Ok I did a bit of research into it and found this little tidbit..
By 1937, De Beers' stockpile of diamonds had grown to some forty million carats- which was, even in pre-Depression times, nearly twenty years' supply. Oppenheimer's empire, which had invested millions of dollars in borrowed money in these diamonds that could not be sold, was now itself on the verge of bankruptcy. According to one United States government report, Oppenheimer was even considering dumping several tons of these diamonds into the North Sea to prevent them from reaching the market in the event that his company was forced into liquidation by his creditors.
I had just heard it.. But thats the underlying truth to it..
Its pretty interesting to see how Canada's PIPEDA act can carry over to on-line forms... Its against the law to requre personal information from canadian citizens when it is not required for the goods/services you provide.
I would like to see Websites take this into account when you select the Canada Drop down Box then all the Required information fields disapear:)..
They should add in Review Moderation Factors aswell to discourage Astroturfers... Everyone that Buys a book ect from Amazon should be able to go and moderate reviews of that product... So when you do see a glowing review but they have virtually no/bad history on their reviews you know they carry little weight with you.. Also being able to see what other reviews they have written will help Big aswell.. Everyone has their opinion on everything which can be wildly diffrent.. but if you look at other reviews and find some common ground you can weigh their reviews based on history of common ground between you and the reviewer aswell.
I usually discount any review I see that doesn't mention a downside to the product... I have yet to see a Perfect product that truely meets everyones needs in the manner which they want...
I usually also discount Good things people say about a product without no Information to back it up... and I lean towards reviews that follow my mindset...
I highly doubt when i read reviews what I actually take into consideration is tainted.. I have a hard time seeing a company saying anything at all bad about their product and also backing up "Marketing Claims" with logical statements that I would follow my way of thinking.
But also on another note.... Amazon should see some heavy legal feedback about this oops...
I keep hearing stories about Debeers Dumping tonnes into the ocean to cut thier warehousing costs on the overstock of diamonds they have that no-one is suposed to know about to keep costs high..
I am sure once someone puts man-made diamonds in the mainstream Debeers will just start flooding the market to maintain their "monopoly" on the diamond market safe... But its good to see stuff like this because the man-made ones can still one-up natural ones with colours ect..
As far as hardware support goes... There are getting to be fewer and fewer "OEM"'s out there... for Gfx you have your 2 mainstreams NVIDIA and Matrox.. Basic Chipset designs you have Intel,SiS and VIA (for the largest "Installed" base out there).. so comming out with a "Stable" OSX for Intel based boxes shouldn't be that terrible of a thing... Just Hand out Logo Certifications to equipment Manufactures so you know who makes compatible lines of Goods for a INtel OSX box.. MS allready does this (What does it actually mean I have no idea... Everything on the PC market works with MS OS's... (I am sure anything that maybe doesn't would wind up way below the 1% market).. So just being selecive on whats supported by a possible OSX for Intel wouldn't be so horrible. Just choose 2-3 designs that are in the mainstream and away you go.. Mins ya even for basic Chipset support.. you could easily drop SiS as for the most part I only seem to see those chipsets on cheaper/lowerend motherboards...
CSIS and the RCMP can collect any information about you without your knowladge if your being investigated for a crime... They can also share this information only with other investigating efforts that are crime related but only to Law enforcment.. So the act still has weight with them... They can't abuse and "leak" this information.
These can be protected too... Aslong as yoiu take steps to not have them listed in a public directory such as the phone book... So If you win the lottery Move and change your number and get them unlisted and you are sure to evade those charity scoundrels that wont leave ya alone till you have donated all of your money.:)
You seem to have forgotten about the 39 outbound connections (from spyware) telling all sorts of E-marketing firms what your up to and also the 400 inbound pop-ups also tracking all your communicatins on the internet..
Bulletproof your gear... I was thinking that was a literal understatement:) After all Getting hit bya piece of anything at over 16,000 miles a huor + you should be alot more protetected than just Bullet proof.
Not to mention This Skews stats badly letting the general public belive that IE's penatration is higher than it actually is..
All browsers should have to adhere to the W3C's specifications for web based languages and rendering.. Or face being rejected by Apache servers:)
"Your browser is not compliant.. Please download one that is and return to our site."
