1. restaurants
Last time I went to a restaurant, they were thermal or laser printed receipts/credit card slips. And the time before that, and the time before that, and probably the last 9 out of 10 times. Maybe more.
2. repair shop
Ooooohh, almost got me. I use 2 repair shops regularly. 1 uses DotMatrix, the other doesn't. I'll give ya 50/50 on that.
3. Paycheck
Well, my last company was DD, the company before that, laser printed, the company before that laser printed then DD. And my Unemployment check? Laser Printed. Flat loss on that one.
4. Banks
My bank uses Dot Matrix, but the other two banks I deal with regularly don't. Of course, my bank is small, maybe 500M or so. Wells Fargo? Laser (maybe thermal, didn't check that closely).
So I'll be generous and give you another 50/50.
So, on 2 items, you got 50/50. That's 25%. On the first item, you got 1/10, that's 2.5%. So, in my life, I deal with 27.5% Dot Matrix, and the remainder is laser/thermal. Oh yeah, and the last company I worked for, they just dropped their Dot Matrix for Laser Printing 4 color "duplicates".
So yeah, Dot Matrix is dead, and I haven't seen one for almost forever.;)
I would totally agree with this in concept, but Google, by all appearances, is the kind of company that is friendly to its customers. Microsoft would pull its products off the shelf with a judgement like this, other companies would do similar. Is it fair though?
I own a couple domains (don't all of us here own at least 1 or 2?). I figure if I don't have a default domain (i.e. *.x.com points to x.com), then, when someone tries to go to blah.x.com that doesn't exist, Verisign says, "Have you heard about y.com?" Because y.com paid for their name to be there. Seems to me that Verisign, without my authority, just appropriated my legally registered name and used it for their own purposes. Seems like I've got a REALLY good lawsuit. I might even have a case against y.com as well.
Now, someone could start a class-action suit when they resume SiteFinder, but wouldn't it be far more fun and costly for them, to file individual lawsuits for every domain that pops up incorrectly? Do you think Verisign is equipped to handle that many lawsuits? I think I would have a really good chance at winning, and they would have to fork some dough over to me, along with compliance to an injunction. Now sitefinder works on everything but my site.
What would Verisign sell *.ibm.com to Microsoft for? I know it wouldn't even come close to paying for the legal bills when IBM found out.
Verisign's life becomes a nightmare, and Sitefinder is no longer worth it.
Come on Verisign, reinstitute SiteFinder, I just found step #2 to profit!
You bring up what could be an unintended benefit to this ruling. Perhaps developers will now stick to more friendly interfaces. I rarely stay long at a company's page that utilizes flash extensively (and almost entirely avoid pages that only use flash (for interface, content, etc.)).
If a visitor goes to the page and nothing comes up but a little notice that says, "Stuff didn't load", they will leave without the company getting its message across. That will encourage the company to have a web page that uses html and jscript and php and whatnot to get there message across and will limit plug-ins to only the content that really needs it.
Additionally, While I use Windows, IIS, etc. I don't use things like ActiveX Controls on web pages. I think there are better ways to go about it. Now, when a company is developing it's great new intranet app, will they use ActiveX Controls and force the employee to load each page twice (and waste MONEY), or will they come up with a newer and/or better way to do the same stuff?
Don't get me wrong, I don't agree w/ this decision, but maybe it will have some unintended benefits.
Easy Answer. The first hearing will include a temporary injunction. That means sitefinder goes away until the lawsuit is over, at which point the law says (hopefully) that ICANN is right.
transfer everything to another company
Absolutely. And do it w/ Postgre or MySQL or whatever the.org TLD is now running on (I fergit). The point is that this is unnacceptable and regardless of the outcome of a lawsuit, VS should no longer be the TLD controller. It would be a huge job, but worth it.
Further, IMHO, all TLDs should be run by a neutral 3rd party that has no registrar services or other DNS-related income.I dunno, is this the case w/.org or others?
Something this absurd, while interesting, shouldn't even be worth caring about. The moment they choose to charge royalties, "the world" will choose to accept 'US-en' as the "standard" for indicating US English or 'eng-USA' or whatever and who cares. Remember Unisys? how far did they really get with their.gif fees? everyone said "*uck you", we'll work around it.
everyone will do the same with this.
start a separate company named OrangeMusic or some BS. Apple then transfers all music-related products/services to OrangeMusic.
Complete solution.
1. No longer a trademark issue. Apples to Apples, not Apples to Oranges.
2. OrangeMusic is NOT subject to Apple's contractual/legal agreements (unless transferred properly). Even though OrangeMusic is a wholely owned subsidiary, it is still a separate corp.
