Google is also in the process of buying Motorola. But hey, there's no possible way that Google owning one of their competitors could possibly concern them, is there? Surely, they wouldn't pull some sort of Microsoft Plays for Shit/Zune move. No chance whatsoever that google will give motoroogle exclusive access to early version of Android 4. Google didn't say that compatability was a club they use to beat manufacturers into submission.
If you drew a Venn diagram of "news for nerds" and "stuff that matters", you know what would be at the intersection? That's right: folding shipping containers.
You've spent years -- years -- wondering why people use calculators instead of carrying a computer with them at all times in case they need to use emacs or matlab or wolfram or python or tex or metapost or c++ templates to add a couple numbers together?
At any point did you consider asking someone that was using a calculator?
You know what, maybe you should submit it to ask slashdot. It could be front page material.
Netscape was closed source until 2003. [I was also going to say that IE was based on the open source mosaic code but mosaic wasn't exactly open source and IE was actually based on spyglass mosaic, which didn't even use ncsa mosaic code].
Berkshire Hathaway has class B stock that trade for ~$70/share (after a 50:1 split in 2010... used to be ~$4,000/share).
Interesting story. Used to be, when people complained about the high price and asked for a stock split, Buffett told them to fuck off -- his stock was for pensions and mutual funds. So a mutual fund was set up which owned nothing but berkshire hathaway stock, just like he said. That pissed him off, so he issued the lower price B class.
They could buy from a US solar manufacturer that only exists to collect government loan money, siphon it off to well-connected investors/political contributors, and then go bankrupt.
Apple has a market cap of $382 billion and $70 billion in net asset value, so even if they appointed a no-talent ass clown like Michael Dell as CEO and he immediately liquidated everything, they're less than 6x overpriced.
Maybe instead of sitting around in their underwear, eating cheetos, and waiting for someone to hire them, they should take some initiative and start their own business.
Interesting theory. I believe Barry O wants to eliminate tax-free government bonds, though. That's probably not going anywhere -- municipal bonds offer a lower rate of return because they're tax free. Eliminate that advantage and interest rates will have to rise to match other bonds.
Warren Buffet has complained about the corporate jet demagoguery. Perhaps it's because NetJets is a Berkshire Hathaway company.
The implication is when your product and your profit mark up are no longer competitive, companies often seek other
legal manipulations, political corruption and, deceitful mass media to keep other products out and of course to
continue to artificially inflate their profit margins.
Were you referring to Apple? This article is about Samsung trying to block the iPhone 5.
Ooh, a car analogy! Even better - gasoline and diesel taxes pay for road construction and maintenance. Those 1000 trucks pay much more than 1000x the fuel taxes that you do. And if you're driving an electric vehicle (with a nice big government subsidy or two), you're a free-loader. Doesn't seem fair, does it?
VB6 (and Pascal) are like an overbearing mom that make you eat your vegetables, doesn't let you drink caffeine, and makes you go to bed by 9'o-clock. Also, you're locked in a padded room so you don't hurt yourself. C is like the cool dad. He gives you money and lets you decide how to spend it. If you want to spend it on peas and carrots, fine. If you want to spend it on coke and whores, even better.
Some people are incapable of making choices for themselves.
I dropped the DVD portion as I'm usually too busy trolling slashd... developing FREE software, so the DVD tends to sit around for a week or two before I get to it. $2 for 3-4 movies a month is fine, $8, no thanks.
I'm not impressed with the streaming movies, but the documentary/history selection keeps me entertained.
I never cared for youtube's HTML5 video player (and apparently, neither did they). I use a safari add-on that provides a nicer HTML5 video player (nicer than the flash one, IMHO).
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Google is also in the process of buying Motorola. But hey, there's no possible way that Google owning one of their competitors could possibly concern them, is there? Surely, they wouldn't pull some sort of Microsoft Plays for Shit/Zune move. No chance whatsoever that google will give motoroogle exclusive access to early version of Android 4. Google didn't say that compatability was a club they use to beat manufacturers into submission.
MySQL was malware long before Oracle owned it, long before Sun owned it.
Apple removed it at the DMCA request of a Nokia employee that had contributed code to VLC (and retained copyright of it).
If they just streamed it without licensing, statutory damages would probably be under $100,000 per movie.
If you drew a Venn diagram of "news for nerds" and "stuff that matters", you know what would be at the intersection? That's right: folding shipping containers.
Slashdot makes me post goatse links.
You've spent years -- years -- wondering why people use calculators instead of carrying a computer with them at all times in case they need to use emacs or matlab or wolfram or python or tex or metapost or c++ templates to add a couple numbers together?
At any point did you consider asking someone that was using a calculator?
You know what, maybe you should submit it to ask slashdot. It could be front page material.
HTML5 has worker threads. Javascript does have prototype inheritance.
Netscape was closed source until 2003. [I was also going to say that IE was based on the open source mosaic code but mosaic wasn't exactly open source and IE was actually based on spyglass mosaic, which didn't even use ncsa mosaic code].
SUA/SFU/Interix includes some gpl software (gcc, for example).
Berkshire Hathaway has class B stock that trade for ~$70/share (after a 50:1 split in 2010 ... used to be ~$4,000/share).
Interesting story. Used to be, when people complained about the high price and asked for a stock split, Buffett told them to fuck off -- his stock was for pensions and mutual funds. So a mutual fund was set up which owned nothing but berkshire hathaway stock, just like he said. That pissed him off, so he issued the lower price B class.
They could buy from a US solar manufacturer that only exists to collect government loan money, siphon it off to well-connected investors/political contributors, and then go bankrupt.
Apple has a market cap of $382 billion and $70 billion in net asset value, so even if they appointed a no-talent ass clown like Michael Dell as CEO and he immediately liquidated everything, they're less than 6x overpriced.
Maybe instead of sitting around in their underwear, eating cheetos, and waiting for someone to hire them, they should take some initiative and start their own business.
Interesting theory. I believe Barry O wants to eliminate tax-free government bonds, though. That's probably not going anywhere -- municipal bonds offer a lower rate of return because they're tax free. Eliminate that advantage and interest rates will have to rise to match other bonds.
Warren Buffet has complained about the corporate jet demagoguery. Perhaps it's because NetJets is a Berkshire Hathaway company.
The implication is when your product and your profit mark up are no longer competitive, companies often seek other legal manipulations, political corruption and, deceitful mass media to keep other products out and of course to continue to artificially inflate their profit margins.
Were you referring to Apple? This article is about Samsung trying to block the iPhone 5.
Ooh, a car analogy! Even better - gasoline and diesel taxes pay for road construction and maintenance. Those 1000 trucks pay much more than 1000x the fuel taxes that you do. And if you're driving an electric vehicle (with a nice big government subsidy or two), you're a free-loader. Doesn't seem fair, does it?
And for some people, it means complaining that their taxes are too low while somehow forgetting they have the option of paying more if they want to.
except, of course, for those that did.
I somehow doubt he would be suing if the stock price went up.
Some people are incapable of making choices for themselves.
I'm not impressed with the streaming movies, but the documentary/history selection keeps me entertained.
I never cared for youtube's HTML5 video player (and apparently, neither did they). I use a safari add-on that provides a nicer HTML5 video player (nicer than the flash one, IMHO).
If you're a normal person, you'll buy an iPad.
The FSF approach was years ahead: never using proprietary software like flash to begin with.