but one of the fun things about having a VCR is being able to borrow someone's tape. With Tivo or any other digital device, there is no physical device that you can readily share or borrow. Sure, you can probably crack the box and take the hard drive out, but who is really going to do that. Another problem with tivo, you're limited to whatever programming your cable or satellite provider beams into your home. What happens if your daughter wants to watch Bambi? Tivo isn't going to help you there. A VCR owner can just go out and buy it, or better yet, borrow it from the next door neighbor. Granted, this isn't really a knock against Tivo but it does demostrate that while Tivo sounds great, it is not a replacement for the VCR just yet.
At the end of October, fresh from a global tour, Sam Palmisano, a senior vice president, reported that the Internet companies he spoke with told him that the preferred language of the young programmers they were hiring was Linux.
Once again, pseudo tech journalism. The NY Times should be ashamed.
I loved that thing! It was a computer/word processor system that came with a daisy wheel printer, tape drive (no floppy) and a keyboard. You could plug it right into your tv so a monitor wasn't necessary. That helped to bring the costs down. It also came with a space game and an Apple-like BASIC programming language. It also came with a cartridge slot that played colecovision games !
I would spend days copying game listings from magazines only to find that they didn't work because they were designed to run on true Apple systems.
The ADAM was out around the time Draqon's Lair was the top arcade video game. Coleco kept promising to release a laser-disk and a Dragon's Lair game. I think that was my first experience with vaporware.
The printer would print about 1 page per minute. The only problem was there were glitches in the printer system that would cause the printer to spew out garbage intermittently. I remember my cousing coming over one night to type up a paper that was due the next morning. It took us 8 hours to get a 10 page paper done. He left my house at 5am.
I agree. The only thing more offensive than Amazon patenting web technologies like one click and affiliate programs is Bezos's holier than thou attitude with regard to the defensive nature of the patents. He should be honest and admit that Amazon is attempting to profit by patenting trivial applications using technologies (HTTP,HTML.Perl, etc.) given freely by true internet benefactors.
It appears that this type of patent does exactly what Jeff Bezos wanted to do when he patented one click technology -- it establishes prior art and prevents someone else from coming along and patenting the same technology. If Jeff Bezos was telling the truth when he said Amazon was using the patent system as a defense mechanism to prevent future competitors from copying their technology and putting them out of business, the SIR patents would seem to be the way to go. It wouldn't give Amazon the right to sue anyone for damages but it would put a stop to anyone from stealing their "technological innovations".
I wonder how Jeff will talk himself out of this.
Slashdot...thanks for the great story. If we could moderate stories (which I think is a good idea), I would give this a +5 for informative. Keep them coming like this !
Diversity in Multi-player online games is desperately needed. I don't have anything against RPG's but a change of pace is needed. I think the Star Wars franchise is an obvious choice and can be well exploited in a multi-player online setting. I've never personally played any of the Star Wars games but I'll keep an eye out for this. I'm wondering if this will be a PC release of PSX2, or perhaps a combination of both?
The patent term should be significantly shortened, at least for algorithms. The patent system was designed to benefit society as a whole, ensuring that new ideas would eventually be made public after a limited period of time instead of being kept as trade secrets. But 20 years is incredibly long in the software area. Granting a monopoly for such a long time no longer benefits society.
Unfortunately, I don't think a lot of people on Capitol Hill read slashdot frequently. Someone will eventually need to trudge to D.C. and make the case. The viability of the software industry is at stake.
dude, I'm being very serious. I'm not trolling, honest ! It appears that it was a big April Fool's joke that I missed. I usually don't pay attention to cookies but I'm very recently become interested in them.
My God, you are one angry, bitter person. I feel sorry for you. You must be a very unhappy, unsatisfied person. Hopefully, things will start looking up for you.
As to your comment regarding the obviousness of the cookies being a joke, I apologize for not knowing Rob's sense of humour.
As to your assertion that it's not possible for slashdot to know my personal information, you may technically be correct on that. But if you've been following the doings of DoubleClick, there are ways to match your information to databases of info that do have your personal information.
Thanks for the explanation. You have to understand that seeing those cookies is very disturbing to say the least. I hope it is some kind of joke. I just wonder why they weren't deleted if it was intended as a joke.
This is lifted directly from my cookies file. The interesting this is Ionly have these cookies on my work PC (NT) but I don't have them on my Linux box at home:
I don't know why slashdot would need these cookies. That's why I'm asking. I've sent Rob an email. I just wanted to give everyone else a heads up in case they have the same cookies.
You guys can mod me down for being Off-Topic all you want. I don't give a damn about karma. I want an answer as to why those cookies are being stored and where Rob Malda is getting the information. You people need to know this. Don't blindly mod me down without thinking about the ramification.
I guess you're not familiar with advocacy purchasing. Have you ever bought girl scout cookies that you really didn't want, or subscribe to a magazine that you really didn't want to support a cause?
The same thing is going on here. If the previous poster believes his money is well-spent, why would you consider him a fool? I guess it's easy to attack someone rather than use your brain.
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plain old text works the way you think extrans should work. it's been that way since I can remember...I think.
what is extrans supposed to do? it says it leaves html tags as text, which it did to your post. what were you expecting?
Speaking about the features of Chili ASP:
Based on Microsoft's Active Server Pages technology, the de facto standard for Web applications .
That's an odd statement. Isn't Perl/CGI used much more prevalently than ASP ?
but one of the fun things about having a VCR is being able to borrow someone's tape. With Tivo or any other digital device, there is no physical device that you can readily share or borrow. Sure, you can probably crack the box and take the hard drive out, but who is really going to do that.
