I would hope its not illegal to create a database... whos work would you be copyrighting... its just the author and subject..
As for where to get one.. try asking a local library or university library... They must get it from somewhere... ain't no way they entered all the books by hand...
Not only to you get to blow $300k on the thing.... but they won't even let you play with it for 8 friggin months...
The high bidder has to agree to loan it out for 8 months so it can finish its current campaign..
Why didn't they just wait until 8 months to auction in it off.... so the lucky dude yu buys it can drive it home and have something to show for his $300k... jeezz
You never know though... this speed racer hype could all be gone in 8 months...
What closed source software are your refering to? According to the Akopia web site - http://www.akopia.com/tallyman/get.html ------ Tallyman is released under the GPL. ------ Guess preview is there for a reason..
If I got this striaght.. UUNet. Sprint.. AT&T and the likes allow traffic from each other to freely flow over each others networks.. which seems to be qui pro quo... You let some of my traffic use your network and I'll let some of your traffic go over mine..
But the problem as Forbes sees it is that an ISP complains because they want access to this bandwidth so they can make money. but don't want to pay the access fees ??
I guess I don't follow..
The bigger guys seem to be trading services, but the little guys have nothing to trade (besides $$$) so the providers have to make them pay $$
They'll just require it to be bundled with Office, and everything else Microsoft makes. What percentage of PCs have no Microsoft software on them whatsoever? That percentage won't have IE installed.
I don't mind them bundling IE with any middleware (as it was called in the desicion).. I have tons of cds from books and what not with IE on it... thats fine... The problem is with the OS and Microsoft forcing the computer makers to install IE by default and nothing else.... Hell most computer makers will be glad to pre-install IE.... just don't force them to...
I really don't think it matters if IE goes with one company or the other... As long as MS does not require it be bundled with any license for Windows... That was the main problem to begin with...
>>> Security experts said the virus is the first to hit mobile phones, although they emphasized that the worm is propagated by computer and not via the telephone system. They also said the attack is relatively benign, as it does not destroy computer files but merely delivers a message disparaging the Spanish telephone company Telefonica. >>>
>>> Like the notorious "I Love You" virus that spread quickly through corporate computer systems across the globe last month, the Timofonica virus was written using Microsoft's VBScript programming language. Also like the Love bug, Timofonica spreads via email by sending infected messages from affected computers. The worm sends itself to all addresses that are stored in a person's address book.
"We believe the worm originated in Spain," Varga said. "The message is in Spanish, and the message is directed at a Spanish operator."
In addition, the worm sends a message to a so-called short messaging service (SMS) gateway that converts text messages to voice and sends them to mobile phone users. The worm randomly generates phone numbers targeting the "corio.movistar.net" SMS gate.
While it is easier, leasing is not as cheap as putting cash up front. It's just about always cheaper to pay with your own money than it is to pay with someone elses money.
Exactly... but it is cheaper in the short run. as other have noted in these comments... not as many people seem to be thinking about the long run anymore.... just the here and now... instant gratification... Why save for a few years, when tomorrow I can go and lease that super-sized suv....
Otherwise you could find yourself in a long-term relationship with your creditors. How's that for commitment! You have your credit card company contacting you for a longer time than any of your personal relationships.
Not to some people... chapter 11?? makes me sick when I hear some of the ocmmercials on the radio these days... "With bankrupcy you get to keep all your assests.. cars, boats, house.... full pay... the debt is the only thing you loose..." Great.. so if I really don't have to pay off my debts... why not go get all these great toys now...
Even if it's straight credit card fraud, the company that ships the product still keeps the sale dollars, it's the credit card company (or the consumer) that eats the cost of the fraud
Wrong.... that would be the merchant taking it up the rear for the fraud.... only cost to the credit card company is the time it toakes to take the $$$ back out of the merchants bank account.... oh wait.. thats what the $10 chargeback fee is for....
What about sites like mysimon.com and other shopping compare sites ??
How do they get all their information from ? Constantly spidering all the shopping sites?
Its really a tough call.. I think it has to be left up to the site to control who can brand their content... but I don't think they should be able to pick and choose.. Thus if Ebay is shutting out Bidders Edge... then they should shut everyone out doing the same thing...
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an OS, general applications, and browser market are not in direct competition with each other
Yes.. they would not be in competition with each other... but they would not be able to use the other arms of Microsoft to squash out other competition as they see fit.
The purpose of breaking up Microsoft is not to make smaller M$ clones.. but to reduce their monopoly power over other companies.
