This is one of the most puzzling and strange things that I'd ever heard when it came to domain names. I cannot remember how many brilliant domain names I came up with trying to find one for my hosting business. Most didn't exist and were expired, but I couldn't buy them. And yet we still have all of this news about lack of domain names, even though you can't buy expired ones. Utter stupidity, I hope they lose big.
"Using the method of javascript to change the predefined location of an image to a new, precached image of the same size and appearance, but with a different artistic feel and vice versa"
Seriously, I've been using this method for almost 3 years, the web page with my first use even has Y2K errors!
On par with their naming scheme of OSX, Apple is currently patenting any number of click ordering, stating that they were the first people to actually use the mouse, yadda, yadda. Another piece actually bundled up with this same case is the single button ordering patent. Apple's mouse is the only mouse to have one button, and almost all sites require only one button be used to order. Apple's mouse being the mouse that fits this reasoning should definitely, then, obtain the patent.
Barnes & Noble's 2-10-Click patent is much like Amazon's 1-Click patent, and may actually serve to change Amazon's process. Sources have reported that as many as 10 Clicks are needed to actually use this service, as opposed to a simple 2 to click "buy now" and then "submit order". Barnes & Nobles tells neildogg news that this new approach to ordering doesn't serve to make the user experience more enjoyable, but to make Amazon have to change their 1-Click ordering processes as to make them actually use 1 Click.
"Buy now with One Click"
*Click*
"Sign up for One Click"
*Click*
"Set up a new Account"
*Click*
"Turn One Click On"
*Click*
YES!!! Now I can buy stuff with only One Click!!!
Well I got them from ergo.3com.com, that's a pretty definite url, and there a lot of other people that actually saw the site that I can get to attest to it.
I just told them that a polite friendly email would have been more appreciated, but I like 3Com, and I don't think there's a reason not to listen to them.
So, I got my email from 3Com telling me to take down the site, and a whole bunch of legal crap about copyright laws and the Bahamas (which no one is sure of), so I took down the site, as a nice guesture to 3Com (and I don't like legal stuff). Worst of all is that their "counsel" couldn't even spell Bahamian properly. Hope you enjoyed as much as I could show you though.
It's becoming more and more apparent that not all submitted news is being "read" as we would think. The whole point of the site is that we find out about news really quickly, right? So something submitted 23 days ago should have been posted, right? Look through all of the threats and check how many people submitted stuff that was rejected even though it's the same as the main post. Isn't this important?
is to take the speaker wire, disconnect it from the speaker and into the mic input. It's great making it so that the user can't decode the file, and save it as another file with a program, but if they provide the program to decode it, then it's serving as its own copier. Of course, you could pay to simply have a file on your computer, and they won't provide you with the decoder. With these guidelines, everything I say is encrypted, no one can copy it before I say it, but sure as hell, when I say it, someone can record it.
You are currently running a program that is direct competition to our Windows products. We also detect the presence of Linux and other competing operating systems present on this hard drive. We enjoy crushing consumers who don't use only Microsoft. I will now pop up a blue screen with unintelligable error messages that you will not be able to rid yourself of even after reboot.
So that's what an illegal operation is!
Wouldn't it make sense to choose the type of people who read slashdot and such internet publications to be the jury in such cases? Wouldn't these be the type of people who have a complete knowledge of what everyone's done in the tech industry? Because, as I figure it, Microsoft is digging their own grave, because if you got people who understood exactly what was happening, like us here at slashdot, Microsoft would be screwed.
There are some very good points being made here. I feel that piracy is wrong in the sense of not purchasing something that was going to be purchased. I have several philosophies on this. To begin with, there is a lot of piracy within the age range of say high school to college age persons. Say someone wants to design a logo for their web page and they heard that photoshop is a cool program to do stuff in. So they pirate the program. What kind of high school/college student is going to buy a $600 graphics program? Not me, and one day I'm going to buy it, when I can. By using a pirated copy, I can earn enough money to pay for that program. It's hard to imagine a tech savvy thirty odd year old searching through warez. Point is that a legitimate business will buy the software, because it's considered a "business cost".
Open Source too? Good points on the pirating of the program. I myself actually got a version a while ago, couldn't figure out how to use it, then uninstalled it. Thing is that I can afford it now, but I don't want to buy it because of that. Maybe the free version will change my mind. What would really suck though is if all the people that play quake are now able to make realistic replicas of themselves and you have a bunch of fat 32 year old guys running around in Team Fortress.
