Abstract A mailing and response envelope for conveying an item from a sender to a recipient and back is disclosed. The envelope comprises a base panel, a sender address panel, and a recipient address panel. The sender address panel is affixed to the base panel by an adhesive region. The sender address panel and adhesive region define a pocket sized to accept an item. The adhesive region extends laterally on the base panel in an amount selected to ensure that a postal cancellation is not applied to an area overlying the item. The recipient address panel is joined to the base panel by a detachable joint. In this configuration, a fragile item may be conveyed from the sender to the recipient and from the recipient back to the sender without damage to the item.
Abstract According to a computer-implemented approach for renting items to customers, customers specify what items to rent using item selection criteria separate from deciding when to receive the specified items. According to the approach, customers provide item selection criteria to a provider provides the items indicated by the item selection criteria to customer over a delivery channel. The provider may be either centralized or distributed depending upon the requirements of a particular application. A "Max Out" approach allows up to a specified number of items to be rented simultaneously to customers. A "Max Turns" approach allows up to a specified number of item exchanges to occur during a specified period of time. The "Max Out" and "Max Turns" approaches may be used together or separately with a variety of subscription methodologies.
This has in my experience been proven unfounded with Yahoo, Google, eBay and slashdot as examples. Bring on the ads.
Those sites introduced unobtrusive ads relatively early in life. If Google put up interstitial ads (basically the web page equivalent of a commercial you watch before showing a video clip) everyone would be very annoyed. If eBay made you click through ads before seeing an item's detail they'd lose a lot of visitors. It's very important to introduce ads early and in a way that will alienate as few visitors as possible.
'Quickest Patch Ever'... for Microsoft. Linux distros have definitely had patches available within 48 hours of a security hole being found. IIRC the samba team once fixed a hole within 24 hours and it was in most of the big distros within another 24.
And isn't it sad that the quickest patch they ever release is for a hole no user cares about? More proof that MS cares more about their corporate friends than users.
Most people will only hear "HD-DVD doesn't work with your old monitor, so you need to get a new one." That won't piss them off as much as hearing that it can technically work but manufacturers have chosen to make it not work. People accept that new technology often means all new hardware, so they eventually will be inclined to upgrade.
This is not at all insightful. It's completely ignorant. First, you're assuming the way you use XP is perfectly typical, but it may not be. Second, you seem to be only thinking of home computers. XP has a huge distribution on corporate desktops and instability is most certainly common. No standard user application (accounting, word processing, database reporting, etc.) should be able to crash an OS. Application instability should be self-contained. Yet I've been able to easily crash XP using Word, Access, custom VB apps, and even browsing simple web pages. Corporate desktops are using XP in a far more intensive way then your torrent downloads. Because of XP's fragility one intranet web site hitting an IE bug can crash everyone's desktop interface.
Those who have experiences other than your own aren't trolls. Don't assume your own little world is typical. In this case it's most certainly not.
We do, but they have thousands of email accounts and simply sign up as new users over and over again with another email address each time. Unfortunately we have to allow URLs, emails, and phone numbers to be entered, so we can't simply block input with a simple regex.
I helped develop one of the largest websites in Europe (in terms of traffic and volume of content). Human spammers have been bypassing our CAPTCHA for a while now. We still keep the CAPTCHA to block most bots. The data input goes through a custom spam filter. These human spammers are trying to spread their URLs, email addresses, and phone numbers just like most spam, so this helps to a large extent. Anything that gets through that can be flagged as spam by users. On top of all that there's some human moderation by the business which owns the site.
So in the end spam filters can help but human moderation is still the only real working solution today.
The American public is just too distracted to care.
That's completely unfounded bullshit. I assume you come to this conclusion in one of the common ways: the government doesn't tell you of the millions of phone calls, emails, and letters they get from citizens and organizations who care, so you assume they don't get many; Bill O'Reilly and others broadcast that the public is in uproar over "the war against Christmas" and never mention what the public is actually thinking since they don't know.
