Thats like saying that I should sue the phone company as they make it possible for me to receive telesales calls (and I pay a monthly fee to have a phone line, much akin to a broadband monthly charge)
Something tells me that you are wasting a great deal more of yout time than theirs. All that time spent tracking them down, and oganising the fax/email which will just be trashed when it reaches their end (assuming of course the number you are faxing to is actually them)
I doubt very much if they spend any time reading these faxes, surely no more than a few sentences.
My girlfrriend loves SSX Tricky on the PS2. The main thing she likes about it is being able to unlock new outfits for the characters. I dont mean to sound sexist but she REALLY strives to master all the tricks just so she can unlock the next glittery suit.
She likes it so much that she has bought me SSX 3 for my birthday, although I feel its more for her than me.
She also enjoyed Tony Hawks 4 as you could design your own skater and buy extra kit.
Other than that we play Adventure games together, and the LAra Croft games. I usually do the controlling and she tells me where to go (Back-seat gaming...?)
This reminds me of measures taken by YahooGroups whereby if you sent over 10 messages to them (across any number of groups) within a small timelimit they automatically set your account to a suspended status, which could only be reset by a Yahoogroups employee. (This differed from the Bouncing status they set you to if you get an odd bounced mail)
I might have some of the numbers wrong (it was a while back that this was introduced) but it caught out a LOT of users who wrote their mail offline and then sent them all when they connected. I realise this story is dealing with DSL customers, but the comparison remains.
Ah yes, my pals are often filling up a poor Hotmail using buddies inbox. We start the odd chat session going during work hours, but everyone involved is CC'ed in. When our friend finally gets to check his hotmail a few days later its invariable full of our chit-chat.
I tend to agree. Email conversations will easily trip this limit as you usually just do a reply (or reply-to-all) and jot a brief line. You can easily get through those 20 emails.
Also, what about Play By Email games? I regularly play Laser Squad Nemesis (http://www.lasersquadnemesis.com) . This game requires you to send an email to begin the game, another to issue your orders , and for certain users you can send them external emails to chat. After a few games of that you'll soon fill this quota. I'm sure there are other PBEM games out there that use a greater number of mails too.
If the information you need is contained in a single page then most people would probvably just read that page in the book shop instead of buying it. this makes no difference to what is going on at Amazon now. If the person isnt going to buy from Amazon because the information is easily gleaned from a single page, then that person is also not going to buy the book from a shop either.
I used to visit a friend while he was at university. The carpark had a barrier across it. You were supposed to use an access card to get in and out, but we found that we could kick a crushed drink can over the loop in the ground and it would trigger the barrier:)
More likely in my opinion is that your prescence was picked up either by a radar device on the light, or by one of the induction loops underneath the road. That what triggers the device rather than the headlight flashing.
I think that I could approach the same junction in the same circumstances singing Michael Bolton songs at th etop of my voice, and then claim that it was the sound of Mr Bolton that made the lights changed. After all, I do the same at all lights I approach and it seems to work!
More likely in my opinion is that your prescence was picked up either by a radar device on the light, or by one of the induction loops underneath the road. That what triggers the device rather than the headlight flashing.
I think that I could approach the same junction in the same circumstances singing Michael Bolton songs at th etop of my voice, and then claim that it was the sound of Mr Bolton that made the lights changed.
Say for example you enjoyed an authors book that featured a particular character, and wanted to find other books that also featured that character.
Run a search on the characters name and one of the results comes back saying something about that characters tragic death, or something else that gives away the plot of the book.
I hate it when book endings get spoilt and this would really annoy me.
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Why did the parent get modded Flamebait? If they invented it why shouldnt they expect remuneration?
Pretty much every company expects to capitalise on products/ideas it has come up with, I dont see why this is such big news.
Whats so wrong with creating a valuable idea and expecting to profit from it.....?
Nonsense.
Thats like saying that I should sue the phone company as they make it possible for me to receive telesales calls (and I pay a monthly fee to have a phone line, much akin to a broadband monthly charge)
Something tells me that you are wasting a great deal more of yout time than theirs. All that time spent tracking them down, and oganising the fax/email which will just be trashed when it reaches their end (assuming of course the number you are faxing to is actually them)
I doubt very much if they spend any time reading these faxes, surely no more than a few sentences.
They say it was bulletproof, yet it disabled the system...?
