"If a number of your friends and acquaintances talk about how many thousands of songs and hundreds of movies they have downloaded, you can easily extrapolate the potential loss caused that group of people."
1 download != 1 lost sale. I download music all the time but it's usually stuff that I already own and am just too damn lazy to find the CD and rip it; the rest have been previews that I actually do buy or delete. Hell, a few of the albums I purchased recently were from The Electric Hellfire Club, which is only significant because the leader of the band had apparently stated that downloading killed the band(though they're back in business now for some odd reason...hmm). So now I'm going to send him a copy of the receipt and show him that downloading can be a very good thing..and tell him to embrace it or else that receipt represents the ONLY amount of money I'll put into his band...no concert tickets, t-shirts, new albums... Money talks afterall.
"Why do Apple products have to be FREAKING minimalist?"
Have you taken a good look at their mouse design up till the last few years?;) I'm not even sure they bothered changing in recent years but I know I managed to plug in my 5 button mouse on a G4 server I was forced to administrate a few months ago, and the mouse worked to some degree at least.
"2) Firefox places previously-visited URLs in the URL bar in increasing order of frequency of use. So, that makes me take extra time to pan down and click the ones that I go to the most, giving me more time to pause and think about life."
I know you're trying your best to be funny but unless you've changed something I'm unaware of, Firefox puts those URL's in DECREASING order with the most used at the top.
There's also no javascript whitelisting unless you turn that function on as well, and most of the other things you either seem to be describing as a bother can be turned off if one bothers to edit the preferences a bit, or the point made was without merit.
So it's almost funny but not accurate enough to be applied to all/most users for it to make the grade.
"Ignoring for a moment Apple and ATI, if you were running a business who would you partner with, a company with a reputation for doing what they say, even if it is not expedient at the moment, or a company that you know has ignored their contract terms and screwed over one of their larger customers, by blabbing secrets to the press?"
You mean like would I choose Apple's "reputation" over Microsoft's cash flow? That's easy, I might hate M$ but cash talks and a good reputation don't pay the rent. I learned long ago that it's better to have many projects of which only a few see the light of day rather than only work on a couple that all make it to the light of day because even if the percentage is lower, 12 successful projects out of 100 is still more than 3 out of 3.
"If, at some point in the future Apple does do business with ATI again, do you think ATI will take keeping things confidential seriously or do you think they'll stupidly lose a giant contract while gaining nothing again?"
I think the bigger question would be whether ATI would bother doing business with Apple again. Companies sue one another all the time and yet while the lawsuit is in court they'll still manage to conduct their daily business with one another mostly amicably so why a mature company would want to do business with one run by a fickle CEO is beyond me.
Seriously, it reads like a bad play written by kids on a playground: "Stevie's using my bat to hit his ball in this game" "Waaaaaah!! I told you not to tell, I'm taking my ball home now so you can't play with it...Waaaaaah!!!".
This is true however, IIRC, the stockholders also expect their CEO to act in a certain way and if they think that the CEO's contrariness is affecting their stocks then it opens Jobs up for lawsuits. It's why GoDaddy couldn't simply turn down all the free stuff from Micro$loth; doing so would be like turning down free money and would have been the end of Bob Parsons as CEO. While the ATI/Apple deal wasn't free stuff, it still makes Jobs look like a spoiled brat; a brat with power but a brat none-the-less.
None. How does one seeing an event make them a part of the actual event and not simply and observer in your logic? I see people run red lights all the time but it doesn't mean I was part of them doing it.
I'm hip to the presentence report but I've also personally seen a judge defying the recommendation of the report entirely. In this case it was for the worse, he recommended jail time instead of the recommended probation, but it apparently happens a lot.
"not to mention that if one clause contridicts another in the same contract the whole thing generally gets voided"
That won't work with many contracts these days if the contract is severable, which simply means that you're in essence signing to a series of contracts in a single work and proving one of the agreements is void does not necessarily affect the others though there are exceptions.
How do those "slippers" and "sandals" prevent your shirt/pants from soaking up liquid when the fall on a piss covered floor? There are other gains to using a clean floor as opposed to simply trying to prove you can walk on water.
