E-commerce is just a fancy name for mail order, except with a computer.
And yet, I've never ordered anything via mail order, ever. But, I order stuff online all the time. I've spent thousands of dollars online at dozens of retailers. So, if it's exactly the same thing, why do I use it, but don't use mail order?
You could make the argument that I'm just irrational. That's fine, but it still doesn't change the fact that there is something about e-commerce that appeals to me (as a consumer), and mail order doesn't.
Kinda of like raving about a "budget surplus" while the country still carries a monsterous deficit.
You can't have a budget surplus and a deficit at the same time. Perhaps you meant "debt"?
Secondly, profit is generally measured as the amount of money left over after the debt has been serviced. So, if a company makes a profit every quarter, that means that its debt is being serviced and it will eventually be able to retire those loans. Lots of profitable companies carry debt; debt is just another financial tool at a company's disposal.
(Not to dismiss the fact that Amazon's debt is very large; possible unsustainably large).
Turn on the closed captioning on your TV, then fast forward the tivo at the level 1 speed. That's slow enough that the captions are still displayed, and you can read them. Not exactly what you want, but it works really well to go quickly through news and sports broadcasts and talk shows.
Yes, Mr Kettle, I have registered. I have been a registered PalmOS developer for almost 3 years. The only difficult part of the registration procedure was signing and faxing the registration agreement so that I could access the PalmOS source code (not the SDK and not needed by most developers).
However, the original poster was talking about the SDK, which requires no registration. You do have to register if you want access to the PalmOS ROMs, but even that isn't very difficult, especially in comparison to trying to get a Handspring ROM, or worse a Clie ROM. But, all you need to do PalmOS development is the SDK (although the ROMs are very useful).
You have no idea what you're talking about. Getting the SDK is about 4 clicks from www.palmos.com, and one clickthru license. No forms to fill in. Don't believe me? Try this link:
Umm, why exactly do you think that they keep mentioning the Yucatan Peninsula? It's because that is where they found the Chicxulub crater, mostly covered with water and estimated to be at least 100 miles across. I would bet any money that this book you had was one of those creation "science" books, right?
There's not a single dollar in the country that isn't taxed twice and more. That's a myth used by people to who want to rationalize why they don't want to pay a certain tax (i.e., taxable dividends, estate taxes, etc.).
Whenever I give a tip to a waitress, that money has been "taxed twice". Or should one of us not be paying taxes on that money?
The agreement that allows fines for chargebacks is between the merchant and the card issuer. Microsoft isn't directly involved in the transaction, so the card issuer can't go after them. The merchant could potentially sue Microsoft for negligence if they were defrauded with a card that was stolen from Passport. I doubt that there are any online merchants that have deep enough pockets for that kind of lawsuit.
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It won't be Visa that eats the chargeback. If there is a chargeback, Visa passes it on to the merchant, and may also levy a fine against the merchant. All online purchases are treated as "no signature present" transactions, which means that the merchant is responsible for detecting fraudulent use.
Evolution doesn't do that for me. With a mailbox with 1200 messages, it took about 10 minutes over a DSL link to get the headers. The next time I ran Evolution, it only took a couple of seconds to open that folder. I can't say the same for kmail, which does download the headers every time. Evolution also lets me see all of the folders on the server if I check the "override server's namespace" option and set the namespace to be empty.
I have a SBLive! sound card, and plug the line out of my stereo amp into the line-in of the sblive. I stay fairly up-to-date on the sblive driver, usually trying to use a recent one from cvs.
My primary tool is gramofile, which records, splits the tracks, and does some filtering to get rid of scratches and pops.
Sometimes gramofile doesn't figure out the splits properly (especially for live albums). For that, I use snd to edit the tracks and split them if necessary. snd can also do some other track editing if necessary.
When I'm done, I have a bunch of.wav files that I burn to CD, and encode to mp3.
I can't honestly tell you how good the results are with respect to quality of the sound, because my hearing is actually very bad (I wear a hearing aid). The results are acceptable to me.
Taco: I feel like eating an orange for lunch.
Emil: No, have this apple. It's much less hassle than an orange.
Hint: the two items are completely different. I link the Audiotron much better, because I don't have to put my mp3s onto cdr to play them on my stereo. Plus, my current collection would take around 30 CD's to hold it, and each time I wanted to create a playlist, it would mean another CD, unless my desired playlist just happened to have all the songs on a single CD.
Hmm, I have 4700 mp3s in my collection, and they were all ripped from cd's and albums that I legitimately paid for. I have never been to napster. I've run gnutella only a couple of times, and I've never been to any other music sharing site. so I would guess that less than a dozen of those mp3s are "illegitimate".
