I don't see how it is hard to catch them. Usually they are advertising some business. Why not go to the business and fine them for spamming? I'm sure rather than paying a fine the business will point the finger at the responsible persons who are doing the spamming. It doesn't seem like it is all that difficult to get to the bottom of it.
I guess the new Visors have the ability to mask private records because that is the option I am using now on my Visor Platinum.
I bought my Visor because I like the idea of Springboard modules. If you go out an look at the Springboard modules available, maybe you'd see that there is alot more to them than extra storage space.
When I hear the term "webpad", I think of a bigger verson of a Palm or Handspring device running Mozilla and verious other software with a beefed up verson of X that allows for direct input via stylus or maybe even voice recognition. This thing Gateway is pushing (I hear they are dropping it) is just an AOL terminal from what I can see.
I am a Visor owner and love it. It's replaced my newspaper or magazine on my morning treks to the restroom thanks to Avantgo. As soon as someone develops a wireless ethernet Springboard module I will evolve into a super cyber being as I will be able to roam freely and access anything whenever I want.
I was kind of hoping for a nice magazine size "pad" that would allow me to surf, send mail, read news, and everything else internet related without needing to use a keyboard or mouse for input. I remember seeing them when Crusoe first came out. What happened? Is this AOL terminal it? I am depressed.
Let's say on my web site I have some MP3 of my own band doing covers or parodies. Copyright.net gets my ISP to shut me down because there was a file called pretty_woman.mp3 on it. As a result my site is down for several days while I do who knows what to prove I am not ripping off a dead guy's old lady. I would imagine I would be able to sue copyright.net for this.
We have games like this. Everquest, Asherons Call, Ultima Online, Dark Ages of Camelot (beta), and many more to come. These games take cooperation and team efforts to do the fun stuff. Sadly, none of these are on the Mac or any other platform.
With a Linux PDA what will you get? A PDA with themes so users can make their PDA look just like Palm or just like CE?
What will the selling point of this new PDA be? More apps because there are more available languages. Ooh, I can run over 10,000 shitty perl, tcl, java, python, insert your favorite shell script, insert your favorite language here apps to track my kids birthdates on my Linux PDA, how many can you run? Only 100? Haha, Palm sux0rs, Hail Linux!
I worked for Cotelligent and we would receive "threats" from the CEO not to post on Yahoo message boards and that CGZ was going to take legal action against those posters for driving the stock down. I thought it was an attempt at the CEO to pass the blame on others for the crappy stock prices rather than to take responsibility for his own actions. They spent something like $6M to build some WAP technology on a discontinued Nokia phone. After a few months they backed out but the money was gone. Sure, some employees and shareholders bitched about it on Yahoo but we weren't the folks who made the stupid investment to begin with.
I already spent my $2500 on an HDTV and nothing looks better on it than a VHS copy of something I taped off Cinemax for later viewing. But even if I could make a high quality recording, there's only so many times you can watch quality movies like Space Truckers and Ice Pirates. I don't even see that big a market for good copies of blockbusters. I think the only movies that people are going to want to pirate are those that have not been released yet. Check out the IRC and see what I mean. Those movies are the ones people are after. Once something is released for cable or rental who needs it. If I can rent it for 1-2 bucks why spend money on disk storage.
I for one (Windows user) will not look at anything with the Real link. That POS viewer adds so much crap to my taskbar, startup, and system tray that I almost need to increase my RAM to justify having it. Not to mention when they have an update everything blinks. In my opinion Media Player is best for me, but I also like Quicktime. However, I have a problem with Apple putting their Quicktime icon in my quick start bar. Who the hell ever launches a media player and does a file open? We click on the actual content we want to view. You'd think Apple would undestand this concept, hell, didn't they claim to invent it?
The teacher should be punished for raising the challenge. Let's change the scenario a bit. Had the school installed state of the art metal detectors and security systems and made a comment challenging a student to sneak a weapon into the school I don't think that teacher would be around much longer. On the otherhand, I would hope a student would be bright enough not to take the comment seriously as it would be highly illegal.
Any well done D&D movie would have to be 2 hours of everyone re-rolling their character to get the stats they wanted. This is apparantly what you get when you go with your fisrt roll.
Lets see, what could happen in Home Depot with stoners working there? A little song from MST 3K comes to mind.
"They tried to kill me with a fork lift... Ole!"
While it is possible someone might tax the air we breathe, these folks might get a little upset with that.
http://www.theonion.com/onion3542/bluegreenalgae_i po.html:)
Microsoft was fair though and gave those who subscribed a free upgrade to version 5. This isn't what is happening with Office 10 though. Re-read the posts.
I am hoping this model doesn't work for them. Otherwise we'll see it be applied to their operating systems. Imagine going to boot your PC and getting a message that your subscription is expired and that's that.
I am hoping for an Office alternative (I know there are some out there but face it they SUCK.) Office is easy, Office is intuitive. Why can't these Open Source alternatives be that way?
