I don't sincerely think that any of these websites were even aware of AT&T's work as they developed online payment systems, etc. - much less copied the idea from AT&T.
I think the key is that it was obvious at the time that payments would be accepted online. The same goes for a lot of the technologies they claim are covered by this patent. So a bunch of people found a means to accomplish this obvious goal that was almost *expected* at the time simultaneously.
I don't know much about patents but might this fall under the category of "obvious" which I think is supposed to be unpantentable?
I worked customer service for a national department store and also for an internet-centric issuer of visa and mastercards.
You can't really do this....
If it's a charge you authorized then you need to cancel it with the merchant. This is so that merchant's don't get ripped off. The credit card company doesn't have the authorization to just cancel a charge that you might have received services for. You must try to cancel it with the merchant first.
If it's a charge you authorized and never received services for, or a charge you canceled with the merchant and they billed you anyway... then you can dispute it. Also you can dispute it of course if it's a charge you never made and don't recognize at all.
Also, if a charge is a recurring charge then the credit card company basically can't do anything and you have to contact the merchant because it's sort of a contract you entered into with the merchant and the credit card company can't legally step into that and cancel the charges. You have to contact the merchant.
I think I just read in Discover that it's 13.4 billion.
Recalling from memory, but I think that's it.
ATI was not as clever as they make it seem !
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ATI, possibly one of the cleverest (or maybe luckiest) of all three companies was content to sit in the corner and watch NVIDIA and 3dfx battle it out. ATI still released new cards - they weren't spectacular, but by no means were they horrible. The cards were just enough to keep them in the race. ATI's strategy seemed to be to lie in wait for their time to strike, which wouldn't come until later.
I'm not so sure ATI knew they were being so clever at the time. I'm sure they were content to be among the worst in the market, either.
It seemed to me that they were screwing up and struggling, making crappy cards and only finally were able to establish a solid reputation after they stopped screwing up their Radeon drivers finally. The author is giving them credit for a "master plan" I doubt they ever had. This is empty history is rather tainted by present conditions. It's only in retrospect we can think maybe ATI was just being really clever.
At ASU it used to start out with C++, but now we've pretty much entirely transitioned to Java from beginning to end.
CSE100 is an intro course to C++. CSE110 is the same intro course, but in Java. Neither of those go towards the major. Then CSE200 is a course required for the major and we have to use Java only. I think later on in CSE240 they teach C++, Scheme, Prolog, and C.
I think the fact that it was in Darkwing Duck (which I never considered worth watching) makes it obscure for the most part. Not that the reference itself inside of the cartoon was hard to get.
In all my CS, Math, and Physics courses... NO work = NO credit.
The best thing I use my TI-89 for is to just double check if I'm not sure I got the right answer on a tough calculus problem on my own... or to find the square root of 0.123123596949 or to do graphing or calculate a regression line for data or such.
Now... if they could make a calculator that not only showed you the answer, but showed you all the steps to get to that answer (the way a human would do it, not using calculator's algorithms), then that would be pretty bad. I'd probably want one, though.
or U-can with Beakman and Jax in the newspaper. That's what I thought of. Sort of a successor to Mr. Wizard, but a precursor to Bill Nye the Science Guy.
How fortunate this is for the internet community! Imagine if IE were open source like this Mozilla thing! Keeping every working detail and possible vulnerability all very hush-hush is what makes IE the great browser that it is! How does Mozilla survive? I mean, come on... Bugzilla? They should follow these guys example and shut down.
There also are Mormons everywhere here in Phoenix (especially Mesa).
Every mile there's another Temple... and they sort of stick them onto every high school down here, too. I don't understand how that's not violating some concept of seperation of church and state.
I think it was in the first Dune because as far as I can recall it was mentioned in an arena, used by Devries and Fenring to converse while Harkonnen was watching Feyd battle some people. Only Fenring survives of that bunch to go on to Dune Messiah... but I might be wrong who was there.
When I read it, I could only think about Get Smart.
Yeah Dancing Ferret... they're stuff is all available through Metropolis Records website though.
