Why wait this long? Google News has been running for YEARS, albeit with the 'beta' moniker.
Because Google has lots of money now, and they want to get their hands on it. Rule number 1 in laywer school: Don't sue poor people because they can't pay.
What a crock! You've put the stuff out there for free. Google makes your content a million times more findable. And now your intent is to rob them for being a value added supplier simply because they have a lot of money that you want. Newspapers are the thieves in this, pure and simple.
If you don't like being indexed, put a frigging robots.txt file on your site and watch how much you'll be saving in bandwidth costs afterwards as your traffic plummets.
The newspapers not only need to lose on this one -- they need to lose big!
It's really a sensitive topic...It would prompt political debate on whether or not black people should be able to live without asshole rednecks declaring jihads on their asses.
Boy, that's really sensitive of you. You swipe both a major ethnic group (people not like you), and a major religion (Islam) in one sentence. A real Two-Fer.
Blizzard is trying to be Politically Correct. Although there is no specific law implementing so-called Political Correctness, they're trying to prevent some players from being angry, pissed off, insulted, and other related feelings from the free speech and opinions of others. A savvy business move to keep as many customers as possible, and an illogical position to try and maintain.
The glbt community always tries to portray themselves as downtrodden and in need of protection. Stop everyone else's offensive speech. But the moment they want to say something themselves that might either invite criticism -- or be offensive to anyone else -- you start hearing screams of "My free speech rights are being suppressed."
Truism Number 1: You can't suppress some speech rights without trampling on all speech rights.
Truism Number 2: Political Correctness is a game that can never be won due to its internal hypocrisies.
Is there something that, because he is successful (or lucky) in one area, that Bill Gates is suddenly an expert in every other area? Especially when it comes to a country he hopes to profit handsomely from, which means he's hardly unbiased.
This comes across like too many movie stars who think because their paid ungodly sums of money to act up in front of a camera, and recording artists who may have sold millions of record albums, that suddenly they've become experts in foreign affairs as well.
The sad thing is that too many people still listen to these few as if they really do have special knowledge or expertise denied all the rest of us and only imparted now through their own good graces.
Like the government wouldn't bend over backwards for China if they suddenly decided they'd cash in their bonds if we didn't play nice with them.
I don't believe you can just cash in your government bonds before they're due. You would instead need to sell them on the bond market, which would drop quickly with such a sudden influx (supply and demand). While this would indirectly pressure the government due to the surplus of bonds making it harder to sell new issues, it would hurt the seller a lot more as they'd have to take a good-sized hit on the value of their bonds to move them quickly.
During 1977 the U.S. government enacted the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which was substantially revised during 1988. The provisions of the FCPA prohibit the bribery of foreign government officials by U.S. citizens
No wonder the rest of the world hates us.
No Technical Solution to Secondhand Sales
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Perhaps they have to complain about secondhand sales because there is no reasonable technical solution to them. Sure there's been talk that once you insert your new game into your new PS3 that game will suddenly be rendered unplayable on any other PS3. Boy would that be (yet another) bad move on Sony's part, to wit:
o Your PS3 dies (they do) and when you bring your new one home none of your games play on it.
o End of the game and PS3 rental market (unless you can keep each game with each PS3. This will not help PS3 penetration at all.
o Although you keep you PS3 locked up when you're not playing it, you little brother grabs you new game and takes it to a friend's house to play before you get a chance to play it yourself.
o Overall glitches that plague any new technological protection measure may only impact a few percent of the players, but that's still many thousands of now angry gamers.
With Doctrine of First Sale allowing you to do what you want with it otherwise, Sony better just learn to live with used games that they are not going to be able to collect even more money from.
Opteron = Redundant Array of Inexpensive Processors.
With this kind of money being spent on a rat hole I won't be buying any more Intel or HP stock anytime soon.
So, the RIAA is taking unauthorized legal action on behalf of company Y, without the permission of company Y. Company Y feels this is NOT the direction it wants to take with unauthorized downloading and is thus suing the RIAA and also agreeing to pay for person X's legal defenses in the fight against the RIAA.
So can't the RIAA just make this go away by dropping their claim of infringement against that one song? Seems such a quick exit for them that I'm surprised they haven't done it already.
I want to see a real fight between fairly matched opponents. I get the impression from this article and a couple others that the offer isn't just to pay the $4,500 which would be the easy way out.
If they can make the RIAA actually prove their case in court then this is worthwhile. If they just plan to cheaply exit by paying the extortion, then we all know which artist we should be downloading and sharing next.
Wow, stop the presses. Security flaws on a *nix based system. Boy that's news no one expected. Or does somehow the magic Apple logo protect you from all harm - and Bill Gates?
