Because it's a piece or property. Used car dealers buy cars and resell them for more than they paid. They don't have to give the original manufacturer a dime.
If you want an example that involves something a little more similar to used CDs (and one where the margins are even better), look at the used textbook market. University bookstores buy up textbooks that have been used for one semester for a fraction of what they sold them for. They then turn around and sell them to other students for a lost more than twice what they just paid for them. Of course textbook publishers try to minimize this loss of revenue on new books by regularly releasing new editions.
I got that email and the opt-out mechanism sucked. It asks for a username. I haven't bought anything from them in about 3 years. I have no idea what my username was. The form is also submitted via email. I no longer have the ability to send email using the old address that they have on file. I'm not about to send it with one of my more current addresses.
I guess I'll be trying the 800 number that they gave on Monday. At least they gave one, though I wonder how hard it will be to get through.
The problem is when you have managers in one country and programmers in another. I work for a major corporation and I am currently working on a project for our London office. They didn't have enough coders, so they farmed the work out to our Boston office. There are no coders working on the module I am helping with in London, but the managers who we have to go to with questions about the spec, etc. are in London. The lack of communication after lunch here is definitely a hinderance. That said, writing better specs from the start would eliminate some of our problems since a lot of our questions arise from ambiguous specifications.
-joe
PS Should the code I'm working on right now be written in Great Britain? It's for a British comany that has contracted with my American employer (through our London office). Am I stealing some Brit's job? I don't think that many Americans would argue that the software that gets written here shouldn't be exported to other countries that have programmers who could have written it themselves.
What if they were your only option for broadband? I'd be very upset with my provider, but I can't get dsl in my building, so a cale modem with my current provider is my only option for high-speed access. To get similar service from someone else I would have to move. I recently signed a new lease, so moving anytime soon would be very costly.
So I'm stuck with my current ISP. I've been very happy with their service, but if they pulled something like this I would just complain, nothing more. There just isn't much more that I cold do (note that complaining might include complaining about the DMCA to my federal legislators).
Agreed. There are lots of IIci's out there. Apple made that model for years. My roomate has two of them. One of them has two NICs in it and is our router (it runs ipnetrouter on the Mac OS). Quiet little box, just sits in a cabinet and runs.
I have to disagree. Microsoft sells the OS. They shouldn't be able to leverage that monopoly to gain an unfair competitive advantage in other markets. If they want to pay the OEMS more than AOL to buy that ad space out from under AOL's nose, that's one thing, but to use their market position to prevent AOL from being the only ones with an icon on the desktop seems like unfair competition.
What would people say if Ford demamnded a Ford ad be placed on the side of any Ford bus that has ads for anything else? I think it would be ridiculous. Ford sold the bus, and once someone else has paid for it, it is theirs to customize as they see fit. I understand that MS doesn't "sell" Windows (they license it), but I think that the analogy still holds some water.
I would imagine that it's more like someone in a town where there is no electrical grid has a cell phone. I an area where there are no installed phone wires, a cell phone may be more economical than trying to get a land line.
Most companies hire new graduates and insist on a mutual 1 year contract.
Are most of them mutual? I worked for my last employer for two months before getting canned in a big round of layoffs. I would have had to repay them for my relocation expenses if I had left on my own before a year was up, but there was nothing going the other way. They didn't owe me anything relating to that bonus, but they also didn't get it back. My new employer has a similar deal. I got a moderate signing bonus that I have to pay back if I quit, but they aren't obligated to keep me around for that year.
My understanding was that he wanted to get up there soon and move on with his life. I can't remember where, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that he didn't want to push his visit back so that he could go through several additional months of training.
I don't live in Boston, but I use AT&T Broadband just across the river in Cambridge and I'm very happy with it. Downstream bandwidth is usually over 1Mbit and upstream is around 300k.
What's really scary is the potential for denial of service attacks. Once someone cracks a home machine on a 100 megabit pipe they can really do some damage. Imagine a someone launching an attack from dozens of machines on connections like that. Now imagine that someone being every script kiddie alive because there would be tens of thousands of insecure boxes sitting on big fat pipes.
