When our presence, our body is being used for commercial gain we should be getting a cut.... a kickback for opting in to be a part of the service. Cellular companies nickel and dime us to death with various 'services' that should be part of the standard package and then they get to resell us as data to some 3rd party without giving us something back??? I say no.
when it's no longer commercially profitable. This isn't like global warming where it is a side effect of some other activity... it's a direct one-to-one relationship.
The fishing will stop and survivors will re-populate in a few generations. It isn't possible to 'catch the last living fish' or to hunt them to extinction. The oceans are too big and at a certain point it becomes unprofitable to go out and hunt for fish on the scale that we are still seeing currently.
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Those people need to get a dedicated server.... if it's so important to them they won't mind paying a little extra to get what they require.
There will probably be a lot of people trying out Zune. It will be interesting to see how many keep it as their default device, how many return it within a few weeks and how many re-buy it when it gets upgraded. People didn't just buy an iPod. They bought one for themselves, one for their significant other, a shuffle for the youngest, a nano for their daughter and then went and bought a new video ipod when they came out for themselves again. Not to mention all the gift iPods, the giveaways, etc.
I just don't see MS having that sort of product pipeline.
Surely you also get Sci-Fi, Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, History Channel, Discovery, etc. etc. Channels 2-13 are only good for prime time and sports here and forget the weekends... drivel and bad reruns of crappy sitcoms.
At least you don't have to deal with CRAZY GIDEON and his low low prices on Big Screen TVs;-p I'm tellin you he's CRAAAAAAAZZZYYYYY! though he does have some hot east-euro-trash lookin' strippers standing around looking bored....
I think submitter meant to say that they want the download over SSL (secure transaction) and from a non-public repository and non-transferrable as in you can't post a link that just anyone can use to download it... ie: a unique download uri.
To answer the submitter's question... there are software packages like this... and open source / free. Go to Sourceforge or it's work-a-likes out there and look for software download shopping carts.... actually I think that OS Commerce has a plugin for setting up 'intangible' products so that you can keep people from direct linking to the download.
Also you may want to contact Kagi, a very popular shareware commerce provider and ask about rates... they already have a good 'intangible' product commerce offering.
What would be really interesting is if they implemented a new meta robots tag where you as a website owner could decide which of these search indexes will get to list your site results. This way you could get off the standard google results pages and concentrate your results through an affiliate search portal or negotiate with other search portals for the right to list your website. Would allow non-mainstream stuff to really find their audience and vice versa.
My first thought when coming to/. to post was that this will bring new life to the parked domains business. All those typical words and word combos that have been sitting there with pitiful link lists on them can now become real search portals. This might actually make them useful though. Go searching for "kitten mittens" and you'll probably soon get a top google result (or maybe even yahoo) for www.kittenmittens.com with a search of all pet, cat and novelty item stores and blogs, etc. which may actually help you find what you're looking for more quickly.
Buy out the rights to several decades of HS and College Course books.... say one set per decade starting in 1930 or so. Put them online both for students and hobbyists who'd like to get access to standard texts on subjects. Additionally it would be very interesting to see the evolution of knowledge over the last several decades. One more thought... don't limit it to English... let's see what the Europeans, Japanese, etc. have been learning over the last few decades as well.
Apple continues it's takeover of the media distribution industry and buys out the top studios and labels and tv networks... all media is available a la carte and on demand and portable in their latest iPod which is just 5G wireless connected EM induction patches that attach to your temples and feed info directly to your eyes and ears, people look for the white circles with glossy apple logos when they look for someone who's hip.
The better reply to that question would be to tell the submitter:
Just look forward to OS X 10.5 when you can auto-generate a widget from any web page (web clips) and a) drop it on your desktop or b) have it show up in the dashboard
Typically the things in life you pay for are service and convenience. You want free music? Get together with your friends and make some. Learn the skills, build the equipment, work at the other jobs to pay for it all and start your own label. Then you have the option of giving it away or selling it or just enjoying it for yourselves. You can even set up a password protected web site with a streaming jukebox so all your friends can enjoy the music wherever they are. iPods will play your homegrown MP3s, most other players will as well.
