I'm willing to put down the $50 a month for my new fiber optic line. I'm allowed 500GB of total down traffic a month. I guess Verizon assumes that if you're buying a fios setup, you're not doing it just to e-mail pictures to grandma.
Just how pointless this is...
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Go open iTMS right now. There is no Apple logo anywhere on the front page or any of their other pre-produced pages. Good thing we need a lawsuit to clear up the status quo.
The reason people buy iPods and love them so much is the same reason people buy pre-packaged vacations or use travel agents. Sure, you could go book your tickets with an airline, find a hotel and book that, research a dozen locations to go to at your destination and when they are open, and do all the logisitcs, or you can just have somebody else do it. Sometimes its worth the fee to save your time.
Sure, my iPod cost more than a lot of other stuff on the market, and it doesn't have video, but it's so freaking easy to use. Now, I love playing around with tech toys like the next guy, but ease of use is ease of use. Pop in a CD, rip it and file it away without worrying about setting up the files and folders correctly. If I hear an artist Ilike, I can download their latest album in 4 or 5 clicks instead of driving over to Best Buy. Pop my iPod in, and it puts all my new music on, updates my playlists, puts my photos on, and updates my Outlook calendar. Simple. I didn't have to do anything. I didn't have to open up 4 programs like I would have to with other playesr or a cell phone.
So why would I possibly buy one of these merged cell phones and music players. All of their synching software I've seen in bloatware with extremely slow upload speeds. Very few allow native mp3 playing, so you have to run their converter for half an hour. And given my level of trust for the cell phone industy, I can only assume there is some low level spyware involved so that I can get some fun text messages telling me I'll enjoy the next Black Eyed Peas single. Then I can hop in my car where my cell phone won't play to my radio, so I hve to use headphones. My battery will be dead by the time I get to work. Gee, what a fun end-user eperience that will be.
All of that being said, I really do want to see what a rael iPod killer would like like. My bet is it will probably come from Apple themselves (PowerPod?). In the mean time, I'm happy with a product that I get a kick out of playing with that is also simple enough for my mother to use (seeing 60 year old woman who can barely surf the internet be able to plug in a Shuffle and use it correctly is amazing).
Amazon and eBay were started well after 1997. It's harder than you think to find something. I've been on the Wayback Machine for an hour now and can only find a Prodigy Marketplace. Even then I can't confirm it ships outside the US.
Okay, yeah, these guys are slime and need to go back to the hole they crawled out of. Let's help speed up that process.
The patent abstract is this: An international transaction system for operation over the internet/intranet provides a pre-transactional calculation of all charges involved in any international transaction. Upon the option of the customer, the goods can be viewed on catalogue sheets translated to a language of the customer's choice, and the price provided in a currency selected by the customer. The customer also has the option of initiating the order with automatic credit authorization, generation of an electronic title or commercial invoice and arrangements and payment of shipping charges and any taxes and import/export duties.
It is dated December 29th, 1997. Let's do a little thinking and find any instances of prior art. Yeah, it should be a "dude, we all know that was happening before then" scenario, but let's actually find something concrete and send the bastards packing. Let the happy hunting begin.
That's an actual lawfirm. If you actually go to their "list of clients" page (http://perkinscoie.com/about/clients.cfm) it clearly lists Nintendo of America. It's legit.
1) OO.o because I refuse to use MS Office now
2) Winzip because I'm a tool to the system
3) AdAware because Claria are a bunch of hosers
4) Photoshop
5) Illustrator (both are legal, thank you very much)
6) WinAmp 5.x because it makes me happy
7) EphPod because I like to circumvent the DRM on my iPod
8) ws_ftp because i love its simplicity
Boss: Bad news gang. It turns out people and blocking and closing our popup ads. They're disabling Flash and Active-X because of our overlay ads. What are we going to do?
Drone 1: Stop annoying them with those ads and go back to unobtrusive banners?
