Dude, up until a couple of years ago, you could hire a contractor to work on your house. Your agreement was with him. If the contractor did not pay HIS suppliers, the supplier could put a lean [sic] on your house. And it was LEGAL!
This is still the case most of the time, due to the peculiar circumstances of the supplier-contractor-purchaser working agreement. Any contractor worth their salt will agree to a waiver in the contract, absolving you of any liability in the case that they fail to give your money to the supplier.
I saw a letter to Dr. Dobbs recently that was saying that XML needed to have the ability to embed things like Visual Basic and javascript in it to be really useful.
Considering that all VB and Javascript source code is text-based, you can easily put some code into an XML document. But it's dumb to expect 'XML' to have any internal capability to execute those instructions.
XML is for storing data. XSLT (and many, many other technologies) are for DOING THINGS to data, ie, code.
I didn't realize there were people subscribed to Dobbs that still don't understand the difference between code and data.
Wait, do people get lured into purchasing these printers by the low low "$XX.99" sale prices, or do they read the boxes for DMCA-related information and base their decisions on that? You've just tried to argue it both ways.
And it isn't even *slightly* deceptive to drop the cost of the lead in product and then force the purchase of specific stuff later. Not at ALL.
I hope you're not being sarcastic here, because I agree with this statement.
Printer ink cartridges are not interchangeable across products from different vendors, the way PCI cards and lightbulbs and even printer paper are. When you buy a certain brand of printer, you KNOW what you're getting into.
Lexmark printers are designed only to work with Lexmark ink carts, and it's not like it's a secret how much Lexmark cartridges cost. You have all the information upfront when deciding what kind of printer to buy. There's ABSOLUTELY nothing deceptive about this practice.
Sure, crystals have been used to lock frequencies forever...
I seem to recall my dad "overclocking" his IBM PC-XT by taking out the 8088 processor and replacing it with an NEC chip (Z20? I forget) that was similar to the Intel chip except for having a crystal that vibrated at a higher frequency (8-10MHz I think, vs. the 8088's 4.77MHz)
I was about 8 at the time though, so I may not know what I'm talking about.
This is why for some time now I've been advocating that Mac OS/X be ported to the x86 architecture. It's the only way Mac OS/X will be able to run on equal footing to Windows.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure Windows applications don't have to be shipped with two separate sets of binaries, with one being installed depending on which architecture you're running the OS on*.
(* okay, this may have been true back when MS was making an effort to keep NT running on Alpha chips, but I digress.)
Macs either move to the x86 architecture or they are dead.
The past NINETEEN years have already proven you wrong. Care to reconsider your stance?
What usually happens in this scenario is that parents remove the childs seats in blind panic and as a result 10x more kids are killed by seatbelts and not being in carseats than would have been killed by the carseats.
Post proof or retract. I call shenanigans, you probably pulled that "10x" figure out of thin air.
Because, as someone invariably mentions every time someone proposes content mirroring as a solution to The Slashdot Effect, the legality of such an action would be marginal at best. I don't think OSDN particularly wants to spend money on defending itself in copyright infringement lawsuits all the time.
Ad impressions for stories on a non-Slashdot site "belong" to the operators of that site, not to Slashdot. Mirroring a webpage would "steal" those ad impressions.
I'd rather deal with filtering the spam I get, than have to pay for sending email.
How many emails do you send per week? (Assume that work-related email doesn't count, because it's all either internal to the company network or paid for by the company). Personally, I'd be surprised if I wrote 30 personal emails per week.
Say the first 1000 emails in a given month are free. Very few legitimate email users would end up having to pay for their usage, but spamhauses would either have to pony up some cash or stop sending mail to people who they will never get a sale from.
And how much time are you willing to spend maintaining spam filters? That's attacking the symptom, not the problem. By the time spam gets to your filter, the costs of transporting it across the net have already accrued -- all you save is the inconvenience of having to see it.
It's clear that the "advertisement" is an advertisement of an item up for bids on an online auction, such as ebay.
You read it wrong. The patent is on a system for allowing advertisers to bid on ad avails, and has nothing to do with the content of the advertisements.
