Perhaps they're using 2CO specifically to address the issue of consumer worry?
In any event, I agree with you; 2CO will either refund money for undelivered product, or go out of business. You neglected to mention that 2CO holds back a percentage of the funds for some period of time.
Nevertheless, total non-deliverability would hold them liable for a lot.
Since your wife has an account you already have contacts at 2CO. Have you called and asked them?
Any company (even me) can come up with a new way to sell you something: Say for example, Henry Ford decided to sell cars on credit. Or even more absurdly, with tires.
Now he can patent that.
And lo and behold, he's got a government enforced monopoly.
Hmmmm... seems to me we can figure out a way to get rich off this.
A great example of all this was the Cobalt RaQ servers, later the Sun Cobalt RaQ servers.
What I'm not sure of is whether they statically linked anything or not. In fact I'm not sure if anything was compiled (ergo linked at all).
No one ever came after them, and years later, when Sun cancelled the series, they put a lot of the code into public domain as Blue Quartz. See: http://bluequartz.org/
What Gates didn't predict: One quote frequently attributed to the Microsoft chairman is that "640K of memory should be enough for anybody."
Gates may never have said it, but somebody did.
I'm old. And these are my recollections: I first had a TRS-80 Model One and later a Model III. The majority of computers of the day were 64K. I worked for Lobo Systems (http://oldcomputers.net/lobomax80.html) which managed 128K. Then all of a sudden the PC came out and it could handle 640K.
Some of them do... Not only in India, but in the rest of the world. When my godson married I gave him and his new bride a new computer system running Linux. He had no computer experience, she had quite a bit of Microsoft experience.
They both have made the switch very successfully. The only problem so far was that she was saving files in the OpenOffice.Org default format and sending them to her correspondents who couldn't open them. A minor education issue.
They live in California now but will move to Peru after their son is born, to start an orphanage. I like to think I've saved them a bit of money in their future, and that they'll probably need a bit.
"Though no body has been found, Reiser was arrested Oct. 10 after the Oakland Police Department found small drops of blood in his house and in his Honda CRX"
There's a bit of a difference between what your newspaper article quote and what the police actually told the court. They said they found drops of blood in his house and in his car which couldn't be excluded from belonging to Mrs. Reiser. I'm quite surprised the case still even exists.
Disclaimer: I'm an aqcquaintance of Hans Reiser; I've met his wife.
A long time ago in a universe far far away I was a typesetter. Came up through it all.
Linotype, Friden Justowriter, IBM Selectric Composer, Compgraphic Compuwriter IV and Editwriter, Varityper, Alphatype, etc. (in no particular order)
They all had different keyboards.
Even when using multiple keyboards at the same time I never had a problem; sitting in front of a machine just put my brain into the mode it needed to be in for typing on it's keyboard.
No rules I know of prohibiting charging people to accept their checks in the mail. When I owned an ISP (about the turn of the century) we did automated billing and took automated payments at no charge, and we charged $5 to send paper bills and accept and deposits the checks.
You probably won't want to believe this, but it most likely cost us about $5 per accepted check; our bank account at the time was the kind that charged for actual teller interaction but not for automation (because the banks know and understand how costly humans are compared to electronics), and someone had to go to the bank to process the check, pay for the parking, etc.
I no longer own that company, and I no longer do that. But I did.
"or if that's the reason why we're now using Sprint cards."
That's the reason you're using Sprint cards. At least that's the reason I use a Sprint card.
Until a recent office move my office was only five minutes away from the local Verizon office and I'd go there to pay our business landline bill. They always asked me if I'd considered Verizon's unlimited wireless broadband.
Which of course gave me the opportunity to tell them how stupid their employer was, and why I'd never use their unlimited wireless broadband.
At my last visit the gent had a reason to try to sell me again; he effusively told me that Verizon had a better footprint across the U.S.
"Wonderful," I told him. "With Verizon instead of being able to download unlimited data almost everywhere I'd be shut down and not be able to download any data anywhere."
Considering the market, I think they're just plain stupid.
Up until mid-last-year there was also no satellite radio. The only reason we have it now is that they created several Canadian stations, literally none of which anyone I know even listens to at all.
I do, but I don't count, because i'm the lower 48:) .
You've been scored as funny, but I, too, programmed by wiring boards. I learned, if I recall correctly, at some IBM school in NYC in the late 60s or early 70s.
The issue here is not the DST patch, it's the fact that Micro$loth was charging $40K for the Windoze 2000 patch. They justified it because W2K is officially out of support for patches - it's EOL or EOSL, I don't remember which becuase I pay very little attention to Windoze server issues.
The real problem is that users look at the lock or the green bar only when reminded to do so. Phishing sites don't remind them, and most of them use no cert at all.
This will NOT protect anyone, and will cost folk a fortune. We've always used certs in the $35-$40 range; I guess now we'll be using certs costing ten times that much:( .
