On Big Projects intalliation is team effort that takes several hours over a weekend to install at one location. On some projects building the application is a full time job for a "build" lead.
Sounds like she agreed to get off facebook as part of deal for less jail time. Other deals you might make with the judge. "Less time in exchange for serving in the military", "Less time in exchange for community service", "Less time in exchange for entering into rehab", "Less time with an agreement to avoid certain people" It is still kinda of awful. Judges should avoid restricting peoples first amendment rights.
Yes it is a metaphor. The troll under the bridge. A threat that is unseen that only exists to attack. My favorite corporation is... Google, McDonnalds, or Sony depending on how I measure it.
No, Troll is not a generic name for an evil company. A Troll is a company whose primary source of income is patent lawsuits. This company doesn't fit that discription. It has another source of income that can be sued. You can't fight a patent Troll with GPL because a patent Troll doesn't have a product that uses GPL. A true patent Troll is just a P.O. Box and a lawyer.
Doesn't seem to be a Patent Troll if the company has a product. Trolls are generally Non Practicing Entities. Are we going to start calling Apple, Google, and Microsoft patent trolls now?
When it comes to developers, "fragmentation" means you can't target a single device. That you have to code for a generic lowest common denominator device. IOS developers can still safely target the IPhone 5 and include support for the IPhone 4S for new mobile apps. Supporting the same time period in Android means supporting dozens if not hundreds of phones and phablets.
Ereaders are cheap. So it is not the same as lending your house. More like lending a power tool. You can have multiple devices on an account so it is not like lending your exclusive access to all your books. If you have a generation 1 kindle and a tablet then lending out the kindle is no big deal. Nothing like lending out a room or lending out a house.
Not much value when there are hundreds of people creating compilations of public-domain works because they purchased a $.99 book titled "How to make a fortune selling books on Amazon! $$$". These bookstores just need to sign a deal with Project Guutenberg and integrate the free stuff into a free section of the store.
Or you could just lend your brother your kindle. Then he can read your books without doing all of the above. Also DRM is optional on Amazon.(the author chooses if DRM is used)
Sure, but how does Amazon identify who is a spammer and who is isn't? Anyone can do what he did. Anyone can go to his site and copy paste the contents into an ebook. How do they pick what contributor of a wiki gets to sell a book in their store? They only want one copy for sale.
we are not confident that you hold exclusive publishing rights
Amazon doesn't allow you to sell your book free. The minimum price is $0.99. They want a cut of the sales. 30% of free is $0.00. They don't want to lose money on your free book. I think they allow promotions for a limited time.
They allowed it at first. But spammers ruined it. Amazon is perfectly happy hosting one copy of Arch Linux Handbook. They simply don't want to host 25 versions of it. So they require that you prove you are the only one permitted to publish the book. They don't want each contributor to the book selling their own version on Amazon. They also don't want spammers who have nothing to do with the book selling it on Amazon. They also had issues where spammers would add Advertisements into the book. You might get past chapter one and then find an add for a penny stock. They had search engine optimization firms putting links into public domain books to effect search results. Lots of returns and angry phone calls later we have this policy.
There is all kinds of spam in these bookstores. People go out and grab open licenced content and then package it as an ebook and try to sell it for $0.99
You wind up with 20 ebooks for The Tale of Two Cities listed in catagories like romance or science fiction. Makes the new release section a joke. On B&N there was once a problem where a publisher was selling machine generated books sourced from wikipedia.
2% different is alot of differences when your looking at a million entries. Of course the theives could of added bogus data to the list in order to hide its origens. Or appened one data set with another in order have over a million records.
The real money in publishing is not in the grunt work publishers do. There is not much money in connecting a writer with and editor. Not a lot of money in loaning authors small amounts of money. The real money is in controlling distribution. Publishers are ranked based on how many books they can sell. With Amazon they had no control. No control over distribution or even price. They could no longer pick winners and losers. Amazon had books at $9.99 to accelerate the physical to digital switch. Agency pricing is a delay tactic by the publishers.
1) They only have 70% of the ebook market. B&N has about 20%
2) Our anti trust laws are about protecting consumers. You have to prove consumers were harmed by higher prices. The government has to wait till Amazon raises prices. The government can also bring a case if they find a witness or documents showing Amazon plans to raise prices.
3) Amazon beat B&N to market by two years. It beat Apple to market by four years. During that time it had a natural monopoly. Saying Amazon had a monopoly those first two years is like saying Apple had a monopoly on Smartphones prior to Android being released.
4) Amazon has yet to cause any ebook seller to go our of business. Plenty of ebook stores opened up under wholesale pricing. The only seller I know of that went broke was Borders. Borders went out of business under the Agency model. It also didn't really go out of business. Boders was partnered with Kobo to sell ebooks. Kobo still exists.
