Really, I'd like to see existing social networks evolve and allow more interop before I want to see another new one come up. That's just me though. from the Wiki:
Non-Goals
The Coop should not require any net-new server infrastructure, and instead leverage and integrate with existing web services (though a later comment suggests making a server with its own account for people to register on and manage their feeds). It should also not be a new interface for interacting with those services (ie: uploading photos to Flickr, updating status on Facebook, etc.) they basically want the browser to be the glue between existing services rather than create a new service. it'll be interesting to see which companies are open to this and which work to make things difficult
I agree! The current events overtones with the Homeland Security and illegal immigrant killings/deportations were only for the benefit of attracting those in the reviewer community that hate the US' current administration. Their plan worked and it got rave reviews. they had a good model, they saw how well it worked for "V for oVerrated"
And secondly, the company is making money using the content from the students. are they redistributing the work though? it seems like all they're really doing with your paper after it's submitted is using it as a body-of-evidence for future fraud, which is only accessed if someone copies it (or a false positive) and not as some sort of mass-republishing service. but i guess i don't really know how they spotlight suspected fraud (in the future paper that they think infringes on your work), do they transmit your entire saved paper to the professor as evidence?
just making money using content isn't enough of a test for copyright violations either. if i open a book in the bookstore and read the first page and use that knowledge to make money (not to resell the text of that page), i've made money off that content right?
it can't possibly be secure to just throw random greetings out like that, can you please revise your program to require a login and password prior to the saying hello?
everyone seems to be dodging around the fact that these people made more money than the other workers because Circuit City felt that they should make more money. forget about if this is contrary to the American Dream, it's contrary to every possible notion that someone could teach a manager about motivating their workers, and it's probably going to get them sued. quotes like this in the article really leap out at anyone that takes the time to RTFA:
They weren't given the option of taking a pay cut, Circuit City spokesman Bill Cimino told Bloomberg News.
"This is no reflection on job performance," he said. "We deeply regret the negative impact. Retail is extremely competitive, and if we're going to thrive and operate a successful company for our shoppers, employees and shareholders, we just have to control costs."
why not scale back raises, or maybe freeze salaries?
"If you've been there three or four years, you get your salary up if you're any good," [George Whalin of Retail Management Consultants] said. "So they're saying, 'We'll get rid of the most knowledgeable people who have been around the longest and hire people who haven't a clue.' It doesn't make sense to me."
exactly! how is anyone who still works there going to feel that this company has any prospects for them? i'm not talking "work at this same job your whole career" prospects, i'm talking "maybe i'll be manager in a couple years" or "maybe i can get a good raise over the next few years" prospects. they fired people because those people took raises that they gave them
They don't pre-allocate infinite number of bytes for your account, which will go "wasted". they don't pre-allocate space, but the amount of spam that can accumulate in accounts that are effectively dead has no ceiling now. i wonder if they're limiting the amount of unread email that an account can accumulate just to give them a boundary that they can put onto accounts like that?
You do realise that the rollout of the previous upgrades in mailbox size didn't all happen in one go as well, right?
exactly! the previous rollouts came out overtime as they put into place the infrastructure to handle the new size, so i anticipate that they will also roll this one out as infinite space becomes available for more and more users
does anyone know if there is any truth to the rumor that Google is going to save costs on storing gmail accounts by storing everyone's email in one huge Yahoo mail account?
The price of Windows has not gone up over the years, and the OS itself has gotten better. everything about the cost of buying a new PC has gone down in price over the years...except the cost of Windows. they sell more and more copies and because it's software their own cost to develop it is less linked to the number of copies sold versus something like RAM or Hard Drives, but their piece is the one that doesn't get cheaper.
exactly, YouTube isn't the only one that'd be gutted by this lawsuit and videos aren't the only copyrighted items that are posted on websites. if profiting by the service is the decider, ESPN had better hope that no one uploads a copyrighted image for use as their fantasy team logo. text can be copyrighted also, so you'd better hope no one reposts copyrighted text onto your blog that has advertisements. what are the provisions that Slashdot needs to have in place to prevent posting of text that violates copyrights on published works?
i'm not sure why you're reading so much into his motivations. i think he's just saying that the one particular patent "a method of translating calls between the Internet and standard phones" doesn't appear to be used by Verizon at all, and they're enforcing this patent purely to prevent anyone else from using that means to enter the phone industry.
