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I think, provided it is not technically possible for you to simultaneously use the software that you could sell it for a short period and then buy it back but you're not normally given a license to lend a work (it's usually specifically disclaimed) so the original acquirer wouldn't be able to pass on such a right (as they don't have it).

This could lead to rulings on what a "sale" is.

http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&... gives a summary thus:

>It follows from the foregoing that the answer to Questions 1 and 3 is that Articles 4(2) and 5(1) of Directive 2009/24 must be interpreted as meaning that, in the event of the resale of a user licence entailing the resale of a copy of a computer program downloaded from the copyright holder’s website, that licence having originally been granted by that rightholder to the first acquirer for an unlimited period in return for payment of a fee intended to enable the rightholder to obtain a remuneration corresponding to the economic value of that copy of his work, the second acquirer of the licence, as well as any subsequent acquirer of it, will be able to rely on the exhaustion of the distribution right under Article 4(2) of that directive, and hence be regarded as lawful acquirers of a copy of a computer program within the meaning of Article 5(1) of that directive and benefit from the right of reproduction provided for in that provision. //
I never found iGoogle too appealing because I find the interface messy, any idea what draws you to it? Is it just that it contains a bunch of RSS data?
Scalping here is prevented by the customers knowing that the tickets will be canceled, and so they'll be out of pocket.
I am still technically correct as 15 is more than 2.

But that still leaves the question, why hasn't it been picked up?
Effectively. You can still book venues, you just can't sell tickets to your event without Ticketmaster being involved.

A company called Livenation went around about 10 years ago and bought all the venues large enough to hold a profitable concert or show, then a few years back merged with Ticketmaster.

Livenation won't sell you one of their venues. Building a new one large enough to be profitable is near impossible. It's not just a building, its massive parking lots, planning and building commissions, working with local police for traffic management, unions for load ins/outs, getting sizable power feeds from your local utility, multi-million dollar sound systems, concessions contracts, medical services, etc., etc., etc.
"Now, tell me, how giving me bad mark helped Microsoft?"

The bad mark kept you at the company where you're currently happy and productive. If the company had just fired you they would have lost a soon-to-be happy and productive employee.

The overhead of hiring/firing people in a huge company is non-trivial. Even taking your less productive 1.5 years into account your employment is probably still a net gain for the company.
My first defection from Yahoo was to iGoogle which and is what I continue to use daily to this day.
I've just checked and no product under the Google+ umbrella fills this void.

How they kill this without a suitable replacement available? (the end date is Nov 2013 - so there's still some time).
I personly believe if you own a property then you should have some control who lives there. Also if your only comfortabel with people of a certain gender/race etc then it's yoru home and your choice and by outlining that then your being open, honest and avoiding the waste of your and others time. Now all that said you don't see many adverts for white british males only, some would say that advert would not last long and you would end up in jail. But racisim is in the eye of the beyholder and something is only race related when it is made a song and dance about and some people like a song and dance sadly.

Sadly all that will become of this is a lone women will rent a room to a male instead of a female and have a incident or the other way around and that will become the reason why you have this - for peoples saftly in there own homes.

Even sader is that if they make it against the law in a way they uphold then things wont change on results and will only casue peoples time to become wasted.

If you remove the whole race card argument then there is no argument.

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Red blood person who comes from Earth wins all the time in my books, shame everybody don't see it that way.
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If Ballmer was aiming for the next IBM, he'd have spun off Windows Phone as IBM sold off its PC business. They wouldn't be buying companies and pouring resources into it and pissing off the OEMs by pouring resources into Surface.

And if they were just shooting for Enterprise++, keeping Windows Phone and Surface to keep enterprise device sales under their umbrella, they'd be spinning off the XBox and consumer media properties.

But they're not spinning anything off. They're still expanding into new spaces. And they're fighting for consumer money harder than ever.

I'd say the evidence suggests that, even though it could be wildly profitable if it went the IBM way, Ballmer still wants Microsoft to be all things to all people.
They are living in some fantasy land. I know tons of people who use iGoogle and even if overall not that many people are, that doesn't mean it isn't valuable for what it does.

I'd love to see screenshots of how they imagine people now have access at their fingertips to summaries of all this information.

Going to each site individually or keeping things open in 20 tabs is a crap solution.
I don't really see NZ being cast as villians here. At most as the people oppressed by the US (who are the real villans).

But US troops on foreign soil is properly over what they would accept.
I like these series of product breakdowns that you do! It's sort of like the teardowns that some sites do to show the total cost of the product like when a new iPhone comes out and they see that it has like $200 worth of parts or something.

