This submission about Kodak discontinuing B/W paper production is categorically incorrect!! I did a little research because I want to put an end to Slashdot lies and found that indeed Kodak is promoting and selling black and white paper for use with the same looking single lense reflex camera you had back when you had that telephoto lense and got some nice shots of that chick naked in the appartment acros.. nevermind.. And not only that, they upgraded the camera for this futuristic paper and GUESS WHAT! Not only can do control depth of field and shutter or whatever it is you do that makes your pictures "artistic" or whateverthefuck, you can use your old SLR lenses on Kodak's frickin awesome SLRs. So calm down and damnit editors do not drop to the Republican's level to use fear to increase ummm... Kodak sales. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Microsoft's greatest asset is their marketshare because in this particular industry large marketshare leads to larger marketshare. If you have a few chunks of the world here and there unwilling enough to pay the Microsoft tax, then there will be a greater demand in that country to make software for society to be accommodated with. Then that free/cheaper software born out of competition chips away at Microsoft's leverage to use their marketshare to gain more.
I'd bet it is worth more to Microsoft to give away Windows to every Brazillian for free than to lose some business by pricing it too high, if they could only do one or the other.
Thanks;), good eye. The traffic to my site has maxed out my dsl. This domain thing stopped being an issue in my life ten months ago, but it looked like good thread material to get the.sig noticed. If I were trying to find an answer to the actual legal question I would not have brought up girlfriends. The fish are hungry!
This is no longer relavent to the original question but I dumped her, partly because of trust issues, and that she made the threat pre-emptively made the move seem more palatable to me. I couldn't trust her not to make white (or worse) lies and well, she couldn't trust me with a domain name. Funny how the slashdot crowd presumes if someone has had a girlfriend at any point and the relationship ended that it was the guy who got dumped.
I did register it in my name. I paid for it, it's my name and address on the whois, and regardless of the domain itself, I own the sucker (or so I think).
The nature of Internet2 is such that institutions that managed to gain access are more likely to implement and enforce a policy that restricts their students from doing anything that carries even the slightest chance of liability. In contrast, the regular internet is filled with ISPs that compete for customers and want to keep them as happy as possible by avoiding kazaa port filtering even when a form letter from the RIAA's lawyer comes in the mail.
So, all dollars spent on a campaign that targets this particular network will produce greater (relatively speaking) results in curbing this behavior. Smart, I'll give them that.
The website was the gift actually. And to be more specific it was toward the end of the relationship when things were getting rocky and she was worried I'd use it to put up nasty stuff about her, and her not trusting me was what made me retaliate by not acquiescing. In my defense, I told her no matter what happened I'd maintain the site and make any changes she wanted or had someone else do and then upload it myself, a gesture of good faith, and she immediately brought up lawyers.
As a Valentine's day gift I bought my now-ex girlfriend her name dot com and threw up a little vanity site for her. Anyway, now that we're not together, she wants me to transfer the domain to her. I'm not sure why, but I refused, and she said that if I don't give it to her, even though (I think) I am safely the legal owner of the domain despite its being her first and last name, she'd "sick my dad's lawyers on you anyway."
I've heard about more than one incident of people handing over a domain at the threat of litigation even when they know they're in the right simply because it would be necessary to hire lawyers either way and a cost-benefit analysis yields that they should just bend over and give up. The 2600 guys have had plenty of experience down this path. Have there been cases where people have counter-sued for being, I don't know the word -- extored, blackmailed, whatever -- in a situation where someone with a lot of cash muscles the other side into folding simply because they know the other side has neither the money nor, in other cases, the political capital to defend themselves?
Parenthetically, I like the UK's system in which the plaintiff has to pay the defendant's legal bills if the suit loses. We should do that.
Their mission: "LexisNexis® provides authoritative legal, news, public records and business information; including tax and regulatory publications in online, print or CD-ROM formats."
We don't need them to satisfy those purposes anymore. Their time has passed. Thanks to free alternatives to finding stuff out, we simply don't need what used to be an elite "authoritative" prestigious service with an immaculate brand. I'm glad they're getting this bad press. The market for information, even reliable information, has been nice and saturated and their business model is now obsolete. So screw 'em.
It makes me smile to see some kids doing a group project at some random college make an apparently major discovery that solves some mystery that the pros at NASA couldn't handle. Stuff like this and that X Prize thing shows that there are indeed a few things citizens are capable of handling. High five, kids. NASA, get on the ball.
It makes me nervous to see more than a few broadband suppliers with subscribers in the millions. With those numbers comes not just cheaper general overhead but heavy marketing budgets. And with only the bigstackers running television ads, people have no idea what the little guys are offering.
