I know someone is gonna mod me down for this but frankly I think we've turned into a nation of pussies.
We don't allow kids to fall off bikes, break their arms, or generally be kids.
Parents neurotically try to be friends to their kids instead of parents. When I was growing up my mother made us go cut the switch that she would then use on us. We never talked back to her after that.
Kids today seem..... entitled.
Should a patent from that era really still be valid?
Irrelevant. A patent is as good for as long as a patent is legally good. 20 years. It's not an arbitrary number.
Oh like Microsoft and Google wouldn't do the same if they owned a legitimate patent that could potentially bring them a lot of money? What's disturbing is this..... Since the patent holder has already filed for an initial public offering, this intervention may come at just the right time to prevent the worst.
Why is it "the worst" exactly?
Seriously if they have a legitimate patent then they ** SHOULD ** sue the hell out of everybody who infringes on it. What's the point of having a patent if you don't defend it and go on the offensive?
the analog hole? That's always seemed to have been the one weak spot with the industry's hard on to stop all pirating. Ultimately I can see "don't-play-if-anything-analog-is-hooked-to-it".
Apple is a publicly traded company and as such here's what's important
to them.....
Making money for their stockholders.
That means using sweatshops make their products and doing things like heading down the
dangerous path of closing off the Darwin source for development so
that OSS geeks can't find a way to make OS X work on commodity boxes.
It also means doing the little things like changing the little screws so that they
can continue to hold proprietary sway over their products for maximum revenue.
Of course when Microsoft does anything proprietary, people scream about it.
The difference between the two is roughly this.....
Getting your money taken from you by a crack addict with a lead pipe in Atlantic City = Microsoft
Getting your money taken from you by a smooth hooker in Las Vegas = Apple
Apple is going to do what is best in their corporate interest.
Surprised? Don't be. It's business
and bide their time in general to take advantage of what was inevitable: streaming media. Now that broadband is ubiquitous, it's the next evolution in watching movies.
I just wish they had their ENTIRE library on line. It's going to be interesting to see if the demise of Netflix's meatspace delivery will bump up the values of Coinstar, owner of Redbox.
I agree that personally people should leave Jobs alone. Large investors in AAPL can make the argument that there is an interest in Jobs health because when you buy AAPL you are buying the leadership and I agree with that completely.
then circumvent them, which is what GS is good at doing.
If Goldman Sachs had proceeded with the sale to U.S. investors, there was a risk that regulators could later conclude that media coverage had violated rules for a private placement. If that had happened after the deal, Facebook might have been told to repurchase shares or register as a public company.
FB is wanting to stay as private as possible. Nothing wrong with that.
states are only likely to use cyberattacks against other states when already involved in military action against them
Ho, that's rich! There is speculation that the U.S. and Israel are behind Stuxnet which is dedicated to screwing up Iran. And why not? Why wait until military action? In fact in this case if you can screw the Iran infrastructure up enough, you may not even need to have a military action against them.
Also a lot of this depends on your definition of cyberwar.
China is doing the smart thing right now by backing cyber attacks against the US infrastructure. Before engaging an opponent, it's good to know their weaknesses. The US government uses a lot of Microsoft products as does China now. (China bought shared source years ago). If I were the Chinese I would be setting up servers and hacking them down just to record things like recovery time, etc.
This ain't your daddy's cyberwar. It's all about probing and sizing up an opponent these days.
Perhaps no other company is more tied to its CEO than Jobs, except maybe Warren Buffett. For as much as he and his family wish for privacy however it is reasonable for stockholders, especially HUGE stockholders to know how his condition is. When you buy a stock you are buying the leadership also. If anything this is probably going to drop AAPL's stock valuation down a bit to a more realistic level. 2nd biggest market cap in the world? Really? It certainly doesn't deserve it and with their margins getting squeezed and the fact that there only so many worlds they can conquer means that the shorts are probably going to make some $$$ on AAPL soon. Given that the survival of pancreatic cancer is so low and that Jobs decided to do more hippy dippy holistic approaches doesn't bode well for his survival. That's just the way it is.