Really interesting. I do feel there are a lot more intangible costs that are not taken into account. It is more like the cost to recreate an existing product. Building a product is like looking for gold in the woods. It will require a lot of blind walking until finding the gold. And then others can just take shortcuts to follow. The original cost is much higher.

So I guess the question is that since Zynga could've recreated Draw Something for about $140,000, should they have just done that instead of buying OMGPOP. :-)
I don't understand why you're sure of that, considering how pissed MPAA members are with the Obama administration over SOPA. But I guess deciding something is true is easier than Googling it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/19/obama-sopa-chris-do...
Voting is one thing. Financial contribution to the campaign is a different thing. I imagine it's the latter that's at issue here.

So yes, you want politicians to do things that will get people to vote for them. But you do not necessarily want politicians to do things to get companies to pay for their campaigns.
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I hope Mayans are wrong and I get to see your launch or acquisition in 2018. Good luck..
You probably think it is utterly untrue because you don't even realise that such well known names like Mark Twain, are, in fact, just handles.
No, the average user at the time was perfectly content to download an application to play mp3s (WinAmp), surf the web (Netscape), etc. etc. And the notion that Microsoft made it "just work" is revisionist at best.
Over a year ago we created a really simple iGoogle gadget connected to our site that for some reason picked up steam, I really hate to see this go since I know a lot of our users have it.
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I don't support scalping but wish the artists and promoters would step up the fight themselves too.

That's exactly what Louis CK is doing.
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I'm a hardware designer by profession--digital logic specifically. A very large portion of our work involves FSMs. I don't think I've ever done a design without one, and usually several.

State machines, to me, are a completely natural way to solve problems. They are, of course, just one tool in the box, but in the digital logic world, FSMs are a tool used quite frequently.

I do some coding as well, mostly as a hobby/intellectual interest. I really struggle with a lot of CS ideas. Higher order functions require a lot of concentration on my part to keep straight, and recursion isn't a concept I run into much in hardware design.

I suppose it could just be a lack of familiarity, but I find state machines (Moore or Mealy) to be a very straight forward and concrete concept. I feel that much of CS requires the greater intellectual ability.

I struggle with MVC. It sounds great and eminently reasonable when I read about it, but it seems like the lines are smeared whenever I try to implement it or see others implementations.
Interesting that Nokia is allready a part of Microsoft. And since when is Apple a friendly company?
Very glad to see this not only documented, but patched extremely quickly. Heroku continues to impress, and Titanous is a credit to the security profession.
This rings true for me. The retro look of Winamp brings back vivid memories. I'm not sure how well Metro's content-is-everything aesthetic will go down with the public; it's bold, but possibly too much so.

This proposed rebranding veers a bit too cold (or Orwellian, as someone else said) for me, despite its futuristic appearance. I'd be afraid that MS would turn out to be an amoral megacorp that was trying to develop weaponize alien lifeforms. The style is cool; a bit too cool. Still, a lot of respect to the designer for putting this great piece of work together.
What do you use to convert the web pages to images?
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How? Most applications will work very well using a non-included browser. Chrome works exceptionally well on my Win7 workstation. How would using the bundled browser be any better?

All bundling did was encourage a crappy browser to stay crappy, and infest far too many PCs with malware due to a horrible plugin architecture as well as a lack of security consciousness.
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It wouldn't surprise me that Bill Gates admired the IBM of the 50's through 70's. They dominated the computer industry and did lots of amazing things.

The IBM the earned such derision from Microsoft was the IBM of the mid-80s and 90s. IBM steadily lost it dominance in computers (mainframes) to smaller computers (minicomputers and microcomputers). It seemed to be so mired in bureaucracy and their successful past that they couldn't do anything about it.

Microsoft of 2012 looks similar to IBM of 1982: their monopoly in computers (PCs) is threatened by smaller computers (smart phones and tablets). They are desperately trying to stay relevant, but are still stuck in their successful past (Windows) and can't abandon it. So as Mr. Hill said, it looks like they've become the thing that they hated so much.
I'm still a little bitter about Microsoft getting paid for the box I bought to run NeXTSTEP.
Ticketmaster IS the scalper. Ticketmaster is the party listing the tickets on Stubhub.

The whole system is indeed a mess. Legislation may be the only way to get things unstuck.
Russ Cox put the plan 9 grep's parser source on-line: http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/src/cmd/grep/grep.y

Hey, it's a yacc-compatible grammar.
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This is a really interesting insight into the way someone found access to a system but could someone explain to me why he needed PGP keys from heroku? I'm sure there is some good reason but if someone could tell me that would be great.
Its a good start. Why not expand into other supports?
The next Microsoft... is not Microsoft. Sadly.
But that is the key issue, you are not subject to the tyranny of the majority. Your quest is just to find a few people who like your art. The majority can hate it, consider you a witch and attempt to burn you at the stakes.

