I'm sure Microsoft could easily find another ex Procter & Gamble product manager to replace Steve Ballmer. What they need is someone to replace Bill Gates, and that isn't so easy.
Yes, but the things that put Apple ahead of everyone else, like releasing a giant sized iPod touch don't necessarily take a lot of Steve Job's time, however they are things that nobody else thought of before he did.
You get a lot more for a game in original packaging with unused serial number than you do for a CD-R labelled with a marker pen and crack instructions in a text file somewhere.
But if only 1/20 of the profiles are from people who actually registered with the site, and within that you have the usual mix of people who have abandoned their profile or aren't interested in you, your chances of getting a response become that much lower. It will be like trying to find your next date amongst a load of spam listings.
The EU (which is NOT Europe), as you obviously don't understand, is made up of many different countries with different legal systems (albeit with some shared laws). And none of them allow for the police to "get this information without any judicial oversight". Not legally anyway.
Idiot.
There are national laws and European laws. This is about the electronic communications and privacy directives, which are European laws.
The shortfall is the amount by which the debt is increasing each year. The total debt was just under $90bn at June 2010 (source http://www.treasurer.ca.gov/publications/2010dar.pdf Sect 2, p5, pdf page 13), and I guess it will be about $103bn now. That doesn't include pension liabilities, or municipal bonds. The unfunded pension liabilities on 1st July 2008 were $425bn and estimated to be $534bn the following year (source http://www.stanford.edu/group/siepr/cgi-bin/siepr/?q=/system/files/shared/GoingforBroke_pb.pdf p2). Who knows what the unfunded liability is now. I understand that municipal debt is around $400bn, but most of that is insured by federal government backed insurance companies so probably isn't relevant.
I don't think any of the billionaires you listed could afford to write a cheque for $25bn. They would need to sell their companies and other assets to raise the money.
Either you pay for employee health insurance or you pay them a higher salary so they can afford they own health insurance. One way or another, McDonalds needs staff, and customers need to pay for the services they provide.
No, but "when America sneezes, the world catches a cold". Living in Europe, I am aware that the possibility of sovreign defaults in Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain and Belgium is concerning a lot of people. I live in the UK, and an Irish sovreign default would directly impact me. The Sovreign default in Iceland impacted a lot of people in the UK, even though that has an economy the size of a small neighbourhood in Los Angeles.
So if you are not interested in the possibility of California going bankrupt, you probably should be.
You would get phone calls. Based on my experience with EDGE, when a phone call comes in, it would immediately hang up the internet connection. Then when the call is finished, you need to wait a few seconds for it to dial back into the internet, and a few seconds more for the app to realise there is a connection again.
Professional music won't go away, but if you pick on a particular band or orchestra that is popular at the moment, that almost certainly will go out of fashion.
And I think the problem for the teen girl demographic is that their parents are on there. In the UK, Blackberry Messenger seems to be more popular in that demographic.
The problem is that the statement "there are ghosts" is not falsifiable. There isn't an experiment you can perform that will prove they don't exist. Maybe the experiment scared them away, or they just didn't turn up etc.
The statement "there are no ghosts" is falsifiable. It can be proved wrong by demonstrating the existence of the ghost.
And OpenOffice / Neo Office are pretty good substitutes as long as you don't need Outlook/Entourage. Access and Visio aren't available on Mac, so the lack of substitute for it isn't an issue.
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I'm sure Microsoft could easily find another ex Procter & Gamble product manager to replace Steve Ballmer. What they need is someone to replace Bill Gates, and that isn't so easy.
Yes, but the things that put Apple ahead of everyone else, like releasing a giant sized iPod touch don't necessarily take a lot of Steve Job's time, however they are things that nobody else thought of before he did.
People remember what happened to Apple last time Steve Jobs left.
You get a lot more for a game in original packaging with unused serial number than you do for a CD-R labelled with a marker pen and crack instructions in a text file somewhere.
The Data Protection Directive has been around since 1995. Many EU countries had similar rules before that date, in the case of the UK, since 1984.
