You're living in a dream world if you believe they would have been reimbursed attorney's fees. The system is of the lawyers, by the lawyers, for the lawyers. They lawyers get paid. And by as many people as possible. Their best possibility is that the plaintiff lawyer amends the complaint to be against the correct website. But if he didn't neither the plaintiff, nor her lawyer would have to pay defendants lawyer just because they sued the wrong person.
Its funny you mention this. I realized the other day something interesting. My grandfather was in WWII. He was born about as far after the Civil War as my son was born after WWII.Both were born about 60years distant. That kinda puts it into perspective a bit. A lot of how my son will think and feel about WWII will be how my grandfather thought and felt about the Civil War.
You assume that if FCC/ITU removes the ham bands that they will be given to "the people" for use in mobile internet etc. Most likely is that if they are removed they will be auctioned off and AT&T will be coming to your house to rape you for using that wifi in THIER 2.4GHz band that they sell access to for $$$$ per month. Because at that point all your part 15 wifi gear will be "interfering" with AT&T's 5G network cells(at least according to AT&T and their "connect anywhere" campaign). You'll lose all your gear and pay a fine. To add insult to injury two months later when the tornado comes through and the whole phone network is down you won't have anyone to help you call for help now that there isn't a ham radio operator down the street.
The irony here is that in the late 1990's Microsoft was thought to be so wonderful because it was the largest market cap company in the world. It has since lost half its value. Microsoft's bubble has popped just as surely as any others. And they're not growing either. Microsoft's cash on hand has been slowly dropping. When their market cap quit growing they were no longer able to fund their development through stock options to employees instead of paying them market wages. For a long time Microsoft was a stock ponzi scheme that happened to make software. The employees were paid in discounted stock that they purchased diluting the shares instead of market pay. They then booked the stock sales as profits since they "created" the stock earlier at lower prices. Their massive "profitability" and money is what drove the fear of them in the industry. Its a nice racket if you could get it; to bad for them the SEC won't let them do accounting like that anymore. Of course they'd have to have an increasing stock price, like Apples's, to pull it off again.
"Stock value is a value that is PERCEIVED by investors."
Indeed and their PERCEIVED lack of leadership in the market is what makes them irrelevant in the market. No one thinks that they're leading in technology therefore no one follows their technological lead.
"Microsoft's foundations lie in the fact that most of the world runs their software as the very platform for running everything else."
Everything else like smartphones, oh wait no they're last place there. Networking infrastructure, oh wait not there either. Emerging markets like India and China, wait, nope not there either. Hmm how about online apps? Oh no Google's got that one. Tell me where are they relevant again? Desktop PC's? Yup they lead here! Oh wait that market is shrinking.
"And seriously, if you think that actual value of Microsoft is in the same size category to that of Apple, you have serious problems understanding how financial and stock markets work and how they relate to actual values."
And yet the market capitalization of MS is $222B, Google's is $153B, and Apple's is $247B. The financial world seems to think that Apple is worth $25B more than Microsoft, but I'm the one that doesn't understand how financial markets work?
Compare MS stock and Apple and Google and go back 5 years, or even 3 years.
Look at the hype for the iPad, for Android. Notice the FTC looking at Google,
Notice no one cares about MS anymore; They're becoming irrelevant. They're were
IBM was in 1990, or Novell in 1998. Ballmar really wasn't/isn't up to the task
of running the company. In 2000 they should have copied Apple again and based their
next windows(that would become Vista) on a BSD or Linux kernel. It is very likely
that they will continue to shrink and in another 15 they'll be just another
softare vendor like Adobe.
Since CSIRO is an Australian entity and is foriegn to the USA. The proper jurisdiction for the suit is the DC circuit. They should have this thrown out and be sanctioned for shopping the jurisdiction.
You that is another good reason that the FCC should have killed local broadcast TV. The bands that TV licenses carry could be used for rural high speed internet.
