not likely. If this went to trial these assholes would actually be paying Yahoos bills once they lost (which there is no way they could honestly win)
Even better, they would likely be blacklisted ruining these peoples funding group, and destroying the career (and rightly so) of whatever jackasses thought this was a legit tactic.
There is the heavy stink of Microsoft to this whole deal. As if the groups where paid to create more problems for Yahoo to make the takeover seem like a good out. Unfortunately Microsoft likely hid themselves very well in this since it would amount to harassments and could get them into serious hot water that they likely couldn't skate out of this time.
if you look at who is suing, they likely have about as much sway as a rat on a sinking ship while everyone else on the board understands the game Microsoft and Yahoo are playing here. The funny thing is whats going to happen in court when the Judge throws the lawsuit right back at the group saying "suck it," and these assholes are stuck with not only not getting the money they thought they should, but even less when they are forced to pay everyones legal fees.
prior to this the maximum ceiling of the missile used was unknown. They now know it can leave the earths atmosphere. Even our own media was under the idea it would take up to 5 shots before a missile directly hit... we did it in 1.
The US didnt at all think it. Not one scientist involved said it would survive. The US military use the Space Shuttle as their example of it surviving without pointing out the facts that
1) The Shuttle didnt break up till much further along re-entry.
2) Prior to breakup the Shuttle was in a much more stable de-orbit.
3) That the shuttle has a ton more shielding between it and its hydrazine to prevent it from even coming close to the hydrazine boiling point than the Sat which was never made to re-enter the atmosphere had.
Everyone involved who has no connection to the military has been very vocal about the fact its a government coverup and there was little to no danger at all.
Except thats EXACTLY what they did... made the entire world think the US was in a arms race with China now. Even Conservative members of our government think this was a stupid move since it basically created a pissing match with China who now know our capabilities instead of having to guess at them.
Its been pretty much confirmed by everyone, the hazards of the fuel where nil. This was all a dickwaving scheme by the military who not too long ago was up in arms over China doing the EXACT same thing but being upfront about it being a test and not using a falling sat as a scheme to show off.
They want the 4% royalty rate for STREAMING... IE internet radio, which right now is treated much different than terrestrial radio where the songwriter gets practically nothing for. They are saying that they shoudlnt be treating internet radio as if it is somehow different than normal over the air.
If you mean not selling as in going from 0 to well over 1% market share in a year (and selling well over 1 mil to boot) then yes its selling very very poorly and making AT&T and Apple GOBS of cash in the process.
Years ago my uncle related a story to my father and I about his work at tech support for Data-Com warehouse, which one season jumped drastically. See the company as a whole (Macwarehouse, PCwarehouse, etc) started as a gift bundling in floppies that where calculators in disguised.
Sure enough hundreds of misguided buyers put said disks into their floppy dirves which then broke.
So to answer your question, hundreds if not thousands of idiots would take a disk from their paper and stick it into their drives without a thought to the damage they could cause.
the statement AND the claim are both legit and legal. This is a problem photographers have had to deal with for decades LONG before copyright claims went nutso. Basically since the Mustang is iconic, and since there is a lot of licensing involved with it, Ford is fully within their rights to tell someone they cant make their own calender to sell to people using their car, not without paying Ford a licensing fee.
This is no different than Architects who prevent people from publishing books with photos of their latest building designs. While it seems silly its completely legal and has been enforced for decades at this point.
If you had any sense of read comprehension you would have understood they where GIVEN them. No one who got one actually spent their money on them. And if you actually knew what it was like to work for a school or business environment, if they though they where crap, they would SAY it. I have teachers who still use first gen iMac keyboards on their machines because they refused to use their later gen keyboards. They actually called us up wanting them back.
I dont know where you have been hiding, but both Palm and Windows smartphones are JUST as bad. They might not be carrier exclusives (and the reason behind Apples exclusive deal with AT&T has been repeated time and again to be more about service than any want to lock in) but both are ALSO tied to their own exclusive programs with 3rd party solutions buggy at best, and both at first where also non-programmable (yes they where and anyone who says otherwise is a liar), and only opened up a year or two later.
