I have a problem with your logic... specifically with b).
A condition of keeping the domain you registered should not be that you never profit by it. After all, that is exactly what Nissan is trying to do with it. If a company wants to pick a common sir-name for their name (and they benifit greatly when they do), they must accept that other people will use it as well, with or without their knowledge and consent.
If I remember correctly, it was 300 million little $1 checks.:-)
But seriously, I would have done the same thing. The memory of Netscape v. MS was fresh in everyone's minds, and you can do a lot more good to a lot more people with the money.
According to Best Buy's statements, extended warranties are their MOST profitable product. (which anyone should have guessed from how much they push them)
To get them to shut up about it, I usually ask "Well, if there really is such a high risk of failure that I need to spend $40 on a warranty for a $200 system, maybe I should rethink buying the (what must be crap) $200 system?" It's a funny look on their faces...;)
I do believe you're remembering this incorrectly. Yes, H20 will be the result of burning H2 and O2, but it'll be in the form of water vapor, not a liquid.
Also, remember that H2O expands something like 500+ times in volume when turning into a gas. That would have had to be one helluva balloon to make a "crapload" of water.
Actually, the "free" energy is taken directly from the rotational inertia of the earth itself. So this would slightly increase the length of our day, but only VERY VERY slightly. When you consider the mass of the earth and how fast it spins, you could power all of humanity for much longer then you could imagine before the earth's day was noticably different.
Also, the earth's rotational speed changes gradually anyway...
Novell Netware's FS worked almost exactly like this. It was a wonderful feature. I don't understand why more implementations have taken this into consideration...
he's trying to put a hole in their business model? and try proving it should be free? is this guy on crack?
no hole, because it's only within 1500' of his base, and he's not parked outside the starbucks all the time.
and to prove a business should offer it for free? how much money did he spend? how much time did he spend? what business is going to invest that for a guaranteed no return?
don't get me wrong, i think businesses would do well to offer value-add services like wireless internet inside their stores free-of-charge just like they do restrooms. I think starbuck's plan will go the way of the pay-toilet. but this guy is going about demonstrating it the wrong way.
Even if it was something trivial, they still would repair it. In fact, they're required to keep open databases about such things. http://www.alldata.com/
And I would hardly call this a rare chance. All someone has to do is return a document after opening it. That is VERY common in the business world.
"Analyst Laura DiDio of the Yankee Group said companies are taking a risk by using such old software..."
Insane. You know, if Isuzu discovered a fatal flaw in all Rodeos going back through 1997 yet announced they were only going to provide fixes for models '00, '01 and '02 there would be a congressional investigation.
Completely insane.
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"the pictures are loading slowly for me via the Google caches"
It does sound to me that he didn't know google doesn't cache the images...
I wasn't trying to put him down or anything. Knowing how Google's cache works doesn't make you any more or less of a man.:)
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google caches the html, not the images... just FYI
The flow of the text is reversed, but not the letters themselves. So if you look at this site in the mirror, the letters will all be in the correct order, but themselves appear reversed.
You are still paying a very high price for the software, it's just rolled into your tuition costs. It's really quite underhanded, considering you cannot opt-out.
I worked for a year and a 1/2 on a project designed to replace the DMS-100 provisioning and configuration systems. I can tell you that those systems are complex in the extreme to set up correctly. I knew people who had worked with them for 20 years and still had questions about how they worked. It's not through Sprint's stupidity that they were hackable, it is a by-product of overly complex system engineering.
This is a common problem in this industry. Having complex systems when you're the defacto standard makes a great revenue stream in your consulting and training systems, but kills the reliability of said systems. Nortel/Cisco/IBM never take the fall for it however, because they can just say "well, you didn't configure it right" and Sprint/etc can't even argue - it would take 2 years and 10 consultants to even find out.
It was for IBM, and placed directly after the story text before the comments section. Not too intrusive, since that tends to be dead space anyway (unless the article is long).
It's disappointing though./. usually has ads I find USEFUL, but this was the plain vanilla IBM (e)-business ad you find on news.com.
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I have a problem with your logic... specifically with b).
A condition of keeping the domain you registered should not be that you never profit by it. After all, that is exactly what Nissan is trying to do with it. If a company wants to pick a common sir-name for their name (and they benifit greatly when they do), they must accept that other people will use it as well, with or without their knowledge and consent.
Just my $1/50...
If I remember correctly, it was 300 million little $1 checks. :-)
But seriously, I would have done the same thing. The memory of Netscape v. MS was fresh in everyone's minds, and you can do a lot more good to a lot more people with the money.