The fact is only 2 things tell us what the general public is thinking: polls and votes. The largely inaccurate polls might tell us the president's approval rating is low, but tell us nothing of what the people actually want done. Voter turnout tells us that people think the candidates are too similar to make a vote matter, or there is no one running who they are interested in. If there were candidates who really stood out, were well spoken, and spoke to the heart of what most of the public is actually thinking there would be huge turnout and all of a suddon you'd think people really cared. It's a lack of options, not a lack of caring.
My small private university reported general attendance numbers. They simply reported a rough number of what they thought it was based on professor feedback. Then in my final year they required professors to take an accurate attendance count every time the class met.
I see lots of posts about why attendance shouldn't matter as long as students are learning the material. I completely agree. BUT what most people don't know is that attendance is required for state and federal funding. Even many private schools get funding from the government. For much of the money the schools must report on general class attendance. If fewer students go to classes the university gets less money. So there actually is reason (besides the education) that schools need high classroom attendance.
Actually it's pretty bad commenting. 60GB IPods contain hard disks, not flash. And an ipod isn't nearly as small as USB storage you can hang on your keychain.
Under Senate rules, unless the senator who placed the hold decides to lift it, the bill will not be brought up for a vote.
Any senator can anonymously hold any bill? So every Republican Senator can anonymously block any Democratic sponsored bill and vice versa? Somehow this doesn't sound right. Why, then, isn't every bill deadlocked?
Public mental health facilities (at least in the US) are very badly underfunded. As you say we should be treating this as a health issue. Yet mental health is never given any serious thought by most politicians. They seem to see it mostly as a mild thorn in society's side. And on top of that when a politician admits to their own mental health issues the media starts to talk about them like they're aliens. If we can't even talk about the problem intelligently nothing will ever change.
Slashdot Mirror
That URL is so obvious and easy to remember there was little need to post it.
Harrods used green vans. Netflix uses red envelopes. That's not at all the same business model.
I'd rather see them buried by the market than the legal system.
How would eliminating a competitor lead to lower prices??
For further reference, here are the patents:
6,966,484
Mailing and response envelope
Abstract
A mailing and response envelope for conveying an item from a sender to a recipient and back is disclosed. The envelope comprises a base panel, a sender address panel, and a recipient address panel. The sender address panel is affixed to the base panel by an adhesive region. The sender address panel and adhesive region define a pocket sized to accept an item. The adhesive region extends laterally on the base panel in an amount selected to ensure that a postal cancellation is not applied to an area overlying the item. The recipient address panel is joined to the base panel by a detachable joint. In this configuration, a fragile item may be conveyed from the sender to the recipient and from the recipient back to the sender without damage to the item.
7,024,381
Approach for renting items to customers
Abstract
According to a computer-implemented approach for renting items to customers, customers specify what items to rent using item selection criteria separate from deciding when to receive the specified items. According to the approach, customers provide item selection criteria to a provider provides the items indicated by the item selection criteria to customer over a delivery channel. The provider may be either centralized or distributed depending upon the requirements of a particular application. A "Max Out" approach allows up to a specified number of items to be rented simultaneously to customers. A "Max Turns" approach allows up to a specified number of item exchanges to occur during a specified period of time. The "Max Out" and "Max Turns" approaches may be used together or separately with a variety of subscription methodologies.
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This has in my experience been proven unfounded with Yahoo, Google, eBay and slashdot as examples. Bring on the ads.
Those sites introduced unobtrusive ads relatively early in life. If Google put up interstitial ads (basically the web page equivalent of a commercial you watch before showing a video clip) everyone would be very annoyed. If eBay made you click through ads before seeing an item's detail they'd lose a lot of visitors. It's very important to introduce ads early and in a way that will alienate as few visitors as possible.
'Quickest Patch Ever'... for Microsoft. Linux distros have definitely had patches available within 48 hours of a security hole being found. IIRC the samba team once fixed a hole within 24 hours and it was in most of the big distros within another 24.
And isn't it sad that the quickest patch they ever release is for a hole no user cares about? More proof that MS cares more about their corporate friends than users.
Your disc player will respond, "Bite my shiny metal ass."
Most people will only hear "HD-DVD doesn't work with your old monitor, so you need to get a new one." That won't piss them off as much as hearing that it can technically work but manufacturers have chosen to make it not work. People accept that new technology often means all new hardware, so they eventually will be inclined to upgrade.