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User: twinsoft (2748) Date: Mar-22-99 20:53:45 PST Praise: This is a COMPLAINT! They ended an auction for legal MS software, no explanatio User: kluessendorf (265) Date: Mar-25-99 10:26:20 PST Praise: Cancelled auction on legal retail Windows 98 upgrade with contacting me User: bobbennett (8) Date: Apr-06-99 13:16:33 PST Praise: Microsoft pirates their own software, allowing full registration, & upgrades???? Wow, it's nice to know what people consider compliments today. Hey Bill Gates, you're ugly!
User: pocky220 (73) (not a registered user) Date: Mar-03-00 21:55:59 PST Neutral: I have the right to sell the Windows 98 I BOUGHT.. this is BULL SHIT............
User: cellar (476) (not a registered user) Date: Mar-03-00 13:38:29 PST Neutral: Hmmm....Gulty to proven innocent? Microsoft is Un-American...Break them up...
I'd say that MP3s are the most benificial to the consumer. There are WAY too many albums full of complete crap that have 1 good song. The record companies used to be able to employ clever marketing, releasing only the good songs to radio. when have you heard the crappy songs from albums being played on the radio. A consumer gets a whole album, and it's crap, so he doesn't buy it. I, myself, only buy chrisitian music, and because of copyright laws where I live, it's perfectly legal to download mp3s. The thing is that the mp3s I have downloaded with napster are songs I'd never buy because I could do without them. I have a few singles, the good stuff that I know, but I don't like buying albums, it's a large waste of money. If, and only if, the artists brought out a CD with plenty of good music, it would be worth these rediculous prices. MP3s hold truth, and that's what scares them.
I live in the Bahamas, and host OneBahamas.com which actually is on a server in the states. The service is for Bahamians to get free, no ad, web hosting. The reason why we host in the states is that there is no infrastructure to host it here. I have a cable modem, but it only runs at 128kB/s. The telecommunications company is going to be implimenting DSL in the near future, but get this. The cable company, Cable Bahamas, who I get my cable modem from now is going to be running a wide fibre optic pipe to the states. Very soon, you should be able to get up to T3 access in the Bahamas. The poorly implimented copyright laws, as well as poor legal inforcement of anything, along with the fact that no one here besides a friend and I know anything about computers would be an excellent reason to come here to avoid free speech problems. Now the only problem that I can see lies in the TOS of the cable company, but I can tell you this: we didn't have to sign anything when we got our cable modem, so watch for it. The Bahamas will be an excellent place to avoid everything. Email me if you want any more information or anything.
Slashdot Mirror
Would there happen to be anyone in here that could site previous usage?
This is one of the most puzzling and strange things that I'd ever heard when it came to domain names. I cannot remember how many brilliant domain names I came up with trying to find one for my hosting business. Most didn't exist and were expired, but I couldn't buy them. And yet we still have all of this news about lack of domain names, even though you can't buy expired ones. Utter stupidity, I hope they lose big.
"Using the method of javascript to change the predefined location of an image to a new, precached image of the same size and appearance, but with a different artistic feel and vice versa" Seriously, I've been using this method for almost 3 years, the web page with my first use even has Y2K errors!
On par with their naming scheme of OSX, Apple is currently patenting any number of click ordering, stating that they were the first people to actually use the mouse, yadda, yadda. Another piece actually bundled up with this same case is the single button ordering patent. Apple's mouse is the only mouse to have one button, and almost all sites require only one button be used to order. Apple's mouse being the mouse that fits this reasoning should definitely, then, obtain the patent.
Barnes & Noble's 2-10-Click patent is much like Amazon's 1-Click patent, and may actually serve to change Amazon's process. Sources have reported that as many as 10 Clicks are needed to actually use this service, as opposed to a simple 2 to click "buy now" and then "submit order". Barnes & Nobles tells neildogg news that this new approach to ordering doesn't serve to make the user experience more enjoyable, but to make Amazon have to change their 1-Click ordering processes as to make them actually use 1 Click.
I would
"Buy now with One Click"
*Click*
"Sign up for One Click"
*Click*
"Set up a new Account"
*Click*
"Turn One Click On"
*Click*
YES!!! Now I can buy stuff with only One Click!!!
Well I got them from ergo.3com.com, that's a pretty definite url, and there a lot of other people that actually saw the site that I can get to attest to it.
I just told them that a polite friendly email would have been more appreciated, but I like 3Com, and I don't think there's a reason not to listen to them.
So, I got my email from 3Com telling me to take down the site, and a whole bunch of legal crap about copyright laws and the Bahamas (which no one is sure of), so I took down the site, as a nice guesture to 3Com (and I don't like legal stuff). Worst of all is that their "counsel" couldn't even spell Bahamian properly. Hope you enjoyed as much as I could show you though.
