If they planned to start a business that involved being sued (which they obviously knew was going to happen), they should have had the money available to fight.
And clearly they did, since the case has been pursued and won. My point is, p2p will never survive if everyone is running scared. Napster has one thing going for it, in that they stood up for themselves. Since their servers were storing the indexing info it was a problem, but fast track companies don't have this problem. They may still lose, but its a whole different fight.
Maybe KaZaA should have not folded like sissies...this case has been relatively short. That ruling that it was illegal was only a few months ago.
For that matter, they have seriously fucked up their network. The new Morpheus that uses Gnutella sucks, and the fast track network has lost a huge portion of its file base.
Kazaa has been nothing but trouble for p2p software, maybe they should be sued by morpheus for damages....
I love these old games, but this is one thing I wish I could forget:
> Ask officer where the body is
Huh?
> Ask policeman where the body is
Huh?
>Ask cop where the victim is
Huh?
>Ask where the god damn fucking piece of shit body is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your mother would be ashamed of that language!
> FUCK OFF!!
Your mother would be ashamed of that language!
Then, you pay 4 bucks to call the tipline and find it you need to type "ask the second class sergeant of the county sherriff's department where the body is" or something similar but strangely different from what you were trying.
Crap, now I'm getting lameness filtered....this is just random complaining to bring up my average length per line. My favorite games were police quest, personally, but I also liked space quest. I never really played kings quest, though I'm sure I would have liked it.
We have these at my university and they suck ass. They are oftentimes not working. And I don't think its a maintainence issue, becuase we have a ton of stand alone Suns are they are rock solid, never having any troubles.
The demand for suns has risen so much they've been adding a lot of new ones. We started in one of the labs with maybe 75 Ultra 10s. Then they expanded by putting in another maybe 25 of these dumb terminal types...which are very erratic. I think they learned their lesson, because they added another 25 or so systems this year, and they're all stand alone machines. Incidentally, I think they're also called sun rays, but they're stand alone desktops. They look to be "regular" desktops as opposed to the Ultra 10s which were very high end (at the time they were purchased, the little desktops are probably more powerful now).
The problem is, I use 6 different Yahoo mail addresses. I have one that I receive all my mailing list messages on, one that I generally use for stores, one for personal mail, etc. etc.
Obviously I'm unwilling to pay $120 a year for a pathetic email account. So i'll be shopping around to find a service where I can have many accounts (say, up to 10 or 15 at least).
IANAL, but I believe the most important thing in a contract is that the two parties have a "meeting of the minds." Which is to say that both parties agree to a set of terms, and understand what they're agreeing to. This is how verbal contracts can exist. Signatures just make it unequivocal that you agree, but a set of email messages where two parties clearly come to an agreement ought to suffice.
Palm was selling Palm VII's for a hundred bucks for a while with large rebates. You would then need GPS units though. Still, with an order of 500k units they should be able to get a pretty deep discount so I think that $100 should be reasonable. Also, remember the next census is many years off, so prices should be lower in general (Hopefully!!).
Even a few builds ago I considered Mozilla unacceptable for every day use. There were just too many sites that Mozilla couldn't handle. But now that I've tried the latest release, I think it is finally going to be my primary browser. Two questions though....is there a way to make my scroll wheel move down the page faster, and I really wish shift clicking on a link opened it in a new window....
Have you ever tried mozilla? It by default uses terrible fonts, I think Courier. Just my opinion here, but although IE isn't standards compliant I greatly prefer the way it displays things. I like the checkboxes better, form fields, etc. Minor details, but if you expect users to have to configure their browser just to use a decent font, its not a good product.
Standards compliance is good though....the most frustrating part of web design for me is that a text field in netscape of a specific size is way the hell bigger than one in IE. I assume thats microsofts fault, but it is really frustrating to design a form.
Not many people have firewire. They would severely limit the market for their products (which frankly is already limited in terms of connecting to a computer). I don't know if this is possible, but could they have somehow set things up for future support of USB2? This would then be 1) useful for many consumers as is, and 2) upgradable to a much higher speed that competes with firewire.
