Illegal distribution of a novel by a publisher. Purchasers got to keep their copies anyway in violation of publishing rights. Oh no, how unfair is Amazon!
So you already have all these ways to read a book, does it make sense to spend hundreds of dollars on yet another device?
I absolutely hate reading pages and pages of straight text on LCD monitors. "Yet another device" doesn't apply as I would NEVER read a novel on anything I already own. My only choices would be buy an e-ink display device or carry around a physical copy of the book.
Does it make sense to have another thing to carry around?
Well, for me, it's either keep an e-reader on me at all times or carry which ever book I'm reading. Either way it's "another device"
Mozilla Foundation gets paid for every search that is done using their default, right? So what happens when they switch to something other than Google for a higher per search revenue, and people start setting Google as their default manually? They get a lot less money, right? So in their search for more money, they could potentially be severely hurting their own revenues.
"Sounds intriguing, but one has to wonder if it will be plagued by internecine feuding, punditry, and political manipulation." -- Isn't that how all wikis work anyway?
Why is it that people cry "big brother" when bookmarks and histories are stored privately on a company's server, but don't care that anyone who wants to can view their digg.com/del.icio.us/last.fm/etc profiles which lists such information as what sites they like, what songs they listen to, etc? It's only bad when their information is not available to random browsers?
Mass drivers don't carry living payloads. They're used to transport bulk materials for orbital construction. In other words, there's nothing living to die.
Sure, the Federal government can't force States into adopting it, but just like the minimum drinking age, they can withold Federal money the States are addicted to if they don't want to go along for the ride.
Maybe by 2010 I'll be able to get something other than a 56k connection... Cable and DSL isn't even remotely available here. You know it's bad when local paper celebrates the coming of dsl to a town that's 50 miles away.
Why would Google have to struggle with it's shareholders? As stated in their Prospectus, page 24:
We do not intend to pay dividends on our common stock.We have never declared or paid any cash dividend on our capital stock. We currently intend to retain any future earnings and do not expect to pay any dividends in the foreseeable future.
The concentration of our capital stock ownership with our founders, executive officers, employees, and our directors and their affiliates will limit your ability to influence corporate matters. After our offering, our Class B common stock will have ten votes per share and our Class A common stock, which is the stock we are selling in this offering, will have one vote per share. We anticipate that our founders, executive officers, directors (and their affiliates) and employees will together own approximately 84.4% of our Class B common stock, representing approximately 83.1% of the voting power of our outstanding capital stock. In particular, following this offering, our two founders and our CEO, Larry, Sergey and Eric, will control approximately 38.5% of our outstanding Class B common stock, representing approximately 37.9% of the voting power of our outstanding capital stock. Larry, Sergey and Eric will therefore have significant influence over management and affairs and over all matters requiring stockholder approval, including the election of directors and significant corporate transactions, such as a merger or other sale of our company or its assets, for the foreseeable future. In addition, because of this dual class structure, our founders, directors, executives and employees will continue to be able to control all matters submitted to our stockholders for approval even if they come to own less than 50% of the outstanding shares of our common stock. This concentrated control will limit your ability to influence corporate matters and, as a result, we may take actions that our stockholders do not view as beneficial. As a result, the market price of our Class A common stock could be adversely affected.
Provisions in our charter documents and under Delaware law could discourage a takeover that stockholders may consider favorable.Our certificate of incorporation provides for a dual class common stock structure. As a result of this structure our founders, executives and employees will have significant influence over all matters requiring stockholder approval, including the election of directors and significant corporate transactions, such as a merger or other sale of our company or its assets. This concentrated control could discourage others from initiating any potential merger, takeover or other change of control transaction that other stockholders may view as beneficial.
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Illegal distribution of a novel by a publisher. Purchasers got to keep their copies anyway in violation of publishing rights. Oh no, how unfair is Amazon!
So you already have all these ways to read a book, does it make sense to spend hundreds of dollars on yet another device?
I absolutely hate reading pages and pages of straight text on LCD monitors. "Yet another device" doesn't apply as I would NEVER read a novel on anything I already own. My only choices would be buy an e-ink display device or carry around a physical copy of the book.
Does it make sense to have another thing to carry around?
