What I'd love to see is a law instituted that requires any SPAM to have a very specific header and footer, or some kind of wrapper that would allow me to filter out spam and/or bounce it back to the sender, with a 'no such recipient' mail. This, in addition to the law this story is about, would effectively allow me to never have to see spam again. Just an idea.
According to this page, you have to contact one of their service providers to find out if there's an additional charge. Being that their prices in general are pretty f'ing high, I wouldn't be surprised it doubled the cost per month. Just a g
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On the other side of the spectrum, there's PINE. PINE (pine is not elm) is a great unix based mail program, and every pine tree I know loves it, because the tree knows that each e-mail sent is potentially one less paper mail. The less paper mail that gets sent, the less trees get chopped down, which extends the life of the pine tree.
MacOS X can run OmniWeb, IE, Netscape, Mozilla, iCab, Opera, Lynx, and anything else that you can compile (with a little work). How's that less than Linux? Not trying to flame, just curious.
My question is what can we do as a group to change the perceptions and misconceptions that judges specifically, and courts in general have toward open source licensing. This industry has grown up telling us all that almost everything belongs to someone. How can we turn over a new leaf and bring into fruition the thought that yes, we can share, that it's OK to share?
I've tried to find some independent local providers here in Atlanta and failed miserably to turn up anything worthwhile.
Having said this, if you become successful, please don't sell your business to the first corporation who comes along and offers to buy you out.
Grow your business at a reasonable pace.
Don't keep changing the "focus" of your business or your "target audience".
It terrifies me that I don't have much of a choice in who services me anymore.
Do I want a fast connection? Yes. Ooooooh yippie, you mean I can choose from TWO providers?! Wow. Do I want a static IP? Great, that limits me to.... one.
Above all else, try to make your customers happy. If you're being completely swamped with complaints, you're doing something wrong.
If a customer has to wait on hold for 3 hours to get something fixed, you're doing something wrong.
Don't become to egocentric. If you do succeed, remember that it's your customers who put you there, try to treat them with respect.
I long for the days when customer service was customer SERVICE, not "let's give them the runaround until they hang up because they don't have a choice anyway"
I always thought that I had been lucky to have so many BBS's to choose from when I was a youngster living in St. Louis. Looking at that list of the 314 area code, I can see there were more BBS's in Missouri than almost anywhere else.
Having gone through the list of over 1700 boards, I found quite a few who's names I had forgotten over the years and desperately tried to remember. Brought back a lot of fond memories of my start in the online community.
There's still a list maintained in St. Louis of active BBS's, both dial-up and telnet. It's been maintained since the early days by the same good folks at Fire Escape's BBS.
I moved away years ago, but it's still fun to occasionally telnet into a BBS where I used to spend way too much time playing online games.
You're right. This happens regardless of the medium that's been reviewed, analyzed, folded, spindled or mutilated. The only person who will ever know what was meant was the creator of said piece of work. Even then, sometimes he or she may not even know, and it'll just be what it is.
I think sometimes things take on a life of their own, and our input into the work is just a means to the end, where we really had no idea that the end would turn up as it did.
Sometimes when drawing or painting my mind will be a complete blank. I'm not always thinking that "this X needs to be more like N because of Y". Even when writing. The words sometimes flow out without my thinking much about them. I can look back at things I wrote 10 years ago and be uncertain whether that was really me who wrote that or someone else.
Doesn't this sort of... meditative for lack of a better word, art ever happen to anyone else?
Ok, it's not a surprise I'm having trouble finding a job, I can't even remember to close an href. What I meant to say was that "... as is evident by fuckedcompany.com
Ok, it's not a surprise I'm having trouble finding a job, I can't even remember to close an href. What I meant to say was that "... as is evident by fuckedcompany.com"
I mean as far as ring tones go, it's much easier to manually duplicate a series of tones.
It's not quite the same as the issue of a full blown song and trying to replicate that from scratch, or is it? If it is copyright infringement to download a ring tone, is it also copyright infringement to display a list of numbers to press and save that will "sound just like" a popular song? Additionally, would it also be copyright infringement for me to attempt to duplicate a song without directions, merely pressing keys to a song in my head that I know exists?
As far as she knows, she's the first one in the state of California to do this. On principal and to set a precedent, I would venture to say that it was worth her time.
