Or do you mean Apple is just bitter so they're abusing the patent system?
Yup. They are pissed off that someone started using their original Macintosh strategy of using someone else's designs. Though the previous lawsuits against them didn't succeed, so hopefully their current one won't either.
Yep, IMO this article (and the summary) is really poorly thought out.
> A lawsuit from a big company, even if doomed, still takes a lot of time, energy and money to fight off.
I thought this was especially funny. Samsung has almost 300,000 employees worldwide, and is South Korea's single biggest employer. Pretending this is some David vs Goliath legal fight is absurd. Oh, yeah, and Samsung has Google's support (at least indirectly) in the suit, as well. It's Goliath vs Goliath & Goliath...
And yeah, it barely has anything to do with Android in the first place, it's largely about the look and feel of the hardware and GUI. Besides, even if it did make Android "have a price", how does that change anything? It's not like Apple will start licensing their OS to any other manufacturers, or that everyone will suddenly say "oh, we have to pay a few bucks for licensing, we should all give up and leave the market to Apple!"
New car manufacturer warranties are most definitely transferable in the US, the EU, Japan, and I'm sure many other countries. In fact, manufacturer warranties are usually identified/tracked by the VIN, not the owner. Some manufacturers have "lifetime" or "100k" powertrain, etc. warranties that only apply to the original owner, but those are mostly marketing anyway. I suppose it's possible that a random car manufacturer in some country with no consumer protection or lemon laws sells new cars without a warranty, but this post was talking about GM which certainly doesn't do that...
Extended warranties depend on the terms of the warranty you buy, but I have yet to be offered one in the US that isn't transferable (the ones I have been offered and/or bought on used cars have been through a dealership). Last car I bought used had a year on the original warranty, and 3 more years on an extended warranty, that both transferred to me.
That said, the vast majority of used cars are sold after more than 5 years, ie the warranty has expired, but that has nothing to do with warranty transfer...
Reminds me of an uncle who has a really nasty cough - he went to the doctor, who of course told him the obvious answer - to quit smoking. I think he's still trying to find some way to get rid of that cough...
I think most here would have a hard time attacking Lustig's credentials, and many probably agree with his basic hypothesis.
The problem is all of the hyperbole... repeatedly describing sugar as "toxic", "poison", and most ridiculously "evil". Ok, so now sugar is not only a highly toxic poison, but it actually has intent?
I guess all of this exaggeration might be the best way to "reach the masses", but it clearly backfires on those who prefer to look at the evidence and make their own conclusions (which happens a lot in research - researchers are usually very careful about extrapolating much from their evidence, since that often seems to result in people trying harder to shoot it down than understand the rest of their work...)
On, the other hand, it was written by Joel Johnson, who has proven again and again on Gizmodo, etc that he has probably never figured out how to tie his shoes, let alone use Kinect.
Getting prison time for a non-violent drug offense may be an overly harsh penalty, but please don't try to compare it to getting prison time for publishing an opinion or practicing a banned religion.
Argument that you don't actually own the content itself (just a license to use it) notwithstanding - you're right, Amazon's model has nothing to do with "cloud-based ownership" of content, etc, it's really just a backup of stuff you (can) already physically have (unless you trust them enough to delete the original source and/or not actually download content you bought from them).
First off, the tax in question here is a payroll tax which comes out of the employees' salaries and stock options. So this is a good thing for workers at Twitter.
Second, you only pay income tax on your net income. Of course, when people piss and moan about corporations "not paying their share", they only look at their gross income. Companies can have enough expenses in a year that they essentially have no or little income, and you have to keep that in mind when looking at their tax burden.
Both of these statements are completely untrue. San Francisco's Payroll Expense Tax is a 1.5% tax the company has to pay on gross payroll, regardless of profits. And the argument that it comes out of employee salaries indirectly doesn't hold water, because in the current (employee's) market for top engineering talent in the Bay Area, they still have to pay competitive salaries no matter where their office is...
And this is definitely one of SF's most hated taxes, since it's already much more expensive to locate a company in SF vs. anywhere else in the Peninsula or San Jose. Current sentiment is that it's most likely going to be repealed - since even more unfair than the tax itself is the fact that they selectively exempt some companies while others still have to pay.