And that's only my CD library. I am now starting the (slow and tedious) task of migrating my vinyl library to mp3. When that's done, I expect the number of mp3s to triple to around 12000.
As an aside, it looks like if the Tivo is infringing on the patent, it's only the stand alone unit. Their DirecTV receivers with Tivo do no compression. Technically, when a standalone tivo pauses live tv, it does no compression either. The live tv stream is stored uncompressed, even if the recorded programs are stored compressed. Just try hitting the record button during a show when your tivo is nearly full. There won't be enough room to record the rest of the show without losing a significant number of your existing recordings.
I plan to get a Tivo soon and I'm sure I'll use it lots, I doubt I'll ever record West Wing unless forced to - I want to watch the new episodes live.
I would bet that you will record it. It will start taping at 9:00, and sometime after 9, you will turn on the TiVo and start watching West Wing. You will skip over the ads and finish watching the show at approximately 10:00, completely prepared for the coffee talk the next day. That is the Zen that is TiVo.
Palm developers have always had to recompile for new versions of the PalmOS, as well as for the different Palm devices
This is simply not true. When I upgraded from my Palm Professional (running PalmOS 2.0) to a Palm V (running PalmOS 3.5.2), every single program I had continued to work. Even system software like Hackmaster continued to work.
In addition, as a palm developer, I have developed software using the PalmOS 3.5 SDK, the software runs just fine on PalmOS 2. This requires the developer to be aware of what API's appear on what PalmOS versions, and work around the lack of API's on older versions of the OS, but it is possible.
PalmOS is probably the best OS at maintaining compatibility that I have worked with.
He said he would be willing to give up some privacy for greater convenience. Most of us do. I give up some privacy by using my tivo. I give up some privacy by shopping at Amazon. I give up some privacy by using credit cards for purchases. I give up some privacy by using the safeway club card to get grocery discounts. I give up some privacy by buying an airline ticket, renting a car or checking in to a hotel.
When McNealy said you have "zero privacy", he was using a literary device called hyperbole. I don't think he was expecting it to be used against him by fallacious arguments such as yours.
So, maybe you could have done just a little bit more digging and found this, which gives a full background of the story, including multiple quotes from Vint Cerf - arguably one of the real Internet inventors - who has attempted to defend Al Gore's statement many times.
But then, if you dig too hard, you might actually come up with something closer to the truth, and who wants the truth if it clashes with one's preconceived notions.
You forget that this is the Seattle Times that this article came from. They are one of the biggest Microsoft sycophants in existence, but I guess they have to take care not to bite the hand that feeds them.
Anybody who didn't see northpoint going under 3 months ago and take appropriate action deserves what they got.
What if you were unaware that you even needed to take action? As I mentioned in another post, my own company got fscked by Northpoint. Our DSL contract was with Concentric, and the bills came from Concentric. They never bothered to tell us that they had subcontracted our DSL out to Northpoint. We found that out on Thursday evening when the DSL went away and we called Concentric technical support to find out why.
Unfortunately they did happen to hold a record for a few domain names etc. More or less was a pain in the ass for me to deal with =(
I hear you.
My ISP was also Reflex, and I hosted my primary DNS on that box. I knew that they were going, but I thought I was covered, because I was hosting my secondary DNS on my company's DNS server, whose DSL provider was Concentric. Unbeknownst to anybody at my company, Concentric had subcontracted the DSL to... tada... Northpoint. In the space of 12 hours, both my primary and secondary DNS went buh bye:-(
Too bad people gave Clinton the credit for Regan and Bush's economy and now that Clinton's economic policies are coming home to roost, the same people want to blame someone who has been in office for less than a hundred days.
Pop quiz: which Clinton economic policy was most responsible for the current market correction, and which of Regan/Bush policies was most responsible for the record expansion of the 90's?
In what manner did Clinton's policy of deficit reduction/balanced budgets contribute to the market correction of 2000/2001? How big of a factor was it?
How much of a factor were increased free trade and the NAFTA accord in the current economic slowdown?
The national debt (under Reagan/Bush) tripled in the 80's. Was this a direct cause of the 90's expansion, or did it hinder it? Please use sound and accepted economic principals to support your argument (hint: Rush Limbaugh is not an economist).
You parrot the typical far right's "blame everything on the Democrats" lines, but the problem with people like you is that you can never back up your statements with facts.
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E-commerce is just a fancy name for mail order, except with a computer.
