At which point, UPS will eat FedEx's lunch, as both carriers provide free boxes. People will have to take the cost of packing materials into account in ways they otherwise wouldn't, and UPS will come out ahead.
The guy who built the box furniture was abusing FexEx's policies, and now FedEx is struggling to find an appropriate response to a situation that could easily cost millions.
Think about it. 2,000 twenty somethings each order enough free boxes to outfit a one bedroom or a small studio in bed frame, chairs and desks. How much will all those boxes cost in raw materials alone???
The free boxes they send out are intended for customers. Instead of making money, they're subsidizing someone else's furniture needs.
I can understand them being upset about this, and I'm hard pressed to think of an appropriate response. Updating the terms under which they ship people free boxes so this behavior is banned, and then asking the web site owner to add a highly visible notice explaining this would have been far more reasonable, and just as effective.
Now, there will be a whole host of mirror sites. A web site that would have been a fun curiosity has now been made infamous. Many more people will now be directed to this site than would have otherwise seen it.
This is a backfiring legal strategy if I ever saw one.
Here's the real deal. FedEx doesn't want to be providing thousands to millions of boxes to people who won't be paying to use them to ship items via FedEx.
The lawsuit is probably not expected to succeed, but to pressure the web site owner into closing up shop. If he doesn't have the cash for proper furniture, then he won't have the cash for lawyers.
For FedEx, "winning" consists of getting the site of the Internet. The legal battle is a means to an end.
Of course the result of all this is I'll be pressuring our shipping department to use UPS instead.
Well, it's pretty clear HP is saying "Do what I say, not what I do" to it's competitors.
I can see the board meeting now.
Jack: How can we get out competition to waste resources?
Jill: Get them embroiled in a series of drawn out legal battles?
Jack: Brilliant! But How???
Jill: Wait a second. Have you been keeping up with the SCO news...
It's a simple plan really. Shame our competitors to open source a bunch of code, and prod the right parties to start a few lawsuits over the ownership of said code.
If they do a proper code audit, they'll end up wasting resources rewriting thousands to millions of lines of code to remove proprietary, NDA or licensed technologies.
I have some information that explains all of this quite easily.
The head of ANSTO is a terrorist, Trying to set up the Nuclear Reactor for an attack. The idea is to get the insecure areas blocked out on Google Maps. It's a public and deniable way to give them information on how to breach security.
They've already saved the images to disk, and are just waiting for information on what areas are considered "insecure" before they start planning how to blow it up.
If he doesn't want to "provide any easy assistance to anyone who wants to interfere with the site", then why is he publically pointing out the weak spots of their security?
Oh, that's an easy one.
Because he's a mind numbingly stupid ass hat.
This was his management and administration reference source
If just layering OpenGL over Direct3D wasn't enough to kill OpenGL performance, they'll add a whole bunch of wait and sleep calls to make sure they hit the 50% performance hit target.
Notice, The Car Whisperer has been declared a Terrorist tool. Anyone found to be downloading, using or reading about the Car Whisperer will be prosecuted for the commission of Terrorist Acts.
Back during the Cold War, anyone who owned a typewriter was required to submit a typing sample to the government. The idea was to create a database so to assist in tracking any given document to a specific typewriter.
The US Government has removed the ambiguity from this process, and made it far easier to definitely tie a document to a printer.
Well, except for the fact that I'm sure the government has a couple printers lying around that can add whatever serial number and printer model they want.
OK, you owe me a new keyboard, as it's now covered with soda.
I'm remembering the problems I've had when I was working with IntraLearn, and the way it broke when going from IE 5.5 to IE 6.0, and how stock 6.0 worked but the latest Service Pack didn't. I ended up decrypting their damn Cold Fusion code and fixing it myself.
IE breaks a lot of things between versions. I've come to the conclusion that the IE developers at Microsoft just can't keep things working form one version to the next. Hell, I've even seen small security patches break sites.
Ever try to open up an HTML file generated by Powerpoint 95 in IE 6.0 SP2? In Windows 2000? It's a disaster, and half the links don't work, and that's using nothing but Microsoft products. Because it looked fine on IE 5.5, and the company owner was running IE 5.5, he concluded that it must be fine, and I was the one who was chewed out when it didn't work for the sales guy who did a demo on W2K running the latest IE.
That's exactly why my wife and I didn't sign up with Weight Watchers. If you just click on their sight, you get directed to a warning that their site only works with IE.
In the end I said "Fark it" and went to another diet site.
Once SCO's charges are proven, and Linux is declared a "Copyright circumvention device" by His Majesty George W. Bush, the movie distributors will end up suing Disney and Pixar for using Linux!
The distributors will be busy suing the movie makers, and the falling sales figures will continue to be blamed on Linux and the piracy it's Communist ideals encourage. All the while, Disney will come out with "Herbie goes Bananas about Being Fully Reloaded for the Next Generation" and sue a 12 year old for making the movie available for download off Kazaa thus causing it to tank at the box office!
Yep. That's why I didn't have the moral position to pass judgment on the scheme.
