My double bad. I re-read the press release: "The Shout digital service allows users to communicate personally with groups of various sizes via a text or audio message created quickly and simply from a smart phone." So mass text msgs OR mass audio msgs. So I was partially correct in the original story:)
Thats probably why my SCO submission got rejected before my rewrite succeeded. I bet the editors thought I was making it up. Its one of those "truth is stranger than fiction" things. Too whack to be true, yet it is true.
Yeah they are. But, my submission says trademark not copyright. Read the press release, they have "MeTM" in there. So that implies they are trademarking the term "Me"
Someone must, it went up today after yesterdays announcment which means buying. http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=SCOX Except for that sudden drop at the end of today. Probably the remaining investors taking the 14 cent day's profit (it dropped yesterday, so they musta seen a good chance to buy some low price shares early today) and getting out while the getting was good just before the sudden drop before close.
Seriously, why haven't they been delisted yet? lol.
HAHAAHHAAHAHHA OMG. I love dilbert. Man if I could mod you up I would. That is hilarious. This whole thread there's a ton of hilarious comments here. I'm practically crying I'm laughing so hard over some of them.
McBride? Thats going to be very hard, who's the guy with that name again? Derek? David? Runs some company called SOC or something? Isn't this his wife? [/sarcasm] I wonder if that was done to have a tiny bit of distance between him and this company.
Well it was a press release, what did you expect?:) Anyway, yes, MLM meant multi level marketing when I submitted and I had a wiki link from the word MLM to it in my submission. It got removed somewhere along the way. Here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_marketing It looks like SCO is announcing some sorta wireless thingy where you can use a smartphone (dunno how exact that differs from every cell phone I've seen that can send msgs) to send messages. Only problem is, they are setting it up like a MLM with ppl getting comission to sign others up. So it reeks of scam before they even start.
https://www.edgeclickpark.com/meinc/app My bad, its not text message spam as my submitted article stats. Its pre-recorded phone call spam "Shout Use Shout for broadcasting any kind of voice message or pre-recorded audio message up to one minute long. Announcements, updates, alerts, instructions, motivational messages--whatever gets the job done. "
Whats ironic, is that most types of automatic robotic advertising is illigal already.
As for school closings, thats pretty well publicized right now on websites and on local tv & radio news.
I suppose that this could be used for legitimate purposes like company announcements and such, but really, they can already do that with text messages sent from computer from email.
And quotes like this from the website: "Me Inc. Sales Agents can earn lucrative recurring commissions for themselves or their organizations by selling these rich mobility services to others." "Looking for extra income? Need a recurring revenue stream to support your organization? Then the Me Inc. Sales Agent Program is for you.
If you're a Me Inc. account holder or subscriber in good standing, you're eligible to earn lucrative recurring commissions simply for referring new Me Inc. customers to us.
The Me Inc. services practically sell themselves. Once somebody sees them, they wonder how they ever did without them." And from SCO's press release: "Becoming a Me Inc. Sales Agent requires no technical skills or training and no investment other than a smart phone and a subscription to Me Inc. digital services. With these two simple things, a sales agent can earn up to hundreds or thousands of dollars per sale in commissions and subscription annuities generated by each account they sign up."
do NOT inspire confidance that this will develope as a legitimate business. If they did this without all the MLM aspects they might very well have succeeded in capturing a niche market. Instead I predict that the MLM portion will alienate people and businesses (except spammers).
My name is Dalr McBrid and I've from Nigera. My company has $20,000,000 overseas that we wnt to brang to Ameracas to invest. We will give 10% to anyone who wills help we transfer it.
Are we going to start have to mention that SCO owns us when we talk about me, myself and I? I think that if anyone has a trademark claim on ME it would be microsoft lol. (you can see the TM symbol next to "Me" in the SCO press release).
Some direct quotes from the SCO press release.
"Becoming a Me Inc. Sales Agent requires no technical skills or training and no investment other than a smart phone and a subscription to Me Inc. digital services. With these two simple things, a sales agent can earn up to hundreds or thousands of dollars per sale in commissions and subscription annuities generated by each account they sign up."
"One of my main goals as the mayor of Provo City is to use technology to bless the lives of Provo residents, and Me Inc. is simply and effectively allowing me to do that," said Lewis K. Billings, mayor of Provo, Utah. "Me Inc. is an incredible technology, one which I plan to use continually throughout my term as it dramatically enhances my ability to personally reach constituents."
Thats basically what SCO is doing, a MLM/pyramid scheme. Whats funny is that SCO's is a Utah based company, and Utah is where a huge percentage of MLM stuff originates. I've even heard that one of the ppl who was on SCO's board was involved with starting a MLM a while back so this may be where Darl got the idea
Most MLM/Pyramid schemes are outright scams and illigal. Some few are not, if they actually sell a legitimate product. They are also the cause of a huge amount of spam.
