Comment Re:Where there go my business plans (Score 1) 242
Google would just buy you send you on your merry way.
Google would just buy you send you on your merry way.
I think it would if the defense got the right lawyer.
Example:
Your direct supervisor tells you, you can go home early, no need for you today.
You leave.
For one reason or another, HIS supervisor felt you shouldn't have left and fires you.
I'm pretty sure with the right lawyer one can argue, you had a reasonable expectation that it was okay for you to leave and not suffer the consequences, despite what the policy and your supe's supe said.
This isn't really any different, if your superior says its okay for you to do something, and someone over his head comes down on you for it, you have a defense.
while not quite a 'service', they provided a free browser and the haters took them to court over it. They provided a media player and they had the EU book thrown at them.
Doesn't MS own most of their lawyers?
I always wonder if those chanting firewire is dead ever even heard of digital camcorders. Almost every digital camcorder out there has some variation of a firewire port on it.
Delaware and Nevada don't approve of what you are trying to insinuate about companies who setup in their state. To say that MS or those other companies are committing any sort of 'crime' requiring 'justice' is saying that the aforementioned states are accomplices in the act. You want Washington and other states to drag Nevada and Delaware to court accusing them of conspiracy to commit tax evasion?
If states wanted to avoid this, they would all have the same tax structures. They don't and states like Nevada and Delaware know this and make it attractive to companies to setup shop there. The better question should be how can Washington and other states learn how to manage their money better so they can pull a Nevada or Delaware and still be sitting pretty.
The difference is (and I've seen this argument made before because I've seen another site aimed more at pc gaming do this) is with poker and other casino games, there is some 'chance' involved.
Removing the cheating factor from a console game, the amount of 'chance' is about zero. i.e with most FPS, players remember where weapons spawn and when, so map control isn't a luck game. In RTS, he who knows the correct build order will win most of the time, etc.
This is under the assumption that its only the players betting. I didn't read the article so I don't know if it allows spectators to bet on the results. IF it allows that, that opens a new can of worms, because spectators have no control over the event and are just hoping
so fast?
Perhaps we have different concepts of time. I've been reading about Linux trying to breakout on the desktop for over a decade.
My personal suspicion is that Apple planned the next iPod Touch to be called the Touch HD, Microsoft got wind of it, and decided to pre-announce to "reserve" the name in the public's mind.
*cough* http://www.htc.com/www/product/touchhd/overview.html *cough*
Giving dell the benefit of the doubt, I have to agree with you. The women who are 'offended' and say they could care less about the girly stuff shop at Dell's primary website or a competitors main site and there is nothing really to be gained from them. The Della site is targeted at the 'other women' who don't shop at Dell's main site because they don't feel its aime at them.
Yea I bet. I'll believe it when someone can show me the modified EU taxes and fees for 2010 reflecting the 1.45 billion Intel 'donated'.
The people aren't going to see any benefit from this.
Partially related:
You can't buy certain parts to certain Ferraris unless you are documented somewhere in Ferrari's systems as owning the car in question.
what does he sound like?
but all companies compare to the same time the previous year. This isn't some random metric Apple made up. I'm sure Apple would like to take credit for a making a metric all companies use but they can't.
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.