The FCC could have and should have killed it during the "digital changeover" There is absolutely no reason that TV should be
broadcast over airwaves. For the government cost of the changeover they could have subsidized basic satalite/cable to any poor people who don't get it(which is who actually?). Then we would have had more spectrum for better uses.
Can we play this game some more?
Why does it matter what they want? They can want to be emperor of the world.
What is it with people thinking the law should be what they want it to be instead of what it is?
How about we just revoke copyright for anything transmitted through an FCC licensed RF signal?
For public good anything transmitted/broadcast by an FCC license cannot be copyrighted, but must be public domain I like my way better.
Its not about profit margin; its about network affects of the platform. Its that network affect with iTunes that lets Apple be so dominant in the iPod; they're parleying that to the iPhone and the apps store. If Google Android gets to a larger market share then the iPhone and developers like its app store then doesn't matter if Apple's profit margins are higher, they wont be dominant ever.
Ebert doesn't want to admit that games are art. To admit that they are art in his definition, one merely has to point out that the player is in fact also a producer of the art that is the game. If all those unwashed masses in their basements are part of the art that is the game, and this art is eclipsing movies/tv, then he has to admit that these people playing games in their basements are having more impact on the culture than he does. His ego is incapable of admitting that.
According to the article; she isn't his costodian, and she didn't just post on his wall; she stole his password and posted to his wall as him. So identity theft much? Computer crime much?
The fact that a Judge granted the restraining order against a women on behalf of a 16yo male(son) also should be a good indication of the situation.
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You're living in a dream world if you believe they would have been reimbursed attorney's fees. The system is of the lawyers, by the lawyers, for the lawyers. They lawyers get paid. And by as many people as possible. Their best possibility is that the plaintiff lawyer amends the complaint to be against the correct website. But if he didn't neither the plaintiff, nor her lawyer would have to pay defendants lawyer just because they sued the wrong person.
The processor/chipset they chose to hit the pricepoint can't handle 1080p. I saw that too laughed.
Its funny you mention this. I realized the other day something interesting. My grandfather was in WWII. He was born about as far after the Civil War as my son was born after WWII.Both were born about 60years distant. That kinda puts it into perspective a bit. A lot of how my son will think and feel about WWII will be how my grandfather thought and felt about the Civil War.
So do we have a better idea of the mars defense grid locations, or is this one going to be "lost" on landing?
So how likely was it that someone in marketing thought it would be "cool design" to have a visible antenna on the outside of the unit?
You assume that if FCC/ITU removes the ham bands that they will be given to "the people" for use in mobile internet etc. Most likely is that if they are removed they will be auctioned off and AT&T will be coming to your house to rape you for using that wifi in THIER 2.4GHz band that they sell access to for $$$$ per month. Because at that point all your part 15 wifi gear will be "interfering" with AT&T's 5G network cells(at least according to AT&T and their "connect anywhere" campaign). You'll lose all your gear and pay a fine. To add insult to injury two months later when the tornado comes through and the whole phone network is down you won't have anyone to help you call for help now that there isn't a ham radio operator down the street.
This supreme court is stacking up to being the best one ever!
The irony here is that in the late 1990's Microsoft was thought to be so wonderful because it was the largest market cap company in the world. It has since lost half its value. Microsoft's bubble has popped just as surely as any others. And they're not growing either. Microsoft's cash on hand has been slowly dropping. When their market cap quit growing they were no longer able to fund their development through stock options to employees instead of paying them market wages. For a long time Microsoft was a stock ponzi scheme that happened to make software. The employees were paid in discounted stock that they purchased diluting the shares instead of market pay. They then booked the stock sales as profits since they "created" the stock earlier at lower prices. Their massive "profitability" and money is what drove the fear of them in the industry. Its a nice racket if you could get it; to bad for them the SEC won't let them do accounting like that anymore. Of course they'd have to have an increasing stock price, like Apples's, to pull it off again.
"Stock value is a value that is PERCEIVED by investors."
Indeed and their PERCEIVED lack of leadership in the market is what makes them irrelevant in the market. No one thinks that they're leading in technology therefore no one follows their technological lead.