I have to agree. Does the fact that a document was stored in encrypted form make it less a part of the public record? You can argue that he should have a personal email account that isn't part of the public record, but encryption doesn't help him much, unless he wants to risk having to fight for his right to protect his private key in court. While a lot of Slashdotters would love to see that happen, I don't think it's something that Bush would be too keen on.
However, one vendor that made me decide to send the rebate form back was Best Buy (they not only print out the form for you at the register, they print out extra copies of your receipt).
I just received a check from a Best Buy rebate. The best part was that I got the check less than three weeks after I mailed the forms to their fulfillment company. I don't know if that's normal for them, but it's certainly the quickest turnaround I've ever seen on a rebate.
And like you said, they did make it very easy to do (special extra copy of the receipt printed for the rebate and the rebate form itself at the register). The flipside is that they go me to buy a VCR that I hadn't planned on buying for a month or two (but with the rebate I go it for ~20% less than I could find it anywhere else).
I can see where you're going with this, but fair use currently does not allow a library to buy one copy of the latest Harry Potter book and make 50 copies to loan out. Libraries cannot simply send a photocopy of a book in response to an interlibrary loan request (at least I don't think they can). They send their original copy of the material. It's the same thing as loaning it to a patron. Nobody in their libaray can use that copy while it is loaned out.
Fair use would, however, allow me to go to the library and copy a passage from that book, put it into a paper I write (attributing it to JK Rowling) and comment on that text. The increased ease of duplication is definitely troubling for them, but I'm not sure that a change in what is viewed as fair use is needed.
My high school is one of the first in the country to use Apple's AirPort wireless technology in the classroom. We all have Apple iBooks. Everyone uses AOL Instant Messenger in class all day long.:-)
One day someone figured out that packet sniffers can be used on the network to see other people's POPmail passwords and AIM conversations, as well as whatever websites they are at. It is genuinely disturbing. However, I am terrified of telling our administration about this because of a kill-the-messenger syndrome.
Let me just say that this is one of the most ridiculously insecure technologies in the world, just waiting for the packets to be pulled down out of the air with a packet sniffer program like EtherPeek. People have been doing this for months around here.
How is this different from any other LAN? If I let you sit down at a computer in my room and you run a packet sniffer, you'll be able to see all of the traffic going to and coming from the other machines in the room. When I was in college the same was probably true for my entire dorm (the LAN was not switched inside the dorms). This is how networks work. If you don't want someone else reading your passwords or your instant messages, encrypt them. The only difference with wireless is that someone who sin't supposed to be on the LAN might find their way in, but it sounds like the authorized users are causing most of the problems.
Compaq ads? There have been some ads for Altavista running on Slashdot lately. On a related note, GMGI is the majority owner of Altavista (not Compaq).
Ok, so the game is called Urban Mercenary and you play for Bloodmoney credits?
While I understand the need to appeal to teenage boys by using cool names, but do they really think that if they are even moderately succesful that they won't have some marketing problems with those names?
I do think that this is an interesting idea, but I think that they're shooting themselves in the foot with those names.
It's 10pm, do you know where your children are?
Little Johnny is locked in his room earning Bloodmoney as a high-tech mercenary with the new computer we bought him for Christmas. He's such a little angel.
agreed. I have owned a couple of machines that use that case and it is very easy to work on. My only gripe is the second hard drive bay (right under the one Apple mounted the hdd in at the factory), which is pretty tough to get at.
Its true. At one of the Job Posting sites, I remember seeing a poll for Job Satisfaction and 95 percentage were of the opinion that they were not happy with what they are doing.
Talk about a biased sample. I would expect that most people who are reading job listings are at least somewhat unhappy with their current jobs. If they aren't, then why are they looking for another job?
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Because it's a piece or property. Used car dealers buy cars and resell them for more than they paid. They don't have to give the original manufacturer a dime.
If you want an example that involves something a little more similar to used CDs (and one where the margins are even better), look at the used textbook market. University bookstores buy up textbooks that have been used for one semester for a fraction of what they sold them for. They then turn around and sell them to other students for a lost more than twice what they just paid for them. Of course textbook publishers try to minimize this loss of revenue on new books by regularly releasing new editions.
-joe
I get paid on the 10th for the previous month.
That really sucks. I get paid monthly on the last business day of the month, and I thought I had it bad.
