If it were to tell the story of Native Americans, shouldn't it have included key facts like say how many Native Americans did not have single mates, but were more in line with Alpha male mating rights and in fact that Native Americans had the highest concentration of people with multiple venereal diseases ever recorded?
I cannot stand that today's society holds Native Americans to some high mystical level. We're talking about a group of people who failed to invent the wheel. Common, their a joke of a culture. Noone on/. would pick their former ways over your XBOX, PowerBook or favorite web browser. This whole "we love nature, we love green" movement by people living in urban areas makes me laugh. You think the park downtown is "natural", you believe in a bond with something that could kill you in a few days. You cannot live within nature, you don't even know how cruel it is. Capitalism's cycle of boom and bust more closely patterns natural predator/prey cycles in nature and you cannot stand it. Communism is so unnatural, unproductive, wasteful only those disconnected from nature could believe in it. Nature is natural selection (survival of the fittest), so is capitalism. Communism is unnatural, period.
Avatar was a fine movie, but it was not about Native Americans (they were just used as concept/base starting point for alien). It was not about anti-technology. It was about anti-War, anti-Bush. I mean the comment "They got some sort of 'shock and awe' campaign going on over here" gave it away for the slowest of the slow.
It seems unlikely party related events were going on during the movie.
Think people were talking?
That lighting was good?
For her to get screen, the people she was filming had to be in front of her; so either their backs were to her or movie itself for 3-4 minutes?
She mentions being impressed with how good the screen looks on her camera during previews.
Her mugshot has that "I'm better than you, I'm always right" tint, which goes hand and hand with the kind of people who protest and fight even when clearly in the wrong.
The article published only carries her side, yet concedes she committed a felony, using "I didn't mean to do a bad thing on purpose, plus it wasn't that bad" as her sole defense.
It is logical to assume with other party's side, her criminal actions will become more clear. As experience tells us the truth generally lies in the middle.
So yes, I am saying she is liar and a thief (be it a bad one in both cases).
Here is my guess of what happened. She took video fo B-day party, she then realized "Holy Crap, I can record movie as well". Followed by recording of said movie. Followed by manager demanding of video deletion. Which naturally was undesirable, because said video also included family party. If movie was playing in background while events of party were focus of recording I would be 100% behind her, but my suspicion is that party footage was taken, then filming of movie was taken.
The main reason (as I understand it) that Mayan code never really caught on is because it regularly sacrifices files based around SUN java and mayaSQL code.
How would you explain to shareholders that company you manage just lost half its revenue (because your american pride got hurt)?
I would explain it as follows in the open to all stock holders.
My fellow shareholders, it was not be because of "American Pride" that we lost considerable market share and revenue. Rather it was because we refused to compromise our values. As CEO I am committed to only operate in free and open markets, we will not "pay to play" for any reason under my watch. It is our moral conviction that must drive us. And while the cost to us financially was high, it is something the board and I refused to sell, corrupt or compromise. Yes we have lost money in the short term, but we have maintained our honor and integrity. As with all controversial leadership decisions, I bear full responsibility, therefore I will open myself up to a vote on removal. If you are confident in my choices and values, the choice is clear, if you are uncertain or against my leadership style, you should not vote for me to continue.
This is why I will never be the CEO of a public company, but run several successful private ones. Honor is a minority value in these times. It can be hard and costly when viewed in the short term, but in the bigger picture on the larger scale it is incredibly valuable, it is why America achieved the level of prosperity it has and as it is run out (in the current short term), why America currently is in decline.
What if I or anyone forked mySQL, merely combined for source and called it "SQL Reimagined", but it is pretty much mySQL with a name change. I keep the same OSS license and get a few fellow/.ers to form a little support community. We are founded with a single purpose "To keep an alternative to Oracle influences alive". Then the EC wouldn't have any LEGAL foundation for being concerned with a Sun_Oracle merger. Think they would drop issues they have raised against Oracle/Sun? Not likely, not unless Oracle paid the EC to be left alone or IBM failed to pay the EC to harass Oracle.
No, because it is a shake down and Oracle/Sun aren't going to have to abandon the European Market forever, just until it causes enough damage to European citizens and companies that the EC backs off, which, it will.
