It could have the word 'Porterhouse Steak' on it and the reason for the vandalism would be just as senseless.
It could have the word 'Reckless' on it, and a dictionary opened to the page where 'reckless' appears and the word 'reckless' underlined lying on the ground near the vandalism, and it would be just as senseless.
eBay uses a proxy bidding system. The best practice (in a real auction, not this publicity stunt) is to bid your higest bid, late in the auction. There is a 'newbie' thing where people ratchet up their bid amount a dollar or two at a time to try to reach whatever 'proxy' bid someone else has placed. So long as they haven't reached the 'high' amount the person with the high bid has, they'll keep bidding over and over and over again, but each bid just raises up the amount closer to the number the high bidder has placed. That's why you see people 'bidding against themselves' over and over again. It's the behavior of someone who hasn't figured proxy bidding yet.
That's a little like saying 'give the thugs your pocket change, because otherwise they're likely to bust out your car window and steal the contents of the glove compartment.'
Speaking of 'CDs stolen from my car' I used to frequent a certain used CD shop, and there was often this shady looking guy in there and he was always selling CDs for cash. CDs that didn't seem at ALL like the kind of music he would be listening too.
Unfortunately the front display case in the shop never fell over and busted his head open. I sorta hoped it would, every time.
And that $3500 isn't all going to the EFF. People would be better off donating direct to the EFF if that's what they want to do. A thick slice of the final bid will go to eBay in the form of a final value fee.
And believe me, eBay is gonna make a profit on this one. The price has now climbed to $9,700. The final value fee eBay is going to charge the seller for this is going to be steep.
I have seen 'resale is prohibited in new binding' notices on the copyright notice page of softcover books. I think only in older softcover books, as the publishers were somewhat afraid that rebinders would buy up softcover editions and 'upgrade' them to hardcover.
The interesting thing is, until the mid 19th century, most books were sold as loose sheafs of paper. You went to a 'bookstore' and bought the pages, then you brought it to your chosen bookbinder and had a binding put on it. 'Men of letters' tended to have their books all bound in 'their' cover design. Kind of ironic, considering how obsessive book collectors are now about books being 'mint condition with slipcover' for the highest value.
Since I started reading this article, it's jumped from $374 to $9700 and appears to be climbing.
I never thought slashdotting a bid page on eBay could be so profitable (for eBay: they're going to get at least a few hundred bucks for a final value fee for this, now).
My guess is that Apple would have to charge some sort of 'transfer fee' to keep that sort of thing from becoming an expensive mess, possibly causing them to shut down the service.
It mentions a downloadable eBook as an example, not as an itemized list of prohibited items. He has violated the policy at eBay, but it's up to the rights owner of the item he's selling to raise it as an issue with eBay administration. They don't have a staff out there looking for things like this. You can get away with whatever goes unnoticed on eBay for the most part.
There is a general policy at eBay disallowing content sold on CDR media. It's one of those 'shady areas' on eBay, and generally some entity registered with the VERO program has to raise it with them to get the item deleted. I have had one VERO claim made against me for items I sold on eBay, and when eBay cancels the item, they shoot a warning shot across your bow, saying in the email something to the effect of 'repeat offenses will lead to your account becoming deleted.' The old NARU threat is usually enough (it was for me) when you're making your living hawking stuff on eBay.
Except for the matter that it's a big publicity stunt and Apple lives by getting publicity, Apple should be the ones filing a VERO claim with eBay, since they're the arbiter of 'rights' involved in this case. But hell, I've bought copies of MacOS off eBay, so they're probably not overly obsessive about Apple stuff trading there.
DRM is about 'protecting content' from illegal copying. Content producers who release their creative output in DRM-protected formats just won't release their work to non-DRM protected localities.
Perhaps foreign countries will cease to want to view American films and listen to American music. It would certainly be wrong for the US Government to force American culture on markets that don't welcome it. Just as wrong as it would be for foreign markets to pirate said content by allowing it to be published without DRM protection. It will be interesting to see how this all shakes out. I sure as hell hope the US government isn't planning on 'enforcing' DRM rights with gunboat diplomacy.
Since the CD doesn't play in her car, but does play in most consumer-grade CD players, perhaps she should be suing the Auto manufacturer, or the OEM who produced the player in her car. It clearly is not conformant with the media that major music publishers are producing.