-joe
I got that email and the opt-out mechanism sucked. It asks for a username. I haven't bought anything from them in about 3 years. I have no idea what my username was. The form is also submitted via email. I no longer have the ability to send email using the old address that they have on file. I'm not about to send it with one of my more current addresses.
I guess I'll be trying the 800 number that they gave on Monday. At least they gave one, though I wonder how hard it will be to get through.
The problem is when you have managers in one country and programmers in another. I work for a major corporation and I am currently working on a project for our London office. They didn't have enough coders, so they farmed the work out to our Boston office. There are no coders working on the module I am helping with in London, but the managers who we have to go to with questions about the spec, etc. are in London. The lack of communication after lunch here is definitely a hinderance. That said, writing better specs from the start would eliminate some of our problems since a lot of our questions arise from ambiguous specifications.
-joe
PS Should the code I'm working on right now be written in Great Britain? It's for a British comany that has contracted with my American employer (through our London office). Am I stealing some Brit's job? I don't think that many Americans would argue that the software that gets written here shouldn't be exported to other countries that have programmers who could have written it themselves.
What if they were your only option for broadband? I'd be very upset with my provider, but I can't get dsl in my building, so a cale modem with my current provider is my only option for high-speed access. To get similar service from someone else I would have to move. I recently signed a new lease, so moving anytime soon would be very costly.
So I'm stuck with my current ISP. I've been very happy with their service, but if they pulled something like this I would just complain, nothing more. There just isn't much more that I cold do (note that complaining might include complaining about the DMCA to my federal legislators).
Agreed. There are lots of IIci's out there. Apple made that model for years. My roomate has two of them. One of them has two NICs in it and is our router (it runs ipnetrouter on the Mac OS). Quiet little box, just sits in a cabinet and runs.
-joe
I have to disagree. Microsoft sells the OS. They shouldn't be able to leverage that monopoly to gain an unfair competitive advantage in other markets. If they want to pay the OEMS more than AOL to buy that ad space out from under AOL's nose, that's one thing, but to use their market position to prevent AOL from being the only ones with an icon on the desktop seems like unfair competition.
What would people say if Ford demamnded a Ford ad be placed on the side of any Ford bus that has ads for anything else? I think it would be ridiculous. Ford sold the bus, and once someone else has paid for it, it is theirs to customize as they see fit. I understand that MS doesn't "sell" Windows (they license it), but I think that the analogy still holds some water.
-joe
I would imagine that it's more like someone in a town where there is no electrical grid has a cell phone. I an area where there are no installed phone wires, a cell phone may be more economical than trying to get a land line.
Or stop to go to the bathroom and buy a snack at one of those nice rest stops they have on the NY Thruway...
If you know someone that bought a BMW and payed over $100 000 US, send them my way, I've got some swampland I've been meaning to get rid of.
Kidding. I just can't think of which ones cost over $100k, to be honest.
The Z8 comes to mind, but that's about it (and there aren't many of them to be had).
Most companies hire new graduates and insist on a mutual 1 year contract.
Are most of them mutual? I worked for my last employer for two months before getting canned in a big round of layoffs. I would have had to repay them for my relocation expenses if I had left on my own before a year was up, but there was nothing going the other way. They didn't owe me anything relating to that bonus, but they also didn't get it back. My new employer has a similar deal. I got a moderate signing bonus that I have to pay back if I quit, but they aren't obligated to keep me around for that year.
Doesn't Apple's G4 Cube have an external power supply? I assume that is part of how they managed to make the Cube so quiet (and so small).
My understanding was that he wanted to get up there soon and move on with his life. I can't remember where, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that he didn't want to push his visit back so that he could go through several additional months of training.
I don't live in Boston, but I use AT&T Broadband just across the river in Cambridge and I'm very happy with it. Downstream bandwidth is usually over 1Mbit and upstream is around 300k.
What's really scary is the potential for denial of service attacks. Once someone cracks a home machine on a 100 megabit pipe they can really do some damage. Imagine a someone launching an attack from dozens of machines on connections like that. Now imagine that someone being every script kiddie alive because there would be tens of thousands of insecure boxes sitting on big fat pipes.
I have to agree. Does the fact that a document was stored in encrypted form make it less a part of the public record?
