Except that I'm not sure Apple knew exactly how they were going to implement this. An emulator with game packs, etc where the user couldn't arbitrarily upload his own... anything may have flew. Perhaps they should have gone into some details and made sure their implementation wasn't outside the TOS. Or if they were counting of selectively enforced standards, gotten some assurance that they would be held under the standards they wanted before spending the dev time.
That device didn't pretend to allow for complete customizability. It was sold as a device that could and couldn't do certain things. If someone doesn't like the lock Apple has on the application store, then they have the option of not buying the device.
Except that amendment 8 to the constitution says that you can't impose excessive fines, which are necessary in this case for "making an example of someone".
I'll leave this to the courts, but the issue has less to do with accidentally stumbling on a fortune like that, which you are obligated to claim in taxes if you sell. It has more to do with this individual taking these actions deliberately for the sake of tax evasion. It's not much different than paying one's employees in cash and not claiming it, except in this case he thinks he's clever and found a legal way to do exactly that. I suspect intent will be very important in this case.
Police seized a laptop on the wrong statute, and didn't actually do any investigative work on things for which the state allows someone to seize a laptop. Yes we can have a discussion about whether it's appropriate to be able to seize a laptop for copyright accusations, but this looks like a scare analysis rather than anything actually insightful.
First, to moderators -1 anything should not be because you disagree with the poster.
Second, to parent, as the first response mentioned, this is an issue of leveraging a monopoly to get an unfair advantage in the market, which MS did. This is what is illegal and punishable. As others have mentioned, it seems a little silly to deny Microsoft from unbundling it's browser altogether. It looks like the EU wants to dictate that MS include some competing browsers and make sure they get thrown in front of users.
I was very fond of the dungeon crawls added by the LDoN expansion on EQ1. It recycled itself frequently, everyone was getting something (exp, and points for the store), had some action, etc.
Except in some questionable cases where it appears the treasury pressured companies to make deals that might not have been in their interest. Or in other cases where it exercised non-controlling pressure to get things it wanted. In the first case, the CEO of Bank of America indicated that the board would be removed if he didn't approve a deal to merge with Merrill Lynch http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124045610029046349.html. In the second case, the White House forced out the CEO of GM by threatening to withhold funding http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/29/AR2009032900708.html. Admittedly a legal action, but the government is leveraging itself a little uncomfortably.
Unfortunately, there is one missed point. Just because the publisher can slash the cost of a textbook because of a licensed model, doesn't mean they will, at least not dramatically. Approximately half of that 120+ dollars for a text book goes to manufacturing costs. I know this is for college texts, but I think many of the same pricing models apply to lower levels of education. http://laurafreberg.com/blog/?p=13.
Plus the publishers are drooling at what they consider a gold-mine in controlling the license. When the school loses the physical media, they lose the ability to tell the publisher to stuff it, and use last year's textbook.
It isn't optimal for all cases, and probably shouldn't be the sole experience of any given student. But it does introduce another level of flexibility, allows people who can't get to campus, or can't get to campus at the time a lecture is offered to still take classes. As a student of one respected community college and two public universities (B.A, M.S.) there are several courses and several types of courses that weren't benefited by the students being present, or were so trivial that it was a waste of time. There are, indeed, some other things that need to be addressed like higher quality courses, etc. But there is definitely a place for online instruction.
I agree with the premise that book publishers will milk this greatly. Unfortunately, I do not agree with the fix of mandating what a company must publish. If you are a big enough market, they'll publish it for you. There are better ways to deal with publishers and it usually involves collaborating with other consumers. If California bands with a couple other states, it wouldn't be terribly difficult to get a contract that included things like longevity of printing.
As an old EverQuest player, I found that - aside from the endless grinding, sitting to regen mana, 28 minute spawn timers.... - there were strategies to many areas of the game, and part of the fun was figuring out those strategies, mastering them, and doing it with a team. Often a big team. Yes, there were lots of flaws, but I think it far surpassed Yahtzee with pretty pictures.
That said, I'm actually curious if some of these titles wouldn't do better with regular wipes and refreshes. I have had a very hard time getting into any MMO after the original EQ in large part because I always feel like I'm diving into something that isn't new, it's all already been discovered, guides posted, etc. I think it would be nice to have some MMOs that have fixed time-lines or a clever way to regularly make everyone restart, etc.
The government acts as if it exists to take money from the People and give it to the corporations. Formerly known a Fascism; the modern term is corporatism. The government has become corrupt, and I think it's time to ban corporations from having lobbyists to influence (or flat-out bridge) the People's representatives in congress. They are there for US the citizens, not a bunch of soulless entities.
And the politicians fight for this not necessarily because they are interested in getting kickbacks or just helping corporations. They do this because they think it will bring jobs, or local taxes to their communities. Whether these are correct assumptions or wise decisions are open to discussion. But it isn't some grand conspiracy.
That is a large part of the reason we were able to decipher things like cuneiform. And yes, it may very well be relevant to groups in the future to see the commercial habits of people of this time, to understand what life looked like. Quite frankly, the highly commercial culture is extremely relevant to understanding decisions and the way our society functions.