I have Office 2000 installed on a 486DX 50 MHz laptop. I certainly don't use it to develop Powerpoint presentations or Access databases, but it works for Word processing and spreadsheet purposes fairly well. This is a laptop only running Windows 95, btw. With 28 megs of RAM.
Part of the process of producing a well designed product is learning how to weigh the relative benefits of a feature, then only adding it if it doesn't detract from the whole of the design.
Microsoft, it seems, deliberately throws in new wizzy-whoo features and crap to deliberately drive mandatory upgrades.
It would be ludicrous to pretend they weren't doing it, at least in sigificant part, to drive upgrade sales. Please don't make a fool of yourself by denying it.
But back in 1985, computer users spent a good deal of money to get a printer that would closely emulate what a typewritten page looked like, i.e. expensive daisywheel printers.
These days people have the arrogant notion that their written text should look like it was typeset in a proprotional font, without having crossed the desk of a good editor and being published first.
Believe it or not, and it is unbelieveable in this day of networked computers with many printing and output resources available to them, Microsoft Word's formatting functionality is in part, and it's a significant part, dependent on what default printer you have it set up to use.
It's an unbelievable anachronism, but it's the truth.
There are a few people whose ideas are worth exploring and considering who have poor spelling. To a large extent, however, poor spellers are also poor thinkers.
So, poor spelling is a handy indicator to filter on when deciding wether someone's written thoughts are worth the read.
I am not talking about the occasional misspelled word or typographical error, BTW. I'm talking about corn-pone ignorance.
In a way, spell-checking is a negative feature for this reason. It lets people ascend to PHB who have no business being there.
My vinyl LPs already don't play on 'new hardware.'
There are thousands and thousands of drives out there that will play Red Book CDs. Do you think it's possible I could run out of them in a lifetime?
Not hardly. All I have to do is go to another auction and buy a pallet of PCs for a few bucks and I've got 10-20 more CD drives to stockpile. If I get paranoid enough to worry that there will be a 'media crackdown.'
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Why would it matter 'what the word means'?
It could have the word 'Porterhouse Steak' on it and the reason for the vandalism would be just as senseless.
It could have the word 'Reckless' on it, and a dictionary opened to the page where 'reckless' appears and the word 'reckless' underlined lying on the ground near the vandalism, and it would be just as senseless.
This is just juvenile vandalism. Boring, etc.
eBay uses a proxy bidding system. The best practice (in a real auction, not this publicity stunt) is to bid your higest bid, late in the auction. There is a 'newbie' thing where people ratchet up their bid amount a dollar or two at a time to try to reach whatever 'proxy' bid someone else has placed. So long as they haven't reached the 'high' amount the person with the high bid has, they'll keep bidding over and over and over again, but each bid just raises up the amount closer to the number the high bidder has placed. That's why you see people 'bidding against themselves' over and over again. It's the behavior of someone who hasn't figured proxy bidding yet.
That's a little like saying 'give the thugs your pocket change, because otherwise they're likely to bust out your car window and steal the contents of the glove compartment.'
Speaking of 'CDs stolen from my car' I used to frequent a certain used CD shop, and there was often this shady looking guy in there and he was always selling CDs for cash. CDs that didn't seem at ALL like the kind of music he would be listening too.
Unfortunately the front display case in the shop never fell over and busted his head open. I sorta hoped it would, every time.
Does that mean his computer doesn't have MacOS to run on it anymore, though? What does 'All parts' mean?
I guess he could run Linux or NetBSD on the machine.
And that $3500 isn't all going to the EFF. People would be better off donating direct to the EFF if that's what they want to do. A thick slice of the final bid will go to eBay in the form of a final value fee.
And believe me, eBay is gonna make a profit on this one. The price has now climbed to $9,700. The final value fee eBay is going to charge the seller for this is going to be steep.
I have seen 'resale is prohibited in new binding' notices on the copyright notice page of softcover books. I think only in older softcover books, as the publishers were somewhat afraid that rebinders would buy up softcover editions and 'upgrade' them to hardcover.
The interesting thing is, until the mid 19th century, most books were sold as loose sheafs of paper. You went to a 'bookstore' and bought the pages, then you brought it to your chosen bookbinder and had a binding put on it. 'Men of letters' tended to have their books all bound in 'their' cover design. Kind of ironic, considering how obsessive book collectors are now about books being 'mint condition with slipcover' for the highest value.
Since I started reading this article, it's jumped from $374 to $9700 and appears to be climbing.
