Good analysis. However, you completely ignore the fact that most of the other companies in the industry are laying people off right now or losing people because they don't want to work in a company with little or no future.
There is an ample supply of highly qualified and experienced software professionals available right now.
Please don't be so disingenuous. It's not the photographer in this instance that is being compensated but photographers in perpetuity.
If copyright violations were ignored, that would make photographs worthless. Guess how much the companies are going to pay the photographers for the rights to those photographs then?
Yes, it is a simplistic argument, but there is definitely a small grain of truth in the original statement.
It also means that you don't have to prop up Saddam Hussein if you want to strike at Iran. It means you don't have to support the Taliban to get the Soviets out.
In many cases, it means you can fight one evil without having to appease another evil - which, arguably, is the cause of many of the US's current problems - supporting what was thought to be the "lesser evil" in order to attack the "greater evil".
My father's a CPA and one of the first things he tells a rich client is to give a lot to charity for tax purposes.
Either your dad is a really bad CPA or you are a complete and utter moron who doesn't understand what he is doing or why.
There is no tax advantage to giving money to charity. The only tax "advantage" is that it is treated as if you never earned the money in the first place. So instead of paying taxes on the money you gave away it is as if you never earned it at all. Regardless of your income, given any $100, you're better off keeping it than giving it away to charity.
Yet another euro trying to make up for his inferiority complex.
PacBell had SIM cards on their phones. It just didn't catch on and they abandoned it.
Local calls are free in the US. Your cellphone appears just as if it were a local phone. People typically buy cellphones so THEY are reachable when THEY want to be - not because they want other people to be able to reach them when those OTHER PEOPLE want to.
And here in the US if your boss calls you and yacks on you tell him to buzz off because it's a cellphone instead of stupidly hanging on. You also get the first minute of incoming calls free so you can answer the phone and decide whether it's a call you want to take.
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You're fine with the high-school dropout who taught himself how to fix cars working on your car. However, you don't hire him to run your high-end plan machinery.
The same is the case here. You might hire some of these people to maintain the desktops in your enterprise but you sure as hell won't have one of them being sysadmin on your mission-critical mainframe servers.
Obviously you haven't been there. It's suburban hell with blonde soccer moms in SUVs.
This sounds really sweet for a low-end computer user. I know a couple of people I'm going to recommend this to. They will probably blow away the OS and use Windows on it, though.
NO! That is NOT the purpose of carpool lanes. The purpose of carpool lanes is to reduce the congestion on our highways (the reduction of fossil fuel emmissions is just a happy side-effect).
Allowing someone to pay to ride in the carpool lane is great provided the price is high enough because that money will then go towards the cost of maintaining and building the road infrastructure to reduce congestion.
As a taxpayer in the state of Washington, I'm not sure putting this up on eBay and paying eBay commisssions is the best use of our taxpayer dollar. Presumably there will be a large enough volume of sales and it's not like you need the discoverability that eBay offers you since you're targeting a very small geographic area and have the official government communication channels and all the news media to do your advertising for you. The government would be much better off running their own auction site for this.
Is anyone aware of any open source auction software they can start with?
No, you won't get modded down for saying that and you knew it when you posted.
This is Slashdot. The first reaction to any problem here is "How do we blame it on Microsoft?". The second reaction is "How do we blame this on Bush?".
Knowing what both you and I know about US troops and the training they go through, no intelligent person would believe they would shoot at an unarmed crowd without force being necessary. However, it seems like the vast majority of the worlds population on either side of the debate has permanently suspended their intelligence in this matter.
And in herbal breast enchancement news 32A has been redefined as 44DD.
You have no idea how close to the truth you are with that. Those of you who have wives or girlfriends will know that when buying clothes for a woman the size means diddly squat. Basically each label redefines the sizes so that women think they are wearing a smaller size than they really are so they'll make size 10s and call them size 8s which apparently helps women with self-esteem issues.
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1. "This is another part of the evil plan by an evil company to use its evil monopoly for world domination." 2. "This is not new. Apple/BSD/ has done this for years. Another example of M$ just copying others and having no innovation." 3. "This is the end. As soon as customers hear about this, they will en masse migrate away and Bill will be a pauper by next year." 4. "(-1, Troll) Look, this is another example of how the great lord Bill is making things better for all of us!"
