The now notorious Roger Tamraz attempted to copy that nifty legal trick with the assistance of donating $300,000 to the Democratic Party in the hopes of securing White House approval (or at least noninterference) for the exclusive rights to build a multibillion dollar pipeline from Azerbaijan across Armenia to the eastern Mediterranean Turkish port of Yumurtalik.
Though details of the deal have not been made public, Mr. Werde wrote that it appears that Jay-Z may have "pulled off the nifty coup of getting paid as if he had a platinum album before one fan bought a single copy".
Slysoft makes a nifty little program for removing copy protection called Any DVD, It works in conjunction with your DVD ripper.
Included in the price is a licensed copy of Microsoft's nifty Windows Home Server operating system that would cost at least $170 on its own.But such machines are invariably bulky, noisy and not all that easy to upgrade when better and cheaper components become available.
It's a nifty exploration of the power and limits of acting, copying, reproducing, translating (there's a lot of play with language in the film, which is in English, French and Italian).
And while Chinese companies "can take Western products, adapt them to local needs and develop nifty new features" there is still "the negative effect of copying and stealing technology.
Sex, security, prosperity, the conquest of loneliness and a nifty reproductive end-run around mortality: all of this is promised in the advertising copy, if not precisely guaranteed in the fine print of the contract.
Xerox is copying a page from its old playbook: the member of the Nifty 50 of the 1960s is resuming dividend payments, which were suspended six years ago as the copier company struggled to reinvent itself for the Internet Age.
The coating triples the price of the paper, but copies can be reused between 20 and 50 times.Xerox has been wheeling out prototypes of its nifty erasable paper and printer periodically for the past couple of years.
