Use your own price-to-earnings ratio to predict how large the boycott will be in a few months, and then multiply that by amazon's price-to-earnings ratio, and you should get a nice round number:)
I messed up the link to nowebpatents.org, but nobody's flamed me yet, so I guess I'll have to do it myself:
Jesse, you idiot, it says "Don't forget the http://" right there! Your comment should have been moderated down as flamebait, not up as insightful, you lame karma whore.
Patents like this are also incredibly short-sighted! The web has exploded because it was an open platform that sparked countless innovations by users. Fence in that platform, and who knows what opportunities will never come to light?
By scaring away other e-commerce sites, Amazon ensures that fewer people will find the Internet useful. That means fewer websites in the future, and therefore fewer people, and so on. Since Amazon depends on having a large user base in the future, why is it abusing a weak patent-checking system in an Internet-destroying way?
Why are there always so many fewer comments on positive-outcome articles? It's evening and I see 48 comments on this article. 48 comments. Five of the articles above this one have more score:2+ comments than that.
Which Holland-related articles on slashdot have the fewest comments? Which have the most?
Isn't Ebay infringing on Amazon's patent to hold.. online auctions? Or didn't they file one that yet?
Sounds like fun. Amazon couldn't complain, and if ebay did it right (i.e. made their intentions clear to the open sourcers without giving the courts reason to hold ebay in contempt of court), it could be really fun on slashdot. Do any slashdotters with a good amount legal knowledge want to offer to fight the lawsuit for ebay, without charge? Maybe Rob will reimburse you with revenue from ad displays:P
I'm surprised that Amazon doesn't already own Sotheby's.. Amazon and Sotheby's have been working together for a few months. Also, what is ebay doing acquiring the part of its competition that has been charged with antitrust violations, and is having trouble with the SEC?
Why? They're obviously making more profit that way; otherwise they would lower their prices. And, to kill two birds with one stone, they come out more evil and sinister that way:)
noamazon.com is in no way affiliated with or authorized by Amazon.com, or any other company for that matter. Since some booksellers don't call their analogs of amazon's program "affiliate programs", and since noamazon.com hides its link URLs behind a cgi script, that doesn't tell me that noamazon.com isn't making money from his links. If noamazon.com is making money, then I'm jealous of the person who came up with the idea (since he's probably making quite a bit), but he shouldn't try to hide the fact.
I could see trademark on "affiliate program" in connection with online bookstores, but not trademark. It's too obvious, and it's been used in non-online settings before.
if somehow I got stuck in a porn site with windows poppping up as fast as I could close
Since this seems to be the main annoyance with porn sites you didn't intend to visit, take a minute to vote for mozilla bug 29346, a request that mozilla do something about the problem. Or better yet, comment on it (preferably on bugzilla instead of slashdot) in a constructive way, such as suggesting a better solution than the one I proposed.
Ahh, thanks for enlightening me.. I was trying to figure out what the people we refer to as "pro-censorship" might call themselves.
Anyway, I'm sure you've figured out by now that people like to call themselves "pro-"something -- just look at the abortion debate. If all the pro-lifers did was refer to the other side as "anti-life" and vice versa, the debate wouldn't go anywhere. (Not that that is going anywhere; it's one of those issues with a slippery middle ground.)
What's this "standard string class" I keep hearing about? I have three compilers (borland 3.0, djgpp, borland 5.0), and only one (borland 5.0) knows what "string" is. It refers to it as "A specialization of the basic_string class".
I'm not sure, but I know they set up all of the high school chemistry contests (local and national) in the United States that eventually decide who gets to go to the International Chemistry Olympiad.
Since I haven't seen any really strong arguments as to why Slade's "Click here only if you agree not to ask for the source code" thing shouldn't work, here's something to start with:
What if he started charging people $5 to download the binary after they had clicked through?
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There are a variety of old C++ implementations floating around on the web and on CDs. I do not recommend an old C++ compiler for learning C++ or for new production use. There is little gained by fighting your way through bugs that have been fixed years ago or limitations that have been lifted years ago by the standard committee.