>> Essentially, if you ask a web server for a page, the server can send back a redirect, saying "actually, it's over there." Your browser then goes to the new page and asks again. Redirects are useful for a number of purposes; for example, when a web site moves a redirect can be put in to point readers to the new site transparently. (Thus, for example, some people still go to www.eklektix.com/lwn/ to read LWN and it works, even though LWN has not been there for two years). >>
Yet the problem here is Slashdot itself... and nothing else... From what it seems, Slashdot figures who is posting simply by looking at the cookie.. and nothing submited from the form..
Thus the "Security hole" page auto submits to slashdot which reads your cookie and posts a comment under your name..
Easily taken care of by slashdot by simply entering the users username as a hidden variable in the form, or an md5 hash to make sure none of the fields are being tappered with...
ITS NOT a web wide problem.... Just a Slashcode problem..
Slashdot Mirror
I think it has a lot to do with connection speed...
I'm still stuck on a 56k modem... so on just about any page I look at... the text renders before any images....
Therefore I look at the text first.. since it is there first... But I still look at the pictures..
Link to full screen attention grabbing data:
http://www.poynter.org/eyetrack 2000/toc/frontpg.htm
Thats about the worst use of frames I've seen on a professional site yet...
The article broken down into 3 or 4 pages with the graphs and data tables inline would have been much better...
No reason I need to scroll 20 times to read a single article.. (and guess what.... I didn't)
Its good to read the contracts... but since...
IANAL, I guess I'll have to pay one to be on call 24/7
Anyway, who can't tell that the cost of the PC is after rebates after reading for a little more than 2 seconds.
But my problem is I don't want to read the freaking fine print on every single add just to figure the real price...
About 50% of the stuff at Circut City has a rebate these days... annoying as heck..
$1354 Original Price - $400 Compuserve 2000 Premier Internet Service Instant Savings - $75 eMachines Mail-In Rebate - $50 Canon Mail-In Rebate - $130 in Circut City Mail-in Rebates - $200 Price Break = $499
Thats real text from a Circut City add today...
I would hope its not illegal to create a database... whos work would you be copyrighting... its just the author and subject..
As for where to get one.. try asking a local library or university library... They must get it from somewhere... ain't no way they entered all the books by hand...
Not only to you get to blow $300k on the thing.... but they won't even let you play with it for 8 friggin months...
The high bidder has to agree to loan it out for 8 months so it can finish its current campaign..
Why didn't they just wait until 8 months to auction in it off.... so the lucky dude yu buys it can drive it home and have something to show for his $300k... jeezz
You never know though... this speed racer hype could all be gone in 8 months...
According to the article, Dell is just designing the outside box and marketing them...
The real mker is S3 www.s3.com. S3 seems to make the Rio and Home Free family of products.
Looks like it might be a cool product to play with... I could not find any information about the product on the s3 site....
I give up... :(
What closed source software are your refering to? According to the Akopia web site - http://www.akopia.com/tallyman/get.html ------ Tallyman is released under the GPL. ------ Guess preview is there for a reason..
>>closed source hand's down. >
Tallyman is released under the GPL.
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If I got this striaght.. UUNet. Sprint.. AT&T and the likes allow traffic from each other to freely flow over each others networks.. which seems to be qui pro quo... You let some of my traffic use your network and I'll let some of your traffic go over mine..
But the problem as Forbes sees it is that an ISP complains because they want access to this bandwidth so they can make money. but don't want to pay the access fees ??
I guess I don't follow..
The bigger guys seem to be trading services, but the little guys have nothing to trade (besides $$$) so the providers have to make them pay $$
They'll just require it to be bundled with Office, and everything else Microsoft makes. What percentage of PCs have no Microsoft software on them whatsoever? That percentage won't have IE installed.
I don't mind them bundling IE with any middleware (as it was called in the desicion).. I have tons of cds from books and what not with IE on it... thats fine... The problem is with the OS and Microsoft forcing the computer makers to install IE by default and nothing else.... Hell most computer makers will be glad to pre-install IE.... just don't force them to...
I really don't think it matters if IE goes with one company or the other... As long as MS does not require it be bundled with any license for Windows... That was the main problem to begin with...
No this is a Outlook virus... just one of the side effects that it emails random phones.. (of a company in Spain).
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It has nothing to do with the phone itself..
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2026192.ht
>>>
Security experts said the virus is the first to hit mobile phones, although they emphasized that the worm is propagated by computer and not via the telephone system. They also said the attack is relatively benign, as it does not destroy computer files but merely delivers a message disparaging the Spanish telephone company Telefonica.