Would it make sense to go after every spammer who spams you? Probably not. Between court fees and missed work, it would add up to more than it's worth (in my case, anyway). You're also right in that it usually is terribly difficult to track down who is doing the spamming.
If every company that spammed me went out of business. I'm not asking for it to be immediate. Let them spam me a few times and spend a lot of money on obtaining lists with names on them. Then I'll watch them crumble.
Kozmo did provide me with good service when I used them, so I didn't mind the spam too much. What I despise the most is unsolicited spam.
This already exists. As a matter of fact it goes from 90 to 0 in less than a second. Any car as a matter of fact can do that, if run into a steel reinforced brick wall.
Excellent point banuaba, moderators please mod this up.
Let me add, the reason I still buy vinyl and compact discs is because I want the artwork on the cover, on the inside, i want the liner notes, i want the lyrics if they are printed, I want all of this information which would be rather difficult to package in a smaller medium. Sure, I'd love to buy something smaller and more convenient, and probably would support a format like this. However, I'd still buy the other medium as well. But then, maybe that's the RIAA's point. They know that we want the best of both worlds, and figure that there are enough music enthusiasts to make it worth their time and marketing effort.
I already pay a monthly fee to get access to this content. It's that little monthly fee that the broadband provider charges me.
I'm not willing to spend even more of my money to access additional information. I don't like pay sites. Never have, never will. I've always been able to find the information somewhere else.
I'm sure there's a solution out there that would benefit all parties involved, but additional fees are going to turn off a lot of people. Just look at Napster.
Don't forget that this was filed almost 4 years ago, it's just that they've finally been awarded the patent. What might have made them money long ago, may hold absolutely no consequence in today's industry.
No, it's not surprising. However, I think that Apple is slowly moving in the right direction as far as licensing goes. I say just give it some time. Apple is wary of making leaps that are too large as they are afraid it may bite them in the ass (like the new "flowerpower" imac inevitably will). I can't say that I quite understand all of Jobs' reality distortion field.
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What I'd love to see is a law instituted that requires any SPAM to have a very specific header and footer, or some kind of wrapper that would allow me to filter out spam and/or bounce it back to the sender, with a 'no such recipient' mail. This, in addition to the law this story is about, would effectively allow me to never have to see spam again. Just an idea.
uess. :)
According to this page, you have to contact one of their service providers to find out if there's an additional charge. Being that their prices in general are pretty f'ing high, I wouldn't be surprised it doubled the cost per month. Just a g
On the other side of the spectrum, there's PINE. PINE (pine is not elm) is a great unix based mail program, and every pine tree I know loves it, because the tree knows that each e-mail sent is potentially one less paper mail. The less paper mail that gets sent, the less trees get chopped down, which extends the life of the pine tree.
MacOS X can run OmniWeb, IE, Netscape, Mozilla, iCab, Opera, Lynx, and anything else that you can compile (with a little work). How's that less than Linux? Not trying to flame, just curious.
That's incorrect. Diablo II can be played on a Mac.
My question is what can we do as a group to change the perceptions and misconceptions that judges specifically, and courts in general have toward open source licensing. This industry has grown up telling us all that almost everything belongs to someone. How can we turn over a new leaf and bring into fruition the thought that yes, we can share, that it's OK to share?
I've tried to find some independent local providers here in Atlanta and failed miserably to turn up anything worthwhile.
Having said this, if you become successful, please don't sell your business to the first corporation who comes along and offers to buy you out.
Grow your business at a reasonable pace.
Don't keep changing the "focus" of your business or your "target audience".
It terrifies me that I don't have much of a choice in who services me anymore.
Do I want a fast connection? Yes. Ooooooh yippie, you mean I can choose from TWO providers?! Wow. Do I want a static IP? Great, that limits me to.... one.
Above all else, try to make your customers happy. If you're being completely swamped with complaints, you're doing something wrong.
If a customer has to wait on hold for 3 hours to get something fixed, you're doing something wrong.
Don't become to egocentric. If you do succeed, remember that it's your customers who put you there, try to treat them with respect.
I long for the days when customer service was customer SERVICE, not "let's give them the runaround until they hang up because they don't have a choice anyway"
I always thought that I had been lucky to have so many BBS's to choose from when I was a youngster living in St. Louis. Looking at that list of the 314 area code, I can see there were more BBS's in Missouri than almost anywhere else.
