To be honest: I know next to nothing (ok, ok...nothing) about networking. I'm a copywriter for an ad agency who happens to enjoy reading slashdot. With that qualifier, and with the understanding that all domains resolving is causing havoc, would it be a decent compromise if a mis-spelled didn't resolve to verisigns little "are you sure you didn't mean..." page, but did in a few seconds? Would a few second of 404 be enough to fix the resolution problems occuring?
Not that this solution means that VS is right. It's a dirty trick, even through the eyes of someone who's networking knowledge stops at how to spell 'network'.
Instead of offering a "Search" and "Feeling lucky" button, MSN will soon be offering the simplicity of single button searching: "You'll take what we give you."
I wonder if the 'predictability' of the text is why fluent english speakers can read the scrambled text so easily.
I've always heard the shapes of words are a great facilitator or fluid reading, but maybe that's a fairly elementary phenomenom that gives way to the 'prediction' with experience, hence the problems ELS folks have reading the scrambled text.
Maybe they are thinking more along the lines of our local (largest independent in America, I believe) bookstore Powell's, and open a separate technical store?
Powell's has opened a Technical, Travel, and Cooks and Gardeners store to supplement the main branch.
But it doesn't make sense to pay $300ish for a reader with fairly limited battery life and the pay prices for books which in my opinion are still unreasonable.
I think that should be '... are still unreadable'.
I know people who love 'em, but my eyes can't take very much Palm reading (which goes straight to several of the posters who mentioned how perfect eBooks are for reference books: quick, searchable access, not intended for lengthy reading)
I know some people out there actually use their iPods as part of their DJ ensemble.
In a case like that, I would consider the iPod's space limits less of a liability, and more an incredible value. A consumer, realatively cheap (for all you get) piece of equipment that's functional in a professional capacity. I'd say it's the best damn money a DJ could spend, especially when compared to real pro equipment.
Because Comcast screwed up and gave you the Spice Channel. You want to capture as much as possible before they realize their mistake.
"Anyone seen stratjakt?"
"No."
"I heard he recorded two weeks of Spice Channel and is trying to sear Vixen Bakery Apprentices into his retinas before it self-purges from his PVR."
Actually, there's a definite self-purging joke there, but I'll leave it for someone else.
If they allowed redownloading, it would likely get abused. Like, say, someone saying they lost their drive and they need to redownload a song, when in reality they just sold their song on eBay...
However, iTunes has quite a few flaws that make it... Well, at best useless,
Really? I thought listening to my music all day on my computer, then going home and listening to my burned cd's in my stereo and car is pretty useful to me. However, I now stand corrected. Thank you.
In BBEdit, I found no fewer than two times my name and iTunes user ID were in the hex dump of one of my purchased songs.
This guy can contend his interpretation of the License all he wants, but my interpretation of :
No portion of the Service may be reproduced in any form or by any means. You agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, or create derivative works based on the Service, in any manner...
from Terms of Service
is that he can't sell a work from the Service (iTMS). Not to mention that any transfer via email, upload, etc, entail making a copy as you send it. Finding prohibition of copying ain't too hard.
How about resale? When the projects wind down and things need upgrading, they can get maybe over half a mil' in return for offloaded desktops (or at least scrap aluminum), as opposed to 57 cents for a bunch of beige schrapnel.
OK, if a G5 can blast you through and exterior wall and two interior walls of your house, just imagine the sheer wall-blasting power of this many G5's.
Intelliod? That's just computing. G5's? I think we've found the WMD.
so this guy blows 5.5 hours, plus time wasted getting and returning the laptop, to prove...what?
I think it's pretty obvious that the other end of his calls were manned by automatrons. Does he really think a blow was struck for anyone? The same dorks who fielded his badgering calls, are about as likely to file all this away and see the top brass gets the message, as I am to read a dumbass EULA (much less care if I'm obeying it.)
I'm a fairly ethical guy and try to be reasonable about software/hardware usage, and I think that's leaps ahead of behavior by some that leads to companies thinking they need these insane EULA's. That said, I realize they are unreasonable, but I don't live with fear of black suited men knocking down my door. Granted, I'm not in charge of a company system where the likelyhood of an audit goes up marginally. But this guy was buying one stinkin' laptop. There's places to put your foot down, and I really fail to see how this was one of them.
