I remember when I got my 386-33. I tried playing Arctic Fox on it. It was flipping so fast between the logo screen and credits/instruction screens that you couldn't make anything out.
I think after that I spent the next couple hours pulling out every 8088 favorite and trying them out. I was upset at the # that wouldn't work anymore:(
Ah...the days when you didn't even need DOS and games just booted from the disk.
RFC 2554: SMTP AUTH. I'm using this. We have a server for our students on campus. However they use any ISP they want, but are required to use their student e-mail for comminique (something about that way we always know we have the current and correct e-mail address for them, and we can prove they got a piece of e-mail).
Anyway, with SMTP_AUTH, from anywhere on the net(*) they can now send their e-mail and relay through us. They don't have to always be choosing the correct outlook account setting or any of that bs.
(*) well, anywhere on the net that does not block port 25 connections. AOL, Earthlink (who provides the complete unblocked internet - bullshit), and others will not allow connections on port 25 to anything but their mail servers.
They claim that this cuts down on spam since spammers can't use an account to use an open relay somewhere. Does this mean now that the spammers just use the earthlink smtp server instead? Anyway, a config setting, a listen on port 2525 and all is solved.
RFC 2487: SMTP over TLS. Isn't this just an encrypted smtp? Yeah...that really doesn't do much for spam at all like you said.
Until the blacklist site of blacklist sites refuses to remove blacklist sites who have changed there ways, then we need a blacklist of blacklist sites of blacklist sites.
I've seen all of the following on a semi-regular to regular basis:
ru (Russia)
jp (Japan)
tw (Taiwan)
ie (Ireland)
nl (Netherlands)
se (Sweden?)
nz (New Zealand)
Even see za from time to time. As for the size of the namespace, huh? What...should we have.us1.us2.us3 cause we are so much bigger than Tivilo?
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Why should they care? Like you said, they are not shipping me any products. They are taking my money and giving it to someone else.
I can understand the shipping/billing address thing. I do have to provide my billing address when I add a card, but there is nothing that forces the seller to ship it to that address.
I'd rather they provide an alternate method for verifying identity.
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After I spend $940 more on paypal (even though it's coming of a credit-card) I will no longer be able to use paypal, according to them, until I provide them a bank routing number.
So, I buy something on Ebay, wanna pay with my CC, why the hell does this company need access to my bank account?
Things like that, even though I've never had any trouble with paypal, set off all sorts of little red flags in my head!
This must be the ultimate/. contradiction - the future of the MPAA's profits is Linux.
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As for the good of it, I could control all aspects of my win machine from my linux desktop (which right now is Cygwin's XFree ontop of win2k using xdm to get my desktop;)
Anyway, this would provide you the same functionality that "Computer management" provides right now - manage any win2k machine remotely, with out the speed loss of using something like vnc. On the backend you could have a Linux management object, or a windows management object. Though I agree, portability would be a pain. Either you'd have polymorphic user interfaces, or you could manage the least common denominator.
I can see where.net could be used on something like adding users - design a class that takes the common parms, such as username, id, password, etc... and then it would call the class on the remote machine, and depending on if that class was on a win2k or unix box, it'd do the right thing - the api from the management app would be the same though - still too many differences though:(
I don't like clippit, but I like Links - the cat. It's cute. I actually leave it enabled just for grins. Anyway, the only problem I see with.net at the application level is w/ the classes being able to be on the network somewhere, MS giving you MS word for dirt cheap, but charging you $5 everytime you want to access the spell check class.
Either I'm getting too old to think.net is neat, or I should't have had that whole bottle of champagne tonight!
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Not really. Just like there will probably be some horid ASDI/.NET interface, it'd be nice to have a class that would let you say monitor/admin a Unix box. Create a.NET class for it, call it from your VB program on a winders machine, and make a nice little pointy/clicky interface.
