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MSFT says "PLAY BALL!"
With opening day of the 2004 Major League Baseball (MLB) season just two weeks away, Microsoft Corp. and MLB Advanced Media LP (MLBAM) have announced a new way for fans to follow their favorite teams. If they can't make it to the ballpark or can't find their team on television, they now can watch the game live online.
NICE... Much better that last season's horrid Real Networks solution.
Isn't that ironic?
fine "only" 497 million Euros, share price rises"
Interesting, & ironic. It's alot of money. Fortunately for MSFT it's still a chunk of change, but nothing that would too severely damage MSFT, yet would kill lesser companies. Still, as fines go, (especially a fine set for a crime no worse than being non-European & wildly successful,) it's still too much. JMHO
It's "PAROLED FOR POETRY" TIME!
"To get out of Jail, you'll need to write at least an 8-line poem.
It must rhyme.
It must be about iHub.
This is part of a newly instituted program to improve inmate literacy."
OK, Warden. Here we go:
8 lines & make 'em rhyme, that was the price to pay,
20 bucks and a brand new suit, Am I out of jail today?
No soap on ropes, or shower rapes,
No 5000 word rants, or dmarsh' sour grapes,
Matt said be good & sin no more,
I'll watch my tongue, open that cell door!
I'm glad I'm sprung Jail's gettin' full,
But it's still much nicer, than "the Bull" .
As Investment sites go, there is no greater,
Because no one else has a Fry-O-Later!
I hope you liked it, it's kinda cute,
Did I mention you looked fly in that Lemon Pimp Suit?
* Bonus iHub Jail Haiku:
"Just 3 posts a day?,
More would be very useful,
But soon they are gone."
EDIT: * Matt, Thanks for letting me out so quick..
The downside? Now I have to wait til Happy hour to post in here.
MUST PAY for Membership..Must....
HEY ! Beef Twinkies are on sale! Next week...
P.S. Fixxed the missing Haiku syllable thing.
Thanks all, the file will be in the next cake.
ACE
OK! I like it!
Perfect rehab for a cunning linguist such as myself.
Thanks,Warden.
MATT:
Can I get out of jail?
And if not, any word when my probation hearing might be, would be appreciated.
Ace
hmmm...
"You sure seem to have a problemo with understanding the words that are coming out of my keyboard."
Define "IS"
Laughy-Laughy Joke Joke... Hey Matt, Any word from the Governor about my pardon?
(P.S. Sorry, Couldn't find a smaller picture that was similar)
It went very well.
It was an honor for me to even be asked to attend.
Thanks for asking!
That's Cruel & Inhumane!
Poor Kitty cat.
The ASPCA & PETA will be after her for sure.
Pardon me while I member mark you for that.
HA HA HA... ... ... ... ...
"A lot of people do enjoy my posts and/or find them valuable. "
Aside from yourself & your twice refried pal, Tulipz/Bluetoo/dmarsh, NAME THREE.
On second thought, DON'T.
I don't wish to incite you to say anything.
[Suppressed Sound Link]
P.s. At least he was "lovable",
dMarsh-a, dMarcia, dMarsh- uh...
I may roar,But I Roar with an eloquence and an economy of words that don't suck up the bandwidth that LJKomplainer does.
And unlike her, my posts actually say somthing other than the standard 9,000,000 word Linda Kraplan diatribe of "ME ME ME", "IT'S ALL ABOUT HOW I'VE BEEN WRONGED", "Oh Woe IS ME, I've been excluded from the country club", "Can somebody fix my Mac for the 18th time this week?" (this is not embellished. The numbers are accurate.)
I can get my point across in 19 lines or less, while she takes a whole page to say nothing of value.
Ace
P.S. Just the fact that your diatribes have cost you your allotted 3 posts a day, is good enough for me.
Now beat it, you're stinkin' up the place.
The mouth that roared... again.
Oh gawd... I could've sworn I'd seen Linda Komplain say she was done posting here.
Oh well, this is why I like being in here, giving me a chance to respond to her assumptions and character assasinations:
First off, Linda, You need to learn that this is iHub, not RB.
I don't think anyone cares about what your issues are, & you need to learn to file your grievences in the proper jurisdiction.
(This is this a trait you seem to share with SJ's legal fruit squad, not knowing the proper forum in which to air your grievences.)
" I think they use a shotgun approach, but maybe as you and others think, they just have a lot of pull."
Actually, we just pooled our lunch money & bought RB.
We had a choice between that & super-sizing our fries... what's it to you?
"After all, when one of our accounts is removed and someone else starts a new one, they report it and the replacement ID is immediately killed."
