So that means they needed to cut costs by 28%. A portion of that is going to come from labor when you are talking percentages that big. The fact that they had made prior concessions is irrelevant so long as sales continued to fall.
The union conceded what was around a 30% reduction in labor costs to heed off the first trip to bankruptcy and then the management demanded them take another 27-32% cut on top of that a few years later. It's not the union's failt they weren't willing to shoulder the entirety of the cuts while management dicked around.
Don't bring your silly "facts" into this. Every business failing is always 99.999% the union's fault. The poor management was just being held hostage and made impotent by those big, bad bullies.
They said it was overpriced for what you get. Which is different than what you were arguing. Budweiser is also overpriced for the quality of cat pee you get as well.
Logan:None of our team-members is on drugs as you suggest, and one of us has even sworn off caffeine. (Not sure how that works.)
Regarding the EFF, I think our point was just that with our limited resources, our primary focus is addressing the larger entities that are podcasting. To that extent, the EFF can be seen to be weighing in on the side of large media conglomerates such as CBS and NBC.
More generally, I think it’s a bit anomalous that patents often get such a bad rap by individuals, such as some engineers in Silicon Valley, or groups like the EFF, which purport to stand for David (vs Goliath). Patents are a great tool for the little guy. If you want to start a company, build it around some patented technology (like Google did). The patents, or even pending applications, will help you raise money, ward off competition, and give you a fighting chance. They’re the ultimate equalizer.
What a worthless argument. The EFF only happens to seem to be "weighing in the sides of the media conglomerates" because standing against patent trolls like this guy is the correct thing to do. It's no different than the ACLU's mission to defend the First Amendment sometimes requires weighing in on the side of racist shitbags.
Nice mental gymnastics there. If this were Mosaid doing the exact same thing the comments would be filled with nothing but attacks and how the patent is invalid and obvious, etc. Interesting to see that apparently Kim Dotcom has the only valid software patent in existence.
And yet when other companies do this they are string up and all the comments are about how trivial and obvious it is. But now that it's a Slashdot hero the comments are strangely silent on that.
Does the Berne Convention make any of these a requirement?
A. Anti-circumvention law
B. A copyright term longer than 50 years for works made for hire
C. Statutory damages in excess of the actual damages
D. Protection from compulsory purchase or eminent domain
Do you non sequitur much?
If not, a contracting country has the option to make any or all of these available only to works whose copyright is registered. For example, the United States has chosen this for statutory damages.
As a Berne signatory copyrights are automatically granted. There is no copyright registration as it would expressly violate the convention. Your statement makes no sense in context.
Do you live in a country that isn't a Berne Convention signatory? Because unless you do, no one has to apply for a copyright since the Berne Convention explicitly prohibits such a requirement.
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So that means they needed to cut costs by 28%. A portion of that is going to come from labor when you are talking percentages that big. The fact that they had made prior concessions is irrelevant so long as sales continued to fall.
The union conceded what was around a 30% reduction in labor costs to heed off the first trip to bankruptcy and then the management demanded them take another 27-32% cut on top of that a few years later. It's not the union's failt they weren't willing to shoulder the entirety of the cuts while management dicked around.
Don't bring your silly "facts" into this. Every business failing is always 99.999% the union's fault. The poor management was just being held hostage and made impotent by those big, bad bullies.
No, there is "trade secret" protection for the recipe.
They said it was overpriced for what you get. Which is different than what you were arguing. Budweiser is also overpriced for the quality of cat pee you get as well.
So you score with your left hand or the right hand?
As an analogy, the MPEG LA group generally doesn't go after individuals encoding video with a codec that is covered by patents in their pool.
They will go after you for royalties when it comes to the commercial use of the codec such as for home video, VOD, etc.
Logan:None of our team-members is on drugs as you suggest, and one of us has even sworn off caffeine. (Not sure how that works.)
Regarding the EFF, I think our point was just that with our limited resources, our primary focus is addressing the larger entities that are podcasting. To that extent, the EFF can be seen to be weighing in on the side of large media conglomerates such as CBS and NBC.
More generally, I think it’s a bit anomalous that patents often get such a bad rap by individuals, such as some engineers in Silicon Valley, or groups like the EFF, which purport to stand for David (vs Goliath). Patents are a great tool for the little guy. If you want to start a company, build it around some patented technology (like Google did). The patents, or even pending applications, will help you raise money, ward off competition, and give you a fighting chance. They’re the ultimate equalizer.
What a worthless argument. The EFF only happens to seem to be "weighing in the sides of the media conglomerates" because standing against patent trolls like this guy is the correct thing to do. It's no different than the ACLU's mission to defend the First Amendment sometimes requires weighing in on the side of racist shitbags.
Yeah, because everyone is going to buy a console PC to do spreadsheets and word processing on. Are you for real?
Which again is not the configuration as specified in the summary and article which was their whole poinnt.
Nigger!
Github did the same thing last year.
So explain the hivemind circle jerks that go on whenever one of the many gushing submissions about him are posted.
Because numerous posters treat him as such. He also gets plenty of gushing stories posted about him by the editors. Are you being intentional dense?
I never sued them. I believe in sharing knowledge & ideas for the good of society. But I might sue them now cause of what the U.S. did to me
From here. In your hasty attempt to defend Kim Dotcom you might have wanted to actually do a but more research.
Where has it been determined that he has a valid patent claim?
Impossible! Kim Dotcom is a freedom-fighting hero! How dare you speak ill of him! You fucking MAFIAA shill!
Enemy of my enemy, apparently.
Nice mental gymnastics there. If this were Mosaid doing the exact same thing the comments would be filled with nothing but attacks and how the patent is invalid and obvious, etc. Interesting to see that apparently Kim Dotcom has the only valid software patent in existence.
And yet when other companies do this they are string up and all the comments are about how trivial and obvious it is. But now that it's a Slashdot hero the comments are strangely silent on that.
I do not believe there are better Xorg drivers available in Linux, including NVidia.
+5 funny.
Does the Berne Convention make any of these a requirement?
Do you non sequitur much?
If not, a contracting country has the option to make any or all of these available only to works whose copyright is registered. For example, the United States has chosen this for statutory damages.
As a Berne signatory copyrights are automatically granted. There is no copyright registration as it would expressly violate the convention. Your statement makes no sense in context.
No, they renamed it to Apache OpenOffice.
For software, anyone applying for a copyright
Do you live in a country that isn't a Berne Convention signatory? Because unless you do, no one has to apply for a copyright since the Berne Convention explicitly prohibits such a requirement.
Flamebait? Really? Is there some little turd with no life downmodding all my posts in this thread? Christ, get a fucking life.
Why would it affect Rackspace?