It's becoming more and more apparent that not all submitted news is being "read" as we would think. The whole point of the site is that we find out about news really quickly, right? So something submitted 23 days ago should have been posted, right? Look through all of the threats and check how many people submitted stuff that was rejected even though it's the same as the main post. Isn't this important?
If you use Macromedia Flash to deliver mp3s, it's just as great as any upcoming/new form of encryption that there's going to be.
is to take the speaker wire, disconnect it from the speaker and into the mic input. It's great making it so that the user can't decode the file, and save it as another file with a program, but if they provide the program to decode it, then it's serving as its own copier. Of course, you could pay to simply have a file on your computer, and they won't provide you with the decoder. With these guidelines, everything I say is encrypted, no one can copy it before I say it, but sure as hell, when I say it, someone can record it.
You are currently running a program that is direct competition to our Windows products. We also detect the presence of Linux and other competing operating systems present on this hard drive. We enjoy crushing consumers who don't use only Microsoft. I will now pop up a blue screen with unintelligable error messages that you will not be able to rid yourself of even after reboot. So that's what an illegal operation is!
Wouldn't it make sense to choose the type of people who read slashdot and such internet publications to be the jury in such cases? Wouldn't these be the type of people who have a complete knowledge of what everyone's done in the tech industry? Because, as I figure it, Microsoft is digging their own grave, because if you got people who understood exactly what was happening, like us here at slashdot, Microsoft would be screwed.
There are some very good points being made here. I feel that piracy is wrong in the sense of not purchasing something that was going to be purchased. I have several philosophies on this. To begin with, there is a lot of piracy within the age range of say high school to college age persons. Say someone wants to design a logo for their web page and they heard that photoshop is a cool program to do stuff in. So they pirate the program. What kind of high school/college student is going to buy a $600 graphics program? Not me, and one day I'm going to buy it, when I can. By using a pirated copy, I can earn enough money to pay for that program. It's hard to imagine a tech savvy thirty odd year old searching through warez. Point is that a legitimate business will buy the software, because it's considered a "business cost".
Open Source too? Good points on the pirating of the program. I myself actually got a version a while ago, couldn't figure out how to use it, then uninstalled it. Thing is that I can afford it now, but I don't want to buy it because of that. Maybe the free version will change my mind. What would really suck though is if all the people that play quake are now able to make realistic replicas of themselves and you have a bunch of fat 32 year old guys running around in Team Fortress.
So what about queue And the word rhythm as well My celeron's screwed
Or rhythm
5.5 Manipulation. Neither bidders nor sellers may manipulate the price of any item nor may you interfere with other user's listings or auctions
From Ebay itself
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User: twinsoft (2748) Date: Mar-22-99 20:53:45 PST Praise: This is a COMPLAINT! They ended an auction for legal MS software, no explanatio User: kluessendorf (265) Date: Mar-25-99 10:26:20 PST Praise: Cancelled auction on legal retail Windows 98 upgrade with contacting me User: bobbennett (8) Date: Apr-06-99 13:16:33 PST Praise: Microsoft pirates their own software, allowing full registration, & upgrades???? Wow, it's nice to know what people consider compliments today. Hey Bill Gates, you're ugly!
User: pocky220 (73) (not a registered user) Date: Mar-03-00 21:55:59 PST
Neutral: I have the right to sell the Windows 98 I BOUGHT.. this is BULL SHIT............
User: cellar (476) (not a registered user) Date: Mar-03-00 13:38:29 PST
Neutral: Hmmm....Gulty to proven innocent? Microsoft is Un-American...Break them up...
User: ni-dan (45) Date: Mar-02-00 04:54:11 PST
Neutral: NEGATIVE!!! HITLERSOFT ENDS ANOTHER LEGAL AUCTION!!!
User: boatman9 (223) Date: Feb-29-00 19:57:57 PST
Neutral: End my legal auction. Hope Justice Dept. socks it to ya in the Anti-Trust Suit!
User: booktrapper (41) Date: Feb-29-00 01:36:48 PST
Neutral: Why can't you at least inquire about the item? You are only hurting yourselves..
User: jlindsay (92) Date: Feb-24-00 18:20:12 PST
Neutral: 268283455 another auction ended @ the hands of Micro$oft
User: carydixon (29) Date: Feb-24-00 12:12:07 PST
Neutral: I own this software. It is mine to sell. F- - ck you.
