I've said it once and I'll say it again: Any huge company on the web is bound to have a lot of people hate them even if they do almost everything right. You listed 9 sites that hate paypal, and I have to admit, it makes a convincing first look, but where are the 1 million sites by people who love paypal? Oh right, people who love things don't make websites about them, people who hate them do. 9 people in this case. And yes I know there are more, but come on, before you get impressed by those links, remember, those are 9 people who made websites. Want to count the number of sites that say Microsoft sucks and compare? How about linux?
Uhh, I know many people who have written computer books, and $2000 for a chapter is not too shabby at all. If the book becomes a huge massive hit then yes, not getting royalties would be too bad, but if you really expect a huge amount more than $2000 for one chapter of a computer book, I think you're aiming way too high.
The problem with this is..
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Mr Anti-Google
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People can theorize about Pagerank all they want and come up with 100 theories of why it's not correct and won't give you good results.. but guess what, that's all in theory, and in reality, Google gives amazing results. Pagerank will probably fall by the wayside in the years to come as more sophisticated algorhythms come along, but for now, it is ludicrous to suggest that it doesn't work, when you just have to search for anything on Google to see it's usefulness.
Also, this guy claims that Google keeps a record of what everyone searches for.. what proof does he have of this? That Google sends a cookie? That cookie is more likely than anything just used for tracking how often most people use the site, so they can create aggregate numbers of unique users, etc. Sure they could be tracking every search term, but why would they, think how much storage space that'd waste for no return. If the FBI ever wants to find out what this guy searches for, they'll just contact his ISP and have him monitored that way.
The comments on this topic are sort of nuts! Everyone who is defending Palm because you're a big fan of the company and see them as some poor little underdog who could never do anything wrong, please just read the article again, pretending Microsoft did this and give me your hypothetical reply to that.
Uhh just so you know, that's called a subscription. Which incidentally is something that actually COULD help them. If it was an option and they offered that. Oh but that might raise some criticism from the community, so forget that, let's just come up with some ideas like everyone gives them a dollar, that'll totally happen! Cause everyone would much rather just donate than receive something in return for their money, that's why profitable companies like Coke and McDonalds work on the donation model too!
Yeah, he probably meant inetd.conf, which I think still is nasty in redhat default
Re:Why buy a bad reputation?
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Because it would take them far more than 1.5 billion to gain the market dominance that Paypal has, and because Paypal only has a bad rep among a small percentage of internet users who reside on boards like this. Any huge company is going to have unhappy users, any huge financial one even moreso, just because you find a dozen unhappy stories (or one sides thereof) at paypalsucks doesn't mean the company is the sham it's portrayed as there.
Re:EBay and PayPal ... not my favorites
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Password compromising is actually very easy. How many times have you heard a story to the tune of, "A hacker broke into joe schmoo's ebay account and started bidding on the weirdest things the other day. It's a shame, now he's a deadbeat bidder."
I've never heard this, ever. And your claim about it being easy to get passwords.. do you have any backup on that?
The fees for transfering funds are outrageous.
Which fees are you refering to here? Paypal have great fees, it's just acouple of percent, no? Maybe I'm confused what you mean here.
Try the accurate-services place mentioned before, I phoned them yesterday and the guy was SUPER helpful, and their site is far more extensive than most independent apple retailers. Try them for sure!
Maybe not compusa, but this isn't about compusa, it's about smaller mac stores (every city has a few) who have been loyal to apple for years and are now being severely shafted by apple.
I'd agree with you if i hadn't expeirenced this myself. I phoned several apple stores yesterday and they all had imacs with NO waiting list. "we can hold one till the end of the day for you if you like" is what they told me. the article seems dubious but it's actually dead-on.
I have been trying to get an imac for the last week and NOONE has it, phone anyone. but guess what, every apple store i called did. Apple itself though, none, phone them and see, but every apple store in my area (there are 4 closish) has imacs. Outpost.com? nothing.
Re:OSX on X86.. It was called NeXTSTEP/OpenStep
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I think interface builder and projectbuilder are both on OSX though!
Also I haven't used them, but I have heard RealBasic (which I have used) for mac is also very similar, although it obviously would not be as powerful probably. It's an amazing environment to work in though!
Does anyone else feel bitter that their genuinely interesting stories get rejected, but this topic, which has been rehashed several times here and everywhere else, gets covered again for no real reason? Seems like an excuse for a big old flamefest, complete with tons of page/banner views to me.
yeah, it's great news, but that code is more rough than I imagined reading the story, but looks ok. the documentatoin is really awful right now though, but i'm sure someone will clean it up.