Boss: You're Fired! Who's got a GOOD idea
Drone 2: How about we hijak their entire monitor, makign sure they can't even begin to think about closing our ads?
Bross: That's brilliant.
Drone 2: Then we can kick them in the balls.
Bross: Brilliant! Anything else
Drone 2: Well, I have been kicking around this idea involving armies of parachuting advertising monkies...
Bross: Great, leave a memo on my desk. I've got a tee time with Gates and Eisner at 2:30.
Yeah, if you look at any CD that would be sold in a Walmart store as "edited" there is an "edited" tag for the corresponding online album. It's nice to see the Walton family is still bowing down to Tipper Gore. One less reason for me to use their service (along with their rather sub-par selection of anything that isn't top 40).
We believe that responsible corporations throughout the IT industry have advocated use of the GPL without full analysis of its long-term detriment to our economy.
They're only going to investigate those people, not disable their accounts. If they look at it and see that they sent legitimate messages because they just pop on to send e-mail, they'll be find and their ISP will move on. At least this should make the net big enough to actively catch spammers eariler.
I've got good money on SCO suing OSDL within the next week for "blatant copyright violations and big meanie stupid poo faces"
What my boss gave us last christmas
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I've worked at a graphic design print shop for about a year and a half now. Last year we had a great year because some of our competitors left town and we were able to produce some really nice, public work on a few projects. So our boss gave us two days off before Christmas but wante dus to have an office party with our wives, girlfriends, friends, and ex-coworkers (that we're on good terms with). So me and the guys got a few days off and came back for the Christmas party on a Friday night. When we came in we noticed that all of our workstations had been supremely upgraded. Gone were our old macs. We got brand new G4s with hi def monitors, ipods, huge Wacom tablets (special ordered from Wacom with our company logo on them), 5.1 speaker systems, great personal headphones, new office phones, new high back leather chairs. The works. On top of that he gave us each $500 bonuses and $200 business check cards so we could buy more stuff for our workstations. Needless to say we were raelly happy and not one of us has quit in the last year. Sure, we know we're not getting new G5s this Christmas and we already have all of our great goodies, but we know our boss respects us and wants us to be happy at work. He could have given us bigger bonuses and gotten us the computers later, but he wanted us to be really happy and motivated for the next year. Plus, I would have spent all that money on a bunch of crap anyways, but now I have the work area possible, a personal ipod, and happy worokers to deal with everyday. Wouldn't give it up for anything.
These are not the same tags they are proposing for inventory control in retail outlets dispite what both the Wired article and the slashdot submitter imply. These are designed to be read from a longer distance and used specifically to track people.
Oh, well as long as they are only used to track peoplee from long distances... that's fine.
When my roomate and I redid our apartment with wifi we figured out we had a few more ports we could play with, so we dug out an old p200, set it to pick up a shoutcast from an ip range (so it would pick up either my shoutcast or my roomate's). Instant jukebox for our home theater. We even got a wireless keyboard, mounted it to the wall and trade off the reciever to whoever is broadcasting for a party. Less than 100 bucks in parts and i see a virtually identical system in the Best Buy ad for $400. God bless being a dork.
I have a lengthy collection of "legal" mp3s. Living in a college town, I have a lot of access to bands who freely distribute music on their websites, plus a lot of other crap i've accumulated over the years. Right now, my "legal" collection is around 1000.
Now if my memory serves me right, these RIAA guys are goingafter the people with the most mp3s. So the plan is simple. First of all, copy and paste all my "legal" mp3s so i have 2000. Then, run a quick renaming batch script to rename all the mp3s to songs and bands covered by the RIAA. Then log onto Kazaa and wait for my lawsuit to happen.
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I'm willing to put down the $50 a month for my new fiber optic line. I'm allowed 500GB of total down traffic a month. I guess Verizon assumes that if you're buying a fios setup, you're not doing it just to e-mail pictures to grandma.
Go open iTMS right now. There is no Apple logo anywhere on the front page or any of their other pre-produced pages. Good thing we need a lawsuit to clear up the status quo.