If you ever want to do anything system related, there will have to be specific classes for that platform/machine...the question is how long before other classes get polluted and the docs are full of
(Note: this only works on win32 machines)
At which point did I say KDE is a part of Linux? I said that KDE copied the functionality that Windows put into their folder browser.
At no point did I say that Linux added this functionality via KDE or anything like that. Actually, after looking back at my post, I didn't even mention Linux at all. Can you see your prostate from your vantage point?;)
As for should Windows and the GUI have the same seperation as KDE and the underlying OS, no, I don't think that. There is nothing stopping you from implmenting your own file browser.
It is a given that when you buy windows, you are buying an OS with a tighly intergrated GUI - the same way that I know when I buy a Ford Windstar, I am buying a shell, engine, tires, and endless nightmares down the road. If I want to I can swap parts out, but Ford, like MS, does not have a business model that lets me go in and just buy this and that part (well, at least not easily!!!)
However, when I decide on Linux, I know I can install the OS with whatever components I may or may not need. None of my Linux boxes even have X on them...only my HPUX does. Yeah...modular is good, but know what you are getting when you go to get it.
For some reason they have got onto this one particular thing they feel must be resolved and won't let it go. They are so adamant about having MS remove IE that they don't even see how MS is having fun with them.
Yeah...with all the recent win releases, when you are browsing your hard drive, you are basically using IE. Start|Run|C:\, then type http://www.yahoo.com into the address line.
Personally I think it's kinda cool - and didn't KDE copy this as well?
So why can't the states get it through their heads that it is part of the OS now and just get to the point and have MS ship a copy of windows that has no IE icon, no IE program group, and no iexplore.exe on it at all.
That way they can have their precious Windows without a browser. Who cares about MS's business practices, or the embrace and extend method of hijacking standards, or anything else they are doing? As long as some company can install a version of windows without IE so they can offer some half-assed version of Netscape instead.
What's the reason they can't delete the icon, program group etc...and do that right now? Oh...isn't it some licensing deals that MS made with the companies?
While they are at it, why don't they go after HP for including Netscape with HPUX. I really wanted to install Opera, but Netscape was already there and was doing nothing to get in my way?
Sorry - it just seems they are missing the big picture - so what if MS makes a version of windows without IE, cause when they go an sell it for twice the cost of the version with IE to the computer vendors, which version are they gonna choose?
I used to love this show, then I started missing it when fox started to juggle it around.
Then they had that terrible xmas episode this last year. After watching that episode, I decided I'd never watch the show again. It was just wrong, and this is coming from someone who loves the original south park (the 5 minute short).
It was an easy example. But like I said - it proves that these business practices go way back. Just because it now involves a computer doesn't make it different or special.
Uh...on no. 4, it's not up for best original screenplay, it's up for best screenplay based on existing material (ie...best adaption of something else) Then again, A Beautiful Mind is in the same category as well.
If they want to keep calling it some sort of contract that you need to agree to, then I want more than what the company decided were the bulleted basic terms - I want the whole thing out there!!!
A few years ago, McDonalds (I believe they were the first - if not, it still works) introduced the "Extra Value Meal". The idea is instead ordering a sandwich, maybe fries, maybe a drink, they tie all three together so it is a better deal than if you bought each seperatly. This way you WILL get fries and a drink. So they sell you three items for a quarter or two more than the two items you would have bought before. Because profit margins on fries and drinks are so high, it's not like they lose money.
So, next thing you know every fast food place from Dairy Queen to Burger King to Wendys has various meal deals by various names.
Did they all pay McDonalds a royalty for bundeling items together? I seriously doubt it. They looked at a business model and implemented it themselves.
Now...Amazon comes along and someone has the bright idea of "lets store the customer info so when they want something they don't need to fill that info out again". A wonderful new idea? Probably not...I'm sure tons of places have regular customers who the owners know and can have everything taken care of just by the customer calling up and saying "Hey Bob, I need another x number of y's". Bob knows his customer and ships them to the usual place with the usual billing. Probably been going on for years on end.