The market is naturally inefficient and stacked against the consumer. For example, Joe Freeloader in Connecticut is frustrated that he can't seem to access Kazaa via Cablevision broadband, but to his knowledge that's the only ISP in the area that offers broadband, because that's the only ISP that's running local ads for broadband access.
My question is, in a town that has only one company that supplies cable TV and they happen to offer bundled packages for broadband as well, is it legally sketchy for them to refuse to sell advertising to competing ISPs and only run ads for themselves?
What kind of software is used for high budget special effects like those seen in the latest Star Wars and well every other movie? What OS, and if Linux, is Blender capable of this?
Teachers in particular have frequently demanded that students not use the web as sources because "anyone could write anything" and not be held accountable. However, with Wiki, while people can indeed write anything, everything is subjected to heavy scrutiny by the God-knows-how-many visitors to the site. Errors get corrected, definitions expand and over time the site gets more traffic and its content accelerates exponentially to perfection, or at least to the accuracy of a two-shelf encyclopedia (except up to date).
With Yahoo joining the club, the site obviously will get a tremendous boost in the aforementioned correlation of increased visitors producing increased accuracy. Also, with the Yahoo deal, and with other dynamic visitor-updated info sites like blogs being taken more seriously by the mainstream media, you can expect other high rolling companies to follow Yahoo's lead.
By the way, when I'm looking for an answer to any question that requires human interpretation to my query, I use ask-it-here. While I'm being informative, here's a link to a Firefox extension that lets you (I think by means of a right click) look up a word quickly on a number of sites including Wiki.
When Johnny Law went after Napster, I remember thinking to myself that even if they're successful with Napster, the demand to download music and video will overpower the threat of litigation to individuals and the only result would be some laywers getting richer.
Then Apple comes along and demonstrates indeed you can get a whole lot of people, many of whom already know how to easily get it elsewhere for free, to pay cash money for intellectual property if you come up with an alternative method that is more convenient and easier to understand and use, they will come and pay to use it. If you build it, in Apple's case an easier way to procure music and in the Australian case a way to download something otherwise not available for months, they will come and pay.
Glad to see that these television executives tackling the problem by means of legal threats (like the MPAA did), but of a better product that makes it more appealing to consumers (in this case I'm guessing) offering them to download it from fast and reliable servers without any risk of clicking something named West Wing and finding out they actually got an old Fraggle Rock episode, also possibly letting the user select the resolution and frame rate they want based on how fast their internet connection is and how long they want to wait. Whatever they do, if it's easier than tracking down another suprnova site, people will pay and it will be successful to a good degree. With all due respect to any of you who are lawyers, you are weak and not needed in this market.
"Unfortunately grass has no political lobby, which makes the start up of any new alternative energy industry problematic," says Cherney
A huge market barrier is that consumers won't take the chance because they're not confident they will find gas stations that supply this stuff (not to mention all the other alternatives that have been around for a while). And what's in it for the gas stations to get started in investing in whatever equipment is necessary to store and pump this stuff?
Sorry to be Johnny Raincloud, but big changes, even if for the better with no apparent logical downside, tend not to happen. Regarding high gas prices, enough people are satisfied simply with bitching about the prices and won't bother making any dramatic changes. They're enough of them for the market to get away with blocking out newcomers like grass.
Back in the day when bandwidth was an issue, there was a format that was half midi half sound samples. The sound was convincing (ie it didn't sound like a cheap keyboard) considering the size and it was a good compromise between a file containing essentially sheet music and a straight-up 50 meg wave file. Whoever came up with that, high five.
I realize it would cost a lot of cash money (if even possible) and would probably require more than one shuttle mission, but the Hubble is in the top ten of NASA's items of greatest symbolic value in our history. The thing belongs in a museum, not the ocean. It'd be a bitch to retrieve and we'd be risking lives, but you gotta respect the Hubble and figure out how to get that puppy back without disintigrating it too much.
My '85 Jaguar XJ8 normally, according to its own-board computer thingy, would get 23 miles per gallon tops (doing 65-70 or so seemed to be optimal). Yesterday I took a close look at the max air pressure warning on side of the tires and realized I was nowhere near it. Long story short, I'm getting 27mpg, 29 if I'm tailgating an 18 wheeler. A five mpg increase is huge, and anything above 20mpg is not bad for a twenty year old heavy luxory car, despite its not having the technological advancements in effeciency that we supposedly made over the two decades.
What I'm getting at is that before you drop many Gs to save some gas by tricking out your Prius or buying one of these hybrid jobs, first make sure your tires are filled up nice and good and see what happens. Parenthetically, the car's allignment magically fixed itself after the tire inflations.
