Most of the tech world happens outside of the USA, in countries like China and India. AT&T doesn't have a lot to say or do in those countries, so people that still live in a free market world aren't influenced by AT&T. You might want to look at what a market economy, or a democracy is and compare it to the USA system if you are bothered by the way AT&T gets to do business in your country. Sure, the rest of the planet isn't perfect, but don't call your one country the world.
The average Israeli gets more USA federal tax dollars spent on them than the average USA citizen. That makes Israel one of the most expensive (non)states of the USA.
The reputation of the Mossad for sloppy killings of "Israeli enemies of state" is renown. Maybe the French secret service and the CIA can rival them, but given the size of the country, their annual income (not counting the USA funding) from their own economy and natural resources, they probably have the most murderous secret service of all. It could be the KGB used to be that, but since the demise of the USSR, they lost that dubious honor.
Once they start enforcing payments out of channels that happen to be one of the main distribution channels of "free speech", because some companies think they aren't getting enough money, they aren't going to give themselves a better reputation at all. In general, if you're into the business of selling something, you won't get more money for it than people are willing to pay. If you're going to extort them into paying more, they'll either stop using your product, or fight you back hard. Both are not going to give you more money for the same amount of work, so that business model will make you lose your position fairly quickly after you failed to adjust. You may be able to get commercial news websites to pay up if they haven't already, but some hobbyist blogger that's not making money from redistributing your content, isn't going to have money to pay you. In the end, the whole concept of "copyright" is about getting a fair share of the profit someone makes out of your original work. If the profit is zero, the fair share can never be more than that.
Everyone with a smartphone is a reporter these days, so the economical value of "news" has declined due to the plethora of sources. The distribution channel is no longer a way to control the value either, so there is nothing left that makes "news" a sellers market anymore. It may be that reporters and agencies will get paid less -or even nothing- for their news contribution, but that's the way society works.
The news agencies will end up being on the same side as all the companies that made things that were replaced when society found a substitute more appealing. How many factories that made traditional light bulbs have been closed the last decade? How many coach building firms had to close shop because Ford and others decided to manufacture cars on an industrial scale? How many professional furniture makers do you know personally? We still use artificial lighting, transport with wheels to sit in and chairs to sit on. They have evolved over time and so does "news". People have gossiped since the start of time and they will always continue to do so. They just don't need news agencies to do it globally for them anymore.
Why didn't they give the man a fair trail then? Whats wrong with the international court in the Hague, that the USA won't ever participate in it or send people there to be tried? The USA has an allergy when it comes to trialing people for war crimes. They have their own Guantanamo Bay for foreigners they don't assassinate right away or for "prisoners of war" that no country is involved in. They put their own citizens in jail for over a year without even starting a trial for suspicion of leaking secret information (Bradley Manning). They lure people into the USA so they can arrest them if they think that "friendly" nations they have treaties with may not extradite them. The USA has given not only their own citizens, but the entire world the idea that they don't abide to their own written constitution, or even to a general concept of justice.
That would only have merit if there is any way they could prove that people that tick that box on twitter statistically are actually more interested in leaving their company than people that don't tick it. Also, even if they would be interested, would they actually leave? Until they come up with statistics that actually prove that sort of correlation, there is no way to prove that him ticking that box would in any form or way damage his employer.
So how do you pronounce Nagios?
Most people say nah-gee-oz. But as far as I'm concerned, the proper pronunciation is is nag-yo-ass. Because, that's what it's for, to nag you when something is wrong.
Why bother with data if you store it on a server and have backups? If your workstation dies, you replace it and your data is still there. Your argument is not valid for anyone that knows a little about data safety.
This is not a Godwin. 1920 Germany was a country in a big crisis that had a lot of debts because they were in war before. That triggered a hyperinflation and a lot of radical political moves, but it wasn't anywhere near the situation Godwin is all about.
