Well, the write-up "But many people are charged for each page they recieve." Makes sense if people received the pager scam spam on their pager, but it still doesn't explain the "combination of low conscience and creativity".
But this kind of really forces the issue. Is someone drunk behind the wheel of Slashdot?
I think that the PC is the worst platform for PPV or pay per use. It has been pretty successful for television, though. I believe it has a lot to do with the easy of use an convenience. If, for example, you got my TiVo to download 'special content' over the Internet via a broadband connection, that might be worth paying for.
These seem to be pretty good vehicles for delivery. They have absolutely NO product. They just place your order with a local restauraunt, pick it up, deliever it, and take your cash. Seems to be that they could expand into a generic delivery service with a bit of effort.
I'd think part of the secret to this working is that a great deal of the data is static (you don't have millions of people in the casino at once) and historical (the vast majority of data is stuff already stored in the past).
They do a little OLTP, but it sounds like the main use is reporting. Their database doesn't require any real power. Just oodles of storage.
This is going to sound trollish, so let me apologize in advance.
I guess I'm not up-to-snuff in my BSDisms. What is this ports facility, and what does it have to do with.NET? I read the article and was even more confused. I see it has something to do with package dependancies, but that's about it.
And here recently, pico was ported to the version of PPC Linux that is specific to TiVo. And included on a really nice modernized TiVo boot disk (that is like Dillan's boot disk, but with a slew of utils included). Free of charge though, so I don't think UW is going to have a cow. Not that UW has REALLY gone after anyone, right?
There was a well-known eBay dealer of arcade items. I say this person is well known, but well despised is probably a better way of saying it. In order to get a camera icon next to his auctions, he would link to an invalid URL. This invalid URL, in fact, existed on an unregistered domain.
So what does a community do to an eBay dealer that they don't like? That's right. They registered the domain name, and placed a picture on that URL. It was a suitably blurred image of an ass crack, with some words about getting screwed by the particular seller.
Well, all but one of that seller's items (and he constantly used that technique on all of his auctions) didn't get bids. Everyone got a good laugh that day. Maybe not the seller. Who knows if he had a case or not, but he wasn't about to pursue it.
Never before on Slashdot, when read under the rules of the Slashdot Drinking Game, has there ever been a single story that could get someone as staggerring drunk as this story can.
DRINKING WORDS: Hacking, DirecTV, TCP/IP, Linux, emulate, Internet, open source, digital convergence, access card, and if you count compound words, Siliconshock, the submitter.
Let's hope that some arcade collectors manage to get some documents and other items from Williams as they close shop. There will be a lot of information that is very valuable to the collecting community. At worst, maybe Williams can be convinced to eBay it.
It would be a shame to have it all thrown away. Or sold to a dealer who'll resale for an outrageous forum. BTW, a lot of Atari documents were recovered by an alert arcade game collector in Ireland who had the opportunity to help clear out a warehouse that Atari onced used for its coin-op divison. Let's hope the same happens here.
The last bidder was the person described in my previous message. His 'winning' bid went unchallenged. And, as mentioned, this is the most a vintage arcade game has gone for, ever.
Well, it is three hours until the end of the auction, and very few people are probably going to read this message, long after it has scrolled off of the Slashdot front page.
I saw a twice retracted bid for $10k, which made me highly suspect that the reserve was at $10k. Sure enough, it was, and with a bidder with SOME feedback history, and who bids on Fendi money holders. (To most everyone else out there, Fendi is a ritsy Italian brand.)
Looks like this thing is finding a new home. And possibly making a page in arcade history. No vintage arcade game has EVER gone for this kind of money.
This is a site dealing with DirecTV hacking. Some of the stories are lame. But others are quite compelling?
Why? It documents the back-and-forth battle between DirecTV and hackers. Live. And it consistantly gives a very thorough and understandable explanation of what is going on. A good example is this story:
I'm surprised nobody else really commented on this. Read that line again in the article. Microsoft wanted AOL to sign a "Mutual Legal Release" which basically said they wouldn't take legal action against each other for the term of the contract.
Would YOU sign an agreement like that with Micrsoft?
Somewhere up there, another reader puzzled over what consumer use there would be for a barcode reader. I think the answer is obvious. But it is so pro-consumer that you'll be hard pressed to find a major company to push it. (And its real advantages only come into play with a wireless handheld web device.)
Unwired world:
Start with a mildly populated database. Consumer goes to grocery store. Scans in each item purchased. Enters name, if necessary. Enters price (and marks if it is a regular price or a sale). Repeat with various grocery stores. Finds the best store to buy all items at, or the best two stores to get certain items from in order to save money.