Seems to me that bullet did something......
My girlfrriend loves SSX Tricky on the PS2. The main thing she likes about it is being able to unlock new outfits for the characters. I dont mean to sound sexist but she REALLY strives to master all the tricks just so she can unlock the next glittery suit.
She likes it so much that she has bought me SSX 3 for my birthday, although I feel its more for her than me.
She also enjoyed Tony Hawks 4 as you could design your own skater and buy extra kit.
Other than that we play Adventure games together, and the LAra Croft games. I usually do the controlling and she tells me where to go (Back-seat gaming...?)
This reminds me of measures taken by YahooGroups whereby if you sent over 10 messages to them (across any number of groups) within a small timelimit they automatically set your account to a suspended status, which could only be reset by a Yahoogroups employee. (This differed from the Bouncing status they set you to if you get an odd bounced mail)
I might have some of the numbers wrong (it was a while back that this was introduced) but it caught out a LOT of users who wrote their mail offline and then sent them all when they connected. I realise this story is dealing with DSL customers, but the comparison remains.
Ah yes, my pals are often filling up a poor Hotmail using buddies inbox. We start the odd chat session going during work hours, but everyone involved is CC'ed in. When our friend finally gets to check his hotmail a few days later its invariable full of our chit-chat.
Poor fellow.....
I tend to agree. Email conversations will easily trip this limit as you usually just do a reply (or reply-to-all) and jot a brief line. You can easily get through those 20 emails.
Also, what about Play By Email games? I regularly play Laser Squad Nemesis (http://www.lasersquadnemesis.com) . This game requires you to send an email to begin the game, another to issue your orders , and for certain users you can send them external emails to chat. After a few games of that you'll soon fill this quota. I'm sure there are other PBEM games out there that use a greater number of mails too.
...their web page has been /.'ed
I hope they are following their own instructions!
No, but you can hopefully get a -1 Troll
How so..?
Exactly like P2P. You CAN get loads of legal content, linux distros, game demos on any P2P network, be it Emule,Kazaa or BitTorrent
You can also get plently of illegal content off each of these as well.
BitTorrent != Always Legal
Space Channel 5 was absolutely awful!
Radio Hitchhikers wont be Radio Hitchhikers without the proper theme tune.
Oh dear God... Dont give them any ideas!!!
They like non-0mainstream users SOOO much that they make a client that is 'crummy and crashes a lot' ?
What would it be like if they wanted to put Linux users OFF using RealPlayer!!?!?
If the information you need is contained in a single page then most people would probvably just read that page in the book shop instead of buying it. this makes no difference to what is going on at Amazon now. If the person isnt going to buy from Amazon because the information is easily gleaned from a single page, then that person is also not going to buy the book from a shop either.
I used to visit a friend while he was at university. The carpark had a barrier across it. You were supposed to use an access card to get in and out, but we found that we could kick a crushed drink can over the loop in the ground and it would trigger the barrier :)
Whoops, posted reply to wrong topic. (Whats the ettiquete in this situation....?)
I'm not convinced these things actually exist....
More likely in my opinion is that your prescence was picked up either by a radar device on the light, or by one of the induction loops underneath the road. That what triggers the device rather than the headlight flashing.
I think that I could approach the same junction in the same circumstances singing Michael Bolton songs at th etop of my voice, and then claim that it was the sound of Mr Bolton that made the lights changed. After all, I do the same at all lights I approach and it seems to work!
I'm not convinced these things actually exist....
More likely in my opinion is that your prescence was picked up either by a radar device on the light, or by one of the induction loops underneath the road. That what triggers the device rather than the headlight flashing.
I think that I could approach the same junction in the same circumstances singing Michael Bolton songs at th etop of my voice, and then claim that it was the sound of Mr Bolton that made the lights changed.
Eiher that or an idealistic hippy, but I dont think there is a Mod category for that.... ;)
I dont see anything wrong with what the poster is doing. He used Amazons system to identify books whereby his/her work was not correctly attributed.
How is this an Abuse of the legal system???
Thats an interesting point.
Say for example you enjoyed an authors book that featured a particular character, and wanted to find other books that also featured that character.
Run a search on the characters name and one of the results comes back saying something about that characters tragic death, or something else that gives away the plot of the book.
I hate it when book endings get spoilt and this would really annoy me.