Well I think Cobalt Networks should first sue all the blockhead lawyers who work for them that said this lawsuit would fly. Then they should sue the estate of Gene Roddenberry for Gene Roddenberry's shameless use of their trademarked "block" design in creating the Borg cube. Clearly the Borg cube contains "computer chips" in the form of assimilated species with computer implants. And every Trekie knows the borg are a "collective" that communicate with each other. Now this is an unabashed ripoff of the network capabilities of Cobalt Networks' Qube computer. In fact I would like to draw your attention to the name "Qube" and how the Borg ship being referred to as a "cube" is a blatent ripoff of a trademarked name. People of slashdot unite! We must take a stand! Write your representative in Washington D.C. Where will this end? I mean pretty soon we might even see companies making cheap knockoffs based on the i-mac design!
What school are you at? I know here at UC Berkeley the samer thing happened. Right when the DDOS attacks happened the bandwidth just disappeared in the dorms. A friend of mine e-mailed the admins about this loss and got a reply saying something to the effect "This loss in bandwidth can be attributed to Net gaming and services such as Napster". Well about a month later there was an article in our campus paper revealing that what actually happened was the people in charge of all dorm internet access had decided to "cap the bandwidth" in the dorms (read that as, "Now you can connect at the rate equal to a 28k modem"). The campus used the DDOS attack and Napster as an excuse to cap bandwidth. Now I can understand that a school can not just allow bandwidth usage to swallow up the so called "real" use of the internet at the school, i.e. graduate students doing whatever the bloody hell they do in those labs for hours at a time. Now that is not the end of the story, now the school is talking about charging "a little bit" more for the internet in the dorm rooms (nevermind that residents already do pay in their phone bill for the access). Oh and I was wondering what school you went to bcause the same thing happened here too, they got the names of the top bandwidth hogs in the dorms but I do not know if they kicked those people or not.
Hmm I can see it now, "Install our software and protect your children!" Then, "Install OUR software and use their software to get the best sex on the net! (Note: only 32% effective at the time of this press release.)"
I have used Napster and Macster and the music I have downloaded has gotten me to buy the cd. You may thonk that I am only one out of many users but take a look at this article from cnet.com. It looks as though there is proof that the use of these online music sources does indeed lead to people buying the music.
I wonder how soon it will be till the TV execs realize that some commercials get higher ratings than most of the inane programming on TV now. Then hopefully I will finally get to watch new Budweiser commercials every week instead of every Super Bowl. My TV viewing life will be perfect then, an hour of watching Scully try to match Mulder's monotone script reading briefly interrupted by new and improved ads featuring top stars such as iguanas, frogs, and babes in bikinis (in that order).
Slashdot Mirror
Well I think Cobalt Networks should first sue all the blockhead lawyers who work for them that said this lawsuit would fly. Then they should sue the estate of Gene Roddenberry for Gene Roddenberry's shameless use of their trademarked "block" design in creating the Borg cube. Clearly the Borg cube contains "computer chips" in the form of assimilated species with computer implants. And every Trekie knows the borg are a "collective" that communicate with each other. Now this is an unabashed ripoff of the network capabilities of Cobalt Networks' Qube computer. In fact I would like to draw your attention to the name "Qube" and how the Borg ship being referred to as a "cube" is a blatent ripoff of a trademarked name. People of slashdot unite! We must take a stand! Write your representative in Washington D.C. Where will this end? I mean pretty soon we might even see companies making cheap knockoffs based on the i-mac design!
What school are you at? I know here at UC Berkeley the samer thing happened. Right when the DDOS attacks happened the bandwidth just disappeared in the dorms. A friend of mine e-mailed the admins about this loss and got a reply saying something to the effect "This loss in bandwidth can be attributed to Net gaming and services such as Napster". Well about a month later there was an article in our campus paper revealing that what actually happened was the people in charge of all dorm internet access had decided to "cap the bandwidth" in the dorms (read that as, "Now you can connect at the rate equal to a 28k modem"). The campus used the DDOS attack and Napster as an excuse to cap bandwidth. Now I can understand that a school can not just allow bandwidth usage to swallow up the so called "real" use of the internet at the school, i.e. graduate students doing whatever the bloody hell they do in those labs for hours at a time. Now that is not the end of the story, now the school is talking about charging "a little bit" more for the internet in the dorm rooms (nevermind that residents already do pay in their phone bill for the access). Oh and I was wondering what school you went to bcause the same thing happened here too, they got the names of the top bandwidth hogs in the dorms but I do not know if they kicked those people or not.
Hmm I can see it now, "Install our software and protect your children!" Then, "Install OUR software and use their software to get the best sex on the net! (Note: only 32% effective at the time of this press release.)"
I have used Napster and Macster and the music I have downloaded has gotten me to buy the cd. You may thonk that I am only one out of many users but take a look at this article
from cnet.com. It looks as though there is proof that the use of these online music sources does indeed lead to people buying the music.
I wonder how soon it will be till the TV execs realize that some commercials get higher ratings than most of the inane programming on TV now. Then hopefully I will finally get to watch new Budweiser commercials every week instead of every Super Bowl. My TV viewing life will be perfect then, an hour of watching Scully try to match Mulder's monotone script reading briefly interrupted by new and improved ads featuring top stars such as iguanas, frogs, and babes in bikinis (in that order).