"share profits from Zune player sales" - This statement is ludicrous on so many levels.
It's MicroSoft and the chances of their getting it "right enough" to be a success before Zune 7.1 are small, by which time the agreement will have lapsed.
The words "Microsoft" and "Share" should only be used in sentences about Hard Drive Directories or NASDAQ.
If through Divine (or Satanic) intervention they made $10,000,000.00 that they would hire Hollywood accountants to make sure that they don't show a profit.
The Zune will sour people on any product that it is remotely like. Microsoft will never get a significant market share, but they will poison the market. Thus far it is Microsoft who has been squeezed on the pricing front.
"1. Microsoft is hatching a consumer media "perfect storm."" If a perfect storm is when hot air meets vaporware.
"2. The Zune is social and viral." So is herpes. The difference is that while herpes is "the gift that keeps on giving", Zunes tunes won't spread far.
"3. Zune may have more programming." The world may end tomorrow, but neither is likely.
"4. Zune's screen is better for movies." Better, but completely inadequate.
"5. Zune is actually pretty cool." Brown is soooooo cooooool!
"Ergo, people who think disproving global warming will let them drive their hummers without killing their own species, and a lot of others with it, are total asswipes."
"Think" and "drive Hummers" should not be used in a sentence without a negation of one or the other.
1st Amendment protection would imply that they have the discretion to not speak. Since public employees swear to uphold the the Constitution, laws, regulations, etc. they ARE obligated to speak up about abuses.
Unfortunately, the ruling does not come to the same conclusion.
Computer literacy is so much more basic. GIGO - Garbage In, Garbage Out.
People need to understand that a capital o and and a zero are fundamentally different. Most users only need to understand that accurate input of data is critical to that data having any value.
One should question any article such as this one that does not quote the person to whom a statement is atributed. This article is strictly hearsy. Without an actual quotation, we cannot know what was said. Even when people are quoted it is frequently out of context.
Of course, we do know she hangs out with a bad crowd - as the statements attributed to her were made a Bar event.
There is no first amendment issue here. There is no expression protected under the First Amendment contained in any gaming software I have ever seen. The state is regulating a commercial venture. They have the responsibility to do so.
I see the judge's reasoning as a greater threat to freedom than the law itself. What I expect to see from this type of ruling is the conclusion by the general public that we need to repeal/restrict the First Amendment so that we can restrict software, pornography, etc.
Rebates are taxable income. You do report them on your income tax forms on the rare occasion you actually receive one, right?
Most rebate recipients have something in common with Al Capone.
The device mechanically separates all the dissolved gases in the water from the water, so oxygen toxicity should not be an issue - the mixture of dissolved gases will generally be close to that of the atmosphere. I wouldn't try using it near a "black smoker" or methane hydrate formations though as the "air" would be a little unpleasant.
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"share profits from Zune player sales" - This statement is ludicrous on so many levels.
It's MicroSoft and the chances of their getting it "right enough" to be a success before Zune 7.1 are small, by which time the agreement will have lapsed.
The words "Microsoft" and "Share" should only be used in sentences about Hard Drive Directories or NASDAQ.
If through Divine (or Satanic) intervention they made $10,000,000.00 that they would hire Hollywood accountants to make sure that they don't show a profit.
http://polymetallix.com/
They have far more details than the article.
Isn't it bad form for one's post to exceed the length of the cited article?
"China's filtering regime is pervasive, sophisticated and effective." But not to worry, the US will catch up.
The Zune will sour people on any product that it is remotely like. Microsoft will never get a significant market share, but they will poison the market. Thus far it is Microsoft who has been squeezed on the pricing front.
"1. Microsoft is hatching a consumer media "perfect storm.""
If a perfect storm is when hot air meets vaporware.
"2. The Zune is social and viral."
So is herpes. The difference is that while herpes is "the gift that keeps on giving", Zunes tunes won't spread far.
"3. Zune may have more programming."
The world may end tomorrow, but neither is likely.
"4. Zune's screen is better for movies."
Better, but completely inadequate.
"5. Zune is actually pretty cool."
Brown is soooooo cooooool!
"Ergo, people who think disproving global warming will let them drive their hummers without killing their own species, and a lot of others with it, are total asswipes." "Think" and "drive Hummers" should not be used in a sentence without a negation of one or the other.
1st Amendment protection would imply that they have the discretion to not speak. Since public employees swear to uphold the the Constitution, laws, regulations, etc. they ARE obligated to speak up about abuses.
Unfortunately, the ruling does not come to the same conclusion.
Computer literacy is so much more basic. GIGO - Garbage In, Garbage Out.
People need to understand that a capital o and and a zero are fundamentally different. Most users only need to understand that accurate input of data is critical to that data having any value.
One should question any article such as this one that does not quote the person to whom a statement is atributed. This article is strictly hearsy. Without an actual quotation, we cannot know what was said. Even when people are quoted it is frequently out of context.
Of course, we do know she hangs out with a bad crowd - as the statements attributed to her were made a Bar event.
One of the worst puns ever
What am I supposed to do with the other 17 gallons?
I see the judge's reasoning as a greater threat to freedom than the law itself. What I expect to see from this type of ruling is the conclusion by the general public that we need to repeal/restrict the First Amendment so that we can restrict software, pornography, etc.
Rebates are taxable income. You do report them on your income tax forms on the rare occasion you actually receive one, right? Most rebate recipients have something in common with Al Capone.
The device mechanically separates all the dissolved gases in the water from the water, so oxygen toxicity should not be an issue - the mixture of dissolved gases will generally be close to that of the atmosphere. I wouldn't try using it near a "black smoker" or methane hydrate formations though as the "air" would be a little unpleasant.