To prove libel against a "public figure" (such as the officers of a corporation), you not only have to prove the statements were false and harmful to their reputation, but there also has to be malicious intent. Most of the editors comments are just ignorance, not maliciousness....
Half of my spam now says on it "THIS IS NOT SPAM, we are strongly opposed to spam". Apparently, if you just declare your spam non-spam, it is no longer spam.
I always see a lot of angry people when these stories about paypal pop up. But I want to offer a bit of perspective....I had sold something and the buyer charged back against paypal, despite delivery of the item. I received an email from PayPal stating that they had received a charge back, but that they were absorbing the cost of it because I had accepted it from a verified paypal user and had satisfied their anti-fraud conditions (which really are very easy to follow). So, basically as long as this didn't happen often PayPal was eating the costs of fraud for me.
Now, maybe this doesn't happen in every case. And maybe if you accept funds from unverified users you don't get protection. But I just want people to know that every fraudulent transaction doesn't result in Paypal seizing your account.
On the other hand, they are very difficult to get in touch with except by email (which we all know is easy to ignore). This is somehting that should definitely be improved upon.
Still, I like paypal. If you want complete control, I suggest you get a merchant account. Frozen paypal accounts are, I believe, rare. And I think they involve more than just a simple charge back in most cases.
the long non-confrontational view??? Hello, remember Mao? Things are moving along in China, but as a country it is just as confrontational as other industrialized nation has been.
Companies can always be trusted to do these kinds of things as long as it means profit. I think in the future at some point they will really be embarassed and regret it.
I've been meaning to read IBM and the Holocaust. It basically talks about how IBM's punch card machines that they created customly for hitler were "indispensable in rounding up prisoners, keeping the trains fully packed and on time, tallying the deaths, and organizing the entire war effort."
I should say that although all of this is sad, I don't think there is any malicious intent on any of the companies. Its almost as though the whole takes actions that none of the individuals would.
It means that they don't intend to be a party to people that are violating the fucking law. The DMCA is evil, but you had better follow it or your ass will be sued or in jail or something. Its the law, currently.
Don't blame them for simple covering their ass legally.
They aren't really funny anymore. My question is, wouldn't a patent have to be for a specific method of making the controller vibrate? I mean, there's a reason that you can buy different products that do the same thing in this world. Patent only stops someone from taking things apart and using the exact same method for accomplishing the task.
Or maybe I don't understand patents, but this could just be them hoping to get a little kick back from a few big companies.
Well, in the US this is all recorded in detail. I know, because they get the luds for the perps phone in every episode of Law and Order, and it usually turns up some good clues.
Maybe this is already possible, or being done. I would imagine that the sites that link to you are likely to have similar meta tags. Not all, but in general. Now, google could potentially come up with an algorithm that scores how related your meta tags are, and then based on that score weights the keywords in meta tags when you do a search.
In other words, if I sell fish tanks and I have meta tags for porn, britney spears, etc. etc. to attract mistaken visitors, and everyone who links to me has fish related meta tags, then you could give the meta tag on this site a bad score, and penalize it accordingly when serching on porn terms.
I'm sorry for that terribly long sentence. Anyway, this might be "interesting"
Well, it used to be WGN (a Chicago UPN station that for some reason comes on our cable). But, they actually air it at 11AM now. It changes time slots a lot, and I get the feeling it could be cancelled entirely at any moment.
They are really pretty easy to set up for the average schmoe. They come the correct cables for nearly any setup, and the poster-sized setup instructions are pretty good. I really don't think people wonder how hard things are to set up before they buy them anyway.
It can be very complicated to set up, if you have enough components to connect at the same time. But, the guy with the TV, VCR, and cable box shouldn't have a problem.
I have a replayTV, and I don't use it like a VCR really. Sure, I record with it, but its much different than that. I oftentimes start watching shows 15 minues in and skip the commercials. I can now tape Iron Chef at 2AM, MacGyver reruns at 4AM, etc. I would never take the effort to set a VCR to do this. The interactive channel guide is great as well. I pause live TV all the time now.
