OK let's say I'm one of the artists at etoy.com right, chilling at the office with my fellow artists then suddenly we get the offer from eToys.com. Here's where I go into logical reasoning mode and postulate what happens if we refuse and they take legal action. "Ok guys what could happen if this goes to a court or similar regulatory body?". Well the judge on one hand sees a bunch of artistic types who use profanity on their website and on the other hand sees a legitimate business. Score 1 against us...(I've been to court that is how judge-types think.)
Secondly what hapens if we win a.) eToys.com (a legitimate business) stands to loose a number of customers who come to our site by accident and loose some reputation among the unknowledgeable b.) eToys.com is decides to forego the website and creates a new one, has to start a new marketing campaign and maybe change its stock ticker. What if we loose...well the judge says buy another domain for $70 bucks and do what is currently done at slashdot.com . So the judge has a choice of costing a legitimate business thousands to millions of dollars or costing a bunch of artists $70.
PS: I can't get over the way people on slashdot make it seem like a domain name is some necessity of life like food, air, water or shelter. We were not born with them and they'll be gone before we die. So what's the fscking point of all this ruckus. If a new domain naming scheme comes into effect tomorrow all domain names will be null N void. If slashdot changed it's name to geeknews.com or something all that would happen is a bunch of geeks would have to update their bookmarks. no crying, no sickness, no famine, no plague, just updated bookmarks.
I used emacs to write by Java apps but sometimes wish I could have Intellisense technology as well. Intellisense is the auto-dropdown list that shows the attributes and services of an object. I know AnyJ also does this but J++ had the most developed version I've seen.
Maybe now I can write Swing apps in their fully developed environment. Can't wait.
Why would you want to buy a name as generic as business.com? the problem with the net is that there are already to many names that sound similar and can be confused with that one (e.g. business.org, business.net ebusiness.com etc.). I remember when I read this article and I realized how smart it was that Yahoo, eBay and Amazon all have none generic names like search.com, auctions.com and books.com.
The money would have been better spent hiring a firm to come up with a killer name...such as the company that converted Computer Literacy corp to fatbrain.com.
That's one company that has way too much VC funding... they'll probably go the way of Free PCs.
I agree with everything U said except the hotmail.com thing. on its own hotmail.com was a money loosing idea of the grandest kind but as part of a portal like MSn it becomes an integral part of a whole. MSN is constantly in the top 5 sites visited list mainly because of all the people who log of from hotmail and are sent to the MSN page and the 8 - 10 million people who click all those links in hotmail.com. PS: If U think hotmail's a bad idea how about Yahoo with a market cap of 14 billion$ that has no direct source of income except banner ads and whatever deal they make with stores that are in Yahoo! shopping.
When most people say cybersquatting (including congress) they mean buying a domain name that is similar to that of an established company simply for resale. Like me buying budweiser.com and then telling Amseur Busch (spelling?) that I need $1000 before I give it to them. Now to the best of my knowledge no company owns business or is called business inc. or business corp. so no one has a right to the name. More power to him. PS: Of course someone may hold the patent for business and may sue for $$$ later. LOL
Furthermore, what kind of coder are you if you can't read the extract and make the following leaps of logic:
I can see that U completely missed my point... it's obvious that there is a message of the day server that is sent a message (the README states that) what is nowhere to be found including in your very uninformative post is what is contained in the GL_RENDERER string.
PS: The answer to the question what kind of coder I am is: Probably a better one than U because its quite obvious to me I am better at reading and understanding information (i.e. user specs) than U. punk.
PPS: No one has answered this question yet ---> Where is the it stated explicitly what is contained in the GL_RENDERER string by iD?
From what I've seen and heard from the mainstream media the Columbine kids were teased and bullied mercilessly. In a lot of places the conclusion has been drawn (correctly I fear) that people who are bullied are more likely to blow up and strike out in surprising ways than others (including the bullies I guess since they have an outlet for their aggression).
OK so from what is happening now not only do kids have to worry about getting their asses kicked by bullies or being marginalized by the mainstream student body but also as a reward they get to be picked on by the school authorities for being picked on by their fellow students. Way to go FBI.
