It may also cut down on the number of people that actually post to YouTube. If any company can claim a video is copyrighted and get ads placed all over it, what steps does the author have to declare the work a 'derivative' or 'artistic representation' (in other words, fight the copyright infringement claim)?
Or have you not noticed the banners on all the pages?
Marketing people will stop seeing advertising as a revenue stream when people actually stop using a service because of the advertisements. Or, to put it another way: marketing people will stop seeing advertising as another revenue stream when it actually stops being a revenue stream.
Also the Linux threat in the interview is not just in the Enterprise Server market. Embedded devices and netbooks are going with Linux due to its ability to run lean. Vista is not currently lean enough for these applications. XP is lean enough though but not as customizable as Linux.
Que the intro to Win 7. At least 'lean' is becoming a MS option again, by all accounts.
The 'compatible with their system' is the rub, unfortunately.
If a phone does not support a feature that is available on your contract (My Fave 5, or something akin to that which has a representation on your phone), the carrier could claim that the phone is 'incompatible' and deny service (or require you to enter a contract that does not include My Fave 5).
IANAL, but from my understanding of the SEC regulations, it doesn't matter if his health (or the speculation thereof) does actually affect stock price, it only matters if Apple's management thought that it would. Anything that they believe might have an effect on stock price has to be disclosed (whether it does in the end or not). If there is a single e-mail among the management that says anything akin to "Don't tell the shareholders that he's sick, our stock price'll plummet", Apple very well may be in some serious trouble. On the other hand, if they can prove that they had no reason to believe it was an issue that would manipulate stock price, the SEC doesn't have a leg to stand on.
To use that logic, however, implies that Stuart is just as likely to be incompetent at management as well (he rose to a managment position in just a few short years, according to TFA).
Censoring ad revenue?! NEVAR!
What I'm waiting for is the day when you attempt to view censored material, and instead they sign you up for random advert email lists. That way, you can't view 'bad' content, AND they get to make some money on the side. Wouldn't that be awesome?
There is a law in a certain small town in Washington state that still has on it's books a law forbidding 'unescorted Negroes on public property after dusk'.
It's federally unenforceable and would get shit-kicked by the US (and probably Washington State) Supreme Court, but to actually take the time and effort of removing the law costs the city money, which is better spent on other things. Even the act of altering an existing statue and attaching that to the current bill takes extra money that a lot of places aren't willing to shell out.
The answer in this case is simple: Just don't enforce it.
If you want a few other oddball examples, try looking up some of the statues in the state of Texas regarding horses (or, better yet, compare how those laws interact with the municipal laws of El Paso and Houston).
... American entertainment is full of cursing and swearing. I cannot even have the radio tuning into English-language radio without hearing cursing at least once an hour.
This is, in many ways, akin to saying "I don't like to see drunk people. It's not fair that I can't go to a bar." You may or may not like it, but the current trend is that the majority of this country either speaks in, or is comfortable with, this language. There are services that are available to you if you find most profanity offensive, such as certain satellite radio stations and various cable television stations, that cater well to such sensibilities.
If you don't like it, change the channel. That's the great thing about the freedom we live in (when it comes to free speech, at least).
First and foremost, anywhere that an intern is catching derisive comments about his production speed and not, instead, getting helpful tips and guidance toward swifter solutions is a place that shouldn't have interns at all. I'd suggest you find whatever agency (university?) that guided you toward this employer, tell them what went on, and make sure they never send anyone this employer's way ever again.
I hope, for their sake, that those two really excellent people are paid through the nose for the sudden influx of demand/workload. Respect does not put food on the table (or pay for stress-induced hair loss therapies).
And therein lies the largest crack in any argument regarding the efficiency of private business spending. It is much easier for a private business to spend money outside of the US (and thus push money out of our economy) than it is for the government to do so. If the same % the US gov't spent on foreign aid was a cap that Dell had to stick to, it wouldn't have a financial dept. as we know it.
At least with a government project, we can be reasonably certain that a majority of the cash remains within our own economy, instead of being placed in the hands of the 'responsible private sector'.
The government is paying for your electricity, in a round-about manner of speaking, as they do regulate prices of power. If you want them to stay out of your business when it comes to power, perhaps they should fully de-regulate power companies as well?
Isn't the point of this 'battery' concept to decentralize power production? How do power plants that can only feasibly be built in a desert qualify as decentralized?
When I'm the CEO of a small-medium company that doesn't actually employ any programmers and only has a small IT staff (*gasp!* but they do exist, people), how is the ability to program in my own fixes any sort of real benefit?
Of course, I could report the bug to whoever built the FOSS solution.... and wait 3 months for them to come up with a patch to fix it (lucky me, it doesn't happen that often)?
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It may also cut down on the number of people that actually post to YouTube. If any company can claim a video is copyrighted and get ads placed all over it, what steps does the author have to declare the work a 'derivative' or 'artistic representation' (in other words, fight the copyright infringement claim)?
So, I guess you're a /. subscriber as well?
Or have you not noticed the banners on all the pages?
Marketing people will stop seeing advertising as a revenue stream when people actually stop using a service because of the advertisements. Or, to put it another way: marketing people will stop seeing advertising as another revenue stream when it actually stops being a revenue stream.