READ THE TOU!: I'm going to go out on a limb, and borrow a quote often heard in the U.S.Senate:
"Because it's ILLEGAL, Senator Clinton"
"Why did the AAPL thread move here?"
The way I heard it was, to be rid of you.
That's why no one told you of the defection.
Like "Sid the sloth" in "Ice Age",
Your family quietly snuck away while you were snoozing.
For giggles, we told you where they went.
Your ability to lie & deny any culpability is absolutely astounding.
"Burp was even kind enough to create a pornographic movie in which I was featured."
Burpie? YOU were the producer of "Airtight Granny?"
(google it yourselves...)
I never knew.
It's accusations such as that, and the rest of the lies & 1/2 truths you post, that made you the pariah you are.
No one else needed to make you hated,
You did it yourself.
"I'm a political prisoner!"
You know what happens to those...
P.S. No Prisoner exchange whatsoever.
To unleash Linda from jail would be a disservice to every board she infests.
I don't want her freedom predicated on mine.
I'll happily stay here if it means I don't have a hand in her release.
(If Matt should decide to release me otherwise, so be it.)
But if not, like I said before, I kinda like the wit displayed here.
I can live on beef twinkies & 3 posts a day, LJKomplainer will burst under such restrictions.
Ace
Actually Bootzie:
ace=ace. that's all you need to know.
I've contacted Amazon.com & stocked up on ear plugs (LJK is still around after all), and a supply of beef filled twinkies, but they're back ordered.
Either/Or, I kinda like the people here. Well, most of 'em. Evidently, my fame or infamy (depending on how you look at it, ) brings out a unique brand of debater, like you, a master debater, where no minutia is too small to nit pick. Which is fine.
Some aren't worthy of comment. In just this one case, I'll answer a few of dmarsh/tulipz questions: (in no particular order...) YES/NO/NO/Yes/NO.
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Churak,
UP's OK.. OFF is out of the question.
I believe my infractions to be the following:
I made reference to the deletion of posts of mine, and also I was insulting when doing it. I don't intend to do those things again.
Release request:
Matt,
After taking a few days on my own to reflect on the posts that got me jailed, I would like to submit my request for release from jail.
France BANS all Pixar-Nemo merchandise:
A French children's book author told a Paris court that the main fish character in the film "Finding Nemo", which has so far grossed $850m (£457m), was a direct copy of his own creation, a cheerful orange and white clown fish named Pierrot.
Franck Le Calvez is suing Pixar for copyright infringement and breach of trademark. He has applied for all books and merchandise featuring Nemo to be banned from French shops before the main copyright case is heard in November.
A ruling on the injunction was entered in Le Calvez' favor banning all videotapes, DVD's, books, or any other Nemo related merchandise in France, on March 12.
If there's a frying going on,
and requests are being played...
Wow about "Grandma got run over by a reindeer"?
in Linda's honor.
Personally I think "don't fry her" BUT DON'T RELEASE HER, either. She'll might get a clue and stop slandering Matt & iHub elsewhere. (Although that's unlikely.)
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=AAPL&read=164099
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=AAPL&read=164027
If she feels the Fry-O-later's sweet release, she'll never learn nothin'. Leave her in Limbo, never to be released, nor executed. Sort of like the first permanent guest of iHub-Guantanamo.
"Prisoner LJK practices her incarcerated bufoonery"
I totally agree with you.
It's a very expensive game of "chicken",
being so secretive as to hobble your own initial sales of any new product. Throwing something at the wall & praying that it sticks IS a poor overall business model. (Which I'll admit works better for Apple than anyone else.)
Side note to Bootz: re-iconization: I don't get it, either.
Not thier fault.
"What if Apple said I need a million by next Thursday, and Hitachi said "no can do." Is that Apple's fault?"
But it is thier fault if they failed to procure enough required parts to meet their initial alloted projections of sales prior to announcing & rolling out ANY product, Losing potential sales to other competitors time after time, after time. It happened with iLamp, the initial G4s, the initial G5's, & now iPod mini.
For a company that can't really afford to lose any market share, the parts purchasing agent isn't doing such a hot job.
"Nothing is going to stop the AAPL train"
Except the company's unbroken history of inability to ship the correct amount of product in a timely fashion.
Bootz, I hope Diskeeper does the job!
Let me know how it turns out.
I'm really interested, and hope it solves everything.
Mine is version 8.0.459.0
Hang in there...
ACE
Zilla, You left out:
How ljk claimed that iHub was some "exclusive country club" set up just to exclude her. (just like aapltalk!) FRY HER... But not until she's had some humility pounded in to her. My guess is she'll get shivved in the shower line.
