17 percent stake doesn't give them significant control. Now they can let their shit fly unimpeded. Big difference. Only silver lining is that the remaining stock might sell out for next to nothing, and the Nook is easily modded to run pure Android, IIRC.
Yup. Same ol' sleazy "business model" they've used from the very beginning. And they say China has no tech imagination. Anyway, so long, Nook, it's been good to know you. Probly won't like you anymore once the price goes up 300 or 400 percent and you get an ugly new MS scare-mask face.
would be for Google to block search results, and mention in news pages, for any publisher objecting to reasonable quotes. If they don't want publicity, they should be accommodated.
And you can't install Linux or some other OS, I understand. Correct? If so the thing makes no sense at all. You can get a full featured netbook with actual apps and the browser of your choice. What's the CB got to make up for that?
Think what they could do with real remote-controlled toys. Some cargoplanes full of RC snakes or, well, tanks. Way more bang for the buck than what they're getting now.
If you're as essential as you think, raise your rates -- you're the seller, after all. If they seem ready to consider going with a price hike, offer to take it in the form of equity (because you believe in the company's future and want to be part of it, blablabla. Asking for options in lieu of a rate hike or straight equity would be an easier sell, as it gives them a stronger hold on you and gives you more motivation to work at the top of your game. But the real question is, are you getting paid less than you deserve, and are you willing to demand more. The form of the increase is secondary.
of the conflicts of interest that will become entrenched with the Comcast/NBC merger, if it's allowed to happen. Comcast is obviously incapable now of separating its responsibilities as an information carrier from its interests as a content marketer. Comcast's "anti-piracy" sabotage makes it clear as day that allowing it to add one of the country's largest content providers to its mix will be a disaster for freedom in information in America. The FCC, Congress, and the DOJ need to head this one off at the pass.
IF hardware develops to enable this kind of choice. With all the hype about convergence, we're still nowhere near the point where Joe Couch Potato can point the remote in the living room, pull up a program menu of network, cable, and Net-based shows and play/record whatever he wants transparently. And without having to set up a separate "media center" and figure out all the connections, config, and access. It's not really a tech problem, it's about power struggles between cable and telco, content creators, search companies, DRM trogs, and corporate dimness. The so-called libertarians will howl, but the plain fact is that we need national standards aimed at finally bringing the communications age to the folks who don't want to know any more about what their "TV" is doing than they know about how the cable or satellite picture gets to their house.
not only because of the sloppy tech, but because of the clientele. Lots of money flowing from folks trying to lose their real identities and who are less likely than most to try and seek investigations if they get scammed. Doesn't get better than this.
Damn -- it's first concern in half the mobile-hardware reviews these days. Do these people actually turn the phone on or just hang it around their necks as jewelry? Wipe the scary prints off on your overpriced shirt awready.
Oh well then -- that makes it all OK, as long as they said it wasn't their fault if they welsh on their bet. There was no malfunction until the Casino said there was after the fact. These guys are crooks. Period. Colorado should start a criminal fraud investigation and shut them and the certifier down. But it's Colorado.
I do thank them for the tip, though. Next IRS return I'll put on a disclaimer that the entire transaction is void if I screw up the arithmetic. Think that'll work?
Why would you need to turn on the spy software unless you were told the machine was stolen? They're using it to preemptively find out if the student looks like s/he might steal it? The thing is obviously a trojan horse, and it's obviously time for a special emergency school board election.
One of the best choices, and definitely worth a close look. Great control center, small but helpful community, "just works" approach to software. I've installed it for 3 total computerphobes and have been almost disappointed by the lack of "support" calls once the initial settling in was over. PCLOS is maybe a couple weeks away from its new release with KDE4.4, which will require a rare reinstall, so if you can wait for that, all the better. There are also community versions with LXDE and other lightweight desktop alternatives if you want it even simpler.
It's not built on Debian, though. It uses RPMs with an apt/synaptic interface. The one possible disadvantage is that the repos have "only" around 12,000 apps available. Since the distro is designed as an integrated whole, installing outside packages is discouraged, which could be an advantage for the folks the OP describes -- everything they're remotely likely to want is there and they don't have to worry about incompatibilities, dependencies, and all the rest.
But this is different. They had so much to be proud of that they had to start pretending they were somebody else. Only Xfinity was big enough to bear the volume of all the goodness they were so proud of.
Amazing. Could it possibly be that a whole bunch of former customers will just forget they were ever interested? Are they going to move back the window for showing on on-demand and premium cable, too? When 95 percent of the product you produce is utter crap, each mostly indistinguishable from all the other pieces of crap, it sure makes sense to make yours harder to get.
Of course when the obvious an inevitable effects are felt it will all be the pirates' fault, or some woman videoing a theater party.
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As I recall, B&N just opened the Nook to the whole Android store, so that issue appears over.
17 percent stake doesn't give them significant control. Now they can let their shit fly unimpeded. Big difference. Only silver lining is that the remaining stock might sell out for next to nothing, and the Nook is easily modded to run pure Android, IIRC.