Well, for me, it's either keep an e-reader on me at all times or carry which ever book I'm reading. Either way it's "another device"
"Reasonable"? I would assume >= to the light required to run a solar-powered calculator.
Mozilla Foundation gets paid for every search that is done using their default, right? So what happens when they switch to something other than Google for a higher per search revenue, and people start setting Google as their default manually? They get a lot less money, right? So in their search for more money, they could potentially be severely hurting their own revenues.
Are you serious? If World of Warcraft were any easier, it would play itself.
C'mon, /. You're reporting this now? It's already been fixed.
Tagged this one under "nevertrustwikipedia" just like the last 4 or so relevant wikipedia articles.
Because, you know, that the other space shuttles that are in operation are waaaay better than the Americans. Oh, wait.
"Sounds intriguing, but one has to wonder if it will be plagued by internecine feuding, punditry, and political manipulation." -- Isn't that how all wikis work anyway?
Why is it that people cry "big brother" when bookmarks and histories are stored privately on a company's server, but don't care that anyone who wants to can view their digg.com/del.icio.us/last.fm/etc profiles which lists such information as what sites they like, what songs they listen to, etc? It's only bad when their information is not available to random browsers?
Mass drivers don't carry living payloads. They're used to transport bulk materials for orbital construction. In other words, there's nothing living to die.
Young Einstein, anyone?
Didn't I read this on Digg two days ago?
Unless it was owned by Disney, of course.
If people didn't this entire article would mean nothing. Well, not any more than it does already if one considers the PS2 and Xbox scores.
Because tons of schools allow Wikipedia as a academic reference... Heh.
I predict that Google announces that they hired him in a week.
Anyone else immediately think of those Starship Trooper commercials? "Would you like to know more?"
Audioscrobbler's http://www.audioscrobbler.com/ latest plugin count has Winamap beating iTunes by almost 3:1. Here's the most recent count, if you're interested. http://www.audioscrobbler.com/development/graphs.p hp
Sure, the Federal government can't force States into adopting it, but just like the minimum drinking age, they can withold Federal money the States are addicted to if they don't want to go along for the ride.
Broadband Over Powerlines
Oh yeah... 'Cause they can wait until the next time their out of state children come to visit to get groceries and medicine.
Maybe by 2010 I'll be able to get something other than a 56k connection... Cable and DSL isn't even remotely available here. You know it's bad when local paper celebrates the coming of dsl to a town that's 50 miles away.
Why would Google have to struggle with it's shareholders? As stated in their Prospectus, page 24: We do not intend to pay dividends on our common stock.We have never declared or paid any cash dividend on our capital stock. We currently intend to retain any future earnings and do not expect to pay any dividends in the foreseeable future. The concentration of our capital stock ownership with our founders, executive officers, employees, and our directors and their affiliates will limit your ability to influence corporate matters. After our offering, our Class B common stock will have ten votes per share and our Class A common stock, which is the stock we are selling in this offering, will have one vote per share. We anticipate that our founders, executive officers, directors (and their affiliates) and employees will together own approximately 84.4% of our Class B common stock, representing approximately 83.1% of the voting power of our outstanding capital stock. In particular, following this offering, our two founders and our CEO, Larry, Sergey and Eric, will control approximately 38.5% of our outstanding Class B common stock, representing approximately 37.9% of the voting power of our outstanding capital stock. Larry, Sergey and Eric will therefore have significant influence over management and affairs and over all matters requiring stockholder approval, including the election of directors and significant corporate transactions, such as a merger or other sale of our company or its assets, for the foreseeable future. In addition, because of this dual class structure, our founders, directors, executives and employees will continue to be able to control all matters submitted to our stockholders for approval even if they come to own less than 50% of the outstanding shares of our common stock. This concentrated control will limit your ability to influence corporate matters and, as a result, we may take actions that our stockholders do not view as beneficial. As a result, the market price of our Class A common stock could be adversely affected. Provisions in our charter documents and under Delaware law could discourage a takeover that stockholders may consider favorable.Our certificate of incorporation provides for a dual class common stock structure. As a result of this structure our founders, executives and employees will have significant influence over all matters requiring stockholder approval, including the election of directors and significant corporate transactions, such as a merger or other sale of our company or its assets. This concentrated control could discourage others from initiating any potential merger, takeover or other change of control transaction that other stockholders may view as beneficial.