This is getting off-topic, but initially, pets.com would ship 40lbs of premium cat food costing $50 for about $5. And since I could schedule repeat deliveries, I was able to save time and money, and still have cat food always on hand.
That's like requiring kids in school to learn how a car engine works, how their microwave works, how their television works, etc.
And exactly why is that a bad thing? Students should be required to know how everyday objects work. I certainly wish someone had told me how these things worked when I was in grade school.
I don't expect the school to teach my children these things, but I certainly will.
Warning: the above link to somethingawful.com will actually takes you to goatse.cx. I think what happens is that the web server for somethingawful.com looks at the referrer, and if it's slashdot, you're redirected to goatse.cx.
In other words, even if you enable the show-href-domain-in-brackets feature, you're still not safe from goatse.cx.
There used to be a slashbox for Slashdot itself. You might ask yourself what the point was, but it allowed me to see a list of Slashdot headings that my filters normally hid from me. Every now and then I'd see something that looked interesting about a topic that I usually don't care about.
Could you please put the Slashdot slashbox back? Thanks!
BTW, the lameness filters are truly broken. My first version of this post, with the subject "Slashdot slashbox" was rejected because "Your comment violated the postersubj compression filter", whatever that means. Even after I changed it to "What happened to the Slashdot slashboxes?" it was still rejected.
I used petopia.com before they got bought out by PetCo. When they were independent, they had a really nice service called a "bottomless bowl". Basically, for a low shipping rate (way lower than it was supposed to be), they would ship you X pounds of pet food every Y weeks. All you had to do was calculate the X and Y that worked for you. I used this service for about a year, and not only did it save me money, but it saved me time as well. Unfortunately, it was just too good to be true.
The moral of the story is that any web store that charges sales tax and shipping better make up for the double surcharge in some way. The product prices are supposed to be lower because the costs are supposed to be lower. If it costs you as much money to stock inventory for a web store as it does for a brick-and-mortar store, then you're doing something wrong.
And the primary purpose of Dmitry's software is for people who are a license to read an eBook to read it in a different way.
"Well, what about Napster?" you might say. "Napster was supposed to be used to trade music legally, but 99% of the music traded was illegal." Ok, fine. Show me the evidence that the majority of people use Dmitry's program to pirate eBooks, and I'll tell you that Adobe and/or the DOJ should do what the RIAA has done: force the software to do something different. Until then, there's nothing wrong with his software.
I heard a rumor that there are quite a number of people who subscribe to Showtime primarily, if not exclusively, because of Stargate: SG-1. I thought I was the only one who did that. I'd get Cinemax or HBO instead, if Showtime didn't have original sci-fi on it, and I think that's true of a lot of people. The great thing is that my TiVo allows me to get much more out of Showtime, because I don't have to worry about schedules.
A VCR can be used to copy videos so that people who haven't paid for them can use them. Are you saying that people who make VCRs should also be arrested?
Does anyone have a list of which Congresscritters vote in favor of the DMCA? I've been trying to find that information, but I can't seem to find any web site that tells me who voted in favor of (or against) a particular bill. I would think Thomas would tell me, but it doesn't.
Also, what was the DMCA bill number? --
Lord Nimon
No, I'm not Russian, but the Russian ambassador would be the right person to speak on behalf of Russian to the U.S. about a Russian national being held prisoner on an unconstitutional law. I would write the Russian ambassador to inform him of the situation, so that he can take action if he feels it's important. I think the Dmitry issue is straining American-Russian relations (at least, between Russian citizens and the American government), and the ambassador SHOULD be concerned. Perhaps he just needs someone to tell him about it.
Besides, it can't hurt to write him. --
Lord Nimon
I think we need to send letters to the Russian Embassy asking them to take action.
The ambassador's address is:
His Excellency Yuri V. Ushakov
Embassy of the Russian Federation
2650 Wisconsin Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20007
On a side note, the ambassador's official title is "Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary". I'm sure it's deserved, but I don't think I could actually call him that to his face without laughing.
