Very easy to use, trouble free. I've thought for years that this was the future of e-cash - would love to use it in supermarkets.
If theft is a big issue (and putting it on the keychain would mean that you would report it instantly if it's lost), requiring a PIN wouldn't make the experience much worse.
Plus they have those cool Pegasus and Tiger logos that light up when the Speedpass is accepted. Much better user interface than those damn supermarket card readers ("Press OK to approve, yes the GREEN OK button, no, swipe again please...")
and more Real execs get fired, until finally they figure out that crippled music won't sell. (And don't tell me that Apple proves it won't fail, fanboys - if Macheads bought the dreck they made in the Amelio days, they will buy anything. I should know, I'm the proud owner of a PowerBook 5300.)
i hope this is where this kind of bullshit compromizing ends
"I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further." -- Darth Vader
He's the Norton SystemWorks guy!
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Watch for the lawsuit, Mr. Scelson:
Scelson, who said he does not distribute mail containing pornography, said one of his biggest clients sells a package of anti-virus computer software called Norton SystemWorks at cut-rate prices.
Officials at Symantec Inc., which makes the Norton software, said in an interview that although they have not seen the package Scelson's client is selling, other similar offers that they have tracked down have proved to be counterfeit.
I get 1-2 Norton SystemWorks spams a day. If they're from this fucker, let's hope the Symantec people are able to find out where he lives, and sue him into oblivion.
Unless, I dunno, space aliens take away everyone's MP3 players and all copies of Winamp?
Seriously, Ogg is excellent, but the old "de facto standard" problem is huge. Unless the forces of evil somehow manage to ban MP3 or AAC due to patent concerns, I don't see users switching en masse.
It is official; Lawrence Lessig confirms: The internet is dying
Yet another crippling
bombshell hit the already beleaguered internet community when Lawrence Lessig confirmed that internet
market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of
all networks. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states
that the internet has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've
known all along. The internet is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by
falling dead last
in the recent Register comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to
be a Kreskin to predict the internet's
future. The hand writing is on the wall: the internet faces a bleak future. In fact there won't
be any future at all for the internet because the internet is dying. Things are looking very
bad for the internet. As many of us are already aware, the internet continues to lose market share. Red
ink flows like a river of blood.
UUNet is the most endangered of them all, having
lost 93% of its ISP customers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time
WorldCom exec Bernie Ebbers only serves to underscore the point
more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: the internet is dying.
Let's
keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Internet pundit Lawrence Lessig states that there
are 7000 readers of his blog. How many readers of The Register are there? Let's see. The number of
Register versus Lessig Blog posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are
about 7000/5 = 1400 Register users. K5 posts on Usenet are about half of the volume
of Register posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put
Slashdot at about 80 percent of the weblog market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 =
36400 Slashdot users. This is consistent with the number of Slashdot Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Jackson, Mississippi, securities fraud and so on, UUNet went out
of business and was taken over by WorldCom who were another troubled ISP. Now WorldCom
is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major
surveys show that the internet has steadily declined in market share. The internet is very sick and
its long term survival prospects are very dim. If the internet is to survive at all it will
be among hobbyists, dilettantes, and dabblers. The internet continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle
could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, the internet is dead.
these things are the bomb. Wet and dry alike, it cleans everything up (25 gallons worth!!). The Shop-Vac could probably vacuum up some of these robots.
And they're probably not reading slashdot, so in an era when three-martini lunches don't get expensed anymore, the WSJ is their last friend left in the world.
The jury is still out on Palm Source. It is far too early to consider it a success.
Exactly. Of course TheDeal.com thinks it's a success because some investment banker got paid for it. Once the deal is done, from the TheDeal.com reader's POV, who the fuck cares?
Slashdot Mirror
If theft is a big issue (and putting it on the keychain would mean that you would report it instantly if it's lost), requiring a PIN wouldn't make the experience much worse.
Plus they have those cool Pegasus and Tiger logos that light up when the Speedpass is accepted. Much better user interface than those damn supermarket card readers ("Press OK to approve, yes the GREEN OK button, no, swipe again please...")
Quit linking to bugzilla, you insensitive clod!
and more Real execs get fired, until finally they figure out that crippled music won't sell. (And don't tell me that Apple proves it won't fail, fanboys - if Macheads bought the dreck they made in the Amelio days, they will buy anything. I should know, I'm the proud owner of a PowerBook 5300.)
We know the consumers got nothing, but how many new BMWs are being bought with the settlement cash?
"I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further." -- Darth Vader
Scelson, who said he does not distribute mail containing pornography, said one of his biggest clients sells a package of anti-virus computer software called Norton SystemWorks at cut-rate prices. Officials at Symantec Inc., which makes the Norton software, said in an interview that although they have not seen the package Scelson's client is selling, other similar offers that they have tracked down have proved to be counterfeit.
I get 1-2 Norton SystemWorks spams a day. If they're from this fucker, let's hope the Symantec people are able to find out where he lives, and sue him into oblivion.
Update: Statistics now show that 25% of all Segways have been stolen.
It might, however, encourage adoption of alternative fuels by encouraging Hollywood stars to buy it.
Isn't it fun to explain how Linux has no standard for a freaking UI to your friends and family? No wonder even CmdrTaco has switched to OS X.
Does that mean in 1984 everything will look like baby poo?
As it was for DIVX. And we all know how many of those were recycled (hint - more than expected, since most of the discs were never bought!)
Seriously, Ogg is excellent, but the old "de facto standard" problem is huge. Unless the forces of evil somehow manage to ban MP3 or AAC due to patent concerns, I don't see users switching en masse.
RFC 3533 over RFC 1149! (perfect for those multi-year John Cage tunes)
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered internet community when Lawrence Lessig confirmed that internet market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all networks. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that the internet has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The internet is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by falling dead last in the recent Register comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict the internet's future. The hand writing is on the wall: the internet faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for the internet because the internet is dying. Things are looking very bad for the internet. As many of us are already aware, the internet continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
UUNet is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its ISP customers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time WorldCom exec Bernie Ebbers only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: the internet is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Internet pundit Lawrence Lessig states that there are 7000 readers of his blog. How many readers of The Register are there? Let's see. The number of Register versus Lessig Blog posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Register users. K5 posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Register posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put Slashdot at about 80 percent of the weblog market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Slashdot users. This is consistent with the number of Slashdot Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Jackson, Mississippi, securities fraud and so on, UUNet went out of business and was taken over by WorldCom who were another troubled ISP. Now WorldCom is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that the internet has steadily declined in market share. The internet is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If the internet is to survive at all it will be among hobbyists, dilettantes, and dabblers. The internet continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, the internet is dead.
Fact: the internet is dying
these things are the bomb. Wet and dry alike, it cleans everything up (25 gallons worth!!). The Shop-Vac could probably vacuum up some of these robots.
And they're probably not reading slashdot, so in an era when three-martini lunches don't get expensed anymore, the WSJ is their last friend left in the world.
Just like the typical slashdot reader!
Exactly. Of course TheDeal.com thinks it's a success because some investment banker got paid for it. Once the deal is done, from the TheDeal.com reader's POV, who the fuck cares?
"don't buy it if you don't like it." Movement or not, Linux and Windows are products. Use the one you prefer.
Or just use Mozilla Editor. Total cost: zero.
the dept. forgets to read YOU!
If I really wanted that experience I could always run winfile on Win98. Ick.
except, of course, on the days when the network goes on strike. (Just like the RATP.)
The Ask Slashdots just keep getting easier.
Duh.