And this doesnt address the fact that all three are buggy as hell STILL. Mobile 5 was so bad people backgraded their phones to 4.
It has not even been a year for Apples product and they have already promised to open up their programing before the year mark. So your argument is basically null and void.
From what people have told me who have gotten new iMacs in our district, they like the new keyboard better than either their previous iMac keyboards, or even their Dell ones.
It could be though that part of the difference is people are not coming off of using typewriters these days, which is where much of the complaints in old keyboard design came from.
The issue here is though, Negroponte's "facts" have already been disputed by other people including Intel themselves to have been the dealings of a rouge sales executive in the Peru case. Intel laid out the facts of the case of the Peru issue, and it smacks more toward Negroponte looking for a loophole to kick out Intel, than Intel trying to screw the OLPC project they where now heavily investing in.
Thats a load of horseshit and you know it. OLPC is just as much about making a profit to keep the operation going as it is for Intel. Dont kid yourself about that. Their motives might be good (and a good number would tell you even THAT is very questionable, when they are selling computers to people whos popuations go without healthy DRINKING WATER) but in the end they are selling just the same.
so technically you can say the iPod plays everything but Microsoft licensed formats..
Whats the US coming to when people actually file a lawsuit complaining that a company has a monopoly when they cant play a convicted monopolists licensed format... are people this daft?
nope there are direct quotes from Reggie on a bunch of the other gaming sites stating this fact. What I dont get from the summery is "future versions" part. Reggie said that they where more tightly integrating the DS with the Wii with ALL the versions (IE the original and the Lite) not with planned new versions, with which they still have no formal plans to make yet.
what a Troll comment if I ever saw one. You could always look at it in the oposing view though
1) new shineys are NEVER cheaper than the ones that came out 2 months previous.
2) If you felt that what you bought would suit you perfectly fine in what your doing, then why would you care something new came out... something new ALWAYS comes out.
This is the #1 reason I didnt buy a 802.11n router when I had the chance this week, and got a g instead, why would I spend more money on a standard thats not approved yet, when a g suits my needs perfectly fine.
its not silly when they released a trailer 6 YEARS before releasing a teaser.
The fact is the game is not coming... as was pointed out of the Wired Vaporawards thread, a commenter in 2001 stated Van Halen would get back together with Roth before this game came out... AND HE WAS RIGHT despite having 6 years for that comment to come true.
different fields. Apple is about hardware, in particular consumer and business products. Intel has to work with hundreds of companies to make products that are PART of their partners products (including Apple)
Intel has a vested interest in letting its partners know whats on the horizon. Apple has a lot to lose by doing so, since what makes them so popular, is how well they can design products for user simplicity.
You can be pro-Apple yet severely damage them at the same time. Anytime you expose secret projects that the company does not feel is ready for prime-time, you risk losing any forward momentum that you would have had over opposing companies in development. This is why corporate espionage is considered a serious problem.
As it stands now, the "leaked" project that started this whole mess has been to most peoples knowledge, canned.
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Even better, they would likely be blacklisted ruining these peoples funding group, and destroying the career (and rightly so) of whatever jackasses thought this was a legit tactic.
There is the heavy stink of Microsoft to this whole deal. As if the groups where paid to create more problems for Yahoo to make the takeover seem like a good out. Unfortunately Microsoft likely hid themselves very well in this since it would amount to harassments and could get them into serious hot water that they likely couldn't skate out of this time.
if you look at who is suing, they likely have about as much sway as a rat on a sinking ship while everyone else on the board understands the game Microsoft and Yahoo are playing here. The funny thing is whats going to happen in court when the Judge throws the lawsuit right back at the group saying "suck it," and these assholes are stuck with not only not getting the money they thought they should, but even less when they are forced to pay everyones legal fees.
prior to this the maximum ceiling of the missile used was unknown. They now know it can leave the earths atmosphere. Even our own media was under the idea it would take up to 5 shots before a missile directly hit... we did it in 1.
1) The Shuttle didnt break up till much further along re-entry.
2) Prior to breakup the Shuttle was in a much more stable de-orbit.