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Sorry, but I have no sympathy for people who spend hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars on a piece of equipment, but don't take the time to educate themselves as to what they're really buying. --
Lord Nimon
The OS/2 version of PMFax (www.kellergroup.com) supports emailing incoming faxes. I used to do this at home. They have a Linux verion, but I'm not sure if it has the same capability, since the OS/2 version relied on OS/2's built-in Rexx support. --
Lord Nimon
Nice idea, too bad it won't work. Windows NT, in all likelihood, included patented code that's licensed from 3rd parties. Like most big companies, MS has broad cross-licensing deals for patents, so even FINDING the patented code would be difficult. --
Lord Nimon
Sklyarov was not selling the software in the U.S. Other people may have been, but they were not arrested. All Sklyarov did was talk about it. --
Lord Nimon
If the right person is on a whitewater rafting vacation this weekend, then it's quite likely that they can't get him to talk to a bunch of EFF people. I believe in the EFF, but there's no way I'd break my weekend vacation to attend some meeting. --
Lord Nimon
Few people who do professional prepress work could do anything with the Gimp.
The number of people who could use Gimp for professional pre-press work is way closer to zero than you think. There are a handful of features (e.g. CMYK support and color matching) that Photoshop has and Gimp doesn't, that are absolutely necessary for pre-press work.
And unlike Windows, a very significant number of Mac Photoshop users are those professionals who need these features. Then consider that 95% of professional graphic designers are Mac users, and that there are probably fewer open source Mac developers than there are open source OS/2 developers (!!!), all I can say is that for the foreseeable future, Gimp on Mac is little more than a curiosity. --
Lord Nimon
I feel like your company is trying to insult my intellegence
How ironic. You misspelled "intelligence".
Attention everyone writing letters: Please spell-check the letters you copy/paste from Slashdot. Almost every one of them has spelling errors. --
Lord Nimon
Re:"This is not happening. This is not happening."
on
Scully Leaving X-Files
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· Score: 1
The search by Mulder for his sister, which formed the true heart of the series and propulsion for his career and search for "truth" ended a couple of seasons ago with Mulder romping around with her ghost in a forest!. Turns out she died at the age of 13 or so.
Damn, I must have missed that episode. I know this is starting to get off-topic, but can you give me a synopsis? Or at least an episode number, so that I can look it up? I still watch The X-Files, and I've been wondering for a long time why I haven't seen anything about his sister. --
Lord Nimon
No, you are the idiot. There have been legal cases (sorry, I can't remember the specifics) where a company with as little as 70% market share has been declared a monopoly. --
Lord Nimon
Slashdot Mirror
This is getting off-topic, but initially, pets.com would ship 40lbs of premium cat food costing $50 for about $5. And since I could schedule repeat deliveries, I was able to save time and money, and still have cat food always on hand.
And exactly why is that a bad thing? Students should be required to know how everyday objects work. I certainly wish someone had told me how these things worked when I was in grade school.
I don't expect the school to teach my children these things, but I certainly will.
In other words, even if you enable the show-href-domain-in-brackets feature, you're still not safe from goatse.cx.
Could you please put the Slashdot slashbox back? Thanks!
BTW, the lameness filters are truly broken. My first version of this post, with the subject "Slashdot slashbox" was rejected because "Your comment violated the postersubj compression filter", whatever that means. Even after I changed it to "What happened to the Slashdot slashboxes?" it was still rejected.
The moral of the story is that any web store that charges sales tax and shipping better make up for the double surcharge in some way. The product prices are supposed to be lower because the costs are supposed to be lower. If it costs you as much money to stock inventory for a web store as it does for a brick-and-mortar store, then you're doing something wrong.
Adobe doesn't need to reimburse Elcomsoft. After the trial, Elcomsoft will get its $50K back. That's how bails work.
