I beg to differ. That's like saying that there isn't much demand for Porsches...the demand isn't the problem, the price is! We all WANT 'em, we just can't AFFORD 'em! There isn't much demand for LCD computer & TV screens at nose-bleed prices. Lower the price to a reasonable level, and you'll see how much there really is.
Let's see I've done the following things in the last month and would like to hide them...they're all either illegal or could bring govt./community attention...
1. Drove 65mph in a 55mph zone. 2. Spanked my daughter...just one swat on the bottom. 3. Had anal with the wife. 4. Didn't go to church. 5. Surfed the web at work on company time.
I like my privacy. It allows me to stay get to work faster, raise my kid as I see fit, do my wife in the ass, not worry about how the neighbors feel about my religous beliefs, and not lose my job.
I think you folks are on the wrong track. Try considering this a being written against the use of boxes to get free cable/satellite TV. I've seen quite a few of these units in the Detroit suburbs.
My 11 yr old daughter just got Micrososoft spam on her AOL (not A-hOLe!) yesterday...yikes sounds like prOn!
This was the first time...and I marked it as spam (using a beta version of AOL's new e-mail package). Don't think any of us have ever seen spam from them before though.
Please forgive me for being an AOHell Dork, but I signed up back in the early 90's when the choices were either them or CompUServ, and I've been too lazy to change.
Yes, the master screenname (AOL allows up to seven screennames) can set the e-mail blocking for each name...they can all be different. So, my kid is only allowed to receive e-mail from known addresses, while my junkmail account (the one I use whenever I *have* to give out an address to some website) is left wide open (I rarely look at it), and my spouse's is different still. So, while all the users may not know their settings, whoever did the master account setup does.
Lately, I've been using the beta AOL Communicator, which seems to be catching roughly +90% of the spam before it hits my inbox, and I've only noticed one false positive over the last month.
Those spammers should be taken OUTBACK and shot. Did they send the the messages DOWN UNDER the filters, or did that crap just flow through the pipe in the opposite direction???
You've gotta be kidding! Let's see, should we feed say about 50000 homeless people, or go explore a rock that we won't actually send anyone to for the next thousand years? Yes, it's small change in the world of trillion dollar budgets, but geez someone needs to get their priorities straight!
This is the same problem that the military runs into with Congress every year at budget time. Everyone on Capital Hill wants a piece of the pork, so lobbists push Congress, who push into doing something that they haven't asked for, usually because they would rather focus on something they view as more important. It wasn't some GI that bought that $500 hammer or toilet seat.
But SGI's screw up was attempting to conform to the Borg when they tried to move to Windoz NinTendo. Their entire base of expertize was in Unix (IRIX), so it wasn't a real bright move on their part (geez...let's retrain all of our engineers...DUH!). And, by the time they realized it, it was too late
Europeans, due to over-taxation, have been paying triple the gas prices than we Americans do for ages. Has it made the folks at BMW, Mercedes, etc. produce more fuel efficient vehicles...NO! There are plenty of gas-hogs over there.
Don't you think that when the price of fuel increases that it causes the price of all the goods that are transported to increase in price??? Cheap fuel helps the economy!
Sure we should work toward more fuel efficient vehicles, but Detroit is going to produce whatever the public demands. As for SUVs, I don't own one, and I hate being around them on the highway because you can't see around them. That said, I wouldn't mind having one myself, just for the added safety...when driven properly. There are plenty of older vehicles that suck more fuel than today's SUVs. And, why are all these folks picking on SUVs, but not mentioning vans?
You obviously have no concept of how competitive that business is...let me explain.
We're talking about a small business here...Dad, my brother, and about 20 employees. This is a rags-to-middle class story for our family. Ford or GM come to him with a part, and ask him to design a specialzed container for it. If we invest our time and effort to create a new part or process for it, how do you propose that we should be compensated for that? Is there risk?...absolutely! You don't think they come just to us, do you? And when the auto companies are attempting to keep their own costs down (read: profits up), and take our design to another supplier (there are many big boys that would like to eat our lunch), how do we protect ourselves?
Sorry, but you're either a troll, or just plain ignorant of how real business works.
My company takes the risk the risk to develop a new product or process. We patent it, market it, it becomes successful, and we profit. Then it becomes wildly successful and we should give up the profit just because it is SO useful!?!
The more likely scenario is that my company spends R&D money and is never lucky enough to generate a successful product. The vast majority of patents don't even end up making the inventor any serious money.
The idea that Phillips should lose it's patent on the CD-ROM is PATENTLY rediculous! However, there should be some way to prevent abuse of a patent that has become a mainstream need for the general public...anyone know what the rules are, or are there none? As long as the patent holder doesn't go increasing their fees, how are they profiting "at the expense of the public", when the public had the choice of accepting or rejecting the product in the first place!?!
Sorry if I sound like I'm ranting, but my dad controls many patents in the corregated box business, and has had to fight to protect them many times over the years. Yes, plain old cardboard boxes have patents too. You'd be amazed at how many specialized containers the auto industry needs.
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I beg to differ. That's like saying that there isn't much demand for Porsches...the demand isn't the problem, the price is! We all WANT 'em, we just can't AFFORD 'em! There isn't much demand for LCD computer & TV screens at nose-bleed prices. Lower the price to a reasonable level, and you'll see how much there really is.
So, we all be able to answer the question for certain when asked: Who's yer daddy???
Let's see I've done the following things in the last month and would like to hide them...they're all either illegal or could bring govt./community attention...