There is no barrier to entry to do what Amazon does. You just need a website and and a Ipad application. The technical service that Amazon provides is tiny. If they ever raised prices new competition would eat Amazon alive. The costs are so low for Amazon competition that Amazon can't drive them out of business. Even if Sony or Barnes and Noble never sell another best seller their ebook business can stay alive. Only physical stores are at risk.
Third, even if Amazon was engaged in predatory pricing,this is no excuse for unlawful price-fixing. Congress “has notpermitted the age-old cry of ruinous competition and competitiveevils to be a defense to price-fixing conspiracies.” Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., 310 U.S. at 221. The familiar mantra regarding“two wrongs” would seem to offer guidance in these
The judge can't approve price fixing just because another company is dumping. If Amazon is dumping the publishers should sue Amazon. Or file a complaint with the Department of Justice. Amazon is innocent untill proven guilty of Dumping. They Judge can't take the law into his own hands and punish Amazon without a trial.
Yes, Amazon paid some authors out of thier own pocket. It also pays publishers directly as well. They purchased a book for $20 wholesale and sell it for $9.99 as a promotion. This is selling below cost. No evidence they were losing money on all their ebook sales. Amazons strategy is low low low margins. They lose money on best sellers and make up the loss with other books. They can do this because of the huge volume of sales that is possible when you have low low low margins. Their strategy is the exact opposite of Apples.
This kind of price discrimination only works becasue the product is digital. Being able to buy from the guy getting the lower price is how this is avoided with physical goods. The solution is not prevent price descrimination. The solution is to allow resale of digital goods.
The patent system is not there to reward time and effort. It is there to reward innovation. Many things are obvious but don't get done because of a lack of time and effort. We anit-patent fanatics have a high bar for inovation. There are over 9 million software developers in the world. Every day these developers put in time and effort. If everything they did was patented there would be over 3 billion patents published each year. (1 invention per day * 365 * 9 million = 3.285 billion)
No sure how a space elevator is going to bring something gently down assuming the object was launched at the moon from the earth. Your going to have to slow down quite a bit to dock with an elevator. Might as well use that energy to land on the surface. Plus you run the risk of damaging the elevator if you attempt to dock things with it.
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On Big Projects intalliation is team effort that takes several hours over a weekend to install at one location. On some projects building the application is a full time job for a "build" lead.
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Sounds like she agreed to get off facebook as part of deal for less jail time. Other deals you might make with the judge. "Less time in exchange for serving in the military", "Less time in exchange for community service", "Less time in exchange for entering into rehab", "Less time with an agreement to avoid certain people"
It is still kinda of awful. Judges should avoid restricting peoples first amendment rights.
Yes it is a metaphor. The troll under the bridge. A threat that is unseen that only exists to attack. My favorite corporation is... Google, McDonnalds, or Sony depending on how I measure it.
No, Troll is not a generic name for an evil company. A Troll is a company whose primary source of income is patent lawsuits. This company doesn't fit that discription. It has another source of income that can be sued. You can't fight a patent Troll with GPL because a patent Troll doesn't have a product that uses GPL. A true patent Troll is just a P.O. Box and a lawyer.
Doesn't seem to be a Patent Troll if the company has a product. Trolls are generally Non Practicing Entities. Are we going to start calling Apple, Google, and Microsoft patent trolls now?
When it comes to developers, "fragmentation" means you can't target a single device. That you have to code for a generic lowest common denominator device. IOS developers can still safely target the IPhone 5 and include support for the IPhone 4S for new mobile apps. Supporting the same time period in Android means supporting dozens if not hundreds of phones and phablets.
Nintendo is a japaneese company. Japan is the center of the universe for Nintendo. Releasing in Japan first makes sense. Get over it.
Ereaders are cheap. So it is not the same as lending your house. More like lending a power tool. You can have multiple devices on an account so it is not like lending your exclusive access to all your books. If you have a generation 1 kindle and a tablet then lending out the kindle is no big deal. Nothing like lending out a room or lending out a house.
Not much value when there are hundreds of people creating compilations of public-domain works because they purchased a $.99 book titled "How to make a fortune selling books on Amazon! $$$". These bookstores just need to sign a deal with Project Guutenberg and integrate the free stuff into a free section of the store.
Or you could just lend your brother your kindle. Then he can read your books without doing all of the above. Also DRM is optional on Amazon.(the author chooses if DRM is used)
we are not confident that you hold exclusive publishing rights
Seems like Amazon wasn't sure he was the author.