"You should make ljk apologize for:
--Claiming the reason she replied to a seven-month old post was because of an iHub glitch (yeah, right!)
--Saying another iHub member sent her 1000 death threats and fried her computer (yeah, right!)
--Calling iHub "Matt's pig sty" and its members "pigs" on Raging Bull (oink!)
Too many lies"
Bootz: Bar B Que Sauce, Please.
Thanks. I think I've learned more about Robert Johnson in the last few days than I ever thought possible. I never could get the hang of that "slack-G" tuning. And as for the spelling of "Ol' Miss" , I learned it from the lyrics of a song: "M - I, - DOUBLE S - I, - DOUBLE S I - DOUBLE P - I , MISSISSIPPI!" from a band from Columbus Ohio, of all places, THE GODZ!
Bootz - Conjur me up a Mississippi string tie!
At the stroke of midnight, he walked down to the windswept crossroads at the junction of Highways 61 and 49 in Clarksdale, MS. Reciting an ancient incantation, he called upon Satan himself to rise from the fires of Hell. In exchange for Johnson's immortal soul, the devil tuned his guitar, thereby giving him the abilities which he so desired. From then on, the young bluesman played his instrument with an unearthly style, his fingers dancing over the strings. His voice moaned and wailed, expressing the deepest sorrows of a condemned sinner.
THE TEXAS SESSIONS
In 1936, Johnson was approached by Don Law, a producer who worked for the American Record Company. Law was eager to record the bluesman, offering to pay him between $10 and $15 for each song. The first sessions occurred later that year, at the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio, TX. Johnson played some of his own compositions and also modified the work of other artists, recording seventeen songs on November 23rd, 26th, and 27th. If he was not fully satisfied with his performance, he would record an alternate version. But Johnson was a confident musician and he had been playing these compositions for years. As a result, most of the songs were recorded on the first take.
While in town, he was arrested for vagrancy and thrown in jail. At the station, the police beat him and smashed his guitar. Rather than risk further abuse at the hands of the officers, Johnson asked them to contact Law. The producer verified the bluesman's story and subsequently posted his bail. Although this incident might have seemed quite traumatic, it apparently had little effect on Johnson. After recording "Crossroad Blues" and several more songs in the days that followed, he left San Antonio and resumed his wandering lifestyle.
The next sessions took place during the summer of 1937, at the Brunswick Records Building in Dallas, TX. On June 19th and 20th, Johnson performed twelve more songs for Don Law. Once again, a handful of alternate versions were also recorded. As before, Johnson received a modest cash payment and no royalties. Although the producer was already making plans to conduct some additional sessions in the future, he would never see Johnson again. The troubled bluesman had a date with destiny.
Wow...Decency reigns.
"Could it be that, underneath our e-mail exteriors, we're all mushy humans at heart?"
Shh.. don't tell anyone! I suspect that while many of us can at times jump at the chance to digitally throttle each other, In a room, over a steak & drinks, we could all carry on a civilized conversation, which would be filled with agreements, disagreements, similar recollections, situations, and sometimes, maybe even a laugh or two.
Hope you find the perfect pup to fill in for(they never really can replace)your departed pal.
ACE
Bootz: Condolences on your loss.
I know what it's like to lose a longtime canine friend.
Especially frustrating when the dog's been around longer than the kids.
Tex, here's the pertinent text:
If you know of a way to post the scanned pages of xeroxed type documents that are included in the pdf file of the court document, I can accomodate. however there's no character recognition to grab from the scanned page.
"I'd like to see the text of the most recent, and allegedly violated, settlement before I place my bets."
Culled directly from the 1991 Apple vs. Apple Legal Agreement:
"
EXHIBIT “B” of the 1991 Agreement Apple Corps vs. Apple Computer:
FIELD OF USE:
Whereas, the context in which this agreement arises is the parties' desire to reserve for Apple Corps’ field of use for its trademarks, the record business, The Beatles, Apple Corps’ catalog and artists and related material all as set forth in section 1.3 herein and to reserve for Apple Computer’s field of use for it’s trademarks, the computer, data processing and telecommunications business as set forth in section 1.2 herein and to coordinate the use of their respective trademarks in such fields of use as set forth in section 4 herein.
SECTION 1.3 “Apple Corps’ Field” means (i) the Apple Musical catalog,; the names, likenesses, voices or musical sounds of the Apple Musical Artists; (ii) Any current or future creative works whose principal content is music and/or musical performances; regardless of the means by which those works are recorded, whether tangible or intangible: ….