All Amazon did was to expand this system to all of their customers and cut down on the human part - which is what computers do well anyway.
So why shouldn't b&n, and every other company out there be able to do the same thing? Hey...look at that business idea...does it work - well hell, lets do it as well...just the same way as we take the old crap and mark it way down as clearance to move it so we don't take a loss---just like every other store.
I could see if B&N stole amazon's code, did a s/amazon/b&n/g on it and put it into place, but why should amazon be able to patent an idea they had. A segway, I can see where there would be a patent on that - they guy came up with an idea and actually implemented it, and patented that. I don't believe the patent is for "platform on wheels that moves".
My first thought as well. If/. wants to run a political issues sight, which seems to be half the stories lately, then do it, but lets keep/. for geek/tech stuff, not activist mobilisation.
Ah...the old days of/. where you could have a discussion, ask questions and get answers in the threads. Now it's just karma whoring, IANAL and this post proves it, and bad moderation:(
At least I still can find where to get some cheap hardware from the dumb "lets take a loss and sell a service no-one wants" companies!
You buy the software - money is gone. You take the software home, you open the plastic wrapping and the box. You read the EULA, which comes up as you install the software from the media.
You decide you don't like the terms of the EULA and refuse to accept and take the software back, and you are told "Sorry man...we can't give refunds on open software, music, or videos unless they are defective. Then we can only replace for the same item."
That just doesn't sound right. At least the EULA's should be printed on the box where you can see them before buying.
Because of the high cost, the read-limited CDs may interest the smaller rental chains: it may be more profitable, and certainly more profitable in the short run, to sell the defective DVDs.
But if I ran a smaller chain then I am dealing with even more limited shelf space (probably don't have a whole shelf to put up "coming soon" empty boxes).
So, if I got 10 copies of "Popular Movie", I can circulate them in and out as need be among my clientel. If I have 5,000 members, and 10% want to see the movie, then in theory each copy gets rented 50 times. Yeah...it may be take someone a bit of time before they can see the movie cause its out a lot, but I can setup reservations, etc...
But with this other format, which I think almost anyone would balk at, I now have to keep an inventory of "Popular Movie". And if after the first x are gone, I have to reorder. Sure, the end user may have to wait, but it now sounds like "No, I don't have what you want to see in stock, but I can order it for you" I may be in a minority, but almost anytime someone tells me that at a retail store, my thought is "Gee...I can do that myself".
I guess it comes down to how well the chains are at guessing at customer demand.
Okay...she left. But what if she didn't? While the company could make her working life hell, is there anything they could do to force the site down?
Given that if you point a lawyer at an ISP, many times they'll cave, but lets assume they didn't. If the case was to go to court to get law enforcement to bring the site down, would it happen? Or would the judge/jury say that she has the right of free speech to say what she wants about the company on her own time, and the in enforcing the company's wish to have the sight removed would be a violation of the 1st.
So...if we look at McAffe, if someone writes a review, they can whine all they want, but as the poster said, hopefully if this went to a trial, it would come out that, yes, the EULA said that, but it would be a violation of the 1st to remove the review.
In the end, it all comes down to how legally binding of a contract a EULA can assumed to be. I tend to think that it isn't one at all. You show me proof that I agreed to it? I clicked accept, hell - maybe my cat walked across the keyboard, or I misclicked my mouse cause I was tired. Can't remember the last time I meant to not sign a contract and accidentally wrote my name.
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I remember when I got my 386-33. I tried playing Arctic Fox on it. It was flipping so fast between the logo screen and credits/instruction screens that you couldn't make anything out.
:(
I think after that I spent the next couple hours pulling out every 8088 favorite and trying them out. I was upset at the # that wouldn't work anymore
Ah...the days when you didn't even need DOS and games just booted from the disk.