OTOH if you are too busy doing other things you enjoy more or care about more and music is something you'd rather leave up to other people to create and distribute, then don't complain when they choose to sell it rather than give it away. And don't complain when their form of distribution doesn't let you enjoy their music any way you want to at your convenience. OR if they have provided a convenient means to enjoy their music... don't complain that it comes with other limitations and costs money to buy in to.
It is as if the whole world feels that an artist's music is automatically public domain and should be given away in the most convenient form possible.
BTW you can just put MP3s on your iPod... as long as you have regular old MP3s to put on there. iTunes may no longer rip MP3s (is that the case?) for you but there are plenty of alternatives that will do it perfectly, then just drag and drop them into iTunes and sync to the iPod.
I think what he was stating was that people who make more money tend to work longer hours and have more work related stress and therefore tend to self-medicate with alcohol more frequently in an attempt to alleviate that stress.
This actually seems like downside to me... as an OS X user I am concerned about letting Office or IE (both prone to Viruii) have access to hardware. I think right now I much prefer giving them access only to a VM sandbox where i can easily revert to a known clean copy if the current active one gets infected.
I took the SAT in 7th grade and scored a 1050 combined... 550 Language 500 Math, having had a pre-algebra class in 7th grade. Later I scored a 1350 in 10th grade and a 1540 in 11th. As a 7th grade student I had no experience with the SAT, nor did I read any prep manuals. Later I did read some basic prep manuals and had taken a few test exams before each official test was taken. Granted I had by then gone through most of the curriculum being tested but there were many people I knew from my classes who did not do as well as I and was aware that they did not make any effort to get to know the test....
Intelligent kids but not smart enough to see the underlying question, which is whether you will take the time to understand your endeavor before committing to results of your efforts... which the submitter actually seems to 'get', so I suspect he/she will do just fine.
BTW I never did take the final 12th grade SAT exam.... I didn't want to get a perfect score and get lumped in with 'good test takers' . OTOH I didn't end up going to a University either, preferring to learn my trade by doing and avoiding 10s of thousands of tuition debt and whatever else baggage I may have picked up at the social circus we call higher education. SO instead I applied for internships in 12th grade and worked at various agencies half the day, taking the bare minimum classes to graduate (3 a day) plus earning credits via the work program. YMMV.
You have to call in that your phone is stolen...;-p
A real British comedy would be someone getting their phone stolen and then stealing someone else's phone to call in their report which would lead to that person stealing a phone to call in the theft of their phone and so on... and they all get hauled in to the station and have to explain what happened.... all bloody yelling at each other and the cops about what a degenerate society they live in... roll credits;-p
I'm pretty sure they are marketing this at execs who have minimum $600 phones and have data worth vast amounts of money in the right persons' hands stored within it.
Also it's not important that it backs up the data... that's a bonus... it's important that it wipes the data on the phone immediately after backing it up.
Think "This message will self-destruct in 10..." but instead of blowing up the phone (which could lead to a lawsuit) it wipes the data and makes the phone really annoying to be around.
IMHO they should not have it activated later "by phone"... they should pair it with a bluetooth card you keep in your wallet or other more secure bodily stored location and trigger it upon disconnect, with the ability to turn it off via a phone call (yes slightly ironic but not as much as having to turn it ON by phone). People don't typically leave a 10 M proximity from their phone at any time.... so it should work pretty well and it could turn off automatically if it comes back into range and pairs up again.
Just put in floor outlets with covers in a big grid, then give people tables/desks on castors that can be locked.... then let them move things around.
Pick an area and stick a big wrap around couch on top of a cool area rug, some end tables with lamps and put a big plasma display in front of it all with a square coffee table in the middle... this is the conference room, hook up a laptop to the plasma and your good to go.
Make a few more smaller seating groups in other areas for team discussions. Finally establish a rule... shhhh be quiet, people work here. If the place has decent acoustics you should be able to have normal conversations without disturbing everyone else. People who like it quiet will migrate away from the meeting areas and those who like the noise or don't care will be wherever.
This will get you started. You'll think up better ideas over time.
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When our presence, our body is being used for commercial gain we should be getting a cut.... a kickback for opting in to be a part of the service. Cellular companies nickel and dime us to death with various 'services' that should be part of the standard package and then they get to resell us as data to some 3rd party without giving us something back??? I say no.
when it's no longer commercially profitable. This isn't like global warming where it is a side effect of some other activity... it's a direct one-to-one relationship.
