If you are going to sell drugs, launder money, run a gambling website, or whatever offshore. I think it is safe to assume that the U.S. gets crossed off your places to EVER visit along with countries that are willing to do our bidding.
Show me any group other than an ISPs, cable broadband companies, or their shills that want to remove or cripple net neutrality. That is all you need to know.
Is it better for consumers? Does it promote new technology? Does it create a more competitive landscape? Does it build a robust marketplace? Or does it simply exist to further strengthen and enrich companies that already, in most cases, have a government-created monopoly?
It has been known for years that iTunes is a deeply flawed software and that Apple just doesn't care. Anyone using it deserves whatever pain Apple inflicts upon them.
Sorry, Netflix. You just made me think about your price and that means I'll cancel when the price goes up.
Nothing on Netflix that I can't Torrent and the Netflix recommendation engine is so horrible that it never suggests a movie that I am interested in seeing.
Hasn't anyone considered that we might be the "crazy neighbor" or "freeloading cousin" that you let go to voicemail when he or she calls?
Time to be brutally honest with ourselves. Maybe there are other forms of life, but like the hot chick in Marketing, "they just aren't that into us..."
Michael Robertson makes Charles Ponzi look legit. Investing in a Robertson start-up is moronic. You would get a better return if you had put $200K in an IndyMac savings account.
If I'm going to pay $500 for a phone and get reemed on a data plan, its secret feature better be alot more than just streaming YouTube video. If I want ridiculous, time-wasting crap like that, I'll get a Helio Ocean so I can keep track of my pedophile friends on MySpace...
Gemstar got lucky in the patent lottery and has been trying to extort money from anyone that lists television schedules.
I'll bet that they will offer integrated television listings to any application for about twice the price of an annual subscription to the TV Guide per user because "integrated TV listings have more value..." or some crap like that.
So, Google has invented a system that can read my mind and analyze all the content surrounding a particular video clip to determine with 100% accuracy whether my usage of said clip constitutes fair use or not? That is some serious technology!
I'm impressed that I'll be able to use that Disney clip loaded to Google Video that is embedded in my blog on a completely different site for my college research paper on Disney's history of copyright violations.
I thought it was a violation of the Patriot Act to buy products from manufacturers other than Haliburton and Diebold. Buying competing products is supporting terrorism!
If the music industry had any vision whatsoever, the real fear today would not be piracy. It should be that one company (Apple) is gaining a huge amount of control over music distribution and that control increases daily as their profits dwindle daily.
I'm sure that Jobs is sitting in his office laughing as the music industry creates a business for him and then prepares to give him the keys to the castle. Unless the music industry scraps DRM and embraces multiple online music retailers, Apple won't have to negotiate pricing with the "music industry" because it will OWN the "music industry" lock, stock, and barrel.
In the future with DRM, there will be two labels: Apple and eMusic. Apple will be mainstream pop. eMusic will be alternative and independent.
I'm already having enough political smoke blown up my ass by the 2008 presidential contenders, Gavin Newsom, Bush/Cheney, and Scooter Libby. I don't have any room left for corporate smoke...
I think eBay should just add a disclaimer to "virtual property" sales. Maybe something like this:
"If you are spending real money to buy auction items in a "virtual world" we highly suggest that you spend that money on a.) moving out of your parents basements b.) buying clothes without Star Trek quotes on them c.) shower or bath products d.) all of the above. eBay thanks you and the women that ignore you at bars and clubs also thank you."
using natural-language processing, figure out what are the tasks they agreed upon.
This would only work for conversations between people of the same sex. There has never been a conversation between a man and a woman in which both participants would agree on the tasks...
M: Want to continue this conversation at my place?
F: Take a leap!
Computer: Agreed to move conversation to male's residence by leaping.
F: When are you going to mow the lawn?
M: Yeah, I'll get right on that.
Computer: Male agreed to mow lawn at earliest opportunity
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It is actually quite obvious: A combination of eye tracking, voice, motion capture, and predictive AI.
