You argument doesn't stand up to history. The switch to the Agency model occurred. It occurred like Steve Jobs promised it would on camera. All the publishers except one changed their pricing with the launch of the IPad. Prices on best sellers went up. The Department of Justice has witnesses and emails showing Apple organized this. The contracts the publishers signed with Apple clearly made it impossible for Amazon to lower prices. Saying Amazon had large market-share isn't a defense for price fixing.
2006 Amazon was the king of books sold online. If you purchased a book and had it delivered to you house via Fedex chance are you purchased your book from Amazon or its chief competitor Barnes and Noble. Amazon was the Walmart or the Tower records of books. Sept 2006 Sony releases the PRS-500 e-ink ereader. Nov 2007 Amazon releases the Kindle and begins marketing it on Amazon.com to its large book buying customer base. Nov 2009 Barnes and Noble, Amazons primary competitor, releases the Nook two years after the Kindle. It receives good reviews. B&N starts marketing the device in B&N stores to its millions of customers. Mar 2009 Amazon releases the Kindle app for IPhone (app would later work on IPad) April 2010 Apple releases the IPad with IBooks three years after the release of the Kindle and 1 year after the release of the Kindle app. The Agency model replaces the wholesale model. July 2010 Borders starts selling the Kobo ereader three years after the release of the Kindle Oct 2011 Borders goes into bankruptcy. Kobo survives and still sells books under the Agency model.
So saying there was no competition is strictly true. With the exception of Sony, Amazon did not have any competition for 2 to 3 years. So of course it gained 90% market share. And of course that market share went down after B&N started selling the Nook. If you look at current market share it is similar to Amazons share in 2006. Amazon in #1 and B&N is #2.
They are not trying the case in the public. When it come time for the trial Amazon will hand over its records and they will clearly show what occurred. They can also go and get B&N and Sony's sales records. Apple is the least likely company to have data on ebook sales prior to the switch to the Agency model. They didn't enter the market till 2010 and they were never a big player in the market afterwords.
And they won't be able to sync up the data between the two arrays because they will be in different locations. But as long as jobs are at stake the polititions will be happy with something that is more costly and less usefull.
Less to do with trusting dropbox and more to do with trusting your employees. My firm blocks all kind of things. GMail, Facebook, Twitter, and Usb drives. It also restricts other things. Can't use cell phone cameras on premise. Can't use your own mouse or headphones. Can't leave any papers on desk or in trash. Can't install anything without permission. I carry two cellphones because I can't mix personal and buisness email. This is a non story. I have no idea why slashdot isn't blocked.
They have no intention of doing anything further with it and have no authority over it.
Says who? Our plans for the lunar sites is to preserve them for history as national parks. You think you can go into the everglades and start logging because no one is doing anything with the trees? Who said we have no authority over it? It is our stuff. If you want to take you can try but we don't spend more money than you on military equipment because we are nice people.
Only a moron would spell out "threesixty" is what I got from it. Perfectly fine to drop the word XBox. People understand what your saying. Spelling out numbers that way is dumb. Still dumb if you wrote "three hundred and sixty."
The jury wasn't bribed. One of the Jurors was dismissed for being late because of car problems. The other was dismissed for being sick. With money on the line no juror would be dismissed for those reasons. If they were bribed they wouldn't have taken a week to reach a verdict either.
Basically Oracle failed to prove its case. Oracle had its expert say Google infringed. Google had it expert say they didn't infringe. The patent claims were a technical and vague. There was no way a layperson could find that one expert was right and the other was wrong. The Jury with no choice but to find Oracle didn't prove its case.
There will be no damage phase. Judge has sent the jury home. Judge will handle damages himself based on agreements between Oracle and Google. Basically Oracle will get a few thousand for the 9 lines of code and a couple thousand for the test files. Then they will spend that money in one day in lawyer fees on the appeal. It is also important to note that this trial only covered 2 patents. Oracle can try again with different patents. However it should be noted that these were likely their best patents to use against Google.
Yes, music can provide enjoyment. So can blowjobs and illegal drugs. Would you argue they are also useful?
Yes I would. That passage was writting for the express purpose of allowing the fenderal goverment to control copyright and patent law. Music is no more usefull than finctional books. If you think copyright law should be done state by state your a moron.
