What exactly does a publisher do when a book is sold in electronic format? If what they do is still valuable, then someone will pay them for doing that. If not, what's the point of publishers?
Just guessing here, but editors, proof readers, marketing, etc. And let's not forget that some authors get advances. Publishers don't supply all the same services for electronic books as they do for printed books, but a book isn't finished just because the author is done writing it.
Isn't that the EXACT conditions of placement in the US Gov GSA catalog? Promise us best price or you don't get to play.
Apple gets the best price, but that doesn't preclude others from getting the same price as Apple. And if the publishers want to sell the books for a lower price than they are now then everyone can get the same low price.
Apple's hands are dirty from forcing publishers to give them the lowest price available, but they aren't telling publishers what that price should be.
They are not trying the case in the public. When it come time for the trial Amazon will hand over its records and they will clearly show what occurred. They can also go and get B&N and Sony's sales records. Apple is the least likely company to have data on ebook sales prior to the switch to the Agency model. They didn't enter the market till 2010 and they were never a big player in the market afterwords.
I'm sure Apple did their due diligence before jumping into the marketplace. If they were never a big player in the market afterwards how is it they are charged with fixing prices?
Website owners can sign up on the IDL website to add a bit of code to their sites (or receive code by email at the time of a campaign) that can be triggered in the case of a crisis like SOPA. This would add an "activist call-to-action" to all participating sites - such as a banner asking users to sign petitions, or in extreme cases blackout the site, as proved effective in the SOPA/PIPA protest of January 2012.
Are they nuts? I don't want any outside site having control over my clients' sites. If they are hacked this would give the hackers a quick way to affect any site that signs up with them.
Yeah, cash that has to be sorted, counted, protected, insured, put in an expensive safe, guarded then transported by armored trucks with armed guards to a bank.
For small mom and pop businesses it's risking your life when you transport the cash yourself.
2-3% to avoid all that is a bargain.
Don't forget the fees to deposit cash and checks. Some banks charge retailers up to 0.4% to deposit cash, and $0.25 (or more) for each check.
Yes, but I never actually saw one in the wild. I would have thought Cisco would have used the consumer marketing skills the Linksys people had to get this in the hands of consumers as a "Linksys compatible home wireless communication device".
Oh well, Android is a fucking useless turd anyway. Corporations have money, they don't need the poor man's tablet.
Oh please. Even if corporations choose iOS, BlackBerry, or anything else besides Android, Android's advancement keeps the competition on their toes. Android, iOS, etc being in competition with each other results in better features and better quality for consumers. I know my iPad wouldn't have the quality or features that it has if Android wasn't on Apple's heels - not to mention the price would slowly drift upwards if there wasn't true competition in the market place. Microsoft's dominance in the OS & 'Office' marketplace negatively affected progress on many levels.
If I keep my money in coins (a precursor to BitCoins) or in bills (aka foldin' money) and someone steals them I have no cash and I have no backups. If I keep it in a cash server (aka bank, savings and loan, or other financial institution) and they get robbed I do have a backup (even if management are the ones that steal the money or bankrupt the institution, but only up to $250k which is plenty to cover my accounts).
Because some people who are in control of servers, databases, etc seem to think that a copy of their data is a backup even if it resides on the same hard drive or computer. Send a copy of it to a different drive... attached to a different computer... in a different location. The cost of being prepared for a data disaster is vigilance. The cost of not being prepared is...
There are better targets than a once-great browser. Opera is no longer, no matter what their home page says, the fastest browser in the business.
It's not really about fast, though piss poor performance would be a problem. It's about not having to develop a brand new mobile app/Facebook-content-delivery-app. Opera has 'mobile' and 'mini'. One of which (mini?) does all it's work on the Opera servers. This would let Facebook see everything you do... and I mean everything. That fits perfectly with their current mission of harvesting anything and everything they can about their users.
I know that having Facebook sized development money can be nothing but a great thing for the progress of the browser, but, I'm more concerned with the direction of this development.
Microsoft has "Facebook sized development money" and it took until IE 9 to get a good browser out of them. Google has a lot of development money too, and Chrome has its upside (besides reporting everything you do to the Google mothership). Apple has even more money, but they aren't spending it on browser development.
Based on Facebook's history of harvesting anything and everything about users, using tracking cookies on other sites even when those visitors don't have Facebook accounts, using the same Safari cookie exploit as Google, and having a constantly moving target for privacy, I wouldn't trust a Facebook owned browser on any device I own.