Just out of curiosity, if the school can identify those being bullied is it too much to ask that they step in to stop the bullying instead of attacking the victim thereby increasing the likelihood that the victim will feel marginalized, angry and violent. I know I would...
U might have convinced the powers that be at slashdot that this line from the README file exonerates carmack and iD software When Quake 3 Arena starts a map up, it sends the GL_RENDERER string to the Message Of The Day server at id. This responds back with a message of the day to the client. If you wish to switch this option off, set CL_MOTD to 0 (+set CL_MOTD 0 from the command line).
I on the other hand see this as no proof whatsoever. Now I am not a stupid person yet I found it impossible when I originally read it and impossible now to see how the above line from the README file to states that iD is collecting any information about my machine. Unless we are supposed to read the source code and find whatever method initializes GL_RENDERER then knowing that GL_RENDERER was sent to the Message Of The Day Server is as useless to me as knowing the what the sound of an earthworm farting sounds like.
Nowhere in all the.txt files that come with Q3Test does it say where and what exactly is the GL_RENDERER string. Please correct me if I'm wrong (it's 2AM and I've been coding for more hours than I can remember).
I just wonder how the Average & not so Average user who has no access to the source code was supposed to know that the sentence from the README meant that iD was monitoring onbe's mahine?
Although I agree with U in theory and believe that companies should protect themselves with patents if necessary from situations like this. What Intel is trying to do is nip a future market/industry/trend in the bud by patenting a process that will remove people's reliance on the next fast, faster, fastest chip from Intel. This is wrong.
NK is a big deal for national security of South Korea. With the missile technology they have demonstrated they may be a threat to the national security of Japan. They are not a threat to the national security of the USA.
Considering that we are currently in a global economy and thus no country is an island, doesn't what threaten to harm Japan also threaten to harm the US? Consider how a quake in Taiwan (which may be consumed by China next decade0 affected memory prices in the US. What if Taiwan had been nuked by some hostile, unstable enemy? Does that not affect the US?
Microsoft has done so much for us, like create the internet, bring down the price of PCs and software, make an easy to use operating system. Without microsoft we would still be using DOS applications.
Another post answered this but I just have to point this out again. Good try troollboy.
Also, they have made programming easier, with Visual Basic. Even I can program applications, and I'm not particularly good with computers.
If there is any reason to hate MSFT it is because people like U can make comments like this and see nothing wrong with such statements.
I've never been a big fan of class action lawsuits because they always seem to turn a bunch of ambulance chasers into millionairres while failing to reward those who should be rewarded.
I would rather get paid for all the information I have lost and lost productivity due to various BSODs brought on by MS Office, IE , Outlook Express and Windows. I would like reimbursement for all the software I bought and downloaded over the web on a 56K modem only to have the Scandisk bug force me to reinstall Windows (in early versions of Win98 whenever scandisk ran there was a chance it would overwrite the boot sector of the HD. It took 2 occurences and the purchase of Norton Utilities...which has an option to replace Scandisk b4 I stopped having to reinstall Windows98). I would like reimbursement for all the work I lost everytime my machine switched itself off without rhyme or reason because of the power management bug in Windows98.
I would rather see people reimbursed because MSFT forced us to use their crap software and cost us time and money...instead of a sweeping, lawyer- enriching payout that gives MSFT fodder for its constant spin that it is being victimized for being successful.
Could it be because the so called technology press (especially at ZDNet) were among the first to fall to MSFT. They probably believe that it isn't possible to read email, view pictures or breathe without MSFT software.
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OK let's say I'm one of the artists at etoy.com right, chilling at the office with my fellow artists then suddenly we get the offer from eToys.com.
Here's where I go into logical reasoning mode and postulate what happens if we refuse and they take legal action.
"Ok guys what could happen if this goes to a court or similar regulatory body?".
Well the judge on one hand sees a bunch of artistic types who use profanity on their website and on the other hand sees a legitimate business. Score 1 against us...(I've been to court that is how judge-types think.)