That said, he's obviously got the time that I don't have to hassle the 'man', so in the end, more power to him.
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Not that this solution means that VS is right. It's a dirty trick, even through the eyes of someone who's networking knowledge stops at how to spell 'network'.
How about we compromise and just have:
"a zealous group of vigilantes, killing spammers."?
Listen, buddy if everyone in the world actually tried to do something about the things they bitch about, the world would be a much, much better
scarier place!I only told you I didn't keep a key for myself.
-Your Landlord.
Rub your hands where?
Instead of offering a "Search" and "Feeling lucky" button, MSN will soon be offering the simplicity of single button searching:
"You'll take what we give you."
I've always heard the shapes of words are a great facilitator or fluid reading, but maybe that's a fairly elementary phenomenom that gives way to the 'prediction' with experience, hence the problems ELS folks have reading the scrambled text.
A-ha, so it's not just mostly students with over 1,000 files. They are apparently including "stupid" in their considerations.
I believe they were in a rush to beat the cutoff date for the Linpack Top 500 Supercomputer List
Apple gave them the performance and, I'm sure, the sweet deal they needed to make it happen.
So how is that different from normal Windows?
Powell's has opened a Technical, Travel, and Cooks and Gardeners store to supplement the main branch.
I think that should be '... are still unreadable'.
I know people who love 'em, but my eyes can't take very much Palm reading (which goes straight to several of the posters who mentioned how perfect eBooks are for reference books: quick, searchable access, not intended for lengthy reading)
Yeah, but NO BUGS!
I likely wouldn't be scared in the least if the people filing these suits were actually reasonable.
In a case like that, I would consider the iPod's space limits less of a liability, and more an incredible value. A consumer, realatively cheap (for all you get) piece of equipment that's functional in a professional capacity. I'd say it's the best damn money a DJ could spend, especially when compared to real pro equipment.
"Anyone seen stratjakt?"
"No."
"I heard he recorded two weeks of Spice Channel and is trying to sear Vixen Bakery Apprentices into his retinas before it self-purges from his PVR."
Actually, there's a definite self-purging joke there, but I'll leave it for someone else.
But I am not a lawyer and won't pretend to be one, so maybe you're right that Service doesn't encompass files.
If they allowed redownloading, it would likely get abused.
Like, say, someone saying they lost their drive and they need to redownload a song, when in reality they just sold their song on eBay...
Really? I thought listening to my music all day on my computer, then going home and listening to my burned cd's in my stereo and car is pretty useful to me. However, I now stand corrected. Thank you.
Dude, what's in your wallet?
This guy can contend his interpretation of the License all he wants, but my interpretation of :
from Terms of Serviceis that he can't sell a work from the Service (iTMS). Not to mention that any transfer via email, upload, etc, entail making a copy as you send it. Finding prohibition of copying ain't too hard.
How about resale? When the projects wind down and things need upgrading, they can get maybe over half a mil' in return for offloaded desktops (or at least scrap aluminum), as opposed to 57 cents for a bunch of beige schrapnel.
OK, if a G5 can blast you through and exterior wall and two interior walls of your house, just imagine the sheer wall-blasting power of this many G5's.
Intelliod? That's just computing. G5's? I think we've found the WMD.
Poor spiders. When in close confines, do you diagnose then with Arachnapobia or Autophobia (fear of yourself)?
I think it's pretty obvious that the other end of his calls were manned by automatrons. Does he really think a blow was struck for anyone? The same dorks who fielded his badgering calls, are about as likely to file all this away and see the top brass gets the message, as I am to read a dumbass EULA (much less care if I'm obeying it.)
I'm a fairly ethical guy and try to be reasonable about software/hardware usage, and I think that's leaps ahead of behavior by some that leads to companies thinking they need these insane EULA's. That said, I realize they are unreasonable, but I don't live with fear of black suited men knocking down my door. Granted, I'm not in charge of a company system where the likelyhood of an audit goes up marginally. But this guy was buying one stinkin' laptop. There's places to put your foot down, and I really fail to see how this was one of them.
That said, he's obviously got the time that I don't have to hassle the 'man', so in the end, more power to him.