Why else would they give this thing away if they could tie your interests to a person? That's what it's all about folks - directed marketing...
Yer damn right about that. I decided to go ahead and install it last night to see how well it worked. I scanned in a few items and most of the time it just takes you to the parent company's home page. Some things pop up a page congratulating you on scanning something not in their database and would you please tell them what the hell it was. One item I swiped was a pack of Camels, which duly took me to the RJ Reynolds web site...
So, today when I get home, along with my usual daily dose of spam, is an email inviting me to visit www.qcigs.com, and buy some cigarrettes on the internet.... Hmmmmmmm....
The way I see it, the bar code scanner is an instrument for getting people to install their software on systems, nothing more. So what has a bee in DC's bonnet is the fact that people are using their 'free' barcode scanner without installing the accompanying software, which is where the money comes in. Advertisers pay DC to direct peoples browsers to their website via the Convergence Cable, which of course only works with the software that they got you to install when they gave you the free barcode scanner.
It seems to me that they left out a step though, they didn't give the cable away with the scanner... although you can get it and the scanner from DC directly if you pay S&H charges of about $10...
I have done PC hardware warranty support for a few years for a couple of different companies and covering a lot of different brands of computers, and the sad fact is that if the system works in its 'original configuration' meaning you format the harddrive and run the restore disk they gave you with the system, then the support guys can pat themselves on the back for a job well done.
This would be the only thing I could think of that could be an issue. If Mattel allowed other companies to call dolls Barbies, and an fact it became common usage to call dolls Barbies instead of dolls, then their trademark would basically lose it's legal protection. Thus the trademark must be defended.
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Yer damn right about that. I decided to go ahead and install it last night to see how well it worked. I scanned in a few items and most of the time it just takes you to the parent company's home page. Some things pop up a page congratulating you on scanning something not in their database and would you please tell them what the hell it was. One item I swiped was a pack of Camels, which duly took me to the RJ Reynolds web site...
So, today when I get home, along with my usual daily dose of spam, is an email inviting me to visit www.qcigs.com, and buy some cigarrettes on the internet.... Hmmmmmmm....
The way I see it, the bar code scanner is an instrument for getting people to install their software on systems, nothing more. So what has a bee in DC's bonnet is the fact that people are using their 'free' barcode scanner without installing the accompanying software, which is where the money comes in. Advertisers pay DC to direct peoples browsers to their website via the Convergence Cable, which of course only works with the software that they got you to install when they gave you the free barcode scanner.
It seems to me that they left out a step though, they didn't give the cable away with the scanner... although you can get it and the scanner from DC directly if you pay S&H charges of about $10...
Thats got to be one of the most disgusting things I've ever read...
And besides, if this lot ever got together and bought a cray, everyone would just be fighting over who gets to be root.
IANAL, but I think only in a criminal trial can you not be made to testify against yourself. In a civil case, that is not so.
I think the sig said it all
I have done PC hardware warranty support for a few years for a couple of different companies and covering a lot of different brands of computers, and the sad fact is that if the system works in its 'original configuration' meaning you format the harddrive and run the restore disk they gave you with the system, then the support guys can pat themselves on the back for a job well done.
that only works if its 'noo-kyoo-ler' web site
up and at them
up and ATOM
up and AT THEM
UP AND ATOM!
UP AND AT THEM!
The report says they unveiled five robots, something tells me the lady bug is not the one packing heat.
you forget it also required 3 computers?
Hardly seems to apply to a situation like this.
though not in haiku
that poem deserves kudos
so, this bud's for you
It would have to be forged out of Kryptonite to cut through Superman!
Speaking of NHL, I usually watch with my pants on, but I just wanted to say go Stars!
That will be why the paperclip pops up and asks you for your credit card number...
Doesnt seem to be more than book selling goin on there. He was one of my favorite characters in Apollo 13 tho.
one could rightly guess they have plenty of bandwidth but the ping time sucks