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I don't see how it is hard to catch them. Usually they are advertising some business. Why not go to the business and fine them for spamming? I'm sure rather than paying a fine the business will point the finger at the responsible persons who are doing the spamming. It doesn't seem like it is all that difficult to get to the bottom of it.
I bought my Visor because I like the idea of Springboard modules. If you go out an look at the Springboard modules available, maybe you'd see that there is alot more to them than extra storage space.
I am a Visor owner and love it. It's replaced my newspaper or magazine on my morning treks to the restroom thanks to Avantgo. As soon as someone develops a wireless ethernet Springboard module I will evolve into a super cyber being as I will be able to roam freely and access anything whenever I want.
I was kind of hoping for a nice magazine size "pad" that would allow me to surf, send mail, read news, and everything else internet related without needing to use a keyboard or mouse for input. I remember seeing them when Crusoe first came out. What happened? Is this AOL terminal it? I am depressed.
I'd send them a ziplock bag containing 500 Frankenberries if I were him.
Let's say on my web site I have some MP3 of my own band doing covers or parodies. Copyright.net gets my ISP to shut me down because there was a file called pretty_woman.mp3 on it. As a result my site is down for several days while I do who knows what to prove I am not ripping off a dead guy's old lady. I would imagine I would be able to sue copyright.net for this.
We have games like this. Everquest, Asherons Call, Ultima Online, Dark Ages of Camelot (beta), and many more to come. These games take cooperation and team efforts to do the fun stuff. Sadly, none of these are on the Mac or any other platform.
I agree. But not only could it be God's creative signature but also an "easter egg" left in our programming to baffle scientists for millenia.
With a Linux PDA what will you get? A PDA with themes so users can make their PDA look just like Palm or just like CE? What will the selling point of this new PDA be? More apps because there are more available languages. Ooh, I can run over 10,000 shitty perl, tcl, java, python, insert your favorite shell script, insert your favorite language here apps to track my kids birthdates on my Linux PDA, how many can you run? Only 100? Haha, Palm sux0rs, Hail Linux!
Mephisto's 7 assed turtle?
I worked for Cotelligent and we would receive "threats" from the CEO not to post on Yahoo message boards and that CGZ was going to take legal action against those posters for driving the stock down. I thought it was an attempt at the CEO to pass the blame on others for the crappy stock prices rather than to take responsibility for his own actions. They spent something like $6M to build some WAP technology on a discontinued Nokia phone. After a few months they backed out but the money was gone. Sure, some employees and shareholders bitched about it on Yahoo but we weren't the folks who made the stupid investment to begin with.
I already spent my $2500 on an HDTV and nothing looks better on it than a VHS copy of something I taped off Cinemax for later viewing. But even if I could make a high quality recording, there's only so many times you can watch quality movies like Space Truckers and Ice Pirates. I don't even see that big a market for good copies of blockbusters. I think the only movies that people are going to want to pirate are those that have not been released yet. Check out the IRC and see what I mean. Those movies are the ones people are after. Once something is released for cable or rental who needs it. If I can rent it for 1-2 bucks why spend money on disk storage.
I for one (Windows user) will not look at anything with the Real link. That POS viewer adds so much crap to my taskbar, startup, and system tray that I almost need to increase my RAM to justify having it. Not to mention when they have an update everything blinks. In my opinion Media Player is best for me, but I also like Quicktime. However, I have a problem with Apple putting their Quicktime icon in my quick start bar. Who the hell ever launches a media player and does a file open? We click on the actual content we want to view. You'd think Apple would undestand this concept, hell, didn't they claim to invent it?
Jeeze, where have these guys been? Drizzt Do'Urden has been doing this since he was 12 years old.
The teacher should be punished for raising the challenge. Let's change the scenario a bit. Had the school installed state of the art metal detectors and security systems and made a comment challenging a student to sneak a weapon into the school I don't think that teacher would be around much longer. On the otherhand, I would hope a student would be bright enough not to take the comment seriously as it would be highly illegal.
Damn, when I was kindergarted we only got to Disneyland and by the time I was 10 we had moved to Mississippi and my life was basically over.
Any well done D&D movie would have to be 2 hours of everyone re-rolling their character to get the stats they wanted. This is apparantly what you get when you go with your fisrt roll.
Lets see, what could happen in Home Depot with stoners working there? A little song from MST 3K comes to mind. "They tried to kill me with a fork lift... Ole!"
I wonder if the Wonder Twins, Zan and Jan and Jayna had one on their home planet Exxor? Gleek not on the Omniputer!
While it is possible someone might tax the air we breathe, these folks might get a little upset with that. http://www.theonion.com/onion3542/bluegreenalgae_i po.html :)
Microsoft was fair though and gave those who subscribed a free upgrade to version 5. This isn't what is happening with Office 10 though. Re-read the posts. I am hoping this model doesn't work for them. Otherwise we'll see it be applied to their operating systems. Imagine going to boot your PC and getting a message that your subscription is expired and that's that. I am hoping for an Office alternative (I know there are some out there but face it they SUCK.) Office is easy, Office is intuitive. Why can't these Open Source alternatives be that way?