If you're not capable of knee-jerk opinions based on strong prejudices you don't belong here. This is Slashdot. Please take your well thought out opinions and go elsewhere.
I don't know how this got modded up as "+5 Insightful" - are the moderators really that clueless these days?
What is stopping the people within SCO who started this case and subsequently destroyed SCO utterly from quietly selling all of their SCO stock sometime between now and the point SCO goes into court, thus making gobs of money in the span of time between SCO's stock price being temporarily knocked up by all the publicity around this case and SCO's stock price being knocked down once it becomes apparent SCO has nothing to back up their claims with?
What you're describing is known as insider trading - it's a very serious offense and typically involves prison time. Ask Martha Stewart if you don't believe me.
What is stopping the people within SCO who started this case and subsequently destroyed SCO from walking out of SCO with incredibly lucrative golden parachutes, and possibly simply being rehired at another company in incredibly high-ranking, lucrative positions just because from the ignorant perspective of another corporation's board, hey, they were the ones who got SCO all that attention and tried to capitalize on that IP, even though it didn't work out?
I know most of you children who live on Slashdot seem to think that anyone who is on the board of a company is jsut plain stupid. However, that's not the case. If the facts of the case indeed turn out to be the way you're describing them, the people responsible for the case will certainly not be someone any intelligent board will want to hire.
the "e-rate" program (40 percent), which subsidizes school and library Internet connections,
We are already paying for these services with our property taxes and federal income taxes. I see no reason why someone who has a cable modem should pay more for these things than someone who makes as much money and owns as much property but doesn't have a cable modem.
and rural telephone companies (45 percent), which might otherwise end up paying more for telephone service than city dwellers
This is even more ridiculous. Living in a rural area is a choice - as is living in an urban area. There are costs and benefits associated with those choices. I don't see a tax on rural properties intended to make property more affordable for those of us who live in cities and would outherwise end up paying more for an apartment or house than rural dwellers.
The remaining 15 percent goes toward discounts to low-income subscribers and funds rural health care.
Sell two types of gas then - as they do in Nebraska (maybe in other places too). You have the taxed gas and the non-tax gas and they are differentiated by the dyes put in them. The non-tax gas is strictly to be used by equipment, etc. that never leaves your property. If they catch you with non-tax gas on the road they pretty much throw the book at you.
Btw, the average semi owner pays about $20,000 a year in vehicle taxes.
I'm not sure about using this for tires. Notice how the gecko doesn't merely resist sliding but can actually hang from a ceiling. What this tells me is that not only is the coefficient of static friction going to be high but also the coefficient of rolling friction - you don't want rolling friction in your race tires.
M$ will never include image and popup blocking (think about it).
Ok, I thought about it and I must admit I don't get it. MS doesn't make any money from you seeing popups. The popup generating companies don't pay MS in any form. The people who MS makes its money from (the users) hate popups. I see no reason why they should not want to allow blocking popups. So what am I missing?
...Is it even legal to destroy cour documents? To save space? Couldn't they digitize them? This just seems like a way to hide information, and information like this could hardly have a good reason to be hidden.
Getting past the point that these documents are actually being digitized before being destroyed...
Well, what's the alternative? We don't want the government be able to pass a law forcing us to keep data against our wishes. It boils down to the founding fathers considering the right to privacy to be much more important than meting out ultimate justice.
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Revenue is never a measure for how much it would cost to buy a company. For a public company, that measure is Market Capitalization.
IBM's Market Cap on Friday was 145.1 Bil
MSFT's was 284.5 Bil
Also, when you try to take over a company, you would typically add about a 25% premium on that.
However, you're right about MS not being able to buy IBM with $10 Billion (or even $40 Billion) but for the wrong reasons.
Good analysis. However, you completely ignore the fact that most of the other companies in the industry are laying people off right now or losing people because they don't want to work in a company with little or no future.
There is an ample supply of highly qualified and experienced software professionals available right now.
I have never really used the reader however an advantage to having the book electronically is being able to search.