Because most of modern smart phones seem to be lacking in that department. My 10 year old nokia has better reception, better sound quality, longer battery life and doesn't shatter when I drop it by accident. To me, a superphone would at least be able to do this. Any added features that do not take away one of the previous named, is a benefit, but not required.
I wonder if the patent will be useless before it expires. Monsanto, eat your heart out, you just got outsmarted by a couple of bugs. Who are you going to sue to get yourself out of this?
There is no BT in the published specs, how are you going to connect to the OBD-II interface? Sure, it's probably on there, but I wouldn't bet on it. You can probably get a used tablet for $250 or less, that will run your torque just fine.
It's so much easier to imagine or calculate a size if you don't have to remember all the unique multiplicators all the time. 12 inches in a foot, 3 inches in a yard, make up your mind and use multiplicator, like the decimal system does.
If you think that all it takes is a few multiplicators, think again when it comes to cubic inches, cubic feet, cubic yards and all that. Most Americans don't have the brains to do that and have to resort to the decimal equivalent of the contents of an Olympic size swimming pool. Hows that for a compromise?
Host it on your own server(s) outside the company. Charge them for hosting plus usage, monthly fee, first 3 months free or something. That way you keep control, they get to try it out and not make an initial investment. SaaS is hot these days, get on the band wagon while you can.
Yes, they'll be sticking their head through your loop. Big deal, they should know what they are getting themselves into just as well as anyone here on/. commenting about it.
If you GPL it, you could charge them for your home time to support/expand it even. If they won't pay, maybe others will? You wouldn't be the first to start a business like this and make a living out of supporting their own GPLed code.
.. that you'd probably be able to sue them to the very pits of inferno if you'd get one of the MAFIAA lawyers to sue them. Whether you actually have a case or not is not relevant for that. Before you ask yourself how to deal with this situation, ask yourself what your legal standpoint is and what you want out of this. As other posters have pointed out, legally you may not have much if anything to complain about. Have you tried contacting the "offenders" yourself to ask what they are doing and where you come in? You'd be surprised how often people actually positively react on such a query.
xlshosting in the Netherlands are flexible and affordable. Dual data center with fast connectivity to the AMS-IX, choose your own blend. Only thing I can think of that's not what you prefer is that it's Xen-based, so you have to choose which distro you want and get a pre-setup minimal install of that.
All i want is a 10-12" screen, 32-64G SSD, 3G and WiFi and a decent keyboard. I can put a low resource guzzling linux distro on it and do all of my work and some browsing and multi media on it. That way, 10+ hours of battery life wouldn't cost over $250. All that is for sale, is something with built in speakers, a webcam, a hard disk, preinstalled windows way too much USB, HDMI and whatnot ports, way too powerful CPUs and a screen resolution that requires most people to use a magnifying glass to actually use to the fullest when doing text editing. Those things add to cost, without making the computers useful for 90% of people that want an ultra portable machine on a budget.
India can make a sub $100 computer but hasn't started production, the OLPC failed because a lot of companies started getting involved. I think the industry doesn't want us to have cheap computers, because there's no profit in it for them. There is a market of billions for netbooks, but you won't be able to get any money out of them (in the first year or two) once you've sold it. Companies don't look further than one or two years, because there's no shareholder value in looking ahead that far. I think that's what is happening here. The fact that you'll get a lot of people using computers, triggering an economic change that would almost certainly benefit the manufacturers of said netbooks, well, who really cares about that?
They signed the "safe haven" contract. This means they will have to obey the law of the country they are providing the service in. If that law lets minors have e-mail accounts or does not legally require a copy of a passport or anything, Google has to abide to that law.
This is silly and to me, it's proof Google does not abide to the "safe haven" policy. Don't be evil? Don't be silly......
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And a very common word. Word 7 would be better, but still rather short.
