Most people only 'want' flash drives at this point, and there are improvements being made that seem to be in addition to the normal doubling cycle (i.e., real world experience is still getting fed into the basic designs of SSDs). So while I agree with you that picking a budget and then buying is the correct approach, the SSD market looks like it will be much better in 12 months, out of line with predictions based on a quick look at the current market.
If the price of the stock accurately reflects the underlying value of the stock, no, it isn't.
The nature of the stock market means that there is speculation that drives the price of the stock above that of the underlying value (for instance, people assume that a company will be able to double in size every 5 years, even though they control most of the market that they play in), and so there are similarities.
Hence the comment about interleaving. Still, if you leave an original song intact and prove that I gained access to it by transcribing it from your work, as I understand it, it would still be public domain.
Colin Smith is crying that you can't grow new potatoes (and gets part of it wrong, the primary mechanism of money creation is when the federal reserve borrows money, usually from the treasury), but the fractional in fractional reserve banking really does refer to the amount of money held in reserve, not the amount of money lent out.
This means that banks are essentially always insolvent in real number terms, but it usually doesn't matter.
The fact that they didn't specify Wikipedia in the license text is academic, they generated the new license in cooperation with Wikipedia.
Personally, I don't have any skin in this game, but I would hesitate to use a FSF license with the or later clause intact (but I would have prior to this).
Wrong? It's not even possible. You can probably interweave them sufficiently with other licensed material that it is simpler to go back to the less restricted source, but you can't actually claim a stronger license to the material (well, for public domain anyway, the licensing of other materials may allow it to be relicensed).
The FSF doesn't need to play games with GNU software, they require copyright assignment to the FSF (I'm talking specifically about GNU software here, not any software licensed under the GPL).
Basically, the GFDL trick demonstrates that the 'or later' clause means you damn well better trust the person who defines later.
Wow, that's a lot of speculation (both in volume of text, and in how many assumptions you stack together).
I guess if pulling completely out of Germany (in response to onerous regulation) exposed a company to even more draconian EU-wide regulation, they would simply seek to limit their operations in Germany (with a focus on legal compliance).
I disagree. The biggest problem with alternatives is that they cost far more than a gasoline powered car, to the point that the price difference covers all of the gas that a retail purchaser would use in the gasoline powered vehicle.
Still, substantial progress has been made, so I hope that researchers continue to get funding.
Software is quite a bit more fungible than an addictive drug (it has long been trivial to exchange plain text, and commercial software generally has had at least some support for external formats). It might be painful to switch, but certainly very few companies would pay $10,000 per seat just to avoid the pain of switching to some other office software, so there are limits.
Personally, I wonder how much dirty tactics have contributed to Microsoft's success (and said tactics are certainly well documented), and how much things like the inherent value of software, and the network effects in the OS and office/productivity spaces have contributed to their success. If the perceived value of a software package is $5,000 more than a competitor, it doesn't really matter that the market cost is $500 more, or $1,000 more.
Trying to apply German law to all of the income that a foreign company made would result in a lot of companies not bothering to do business in Germany.
Scaling the fine based on the revenue involved would be a lot more reasonable. It wouldn't be utterly shocking to find out that a few hundred million dollars of revenue are involved here, which lines up pretty well with the $9 million fine.
The U.S. government spends $12 million every 2.2 minutes. The U.S. economy produces $12 million every 30 seconds. These things are also completely unrelated to the appropriateness of the fine Microsoft paid for violating German consumer protection laws.
Any heroin addict? I bet there are lots that if you showed them two doors, one with $1,000 cash behind it and one with a little bit of heroin behind it, they would take the money and go talk to their everyday dealer.
I don't think that even severe addiction is going to remove the tendency to price shop.
FiOS sure sounds nice, but the nature of the build out has been that they target relatively high density, relatively wealthy areas (which makes loads of sense, I don't mean to complain about it), and those are exactly the areas that are already well served.
It's mostly quibbling, but clarity can be valuable: Nothing says that guests have a constitutional right to free speech on a privately owned message board; the owner certainly does enjoy constitutional protection.
I'm not proposing that per company email addresses are unworkable, I'm proposing that using the +marker syntax, specifically on an existing gmail account, is impotent as a spam fighting measure.
What you propose is certainly more bother than my Mom would ever put up with.
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Most people only 'want' flash drives at this point, and there are improvements being made that seem to be in addition to the normal doubling cycle (i.e., real world experience is still getting fed into the basic designs of SSDs). So while I agree with you that picking a budget and then buying is the correct approach, the SSD market looks like it will be much better in 12 months, out of line with predictions based on a quick look at the current market.