Heck just by halting sales for 3-6 months, would be enough proof that their combined company is more beneficial to Europeans than it is harmful.
Mark my words, if Oracle pays the EC, the EC will sing praises about the merger, if Oracle fights hard, then the EC will have rethink it's thuggish practice of shaking down companies (Though rather then concluding "this is wrong", it is more likely they will conclude "We need a new way to extort companies", but it will set a trend.)
The Right thinks governments are evil. The Left thinks companies are evil. Neither accept both are needed (though government not nearly to the level it currently holds). While I recognize both have the potential for evil. I can avoid doing business with companies I dislike, I cannot avoid the government, so I tend to enjoy any situation where government is constrained and put in place, while I personally ensure I avoid companies I perceive as immoral.
For whatever reason nearly all Europeans I have met are willingly enslaved to the state machine, restricted by chains they do not acknowledge.
I find Europe interesting, because while many nations, people and races have been enslaved by various masters who have reaped the benefits throughout history, the Europeans have managed to enslave themselves without a master, nobody benefits, there are only slaves and yet they system not only endures, but is looked upon with reverence by the majority.
They are American companies. Soon to be an American company.
Seriously, what can the EC do about it? Do they have a problem when Chinese companies that are bought, sold, destroyed and created in China and happen to sell products/services to Europe?
If the EC complains it is so unfair, Oracle can suggest they either stop selling SUN hardware or Oracle software to the EU, and let those bueacratic bastards pick how they best wish to further retard the quality of their citizens lives.
Let's be completely honest, this is a shake down, pure and simple, my recommendation is Oracle not pay and push back, my bet is like all things of French influence the EC will cower and back down.
If this was: www.didmichelleobamagangbangacollegefootballteamandgetpregnant.org people would be furious with the decision that it was legal.
I'm not convinced people will answer your question honestly, perhaps the best thing to do is a real world test since the domain is available.
You gotta love the fact that the President wants to take his time and get all facts before declaring this a terrorist attack, when the shooter Hasan was contacting a known terrorist online, shouting "Allah Akbar", gave away his processions in advance, smuggled the guns on base, spoke out that Muslims should rise up against the occupiers and then... killed unarmed soldiers.
Yet, the same President had no problem saying "I don't know - not having been there and not seeing all the facts - what role race played in that, but I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two that the Cambridge police acted stupidly".
I mean seriously, he can't say "I don't have all the facts, but number one, everyone of us has a right to be sad and angry and number two even without all of the facts, the evidence is overwhelming that Hasan is a terrorist, a traitor and a murder."
There is a higher correlation between students with two parents at home and their likelihood of graduating then there is between anything else, race, money, etc. and graduation rates. The best indicator for kids graduating college is whether they have two parents at home, yet liberals focus on money and race, why is that?
What I meant was purely from observation, I know of no millionaire who didn't take a risk and who played everything safe. The fact that they took a risk is a common trait among self-made rich people. Are there poor people who have taken risks or people who lost it all taking risks? Yes. But I have never seen a self-made millionaire that did not take a risk, in fact on average I would say most wealthy people I know lose 8-9 times for each win, but so long as they make enough to cover the loses or are OK with going backwards from time to time, in the long run they come out ahead. So it is not so much that they are lucky or whatever, but more that they are motivated to keep trying until they succeed. I know many poor or lower middle class people that never taken a chance on anything, a perfect example is several state workers I know. They just go through life playing it safe while at the same time resenting the people who have more then them, wholly ignorant of the risks and hard work involved.
Communist, Socialist, and Collectivist don't care about people, they care about power.
Capitalists care most about money. They believe that money is freedom for individuals and that individual freedom is a good thing. They don't resent those who have money, they don't see it that if you have money that is money taken from somebody else.
Collectivist care most about power. They also believe that money is freedom for individuals, but they believe that individual freedom takes power away that should belong to the state, union or whatever collective they are a part of.
Do you think a person that takes money by force other people is "nice"?
Then what would make that same person "nice" if they use the state machine to take money by force?
It's awesome how your attitude and post patterns itself after my points about why people are poor. Step one is to stop blaming others, if I am wrong, don't worry about it, take a risk, work hard, build your wealth and then use the wealth you build to help advance your ideas and help people as you see fit.
