Don't you have it backwards, AT&T is royally ticked off now that the US will finally be getting a second iPhone carrier. They are dropping special treatment now that they are not getting special treatment.
Don't worry about the we lawyers, the bigger the fight (referring to the class action side of the legal world) the more you can be sure that we will be the only winners of the case.
We are waiting for the iPhone tablet not because of the hardware and the experience. They only have to be better than average, not superlative (viz: iPod, iPhone) We are waiting for Apple because of iTunes.
The formats for magazines, ebooks, and movies will standardize when Apple releases its tablet. I'm not saying that everyone will adopt Apple's standards, just that, when some do, the others will polarize to a few alternatives instead of each one inventing their own form factor.
I'm predicting iFrame to be a big deal on iTunes and the Mac Tablet, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFrame_(video_format) and actually do expect that to become a standard screen resolution for ebook players and slates.
Don't discriminate. Revoke the tax-exempt status of ALL churches . . . Make non-profits pay the same real estate taxes as everyone else, so that the free market can actually work to put underused properties to their best use.
Speaking about U.S. non-profits the bright line is "personal inurement" and I think that is a good place for it to say. http://www.irs.gov/charities/nonprofits/article/0,,id=169403,00.html The government is therefore not placed in a position to say whether donating shoes to Africa or teaching computer skills in Dallas are more valuable. It just has to determine whether the activity results in individuals diverting untaxed income to their personal benefit. The government is also not put in a position of deciding whether atheists, spaghetti-monster-believers, or Mormons are more valuable to the communities where they exist.
Thus if the Church of Scientology loses a tax case it is because it has not respected personal inurement rules (or the related principle that donations must be gratuitous).
The U.S. system has the advantage of content-neutral enforcement but financial transparency. I would choose this result even if it means that non-profits I don't value or agree with get the benefits of the system. BTW, the rules for joint ventures and investment for non-profits are so restrictive, that some health care providers are converting from non-profits when they can. It's not a free-ride by any means.
The US Constitution allows the judicial system to decide cases and controversies. So, unless otherwise enabled by a state constitution, my understanding is that no court can issue advisory decisions. There has to be two parties who have a controversy. Once the plaintiff wants to end it, then the ruling is of no value.
That's why, as quoted above, FRCP 41(a)(1) provides that voluntary dismissal by the plaintiff or by stipulation is accomplished "without order of the court."
I like Vista (sure, especially the added features that were in OSX first) and think it would not have gotten such a bad reputation if MS had been (1) more honest about the steepness of the upgrade and (2) showed off the feature changes.
I think MS needs to take a page from Apple's playbook but not from the ground-up approach. Actually it is something they used for Office 2007, so its not copying something that is uniquely Apple. Train your users with videos while riding the hype.
Apple says it is a revolution so that it is off the hook for not being compatible. If Vista says it is a step forward, don't try to pretend there will be no learning curve and that I should expect my old computer to perform or behave in the same way.
Is the iphone or Leopard quirky, does it require adaptation. Certainly, but a chunk of the users went through the learning curve--read the manual as it were--BEFORE they even bought the device.
I had to get special permission to use FF because to search as you type is very important for my legal research. But it looks like it uses 3 times the memory as IE. Computer guy thinks the answer to my complaints that my computer is slow is that I should stop doing so much research--ie don't have so many FF windows open--because FF balloons out of control. Is FF 3 going to use less memory?
Just so everyone is on the same page. The courts have read the Fourth Amendment protection against search and seizure to extend only where there is an expectation of privacy. In your home or sitting on the backseat of your car, you have an expectation on privacy in the contents of a suitcase or a sealed envelope. If the government has a warrant or a range of special needs, it can open that suitcase and the sealed letter. There are times when we have no expectation of privacy so the 4th Amendment protections do not apply. The border is a classic black-letter situation where the expectation of privacy falls away in the face of national security. The government may randomly open _international_ mail for example, because of decrease property interests.
My opinion: there must be a distinction based on the nature of the intrusiveness of the search. Looking through books for cash or drugs hidden there seems within the governement's self-defined powers. Cross referencing the titles of each book with a black list, be it communist, fundamentalist, or tax avoidance should be outside their special interest.
Help me understand the medical records part. I know we (now) have no fourth amendment protections regarding bank records and employment history, I know the government has succeeded in getting telephone records from the telecoms without a warrant, what is the status on medical records, are there no protections on those?
"If there is one side you should not listen to on if web comic X should be put there, it is the web comic writers. Because these are already biased."
Just to redirect: everyone with an opinion has a "bias," you are talking about the special type of bias called "self interest." Systems can't stop decisions based on biased (nor should they?) but I think what you're saying is that when a constituency passes a level of self interest where they have so much at stake it eclipses the good of a community, their opinion is less useful in a process that intends to serve the community.