Maybe Americans are getting smart and using VPN's and proxies:D
Or US Internet traffic is growing - something the ISP's & cell carriers are crying about on a regular basis. If the overall usage goes up, stagnant BitTorrent traffic rates - or if the BT rates are growing at a slower rate as compared to overall US usage - will look like it declined.
the passwords are “stored in hash format” so they’re safe, but the credit card information may be at risk, along with the contents of all the recently submitted tickets.
How do companies repeatedly let this happen? Encrypt that shit!
Why target only those evade their taxes by renouncing their citizenship? Shouldn't these politicians take a good look at themselves? How many of them use every loophole (or sneaky, illegal tactic) they can find to evade their taxes? These people are not above reproach. Most, if not all, are just as guilty of evading their taxes.
You need to balance your workloads with the project timeline. If the two of you can do it on time and within your budget, then you should try to do it yourself. If not, you'll need to spend quite a bit of time managing the individual(s) or company that you outsource your project to.
If your internal libraries are proprietary, you'll need to be smart. Don't give away the source code - just the compiled libraries. If you need to issue temporary licenses for the libraries to run (if your code requires licensing), make sure they are for 'dev versions' so they can't be used for release versions.
There are lots of reasons to keep development in house, but if you can't do it all yourself you nee to pick your developers well. Make sure you get references and that you check all of them. Make sure they provide references for several years back so you can see if they tend to repeat the same mistakes.
They never buy NEW pc ?? Last time I installed some for my company I didnt had the choice, IE6 wasn't there...
FTFS:
Many UK government departments are still using IE6
Not all... though even one is too many these days. Let's hope they don't have any IE 5 or old Netscape browsers hiding in unused bathrooms in the basement.
I love that they could indefinitely detain for "unknowingly supporting terrorism."
To say nothing about the ways in which US politicians and government operatives make back-channel deals that support terrorism they find politically expedient. You won't see anyone being detained for that.
That's because what they do is knowingly support terrorism, which is completely different.
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just shoot the lawyers on sight, then burn down the CEO's homes
The insurance companies holding the respective life & home owner policies are not going to like that at all.
What exactly does a publisher do when a book is sold in electronic format? If what they do is still valuable, then someone will pay them for doing that. If not, what's the point of publishers?
Just guessing here, but editors, proof readers, marketing, etc. And let's not forget that some authors get advances. Publishers don't supply all the same services for electronic books as they do for printed books, but a book isn't finished just because the author is done writing it.
Isn't that the EXACT conditions of placement in the US Gov GSA catalog? Promise us best price or you don't get to play.
Apple gets the best price, but that doesn't preclude others from getting the same price as Apple. And if the publishers want to sell the books for a lower price than they are now then everyone can get the same low price.
Apple's hands are dirty from forcing publishers to give them the lowest price available, but they aren't telling publishers what that price should be.
They are not trying the case in the public. When it come time for the trial Amazon will hand over its records and they will clearly show what occurred. They can also go and get B&N and Sony's sales records. Apple is the least likely company to have data on ebook sales prior to the switch to the Agency model. They didn't enter the market till 2010 and they were never a big player in the market afterwords.
I'm sure Apple did their due diligence before jumping into the marketplace. If they were never a big player in the market afterwards how is it they are charged with fixing prices?
Website owners can sign up on the IDL website to add a bit of code to their sites (or receive code by email at the time of a campaign) that can be triggered in the case of a crisis like SOPA. This would add an "activist call-to-action" to all participating sites - such as a banner asking users to sign petitions, or in extreme cases blackout the site, as proved effective in the SOPA/PIPA protest of January 2012.
Are they nuts? I don't want any outside site having control over my clients' sites. If they are hacked this would give the hackers a quick way to affect any site that signs up with them.
Well intentioned (I hope), but count me out.
Yeah, cash that has to be sorted, counted, protected, insured, put in an expensive safe, guarded then transported by armored trucks with armed guards to a bank. For small mom and pop businesses it's risking your life when you transport the cash yourself.
2-3% to avoid all that is a bargain.
Don't forget the fees to deposit cash and checks. Some banks charge retailers up to 0.4% to deposit cash, and $0.25 (or more) for each check.
Did anyone even know this thing existed?
Yes, but I never actually saw one in the wild. I would have thought Cisco would have used the consumer marketing skills the Linksys people had to get this in the hands of consumers as a "Linksys compatible home wireless communication device".
Oh well, Android is a fucking useless turd anyway. Corporations have money, they don't need the poor man's tablet.
Oh please. Even if corporations choose iOS, BlackBerry, or anything else besides Android, Android's advancement keeps the competition on their toes. Android, iOS, etc being in competition with each other results in better features and better quality for consumers. I know my iPad wouldn't have the quality or features that it has if Android wasn't on Apple's heels - not to mention the price would slowly drift upwards if there wasn't true competition in the market place. Microsoft's dominance in the OS & 'Office' marketplace negatively affected progress on many levels.
