MSFT reports about $10B/quarter according to their press releases (roughly). Or $40B/year USD. $33.5M is 08375% of $40B
assuming I made $100K/yr, that would be the same as me paying $83.75. If I remember correctly, the last speeding ticket I got ended up costing me about $200. A little over twice that.
We could write our messages down on paper and pay a bunch of people with psycotic tendencies to run around and deliver them to each us.
If they can find us and hand us the "en-vel-opes" (we'll call them), Done! Message delivered, no patent violation! It would clearly be a problem if we just had these people like, leave them in a nearby box or something for us. So, instead, until they find the actual hand of the recipient of the "en-vel-opes", they can just take the messages back to their warehouse - patent problem solved
There are several things tha make one go "hmmmm..." about all of this. From what I understand, there was one cartoon published and others floating about. The famous "bomb in the hat" was publihsed in September, when no apology was forthcoming, certian parties took that one, and some others that were never published over to the middle east and reall stirred the pot.
Of course the really silly thing is....
"How dare you publish a cartoon that claims our prophet is a violent man! Take that back, apologize, or as sure as heck we will blow up your buildings, cut off your heads, and hang your remains in public places
Yea! That's awesome! Way to go Google! I'm so inspired by all of this, I'm going to switch to one of the other phone companies for my broadband access, use the free market economy! Oh,... wait a minute...no other phone company...
OK, then I'll switch to cable modem... but Time Warner says my property isn't on their map... No problem, I'll go to the other cable company, use the free market economy!...Oh,... wait a minute...no other cable company...
OK then, I know I'll..... um, er... go back to using Yahoo!?!
P.S.
I had a lot of fun writing Beginning Excel What-if Data Analysis Tools: Getting Started with Goal Seek, Data Tables, Scenarios, and Solver, and I hope you have as much fun reading Beginning Excel What-if Data Analysis Tools: Getting Started with Goal Seek, Data Tables, Scenarios, and Solver, as I had writing Beginning Excel What-if Data Analysis Tools: Getting Started with Goal Seek, Data Tables, Scenarios, and Solver./p?
I live in the country - I'm lucky do get DSL! The cable company says my property doesn't exist. I asked if they would pass that info on the the County Tax Assesor (they didn't find that funny)
Yea - Seems to me this isn't about "paying for" the Internet, I/we already do that. It's about profiting from it. I don't remember seeing where that was in the requirements doc.
In a Bay Area courtroom today, the head of Apple's legal team turned to the gallery...
"How many of you in the room use computers?"
(all hands go up)
"How many of you don't understand the difference between Apple's operating system 'OS X 10.4 - codenamed Tiger' and a mail order comupter company"
(all hands go down)
Reminds me of the old "microsnot.com" website. That's gone now too. Had very believable pages such as "Microsnot to aquire the Catholic Church" and such.
"Microsoft, unyielding, relies on their own developers who are slowly (but rapidly gaining speed) migrating to the more stable Unix-based systems."
So, Novell was kicked over and over for clinging on to their NetWare kernel - a closed source, proprietary mess that was a nightmare to code to. They finally saw the light and (a bit late) have adopted a Linux alternitave in buying SuSE. This, like the Apple stratagy opens them up quite a bit to say the least.
When will folks realize "Hey, this Microsoft stuff is all closed up! Every other OS in the world is built on standards!"
I predict that in a couple years, people will be making the same statments about Microsoft that they did about Novell 10 years ago - it is an antiquated, closed, and dead OS.
I remember years ago, Borland vs. Lotus in a "look and feel" suit over the menu tree used for Lotus 1-2-3. Seems Borland had a spreadsheet software (long gone to oblivion I think) that had customizable keystrokes for their menu tree. On set was the same as Lotus' software.
I believe the suit was dropped. Most folks used the car analogy "Gas on the right, break on the left, steering "wheel", four tires, gee looks like Ford should sue the world's auto makers"
I was told by a very wise individual:
Figure out what you want, write it down in detail. Then set the price you are willing to pay for it, write that down too. Since prices on everything fall, just wait until you can get your item for your price - might take a year or whatever, but it takes the emotion out of it.
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So, I did some of the math,
MSFT reports about $10B /quarter according to their press releases (roughly). Or $40B/year USD. $33.5M is 08375% of $40B
assuming I made $100K/yr, that would be the same as me paying $83.75. If I remember correctly, the last speeding ticket I got ended up costing me about $200. A little over twice that.