But if only 1/20 of the profiles are from people who actually registered with the site, and within that you have the usual mix of people who have abandoned their profile or aren't interested in you, your chances of getting a response become that much lower. It will be like trying to find your next date amongst a load of spam listings.
The initial 0.0.1 release of virtually every sourceforge project doesn't work, and there are no legal implications.
Probably. Also, elfin safety requires them to develop a new type of memory that simulates the mercury tubes used in the original.
In addition, these laws apply to the three EEA countries - Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, and to Switzerland.
Liar. Or Ignoramus.
The EU (which is NOT Europe), as you obviously don't understand, is made up of many different countries with different legal systems (albeit with some shared laws). And none of them allow for the police to "get this information without any judicial oversight". Not legally anyway.
Idiot.
There are national laws and European laws. This is about the electronic communications and privacy directives, which are European laws.
That's not what EU law says. They are for example required to account for sales tax on any sales they make to users within the EU.
EU law says they shouldn't keep their data in a country were it can't be protected in accordance with EU law. The US is one such country.
Twitter trade in the EU, so have to comply with European Laws.
The shortfall is the amount by which the debt is increasing each year. The total debt was just under $90bn at June 2010 (source http://www.treasurer.ca.gov/publications/2010dar.pdf Sect 2, p5, pdf page 13), and I guess it will be about $103bn now. That doesn't include pension liabilities, or municipal bonds. The unfunded pension liabilities on 1st July 2008 were $425bn and estimated to be $534bn the following year (source http://www.stanford.edu/group/siepr/cgi-bin/siepr/?q=/system/files/shared/GoingforBroke_pb.pdf p2). Who knows what the unfunded liability is now. I understand that municipal debt is around $400bn, but most of that is insured by federal government backed insurance companies so probably isn't relevant.
I don't think any of the billionaires you listed could afford to write a cheque for $25bn. They would need to sell their companies and other assets to raise the money.
Well another 1000 or so similar sized cuts, and you've done it. Where does it say you can only fix the deficit by adjusting one budget line?
Either you pay for employee health insurance or you pay them a higher salary so they can afford they own health insurance. One way or another, McDonalds needs staff, and customers need to pay for the services they provide.
No, but "when America sneezes, the world catches a cold". Living in Europe, I am aware that the possibility of sovreign defaults in Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain and Belgium is concerning a lot of people. I live in the UK, and an Irish sovreign default would directly impact me. The Sovreign default in Iceland impacted a lot of people in the UK, even though that has an economy the size of a small neighbourhood in Los Angeles.
So if you are not interested in the possibility of California going bankrupt, you probably should be.
You would get phone calls. Based on my experience with EDGE, when a phone call comes in, it would immediately hang up the internet connection. Then when the call is finished, you need to wait a few seconds for it to dial back into the internet, and a few seconds more for the app to realise there is a connection again.
Professional music won't go away, but if you pick on a particular band or orchestra that is popular at the moment, that almost certainly will go out of fashion.
And I think the problem for the teen girl demographic is that their parents are on there. In the UK, Blackberry Messenger seems to be more popular in that demographic.
The problem is that the statement "there are ghosts" is not falsifiable. There isn't an experiment you can perform that will prove they don't exist. Maybe the experiment scared them away, or they just didn't turn up etc.
The statement "there are no ghosts" is falsifiable. It can be proved wrong by demonstrating the existence of the ghost.
No, it would make it much worse, as 5 seconds worth of arbitrage data is much more valuable than a few microseconds.
This isn't about the mobile market though. Windows Mobile and Windows Phone already run on ARM chips.
This is initially about low end laptops and small servers and it will eventually filter up to the whole PC market. That's why Intel should be worried.
And OpenOffice / Neo Office are pretty good substitutes as long as you don't need Outlook/Entourage. Access and Visio aren't available on Mac, so the lack of substitute for it isn't an issue.
Yes, but they are replacing Blackberry, not Microsoft. The iPad is a completely new market and isn't replacing anything.