3. Added benefit of limited liability between markets for just such an occasion.
4. Do you think people won't connect that Oranges are Apples when the web site looks the same?
Who says "the solution" has to include the internet in some or any form?
Put a kiosk in every grocery store, have it dial-up to a central server push/pull whatever it needs to. for practical purposes, you could have it do this every 30 min to save phone lines or something.
Alternately, have the kiosk connected to internet, but "hide" all IPs, this isn't a security through obscurity issue, this is because every stupid script-kiddie would DOS any "central" or even semi-central server.
And just as a side note, at least in Texas, stop w/ this bullshit about having to go to a specific location to vote. I have to drive half way across town to vote in "my district". Put the voter registration on the server as well, when I scan my barcoded AND (wtf?) magstriped DL through it, mark me voted. You can know what to pull up based on my voter registration.
I don't know who Debian is, but I bet Deb released this worm that's gonna shut down Microsoft's update server so none of us uber-geeks can get our updates. I'm gonna call the Feds!
Blame Deb!!!!!
Well, SBC is a REALLY BIG company. Actually, some quick research:
SBC Revenue for 2002: 34B+- change
RIAA reports total retail value of shipped CDs in 2002: 12B+-
That gives SBC a much bigger chance. And you noones going to say that SBC doesn't have lobbyists.:)
And suppose that SBC does win (or some other company for that matter) and even that particular portion of the DMCA (subpoenas w/o judges) gets killed. Yes, RIAA will reissue following proper procedure. But that's much more expensive, much more time consuming, and much more frowned upon (CA has a litigous company law, and TX just don't put up w/ that sh.t.). The RIAA's 75/day stat I heard somewhere would probably drop to something like 75/mo.
In the end, RIAA loses, the DMCA loses, and Kazaa will continue.
-lv
Well, maybe I've forgotten something (or never known it, probably more likely), BUT.....
Wouldn't porting the NEW Premiere to MacOS put it that much closer to running on Linux natively?
It isn't both AC and DC.
It's 5V DC and then they throw in yer average brick transformer anything that is DC only can be AC/DC by their method.
Now, if they offered one with an internal transformer and your standard 3 prong for comps (or the sort-of-standard-ish 2 prong for low power laptops), that would be a selling point.
Of course, I don't think there is ANY need for it to do both in one case, you could charge me an extra $20-30 for the AC version and I would pay for it if I needed it.
Note: My rambling thoughts not worth.02c.
Thank you, good bye.
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1. restaurants
;)
Last time I went to a restaurant, they were thermal or laser printed receipts/credit card slips. And the time before that, and the time before that, and probably the last 9 out of 10 times. Maybe more.
2. repair shop
Ooooohh, almost got me. I use 2 repair shops regularly. 1 uses DotMatrix, the other doesn't. I'll give ya 50/50 on that.
3. Paycheck
Well, my last company was DD, the company before that, laser printed, the company before that laser printed then DD. And my Unemployment check? Laser Printed. Flat loss on that one.
4. Banks
My bank uses Dot Matrix, but the other two banks I deal with regularly don't. Of course, my bank is small, maybe 500M or so. Wells Fargo? Laser (maybe thermal, didn't check that closely). So I'll be generous and give you another 50/50.
So, on 2 items, you got 50/50. That's 25%. On the first item, you got 1/10, that's 2.5%. So, in my life, I deal with 27.5% Dot Matrix, and the remainder is laser/thermal. Oh yeah, and the last company I worked for, they just dropped their Dot Matrix for Laser Printing 4 color "duplicates".
So yeah, Dot Matrix is dead, and I haven't seen one for almost forever.
I would totally agree with this in concept, but Google, by all appearances, is the kind of company that is friendly to its customers. Microsoft would pull its products off the shelf with a judgement like this, other companies would do similar. Is it fair though?
I own a couple domains (don't all of us here own at least 1 or 2?). I figure if I don't have a default domain (i.e. *.x.com points to x.com), then, when someone tries to go to blah.x.com that doesn't exist, Verisign says, "Have you heard about y.com?" Because y.com paid for their name to be there. Seems to me that Verisign, without my authority, just appropriated my legally registered name and used it for their own purposes. Seems like I've got a REALLY good lawsuit. I might even have a case against y.com as well.
Now, someone could start a class-action suit when they resume SiteFinder, but wouldn't it be far more fun and costly for them, to file individual lawsuits for every domain that pops up incorrectly? Do you think Verisign is equipped to handle that many lawsuits? I think I would have a really good chance at winning, and they would have to fork some dough over to me, along with compliance to an injunction. Now sitefinder works on everything but my site.