Well, there may not be a formula for making an extremely popular site, or the MOST popular site, but there definitely are certain guidelines that you can profit from immensely. Slashdot may not have struck out to create a large community, but it did, and now looking back you can easily pinpoint a lot of factors as to why this happened, and learn from them, and use them as guidelines. It's nice to say there is no formula, but really, a bit of formula does keep the baby happy.
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Oh my god, we'd be reading BOOKS?? I shudder to think!!
I've said it once and I'll say it again: Any huge company on the web is bound to have a lot of people hate them even if they do almost everything right. You listed 9 sites that hate paypal, and I have to admit, it makes a convincing first look, but where are the 1 million sites by people who love paypal? Oh right, people who love things don't make websites about them, people who hate them do. 9 people in this case. And yes I know there are more, but come on, before you get impressed by those links, remember, those are 9 people who made websites. Want to count the number of sites that say Microsoft sucks and compare? How about linux?
Uhh, I know many people who have written computer books, and $2000 for a chapter is not too shabby at all. If the book becomes a huge massive hit then yes, not getting royalties would be too bad, but if you really expect a huge amount more than $2000 for one chapter of a computer book, I think you're aiming way too high.
People can theorize about Pagerank all they want and come up with 100 theories of why it's not correct and won't give you good results.. but guess what, that's all in theory, and in reality, Google gives amazing results. Pagerank will probably fall by the wayside in the years to come as more sophisticated algorhythms come along, but for now, it is ludicrous to suggest that it doesn't work, when you just have to search for anything on Google to see it's usefulness.
Also, this guy claims that Google keeps a record of what everyone searches for.. what proof does he have of this? That Google sends a cookie? That cookie is more likely than anything just used for tracking how often most people use the site, so they can create aggregate numbers of unique users, etc. Sure they could be tracking every search term, but why would they, think how much storage space that'd waste for no return. If the FBI ever wants to find out what this guy searches for, they'll just contact his ISP and have him monitored that way.
Nah, I'm sure they posted it at least 5 times in the last 4 years!
Wow, an ad troll,sad.
Ah slashdot, the only place on earth where regexes are "cool" and a bad Weird Al-like parody of a Bob Dylan song is a "remix".
The comments on this topic are sort of nuts! Everyone who is defending Palm because you're a big fan of the company and see them as some poor little underdog who could never do anything wrong, please just read the article again, pretending Microsoft did this and give me your hypothetical reply to that.
What's a laundry machine!
Uhh just so you know, that's called a subscription. Which incidentally is something that actually COULD help them. If it was an option and they offered that. Oh but that might raise some criticism from the community, so forget that, let's just come up with some ideas like everyone gives them a dollar, that'll totally happen! Cause everyone would much rather just donate than receive something in return for their money, that's why profitable companies like Coke and McDonalds work on the donation model too!
umm.. noone? Arrogant back-patters maybe.
i'd love to hear your mysql config tips!!!!!!!
Yeah, he probably meant inetd.conf, which I think still is nasty in redhat default
Because it would take them far more than 1.5 billion to gain the market dominance that Paypal has, and because Paypal only has a bad rep among a small percentage of internet users who reside on boards like this. Any huge company is going to have unhappy users, any huge financial one even moreso, just because you find a dozen unhappy stories (or one sides thereof) at paypalsucks doesn't mean the company is the sham it's portrayed as there.
Password compromising is actually very easy. How many times have you heard a story to the tune of, "A hacker broke into joe schmoo's ebay account and started bidding on the weirdest things the other day. It's a shame, now he's a deadbeat bidder."
I've never heard this, ever. And your claim about it being easy to get passwords.. do you have any backup on that?
The fees for transfering funds are outrageous.
Which fees are you refering to here? Paypal have great fees, it's just acouple of percent, no? Maybe I'm confused what you mean here.
no, shuffling in one album means you hear random songs from one album. the other oen means you hear random songs from ANY album.
Try the accurate-services place mentioned before, I phoned them yesterday and the guy was SUPER helpful, and their site is far more extensive than most independent apple retailers. Try them for sure!
Maybe not compusa, but this isn't about compusa, it's about smaller mac stores (every city has a few) who have been loyal to apple for years and are now being severely shafted by apple.
I'd agree with you if i hadn't expeirenced this myself. I phoned several apple stores yesterday and they all had imacs with NO waiting list. "we can hold one till the end of the day for you if you like" is what they told me. the article seems dubious but it's actually dead-on.
I have been trying to get an imac for the last week and NOONE has it, phone anyone. but guess what, every apple store i called did. Apple itself though, none, phone them and see, but every apple store in my area (there are 4 closish) has imacs. Outpost.com? nothing.
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The fact it's fixed doesn't matter to me though: if they missed something THIS basic, what else are they missing?
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