RFC 2554: SMTP AUTH.
I'm using this. We have a server for our students on campus. However they use any ISP they want, but are required to use their student e-mail for comminique (something about that way we always know we have the current and correct e-mail address for them, and we can prove they got a piece of e-mail).
Anyway, with SMTP_AUTH, from anywhere on the net(*) they can now send their e-mail and relay through us. They don't have to always be choosing the correct outlook account setting or any of that bs.
(*) well, anywhere on the net that does not block port 25 connections. AOL, Earthlink (who provides the complete unblocked internet - bullshit), and others will not allow connections on port 25 to anything but their mail servers.
They claim that this cuts down on spam since spammers can't use an account to use an open relay somewhere. Does this mean now that the spammers just use the earthlink smtp server instead? Anyway, a config setting, a listen on port 2525 and all is solved.
RFC 2487: SMTP over TLS.
Isn't this just an encrypted smtp? Yeah...that really doesn't do much for spam at all like you said.
Until the blacklist site of blacklist sites refuses to remove blacklist sites who have changed there ways, then we need a blacklist of blacklist sites of blacklist sites.
Is the room spining for everyone else now?
What about stuff other than the web - e-mail, ftp, ssh, telnet, etc... Hyperlinks for those as well?
:)
Let me load up my browser so I can ping that server
C'mon...this is the company that went after a site named roadkills-r-us because they felt people would be confused with the r-us brandnames.
I've seen all of the following on a semi-regular to regular basis:
.us1 .us2 .us3 cause we are so much bigger than Tivilo?
ru (Russia)
jp (Japan)
tw (Taiwan)
ie (Ireland)
nl (Netherlands)
se (Sweden?)
nz (New Zealand)
Even see za from time to time. As for the size of the namespace, huh? What...should we have
Why should they care? Like you said, they are not shipping me any products. They are taking my money and giving it to someone else.
I can understand the shipping/billing address thing. I do have to provide my billing address when I add a card, but there is nothing that forces the seller to ship it to that address.
I'd rather they provide an alternate method for verifying identity.
After I spend $940 more on paypal (even though it's coming of a credit-card) I will no longer be able to use paypal, according to them, until I provide them a bank routing number.
So, I buy something on Ebay, wanna pay with my CC, why the hell does this company need access to my bank account?
Things like that, even though I've never had any trouble with paypal, set off all sorts of little red flags in my head!
This must be the ultimate /. contradiction - the future of the MPAA's profits is Linux.
As for the good of it, I could control all aspects of my win machine from my linux desktop (which right now is Cygwin's XFree ontop of win2k using xdm to get my desktop ;)
.net could be used on something like adding users - design a class that takes the common parms, such as username, id, password, etc... and then it would call the class on the remote machine, and depending on if that class was on a win2k or unix box, it'd do the right thing - the api from the management app would be the same though - still too many differences though :(
.net at the application level is w/ the classes being able to be on the network somewhere, MS giving you MS word for dirt cheap, but charging you $5 everytime you want to access the spell check class.
.net is neat, or I should't have had that whole bottle of champagne tonight!
Anyway, this would provide you the same functionality that "Computer management" provides right now - manage any win2k machine remotely, with out the speed loss of using something like vnc. On the backend you could have a Linux management object, or a windows management object. Though I agree, portability would be a pain. Either you'd have polymorphic user interfaces, or you could manage the least common denominator.
I can see where
I don't like clippit, but I like Links - the cat. It's cute. I actually leave it enabled just for grins. Anyway, the only problem I see with
Either I'm getting too old to think
Not really. Just like there will probably be some horid ASDI/.NET interface, it'd be nice to have a class that would let you say monitor/admin a Unix box. Create a .NET class for it, call it from your VB program on a winders machine, and make a nice little pointy/clicky interface.