I have to say, I saw The Cruxshadows last November (I think it was on election day) at The Mason Jar here in Phoenix. It was absolutely amazing. Rogue was dancing among everyone and a bunch of us were dancing on stage and there were a million encores (though it seemed like half the people thought the concert was over after the first encore ("Marilyn, My Bitterness") and left, when Rogue came back out, he said we must be "the loyal half" of the crowd... those people missed half the concert!) I became aware of the concert through Metropolis Records' emails they send out.
I downloaded some MP3's and now I've bought a record of theirs and seen a concert. Without MP3's and filesharing, I wouldn't even know they exist.
I should also mention that I became aware of ALL of these bands through Napster. Thanks to filesharing, Metropolis records has made a lot of money off of me.
(Also: Clan of Xymox, Front 242... Oh! And check out their excellent compilation albums listed under "Various Artists" on their store's page)
There's always a large collection of ROMs on the Internet. I'd say that almost any old game exists on numerous hard drives across the world, whether those people own the actual machine and have a legal right to have those ROMs or not. I guess piracy will preserve these classics.
Of course ROMs for newer games after they went 3D are mostly uncommon since MAME doesn't really support all that yet. There's a gap there I guess that's in danger... somewhere after 2D and before what's currently in arcades right now.
People also tend to hold on to their old console systems. I myself have a CoCo3, Atari 7800 (with 2600 and 7800 carts), Sega Master System (with 3d glasses), Sega CD/Genesis/32X, Super Nintendo, Nintendo, and more. And guess what? They're not going anywhere. Classic games will always live on through garage sales and eBay auctions and emulators. They won't die because people out there still do care about them and enjoy them.
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Sorry... AT&T patented e-submissions.
I don't sincerely think that any of these websites were even aware of AT&T's work as they developed online payment systems, etc. - much less copied the idea from AT&T.
I think the key is that it was obvious at the time that payments would be accepted online. The same goes for a lot of the technologies they claim are covered by this patent. So a bunch of people found a means to accomplish this obvious goal that was almost *expected* at the time simultaneously.
I don't know much about patents but might this fall under the category of "obvious" which I think is supposed to be unpantentable?
Hmmm?
I think you mean the bank is earning interest. That's the downside of credit cards, not the upside.
You earn interest on checking accounts and stuff, since it's basically your money that you've lent in a way to the bank.
Whereas with credit cards, it's money the bank is lending you. You get charged for that interest.
I wish there was a credit card that would pay me to carry a balance... but I've never ever seen a credit card offer with a negative APR.
I worked customer service for a national department store and also for an internet-centric issuer of visa and mastercards.
You can't really do this....
If it's a charge you authorized then you need to cancel it with the merchant. This is so that merchant's don't get ripped off. The credit card company doesn't have the authorization to just cancel a charge that you might have received services for. You must try to cancel it with the merchant first.
If it's a charge you authorized and never received services for, or a charge you canceled with the merchant and they billed you anyway... then you can dispute it. Also you can dispute it of course if it's a charge you never made and don't recognize at all.
Also, if a charge is a recurring charge then the credit card company basically can't do anything and you have to contact the merchant because it's sort of a contract you entered into with the merchant and the credit card company can't legally step into that and cancel the charges. You have to contact the merchant.
I think I just read in Discover that it's 13.4 billion.
Recalling from memory, but I think that's it.
I'm not so sure ATI knew they were being so clever at the time. I'm sure they were content to be among the worst in the market, either.
It seemed to me that they were screwing up and struggling, making crappy cards and only finally were able to establish a solid reputation after they stopped screwing up their Radeon drivers finally. The author is giving them credit for a "master plan" I doubt they ever had. This is empty history is rather tainted by present conditions. It's only in retrospect we can think maybe ATI was just being really clever.
Misspelled. Two S's.
At ASU it used to start out with C++, but now we've pretty much entirely transitioned to Java from beginning to end.
CSE100 is an intro course to C++. CSE110 is the same intro course, but in Java. Neither of those go towards the major. Then CSE200 is a course required for the major and we have to use Java only. I think later on in CSE240 they teach C++, Scheme, Prolog, and C.
