I doubt those numbers include the refunds that are given either because the product does not work. But there are some people who make the purchase for the sole purpose of tracking down the spammer and filing a lawsuit.
When I went to the Rocky Horror in 1986, they had Movieoke, and I ended up going out with one of the performers. That in Harvard Square, before they stopped allowing people to throw things.
Why not keep Mozilla to a basic browser, not an entire platform? The more crap put into a product creates more bloat, more chance or bugs, and more time to create new versions.
At least they didn't work for a psycho like Barry Lewis. He of course claimed he sent paychecks, but they never arrived, he finally admitted that there was no money.
The last I heard of him is that he was on his way to the probation department after his criminal conviction.
Lawyers suck as they get rich by forcing us to drink cold coffee,smoke overpriced ciggarettes and keep women from installing a realistic giant rack. If you read the facts about the McDonalds case, you will that the award against McDonalds was clearly justified.
Way to completely sidestep the issue and attack a strawman.
Thank you.
Actually it is not. The source code is not the only issue in Closed v. Open, but also the legal issues of copyrights and patents. My response is not the main topic, but a dervitave topic.
Is Free Speech in danger when McDonald's doesn't publish the recipes of their menu or when KFC keeps the 13 spices and herbs secret?
It is in danger if you are not allowed to not talk about how bad the BigMac sucks or are sued when you talk about the ingredients. Or, if McDonalds sue Burger King because the whopper is similar. Or the 6 year old is sued for taking apart a whopper.
The auctioning of all the MP3 assets so of gave it away...
It might be the fact that they had to pay $250M in a copyright lawsuit. And, there probably were more lawsuits on their way.
There are many reasons why a company goes backrup that are not related to employee productivity. Ask the people at Enron.
Even if it was employee productivity, the management should have done something about the productivity.
Think about this. If an employee wants to take an hour of their time to exercise, thay can leave the building, drive 30 minutes each way and then go home after they work out OR work out for an hour, then go back to work.
They have more freaking workout equipment than the Crush fitness center in lower Manhattan. What the hell does an "Internet Company" need with a washer/dryer, fooseball tables, pool tables, electronic dart boards, more workout equipment than a Manhattan gym, stand up arcade
If you have a company where employees are putting in 18 hours a day, that does help productivity. By putting some of that on premisis, the employee does not have to go home or go out, then they get to work more. Taking a break for a few foosball games can get you out of a rut.
Having exercise equiptment on site is a good thing so that it is easier to stay healthy and another way to take a break.
We already hand over several forms of ID when opening an account at a bank. We already hand over ID and be subject to search and x-ray when we go to a government office to talk request services from the government that we pay for. We already hand over ID and are subject to search, x-ray, metal detector, and backround check when we goto the airport. We are subject to urine tests, drug tests, backround checks when we go to work.
What is wrong with just allowing the police to just check ID and strip search us for being outside our homes?
The policitians who pushed the law must have been paid off and the others who voted without reading the law should be kicked out of office and punished. Many of the people who voted for it, only voted for it based on the bill's short title.
This has only served to increase spam by preventing individuals from filing lawsuits on their own. Without this law in place California law would have allows residents to sue for $1000 per spam. That would have gotten rid of many spammers.
I see the potentional for bad side effects. If you increase the immune system, you get allergies and arthritis. If you increase the cellular regenation, you have cancer.
It probably someone from/. who knew if they did something to help Microsoft, they would lose all their karma points and everyone would mod the person down.
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When you get a nice application, you don't think about the company going out of business and the application giving up the ghost, but it does happen.
I got an e-mail from a user of a product (an embadded navigation system) that I worked on 10 years ago. They have no way to get their data out of the system. The company went out of business about 3 years ago and they could not find the CTO.
I use Post Road Mailer, which when the company (Innoval) went out of business , they made the program available, w/o source. There are some bugs I'd like to fix, but I don't have the source.
The point is the understanding of the workings of the machine. When I was in school, we had to take a computer architecture class which included using AND gates to make counters and such.