Another problem with tivo, you're limited to whatever programming your cable or satellite provider beams into your home. What happens if your daughter wants to watch Bambi? Tivo isn't going to help you there. A VCR owner can just go out and buy it, or better yet, borrow it from the next door neighbor. Granted, this isn't really a knock against Tivo but it does demostrate that while Tivo sounds great, it is not a replacement for the VCR just yet.
You can order your very own Iron Chef to cater parties. That's ok...we have Emeril.
hi signall ! nice new user name!
How do you feel about Microsoft doing its best to nullify the work you've done with Samba. How does it feel to be a target of Microsoft !
quote from article:
At the end of October, fresh from a global tour, Sam Palmisano, a senior vice president, reported that the Internet companies he spoke with told him that the preferred language of the young programmers they were hiring was Linux.
Once again, pseudo tech journalism. The NY Times should be ashamed.
I loved that thing! It was a computer/word processor system that came with a daisy wheel printer, tape drive (no floppy) and a keyboard. You could plug it right into your tv so a monitor wasn't necessary. That helped to bring the costs down. It also came with a space game and an Apple-like BASIC programming language. It also came with a cartridge slot that played colecovision games !
I would spend days copying game listings from magazines only to find that they didn't work because they were designed to run on true Apple systems.
The ADAM was out around the time Draqon's Lair was the top arcade video game. Coleco kept promising to release a laser-disk and a Dragon's Lair game. I think that was my first experience with vaporware.
The printer would print about 1 page per minute. The only problem was there were glitches in the printer system that would cause the printer to spew out garbage intermittently. I remember my cousing coming over one night to type up a paper that was due the next morning. It took us 8 hours to get a 10 page paper done. He left my house at 5am.
Ah, the memories.
I agree. The only thing more offensive than Amazon patenting web technologies like one click and affiliate programs is Bezos's holier than thou attitude with regard to the defensive nature of the patents. He should be honest and admit that Amazon is attempting to profit by patenting trivial applications using technologies (HTTP,HTML.Perl, etc.) given freely by true internet benefactors.
It appears that this type of patent does exactly what Jeff Bezos wanted to do when he patented one click technology -- it establishes prior art and prevents someone else from coming along and patenting the same technology. If Jeff Bezos was telling the truth when he said Amazon was using the patent system as a defense mechanism to prevent future competitors from copying their technology and putting them out of business, the SIR patents would seem to be the way to go. It wouldn't give Amazon the right to sue anyone for damages but it would put a stop to anyone from stealing their "technological innovations".
I wonder how Jeff will talk himself out of this.
Slashdot...thanks for the great story. If we could moderate stories (which I think is a good idea), I would give this a +5 for informative. Keep them coming like this !
Diversity in Multi-player online games is desperately needed. I don't have anything against RPG's but a change of pace is needed. I think the Star Wars franchise is an obvious choice and can be well exploited in a multi-player online setting. I've never personally played any of the Star Wars games but I'll keep an eye out for this. I'm wondering if this will be a PC release of PSX2, or perhaps a combination of both?
Several reforms are necessary:
The patent term should be significantly shortened, at least for algorithms. The patent system was designed to benefit society as a whole, ensuring that new ideas would eventually be made public after a limited period of time instead of being kept as trade secrets. But 20 years is incredibly long in the software area. Granting a monopoly for such a long time no longer benefits society.
Unfortunately, I don't think a lot of people on Capitol Hill read slashdot frequently. Someone will eventually need to trudge to D.C. and make the case. The viability of the software industry is at stake.
dude, I'm being very serious. I'm not trolling, honest ! It appears that it was a big April Fool's joke that I missed. I usually don't pay attention to cookies but I'm very recently become interested in them.
My God, you are one angry, bitter person. I feel sorry for you. You must be a very unhappy, unsatisfied person. Hopefully, things will start looking up for you.
As to your comment regarding the obviousness of the cookies being a joke, I apologize for not knowing Rob's sense of humour.
As to your assertion that it's not possible for slashdot to know my personal information, you may technically be correct on that. But if you've been following the doings of DoubleClick, there are ways to match your information to databases of info that do have your personal information.
thanks for that info. Rob sure has a weird sense of humour. The least he could have done was delete the cookies.
thanks for the info. I wonder why they didn't expire.
there's no need for that.
Thanks for the explanation. You have to understand that seeing those cookies is very disturbing to say the least. I hope it is some kind of joke. I just wonder why they weren't deleted if it was intended as a joke.
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.slashdot.org TRUE / FALSE 1238374457 income_bracket 5040447.43720442
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I don't know why slashdot would need these cookies. That's why I'm asking. I've sent Rob an email. I just wanted to give everyone else a heads up in case they have the same cookies.
Rob Malda is selling us out. I found these following cookies that slashdot stores:
religion
soc_sec_num
mothers_maiden_name
income_bracket
sexual_orientation
You guys can mod me down for being Off-Topic all you want. I don't give a damn about karma. I want an answer as to why those cookies are being stored and where Rob Malda is getting the information. You people need to know this. Don't blindly mod me down without thinking about the ramification.
everyone should use KDE.
I guess you're not familiar with advocacy purchasing. Have you ever bought girl scout cookies that you really didn't want, or subscribe to a magazine that you really didn't want to support a cause?
The same thing is going on here. If the previous poster believes his money is well-spent, why would you consider him a fool? I guess it's easy to attack someone rather than use your brain.
I thought after his problems with Monica that he would be a staunch advocate of anonymity.
I guess the sale of your soul is finalized. That would explain the rash of article posting of inflammatory "news". I used to respect you.