Give them a break. They're Australians. It's not like English is a first language fo... oh, damn.
This is below par for Slashdot. I would have expected the headline to read "Microsoft patents IM" or "Microsoft patents translation".
How are we supposed to come up with knee-jerk reactions without reading the article if Slashdot doesn't help us?
Please don't be so disingenuous. It's not the photographer in this instance that is being compensated but photographers in perpetuity.
If copyright violations were ignored, that would make photographs worthless. Guess how much the companies are going to pay the photographers for the rights to those photographs then?
Yes, it is a simplistic argument, but there is definitely a small grain of truth in the original statement.
Geez, you don't need a degree in economics to figure it out!
Situation I:
Person A & B share a connection. Person A pays $45.99, Person B pays nothing.
Situation II:
Persons A & B have their own connections. Each pays $45.99.
Admittedly, that is not always the case and there are lots of variables like the precise location of the demand curve, competitive issues, etc.
In English that means you price something at the level that you think will bring you the maximum profit.
However, I shouldn't have to explain that to someone who claims to be an economist. Your economics teachers are probably crying in shame right now.
It also means that you don't have to prop up Saddam Hussein if you want to strike at Iran. It means you don't have to support the Taliban to get the Soviets out.
In many cases, it means you can fight one evil without having to appease another evil - which, arguably, is the cause of many of the US's current problems - supporting what was thought to be the "lesser evil" in order to attack the "greater evil".
My father's a CPA and one of the first things he tells a rich client is to give a lot to charity for tax purposes.
Either your dad is a really bad CPA or you are a complete and utter moron who doesn't understand what he is doing or why.
There is no tax advantage to giving money to charity. The only tax "advantage" is that it is treated as if you never earned the money in the first place. So instead of paying taxes on the money you gave away it is as if you never earned it at all. Regardless of your income, given any $100, you're better off keeping it than giving it away to charity.
Are you sure? Check your billing statement. It's not something I added on. It's just always been the case with Sprint.
Yet another euro trying to make up for his inferiority complex.
PacBell had SIM cards on their phones. It just didn't catch on and they abandoned it.
Local calls are free in the US. Your cellphone appears just as if it were a local phone. People typically buy cellphones so THEY are reachable when THEY want to be - not because they want other people to be able to reach them when those OTHER PEOPLE want to.
And here in the US if your boss calls you and yacks on you tell him to buzz off because it's a cellphone instead of stupidly hanging on. You also get the first minute of incoming calls free so you can answer the phone and decide whether it's a call you want to take.
You're fine with the high-school dropout who taught himself how to fix cars working on your car. However, you don't hire him to run your high-end plan machinery.
The same is the case here. You might hire some of these people to maintain the desktops in your enterprise but you sure as hell won't have one of them being sysadmin on your mission-critical mainframe servers.
Obviously you haven't been there. It's suburban hell with blonde soccer moms in SUVs.
This sounds really sweet for a low-end computer user. I know a couple of people I'm going to recommend this to. They will probably blow away the OS and use Windows on it, though.
NO! That is NOT the purpose of carpool lanes. The purpose of carpool lanes is to reduce the congestion on our highways (the reduction of fossil fuel emmissions is just a happy side-effect).
Allowing someone to pay to ride in the carpool lane is great provided the price is high enough because that money will then go towards the cost of maintaining and building the road infrastructure to reduce congestion.
As a taxpayer in the state of Washington, I'm not sure putting this up on eBay and paying eBay commisssions is the best use of our taxpayer dollar. Presumably there will be a large enough volume of sales and it's not like you need the discoverability that eBay offers you since you're targeting a very small geographic area and have the official government communication channels and all the news media to do your advertising for you. The government would be much better off running their own auction site for this.
Is anyone aware of any open source auction software they can start with?
No, you won't get modded down for saying that and you knew it when you posted.
This is Slashdot. The first reaction to any problem here is "How do we blame it on Microsoft?". The second reaction is "How do we blame this on Bush?".
Knowing what both you and I know about US troops and the training they go through, no intelligent person would believe they would shoot at an unarmed crowd without force being necessary. However, it seems like the vast majority of the worlds population on either side of the debate has permanently suspended their intelligence in this matter.
