This is a lame excuse.
Here is the logic behind this: SOX punishes CEOs and CFOs for false financial statements. If we deliver something after the customer has paid, we can not recognize all the revenue when we receive the cash. Since we want to recognize the revenue right away because it boosts our earnings, we can't deliver you the update or else we will commit a fraud. Hence, we make you pay for it separately.
The controversy started at the end of the '80s, early '90s, when Circuit City had to restate its earnings because of FASB 90-A that regulates accounting for extended warranties and service contracts. M$ used that rule to decrease earnings in the wake of the antitrust case by postponing recognition on Office sales and also built cookie jar reserves to smooth earnings.
Not exactly.
Whether you are Chinese or Mexican, or English, for that matter, if you make it here illegally and you stay long enough you will get away with it.
Furthermore, since China, Mexico, and the Philippines send a lot of legal immigrants here, it actually takes forever to people from those countries to get green cards and they don't get to enter the green card lottery. You can check the facts at the Department of State web site
As for illegal immigrants, I don't think they should be allowed many rights in general. However, in the particular case of the US, the government has closed an eye or both for long time and companies were able to basically enslave many of them to their advantage (and to the advantage of the average consumer). Now, the tide has turned and it seems unfair to say "thanks for your help, now go back".
wasted his fortune trying to achieve the same thing....
I seem to recall that you can prove with the Maxwell equations that it is basically impossible to achieve wireless transmission of energy at reasonable distances...
there is a practical fault in their argument. They assume that people who say they would buy/go to the theatre/etc. will actually do so. There is plenty of marketing research that shows that what people say has small correlation to what people do when it comes to buying (buyer intent in marketing terms).
The study finds that china has less piracy than mexico. Come on, there are 107 milion mexicans and 1.28 bilion chinese. The per capita income of a mexican is 5.5 times that of a chinese (2003 statistics from the world bank), so this means that piracy per person, adjusted for income is 2x in mexico with respect to china. Somehow, I don't believe it.....
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"Citrin's breach of his duty of loyalty terminated his agency relationship (more precisely, terminated any rights he might have claimed as IAC's agent--he could not by unilaterally terminating any duties he owed his principal gain an advantage!) and with it his authority to access the laptop, because the only basis of his authority had been that relationship..."
Sounds like a Tom Sharpe's book. In South Africa during the apartheid a white woman killed her black servant and called the police because she felt guilty. The (white) sergent at the station told her that there is nothing wrong in what she did because killing a black who was not authorized to be in her property was not a crime. When she replied that the he was her servant and was authorized to be in the property the sergent replied that by pulling the trigger she had clearly revoked the authorization..... the same perverse logic seems to be applied here
Hardware-software codesign is nothing new and revolutionary. It has been taught for years at berkeley and around the country. A bunch of links can also be found here
Altough you have a very good point, I think you slightly missing the mark: windows excels because it comes preinstalled on all the PCs that "regular people" buy. When windows doesn't have a driver for something, life can become much trickier.
Windows has also much more support from manufacturers, so when you buy something new it is not hard to configure it.
In shorts: the real difference is made by pre-installed stuff, recovery disks, and driver support. Then Windows is prettier, has more stuff, has excel/word/whatever.
PS: I still can't get my wireless to work and I have to use an old card!
Most of the times, locked phones are a fraud. Why? Nowhere it is written that you can only use them with a certain provider. You buy a phone, not a phone that will work with (put your provider name).
I dumped T-Mobile because they wouldn't unlock their phone (although they promised they would). And I bought an unlocked one. Screw them.
I have read all the posts and all the 45 pages by now.
I was in the military, I perfectly understand this stuff. Were you?
I am making the case that while trying to keep some sensitive stuff secret, they also took the chance to keep secret some stuff that shows that the US has made mistakes and some of those rules are wrong. Now, you can scream "security" like the US government does every time it needs to have unquestioned agreement, but that doesn't make you smart nor right.
