They use the zip code attached to your credit card.
If someone has a convenient work-around for this, I'd love to know about it... MLS Live is just as bad, and also fragmented across all streaming platforms.
Google TV can watch it in the browser using the flash plugin (only available on bastard version of Chrome stuck in GTV)
Roku has a killer streaming app, but it has strange rules regarding the availability of live streams following the performance.
Basically, there's no "good" way to stream all the games...yet I continue to pay extra during Soccer season just so I can get NBCSN/ESPN for the national games.
State & Local governments have thought for years that the internet is somehow made of gold. As an employee of such an organization, it obvious that legislators believe there's an untapped gold mine out on "Them thar Intarwebz".
There's already a means for states/locals to collects sales taxes: The Streamlined Sales Tax Board/Initiative/Whatever, it provides reciprocity to jurisdictions in levying sales taxes provided they align their laws with a common set to make it (slightly) easier on the business.
What they're all missing is that by levying sales taxes on Amazon (for example) they're making it more likely for Amazon to have "nexus" in your state/neighborhood. Which means that Amazon can now set up warehouses nationwide and offer same-day delivery.
I'd say that Apple's "success" with BSD Unix is actually the perfect example of what you're talking about. They may have "succeeded" in keeping the best parts of their code in-house, but they've had to sacrifice security and speed of updates as part of the process.
I'd say that Apple could release more updates faster and be more secure than they are if they'd leverage the power of the community a bit better.
...but who am I to argue with the Ghost of Steve Jobs?
I'm fairly certain that I've heard Mike discuss why you can't patent math...or science...or facts...multiple times on here.
As SQL is a methodology for doing set-theory (mathematics), you'd basically be copyrighting facts.
Just because a company *says* (or *thinks*) it has a copyright on something doesn't make it so. That sounds like typical IT boilerplate, left for the sole purpose of intimidation.
To quote an un-remembered CS Professor: Plagiarism is for English Class.
The point being that the "art" of Programming is being able to see how all the bits fit together and interoperate, not the exact code. Anyone can C-C-P their way through code, but a real Programmer knows the how's and why's.
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Re: Re: "insanely profitable"
I can't *WAIT* to get the Supersonics back!
Re: Re: "insanely profitable"
I can't *WAIT* to get the Supersonics back!
Re: "insanely profitable"
If someone has a convenient work-around for this, I'd love to know about it... MLS Live is just as bad, and also fragmented across all streaming platforms.
Google TV can watch it in the browser using the flash plugin (only available on bastard version of Chrome stuck in GTV)
Roku has a killer streaming app, but it has strange rules regarding the availability of live streams following the performance.
Basically, there's no "good" way to stream all the games...yet I continue to pay extra during Soccer season just so I can get NBCSN/ESPN for the national games.
Short-sighted at best.
There's already a means for states/locals to collects sales taxes: The Streamlined Sales Tax Board/Initiative/Whatever, it provides reciprocity to jurisdictions in levying sales taxes provided they align their laws with a common set to make it (slightly) easier on the business.
What they're all missing is that by levying sales taxes on Amazon (for example) they're making it more likely for Amazon to have "nexus" in your state/neighborhood. Which means that Amazon can now set up warehouses nationwide and offer same-day delivery.
Think that might compete with local retailers?
Apple's success...
I'd say that Apple could release more updates faster and be more secure than they are if they'd leverage the power of the community a bit better.
...but who am I to argue with the Ghost of Steve Jobs?
Can't copyright facts...or math?
As SQL is a methodology for doing set-theory (mathematics), you'd basically be copyrighting facts.
Just because a company *says* (or *thinks*) it has a copyright on something doesn't make it so. That sounds like typical IT boilerplate, left for the sole purpose of intimidation.
To quote an un-remembered CS Professor: Plagiarism is for English Class.
The point being that the "art" of Programming is being able to see how all the bits fit together and interoperate, not the exact code. Anyone can C-C-P their way through code, but a real Programmer knows the how's and why's.
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