Did you not read the wiki link? The UCC is federal code, not state, and it's one of the few things that can protect you from hidden terms in a contract; check out some of the great things you can do with UCC 1-207 sometime, you'll be surprised.
I can beat you there. I take Shaolin classes at our local YMCA and I change into my gi in the women's restroom because the men's is often covered in piss and I have to walk on the floor with bare feet once I'm done changing. Yech. Better to get stares from annoyed women than some funky infection in my feet.
Nope, that's clearly not what's happening. My wife, who wasn't directly affected by this as you suggest, has a paid LJ accnt and we'll be moving her shortly if they don't start straightening up fast. This isn't the first time that something like this has happened with SixApart and I'm not keen on supporting people who can't make good decisions concerning their users.
You also must not be too aware of how tightly knit a lot of the LJ community is. A friend of a friend being unjustly punished will still draw scorn and lots of it. As a matter of fact that's likely the exact reason you're hearing of it here.
Are you talking about the Pico or the Gatekeeper? I don't see an RJ45 on the Pico at all. The presence of one would make a lot more sense than relying on the host computer's enet to handle the WAN traffic as well.
Heh, funny you should say that. Back in the day I remember having a "discussion" with someone over how the Amiga OS was only at v3.1 and Windows was "clearly ahead"; I responded with "So, Windows 95 is 95 times better than Windows 1.0? and almost 32 times better than Windows 3.1?". The silence was deafening.
The attitude of "won't" is the rock I'm referring to. "He" created it and now is unable to lift it as though he were Superman and it were made of Kryptonite.
Haven't examined Xtianity very closely?!?! No, I examined it for 20 years. I don't see your example as any form of counterpoint whatsoever. Care to explain further?
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Seconded. Though one has to wonder how the plaintiff doesn't see this coming.
"If a number of your friends and acquaintances talk about how many thousands of songs and hundreds of movies they have downloaded, you can easily extrapolate the potential loss caused that group of people."
1 download != 1 lost sale. I download music all the time but it's usually stuff that I already own and am just too damn lazy to find the CD and rip it; the rest have been previews that I actually do buy or delete. Hell, a few of the albums I purchased recently were from The Electric Hellfire Club, which is only significant because the leader of the band had apparently stated that downloading killed the band(though they're back in business now for some odd reason...hmm). So now I'm going to send him a copy of the receipt and show him that downloading can be a very good thing..and tell him to embrace it or else that receipt represents the ONLY amount of money I'll put into his band...no concert tickets, t-shirts, new albums... Money talks afterall.
Dammit, you beat me to it!!
"Why do Apple products have to be FREAKING minimalist?"
;) I'm not even sure they bothered changing in recent years but I know I managed to plug in my 5 button mouse on a G4 server I was forced to administrate a few months ago, and the mouse worked to some degree at least.
Have you taken a good look at their mouse design up till the last few years?
"2) Firefox places previously-visited URLs in the URL bar in increasing order of frequency of use. So, that makes me take extra time to pan down and click the ones that I go to the most, giving me more time to pause and think about life."
I know you're trying your best to be funny but unless you've changed something I'm unaware of, Firefox puts those URL's in DECREASING order with the most used at the top.
There's also no javascript whitelisting unless you turn that function on as well, and most of the other things you either seem to be describing as a bother can be turned off if one bothers to edit the preferences a bit, or the point made was without merit.
So it's almost funny but not accurate enough to be applied to all/most users for it to make the grade.
"Ignoring for a moment Apple and ATI, if you were running a business who would you partner with, a company with a reputation for doing what they say, even if it is not expedient at the moment, or a company that you know has ignored their contract terms and screwed over one of their larger customers, by blabbing secrets to the press?"
You mean like would I choose Apple's "reputation" over Microsoft's cash flow? That's easy, I might hate M$ but cash talks and a good reputation don't pay the rent. I learned long ago that it's better to have many projects of which only a few see the light of day rather than only work on a couple that all make it to the light of day because even if the percentage is lower, 12 successful projects out of 100 is still more than 3 out of 3.