All of that doesn't matter. Just that a few people like you.
"I think this would be called "corruption" in any other country"

Boys, looks like we got us a terrorist right here. Better shut down his terror website.
How many people are honestly required to maintain iGoogle? Full time? One? Two if they browse the internet most of the day.

Just leave it up for christs sake. I wonder if this isn't about forcing people to other services.

Take the developers and let it keep going. No new commits, it works!
Was that the lottery back in, like, November? The lottery in January only allowed 2 per person.
Would love to see that graph against the trend from desktops to laptops. It definitely seems like people when buying their first Mac are doing so in a laptop form factor usually the Air.
That's a nice way of handling it, both from heroku and you who found the exploit. I feel content with my choice to use heroku.
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Though Yahoo Japan is backed by Google: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/technology/28yahoo.html
Please explain why capping secondary sales is a terribly misguided thing...
UPDATE: ~4:45PM Eastern - @ZendeskOps reported they rolled out 'mitigation measures' to resolve the outage. It appears all of their services are up now.
Yeah, the evidence is pretty damning. No doubt those visitors logs will soon be pulled from public access due to national security reasons for protection from terrorists who run file locker services.
It's standard practice to encrypt your emails when sending potential security notifications to the party that you're notifying. Not only does it keep out prying eyes, it ensures the person sending the email is who they say they are.
For some reason there is always common confusion between legally having a monopoly/monopoly power and abusing a monopoly/monopoly power.

The problem wasn't that MS was bundling a free browser. The problem was when Microsoft forced PC builders to not only include Internet Explorer but explicitly forbid them from including another browser as part of their offering.

Additionally, Microsoft artificially integrated IE into Windows and then tried to claim that the two were designed to work together. It was easily demonstrated that Windows continued to work fine after un-bundling IE.
Innovation in UX for its own sake is just digital masturbation. What's important isn't change, but change that improves the UX.
I'm with you on this. I really think the DOJ went after Microsoft for wrong thing. It would have been better if they had gone after the bundling agreements where Microsoft got paid for every machine shipped regardless if a Microsoft os was on it. Or the buy Office and get a discount on Windows. Netscape had better lobbyists not a better case.
I agree, this seems to be the story of many academics.
As a matter of fact, the (US) Postal Inspector considers this to be Identity Theft.
Techcrunch and readership are complete douchebag hipster wannabe idiots. Reading the tc comments on this article made me want to spit.
Here's another mirror: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/249607/all/Statecharts.pdf
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Google does a redirect to http before sending you out because of that... just look in the dev tools from your browser.
http://shrinktheweb.com.

Although I'm looking into switching over to a cheaper solution (http://url2png.com or http://linkpeek.com)
Easy to understand why this is happening. When Vista launched you could walk into a store and buy it on a PC that could barely run it. Mostly due to lack of RAM and bloat ware. Sure it was cheap but not a good value. A $350 borderline unusable computer is no bargain. I think people are starting I catch onto this. Things are better now in the PC market bur if you got burnt in the last few years the take away lesson is cheap isn't always better. If you only plan to replace your computer every 3-4 years $1000-$1500 isn't a huge investment to make.
To be fair, we don't know that to be the case, yet.

I do have to say that implicating Biden in a corruption-feeling scandal during an election year is a great legal strategy.
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That is until they need to scavenge and mess around the file system because of a virus, failed uninstall, missing DLL or something. Then they really care.
This is the concept of Full Disclosure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_disclosure
Repeat after me...You do not have to suffer to build a business. So many stories like this are sensationalized in the media and it convinces so many young entrepreneurs that it's a right of passage to struggle while building a business. It's not true. Yes, other entrepreneurs had determination and some sacrifice...but they most likely didn't suffer so dramatically, nor make their loved ones suffer along with them. Don't fall for the trap. Be smart enough to build a business without the struggle.

Capitalism says that in order to improve your life you must first improve the lives of others. The more lives you improve, the better your life will become. If you eliminate your own self interest of a good life, you have forgotten the biggest reason you are building a product in the first place. You aren't respecting your life, your wife, your business or your customers by doing this.

Stop struggling and build something valuable that people will pay you for. Living out of a van down by the river may get you a few news articles and motivational speaking gigs, but your struggle is not related to your success. I've been there...I've done it. It is irrelevant and unnecessary.
No... they just spend $10k+ for a dinner plate at a political fundraiser so they can have their side 'heard'.

Come on. It's legalized corruption with one degree of separation from outright "handing over briefcases of money".
no no no you're coming at this from the wrong angle.

