The link in the story doesn't talk about a pricing experiment at all... it discusses how the prices on certain dvds were way lower than they were supposed to be?
Again... which was this... an experiment or a pricing glitch (as hinted at in the recent Slashback)?
In the recent Slashback Amazon.com said something totally different:
jeko writes "Amazon.com just sent me an email claiming that their different prices for different customers are merely a mistake."
He cites email from a customer rep at Amazon:
"Finally, at any given time, despite our best efforts, a small number of the more than 4.7 million items on our site may be mispriced.
Kristine Jorgensen, Amazon.com"
I believe the previous story came from imdb.com which is a pretty reliable and respected site. They are the one who had their information wrong and should be the ones to blame for stating rumor as fact... slashdot had no reason to assume they were wrong
The last line doesn't take into account the structure of the internet. The issue of what language is the standard in the digital world has more to do with how many internet sites are created in that country/language, not how many people in the world speak it. The United States has been a pioneer in the digital world and on the internet and that is why it is most likely moving towards english as a standard. If it is moving in any direction at all....
For those of us too stupid to see the Funny icon before we went to the page... and too stupid to realize that it pretty much had to be a joke...
How many of the pictures did you look at before you realized it was a joke for sure? It took me 2 or 3 which to me says that computer graphics are getting too good for our own good. To think that normal photographs could realistically be graphics from a game is pretty extreme.
Maybe somebody can explain to me how it is different to allow a child under 13 to use AOL but not allow them to use ICQ?
AOL owns ICQ... and apparantly they are doing this to protect themselves from possible lawsuits brought by parents... but can't any age use AOL (and thereby talk to people through instant messages and essentially have the functionality of ICQ) or is there some hidden restrictions there also?
I have investigated this some and for me the choice is clear:
1.) Real Server runs beautifully under linux with many configurable options although it runs pretty much flawlessly in most situations on first install.
2.) You can connect the Real Producer which is encoding your stream from any computer. I stream audio from my NT box on DSL and direct it to my server running linux on a T1.
3.) Real Audio g2 at 20kbps sounds about 500x better than mp3 streaming at 16kbps.
4.) Both options can be done for free but the knowledge base and support is much wider with the Real Products, and if you are willing to pay the support and features become MUCH greater with Real products.
So some investigation for yourself but this is what I have found...
All I know is that most people who would do a DOS attack are doing it to get a reaction. To get on the news. To make people angry. To cause the server to have some highly irrational response such as closing down for a day which gets its posted on slashdot so everybody online knows about it....
Seems like this is a great way to encourage more attacks...
For anybody who followed the problems Trey Parker had in getting the South Park movie accepted with an R rating from the MPAA... you should know that he will come up with a way to subvert the censors.:)
What he said in interviews about the movie was that each time they came to him and said he couldn't do something he would put in something 100x worse. Eventually he would put in something the censors didn't understand and so they accepted it. I bet he will do something similar with Blame Canada...
I would be interested to hear how many others had this experience. I registered two domains through Network Solutions. It clearly states all over their site and in the whois information that the information provided by me is not to be used by anyone for commercial purposes.
Wellll, I soon started receiving computer equipment catalogs addressed to "Jishywa Technologies Inc." which is the fake (hehe) company name I gave with my address for the registration. That form is the only place I ever put that name, so somebody is breaking the rules here...
I just wanted to comment that for me at least, having an mp3 player with 64 megs of memory would be just fine.
I currently have a 32 meg RIO and am a little frustrated at the lack of space but with 64 I think I could load up a lot of different options of what to listen to and be happy for a while before reloading.
I understand that having a gb or more of memory is feasible and sought after but I think for most people 64 megs is adequate for occasional usage...
Why must everybody jump on a "This is censorship" bandwagon without knowing the full story...
Every student at every major university agrees to a set of guidelines for their network access. One of these guidelines is always that the university reserves the right to revoke access at any time for any reason...
This is their private network that they are granting these students free access to. If they don't want them using it for some purpose that is their right. If the students don't like it they can go pay for a T1 from another provider
I know a lot of you have the initial reaction that this is some effort to censor the Internet or prevent free speech... But I would imagine they are just trying to expand the current programs combating racism and bigotry to include the Internet.
If we take what Rick said at face value then I would rather wait. I would rather an Episode I DVD with amazing extras and cool commentary by George Lucas then a rushed DVD which basically got the go-ahead from Lucas but no input from him and the people involved in the making of the movie...
Just wanted to remind the people here who constantly take any opportunity to bash Bill Gates as a human being that his foundation has set aside 17 billion dollars for charitable causes...
I think that at least deserves mentioning cause most of you either don't know it or don't care to remember it...
Maybe I am missing something but once you have come up with the design and written the software that makes it all work shouldn't it be fairly inexpensive to produce a robot like this? It looks like a mostly plastic shell with some motors and sensors...
To play devil's advocate a bit about the patent situation...
Isn't it part of being in big business to do whatever you can to ensure your market share? I mean if the patent office is willing to give amazon a patent for one click shopping then more power to amazon for thinking of it! If you disagree with this being a patentable idea then blame the patent office not amazon...
As was pointed out in other posts we have millions of users using each of the IM packages that are already available. If we tried to combine ICQ,AIM,yahoo, etc... into one big messenger service it would be huge and unwieldy. Gone would be the days of picking a meaningful name on AIM or having a number you can actually memorize on ICQ...
Sure it would be nice to unite all the people who only stick to one IM program or another but I personally have settled on AIM based on who I talk to the most and I kind of like that it isn't as huge and crowded as something like ICQ
Slashdot Mirror
The link in the story doesn't talk about a pricing experiment at all... it discusses how the prices on certain dvds were way lower than they were supposed to be?