I never thought slashdotting a bid page on eBay could be so profitable (for eBay: they're going to get at least a few hundred bucks for a final value fee for this, now).
My guess is that Apple would have to charge some sort of 'transfer fee' to keep that sort of thing from becoming an expensive mess, possibly causing them to shut down the service.
It mentions a downloadable eBook as an example, not as an itemized list of prohibited items. He has violated the policy at eBay, but it's up to the rights owner of the item he's selling to raise it as an issue with eBay administration. They don't have a staff out there looking for things like this. You can get away with whatever goes unnoticed on eBay for the most part.
There is a general policy at eBay disallowing content sold on CDR media. It's one of those 'shady areas' on eBay, and generally some entity registered with the VERO program has to raise it with them to get the item deleted. I have had one VERO claim made against me for items I sold on eBay, and when eBay cancels the item, they shoot a warning shot across your bow, saying in the email something to the effect of 'repeat offenses will lead to your account becoming deleted.' The old NARU threat is usually enough (it was for me) when you're making your living hawking stuff on eBay.
Except for the matter that it's a big publicity stunt and Apple lives by getting publicity, Apple should be the ones filing a VERO claim with eBay, since they're the arbiter of 'rights' involved in this case. But hell, I've bought copies of MacOS off eBay, so they're probably not overly obsessive about Apple stuff trading there.
Ripped to the hard drive?
Don't be ridiculous.
Blank CD media is really really cheap these days. Anybody but a fool makes an exact copy of the entire CD before selling it.
The price is up to over $270 now, not just $20.
How is the pledge to be enforced?
DRM is about 'protecting content' from illegal copying. Content producers who release their creative output in DRM-protected formats just won't release their work to non-DRM protected localities.
Perhaps foreign countries will cease to want to view American films and listen to American music. It would certainly be wrong for the US Government to force American culture on markets that don't welcome it. Just as wrong as it would be for foreign markets to pirate said content by allowing it to be published without DRM protection. It will be interesting to see how this all shakes out. I sure as hell hope the US government isn't planning on 'enforcing' DRM rights with gunboat diplomacy.
Since the CD doesn't play in her car, but does play in most consumer-grade CD players, perhaps she should be suing the Auto manufacturer, or the OEM who produced the player in her car. It clearly is not conformant with the media that major music publishers are producing.
I have Office 2000 installed on a 486DX 50 MHz laptop. I certainly don't use it to develop Powerpoint presentations or Access databases, but it works for Word processing and spreadsheet purposes fairly well. This is a laptop only running Windows 95, btw. With 28 megs of RAM.
Part of the process of producing a well designed product is learning how to weigh the relative benefits of a feature, then only adding it if it doesn't detract from the whole of the design.
Microsoft, it seems, deliberately throws in new wizzy-whoo features and crap to deliberately drive mandatory upgrades.
It would be ludicrous to pretend they weren't doing it, at least in sigificant part, to drive upgrade sales. Please don't make a fool of yourself by denying it.
But back in 1985, computer users spent a good deal of money to get a printer that would closely emulate what a typewritten page looked like, i.e. expensive daisywheel printers.
These days people have the arrogant notion that their written text should look like it was typeset in a proprotional font, without having crossed the desk of a good editor and being published first.
And that's not really a good thing.
Believe it or not, and it is unbelieveable in this day of networked computers with many printing and output resources available to them, Microsoft Word's formatting functionality is in part, and it's a significant part, dependent on what default printer you have it set up to use.
It's an unbelievable anachronism, but it's the truth.
'Spelling' is a good filter mechanism.
There are a few people whose ideas are worth exploring and considering who have poor spelling. To a large extent, however, poor spellers are also poor thinkers.
So, poor spelling is a handy indicator to filter on when deciding wether someone's written thoughts are worth the read.
I am not talking about the occasional misspelled word or typographical error, BTW. I'm talking about corn-pone ignorance.
In a way, spell-checking is a negative feature for this reason. It lets people ascend to PHB who have no business being there.
Slashdot isn't a problem. Nor is it a solution. It's more of a precipitate.
My vinyl LPs already don't play on 'new hardware.'
There are thousands and thousands of drives out there that will play Red Book CDs. Do you think it's possible I could run out of them in a lifetime?
Not hardly. All I have to do is go to another auction and buy a pallet of PCs for a few bucks and I've got 10-20 more CD drives to stockpile. If I get paranoid enough to worry that there will be a 'media crackdown.'