I'm going to try to present this in a non-paranoid tinfoil hat mentality: I could see this being a great feature if I were in the PDF sending business for marketing purposes or whatever. Now if I were in the FBI/CIA business, this would be great to use, for example, to proliferate PDFs on Kazaa with filenames/tags suggesting they contain info on how to make bombs or blueprints to the Pentagon so that I could collect IPs of whoever's interested in this type of stuff. You see where I'm going with that.
Also, I definitely do not want to risk exposing my static IP to anyone, especially in a way that involves new technology that may be quite exploitable, just by clicking on a PDF link on google. I'm sorry but c'mon, that's just too much. Nevertheless, assuming the technology is viable, there'll be a demand that will outweigh objection for this new feature and Adobe will do it and make more money.
The blaster virus must have been the single best thing to happen to the antivirus software industry. And not just the companies in that particular subsector either. Security from viruses, spyware, popups and hacking in general has become a fear around which many companies have started marketing themselves. Take AOL's latest ads, or even non Internet operations like credit card companies and their new gimmick innovations against identity theft.
Just like how Bush has been accurately criticized for capitalizing on fear to push his agenda, many companies are now benefiting from fear in this context. Hell yes it was a bitch to deal with Blaster and friends, but I got paid cash money to remove it from a lot of people's computers. One time got some ass from it. So to those of us who are fans of capitalism and consumerism, or ass maybe, this is a Good Thing, and the economy has been helped more than it has been hurt by crap like this.
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Easy buddy, "keep it up" was my own little joke having checked his posts page. Btw, your uid is 70000 higher than mine. I'm 0ldschool, kiddo.
Jesus Christ I actually laughed out loud from that one. Keep it up, New Here!
Yeah well the jerk store called, they're running out of you.
This submission about Kodak discontinuing B/W paper production is categorically incorrect!! I did a little research because I want to put an end to Slashdot lies and found that indeed Kodak is promoting and selling black and white paper for use with the same looking single lense reflex camera you had back when you had that telephoto lense and got some nice shots of that chick naked in the appartment acros.. nevermind.. And not only that, they upgraded the camera for this futuristic paper and GUESS WHAT! Not only can do control depth of field and shutter or whatever it is you do that makes your pictures "artistic" or whateverthefuck, you can use your old SLR lenses on Kodak's frickin awesome SLRs. So calm down and damnit editors do not drop to the Republican's level to use fear to increase ummm... Kodak sales. Yeah, that's the ticket.
I'd bet it is worth more to Microsoft to give away Windows to every Brazillian for free than to lose some business by pricing it too high, if they could only do one or the other.
Thanks ;), good eye. The traffic to my site has maxed out my dsl. This domain thing stopped being an issue in my life ten months ago, but it looked like good thread material to get the .sig noticed. If I were trying to find an answer to the actual legal question I would not have brought up girlfriends. The fish are hungry!
This is no longer relavent to the original question but I dumped her, partly because of trust issues, and that she made the threat pre-emptively made the move seem more palatable to me. I couldn't trust her not to make white (or worse) lies and well, she couldn't trust me with a domain name. Funny how the slashdot crowd presumes if someone has had a girlfriend at any point and the relationship ended that it was the guy who got dumped.
I'll have to run that by my psychoanalyst, but my guess is I'm keeping it because I'm an asshole.
I did register it in my name. I paid for it, it's my name and address on the whois, and regardless of the domain itself, I own the sucker (or so I think).
So, all dollars spent on a campaign that targets this particular network will produce greater (relatively speaking) results in curbing this behavior. Smart, I'll give them that.
The website was the gift actually. And to be more specific it was toward the end of the relationship when things were getting rocky and she was worried I'd use it to put up nasty stuff about her, and her not trusting me was what made me retaliate by not acquiescing. In my defense, I told her no matter what happened I'd maintain the site and make any changes she wanted or had someone else do and then upload it myself, a gesture of good faith, and she immediately brought up lawyers.
I've heard about more than one incident of people handing over a domain at the threat of litigation even when they know they're in the right simply because it would be necessary to hire lawyers either way and a cost-benefit analysis yields that they should just bend over and give up. The 2600 guys have had plenty of experience down this path. Have there been cases where people have counter-sued for being, I don't know the word -- extored, blackmailed, whatever -- in a situation where someone with a lot of cash muscles the other side into folding simply because they know the other side has neither the money nor, in other cases, the political capital to defend themselves?
Parenthetically, I like the UK's system in which the plaintiff has to pay the defendant's legal bills if the suit loses. We should do that.