The largest common factors I have noticed between those who are self-made wealthy is this:
They work hard.
They save money, budget, evaluate costs to benefits, plan for long haul (know people who make $28,000/year and have paid off reliable cars, own thier house, and are in process of building retirement accounts)
They are risk takers
They take individual responisiblity
The largest common factors I have noticed between those who are poor is this:
They don't work hard.
They spend money irresponsibly, they live for the moment (I know people who make $75,000/year and are in debt)
They are collectivists, socialists, communist, etc. They need others to support them, whether they admit/accept this or not, their actions (or lack of) hinder their ability to grow wealth.
Sorry, but I never could figure out that whole google.com search where time is greater than present thing.
Seeing as the item you referenced was posted after I had searched for it.
Perhaps I should have used yahoo or BING +24hr.
Hey look it works, I tried smallfries smartass slashdot +1hr and got the following:
"Wow, you're relativity retarded and a time insensitive clod." - This is the part where you post that to get +5 funny (Don't worry, LargePotato, TaterTot, Mashed, RatherBGrits and Curly will have the mod points to give you after 2.5 hrs according to Yahoo, and 4 hours according to google, though the google mod point map seems outdated.)
So I read about this on Google News, looked up the Spring Design Inc's site and read a section on their page that said:
... has been working with major book stores, newspapers and publishers over the last 2 years, sharing the vision and the capabilities of the dual screen device.
So I contact Spring Design rep and asked a simple question (this was about 1 hr before my T-Mobile G1 went bye bye for the evening). I asked "Did you have any contact with BN about your device prior to the release of the Nook?"
Woman explained she was not speaking on behalf of company, but when I pressed she said that the simple answer was "yes", but the best way to understand was to read to court filing. I was then able to get her to e-mail the court filing to me. Social engineering at it's finest.
It blew my mind it documents how Spring Design was contacted by Phil Baker (A strategy and development consultant for BN) back in February of this year after the Kindle 2 was released. Not hard to prove call or e-mail, it then includes NDA that was signed by BN prior to meeting with Spring Design, and that pretty much seals the deal, as it has non-compete and nondisclosure sections BN walked right over. Then outlines various meetings, conf calls, e-mails, power points, etc. that continued while Spring Design was led to believe BN would be partnering to use their device.
The really brazen part is it went as high as the CFO of BN and that as late aa 10/1/09 BN was meeting with Spring Design's CEO supposedly over partnering deal, but they still needed to know this and that about how ALEX device worked.
Better still is on a press call given my Willaim J Lynch at BN, Mr. Lynch who was given various Spring Design's concepts and information, actually refers to product screen benefits exactly as outlined by Spring Design to him. He says on the transcript of call that BN is releasing the first dual screen e-reader, yet e-mail sent by him and included as exhibit shows he was privy to Spring's Design product.
Then there is the helpful advice BN gave Spring Design where BN staff recommended Spring Design not talk to Amazon, because (as BN says) Amazon is the kind of company that is likely to steal Spring Design's proprietary information rather then form a partnership as BN was planning.
So my question to/. is should I post the PDF briefing on wikileak.org? There is nothing that says I cannot and it should be available via open records request to the court it was filed in (Northern District of California, San Jose Division). Only thing is it is marked copy and has a series of numbers on it that could linked to the version e-mailed to me. I do not want to hurt Spring Design's case, but I do want to get inform out there.
Steve Jobs is such a control freak, he never understood that Apple could be where Microsoft is, all it had to do was become a company that focused on the software, rather than a hardware company.
Apple should be working to allow OS X to run on various computers, for example DELL was interested in selling OS X computers for the longest time. I know people who run versions of OS X on their thinkpads. Instead Apple is sniping people who buy and sell Apple products (just not in the way, Lord Jobs approves). If it were a record or movie company putting demands on how a song or movie can be used,/. would be up in arms, but since it is Apple placing demands on how software is used,/. bows in worship. How pathetic, we talk of freedom and hacking, but we do not practice or support what we preach.