Understood now. It seemed borderline Troll/Funny so had to address it.
"If, at some point in the future Apple does do business with ATI again, do you think ATI will take keeping things confidential seriously or do you think they'll stupidly lose a giant contract while gaining nothing again?"
I think the bigger question would be whether ATI would bother doing business with Apple again. Companies sue one another all the time and yet while the lawsuit is in court they'll still manage to conduct their daily business with one another mostly amicably so why a mature company would want to do business with one run by a fickle CEO is beyond me.
Seriously, it reads like a bad play written by kids on a playground: "Stevie's using my bat to hit his ball in this game" "Waaaaaah!! I told you not to tell, I'm taking my ball home now so you can't play with it...Waaaaaah!!!".
This is true however, IIRC, the stockholders also expect their CEO to act in a certain way and if they think that the CEO's contrariness is affecting their stocks then it opens Jobs up for lawsuits. It's why GoDaddy couldn't simply turn down all the free stuff from Micro$loth; doing so would be like turning down free money and would have been the end of Bob Parsons as CEO. While the ATI/Apple deal wasn't free stuff, it still makes Jobs look like a spoiled brat; a brat with power but a brat none-the-less.
"and observer" = "an observer".
None. How does one seeing an event make them a part of the actual event and not simply and observer in your logic? I see people run red lights all the time but it doesn't mean I was part of them doing it.
I'm hip to the presentence report but I've also personally seen a judge defying the recommendation of the report entirely. In this case it was for the worse, he recommended jail time instead of the recommended probation, but it apparently happens a lot.
"not to mention that if one clause contridicts another in the same contract the whole thing generally gets voided"
That won't work with many contracts these days if the contract is severable, which simply means that you're in essence signing to a series of contracts in a single work and proving one of the agreements is void does not necessarily affect the others though there are exceptions.
That comment is so full of broad generalizations and lacking in facts that I'll just let you keep on believing it to be the case.
How do those "slippers" and "sandals" prevent your shirt/pants from soaking up liquid when the fall on a piss covered floor? There are other gains to using a clean floor as opposed to simply trying to prove you can walk on water.
Did you not read the wiki link? The UCC is federal code, not state, and it's one of the few things that can protect you from hidden terms in a contract; check out some of the great things you can do with UCC 1-207 sometime, you'll be surprised.
I can beat you there. I take Shaolin classes at our local YMCA and I change into my gi in the women's restroom because the men's is often covered in piss and I have to walk on the floor with bare feet once I'm done changing. Yech. Better to get stares from annoyed women than some funky infection in my feet.
Nope, that's clearly not what's happening. My wife, who wasn't directly affected by this as you suggest, has a paid LJ accnt and we'll be moving her shortly if they don't start straightening up fast. This isn't the first time that something like this has happened with SixApart and I'm not keen on supporting people who can't make good decisions concerning their users.
You also must not be too aware of how tightly knit a lot of the LJ community is. A friend of a friend being unjustly punished will still draw scorn and lots of it. As a matter of fact that's likely the exact reason you're hearing of it here.
Are you talking about the Pico or the Gatekeeper? I don't see an RJ45 on the Pico at all. The presence of one would make a lot more sense than relying on the host computer's enet to handle the WAN traffic as well.
You must have missed the point of the Law of Fives and Discordianism in general. I'd respond with more but I'm off to eat 2+3 hotdogs.
Hail Eris!!
All Hail Discordia!!!
Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!!
Heh, funny you should say that. Back in the day I remember having a "discussion" with someone over how the Amiga OS was only at v3.1 and Windows was "clearly ahead"; I responded with "So, Windows 95 is 95 times better than Windows 1.0? and almost 32 times better than Windows 3.1?". The silence was deafening.
Someone should have modded you up cause that's the EXACT point I was making.
The attitude of "won't" is the rock I'm referring to. "He" created it and now is unable to lift it as though he were Superman and it were made of Kryptonite.
Haven't examined Xtianity very closely?!?! No, I examined it for 20 years. I don't see your example as any form of counterpoint whatsoever. Care to explain further?