The reason people buy iPods and love them so much is the same reason people buy pre-packaged vacations or use travel agents. Sure, you could go book your tickets with an airline, find a hotel and book that, research a dozen locations to go to at your destination and when they are open, and do all the logisitcs, or you can just have somebody else do it. Sometimes its worth the fee to save your time.
Sure, my iPod cost more than a lot of other stuff on the market, and it doesn't have video, but it's so freaking easy to use. Now, I love playing around with tech toys like the next guy, but ease of use is ease of use. Pop in a CD, rip it and file it away without worrying about setting up the files and folders correctly. If I hear an artist Ilike, I can download their latest album in 4 or 5 clicks instead of driving over to Best Buy. Pop my iPod in, and it puts all my new music on, updates my playlists, puts my photos on, and updates my Outlook calendar. Simple. I didn't have to do anything. I didn't have to open up 4 programs like I would have to with other playesr or a cell phone.
So why would I possibly buy one of these merged cell phones and music players. All of their synching software I've seen in bloatware with extremely slow upload speeds. Very few allow native mp3 playing, so you have to run their converter for half an hour. And given my level of trust for the cell phone industy, I can only assume there is some low level spyware involved so that I can get some fun text messages telling me I'll enjoy the next Black Eyed Peas single. Then I can hop in my car where my cell phone won't play to my radio, so I hve to use headphones. My battery will be dead by the time I get to work. Gee, what a fun end-user eperience that will be.
All of that being said, I really do want to see what a rael iPod killer would like like. My bet is it will probably come from Apple themselves (PowerPod?). In the mean time, I'm happy with a product that I get a kick out of playing with that is also simple enough for my mother to use (seeing 60 year old woman who can barely surf the internet be able to plug in a Shuffle and use it correctly is amazing).
Amazon and eBay were started well after 1997. It's harder than you think to find something. I've been on the Wayback Machine for an hour now and can only find a Prodigy Marketplace. Even then I can't confirm it ships outside the US.
Okay, yeah, these guys are slime and need to go back to the hole they crawled out of. Let's help speed up that process.
The patent abstract is this: An international transaction system for operation over the internet/intranet provides a pre-transactional calculation of all charges involved in any international transaction. Upon the option of the customer, the goods can be viewed on catalogue sheets translated to a language of the customer's choice, and the price provided in a currency selected by the customer. The customer also has the option of initiating the order with automatic credit authorization, generation of an electronic title or commercial invoice and arrangements and payment of shipping charges and any taxes and import/export duties.
It is dated December 29th, 1997. Let's do a little thinking and find any instances of prior art. Yeah, it should be a "dude, we all know that was happening before then" scenario, but let's actually find something concrete and send the bastards packing. Let the happy hunting begin.
That's an actual lawfirm. If you actually go to their "list of clients" page (http://perkinscoie.com/about/clients.cfm) it clearly lists Nintendo of America. It's legit.
1) OO.o because I refuse to use MS Office now 2) Winzip because I'm a tool to the system 3) AdAware because Claria are a bunch of hosers 4) Photoshop 5) Illustrator (both are legal, thank you very much) 6) WinAmp 5.x because it makes me happy 7) EphPod because I like to circumvent the DRM on my iPod 8) ws_ftp because i love its simplicity
A whole 6 megabytes of memory?! Way to beat up my 486.
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Boss: Bad news gang. It turns out people and blocking and closing our popup ads. They're disabling Flash and Active-X because of our overlay ads. What are we going to do? Drone 1: Stop annoying them with those ads and go back to unobtrusive banners? Boss: You're Fired! Who's got a GOOD idea Drone 2: How about we hijak their entire monitor, makign sure they can't even begin to think about closing our ads? Bross: That's brilliant. Drone 2: Then we can kick them in the balls. Bross: Brilliant! Anything else Drone 2: Well, I have been kicking around this idea involving armies of parachuting advertising monkies... Bross: Great, leave a memo on my desk. I've got a tee time with Gates and Eisner at 2:30.