Wouldn't take long for IE's marketshare to plummet:) Also might add some fuel to the fire to keep MS updating IE and web technologies. as its obvious since the demise of netscape there has been little development in web standards compared to when Netscape was running strong.
With todays highly fickle speculative stock market... IPO's for companies generating positive revenue is nothing more than a money grab before the company falls flat on its face... Why did google put off its IPO... I bet ya they figured out thier high revenue stream will last for quite some time and if they wait a while its likely they will be able to sell off thier shares for much more at a later date... I have no doubt in my mind the top level people at google will have virtually no shares aftera short time period of the IPO unless the price keeps soaring higher and higher.. Which is doubtfull... I can see after 3 months the price of google stock being below its IPO price.. I am sure the same iwll happen with Opera or any other company that has a established product that has a positive cash stream.
I would have to agree.. Damned if you do or damned if you don't senario... They leave you no option but to sign the agreement as trying to modify it will with near absolute certainty make it moot as you will not continue to work there. You best chance is to consult a lawyer on the agreement because it almost certainly infringes on your constitutional rights.. Then ignore most of it keeping in mind they might end up challenging you with IP rights... But they cannt claim ownership of something they don't know exsists... Who's to stay how much of it was wrote before your employment ect...
But I'd sign it after consulting with a lawyer and ignore the parts that break common sense and continue on as far under the radar I can without restricting myself and what I am doing.. and hope to hell there are alot of precedents in your favor if they ever do haul you to court... For the most part I cannot see any piece of paper that restrict my constitutional rights holding up in any court. Any layman can easily understand signing such a document with unspoken prejudice and intent only to follow the rational elements of that document.
some FPS's need better voting systems to boot and ban players so when you start a newbie game and a "Pro" enters (There are too many freaking idiots out there that get kicks from entering a newbie game and Nuking them into quitting the game) a vote can be cast to boot a player from the game.. Of course if too many "idiots" are in the game to use the voting to boot them off its a good sign to just start another game with thier IP's on ban.. eventually you will have a game where you can play in a somewhat competitive atmosphere.
I think WCIII player matching to some degree reached many goals to match player abilities somewhat evenly... But I haven't seen thier thinking passed onto the FPS gaming arena.
Its not very surprizing at all actually... Its a commercialized Society... Nearly everything revolves around business.. It only makes sence that Business will start taking a more and more aggressive impact on the governing body...
Wouldn't have thought they would put that significant of a associated cost and including it in their pricing like that.. I am sure over time that cost will diminish significantly
What needs to happen is these "Patent" companies loose big in a few lawsuits and go under.. So when a company does go out and try to "Inforce IP rights" Thier stock value plummets.. So it would leave nothing but well founded IP claims and heaven forbid Notices to companies when they start selling technology that has potential IP right infringement and get it all sorted out before the product with potential of IP infringement goes mainstream.
Companies knowing that there is IP infringement taking place and not communicating with companies that are potentially infringing on thier IP should loose the ability to sue these companies for infringing. If a product is in the mainstream that does contain infringed IP there should be a grace period where time to remedy is given unless it can be demonstrated that the infringment was done with full or partial knowladge of its potential for infringment.
It just seems to be the easiest way to due business these days as you can file and obtain board patents and sit on your hands till its well into the mainstream then sue everyone(well people that make money on it anyways) without cost of actualy development or marketing and associated costs with possible product failure. So it would seem that is would be the best business practice for maximizing profit margins when you don't actually need to do anything but have a team of high priced lawyers and a good engineering teams that have a good feel for the marketplace and what technologies will hit the mainstream and how to capitilize on them trough broad sweeping patents that will cover the core essential mechanisms that these technologies will require to properly function.
There shuold be some legal mechanisms put in place to prevent the IP equivilant of "Cyber Squatters" to domain names... If companies file and obtains patents for technologies they have little or no interest in bringing to the market they have no right to prevent anyone else from doing so or taking legal action against companies that invest/develop/market these technologies.
Take them to court over misrepresentation of their product... Misleading advertising.. There is alot of ground work laid out allready To prevent this type of "Marketing".. I highly doubt any phrase in the EULA will hold water better than a piece of tissue paper. Its still a form of advertising when you call something Spyware removal and it is actually spyware.