User: dbx (19) Date: Feb-23-00 15:13:32 PST
Neutral: Ended my perfectly legit sale.. This is-un american. Guilty.....NOT
User: totaltickets (41) Date: Feb-23-00 13:30:44 PST
Neutral: A STABLE OPERATING SYSTEM IS A NO-WIN(TM) SITUATION - FCUK MICROSOFT
User: bill.p (10) Date: Feb-21-00 18:03:41 PST
Neutral: NEGATIVE: You have blocked legitimate sale of new software and slandered me
User: mikeps (10) Date: Feb-17-00 20:26:11 PST
Neutral: MS killed off my legitimate auction; no wonder so many hate Micro$oft & windoZe
User: pronoblem (271) Date: Feb-16-00 16:04:28 PST
Neutral: I was forced to buy it from Dell, I should be able to sell it. www.linux.org
User: peter0175 (1) Date: Feb-15-00 22:18:55 PST
Neutral: M.S. NAZI -- Ended a TOTAL legit auction. NEGATIVE COMMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
User: kak268 (40) Date: Feb-15-00 22:08:37 PST
Neutral: ended 2 of my legit auctions. won't respond to emails. you suck monkey balls MS!
User: bruce2816 (103) Date: Feb-09-00 21:38:49 PST
Neutral: Emailed my high bidder, told him copyright violation - on unopened retail box!
User: biiin (private) Date: Feb-04-00 20:49:48 PST
Neutral: Ebay was once cool till they became Microsoft B*tches.. Legit auction canceled.
User: jt325i (98) Date: Feb-03-00 17:15:40 PST
Neutral: 25240347Will respect wishes and not relist, however the product was legitimate.
User: chrisandro (56) Date: Feb-02-00 05:03:14 PST
Neutral: Anal Retentive Microsoft wants more money & people to pay retail !!!!!
User: dhacker1 (253) Date: Jan-30-00 10:24:05 PST
Neutral: NEGATIVE! MS & Ebay Cancelled my perfectly legit auction.
User: pb3623 (11) Date: Jan-30-00 06:21:07 PST
Neutral: Anyone want to buy my LEGITIMATE NT 4.0 CD, come to my garage sale.. plain wrong
User: magnacomp (166) Date: Jan-26-00 03:02:48 PST
Neutral: Assumed guilty until proven innocent? This is a blatant constitutional violation
User: andy.888 (14) Date: Jan-17-00 15:00:37 PST
Neutral: die microsoft you suck
User: ratkins@x-networks.net (0) Date: Jan-17-00 10:21:32 PST
Neutral: Greedy 6asterds want you to pay retail! Anti-Trust - I think so!
User: mchstech (18) Date: Jan-14-00 17:10:22 PST
Neutral: Ended my Auction for a perfectly LEGAL copy of MS Publisher 98.
User: recycledelectrons (58) Date: Jan-14-00 15:54:14 PST
Neutral: email me (aba3600@omega.uta.edu) about a class action suit for slander!
I'd say that MP3s are the most benificial to the consumer. There are WAY too many albums full of complete crap that have 1 good song. The record companies used to be able to employ clever marketing, releasing only the good songs to radio. when have you heard the crappy songs from albums being played on the radio. A consumer gets a whole album, and it's crap, so he doesn't buy it. I, myself, only buy chrisitian music, and because of copyright laws where I live, it's perfectly legal to download mp3s. The thing is that the mp3s I have downloaded with napster are songs I'd never buy because I could do without them. I have a few singles, the good stuff that I know, but I don't like buying albums, it's a large waste of money. If, and only if, the artists brought out a CD with plenty of good music, it would be worth these rediculous prices. MP3s hold truth, and that's what scares them.
I live in the Bahamas, and host OneBahamas.com which actually is on a server in the states. The service is for Bahamians to get free, no ad, web hosting. The reason why we host in the states is that there is no infrastructure to host it here. I have a cable modem, but it only runs at 128kB/s. The telecommunications company is going to be implimenting DSL in the near future, but get this. The cable company, Cable Bahamas, who I get my cable modem from now is going to be running a wide fibre optic pipe to the states. Very soon, you should be able to get up to T3 access in the Bahamas. The poorly implimented copyright laws, as well as poor legal inforcement of anything, along with the fact that no one here besides a friend and I know anything about computers would be an excellent reason to come here to avoid free speech problems. Now the only problem that I can see lies in the TOS of the cable company, but I can tell you this: we didn't have to sign anything when we got our cable modem, so watch for it. The Bahamas will be an excellent place to avoid everything. Email me if you want any more information or anything.
P.S. Bahamian Sunset t-shirt and mousepad here for just $12.99. They're cool, just look at them.