Having gone through the list of over 1700 boards, I found quite a few who's names I had forgotten over the years and desperately tried to remember. Brought back a lot of fond memories of my start in the online community.
There's still a list maintained in St. Louis of active BBS's, both dial-up and telnet. It's been maintained since the early days by the same good folks at Fire Escape's BBS.
I moved away years ago, but it's still fun to occasionally telnet into a BBS where I used to spend way too much time playing online games.
Quasix... semix, dietix, hmmm. beginning to sound like an operating system that Asterix and Obelix would use...
You're right. This happens regardless of the medium that's been reviewed, analyzed, folded, spindled or mutilated. The only person who will ever know what was meant was the creator of said piece of work. Even then, sometimes he or she may not even know, and it'll just be what it is.
I think sometimes things take on a life of their own, and our input into the work is just a means to the end, where we really had no idea that the end would turn up as it did.
Sometimes when drawing or painting my mind will be a complete blank. I'm not always thinking that "this X needs to be more like N because of Y". Even when writing. The words sometimes flow out without my thinking much about them. I can look back at things I wrote 10 years ago and be uncertain whether that was really me who wrote that or someone else.
Doesn't this sort of... meditative for lack of a better word, art ever happen to anyone else?
Ok, it's not a surprise I'm having trouble finding a job, I can't even remember to close an href. What I meant to say was that "... as is evident by fuckedcompany.com
Ok, it's not a surprise I'm having trouble finding a job, I can't even remember to close an href. What I meant to say was that "... as is evident by fuckedcompany.com"
I work about 0 hours a week at my last job. Layoffs are a bitch as is evident by . I've been out of work two weeks now and the job market sure isn't what it was a year and a half ago. Pretty soon I may have to start reverse-spamming the spammers asking them if they need any help.
I mean as far as ring tones go, it's much easier to manually duplicate a series of tones.
It's not quite the same as the issue of a full blown song and trying to replicate that from scratch, or is it? If it is copyright infringement to download a ring tone, is it also copyright infringement to display a list of numbers to press and save that will "sound just like" a popular song? Additionally, would it also be copyright infringement for me to attempt to duplicate a song without directions, merely pressing keys to a song in my head that I know exists?
As far as she knows, she's the first one in the state of California to do this. On principal and to set a precedent, I would venture to say that it was worth her time.
Would it make sense to go after every spammer who spams you? Probably not. Between court fees and missed work, it would add up to more than it's worth (in my case, anyway). You're also right in that it usually is terribly difficult to track down who is doing the spamming.
If every company that spammed me went out of business. I'm not asking for it to be immediate. Let them spam me a few times and spend a lot of money on obtaining lists with names on them. Then I'll watch them crumble.
Kozmo did provide me with good service when I used them, so I didn't mind the spam too much. What I despise the most is unsolicited spam.
Something tells me that if you slam into a brick wall at 90 mph, odds are you're not going to get a traffic ticket ;)
This already exists. As a matter of fact it goes from 90 to 0 in less than a second. Any car as a matter of fact can do that, if run into a steel reinforced brick wall.
Excellent point banuaba, moderators please mod this up.
Let me add, the reason I still buy vinyl and compact discs is because I want the artwork on the cover, on the inside, i want the liner notes, i want the lyrics if they are printed, I want all of this information which would be rather difficult to package in a smaller medium. Sure, I'd love to buy something smaller and more convenient, and probably would support a format like this. However, I'd still buy the other medium as well. But then, maybe that's the RIAA's point. They know that we want the best of both worlds, and figure that there are enough music enthusiasts to make it worth their time and marketing effort.
I already pay a monthly fee to get access to this content. It's that little monthly fee that the broadband provider charges me.
I'm not willing to spend even more of my money to access additional information. I don't like pay sites. Never have, never will. I've always been able to find the information somewhere else.
I'm sure there's a solution out there that would benefit all parties involved, but additional fees are going to turn off a lot of people. Just look at Napster.
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Don't forget that this was filed almost 4 years ago, it's just that they've finally been awarded the patent. What might have made them money long ago, may hold absolutely no consequence in today's industry.
No, it's not surprising. However, I think that Apple is slowly moving in the right direction as far as licensing goes. I say just give it some time. Apple is wary of making leaps that are too large as they are afraid it may bite them in the ass (like the new "flowerpower" imac inevitably will). I can't say that I quite understand all of Jobs' reality distortion field.