If you ever want to do anything system related, there will have to be specific classes for that platform/machine...the question is how long before other classes get polluted and the docs are full of
(Note: this only works on win32 machines)
Yup...but what I was trying to fully illustrate is that the windows file brower windows were basically IE without a couple options.
At which point did I say KDE is a part of Linux? I said that KDE copied the functionality that Windows put into their folder browser.
;)
At no point did I say that Linux added this functionality via KDE or anything like that. Actually, after looking back at my post, I didn't even mention Linux at all. Can you see your prostate from your vantage point?
As for should Windows and the GUI have the same seperation as KDE and the underlying OS, no, I don't think that. There is nothing stopping you from implmenting your own file browser.
It is a given that when you buy windows, you are buying an OS with a tighly intergrated GUI - the same way that I know when I buy a Ford Windstar, I am buying a shell, engine, tires, and endless nightmares down the road. If I want to I can swap parts out, but Ford, like MS, does not have a business model that lets me go in and just buy this and that part (well, at least not easily!!!)
However, when I decide on Linux, I know I can install the OS with whatever components I may or may not need. None of my Linux boxes even have X on them...only my HPUX does. Yeah...modular is good, but know what you are getting when you go to get it.
For some reason they have got onto this one particular thing they feel must be resolved and won't let it go. They are so adamant about having MS remove IE that they don't even see how MS is having fun with them.
Yeah...with all the recent win releases, when you are browsing your hard drive, you are basically using IE. Start|Run|C:\, then type http://www.yahoo.com into the address line.
Personally I think it's kinda cool - and didn't KDE copy this as well?
So why can't the states get it through their heads that it is part of the OS now and just get to the point and have MS ship a copy of windows that has no IE icon, no IE program group, and no iexplore.exe on it at all.
That way they can have their precious Windows without a browser. Who cares about MS's business practices, or the embrace and extend method of hijacking standards, or anything else they are doing? As long as some company can install a version of windows without IE so they can offer some half-assed version of Netscape instead.
What's the reason they can't delete the icon, program group etc...and do that right now? Oh...isn't it some licensing deals that MS made with the companies?
While they are at it, why don't they go after HP for including Netscape with HPUX. I really wanted to install Opera, but Netscape was already there and was doing nothing to get in my way?
Sorry - it just seems they are missing the big picture - so what if MS makes a version of windows without IE, cause when they go an sell it for twice the cost of the version with IE to the computer vendors, which version are they gonna choose?
Sounds like part of "Demolition Man" where Rob Schnieder is sitting at the San Angeles police desk and starts doing that when answering the phone.
:)
I think I laughed more at that one throwaway scene than any other Rob Schnieder movie
I used to love this show, then I started missing it when fox started to juggle it around.
Then they had that terrible xmas episode this last year. After watching that episode, I decided I'd never watch the show again. It was just wrong, and this is coming from someone who loves the original south park (the 5 minute short).
It was an easy example. But like I said - it proves that these business practices go way back. Just because it now involves a computer doesn't make it different or special.
Uh...on no. 4, it's not up for best original screenplay, it's up for best screenplay based on existing material (ie...best adaption of something else) Then again, A Beautiful Mind is in the same category as well.
If they want to keep calling it some sort of contract that you need to agree to, then I want more than what the company decided were the bulleted basic terms - I want the whole thing out there!!!
A few years ago, McDonalds (I believe they were the first - if not, it still works) introduced the "Extra Value Meal". The idea is instead ordering a sandwich, maybe fries, maybe a drink, they tie all three together so it is a better deal than if you bought each seperatly. This way you WILL get fries and a drink. So they sell you three items for a quarter or two more than the two items you would have bought before. Because profit margins on fries and drinks are so high, it's not like they lose money.
So, next thing you know every fast food place from Dairy Queen to Burger King to Wendys has various meal deals by various names.
Did they all pay McDonalds a royalty for bundeling items together? I seriously doubt it. They looked at a business model and implemented it themselves.