And yet, I've never ordered anything via mail order, ever. But, I order stuff online all the time. I've spent thousands of dollars online at dozens of retailers. So, if it's exactly the same thing, why do I use it, but don't use mail order?
You could make the argument that I'm just irrational. That's fine, but it still doesn't change the fact that there is something about e-commerce that appeals to me (as a consumer), and mail order doesn't.
Kinda of like raving about a "budget surplus" while the country still carries a monsterous deficit.
You can't have a budget surplus and a deficit at the same time. Perhaps you meant "debt"?
Secondly, profit is generally measured as the amount of money left over after the debt has been serviced. So, if a company makes a profit every quarter, that means that its debt is being serviced and it will eventually be able to retire those loans. Lots of profitable companies carry debt; debt is just another financial tool at a company's disposal.
(Not to dismiss the fact that Amazon's debt is very large; possible unsustainably large).
Turn on the closed captioning on your TV, then fast forward the tivo at the level 1 speed. That's slow enough that the captions are still displayed, and you can read them. Not exactly what you want, but it works really well to go quickly through news and sports broadcasts and talk shows.
Yes, Mr Kettle, I have registered. I have been a registered PalmOS developer for almost 3 years. The only difficult part of the registration procedure was signing and faxing the registration agreement so that I could access the PalmOS source code (not the SDK and not needed by most developers).
However, the original poster was talking about the SDK, which requires no registration. You do have to register if you want access to the PalmOS ROMs, but even that isn't very difficult, especially in comparison to trying to get a Handspring ROM, or worse a Clie ROM. But, all you need to do PalmOS development is the SDK (although the ROMs are very useful).
You have no idea what you're talking about. Getting the SDK is about 4 clicks from www.palmos.com, and one clickthru license. No forms to fill in. Don't believe me? Try this link:
http://www.palmos.com/cgi-bin/sdk40.cgi
Umm, why exactly do you think that they keep mentioning the Yucatan Peninsula? It's because that is where they found the Chicxulub crater, mostly covered with water and estimated to be at least 100 miles across. I would bet any money that this book you had was one of those creation "science" books, right?
There's not a single dollar in the country that isn't taxed twice and more. That's a myth used by people to who want to rationalize why they don't want to pay a certain tax (i.e., taxable dividends, estate taxes, etc.).
Whenever I give a tip to a waitress, that money has been "taxed twice". Or should one of us not be paying taxes on that money?
The agreement that allows fines for chargebacks is between the merchant and the card issuer. Microsoft isn't directly involved in the transaction, so the card issuer can't go after them. The merchant could potentially sue Microsoft for negligence if they were defrauded with a card that was stolen from Passport. I doubt that there are any online merchants that have deep enough pockets for that kind of lawsuit.
It won't be Visa that eats the chargeback. If there is a chargeback, Visa passes it on to the merchant, and may also levy a fine against the merchant. All online purchases are treated as "no signature present" transactions, which means that the merchant is responsible for detecting fraudulent use.
Or, you could get a real networked kvm that isn't specific to a particular vendor.
I think that this is close to what you're looking for.
Evolution doesn't do that for me. With a mailbox with 1200 messages, it took about 10 minutes over a DSL link to get the headers. The next time I ran Evolution, it only took a couple of seconds to open that folder. I can't say the same for kmail, which does download the headers every time. Evolution also lets me see all of the folders on the server if I check the "override server's namespace" option and set the namespace to be empty.
This is all against a Cyrus 2.0.16 imap server.
How are you transfering your vinyl to MP3s?
.wav files that I burn to CD, and encode to mp3.
I have a SBLive! sound card, and plug the line out of my stereo amp into the line-in of the sblive. I stay fairly up-to-date on the sblive driver, usually trying to use a recent one from cvs.
My primary tool is gramofile, which records, splits the tracks, and does some filtering to get rid of scratches and pops.
Sometimes gramofile doesn't figure out the splits properly (especially for live albums). For that, I use snd to edit the tracks and split them if necessary. snd can also do some other track editing if necessary.
When I'm done, I have a bunch of
I can't honestly tell you how good the results are with respect to quality of the sound, because my hearing is actually very bad (I wear a hearing aid). The results are acceptable to me.
Emil: No, have this apple. It's much less hassle than an orange.
Hint: the two items are completely different. I link the Audiotron much better, because I don't have to put my mp3s onto cdr to play them on my stereo. Plus, my current collection would take around 30 CD's to hold it, and each time I wanted to create a playlist, it would mean another CD, unless my desired playlist just happened to have all the songs on a single CD.
