EULA for ACME Toothbrush.
By opening the packaging for this toothbrush, you acknowledge that this device will only be used orally. This device may only be used to brush teeth, dentures, or anything as approved by the ADA.
Improper uses unclude:
Pets
Shoes
Computer parts
Silverware or any other dishes
Any other device where the object where the cleaning agent is not toothpaste.
Our lawyers will attack if this agreement is breached.
As long as it truly is an upgrade. If I own 3.X, I should get all 3.X upgrades for free. The when 4.X come out, then I pay for it. Of course, the flaw in this logic is that the company can just release major numbers more often.
Paying for Win95, the Win 98 (Win 95+ latest IE), then Win 98 SE (Win 98 without as many bugs), then Windows ME (Win 98 with more bugs), should be considered a crime.
But I am swinging off topic, Palm OS is looking to be a standard OS for PDA's. In the future, Palm will only get corporate users buying their hardware (thats the way corporations are). The rest will be sold by the likes of Handspring and Sony and others. Lots of money can be made off these upgrades. 3Com just needs to be careful not to screw its users in the long term by releasing too often and charging for all upgrades.
This is entirely optimistic and a theory I don't believe:
MS does a lot of research into HCI (Human computer Interaction). By redirecting their default bookmarks to MS first, they can track how well their default bookmarks are used. They may also see any trends in bookmark usage. For example:
If a user visit one sports site, they visit many sports sites, but no business sites
Or someone visiting a science site tends to also visit cooking sites.
This information can then be used to create predictions about how a majority use bookmarks and possible creeate a system to help the needs of that majority.
Unfortunately:
/. won't fit the model above so this research would be useless.
This theory is incredibly optimistic about MS's intentions
Exactly. There are a few reasons why CD sales have been taking off.
1) Its the economy stupid. People have more money. Parents have more money, but less time at home. Buy childrens love with more cds.
2) Demographics. There is a larger population increase for teens and such. (Generation Y, don't ya love being labeled?) This generation has lots of money and loves music.
3)Marketing. We are seeing more and more of it for music. Apparently, it is working.
4) Did I mention the economy and all the extra money people can spend on luxury items?
This was funny until you said: this was humor. Those who know this is funny will know, those who don't will never get it even if they are told it was a joke.
TV and home computer don't look together. That may sound petty, but that is reality for the masses, think about it. (Something to digest: The iMac had nothing to do with its technical features, it looked cool)
The family PC, would be need to be near the computer, very distracting for homework.
If the TV and PC are a distance apart, networking will be involved. That will eliminate 95% (or more) of the population. (Face it, the/. readers are an extremely tiney minority)
For software makers, the market share is not great enough to show me the money. Even those who had the ability, would need to perform one of the above.
Support, support support. See previous statement about market share.
If they only want their client to talk to their server, they are entitled. This may suck for everyone in the short term, but alternatives will prevail if they stay closed.
But how many students copy a whole book? They copy part of it, usually for research purposes for a report. The student then cites the book as part of the report. No intellectual property is lost because the author is credited.
I would think if you travel a lot, you or your company would have enough money to pay for a National/International ISP and not a hackish workaround. Regardless of the "cool factor" or using DNS.
Just like we all deserve free phone service and free cable access.
You can get free Internet access now without stealing it. It may not be as fast, nice, or convenient as paid for Internet access, but sometimes in life, to get something of higher quality, you may have to pay a little more. (My apologies for sounding like a troll)
a bad job of construction. If you are leasing your space, release the attack lawyers if the building owner/manager does not rectify the situation. In these days, an office without computers, is usually a useless office.
If you own the building, sorry I'm at a loss for suggestions.
But some email programs out there do a good job of archiving email.
For example, in Lotus Notes, you can create a Archive database of you email and then you can perform full text searches on it. The solution is very easy and extremely non-techical. I'm sure there are other email programs that allow archiving and similar features.
But on Amazon, the price you see may not be the same price the agent returns since Amazon can show different prices per browser/history/time of day/etc.
This practice could actually make agents useless. Which makes the web again once harder to use. Ick.
If employees start leaking information before official announcements, the following can happen:
The competition can get a jump start on developing a spin strategy to say the competitino's new product is crap
The competition can get a few days advance notice and come up with a similar product announcement (possibly before the official product announcement of the competition)
Stock prices can quickly rise and fall based on the secrets of insiders being let out. The SEC doesn't like this kind of thing.
So letting out secrets early can drastically impact a company.
Unfortunately, when you shop on-line, you are not paying cash. You are paying with either credit cards, or paying upon delivery. A mess up on either account is costly for all. That is why privacy is being invaded so much, so the seller can be more certain they are selling to the correct person AND and that the correct person is paying. Losing privacy is a horrible thing but this gethering of information has actually helped in fraud protection.
For example, American Express knows your buying habits. On a periodic basis they will view your transactions and look for transactions out of the ordinary. If a red flag appears, they will notify you and ask if all is OK. This happened to a friend of mine when the number (but not card) was stolen for a shopping spree. He was notified before the bill even arrived and all was taken care of.
Some mobile carriers also track your calling paterns (in the days of analog) and look patterns out of the ordinary and notify you immediately if they suspect someone has stolen your ID for analog cell phone. (Which is very easy to do).
In both of these cases, privacy is gone, but the benefits save a lot of time, money and pain for all parties.
What is needed are privacy policies and that is what we are seeing more of. We need to see privacy policies in place so those buying and calling patterns are tracked for our protection and not exploitation.
If you write applications that people want to use, they will. It all comes down to courting developers. No developers means no apps, means no reason to buy the machine.