"Well, what about Napster?" you might say. "Napster was supposed to be used to trade music legally, but 99% of the music traded was illegal." Ok, fine. Show me the evidence that the majority of people use Dmitry's program to pirate eBooks, and I'll tell you that Adobe and/or the DOJ should do what the RIAA has done: force the software to do something different. Until then, there's nothing wrong with his software.
I heard a rumor that there are quite a number of people who subscribe to Showtime primarily, if not exclusively, because of Stargate: SG-1. I thought I was the only one who did that. I'd get Cinemax or HBO instead, if Showtime didn't have original sci-fi on it, and I think that's true of a lot of people. The great thing is that my TiVo allows me to get much more out of Showtime, because I don't have to worry about schedules.
A VCR can be used to copy videos so that people who haven't paid for them can use them. Are you saying that people who make VCRs should also be arrested?
So you're saying that you need to be a network administrator in order to get W2K stable?
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James O. Coplien
It's a great book for novice C++ programmers. It explained a lot to me. Unlike other books of its kind, it's completely OS-independent.
Code Complete : A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
Steve C McConnell
This is one of those "how to write code that can be maintained by anyone" books. A library can't have too many books like these.
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Lord Nimon
Whenever the BSA conducts a raid, they always have search warrants.
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Lord Nimon
FYI - if you've pirated some company's software, you are not a customer.
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Lord Nimon
Also, what was the DMCA bill number?
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Lord Nimon
Besides, it can't hurt to write him.
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Lord Nimon
The ambassador's address is:
His Excellency Yuri V. Ushakov
Embassy of the Russian Federation
2650 Wisconsin Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20007
On a side note, the ambassador's official title is "Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary". I'm sure it's deserved, but I don't think I could actually call him that to his face without laughing.
--
Lord Nimon
Sorry, but I have no sympathy for people who spend hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars on a piece of equipment, but don't take the time to educate themselves as to what they're really buying.
--
Lord Nimon
The OS/2 version of PMFax (www.kellergroup.com) supports emailing incoming faxes. I used to do this at home. They have a Linux verion, but I'm not sure if it has the same capability, since the OS/2 version relied on OS/2's built-in Rexx support.
--
Lord Nimon
Nice idea, too bad it won't work. Windows NT, in all likelihood, included patented code that's licensed from 3rd parties. Like most big companies, MS has broad cross-licensing deals for patents, so even FINDING the patented code would be difficult.
--
Lord Nimon
Sklyarov was not selling the software in the U.S. Other people may have been, but they were not arrested. All Sklyarov did was talk about it.
--
Lord Nimon
If the right person is on a whitewater rafting vacation this weekend, then it's quite likely that they can't get him to talk to a bunch of EFF people. I believe in the EFF, but there's no way I'd break my weekend vacation to attend some meeting.
--
Lord Nimon
The number of people who could use Gimp for professional pre-press work is way closer to zero than you think. There are a handful of features (e.g. CMYK support and color matching) that Photoshop has and Gimp doesn't, that are absolutely necessary for pre-press work.
And unlike Windows, a very significant number of Mac Photoshop users are those professionals who need these features. Then consider that 95% of professional graphic designers are Mac users, and that there are probably fewer open source Mac developers than there are open source OS/2 developers (!!!), all I can say is that for the foreseeable future, Gimp on Mac is little more than a curiosity.
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Lord Nimon
How ironic. You misspelled "intelligence".
Attention everyone writing letters: Please spell-check the letters you copy/paste from Slashdot. Almost every one of them has spelling errors.
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Lord Nimon
Damn, I must have missed that episode. I know this is starting to get off-topic, but can you give me a synopsis? Or at least an episode number, so that I can look it up? I still watch The X-Files, and I've been wondering for a long time why I haven't seen anything about his sister.
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Lord Nimon
No, you are the idiot. There have been legal cases (sorry, I can't remember the specifics) where a company with as little as 70% market share has been declared a monopoly.
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Lord Nimon