I see the buzz on wifi for blackberrys. How hard is it to put wifi in a flash-based zune the size of a nano? Smart phones already have a file management system and a way to handle connecting, would the overhead of DOS be too much for something the size (or maybe its the price) of a nano. thanks
Though not a inveterate critic of Microsoft, I have remarked that they are best at canabalizing others' ideas rather than innovating. I was excited about the ribbon first because it does seem to be a cool alternative to menus but also because it represented something they believed in that wasn't just ripped off of Macs or a small startup developer. But it is so fat. I live on my laptop and smaller UI is better! I meticulously keep the toolbars minimized etc. to give the most visibility to my work product rather than the UI.
To state the obvious (to me, now that I think about it wasn't important to Microsoft) the bottom of a laptop screen is uncomfortably low--a couple inches below where one would normally place the bottom of a monitor. The screen real at the top is the most convenient for eye-level but that is the space most consumed by UI in general and the ribbon even more so. My next laptop will probably be a widescreen. In that case a ribbon will consume an even larger percentage of my screen. OpenOffice doesn't meet my firm's needs yet--though we are anxious to see how well Mozilla integrates the calendar with Thunderbird--so Microsoft, remember the laptops!
China is maturing. China joined the WTO in 2001 which required adoption of TRIPS' minimum standards of intellectual property protections. At the end of January 2006, the IP legal news sources carried two stories where the Chinese courts enforced a foreign trademark (Starbucks) and foreign copyrights (Chanel and others). The news wasn't the dollar awards but the injunction which is much more useful. Yes the pace is very slow, the judicial culture really didn't realize it had the independence to enforce the new laws in favor of foreign capitalists, but the Chinese government certainly is NOT naïve and sees a day when China will have IP it wants to enforce in other countries. The first steps are being taken now. So yes, it is good for Microsoft to make steps too.
That said, I heartily agree with the comparison Linux to market place freedom that is absent from Chinese political culture. I would love for someone to successfully pitch Linux to a government official as an alternative to Microsoft's OS hegemony. I hope that Linux culture would be a powerful transforming force in China.
I have been guilty of sending resumes for a position I wasn't exactly qualified for but felt I could handle. You have put your finger on the reason and I didn't even know it. I thought they were as desperate as I was if they were listed on Monster.com. If they're so desperate, surely they would take me, and there's no harm in asking.
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Don't you have it backwards, AT&T is royally ticked off now that the US will finally be getting a second iPhone carrier. They are dropping special treatment now that they are not getting special treatment.
Don't worry about the we lawyers, the bigger the fight (referring to the class action side of the legal world) the more you can be sure that we will be the only winners of the case.
We are waiting for the iPhone tablet not because of the hardware and the experience. They only have to be better than average, not superlative (viz: iPod, iPhone) We are waiting for Apple because of iTunes.
The formats for magazines, ebooks, and movies will standardize when Apple releases its tablet. I'm not saying that everyone will adopt Apple's standards, just that, when some do, the others will polarize to a few alternatives instead of each one inventing their own form factor.
I'm predicting iFrame to be a big deal on iTunes and the Mac Tablet, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFrame_(video_format) and actually do expect that to become a standard screen resolution for ebook players and slates.
Don't discriminate. Revoke the tax-exempt status of ALL churches . . . Make non-profits pay the same real estate taxes as everyone else, so that the free market can actually work to put underused properties to their best use.
Speaking about U.S. non-profits the bright line is "personal inurement" and I think that is a good place for it to say. http://www.irs.gov/charities/nonprofits/article/0,,id=169403,00.html The government is therefore not placed in a position to say whether donating shoes to Africa or teaching computer skills in Dallas are more valuable. It just has to determine whether the activity results in individuals diverting untaxed income to their personal benefit. The government is also not put in a position of deciding whether atheists, spaghetti-monster-believers, or Mormons are more valuable to the communities where they exist.
Thus if the Church of Scientology loses a tax case it is because it has not respected personal inurement rules (or the related principle that donations must be gratuitous).
The U.S. system has the advantage of content-neutral enforcement but financial transparency. I would choose this result even if it means that non-profits I don't value or agree with get the benefits of the system. BTW, the rules for joint ventures and investment for non-profits are so restrictive, that some health care providers are converting from non-profits when they can. It's not a free-ride by any means.
Hmmm "G1" vs "3G." Which is better? Well this one is third generation, and this one is first . . . which should I get?
The US Constitution allows the judicial system to decide cases and controversies. So, unless otherwise enabled by a state constitution, my understanding is that no court can issue advisory decisions. There has to be two parties who have a controversy. Once the plaintiff wants to end it, then the ruling is of no value.
That's why, as quoted above, FRCP 41(a)(1) provides that voluntary dismissal by the plaintiff or by stipulation is accomplished "without order of the court."