IMO Borland 3.0 is still one of the best compilers out there. It doesn't have a whole lot of proprietary commands, it has very readable help files, and it's fast. Newer compilers do stupid things like automatically initializing ints to 0, making it extremely hard to port to other compilers (you get a compiler error if you try to use clrscr() on microsoft, but your program is totally screwed if you accidentally use the initialize-to-0 "feature" of msvc 6 and try to run it on msvc 5.)
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Use your own price-to-earnings ratio to predict how large the boycott will be in a few months, and then multiply that by amazon's price-to-earnings ratio, and you should get a nice round number
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Jesse, you idiot, it says "Don't forget the http://" right there! Your comment should have been moderated down as flamebait, not up as insightful, you lame karma whore.
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But to take this a step further, let's assume that Amazon actually deserves its large price-to-earnings ratio and combine it with something from http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/am azon_patent.html:
By scaring away other e-commerce sites, Amazon ensures that fewer people will find the Internet useful. That means fewer websites in the future, and therefore fewer people, and so on. Since Amazon depends on having a large user base in the future, why is it abusing a weak patent-checking system in an Internet-destroying way?
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Which Holland-related articles on slashdot have the fewest comments? Which have the most?
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Sounds like fun. Amazon couldn't complain, and if ebay did it right (i.e. made their intentions clear to the open sourcers without giving the courts reason to hold ebay in contempt of court), it could be really fun on slashdot. Do any slashdotters with a good amount legal knowledge want to offer to fight the lawsuit for ebay, without charge? Maybe Rob will reimburse you with revenue from ad displays
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Did anyone else read that as a link for other companies (maybe amazon?) to offer competing bids on Sotheby's?
"Bid" turns out to be the ticker symbol for Sotheby Holdings, Inc.
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Why? They're obviously making more profit that way; otherwise they would lower their prices. And, to kill two birds with one stone, they come out more evil and sinister that way
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"We" can pirate all we want, but that doesn't mean they won't sell anything. It just means we will have wasted all of our bandwidth.
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comes from amazon.com?
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Ok, this is moving into flamebait territory, but you never said noamazon.com doesn't make money from the links.
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noamazon.com is in no way affiliated with or authorized by Amazon.com, or any other company for that matter.
Since some booksellers don't call their analogs of amazon's program "affiliate programs", and since noamazon.com hides its link URLs behind a cgi script, that doesn't tell me that noamazon.com isn't making money from his links. If noamazon.com is making money, then I'm jealous of the person who came up with the idea (since he's probably making quite a bit), but he shouldn't try to hide the fact.
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Since this seems to be the main annoyance with porn sites you didn't intend to visit, take a minute to vote for mozilla bug 29346, a request that mozilla do something about the problem. Or better yet, comment on it (preferably on bugzilla instead of slashdot) in a constructive way, such as suggesting a better solution than the one I proposed.
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Anyway, I'm sure you've figured out by now that people like to call themselves "pro-"something -- just look at the abortion debate. If all the pro-lifers did was refer to the other side as "anti-life" and vice versa, the debate wouldn't go anywhere. (Not that that is going anywhere; it's one of those issues with a slippery middle ground.)
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What's this "standard string class" I keep hearing about? I have three compilers (borland 3.0, djgpp, borland 5.0), and only one (borland 5.0) knows what "string" is. It refers to it as "A specialization of the basic_string class".
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What if he started charging people $5 to download the binary after they had clicked through?
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Internet drugs? Would that be.. snow crash?
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IMO Borland 3.0 is still one of the best compilers out there. It doesn't have a whole lot of proprietary commands, it has very readable help files, and it's fast. Newer compilers do stupid things like automatically initializing ints to 0, making it extremely hard to port to other compilers (you get a compiler error if you try to use clrscr() on microsoft, but your program is totally screwed if you accidentally use the initialize-to-0 "feature" of msvc 6 and try to run it on msvc 5.)
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