Well Any Problems you see with a dish you can offset by Using a bigger dish or Making the platform its on more stable (I am talking about the mounting platform here:) ).. So your only other Thing is Pricing for the channels you want... Sit down with Listings for the services and Add up charges for what ya want... and choose based on Price of services.
As for a PVR... I would stay away from a intagrated PVR as it does not follow the KISS concept. Not to mention the Homebrew PVR's are really starting get to a stage where they are stable enough competeing agaist commercial ones and don't seem to have the Privacy invading "features" and don't get scrutenized by Companies about their commercial skipping/deleting features..
For the most part I see the homebrew PVR's as being your best bet (Mind ya they can get a bit pricey to build when comparing against commercial ones) but your never stuck with monthy subscriptions ect. Not to mention you will end up with a product that has all the features you would want and not the features they think you want that wont cause legal battles:) Alot of people say they are hard to setup.. But you on/. so if you don't know the ins and outs to build one yet.. Chances are you have the basic skills to learn..
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Depending on the Business and the Size of their Pipe to the internet these DDOS attacks can Flood the pipe will over its capasity so You don't even have time to see the packets and drop the ones that meet your criteria to be suspicious and likey to be MyDoom.
Ok Now say that your pipe is big enough to handle all the incomming packets... You will need enough additional hardware to examine all the packets and reject the ones you define in your criteria to be suspicious of MyDoom.
Blocking at the router level has a few Issues. #1 Being the more rules you add to filter packets the worse the router preforms its Packet routing.. #2 There are only very simplistic set of rules available to use to block packets.. Such as Block from ip Range, Block all traffic on port, Ect... Nothing advanced as Block all Traffic that hits this address over this time period ect.. Only Simplistic rules...
Only highend firewalls have advanced complex rules that you could use to do this type of filtering you talk about... and again your hit with the costs of hardware to handle the load and a pipe large enough to handle all the traffic.
Look how often sites get feel the effects of/. and thats not an attack persay.. Its a low number of people using vaild connection protocols in a manner it was suposed to be used when compared to the number of vulnerable windows machine out there using "Dammaging" Connection methods and protocols/Formats designed to Deny Service to would be Web Clients.
Oh yeah.. Before Anyone starts ranting about the Xbox not being a failure... I classify it as a failure to the fact it fails to produce a positive revenue stream.
One of the things they could do is force MS to give 100% absolute full access to the API's required for a product to be intagrated into the OS so that rivals can also aproach vendors to include their product instead of MS's during preload so its there at the time of sale..
Having Software Preloaded is a termendous advantage.. It has proven to be a highly successful aproach to gaining market share... This is inevitable and will be done in the future... MS needs to be hobbled so that competing products can replace MS versions at preload time.. Allowing MS to keep their Verson on the system allows them to sneak in more bugs which many can attribute to their competeing product winding up as default ect..
This could really start to open up the Monopoly MS has in the Intel market and create Real cometition... It could be expanded into Desktop managers ect to really get the innovation going again...
What "Desktop" Innovation has there really been since windows 95? None really...
Breaking the 16 colour barrier for Desktop Icons.. Thats not a innovation
Quicklaunch Bars? Nope you have been able to get them while windows 95 was the newest MS OS on the Market.
The new Styled Start menu? Thats just simply Reorganization and fixing the inherent problems the old start menu had.. Innovation? not really Common Sense.
Hiding inactive systray Icons? again a solution to a inherent design flaw same as the start menu.. why do one and not the other.
Hmm what else?
New Widgets to make it looks as spanky as a Mac? Innovation? Nope. Been done before.. No Innovation.
So where is all of this Innovation that MS claims they are making... They have established their monopoly now there is little to no need for "innovation" for that element of their OS so then they go and look at the market to see what they should "Innovate" next... Browser, Media Player, Search Engine, Messenger, Content Service (The list goes on and on)..
So far the vast majority Business model consists of examining the marketplace and try to squeeze out the competeion using their OS.. The sectors where they do not have dominace with thier OS are where they repeatedly fail.. (Xbox, Cell Phones, Web TV ect).. It would seem when they cannot use their Windows OS as leverage to gain a market share their product are doomed to fail as they do not offer any real "Innovation"..
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Ok I did a bit of research into it and found this little tidbit..