Again... which was this... an experiment or a pricing glitch (as hinted at in the recent Slashback)?
Josh
jeko writes "Amazon.com just sent me an email claiming that their different prices for different customers are merely a mistake."
He cites email from a customer rep at Amazon:
"Finally, at any given time, despite our best efforts, a small number of the more than 4.7 million items on our site may be mispriced. Kristine Jorgensen, Amazon.com"
So which was it... a mistake or an experiment?
Josh
I believe the previous story came from imdb.com which is a pretty reliable and respected site. They are the one who had their information wrong and should be the ones to blame for stating rumor as fact... slashdot had no reason to assume they were wrong
Josh
The last line doesn't take into account the structure of the internet. The issue of what language is the standard in the digital world has more to do with how many internet sites are created in that country/language, not how many people in the world speak it. The United States has been a pioneer in the digital world and on the internet and that is why it is most likely moving towards english as a standard. If it is moving in any direction at all....
For those of us too stupid to see the Funny icon before we went to the page... and too stupid to realize that it pretty much had to be a joke...
How many of the pictures did you look at before you realized it was a joke for sure? It took me 2 or 3 which to me says that computer graphics are getting too good for our own good. To think that normal photographs could realistically be graphics from a game is pretty extreme.
Maybe somebody can explain to me how it is different to allow a child under 13 to use AOL but not allow them to use ICQ?
AOL owns ICQ... and apparantly they are doing this to protect themselves from possible lawsuits brought by parents... but can't any age use AOL (and thereby talk to people through instant messages and essentially have the functionality of ICQ) or is there some hidden restrictions there also?
Josh
Well couldn't it have been last updated January 21st but now put up onto the live site until recently?
Josh
I have investigated this some and for me the choice is clear:
1.) Real Server runs beautifully under linux with many configurable options although it runs pretty much flawlessly in most situations on first install.
2.) You can connect the Real Producer which is encoding your stream from any computer. I stream audio from my NT box on DSL and direct it to my server running linux on a T1.
3.) Real Audio g2 at 20kbps sounds about 500x better than mp3 streaming at 16kbps.
4.) Both options can be done for free but the knowledge base and support is much wider with the Real Products, and if you are willing to pay the support and features become MUCH greater with Real products.
So some investigation for yourself but this is what I have found...
Josh
All I know is that most people who would do a DOS attack are doing it to get a reaction. To get on the news. To make people angry. To cause the server to have some highly irrational response such as closing down for a day which gets its posted on slashdot so everybody online knows about it....
Seems like this is a great way to encourage more attacks...
I think that Google has one of the most amusing April Fool's jokes I have seen in a while...
For anybody who followed the problems Trey Parker had in getting the South Park movie accepted with an R rating from the MPAA... you should know that he will come up with a way to subvert the censors. :)
What he said in interviews about the movie was that each time they came to him and said he couldn't do something he would put in something 100x worse. Eventually he would put in something the censors didn't understand and so they accepted it. I bet he will do something similar with Blame Canada...
Josh
Old story
Josh
I would be interested to hear how many others had this experience. I registered two domains through Network Solutions. It clearly states all over their site and in the whois information that the information provided by me is not to be used by anyone for commercial purposes.
Wellll, I soon started receiving computer equipment catalogs addressed to "Jishywa Technologies Inc." which is the fake (hehe) company name I gave with my address for the registration. That form is the only place I ever put that name, so somebody is breaking the rules here...
Josh
I just wanted to comment that for me at least, having an mp3 player with 64 megs of memory would be just fine.
I currently have a 32 meg RIO and am a little frustrated at the lack of space but with 64 I think I could load up a lot of different options of what to listen to and be happy for a while before reloading.
I understand that having a gb or more of memory is feasible and sought after but I think for most people 64 megs is adequate for occasional usage...
Josh
Yamaha CD-R site
Josh
Wow,
I figured at least some of that money was going towards their education...
Josh
Why must everybody jump on a "This is censorship" bandwagon without knowing the full story...
Every student at every major university agrees to a set of guidelines for their network access. One of these guidelines is always that the university reserves the right to revoke access at any time for any reason...
This is their private network that they are granting these students free access to. If they don't want them using it for some purpose that is their right. If the students don't like it they can go pay for a T1 from another provider
Josh
I know a lot of you have the initial reaction that this is some effort to censor the Internet or prevent free speech... But I would imagine they are just trying to expand the current programs combating racism and bigotry to include the Internet.
Josh
Well...
If we take what Rick said at face value then I would rather wait. I would rather an Episode I DVD with amazing extras and cool commentary by George Lucas then a rushed DVD which basically got the go-ahead from Lucas but no input from him and the people involved in the making of the movie...
Josh
Ultra160 specs
I think that at least deserves mentioning cause most of you either don't know it or don't care to remember it...
UF
Maybe I am missing something but once you have come up with the design and written the software that makes it all work shouldn't it be fairly inexpensive to produce a robot like this? It looks like a mostly plastic shell with some motors and sensors...
Why the $1000 price tag?
Josh
To play devil's advocate a bit about the patent situation...
Isn't it part of being in big business to do whatever you can to ensure your market share? I mean if the patent office is willing to give amazon a patent for one click shopping then more power to amazon for thinking of it! If you disagree with this being a patentable idea then blame the patent office not amazon...
Josh
As was pointed out in other posts we have millions of users using each of the IM packages that are already available. If we tried to combine ICQ,AIM,yahoo, etc... into one big messenger service it would be huge and unwieldy. Gone would be the days of picking a meaningful name on AIM or having a number you can actually memorize on ICQ...
Sure it would be nice to unite all the people who only stick to one IM program or another but I personally have settled on AIM based on who I talk to the most and I kind of like that it isn't as huge and crowded as something like ICQ
Josh