You can argue that he should have a personal email account that isn't part of the public record, but encryption doesn't help him much, unless he wants to risk having to fight for his right to protect his private key in court. While a lot of Slashdotters would love to see that happen, I don't think it's something that Bush would be too keen on.
However, one vendor that made me decide to send the rebate form back was Best Buy (they not only print out the form for you at the register, they print out extra copies of your receipt).
I just received a check from a Best Buy rebate. The best part was that I got the check less than three weeks after I mailed the forms to their fulfillment company. I don't know if that's normal for them, but it's certainly the quickest turnaround I've ever seen on a rebate.
And like you said, they did make it very easy to do (special extra copy of the receipt printed for the rebate and the rebate form itself at the register). The flipside is that they go me to buy a VCR that I hadn't planned on buying for a month or two (but with the rebate I go it for ~20% less than I could find it anywhere else).
I can see where you're going with this, but fair use currently does not allow a library to buy one copy of the latest Harry Potter book and make 50 copies to loan out. Libraries cannot simply send a photocopy of a book in response to an interlibrary loan request (at least I don't think they can). They send their original copy of the material. It's the same thing as loaning it to a patron. Nobody in their libaray can use that copy while it is loaned out.
Fair use would, however, allow me to go to the library and copy a passage from that book, put it into a paper I write (attributing it to JK Rowling) and comment on that text. The increased ease of duplication is definitely troubling for them, but I'm not sure that a change in what is viewed as fair use is needed.
My high school is one of the first in the country to use Apple's AirPort wireless technology in the classroom. We all have Apple iBooks. Everyone uses AOL Instant Messenger in class all day long. :-)
One day someone figured out that packet sniffers can be used on the network to see other people's POPmail passwords and AIM conversations, as well as whatever websites they are at. It is genuinely disturbing. However, I am terrified of telling our administration about this because of a kill-the-messenger syndrome.
Let me just say that this is one of the most ridiculously insecure technologies in the world, just waiting for the packets to be pulled down out of the air with a packet sniffer program like EtherPeek. People have been doing this for months around here.
How is this different from any other LAN? If I let you sit down at a computer in my room and you run a packet sniffer, you'll be able to see all of the traffic going to and coming from the other machines in the room. When I was in college the same was probably true for my entire dorm (the LAN was not switched inside the dorms). This is how networks work. If you don't want someone else reading your passwords or your instant messages, encrypt them.
The only difference with wireless is that someone who sin't supposed to be on the LAN might find their way in, but it sounds like the authorized users are causing most of the problems.
1. Altavista was created by DEC which is now owned by Compaq...
2. PC sales are slowing, compaq needs more revenue...
3. Team of highly trained attack lawyers scours company patents for potential victims they can hit up for tribute, er, royalties.
4. Someone out there has to be paying attention to these things. We owe alot to those who do.
Except that somewhere after number 1 Compaq sold Altavista to CMGI. But then CMGI is probably in every bit as much need as Compaq for more revenues.
Compaq ads? There have been some ads for Altavista running on Slashdot lately.
On a related note, GMGI is the majority owner of Altavista (not Compaq).
Ok, so the game is called Urban Mercenary and you play for Bloodmoney credits?
While I understand the need to appeal to teenage boys by using cool names, but do they really think that if they are even moderately succesful that they won't have some marketing problems with those names?
I do think that this is an interesting idea, but I think that they're shooting themselves in the foot with those names.
It's 10pm, do you know where your children are?
Little Johnny is locked in his room earning Bloodmoney as a high-tech mercenary with the new computer we bought him for Christmas. He's such a little angel.
agreed. I have owned a couple of machines that use that case and it is very easy to work on. My only gripe is the second hard drive bay (right under the one Apple mounted the hdd in at the factory), which is pretty tough to get at.
Minor detail. Cobalt uses Intel-compatible chips, not Intels. At least they do in the Raq3 and Raq4.
Its true. At one of the Job Posting sites, I remember seeing a poll for Job Satisfaction and 95 percentage were of the opinion that they were not happy with what they are doing.
Talk about a biased sample. I would expect that most people who are reading job listings are at least somewhat unhappy with their current jobs. If they aren't, then why are they looking for another job?