Apple could have made a strong push years back against Windows, but by locking the hardware and software together and taking the role of hardware provider instead of software distributor, they will be left in their 3-5% nitch forever. I think it would have been really cool, but Jobs is to concerned with controlling a closed and walled off garden then building a public park where other hardware and software folks could play along side him. Where are all the Apple hackers? Why aren't they upset over the walls Jobs has constructed? Because they just write him off and switch to Linux or Windows (both of which are more open).
This corporate policy is why eventually the iPhone will fall just as the Apple desktop did. Remember when people who were interested in Apple went with PCs because that critical piece of software/hardware they needed wasn't support or available through Apple and Apple made it hard for the software/hardware folks to develop products to work with Apple (the II was a success because of the expansion slots that Jobs killed in the early Macs).
Few remember that it was Windows who was open to more hardware and application developers, thus crushing Apple's desktop market chances, so to will Android be open to more hardware and application developers eventually crushing Apple's PDA/smartphone position. Despite the big head start, Apple's closed approach will choke it off eventually, costing Apple the top seed, not to a single hardware victor, but to a variety of venders with a uniform OS/development standard, in this case Android and its open APIs.
Just like the Appple II orginally had more apps, before PCs caught on, so will Android catchup and pass the iPhone (except it will be much faster). How is that wifi tether app on your iPhone working? Are you really with the wireless carrier you wanted? Can you develop iPhone apps on your Linux or Windows PCs? Where is model with a keyboard? Where is the one with an sd expansion slot? The one that can run background programs/services?
Either way we could have a lot of fun with this, we just need a few red balloons and volunteers to be "DARPA agents". Yes, of course we could just post disinformation, but wouldn't it be more fun to get participants to post disinformation with conviction and confidence be behind it? F'en with people is so fun.
What can't Toyota periodically replace sections where the plants are?
$Counter = 0;
1). Cut down section of plants
2). Bury plants to trap chemicals just like a bog would
3). plant new plants in cleared section
4). $Counter++
5). If $Counter >= 10,000 then recover coal/oil, $counter = 0
6). Goto line 1
The court ruled tomatoes are a fruit while on the vine and a vegetable thereafter.
They did so for tax reasons (Vegetables were subject to a 10% tariff, while fruits were not), the plaintiff was arguing the money he paid the tax collector for imported tomatoes from the West Indies should be returned as a tomato is a fruit. Your post says you should agree, but the court tossed out his evidence from two dictionaries at the time and various witnesses. (The tax collector presented no defense, nothing), yet the court went as far to say courts were not being held to botanical/scientific definitions. You are trying to insert logic into an irrational entity. Courts are not as scientific, standardized, logical or as rational as you believe.
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If it were to tell the story of Native Americans, shouldn't it have included key facts like say how many Native Americans did not have single mates, but were more in line with Alpha male mating rights and in fact that Native Americans had the highest concentration of people with multiple venereal diseases ever recorded?
/. would pick their former ways over your XBOX, PowerBook or favorite web browser. This whole "we love nature, we love green" movement by people living in urban areas makes me laugh. You think the park downtown is "natural", you believe in a bond with something that could kill you in a few days. You cannot live within nature, you don't even know how cruel it is. Capitalism's cycle of boom and bust more closely patterns natural predator/prey cycles in nature and you cannot stand it. Communism is so unnatural, unproductive, wasteful only those disconnected from nature could believe in it. Nature is natural selection (survival of the fittest), so is capitalism. Communism is unnatural, period.
I cannot stand that today's society holds Native Americans to some high mystical level. We're talking about a group of people who failed to invent the wheel. Common, their a joke of a culture. Noone on
Avatar was a fine movie, but it was not about Native Americans (they were just used as concept/base starting point for alien). It was not about anti-technology. It was about anti-War, anti-Bush. I mean the comment "They got some sort of 'shock and awe' campaign going on over here" gave it away for the slowest of the slow.
Fork.
So yes, I am saying she is liar and a thief (be it a bad one in both cases).
Here is my guess of what happened. She took video fo B-day party, she then realized "Holy Crap, I can record movie as well". Followed by recording of said movie. Followed by manager demanding of video deletion. Which naturally was undesirable, because said video also included family party. If movie was playing in background while events of party were focus of recording I would be 100% behind her, but my suspicion is that party footage was taken, then filming of movie was taken.