I'm supposedly one reference away from getting an iTunes gift certificate.
Kind of makes me wish I'd signed up for the Mac Mini instead!
Anyway, I'd never heard the phrase "Matrix Scheme." Thanks for pointing it out to me. It's a slightly more accurate description of the "Free Ipods" setup than Ponzi scheme
You're over thinking the matter. It's not a real product. This is just a scam to collect e-mail addresses of known, verified geeks for a new "opt-in" list.
The product will never come out, but the opt-in list will be resold for several times the cost of the web site and hosting that's generated the buzz.
I wonder how many people will babble about "Tinfoil Hats" without reading the other replies to the parent post.
You seem to assume that corporations have your best interests at heart, and seem to have a rather rosy view of human nature. I hate to break it to you, but corporations do not have your best interests at heart. All they care about is making money, and your life doesn't really mean anything to them.
Just watch the news for a while. You'll see a lot of corporations treating human beings like any other commodity, like cattle or tin.
My favorite current example is not even related to the Iraq situation or the "War on Terror."
Just do a Google search for Coke and India and . Take a look at that situation, and see what Coke's Indian divisions are going to the water table, and the industrial waste they're selling as "fertilizer." Do some reading on the history of the situation, and tell me you'll ever drink Coke again.
I'm not going to waste breath with platitudes. I'll just ask you to take a look at the actions of corporate America. You'll quickly see that, to corporations, your life isn't worth any more than what they can get out of it.
Hell, take a look at the heat Costco is taking for paying their employees a decent salary and offering great health benefits. Despite being one of the five largest retailers on the planet, and despite growing like a week, Wall Street is ripping them a new one. Analysts think the company could increase it's margins by paying it's employees what Wal-Mart pays them, and raising their prices. In other words, their stock value is being challenged because they aren't treating people like cattle or horses.
You might want to do a little research and read a few newspapers before you start throwing around lines about tinfoil hats.
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At which point, UPS will eat FedEx's lunch, as both carriers provide free boxes. People will have to take the cost of packing materials into account in ways they otherwise wouldn't, and UPS will come out ahead.
The guy who built the box furniture was abusing FexEx's policies, and now FedEx is struggling to find an appropriate response to a situation that could easily cost millions.
Think about it. 2,000 twenty somethings each order enough free boxes to outfit a one bedroom or a small studio in bed frame, chairs and desks. How much will all those boxes cost in raw materials alone???
The free boxes they send out are intended for customers. Instead of making money, they're subsidizing someone else's furniture needs.
I can understand them being upset about this, and I'm hard pressed to think of an appropriate response. Updating the terms under which they ship people free boxes so this behavior is banned, and then asking the web site owner to add a highly visible notice explaining this would have been far more reasonable, and just as effective.
Now, there will be a whole host of mirror sites. A web site that would have been a fun curiosity has now been made infamous. Many more people will now be directed to this site than would have otherwise seen it.
This is a backfiring legal strategy if I ever saw one.
Here's the real deal. FedEx doesn't want to be providing thousands to millions of boxes to people who won't be paying to use them to ship items via FedEx.
The lawsuit is probably not expected to succeed, but to pressure the web site owner into closing up shop. If he doesn't have the cash for proper furniture, then he won't have the cash for lawyers.
For FedEx, "winning" consists of getting the site of the Internet. The legal battle is a means to an end.
Of course the result of all this is I'll be pressuring our shipping department to use UPS instead.
Well, it's pretty clear HP is saying "Do what I say, not what I do" to it's competitors.
I can see the board meeting now.
Jack: How can we get out competition to waste resources?
Jill: Get them embroiled in a series of drawn out legal battles?
Jack: Brilliant! But How???
Jill: Wait a second. Have you been keeping up with the SCO news...
It's a simple plan really. Shame our competitors to open source a bunch of code, and prod the right parties to start a few lawsuits over the ownership of said code.
If they do a proper code audit, they'll end up wasting resources rewriting thousands to millions of lines of code to remove proprietary, NDA or licensed technologies.
If you want to distribute your music for free you can always do a Podcast...
I have some information that explains all of this quite easily.
The head of ANSTO is a terrorist, Trying to set up the Nuclear Reactor for an attack. The idea is to get the insecure areas blocked out on Google Maps. It's a public and deniable way to give them information on how to breach security.
They've already saved the images to disk, and are just waiting for information on what areas are considered "insecure" before they start planning how to blow it up.
If he doesn't want to "provide any easy assistance to anyone who wants to interfere with the site", then why is he publically pointing out the weak spots of their security?
Oh, that's an easy one.
Because he's a mind numbingly stupid ass hat.
This was his management and administration reference source
The GOAL is to reduce performance by 50%.
If just layering OpenGL over Direct3D wasn't enough to kill OpenGL performance, they'll add a whole bunch of wait and sleep calls to make sure they hit the 50% performance hit target.
Notice, The Car Whisperer has been declared a Terrorist tool. Anyone found to be downloading, using or reading about the Car Whisperer will be prosecuted for the commission of Terrorist Acts.