Wired world:
Same. But check against the entries of other users in the area. Possible alerts to bargins on things that are regularly bought (Pepsi 2 liter, 69 cents, Albertsons, on sale). Also, being able to real-time scan an item in a store to see how good of a deal it is. (Especially good on impulse buying.)
Mind you, of course, it isn't as simple as I just described, and there are the usual disclaimers. But we're not using a barcode scanner for its full potential. It could be a real win for the consumer.
According to postings in rec.games.video.arcade.collecting, he's been trying to sell this unit for quite some time now. He's been asking $5k for it. It seems that demand just isn't high enough... but of course, a Slashdot posting never hurts!
To agree with a fellow poster, yes, serial numbers have almost no impact on the value of an arcade game. But in this particular case, this is supposedly *the first* laserdisc arcade game. Gotta be worth something to a laserhead (laserdisc arcade game collector). But not $25k.
The main downside is that
control is moved out of your home, returning PVR users to the dark ages where
they had to watch commercials.
Unless, of course, you still have your PVR at home, and use IT to record the video that comes from the upstream PVR. Then, you've got all the features you want.
Chances are, that an upstream PVR will be PPV like. If that is the case, I'd still use the downstream PVR in my home for the majority of recording, but only use the upstream PVR for recording conflicts, or niche programming.
In any case, the PVR at the home isn't going away.
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Well, the write-up "But many people are charged for each page they recieve." Makes sense if people received the pager scam spam on their pager, but it still doesn't explain the "combination of low conscience and creativity".
But this kind of really forces the issue. Is someone drunk behind the wheel of Slashdot?
"Pager SCAM" would have been more accurate.
And they NEVER record the lists of people who request to opt-out as people who read their email and, are therefore, good people to send spam to.
I think that the PC is the worst platform for PPV or pay per use. It has been pretty successful for television, though. I believe it has a lot to do with the easy of use an convenience. If, for example, you got my TiVo to download 'special content' over the Internet via a broadband connection, that might be worth paying for.
Paying to read a news story? Almost silly.
These seem to be pretty good vehicles for delivery. They have absolutely NO product. They just place your order with a local restauraunt, pick it up, deliever it, and take your cash. Seems to be that they could expand into a generic delivery service with a bit of effort.
I'd think part of the secret to this working is that a great deal of the data is static (you don't have millions of people in the casino at once) and historical (the vast majority of data is stuff already stored in the past).
They do a little OLTP, but it sounds like the main use is reporting. Their database doesn't require any real power. Just oodles of storage.
This is going to sound trollish, so let me apologize in advance.
.NET? I read the article and was even more confused. I see it has something to do with package dependancies, but that's about it.
I guess I'm not up-to-snuff in my BSDisms. What is this ports facility, and what does it have to do with
Can someone spare me a clue?
And here recently, pico was ported to the version of PPC Linux that is specific to TiVo. And included on a really nice modernized TiVo boot disk (that is like Dillan's boot disk, but with a slew of utils included). Free of charge though, so I don't think UW is going to have a cow. Not that UW has REALLY gone after anyone, right?
There was a well-known eBay dealer of arcade items. I say this person is well known, but well despised is probably a better way of saying it. In order to get a camera icon next to his auctions, he would link to an invalid URL. This invalid URL, in fact, existed on an unregistered domain.
So what does a community do to an eBay dealer that they don't like? That's right. They registered the domain name, and placed a picture on that URL. It was a suitably blurred image of an ass crack, with some words about getting screwed by the particular seller.
Well, all but one of that seller's items (and he constantly used that technique on all of his auctions) didn't get bids. Everyone got a good laugh that day. Maybe not the seller. Who knows if he had a case or not, but he wasn't about to pursue it.
Just wanted to say thank you for the explanation. After all, we are your customers! :) It is really nice to get an accounting of what happened.
BTW: Are you going to plan any redundancy/failover drills as a result of this?
Never before on Slashdot, when read under the rules of the Slashdot Drinking Game, has there ever been a single story that could get someone as staggerring drunk as this story can.
DRINKING WORDS: Hacking, DirecTV, TCP/IP, Linux, emulate, Internet, open source, digital convergence, access card, and if you count compound words, Siliconshock, the submitter.
Gives "buzzwords" a whole new meaning.
Sorry you had that experience, and I want to thank you for your efforts. I have set up this page on your behalf.