Congrats on the nwe site, please accept its first slashdotting with our regards.
Yeah, if you look at any CD that would be sold in a Walmart store as "edited" there is an "edited" tag for the corresponding online album. It's nice to see the Walton family is still bowing down to Tipper Gore. One less reason for me to use their service (along with their rather sub-par selection of anything that isn't top 40).
Too bad it came out in 2002, but we'll accept Gigli as a replacement answer.
I think this is my favorite line:
We believe that responsible corporations throughout the IT industry have advocated use of the GPL without full analysis of its long-term detriment to our economy.
Uh oh, Linux is killing the economy!!!!
They're only going to investigate those people, not disable their accounts. If they look at it and see that they sent legitimate messages because they just pop on to send e-mail, they'll be find and their ISP will move on. At least this should make the net big enough to actively catch spammers eariler.
I've got good money on SCO suing OSDL within the next week for "blatant copyright violations and big meanie stupid poo faces"
I've worked at a graphic design print shop for about a year and a half now. Last year we had a great year because some of our competitors left town and we were able to produce some really nice, public work on a few projects. So our boss gave us two days off before Christmas but wante dus to have an office party with our wives, girlfriends, friends, and ex-coworkers (that we're on good terms with). So me and the guys got a few days off and came back for the Christmas party on a Friday night. When we came in we noticed that all of our workstations had been supremely upgraded. Gone were our old macs. We got brand new G4s with hi def monitors, ipods, huge Wacom tablets (special ordered from Wacom with our company logo on them), 5.1 speaker systems, great personal headphones, new office phones, new high back leather chairs. The works. On top of that he gave us each $500 bonuses and $200 business check cards so we could buy more stuff for our workstations. Needless to say we were raelly happy and not one of us has quit in the last year. Sure, we know we're not getting new G5s this Christmas and we already have all of our great goodies, but we know our boss respects us and wants us to be happy at work. He could have given us bigger bonuses and gotten us the computers later, but he wanted us to be really happy and motivated for the next year. Plus, I would have spent all that money on a bunch of crap anyways, but now I have the work area possible, a personal ipod, and happy worokers to deal with everyday. Wouldn't give it up for anything.
Who wants to pause their viewing/recording to answer a call?
Apparently people in Finland do...
It might not be a phone, it might not be a PDA, but it shure as hell looks like the back of a pair of Etnies I used to wear.
These are not the same tags they are proposing for inventory control in retail outlets dispite what both the Wired article and the slashdot submitter imply. These are designed to be read from a longer distance and used specifically to track people.
Oh, well as long as they are only used to track peoplee from long distances... that's fine.
Great, now the bullies don't have to beat you up on a daily basis to steal your lunch money, they can just steal your rfid.
Slashdot: The Open Source Alternative to Cease and Desist Orders
When my roomate and I redid our apartment with wifi we figured out we had a few more ports we could play with, so we dug out an old p200, set it to pick up a shoutcast from an ip range (so it would pick up either my shoutcast or my roomate's). Instant jukebox for our home theater. We even got a wireless keyboard, mounted it to the wall and trade off the reciever to whoever is broadcasting for a party. Less than 100 bucks in parts and i see a virtually identical system in the Best Buy ad for $400. God bless being a dork.
I have a lengthy collection of "legal" mp3s. Living in a college town, I have a lot of access to bands who freely distribute music on their websites, plus a lot of other crap i've accumulated over the years. Right now, my "legal" collection is around 1000.
Now if my memory serves me right, these RIAA guys are goingafter the people with the most mp3s. So the plan is simple. First of all, copy and paste all my "legal" mp3s so i have 2000. Then, run a quick renaming batch script to rename all the mp3s to songs and bands covered by the RIAA. Then log onto Kazaa and wait for my lawsuit to happen.
So was Diakatana used to treat fear of failure?