So begins what may be the earliest "mix" though the word hadn't been invented and the format is quite different. I don't remember the name of the comody piece; it was a so-called "radio report" from Mars, with pieces of lots of songs making up most of the interviewees quotes.
I think it was Buchanan and Goodman who produced it. I don't think the RIAA sued them:) .
"In the Apple-Cisco dispute it is a trademark issue. (Last news I saw makes it look like Cisco had let the trademark lapse - which leaves it open to the next claimant.)"
Uh...
While you need a registration to sue, you can certainly get it after the trademark is violated. In the US, anyway.
If Cisco started selling a product with the name iPhone before Apple did (remember, Apple kept the name secret until the day of the release; the public wasn't notified) then it's likely the trademark is good.
Of course if Cisco cheated in the registration, the cheating may affect the registration. I'm not an attorney and I haven't studied case law so I don't know if misuse of the registration affects the trademark or not.
I had the chance to meet the entire family together several years ago. In person Nina, even exhausted that day, was certainly an attractive woman. Some of the pictures published of her show that; others do not.
Not really. There are enough holes in the law to shake a stick at.
New evidence can (and often is) used for a new charge, you can be charged in a new Jurisdiction (O.J. Simpson, for example, Federal vs State), and worst of all, in the case of a hung jury the state can move for a new trial even if all jurors except one voted for acquittal.
My XM Radio works this way; In my car it broadcasts through my FM radio on a frequency I select.
This page: http://www.xmradio.ca/contents/home/main.php shows it can be had in canada; in fact the radio at the bottom, the Roady, is the one I use.
It apears they've been selling it in Canada.
Or maybe they've just changed their website?
Disclaimer: I've met Hans and had a few discussions with him. I've also met his wife and children when we acted as his wheels while he visited a Linux club meeting in Southern California a few years ago.
Yes, Hans is possibly wrongfully arrested. And yes, police departments are wont to convict before the case even goes to the the District Attorney or the Grand Jury.
But that said, here appears to be fairly damning evidence against him, at least as reported here:
At least he's in what's called "administrative segregation" (commonly known as "Ad-Seg"; in several books about California murders often called "High Power"). Generally that means he'll make it to court without being killed himself.
And given a chance to explain away evidence and (we hope) be able to clear his name.
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Perhaps they're using 2CO specifically to address the issue of consumer worry?
In any event, I agree with you; 2CO will either refund money for undelivered product, or go out of business. You neglected to mention that 2CO holds back a percentage of the funds for some period of time.
Nevertheless, total non-deliverability would hold them liable for a lot.
Since your wife has an account you already have contacts at 2CO. Have you called and asked them?
So we understand it this way:
Any company (even me) can come up with a new way to sell you something: Say for example, Henry Ford decided to sell cars on credit. Or even more absurdly, with tires.
Now he can patent that.
And lo and behold, he's got a government enforced monopoly.
Hmmmm... seems to me we can figure out a way to get rich off this.
Jeff
A great example of all this was the Cobalt RaQ servers, later the Sun Cobalt RaQ servers.
What I'm not sure of is whether they statically linked anything or not. In fact I'm not sure if anything was compiled (ergo linked at all).
No one ever came after them, and years later, when Sun cancelled the series, they put a lot of the code into public domain as Blue Quartz. See: http://bluequartz.org/
Seems like a good book. I've had it about ten days and I haven't had time to get past the forward.
:)
But I suppose after I finish it I'll know how to mnake the time to read it.
And then I can go back in time and read it.
Or something.
Can you imagine some grandmother getting a tax bill for 5000$ because someone put a bot on her vista box? wow that would be fnu in an audit.
Not much different than what the RIAA is doing to grandmothers now.
Gates may never have said it, but somebody did.
I'm old. And these are my recollections: I first had a TRS-80 Model One and later a Model III. The majority of computers of the day were 64K. I worked for Lobo Systems (http://oldcomputers.net/lobomax80.html) which managed 128K. Then all of a sudden the PC came out and it could handle 640K.
If he didn't say it, then perhaps Don Estridge, The Father of the IBM PC, did. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3649/is_20 0412/ai_n9466612
Or perhaps I did. I certainly remember thinking something like Wow, five times the capacity.
I sent them my info. Maybe I'll find out how affordable it'll be.
Some of them do... Not only in India, but in the rest of the world. When my godson married I gave him and his new bride a new computer system running Linux. He had no computer experience, she had quite a bit of Microsoft experience.
They both have made the switch very successfully. The only problem so far was that she was saving files in the OpenOffice.Org default format and sending them to her correspondents who couldn't open them. A minor education issue.
They live in California now but will move to Peru after their son is born, to start an orphanage. I like to think I've saved them a bit of money in their future, and that they'll probably need a bit.
Jeff
"Though no body has been found, Reiser was arrested Oct. 10 after the Oakland Police Department found small drops of blood in his house and in his Honda CRX"
There's a bit of a difference between what your newspaper article quote and what the police actually told the court. They said they found drops of blood in his house and in his car which couldn't be excluded from belonging to Mrs. Reiser. I'm quite surprised the case still even exists.