Stop posting as anonymous coward and have the courage of your opinions. And stop using insults when you can not say something intelligent.
I meant that there were plenty of official declarations from members of the italian government that they do not believe that the US intended to kill Sgrena. Also the italian media did not credit the hypothesis that the US tried to kill her. However, if somebody involed in the shooting makes an hypothesis, that hypothesis should at least be investigated. The truth is that we will never know, but the chance of the US trying to kill her is probably very low, in my opinion.
Sorry if my previous post was not clear.
the italians (as in the overwhelmingly majority of them) don't presume there was a motive. There have been plenty of official declarations.
Although I do not agree with you, I appreciate the fact that unlike most of the people who have commented, you say "this one smells true".
What is often not mentioned is that the checkpoint was not permanent, as it was set up because Negroponte was passing there that day. I haven't read all the report yet, so this is speculation, but my idea is the following: the checkpoint was not visible. The italian were not going 60 mph (I can't believe that they were going 60 because the report itself says that the car "would not be able to stay on the road", so the driver decided to kill himself?). The soldiers aimed to the inside of the car, instead of aiming to where they wouldn't kill anybody. They succeded. The problem? The rules of engagement. Those soldiers were trained to kill first and ask questions later. That's the whole point. But the US will never admit it. As simple as that.
have you guys read the document? It bears the word "unclassified" on the top and on the bottom of each page! It was posted for download by the us military on their home page. It was linked by all the news services in the world (most notable exception: US media)
your stuff is total crap. I have followed the story very closely, and it is not the way you were persuaded:
#1) She has not changed her story a bit. I challenge you to show me a single piece of evidence
#2) interestingly enough the satellite images have never been seen, but an anonymous source from the pentagon says that... you mean that same pentagon that wants to conveince us that the military are infallible? Why aren't the satellite images cited in the report? The same soldiers that say that the car was too fast and wouldn't have been able to turn in that curve? Do you think that the driver was blind?
#3) There is no proof that Italy paid. And its government says that they haven't paid. This is speculation. Do not take speculation as evidence!
You've shown us your persistence with 10 points of total crap. Check the facts, do not simply repeat propaganda
So, I guess you have read all the 45 pages. Well, I am not there yet, but for what I have read (integrated by other reports), actually a lot of stuff has to do with the incident. I particular, the hid the facts that
they were only worried about protecting Negroponte;
that their communications were broken that day
that Negroponte was already gone (although nobody told the check point)
The report also casts shadows on the validity of the rules of engagement, which were defended so much.
Sure, they were protecting security, but they were also hiding very important details that cast a completely different light on the conclusions that were made public.No wonder the italians do not agree with the conclusions. And, oh, by the way, now the italian judges have the names of the people who were there and they can interrogate them.
Stop thinking that everything your government tells you is true. It is not!
You are kidding me! Here is why I expect my cell phone to work at home
1) because it is technically possible
2) because it used to work 4 years ago
3) because all over the world it does. For instance, in Europe, where their walls are much thicker, cell phones work everywhere, not to mention Japan where they work even in the subways and in the most incredible places
4) because in their coverage maps the signal is good
5) because I pay even when I am home
6) because in the silicon valley, the technological center of the world it is simply ridicolous that I do not get coverage at home
7) because those "limited patches" are limited, but huge
Most of the people I know even gave up changing cell phone provider because they all suck and it is getting worse.
It is also ridicolous that in the country of the "free markets" (hahaha!) they use such lock-in techniques. For instance, in "old Europe" what made the market explode is the availability of pre-paid plans. People with limited usage of cell phones who would never buy one if they were on a plan bought it because "it is cheap". Of course, then you get addicted. So, yes, people change providers often, but the market is huge now.
Lastly, I don't think it is dumb. It may be hard, but not dumb.
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This is a lame excuse.
Here is the logic behind this: SOX punishes CEOs and CFOs for false financial statements. If we deliver something after the customer has paid, we can not recognize all the revenue when we receive the cash. Since we want to recognize the revenue right away because it boosts our earnings, we can't deliver you the update or else we will commit a fraud. Hence, we make you pay for it separately.
