. And I'm not sure what type of world you live in, but in the REAL world, the amount does count. Because last time I checked the amount of money Gates has donated has done alot more to help the world than whatever you have given.
In 25 years I'll be 47. Unless something really bad happens to me I'd take immortality at that age. I'm willing to settle for a fully functional cryo chamber to hold me till the immortality kinks are worked out though. My cryo chamber has to be like those dream machines in Vanilla sky.
Immortality... he better get it right!
Sega was bought by Sammy a while ago. And Sammy isn't getting bought anytime soon.