A ticket - no thanks - an honored reservation would be good though
I certainly understand the problem with reservations that are too easy to cancel, especially at a popular restaurant. I would be willing to pay a fee for a reservation that would come off of the bill. Life changes, so there would need to be some kind of cut-off period for cancelling (like you need to cancel 2 days ahead to get it all back and you get half if you cancel 1 day ahead. None back if you cancel the day of the reservation. Now this means (to me at least) that I should be seated within 15 minutes of showing up. I mean, I have a prepaid reservation right? This should guarantee me a table when I show up. It has really bugged me in the past when I make a reservation, get there 15 minutes early, and still have to wait until 45 minutes after my reservation time to be seated. What good was the reservation.
On the other hand, I have made a reservation while driving to a restaurant, shown up, and been seated before the 20 other people sitting in the lobby. I like that restaurant.
One other thought is that once seated, some people spend the rest of the night at that table. Instead of a reservation for just a time, how about being able to reserve a table for an hour or two hours. It means that the food order has to be placed quickly and the kitchen has to get the food out in a reasonable amount of time after the order is placed though. As with anything simple, there are so many complicating factors.
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How can we get Monster Cable and Monster Energy Drink introduced to each other. They can spend so much time fighting each other that they leave everybody else alone.
I'm sure you know and I've done some research to find out exactly what a "Business Model" is all about. But, maybe some of the critics just don't get it. How about writing a "definition" article to explain just what is meant by a business model or at least when you mention it, always make it a link to what you consider a good definition of a business model, even if it is just a link to the definition on Widipedia (which needs some updating which you could probably do).
Harold, you mean somebody stole the stars and stripes and the colors red white and blue to make the flag? Do everybody need to give credit to the makers of the plastic for the CD. Be real, mashups are taking a new "raw" material and creating something new out of it.
If the tax break is a reduction in Federal Payroll tax, then only tax payers would see the reductions. There really are millions of taxpayers who could use the extra money to pay bills and buy things for their families.
When I read the stories about the basic economy, they say that 2/3's of the economy are driven by consumers (yes, everyday people). So, how does the government plan to fix the economy, give money to business, the other 1/3. To actually stimulate the economy, why not give more money to the 2/3s that actually spends it? How about a tax break of about $100 per week to the average consumer so that it gets spent. If it gets "saved" it goes into a bank where they can begin lending it. After all, they say they are worried about cashflow. If it is used to pay charge card bills then the banks have more cashflow. If, heaven forbid, a mortgage payment is made, then there is one less "toxic mortgage". Giving businesses money doesn't stimulate the economy, it throws away taxpayer money. Reduce the tax burden, and people will have more money to spend. THAT will stimulate the economy.
Does that mean that he can't use an answering machine (or just not own one so he can still use a vendor provided answering service). BUT, the silliness goes on.....
Ok, would I be a thief (under RIAA theory), if I took those old economic models, used them to make improvements and then put them out there for the world or at least me to use? I mean, the author is probably not dead for at least 75 years yet, RIGHT?????
Usually Mike is very thorough about separating out the issues in a piece, but I think he missed on this one (just my opinion). I believe that the "local ownership" issue is about the concept in a war of "destroy communications". If a country can't communicate then its easier to confuse and attack. So, if stations are locally owned, its harder to bring down communciations in large areas. So "we" don't want a large faceless corporation with a central broadcast source to take a hit and have the whole country go down. Make it harder by having many local broadcast sources and then it is much more difficult to take down the whole country.
The issue of local content is separate and I agree that local content is better despite the cost.
It seems that even though I pay for HBO and VOD I still have to watch comercials. It's part of the Comcastic experience, pay for TV and then watch ads so that they can make more money.
1. Comcast lies and sells you an "Unlimited" Internet access plan.
2. Customer has the right to pay the full bill every month or get cut off.
3. Comcast gets to limit the unlimited connection in any way it wants.
4. Customer has the right to pay the full bill every month or get cut off.
5. Comcast gets to "force" applications to not work by forging packets and then lie saying it is not doing it.
6 Customer has the right to pay the full bill every month or get cut off.
7. Comcast has the right to change the terms of service at any time.
8. Customer has the right to pay the full bill every month or get cut off.
9 Comcast provides service on a best effort basis (if service goes out, too bad).
10. Customer has the right to pay the full bill every month or get cut off.
11. Comcast has the right to terminate service to anyone going over the limits (don't ask what the limits are on an unlimited service because in the TOS they don't have to tell you).
12. Customer has the right to pay the full bill every month or get cut off.
See, the customer has just as many rights as Comcast. Yeah!
By the unhappy Comcast customer with no other choice
Mike,
I'm not a lawyer so I'm not sure what with SLAPPs and SLAPPbacks and so on, but I followed your link to Wikipedia, and further down on that page they have a link (Under SLAPPs by location, United States, Other States to http://www.casp.net/statutes/menstate.html) to a page that lists Texas as having something to do with SLAPPS. Give that a read and maybe you will have your answer.