Secondly what hapens if we win a.) eToys.com (a legitimate business) stands to loose a number of customers who come to our site by accident and loose some reputation among the unknowledgeable b.) eToys.com is decides to forego the website and creates a new one, has to start a new marketing campaign and maybe change its stock ticker. What if we loose...well the judge says buy another domain for $70 bucks and do what is currently done at slashdot.com . So the judge has a choice of costing a legitimate business thousands to millions of dollars or costing a bunch of artists $70.
I wonder what he'll choose?
At this point my friends and i accept the stock, sell it, buy ourselves some kick ass SGI boxes and some killer software and keep doing what we do at another domain name.
PS: I can't get over the way people on slashdot make it seem like a domain name is some necessity of life like food, air, water or shelter. We were not born with them and they'll be gone before we die. So what's the fscking point of all this ruckus. If a new domain naming scheme comes into effect tomorrow all domain names will be null N void. If slashdot changed it's name to geeknews.com or something all that would happen is a bunch of geeks would have to update their bookmarks. no crying, no sickness, no famine, no plague, just updated bookmarks.
sheeesh!
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I used emacs to write by Java apps but sometimes wish I could have Intellisense technology as well. Intellisense is the auto-dropdown list that shows the attributes and services of an object. I know AnyJ also does this but J++ had the most developed version I've seen.
Maybe now I can write Swing apps in their fully developed environment. Can't wait.
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Oh so true
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You don't seem to have a problem with a movie that purportedly criticizes faith (Dogma).
Dogma does not criticize faith it celebrates it. What it criticizes is hypocrisy and dogmatic beliefs that can lend themselves to extremism.
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Of course your right. Windows is unstable because of the ending credits hidden inside.
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Why would you want to buy a name as generic as business.com? the problem with the net is that there are already to many names that sound similar and can be confused with that one (e.g. business.org, business.net ebusiness.com etc.). I remember when I read this article and I realized how smart it was that Yahoo, eBay and Amazon all have none generic names like search.com, auctions.com and books.com.
The money would have been better spent hiring a firm to come up with a killer name...such as the company that converted Computer Literacy corp to fatbrain.com.
That's one company that has way too much VC funding... they'll probably go the way of Free PCs.
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I agree with everything U said except the hotmail.com thing. on its own hotmail.com was a money loosing idea of the grandest kind but as part of a portal like MSn it becomes an integral part of a whole. MSN is constantly in the top 5 sites visited list mainly because of all the people who log of from hotmail and are sent to the MSN page and the 8 - 10 million people who click all those links in hotmail.com. PS: If U think hotmail's a bad idea how about Yahoo with a market cap of 14 billion$ that has no direct source of income except banner ads and whatever deal they make with stores that are in Yahoo! shopping.
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why would she want to go to business.com?
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When most people say cybersquatting (including congress) they mean buying a domain name that is similar to that of an established company simply for resale. Like me buying budweiser.com and then telling Amseur Busch (spelling?) that I need $1000 before I give it to them. Now to the best of my knowledge no company owns business or is called business inc. or business corp. so no one has a right to the name. More power to him. PS: Of course someone may hold the patent for business and may sue for $$$ later. LOL
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...and where can I get some for my kids?
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Furthermore, what kind of coder are you if you can't read the extract and make the following leaps of logic:
I can see that U completely missed my point... it's obvious that there is a message of the day server that is sent a message (the README states that) what is nowhere to be found including in your very uninformative post is what is contained in the GL_RENDERER string.
PS: The answer to the question what kind of coder I am is: Probably a better one than U because its quite obvious to me I am better at reading and understanding information (i.e. user specs) than U. punk.
PPS: No one has answered this question yet ---> Where is the it stated explicitly what is contained in the GL_RENDERER string by iD?
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From what I've seen and heard from the mainstream media the Columbine kids were teased and bullied mercilessly. In a lot of places the conclusion has been drawn (correctly I fear) that people who are bullied are more likely to blow up and strike out in surprising ways than others (including the bullies I guess since they have an outlet for their aggression).
OK so from what is happening now not only do kids have to worry about getting their asses kicked by bullies or being marginalized by the mainstream student body but also as a reward they get to be picked on by the school authorities for being picked on by their fellow students. Way to go FBI.