Amazon doesn't allow you to sell your book free. The minimum price is $0.99. They want a cut of the sales. 30% of free is $0.00. They don't want to lose money on your free book. I think they allow promotions for a limited time.
They allowed it at first. But spammers ruined it. Amazon is perfectly happy hosting one copy of Arch Linux Handbook. They simply don't want to host 25 versions of it. So they require that you prove you are the only one permitted to publish the book. They don't want each contributor to the book selling their own version on Amazon. They also don't want spammers who have nothing to do with the book selling it on Amazon. They also had issues where spammers would add Advertisements into the book. You might get past chapter one and then find an add for a penny stock. They had search engine optimization firms putting links into public domain books to effect search results. Lots of returns and angry phone calls later we have this policy.
There is all kinds of spam in these bookstores. People go out and grab open licenced content and then package it as an ebook and try to sell it for $0.99 You wind up with 20 ebooks for The Tale of Two Cities listed in catagories like romance or science fiction. Makes the new release section a joke. On B&N there was once a problem where a publisher was selling machine generated books sourced from wikipedia.
2% different is alot of differences when your looking at a million entries. Of course the theives could of added bogus data to the list in order to hide its origens. Or appened one data set with another in order have over a million records.
The real money in publishing is not in the grunt work publishers do. There is not much money in connecting a writer with and editor. Not a lot of money in loaning authors small amounts of money. The real money is in controlling distribution. Publishers are ranked based on how many books they can sell. With Amazon they had no control. No control over distribution or even price. They could no longer pick winners and losers. Amazon had books at $9.99 to accelerate the physical to digital switch. Agency pricing is a delay tactic by the publishers.
1) They only have 70% of the ebook market. B&N has about 20%
2) Our anti trust laws are about protecting consumers. You have to prove consumers were harmed by higher prices. The government has to wait till Amazon raises prices. The government can also bring a case if they find a witness or documents showing Amazon plans to raise prices.
3) Amazon beat B&N to market by two years. It beat Apple to market by four years. During that time it had a natural monopoly. Saying Amazon had a monopoly those first two years is like saying Apple had a monopoly on Smartphones prior to Android being released.
4) Amazon has yet to cause any ebook seller to go our of business. Plenty of ebook stores opened up under wholesale pricing. The only seller I know of that went broke was Borders. Borders went out of business under the Agency model. It also didn't really go out of business. Boders was partnered with Kobo to sell ebooks. Kobo still exists.
There is no barrier to entry to do what Amazon does. You just need a website and and a Ipad application. The technical service that Amazon provides is tiny. If they ever raised prices new competition would eat Amazon alive. The costs are so low for Amazon competition that Amazon can't drive them out of business. Even if Sony or Barnes and Noble never sell another best seller their ebook business can stay alive. Only physical stores are at risk.
Third, even if Amazon was engaged in predatory pricing,this is no excuse for unlawful price-fixing. Congress “has notpermitted the age-old cry of ruinous competition and competitiveevils to be a defense to price-fixing conspiracies.” Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., 310 U.S. at 221. The familiar mantra regarding“two wrongs” would seem to offer guidance in these
The judge can't approve price fixing just because another company is dumping. If Amazon is dumping the publishers should sue Amazon. Or file a complaint with the Department of Justice. Amazon is innocent untill proven guilty of Dumping. They Judge can't take the law into his own hands and punish Amazon without a trial.
Yes, Amazon paid some authors out of thier own pocket. It also pays publishers directly as well. They purchased a book for $20 wholesale and sell it for $9.99 as a promotion. This is selling below cost. No evidence they were losing money on all their ebook sales. Amazons strategy is low low low margins. They lose money on best sellers and make up the loss with other books. They can do this because of the huge volume of sales that is possible when you have low low low margins. Their strategy is the exact opposite of Apples.
This kind of price discrimination only works becasue the product is digital. Being able to buy from the guy getting the lower price is how this is avoided with physical goods. The solution is not prevent price descrimination. The solution is to allow resale of digital goods.
The patent system is not there to reward time and effort. It is there to reward innovation. Many things are obvious but don't get done because of a lack of time and effort. We anit-patent fanatics have a high bar for inovation. There are over 9 million software developers in the world. Every day these developers put in time and effort. If everything they did was patented there would be over 3 billion patents published each year. (1 invention per day * 365 * 9 million = 3.285 billion)
No sure how a space elevator is going to bring something gently down assuming the object was launched at the moon from the earth. Your going to have to slow down quite a bit to dock with an elevator. Might as well use that energy to land on the surface. Plus you run the risk of damaging the elevator if you attempt to dock things with it.
Did Einstein accomplish much when he was really old?