These are not things we have ever done before, so I don't think it hits people why they might like it. It seems like a VCR that costs $400.
Is this saying virtual wealth in the game is 77th? It appears to be saying that in REAL money exchanged its 77th (or would be if it were a country).
400k users I can accept, but what they're saying is that each user on average sells over 2k in real cash through ebay and other sources? This means a total wealth exchanged of over 900 billion dollars a year. If thats the case, my stock in ebay is going to go freakin crazy.
Clearly I'm not understanding this, and the article was utterly pathetic in its details and explanation.
I doubt that....the US authorities wont do a damn thing most of the time, so what would make Romanian officials? The FBI was apparantly investigating several other victims of this guy, but my repeated phone calls to the agent working the investigation were never returned. All I said was that I had been stolen from as well, and I had a bunch of information I had collected about him including addresses in romania (not his, somewhere he was having things shipped though). If they didn't want it, I doubt they were really doing anything.
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And clearly they did, since the case has been pursued and won. My point is, p2p will never survive if everyone is running scared. Napster has one thing going for it, in that they stood up for themselves. Since their servers were storing the indexing info it was a problem, but fast track companies don't have this problem. They may still lose, but its a whole different fight.
For that matter, they have seriously fucked up their network. The new Morpheus that uses Gnutella sucks, and the fast track network has lost a huge portion of its file base.
Kazaa has been nothing but trouble for p2p software, maybe they should be sued by morpheus for damages....
> Ask officer where the body is
Huh?
> Ask policeman where the body is
Huh?
>Ask cop where the victim is
Huh?
>Ask where the god damn fucking piece of shit body is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your mother would be ashamed of that language!
> FUCK OFF!!
Your mother would be ashamed of that language!
Then, you pay 4 bucks to call the tipline and find it you need to type "ask the second class sergeant of the county sherriff's department where the body is" or something similar but strangely different from what you were trying.
Crap, now I'm getting lameness filtered....this is just random complaining to bring up my average length per line. My favorite games were police quest, personally, but I also liked space quest. I never really played kings quest, though I'm sure I would have liked it.
The demand for suns has risen so much they've been adding a lot of new ones. We started in one of the labs with maybe 75 Ultra 10s. Then they expanded by putting in another maybe 25 of these dumb terminal types...which are very erratic. I think they learned their lesson, because they added another 25 or so systems this year, and they're all stand alone machines. Incidentally, I think they're also called sun rays, but they're stand alone desktops. They look to be "regular" desktops as opposed to the Ultra 10s which were very high end (at the time they were purchased, the little desktops are probably more powerful now).
Obviously I'm unwilling to pay $120 a year for a pathetic email account. So i'll be shopping around to find a service where I can have many accounts (say, up to 10 or 15 at least).
IANAL, but I believe the most important thing in a contract is that the two parties have a "meeting of the minds." Which is to say that both parties agree to a set of terms, and understand what they're agreeing to. This is how verbal contracts can exist. Signatures just make it unequivocal that you agree, but a set of email messages where two parties clearly come to an agreement ought to suffice.
Palm was selling Palm VII's for a hundred bucks for a while with large rebates. You would then need GPS units though. Still, with an order of 500k units they should be able to get a pretty deep discount so I think that $100 should be reasonable. Also, remember the next census is many years off, so prices should be lower in general (Hopefully!!).
Even a few builds ago I considered Mozilla unacceptable for every day use. There were just too many sites that Mozilla couldn't handle. But now that I've tried the latest release, I think it is finally going to be my primary browser. Two questions though....is there a way to make my scroll wheel move down the page faster, and I really wish shift clicking on a link opened it in a new window....
Standards compliance is good though....the most frustrating part of web design for me is that a text field in netscape of a specific size is way the hell bigger than one in IE. I assume thats microsofts fault, but it is really frustrating to design a form.