Most of the tech world happens outside of the USA, in countries like China and India. AT&T doesn't have a lot to say or do in those countries, so people that still live in a free market world aren't influenced by AT&T. You might want to look at what a market economy, or a democracy is and compare it to the USA system if you are bothered by the way AT&T gets to do business in your country. Sure, the rest of the planet isn't perfect, but don't call your one country the world.
The average Israeli gets more USA federal tax dollars spent on them than the average USA citizen. That makes Israel one of the most expensive (non)states of the USA.
The reputation of the Mossad for sloppy killings of "Israeli enemies of state" is renown. Maybe the French secret service and the CIA can rival them, but given the size of the country, their annual income (not counting the USA funding) from their own economy and natural resources, they probably have the most murderous secret service of all. It could be the KGB used to be that, but since the demise of the USSR, they lost that dubious honor.
Interstellar travel be damned, they promised me a flying car way before that!
Once they start enforcing payments out of channels that happen to be one of the main distribution channels of "free speech", because some companies think they aren't getting enough money, they aren't going to give themselves a better reputation at all. In general, if you're into the business of selling something, you won't get more money for it than people are willing to pay. If you're going to extort them into paying more, they'll either stop using your product, or fight you back hard. Both are not going to give you more money for the same amount of work, so that business model will make you lose your position fairly quickly after you failed to adjust. You may be able to get commercial news websites to pay up if they haven't already, but some hobbyist blogger that's not making money from redistributing your content, isn't going to have money to pay you. In the end, the whole concept of "copyright" is about getting a fair share of the profit someone makes out of your original work. If the profit is zero, the fair share can never be more than that.
Everyone with a smartphone is a reporter these days, so the economical value of "news" has declined due to the plethora of sources. The distribution channel is no longer a way to control the value either, so there is nothing left that makes "news" a sellers market anymore. It may be that reporters and agencies will get paid less -or even nothing- for their news contribution, but that's the way society works.
The news agencies will end up being on the same side as all the companies that made things that were replaced when society found a substitute more appealing. How many factories that made traditional light bulbs have been closed the last decade? How many coach building firms had to close shop because Ford and others decided to manufacture cars on an industrial scale? How many professional furniture makers do you know personally? We still use artificial lighting, transport with wheels to sit in and chairs to sit on. They have evolved over time and so does "news". People have gossiped since the start of time and they will always continue to do so. They just don't need news agencies to do it globally for them anymore.
Why didn't they give the man a fair trail then? Whats wrong with the international court in the Hague, that the USA won't ever participate in it or send people there to be tried? The USA has an allergy when it comes to trialing people for war crimes. They have their own Guantanamo Bay for foreigners they don't assassinate right away or for "prisoners of war" that no country is involved in. They put their own citizens in jail for over a year without even starting a trial for suspicion of leaking secret information (Bradley Manning). They lure people into the USA so they can arrest them if they think that "friendly" nations they have treaties with may not extradite them. The USA has given not only their own citizens, but the entire world the idea that they don't abide to their own written constitution, or even to a general concept of justice.
That would only have merit if there is any way they could prove that people that tick that box on twitter statistically are actually more interested in leaving their company than people that don't tick it. Also, even if they would be interested, would they actually leave? Until they come up with statistics that actually prove that sort of correlation, there is no way to prove that him ticking that box would in any form or way damage his employer.
So how do you pronounce Nagios? Most people say nah-gee-oz. But as far as I'm concerned, the proper pronunciation is is nag-yo-ass. Because, that's what it's for, to nag you when something is wrong.
Silk worms don't lay eggs in cocoons. They are butterfly larvae and the silk is used to build their coccoon, from which they hatch as butterflies.
Why bother with data if you store it on a server and have backups? If your workstation dies, you replace it and your data is still there. Your argument is not valid for anyone that knows a little about data safety.
This is not a Godwin. 1920 Germany was a country in a big crisis that had a lot of debts because they were in war before. That triggered a hyperinflation and a lot of radical political moves, but it wasn't anywhere near the situation Godwin is all about.