The fishing will stop and survivors will re-populate in a few generations. It isn't possible to 'catch the last living fish' or to hunt them to extinction. The oceans are too big and at a certain point it becomes unprofitable to go out and hunt for fish on the scale that we are still seeing currently.
Those people need to get a dedicated server.... if it's so important to them they won't mind paying a little extra to get what they require.
There will probably be a lot of people trying out Zune. It will be interesting to see how many keep it as their default device, how many return it within a few weeks and how many re-buy it when it gets upgraded. People didn't just buy an iPod. They bought one for themselves, one for their significant other, a shuffle for the youngest, a nano for their daughter and then went and bought a new video ipod when they came out for themselves again. Not to mention all the gift iPods, the giveaways, etc.
I just don't see MS having that sort of product pipeline.
Surely you also get Sci-Fi, Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, History Channel, Discovery, etc. etc. Channels 2-13 are only good for prime time and sports here and forget the weekends... drivel and bad reruns of crappy sitcoms.
At least you don't have to deal with CRAZY GIDEON and his low low prices on Big Screen TVs ;-p I'm tellin you he's CRAAAAAAAZZZYYYYY! though he does have some hot east-euro-trash lookin' strippers standing around looking bored....
Want to share your "Magic Skeleton Key" with the rest of us ;-p or just me at least? I promise I won't abuse it ;-p
I think submitter meant to say that they want the download over SSL (secure transaction) and from a non-public repository and non-transferrable as in you can't post a link that just anyone can use to download it... ie: a unique download uri.
To answer the submitter's question... there are software packages like this... and open source / free. Go to Sourceforge or it's work-a-likes out there and look for software download shopping carts.... actually I think that OS Commerce has a plugin for setting up 'intangible' products so that you can keep people from direct linking to the download.
Also you may want to contact Kagi, a very popular shareware commerce provider and ask about rates... they already have a good 'intangible' product commerce offering.
No no.. it's the windmills, wooden shoes and huge dikes!
What would be really interesting is if they implemented a new meta robots tag where you as a website owner could decide which of these search indexes will get to list your site results. This way you could get off the standard google results pages and concentrate your results through an affiliate search portal or negotiate with other search portals for the right to list your website. Would allow non-mainstream stuff to really find their audience and vice versa.
My first thought when coming to /. to post was that this will bring new life to the parked domains business. All those typical words and word combos that have been sitting there with pitiful link lists on them can now become real search portals. This might actually make them useful though. Go searching for "kitten mittens" and you'll probably soon get a top google result (or maybe even yahoo) for www.kittenmittens.com with a search of all pet, cat and novelty item stores and blogs, etc. which may actually help you find what you're looking for more quickly.
Buy out the rights to several decades of HS and College Course books.... say one set per decade starting in 1930 or so. Put them online both for students and hobbyists who'd like to get access to standard texts on subjects. Additionally it would be very interesting to see the evolution of knowledge over the last several decades. One more thought... don't limit it to English... let's see what the Europeans, Japanese, etc. have been learning over the last few decades as well.
Visa International Service Association ("VISA")
Hmmm I had no idea that VISA was an original recursive acronymn.... impressive.
Don't forget Apple.
Apple continues it's takeover of the media distribution industry and buys out the top studios and labels and tv networks... all media is available a la carte and on demand and portable in their latest iPod which is just 5G wireless connected EM induction patches that attach to your temples and feed info directly to your eyes and ears, people look for the white circles with glossy apple logos when they look for someone who's hip.
The better reply to that question would be to tell the submitter:
Just look forward to OS X 10.5 when you can auto-generate a widget from any web page (web clips) and a) drop it on your desktop or b) have it show up in the dashboard
Back to Mp3s
Typically the things in life you pay for are service and convenience. You want free music? Get together with your friends and make some. Learn the skills, build the equipment, work at the other jobs to pay for it all and start your own label. Then you have the option of giving it away or selling it or just enjoying it for yourselves. You can even set up a password protected web site with a streaming jukebox so all your friends can enjoy the music wherever they are. iPods will play your homegrown MP3s, most other players will as well.