The primary reason for going with Intel was to get chips for laptops. And just what percentage of laptops have 4 gigs of ram, much less a need for more?
You miss the point, as expected. The issue is 64-bit software regardless of the amount of memory installed. Can every company afford to support a 32-bit port of their flagship products simply to run on the few iMacs and MacBooks sold in the first half of this year? Consider that the window of 32-bit Intel Macs is only 6 months wide, which isn't much of a market to support.
If they'd wanted to make Aibo a successful, must have item, all they needed to do was make him a PS2 accessory. Kids everywhere would have demanded their parents buy them one.
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Because Google has lots of money now, and they want to get their hands on it. Rule number 1 in laywer school: Don't sue poor people because they can't pay.
If you don't like being indexed, put a frigging robots.txt file on your site and watch how much you'll be saving in bandwidth costs afterwards as your traffic plummets.
The newspapers not only need to lose on this one -- they need to lose big!
BTW, just how do you play an openly gay, or lbt, character in WoW? I don't recall seeing an explicitly glbt character type there.
Boy, that's really sensitive of you. You swipe both a major ethnic group (people not like you), and a major religion (Islam) in one sentence. A real Two-Fer.
Can I join?
The glbt community always tries to portray themselves as downtrodden and in need of protection. Stop everyone else's offensive speech. But the moment they want to say something themselves that might either invite criticism -- or be offensive to anyone else -- you start hearing screams of "My free speech rights are being suppressed."
Truism Number 1: You can't suppress some speech rights without trampling on all speech rights.
Truism Number 2: Political Correctness is a game that can never be won due to its internal hypocrisies.
And a second thanks to TiVo, who is doing the same thing. It seems a lot like Bait & Switch to me.
Oh, nevermind!
Well, for a week at least they'll have to work -- rather than just out their surfing the web.
This comes across like too many movie stars who think because their paid ungodly sums of money to act up in front of a camera, and recording artists who may have sold millions of record albums, that suddenly they've become experts in foreign affairs as well.
The sad thing is that too many people still listen to these few as if they really do have special knowledge or expertise denied all the rest of us and only imparted now through their own good graces.
I don't believe you can just cash in your government bonds before they're due. You would instead need to sell them on the bond market, which would drop quickly with such a sudden influx (supply and demand). While this would indirectly pressure the government due to the surplus of bonds making it harder to sell new issues, it would hurt the seller a lot more as they'd have to take a good-sized hit on the value of their bonds to move them quickly.
No wonder the rest of the world hates us.
o Your PS3 dies (they do) and when you bring your new one home none of your games play on it.
o End of the game and PS3 rental market (unless you can keep each game with each PS3. This will not help PS3 penetration at all.
o Although you keep you PS3 locked up when you're not playing it, you little brother grabs you new game and takes it to a friend's house to play before you get a chance to play it yourself.
o Overall glitches that plague any new technological protection measure may only impact a few percent of the players, but that's still many thousands of now angry gamers.
With Doctrine of First Sale allowing you to do what you want with it otherwise, Sony better just learn to live with used games that they are not going to be able to collect even more money from.
Opteron = Redundant Array of Inexpensive Processors. With this kind of money being spent on a rat hole I won't be buying any more Intel or HP stock anytime soon.
So can't the RIAA just make this go away by dropping their claim of infringement against that one song? Seems such a quick exit for them that I'm surprised they haven't done it already.
If they can make the RIAA actually prove their case in court then this is worthwhile. If they just plan to cheaply exit by paying the extortion, then we all know which artist we should be downloading and sharing next.
Wow, stop the presses. Security flaws on a *nix based system. Boy that's news no one expected. Or does somehow the magic Apple logo protect you from all harm - and Bill Gates?
And so did everybody else's browser that ever visited that site. I'm sure he'll want to sue us all next.
What did you expect from a guy who is also a lawyer? Shakespeare was right 500 years ago, and it hasn't changed yet.
You miss the point, as expected. The issue is 64-bit software regardless of the amount of memory installed. Can every company afford to support a 32-bit port of their flagship products simply to run on the few iMacs and MacBooks sold in the first half of this year? Consider that the window of 32-bit Intel Macs is only 6 months wide, which isn't much of a market to support.
What is this? [outrage] You actually like the people you work with???
You may offer any explanation -- or excuse -- you wish, but the end result is still the same. Sony hecho en Mexico is Junk!
Just teach Aibo to say Afflack! and his future is assured.
If they'd wanted to make Aibo a successful, must have item, all they needed to do was make him a PS2 accessory. Kids everywhere would have demanded their parents buy them one.
One word: eBay.
Of course, you'll have to save up more now. I'm sure Aibo has just become an instant collectable.