Personally, when things like this come out, I would love for Google and the gang to basically say...
"Screw ya! We are not even going to link to your home page or any page that you have in your domain. In our eyes you do not exist. Since our search engine can not read your bogus copyright, we must for our protect yank all references to your pages."
Organizations like this that are trying to "protect" there pages, yet still generate revenue would have a change in tone real quick.
Honestly, Google has the weight right now to do this, with them being the engine of choice for both Yahoo and soon AOL.
Why I don't buy at Best Buy anymore.
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They have been doing this bait and switch for years. Nothing new here.
Personally this spring was the final straw of why I will not do business with them.
They had memory advertised cheap plus a mail in rebate. Bought the memory, and sent in the rebate. Low and behold they "lost or never received" two rebate forms (one for me, one for my fiance) Interesting thing was that was right before memory prices decided to go back up again. So I am "out" $80 because of these thiefs.
Bottom line, Worst Buy is a company to stay far, far away from, and it makes me feel dam good to hear negative publicity against them.
This goes back to 1997 when
Brian Glaeske removed exploder from Windows 95. At that time, Microsoft said that IE was an integrated part of the operating system and it could not be removed without destroying the distro. (what smells?)
So what else is new. People can come out and say this all they want, but until a Sun, IBM, or HP step up and state the fact of what Microsoft is doing it will be disregarded.
Or what we need is a non-UNIX competitor to show that Microsoft XP to... umm.. wait.. I said non-UNIX competitor... nevermind.
with a large scale distributed system, using the distributed translation project things like this may in the future look like this.
"My buddies and I are wimps so we pretend to be big shots online. So therefore we have created a small group called cs group. Online we are also seen as [tgk] to signify our uniqueness from you. We (being cs group) would like to point out the fact that we know a lot on the topic of distributed systems and would like to tell you our thoughts. We know all our posts will get 5's"
radio is more or less one long commercial for music
The RIAA will soon try to put an end to that. It would be the RIAA's greatest dream come true if you needed to pay for a subscription to listen to music in the car. Satellite radio anyone?
Redundant statement coming up...
Napster flying high.. record industries greatest year.
Napster grounded, record industry sales drop 9%.
I am eating some starved artists Big Mac right now!
For instance, SashXB weblications can currently run in a simple window, in a Glade-designed UI, in a GNOME panel, or even in a console-based scripting environment. Future locations might include ScreenSaver, Nautilus, and an embeddable Bonobo component. We have also written extensions to access the native filesystem, play Vorbis files, parse and construct XML documents, communicate with other machines using the Jabber protocol, use FTP, and interact with the UI using GTK and Glade, among other things.
Dang. Makes me wonder why we even need operating systems anymore.
"People already know that thanks to the vastly more modern CPU core, the AMD Athlon CPU core on a true per MHz basis is way faster than any Intel CPU."
I would like to inject "Technical" in the beginning of your statement. You and I might know.
You ask the general John Doe which is faster, and AMD 1900 or an Intel 2000 and they will answer more times then not the Intel is. Most others would ask whether Dell or Gateway makes them.
Another example (older, but still) an Intel 486 DX4/100 or a Pentium 60?
So when reports like this come out, people do believe them.
Intel has taken a page from government officials. Many "reasearch" products are funded by governement officials.
To the researcher getting this money is generally is better to give the results that the governement official wants to see rather then the truth. That way the researcher has a higher chance of being rehired since his/her results were liked.
Business as usual is right, Intel just got caught.
if Intel would have "saved" that money and instead lowered the price of there processors compared to those of AMD there may have never been a need for such a report.
But as it stands now, AMD is more bang for the buck. They have there shop in order and are no longer "following" Intel, but being competitive, no.. maybe one should say, starting to hit back at Intel.
Intel is not running scared, but there starting to wonder wtf is going on and why people are not flocking to thier computers when hearing their chimes.
.. and could turn out to be a double edged sword. Ebert does reviews of Universal movies. There is no doubt many movie critics are "swayed" by the production studios.