At some point during campaigning there was a question as to whether Obama was born in America (Hawaii?) or Kenya. And whether he was a naturally born US citizen making him illegible to hold office.
Brain-dead grandma aside, at what point do we decide which people are likely to live and which aren't, and which have a quality of life that justifies saving and who doesn't? My 83 year old grandfather was of sound mind and generally body when he had a catastrophic medical event (ruptured aorta). He's 83, was tens of thousands of dollars medical bill worth it? Or should he have died gracefully? It's hard to tell him it wasn't now that he's made a full recovery.
So long as they are clear about the model beforehand, I don't think there is any problem here. If you disagree with the model you are welcome to not buy it.
No, not in this case. If the dorm manager had evicted him for scratching the paint, it's a direct issue betwene the manager and the student. This, on the other hand, is the student bringing issues down on the dorm via legal issues with a third party. It looks like the dorm doesn't want to deal with fighting legal battles that aren't it's problem. The student likely signed an acceptable use policy, and so long as the student admitted fault or there was acceptable level of evidence, there shouldn't be a problem. The only issue would be blindly evicting based on every letter sent to the dorm management. It doesn't look like that's the case given the admission of downloading the film.
It depends on my mood, but I have also done the opposite of what your propose. In the past, I've eaten 5-6 meals a day but considerably smaller meals, so that I don't get to the point where I'm incredibly hungry right before sitting down to a meal. In any case, making an effort to make good food with raw ingredients ends up making better food, with more nutrients that isn't as calorie dense.
That study doesn't necessarily indicate that diet soda causes obesity. I'm sure you know that. I'm willing to bet that the people who regularly drink diet soda, or any soda in general have a sweet tooth, and so while they may drink DIET soda, that bowl of ice cream, or piece of cake was almost certainly not diet. FWIW, I drink diet soda, but I also watch my calories. It makes a big difference.
I don't think GP was saying that, for example potassium supplements aren't worth anything. Or that multi-vitamins in general aren't worth anything. Rather that our multi-vitamins may be lacking in things we aren't aware of or don't think is important currently.
I think this is more akin to a Ford dealership placing a highway ad right before the exit to the GM dealership. This is just another advertising medium and the business see customers heading to a certain product and want to make sure on that path that they inject their own product. So long as the competing businesses aren't trying to pass themselves off as the original company I don't think they have anything here. Further, I think Google needs to be shown as complicit in that as well.
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Except that I'm not sure Apple knew exactly how they were going to implement this. An emulator with game packs, etc where the user couldn't arbitrarily upload his own ... anything may have flew. Perhaps they should have gone into some details and made sure their implementation wasn't outside the TOS. Or if they were counting of selectively enforced standards, gotten some assurance that they would be held under the standards they wanted before spending the dev time.
That device didn't pretend to allow for complete customizability. It was sold as a device that could and couldn't do certain things. If someone doesn't like the lock Apple has on the application store, then they have the option of not buying the device.
The judge didn't assign damages. A "jury of her peers" did.
Except that amendment 8 to the constitution says that you can't impose excessive fines, which are necessary in this case for "making an example of someone".
I'll leave this to the courts, but the issue has less to do with accidentally stumbling on a fortune like that, which you are obligated to claim in taxes if you sell. It has more to do with this individual taking these actions deliberately for the sake of tax evasion. It's not much different than paying one's employees in cash and not claiming it, except in this case he thinks he's clever and found a legal way to do exactly that. I suspect intent will be very important in this case.
Police seized a laptop on the wrong statute, and didn't actually do any investigative work on things for which the state allows someone to seize a laptop. Yes we can have a discussion about whether it's appropriate to be able to seize a laptop for copyright accusations, but this looks like a scare analysis rather than anything actually insightful.
First, to moderators -1 anything should not be because you disagree with the poster.
Second, to parent, as the first response mentioned, this is an issue of leveraging a monopoly to get an unfair advantage in the market, which MS did. This is what is illegal and punishable. As others have mentioned, it seems a little silly to deny Microsoft from unbundling it's browser altogether. It looks like the EU wants to dictate that MS include some competing browsers and make sure they get thrown in front of users.
What is more likely to happen is OEMs, through whom most copies of the OS are distributed, will provide a browser.
I was very fond of the dungeon crawls added by the LDoN expansion on EQ1. It recycled itself frequently, everyone was getting something (exp, and points for the store), had some action, etc.
Except in some questionable cases where it appears the treasury pressured companies to make deals that might not have been in their interest. Or in other cases where it exercised non-controlling pressure to get things it wanted. In the first case, the CEO of Bank of America indicated that the board would be removed if he didn't approve a deal to merge with Merrill Lynch http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124045610029046349.html. In the second case, the White House forced out the CEO of GM by threatening to withhold funding http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/29/AR2009032900708.html. Admittedly a legal action, but the government is leveraging itself a little uncomfortably.
Unfortunately, there is one missed point. Just because the publisher can slash the cost of a textbook because of a licensed model, doesn't mean they will, at least not dramatically. Approximately half of that 120+ dollars for a text book goes to manufacturing costs. I know this is for college texts, but I think many of the same pricing models apply to lower levels of education. http://laurafreberg.com/blog/?p=13.
