There are plenty of tracking solutions out there (Trackion http://www.trackion.com/ came up on a search for 'stolen laptop tracking'), why don't they use them or create their own in house?
collusion takes place within an industry when rival companies cooperate for their mutual benefit. Collusion most often takes place within the market form of oligopoly, where the decision of a few firms to collude can significantly impact the market as a whole. Cartels are a special case of explicit collusion. Overt collusion, on the other hand, also known as tacit collusion.
According to game theory, the independence of suppliers forces prices to their minimum, increasing efficiency and decreasing the price determining ability of each individual firm. If one firm decreases its price, other firms will follow suit in order to maintain sales, and if one firm increases its price, its rivals are unlikely to follow, as their sales would only decrease. These rules are used as the basis of kinked-demand theory. If firms collude to increase prices as a cooperative, however, loss of sales is minimized as consumers lack alternative choices at lower prices. This benefits the colluding firms at the cost of efficiency to society.
Practices that facilitate tacit collusion include:
Uniform prices A penalty for price discounts Advance notice of price changes Information exchanges Swaps and exchanges Collusion is largely illegal in the United States (and most of the EU) due to antitrust law, but implicit collusion in the form of price leadership and tacit understandings still takes place. Several recent examples of collusion in the United States include:
Why does it matter what IT geeks wear? If they are not interacting with customers who cares? I consider the ability to come in, in shorts, t-shirt and a hat part of my compensation. Take that away and I want a raise and will probably be less productive since i'll have to take time in the morning to think about what fashion statement I want to make today.
Seems like it would be a lot more fun if there was a World of Warcraft like battle between the heros and villans. I know if would slice the revenue stream in half but would make this game a whole lot more fun.
Cellular carries get away with this practice because that free phone you got really cost $300. It's nothing more then a guarnatee to get a return on their subsidie. AFAIK, you don't get a discount for activating your Tivo vs. not activating it.
It was supposted to come out last year and it was pushed to go straight to video, but then.... Jamie Foxx (the two xx's make me want to kick him in the balls) won an Oscar.
But section 107 only says that "the fair use of a copyrighted work... for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright".
So if I'm teaching myself to get Windows XP Pro for the price of Windows XP Home it looks like I'm well within my rights.
Don't know how prevelent wireless is there, but if I was to do something like that here, i'd just log onto one of my neighbors open wireless AP's and go to town.
I'd hope I got the AP of the noisy pricks upstairs so when the secret police come and round them up for reeducation I could get some peace and quiet. Two birds with one stone and all that crap.
I don't know whether that will be a whole lot of help, as service and trade marks are limited to being in respect of some specific area of trade/ practice, and I don't see a whole lot of overlap between sports teams and computer software.
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They are going to be using some of the Saturn V technology in whatever they build to return us to the moon.
There are plenty of tracking solutions out there (Trackion http://www.trackion.com/ came up on a search for 'stolen laptop tracking'), why don't they use them or create their own in house?
When does the regular show come back on?
you do not talk about IBM Club.
The second rule of IMB Club is. YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT IBM CLUB.
I think the cum shot scene is going to be over the top.
Shouldn't this nullify all elections that used Diebold equipment forcing a special election (not using Diebold equipment of course)?
Grow a penis.
While they are at it they should monetize best-of-breed functionalities and reintermediate collaborative paradigms.
That's just my two cents.
//tinfoilhat
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collusion
collusion takes place within an industry when rival companies cooperate for their mutual benefit. Collusion most often takes place within the market form of oligopoly, where the decision of a few firms to collude can significantly impact the market as a whole. Cartels are a special case of explicit collusion. Overt collusion, on the other hand, also known as tacit collusion.
According to game theory, the independence of suppliers forces prices to their minimum, increasing efficiency and decreasing the price determining ability of each individual firm. If one firm decreases its price, other firms will follow suit in order to maintain sales, and if one firm increases its price, its rivals are unlikely to follow, as their sales would only decrease. These rules are used as the basis of kinked-demand theory. If firms collude to increase prices as a cooperative, however, loss of sales is minimized as consumers lack alternative choices at lower prices. This benefits the colluding firms at the cost of efficiency to society.
Practices that facilitate tacit collusion include:
Uniform prices
A penalty for price discounts
Advance notice of price changes
Information exchanges
Swaps and exchanges
Collusion is largely illegal in the United States (and most of the EU) due to antitrust law, but implicit collusion in the form of price leadership and tacit understandings still takes place. Several recent examples of collusion in the United States include:
Looks like it to me...
I don't have a child but pay for schools. I never go to the park but pay for its upkeep. etc. etc.
Sounds like he picked up some tips on censorship while he spent those 10 years in Russia planning JFK's assassination.
Why does it matter what IT geeks wear? If they are not interacting with customers who cares? I consider the ability to come in, in shorts, t-shirt and a hat part of my compensation. Take that away and I want a raise and will probably be less productive since i'll have to take time in the morning to think about what fashion statement I want to make today.
Seems like it would be a lot more fun if there was a World of Warcraft like battle between the heros and villans. I know if would slice the revenue stream in half but would make this game a whole lot more fun.
I think you are missing the point as well. I don't have any kids and pay for my own health insurance. Why am I paying for these services?
Cellular carries get away with this practice because that free phone you got really cost $300. It's nothing more then a guarnatee to get a return on their subsidie. AFAIK, you don't get a discount for activating your Tivo vs. not activating it.
Seems like the only loser here is the consumer.
It was supposted to come out last year and it was pushed to go straight to video, but then.... Jamie Foxx (the two xx's make me want to kick him in the balls) won an Oscar.
Amazon and Microsoft own me a ton of money.
But section 107 only says that "the fair use of a copyrighted work ... for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright".
So if I'm teaching myself to get Windows XP Pro for the price of Windows XP Home it looks like I'm well within my rights.
DIGTBK
either/or I just want to ensure a steady supply of trannie porn for the next generation.
Does it come out as a trannie?
How long before people get portable readers and walk down the street collecting card info.
In the future ugly has been cured (except for the pox marks all over adamas face).
Looks like a lot of slashdotters are going to be extinct.
Don't know how prevelent wireless is there, but if I was to do something like that here, i'd just log onto one of my neighbors open wireless AP's and go to town.
I'd hope I got the AP of the noisy pricks upstairs so when the secret police come and round them up for reeducation I could get some peace and quiet. Two birds with one stone and all that crap.
I don't know whether that will be a whole lot of help, as service and trade marks are limited to being in respect of some specific area of trade/ practice, and I don't see a whole lot of overlap between sports teams and computer software.
You've obviously never played Madden 20XX.