If you really are a patent agent, thank you for proving to Slashdot that patent agents do indeed lack the comprehension skills necessary to evaluate technical patent applications.
The worst winmodem I ever had the misfortune to use was based on a Conexant chipset. (I really shouldn't have expected much from a 56K modem that cost $7 after rebate.)
If their video chipsets are of similar quality, I'll be running in the opposite direction of any product that uses them.
[Gaming consoles having the capability to play DVDs] has, in essence, single handedly killed VHS
You don't think that the fact that standalone DVD players have dropped in price from $400 to as low as $50 over the past 5 years has anything to do with it?
At almost every stage, Nintendo had the better platform, but because of bonehead licensing, they never really got developers behind them.
Does the NES ring a bell to anyone anymore?
The Sega Master System was superior to Nintendo's 8-bit machine technically, but got trounced in the market. Why? Because just about every developer signed an exclusive license to develop for the NES. Sega only had themselves and a handful of third-parties. IOW, for most of the 1980's the exact opposite of your assertion regarding Nintendo was true.
There was a console market before Playstation, let's not forget that.
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The Bible doesn't say that pi is 3.0.
No, but there is an argument that 3.0 is a "Biblical" number, if unrelated to pi -- consider the perfectness of the Holy Trinity, and so forth.
And yet there are three BSDs mentioned...
YHBT. YHL. HANAFD.
You mean moricons.dll?
I was disappointed that despite the file name, none of the icons depicted composer Ennio Morricons...
Dude, up until a couple of years ago, you could hire a contractor to work on your house. Your agreement was with him. If the contractor did not pay HIS suppliers, the supplier could put a lean [sic] on your house. And it was LEGAL!
This is still the case most of the time, due to the peculiar circumstances of the supplier-contractor-purchaser working agreement. Any contractor worth their salt will agree to a waiver in the contract, absolving you of any liability in the case that they fail to give your money to the supplier.
What's left unspecified is the definition of "harm."
Lawyers and lawmakers understand specific connotations of the word 'harm' as it relates to commerce, even if we laypeople don't.
I think it's rather apparent that the my use of an alternate IP telephony company results in lost revenue for my ISP.
That's lost potential revenue. You're not depriving the ISP of anything they would have otherwise had an inalienable claim to.
I saw a letter to Dr. Dobbs recently that was saying that XML needed to have the ability to embed things like Visual Basic and javascript in it to be really useful.
Considering that all VB and Javascript source code is text-based, you can easily put some code into an XML document. But it's dumb to expect 'XML' to have any internal capability to execute those instructions.
XML is for storing data.
XSLT (and many, many other technologies) are for DOING THINGS to data, ie, code.
I didn't realize there were people subscribed to Dobbs that still don't understand the difference between code and data.
Wait, do people get lured into purchasing these printers by the low low "$XX.99" sale prices, or do they read the boxes for DMCA-related information and base their decisions on that? You've just tried to argue it both ways.
And it isn't even *slightly* deceptive to drop the cost of the lead in product and then force the purchase of specific stuff later. Not at ALL.
I hope you're not being sarcastic here, because I agree with this statement.
Printer ink cartridges are not interchangeable across products from different vendors, the way PCI cards and lightbulbs and even printer paper are. When you buy a certain brand of printer, you KNOW what you're getting into.
Lexmark printers are designed only to work with Lexmark ink carts, and it's not like it's a secret how much Lexmark cartridges cost. You have all the information upfront when deciding what kind of printer to buy. There's ABSOLUTELY nothing deceptive about this practice.
"please let this in some way be a joke"
Gee guys, the "It's funny. Laugh." tag wasn't enough of a tip off for you?
Sure, crystals have been used to lock frequencies forever...
I seem to recall my dad "overclocking" his IBM PC-XT by taking out the 8088 processor and replacing it with an NEC chip (Z20? I forget) that was similar to the Intel chip except for having a crystal that vibrated at a higher frequency (8-10MHz I think, vs. the 8088's 4.77MHz)
I was about 8 at the time though, so I may not know what I'm talking about.
