You should use Winning Bid Pro [umklaydet.com] to do the last minute bidding for you. I use it all the time. Just set up the bid you are willing to make and have it send it in 10 seconds before the auction ends. That way you don't drive the price up ahead of time. Sometimes someone has a max bid higher than yours, or is using a bidding program the same as you and you get beat.
I always wondered why anyone would trust EBay auctioneers with large amounts of money.
Anyone that does a large transaction through eBay, and doesn't use an escrow service, is a dumbass and deserves to have their money stolen so they learn a valuable lesson.
Be failed to really develop themselves and build what is known as "mind share".
Correct. I do believe that is the point of this lawsuit. How do you develop mindshare in this market? You get people trying your OS. How do you get them to do that? You sell them machines with the software installed. Ahhhhh...
As entertaining as it might be to generate conspiracy theories that somehow the big evil M$ "kept them down", there are other more down-to-earth reasons why Be has always been doomed.
These are hardly conspiracy theories. They are well documented examples of a monopolist illegally providing barriers to entry. Case closed.
Linux squashed Be.
This comment makes no sense.
This is because Linux caught onto a market wave as it was happening (the open source movement).. Be tried to catch on to this as well but it was too little too late.
When did Be ever try to catch on to the open source movement?
I wouldn't go that far. AFAIK they still have stock holders and are trying to disolve the company. Some of the stockholders may not want any more money wasted and just liquidate what's left.
Wrong... as a stockholder for a long time, I can tell you the only thing we're holding on for is a lawsuit just like this. The only reason Be is suing now is to win money to try and give some money back to their shareholders.
No company can gp to Wall Street and say: I'm going to chop my annual revenues down from $8 billion to $500 million. Can you imagine what would happen to the Apple stock price if they announced this? It simply can't be done.
Give me a break. If that same company also said, our PROFITS will increase from $500 million to $1 billion, I don't give a damn about their revenues decreasing.
It's like saying amazon.com was always worth a lot of money because it has great revenues... too bad it didn't have any profits! Then you're paying for potential, instead of value.
If you compare DLP (which they use for projection) to 35mm, the 35mm print will have greater fine detail, better shadow detail, and look far better overall.
Have you ever seen a live action movie filmed in HD and projected with DLP?
Yep, but it's cheaper for the person trying to get their money back, if the amount owed is fairly small. You don't even need a lawyer if you have things documented well.
I can't stand these types of questions, but here's one answer:
It's like a webpad without the need to hold the screen in your hands. You lose the touch-screen capabilities, but it will probably be easy to scroll through pages of data.
If you don't understand why WebPad's are going to be cool, then go read some sci-fi or try using your imagination.
Later, we found out that our mailman had been stealing things from everybody's mailboxes at our apartment complex. There still wasn't anything I could do about it, though.
Actually, there's two things you can do about it. (1) The easiest would be to just chargeback the DVD's to Netflix, and put the onus on them to collect from the mailman, or (2) take the mailman to small claims court.
A few years back there was a game, I think it was called Virus or something like that. It would scan your directory structure and make a map for the FPS world based on that.
Looking at the web, I allways though it would be cool to make a game based on the same concept, but use web pages instead of your hard drive directory.
I always thought it would be cool if Quake became a user interface for an operating system. Just imagine, instead of encrypting your files, you would just put them in a room guarded by bad-ass monsters and surrounded by a moat of molten lava.
You could organize your files by rooms in your house. No wait -- you could have a filing cabinet in one of these rooms, filled with folders. In each folder you could have documents that you've 'created'. If you want to get rid of a document, just drop it in the 'waste basket.'
Apparently, the last thing it recorded was on Fox, and so it stayed on that channel. After a few seconds, I turned the TV off. As far as the TiVo is concerned, I watched the Superbowl from beginning to end, non-stop. Yeah, right.
You're assuming the guys at TiVo are stupid.
If I were them, I wouldn't count anyone as 'watching' the superbowl unless they interacted with their TiVo at least some of the time while it was on. Either pausing/rewinding/slow-mo/instant-replay stuff, or actually recording it and playing it later.
I seriously doubt they count someone as 'watching it' if they are (a) not recording it and (b) not hitting any buttons the entire time it's on.
(Yes, your TiVo also sends back all key-presses and at exactly what point you pressed them.)
I wonder if Handspring will continue software development/upgrades for their rumored end of life for the Visor Handheld. I'd like to see OS 5 on my Visor.
Since OS 5 runs on ARM, and your Visor doesn't, I, too, would dearly love to see OS 5 running on your Visor.
I know that's what scares me off from the TiVo, and yes I know that you can buy it without it.
Actually, you don't buy a tivo "with" or "without" it. You buy a TiVo. Then you get it home and you either use it like a regular VCR with a huge amount of space (without subscription), or you fork over a measily $10 a month to have the program guide info downloaded daily, which is what really enables TiVo to do all kinds of cool stuff.