We don't need them to satisfy those purposes anymore. Their time has passed. Thanks to free alternatives to finding stuff out, we simply don't need what used to be an elite "authoritative" prestigious service with an immaculate brand. I'm glad they're getting this bad press. The market for information, even reliable information, has been nice and saturated and their business model is now obsolete. So screw 'em.
It makes me smile to see some kids doing a group project at some random college make an apparently major discovery that solves some mystery that the pros at NASA couldn't handle. Stuff like this and that X Prize thing shows that there are indeed a few things citizens are capable of handling. High five, kids. NASA, get on the ball.
The market is naturally inefficient and stacked against the consumer. For example, Joe Freeloader in Connecticut is frustrated that he can't seem to access Kazaa via Cablevision broadband, but to his knowledge that's the only ISP in the area that offers broadband, because that's the only ISP that's running local ads for broadband access.
My question is, in a town that has only one company that supplies cable TV and they happen to offer bundled packages for broadband as well, is it legally sketchy for them to refuse to sell advertising to competing ISPs and only run ads for themselves?
What kind of software is used for high budget special effects like those seen in the latest Star Wars and well every other movie? What OS, and if Linux, is Blender capable of this?
With Yahoo joining the club, the site obviously will get a tremendous boost in the aforementioned correlation of increased visitors producing increased accuracy. Also, with the Yahoo deal, and with other dynamic visitor-updated info sites like blogs being taken more seriously by the mainstream media, you can expect other high rolling companies to follow Yahoo's lead.
By the way, when I'm looking for an answer to any question that requires human interpretation to my query, I use ask-it-here. While I'm being informative, here's a link to a Firefox extension that lets you (I think by means of a right click) look up a word quickly on a number of sites including Wiki.
Then Apple comes along and demonstrates indeed you can get a whole lot of people, many of whom already know how to easily get it elsewhere for free, to pay cash money for intellectual property if you come up with an alternative method that is more convenient and easier to understand and use, they will come and pay to use it. If you build it, in Apple's case an easier way to procure music and in the Australian case a way to download something otherwise not available for months, they will come and pay.
Glad to see that these television executives tackling the problem by means of legal threats (like the MPAA did), but of a better product that makes it more appealing to consumers (in this case I'm guessing) offering them to download it from fast and reliable servers without any risk of clicking something named West Wing and finding out they actually got an old Fraggle Rock episode, also possibly letting the user select the resolution and frame rate they want based on how fast their internet connection is and how long they want to wait. Whatever they do, if it's easier than tracking down another suprnova site, people will pay and it will be successful to a good degree. With all due respect to any of you who are lawyers, you are weak and not needed in this market.
Too bad it's Java based, I'd hate to be reading and suddenly it crashes and I can't turn the page.
Hey Japs, way to be.
A huge market barrier is that consumers won't take the chance because they're not confident they will find gas stations that supply this stuff (not to mention all the other alternatives that have been around for a while). And what's in it for the gas stations to get started in investing in whatever equipment is necessary to store and pump this stuff?
Sorry to be Johnny Raincloud, but big changes, even if for the better with no apparent logical downside, tend not to happen. Regarding high gas prices, enough people are satisfied simply with bitching about the prices and won't bother making any dramatic changes. They're enough of them for the market to get away with blocking out newcomers like grass.
Back in the day when bandwidth was an issue, there was a format that was half midi half sound samples. The sound was convincing (ie it didn't sound like a cheap keyboard) considering the size and it was a good compromise between a file containing essentially sheet music and a straight-up 50 meg wave file. Whoever came up with that, high five.
How 'bout it, science?
What I'm getting at is that before you drop many Gs to save some gas by tricking out your Prius or buying one of these hybrid jobs, first make sure your tires are filled up nice and good and see what happens. Parenthetically, the car's allignment magically fixed itself after the tire inflations.
Also, I definitely do not want to risk exposing my static IP to anyone, especially in a way that involves new technology that may be quite exploitable, just by clicking on a PDF link on google. I'm sorry but c'mon, that's just too much. Nevertheless, assuming the technology is viable, there'll be a demand that will outweigh objection for this new feature and Adobe will do it and make more money.
Just like how Bush has been accurately criticized for capitalizing on fear to push his agenda, many companies are now benefiting from fear in this context. Hell yes it was a bitch to deal with Blaster and friends, but I got paid cash money to remove it from a lot of people's computers. One time got some ass from it. So to those of us who are fans of capitalism and consumerism, or ass maybe, this is a Good Thing, and the economy has been helped more than it has been hurt by crap like this.