Since OS X has a Unix basis, porting applications should be easy (that is, the non-graphical ones).
Unfortunately, the money and following will be with the GUI apps.
It all comes down to getting developers and making sure developers to not have barriers when writing their app. MS has done a good job in courting developers. They do a whole lot for developers because they know, the more programs which are written for Windows means the more likely someone will buy a Windows based PC.
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EULA for ACME Toothbrush. By opening the packaging for this toothbrush, you acknowledge that this device will only be used orally. This device may only be used to brush teeth, dentures, or anything as approved by the ADA.
Improper uses unclude:
Pets
Shoes
Computer parts
Silverware or any other dishes
Any other device where the object where the cleaning agent is not toothpaste.
Our lawyers will attack if this agreement is breached.
Paying for Win95, the Win 98 (Win 95+ latest IE), then Win 98 SE (Win 98 without as many bugs), then Windows ME (Win 98 with more bugs), should be considered a crime.
But I am swinging off topic, Palm OS is looking to be a standard OS for PDA's. In the future, Palm will only get corporate users buying their hardware (thats the way corporations are). The rest will be sold by the likes of Handspring and Sony and others. Lots of money can be made off these upgrades. 3Com just needs to be careful not to screw its users in the long term by releasing too often and charging for all upgrades.
MS does a lot of research into HCI (Human computer Interaction). By redirecting their default bookmarks to MS first, they can track how well their default bookmarks are used. They may also see any trends in bookmark usage. For example:
- If a user visit one sports site, they visit many sports sites, but no business sites
-
Or someone visiting a science site tends to also visit cooking sites.
This information can then be used to create predictions about how a majority use bookmarks and possible creeate a system to help the needs of that majority.Unfortunately:
1) Its the economy stupid. People have more money. Parents have more money, but less time at home. Buy childrens love with more cds.
2) Demographics. There is a larger population increase for teens and such. (Generation Y, don't ya love being labeled?) This generation has lots of money and loves music.
3)Marketing. We are seeing more and more of it for music. Apparently, it is working.
4) Did I mention the economy and all the extra money people can spend on luxury items?
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and development environment. But really, it is marketing.
TV and home computer don't look together. That may sound petty, but that is reality for the masses, think about it. (Something to digest: The iMac had nothing to do with its technical features, it looked cool)
The family PC, would be need to be near the computer, very distracting for homework.
If the TV and PC are a distance apart, networking will be involved. That will eliminate 95% (or more) of the population. (Face it, the /. readers are an extremely tiney minority)
For software makers, the market share is not great enough to show me the money. Even those who had the ability, would need to perform one of the above.
Support, support support. See previous statement about market share.
Right here: http://slashdot.org/ article.pl?sid=00/09/11/146202&mode=nested
If they only want their client to talk to their server, they are entitled. This may suck for everyone in the short term, but alternatives will prevail if they stay closed.
But how many students copy a whole book? They copy part of it, usually for research purposes for a report. The student then cites the book as part of the report. No intellectual property is lost because the author is credited.
Translation: How fast do I want to be fired?
I would think if you travel a lot, you or your company would have enough money to pay for a National/International ISP and not a hackish workaround. Regardless of the "cool factor" or using DNS.
Just like we all deserve free phone service and free cable access.
You can get free Internet access now without stealing it. It may not be as fast, nice, or convenient as paid for Internet access, but sometimes in life, to get something of higher quality, you may have to pay a little more. (My apologies for sounding like a troll)
Pikachu, Mewtwo, Hitmonchan
Happy, Sleepy, Grumpy, Doc, Dopey, Sneezy
Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie
If you own the building, sorry I'm at a loss for suggestions.
For example, in Lotus Notes, you can create a Archive database of you email and then you can perform full text searches on it. The solution is very easy and extremely non-techical. I'm sure there are other email programs that allow archiving and similar features.
This practice could actually make agents useless. Which makes the web again once harder to use. Ick.
Altavista search for DeCSS
Google search for DeCSS
HotBot search for DeCSS
Are these search engines breaking the law?
Sled for the kiddies. Its a nice small size, the sitting area is nice and flat but curved enough to fit a person.
The competition can get a jump start on developing a spin strategy to say the competitino's new product is crap
The competition can get a few days advance notice and come up with a similar product announcement (possibly before the official product announcement of the competition)
Stock prices can quickly rise and fall based on the secrets of insiders being let out. The SEC doesn't like this kind of thing.
So letting out secrets early can drastically impact a company.
This is an exact repeat of: this article.
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For example, American Express knows your buying habits. On a periodic basis they will view your transactions and look for transactions out of the ordinary. If a red flag appears, they will notify you and ask if all is OK. This happened to a friend of mine when the number (but not card) was stolen for a shopping spree. He was notified before the bill even arrived and all was taken care of.
Some mobile carriers also track your calling paterns (in the days of analog) and look patterns out of the ordinary and notify you immediately if they suspect someone has stolen your ID for analog cell phone. (Which is very easy to do).
In both of these cases, privacy is gone, but the benefits save a lot of time, money and pain for all parties.
What is needed are privacy policies and that is what we are seeing more of. We need to see privacy policies in place so those buying and calling patterns are tracked for our protection and not exploitation.
Since OS X has a Unix basis, porting applications should be easy (that is, the non-graphical ones). Unfortunately, the money and following will be with the GUI apps.
It all comes down to getting developers and making sure developers to not have barriers when writing their app. MS has done a good job in courting developers. They do a whole lot for developers because they know, the more programs which are written for Windows means the more likely someone will buy a Windows based PC.