But it's expensive without it
No, TiVo's are the same price whether you activate your service or not.
and they don't go out of their way to advertise that you can get it without the subscription.
So you're scared to buy something because they don't advertise it a certain way?
PVR makers: READ MY LIPS I DON'T WANT A FREAKING SUBSCRIPTION. Shoot your marketing "genuises" who think that lock-in is the way to big $$$$ and just give me a basic unit.
It's not "lock-in," it's called a SERVICE. For $10 a month, you are paying TiVo to provide all the correct channel guide info for your cable system, and to allow you to download it from their servers. They also have a lifetime subscription, which is like $200 something dollars.
TiVo has to make money. They aren't making it on the machines. With your way of thinking, they should just charge $200 more for the machine, and not have any per-month fees. What's the difference? Just buy a TiVo and buy the lifetime service.
And for those that are going to chime-in and say, my [non-TiVo] PVR doesn't charge a subscription fee! Well guess what -- they are going to make money in "other ways." I'll leave that to your imagination, but trust me, they aren't making much off the boxes... so what do you think they're going to do? Hmmmm...
The bandwidth is already available on the backbones. Shitloads of fiber running through the country. What we don't have is enough switch processing power.
With the Web it has taken ten years and counting to get this far. Idiot pumpers like Meaker and Blodget aside, Internet time runs at 1 for one with GMT at best.
People talking about Internet Time are usually talking about the fast-release cycles of software via the internet. The classic case was Netscape back in the early days.
I don't know anybody that refers to Internet Time when talking about hardware or new technology...
Slashdot Mirror
Tape the PDA to your spokes for that cool noise effect.
You should use Winning Bid Pro [umklaydet.com] to do the last minute bidding for you. I use it all the time. Just set up the bid you are willing to make and have it send it in 10 seconds before the auction ends. That way you don't drive the price up ahead of time. Sometimes someone has a max bid higher than yours, or is using a bidding program the same as you and you get beat.
Thanks for the tip! Nine seconds it is!
I always wondered why anyone would trust EBay auctioneers with large amounts of money.
Anyone that does a large transaction through eBay, and doesn't use an escrow service, is a dumbass and deserves to have their money stolen so they learn a valuable lesson.
I recall those same articles, but unlike you, I remember there being a lot of highly-rated responses that were also positive towards BeOS.
It's annoying when people generalize like you did.
Be failed to really develop themselves and build what is known as "mind share".
Correct. I do believe that is the point of this lawsuit. How do you develop mindshare in this market? You get people trying your OS. How do you get them to do that? You sell them machines with the software installed. Ahhhhh...
As entertaining as it might be to generate conspiracy theories that somehow the big evil M$ "kept them down", there are other more down-to-earth reasons why Be has always been doomed.
These are hardly conspiracy theories. They are well documented examples of a monopolist illegally providing barriers to entry. Case closed.
Linux squashed Be.
This comment makes no sense.
This is because Linux caught onto a market wave as it was happening (the open source movement).. Be tried to catch on to this as well but it was too little too late.
When did Be ever try to catch on to the open source movement?
Companies will do things like this after the game is over to try and get some nickels on the dollar for the VC's.
The VC's are out of the picture. The shareholders are the ones that will get the money (after the lawyers).
I wouldn't go that far. AFAIK they still have stock holders and are trying to disolve the company. Some of the stockholders may not want any more money wasted and just liquidate what's left.
Wrong... as a stockholder for a long time, I can tell you the only thing we're holding on for is a lawsuit just like this. The only reason Be is suing now is to win money to try and give some money back to their shareholders.
No company can gp to Wall Street and say: I'm going to chop my annual revenues down from $8 billion to $500 million. Can you imagine what would happen to the Apple stock price if they announced this? It simply can't be done.
Give me a break. If that same company also said, our PROFITS will increase from $500 million to $1 billion, I don't give a damn about their revenues decreasing.
It's like saying amazon.com was always worth a lot of money because it has great revenues... too bad it didn't have any profits! Then you're paying for potential, instead of value.
though of course sharks aren't fish
Ummm perhaps you're thinking of dolphins?
Holy shit. The funny post gets modded insightful, and the insightful post gets modded as funny.
Only on Valentine's Day?
If you compare DLP (which they use for projection) to 35mm, the 35mm print will have greater fine detail, better shadow detail, and look far better overall.
Have you ever seen a live action movie filmed in HD and projected with DLP?
Nope? I didn't think so.
Next...
(BTW, the AMC Theatre at Disney has a DLP...)
And of course, MS has known about this since december :-P
Perhaps that is why a patch is already available which fixes this problem? (And has been available for a while.)
