I've been using the Mavica FD-88 for my website for quite a while. I love this camera! I set up a database to make the photos searchable. I tried to do this before with a film based camera, but I was such a pain.
The ability to snap a picture and have it up on the web in minutes has added a whole new demension to the website. And since it uses cheap floppies, I never have to worry about wasting space. I went to the wild animal park in San Diego last weekend and took over 90 pictures.
On my site I have hundreds of photos that I took with a film camera and hundreds that I took with the Mavica. You wouldn't be able to tell the difference. And the options the camera gives you are quite niffty.
Recently my film camera got stollen out of my car. I have no intention of buying another one. If I lost the Mavica, I'd buy another one the same day.
Early advertising discouraged calling the product "Coke." It urged "Ask for Coca-Cola by its full name; nicknames encourage substitution." Since people kept asking for "Coke," the Company relented to popular demand. In 1941, the trademark "Coke" received equal prominence in advertising with "Coca-Cola," and in 1945, "Coke" was registered as a trademark.
This is a purely legal issue and it is touching on many of the ways the Interent will be changing international law. Since different countries have different laws, how will companies protect themselves on-line? Especially with nebulus things like the definition of the word "coke". It's slang in a foreign language for either soda or drugs. Will we have laws that actually dictate that you can't have a domain that might be confused with a trademark in some other language? I see this making lots of law firms rich, but I don't see any solutions coming soon. I doubt that Coca-Cola enjoys going through this crap any more than the original poster.
I think getting louder is the wrong approach. Getting organized. Getting the word out. Trying to motivate people to vote or contact their representatives. These are better options IMHO. Getting louder will just alienate people. It usually only works for groups that can fall into the "family values" camp. A bunch of nerds basically saying, "Stop messing with our stuff or we'll put up a bunch of mirror sites" isn't going to lead to change.
Once nerds (that includes me) start winning political office or organizing voting blocks, then we can get some things done. Vote - that's how it gets done.
I agree that big business needs to do something radical to protect it's investment. But this is trying to use old legal tricks to handle problems raised by a new paradigm. It won't work. You can't review without permission? If I post a review here and ask everyone to mirror it there will be too many reviews for the lawyers to track down and slap everyone. Same with most of the nastier parts of the UTICA. I'm really leasing? I buy most of my software on eBay. Try stopping that.
If it passes there will be lots of law suits that big business will eventually lose. Even if they win the law suit, it will be largely ignored. They need to find a better solution than standing in front of a tidal wave and ordering it to turn around.
I suspect that things like this will come and go quite a bit over the next twenty years until something more balanced is achieved .
This whole area is so new that I think it will be a long time before 1) companies realize they can't get away with things like this, and 2) we find the acceptable balance between user tracking we appreciate and "over the line" privacy invasions. If DoubleClick uses my activity to show me interesting ads that's great. If they connect it to my name and sell it to a spammer it's very bad. Right now we're just guessing where things will go. Discussion and debate is the key. More people should be talking about how tracking could benifit them. It won't go away. How can it be used in ways we'd appreciate?
I use to work at Verio (home.verio.com) when the company first started and they didn't even have a name yet. When they showed us the name and logo (verIO), we all asked, "Version ten? What the hell does that mean?" The response was, "It's just 'verio'. It doesn't mean anything. It's suppose to be meaningless. We wanted something that didn't mean anything." I'm not making this up. Okay, why does the logo have to look like "version 10"? They insisted it didn't look like that at all.
The vast gulf between marketing and the real world always amazes me. Or are we to the point where marketing IS reality?
Why should I care about this? Because some unknown person might know what sites I go to? I don't care about that. I don't understand why I should.
Should I care because I don't have the option to opt out? Maybe. Should I care because the software developer does have a big warning about the tracking? Maybe.
So may of the posts I've read seem to be missing the point No one cares that this info is being collected. Really. It no different than the phone company tracking my calls or credit card companies tracking my spending. The information being gathered is valuable. It shouldn't be stepped on. It should be sanctioned and then monitored. I would rather see marketers told they can track visits all they want, but they can only record xyz and only use it in such-and-such a manner. Bitch slapping marketers will never get you what you want. Try to encourage them to do the right thing. They're going to track anyway.
Personally I would prefer that sites knew my habits and could customize content for me. This would be a cool thing.
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I've had a Mavica for about 6 months now. I've taken hundreds of pictures. I'm VERY happy with it.
I get 6 photos on each disk at hi-res and standard quality. When I print these images on my HP 970c, they are fantastic.
Jon Sullivan
I've been using the Mavica FD-88 for my website for quite a while. I love this camera! I set up a database to make the photos searchable. I tried to do this before with a film based camera, but I was such a pain.