According to Best Buy's statements, extended warranties are their MOST profitable product. (which anyone should have guessed from how much they push them)
;)
To get them to shut up about it, I usually ask "Well, if there really is such a high risk of failure that I need to spend $40 on a warranty for a $200 system, maybe I should rethink buying the (what must be crap) $200 system?" It's a funny look on their faces...
I do believe you're remembering this incorrectly. Yes, H20 will be the result of burning H2 and O2, but it'll be in the form of water vapor, not a liquid.
Also, remember that H2O expands something like 500+ times in volume when turning into a gas. That would have had to be one helluva balloon to make a "crapload" of water.
Actually, the "free" energy is taken directly from the rotational inertia of the earth itself. So this would slightly increase the length of our day, but only VERY VERY slightly. When you consider the mass of the earth and how fast it spins, you could power all of humanity for much longer then you could imagine before the earth's day was noticably different.
Also, the earth's rotational speed changes gradually anyway...
Novell Netware's FS worked almost exactly like this. It was a wonderful feature. I don't understand why more implementations have taken this into consideration...
haha!!
THIS deserves a +1 funny if anything does.
he's trying to put a hole in their business model? and try proving it should be free? is this guy on crack?
no hole, because it's only within 1500' of his base, and he's not parked outside the starbucks all the time.
and to prove a business should offer it for free? how much money did he spend? how much time did he spend? what business is going to invest that for a guaranteed no return?
don't get me wrong, i think businesses would do well to offer value-add services like wireless internet inside their stores free-of-charge just like they do restrooms. I think starbuck's plan will go the way of the pay-toilet. but this guy is going about demonstrating it the wrong way.
the crack monkies are definitely among us..
Even if it was something trivial, they still would repair it. In fact, they're required to keep open databases about such things.
http://www.alldata.com/
And I would hardly call this a rare chance. All someone has to do is return a document after opening it. That is VERY common in the business world.
Insane. You know, if Isuzu discovered a fatal flaw in all Rodeos going back through 1997 yet announced they were only going to provide fixes for models '00, '01 and '02 there would be a congressional investigation.
Completely insane.
"the pictures are loading slowly for me via the Google caches"
It does sound to me that he didn't know google doesn't cache the images...
I wasn't trying to put him down or anything. Knowing how Google's cache works doesn't make you any more or less of a man.
google caches the html, not the images...
just FYI
ahhh... the sweet sweet juice of a fresh debian server. how i love thee...
:)
seriously tho - setting up a debian server as I post (apt-getting apache-ssl right now). making $70/hr to do it from my livingroom couch...
recession? i know no stinkin' recession! LIFE IS GOOD!
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The flow of the text is reversed, but not the letters themselves. So if you look at this site in the mirror, the letters will all be in the correct order, but themselves appear reversed.
Ah-ha said Captian Nitpick!
ATTENTION: In other news today...
;)
DR-DOS is canceled because of increased competition from MS-DOS!
Coca-Cola cancels their production of "New Coke"!
and... (wait for it!)
Russia admits they lost the cold war!
so does anyone have a mirror of the /.ed mirror? :-)
All your base are belong to us!
You are still paying a very high price for the software, it's just rolled into your tuition costs. It's really quite underhanded, considering you cannot opt-out.
TiVo's ReplayTV box is a satelite decoder
ReplayTV is a different product/company from TiVo. (and at the risk of starting a flame war, a better one
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb15CB32EF3AF9C0E5D727
So what does this do, exactly? (no, I'm not stupid enough to just simply run it)
ah, protel. how i hated thee... :-)
never had to code it myself thank god...
How's NTAccess still running over there?
I worked for a year and a 1/2 on a project designed to replace the DMS-100 provisioning and configuration systems. I can tell you that those systems are complex in the extreme to set up correctly. I knew people who had worked with them for 20 years and still had questions about how they worked. It's not through Sprint's stupidity that they were hackable, it is a by-product of overly complex system engineering.
This is a common problem in this industry. Having complex systems when you're the defacto standard makes a great revenue stream in your consulting and training systems, but kills the reliability of said systems. Nortel/Cisco/IBM never take the fall for it however, because they can just say "well, you didn't configure it right" and Sprint/etc can't even argue - it would take 2 years and 10 consultants to even find out.
Actually, the Green in Greenland was put there to ENCOURAGE people to move and live there, not to keep them out.
Could this have been the worlds first marketing department?
alright, not to nit-pick a joke here, but do you really need to pass self a reference to itself? :-)
It was for IBM, and placed directly after the story text before the comments section. Not too intrusive, since that tends to be dead space anyway (unless the article is long).
/. usually has ads I find USEFUL, but this was the plain vanilla IBM (e)-business ad you find on news.com.
:-)
It's disappointing though.
Oh well, I'll live.