BTW: In case there's any doubt, I'm NOT advocating this. I hate spam, scams and schemes. I just think its a stark example of how far SCO has fallen, and I want people to be aware of what shady things they are trying to do.
No, unfortunately I doubt we will see a big outcry. Why? Because stuff (blu ray and hd dvd and vista, etc) will STILL output a signal without HDCP, its just that it will be 480p.
The average joe who buys a HD tv that has a puny max resolution of 1300x700 or so (like most plasma TV's) and thinks he has something that can do 1080 HD content, will be the kind who won't notice that his blu ray player doesn't look any better than his DVD player. Like the audiophile that spends $5,000 on the audio cables thinking it sounds much better.
They will self deceive themselves into thinking that they have HD content, but really they wont.
Who said it was important? Its just a bunch of my crap that I dont want to delete. All I want to do is be able to search for stuff occasionally. And I dont want to buy 30% more extra space. Why is this so hard to accomplish?
Fortunately I have gotten some other sugestions, like Agent Ransack (freeware), or total commander.
ahhh finally, a viable suggestion:) Thanks I'll check it out. I don't prefer command line utils, but if thats the only way to do what I want, I'll take it. I'm an old DOS junkie from way back. There's still some things I do in DOS rather than windows.
I dont mind having all the search time up front. I can live with that. I can even live with outdated search indexes, usually with the recent stuff I remember where I put it:) What I dont want is having each and every single search across my drives take 10+ mins. I see tons of posts with suggestions that dont answer my question, is there a program that will do filename/foldername searches ONLY? (with the previously specified caveats):)
What I want is something that will create a giant index of filenames/foldernames and search that index when I tell it too. And it shouldn't need to take uber multi gigs of space for just a big file tree listing.
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My double bad. I re-read the press release: :)
"The Shout digital service allows users to communicate personally with groups of various sizes via a text or audio message created quickly and simply from a smart phone."
So mass text msgs OR mass audio msgs. So I was partially correct in the original story
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Thats probably why my SCO submission got rejected before my rewrite succeeded. I bet the editors thought I was making it up. Its one of those "truth is stranger than fiction" things. Too whack to be true, yet it is true.
Are you one of the Knights that say Ni?
Or this:g
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_marketin
Which I had linked to the word MLM in my original submission.
Your link has much more detail and info though.
Yeah they are.
But, my submission says trademark not copyright.
Read the press release, they have "MeTM" in there. So that implies they are trademarking the term "Me"
Someone must, it went up today after yesterdays announcment which means buying.
http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=SCOX
Except for that sudden drop at the end of today. Probably the remaining investors taking the 14 cent day's profit (it dropped yesterday, so they musta seen a good chance to buy some low price shares early today) and getting out while the getting was good just before the sudden drop before close.
Seriously, why haven't they been delisted yet? lol.
HAHAAHHAAHAHHA OMG. I love dilbert. Man if I could mod you up I would. That is hilarious. This whole thread there's a ton of hilarious comments here. I'm practically crying I'm laughing so hard over some of them.
McBride? Thats going to be very hard, who's the guy with that name again? Derek? David? Runs some company called SOC or something?
Isn't this his wife?
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I wonder if that was done to have a tiny bit of distance between him and this company.
Well it was a press release, what did you expect? :)g
Anyway, yes, MLM meant multi level marketing when I submitted and I had a wiki link from the word MLM to it in my submission. It got removed somewhere along the way. Here's the link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_marketin
It looks like SCO is announcing some sorta wireless thingy where you can use a smartphone (dunno how exact that differs from every cell phone I've seen that can send msgs) to send messages. Only problem is, they are setting it up like a MLM with ppl getting comission to sign others up. So it reeks of scam before they even start.
https://www.edgeclickpark.com/meinc/app
My bad, its not text message spam as my submitted article stats. Its pre-recorded phone call spam
"Shout
Use Shout for broadcasting any kind of voice message or pre-recorded audio message up to one minute long. Announcements, updates, alerts, instructions, motivational messages--whatever gets the job done. "
Whats ironic, is that most types of automatic robotic advertising is illigal already.
As for school closings, thats pretty well publicized right now on websites and on local tv & radio news.
I suppose that this could be used for legitimate purposes like company announcements and such, but really, they can already do that with text messages sent from computer from email.
And quotes like this from the website:
"Me Inc. Sales Agents can earn lucrative recurring commissions for themselves or their organizations by selling these rich mobility services to others."
"Looking for extra income? Need a recurring revenue stream to support your organization? Then the Me Inc. Sales Agent Program is for you.
If you're a Me Inc. account holder or subscriber in good standing, you're eligible to earn lucrative recurring commissions simply for referring new Me Inc. customers to us.