The trouble with personalizing ads is that for each business (no matter what they sell), YOU NEED AT LEAST ONE. Car dealers have been doing that for a while. You just bought a car, but now they keep sending advertising so that you buy a new car, it just has your name on it. Given access to my name, all companies will just find the [place name here] sticker and put my name in it because they KNOW that I need whatever it is they are selling. Even worse, I just bought a stereo/camera/TV online, and then I will start getting ads targeted at what I just bought. Until "something" gets better at predicting what I will need in the future, not looking at what I just bought, I believe it will stay in that "uncanny valley" of creepiness.
Gosh and a long time ago I thought they started calling them trailers and showing them on TV to get people interested in going to see the movies!! How silly am I???
This is supposed to be a reasonbly intelligent column. That stupid remark about adding $90 billion to the US economy makes me rethink that. My basis is that, if I (and a bunch of other investors) bought a share of stock at $1 at an IPO and it went up 10,000% to $100, then what? If I (and all the other investors - and it has to be all of them to get to the supposed $90 billion) try to sell the stock and spend the money, then the price of the stock would crash (probably back to the $1).
The "capitalized" value of a company never "puts money in the economy". It is nowhere near the amount of money that could be "put into the economy" even if all of the stock was sold. The price drops as it sells and to top it all off, the "exchange" between owners means that money is being taken out of the economy to buy the stock.
The economy is based on the purchase of consumables. Whereas, stock represents the ownership of a company. They are not the same thing.
Well, if the data is too expensive, it will go nowhere. BUT, I can see where if Rueters becomes the platform, then the "crowd" can take over with mashups that add much more value as new relationships are built that add value. It will be much easier to do that with "structured" data from an article rather than just the article itself. Of course all of this depends on how well the metadata is extracted. Big question is how did Google miss this, it seems like somehting they would come up with.
Ok, so I am a new comedian. I want to write a joke. Do I first have to reference Bob Hopes joke vault 85,000 pages of jokes (http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/bobhope/jokes.html) and every copyrighted joke out there? AND, then give credit on stage for each joke used???? "First folks, a KNOCK KNOCK joke from my neighbor Stevie, yeah, the checks in the mail kid, ...., and second, from Bill Cosby, "...", and finally, one from Steven Wright, performed last year in Vegas.
Oh, get real! Or, is there soon going to be a JIAA sueing anyone who tells a copyrighted joke without paying a licensing fee. It's truly getting rediculous. EVERY performance is going to be destroyed by listing credits. There are some very famous comics who make a living at it. At local clubs, many just do it on weekends trying to make an extra buck. That will certainly go away as all the money is going to have to go to joke writers.
Does this also mean that we can't make a joke about he president anymore. Jay Leno's writers will see/hear the president do something, write a joke, and hand it to a lawyer to copyright. No comic will be able to interact with the audience, that's all been done already.
This is so stupid, oh, and nobody can talk about the priest, the minister, and the rabbi anymore. That jokes been done (um, who do I give credit to?).
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A ticket - no thanks - an honored reservation would be good though
On the other hand, I have made a reservation while driving to a restaurant, shown up, and been seated before the 20 other people sitting in the lobby. I like that restaurant.
One other thought is that once seated, some people spend the rest of the night at that table. Instead of a reservation for just a time, how about being able to reserve a table for an hour or two hours. It means that the food order has to be placed quickly and the kitchen has to get the food out in a reasonable amount of time after the order is placed though. As with anything simple, there are so many complicating factors.
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Re: I'm no expert on trademark
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Updating Executables
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Let's take the next step
How can we get Monster Cable and Monster Energy Drink introduced to each other. They can spend so much time fighting each other that they leave everybody else alone.
Tas
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Business Models
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Re: Re: Fixing the Economy
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Fixing the Economy
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All recording devices
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On economic models, IP and "thievery"
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Ownership vs. Content
The issue of local content is separate and I agree that local content is better despite the cost.
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Re: the pay model
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The "Comcast Internet Bill of Rights"
2. Customer has the right to pay the full bill every month or get cut off.
3. Comcast gets to limit the unlimited connection in any way it wants.
4. Customer has the right to pay the full bill every month or get cut off.
5. Comcast gets to "force" applications to not work by forging packets and then lie saying it is not doing it.
6 Customer has the right to pay the full bill every month or get cut off.
7. Comcast has the right to change the terms of service at any time.
8. Customer has the right to pay the full bill every month or get cut off.
9 Comcast provides service on a best effort basis (if service goes out, too bad).
10. Customer has the right to pay the full bill every month or get cut off.
11. Comcast has the right to terminate service to anyone going over the limits (don't ask what the limits are on an unlimited service because in the TOS they don't have to tell you).
12. Customer has the right to pay the full bill every month or get cut off.
See, the customer has just as many rights as Comcast. Yeah!
By the unhappy Comcast customer with no other choice
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the Countersuit
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A Texas SLAPP law
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Personalizing but not Personalizing
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Releasing Snippets
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Where is that $90 Billion
The "capitalized" value of a company never "puts money in the economy". It is nowhere near the amount of money that could be "put into the economy" even if all of the stock was sold. The price drops as it sells and to top it all off, the "exchange" between owners means that money is being taken out of the economy to buy the stock.
The economy is based on the purchase of consumables. Whereas, stock represents the ownership of a company. They are not the same thing.
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Rueters the Platform
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Researching the origin
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