Hell, I haven't had XP or 2000 crash in years.
Congratulations. Your experience is literally one in a few million. Myself, along with many thousands of others, have not had such luck.
This is not at all insightful. It's completely ignorant. First, you're assuming the way you use XP is perfectly typical, but it may not be. Second, you seem to be only thinking of home computers. XP has a huge distribution on corporate desktops and instability is most certainly common. No standard user application (accounting, word processing, database reporting, etc.) should be able to crash an OS. Application instability should be self-contained. Yet I've been able to easily crash XP using Word, Access, custom VB apps, and even browsing simple web pages. Corporate desktops are using XP in a far more intensive way then your torrent downloads. Because of XP's fragility one intranet web site hitting an IE bug can crash everyone's desktop interface.
Those who have experiences other than your own aren't trolls. Don't assume your own little world is typical. In this case it's most certainly not.
We do, but they have thousands of email accounts and simply sign up as new users over and over again with another email address each time. Unfortunately we have to allow URLs, emails, and phone numbers to be entered, so we can't simply block input with a simple regex.
I helped develop one of the largest websites in Europe (in terms of traffic and volume of content). Human spammers have been bypassing our CAPTCHA for a while now. We still keep the CAPTCHA to block most bots. The data input goes through a custom spam filter. These human spammers are trying to spread their URLs, email addresses, and phone numbers just like most spam, so this helps to a large extent. Anything that gets through that can be flagged as spam by users. On top of all that there's some human moderation by the business which owns the site.
So in the end spam filters can help but human moderation is still the only real working solution today.
The American public is just too distracted to care.
That's completely unfounded bullshit. I assume you come to this conclusion in one of the common ways: the government doesn't tell you of the millions of phone calls, emails, and letters they get from citizens and organizations who care, so you assume they don't get many; Bill O'Reilly and others broadcast that the public is in uproar over "the war against Christmas" and never mention what the public is actually thinking since they don't know.
The fact is only 2 things tell us what the general public is thinking: polls and votes. The largely inaccurate polls might tell us the president's approval rating is low, but tell us nothing of what the people actually want done. Voter turnout tells us that people think the candidates are too similar to make a vote matter, or there is no one running who they are interested in. If there were candidates who really stood out, were well spoken, and spoke to the heart of what most of the public is actually thinking there would be huge turnout and all of a suddon you'd think people really cared. It's a lack of options, not a lack of caring.
My small private university reported general attendance numbers. They simply reported a rough number of what they thought it was based on professor feedback. Then in my final year they required professors to take an accurate attendance count every time the class met.
You're right. Now that a comment with those words can be attributed to your username mdhoover will forever be synonymous with ass-hat and tard.
Damn! Now so will truthsearch! Son of a...
Is there any particular reason google isn't hosting the project themselves?
I see lots of posts about why attendance shouldn't matter as long as students are learning the material. I completely agree. BUT what most people don't know is that attendance is required for state and federal funding. Even many private schools get funding from the government. For much of the money the schools must report on general class attendance. If fewer students go to classes the university gets less money. So there actually is reason (besides the education) that schools need high classroom attendance.
Actually these stickers will be re-peeled.
(Sorry.)
If you can't read, write, or speak you shouldn't be in 8th grade.
Pretty bad editing.
Actually it's pretty bad commenting. 60GB IPods contain hard disks, not flash. And an ipod isn't nearly as small as USB storage you can hang on your keychain.
Under Senate rules, unless the senator who placed the hold decides to lift it, the bill will not be brought up for a vote.
Any senator can anonymously hold any bill? So every Republican Senator can anonymously block any Democratic sponsored bill and vice versa? Somehow this doesn't sound right. Why, then, isn't every bill deadlocked?
Public mental health facilities (at least in the US) are very badly underfunded. As you say we should be treating this as a health issue. Yet mental health is never given any serious thought by most politicians. They seem to see it mostly as a mild thorn in society's side. And on top of that when a politician admits to their own mental health issues the media starts to talk about them like they're aliens. If we can't even talk about the problem intelligently nothing will ever change.
Already done. No need to commit murder to get me to hide that stuff.