Ebert could be "weighing in" on getting "research" fee from Universal so that he continues giving the Universal movies good ratings. By not doing so, Ebert may be "more critical" of any Universal production.
A little bit on the conspiracy theory site, but dont count it out.
Without checking CD-Keys, one copy of Diablo II could virtually service 10,000 people by just swapping the program around.
Currently as it goes, if you want to play with others online using a Blizzard product, you are almost force to buy a legal copy. The introduction of emulators will by-pass that.
provision states that developers of interoperable programs do not have to respond to CD-KEYS
This is the one that Blizzard/Battle.net may get the upper hand on.
Whoever stated that Diablo II, Starcraft, etc were to be "interoperable programs"? I believe by the TOA that Blizzard products are only sanctioned to run with other Blizzard products (two copies of Starcraft for example) or Battle.net.
Don't get me wrong, I think this is a load of crap on the part of Blizzard and Battle.net. (here on out I will never purchase another Blizzard product) But the truth is, the EFF has made a very bad claim in defense of bnetd.
with its super duper transvergent multiple crossing psychodellic translucent quadratic multiple attack virus create by a macho programmer at an interface we ALL HAVE, jumping for joy, excited, and programming away like he's in a Quake tournament isn't reality?
I'm shocked! Now I have nothing to work for.
As for Tron, excellent movie. Just and FYI for anyone who does not know. Watch the landscape when there on "air ship" (with the sails) moving along the "bus" (network cable?). You will see something.. screwy programmers.
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I need to refresh my house :-P
Personally, when things like this come out, I would love for Google and the gang to basically say ...
"Screw ya! We are not even going to link to your home page or any page that you have in your domain. In our eyes you do not exist. Since our search engine can not read your bogus copyright, we must for our protect yank all references to your pages."
Organizations like this that are trying to "protect" there pages, yet still generate revenue would have a change in tone real quick.
Honestly, Google has the weight right now to do this, with them being the engine of choice for both Yahoo and soon AOL.
They have been doing this bait and switch for years. Nothing new here.
Personally this spring was the final straw of why I will not do business with them.
They had memory advertised cheap plus a mail in rebate. Bought the memory, and sent in the rebate. Low and behold they "lost or never received" two rebate forms (one for me, one for my fiance) Interesting thing was that was right before memory prices decided to go back up again. So I am "out" $80 because of these thiefs.
Bottom line, Worst Buy is a company to stay far, far away from, and it makes me feel dam good to hear negative publicity against them.
Its for the package, not just the hardware. It could even include tax and shipping.
So what else is new. People can come out and say this all they want, but until a Sun, IBM, or HP step up and state the fact of what Microsoft is doing it will be disregarded.
Or what we need is a non-UNIX competitor to show that Microsoft XP to ... umm .. wait .. I said non-UNIX competitor ... nevermind.
cs clan [tgk] 0wnz0red dis post!
with a large scale distributed system, using the distributed translation project things like this may in the future look like this.
"My buddies and I are wimps so we pretend to be big shots online. So therefore we have created a small group called cs group. Online we are also seen as [tgk] to signify our uniqueness from you. We (being cs group) would like to point out the fact that we know a lot on the topic of distributed systems and would like to tell you our thoughts. We know all our posts will get 5's"
Could this not be considered discrimination?
radio is more or less one long commercial for music
...
.. record industries greatest year.
The RIAA will soon try to put an end to that. It would be the RIAA's greatest dream come true if you needed to pay for a subscription to listen to music in the car. Satellite radio anyone?
Redundant statement coming up
Napster flying high
Napster grounded, record industry sales drop 9%.
I am eating some starved artists Big Mac right now!
a) 2.4 GHz
b) 2.4 Megabit
c) 2.4 ERA
d) 2.4 Linux Kernel
e) Article 2 Section 4 of the US Constitution
f) 2.4 Cowboy Neals
For instance, SashXB weblications can currently run in a simple window, in a Glade-designed UI, in a GNOME panel, or even in a console-based scripting environment. Future locations might include ScreenSaver, Nautilus, and an embeddable Bonobo component. We have also written extensions to access the native filesystem, play Vorbis files, parse and construct XML documents, communicate with other machines using the Jabber protocol, use FTP, and interact with the UI using GTK and Glade, among other things.