A rash of data center hardware thefts is the starting point for the cyber-punk audio book on podiobooks called Beautiful Red. Very good listen. http://www.podiobooks.com/title/beautiful-red/feed/
I like Vista (sure, especially the added features that were in OSX first) and think it would not have gotten such a bad reputation if MS had been (1) more honest about the steepness of the upgrade and (2) showed off the feature changes. I think MS needs to take a page from Apple's playbook but not from the ground-up approach. Actually it is something they used for Office 2007, so its not copying something that is uniquely Apple. Train your users with videos while riding the hype. Apple says it is a revolution so that it is off the hook for not being compatible. If Vista says it is a step forward, don't try to pretend there will be no learning curve and that I should expect my old computer to perform or behave in the same way. Is the iphone or Leopard quirky, does it require adaptation. Certainly, but a chunk of the users went through the learning curve--read the manual as it were--BEFORE they even bought the device.
I had to get special permission to use FF because to search as you type is very important for my legal research. But it looks like it uses 3 times the memory as IE. Computer guy thinks the answer to my complaints that my computer is slow is that I should stop doing so much research--ie don't have so many FF windows open--because FF balloons out of control. Is FF 3 going to use less memory?
Just so everyone is on the same page. The courts have read the Fourth Amendment protection against search and seizure to extend only where there is an expectation of privacy. In your home or sitting on the backseat of your car, you have an expectation on privacy in the contents of a suitcase or a sealed envelope. If the government has a warrant or a range of special needs, it can open that suitcase and the sealed letter. There are times when we have no expectation of privacy so the 4th Amendment protections do not apply. The border is a classic black-letter situation where the expectation of privacy falls away in the face of national security. The government may randomly open _international_ mail for example, because of decrease property interests. My opinion: there must be a distinction based on the nature of the intrusiveness of the search. Looking through books for cash or drugs hidden there seems within the governement's self-defined powers. Cross referencing the titles of each book with a black list, be it communist, fundamentalist, or tax avoidance should be outside their special interest.
Help me understand the medical records part. I know we (now) have no fourth amendment protections regarding bank records and employment history, I know the government has succeeded in getting telephone records from the telecoms without a warrant, what is the status on medical records, are there no protections on those?
"If there is one side you should not listen to on if web comic X should be put there, it is the web comic writers. Because these are already biased." Just to redirect: everyone with an opinion has a "bias," you are talking about the special type of bias called "self interest." Systems can't stop decisions based on biased (nor should they?) but I think what you're saying is that when a constituency passes a level of self interest where they have so much at stake it eclipses the good of a community, their opinion is less useful in a process that intends to serve the community.
I skimmed both linked articles. Is there a summary of what they are trying to avoid?
I see the buzz on wifi for blackberrys. How hard is it to put wifi in a flash-based zune the size of a nano? Smart phones already have a file management system and a way to handle connecting, would the overhead of DOS be too much for something the size (or maybe its the price) of a nano.
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Though not a inveterate critic of Microsoft, I have remarked that they are best at canabalizing others' ideas rather than innovating. I was excited about the ribbon first because it does seem to be a cool alternative to menus but also because it represented something they believed in that wasn't just ripped off of Macs or a small startup developer. But it is so fat. I live on my laptop and smaller UI is better! I meticulously keep the toolbars minimized etc. to give the most visibility to my work product rather than the UI.
To state the obvious (to me, now that I think about it wasn't important to Microsoft) the bottom of a laptop screen is uncomfortably low--a couple inches below where one would normally place the bottom of a monitor. The screen real at the top is the most convenient for eye-level but that is the space most consumed by UI in general and the ribbon even more so. My next laptop will probably be a widescreen. In that case a ribbon will consume an even larger percentage of my screen. OpenOffice doesn't meet my firm's needs yet--though we are anxious to see how well Mozilla integrates the calendar with Thunderbird--so Microsoft, remember the laptops!
China is maturing. China joined the WTO in 2001 which required adoption of TRIPS' minimum standards of intellectual property protections. At the end of January 2006, the IP legal news sources carried two stories where the Chinese courts enforced a foreign trademark (Starbucks) and foreign copyrights (Chanel and others). The news wasn't the dollar awards but the injunction which is much more useful. Yes the pace is very slow, the judicial culture really didn't realize it had the independence to enforce the new laws in favor of foreign capitalists, but the Chinese government certainly is NOT naïve and sees a day when China will have IP it wants to enforce in other countries. The first steps are being taken now. So yes, it is good for Microsoft to make steps too.
That said, I heartily agree with the comparison Linux to market place freedom that is absent from Chinese political culture. I would love for someone to successfully pitch Linux to a government official as an alternative to Microsoft's OS hegemony. I hope that Linux culture would be a powerful transforming force in China.
I have been guilty of sending resumes for a position I wasn't exactly qualified for but felt I could handle. You have put your finger on the reason and I didn't even know it. I thought they were as desperate as I was if they were listed on Monster.com. If they're so desperate, surely they would take me, and there's no harm in asking.