I don't understand why they're rejecting Microsoft software. I mean it's cheap enough...they just have to head down to their local flea market or to Wing's Software Emporium and they can buy Microsoft's complete product line for 50 bucks!
Afraid the MPAA won't let them give them money?
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I mean it's not like the MPAA would ever limit it's opportunities to wring every last possible copper out of moviegoers. That's one reason I refuse to line up for movies...or almost anything else for that matter. I'll give someone money for a good or a service, but I sure as hell don't consider it a privlege to do so and won't waste MY time waiting in line just so I can make them wealthier.
An electronic document delivery system and methods of its use are provided. A document, preferably in a portable format, is forwarded to a remote server (e.g. using HTTP to "push" the document to the server). The server sends a generic notification of the document to an intended recipient, and the recipient can download the document from the server using local protocols. In preferred embodiments, the invention is used for the controlled delivery of portable documents from a sender to a large number of recipients, using a network of servers that route the documents and notifications in a store and forward manner, while providing routing and accounting information back to the sender.
Egad! Sounds like a glorified e-mail system! With attachments! And distribution lists! What a novel concept! But wait...It's not even attaching the document in question??? It's merely sending a link to a site where the file is located! Well,I don't know about you guys, but I was sending hyperlinks via e-mail prior to the patent filing date. Either I get to patent the wheel, or this is a non-starter. Somebody in the patent office needs a few whacks with the stupid stick... And don't even THINK about trying to collect royalties on this one.
An AOPA member...might've known! Weren't you guys the bastards that railed against installing mode-C transponders because despite the obvious safety enhancement (preventing mid-air collisions between large jets and some fuckwad that wandered into restricted airspace) for no good reason other than you figured that it might prevent you from exercising what you felt was your god-given right to fly whenever and wherever the hell you felt like?
Leave your plane alone? I'm staying the hell away from all of you...idiot kamakazes and clueless techno-spook wannabees and taking the train!
One MCSE for 5 users?!? $150k/year?!? Coyote-(in)san(e) and his mods should go out and shoot themselves! But first share with the rest of us whatever you're smoking! Have you ever considered a career managing human resources for fortune 500 companies? We'd all love you for that, and be set for life too!
Nice...$150K/year and no work to do...maybe I could convince them that I can do my "job" from home...
The same convention used for the sun and (most of) the other planets would apply. Thus virtually all of the "north" poles (Uranus is an exception) are on the same side of the orbital plane.
Most geeks haven't even mastered talking to humans!
Re:What the hell is wrong with legal tender?
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How can you read this website, and still be so backwards?
Call me backwards...on a site where UNIX is spoken of with religious fervour...where there are lurkers who speak PASCAL or FORTRAN...who remember green CRTs, punch cards, reminiscing about BBS's and the Internet pre WWW...
What the hell is wrong with legal tender?
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Remember what we did before all these plastic cards and shit came out? That's right...we went to the bank and took out pieces of paper with numbers printed on them and the words: this note is legal tender printed across the bottom...and we got along just fine. Wanna give someone an impersonal gift because you can't think of what to give them or can't be bothered shopping...put a couple of these pieces of paper in an envelope and give it to them! Need to send it through the mail? Write cheque or get a money order! I don't even like using my ATM card for purchases...I prefer withdrawing the cash and paying with that and nothing pisses me off more than having some dingbat in line in fromt of me trying card after card and none of them seem to work (especially the express lane at the grocery store, which is supposed to be cash only!). I especially love it when once in a while I encounter a merchant that's flirting with the idea of no longer accepting cash payments..."Uh, what part of this note is legal tender don't you understand? No...those pre-loaded "gift cards" are a sucky idea that needs to go away. (I guess they're great if you're the merchant and it's your "policy" not to give out the balance left over on the card in cash...)
You haven't been doing this for long, have you? You scavenge 'em from other cases, that's where! Case has 4 screws, you put 2 back in the case and put 2 in your bag! That way you never run out of screws!
But isn't that because most NAT devices currently will only route port-specific traffic to a single, specified private IP? How else are you going to be able to specify which machine behind the NAT gets the traffic intended for it? MAC? IP? The sender's gotta know which machine behind the NAT gets the traffic and the NAT's gotta know where to route it to, and current NATs aren't all that smart. I'd prefer it if they'd come up with something other than private IP's, because that's slightly more info than I'd care to share. I'd rather see a system where a session cookie is created when the person logs on and use a router that can distinguish cookies, but they aren't giving us that option are they?
It's crap of the highest order. It is even worse than the monopoly movie theatres have on food and drink.