Got good enough. Read the updated story:
http://www.galstar.com/~jmccorm/review.html
It seems they decided to publish some of their emails on the web for some boneheaded reason. It explains the story fairly well.
Are they going IPO because they're very successful and want massive expansion, or they are looking to become desperate for even a simple existence?
Let's hope that some arcade collectors manage to get some documents and other items from Williams as they close shop. There will be a lot of information that is very valuable to the collecting community. At worst, maybe Williams can be convinced to eBay it.
It would be a shame to have it all thrown away. Or sold to a dealer who'll resale for an outrageous forum. BTW, a lot of Atari documents were recovered by an alert arcade game collector in Ireland who had the opportunity to help clear out a warehouse that Atari onced used for its coin-op divison. Let's hope the same happens here.
I've been looking through their web site and all the nooks and crannies. This thing has an incredibly robust knowledge base. EXTREMELY well developed.
There are pages which talk about its interfaces to external authorities which can be referenced, such as the IMDB for movies.
And, of course, the natural language recognition.
Spend an hour or so browsing the site... it is interesting stuff.
He're an informal slashback:
The last bidder was the person described in my previous message. His 'winning' bid went unchallenged. And, as mentioned, this is the most a vintage arcade game has gone for, ever.
Well, it is three hours until the end of the auction, and very few people are probably going to read this message, long after it has scrolled off of the Slashdot front page.
I saw a twice retracted bid for $10k, which made me highly suspect that the reserve was at $10k. Sure enough, it was, and with a bidder with SOME feedback history, and who bids on Fendi money holders. (To most everyone else out there, Fendi is a ritsy Italian brand.)
Looks like this thing is finding a new home. And possibly making a page in arcade history. No vintage arcade game has EVER gone for this kind of money.
This is a site dealing with DirecTV hacking. Some of the stories are lame. But others are quite compelling?
Why? It documents the back-and-forth battle between DirecTV and hackers. Live. And it consistantly gives a very thorough and understandable explanation of what is going on. A good example is this story:
We're Ready -- 06/13/01.
Scroll around and ready some of the stuff, and some of the archives. There is some good material in there. Even if the site isn't quite 'above board'.
You might want to consider submitting something from Suck. If they have something that'd fit, it would be a nice tribute to a dead site.
I'm surprised nobody else really commented on this. Read that line again in the article. Microsoft wanted AOL to sign a "Mutual Legal Release" which basically said they wouldn't take legal action against each other for the term of the contract.
Would YOU sign an agreement like that with Micrsoft?
Somewhere up there, another reader puzzled over what consumer use there would be for a barcode reader. I think the answer is obvious. But it is so pro-consumer that you'll be hard pressed to find a major company to push it. (And its real advantages only come into play with a wireless handheld web device.)
Unwired world:
Start with a mildly populated database. Consumer goes to grocery store. Scans in each item purchased. Enters name, if necessary. Enters price (and marks if it is a regular price or a sale). Repeat with various grocery stores. Finds the best store to buy all items at, or the best two stores to get certain items from in order to save money.
Wired world:
Same. But check against the entries of other users in the area. Possible alerts to bargins on things that are regularly bought (Pepsi 2 liter, 69 cents, Albertsons, on sale). Also, being able to real-time scan an item in a store to see how good of a deal it is. (Especially good on impulse buying.)
Mind you, of course, it isn't as simple as I just described, and there are the usual disclaimers. But we're not using a barcode scanner for its full potential. It could be a real win for the consumer.
eBay them in a year. Be sure to mark them as 'R4R3!' and 'L@@K". Set the 'buyitnow' for $25.
According to postings in rec.games.video.arcade.collecting, he's been trying to sell this unit for quite some time now. He's been asking $5k for it. It seems that demand just isn't high enough... but of course, a Slashdot posting never hurts!
To agree with a fellow poster, yes, serial numbers have almost no impact on the value of an arcade game. But in this particular case, this is supposedly *the first* laserdisc arcade game. Gotta be worth something to a laserhead (laserdisc arcade game collector). But not $25k.
The main downside is that control is moved out of your home, returning PVR users to the dark ages where they had to watch commercials. Unless, of course, you still have your PVR at home, and use IT to record the video that comes from the upstream PVR. Then, you've got all the features you want. Chances are, that an upstream PVR will be PPV like. If that is the case, I'd still use the downstream PVR in my home for the majority of recording, but only use the upstream PVR for recording conflicts, or niche programming. In any case, the PVR at the home isn't going away.