Then it must have changed since I took it. The main sections of the SAT I remember were straightforward algebra and geometry problems, Mad-lib type sentence completion, analogies, and reading/data comprehension - none of which really required much memorization, just comprehension, logical deduction, etc (unless you consider a decent understanding of English vocabulary and grammar "rote memorization"...)
Knowledge isn't worth as much as people seem to think; at its heart, it's just trivia. What matters is the ability to think, and that doesn't change from generation to generation.
Very true - which is why the modern entrance exams like the SAT and ACT (for the most part) test just that, while tests like GREs and MCATs also test knowledge (since thoroughly understanding that trivia in specific subjects is still important as a baseline for some areas of advanced study...)
That article is from 2003 - Vulcan has been more conservative since then, but still not much more successful (for example, Allen spent over $100M on Digeo, and recently sold it for $20M. Not sure if that $100M includes the acquisition of Moxi a while back. And if you throw in the $7B Charter Cable fiasco, he'll probably never make back that bad decision... luckily he made a lot more than that from Microsoft.
Every once in a while they cash in on a company (though when it happens it seems more like the "dartboard approach" to investing), but no way Vulcan (or Allen in his other ventures) has had a net gain in a LONG time...
Paul Allen is complaining because Bill Gates wanted more equity since he "did more"? Paul Allen, for a long time the 2nd richest man in the world who pretty much stopped working at Microsoft in the early 80's and instead sunk a ton of money into failed tech companies and professional sports teams, was upset that Bill thought he DID MORE??
This guy's only smart business decision of his life was to partner with Bill Gates, and after that point his greatest business claim to fame is to lose more money on new ventures than anyone in history (Vulcan might as well be running their corporate furnaces on $100 bills...)
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Or do you mean Apple is just bitter so they're abusing the patent system?
Yup. They are pissed off that someone started using their original Macintosh strategy of using someone else's designs. Though the previous lawsuits against them didn't succeed, so hopefully their current one won't either.
Yep, IMO this article (and the summary) is really poorly thought out.
> A lawsuit from a big company, even if doomed, still takes a lot of time, energy and money to fight off.
I thought this was especially funny. Samsung has almost 300,000 employees worldwide, and is South Korea's single biggest employer. Pretending this is some David vs Goliath legal fight is absurd. Oh, yeah, and Samsung has Google's support (at least indirectly) in the suit, as well. It's Goliath vs Goliath & Goliath...
And yeah, it barely has anything to do with Android in the first place, it's largely about the look and feel of the hardware and GUI. Besides, even if it did make Android "have a price", how does that change anything? It's not like Apple will start licensing their OS to any other manufacturers, or that everyone will suddenly say "oh, we have to pay a few bucks for licensing, we should all give up and leave the market to Apple!"
Aha, the bard moonlighting also explains why he smells like "hemp"...
7. Profit!
Are you saying you are not actually human IRL?
The Ranger smells like patchouli? I knew it, damn treehugger hippie.
And once you figure out how to grow them on Mars, maybe you will stop posting pointless sarcastic answers as an AC.
See, this is why the human race is doomed. Every time we discover something new, the first thing we want to do is nuke it...
New car manufacturer warranties are most definitely transferable in the US, the EU, Japan, and I'm sure many other countries. In fact, manufacturer warranties are usually identified/tracked by the VIN, not the owner. Some manufacturers have "lifetime" or "100k" powertrain, etc. warranties that only apply to the original owner, but those are mostly marketing anyway. I suppose it's possible that a random car manufacturer in some country with no consumer protection or lemon laws sells new cars without a warranty, but this post was talking about GM which certainly doesn't do that...
Extended warranties depend on the terms of the warranty you buy, but I have yet to be offered one in the US that isn't transferable (the ones I have been offered and/or bought on used cars have been through a dealership). Last car I bought used had a year on the original warranty, and 3 more years on an extended warranty, that both transferred to me.
That said, the vast majority of used cars are sold after more than 5 years, ie the warranty has expired, but that has nothing to do with warranty transfer...
Reminds me of an uncle who has a really nasty cough - he went to the doctor, who of course told him the obvious answer - to quit smoking. I think he's still trying to find some way to get rid of that cough...
What? Original warranties (actually, even extended warranties) for cars follow the car, not the owner. Bad example.
I think most here would have a hard time attacking Lustig's credentials, and many probably agree with his basic hypothesis.
