First time I've seen a judge equated with a bureaucrat. And what do you think Congress is filled with? And I believe the FCC Charter (created by those people in Congress) states that the FCC has this regulatory authority:
For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio
When people disagree with the rules set forth by Congress, they go to the courts to have the wording parsed and weighed. I think you are barking up the wrong tree of "activist judges" here.
Sure, but if we start with nanometers, then they power is even less at 20 ft. Important to keep your units straight, and remember its all a matter of your frame of reference. No frame, no reference, no danger. BUY BUY BUY
Like to go to theme parks? Set up another LLC and create a website dedicated to reviewing them, talking about which ones have what etc. Now you get to write off trips to Six Flags and Cedar point as legitimate business research.
That only works to a point right? According to the IRS you have to show some income at some point, not just a ton of expenses.
While the article is a bit biased as well as the people it covers, a lot of the things these people tout amount to plain ignorance.
More elementally, they hold that the United States was founded by devout Christians...
True.
I'd even argue with the devout part. They all considered themselves Christians, but definitely not in an Evangelical sense. Jefferson in particular was put off by dogma, and you cannot get much closer to dogma than running around quoting the Bible in support of your view and stating it as fact.
This whole "just don't buy it" thing is getting ridiculous...Don't dare try to influence any of the actions of a corporation
I'm pretty sure that not buying a product is a strong and clear signal to a corporation that their product sucks. If the corporation is smart, it will listen to the signal and try something else.
Why do people use market capital as a means of comparing companies? In many ways, this is like comparing apples and oranges, and lends very little insight into the real competitive advantage one company may have over another.
You are right, it is not so simple. And your IBM analogy does not hold here. First the USB specification and vendor ID assignments are handled by a third party, not Apple. Second, there is a well-documented API for adding non-Apple device support to iTunes. You just have to get off your lazy butt and use it. IBM used their monopolistic position to force their customers to buy only IBM products. Palm tried to use Apple's dominance in the MP3 market to leverage the functionality of iTunes with little or no work. Palm could have used iTunes to sync, but they decided to use a way that ended up breaking their USB vendor contract.
Citation please. I've written apps in Python to use the iTunes XML file, and they have not broken after all of my iTunes upgrades. At least since iTunes 5. What Apple usually does is add to the format, stuff like smart lists or video. What one has to do is be defensive in coding so that you don't pick up stuff you don't want. My applications only work with audio files, so I filter out anything that is not an audio file. The XML parsing remains the same.
I believe Jobs gets paid $1 in salary at Apple. I know that this is not his complete compensation, but he is not making tons of money. He already did that ages ago.
Apple's nuts on this. I went to Apple's Bug Reporter to complain about this. You may have to be a registered developer to do this. If so and you are one, please burn some Apple karma and let them know that their approval process is nuts.
I'm really tired of the overuse, especially in the news media, of the words "could" and "might". What's often lacking when they are used is any sense of how probable the outcome might (!) be. Perhaps I'm just overly sensitive to it now, but the NY Times seems to be particularly prone to this type of reporting, stating a supposition but failing to adequately describe the probability that the supposition is closer to true than false.
Go ahead. Publish your findings. I eagerly await your paper. But I do think black holes and neutron stars have been detected. I guess you are a troll. Enjoy your food.
Not to be an AT&T apologist, but there is a BIG difference between outright lying and simply being uninformed or just a call-center flunky reciting a script.
Same here. The language looks fairly nice, but right now with ACE, Boost and Qt in my C++ toolbox, I'm doing alright. And I already develop, test, and deploy code that runs on MacOSX, Linux, Solaris, and supposedly Windows -- I have not actually tried there, but ACE, Boost, and Qt have abstractions that attempt to isolate developers from the OS. I'm curious if my Qt OpenGL stuff would work.
I love using my Apple laptop for development. I'm more of an GNU Emacs fanboy than Apple (though I did buy a chunk of Apple back at $18 pre-split), so I do everything there, including having multiple shells open in it for command-line use. I even have a Platypus script that I can drag files onto and edit in GNU Emacs. I just take my GNU Emacs customization files to other platforms so I always have the same editing environment.
How come everyone is focusing on the burden placed on the H1B visa holder moving over here? How does that figure into this discussion? I could easily bring up, with no real merit, the difficulty of US citizens trying to land a job after being laid off. So what? It has no bearing on whether there should be a preference given to H1B holders when layoffs come at a company.
Not very smart. The success of a nation is a function of the intelligence and education of its citizens.
Ah, that's better.
A random collection of smart people working at a company does not make a country better; it may make a corporatocracy better. Having low unemployment among the citizenry should be the goal.
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For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio
When people disagree with the rules set forth by Congress, they go to the courts to have the wording parsed and weighed. I think you are barking up the wrong tree of "activist judges" here.
Looks like MS nailed it.