That being said, there probably is no visionary that comes close to Jobs and I am thankful for my iPhone, my iPod, my Mac and my iPad.
When I think "securing borders" I tend to think of it more than just keeping out illegal immigrants, I tend to think of having every inch of our border secured as a national security issue. So with that in mind, I'd prefer something like massive walls with deep trenches, guard watch towers every now and then and so on. Illegal immigration concerns aside I am amazed that we don't take border security more seriously. We certainly have spent tons more money on more ridiculous ideas (elective wars, etc).
I use my own computer simply because, pure and simple, it works and I am intimate with it (minus the candles and Barry White). I'm a developer and use a Macbook Pro, but I have been in environments where all that was available was Windows and I have witnessed other developers installing Cygwin, recompiling MySQL to work with the Windows binary, etc etc. Not that this is ineffective, it's just a matter of being time consuming and being a contractor where I'm hired by the job, time is money.
Just as long as you don't ask....
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Bloomberg Businessweek has a great story about Wikipedia.
FTA: A 2005 study in the journal Nature found that in a sample of articles, there were an average of 2.92 mistakes per article for Britannica and 3.86 for Wikipedia. (Britannica objected to the Nature study, calling the methodology "fatally flawed.") Wikipedia, however, has problems Brittanica doesn't. An error corrected in Britannica stays corrected; in Wikipedia, it may not. (By the same token, rapidly changing events can be covered in pace by Wikipedia.)
is a mandatory sunset date on every bill that they sign into law. A year wouldn't be bad. A year would give legal scholars and the public (and maybe even congress itself,... nah wait for it...... hahahahaha) a chance to review it to see if it actually works.
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I know someone is gonna mod me down for this but frankly I think we've turned into a nation of pussies. We don't allow kids to fall off bikes, break their arms, or generally be kids. Parents neurotically try to be friends to their kids instead of parents. When I was growing up my mother made us go cut the switch that she would then use on us. We never talked back to her after that. Kids today seem ..... entitled.
Plinko labs. They've been doing this for years.
I know that they would never open source this but I'd love to see a tear down of the Scientologist e-meter
maybe the failure was on purpose to promote another revenue stream. Hmmmmmmmmm......................
Should a patent from that era really still be valid? Irrelevant. A patent is as good for as long as a patent is legally good. 20 years. It's not an arbitrary number.
Oh like Microsoft and Google wouldn't do the same if they owned a legitimate patent that could potentially bring them a lot of money? What's disturbing is this.....
Since the patent holder has already filed for an initial public offering, this intervention may come at just the right time to prevent the worst.
Why is it "the worst" exactly?
Seriously if they have a legitimate patent then they ** SHOULD ** sue the hell out of everybody who infringes on it. What's the point of having a patent if you don't defend it and go on the offensive?
the analog hole? That's always seemed to have been the one weak spot with the industry's hard on to stop all pirating. Ultimately I can see "don't-play-if-anything-analog-is-hooked-to-it".
1. Buy commerce.gov
2. ?????
3. Profit!!!
Apple is a publicly traded company and as such here's what's important to them.....
Making money for their stockholders.
That means using sweatshops make their products and doing things like heading down the dangerous path of closing off the Darwin source for development so that OSS geeks can't find a way to make OS X work on commodity boxes.
It also means doing the little things like changing the little screws so that they can continue to hold proprietary sway over their products for maximum revenue. Of course when Microsoft does anything proprietary, people scream about it.
The difference between the two is roughly this.....
Getting your money taken from you by a crack addict with a lead pipe in Atlantic City = Microsoft
Getting your money taken from you by a smooth hooker in Las Vegas = Apple
Apple is going to do what is best in their corporate interest.
Surprised? Don't be. It's business
and bide their time in general to take advantage of what was inevitable: streaming media. Now that broadband is ubiquitous, it's the next evolution in watching movies. I just wish they had their ENTIRE library on line. It's going to be interesting to see if the demise of Netflix's meatspace delivery will bump up the values of Coinstar, owner of Redbox.
and they asked "Why do you want to study the stars?"
