This is rated a +2? Nobody is trying to get anything for free here. The user is only making a local call to their ISP. The phone company desires long distance charges, despite the fact that they only carry the traffic a short distance. That just doesn't stand to reason. If that makes me a communist in your eyes, you may have something in them.
And its not coffee. Banks take this kind of thing very seriously. If you object to the cup, they'll take it out of your arm! Or they'll show you the door.
I'm not sure I agree with you, about OggVorbis' chances, or that Network Solutions is going to be the VHS of registrars, effectively squeezing all others out. One reason for both: PRICE.
If you have a company, and you are faced with paying some percentage of income (don't know the specifics) or other large amount of money to FHG to use MP3, or use a freely available one that provides similar quality/filesize, saving your company (a made up) $10,000 a year, it's a no brainer. All that needs to happen is for the major media players (Winamp, etc.) to include support. Considering it costs them $0 to add it, that doesn't seem far fetched.
Similarly, what advantage does Network Solutions provide that any of the thousands of competetive registrars? That they own your domain name and can revoke it for any reason? (See here). Sure they've got a head start, but that hardly makes them "VHS" to the other registrars' "Beta." Are you telling me that unless I register my domain with NS, it won't work for the majority of users? Not at all. You seem to misunderstand how the name registration system works. It doesn't much matter which one you use, if you pay more for less at Network Solutions, that's your perogative too.
...I know its a cheap shot but I couldn't resist. And I did it to make a point.
Better luck next time, cheap shooter! I hope I get to compete against you in the marketplace. Pay your money to FHG, I'll use mine for advertising. We'll see who wins. Never forget, a competitive marketplace is brutal, and it is sometimes only thousands of dollars that separate success from ruin...
Perhaps we sould compare "one-click" with other uncontested patents in the past. What about the paper clip, for instance. This seems a pretty obvious thing, to bend a piece of wire to hold together sheets of paper. If the paper clip was accepted as a valid patent, then I think the one-click patent is just as valid, if no one did it before Amazon.
But with the paper clip, you're talking about a fairly novel and unique application of a flexible wire device for holding paper together. It is unique because it clearly isn't like other ways (stapling, binding, etc.) of accomplishing the same thing.
How are you going to buy something on the Internet? (Unless you are using lynx) you are going to click on it!
It hardly seems that the number of those it takes to accomplish something is truly a unique application of any sort.
I've registered a domain names through register.com, and helped a friend do it as well. I _would_not_ recommend them for anybody who intends to do the DNS themselves. I had problems with every single registration attempt.
The first time I tried, their system was unable to accept the names and IP addresses of my authoritative name servers. This took several phone calls ("what's an authoritative name server?" they asked), e-mails, and well over a week to get it straightened out.
Similar problems with the friend's attempt. Changes to the authoritative name servers didn't "stick," they registered two machines on my network which were not name servers as name servers (don't ask me how/why they did this), the answer to several of my increasingly impatient responses with thier reps was "why don't you just let us handle the DNS." This took ten days before everything was working properly.
A request for a refund, "if you can't make this work, I'm sure I can find someone who can" was denied, "we don't give refunds, you'll just have to work through this with us."
I'll tell you, I won't work with with them at all any more.
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Does this mean it is odd for me to expect privacy in a rented apartment?
This is rated a +2? Nobody is trying to get anything for free here. The user is only making a local call to their ISP. The phone company desires long distance charges, despite the fact that they only carry the traffic a short distance. That just doesn't stand to reason. If that makes me a communist in your eyes, you may have something in them.
- And its not coffee. Banks take this kind of thing very seriously. If you object to the cup, they'll take it out of your arm! Or they'll show you the door.
And what would Brian Boytano do?? Byeeeee!If you have a company, and you are faced with paying some percentage of income (don't know the specifics) or other large amount of money to FHG to use MP3, or use a freely available one that provides similar quality/filesize, saving your company (a made up) $10,000 a year, it's a no brainer. All that needs to happen is for the major media players (Winamp, etc.) to include support. Considering it costs them $0 to add it, that doesn't seem far fetched.
Similarly, what advantage does Network Solutions provide that any of the thousands of competetive registrars? That they own your domain name and can revoke it for any reason? (See here). Sure they've got a head start, but that hardly makes them "VHS" to the other registrars' "Beta." Are you telling me that unless I register my domain with NS, it won't work for the majority of users? Not at all. You seem to misunderstand how the name registration system works. It doesn't much matter which one you use, if you pay more for less at Network Solutions, that's your perogative too.
Better luck next time, cheap shooter! I hope I get to compete against you in the marketplace. Pay your money to FHG, I'll use mine for advertising. We'll see who wins. Never forget, a competitive marketplace is brutal, and it is sometimes only thousands of dollars that separate success from ruin...
Perhaps we sould compare "one-click" with other uncontested patents in the past. What about the paper clip, for instance. This seems a pretty obvious thing, to bend a piece of wire to hold together sheets of paper. If the paper clip was accepted as a valid patent, then I think the one-click patent is just as valid, if no one did it before Amazon.
But with the paper clip, you're talking about a fairly novel and unique application of a flexible wire device for holding paper together. It is unique because it clearly isn't like other ways (stapling, binding, etc.) of accomplishing the same thing.
How are you going to buy something on the Internet? (Unless you are using lynx) you are going to click on it!
It hardly seems that the number of those it takes to accomplish something is truly a unique application of any sort.
I've registered a domain names through register.com, and helped a friend do it as well. I _would_not_ recommend them for anybody who intends to do the DNS themselves. I had problems with every single registration attempt.
The first time I tried, their system was unable to accept the names and IP addresses of my authoritative name servers. This took several phone calls ("what's an authoritative name server?" they asked), e-mails, and well over a week to get it straightened out.
Similar problems with the friend's attempt. Changes to the authoritative name servers didn't "stick," they registered two machines on my network which were not name servers as name servers (don't ask me how/why they did this), the answer to several of my increasingly impatient responses with thier reps was "why don't you just let us handle the DNS." This took ten days before everything was working properly.
A request for a refund, "if you can't make this work, I'm sure I can find someone who can" was denied, "we don't give refunds, you'll just have to work through this with us."
I'll tell you, I won't work with with them at all any more.