The controversy started at the end of the '80s, early '90s, when Circuit City had to restate its earnings because of FASB 90-A that regulates accounting for extended warranties and service contracts. M$ used that rule to decrease earnings in the wake of the antitrust case by postponing recognition on Office sales and also built cookie jar reserves to smooth earnings.
Not exactly.
Whether you are Chinese or Mexican, or English, for that matter, if you make it here illegally and you stay long enough you will get away with it.
Furthermore, since China, Mexico, and the Philippines send a lot of legal immigrants here, it actually takes forever to people from those countries to get green cards and they don't get to enter the green card lottery. You can check the facts at the Department of State web site
As for illegal immigrants, I don't think they should be allowed many rights in general. However, in the particular case of the US, the government has closed an eye or both for long time and companies were able to basically enslave many of them to their advantage (and to the advantage of the average consumer). Now, the tide has turned and it seems unfair to say "thanks for your help, now go back".
wasted his fortune trying to achieve the same thing....
I seem to recall that you can prove with the Maxwell equations that it is basically impossible to achieve wireless transmission of energy at reasonable distances...
there is a practical fault in their argument. They assume that people who say they would buy/go to the theatre/etc. will actually do so. There is plenty of marketing research that shows that what people say has small correlation to what people do when it comes to buying (buyer intent in marketing terms).
The study finds that china has less piracy than mexico. Come on, there are 107 milion mexicans and 1.28 bilion chinese. The per capita income of a mexican is 5.5 times that of a chinese (2003 statistics from the world bank), so this means that piracy per person, adjusted for income is 2x in mexico with respect to china. Somehow, I don't believe it.....
all of them....
you forgot that states levy taxes too.... Also you would have to compare the income at which the rates kick in....
"Citrin's breach of his duty of loyalty terminated his agency relationship (more precisely, terminated any rights he might have claimed as IAC's agent--he could not by unilaterally terminating any duties he owed his principal gain an advantage!) and with it his authority to access the laptop, because the only basis of his authority had been that relationship..."
Sounds like a Tom Sharpe's book. In South Africa during the apartheid a white woman killed her black servant and called the police because she felt guilty. The (white) sergent at the station told her that there is nothing wrong in what she did because killing a black who was not authorized to be in her property was not a crime. When she replied that the he was her servant and was authorized to be in the property the sergent replied that by pulling the trigger she had clearly revoked the authorization..... the same perverse logic seems to be applied here
Hardware-software codesign is nothing new and revolutionary. It has been taught for years at berkeley and around the country. A bunch of links can also be found here
Altough you have a very good point, I think you slightly missing the mark: windows excels because it comes preinstalled on all the PCs that "regular people" buy. When windows doesn't have a driver for something, life can become much trickier.
Windows has also much more support from manufacturers, so when you buy something new it is not hard to configure it.
In shorts: the real difference is made by pre-installed stuff, recovery disks, and driver support. Then Windows is prettier, has more stuff, has excel/word/whatever.
PS: I still can't get my wireless to work and I have to use an old card!
I bought it in Europe :)
Most of the times, locked phones are a fraud. Why? Nowhere it is written that you can only use them with a certain provider. You buy a phone, not a phone that will work with (put your provider name).
I dumped T-Mobile because they wouldn't unlock their phone (although they promised they would). And I bought an unlocked one. Screw them.
what about the time spent reinstalling everything, saving your stuff and then restoring it, etc?
if you are an american you also need a passport to come back to the US...
I have read all the posts and all the 45 pages by now.
I was in the military, I perfectly understand this stuff. Were you?
I am making the case that while trying to keep some sensitive stuff secret, they also took the chance to keep secret some stuff that shows that the US has made mistakes and some of those rules are wrong. Now, you can scream "security" like the US government does every time it needs to have unquestioned agreement, but that doesn't make you smart nor right.