If you are going to sell drugs, launder money, run a gambling website, or whatever offshore. I think it is safe to assume that the U.S. gets crossed off your places to EVER visit along with countries that are willing to do our bidding.
What's that?
If the expansion of the universe is not consistent, what causes the variation?
Show me any group other than an ISPs, cable broadband companies, or their shills that want to remove or cripple net neutrality. That is all you need to know.
Is it better for consumers? Does it promote new technology? Does it create a more competitive landscape? Does it build a robust marketplace? Or does it simply exist to further strengthen and enrich companies that already, in most cases, have a government-created monopoly?
-Meteor strike -Climate change -Conventional war -Nuclear war -Pandemic(s) Any of those items could devastate or eliminate the human race.
"Anonymous Members Arrested By SEC For Insider Trading In Advance Of Negative Reports"
....one of the most brilliant minds of our time
The opinions of the one of the most brilliant minds of our time are irrelevant, but you believe that your own comments are? Please explain.
It has been known for years that iTunes is a deeply flawed software and that Apple just doesn't care. Anyone using it deserves whatever pain Apple inflicts upon them.
Sorry, Netflix. You just made me think about your price and that means I'll cancel when the price goes up.
Nothing on Netflix that I can't Torrent and the Netflix recommendation engine is so horrible that it never suggests a movie that I am interested in seeing.
It's been happening since the first human rode a dinosaur!
Time to be brutally honest with ourselves. Maybe there are other forms of life, but like the hot chick in Marketing, "they just aren't that into us..."
Michael Robertson makes Charles Ponzi look legit. Investing in a Robertson start-up is moronic. You would get a better return if you had put $200K in an IndyMac savings account.
If I'm going to pay $500 for a phone and get reemed on a data plan, its secret feature better be alot more than just streaming YouTube video. If I want ridiculous, time-wasting crap like that, I'll get a Helio Ocean so I can keep track of my pedophile friends on MySpace...
I'll bet that they will offer integrated television listings to any application for about twice the price of an annual subscription to the TV Guide per user because "integrated TV listings have more value..." or some crap like that.
Signed,
Bitter SageTV Owner
Doctor, who you be axin' again?
I'm impressed that I'll be able to use that Disney clip loaded to Google Video that is embedded in my blog on a completely different site for my college research paper on Disney's history of copyright violations.
I thought it was a violation of the Patriot Act to buy products from manufacturers other than Haliburton and Diebold. Buying competing products is supporting terrorism!
I'm sure that Jobs is sitting in his office laughing as the music industry creates a business for him and then prepares to give him the keys to the castle. Unless the music industry scraps DRM and embraces multiple online music retailers, Apple won't have to negotiate pricing with the "music industry" because it will OWN the "music industry" lock, stock, and barrel.
In the future with DRM, there will be two labels: Apple and eMusic. Apple will be mainstream pop. eMusic will be alternative and independent.
I'm already having enough political smoke blown up my ass by the 2008 presidential contenders, Gavin Newsom, Bush/Cheney, and Scooter Libby. I don't have any room left for corporate smoke...
Require the consumer to enter their "ID card #" for all online transactions so the government can properly assess sales tax.
According to this, couldn't the whole Religious Right be arrested under CA law?
I think eBay should just add a disclaimer to "virtual property" sales. Maybe something like this:
"If you are spending real money to buy auction items in a "virtual world" we highly suggest that you spend that money on a.) moving out of your parents basements b.) buying clothes without Star Trek quotes on them c.) shower or bath products d.) all of the above. eBay thanks you and the women that ignore you at bars and clubs also thank you."
This would only work for conversations between people of the same sex. There has never been a conversation between a man and a woman in which both participants would agree on the tasks...
M: Want to continue this conversation at my place?
F: Take a leap!
Computer: Agreed to move conversation to male's residence by leaping.
F: When are you going to mow the lawn?
M: Yeah, I'll get right on that.
Computer: Male agreed to mow lawn at earliest opportunity
Online Predator v. Online Alien