Here's an idea:
We could write our messages down on paper and pay a bunch of people with psycotic tendencies to run around and deliver them to each us.
If they can find us and hand us the "en-vel-opes" (we'll call them), Done! Message delivered, no patent violation! It would clearly be a problem if we just had these people like, leave them in a nearby box or something for us. So, instead, until they find the actual hand of the recipient of the "en-vel-opes", they can just take the messages back to their warehouse - patent problem solved
woo-hoo!
Of course the really silly thing is....
"How dare you publish a cartoon that claims our prophet is a violent man! Take that back, apologize, or as sure as heck we will blow up your buildings, cut off your heads, and hang your remains in public places
Gads.... organized religion - gotta love it
Yea, and I bet it looks nothing like the screen shots that they had in the back of the comic book either.
We'll finally get a frick'n Google Earth client for Linux?
Yea! That's awesome! Way to go Google! I'm so inspired by all of this, I'm going to switch to one of the other phone companies for my broadband access, use the free market economy! Oh,... wait a minute...no other phone company...
OK, then I'll switch to cable modem... but Time Warner says my property isn't on their map... No problem, I'll go to the other cable company, use the free market economy!...Oh,... wait a minute...no other cable company...
OK then, I know I'll..... um, er... go back to using Yahoo!?!
Yea! That's awesome! Way to go Google!
Missed a couple!
P.S. I had a lot of fun writing Beginning Excel What-if Data Analysis Tools: Getting Started with Goal Seek, Data Tables, Scenarios, and Solver, and I hope you have as much fun reading Beginning Excel What-if Data Analysis Tools: Getting Started with Goal Seek, Data Tables, Scenarios, and Solver, as I had writing Beginning Excel What-if Data Analysis Tools: Getting Started with Goal Seek, Data Tables, Scenarios, and Solver./p?
I live in the country - I'm lucky do get DSL! The cable company says my property doesn't exist. I asked if they would pass that info on the the County Tax Assesor (they didn't find that funny)
Yea - Seems to me this isn't about "paying for" the Internet, I/we already do that. It's about profiting from it. I don't remember seeing where that was in the requirements doc.
Seems to me this isn't about "paing for" the INternet, it is about PROFITING from the Internet - big difference.
I pay $39.95/month!
We have to pay for this for the same reason we need to pay our banks for identity theft protection.
In a Bay Area courtroom today, the head of Apple's legal team turned to the gallery...
"How many of you in the room use computers?" (all hands go up)
"How many of you don't understand the difference between Apple's operating system 'OS X 10.4 - codenamed Tiger' and a mail order comupter company" (all hands go down)
"That, Your Honor, is not trademark infringment"
~bcReminds me of the old "microsnot.com" website. That's gone now too. Had very believable pages such as "Microsnot to aquire the Catholic Church" and such.
Had great graphics and color scheme.
"Microsoft, unyielding, relies on their own developers who are slowly (but rapidly gaining speed) migrating to the more stable Unix-based systems." So, Novell was kicked over and over for clinging on to their NetWare kernel - a closed source, proprietary mess that was a nightmare to code to. They finally saw the light and (a bit late) have adopted a Linux alternitave in buying SuSE. This, like the Apple stratagy opens them up quite a bit to say the least. When will folks realize "Hey, this Microsoft stuff is all closed up! Every other OS in the world is built on standards!" I predict that in a couple years, people will be making the same statments about Microsoft that they did about Novell 10 years ago - it is an antiquated, closed, and dead OS.
I remember years ago, Borland vs. Lotus in a "look and feel" suit over the menu tree used for Lotus 1-2-3. Seems Borland had a spreadsheet software (long gone to oblivion I think) that had customizable keystrokes for their menu tree. On set was the same as Lotus' software.
I believe the suit was dropped. Most folks used the car analogy "Gas on the right, break on the left, steering "wheel", four tires, gee looks like Ford should sue the world's auto makers"
Anyway, the Lotus thing didn't fly.
I was told by a very wise individual: Figure out what you want, write it down in detail. Then set the price you are willing to pay for it, write that down too. Since prices on everything fall, just wait until you can get your item for your price - might take a year or whatever, but it takes the emotion out of it.
I remember when Starbuck was a sailor...