3) That the shuttle has a ton more shielding between it and its hydrazine to prevent it from even coming close to the hydrazine boiling point than the Sat which was never made to re-enter the atmosphere had.
Everyone involved who has no connection to the military has been very vocal about the fact its a government coverup and there was little to no danger at all.
Except thats EXACTLY what they did... made the entire world think the US was in a arms race with China now. Even Conservative members of our government think this was a stupid move since it basically created a pissing match with China who now know our capabilities instead of having to guess at them.
Its been pretty much confirmed by everyone, the hazards of the fuel where nil. This was all a dickwaving scheme by the military who not too long ago was up in arms over China doing the EXACT same thing but being upfront about it being a test and not using a falling sat as a scheme to show off.
but which one was which?
They want the 4% royalty rate for STREAMING... IE internet radio, which right now is treated much different than terrestrial radio where the songwriter gets practically nothing for. They are saying that they shoudlnt be treating internet radio as if it is somehow different than normal over the air.
If you mean not selling as in going from 0 to well over 1% market share in a year (and selling well over 1 mil to boot) then yes its selling very very poorly and making AT&T and Apple GOBS of cash in the process.
Sure enough hundreds of misguided buyers put said disks into their floppy dirves which then broke.
So to answer your question, hundreds if not thousands of idiots would take a disk from their paper and stick it into their drives without a thought to the damage they could cause.
This is no different than Architects who prevent people from publishing books with photos of their latest building designs. While it seems silly its completely legal and has been enforced for decades at this point.
It really is like Milton and his stapler.
And this doesnt address the fact that all three are buggy as hell STILL. Mobile 5 was so bad people backgraded their phones to 4.
It has not even been a year for Apples product and they have already promised to open up their programing before the year mark. So your argument is basically null and void.
It could be though that part of the difference is people are not coming off of using typewriters these days, which is where much of the complaints in old keyboard design came from.
The issue here is though, Negroponte's "facts" have already been disputed by other people including Intel themselves to have been the dealings of a rouge sales executive in the Peru case. Intel laid out the facts of the case of the Peru issue, and it smacks more toward Negroponte looking for a loophole to kick out Intel, than Intel trying to screw the OLPC project they where now heavily investing in.
your heard it here first!
Thats a load of horseshit and you know it. OLPC is just as much about making a profit to keep the operation going as it is for Intel. Dont kid yourself about that. Their motives might be good (and a good number would tell you even THAT is very questionable, when they are selling computers to people whos popuations go without healthy DRINKING WATER) but in the end they are selling just the same.
Whats the US coming to when people actually file a lawsuit complaining that a company has a monopoly when they cant play a convicted monopolists licensed format... are people this daft?
nope there are direct quotes from Reggie on a bunch of the other gaming sites stating this fact. What I dont get from the summery is "future versions" part. Reggie said that they where more tightly integrating the DS with the Wii with ALL the versions (IE the original and the Lite) not with planned new versions, with which they still have no formal plans to make yet.
critics is just a shorthand for "Insurance Companies" right?
"If a probable anomaly in the IE7 results is overlooked" you mean like how IE7 goes backwards in Java implementation vs IE 6.
2) If you felt that what you bought would suit you perfectly fine in what your doing, then why would you care something new came out... something new ALWAYS comes out.
This is the #1 reason I didnt buy a 802.11n router when I had the chance this week, and got a g instead, why would I spend more money on a standard thats not approved yet, when a g suits my needs perfectly fine.
The fact is the game is not coming... as was pointed out of the Wired Vaporawards thread, a commenter in 2001 stated Van Halen would get back together with Roth before this game came out... AND HE WAS RIGHT despite having 6 years for that comment to come true.
Intel has a vested interest in letting its partners know whats on the horizon. Apple has a lot to lose by doing so, since what makes them so popular, is how well they can design products for user simplicity.
You can be pro-Apple yet severely damage them at the same time. Anytime you expose secret projects that the company does not feel is ready for prime-time, you risk losing any forward momentum that you would have had over opposing companies in development. This is why corporate espionage is considered a serious problem. As it stands now, the "leaked" project that started this whole mess has been to most peoples knowledge, canned.