What's stopping Apple from running a global iTunes Music Store?
In a nutshell: outdated business practices on the part of the record companies. Believe me, Apple would far rather have a single store, and just do language localization.
When the boss isn't spending any time interviewing, I suspect it's because no one qualified is applying.
This can also be very dependent on location. I have friends on the east coast who tell me that it's like pulling teeth to get anyone to move from the SF Bay area.
-jcr
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Or one that violates your statutory rights
Umm, that would just be one example of a contract that violates the law.
The EULA clause that threatens you with $8 grand in damages if you dispute a credit card charge would certainly violate their merchant account terms. Somebody needs to report them to MasterCard, AMEX and VISA. I would, but I'm not a customer of theirs, nor would I ever be.
Umm.. Starting with a parabolic dish like, that you'd get better results (and cheaper), by gluing strips of aluminized mylar to it. You can get it at any art-supply store.
Sometime in the early 1970's, I read an account in either Time or Newsweek of the Greek navy performing an experiment to see if this could be done. They used highly-polished aluminum shields, about 1x1.5 meters, and they made a wooden rowboat burst into flames.
I did read the article, and raising the $10 billion from the sale of the spectrum is not dependent on wasting $3 billion of it on the proposed subsidy.
The problem isn't nuclear power per se, it's the arbitrary limitations of liability for nuclear plant operators. In the USA, the Price-Anderson act limits that liability to $200 million. If the act were repealed, then we'd either get no nuclear power plants, or power plants whose owners have proven to the satisfaction of their insurers and investors that they're safe to operate.
I'm in favor of nuclear power in principle, but I really don't trust governments to operate them competently, or to let people who know what they're doing make the design decisions.
In the Soviet Union, Chernobyl happened because they cut corners in the design and operating procedures of the reactors. At TMI, you had probably the all-time classic case of human-factors engineering being botched by a vaudeville show of incompetent regulators.
More like, some lawyers see an opportunity to beat Apple up for a settlement, so they find one user to be the named plaintiff, and go down the courthouse to get the class registered. Once they get that far, it's generally cheaper to pay them off (a million for the lawyers, and $20-off coupons for everyone else) than it is to litigate.
There's also a very brisk business of suing the officers of any company whose stock falls, as if they're supposed to be able to control the stock market.
You've got it bad, here in America (I assume) with "the run-down, teeming streets, the grimy buildings, the broken refrigerators stacked outside, the strings of wet washing.
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If you want it to happen, buy a share of Sony, then go to their next shareholder's meeting, and demand an explanation.
-jcr
Write to the record companies if you want it to happen. They're the sole reason why it took so long foriTMS Australia to go live.
-jcr
What's stopping Apple from running a global iTunes Music Store?
In a nutshell: outdated business practices on the part of the record companies. Believe me, Apple would far rather have a single store, and just do language localization.
-jcr
Joke all you want, but it's still a fact that the iPod makes it very easy to do without the radio.
-jcr
When the boss isn't spending any time interviewing, I suspect it's because no one qualified is applying.
This can also be very dependent on location. I have friends on the east coast who tell me that it's like pulling teeth to get anyone to move from the SF Bay area.
-jcr
Or one that violates your statutory rights
Umm, that would just be one example of a contract that violates the law.
-jcr
This is generally true, because there's a lot more flexibility when setting a starting salary than there is in increasing salaries of existing staff.
-jcr
Radio is almost completely unlistenable to me
Is it? I wouldn't know, since I haven't listened to the radio since I got my first iPod three years ago.
-jcr
Through what medium? Credit cards?
Credit card, PayPal, mail in a check, whatever you like. You could even make it refundable after six months or a year.
-jcr
If you write any software that "which in any way looks or acts like the Software", they hit you with $500,000 (per infringement).
That's just wishful thinking. There's no way any court would uphold something so blatantly anti-competitive.
-jcr
Is it possible that the law can override the stuff written in a license?
Of course. You can't be held to a contract that violates the law.
-jcr
The EULA clause that threatens you with $8 grand in damages if you dispute a credit card charge would certainly violate their merchant account terms. Somebody needs to report them to MasterCard, AMEX and VISA. I would, but I'm not a customer of theirs, nor would I ever be.
-jcr
They stared at it and played with it and spun it around and asked how it knows which way to point.
That reminds me of the joke about the thermos bottle: "It keeps soup hot, and it keeps lemonade cold. How does it know?"
-jcr
1) They don't need to be that precise, and 2) aiming a mirror isn't difficult.
-jcr
Umm.. Starting with a parabolic dish like, that you'd get better results (and cheaper), by gluing strips of aluminized mylar to it. You can get it at any art-supply store.
-jcr
The important thing is that the formation of mirrors was parabolic, not the mirrors themselves.
No, the mirrors can be arranged in any kind of array you like, as long as they each have a clear path to the sun and the target.
-jcr
Sometime in the early 1970's, I read an account in either Time or Newsweek of the Greek navy performing an experiment to see if this could be done. They used highly-polished aluminum shields, about 1x1.5 meters, and they made a wooden rowboat burst into flames.
-jcr
I did read the article, and raising the $10 billion from the sale of the spectrum is not dependent on wasting $3 billion of it on the proposed subsidy.
-jcr
I know this won't be popular with our crowd, but really it isnt a bad decision.
The source of the funds doesn't make this use of the funds any less ridiculous.
-jcr
Your analogy is more akin to saying "I can't afford a new computer, so I will go to Best Buy and steal one."
No, it's more like "I will go examine a computer at Best Buy, and build a copy of it."
-jcr
Except for the hazard of being convicted of espionage...
-jcr
The system we've currently established is that drug manufacturers outlay a truly phenomenal amount of money to develop and test any particular drug.
Let's not forget that the costs of obtaining permission to market a drug can dwarf the actual research costs.
-jcr
I personally don't see a problem with this
The problem isn't nuclear power per se, it's the arbitrary limitations of liability for nuclear plant operators. In the USA, the Price-Anderson act limits that liability to $200 million. If the act were repealed, then we'd either get no nuclear power plants, or power plants whose owners have proven to the satisfaction of their insurers and investors that they're safe to operate.
I'm in favor of nuclear power in principle, but I really don't trust governments to operate them competently, or to let people who know what they're doing make the design decisions.
In the Soviet Union, Chernobyl happened because they cut corners in the design and operating procedures of the reactors. At TMI, you had probably the all-time classic case of human-factors engineering being botched by a vaudeville show of incompetent regulators.
-jcr
More like, some lawyers see an opportunity to beat Apple up for a settlement, so they find one user to be the named plaintiff, and go down the courthouse to get the class registered. Once they get that far, it's generally cheaper to pay them off (a million for the lawyers, and $20-off coupons for everyone else) than it is to litigate.
There's also a very brisk business of suing the officers of any company whose stock falls, as if they're supposed to be able to control the stock market.
-jcr
You've got it bad, here in America (I assume) with "the run-down, teeming streets, the grimy buildings, the broken refrigerators stacked outside, the strings of wet washing.
Have you ever been to West Virginia?
-jcr