Sure, but if we start with nanometers, then they power is even less at 20 ft. Important to keep your units straight, and remember its all a matter of your frame of reference. No frame, no reference, no danger. BUY BUY BUY
Like to go to theme parks? Set up another LLC and create a website dedicated to reviewing them, talking about which ones have what etc. Now you get to write off trips to Six Flags and Cedar point as legitimate business research.
That only works to a point right? According to the IRS you have to show some income at some point, not just a ton of expenses.
While the article is a bit biased as well as the people it covers, a lot of the things these people tout amount to plain ignorance.
More elementally, they hold that the United States was founded by devout Christians ...
True.
I'd even argue with the devout part. They all considered themselves Christians, but definitely not in an Evangelical sense. Jefferson in particular was put off by dogma, and you cannot get much closer to dogma than running around quoting the Bible in support of your view and stating it as fact.
Many of the early proponents of government run education saw it as a way to overcome the religious influence of parents so that atheism could prevail.
You have a citation for that wild assertion? Did not think so...
This whole "just don't buy it" thing is getting ridiculous...Don't dare try to influence any of the actions of a corporation
I'm pretty sure that not buying a product is a strong and clear signal to a corporation that their product sucks. If the corporation is smart, it will listen to the signal and try something else.
Not sure about this or the market for it...
Why do people use market capital as a means of comparing companies? In many ways, this is like comparing apples and oranges, and lends very little insight into the real competitive advantage one company may have over another.
Citation? Otherwise, I think you are "making this up".
It's not so simple.
You are right, it is not so simple. And your IBM analogy does not hold here. First the USB specification and vendor ID assignments are handled by a third party, not Apple. Second, there is a well-documented API for adding non-Apple device support to iTunes. You just have to get off your lazy butt and use it. IBM used their monopolistic position to force their customers to buy only IBM products. Palm tried to use Apple's dominance in the MP3 market to leverage the functionality of iTunes with little or no work. Palm could have used iTunes to sync, but they decided to use a way that ended up breaking their USB vendor contract.
Citation please. I've written apps in Python to use the iTunes XML file, and they have not broken after all of my iTunes upgrades. At least since iTunes 5. What Apple usually does is add to the format, stuff like smart lists or video. What one has to do is be defensive in coding so that you don't pick up stuff you don't want. My applications only work with audio files, so I filter out anything that is not an audio file. The XML parsing remains the same.
I believe Jobs gets paid $1 in salary at Apple. I know that this is not his complete compensation, but he is not making tons of money. He already did that ages ago.
Apple's nuts on this. I went to Apple's Bug Reporter to complain about this. You may have to be a registered developer to do this. If so and you are one, please burn some Apple karma and let them know that their approval process is nuts.
I'm really tired of the overuse, especially in the news media, of the words "could" and "might". What's often lacking when they are used is any sense of how probable the outcome might (!) be. Perhaps I'm just overly sensitive to it now, but the NY Times seems to be particularly prone to this type of reporting, stating a supposition but failing to adequately describe the probability that the supposition is closer to true than false.
That was my first thought as well. Simply nuts.
most people who want an iphone already have one.
Not according to the WSJ.
At American Express in Phoenix, I worked with someone that had Nevada UNIXOS. Jim, you still around?
How do you keep them from eating your mice?!
Go ahead. Publish your findings. I eagerly await your paper. But I do think black holes and neutron stars have been detected. I guess you are a troll. Enjoy your food.
Not to be an AT&T apologist, but there is a BIG difference between outright lying and simply being uninformed or just a call-center flunky reciting a script.
That's when I want one...
Same here. The language looks fairly nice, but right now with ACE, Boost and Qt in my C++ toolbox, I'm doing alright. And I already develop, test, and deploy code that runs on MacOSX, Linux, Solaris, and supposedly Windows -- I have not actually tried there, but ACE, Boost, and Qt have abstractions that attempt to isolate developers from the OS. I'm curious if my Qt OpenGL stuff would work. I love using my Apple laptop for development. I'm more of an GNU Emacs fanboy than Apple (though I did buy a chunk of Apple back at $18 pre-split), so I do everything there, including having multiple shells open in it for command-line use. I even have a Platypus script that I can drag files onto and edit in GNU Emacs. I just take my GNU Emacs customization files to other platforms so I always have the same editing environment.
How come everyone is focusing on the burden placed on the H1B visa holder moving over here? How does that figure into this discussion? I could easily bring up, with no real merit, the difficulty of US citizens trying to land a job after being laid off. So what? It has no bearing on whether there should be a preference given to H1B holders when layoffs come at a company.
Not very smart. The success of a nation is a function of the intelligence and education of its citizens.
Ah, that's better.
A random collection of smart people working at a company does not make a country better; it may make a corporatocracy better. Having low unemployment among the citizenry should be the goal.