those of us who were taught maladies such as high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease could be linked to obesity were just plain wrong? Great, I'm going to Jack In The Box to order a couple Sirloin burgers, large fries and giant coke! Then, I'll have a box of delicious Oreo Cakesters for desert. And I don't want to forget to cancel my useless gym membership, either. Thank you, science!
There are no privacy implications for me regarding Face Book because I choose not to use it. No Face Book, no My Space, nothing. If only security were always that easy.
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WHOIS is rather lame because of fake data, and most who fake data do usually do so because they don't want to give worthwhile contact details to the whole world. However, a lame WHOIS is better than no WHOIS in my opinion. I think it's valuable to have at least a registrant name provided in WHOIS, at the very least to serve as some record of who originally registered a given domain name in the unlikely but not unheard of issue of hijacking. I think perhaps ICANN should build and maintain a private contact database and fund it through an additional $1.50 fee on registrations. ICANN would provide a special privreg@icann.org address that one could email to contact the registrant (with strong spam filtering). I administer a fairly high profile site, but my webmaster address really doesn't get that much spam - that's why I think my proposed solution would work well in most cases. A person get a valid email address to contact and not much else. Finally, if the person wishing to contact the registrant wants a physical address of the registration, ICANN should require nothing less than a court order. That's my initial idea.
Once again, when I said "these services fail," I was not writing broadly about all subscription services of every kind; I was referring to music download subscription services like Napster. I thought that was clear. Most of them have failed. And while I agree that satellite radio has to charge a subscription fee both due to the technological and business models involved, satellite radio is in a different position versus music download services. You talk about Apple benefiting from net neutrality, but so do the music subscription download services. They are both types of Internet products, delivered through the same pipes. The fact is, iTMS is the successful one, and to me it comes down to the inherent value proposition it offers over the heavily DRM encumbered, continuous-pay-or-don't-play services.
Yes, you're right. There's no way this could work. I predict that the delivery of media by subscription using satellite (Sirius/XM, Dish, DirectTV), cable (TV, PPV), cell (mobile TV) and fibre (FIOS TV, etc) will remin a tiny and marginal market, doomed to obscurity. I was specifically referring to music subscription services. There is a much more popular alternative to music download subscription services - iTMS - and it succeeds where these services fail. If there were only music subscription services available and no iTMS, they would much more popular. But the fact is people don't like paying monthly fees for services, yet they will if there's a lack of competition in a given market. I'd prefer not to pay any monthly fees for many common consumer items, but I end up paying for some (like WoW and Sirius) because they are valuable to me and I don't have non-subscription alternatives available in those cases.
Uh, no, sorry. You pay for the files you buy from iTMS only once. Yes, the majority of the files have DRM, but it's really light-weight DRM that doesn't get in the way most of the time. Apple even encourages users to backup their purchased files.
Music subscriptions aren't valuable? What a revelation. Gee, do you really want to pay a monthly fee for limited (DRMed) access to music files, access which goes away if you terminate your service. That value proposition is exceedingly poor, unless you take measures to copy the files into non-DRM form.
If Apple really wants to continue to provide users with the "Open Safe Files" option in Safari, it would make a whole lot of sense to associate that feature with a white list of approved domain names like apple.com, adobe.com, etc.
50% of all PC sales? That's a bit outlandish. No single computer vendor - not even HP-Compaq or Dell in its heyday enjoy or enjoyed anything close to that figure. But why don't you take a look at AAPL's price performance, market cap and reason for valuation, then come back and explain to me that the public isn't taking notice of Mac sale as of now.
Apple just sold the most Macs ever in a single quarter. I don't think the company wants to mess with that unprecendented level of success by opening OS X to the general PC market. There's no question that if it were done properly, an OS X for PCs retail box would substantially grow the platform. The questions are, can Apple successfully pull that off, and does Apple want to greatly expand an already growing platform at the cost of proprietary control. It could happen, though - Stranger things have - like the x86 switch itself.
WHOIS is rather lame because of fake data, and most who fake data do usually do so because they don't want to give worthwhile contact details to the whole world. However, a lame WHOIS is better than no WHOIS in my opinion. I think it's valuable to have at least a registrant name provided in WHOIS, at the very least to serve as some record of who originally registered a given domain name in the unlikely but not unheard of issue of hijacking. I think perhaps ICANN should build and maintain a private contact database and fund it through an additional $1.50 fee on registrations. ICANN would provide a special privreg@icann.org address that one could email to contact the registrant (with strong spam filtering). I administer a fairly high profile site, but my webmaster address really doesn't get that much spam - that's why I think my proposed solution would work well in most cases. A person get a valid email address to contact and not much else. Finally, if the person wishing to contact the registrant wants a physical address of the registration, ICANN should require nothing less than a court order. That's my initial idea - how do you like it?
What you are, in fact, objecting to is due process, a bedrock principle of our judicial system. One of the most important obligations of the courts is to ensure that the laws on proper procedure are followed. If a person's due process rights are violated, it is the court's responsibility to either declare a mistrial or find in favor of the wronged person. Due process issues may seem like technicalities at times, but they're actually terrifically important if you want fair trials.
I considered buying tickets because my brother was interested in going, but I balked at the price of entry. I'm not too surprised by the sparse attendance.
In order to maintain the longevity of the OS X name, full milestone upgrades of OS X are called point releases. People lambaste OS X for that numbering convention, as if OS X milestone releases are not as significant just because Apple isn't moving the first digit of the version number with each release. It's a really stupid critique, FWIW.