The Me Inc. services practically sell themselves. Once somebody sees them, they wonder how they ever did without them."
And from SCO's press release:
"Becoming a Me Inc. Sales Agent requires no technical skills or training and no investment other than a smart phone and a subscription to Me Inc. digital services. With these two simple things, a sales agent can earn up to hundreds or thousands of dollars per sale in commissions and subscription annuities generated by each account they sign up."
do NOT inspire confidance that this will develope as a legitimate business. If they did this without all the MLM aspects they might very well have succeeded in capturing a niche market. Instead I predict that the MLM portion will alienate people and businesses (except spammers).
Thats the idea, its a MLM. Originally that word was linked to multi level marketing wiki article in my submission. /. editors removed that.
My name is Dalr McBrid and I've from Nigera. My company has $20,000,000 overseas that we wnt to brang to Ameracas to invest. We will give 10% to anyone who wills help we transfer it.
Are we going to start have to mention that SCO owns us when we talk about me, myself and I? I think that if anyone has a trademark claim on ME it would be microsoft lol. (you can see the TM symbol next to "Me" in the SCO press release).
/. editors removed a link from my story. I'll put that and a few more here:g
Some direct quotes from the SCO press release.
"Becoming a Me Inc. Sales Agent requires no technical skills or training and no investment other than a smart phone and a subscription to Me Inc. digital services. With these two simple things, a sales agent can earn up to hundreds or thousands of dollars per sale in commissions and subscription annuities generated by each account they sign up."
"One of my main goals as the mayor of Provo City is to use technology to bless the lives of Provo residents, and Me Inc. is simply and effectively allowing me to do that," said Lewis K. Billings, mayor of Provo, Utah. "Me Inc. is an incredible technology, one which I plan to use continually throughout my term as it dramatically enhances my ability to personally reach constituents."
BTW,
MLM= Multi-Level Marketing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_marketin
Pyramid Scheme:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_scheme
Thats basically what SCO is doing, a MLM/pyramid scheme.
Whats funny is that SCO's is a Utah based company, and Utah is where a huge percentage of MLM stuff originates.
I've even heard that one of the ppl who was on SCO's board was involved with starting a MLM a while back so this may be where Darl got the idea
Most MLM/Pyramid schemes are outright scams and illigal. Some few are not, if they actually sell a legitimate product. They are also the cause of a huge amount of spam.
BTW: In case there's any doubt, I'm NOT advocating this. I hate spam, scams and schemes. I just think its a stark example of how far SCO has fallen, and I want people to be aware of what shady things they are trying to do.
No, unfortunately I doubt we will see a big outcry. Why? Because stuff (blu ray and hd dvd and vista, etc) will STILL output a signal without HDCP, its just that it will be 480p. The average joe who buys a HD tv that has a puny max resolution of 1300x700 or so (like most plasma TV's) and thinks he has something that can do 1080 HD content, will be the kind who won't notice that his blu ray player doesn't look any better than his DVD player. Like the audiophile that spends $5,000 on the audio cables thinking it sounds much better. They will self deceive themselves into thinking that they have HD content, but really they wont.
Its 480p max (standard DVD res, NOT HD, not even 720p) if you are without HDCP if you are talking retail HD content on things like Vista.
I think I meant to reply to the grandparent. Sorry.
Who said it was important? Its just a bunch of my crap that I dont want to delete. All I want to do is be able to search for stuff occasionally. And I dont want to buy 30% more extra space. Why is this so hard to accomplish?
Fortunately I have gotten some other sugestions, like Agent Ransack (freeware), or total commander.
Looks like a great proggie. Thanks!
"The Windows Indexing Service uses a fair amount of disk space (approximately 30% the amount of the original files)."m
http://www.theallineed.com/webmasters/04102503.ht
Sorry, no thanks.
reg ex support? Heh I think I'm in love.
ahhh finally, a viable suggestion :) Thanks I'll check it out. I don't prefer command line utils, but if thats the only way to do what I want, I'll take it. I'm an old DOS junkie from way back. There's still some things I do in DOS rather than windows.
I dont mind having all the search time up front. I can live with that. I can even live with outdated search indexes, usually with the recent stuff I remember where I put it :) What I dont want is having each and every single search across my drives take 10+ mins. I see tons of posts with suggestions that dont answer my question, is there a program that will do filename/foldername searches ONLY? (with the previously specified caveats) :)
"The Windows Indexing Service uses a fair amount of disk space (approximately 30% the amount of the original files)."i ng-Service-for-Performance&id=15827
http://ezinearticles.com/?Configure-Windows-Index
Hmm, naw I'll pass.
What I want is something that will create a giant index of filenames/foldernames and search that index when I tell it too. And it shouldn't need to take uber multi gigs of space for just a big file tree listing.
Thanks I'll have to give that a try. It wont help me for non picture searches though.