No thanks.
And that's only my CD library. I am now starting the (slow and tedious) task of migrating my vinyl library to mp3. When that's done, I expect the number of mp3s to triple to around 12000.
As an aside, it looks like if the Tivo is infringing on the patent, it's only the stand alone unit. Their DirecTV receivers with Tivo do no compression.
Technically, when a standalone tivo pauses live tv, it does no compression either. The live tv stream is stored uncompressed, even if the recorded programs are stored compressed. Just try hitting the record button during a show when your tivo is nearly full. There won't be enough room to record the rest of the show without losing a significant number of your existing recordings.
I plan to get a Tivo soon and I'm sure I'll use it lots, I doubt I'll ever record West Wing unless forced to - I want to watch the new episodes live.
I would bet that you will record it. It will start taping at 9:00, and sometime after 9, you will turn on the TiVo and start watching West Wing. You will skip over the ads and finish watching the show at approximately 10:00, completely prepared for the coffee talk the next day. That is the Zen that is TiVo.
-- dave (who now refuses to watch TiVo-less TV)
This is simply not true. When I upgraded from my Palm Professional (running PalmOS 2.0) to a Palm V (running PalmOS 3.5.2), every single program I had continued to work. Even system software like Hackmaster continued to work.
In addition, as a palm developer, I have developed software using the PalmOS 3.5 SDK, the software runs just fine on PalmOS 2. This requires the developer to be aware of what API's appear on what PalmOS versions, and work around the lack of API's on older versions of the OS, but it is possible.
PalmOS is probably the best OS at maintaining compatibility that I have worked with.
Given that Palm has developers on staff whose sole job is development of POSE (i.e., Keith Rollin), this is not likely to be a problem.
Now, that's a nice strawman.
He said he would be willing to give up some privacy for greater convenience. Most of us do. I give up some privacy by using my tivo. I give up some privacy by shopping at Amazon. I give up some privacy by using credit cards for purchases. I give up some privacy by using the safeway club card to get grocery discounts. I give up some privacy by buying an airline ticket, renting a car or checking in to a hotel.
When McNealy said you have "zero privacy", he was using a literary device called hyperbole. I don't think he was expecting it to be used against him by fallacious arguments such as yours.
So, maybe you could have done just a little bit more digging and found this, which gives a full background of the story, including multiple quotes from Vint Cerf - arguably one of the real Internet inventors - who has attempted to defend Al Gore's statement many times.
But then, if you dig too hard, you might actually come up with something closer to the truth, and who wants the truth if it clashes with one's preconceived notions.
You forget that this is the Seattle Times that this article came from. They are one of the biggest Microsoft sycophants in existence, but I guess they have to take care not to bite the hand that feeds them.
Anybody who didn't see northpoint going under 3 months ago and take appropriate action deserves what they got.
What if you were unaware that you even needed to take action? As I mentioned in another post, my own company got fscked by Northpoint. Our DSL contract was with Concentric, and the bills came from Concentric. They never bothered to tell us that they had subcontracted our DSL out to Northpoint. We found that out on Thursday evening when the DSL went away and we called Concentric technical support to find out why.
Unfortunately they did happen to hold a record for a few domain names etc. More or less was a pain in the ass for me to deal with =(
... tada... Northpoint. In the space of 12 hours, both my primary and secondary DNS went buh bye :-(
I hear you.
My ISP was also Reflex, and I hosted my primary DNS on that box. I knew that they were going, but I thought I was covered, because I was hosting my secondary DNS on my company's DNS server, whose DSL provider was Concentric. Unbeknownst to anybody at my company, Concentric had subcontracted the DSL to
Too bad people gave Clinton the credit for Regan and Bush's economy and now that Clinton's economic policies are coming home to roost, the same people want to blame someone who has been in office for less than a hundred days.
Pop quiz: which Clinton economic policy was most responsible for the current market correction, and which of Regan/Bush policies was most responsible for the record expansion of the 90's?
In what manner did Clinton's policy of deficit reduction/balanced budgets contribute to the market correction of 2000/2001? How big of a factor was it?
How much of a factor were increased free trade and the NAFTA accord in the current economic slowdown?
The national debt (under Reagan/Bush) tripled in the 80's. Was this a direct cause of the 90's expansion, or did it hinder it? Please use sound and accepted economic principals to support your argument (hint: Rush Limbaugh is not an economist).
You parrot the typical far right's "blame everything on the Democrats" lines, but the problem with people like you is that you can never back up your statements with facts.