Adobe has upgrade paths that require you to call them. For instance, upgrading from earlier than Photoshop 5.5. I am not an Adobe fan. So I buy an Adobe product and have to make a phone call before I can use the software. That is messed up.
Adobe may have some decent products but philosophically Microsoft may be the lesser evil.
The Onion said it best the last time this issue came up: "If they lift the ban on cell-phone use, they better lift the ban on passengers beating the shit out of each other, too."
Perhaps you're thinking Live Aid? No, I was making fun of the presence of the last sentence in the summary, which seems totally out of place. But apparently my attempt at humor failed.
This is good news for those who consider Live Nation to be the Evil Empire when it comes to concert promotion. And it is bad news for those who consider Live Nation to be the Greatest Philanthropy of our time.
"Their business model, which is based on building traffic and selling advertising off of unlicensed content, is clearly illegal and is in obvious conflict with copyright laws."
Does Viacom really want to put copyright laws under scrutiny??? I'm all FOR this lawsuit! Game on!
There seems to be an awful lot of confusion over the move of the CEO to Dubai and Halliburton uprooting from the U.S. The NPR audio from the above-linked article describes how U.S. laws changed in 2004 placing additional conditions on a corporation changing its U.S. tax obligations, conditions Halliburton is not likely to be meeting any time soon.
NPR says they aren't moving their headquarters, just opening up another one. This of course calls into question the definition of "headquarters," but there seems to be conflicting information. The linked article's alarmism is from yesterday, for what it's worth.
That is clearly a case waiting for the court of appeals. If somebody in California phones somebody in Minnesota with withheld caller ID information, a Minnesota resident would have a fine time defending himself when he's merely been following the laws of his own jurisdiction. That's a bullshit ruling just waiting for an obvious case like I've mentioned to knock some sense into CA.
and an unwillingness to talk to them *at all* unless they agree to recording the conversations. Or move to Minnesota where only one party on a phone conversation has to agree, namely you. It's only illegal to record a phone conversation in which you are not a participant.
Why would your head of IT care if users download IE7? I mean, if they actually try to install it they'll get an error message saying they must be an administrator, right?
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Considering that we have a congress that is by the people, for the people, I assume it's just around the corner.
You could get sent to virtual prison.
Adobe has upgrade paths that require you to call them. For instance, upgrading from earlier than Photoshop 5.5. I am not an Adobe fan. So I buy an Adobe product and have to make a phone call before I can use the software. That is messed up.
Adobe may have some decent products but philosophically Microsoft may be the lesser evil.
...the price of a new law. The fact that I'm the first to take note of this speaks volumes.I can't. It's already affixed to my three-hole punch.
...denigrating lawyers. I work for a bar association and I assure you, we do it too.I bought a monitor that has a "Works with Windows Vista" sticker on it but my Packard Bell still isn't cooperating.
The Onion said it best the last time this issue came up: "If they lift the ban on cell-phone use, they better lift the ban on passengers beating the shit out of each other, too."
I prefer a free market where politicians are bought and sold through the natural will of the market.
Jesus, they even list 2008 as the copyright. Talk about low maintenance.
There was also a price spike in the late 70s. It seems to me that thirty years later a price spike would lead values that are, you know, higher.
What were the peak values of the 70s spike if adjusted for inflation?
"Their business model, which is based on building traffic and selling advertising off of unlicensed content, is clearly illegal and is in obvious conflict with copyright laws."
Does Viacom really want to put copyright laws under scrutiny??? I'm all FOR this lawsuit! Game on!
There seems to be an awful lot of confusion over the move of the CEO to Dubai and Halliburton uprooting from the U.S. The NPR audio from the above-linked article describes how U.S. laws changed in 2004 placing additional conditions on a corporation changing its U.S. tax obligations, conditions Halliburton is not likely to be meeting any time soon.
NPR says they aren't moving their headquarters, just opening up another one. This of course calls into question the definition of "headquarters," but there seems to be conflicting information. The linked article's alarmism is from yesterday, for what it's worth.
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That is clearly a case waiting for the court of appeals. If somebody in California phones somebody in Minnesota with withheld caller ID information, a Minnesota resident would have a fine time defending himself when he's merely been following the laws of his own jurisdiction. That's a bullshit ruling just waiting for an obvious case like I've mentioned to knock some sense into CA.
Why would your head of IT care if users download IE7? I mean, if they actually try to install it they'll get an error message saying they must be an administrator, right?
...and at some point they will lose their trademark rights because of it.
I think Kimberly-Clark will have to worry about losing their Kleenex trademark no sooner than Disney's copyrights expire. Read: never.
What if MS delays Vista?
Are you crazy? MS would never delay Vista!
The amount of time it would take to bring Virtual PC to Intel would be roughly equivalent to creating [a Microsoft] product from scratch...
Or, in other words, 6+ years. I don't blame them!