Why not ask the guys at Yahoo! if they fancy having a pop at Amazon for using a database to generate web pages.
Or all the porn sites could gather together and sue them for ripping off their idea of taking credit card payments online.
Also, where the hell do they get the idea that renaming 'franchising' as 'affiliates' is worth a patent? If that's the case, I'm renaming 'www' as 'web' and charging for everyone who uses it.
Amazon have ignored my phone calls and solicitors letters for months over my attempts to receive due payment for my patented 'Two Eye (tm)' technology, the quickest way to get information from a monitor to the human brain.
And now they go and pull a stunt like this!!! I'm absolutely livid. All I'm asking for is one dollar per page that is displayed and transferred using 'Two Eye (tm)'.
I don't see how this figure of $18 million could ever be true. If I had a cash cow of a web site that was earning me that much every day, then I wouldn't just have a backup tape, I would have a complete back up web server which could be activated at the flick of a switch, with a total downtime of about 3 seconds from when the change was noticed to the new server kicking in.
Then that cost would work out at something like the following;
Lost business During downtime of 3 seconds: $28,800
...it could finally mean that there will be cool internet appliances all over the house.
As long as the people involved in the implementation of this don't ruin it by adding silly usage charges, then we will finally be able to read/. whilst listening to geeks in space in full stereo, and all on our fridge doors.
So, who's for a game of quake? I'll see you by the microwave.
This is one I remember happening when I was much younger (probably late 70s or early 80s). The BBC has it's main offices at the BBC Television Centre in West London. The building is a huge affair (7 storeys or so) based around a circular courtyard which is approximately 100 yards in diameter. In the centre of this courtyard is a statue on a very large column (think Nelsons Column), which is almost as tall as the television centre itself.
Anyway, one morning the staff arrived at work to find a dustbin placed on the statue, and nobody knew how it got there.
I remember the childrens programme Blue Peter devoting a significant portion of one of its shows trying (and succeeding) to work out how it was done.
I'm not sure if they ever found out who it was. Could anyone shed any light on this?
You are bang on the button there. I have been badgering my wife for months for a set. She finally relented when I plastered the living room with printouts of the Mindstorms range. So, it looks like I'm having an infra-reddy, plastic-bricking Christmas.
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Why not ask the guys at Yahoo! if they fancy having a pop at Amazon for using a database to generate web pages.
Or all the porn sites could gather together and sue them for ripping off their idea of taking credit card payments online.
Also, where the hell do they get the idea that renaming 'franchising' as 'affiliates' is worth a patent? If that's the case, I'm renaming 'www' as 'web' and charging for everyone who uses it.
Amazon have ignored my phone calls and solicitors letters for months over my attempts to receive due payment for my patented 'Two Eye (tm)' technology, the quickest way to get information from a monitor to the human brain.
And now they go and pull a stunt like this!!! I'm absolutely livid. All I'm asking for is one dollar per page that is displayed and transferred using 'Two Eye (tm)'.
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I would agree with you, except for one point; MS sells a crap OS.
I don't see how this figure of $18 million could ever be true. If I had a cash cow of a web site that was earning me that much every day, then I wouldn't just have a backup tape, I would have a complete back up web server which could be activated at the flick of a switch, with a total downtime of about 3 seconds from when the change was noticed to the new server kicking in.
Then that cost would work out at something like the following;
Lost business During downtime of 3 seconds: $28,800
1 tech person to fix the problem $1,200
Total cost $30,000
I really don't see how it could be more.
...it could finally mean that there will be cool internet appliances all over the house.
/. whilst listening to geeks in space in full stereo, and all on our fridge doors.
As long as the people involved in the implementation of this don't ruin it by adding silly usage charges, then we will finally be able to read
So, who's for a game of quake? I'll see you by the microwave.
I think (and hope) you'll find that the poster was joking.
This is one I remember happening when I was much younger (probably late 70s or early 80s). The BBC has it's main offices at the BBC Television Centre in West London. The building is a huge affair (7 storeys or so) based around a circular courtyard which is approximately 100 yards in diameter. In the centre of this courtyard is a statue on a very large column (think Nelsons Column), which is almost as tall as the television centre itself.
Anyway, one morning the staff arrived at work to find a dustbin placed on the statue, and nobody knew how it got there.
I remember the childrens programme Blue Peter devoting a significant portion of one of its shows trying (and succeeding) to work out how it was done.
I'm not sure if they ever found out who it was. Could anyone shed any light on this?
You are bang on the button there. I have been badgering my wife for months for a set. She finally relented when I plastered the living room with printouts of the Mindstorms range. So, it looks like I'm having an infra-reddy, plastic-bricking Christmas.
Give me a Psion anytime.