That's pretty cut & dried. So much so in Apple Corps favor, that Apple Computer whined in the current pleading:
" The sweeping relief sought by Apple Corps would cause irreparable harm to Apple. Apple Corps seeks nothing less than the complete disassociation of Apple Computer from goods and services used to deliver music over the Internet to personal computer users. The broad prohibitions that Apple Corps seeks to impose against Apple would significantly impair lawful competition within the United States in connection with the on-line delivery of music."
P.S. The right of venue for jurisdiction is covered in the 1981 & 1991 agreements that Apple Computer signed as well. (In Apple Corps favor.)
Bootz: Glad to help.
And on the plus side, it's available for not a lot of money.
I've never seen such a feature rich package priced so low.
Bootz, I just read the legal pleading.
The Beatles are playing hardball this time around.
from AAPL's answer & "Prayer For Relief" (legal term)
(Page 14 - Section 55)
" The sweeping relief sought by Apple Corps would cause irreparable harm to Apple. Apple Corps seeks nothing less than the complete disassociation of Apple Computer from goods and services used to deliver music over the Internet to personal computer users. The broad prohibitions that Apple Corps seeks to impose against Apple would significantly impair lawful competition within the United States in connection with the on-line delivery of music."
PENNIES? I think not.
The Beatles ARE Apple Records:
" odd, since Apple Records and not the Beatles was the party in interest."
One & the same - The Beatles=Apple Records
""The Apple record label released the White Album and Hey Jude in 1968."
Uh, that's REALLY the last thing Apple Records released? Boy, oh boy."
Actually "Let It Be-Naked" released late in 2003 was the last thing released by Apple Records. Apple Records also released the multi-platinum "Beatles- 1's" (one of the largest selling releases in 2002)
"The real question is whether there's any confusion in the marketplace over Apple Records, of which most whom I encounter have never heard. "
Ignorance of the matter is no excuse, Steve Jobs is not as ignorant to the facts, (having been sued and settling for millions with the same plaintiffs numerous times before.) Feel free to continue to live in a dream world.
No copyright clearance = lawsuit.
107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair Use
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include -
1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
2. the nature of the copyrighted work;
3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
http://www.benedict.com/Info/law/fairUse/fairUse.aspx
The copyright holder/artist has the right to say "NO" , to any commercial use.
Which is what happened in this case.
Apple went ahead anyway.
Tell Steve to have his checkbook ready & practice writing lots of zero's...
It's your money...well, it WAS...
Bootz: This would fix your issues.
http://www.epinions.com/content_113056124548
Diskeeper Pro. $44.95
And you'll never have issues like this again.
Much like any Ronco product: "Set it & Forget it"
P.S. this is the De-frag utility that is bundled with Pro Tools. (which thrives on as de-fragged a hard drive as possible)
You won't regret it.
*one side note: The first time I ran it, I started it about 1 in the morning & went to bed. It finished about 5 & 1/2 hours later... After that, it runs in the background (personal choice, I set it to do that) with no performance losses.
Dean won't run again...
Except to the pharmacy for his blood pressure medicine.
Howard's Political toast....
Stick a fork in him, Because Howard Dean is DONE.
"and hope for the Stars"
They're gonna need more than hope.
I saw them get spanked by the Mighty Ducks tonight, (who've been playing like mediocrity at it's most mediocre )
Yes, Yesterday, Was a "B" Side.
"I believe "Yesterday" is supposed to be the most frequently recorded song of all time. And wasn't it side B of some Beatles' single?"
"Yesterday WAS a "B" side. To "Act Naturally" which was sang (if you could call it that,) by Ringo.
Getcha Red Hots!!! Peanuts!!!!!
Now batting.... batting...
The Duke .... duke... Of Url Url url url...
WHACK! And the crowd goes wild..
3515.6 !!!
And I didn't even have to visit Barry Bonds' trainer for steroids!
This game is addictive...
Duke...
Evidently having the coolest screen name on the planet wasn't enough for you... You had to go & have the best reply to a post that I've ever seen, as well.
"That is why you are still using a Lisa to post and I get the big desk."
Classic!
Care to go for the hat trick, or should we just go ahead & already re-name Europe in your honor?
Great! Took a few swings
to get my batting together, but finally was sending 'em 492.8 over the left field fence.
Here's another favorite.
http://www2.gamesville.lycos.com/html_poke/poke_penguin.swf
But...
"At least my sheep knows that sex is not only for procreation."
But he runs from you just the same, eh dilleet?
edit: a truly effectual board moderator would have deleted this entirely off topic, divisive religious opinion thread.
Pity this board's moderator doesn't care & the assistant is off licking his wounds after getting his political feelings hurt.