Scrooge Mcduck never worried about banks and he was loaded.
If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. Scrooge McDuck is a better duck than I.
Maybe AOL can stay relevant by being a start-up hotel?
A Ren & Stimpy reference to go with your earlier Futurama reference (and in reply to a Simpsons reference)? <Mr. Burns>Excellent </Mr. Burns>
Cash doesn't need backups.
If I keep my money in coins (a precursor to BitCoins) or in bills (aka foldin' money) and someone steals them I have no cash and I have no backups. If I keep it in a cash server (aka bank, savings and loan, or other financial institution) and they get robbed I do have a backup (even if management are the ones that steal the money or bankrupt the institution, but only up to $250k which is plenty to cover my accounts).
How are situations like this still happening?
Because some people who are in control of servers, databases, etc seem to think that a copy of their data is a backup even if it resides on the same hard drive or computer. Send a copy of it to a different drive ... attached to a different computer ... in a different location. The cost of being prepared for a data disaster is vigilance. The cost of not being prepared is ...
There are better targets than a once-great browser. Opera is no longer, no matter what their home page says, the fastest browser in the business.
It's not really about fast, though piss poor performance would be a problem. It's about not having to develop a brand new mobile app/Facebook-content-delivery-app. Opera has 'mobile' and 'mini'. One of which (mini?) does all it's work on the Opera servers. This would let Facebook see everything you do ... and I mean everything. That fits perfectly with their current mission of harvesting anything and everything they can about their users.
I know that having Facebook sized development money can be nothing but a great thing for the progress of the browser, but, I'm more concerned with the direction of this development.
Microsoft has "Facebook sized development money" and it took until IE 9 to get a good browser out of them. Google has a lot of development money too, and Chrome has its upside (besides reporting everything you do to the Google mothership). Apple has even more money, but they aren't spending it on browser development.
Based on Facebook's history of harvesting anything and everything about users, using tracking cookies on other sites even when those visitors don't have Facebook accounts, using the same Safari cookie exploit as Google, and having a constantly moving target for privacy, I wouldn't trust a Facebook owned browser on any device I own.
Why? Google is already doing it with Android and Chrome.
And every link you click on from Google search, Google news, Google images, etc.
EPIC FAIL from Bitonica
No kidding ... and backupica.com is available. Go figure.
Maybe Americans are getting smart and using VPN's and proxies :D
Or US Internet traffic is growing - something the ISP's & cell carriers are crying about on a regular basis. If the overall usage goes up, stagnant BitTorrent traffic rates - or if the BT rates are growing at a slower rate as compared to overall US usage - will look like it declined.
It was social engineering. Encryption cannot help with human gullibility.
But encryption can protect sensitive data if security is ever breached.
the passwords are “stored in hash format” so they’re safe, but the credit card information may be at risk, along with the contents of all the recently submitted tickets.
How do companies repeatedly let this happen? Encrypt that shit!
Why target only those evade their taxes by renouncing their citizenship? Shouldn't these politicians take a good look at themselves? How many of them use every loophole (or sneaky, illegal tactic) they can find to evade their taxes? These people are not above reproach. Most, if not all, are just as guilty of evading their taxes.
You need to balance your workloads with the project timeline. If the two of you can do it on time and within your budget, then you should try to do it yourself. If not, you'll need to spend quite a bit of time managing the individual(s) or company that you outsource your project to.
If your internal libraries are proprietary, you'll need to be smart. Don't give away the source code - just the compiled libraries. If you need to issue temporary licenses for the libraries to run (if your code requires licensing), make sure they are for 'dev versions' so they can't be used for release versions.
There are lots of reasons to keep development in house, but if you can't do it all yourself you nee to pick your developers well. Make sure you get references and that you check all of them. Make sure they provide references for several years back so you can see if they tend to repeat the same mistakes.
They never buy NEW pc ?? Last time I installed some for my company I didnt had the choice, IE6 wasn't there...
FTFS:
Many UK government departments are still using IE6
Not all ... though even one is too many these days. Let's hope they don't have any IE 5 or old Netscape browsers hiding in unused bathrooms in the basement.
To say nothing about the ways in which US politicians and government operatives make back-channel deals that support terrorism they find politically expedient. You won't see anyone being detained for that.
That's because what they do is knowingly support terrorism, which is completely different.
I explained it in the post.. This is actually Google using Apple as a proxy company to sue and destroy other Android manufacturers.
That's quite the imagination you have there. It's almost as creative as all your sock puppet user names.