To the politicians, it suffices to say that "It's bigger than what the Americans got".

The importance of CERN for European science and culture as a whole is an interesting subject, but I'd assume it's had very much positive effect.
That's the whole point of scalping, to affect access to tickets. Has more money => has more access to scalped tickets vs normal tickets
NZ is being oppressed by the US? Like the whole pirate revolution fantasy, there is no basis in reality. IP is not going away anytime soon, at least in free countries. The pirate party would have to be, at least in the US, one of the two major parties and even then it would be difficult. Either people can choose how to license their work or there are no licenses. I don't see a middle ground.
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You are ignoring the cost of maintaining software. That is huge. "Working" is a relative term.
The stack ranking system is really known as the "GE Way" and is one of the reasons Jack Welsh is famous and made a ton of money selling management books.

IBM also employed the 20/70/10% concept to employee reviews in the 90s.
Because it's neither bundled with any operating system (like IE or Safari) nor can they afford to do a lot of advertising (like Chrome).

Firefox got popular because many sites advertised it as a 'better browser than IE' for free, I guess.
But why should i even care about an advertising campaign , when i can look at youtube videos, reviews, and ask my friends about microsoft's products ? if microsoft's product is cool enough, or solves some specific problem i've got, i'll probably hear about it.
> Dutch multi-item auction with bidding.

Some events fail to sell out because they were priced too high, but others don't sell out because there's not enough interest. So you'd need to set a price floor.

> If auction ends sufficiently close to the event...

People don't know whether they've gotten in until after the auction ends. End it close enough to the event and people are unhappy they can't plan.
"You’ll see that if you try to sell the ticket anywhere for anything above the original price, we have the right to cancel your ticket (and refund your money). This is something I intend to enforce."

How? He doesn't claim that he will check id's for all sold tickets (he says he might) and he may not be on strong legal footing to take a chance and deny entrance to someone who shows up with a ticket that they purchased.

Using stubhub as an example I'm wondering what the connection is legally between a representative from louisck seeing a particular seat is for sale on stubhub and then cancelling the ticket making the assumption of course that the person buying the ticket posted it there (and it's not a typo or other error or even some kind of "denial of seat" attack against the true purchaser).

"Tickets may not be resold for any amount above face value."

How is that going to be enforced? What is the cross check between a particular seat and proof that a ticket was sold for a higher amount?

Edit: Also what happens if you want to buy a ticket as a gift for someone? How can it be proven that a ticket was not a gift and that it was resold at a price higher than face value?
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What if everyone is solving the wrong problem?
They kept messing around with the layouts for it until the very last moment (you can no longer drag and drop widgets into tabs, switching between the tabs takes two clicks instead of one), but I'm in the same boat - any decent replacements?

Netvibes and My Yahoo! both seem to have deteriorated.
While that certainly does seem appealing, zombie projects can have serious impact elsewhere in the company. For instance, if a security bug is found in some piece of common infrastructure, you'll have to pull the update and deploy the new code. Seems simple, but in the months or years since the last deploy, many other pieces of infrastructure have changed and now you have to integrate, test and safely deploy a product for which nobody is familiar.

This is not just speculation, either. The project I worked on at Google had to deal with such zombie products all the time, and they were a HUGE drain on productivity for us.
I'm not ignoring it at all. I'm just calling bullshit on the idea that the cost is anywhere near "huge".

1 developer, 75% time. That's it. If they are north of 2 developers they are doing something very wrong.
>Granted, it should be a lot easier to tweak their code for Opera

In fact, most things would just work in Opera as they do in the other browser if there weren't any Opera-specific sniffing code in place locking Opera out.
Since the compressed spring has stored energy the answer would be "Yes, but so little as to be completely unmeasurable." E=mc^2 applies to all energy and mass, but if you work the equation with sample energies, you will quickly discover that a substantial amount of energy becomes very, very little mass.
I'm apprehensive about your product because of the grey background. Studies have shown that blue is very calming and perhaps you should add some more of it. http://www.precisionintermedia.com/color.html

Also how do I share your launch progress bar with my friends on Facebook?
The incentive is to allow a specific sect of well-to-do fans access to his show that they didn't get otherwise.

Whether or not you agree with that incentive is entirely separate.
How does "standards essential" sound? The point is that there is an industry standard, and the "FRAND" patents are (probably) necessary to implement the standard. There's a substantial difference between that type of patent and one for proprietary, single-vendor tech.
Why is Amazon so dominant in e-commerce if the working conditions are so bad?
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Exactly. Apple as great as their products are, have started to resurrect the look/feel lawsuits of the 90s with their patents on trivial things such as how to unlock a phone, having a jump bar, etc.