I agree that personally people should leave Jobs alone. Large investors in AAPL can make the argument that there is an interest in Jobs health because when you buy AAPL you are buying the leadership and I agree with that completely.
I so wish I could mod this to 6.
then circumvent them, which is what GS is good at doing.
If Goldman Sachs had proceeded with the sale to U.S. investors, there was a risk that regulators could later conclude that media coverage had violated rules for a private placement. If that had happened after the deal, Facebook might have been told to repurchase shares or register as a public company.
FB is wanting to stay as private as possible. Nothing wrong with that.
states are only likely to use cyberattacks against other states when already involved in military action against them
Ho, that's rich! There is speculation that the U.S. and Israel are behind Stuxnet which is dedicated to screwing up Iran. And why not? Why wait until military action? In fact in this case if you can screw the Iran infrastructure up enough, you may not even need to have a military action against them.
Also a lot of this depends on your definition of cyberwar.
China is doing the smart thing right now by backing cyber attacks against the US infrastructure. Before engaging an opponent, it's good to know their weaknesses. The US government uses a lot of Microsoft products as does China now. (China bought shared source years ago). If I were the Chinese I would be setting up servers and hacking them down just to record things like recovery time, etc.
This ain't your daddy's cyberwar. It's all about probing and sizing up an opponent these days.
Perhaps no other company is more tied to its CEO than Jobs, except maybe Warren Buffett. For as much as he and his family wish for privacy however it is reasonable for stockholders, especially HUGE stockholders to know how his condition is. When you buy a stock you are buying the leadership also. If anything this is probably going to drop AAPL's stock valuation down a bit to a more realistic level. 2nd biggest market cap in the world? Really? It certainly doesn't deserve it and with their margins getting squeezed and the fact that there only so many worlds they can conquer means that the shorts are probably going to make some $$$ on AAPL soon. Given that the survival of pancreatic cancer is so low and that Jobs decided to do more hippy dippy holistic approaches doesn't bode well for his survival. That's just the way it is. That being said, there probably is no visionary that comes close to Jobs and I am thankful for my iPhone, my iPod, my Mac and my iPad.
That's fine for anything from this point forward but they still have everything ELSE that you've posted up to now.
what the hell are you doing putting your address and phone number on Facebook in the first place?
When I think "securing borders" I tend to think of it more than just keeping out illegal immigrants, I tend to think of having every inch of our border secured as a national security issue. So with that in mind, I'd prefer something like massive walls with deep trenches, guard watch towers every now and then and so on. Illegal immigration concerns aside I am amazed that we don't take border security more seriously. We certainly have spent tons more money on more ridiculous ideas (elective wars, etc).
I use my own computer simply because, pure and simple, it works and I am intimate with it (minus the candles and Barry White). I'm a developer and use a Macbook Pro, but I have been in environments where all that was available was Windows and I have witnessed other developers installing Cygwin, recompiling MySQL to work with the Windows binary, etc etc. Not that this is ineffective, it's just a matter of being time consuming and being a contractor where I'm hired by the job, time is money.
John Coleman, the founder of the Weather Channel who is a complete skeptic about global warming. Ironic that's all.
Bloomberg Businessweek has a great story about Wikipedia.
FTA: A 2005 study in the journal Nature found that in a sample of articles, there were an average of 2.92 mistakes per article for Britannica and 3.86 for Wikipedia. (Britannica objected to the Nature study, calling the methodology "fatally flawed.") Wikipedia, however, has problems Brittanica doesn't. An error corrected in Britannica stays corrected; in Wikipedia, it may not. (By the same token, rapidly changing events can be covered in pace by Wikipedia.)
is a mandatory sunset date on every bill that they sign into law. A year wouldn't be bad. A year would give legal scholars and the public (and maybe even congress itself ,... nah wait for it...... hahahahaha) a chance to review it to see if it actually works.
would belong to this guy.
For as much as I agree with the judge (and am an anti-Palinite), I'm not so sure why he should be an exception.