This is obviously more business interest than concern for foreign consumers speaking. How does openness and interoperability between different devices discourage competition? Of course it discourages Apple from donating money to "a top U.S. antitrust official":-)
And how exactly am I as a customer being hurt by being able to play your music where I want? I'll probably get a heart attack from overenjoying myself.
Mod parent up!!
This is by far the most relevant post in the entire discussion. The link leads to a video of Stanley's Software Lead giving a presentation about his project at CMU. Very technical, very detailed and lots of fun.
News for nerds at its best!
VW is selling 84 MPG vehicles since '99
http://www.usatoday.com/money/consumer/autos/marev iew/mauto497.htm
The problem is not really making a high MPG car, it is that people, especially in the US, don't want to buy them. Not even the best technology can make an energy efficient car handle like a porsche or sound like a truck.
Earlier this month there have been site visits conducted by DARPA to narrow the field down to 40 contenders. Judging from the reports posted on the DGC Forums, the field is much stronger this year. A lot of people believe there will be at least one team to finish this year.
Does anyone know a bookie accepting bets on the outcome? With 117 teams still in the race and plenty of media coverage there would be a huge market.
Forming a "national team" for football(*) is actually neither cheating nor immoral. In real-life football, national teams are every country's pride and inter-country matches are about the only thing that empties the streets and gives 80% TV viewer ratings. That applies not just to Germany but to almost every country since football is the world's most popular sport.
(*): The name is actually football, not soccer. Unlike american football, real football actually involves using a foot and a ball.
In Germany, this kind of contract is valid but your former employer has to pay the difference between the salary in your old job and the one in your new job for the 2 years. So, if you have a contract like that - be happy, quit your job and go back to school:-)
If the contract does not contain a salary-difference clause like that, you can either sue the company into paying it anyway or you can just ignore the whole thing and work for anyone.
1) The competitors of the Meta-Tag Spammer. Note that using false Meta-Tags is not illegal. Only if they are deliberately used by company A to gain an unfair advantage over company B, company B can sue company A into changing that meta-tag. Sounds like a good idea to me.
2) A court, on a case-by-case base using common sense. Actually, they way it works is that company B can send company A a letter (abmahnung, dissuasion) requesting them to stop their wrong-doing. If this letter costs company B some lawyers costs they can also demand reimbursement of about $1000. Afterwards company A can decide to remove their Meta-Tags and sign a paper that they will not reinstate them again or go into court with company B.
3-4) Common sense, it is really not hard to decide whether "Sex, P0rn, V1agra, MP3" are relevant for a dentist or not:-)
5) My guess is that it applies to all companies serving German customers. 6) Yes, me:-)
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http://xkcd.com/1181/
This is obviously more business interest than concern for foreign consumers speaking. :-)
How does openness and interoperability between different devices discourage competition? Of course it discourages Apple from donating money to "a top U.S. antitrust official"
And how exactly am I as a customer being hurt by being able to play your music where I want? I'll probably get a heart attack from overenjoying myself.
Mod parent up!! This is by far the most relevant post in the entire discussion. The link leads to a video of Stanley's Software Lead giving a presentation about his project at CMU. Very technical, very detailed and lots of fun. News for nerds at its best!
VW is selling 84 MPG vehicles since '99 http://www.usatoday.com/money/consumer/autos/marev iew/mauto497.htm
The problem is not really making a high MPG car, it is that people, especially in the US, don't want to buy them. Not even the best technology can make an energy efficient car handle like a porsche or sound like a truck.
Does anyone know a bookie accepting bets on the outcome? With 117 teams still in the race and plenty of media coverage there would be a huge market.
Go Stanley!
Forming a "national team" for football(*) is actually neither cheating nor immoral. In real-life football, national teams are every country's pride and inter-country matches are about the only thing that empties the streets and gives 80% TV viewer ratings. That applies not just to Germany but to almost every country since football is the world's most popular sport.
(*): The name is actually football, not soccer. Unlike american football, real football actually involves using a foot and a ball.
In Germany, this kind of contract is valid but your former employer has to pay the difference between the salary in your old job and the one in your new job for the 2 years. So, if you have a contract like that - be happy, quit your job and go back to school :-)
If the contract does not contain a salary-difference clause like that, you can either sue the company into paying it anyway or you can just ignore the whole thing and work for anyone.
1) The competitors of the Meta-Tag Spammer. Note that using false Meta-Tags is not illegal. Only if they are deliberately used by company A to gain an unfair advantage over company B, company B can sue company A into changing that meta-tag. Sounds like a good idea to me.
:-)
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2) A court, on a case-by-case base using common sense. Actually, they way it works is that company B can send company A a letter (abmahnung, dissuasion) requesting them to stop their wrong-doing. If this letter costs company B some lawyers costs they can also demand reimbursement of about $1000. Afterwards company A can decide to remove their Meta-Tags and sign a paper that they will not reinstate them again or go into court with company B.
3-4) Common sense, it is really not hard to decide whether "Sex, P0rn, V1agra, MP3" are relevant for a dentist or not
5) My guess is that it applies to all companies serving German customers.
6) Yes, me
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