The concept was a good one, but the major thing that kept bugging me was that I would log in after several weeks or months and my playlists kept shrinking. I don't even know which songs it was removing, but in a lot of cases it would remove some songs by an artist and leave others by the same one (or even the same album).
That would be them complying with DMCA requests in direct contradiction to what was found in this court ruling.
Yea... but how well can a little usb stick decode? I've got a dedicated media PC with an i5 processor and a $200 video card for hardware accelerated decoding just so I can watch 1080p mkv files. Even with all that, some of the more detailed nature stuff can get jittery.
Grooveshark is (was) awesome. This is an unfortunate turn of events. It's how music "Should" work. Had the studios worked with them on a the platform and a form of compensation I think it could have been the future of music.
That makes sense... I was starting to wonder... how would a Verizon customer use this to talk to an AT&T customer when they have entirely different Frequencies, Radios, Antennas, and protocol? The answers is, they wont. This will be a useless feature everyone will turn off or ignore. At best, you'll get in-network push to talk, everything else will be spam and ads. Lame.
I will say though, that I credit Australia for having some rational procedures regarding security.
This would have been rational had their security not be a complete failure in the first place. If you can "accidentally" stroll through their security checkpoint without even looking up, the entire premise of security is pretty much lost. It's pretty easy... each exit, 1 person wide with a guard standing there. Break away doors (like at the super market) in case there's an emergency like a fire, people can push them open.
The problem is the FAA(or Australian version of it in this case) think they can replace a $40k/yr employee with a $50k machine and $10k in process. Sorry, you can't.
When I was in Africa, they had a guy standing there. I couldn't read the language so I didn't realize I wasn't supposed to go that way. I walked up and he held up a finger and said "No." while shaking his head. Then pointed at the security check in... "Ah! thanks! I said" and he smiled. Amazing what real employees can do.
WTF?
The rule isn't "practice 10,000hrs and you'll be successful"
It's: "If you are successful, you probably practiced 10,000 hours"
Meaning, if you have the correct body shape, mental acuity, financial situation, then 10,000hrs of practice could give you the opportunity to be an outlier. Midgets can't be in the NBA just because they practiced a lot. I'm not going to win spelling bees just because I've spent 10k hours posting to slashdot. etc...
Which is what I said. You would watch the end of time behind you. To and outside observer time would stop for you. To you, the outside observer would age extremely fast.
The EU never made such a statement and never levies fines in such cases even if the action turns out to be illegal.
This is another case of breathless reporters doing their best to get clicks by accusing Apple of something, anything.
It clearly states in that article that they may very well find that Apple is altering prices in an illegal way and may get fined. It's just not as simple as the original article made it seem. And if you doubt at all that Apple is doing this, you're a tad naive. If they get caught at it or not is the only real question.
to how taxes were done right after WWII. 39% across the board for all companies. Close the loophole. If you have "a" presence in a given country, you pay taxes in that country.
We could have socialized medicine in the US if we could get this money. Countries should band together and collect what owed. Full stop. Let's also kill right now, the notion that corporations are persons. It's a fallacy designed to be pro-business.
If true... this isn't a loophole. It's fraud.
It would be one directional.
This American Life is as factual as Top Gear, i.e. they are entertainment....
You have no idea what you're talking about. It's a show of taped interviews with people. You can't get any more factual than that.
I happened across this before it got on here and listened to the entire thing. Here's a brief summary:
1. This American Life is a great show. My favorite, you should listen to it often.
2. Managers at the fed seem to be terrified of the banks
3. The lady doing the recordings is aggressive and speaks her mind.
4. There are many "Old Guard" people at the fed that have a cozy, friendly relationship with the banks they work with.
5. The banks actively cultivate this relationship because they realize friendly regulators are less likely to press issues.
6. She uncovered the fact that GS had no formal definition for "Conflict of interest" which is a violation of Fed rules.
7. The fed worked for months gathering evidence and there was consensus that they needed to force GS into creating a policy
8. Suddenly one day her management agreed GS did have a policy just not a good one.
9. She was called in and her boss tried to bully her into changing her report to say they did have a policy.
10. Not too long after she was fired.
11. I believe the suggestion is that GS has control over management and who gets hired/fired at the fed.
most people here anyone have known for a long time that the banks and government have a symbiotic relationship. I guess its nice to see some proof for once. I cant say I am shocked in the least however.
So why is it, that when presented with evidence of some horrible thing, people tend to use it as a tool to act arrogant? "I always knew that was going on. You're a fool if you didn't."
You didn't know, you suspected. We all did. This is evidence. Get mad. Apathy is your enemy.
So... the federal government can hold patents? No one has a problem with this?
We declare the names of all variables and functions. Yet the Tao has no type specifier.