Yup. Same ol' sleazy "business model" they've used from the very beginning. And they say China has no tech imagination. Anyway, so long, Nook, it's been good to know you. Probly won't like you anymore once the price goes up 300 or 400 percent and you get an ugly new MS scare-mask face.
would be for Google to block search results, and mention in news pages, for any publisher objecting to reasonable quotes. If they don't want publicity, they should be accommodated.
And you can't install Linux or some other OS, I understand. Correct? If so the thing makes no sense at all. You can get a full featured netbook with actual apps and the browser of your choice. What's the CB got to make up for that?
Think what they could do with real remote-controlled toys. Some cargoplanes full of RC snakes or, well, tanks. Way more bang for the buck than what they're getting now.
If you're as essential as you think, raise your rates -- you're the seller, after all. If they seem ready to consider going with a price hike, offer to take it in the form of equity (because you believe in the company's future and want to be part of it, blablabla. Asking for options in lieu of a rate hike or straight equity would be an easier sell, as it gives them a stronger hold on you and gives you more motivation to work at the top of your game. But the real question is, are you getting paid less than you deserve, and are you willing to demand more. The form of the increase is secondary.
of the conflicts of interest that will become entrenched with the Comcast/NBC merger, if it's allowed to happen. Comcast is obviously incapable now of separating its responsibilities as an information carrier from its interests as a content marketer. Comcast's "anti-piracy" sabotage makes it clear as day that allowing it to add one of the country's largest content providers to its mix will be a disaster for freedom in information in America. The FCC, Congress, and the DOJ need to head this one off at the pass.
finally gets busted in a major way. Guess he should just stick to the tits and ass that launched his so-called career.
Could we at least have one of the Bridges?
that shows people who eat candy like sugar. Ain't breakthrough insights great?
IF hardware develops to enable this kind of choice. With all the hype about convergence, we're still nowhere near the point where Joe Couch Potato can point the remote in the living room, pull up a program menu of network, cable, and Net-based shows and play/record whatever he wants transparently. And without having to set up a separate "media center" and figure out all the connections, config, and access. It's not really a tech problem, it's about power struggles between cable and telco, content creators, search companies, DRM trogs, and corporate dimness. The so-called libertarians will howl, but the plain fact is that we need national standards aimed at finally bringing the communications age to the folks who don't want to know any more about what their "TV" is doing than they know about how the cable or satellite picture gets to their house.
not only because of the sloppy tech, but because of the clientele. Lots of money flowing from folks trying to lose their real identities and who are less likely than most to try and seek investigations if they get scammed. Doesn't get better than this.
Damn -- it's first concern in half the mobile-hardware reviews these days. Do these people actually turn the phone on or just hang it around their necks as jewelry? Wipe the scary prints off on your overpriced shirt awready.
if I fertilize them with autistic pee?
Oh well then -- that makes it all OK, as long as they said it wasn't their fault if they welsh on their bet. There was no malfunction until the Casino said there was after the fact. These guys are crooks. Period. Colorado should start a criminal fraud investigation and shut them and the certifier down. But it's Colorado. I do thank them for the tip, though. Next IRS return I'll put on a disclaimer that the entire transaction is void if I screw up the arithmetic. Think that'll work?
having your head up your ass is not just a dream anymore.
I sure gives "Blue Screen of Death" a whole new dimension.
Why would you need to turn on the spy software unless you were told the machine was stolen? They're using it to preemptively find out if the student looks like s/he might steal it? The thing is obviously a trojan horse, and it's obviously time for a special emergency school board election.
One of the best choices, and definitely worth a close look. Great control center, small but helpful community, "just works" approach to software. I've installed it for 3 total computerphobes and have been almost disappointed by the lack of "support" calls once the initial settling in was over. PCLOS is maybe a couple weeks away from its new release with KDE4.4, which will require a rare reinstall, so if you can wait for that, all the better. There are also community versions with LXDE and other lightweight desktop alternatives if you want it even simpler. It's not built on Debian, though. It uses RPMs with an apt/synaptic interface. The one possible disadvantage is that the repos have "only" around 12,000 apps available. Since the distro is designed as an integrated whole, installing outside packages is discouraged, which could be an advantage for the folks the OP describes -- everything they're remotely likely to want is there and they don't have to worry about incompatibilities, dependencies, and all the rest.
But this is different. They had so much to be proud of that they had to start pretending they were somebody else. Only Xfinity was big enough to bear the volume of all the goodness they were so proud of.
standard? Can somebody explain how the hell that could happen? What does H.264 have to do with HTML5, exactly?
Amazing. Could it possibly be that a whole bunch of former customers will just forget they were ever interested? Are they going to move back the window for showing on on-demand and premium cable, too? When 95 percent of the product you produce is utter crap, each mostly indistinguishable from all the other pieces of crap, it sure makes sense to make yours harder to get. Of course when the obvious an inevitable effects are felt it will all be the pirates' fault, or some woman videoing a theater party.
to making an ass print with a copy machine.
is not a crime. Singing during said crap movie should be. Let's get our priorities straight.