The main reason (as I understand it) that Mayan code never really caught on is because it regularly sacrifices files based around SUN java and mayaSQL code.
How would you explain to shareholders that company you manage just lost half its revenue (because your american pride got hurt)?
I would explain it as follows in the open to all stock holders.
My fellow shareholders, it was not be because of "American Pride" that we lost considerable market share and revenue. Rather it was because we refused to compromise our values. As CEO I am committed to only operate in free and open markets, we will not "pay to play" for any reason under my watch. It is our moral conviction that must drive us. And while the cost to us financially was high, it is something the board and I refused to sell, corrupt or compromise. Yes we have lost money in the short term, but we have maintained our honor and integrity. As with all controversial leadership decisions, I bear full responsibility, therefore I will open myself up to a vote on removal. If you are confident in my choices and values, the choice is clear, if you are uncertain or against my leadership style, you should not vote for me to continue.
This is why I will never be the CEO of a public company, but run several successful private ones. Honor is a minority value in these times. It can be hard and costly when viewed in the short term, but in the bigger picture on the larger scale it is incredibly valuable, it is why America achieved the level of prosperity it has and as it is run out (in the current short term), why America currently is in decline.
What if I or anyone forked mySQL, merely combined for source and called it "SQL Reimagined", but it is pretty much mySQL with a name change. I keep the same OSS license and get a few fellow /.ers to form a little support community. We are founded with a single purpose "To keep an alternative to Oracle influences alive". Then the EC wouldn't have any LEGAL foundation for being concerned with a Sun_Oracle merger. Think they would drop issues they have raised against Oracle/Sun? Not likely, not unless Oracle paid the EC to be left alone or IBM failed to pay the EC to harass Oracle.
No, because it is a shake down and Oracle/Sun aren't going to have to abandon the European Market forever, just until it causes enough damage to European citizens and companies that the EC backs off, which, it will.
Heck just by halting sales for 3-6 months, would be enough proof that their combined company is more beneficial to Europeans than it is harmful.
Mark my words, if Oracle pays the EC, the EC will sing praises about the merger, if Oracle fights hard, then the EC will have rethink it's thuggish practice of shaking down companies (Though rather then concluding "this is wrong", it is more likely they will conclude "We need a new way to extort companies", but it will set a trend.)
The Right thinks governments are evil. The Left thinks companies are evil. Neither accept both are needed (though government not nearly to the level it currently holds). While I recognize both have the potential for evil. I can avoid doing business with companies I dislike, I cannot avoid the government, so I tend to enjoy any situation where government is constrained and put in place, while I personally ensure I avoid companies I perceive as immoral.
For whatever reason nearly all Europeans I have met are willingly enslaved to the state machine, restricted by chains they do not acknowledge.
I find Europe interesting, because while many nations, people and races have been enslaved by various masters who have reaped the benefits throughout history, the Europeans have managed to enslave themselves without a master, nobody benefits, there are only slaves and yet they system not only endures, but is looked upon with reverence by the majority.
You're math is wrong, just so you know.
And Sun or Oracle should care why?
They are American companies. Soon to be an American company.
Seriously, what can the EC do about it? Do they have a problem when Chinese companies that are bought, sold, destroyed and created in China and happen to sell products/services to Europe?
If the EC complains it is so unfair, Oracle can suggest they either stop selling SUN hardware or Oracle software to the EU, and let those bueacratic bastards pick how they best wish to further retard the quality of their citizens lives.
Let's be completely honest, this is a shake down, pure and simple, my recommendation is Oracle not pay and push back, my bet is like all things of French influence the EC will cower and back down.
If this was: www.didmichelleobamagangbangacollegefootballteamandgetpregnant.org people would be furious with the decision that it was legal.
I'm not convinced people will answer your question honestly, perhaps the best thing to do is a real world test since the domain is available.
... killed unarmed soldiers.
You gotta love the fact that the President wants to take his time and get all facts before declaring this a terrorist attack, when the shooter Hasan was contacting a known terrorist online, shouting "Allah Akbar", gave away his processions in advance, smuggled the guns on base, spoke out that Muslims should rise up against the occupiers and then
Yet, the same President had no problem saying "I don't know - not having been there and not seeing all the facts - what role race played in that, but I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two that the Cambridge police acted stupidly".