What would Verisign sell *.ibm.com to Microsoft for? I know it wouldn't even come close to paying for the legal bills when IBM found out.
Verisign's life becomes a nightmare, and Sitefinder is no longer worth it.
Come on Verisign, reinstitute SiteFinder, I just found step #2 to profit!
You're boss reads slashdot?
I am confused. How can this be? Ahhhh, my head is spinning!
You bring up what could be an unintended benefit to this ruling. Perhaps developers will now stick to more friendly interfaces. I rarely stay long at a company's page that utilizes flash extensively (and almost entirely avoid pages that only use flash (for interface, content, etc.)).
If a visitor goes to the page and nothing comes up but a little notice that says, "Stuff didn't load", they will leave without the company getting its message across. That will encourage the company to have a web page that uses html and jscript and php and whatnot to get there message across and will limit plug-ins to only the content that really needs it.
Additionally, While I use Windows, IIS, etc. I don't use things like ActiveX Controls on web pages. I think there are better ways to go about it. Now, when a company is developing it's great new intranet app, will they use ActiveX Controls and force the employee to load each page twice (and waste MONEY), or will they come up with a newer and/or better way to do the same stuff?
Don't get me wrong, I don't agree w/ this decision, but maybe it will have some unintended benefits.
Further, IMHO, all TLDs should be run by a neutral 3rd party that has no registrar services or other DNS-related income.I dunno, is this the case w/
my 1/2 a cent (not smart enough to give 2c)
Something this absurd, while interesting, shouldn't even be worth caring about. The moment they choose to charge royalties, "the world" will choose to accept 'US-en' as the "standard" for indicating US English or 'eng-USA' or whatever and who cares. Remember Unisys? how far did they really get with their .gif fees? everyone said "*uck you", we'll work around it.
everyone will do the same with this.
Complete solution.
1. No longer a trademark issue. Apples to Apples, not Apples to Oranges.
2. OrangeMusic is NOT subject to Apple's contractual/legal agreements (unless transferred properly). Even though OrangeMusic is a wholely owned subsidiary, it is still a separate corp.
3. Added benefit of limited liability between markets for just such an occasion.
4. Do you think people won't connect that Oranges are Apples when the web site looks the same?
Who says "the solution" has to include the internet in some or any form?
Put a kiosk in every grocery store, have it dial-up to a central server push/pull whatever it needs to. for practical purposes, you could have it do this every 30 min to save phone lines or something.
Alternately, have the kiosk connected to internet, but "hide" all IPs, this isn't a security through obscurity issue, this is because every stupid script-kiddie would DOS any "central" or even semi-central server.
And just as a side note, at least in Texas, stop w/ this bullshit about having to go to a specific location to vote. I have to drive half way across town to vote in "my district". Put the voter registration on the server as well, when I scan my barcoded AND (wtf?) magstriped DL through it, mark me voted. You can know what to pull up based on my voter registration.
I don't know who Debian is, but I bet Deb released this worm that's gonna shut down Microsoft's update server so none of us uber-geeks can get our updates. I'm gonna call the Feds! Blame Deb!!!!!
SBC Revenue for 2002: 34B+- change
RIAA reports total retail value of shipped CDs in 2002: 12B+-
That gives SBC a much bigger chance. And you noones going to say that SBC doesn't have lobbyists. :)
And suppose that SBC does win (or some other company for that matter) and even that particular portion of the DMCA (subpoenas w/o judges) gets killed. Yes, RIAA will reissue following proper procedure. But that's much more expensive, much more time consuming, and much more frowned upon (CA has a litigous company law, and TX just don't put up w/ that sh.t.). The RIAA's 75/day stat I heard somewhere would probably drop to something like 75/mo. In the end, RIAA loses, the DMCA loses, and Kazaa will continue. -lv
Well, maybe I've forgotten something (or never known it, probably more likely), BUT..... Wouldn't porting the NEW Premiere to MacOS put it that much closer to running on Linux natively?
It isn't both AC and DC. It's 5V DC and then they throw in yer average brick transformer anything that is DC only can be AC/DC by their method. Now, if they offered one with an internal transformer and your standard 3 prong for comps (or the sort-of-standard-ish 2 prong for low power laptops), that would be a selling point. Of course, I don't think there is ANY need for it to do both in one case, you could charge me an extra $20-30 for the AC version and I would pay for it if I needed it. Note: My rambling thoughts not worth .02c.
Thank you, good bye.
alright, sorry if I get trolled or whatever... These are starting to get annoying. -md
I don't know if they make source open knowledge, but it does remove all "Trade Secret" claims.