The fact that some transactions are taxable and others based on the method of order transmission is a farce. Hopefully Congress and the states correct this.
I mean, did the telephone industry need a moritorium on taxes for orders placed by phone when it started? Of course not...
Interesting article... too bad the guy left out costs like development costs, paying for the content creation for the site, support, etc... All he looks at are bandwidth costs versus ad revenues.
I don't think all these.coms are having problems becuse they can't afford bandwidth, they can, they just can't afford bandwidth and employees.
Um, why? Its not like I see tons of linux software out there that's made to run on handhelds. I mean, great, it boots up to a prompt or whatever, then what?
I mean, its was an OK sci-fi show, but nothing spectacular other than the above average special effects for TV of the day.
I wonder if they will acknowledge that horrible Galatica '80 show or whatever it was called, where they were running around on earth with flying motorcycles.... shudder.
Of course, they ruined Buck Rodgers the same way when they went off into space and started looking for other earth civilations, brought in Hawk... why do they ruin perfectly good shows like that?
John Ricciardi of Video Senki has a great interview with Hiroshi Yamauchi, president of Nintendo, his "absolute favorite" for the same reason Castro is his fav head of state: "They're both firm as a rock on their issues, and they're both just so goshdarn sincere, you know?""
Well, all of those words are in English, they just don't amke any sense in that order....
Just don't bitch because you can't get decent health care, why in 50 years when you have Alzheimer's (or some other disease), that there's still no cure.
Surely you are not making the asinine argument that without football there would be a cure for alzheimers. Its not like its a zero sum game where money that isn't spent on football would go to.. well anything...
Stupid American's - the rest of the world loves that your shitty country is going down the toilet.
Sure, whatever, guess that's why we have to turn away people....
It's a sad thing to know that a football player makes more than any scientist,
Why is that sad? There are plenty of scientists, but far fewer who can play professional football at the highest level. Supply and demand. Plus, you have to factor in the fact that the average career of a professional football player is 3 years... actually, the compensation differences don't seem that large.
From what I recall, doesn't COPA (Child Online Protection Act) keep companies from collecting any data of anyone under the age of 13 years?
Actually, it refers to personal information, such as names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses... not aggregated information. I mean, otherwise kid oriented sites wouldn't be able to keep traffic logs and such...
Sure there is... if a company violates its privacy policy you have every right to sue them.
I like the US policies better anyway. Let the market decide how valuable your privacy is. If you have Store A and Store B selling the same product and A has a strong privacy policy and higher prices and B has cheaper prices and a weak privacy policy, why shouldn't people have the ability to make this tradeoff?
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Wouldn't a feature that could be completed by a single non-degreed programmer in less than a week qualify as 'obvious'?
Aren't they all 'obvious' after you've already seen someone else implement it?
The fact that some transactions are taxable and others based on the method of order transmission is a farce. Hopefully Congress and the states correct this.
I mean, did the telephone industry need a moritorium on taxes for orders placed by phone when it started? Of course not...
Andrew Leonard may be the one needed job hunting advice soon...
Even accounting for that weird Canadian money, it looks like they paid less than a half penny on the dollar for all that stuff...
...and the sad thing is they will probably still be hard pressed to make money with that white elephant.
Everything on this planet is in a balance.
Um, right.. that's why all animal populations on the planet stay the same year after year, becuase we've reached equilibrium, right?
And that's why the weather is so predictable, becuase there is no inbalance in the planet's atmosphere...
Please, statements like this are just stupid environmental claptrap.
Interesting article... too bad the guy left out costs like development costs, paying for the content creation for the site, support, etc... All he looks at are bandwidth costs versus ad revenues.
.coms are having problems becuse they can't afford bandwidth, they can, they just can't afford bandwidth and employees.
I don't think all these
But if they did, I'd have to buy a jornada.
Um, why? Its not like I see tons of linux software out there that's made to run on handhelds. I mean, great, it boots up to a prompt or whatever, then what?
Why is it that in the late 90's early 00's, studios/entertainment/media companies can't come up with any new content?
As opposed to all the "original" stuff that hack Shakespeare cranked out??? Retellings of histories and stories appropriated from old folk tales...
Hell, people probably heard the Epic of Gilgamesh and were like "Another Hero Quest? Geez..."
I mean, its was an OK sci-fi show, but nothing spectacular other than the above average special effects for TV of the day.
I wonder if they will acknowledge that horrible Galatica '80 show or whatever it was called, where they were running around on earth with flying motorcycles.... shudder.
Of course, they ruined Buck Rodgers the same way when they went off into space and started looking for other earth civilations, brought in Hawk... why do they ruin perfectly good shows like that?
John Ricciardi of Video Senki has a great interview with Hiroshi Yamauchi, president of Nintendo, his "absolute favorite" for the same reason Castro is his fav head of state: "They're both firm as a rock on their issues, and they're both just so goshdarn sincere, you know?""
Well, all of those words are in English, they just don't amke any sense in that order....
? Why can't we get good software, software that encourages co-operation and working for a common goal?
God, you sound like a condesending asshole. I bet you are the designated driver at all the parties you go to too...
I think there is a real danger that NVidia will do to the graphics card market what Creative did to the sound card market.
What? Make a pretty decent product at a reasonable price? Yeah, that would be horrible...
Anyone remember this one? Sounds like the first Dogma2001 game... cool that they made it more than 10 years early...
Is there any hope of survival against the incumbent phone companies who will do anything to squash competition?
Is it really the incumbent phone companies fault that these new guys apparently don't know how to run a business?
Hey sounds great... now can I get some Freon for my air-conditioner again?
This is the biggest problem with the BSD license: it gives freedom, but does not require freedom in exchange
You mispelled "feature".
The idea is that eventually wine will actually become more stable than windows
Yeah, that "a better windows than windows" strategy worked out real well for the OS/2 crowd.
Can someone tell this guy that BIND is not Linux?!
Too bad BIND wasn't open source, otherwise people would have seen all those security holes in it so much earlier... oh, wait a second...
If sure you are too cool to use defibulators anyway.
Asshole.
Wow, you are so cool railing against the man. Can I suck your cock, please?
Just don't bitch because you can't get decent health care, why in 50 years when you have Alzheimer's (or some other disease), that there's still no cure.
Surely you are not making the asinine argument that without football there would be a cure for alzheimers. Its not like its a zero sum game where money that isn't spent on football would go to.. well anything...
Stupid American's - the rest of the world loves that your shitty country is going down the toilet.
Sure, whatever, guess that's why we have to turn away people....
It's a sad thing to know that a football player makes more than any scientist,
Why is that sad? There are plenty of scientists, but far fewer who can play professional football at the highest level. Supply and demand. Plus, you have to factor in the fact that the average career of a professional football player is 3 years... actually, the compensation differences don't seem that large.
From what I recall, doesn't COPA (Child Online Protection Act) keep companies from collecting any data of anyone under the age of 13 years?
Actually, it refers to personal information, such as names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses... not aggregated information. I mean, otherwise kid oriented sites wouldn't be able to keep traffic logs and such...
In other words, are words themselves, words given legal protection by our government, subject to being bought and sold on the open market?
Sure, why not? An asset is an asset is an asset.
Here in the U.S., no such legal recourse exists.
Sure there is... if a company violates its privacy policy you have every right to sue them.
I like the US policies better anyway. Let the market decide how valuable your privacy is. If you have Store A and Store B selling the same product and A has a strong privacy policy and higher prices and B has cheaper prices and a weak privacy policy, why shouldn't people have the ability to make this tradeoff?