OTOH if you are too busy doing other things you enjoy more or care about more and music is something you'd rather leave up to other people to create and distribute, then don't complain when they choose to sell it rather than give it away. And don't complain when their form of distribution doesn't let you enjoy their music any way you want to at your convenience. OR if they have provided a convenient means to enjoy their music... don't complain that it comes with other limitations and costs money to buy in to.
It is as if the whole world feels that an artist's music is automatically public domain and should be given away in the most convenient form possible.
BTW you can just put MP3s on your iPod... as long as you have regular old MP3s to put on there. iTunes may no longer rip MP3s (is that the case?) for you but there are plenty of alternatives that will do it perfectly, then just drag and drop them into iTunes and sync to the iPod.
I did enjoy reading your post though...
I think what he was stating was that people who make more money tend to work longer hours and have more work related stress and therefore tend to self-medicate with alcohol more frequently in an attempt to alleviate that stress.
"Native Hardware access"
This actually seems like downside to me... as an OS X user I am concerned about letting Office or IE (both prone to Viruii) have access to hardware. I think right now I much prefer giving them access only to a VM sandbox where i can easily revert to a known clean copy if the current active one gets infected.
Parent is correct.
I took the SAT in 7th grade and scored a 1050 combined... 550 Language 500 Math, having had a pre-algebra class in 7th grade. Later I scored a 1350 in 10th grade and a 1540 in 11th. As a 7th grade student I had no experience with the SAT, nor did I read any prep manuals. Later I did read some basic prep manuals and had taken a few test exams before each official test was taken. Granted I had by then gone through most of the curriculum being tested but there were many people I knew from my classes who did not do as well as I and was aware that they did not make any effort to get to know the test....
Intelligent kids but not smart enough to see the underlying question, which is whether you will take the time to understand your endeavor before committing to results of your efforts... which the submitter actually seems to 'get', so I suspect he/she will do just fine.
BTW I never did take the final 12th grade SAT exam.... I didn't want to get a perfect score and get lumped in with 'good test takers' . OTOH I didn't end up going to a University either, preferring to learn my trade by doing and avoiding 10s of thousands of tuition debt and whatever else baggage I may have picked up at the social circus we call higher education. SO instead I applied for internships in 12th grade and worked at various agencies half the day, taking the bare minimum classes to graduate (3 a day) plus earning credits via the work program. YMMV.
As predicted here
FYI YMMV => I only spent 15 on this topic...
You have to call in that your phone is stolen... ;-p
;-p
A real British comedy would be someone getting their phone stolen and then stealing someone else's phone to call in their report which would lead to that person stealing a phone to call in the theft of their phone and so on... and they all get hauled in to the station and have to explain what happened.... all bloody yelling at each other and the cops about what a degenerate society they live in... roll credits
I'm pretty sure they are marketing this at execs who have minimum $600 phones and have data worth vast amounts of money in the right persons' hands stored within it.
Also it's not important that it backs up the data... that's a bonus... it's important that it wipes the data on the phone immediately after backing it up.
Think "This message will self-destruct in 10..." but instead of blowing up the phone (which could lead to a lawsuit) it wipes the data and makes the phone really annoying to be around.
IMHO they should not have it activated later "by phone"... they should pair it with a bluetooth card you keep in your wallet or other more secure bodily stored location and trigger it upon disconnect, with the ability to turn it off via a phone call (yes slightly ironic but not as much as having to turn it ON by phone). People don't typically leave a 10 M proximity from their phone at any time.... so it should work pretty well and it could turn off automatically if it comes back into range and pairs up again.
Starting now.
Just put in floor outlets with covers in a big grid, then give people tables/desks on castors that can be locked.... then let them move things around.
Pick an area and stick a big wrap around couch on top of a cool area rug, some end tables with lamps and put a big plasma display in front of it all with a square coffee table in the middle... this is the conference room, hook up a laptop to the plasma and your good to go.
Make a few more smaller seating groups in other areas for team discussions. Finally establish a rule... shhhh be quiet, people work here. If the place has decent acoustics you should be able to have normal conversations without disturbing everyone else. People who like it quiet will migrate away from the meeting areas and those who like the noise or don't care will be wherever.
This will get you started. You'll think up better ideas over time.
This is /. if you're asking if it supports Unicode then just come right out and say it! No need to be all secretive and obtuse....