"Microsoft's foundations lie in the fact that most of the world runs their software as the very platform for running everything else."
Everything else like smartphones, oh wait no they're last place there. Networking infrastructure, oh wait not there either. Emerging markets like India and China, wait, nope not there either. Hmm how about online apps? Oh no Google's got that one. Tell me where are they relevant again? Desktop PC's? Yup they lead here! Oh wait that market is shrinking.
"And seriously, if you think that actual value of Microsoft is in the same size category to that of Apple, you have serious problems understanding how financial and stock markets work and how they relate to actual values."
And yet the market capitalization of MS is $222B, Google's is $153B, and Apple's is $247B. The financial world seems to think that Apple is worth $25B more than Microsoft, but I'm the one that doesn't understand how financial markets work?
Compare MS stock and Apple and Google and go back 5 years, or even 3 years. Look at the hype for the iPad, for Android. Notice the FTC looking at Google, Notice no one cares about MS anymore; They're becoming irrelevant. They're were IBM was in 1990, or Novell in 1998. Ballmar really wasn't/isn't up to the task of running the company. In 2000 they should have copied Apple again and based their next windows(that would become Vista) on a BSD or Linux kernel. It is very likely that they will continue to shrink and in another 15 they'll be just another softare vendor like Adobe.
It doesn't work right if Carousel is in 2d; it has to be 3d!
Since CSIRO is an Australian entity and is foriegn to the USA. The proper jurisdiction for the suit is the DC circuit. They should have this thrown out and be sanctioned for shopping the jurisdiction.
So how did they get all this "right of way" for their outside plant again?
You that is another good reason that the FCC should have killed local broadcast TV. The bands that TV licenses carry could be used for rural high speed internet.
because no one can use dishnetwork or directv amiright?
The FCC could have and should have killed it during the "digital changeover" There is absolutely no reason that TV should be broadcast over airwaves. For the government cost of the changeover they could have subsidized basic satalite/cable to any poor people who don't get it(which is who actually?). Then we would have had more spectrum for better uses.
Can we play this game some more?
Why does it matter what they want? They can want to be emperor of the world.
What is it with people thinking the law should be what they want it to be instead of what it is?
How about we just revoke copyright for anything transmitted through an FCC licensed RF signal?
For public good anything transmitted/broadcast by an FCC license cannot be copyrighted, but must be public domain
I like my way better.
An Alaska judge has sided with former Gov. Sarah Palin in a lawsuit over e-mail, finding that state law doesn't forbid the use of private e-mail accounts to conduct state business.
Just because you want it to be illegal doesn't make it illegal; i.e. laws have to be passed by legislature first.
They also hung on the count of Identity Theft; The DA can retry that later if he so chooses.
Its not about profit margin; its about network affects of the platform. Its that network affect with iTunes that lets Apple be so dominant in the iPod; they're parleying that to the iPhone and the apps store. If Google Android gets to a larger market share then the iPhone and developers like its app store then doesn't matter if Apple's profit margins are higher, they wont be dominant ever.
Ebert doesn't want to admit that games are art. To admit that they are art in his definition, one merely has to point out that the player is in fact also a producer of the art that is the game. If all those unwashed masses in their basements are part of the art that is the game, and this art is eclipsing movies/tv, then he has to admit that these people playing games in their basements are having more impact on the culture than he does. His ego is incapable of admitting that.
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Taxes/AvoidAnAudit/5waysToAvoidAnAudit.aspx?page=2 "On the other hand, if you are concerned about a potential audit, never file until the last minute. It won't hurt and can only decrease your chances of being selected."
Filing your taxes early increases the odds of an audit.
According to the article; she isn't his costodian, and she didn't just post on his wall; she stole his password and posted to his wall as him. So identity theft much? Computer crime much?
The fact that a Judge granted the restraining order against a women on behalf of a 16yo male(son) also should be a good indication of the situation.
Citation here:
METRO NEWS BRIEFS: CONNECTICUT; Judge Rules That Police Can Bar High I.Q. Scores