Also the Linux threat in the interview is not just in the Enterprise Server market. Embedded devices and netbooks are going with Linux due to its ability to run lean. Vista is not currently lean enough for these applications. XP is lean enough though but not as customizable as Linux.
Que the intro to Win 7. At least 'lean' is becoming a MS option again, by all accounts.
I don't think you poured enough sarcasm on this one to get the +1 Funny you were looking for, AC.
The 'compatible with their system' is the rub, unfortunately. If a phone does not support a feature that is available on your contract (My Fave 5, or something akin to that which has a representation on your phone), the carrier could claim that the phone is 'incompatible' and deny service (or require you to enter a contract that does not include My Fave 5).
Receiving an international text message can incur additional fees, depending on your plan here in the states as well.
IANAL, but from my understanding of the SEC regulations, it doesn't matter if his health (or the speculation thereof) does actually affect stock price, it only matters if Apple's management thought that it would. Anything that they believe might have an effect on stock price has to be disclosed (whether it does in the end or not). If there is a single e-mail among the management that says anything akin to "Don't tell the shareholders that he's sick, our stock price'll plummet", Apple very well may be in some serious trouble. On the other hand, if they can prove that they had no reason to believe it was an issue that would manipulate stock price, the SEC doesn't have a leg to stand on.
Isn't that the trade name for Vista?
Yes, because there's no real money in research, especially for those Nobel Prize geeks.
'hero shot' is a term I've heard bounced around in web design/publishing before, which possibly may be what is referred to here.
Until the command-line FTP client in Windows is removed because some schmuck in Europe whines to the EC.
To use that logic, however, implies that Stuart is just as likely to be incompetent at management as well (he rose to a managment position in just a few short years, according to TFA).
'coffee' not koolaid.
Considering all of the lawsuits we see these days over larger inheritances, the concept of an 'ironclad will' seems a bit out of touch, doesn't it?
Censoring ad revenue?! NEVAR! What I'm waiting for is the day when you attempt to view censored material, and instead they sign you up for random advert email lists. That way, you can't view 'bad' content, AND they get to make some money on the side. Wouldn't that be awesome?
It may be anecdotal, but every Brit I've ever talked to about it has very little in the way of Choice among ISP's.
There is a law in a certain small town in Washington state that still has on it's books a law forbidding 'unescorted Negroes on public property after dusk'.
It's federally unenforceable and would get shit-kicked by the US (and probably Washington State) Supreme Court, but to actually take the time and effort of removing the law costs the city money, which is better spent on other things. Even the act of altering an existing statue and attaching that to the current bill takes extra money that a lot of places aren't willing to shell out.
The answer in this case is simple: Just don't enforce it.
If you want a few other oddball examples, try looking up some of the statues in the state of Texas regarding horses (or, better yet, compare how those laws interact with the municipal laws of El Paso and Houston).
... American entertainment is full of cursing and swearing. I cannot even have the radio tuning into English-language radio without hearing cursing at least once an hour.
This is, in many ways, akin to saying "I don't like to see drunk people. It's not fair that I can't go to a bar." You may or may not like it, but the current trend is that the majority of this country either speaks in, or is comfortable with, this language. There are services that are available to you if you find most profanity offensive, such as certain satellite radio stations and various cable television stations, that cater well to such sensibilities.
If you don't like it, change the channel. That's the great thing about the freedom we live in (when it comes to free speech, at least).
The 'No Swearing' law got overturned by the State Supreme Court of Michigan back in 2002. http://articles.latimes.com/2002/apr/02/news/mn-35828
First and foremost, anywhere that an intern is catching derisive comments about his production speed and not, instead, getting helpful tips and guidance toward swifter solutions is a place that shouldn't have interns at all. I'd suggest you find whatever agency (university?) that guided you toward this employer, tell them what went on, and make sure they never send anyone this employer's way ever again.
I hope, for their sake, that those two really excellent people are paid through the nose for the sudden influx of demand/workload. Respect does not put food on the table (or pay for stress-induced hair loss therapies).
... unless it's been exported overseas. (joy)
And therein lies the largest crack in any argument regarding the efficiency of private business spending. It is much easier for a private business to spend money outside of the US (and thus push money out of our economy) than it is for the government to do so. If the same % the US gov't spent on foreign aid was a cap that Dell had to stick to, it wouldn't have a financial dept. as we know it.
At least with a government project, we can be reasonably certain that a majority of the cash remains within our own economy, instead of being placed in the hands of the 'responsible private sector'.
The government is paying for your electricity, in a round-about manner of speaking, as they do regulate prices of power. If you want them to stay out of your business when it comes to power, perhaps they should fully de-regulate power companies as well?
Isn't the point of this 'battery' concept to decentralize power production? How do power plants that can only feasibly be built in a desert qualify as decentralized?
When I'm the CEO of a small-medium company that doesn't actually employ any programmers and only has a small IT staff (*gasp!* but they do exist, people), how is the ability to program in my own fixes any sort of real benefit?
Of course, I could report the bug to whoever built the FOSS solution.... and wait 3 months for them to come up with a patch to fix it (lucky me, it doesn't happen that often)?
This is better somehow?