My first IBM PC job was C, but I had to learn 8086 so that I could debug since there was no source level debugging when using overlays.
Anyways, how do you find a compiler bug, if you can't read the code the compiler generates?
Bull! Just because someone can track you by your car's license place number does not entitle you to cover it.
When you read the terms and conditions when you register, you are required to put in valid whois information. The problem is many registrars do not enforce it. Then when people complain, the registrar may do someone about it in 6 months, and then update it with invalid information. ICANN investigated some reports who network solutions, but failed to do anything. One address from their investigation, 123 Yellow Brick Road, Oz, Kansas, is still there.
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I doubt those numbers include the refunds that are given either because the product does not work. But there are some people who make the purchase for the sole purpose of tracking down the spammer and filing a lawsuit.
When I went to the Rocky Horror in 1986, they had Movieoke, and I ended up going out with one of the performers. That in Harvard Square, before they stopped allowing people to throw things.
Why not keep Mozilla to a basic browser, not an entire platform? The more crap put into a product creates more bloat, more chance or bugs, and more time to create new versions.
I bought viagra online from a florida spammer. After I received the Viagra, I filed a lawsuit against the spammer, then settled for $7500.
The last I heard of him is that he was on his way to the probation department after his criminal conviction.
Lawyers suck as they get rich by forcing us to drink cold coffee,smoke overpriced ciggarettes and keep women from installing a realistic giant rack.
If you read the facts about the McDonalds case, you will that the award against McDonalds was clearly justified.
Thank you.
Actually it is not. The source code is not the only issue in Closed v. Open, but also the legal issues of copyrights and patents. My response is not the main topic, but a dervitave topic.
It is in danger if you are not allowed to not talk about how bad the BigMac sucks or are sued when you talk about the ingredients. Or, if McDonalds sue Burger King because the whopper is similar. Or the 6 year old is sued for taking apart a whopper.
If you have a company where employees are putting in 18 hours a day, that does help productivity. By putting some of that on premisis, the employee does not have to go home or go out, then they get to work more. Taking a break for a few foosball games can get you out of a rut.
Having exercise equiptment on site is a good thing so that it is easier to stay healthy and another way to take a break.
It is not a bad luck epicentre, but a good luck epicentre. If you build a casino on it, you will always end up winning.
Just don't pay attention to the fact that the same people who say that always use headsets/earpieces with their cell phones.
You are making the assumption that people on /. shave, use hair dryers, or any type of personal grooming.
What is wrong with just allowing the police to just check ID and strip search us for being outside our homes?
This has only served to increase spam by preventing individuals from filing lawsuits on their own. Without this law in place California law would have allows residents to sue for $1000 per spam. That would have gotten rid of many spammers.
Look at TNG, the advance imune system also kills.
Does that mean that the phone will run all of the word/excel macro virii/viruses?
It probably someone from /. who knew if they did something to help Microsoft, they would lose all their karma points and everyone would mod the person down.
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When you get a nice application, you don't think about the company going out of business and the application giving up the ghost, but it does happen.
I got an e-mail from a user of a product (an embadded navigation system) that I worked on 10 years ago. They have no way to get their data out of the system. The company went out of business about 3 years ago and they could not find the CTO.
I use Post Road Mailer, which when the company (Innoval) went out of business , they made the program available, w/o source. There are some bugs I'd like to fix, but I don't have the source.
It is "if you can't beat them, sue them.
You had keypunch machines? I had to make my own arrowhead to poke holes into a punch card.
My first IBM PC job was C, but I had to learn 8086 so that I could debug since there was no source level debugging when using overlays.
Anyways, how do you find a compiler bug, if you can't read the code the compiler generates?
When you read the terms and conditions when you register, you are required to put in valid whois information. The problem is many registrars do not enforce it. Then when people complain, the registrar may do someone about it in 6 months, and then update it with invalid information. ICANN investigated some reports who network solutions, but failed to do anything. One address from their investigation, 123 Yellow Brick Road, Oz, Kansas, is still there.