And in herbal breast enchancement news 32A has been redefined as 44DD.
You have no idea how close to the truth you are with that. Those of you who have wives or girlfriends will know that when buying clothes for a woman the size means diddly squat. Basically each label redefines the sizes so that women think they are wearing a smaller size than they really are so they'll make size 10s and call them size 8s which apparently helps women with self-esteem issues.
1. "This is another part of the evil plan by an evil company to use its evil monopoly for world domination."
2. "This is not new. Apple/BSD/ has done this for years. Another example of M$ just copying others and having no innovation."
3. "This is the end. As soon as customers hear about this, they will en masse migrate away and Bill will be a pauper by next year."
4. "(-1, Troll) Look, this is another example of how the great lord Bill is making things better for all of us!"
If you're not capable of knee-jerk opinions based on strong prejudices you don't belong here. This is Slashdot. Please take your well thought out opinions and go elsewhere.
I don't know how this got modded up as "+5 Insightful" - are the moderators really that clueless these days?
What is stopping the people within SCO who started this case and subsequently destroyed SCO utterly from quietly selling all of their SCO stock sometime between now and the point SCO goes into court, thus making gobs of money in the span of time between SCO's stock price being temporarily knocked up by all the publicity around this case and SCO's stock price being knocked down once it becomes apparent SCO has nothing to back up their claims with?
What you're describing is known as insider trading - it's a very serious offense and typically involves prison time. Ask Martha Stewart if you don't believe me.
What is stopping the people within SCO who started this case and subsequently destroyed SCO from walking out of SCO with incredibly lucrative golden parachutes, and possibly simply being rehired at another company in incredibly high-ranking, lucrative positions just because from the ignorant perspective of another corporation's board, hey, they were the ones who got SCO all that attention and tried to capitalize on that IP, even though it didn't work out?
I know most of you children who live on Slashdot seem to think that anyone who is on the board of a company is jsut plain stupid. However, that's not the case. If the facts of the case indeed turn out to be the way you're describing them, the people responsible for the case will certainly not be someone any intelligent board will want to hire.
This is utter crap.
the "e-rate" program (40 percent), which subsidizes school and library Internet connections,
We are already paying for these services with our property taxes and federal income taxes. I see no reason why someone who has a cable modem should pay more for these things than someone who makes as much money and owns as much property but doesn't have a cable modem.
and rural telephone companies (45 percent), which might otherwise end up paying more for telephone service than city dwellers
This is even more ridiculous. Living in a rural area is a choice - as is living in an urban area. There are costs and benefits associated with those choices. I don't see a tax on rural properties intended to make property more affordable for those of us who live in cities and would outherwise end up paying more for an apartment or house than rural dwellers.
The remaining 15 percent goes toward discounts to low-income subscribers and funds rural health care.
Again, this has nothing to do with cable modems.
Sell two types of gas then - as they do in Nebraska (maybe in other places too). You have the taxed gas and the non-tax gas and they are differentiated by the dyes put in them. The non-tax gas is strictly to be used by equipment, etc. that never leaves your property. If they catch you with non-tax gas on the road they pretty much throw the book at you.
Btw, the average semi owner pays about $20,000 a year in vehicle taxes.
I'm not sure about using this for tires. Notice how the gecko doesn't merely resist sliding but can actually hang from a ceiling. What this tells me is that not only is the coefficient of static friction going to be high but also the coefficient of rolling friction - you don't want rolling friction in your race tires.
M$ will never include image and popup blocking (think about it).
Ok, I thought about it and I must admit I don't get it. MS doesn't make any money from you seeing popups. The popup generating companies don't pay MS in any form. The people who MS makes its money from (the users) hate popups. I see no reason why they should not want to allow blocking popups. So what am I missing?
...Is it even legal to destroy cour documents? To save space? Couldn't they digitize them? This just seems like a way to hide information, and information like this could hardly have a good reason to be hidden.
Getting past the point that these documents are actually being digitized before being destroyed...
Well, what's the alternative? We don't want the government be able to pass a law forcing us to keep data against our wishes. It boils down to the founding fathers considering the right to privacy to be much more important than meting out ultimate justice.