Plus the publishers are drooling at what they consider a gold-mine in controlling the license. When the school loses the physical media, they lose the ability to tell the publisher to stuff it, and use last year's textbook.
It isn't optimal for all cases, and probably shouldn't be the sole experience of any given student. But it does introduce another level of flexibility, allows people who can't get to campus, or can't get to campus at the time a lecture is offered to still take classes. As a student of one respected community college and two public universities (B.A, M.S.) there are several courses and several types of courses that weren't benefited by the students being present, or were so trivial that it was a waste of time. There are, indeed, some other things that need to be addressed like higher quality courses, etc. But there is definitely a place for online instruction.
I agree with the premise that book publishers will milk this greatly. Unfortunately, I do not agree with the fix of mandating what a company must publish. If you are a big enough market, they'll publish it for you. There are better ways to deal with publishers and it usually involves collaborating with other consumers. If California bands with a couple other states, it wouldn't be terribly difficult to get a contract that included things like longevity of printing.
I agree. The reset method shouldn't replace existing MMO's, etc. I think it's more a personal preference for a slightly new and different form.
As an old EverQuest player, I found that - aside from the endless grinding, sitting to regen mana, 28 minute spawn timers.... - there were strategies to many areas of the game, and part of the fun was figuring out those strategies, mastering them, and doing it with a team. Often a big team. Yes, there were lots of flaws, but I think it far surpassed Yahtzee with pretty pictures.
That said, I'm actually curious if some of these titles wouldn't do better with regular wipes and refreshes. I have had a very hard time getting into any MMO after the original EQ in large part because I always feel like I'm diving into something that isn't new, it's all already been discovered, guides posted, etc. I think it would be nice to have some MMOs that have fixed time-lines or a clever way to regularly make everyone restart, etc.
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The government acts as if it exists to take money from the People and give it to the corporations. Formerly known a Fascism; the modern term is corporatism. The government has become corrupt, and I think it's time to ban corporations from having lobbyists to influence (or flat-out bridge) the People's representatives in congress. They are there for US the citizens, not a bunch of soulless entities.
And the politicians fight for this not necessarily because they are interested in getting kickbacks or just helping corporations. They do this because they think it will bring jobs, or local taxes to their communities. Whether these are correct assumptions or wise decisions are open to discussion. But it isn't some grand conspiracy.
That is a large part of the reason we were able to decipher things like cuneiform. And yes, it may very well be relevant to groups in the future to see the commercial habits of people of this time, to understand what life looked like. Quite frankly, the highly commercial culture is extremely relevant to understanding decisions and the way our society functions.
At some point during campaigning there was a question as to whether Obama was born in America (Hawaii?) or Kenya. And whether he was a naturally born US citizen making him illegible to hold office.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp
Brain-dead grandma aside, at what point do we decide which people are likely to live and which aren't, and which have a quality of life that justifies saving and who doesn't? My 83 year old grandfather was of sound mind and generally body when he had a catastrophic medical event (ruptured aorta). He's 83, was tens of thousands of dollars medical bill worth it? Or should he have died gracefully? It's hard to tell him it wasn't now that he's made a full recovery.
So long as they are clear about the model beforehand, I don't think there is any problem here. If you disagree with the model you are welcome to not buy it.
No, not in this case. If the dorm manager had evicted him for scratching the paint, it's a direct issue betwene the manager and the student. This, on the other hand, is the student bringing issues down on the dorm via legal issues with a third party. It looks like the dorm doesn't want to deal with fighting legal battles that aren't it's problem. The student likely signed an acceptable use policy, and so long as the student admitted fault or there was acceptable level of evidence, there shouldn't be a problem. The only issue would be blindly evicting based on every letter sent to the dorm management. It doesn't look like that's the case given the admission of downloading the film.
It depends on my mood, but I have also done the opposite of what your propose. In the past, I've eaten 5-6 meals a day but considerably smaller meals, so that I don't get to the point where I'm incredibly hungry right before sitting down to a meal. In any case, making an effort to make good food with raw ingredients ends up making better food, with more nutrients that isn't as calorie dense.
That study doesn't necessarily indicate that diet soda causes obesity. I'm sure you know that. I'm willing to bet that the people who regularly drink diet soda, or any soda in general have a sweet tooth, and so while they may drink DIET soda, that bowl of ice cream, or piece of cake was almost certainly not diet. FWIW, I drink diet soda, but I also watch my calories. It makes a big difference.
I don't think GP was saying that, for example potassium supplements aren't worth anything. Or that multi-vitamins in general aren't worth anything. Rather that our multi-vitamins may be lacking in things we aren't aware of or don't think is important currently.
I think this is more akin to a Ford dealership placing a highway ad right before the exit to the GM dealership. This is just another advertising medium and the business see customers heading to a certain product and want to make sure on that path that they inject their own product. So long as the competing businesses aren't trying to pass themselves off as the original company I don't think they have anything here. Further, I think Google needs to be shown as complicit in that as well.