It looks like Microsoft therefore has granted transferable rights to all applicable intellectual property to the recipients of the software. i think they acknowledge that the recipients of the software from MS and Novell have rights to it. the question is if MS distributing SuSE has impact on MS's claims against people using a version of Linux that they haven't indemnified
Heck, you could post any random sentence to your weblog and be inadvertently quoting John Madden's commentary during a football game. and the more random it is the more likely it matches
This isn't so clear. Sound quality is limited by human hearing. Eventually it is "good enough" as in "no difference in double-blind experiments". There is no such sensory-imposed limit for RAID. that's the thing though, there will always be a group of people that dub themselves audiophiles and lots of those people seem to dismiss double-blind experiments out-of-hand because they contend that their gold-plated cochlear-implant that they received in a secret Soviet experiment gives them uber-hearing the likes of which has only been hinted at in comic books. simply put, if you sell a more expensive sound card, some people will buy it almost solely because it's the more expensive sound card. audio seems to have more of these types than other sources of fanaticism, so they might be able to support a market.
saying that it has 54% of the market doesn't refute a statement that it's declining unless you can show that it had 54% or less previously, unless your argument is "who cares if it's declining, it's still a lot of apps"
i think what he's saying is that the person installing 64-bit Vista shouldn't be prompted to buy OneCare, not that OneCare has to support every platform or that the OneCare website should detect that you're running an unsupported OS
Lets also be clear that Viacom is just as much a "content provider" as Google is. In other words, they create NOTHING. Viacom is just another middleman between the artists and the viewers. that's the ironic part, they're clearly not interested in showing these videos on their own channel (MTV is all-reality-show, all-the-time), so what do they care if people watch them somewhere else? if they believed that there is a lot of revenue to be made showing these videos they'd be showing them on their own stations!
imagine realtime, updating "have you seen this person?" pictures on milk cartons. when they find the kid they can beam the next kid's vitals onto everyone's breakfast table
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The Coop should not require any net-new server infrastructure, and instead leverage and integrate with existing web services (though a later comment suggests making a server with its own account for people to register on and manage their feeds). It should also not be a new interface for interacting with those services (ie: uploading photos to Flickr, updating status on Facebook, etc.) they basically want the browser to be the glue between existing services rather than create a new service. it'll be interesting to see which companies are open to this and which work to make things difficult
Eliza: Does it please you to believe I am one of those robot-speech-thingies i hear about probably?
where is 3) someone else who didn't know what ironic means wrote the song and gave it to her and she didn't know either
it's a key feature if you plan on redistributing her
hasn't the person applying for the patent always been obligated to share any information they have about possible prior art?
just making money using content isn't enough of a test for copyright violations either. if i open a book in the bookstore and read the first page and use that knowledge to make money (not to resell the text of that page), i've made money off that content right?
it can't possibly be secure to just throw random greetings out like that, can you please revise your program to require a login and password prior to the saying hello?
exactly! the previous rollouts came out overtime as they put into place the infrastructure to handle the new size, so i anticipate that they will also roll this one out as infinite space becomes available for more and more users
does anyone know if there is any truth to the rumor that Google is going to save costs on storing gmail accounts by storing everyone's email in one huge Yahoo mail account?
exactly, YouTube isn't the only one that'd be gutted by this lawsuit and videos aren't the only copyrighted items that are posted on websites. if profiting by the service is the decider, ESPN had better hope that no one uploads a copyrighted image for use as their fantasy team logo. text can be copyrighted also, so you'd better hope no one reposts copyrighted text onto your blog that has advertisements. what are the provisions that Slashdot needs to have in place to prevent posting of text that violates copyrights on published works?
i'm not sure why you're reading so much into his motivations. i think he's just saying that the one particular patent "a method of translating calls between the Internet and standard phones" doesn't appear to be used by Verizon at all, and they're enforcing this patent purely to prevent anyone else from using that means to enter the phone industry.
that's great if you ever have a disaster that occurs within the bank's operating hours!
saying that it has 54% of the market doesn't refute a statement that it's declining unless you can show that it had 54% or less previously, unless your argument is "who cares if it's declining, it's still a lot of apps"
i think what he's saying is that the person installing 64-bit Vista shouldn't be prompted to buy OneCare, not that OneCare has to support every platform or that the OneCare website should detect that you're running an unsupported OS
...or one that you can eat! it's organic, perhaps it'll eat you. or is that the 3.0 version that they're only releasing in Soviet Russia?imagine realtime, updating "have you seen this person?" pictures on milk cartons. when they find the kid they can beam the next kid's vitals onto everyone's breakfast table
cue the "not going anywhere for a while?" Snickers commercial