Years ago I overclocked my Packard Bell 486-20 to 25MHz and killed it... then again with a Packard Bell, it could have died for any number of reasons.
This is why for some time now I've been advocating that Mac OS/X be ported to the x86 architecture. It's the only way Mac OS/X will be able to run on equal footing to Windows.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure Windows applications don't have to be shipped with two separate sets of binaries, with one being installed depending on which architecture you're running the OS on*.
(* okay, this may have been true back when MS was making an effort to keep NT running on Alpha chips, but I digress.)
Macs either move to the x86 architecture or they are dead.
The past NINETEEN years have already proven you wrong. Care to reconsider your stance?
What usually happens in this scenario is that parents remove the childs seats in blind panic and as a result 10x more kids are killed by seatbelts and not being in carseats than would have been killed by the carseats.
Post proof or retract. I call shenanigans, you probably pulled that "10x" figure out of thin air.
Tiny Ninja Macbeth > MacHomer
Because, as someone invariably mentions every time someone proposes content mirroring as a solution to The Slashdot Effect, the legality of such an action would be marginal at best. I don't think OSDN particularly wants to spend money on defending itself in copyright infringement lawsuits all the time.
Ad impressions for stories on a non-Slashdot site "belong" to the operators of that site, not to Slashdot. Mirroring a webpage would "steal" those ad impressions.
CRT's measure the total size of the picture tube, which is substantially larger then the viewable screen.
For the past 5 years at least, CRT vendors have usually included the measurements of both the entire picture tube and the viewable area.
So a 19" CRT (17.1" viewable) still has more usable screen area than a 17" LCD, and at 1/2 to 1/3 of the purchase price.
I'd rather deal with filtering the spam I get, than have to pay for sending email.
How many emails do you send per week? (Assume that work-related email doesn't count, because it's all either internal to the company network or paid for by the company). Personally, I'd be surprised if I wrote 30 personal emails per week.
Say the first 1000 emails in a given month are free. Very few legitimate email users would end up having to pay for their usage, but spamhauses would either have to pony up some cash or stop sending mail to people who they will never get a sale from.
And how much time are you willing to spend maintaining spam filters? That's attacking the symptom, not the problem. By the time spam gets to your filter, the costs of transporting it across the net have already accrued -- all you save is the inconvenience of having to see it.
No it's not!!
This is about BIDDING on ADVERTISING, not ADVERTISING for BIDs.
It's clear that the "advertisement" is an advertisement of an item up for bids on an online auction, such as ebay.
You read it wrong. The patent is on a system for allowing advertisers to bid on ad avails, and has nothing to do with the content of the advertisements.
If you really are a patent agent, thank you for proving to Slashdot that patent agents do indeed lack the comprehension skills necessary to evaluate technical patent applications.
DOS 4 was an exception
Also, almost no one actually ran DOS 4 or 4.01. Most people stuck with 3.3 until MS-DOS 5.0 was released.
The worst winmodem I ever had the misfortune to use was based on a Conexant chipset. (I really shouldn't have expected much from a 56K modem that cost $7 after rebate.)
If their video chipsets are of similar quality, I'll be running in the opposite direction of any product that uses them.
Why not just install rackmounting rails on the inside of a refrigerator? That's what I would do if I were stupid.
But they were missiles, right?
[Gaming consoles having the capability to play DVDs] has, in essence, single handedly killed VHS
You don't think that the fact that standalone DVD players have dropped in price from $400 to as low as $50 over the past 5 years has anything to do with it?
At almost every stage, Nintendo had the better platform, but because of bonehead licensing, they never really got developers behind them.
Does the NES ring a bell to anyone anymore?
The Sega Master System was superior to Nintendo's 8-bit machine technically, but got trounced in the market. Why? Because just about every developer signed an exclusive license to develop for the NES. Sega only had themselves and a handful of third-parties. IOW, for most of the 1980's the exact opposite of your assertion regarding Nintendo was true.
There was a console market before Playstation, let's not forget that.