I mean seriously, he can't say "I don't have all the facts, but number one, everyone of us has a right to be sad and angry and number two even without all of the facts, the evidence is overwhelming that Hasan is a terrorist, a traitor and a murder."
There is a higher correlation between students with two parents at home and their likelihood of graduating then there is between anything else, race, money, etc. and graduation rates. The best indicator for kids graduating college is whether they have two parents at home, yet liberals focus on money and race, why is that?
What I meant was purely from observation, I know of no millionaire who didn't take a risk and who played everything safe. The fact that they took a risk is a common trait among self-made rich people. Are there poor people who have taken risks or people who lost it all taking risks? Yes. But I have never seen a self-made millionaire that did not take a risk, in fact on average I would say most wealthy people I know lose 8-9 times for each win, but so long as they make enough to cover the loses or are OK with going backwards from time to time, in the long run they come out ahead. So it is not so much that they are lucky or whatever, but more that they are motivated to keep trying until they succeed. I know many poor or lower middle class people that never taken a chance on anything, a perfect example is several state workers I know. They just go through life playing it safe while at the same time resenting the people who have more then them, wholly ignorant of the risks and hard work involved.
Communist, Socialist, and Collectivist don't care about people, they care about power.
Capitalists care most about money. They believe that money is freedom for individuals and that individual freedom is a good thing. They don't resent those who have money, they don't see it that if you have money that is money taken from somebody else.
Collectivist care most about power. They also believe that money is freedom for individuals, but they believe that individual freedom takes power away that should belong to the state, union or whatever collective they are a part of.
Do you think a person that takes money by force other people is "nice"?
Then what would make that same person "nice" if they use the state machine to take money by force?
It's awesome how your attitude and post patterns itself after my points about why people are poor. Step one is to stop blaming others, if I am wrong, don't worry about it, take a risk, work hard, build your wealth and then use the wealth you build to help advance your ideas and help people as you see fit.
Some rich people are stupid
The largest common factors I have noticed between those who are self-made wealthy is this:
The largest common factors I have noticed between those who are poor is this:
Nevermind, I figured out why the Google Maps Sat View seemed a few years outdated, I had maptime=present-3years. My mistake.
Sorry, but I never could figure out that whole google.com search where time is greater than present thing.
Seeing as the item you referenced was posted after I had searched for it.
Perhaps I should have used yahoo or BING +24hr.
Hey look it works, I tried smallfries smartass slashdot +1hr and got the following:
"Wow, you're relativity retarded and a time insensitive clod." - This is the part where you post that to get +5 funny (Don't worry, LargePotato, TaterTot, Mashed, RatherBGrits and Curly will have the mod points to give you after 2.5 hrs according to Yahoo, and 4 hours according to google, though the google mod point map seems outdated.)
... has been working with major book stores, newspapers and publishers over the last 2 years, sharing the vision and the capabilities of the dual screen device.
So I contact Spring Design rep and asked a simple question (this was about 1 hr before my T-Mobile G1 went bye bye for the evening). I asked "Did you have any contact with BN about your device prior to the release of the Nook?"
/. is should I post the PDF briefing on wikileak.org? There is nothing that says I cannot and it should be available via open records request to the court it was filed in (Northern District of California, San Jose Division). Only thing is it is marked copy and has a series of numbers on it that could linked to the version e-mailed to me. I do not want to hurt Spring Design's case, but I do want to get inform out there.
Woman explained she was not speaking on behalf of company, but when I pressed she said that the simple answer was "yes", but the best way to understand was to read to court filing. I was then able to get her to e-mail the court filing to me. Social engineering at it's finest.
It blew my mind it documents how Spring Design was contacted by Phil Baker (A strategy and development consultant for BN) back in February of this year after the Kindle 2 was released. Not hard to prove call or e-mail, it then includes NDA that was signed by BN prior to meeting with Spring Design, and that pretty much seals the deal, as it has non-compete and nondisclosure sections BN walked right over. Then outlines various meetings, conf calls, e-mails, power points, etc. that continued while Spring Design was led to believe BN would be partnering to use their device.
