Thanks for explaining what happened with the site on Tuesday. And much more importantly, thanks for staying up & running!
I didn't have a TV or radio here at work, and I live 60+ miles away, so I couldn't just drive home to watch the coverage. Slashdot was the only site that kept me informed of what was going on. My coworkers & I really appreciated having our favorite site covering these events.
The.com was a symbol of a new business structure, a new economy with only profit on the horizon. But as the saying goes, a fool & his money are soon parted.
I feel no sympathy for these people. Maybe if they had been wise with their money instead of having $50k parties and spending $2 million on a house, they wouldn't be bankrupt today.
Speed in future communication equipment WILL depend on gallium arsenide (GaAs), after all. It's well known that electrons travel five to six times faster in GaAs than silicon. I can't wait to see how fast Motorola's new chips become with this addition.
This is very frightening, actually. Think about if we keep developing AI, and these chips follow. Couldn't it essentially develop to the point where computer circuits could control our OWN cells? Or am I the only one who thinks about these things?!
I was just going to mention this too. Between the domain registration dates and those letters' dates, something seems fishy here. Why do I think that they really didn't register this domain when they said they did...
But Barnes & Noble employees can't do anything about shoplifters, except ask a customer "if they need help." Most stores don't have loss-prevention officials working at them either, and only managers can actually say something along the lines of an accusation to customers.
So, provided Borders is the same as B&N, how exactly would a recognition system help them out? No one is there to watch it! Would it alert managers, or would they have to hire more loss prevention? Or does Borders work entirely different?
-1 for being first? I miss the old/.;)
Anyway, I didn't mean for that to be flamebait. However, I think in this situation, MS should make a change to the licensing. AOL is trying to pull exactly what MS got in trouble for, and they've been trying to do it for a long time too (who remembers them trying to buy ad space on BIOS screens??).
I'm not all for MS, but I'd trust them over AOL/TW any day.
...on a Microsoft Monopoly Tangent, everyone needs to remember some things.
As soon as someone mentions Microsoft implementing a standard, everyone cries out "M$ has never implemented standards! Thats why I use Netscape!"
Yeah, well Netscape did the same thing to Mosaic. They made their own tags (BLINK!), and only their browser supported it. And yet somehow MS is the only bad guy here. MS is implementing a standard, and IE6 is getting a lot closer to the w3c's standards for HTML & CSS. Which is much more than can be said for Netscape, Mozilla, etc. (Hell, netscape doesn't support ANYTHING anymore!) You don't have to go apeshit on an anti-MS rant just because they are doing something right...
In fact, I just read an article this morning that stated that Microsoft is holding off, for now, on releasing XP as a subscription-based piece of software, and may be testing the proverbial water in the overseas market first.
The reactions thus far have been almost all negative; the only way MS could convince people to pay for subscriptions is if the price was much lower than the current price of purchasing the software outright.
It should be obvious that someone like Stallman would be against the Amazon patents. The attempt to patent an e-commerce technique goes against everything he, as well as other followers of GNU, believe in. The only thing I don't agree with is his defense of free music, and his attack on the music industry. Of course, the reason why I don't agree with this is that at the university I attend, the T-lines become totally saturated during the daytime by people downloading the latest crap by the Backstreet Boys, etc. on Napster. Considering I listen to hardcore/punk/emo, I'd wouldn't bother me too much (at least in terms of bandwidth) if MP3s weren't so readily available.;) In all seriousness, I do agree with Stallman; anyone who grew up in the 80s knows that the music industry used to put inserts on Cassette Tapes that said "Home Cassette Copying is Ruining the Music Industry". These are also the same people that put a damper on DAT. And yet, the industry is still around. What Stallman says needs to be heard...
God (or whatever sentient being you like) did make a "hungry bug" for oil. The means to absorb spilled oil lies on every human being in their hair. Human hair is the perfect medium for oil; plenty of surface area, a natural attraction between the two, and a large abundance of it. There was a report a few years ago on 20/20 about a hairdresser who saved several bags of hair from his shop, and spent months coming up with several porous containers to hold the hair, while still allowing oil to pass through. He finally came upon a pair of his wife's nylon stockings. He first put an equal mix of oil and water in a kiddie pool out in his yard. He then put some hair in a pair of stockings, tied it off, and threw it in the pool. Within 10 minutes or so, the pool was essentially clean. The water was once again crystal clear, and the single tube of nylon and hair was saturated with all the oil. The report ended by saying the man had several offers from companies looking to use his invention. I haven't heard anything of it since, but it definitely peaked my interest.
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Thanks for explaining what happened with the site on Tuesday. And much more importantly, thanks for staying up & running!