I sneak my own food into theaters all the time. Hell, I sneak beer in if I feel like it (it's great fun to roll the bottles down the floor when there's a quiet part). It's one of the advantages of living in Canada I guess. You can wear a big coat and no one blinks an eye. And at the point that they start being pricks about it, I'll simply quit going to theaters. Fuck 'em! I'm the customer! They cater to me, not the other way around!! Or, as a friend of mine says: "The tail doesn't wag the dog!" It's way past time people started asserting their rights and telling companies that depend on our support that we refuse to be pushed around by them and will withdraw our support if we don't like terms. As far as Passport is concerned, I have a hotmail account with no personal information attached to it and that's how it's going to stay, and if they don't like it they can kiss my pucker! I've noted that Office XP tried to set Instant Messaging up to phone home every time I started it up...put a stop to that real fast! (BTW I installed XP merely out of curiousity...I tell my friends to get StarOffice...They really are sold in the fact that it's free). Microsoft better think good and hard about forcing users to link their personal information to their software. My computer is my servant and it does my bidding, not Microsoft's! Why should I give Microsoft information that I'm not willing to share with a police officer unless I have to! Nobody says you have to play by their rules! You do have a say!
...all the pimps, drug dealers, and other riff-raff, who must surely all be behind bars now and consequently our law-enforcement agencies have nothing to do but hassle college kids!
It's quite obvious to me that none of you "flamers" have ever actually had to deal with an accounting department. Accountants are miserable, cantankerous, and best left totally alone! What that means kiddies, is if your accountant has an old 486 running 3.1 and he's happy with it...you don't fuck around with it! Don't fall into the trap of thinking that you can somehow enlighten your accountant or make his life better by giving him what you think is "new and improved". You will just confuse the hell out of him, piss him off, and leave him thinking even more that you (and all techies for that matter) are just a useless bunch who do nothing but screw things up and cost the company money. Newsflash: This this is the guy that signs your paychecks...do you really want him pissed off at you? Also in many companies, accountants wield considerable influence. Not someone you want to have badmouthing you now is it? For God's sake, do yourselves a favour and leave the accounting department alone as much as possible!
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I don't understand why they're rejecting Microsoft software. I mean it's cheap enough...they just have to head down to their local flea market or to Wing's Software Emporium and they can buy Microsoft's complete product line for 50 bucks!
I mean it's not like the MPAA would ever limit it's opportunities to wring every last possible copper out of moviegoers. That's one reason I refuse to line up for movies...or almost anything else for that matter. I'll give someone money for a good or a service, but I sure as hell don't consider it a privlege to do so and won't waste MY time waiting in line just so I can make them wealthier.
...because I seem to have no trouble burning CD-A tracks onto CD-Rs (not audio!) amd playing them in my CD player.
An electronic document delivery system and methods of its use are provided. A document, preferably in a portable format, is forwarded to a remote server (e.g. using HTTP to "push" the document to the server). The server sends a generic notification of the document to an intended recipient, and the recipient can download the document from the server using local protocols. In preferred embodiments, the invention is used for the controlled delivery of portable documents from a sender to a large number of recipients, using a network of servers that route the documents and notifications in a store and forward manner, while providing routing and accounting information back to the sender.
Egad! Sounds like a glorified e-mail system! With attachments! And distribution lists! What a novel concept! But wait...It's not even attaching the document in question??? It's merely sending a link to a site where the file is located! Well,I don't know about you guys, but I was sending hyperlinks via e-mail prior to the patent filing date. Either I get to patent the wheel, or this is a non-starter. Somebody in the patent office needs a few whacks with the stupid stick... And don't even THINK about trying to collect royalties on this one.
Didn't we pass a bill to make English the official language of the United States? Wouldn't that make this patent null and void?
Uhhh what good would that do? Everyone knows Americans don't know how to speak English!
How about making a mod pack for something like Quake that lets you do the fragging yourself?
An AOPA member...might've known! Weren't you guys the bastards that railed against installing mode-C transponders because despite the obvious safety enhancement (preventing mid-air collisions between large jets and some fuckwad that wandered into restricted airspace) for no good reason other than you figured that it might prevent you from exercising what you felt was your god-given right to fly whenever and wherever the hell you felt like?
Leave your plane alone? I'm staying the hell away from all of you...idiot kamakazes and clueless techno-spook wannabees and taking the train!
One MCSE for 5 users?!? $150k/year?!? Coyote-(in)san(e) and his mods should go out and shoot themselves! But first share with the rest of us whatever you're smoking! Have you ever considered a career managing human resources for fortune 500 companies? We'd all love you for that, and be set for life too!
Nice...$150K/year and no work to do...maybe I could convince them that I can do my "job" from home...
The same convention used for the sun and (most of) the other planets would apply. Thus virtually all of the "north" poles (Uranus is an exception) are on the same side of the orbital plane.