The problem is all of the hyperbole... repeatedly describing sugar as "toxic", "poison", and most ridiculously "evil". Ok, so now sugar is not only a highly toxic poison, but it actually has intent?
I guess all of this exaggeration might be the best way to "reach the masses", but it clearly backfires on those who prefer to look at the evidence and make their own conclusions (which happens a lot in research - researchers are usually very careful about extrapolating much from their evidence, since that often seems to result in people trying harder to shoot it down than understand the rest of their work...)
Actually, TCP was first defined as an RFC in RFC 675...
Still, 10 years or 3 years, as you say FTP was clearly not originally specified to work over TCP...
On, the other hand, it was written by Joel Johnson, who has proven again and again on Gizmodo, etc that he has probably never figured out how to tie his shoes, let alone use Kinect.
Which means it's doomed from the start, no way programmers would choose tea over coffee - not nearly enough caffeine...
If you polish a turd enough, sometimes it can disappear completely...
Imprisonment != abuse.
Getting prison time for a non-violent drug offense may be an overly harsh penalty, but please don't try to compare it to getting prison time for publishing an opinion or practicing a banned religion.
You just need to stop inviting Vice Presidents to Texas to shoot, sometimes their aim isn't as good...
Argument that you don't actually own the content itself (just a license to use it) notwithstanding - you're right, Amazon's model has nothing to do with "cloud-based ownership" of content, etc, it's really just a backup of stuff you (can) already physically have (unless you trust them enough to delete the original source and/or not actually download content you bought from them).
First off, the tax in question here is a payroll tax which comes out of the employees' salaries and stock options. So this is a good thing for workers at Twitter.
Second, you only pay income tax on your net income. Of course, when people piss and moan about corporations "not paying their share", they only look at their gross income. Companies can have enough expenses in a year that they essentially have no or little income, and you have to keep that in mind when looking at their tax burden.
Both of these statements are completely untrue. San Francisco's Payroll Expense Tax is a 1.5% tax the company has to pay on gross payroll, regardless of profits. And the argument that it comes out of employee salaries indirectly doesn't hold water, because in the current (employee's) market for top engineering talent in the Bay Area, they still have to pay competitive salaries no matter where their office is...
And this is definitely one of SF's most hated taxes, since it's already much more expensive to locate a company in SF vs. anywhere else in the Peninsula or San Jose. Current sentiment is that it's most likely going to be repealed - since even more unfair than the tax itself is the fact that they selectively exempt some companies while others still have to pay.
Then it must have changed since I took it. The main sections of the SAT I remember were straightforward algebra and geometry problems, Mad-lib type sentence completion, analogies, and reading/data comprehension - none of which really required much memorization, just comprehension, logical deduction, etc (unless you consider a decent understanding of English vocabulary and grammar "rote memorization"...)
Knowledge isn't worth as much as people seem to think; at its heart, it's just trivia. What matters is the ability to think, and that doesn't change from generation to generation.
Very true - which is why the modern entrance exams like the SAT and ACT (for the most part) test just that, while tests like GREs and MCATs also test knowledge (since thoroughly understanding that trivia in specific subjects is still important as a baseline for some areas of advanced study...)
FermiLab's is called the "Tevatron". Now that's a cool name - Teva and Tron, combining my favorite sandals and 80's Disney sci-fi movie.
Yep, they are...
http://www.newsweek.com/2003/02/02/a-reverse-midas-touch.html
That article is from 2003 - Vulcan has been more conservative since then, but still not much more successful (for example, Allen spent over $100M on Digeo, and recently sold it for $20M. Not sure if that $100M includes the acquisition of Moxi a while back. And if you throw in the $7B Charter Cable fiasco, he'll probably never make back that bad decision... luckily he made a lot more than that from Microsoft.
Every once in a while they cash in on a company (though when it happens it seems more like the "dartboard approach" to investing), but no way Vulcan (or Allen in his other ventures) has had a net gain in a LONG time...
Paul Allen is complaining because Bill Gates wanted more equity since he "did more"? Paul Allen, for a long time the 2nd richest man in the world who pretty much stopped working at Microsoft in the early 80's and instead sunk a ton of money into failed tech companies and professional sports teams, was upset that Bill thought he DID MORE??
This guy's only smart business decision of his life was to partner with Bill Gates, and after that point his greatest business claim to fame is to lose more money on new ventures than anyone in history (Vulcan might as well be running their corporate furnaces on $100 bills...)