Because for that 4200 they should have given support and had to do a whole lot of administration. Those costs were never made, were they?
Because most of modern smart phones seem to be lacking in that department. My 10 year old nokia has better reception, better sound quality, longer battery life and doesn't shatter when I drop it by accident. To me, a superphone would at least be able to do this. Any added features that do not take away one of the previous named, is a benefit, but not required.
Your argument is also valid for Muslims. I take it you agree then?
I wonder if the patent will be useless before it expires. Monsanto, eat your heart out, you just got outsmarted by a couple of bugs. Who are you going to sue to get yourself out of this?
There is no BT in the published specs, how are you going to connect to the OBD-II interface? Sure, it's probably on there, but I wouldn't bet on it. You can probably get a used tablet for $250 or less, that will run your torque just fine.
When the sirens go, duck and cover!
It's so much easier to imagine or calculate a size if you don't have to remember all the unique multiplicators all the time. 12 inches in a foot, 3 inches in a yard, make up your mind and use multiplicator, like the decimal system does.
If you think that all it takes is a few multiplicators, think again when it comes to cubic inches, cubic feet, cubic yards and all that. Most Americans don't have the brains to do that and have to resort to the decimal equivalent of the contents of an Olympic size swimming pool. Hows that for a compromise?
Host it on your own server(s) outside the company. Charge them for hosting plus usage, monthly fee, first 3 months free or something. That way you keep control, they get to try it out and not make an initial investment. SaaS is hot these days, get on the band wagon while you can. Yes, they'll be sticking their head through your loop. Big deal, they should know what they are getting themselves into just as well as anyone here on /. commenting about it.
If you GPL it, you could charge them for your home time to support/expand it even. If they won't pay, maybe others will? You wouldn't be the first to start a business like this and make a living out of supporting their own GPLed code.
.. that you'd probably be able to sue them to the very pits of inferno if you'd get one of the MAFIAA lawyers to sue them. Whether you actually have a case or not is not relevant for that. Before you ask yourself how to deal with this situation, ask yourself what your legal standpoint is and what you want out of this. As other posters have pointed out, legally you may not have much if anything to complain about. Have you tried contacting the "offenders" yourself to ask what they are doing and where you come in? You'd be surprised how often people actually positively react on such a query.
INVADING NARNIA?
xlshosting in the Netherlands are flexible and affordable. Dual data center with fast connectivity to the AMS-IX, choose your own blend. Only thing I can think of that's not what you prefer is that it's Xen-based, so you have to choose which distro you want and get a pre-setup minimal install of that.
All i want is a 10-12" screen, 32-64G SSD, 3G and WiFi and a decent keyboard. I can put a low resource guzzling linux distro on it and do all of my work and some browsing and multi media on it. That way, 10+ hours of battery life wouldn't cost over $250. All that is for sale, is something with built in speakers, a webcam, a hard disk, preinstalled windows way too much USB, HDMI and whatnot ports, way too powerful CPUs and a screen resolution that requires most people to use a magnifying glass to actually use to the fullest when doing text editing. Those things add to cost, without making the computers useful for 90% of people that want an ultra portable machine on a budget.
India can make a sub $100 computer but hasn't started production, the OLPC failed because a lot of companies started getting involved. I think the industry doesn't want us to have cheap computers, because there's no profit in it for them. There is a market of billions for netbooks, but you won't be able to get any money out of them (in the first year or two) once you've sold it. Companies don't look further than one or two years, because there's no shareholder value in looking ahead that far. I think that's what is happening here. The fact that you'll get a lot of people using computers, triggering an economic change that would almost certainly benefit the manufacturers of said netbooks, well, who really cares about that?
They signed the "safe haven" contract. This means they will have to obey the law of the country they are providing the service in. If that law lets minors have e-mail accounts or does not legally require a copy of a passport or anything, Google has to abide to that law. This is silly and to me, it's proof Google does not abide to the "safe haven" policy. Don't be evil? Don't be silly......