By 1937, De Beers' stockpile of diamonds had grown to some forty million carats- which was, even in pre-Depression times, nearly twenty years' supply. Oppenheimer's empire, which had invested millions of dollars in borrowed money in these diamonds that could not be sold, was now itself on the verge of bankruptcy. According to one United States government report, Oppenheimer was even considering dumping several tons of these diamonds into the North Sea to prevent them from reaching the market in the event that his company was forced into liquidation by his creditors.
I had just heard it.. But thats the underlying truth to it..
Its pretty interesting to see how Canada's PIPEDA act can carry over to on-line forms... Its against the law to requre personal information from canadian citizens when it is not required for the goods/services you provide.
:)..
I would like to see Websites take this into account when you select the Canada Drop down Box then all the Required information fields disapear
They should add in Review Moderation Factors aswell to discourage Astroturfers... Everyone that Buys a book ect from Amazon should be able to go and moderate reviews of that product... So when you do see a glowing review but they have virtually no/bad history on their reviews you know they carry little weight with you.. Also being able to see what other reviews they have written will help Big aswell.. Everyone has their opinion on everything which can be wildly diffrent.. but if you look at other reviews and find some common ground you can weigh their reviews based on history of common ground between you and the reviewer aswell.
I usually discount any review I see that doesn't mention a downside to the product... I have yet to see a Perfect product that truely meets everyones needs in the manner which they want...
I usually also discount Good things people say about a product without no Information to back it up... and I lean towards reviews that follow my mindset...
I highly doubt when i read reviews what I actually take into consideration is tainted.. I have a hard time seeing a company saying anything at all bad about their product and also backing up "Marketing Claims" with logical statements that I would follow my way of thinking.
But also on another note.... Amazon should see some heavy legal feedback about this oops...
I keep hearing stories about Debeers Dumping tonnes into the ocean to cut thier warehousing costs on the overstock of diamonds they have that no-one is suposed to know about to keep costs high..
I am sure once someone puts man-made diamonds in the mainstream Debeers will just start flooding the market to maintain their "monopoly" on the diamond market safe... But its good to see stuff like this because the man-made ones can still one-up natural ones with colours ect..
As far as hardware support goes... There are getting to be fewer and fewer "OEM"'s out there... for Gfx you have your 2 mainstreams NVIDIA and Matrox.. Basic Chipset designs you have Intel,SiS and VIA (for the largest "Installed" base out there).. so comming out with a "Stable" OSX for Intel based boxes shouldn't be that terrible of a thing... Just Hand out Logo Certifications to equipment Manufactures so you know who makes compatible lines of Goods for a INtel OSX box.. MS allready does this (What does it actually mean I have no idea... Everything on the PC market works with MS OS's... (I am sure anything that maybe doesn't would wind up way below the 1% market).. So just being selecive on whats supported by a possible OSX for Intel wouldn't be so horrible. Just choose 2-3 designs that are in the mainstream and away you go.. Mins ya even for basic Chipset support.. you could easily drop SiS as for the most part I only seem to see those chipsets on cheaper/lowerend motherboards...
CSIS and the RCMP can collect any information about you without your knowladge if your being investigated for a crime... They can also share this information only with other investigating efforts that are crime related but only to Law enforcment.. So the act still has weight with them... They can't abuse and "leak" this information.
These can be protected too... Aslong as yoiu take steps to not have them listed in a public directory such as the phone book... So If you win the lottery Move and change your number and get them unlisted and you are sure to evade those charity scoundrels that wont leave ya alone till you have donated all of your money. :)
You seem to have forgotten about the 39 outbound connections (from spyware) telling all sorts of E-marketing firms what your up to and also the 400 inbound pop-ups also tracking all your communicatins on the internet..
Bulletproof your gear... I was thinking that was a literal understatement :) After all Getting hit bya piece of anything at over 16,000 miles a huor + you should be alot more protetected than just Bullet proof.
Not to mention This Skews stats badly letting the general public belive that IE's penatration is higher than it actually is..
:)
:) Also might add some fuel to the fire to keep MS updating IE and web technologies. as its obvious since the demise of netscape there has been little development in web standards compared to when Netscape was running strong.
All browsers should have to adhere to the W3C's specifications for web based languages and rendering.. Or face being rejected by Apache servers
"Your browser is not compliant.. Please download one that is and return to our site."