The ability to snap a picture and have it up on the web in minutes has added a whole new demension to the website. And since it uses cheap floppies, I never have to worry about wasting space. I went to the wild animal park in San Diego last weekend and took over 90 pictures.
On my site I have hundreds of photos that I took with a film camera and hundreds that I took with the Mavica. You wouldn't be able to tell the difference. And the options the camera gives you are quite niffty.
Recently my film camera got stollen out of my car. I have no intention of buying another one. If I lost the Mavica, I'd buy another one the same day.
Jon Sullivan
> Maybe America will catch up.
I missed something. What Russian space tech does the US need to catch up on?
"a very good safety record. There have been some near disasters, a crash and a fire"
Ummm... What? No, re-read it three times. You'll have to explain this.
Jon Sullivan
From Coca-Cola.com:
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Early advertising discouraged calling the product "Coke." It urged "Ask for Coca-Cola by its full name; nicknames encourage substitution." Since people kept asking for "Coke," the Company relented to popular demand. In 1941, the trademark "Coke" received equal prominence in advertising with "Coca-Cola," and in 1945, "Coke" was registered as a trademark.
http://www.thecocacolacompany.com/tccc/trademar
Jon Sullivan
This is a purely legal issue and it is touching on many of the ways the Interent will be changing international law. Since different countries have different laws, how will companies protect themselves on-line? Especially with nebulus things like the definition of the word "coke". It's slang in a foreign language for either soda or drugs. Will we have laws that actually dictate that you can't have a domain that might be confused with a trademark in some other language? I see this making lots of law firms rich, but I don't see any solutions coming soon. I doubt that Coca-Cola enjoys going through this crap any more than the original poster.
Jon Sullivan
I think getting louder is the wrong approach. Getting organized. Getting the word out. Trying to motivate people to vote or contact their representatives. These are better options IMHO. Getting louder will just alienate people. It usually only works for groups that can fall into the "family values" camp. A bunch of nerds basically saying, "Stop messing with our stuff or we'll put up a bunch of mirror sites" isn't going to lead to change.
Once nerds (that includes me) start winning political office or organizing voting blocks, then we can get some things done. Vote - that's how it gets done.
I agree that big business needs to do something radical to protect it's investment. But this is trying to use old legal tricks to handle problems raised by a new paradigm. It won't work. You can't review without permission? If I post a review here and ask everyone to mirror it there will be too many reviews for the lawyers to track down and slap everyone. Same with most of the nastier parts of the UTICA. I'm really leasing? I buy most of my software on eBay. Try stopping that.
If it passes there will be lots of law suits that big business will eventually lose. Even if they win the law suit, it will be largely ignored. They need to find a better solution than standing in front of a tidal wave and ordering it to turn around.
I suspect that things like this will come and go quite a bit over the next twenty years until something more balanced is achieved
.
This whole area is so new that I think it will be a long time before 1) companies realize they can't get away with things like this, and 2) we find the acceptable balance between user tracking we appreciate and "over the line" privacy invasions. If DoubleClick uses my activity to show me interesting ads that's great. If they connect it to my name and sell it to a spammer it's very bad. Right now we're just guessing where things will go. Discussion and debate is the key. More people should be talking about how tracking could benifit them. It won't go away. How can it be used in ways we'd appreciate?
I use to work at Verio (home.verio.com) when the company first started and they didn't even have a name yet. When they showed us the name and logo (verIO), we all asked, "Version ten? What the hell does that mean?" The response was, "It's just 'verio'. It doesn't mean anything. It's suppose to be meaningless. We wanted something that didn't mean anything." I'm not making this up. Okay, why does the logo have to look like "version 10"? They insisted it didn't look like that at all.
The vast gulf between marketing and the real world always amazes me. Or are we to the point where marketing IS reality?
Why should I care about this? Because some unknown person might know what sites I go to? I don't care about that. I don't understand why I should.
Should I care because I don't have the option to opt out? Maybe. Should I care because the software developer does have a big warning about the tracking? Maybe.
So may of the posts I've read seem to be missing the point No one cares that this info is being collected. Really. It no different than the phone company tracking my calls or credit card companies tracking my spending. The information being gathered is valuable. It shouldn't be stepped on. It should be sanctioned and then monitored. I would rather see marketers told they can track visits all they want, but they can only record xyz and only use it in such-and-such a manner. Bitch slapping marketers will never get you what you want. Try to encourage them to do the right thing. They're going to track anyway.
Personally I would prefer that sites knew my habits and could customize content for me. This would be a cool thing.