Really? If someone steals your car and sells it to an innocent third party, you would be fine with never getting your car back because "sales are an inherently no backsies situation"?
I have no reason to move from my WRT54G and I use it heavily. I download enough to routinely be over my "suggested" cap and stream HD around the house, but that's not really relevant because those go through a GigE switch, not the WRT54G.
Consider how many species humans have hunted to extinction or near extinction with no ill effects. The dodo bird, the passenger pigeon, the buffalo, etc. The guinea worm, another parasite quite harmful to humans has also been made extinct under a similar program.
I know that it stands for "company". Were you under the mistaken impression it stood for "corporation"? They are similar to corporations, but are not one. They can be file taxes as one if they choose to, but it is not their only option.
Shareholder has a specific legal meaning. It refers to the entities that own the shares of a for profit corporation. Valve is not a corporation. It is an LLC. If you're trying to dilute the term to mean "anyone with ownership in any sort of company" you might as well just say "owners" as it would be more accurate.
Quite true. As the link you provided states, Congress passed a law prohibiting receivers on the cellphone bands. The FCC has tried to claim jurisdiction over pure receiving devices in the past, but has been met with much resistance from the public. This memo, prepared by the Univ of Colorado's School of Law, would be a good place to start.
From time to time, new political views get wider attention in Europe. In the past it was the greens, now it's the pirates. And they get into parliaments.
From time to time new political views get wider attention in the US. In the past it was the neocons, now it's the Tea Party. And they get into office.
I've yet to see any such political party have any kind of success in the US.
That's because our political parties contain a much wider spectrum of opinion than yours. Blue Dog Democrats have vastly different views than Progressive Democrats or the Christian Left, for example. Log Cabin Republicans have a different agenda than the Tea Party, Neocons or the Religious Right. These are just a few examples. In Europe these would all be different parties. In the US they are forced to form factions within a superparty.
Reed Hastings. You know, the guy who's also the CEO and co-founder. He's also on the Board at Microsoft. I'm willing to bet he knows a bit more about running a successful business than random schlubs on the internet.
The last time Netflix released a breakdown of their numbers like that was back in 2003, when they only had 1.5 million subs. At that time, they bought 85,000 copies of a popular new release. For current numbers we can only go by analysts, which suggest about 1 to 1.5 million copies of a major new release. They don't legally need permission from studios, no, but logistically there's no way they're going to get at least a million discs ready to ship on release day without studio cooperation.
POD is not coming and if it ever does it will certainly not rewrite publishing. If someone ever wastes their time developing a decent POD implementation the best they'll achieve is a high rank in a sad magazine article entitled, "Top Ten 'Too Late' Technologies".
Digital readers are only going to improve in quality and drop in price. Right now there is zero reason for fiction to exist in a physical form except as a rapidly disappearing anachronism. As readers improve, technical and other large format books will soon join them. Just because there is currently still a market for physical books that doesn't mean it's a large sustainable one worth investing in.
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Really? If someone steals your car and sells it to an innocent third party, you would be fine with never getting your car back because "sales are an inherently no backsies situation"?
I have no reason to move from my WRT54G and I use it heavily. I download enough to routinely be over my "suggested" cap and stream HD around the house, but that's not really relevant because those go through a GigE switch, not the WRT54G.
Consider how many species humans have hunted to extinction or near extinction with no ill effects. The dodo bird, the passenger pigeon, the buffalo, etc. The guinea worm, another parasite quite harmful to humans has also been made extinct under a similar program.
17 USC 506.
LLC == Limited Liability Company. Really, it's not a corporation.
It stands for company, genius.
Company.
False. See my other posts, it stands for Company.
No, I know that it's short for Limited Liability Company.
I know that it stands for "company". Were you under the mistaken impression it stood for "corporation"? They are similar to corporations, but are not one. They can be file taxes as one if they choose to, but it is not their only option.
No, an LLC and an S-Corp are not the same thing.
That's great, but Valve is not a corporation. It's an LLC.
Shareholder has a specific legal meaning. It refers to the entities that own the shares of a for profit corporation. Valve is not a corporation. It is an LLC. If you're trying to dilute the term to mean "anyone with ownership in any sort of company" you might as well just say "owners" as it would be more accurate.
Valve Software is not a corporation. Yes, the name is "Valve Corporation", but they are not actually incorporated under the law. They are an LLC.
Valve doesn't have shareholders. It's a privately held LLC.
Quite true. As the link you provided states, Congress passed a law prohibiting receivers on the cellphone bands. The FCC has tried to claim jurisdiction over pure receiving devices in the past, but has been met with much resistance from the public. This memo, prepared by the Univ of Colorado's School of Law, would be a good place to start.
As for the technology itself, a simple Google search would give you all the information you need.
From time to time, new political views get wider attention in Europe. In the past it was the greens, now it's the pirates. And they get into parliaments.
From time to time new political views get wider attention in the US. In the past it was the neocons, now it's the Tea Party. And they get into office.
I've yet to see any such political party have any kind of success in the US.
That's because our political parties contain a much wider spectrum of opinion than yours. Blue Dog Democrats have vastly different views than Progressive Democrats or the Christian Left, for example. Log Cabin Republicans have a different agenda than the Tea Party, Neocons or the Religious Right. These are just a few examples. In Europe these would all be different parties. In the US they are forced to form factions within a superparty.
You can return any Redbox movie to any Redbox kiosk anywhere.
Everything he posted is right on Wikipedia's various Apollo links. Reading that and following the source links should keep you busy for a long time.
This. Who's chairman of the board over there?
Reed Hastings. You know, the guy who's also the CEO and co-founder. He's also on the Board at Microsoft. I'm willing to bet he knows a bit more about running a successful business than random schlubs on the internet.
The last time Netflix released a breakdown of their numbers like that was back in 2003, when they only had 1.5 million subs. At that time, they bought 85,000 copies of a popular new release. For current numbers we can only go by analysts, which suggest about 1 to 1.5 million copies of a major new release. They don't legally need permission from studios, no, but logistically there's no way they're going to get at least a million discs ready to ship on release day without studio cooperation.
POD is not coming and if it ever does it will certainly not rewrite publishing. If someone ever wastes their time developing a decent POD implementation the best they'll achieve is a high rank in a sad magazine article entitled, "Top Ten 'Too Late' Technologies".
Digital readers are only going to improve in quality and drop in price. Right now there is zero reason for fiction to exist in a physical form except as a rapidly disappearing anachronism. As readers improve, technical and other large format books will soon join them. Just because there is currently still a market for physical books that doesn't mean it's a large sustainable one worth investing in.
False.
Magister's Terrance would like a word with you.
If you're only nice because you "need" to be, you're a jerk.