The really brazen part is it went as high as the CFO of BN and that as late aa 10/1/09 BN was meeting with Spring Design's CEO supposedly over partnering deal, but they still needed to know this and that about how ALEX device worked.
Better still is on a press call given my Willaim J Lynch at BN, Mr. Lynch who was given various Spring Design's concepts and information, actually refers to product screen benefits exactly as outlined by Spring Design to him. He says on the transcript of call that BN is releasing the first dual screen e-reader, yet e-mail sent by him and included as exhibit shows he was privy to Spring's Design product.
Then there is the helpful advice BN gave Spring Design where BN staff recommended Spring Design not talk to Amazon, because (as BN says) Amazon is the kind of company that is likely to steal Spring Design's proprietary information rather then form a partnership as BN was planning.
So my question to
Steve Jobs is such a control freak, he never understood that Apple could be where Microsoft is, all it had to do was become a company that focused on the software, rather than a hardware company.
/. would be up in arms, but since it is Apple placing demands on how software is used, /. bows in worship. How pathetic, we talk of freedom and hacking, but we do not practice or support what we preach.
Apple should be working to allow OS X to run on various computers, for example DELL was interested in selling OS X computers for the longest time. I know people who run versions of OS X on their thinkpads. Instead Apple is sniping people who buy and sell Apple products (just not in the way, Lord Jobs approves). If it were a record or movie company putting demands on how a song or movie can be used,
Apple could have made a strong push years back against Windows, but by locking the hardware and software together and taking the role of hardware provider instead of software distributor, they will be left in their 3-5% nitch forever. I think it would have been really cool, but Jobs is to concerned with controlling a closed and walled off garden then building a public park where other hardware and software folks could play along side him. Where are all the Apple hackers? Why aren't they upset over the walls Jobs has constructed? Because they just write him off and switch to Linux or Windows (both of which are more open).
This corporate policy is why eventually the iPhone will fall just as the Apple desktop did. Remember when people who were interested in Apple went with PCs because that critical piece of software/hardware they needed wasn't support or available through Apple and Apple made it hard for the software/hardware folks to develop products to work with Apple (the II was a success because of the expansion slots that Jobs killed in the early Macs).
Few remember that it was Windows who was open to more hardware and application developers, thus crushing Apple's desktop market chances, so to will Android be open to more hardware and application developers eventually crushing Apple's PDA/smartphone position. Despite the big head start, Apple's closed approach will choke it off eventually, costing Apple the top seed, not to a single hardware victor, but to a variety of venders with a uniform OS/development standard, in this case Android and its open APIs.
Just like the Appple II orginally had more apps, before PCs caught on, so will Android catchup and pass the iPhone (except it will be much faster). How is that wifi tether app on your iPhone working? Are you really with the wireless carrier you wanted? Can you develop iPhone apps on your Linux or Windows PCs? Where is model with a keyboard? Where is the one with an sd expansion slot? The one that can run background programs/services?
Either way we could have a lot of fun with this, we just need a few red balloons and volunteers to be "DARPA agents". Yes, of course we could just post disinformation, but wouldn't it be more fun to get participants to post disinformation with conviction and confidence be behind it? F'en with people is so fun.
What can't Toyota periodically replace sections where the plants are? $Counter = 0; 1). Cut down section of plants 2). Bury plants to trap chemicals just like a bog would 3). plant new plants in cleared section 4). $Counter++ 5). If $Counter >= 10,000 then recover coal/oil, $counter = 0 6). Goto line 1
The court ruled tomatoes are a fruit while on the vine and a vegetable thereafter.
They did so for tax reasons (Vegetables were subject to a 10% tariff, while fruits were not), the plaintiff was arguing the money he paid the tax collector for imported tomatoes from the West Indies should be returned as a tomato is a fruit. Your post says you should agree, but the court tossed out his evidence from two dictionaries at the time and various witnesses. (The tax collector presented no defense, nothing), yet the court went as far to say courts were not being held to botanical/scientific definitions. You are trying to insert logic into an irrational entity. Courts are not as scientific, standardized, logical or as rational as you believe.
Courts also ruled that tomatoes are a fruit, my point is courts can be really stupid.