Stop posting as anonymous coward and have the courage of your opinions. And stop using insults when you can not say something intelligent.
I meant that there were plenty of official declarations from members of the italian government that they do not believe that the US intended to kill Sgrena. Also the italian media did not credit the hypothesis that the US tried to kill her. However, if somebody involed in the shooting makes an hypothesis, that hypothesis should at least be investigated. The truth is that we will never know, but the chance of the US trying to kill her is probably very low, in my opinion.
Sorry if my previous post was not clear.
the italians will release a report tomorrow. We will see
the italians (as in the overwhelmingly majority of them) don't presume there was a motive. There have been plenty of official declarations.
Although I do not agree with you, I appreciate the fact that unlike most of the people who have commented, you say "this one smells true".
What is often not mentioned is that the checkpoint was not permanent, as it was set up because Negroponte was passing there that day. I haven't read all the report yet, so this is speculation, but my idea is the following: the checkpoint was not visible. The italian were not going 60 mph (I can't believe that they were going 60 because the report itself says that the car "would not be able to stay on the road", so the driver decided to kill himself?). The soldiers aimed to the inside of the car, instead of aiming to where they wouldn't kill anybody. They succeded. The problem? The rules of engagement. Those soldiers were trained to kill first and ask questions later. That's the whole point. But the US will never admit it. As simple as that.
have you guys read the document? It bears the word "unclassified" on the top and on the bottom of each page! It was posted for download by the us military on their home page. It was linked by all the news services in the world (most notable exception: US media)
your stuff is total crap. I have followed the story very closely, and it is not the way you were persuaded:
#1) She has not changed her story a bit. I challenge you to show me a single piece of evidence
#2) interestingly enough the satellite images have never been seen, but an anonymous source from the pentagon says that... you mean that same pentagon that wants to conveince us that the military are infallible? Why aren't the satellite images cited in the report? The same soldiers that say that the car was too fast and wouldn't have been able to turn in that curve? Do you think that the driver was blind?
#3) There is no proof that Italy paid. And its government says that they haven't paid. This is speculation. Do not take speculation as evidence!
You've shown us your persistence with 10 points of total crap. Check the facts, do not simply repeat propaganda
moderation points are distributed all over the worlds, and what you may see as bashing, most foreigners will probably see it as something intelligent
extradition for what? For something that is not a crime?
- they were only worried about protecting Negroponte;
- that their communications were broken that day
- that Negroponte was already gone (although nobody told the check point)
The report also casts shadows on the validity of the rules of engagement, which were defended so much.Sure, they were protecting security, but they were also hiding very important details that cast a completely different light on the conclusions that were made public.No wonder the italians do not agree with the conclusions. And, oh, by the way, now the italian judges have the names of the people who were there and they can interrogate them.
Stop thinking that everything your government tells you is true. It is not!
what's RIAA's return on investiments?
You don't get it. The poster above maintains that conviction should not mean being stripped of many rights in the first place.
You are kidding me! Here is why I expect my cell phone to work at home
1) because it is technically possible
2) because it used to work 4 years ago
3) because all over the world it does. For instance, in Europe, where their walls are much thicker, cell phones work everywhere, not to mention Japan where they work even in the subways and in the most incredible places
4) because in their coverage maps the signal is good
5) because I pay even when I am home
6) because in the silicon valley, the technological center of the world it is simply ridicolous that I do not get coverage at home
7) because those "limited patches" are limited, but huge
Most of the people I know even gave up changing cell phone provider because they all suck and it is getting worse.
It is also ridicolous that in the country of the "free markets" (hahaha!) they use such lock-in techniques. For instance, in "old Europe" what made the market explode is the availability of pre-paid plans. People with limited usage of cell phones who would never buy one if they were on a plan bought it because "it is cheap". Of course, then you get addicted. So, yes, people change providers often, but the market is huge now.
Lastly, I don't think it is dumb. It may be hard, but not dumb.