Disclaimer: I'm an aqcquaintance of Hans Reiser; I've met his wife.
A long time ago in a universe far far away I was a typesetter. Came up through it all.
Linotype, Friden Justowriter, IBM Selectric Composer, Compgraphic Compuwriter IV and Editwriter, Varityper, Alphatype, etc. (in no particular order)
They all had different keyboards.
Even when using multiple keyboards at the same time I never had a problem; sitting in front of a machine just put my brain into the mode it needed to be in for typing on it's keyboard.
No rules I know of prohibiting charging people to accept their checks in the mail. When I owned an ISP (about the turn of the century) we did automated billing and took automated payments at no charge, and we charged $5 to send paper bills and accept and deposits the checks.
You probably won't want to believe this, but it most likely cost us about $5 per accepted check; our bank account at the time was the kind that charged for actual teller interaction but not for automation (because the banks know and understand how costly humans are compared to electronics), and someone had to go to the bank to process the check, pay for the parking, etc.
I no longer own that company, and I no longer do that. But I did.
That's the reason you're using Sprint cards. At least that's the reason I use a Sprint card.
Until a recent office move my office was only five minutes away from the local Verizon office and I'd go there to pay our business landline bill. They always asked me if I'd considered Verizon's unlimited wireless broadband.
Which of course gave me the opportunity to tell them how stupid their employer was, and why I'd never use their unlimited wireless broadband.
At my last visit the gent had a reason to try to sell me again; he effusively told me that Verizon had a better footprint across the U.S.
"Wonderful," I told him. "With Verizon instead of being able to download unlimited data almost everywhere I'd be shut down and not be able to download any data anywhere."
Considering the market, I think they're just plain stupid.
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0814845.html
The biggest problem during the last trial, if I recall correctly, was kids standing outside in the winter cold and dark, to get on their school buses.
I do, but I don't count, because i'm the lower 48 :) .
You've been scored as funny, but I, too, programmed by wiring boards. I learned, if I recall correctly, at some IBM school in NYC in the late 60s or early 70s.
Actually it's more like SOL
With user training they are even more worthless!
The real problem is that users look at the lock or the green bar only when reminded to do so. Phishing sites don't remind them, and most of them use no cert at all.
This will NOT protect anyone, and will cost folk a fortune. We've always used certs in the $35-$40 range; I guess now we'll be using certs costing ten times that much :( .
With no real benefit.
Jeff
"This is John Cameron Cameron, downtown Mars ..."
:) .
So begins what may be the earliest "mix" though the word hadn't been invented and the format is quite different. I don't remember the name of the comody piece; it was a so-called "radio report" from Mars, with pieces of lots of songs making up most of the interviewees quotes.
I think it was Buchanan and Goodman who produced it. I don't think the RIAA sued them
Uh...
While you need a registration to sue, you can certainly get it after the trademark is violated. In the US, anyway.
If Cisco started selling a product with the name iPhone before Apple did (remember, Apple kept the name secret until the day of the release; the public wasn't notified) then it's likely the trademark is good.
Of course if Cisco cheated in the registration, the cheating may affect the registration. I'm not an attorney and I haven't studied case law so I don't know if misuse of the registration affects the trademark or not.
Jeff
Nobody gets BANNED from law enforcement for deliberately screwing up the trial!!!
Well, there's a certain ex Los Angeles cop who now lives only about 50 miles south of Canada, in Northern Idaho.
That may not be quite the same as BANNED, but it's close :) .
I saw one televised story that Kim had gotten lost because he followed an impassible road based on one of the internet mapping programs.
I never heard anything else on that again.
A coverup? Or just a retraction?
Or perhaps an halucination on my part?
I had the chance to meet the entire family together several years ago. In person Nina, even exhausted that day, was certainly an attractive woman. Some of the pictures published of her show that; others do not.
Not really. There are enough holes in the law to shake a stick at. New evidence can (and often is) used for a new charge, you can be charged in a new Jurisdiction (O.J. Simpson, for example, Federal vs State), and worst of all, in the case of a hung jury the state can move for a new trial even if all jurors except one voted for acquittal.
My XM Radio works this way; In my car it broadcasts through my FM radio on a frequency I select. This page: http://www.xmradio.ca/contents/home/main.php shows it can be had in canada; in fact the radio at the bottom, the Roady, is the one I use. It apears they've been selling it in Canada. Or maybe they've just changed their website?
Yes, Hans is possibly wrongfully arrested. And yes, police departments are wont to convict before the case even goes to the the District Attorney or the Grand Jury.
But that said, here appears to be fairly damning evidence against him, at least as reported here:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/br eaking_news/15741175.htm
At least he's in what's called "administrative segregation" (commonly known as "Ad-Seg"; in several books about California murders often called "High Power"). Generally that means he'll make it to court without being killed himself.
And given a chance to explain away evidence and (we hope) be able to clear his name.