Supreme Court didn't rule that it was acceptable or not acceptable. They just didn't decide not to see the case at this point. When Health Care Reform was first passed their were many appeals sent to the Supreme Court. They ignored them unitll there were conflicting opinions from different courts. There is only one supreme court. They can't hear every case. They rely on the appeals court to filter stuff out.
Yeah the big push was the Circles. Why would you use Google+ if you were not going to use Circles to limit access? You would just keep on using Twitter or Facebook.
Google is a buisness made up of many people. An employee of a vendor who had a contract with Google copied the code here. A vendor Google no longer uses. The code itself was quickly removed once it was found. Google never negotiated to buy rangecheck.
So here is a non answer to your question:
Just replace stuff when they break
Put your surge protectors next to the expensive stuff and gets some insurance. Replace things when they break. Unless your dealing with medical equipment or servers don't bother with some expensive custom solution.
Blurb has a lot of formats and prints a fantastic book, plus you can write out anecdotes or even pull in a blog or other documents. The layouts are highly customizable. When you are done, you have a book that family members can purchase also, or re-print if it gets damaged. The pictures are very high quality.
I can't vouch for Blurb but my coworkers have had photo books printed on their kids birthday. It looked good and I think it has a good chance of lasting 20 to 30 years.
I would only get on a boat like this with people I trust. With a start up there is too much risk that the managers are terrible people. The motivations of a start up are not good either. For a startup it is all about cutting costs. Now if an Google rented the whole boat out to work on a specific project that would be different. Then the motivations would be focus and ease of access to people. I would also prefer the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific ocean. Seems like there would be more to do in the Gulf on weekends.
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You argument doesn't stand up to history. The switch to the Agency model occurred. It occurred like Steve Jobs promised it would on camera. All the publishers except one changed their pricing with the launch of the IPad. Prices on best sellers went up. The Department of Justice has witnesses and emails showing Apple organized this. The contracts the publishers signed with Apple clearly made it impossible for Amazon to lower prices. Saying Amazon had large market-share isn't a defense for price fixing.
2006 Amazon was the king of books sold online. If you purchased a book and had it delivered to you house via Fedex chance are you purchased your book from Amazon or its chief competitor Barnes and Noble. Amazon was the Walmart or the Tower records of books.
Sept 2006 Sony releases the PRS-500 e-ink ereader.
Nov 2007 Amazon releases the Kindle and begins marketing it on Amazon.com to its large book buying customer base.
Nov 2009 Barnes and Noble, Amazons primary competitor, releases the Nook two years after the Kindle. It receives good reviews. B&N starts marketing the device in B&N stores to its millions of customers.
Mar 2009 Amazon releases the Kindle app for IPhone (app would later work on IPad)
April 2010 Apple releases the IPad with IBooks three years after the release of the Kindle and 1 year after the release of the Kindle app. The Agency model replaces the wholesale model.
July 2010 Borders starts selling the Kobo ereader three years after the release of the Kindle
Oct 2011 Borders goes into bankruptcy. Kobo survives and still sells books under the Agency model.
So saying there was no competition is strictly true. With the exception of Sony, Amazon did not have any competition for 2 to 3 years. So of course it gained 90% market share. And of course that market share went down after B&N started selling the Nook. If you look at current market share it is similar to Amazons share in 2006. Amazon in #1 and B&N is #2.
They are not trying the case in the public. When it come time for the trial Amazon will hand over its records and they will clearly show what occurred. They can also go and get B&N and Sony's sales records. Apple is the least likely company to have data on ebook sales prior to the switch to the Agency model. They didn't enter the market till 2010 and they were never a big player in the market afterwords.
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And they won't be able to sync up the data between the two arrays because they will be in different locations. But as long as jobs are at stake the polititions will be happy with something that is more costly and less usefull.
Less to do with trusting dropbox and more to do with trusting your employees. My firm blocks all kind of things. GMail, Facebook, Twitter, and Usb drives. It also restricts other things. Can't use cell phone cameras on premise. Can't use your own mouse or headphones. Can't leave any papers on desk or in trash. Can't install anything without permission. I carry two cellphones because I can't mix personal and buisness email. This is a non story. I have no idea why slashdot isn't blocked.
There is no treaty preventing the USA from killing you or turning your ship to ash on the Moon either.