Not many people have firewire. They would severely limit the market for their products (which frankly is already limited in terms of connecting to a computer). I don't know if this is possible, but could they have somehow set things up for future support of USB2? This would then be 1) useful for many consumers as is, and 2) upgradable to a much higher speed that competes with firewire.
To prove libel against a "public figure" (such as the officers of a corporation), you not only have to prove the statements were false and harmful to their reputation, but there also has to be malicious intent. Most of the editors comments are just ignorance, not maliciousness....
Half of my spam now says on it "THIS IS NOT SPAM, we are strongly opposed to spam". Apparently, if you just declare your spam non-spam, it is no longer spam.
Well, just a note here....if a web browser doesn't display 90% of the web pages out there, I'm unlikely to use it. Just FYI.
Now, maybe this doesn't happen in every case. And maybe if you accept funds from unverified users you don't get protection. But I just want people to know that every fraudulent transaction doesn't result in Paypal seizing your account.
On the other hand, they are very difficult to get in touch with except by email (which we all know is easy to ignore). This is somehting that should definitely be improved upon.
Still, I like paypal. If you want complete control, I suggest you get a merchant account. Frozen paypal accounts are, I believe, rare. And I think they involve more than just a simple charge back in most cases.
the long non-confrontational view??? Hello, remember Mao? Things are moving along in China, but as a country it is just as confrontational as other industrialized nation has been.
I've been meaning to read IBM and the Holocaust. It basically talks about how IBM's punch card machines that they created customly for hitler were "indispensable in rounding up prisoners, keeping the trains fully packed and on time, tallying the deaths, and organizing the entire war effort."
I should say that although all of this is sad, I don't think there is any malicious intent on any of the companies. Its almost as though the whole takes actions that none of the individuals would.
Don't blame them for simple covering their ass legally.
Or maybe I don't understand patents, but this could just be them hoping to get a little kick back from a few big companies.
Well, in the US this is all recorded in detail. I know, because they get the luds for the perps phone in every episode of Law and Order, and it usually turns up some good clues.
In other words, if I sell fish tanks and I have meta tags for porn, britney spears, etc. etc. to attract mistaken visitors, and everyone who links to me has fish related meta tags, then you could give the meta tag on this site a bad score, and penalize it accordingly when serching on porn terms.
I'm sorry for that terribly long sentence. Anyway, this might be "interesting"
http://www.tomshardware.com/consumer/02q1/020204/i ndex.html
Well, it used to be WGN (a Chicago UPN station that for some reason comes on our cable). But, they actually air it at 11AM now. It changes time slots a lot, and I get the feeling it could be cancelled entirely at any moment.
It can be very complicated to set up, if you have enough components to connect at the same time. But, the guy with the TV, VCR, and cable box shouldn't have a problem.
I have a replayTV, and I don't use it like a VCR really. Sure, I record with it, but its much different than that. I oftentimes start watching shows 15 minues in and skip the commercials. I can now tape Iron Chef at 2AM, MacGyver reruns at 4AM, etc. I would never take the effort to set a VCR to do this. The interactive channel guide is great as well. I pause live TV all the time now.
These are not things we have ever done before, so I don't think it hits people why they might like it. It seems like a VCR that costs $400.
Is this saying virtual wealth in the game is 77th? It appears to be saying that in REAL money exchanged its 77th (or would be if it were a country).
400k users I can accept, but what they're saying is that each user on average sells over 2k in real cash through ebay and other sources? This means a total wealth exchanged of over 900 billion dollars a year. If thats the case, my stock in ebay is going to go freakin crazy.
Clearly I'm not understanding this, and the article was utterly pathetic in its details and explanation.
I doubt that....the US authorities wont do a damn thing most of the time, so what would make Romanian officials? The FBI was apparantly investigating several other victims of this guy, but my repeated phone calls to the agent working the investigation were never returned. All I said was that I had been stolen from as well, and I had a bunch of information I had collected about him including addresses in romania (not his, somewhere he was having things shipped though). If they didn't want it, I doubt they were really doing anything.