Posts by MalcolmTucker 5 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Mar 2014
I want to hire the attorney's wife to throw the family's next Bar Mitzvah. I imagine it'd be great!
This William Isaacson lawyer, and other attorneys at this firm seem to drink a lot of hard liquor during their days off.
It appears this very lawfirm is also representing a former CEO of Blackwater. Blackwater is the outsourced Apple Factory... err.. outsourced assassination company formed during the Bush Years.
It depends; yet, many attorneys go on to be investors in new business in the area they live. It's a better model than shifting all profits to a numbered bank account in the country of Ireland. That money, once in Ireland can't be spent in the US until income taxes are paid to the IRS.
Ideally, in the US, to file with the US Department of Labor's Whistleblower website. DoL often works with the FBI and I've been something of a fan of Preet Bharara as of late.
When you file with the Government, it runs slower, but the investigations are typically more accurate. US Taxes pay for the attorneys fees and salary... But... Apple doesn't pay much in taxes.
Except that under the previous distribution strategy, you had shiny discs so you can re-load software.
More than once, I've purchased software (and even music) from Apple where the license expired, or in the situation of music (remix or instrumentals), the rightsholder changed; the license to play music was revoked.
An Apple User can't re-download it without satisfying an OS upgrade; in the AppStore, and the old version isn't downloadable. In the situation of music, it's simply not playable except on a legacy device like an iPod or other non-connected-to-apple device.
My other issue is with Apple Gift Cards. I have about £300 in gift cards which can't be used to buy apps. Apple's Hedge Fund must love the ability to sit on that money.
Still, without physical copies of Mac OS available... starting with Lion (10.8)... you're stuck.
Your not only tied to the Apple ecosystem, but you also have to satisfy OS release requsite requirements. It turns out to be an additional expense on top of already expensive hardware.
There is some good that may come of this-- IBM owns the patents to the PowerPC emulator called Rosetta, which was removed with Tiger (10.8). Possibly Apple will work out a deal so the next version of OSX will restore the ability to run legacy PPC applications.
Well, Microsoft head argurer, Brad Smith, was recently featured in "American Lawyer" Magazine. Too bad it wasn't "Above The Law". He had an article about driving a Ferrari and his son wanted to own one. Anyways, it seems that Eddie Cue at Apple reads the same magazine, and is going to beat him to the punch. Eddie put a competitor on the dashboard of the vehicle Brad Smith's son wants. It's just too bad the dental insurer Apple selected can't get it quite right.
Anyways, it's comforting to know that Brad Smith will screw you harder and longer than Durward Bruce Sewell. Brad Smith will also place people, like Pamela Smith, in positions where he'll ask for narrative to help his case. Brad Smith will at least call you in the morning and ask how it was. To compare, Sewell is in it for the stock options money.
But the funny thing about Microsoft, and this is from the perspective of someone whom knows too much from spending time online. Talking about things normally shared around the water cooler, happens often, and even online. In one situation, I was discussing the idea with a friend-- Perhaps Steve Jobs (when he was alive). I suggested, that a large Washington-state company, a state who used to sell apples, desired to purchase a larger iPhone-like device. However, Microsoft just couldn't get it right. Today, that's called an iPad. Maybe Microsoft has heard about it.
More importantly, it can be frustrating to work for Brad and Bill at Microsoft. Still, Brad Smith seems to not understand technology, and competitive non-compete agreements in the digital age.
Indeed, I had to wait a year to tell Steve Jobs about the technology needed, and prototype platforms. I was offered a job but couldn't accept because of the NDA which also covers patents and intellectual property. So I just decided to share the concept device with someone who could do it right. Google does it right. Just look up Johnny Chung Lee, the inventor of the Microsoft Kinekt. Likely, the Marketing firm of Waggener Edstrom found him, and Johnny went to work at Google after sucking the idea out of his head.
Often, it's usually Microsoft employees, or outside marketing companies such as this Waggener Edstrom, or the Blue-Badge employee who took the real good idea of a product and move up the ladder. If they can claim it as their idea, and bring to market, Microsoft will create an ad budget, which Steve Ballmer enjoys. Often, its these outside third party companies that call Brad Smith to sue former employees.
I imagine this "hacker" developed the specification or documents which the R&D teams in India developed. That is subject to disclosure and review.
Still, these marketing folks, like Pam Edstrom and Melissa Waggoner enjoy the art of the gab about a product they say their PR firm found, or possible leaks. They are the ones that whine to people like Brad Smith and Pamela Passman, to bring people to King County Court.
This is the only court in the land that will say a NDA is more valuable than being a positive influence in society, or working to create new ideas. Still, It's just too bad Microsoft culture is one where it's more valuable to claim someone else's ideas than providing a paycheck. Microsoft culture is one which incents the employee's ability to force others to unemployment options, and increase taxpayer-funded welfare spending programs.
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