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by JamisonM 15y ago
They are going to assert the Android is for phones, and J2ME is for phones. Thus Android broke their WORA definition for that platform. Seems fairly straightforward and that Google is kind of making their case for them. (Just to clarify: I
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Seems to me that a Nokia Series 60 Smartphone that I had did record calls, but it made an annoying beeping sound that both parties could hear every minute or so. The explanation in the manual was that due to the laws in some countries they
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While I appreciate the need for a political fight I still wonder why the tech community has not been working hard on a technical solution that will make much of what SOPA is supposed to have done to take sites off the Internet impossible? S
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Is that not just a piece of generic clip art that both companies could have licensed from the same source? The whole article seems like a lot of conjecture about something only vaguely related to SOPA in order to publish a story about SOPA.
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I was hoping it would have a tiny little flywheel in it or something and be purely mechanical but I guess maybe it needs to charge a "real" battery to keep the flow of power more consistent.
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There are a lot of interesting responses to this comment but I think the whole percentage of waste thing is a red herring. As household waste is recycled it extends the life of landfills around populated ares significantly which means that
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No
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Mr. O'Reilly's words speak for themselves in the article: "..the fact is that piracy is not a significant problem.. I talked with Nancy Pelosi .. and she said that the experience with piracy is different for people in the movie industry. Ma
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I think this "lost decade" talk is mostly a matter of perspective, Japan is the nation in the world that, of any I can think of, could most afford to "lose a decade". An older population, a shrinking population, and a very high savings rate
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Exactly correct on the brand loyalty, for example Motorola won the "loyalty" of virtually the entire mobile phone market in North America twice, once with the Star-Tac generation of phones and again with the Razr generation. We all know wha
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I agree that buyer have power too but there is disparity in resources on the buying side where the buyers are at the retail level. The "easily overcome" tricks require that consumers join the intermediate groups that a buying and otherwise
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"More borrowing won't make it better" is grossly oversimplifying. If, for example, Italy can borrow at US-like rates but not borrow since that would put them in a surplus position then obviously that would resolve their problem. As the arti
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As responsible morally or legally? Their moral obligation would be irrelevant to them as a business, their legal responsibilities right now might be unclear. If SOPA clarifies it for them in a way that they think will improve their business
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From your specific suggestions I think what you are advocating is employing the Keynesian economic model in a way compatible with a libertarian belief in markets. Nobody in the mainstream believes that, that is why you are not seeing it and
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If you read the infographic you will find that borrowing by governments was not the cause (and even if it were that does not mean it can not be the answer, that is what widening the monetary base is partially about). Italy and Greece would
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I think I believe in Keynesian economics but I am no expert on the topic. I'm pretty sure that Keynesian theory does not say that the only reason is workers aren't hired in real wages, obviously there needs to be demand for whatever the w
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I wonder if GoDaddy supports this because it gives them a clearer legal framework for dealing with complaints of piracy problems on domains they have under management. If I were them I would be concerned about my legal responsibilities to t
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I think it is because while government spending is hard to do, wage flexibility is much closer to impossible. First of all, once you strip away all the protections for workers at all levels of government to deal with this one event you will
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Part of it is playing catch-up with Germany but another part of it is that the Germans restructured their economy quite a bit to reach as close to full employment as they are. I'm having a hard time finding any sources to link to but they p
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The summary of the infographic can be made in a single sentence: Paul Krugman has been right about the causes of the Eurozone crisis. The "Don't cut spending" solution at the end mentions the real heart of the problem, "The ECB says its man
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All the freaking out about SOPA reveals something very interesting about the technology crowd in general I think. Whatever happened to all those people who were always crowing about how legislation would never keep up to technology? Are the
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I think technology companies are sort of notorious for not being very good at the lobbying game. MS just started getting serious about it in the late '90s (and I think they have no dog in this particular fight) so we should expect Google to
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A minority has always established and manipulated any political system that has ever existed in any modern nation to my knowledge.Tweaking funding rules or candidate disclosures is not admitting that democracy has failed, it is continuing m
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Of course the people they elected ran on detailed platform of how to use derivatives to fund infrastructure projects and those voters are very familiar with complex financial instruments!
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The problem with finding fault with the electorate themselves is that there is no real way to fix that. How do you make the electorate more attentive or less gullible? (Education is a convenient answer but it just raises the question of how
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I don't know if bailing out the "corrupt and wasteful government" is the solution but I think it is meaningfully different. The difference that immediately springs to mind is that the corruption was in some ways the responsibility of higher
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I was not clear in my original posting, what I really meant to say was the trade liberalization was very good to Australia because it needs market access and geography provides a natural barrier to local market access. Removing Australian t
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Well, the most comparable economy in the world to Australia's in structure is Canada in terms of the mix of activities. Australia, for as long as OECD has been collecting data, has always had a lower unemployment rate than Canada (and Canad
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I suppose I should better state my premise: Trade liberalization is very much in Australia's interests because its geographic isolation has provided a degree of natural protection for domestic industries (not so now since shipping has impro
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Australian economic performance is a testament to the power of protectionism. Nobody likes to admit it but Australia's relative isolation in the world as a developed nation it the best trade tariff the world has ever seen and helped them de

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