Now...Amazon comes along and someone has the bright idea of "lets store the customer info so when they want something they don't need to fill that info out again". A wonderful new idea? Probably not...I'm sure tons of places have regular customers who the owners know and can have everything taken care of just by the customer calling up and saying "Hey Bob, I need another x number of y's". Bob knows his customer and ships them to the usual place with the usual billing. Probably been going on for years on end.
All Amazon did was to expand this system to all of their customers and cut down on the human part - which is what computers do well anyway.
So why shouldn't b&n, and every other company out there be able to do the same thing? Hey...look at that business idea...does it work - well hell, lets do it as well...just the same way as we take the old crap and mark it way down as clearance to move it so we don't take a loss---just like every other store.
I could see if B&N stole amazon's code, did a s/amazon/b&n/g on it and put it into place, but why should amazon be able to patent an idea they had. A segway, I can see where there would be a patent on that - they guy came up with an idea and actually implemented it, and patented that. I don't believe the patent is for "platform on wheels that moves".
My first thought as well. If /. wants to run a political issues sight, which seems to be half the stories lately, then do it, but lets keep /. for geek/tech stuff, not activist mobilisation.
/. where you could have a discussion, ask questions and get answers in the threads. Now it's just karma whoring, IANAL and this post proves it, and bad moderation :(
Ah...the old days of
At least I still can find where to get some cheap hardware from the dumb "lets take a loss and sell a service no-one wants" companies!
You buy the software - money is gone. You take the software home, you open the plastic wrapping and the box. You read the EULA, which comes up as you install the software from the media.
You decide you don't like the terms of the EULA and refuse to accept and take the software back, and you are told "Sorry man...we can't give refunds on open software, music, or videos unless they are defective. Then we can only replace for the same item."
That just doesn't sound right. At least the EULA's should be printed on the box where you can see them before buying.
Because of the high cost, the read-limited CDs may interest the smaller rental chains: it may be more profitable, and certainly more profitable in the short run, to sell the defective DVDs.
But if I ran a smaller chain then I am dealing with even more limited shelf space (probably don't have a whole shelf to put up "coming soon" empty boxes).
So, if I got 10 copies of "Popular Movie", I can circulate them in and out as need be among my clientel. If I have 5,000 members, and 10% want to see the movie, then in theory each copy gets rented 50 times. Yeah...it may be take someone a bit of time before they can see the movie cause its out a lot, but I can setup reservations, etc...
But with this other format, which I think almost anyone would balk at, I now have to keep an inventory of "Popular Movie". And if after the first x are gone, I have to reorder. Sure, the end user may have to wait, but it now sounds like "No, I don't have what you want to see in stock, but I can order it for you" I may be in a minority, but almost anytime someone tells me that at a retail store, my thought is "Gee...I can do that myself".
I guess it comes down to how well the chains are at guessing at customer demand.
Whoops...it was a different poster talking about the govt. forcing removal violating the 1st. Soooo many comments.
Okay...she left. But what if she didn't? While the company could make her working life hell, is there anything they could do to force the site down?
Given that if you point a lawyer at an ISP, many times they'll cave, but lets assume they didn't. If the case was to go to court to get law enforcement to bring the site down, would it happen? Or would the judge/jury say that she has the right of free speech to say what she wants about the company on her own time, and the in enforcing the company's wish to have the sight removed would be a violation of the 1st.
So...if we look at McAffe, if someone writes a review, they can whine all they want, but as the poster said, hopefully if this went to a trial, it would come out that, yes, the EULA said that, but it would be a violation of the 1st to remove the review.
In the end, it all comes down to how legally binding of a contract a EULA can assumed to be. I tend to think that it isn't one at all. You show me proof that I agreed to it? I clicked accept, hell - maybe my cat walked across the keyboard, or I misclicked my mouse cause I was tired. Can't remember the last time I meant to not sign a contract and accidentally wrote my name.