I didn't have a TV or radio here at work, and I live 60+ miles away, so I couldn't just drive home to watch the coverage. Slashdot was the only site that kept me informed of what was going on. My coworkers & I really appreciated having our favorite site covering these events.
Thanks again!
The .com was a symbol of a new business structure, a new economy with only profit on the horizon. But as the saying goes, a fool & his money are soon parted.
I feel no sympathy for these people. Maybe if they had been wise with their money instead of having $50k parties and spending $2 million on a house, they wouldn't be bankrupt today.
I bet Rebel had a lot of Aeron chairs...
This is excellent news!
Speed in future communication equipment WILL depend on gallium arsenide (GaAs), after all. It's well known that electrons travel five to six times faster in GaAs than silicon. I can't wait to see how fast Motorola's new chips become with this addition.
This is very frightening, actually. Think about if we keep developing AI, and these chips follow. Couldn't it essentially develop to the point where computer circuits could control our OWN cells? Or am I the only one who thinks about these things?!
Maybe the Luddites were right after all.
I was just going to mention this too. Between the domain registration dates and those letters' dates, something seems fishy here. Why do I think that they really didn't register this domain when they said they did...
But Barnes & Noble employees can't do anything about shoplifters, except ask a customer "if they need help." Most stores don't have loss-prevention officials working at them either, and only managers can actually say something along the lines of an accusation to customers.
So, provided Borders is the same as B&N, how exactly would a recognition system help them out? No one is there to watch it! Would it alert managers, or would they have to hire more loss prevention? Or does Borders work entirely different?
If anyone wants to set up a few in Richmond, email me, as I will be doing this within the next two or three weeks!
Has banjo been slashdotted already? Because I HONESTLY CAN'T TELL FROM THE COMMENTS!
One more post about Banjo being slashdotted, and I'm going to scream.
-1 for being first? I miss the old /. ;)
Anyway, I didn't mean for that to be flamebait. However, I think in this situation, MS should make a change to the licensing. AOL is trying to pull exactly what MS got in trouble for, and they've been trying to do it for a long time too (who remembers them trying to buy ad space on BIOS screens??).
I'm not all for MS, but I'd trust them over AOL/TW any day.
...on a Microsoft Monopoly Tangent, everyone needs to remember some things.
As soon as someone mentions Microsoft implementing a standard, everyone cries out "M$ has never implemented standards! Thats why I use Netscape!"
Yeah, well Netscape did the same thing to Mosaic. They made their own tags (BLINK!), and only their browser supported it. And yet somehow MS is the only bad guy here. MS is implementing a standard, and IE6 is getting a lot closer to the w3c's standards for HTML & CSS. Which is much more than can be said for Netscape, Mozilla, etc. (Hell, netscape doesn't support ANYTHING anymore!) You don't have to go apeshit on an anti-MS rant just because they are doing something right...
In fact, I just read an article this morning that stated that Microsoft is holding off, for now, on releasing XP as a subscription-based piece of software, and may be testing the proverbial water in the overseas market first.
The reactions thus far have been almost all negative; the only way MS could convince people to pay for subscriptions is if the price was much lower than the current price of purchasing the software outright.
It should be obvious that someone like Stallman would be against the Amazon patents. The attempt to patent an e-commerce technique goes against everything he, as well as other followers of GNU, believe in. ;)
The only thing I don't agree with is his defense of free music, and his attack on the music industry. Of course, the reason why I don't agree with this is that at the university I attend, the T-lines become totally saturated during the daytime by people downloading the latest crap by the Backstreet Boys, etc. on Napster. Considering I listen to hardcore/punk/emo, I'd wouldn't bother me too much (at least in terms of bandwidth) if MP3s weren't so readily available.
In all seriousness, I do agree with Stallman; anyone who grew up in the 80s knows that the music industry used to put inserts on Cassette Tapes that said "Home Cassette Copying is Ruining the Music Industry". These are also the same people that put a damper on DAT. And yet, the industry is still around. What Stallman says needs to be heard...
God (or whatever sentient being you like) did make a "hungry bug" for oil. The means to absorb spilled oil lies on every human being in their hair. Human hair is the perfect medium for oil; plenty of surface area, a natural attraction between the two, and a large abundance of it. There was a report a few years ago on 20/20 about a hairdresser who saved several bags of hair from his shop, and spent months coming up with several porous containers to hold the hair, while still allowing oil to pass through. He finally came upon a pair of his wife's nylon stockings. He first put an equal mix of oil and water in a kiddie pool out in his yard. He then put some hair in a pair of stockings, tied it off, and threw it in the pool. Within 10 minutes or so, the pool was essentially clean. The water was once again crystal clear, and the single tube of nylon and hair was saturated with all the oil. The report ended by saying the man had several offers from companies looking to use his invention. I haven't heard anything of it since, but it definitely peaked my interest.