If the price of the stock accurately reflects the underlying value of the stock, no, it isn't.
The nature of the stock market means that there is speculation that drives the price of the stock above that of the underlying value (for instance, people assume that a company will be able to double in size every 5 years, even though they control most of the market that they play in), and so there are similarities.
Madoff's returns were obviously too good to be true, and multiple parties contacted the SEC about him starting at least a decade ago.
I think the cost is probably still winning.
If the satellite were still functional (and it were profitable), someone would buy it.
Hence the comment about interleaving. Still, if you leave an original song intact and prove that I gained access to it by transcribing it from your work, as I understand it, it would still be public domain.
Colin Smith is crying that you can't grow new potatoes (and gets part of it wrong, the primary mechanism of money creation is when the federal reserve borrows money, usually from the treasury), but the fractional in fractional reserve banking really does refer to the amount of money held in reserve, not the amount of money lent out.
This means that banks are essentially always insolvent in real number terms, but it usually doesn't matter.
The fact that they didn't specify Wikipedia in the license text is academic, they generated the new license in cooperation with Wikipedia.
Personally, I don't have any skin in this game, but I would hesitate to use a FSF license with the or later clause intact (but I would have prior to this).
Wrong? It's not even possible. You can probably interweave them sufficiently with other licensed material that it is simpler to go back to the less restricted source, but you can't actually claim a stronger license to the material (well, for public domain anyway, the licensing of other materials may allow it to be relicensed).
The FSF doesn't need to play games with GNU software, they require copyright assignment to the FSF (I'm talking specifically about GNU software here, not any software licensed under the GPL).
Basically, the GFDL trick demonstrates that the 'or later' clause means you damn well better trust the person who defines later.
Are you doing his mom?
Wow, that's a lot of speculation (both in volume of text, and in how many assumptions you stack together).
I guess if pulling completely out of Germany (in response to onerous regulation) exposed a company to even more draconian EU-wide regulation, they would simply seek to limit their operations in Germany (with a focus on legal compliance).
I disagree. The biggest problem with alternatives is that they cost far more than a gasoline powered car, to the point that the price difference covers all of the gas that a retail purchaser would use in the gasoline powered vehicle.
Still, substantial progress has been made, so I hope that researchers continue to get funding.
Type less, organize more.
I like to call my toilet Australia.
Anyway, I'm off, got to send some Brits to Australia.
Maybe. If the $50,000 cars aren't marketable and the company declares bankruptcy, it doesn't end up being a very smart loan.
Software is quite a bit more fungible than an addictive drug (it has long been trivial to exchange plain text, and commercial software generally has had at least some support for external formats). It might be painful to switch, but certainly very few companies would pay $10,000 per seat just to avoid the pain of switching to some other office software, so there are limits.
Personally, I wonder how much dirty tactics have contributed to Microsoft's success (and said tactics are certainly well documented), and how much things like the inherent value of software, and the network effects in the OS and office/productivity spaces have contributed to their success. If the perceived value of a software package is $5,000 more than a competitor, it doesn't really matter that the market cost is $500 more, or $1,000 more.
Trying to apply German law to all of the income that a foreign company made would result in a lot of companies not bothering to do business in Germany.
Scaling the fine based on the revenue involved would be a lot more reasonable. It wouldn't be utterly shocking to find out that a few hundred million dollars of revenue are involved here, which lines up pretty well with the $9 million fine.
The U.S. government spends $12 million every 2.2 minutes. The U.S. economy produces $12 million every 30 seconds. These things are also completely unrelated to the appropriateness of the fine Microsoft paid for violating German consumer protection laws.
Any heroin addict? I bet there are lots that if you showed them two doors, one with $1,000 cash behind it and one with a little bit of heroin behind it, they would take the money and go talk to their everyday dealer.
I don't think that even severe addiction is going to remove the tendency to price shop.
FiOS sure sounds nice, but the nature of the build out has been that they target relatively high density, relatively wealthy areas (which makes loads of sense, I don't mean to complain about it), and those are exactly the areas that are already well served.
Wait, then how did we get to flint tools?
Imagine if the uncommonly intelligent were the majority!
It's mostly quibbling, but clarity can be valuable: Nothing says that guests have a constitutional right to free speech on a privately owned message board; the owner certainly does enjoy constitutional protection.
I'm not proposing that per company email addresses are unworkable, I'm proposing that using the +marker syntax, specifically on an existing gmail account, is impotent as a spam fighting measure.
What you propose is certainly more bother than my Mom would ever put up with.