>>>
>>>
Like the notorious "I Love You" virus that spread quickly through corporate computer systems across the globe last month, the Timofonica virus was written using Microsoft's VBScript programming language. Also like the Love bug, Timofonica spreads via email by sending infected messages from affected computers. The worm sends itself to all addresses that are stored in a person's address book.
"We believe the worm originated in Spain," Varga said. "The message is in Spanish, and the message is directed at a Spanish operator."
In addition, the worm sends a message to a so-called short messaging service (SMS) gateway that converts text messages to voice and sends them to mobile phone users. The worm randomly generates phone numbers targeting the "corio.movistar.net" SMS gate.
While it is easier, leasing is not as cheap as putting cash up front. It's just about always cheaper to pay with your own money than it is to pay with someone elses money.
Exactly... but it is cheaper in the short run. as other have noted in these comments... not as many people seem to be thinking about the long run anymore.... just the here and now... instant gratification... Why save for a few years, when tomorrow I can go and lease that super-sized suv....
Otherwise you could find yourself in a long-term relationship with your creditors. How's that for commitment! You have your credit card company contacting you for a longer time than any of your personal relationships.
Not to some people... chapter 11?? makes me sick when I hear some of the ocmmercials on the radio these days... "With bankrupcy you get to keep all your assests.. cars, boats, house.... full pay... the debt is the only thing you loose..." Great.. so if I really don't have to pay off my debts... why not go get all these great toys now...
bleh...
(Atleast in the US)
We are becoming a society that wants things easy and as cheap as possible...
Visa, and other credit card companies will pay all theft claims. It's very expensive, and that's why the credit card rates are so ridiculously high.
Guess you decided not to read any comments and just display your ignorance...
Visa/Mastercard take the fraud $$ striaght back from the merchant..... plus charge the merchant some extra $$ just for the privalage....
Even if it's straight credit card fraud, the company that ships the product still keeps the sale dollars, it's the credit card company (or the consumer) that eats the cost of the fraud
Wrong.... that would be the merchant taking it up the rear for the fraud.... only cost to the credit card company is the time it toakes to take the $$$ back out of the merchants bank account.... oh wait.. thats what the $10 chargeback fee is for....
this is really a problem.....the additude that a company can simply deny somebody like this the right to use a service that they provide
Haven't you eever walked into a store and up on the wall there is a sign...
We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone
http://cgi.ebay.com/robots.txt
:)
# go away
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Seems Bidders Edge doesn't want to play but the rules....
What about sites like mysimon.com and other shopping compare sites ??
How do they get all their information from ? Constantly spidering all the shopping sites?
Its really a tough call.. I think it has to be left up to the site to control who can brand their content... but I don't think they should be able to pick and choose.. Thus if Ebay is shutting out Bidders Edge... then they should shut everyone out doing the same thing...
http://www.gatewayatwork. com/prod/sb_apsrv_features.shtml
Web site publishing,with integrated support for CGI, Perl scripts, and FrontPage server extensions
Local E-mail hosting (individual mail, groups, auto reply/forward, scheduled delivery, multi-drop, SMTP/POP3/IMAP4)
Cross-platform file sharing (Windows 95/98/NT, Macintosh)
Message board
FTP services
Full PPP router, DNS and DHCP server Packet Filtering Firewall security, access control, and Network Address Translation
Linux 2.0 with Web server pre-installed Document indexing and searching, archival and retrieval More specs:
http://www.gatewayatwork. com/prod/sb_ms100_prodinfo.shtml
an OS, general applications, and browser market are not in direct competition with each other
Yes.. they would not be in competition with each other... but they would not be able to use the other arms of Microsoft to squash out other competition as they see fit.
The purpose of breaking up Microsoft is not to make smaller M$ clones.. but to reduce their monopoly power over other companies.
http://lwn.net/2000/features/Redirect.phtml
States:
>>
Essentially, if you ask a web server for a page, the server can send back a redirect, saying "actually, it's over there." Your browser then goes to the new page and asks again. Redirects are useful for a number of purposes; for example, when a web site moves a redirect can be put in to point readers to the new site transparently. (Thus, for example, some people still go to www.eklektix.com/lwn/ to read LWN and it works, even though LWN has not been there for two years).
>>
Yet the problem here is Slashdot itself... and nothing else... From what it seems, Slashdot figures who is posting simply by looking at the cookie.. and nothing submited from the form..
Thus the "Security hole" page auto submits to slashdot which reads your cookie and posts a comment under your name..
Easily taken care of by slashdot by simply entering the users username as a hidden variable in the form, or an md5 hash to make sure none of the fields are being tappered with...
ITS NOT a web wide problem.... Just a Slashcode problem..