Wonderful instrument...aligns itself at right angles to the planet's spin, making it easy to determine in what direction lie the poles.
Most geeks haven't even mastered talking to humans!
How can you read this website, and still be so backwards?
Call me backwards...on a site where UNIX is spoken of with religious fervour...where there are lurkers who speak PASCAL or FORTRAN...who remember green CRTs, punch cards, reminiscing about BBS's and the Internet pre WWW...
Remember what we did before all these plastic cards and shit came out? That's right...we went to the bank and took out pieces of paper with numbers printed on them and the words: this note is legal tender printed across the bottom...and we got along just fine. Wanna give someone an impersonal gift because you can't think of what to give them or can't be bothered shopping...put a couple of these pieces of paper in an envelope and give it to them! Need to send it through the mail? Write cheque or get a money order! I don't even like using my ATM card for purchases...I prefer withdrawing the cash and paying with that and nothing pisses me off more than having some dingbat in line in fromt of me trying card after card and none of them seem to work (especially the express lane at the grocery store, which is supposed to be cash only!). I especially love it when once in a while I encounter a merchant that's flirting with the idea of no longer accepting cash payments..."Uh, what part of this note is legal tender don't you understand?
No...those pre-loaded "gift cards" are a sucky idea that needs to go away. (I guess they're great if you're the merchant and it's your "policy" not to give out the balance left over on the card in cash...)
...and then we'll report to termination centres when the machines on our side lose!
Sheesh...!
...it looks like you've just been slashdotted!
Rats...
But isn't that because most NAT devices currently will only route port-specific traffic to a single, specified private IP? How else are you going to be able to specify which machine behind the NAT gets the traffic intended for it? MAC? IP? The sender's gotta know which machine behind the NAT gets the traffic and the NAT's gotta know where to route it to, and current NATs aren't all that smart. I'd prefer it if they'd come up with something other than private IP's, because that's slightly more info than I'd care to share. I'd rather see a system where a session cookie is created when the person logs on and use a router that can distinguish cookies, but they aren't giving us that option are they?
It's crap of the highest order. It is even worse than the monopoly movie theatres have on food and drink.
I sneak my own food into theaters all the time. Hell, I sneak beer in if I feel like it (it's great fun to roll the bottles down the floor when there's a quiet part). It's one of the advantages of living in Canada I guess. You can wear a big coat and no one blinks an eye. And at the point that they start being pricks about it, I'll simply quit going to theaters. Fuck 'em! I'm the customer! They cater to me, not the other way around!! Or, as a friend of mine says: "The tail doesn't wag the dog!" It's way past time people started asserting their rights and telling companies that depend on our support that we refuse to be pushed around by them and will withdraw our support if we don't like terms. As far as Passport is concerned, I have a hotmail account with no personal information attached to it and that's how it's going to stay, and if they don't like it they can kiss my pucker! I've noted that Office XP tried to set Instant Messaging up to phone home every time I started it up...put a stop to that real fast! (BTW I installed XP merely out of curiousity...I tell my friends to get StarOffice...They really are sold in the fact that it's free). Microsoft better think good and hard about forcing users to link their personal information to their software. My computer is my servant and it does my bidding, not Microsoft's! Why should I give Microsoft information that I'm not willing to share with a police officer unless I have to! Nobody says you have to play by their rules! You do have a say!
...all the pimps, drug dealers, and other riff-raff, who must surely all be behind bars now and consequently our law-enforcement agencies have nothing to do but hassle college kids!
These are the pirates that they need to be going after, not college kids swapping mp3z or warez...
Oh, they've heard of sex all right! The problem is, they seem to be lacking in practical experience!
All your bridges are belong to us!
Karma hell, here I come!
Hey! How the hell did that happen??? I was replying to the guy below you!
Nova Scotia's on the other coast you butthead!
He's absolutely right.
It's quite obvious to me that none of you "flamers" have ever actually had to deal with an accounting department. Accountants are miserable, cantankerous, and best left totally alone! What that means kiddies, is if your accountant has an old 486 running 3.1 and he's happy with it...you don't fuck around with it! Don't fall into the trap of thinking that you can somehow enlighten your accountant or make his life better by giving him what you think is "new and improved". You will just confuse the hell out of him, piss him off, and leave him thinking even more that you (and all techies for that matter) are just a useless bunch who do nothing but screw things up and cost the company money. Newsflash: This this is the guy that signs your paychecks...do you really want him pissed off at you? Also in many companies, accountants wield considerable influence. Not someone you want to have badmouthing you now is it? For God's sake, do yourselves a favour and leave the accounting department alone as much as possible!