Yep, but it's cheaper for the person trying to get their money back, if the amount owed is fairly small. You don't even need a lawyer if you have things documented well.
I can't stand these types of questions, but here's one answer:
It's like a webpad without the need to hold the screen in your hands. You lose the touch-screen capabilities, but it will probably be easy to scroll through pages of data.
If you don't understand why WebPad's are going to be cool, then go read some sci-fi or try using your imagination.
Later, we found out that our mailman had been stealing things from everybody's mailboxes at our apartment complex. There still wasn't anything I could do about it, though.
Actually, there's two things you can do about it. (1) The easiest would be to just chargeback the DVD's to Netflix, and put the onus on them to collect from the mailman, or (2) take the mailman to small claims court.
A few years back there was a game, I think it was called Virus or something like that. It would scan your directory structure and make a map for the FPS world based on that.
Looking at the web, I allways though it would be cool to make a game based on the same concept, but use web pages instead of your hard drive directory.
I always thought it would be cool if Quake became a user interface for an operating system. Just imagine, instead of encrypting your files, you would just put them in a room guarded by bad-ass monsters and surrounded by a moat of molten lava.
You could organize your files by rooms in your house. No wait -- you could have a filing cabinet in one of these rooms, filled with folders. In each folder you could have documents that you've 'created'. If you want to get rid of a document, just drop it in the 'waste basket.'
I think I'm on to something here.
Apparently, the last thing it recorded was on Fox, and so it stayed on that channel. After a few seconds, I turned the TV off. As far as the TiVo is concerned, I watched the Superbowl from beginning to end, non-stop. Yeah, right.
You're assuming the guys at TiVo are stupid.
If I were them, I wouldn't count anyone as 'watching' the superbowl unless they interacted with their TiVo at least some of the time while it was on. Either pausing/rewinding/slow-mo/instant-replay stuff, or actually recording it and playing it later.
I seriously doubt they count someone as 'watching it' if they are (a) not recording it and (b) not hitting any buttons the entire time it's on.
(Yes, your TiVo also sends back all key-presses and at exactly what point you pressed them.)
I wonder if Handspring will continue software development/upgrades for their rumored end of life for the Visor Handheld. I'd like to see OS 5 on my Visor.
Since OS 5 runs on ARM, and your Visor doesn't, I, too, would dearly love to see OS 5 running on your Visor.
Not meant as flamebait, but I think i'll wait for 1.0 all the same.
Which will just lengthen the amount of time until 1.0 is delivered.
...the entire article posted on slashdot is false.
How quaint.
Isn't ironic how all the minorities have to share the shortest month of the year..
lets see february is now Women's History Month
I know this will blow your geek mind, but there are actually more women in the world than men.
I know that's what scares me off from the TiVo, and yes I know that you can buy it without it.
Actually, you don't buy a tivo "with" or "without" it. You buy a TiVo. Then you get it home and you either use it like a regular VCR with a huge amount of space (without subscription), or you fork over a measily $10 a month to have the program guide info downloaded daily, which is what really enables TiVo to do all kinds of cool stuff.
But it's expensive without it
No, TiVo's are the same price whether you activate your service or not.
and they don't go out of their way to advertise that you can get it without the subscription.
So you're scared to buy something because they don't advertise it a certain way?
PVR makers: READ MY LIPS I DON'T WANT A FREAKING SUBSCRIPTION. Shoot your marketing "genuises" who think that lock-in is the way to big $$$$ and just give me a basic unit.
It's not "lock-in," it's called a SERVICE. For $10 a month, you are paying TiVo to provide all the correct channel guide info for your cable system, and to allow you to download it from their servers. They also have a lifetime subscription, which is like $200 something dollars.
TiVo has to make money. They aren't making it on the machines. With your way of thinking, they should just charge $200 more for the machine, and not have any per-month fees. What's the difference? Just buy a TiVo and buy the lifetime service.
And for those that are going to chime-in and say, my [non-TiVo] PVR doesn't charge a subscription fee! Well guess what -- they are going to make money in "other ways." I'll leave that to your imagination, but trust me, they aren't making much off the boxes... so what do you think they're going to do? Hmmmm...
I'll pay $10 a month for my TiVo, thanks.
The bandwidth is already available on the backbones. Shitloads of fiber running through the country. What we don't have is enough switch processing power.
while i enjoy cringley columns, his mangling of the bottom layers of the OSI model made me cringe (pun intended).
Your pun would be funnier if you spelled his name right.
With the Web it has taken ten years and counting to get this far. Idiot pumpers like Meaker and Blodget aside, Internet time runs at 1 for one with GMT at best.
People talking about Internet Time are usually talking about the fast-release cycles of software via the internet. The classic case was Netscape back in the early days.
I don't know anybody that refers to Internet Time when talking about hardware or new technology...