They have no intention of doing anything further with it and have no authority over it.
Says who? Our plans for the lunar sites is to preserve them for history as national parks. You think you can go into the everglades and start logging because no one is doing anything with the trees? Who said we have no authority over it? It is our stuff. If you want to take you can try but we don't spend more money than you on military equipment because we are nice people.
There's a very legitimate question of jurisdiction. The U.S. has no legal authority over the moon, any more than they do venus or mars.
Says who? If the US claims Jurisdiction over the moon landing sites who has the authoritiy to tell them otherwise? The U.N?
I don't hear comments on slashdot. I read them. "threesixty" is dumb. Write "360", "XBox", or "XBox 360".
Only a moron would spell out "threesixty" is what I got from it. Perfectly fine to drop the word XBox. People understand what your saying. Spelling out numbers that way is dumb. Still dumb if you wrote "three hundred and sixty."
The jury wasn't bribed. One of the Jurors was dismissed for being late because of car problems. The other was dismissed for being sick. With money on the line no juror would be dismissed for those reasons. If they were bribed they wouldn't have taken a week to reach a verdict either.
Basically Oracle failed to prove its case. Oracle had its expert say Google infringed. Google had it expert say they didn't infringe. The patent claims were a technical and vague. There was no way a layperson could find that one expert was right and the other was wrong. The Jury with no choice but to find Oracle didn't prove its case.
There will be no damage phase. Judge has sent the jury home. Judge will handle damages himself based on agreements between Oracle and Google. Basically Oracle will get a few thousand for the 9 lines of code and a couple thousand for the test files. Then they will spend that money in one day in lawyer fees on the appeal. It is also important to note that this trial only covered 2 patents. Oracle can try again with different patents. However it should be noted that these were likely their best patents to use against Google.
Yes, music can provide enjoyment. So can blowjobs and illegal drugs. Would you argue they are also useful?
Yes I would. That passage was writting for the express purpose of allowing the fenderal goverment to control copyright and patent law. Music is no more usefull than finctional books. If you think copyright law should be done state by state your a moron.
Supreme Court didn't rule that it was acceptable or not acceptable. They just didn't decide not to see the case at this point. When Health Care Reform was first passed their were many appeals sent to the Supreme Court. They ignored them unitll there were conflicting opinions from different courts. There is only one supreme court. They can't hear every case. They rely on the appeals court to filter stuff out.
Music is neither Science, nor is it useful. Are you sure you weren't looking for a different passage?
I don't think you understant what the word useful can mean. Music has a use. It can be used to provide enjoyment.
being of use or service; serving some purpose; advantageous, helpful, or of good effect: a useful member of society.
of practical use, as for doing work; producing material results; supplying common needs: the useful arts; useful work.
Yeah the big push was the Circles. Why would you use Google+ if you were not going to use Circles to limit access? You would just keep on using Twitter or Facebook.
Can you imagine the bill if you used lawyers to write code. No wonder they estimated a billion dollars of infringement.
Google is a buisness made up of many people. An employee of a vendor who had a contract with Google copied the code here. A vendor Google no longer uses. The code itself was quickly removed once it was found. Google never negotiated to buy rangecheck.
If they work on your mobile devices Apple and Google will ban Facebook from their appstores.
So here is a non answer to your question: Just replace stuff when they break Put your surge protectors next to the expensive stuff and gets some insurance. Replace things when they break. Unless your dealing with medical equipment or servers don't bother with some expensive custom solution.
nah you can do that all in Canada or Mexico
Blurb has a lot of formats and prints a fantastic book, plus you can write out anecdotes or even pull in a blog or other documents. The layouts are highly customizable. When you are done, you have a book that family members can purchase also, or re-print if it gets damaged. The pictures are very high quality.
I can't vouch for Blurb but my coworkers have had photo books printed on their kids birthday. It looked good and I think it has a good chance of lasting 20 to 30 years.
I would only get on a boat like this with people I trust. With a start up there is too much risk that the managers are terrible people. The motivations of a start up are not good either. For a startup it is all about cutting costs. Now if an Google rented the whole boat out to work on a specific project that would be different. Then the motivations would be focus and ease of access to people. I would also prefer the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific ocean. Seems like there would be more to do in the Gulf on weekends.