Just out of curiosity, if the school can identify those being bullied is it too much to ask that they step in to stop the bullying instead of attacking the victim thereby increasing the likelihood that the victim will feel marginalized, angry and violent. I know I would...
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U might have convinced the powers that be at slashdot that this line from the README file exonerates carmack and iD software
.txt files that come with Q3Test does it say where and what exactly is the GL_RENDERER string. Please correct me if I'm wrong (it's 2AM and I've been coding for more hours than I can remember).
When Quake 3 Arena starts a map up, it sends the GL_RENDERER string to the Message Of The Day server at id. This responds back with a message of the day to the client. If you wish to switch this option off, set CL_MOTD to 0 (+set CL_MOTD 0 from the command line).
I on the other hand see this as no proof whatsoever. Now I am not a stupid person yet I found it impossible when I originally read it and impossible now to see how the above line from the README file to states that iD is collecting any information about my machine. Unless we are supposed to read the source code and find whatever method initializes GL_RENDERER then knowing that GL_RENDERER was sent to the Message Of The Day Server is as useless to me as knowing the what the sound of an earthworm farting sounds like.
Nowhere in all the
I just wonder how the Average & not so Average user who has no access to the source code was supposed to know that the sentence from the README meant that iD was monitoring onbe's mahine?
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Although I agree with U in theory and believe that companies should protect themselves with patents if necessary from situations like this.
What Intel is trying to do is nip a future market/industry/trend in the bud by patenting a process that will remove people's reliance on the next fast, faster, fastest chip from Intel.
This is wrong.
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Quake 3
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NK is a big deal for national security of South Korea. With the missile technology they have demonstrated they may be a threat to the national security of Japan. They are not a threat to the national security of the USA.
Considering that we are currently in a global economy and thus no country is an island, doesn't what threaten to harm Japan also threaten to harm the US?
Consider how a quake in Taiwan (which may be consumed by China next decade0 affected memory prices in the US. What if Taiwan had been nuked by some hostile, unstable enemy? Does that not affect the US?
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Microsoft has done so much for us, like create the internet, bring down the price of PCs and software, make an easy to use operating system. Without microsoft we would still be using DOS applications.
Another post answered this but I just have to point this out again. Good try troollboy.
Also, they have made programming easier, with Visual Basic. Even I can program applications, and I'm not particularly good with computers.
If there is any reason to hate MSFT it is because people like U can make comments like this and see nothing wrong with such statements.
Die Microsoft Die
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I've never been a big fan of class action lawsuits because they always seem to turn a bunch of ambulance chasers into millionairres while failing to reward those who should be rewarded.
I would rather get paid for all the information I have lost and lost productivity due to various BSODs brought on by MS Office, IE , Outlook Express and Windows. I would like reimbursement for all the software I bought and downloaded over the web on a 56K modem only to have the Scandisk bug force me to reinstall Windows (in early versions of Win98 whenever scandisk ran there was a chance it would overwrite the boot sector of the HD. It took 2 occurences and the purchase of Norton Utilities...which has an option to replace Scandisk b4 I stopped having to reinstall Windows98). I would like reimbursement for all the work I lost everytime my machine switched itself off without rhyme or reason because of the power management bug in Windows98.
I would rather see people reimbursed because MSFT forced us to use their crap software and cost us time and money...instead of a sweeping, lawyer- enriching payout that gives MSFT fodder for its constant spin that it is being victimized for being successful.
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Troll
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My mistake, posted too hastily it should have read more like.
//do stuff }
int i=0, x =5;
for(i=x; i-->0;) {
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He forgot one of my personal favorites. Make the code look like it isn't code. Such as
for(int i =0; i-->;)
in Java, C or C++.
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Linux is more secure.
It is.
A fool is one who thinks he knows but does not.
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Could it be because the so called technology press (especially at ZDNet) were among the first to fall to MSFT. They probably believe that it isn't possible to read email, view pictures or breathe without MSFT software.
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2) It IS color, not colour. I'm afraid this isn't the U.K.
If this isn't the U.K. then where exactly is here??? Hint: It's not the U.S. dogbreath.
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. A busy intranet could theoretically bog down one a linux box sooner than a NT box.
Doing what?? Playing Quake ?
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