My reaction as well....
I think the fact that it was in Darkwing Duck (which I never considered worth watching) makes it obscure for the most part. Not that the reference itself inside of the cartoon was hard to get.
In all my CS, Math, and Physics courses... NO work = NO credit.
The best thing I use my TI-89 for is to just double check if I'm not sure I got the right answer on a tough calculus problem on my own... or to find the square root of 0.123123596949 or to do graphing or calculate a regression line for data or such.
Now... if they could make a calculator that not only showed you the answer, but showed you all the steps to get to that answer (the way a human would do it, not using calculator's algorithms), then that would be pretty bad. I'd probably want one, though.
I remember NextCard Internet Visa, having worked for them.
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In Phoenix, odd numbers are, as far as I know, *always* on the South or East side, and MapQuest still gets it wrong.
or U-can with Beakman and Jax in the newspaper. That's what I thought of. Sort of a successor to Mr. Wizard, but a precursor to Bill Nye the Science Guy.
Maybe he couldn't get it to install or he got frustrated with it once a long time ago.
How fortunate this is for the internet community! Imagine if IE were open source like this Mozilla thing! Keeping every working detail and possible vulnerability all very hush-hush is what makes IE the great browser that it is! How does Mozilla survive? I mean, come on... Bugzilla? They should follow these guys example and shut down.
For the good of the internet as a whole!
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There also are Mormons everywhere here in Phoenix (especially Mesa).
Every mile there's another Temple... and they sort of stick them onto every high school down here, too. I don't understand how that's not violating some concept of seperation of church and state.
I think it was in the first Dune because as far as I can recall it was mentioned in an arena, used by Devries and Fenring to converse while Harkonnen was watching Feyd battle some people. Only Fenring survives of that bunch to go on to Dune Messiah... but I might be wrong who was there.
When I read it, I could only think about Get Smart.
Yeah Dancing Ferret... they're stuff is all available through Metropolis Records website though.
I have to say, I saw The Cruxshadows last November (I think it was on election day) at The Mason Jar here in Phoenix. It was absolutely amazing. Rogue was dancing among everyone and a bunch of us were dancing on stage and there were a million encores (though it seemed like half the people thought the concert was over after the first encore ("Marilyn, My Bitterness") and left, when Rogue came back out, he said we must be "the loyal half" of the crowd... those people missed half the concert!) I became aware of the concert through Metropolis Records' emails they send out.
I downloaded some MP3's and now I've bought a record of theirs and seen a concert. Without MP3's and filesharing, I wouldn't even know they exist.
I should also mention that I became aware of ALL of these bands through Napster. Thanks to filesharing, Metropolis records has made a lot of money off of me.
(Also: Clan of Xymox, Front 242... Oh! And check out their excellent compilation albums listed under "Various Artists" on their store's page)
I only buy from Metropolis. Their logo is the only bumper sticker currently on my car. Their store is at http://www.industrial-music.com/
Lots of good bands: VNV Nation, Apoptygma Berzerk, And One, Die Form, Evil's Toy, Covenant, Cruxshadows, Wolfsheim, etc...
Although I think some of those may be on other labels, sold through Metropolis.
There's always a large collection of ROMs on the Internet. I'd say that almost any old game exists on numerous hard drives across the world, whether those people own the actual machine and have a legal right to have those ROMs or not. I guess piracy will preserve these classics.
Of course ROMs for newer games after they went 3D are mostly uncommon since MAME doesn't really support all that yet. There's a gap there I guess that's in danger... somewhere after 2D and before what's currently in arcades right now.
People also tend to hold on to their old console systems. I myself have a CoCo3, Atari 7800 (with 2600 and 7800 carts), Sega Master System (with 3d glasses), Sega CD/Genesis/32X, Super Nintendo, Nintendo, and more. And guess what? They're not going anywhere. Classic games will always live on through garage sales and eBay auctions and emulators. They won't die because people out there still do care about them and enjoy them.