Wouldn't take long for IE's marketshare to plummet
With todays highly fickle speculative stock market... IPO's for companies generating positive revenue is nothing more than a money grab before the company falls flat on its face... Why did google put off its IPO... I bet ya they figured out thier high revenue stream will last for quite some time and if they wait a while its likely they will be able to sell off thier shares for much more at a later date... I have no doubt in my mind the top level people at google will have virtually no shares aftera short time period of the IPO unless the price keeps soaring higher and higher.. Which is doubtfull... I can see after 3 months the price of google stock being below its IPO price.. I am sure the same iwll happen with Opera or any other company that has a established product that has a positive cash stream.
I would have to agree.. Damned if you do or damned if you don't senario... They leave you no option but to sign the agreement as trying to modify it will with near absolute certainty make it moot as you will not continue to work there. You best chance is to consult a lawyer on the agreement because it almost certainly infringes on your constitutional rights.. Then ignore most of it keeping in mind they might end up challenging you with IP rights... But they cannt claim ownership of something they don't know exsists... Who's to stay how much of it was wrote before your employment ect...
But I'd sign it after consulting with a lawyer and ignore the parts that break common sense and continue on as far under the radar I can without restricting myself and what I am doing.. and hope to hell there are alot of precedents in your favor if they ever do haul you to court... For the most part I cannot see any piece of paper that restrict my constitutional rights holding up in any court. Any layman can easily understand signing such a document with unspoken prejudice and intent only to follow the rational elements of that document.
some FPS's need better voting systems to boot and ban players so when you start a newbie game and a "Pro" enters (There are too many freaking idiots out there that get kicks from entering a newbie game and Nuking them into quitting the game) a vote can be cast to boot a player from the game.. Of course if too many "idiots" are in the game to use the voting to boot them off its a good sign to just start another game with thier IP's on ban.. eventually you will have a game where you can play in a somewhat competitive atmosphere.
I think WCIII player matching to some degree reached many goals to match player abilities somewhat evenly... But I haven't seen thier thinking passed onto the FPS gaming arena.
Its not very surprizing at all actually... Its a commercialized Society... Nearly everything revolves around business.. It only makes sence that Business will start taking a more and more aggressive impact on the governing body...
Wouldn't have thought they would put that significant of a associated cost and including it in their pricing like that.. I am sure over time that cost will diminish significantly
What needs to happen is these "Patent" companies loose big in a few lawsuits and go under.. So when a company does go out and try to "Inforce IP rights" Thier stock value plummets.. So it would leave nothing but well founded IP claims and heaven forbid Notices to companies when they start selling technology that has potential IP right infringement and get it all sorted out before the product with potential of IP infringement goes mainstream.
Companies knowing that there is IP infringement taking place and not communicating with companies that are potentially infringing on thier IP should loose the ability to sue these companies for infringing. If a product is in the mainstream that does contain infringed IP there should be a grace period where time to remedy is given unless it can be demonstrated that the infringment was done with full or partial knowladge of its potential for infringment.
It just seems to be the easiest way to due business these days as you can file and obtain board patents and sit on your hands till its well into the mainstream then sue everyone(well people that make money on it anyways) without cost of actualy development or marketing and associated costs with possible product failure. So it would seem that is would be the best business practice for maximizing profit margins when you don't actually need to do anything but have a team of high priced lawyers and a good engineering teams that have a good feel for the marketplace and what technologies will hit the mainstream and how to capitilize on them trough broad sweeping patents that will cover the core essential mechanisms that these technologies will require to properly function.
There shuold be some legal mechanisms put in place to prevent the IP equivilant of "Cyber Squatters" to domain names... If companies file and obtains patents for technologies they have little or no interest in bringing to the market they have no right to prevent anyone else from doing so or taking legal action against companies that invest/develop/market these technologies.
25 cents for distribution costs? Do you mean bandwidth? It would seem to me that Itunes is the mechanism for distribution.
Well the 403 forbidden ones would require some hacking to get access :)
Take them to court over misrepresentation of their product... Misleading advertising.. There is alot of ground work laid out allready To prevent this type of "Marketing".. I highly doubt any phrase in the EULA will hold water better than a piece of tissue paper. Its still a form of advertising when you call something Spyware removal and it is actually spyware.