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And if special interest funding is the only thing that moves legislation in Congress, our country has truly lost its way.
those of us who were taught maladies such as high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease could be linked to obesity were just plain wrong? Great, I'm going to Jack In The Box to order a couple Sirloin burgers, large fries and giant coke! Then, I'll have a box of delicious Oreo Cakesters for desert. And I don't want to forget to cancel my useless gym membership, either. Thank you, science!
There are no privacy implications for me regarding Face Book because I choose not to use it. No Face Book, no My Space, nothing. If only security were always that easy.
Haha. It's a joke!
When many gamers spend $500 for just a gaming GPU, yes $500 for a full gaming upgrade is cheap - if it lives up to the hype.
WHOIS is rather lame because of fake data, and most who fake data do usually do so because they don't want to give worthwhile contact details to the whole world. However, a lame WHOIS is better than no WHOIS in my opinion. I think it's valuable to have at least a registrant name provided in WHOIS, at the very least to serve as some record of who originally registered a given domain name in the unlikely but not unheard of issue of hijacking. I think perhaps ICANN should build and maintain a private contact database and fund it through an additional $1.50 fee on registrations. ICANN would provide a special privreg@icann.org address that one could email to contact the registrant (with strong spam filtering). I administer a fairly high profile site, but my webmaster address really doesn't get that much spam - that's why I think my proposed solution would work well in most cases. A person get a valid email address to contact and not much else. Finally, if the person wishing to contact the registrant wants a physical address of the registration, ICANN should require nothing less than a court order. That's my initial idea.
Once again, when I said "these services fail," I was not writing broadly about all subscription services of every kind; I was referring to music download subscription services like Napster. I thought that was clear. Most of them have failed. And while I agree that satellite radio has to charge a subscription fee both due to the technological and business models involved, satellite radio is in a different position versus music download services. You talk about Apple benefiting from net neutrality, but so do the music subscription download services. They are both types of Internet products, delivered through the same pipes. The fact is, iTMS is the successful one, and to me it comes down to the inherent value proposition it offers over the heavily DRM encumbered, continuous-pay-or-don't-play services.
Mighty Mouse is on his way!
Uh, no, sorry. You pay for the files you buy from iTMS only once. Yes, the majority of the files have DRM, but it's really light-weight DRM that doesn't get in the way most of the time. Apple even encourages users to backup their purchased files.
Music subscriptions aren't valuable? What a revelation. Gee, do you really want to pay a monthly fee for limited (DRMed) access to music files, access which goes away if you terminate your service. That value proposition is exceedingly poor, unless you take measures to copy the files into non-DRM form.
If Apple really wants to continue to provide users with the "Open Safe Files" option in Safari, it would make a whole lot of sense to associate that feature with a white list of approved domain names like apple.com, adobe.com, etc.
Apple has sold more iPhones than it originally projected - how much more success do you want?
50% of all PC sales? That's a bit outlandish. No single computer vendor - not even HP-Compaq or Dell in its heyday enjoy or enjoyed anything close to that figure. But why don't you take a look at AAPL's price performance, market cap and reason for valuation, then come back and explain to me that the public isn't taking notice of Mac sale as of now.
Apple just sold the most Macs ever in a single quarter. I don't think the company wants to mess with that unprecendented level of success by opening OS X to the general PC market. There's no question that if it were done properly, an OS X for PCs retail box would substantially grow the platform. The questions are, can Apple successfully pull that off, and does Apple want to greatly expand an already growing platform at the cost of proprietary control. It could happen, though - Stranger things have - like the x86 switch itself.
WHOIS is rather lame because of fake data, and most who fake data do usually do so because they don't want to give worthwhile contact details to the whole world. However, a lame WHOIS is better than no WHOIS in my opinion. I think it's valuable to have at least a registrant name provided in WHOIS, at the very least to serve as some record of who originally registered a given domain name in the unlikely but not unheard of issue of hijacking. I think perhaps ICANN should build and maintain a private contact database and fund it through an additional $1.50 fee on registrations. ICANN would provide a special privreg@icann.org address that one could email to contact the registrant (with strong spam filtering). I administer a fairly high profile site, but my webmaster address really doesn't get that much spam - that's why I think my proposed solution would work well in most cases. A person get a valid email address to contact and not much else. Finally, if the person wishing to contact the registrant wants a physical address of the registration, ICANN should require nothing less than a court order. That's my initial idea - how do you like it?
What you are, in fact, objecting to is due process, a bedrock principle of our judicial system. One of the most important obligations of the courts is to ensure that the laws on proper procedure are followed. If a person's due process rights are violated, it is the court's responsibility to either declare a mistrial or find in favor of the wronged person. Due process issues may seem like technicalities at times, but they're actually terrifically important if you want fair trials.
Dupe dupe dupe.
If Google bought my company I'd tell everyone to migrate their whole lives to Google, too.
I considered buying tickets because my brother was interested in going, but I balked at the price of entry. I'm not too surprised by the sparse attendance.
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Then count me out. I guess I don't like change, but I just wasn't all that impressed by SF3. At least they show Ryu and Ken in the teaser.
Can anyone say "long overdue?"
I'm pretty sure we haven't heard the last word on this one yet, guys. I bet there are still a few more avenues of appeal left for Amazon to pursue.
In order to maintain the longevity of the OS X name, full milestone upgrades of OS X are called point releases. People lambaste OS X for that numbering convention, as if OS X milestone releases are not as significant just because Apple isn't moving the first digit of the version number with each release. It's a really stupid critique, FWIW.