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Comment Re:Software? Really? (Score 2) 90

Yes. My users love the Z30/passport software, the HUB, the calendar and email management, intelligent CC'ing, intelligent meeting mode, quick notification for late meetings, quick delete of read messages it is all very well thought out. As a productivity tool it blows everything else out of the water. You can't play your games on it, sorry.

Comment Re:Our financial foundation is strong (Score 2) 90

The reality is you are hopelessly wrong. They had +257M cash flow from Operations last fiscal. Their investments cash flow (which is where asset selling/purchasing would occur) was down 439M - ie they invested MORE in assets then they sold. They have been buying assets with cash. Buying. Not selling. They have a profitable software business. They are out of the unprofitable hardware business, good for them. They will wind up like Novell - once dominant, nearly wiped out, but still chugging along as multi-billion dollar business.

Comment Just rename windows 8 ... (Score 2, Interesting) 153

So they are calling the Xbox version of "Windows 10" the same as the phone version of "Windows 10" the same as the Surface RT version of "Windows 10"? Even though they have different interfaces, requirements, CPU's etc? Why not just rename Windows 8 and Windows 7 to " Windows 10"? They could leap another 100M+ devices that way. The delta between 8.1 and 10 can't be any great than that between Mobile and xboxone, right? rename hotmail to "Windows 10" to, pick up another 100M users there. They can hit a Billion quickly if they just rebrand everything "Window 10". It's been done before. MSN, Live, Windows10.

Comment Re:Asinine. (Score 1) 438

The 2nd amendment only went insane recently. It was perfectly sane and reasonable for the first 217 years of its existence. The effort started when the NRA was taken over by far right wing gun nuts in 1977. The NRA moved its primary purpose away from gun safety advocacy and marksmanship to gun ownership advocacy. They pushed for more guns, finally getting the dream of unlimited weapons for all in 2008. Why? Because they made money, that's why. No money in community gun safety programs. Shooting competitions? Boring. Lots of money in gun rights rallies, lots of fear, lots of excitement, and that generates money - to the tune of 350-400M a year now. Ka-Ching!

Submission + - Malibu Media stay lifted, motion to quash denied

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: In the federal court for the Eastern District of New York, where all Malibu Media cases have been stayed for the past year, the Court has lifted the stay and denied the motion to quash in the lead case, thus permitting all 84 cases to move forward. In his 28-page decision (PDF), Magistrate Judge Steven I. Locke accepted the representations of Malibu's expert, one Michael Patzer from a company called Excipio, that in detecting BitTorrent infringement he relies on "direct detection" rather than "indirect detection", and that it is "not possible" for there to be misidentification.

Comment Re:Criminal (Score 1) 528

Except the US is the only first past the post that only has two parties. So the law works in the US, and fails to work anywhere else: "While one of the only principles of political science elevated to the level of a law, in practice most countries with plurality voting have more than two parties. While the United States is very much a two-party system, the United Kingdom, Canada and India have consistently had multiparty parliaments.[3][4] Eric Dickson and Ken Sheve argue that there is a counter force to Duverger's Law, that on the national level a plurality system encourages two parties, but in the individual constituencies supermajorities will lead to the vote fracturing"

Comment Re:Driving yes, but charging? (Score 1) 990

Yes you need to drive a 5000lb, 15mpg, 400 horsepower pickup truck so once a year you can pick up a piece of wood at Home Depot. Or you could just borrow the home depot truck. But why pay HD $15/hr for their truck when you can pay $50,000 for one of you very own?

Comment Re:Driving yes, but charging? (Score 1) 990

An important part of ignorance is thinking things will never change. Up north, our parking lots are already wired for electricity. In the winter, you park, plug in and go to work. After work, the engine isn't frozen solid because it was plugged in . Sadly, most of these plug lots are gone now as synthetic oil, 0W20 and lighter engines don't freeze as much as conventional 10w40. The point is there is NO reason why your parking lot could not be wired. It's been done before. We can do it again. So if that's your only argument...what was your argument again?

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