1. Drove 65mph in a 55mph zone.
2. Spanked my daughter...just one swat on the bottom.
3. Had anal with the wife.
4. Didn't go to church.
5. Surfed the web at work on company time.
I like my privacy. It allows me to stay get to work faster, raise my kid as I see fit, do my wife in the ass, not worry about how the neighbors feel about my religous beliefs, and not lose my job.
I think you folks are on the wrong track. Try considering this a being written against the use of boxes to get free cable/satellite TV. I've seen quite a few of these units in the Detroit suburbs.
If you're a geek (look up the definition yourself), I want to see you bite the head off of a live chicken. Damn, someone hijacked that definition too!
>> Lastly, imagine the chaos that will reign when Redhat releases Red Hat 10
Imagine the chaos that will reign when MicroSoft releases Windows 95...OOPS too late
So since when does the wolf get to teach about sheep herding???
Hey this jerk can kiss my conservative ass too...there are plenty of jerks on both sides. Maybe we should all send him our opinions... Texass
My 11 yr old daughter just got Micrososoft spam on her AOL (not A-hOLe!) yesterday...yikes sounds like prOn!
This was the first time...and I marked it as spam (using a beta version of AOL's new e-mail package). Don't think any of us have ever seen spam from them before though.
Please forgive me for being an AOHell Dork, but I signed up back in the early 90's when the choices were either them or CompUServ, and I've been too lazy to change.
Yes, the master screenname (AOL allows up to seven screennames) can set the e-mail blocking for each name...they can all be different. So, my kid is only allowed to receive e-mail from known addresses, while my junkmail account (the one I use whenever I *have* to give out an address to some website) is left wide open (I rarely look at it), and my spouse's is different still. So, while all the users may not know their settings, whoever did the master account setup does.
Lately, I've been using the beta AOL Communicator, which seems to be catching roughly +90% of the spam before it hits my inbox, and I've only noticed one false positive over the last month.
Those spammers should be taken OUTBACK and shot. Did they send the the messages DOWN UNDER the filters, or did that crap just flow through the pipe in the opposite direction???
1. Copyright black wallpaper
2. profit
Hey, you're welcome to come by and take a truckload of "senseless beauty" off my driveway...please!
In a blizzard of enlightment, Slashdot editors got snowed into posting this by some flake!
You've gotta be kidding! Let's see, should we feed say about 50000 homeless people, or go explore a rock that we won't actually send anyone to for the next thousand years? Yes, it's small change in the world of trillion dollar budgets, but geez someone needs to get their priorities straight!
This is the same problem that the military runs into with Congress every year at budget time. Everyone on Capital Hill wants a piece of the pork, so lobbists push Congress, who push into doing something that they haven't asked for, usually because they would rather focus on something they view as more important. It wasn't some GI that bought that $500 hammer or toilet seat.
But SGI's screw up was attempting to conform to the Borg when they tried to move to Windoz NinTendo. Their entire base of expertize was in Unix (IRIX), so it wasn't a real bright move on their part (geez...let's retrain all of our engineers...DUH!). And, by the time they realized it, it was too late
> Why do I havt that sadistic image of the device crashing and little Johnny turning blue? :)
Blue Balls 'O Death?
Europeans, due to over-taxation, have been paying triple the gas prices than we Americans do for ages. Has it made the folks at BMW, Mercedes, etc. produce more fuel efficient vehicles...NO! There are plenty of gas-hogs over there.
Don't you think that when the price of fuel increases that it causes the price of all the goods that are transported to increase in price??? Cheap fuel helps the economy!
Sure we should work toward more fuel efficient vehicles, but Detroit is going to produce whatever the public demands. As for SUVs, I don't own one, and I hate being around them on the highway because you can't see around them. That said, I wouldn't mind having one myself, just for the added safety...when driven properly. There are plenty of older vehicles that suck more fuel than today's SUVs. And, why are all these folks picking on SUVs, but not mentioning vans?
If true, this would have fallen under the hearsay rule. See http://expertpages.com/federal/a8.htm for the rules.
You obviously have no concept of how competitive that business is...let me explain.
We're talking about a small business here...Dad, my brother, and about 20 employees. This is a rags-to-middle class story for our family. Ford or GM come to him with a part, and ask him to design a specialzed container for it. If we invest our time and effort to create a new part or process for it, how do you propose that we should be compensated for that? Is there risk?...absolutely! You don't think they come just to us, do you? And when the auto companies are attempting to keep their own costs down (read: profits up), and take our design to another supplier (there are many big boys that would like to eat our lunch), how do we protect ourselves?
Sorry, but you're either a troll, or just plain ignorant of how real business works.
Isn't a Sphinctorometer used for measuring a different kind of gas?
Let's see if I've got this right...
My company takes the risk the risk to develop a new product or process. We patent it, market it, it becomes successful, and we profit. Then it becomes wildly successful and we should give up the profit just because it is SO useful!?!
The more likely scenario is that my company spends R&D money and is never lucky enough to generate a successful product. The vast majority of patents don't even end up making the inventor any serious money.
The idea that Phillips should lose it's patent on the CD-ROM is PATENTLY rediculous! However, there should be some way to prevent abuse of a patent that has become a mainstream need for the general public...anyone know what the rules are, or are there none? As long as the patent holder doesn't go increasing their fees, how are they profiting "at the expense of the public", when the public had the choice of accepting or rejecting the product in the first place!?!
Sorry if I sound like I'm ranting, but my dad controls many patents in the corregated box business, and has had to fight to protect them many times over the years. Yes, plain old cardboard boxes have patents too. You'd be amazed at how many specialized containers the auto industry needs.