Don't forget those super market discount cards!
Back during the Cold War, anyone who owned a typewriter was required to submit a typing sample to the government. The idea was to create a database so to assist in tracking any given document to a specific typewriter.
The US Government has removed the ambiguity from this process, and made it far easier to definitely tie a document to a printer.
Well, except for the fact that I'm sure the government has a couple printers lying around that can add whatever serial number and printer model they want.
If it won't work with PowerPoint, it's a toy, not a tool in the real world of business.
That would make IE a toy, not a tool, because Powerpoint generated HTML never really works right.
"Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?" -Ronald Reagan
Because it's the only way to fight ACs
assuming everyone who reads Slashdot owns Weird Al's Running With Scissors album
You mean there are some who DON'T????
I don't think M$ is dumb enough to break IE5/6
LOL!
OK, you owe me a new keyboard, as it's now covered with soda.
I'm remembering the problems I've had when I was working with IntraLearn, and the way it broke when going from IE 5.5 to IE 6.0, and how stock 6.0 worked but the latest Service Pack didn't. I ended up decrypting their damn Cold Fusion code and fixing it myself.
IE breaks a lot of things between versions. I've come to the conclusion that the IE developers at Microsoft just can't keep things working form one version to the next. Hell, I've even seen small security patches break sites.
Ever try to open up an HTML file generated by Powerpoint 95 in IE 6.0 SP2? In Windows 2000? It's a disaster, and half the links don't work, and that's using nothing but Microsoft products. Because it looked fine on IE 5.5, and the company owner was running IE 5.5, he concluded that it must be fine, and I was the one who was chewed out when it didn't work for the sales guy who did a demo on W2K running the latest IE.
That's exactly why my wife and I didn't sign up with Weight Watchers. If you just click on their sight, you get directed to a warning that their site only works with IE.
In the end I said "Fark it" and went to another diet site.
It'll be a laugh riot wont it?
Once SCO's charges are proven, and Linux is declared a "Copyright circumvention device" by His Majesty George W. Bush, the movie distributors will end up suing Disney and Pixar for using Linux!
The distributors will be busy suing the movie makers, and the falling sales figures will continue to be blamed on Linux and the piracy it's Communist ideals encourage. All the while, Disney will come out with "Herbie goes Bananas about Being Fully Reloaded for the Next Generation" and sue a 12 year old for making the movie available for download off Kazaa thus causing it to tank at the box office!
Amazon.com offers street- level photographs of businesses through its A9.com search engine
Nifty idea. It'd be great if this could be used to send Spammers photos of their businesses, or maps to their houses when they Spam us.
Nothing more. No threats, no other action, just a simple photo of thier home or business sent right to their e-mail account or FAX machine.
Yep. That's why I didn't have the moral position to pass judgment on the scheme.
I'm supposedly one reference away from getting an iTunes gift certificate.
Kind of makes me wish I'd signed up for the Mac Mini instead!
Anyway, I'd never heard the phrase "Matrix Scheme." Thanks for pointing it out to me. It's a slightly more accurate description of the "Free Ipods" setup than Ponzi scheme
A Ponzi Scheme involves loss of funds.
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You're over thinking the matter. It's not a real product. This is just a scam to collect e-mail addresses of known, verified geeks for a new "opt-in" list.
The product will never come out, but the opt-in list will be resold for several times the cost of the web site and hosting that's generated the buzz.
"I'm not dead yet!"
I wonder how many people will babble about "Tinfoil Hats" without reading the other replies to the parent post.
You seem to assume that corporations have your best interests at heart, and seem to have a rather rosy view of human nature. I hate to break it to you, but corporations do not have your best interests at heart. All they care about is making money, and your life doesn't really mean anything to them.
Just watch the news for a while. You'll see a lot of corporations treating human beings like any other commodity, like cattle or tin.
My favorite current example is not even related to the Iraq situation or the "War on Terror."
Just do a Google search for Coke and India and . Take a look at that situation, and see what Coke's Indian divisions are going to the water table, and the industrial waste they're selling as "fertilizer." Do some reading on the history of the situation, and tell me you'll ever drink Coke again.
I'm not going to waste breath with platitudes. I'll just ask you to take a look at the actions of corporate America. You'll quickly see that, to corporations, your life isn't worth any more than what they can get out of it.
Hell, take a look at the heat Costco is taking for paying their employees a decent salary and offering great health benefits. Despite being one of the five largest retailers on the planet, and despite growing like a week, Wall Street is ripping them a new one. Analysts think the company could increase it's margins by paying it's employees what Wal-Mart pays them, and raising their prices. In other words, their stock value is being challenged because they aren't treating people like cattle or horses.
You might want to do a little research and read a few newspapers before you start throwing around lines about tinfoil hats.
If you don't care, why are you:
a. Reading this thread
b. Replying to it?
Sheesh. I try to make a joke about how silly it is to use AIM "friends" as a measure of popularity, and people take it seriously!
Either way, using AIM to measure popularity is just plain silly.