Dang. Makes me wonder why we even need operating systems anymore.
it didn't make the "first post".
It would have been most fact filled thing on slashdot all today.
Mod this guy to 50!
find out about this!
"People already know that thanks to the vastly more modern CPU core, the AMD Athlon CPU core on a true per MHz basis is way faster than any Intel CPU."
I would like to inject "Technical" in the beginning of your statement. You and I might know.
You ask the general John Doe which is faster, and AMD 1900 or an Intel 2000 and they will answer more times then not the Intel is. Most others would ask whether Dell or Gateway makes them.
Another example (older, but still) an Intel 486 DX4/100 or a Pentium 60?
So when reports like this come out, people do believe them.
ya got it.
Intel has taken a page from government officials. Many "reasearch" products are funded by governement officials.
To the researcher getting this money is generally is better to give the results that the governement official wants to see rather then the truth. That way the researcher has a higher chance of being rehired since his/her results were liked.
Business as usual is right, Intel just got caught.
if Intel would have "saved" that money and instead lowered the price of there processors compared to those of AMD there may have never been a need for such a report.
.. maybe one should say, starting to hit back at Intel.
But as it stands now, AMD is more bang for the buck. They have there shop in order and are no longer "following" Intel, but being competitive, no
Intel is not running scared, but there starting to wonder wtf is going on and why people are not flocking to thier computers when hearing their chimes.
.. and could turn out to be a double edged sword. Ebert does reviews of Universal movies. There is no doubt many movie critics are "swayed" by the production studios.
Ebert could be "weighing in" on getting "research" fee from Universal so that he continues giving the Universal movies good ratings. By not doing so, Ebert may be "more critical" of any Universal production.
A little bit on the conspiracy theory site, but dont count it out.
It appears marketers are finding that there's little value in stockpiling the personal info of web users
I am sure they are getting sick and tired of seeing that 25% of all internet users are named John Smith, and have the email of spam@spam.com.
"Pressplay and RealOnes media formats hacked"
One unknown source was stated as saying "We can't give those little bastards anything! They have no right to fair use!"
"Never feel disconnected again!"
.. wait a second.
Ummm
This is prob redunant and mark it as such ...
But go install Quicktime, Real Audio and Microsofts Media player and then see the war that breaks out on your box.
has tried to be the first organization to "integrate" both standard and metric.
Mars Climat Orbitor Lost
Kind of costly to show that it does not work well.
"if" M$ does use GPLed source, somewhere down the line it will come out.
Case in point. A GPLed piece of software has bug X, and strangly enough, a M$ product has the same bug.
It maybe worth the time to test major bugs in GPLed software against M$ programs if such simularities do exist.
Just a thought.
Without checking CD-Keys, one copy of Diablo II could virtually service 10,000 people by just swapping the program around.
Currently as it goes, if you want to play with others online using a Blizzard product, you are almost force to buy a legal copy. The introduction of emulators will by-pass that.
Blizzard has a legal beef here.
provision states that developers of interoperable programs do not have to respond to CD-KEYS
This is the one that Blizzard/Battle.net may get the upper hand on.
Whoever stated that Diablo II, Starcraft, etc were to be "interoperable programs"? I believe by the TOA that Blizzard products are only sanctioned to run with other Blizzard products (two copies of Starcraft for example) or Battle.net.
Don't get me wrong, I think this is a load of crap on the part of Blizzard and Battle.net. (here on out I will never purchase another Blizzard product) But the truth is, the EFF has made a very bad claim in defense of bnetd.
with its super duper transvergent multiple crossing psychodellic translucent quadratic multiple attack virus create by a macho programmer at an interface we ALL HAVE, jumping for joy, excited, and programming away like he's in a Quake tournament isn't reality?
.. screwy programmers.
I'm shocked! Now I have nothing to work for.
As for Tron, excellent movie. Just and FYI for anyone who does not know. Watch the landscape when there on "air ship" (with the sails) moving along the "bus" (network cable?). You will see something