Well Any Problems you see with a dish you can offset by Using a bigger dish or Making the platform its on more stable (I am talking about the mounting platform here :) ).. So your only other Thing is Pricing for the channels you want... Sit down with Listings for the services and Add up charges for what ya want... and choose based on Price of services.
:) Alot of people say they are hard to setup.. But you on /. so if you don't know the ins and outs to build one yet.. Chances are you have the basic skills to learn..
As for a PVR... I would stay away from a intagrated PVR as it does not follow the KISS concept. Not to mention the Homebrew PVR's are really starting get to a stage where they are stable enough competeing agaist commercial ones and don't seem to have the Privacy invading "features" and don't get scrutenized by Companies about their commercial skipping/deleting features..
For the most part I see the homebrew PVR's as being your best bet (Mind ya they can get a bit pricey to build when comparing against commercial ones) but your never stuck with monthy subscriptions ect. Not to mention you will end up with a product that has all the features you would want and not the features they think you want that wont cause legal battles
I Smell a IE Patch in the works... Wonder Why.. Hmmm..
Depending on the Business and the Size of their Pipe to the internet these DDOS attacks can Flood the pipe will over its capasity so You don't even have time to see the packets and drop the ones that meet your criteria to be suspicious and likey to be MyDoom.
/. and thats not an attack persay.. Its a low number of people using vaild connection protocols in a manner it was suposed to be used when compared to the number of vulnerable windows machine out there using "Dammaging" Connection methods and protocols/Formats designed to Deny Service to would be Web Clients.
Ok Now say that your pipe is big enough to handle all the incomming packets... You will need enough additional hardware to examine all the packets and reject the ones you define in your criteria to be suspicious of MyDoom.
Blocking at the router level has a few Issues. #1 Being the more rules you add to filter packets the worse the router preforms its Packet routing.. #2 There are only very simplistic set of rules available to use to block packets.. Such as Block from ip Range, Block all traffic on port, Ect... Nothing advanced as Block all Traffic that hits this address over this time period ect.. Only Simplistic rules...
Only highend firewalls have advanced complex rules that you could use to do this type of filtering you talk about... and again your hit with the costs of hardware to handle the load and a pipe large enough to handle all the traffic.
Look how often sites get feel the effects of
Oh yeah.. Before Anyone starts ranting about the Xbox not being a failure... I classify it as a failure to the fact it fails to produce a positive revenue stream.
One of the things they could do is force MS to give 100% absolute full access to the API's required for a product to be intagrated into the OS so that rivals can also aproach vendors to include their product instead of MS's during preload so its there at the time of sale..
.. It has proven to be a highly successful aproach to gaining market share... This is inevitable and will be done in the future... MS needs to be hobbled so that competing products can replace MS versions at preload time.. Allowing MS to keep their Verson on the system allows them to sneak in more bugs which many can attribute to their competeing product winding up as default ect..
Having Software Preloaded is a termendous advantage
This could really start to open up the Monopoly MS has in the Intel market and create Real cometition... It could be expanded into Desktop managers ect to really get the innovation going again...
What "Desktop" Innovation has there really been since windows 95? None really...
Breaking the 16 colour barrier for Desktop Icons.. Thats not a innovation
Quicklaunch Bars? Nope you have been able to get them while windows 95 was the newest MS OS on the Market.
The new Styled Start menu? Thats just simply Reorganization and fixing the inherent problems the old start menu had.. Innovation? not really Common Sense.
Hiding inactive systray Icons? again a solution to a inherent design flaw same as the start menu.. why do one and not the other.
Hmm what else?
New Widgets to make it looks as spanky as a Mac? Innovation? Nope. Been done before.. No Innovation.
So where is all of this Innovation that MS claims they are making... They have established their monopoly now there is little to no need for "innovation" for that element of their OS so then they go and look at the market to see what they should "Innovate" next... Browser, Media Player, Search Engine, Messenger, Content Service (The list goes on and on)..
So far the vast majority Business model consists of examining the marketplace and try to squeeze out the competeion using their OS.. The sectors where they do not have dominace with thier OS are where they repeatedly fail.. (Xbox, Cell Phones, Web TV ect).. It would seem when they cannot use their Windows OS as leverage to gain a market share their product are doomed to fail as they do not offer any real "Innovation"..