It seems that John Wall is selling Vista.com. Well, sort of selling it
after reading that, i don't feel sorry for this john wall guy at all.
many of you may be microsoft bashers, and maybe rightfully so. but to be illogical and say john wall deserves this payment just because you dislike microsoft is just wrong.
if microsoft was wrong, i'd say they are. but this case is pretty clear that vista does not deserve a single penny.
i skimmed through the article, but who is to say they didn't. microsoft has a team of lawyers broken up into groups, and one of them specifically takes care of copyright, patent, trademark issues. i'm pretty sure they've done their homework and realiazed that their product has nothing to compete against this 'vista' tech company.
i mean, it's just as absurb as tigerdirect for suing apple for using tiger as ther os name. i mean if this 'vista' tech company wrote a operating system called vista, then i can see why they'd be suing. but this is probably another case of i'm scared my google ranking will drop.
i've always wondered, if you lifted imaginary weights, but you put a lot of energy into trying to lift it, meaning you can actually see my arm shaking trying to lift this imaginary weight, how much exercise am i doing? is it really the same as lifting 0lbs? i mean, you can be sweating lifting imaginary weights. i know that the resistance isn't there, but much works is my body doing when imagining resistance and my body against it?
google map has a way nicer interface than any of the 2 leading/competiting map websites. i haven't seen yahoo maps or mapquest introduce much more features to their mapping software. though the other software do allow searching for hotels, restaurants, airports, shopping, travel, entertainment and etc. but those are just a database of locations which is easily implemented. the interface of google maps was the hard part.
though froogle is nice, it's pretty hard to find deals on it. most times, prices on pricewatch or other price search engines would return the same product at cheaper prices.
of course what froogle does is automated by scanning websites, but it's far from competing against it's rivals at the moment. i'd say at least a few years worth. a lot of refining work on their froogle engine is needed.
so how's this going to be different to you? imagine google did remove the beta word from their google maps software. would you know the difference? would it matter if it was exactly the same product that it was during beta form?
in my opinion, beta is just a term google likes to fool the public with. if something is truly beta, you have 'beta' testers which usually are a select group to test out the product before releasing to the general public. this is usually a process to find bugs and etc. google has made the ENTIRE WORLD their beta testers, which i don't really mind, but final question that i want to ask you is how is sticking the word 'beta' or removing it from their products going to be any difference to you.
i can see why you'd complain if it wasn't release to the general public, while beta users reaped all the usefulness. sorta like how people felt when only a select few got 1gb gmail accounts. gmail was in beta, and people were fighting to get accounts paying over $50 for 1 account. i could see why you'd want to see gmail go outta beta just for that reason. but google maps doesn't require subscription fees, no one has exclusive access, and it works beautifully.
in fact, as someone else mention, google beta products are AD free!
i think it's different in this case. anyone can access orkut, because google's provided it as a public service. however, cell phones and other network mediums are private transactions, meaning i'm not allowed to listen into another person's conversation and they system won't allow me unless i deliberately hack into it. (sorta like kevin mitnick in hackers 2).
it's the same as someone posting an ad on a newspaper selling drugs. by law, i think the newspaper is responsible for not letting that happen.
i've always thought ingdirect had a weak security since all it needed was an account #, 4 digit pin, and a secret question usually the first or last 3 or 4 digits of your ssn, your zip code, etc.
with only a 4 digit pin and maybe a 5 digit zip code, that's only 9 #s, not even alphabets! but the funny thing is, you've never heard of any ingdirect account being hacked into. maybe there is merit behind these type of secret questions.
i would like to see a study on what percentage of scheduled vcr recordings are done by women. my mom would used to always record tv dramas and soap operas on tape so that she can watch them later. for me, i just watched whatever's available on tv at the moment and hardly ever use the vcr to record and watch later.
although quite a different game, it does involve having a bunch of people from 1 city play it, probably people you've never met or heard of. a bunch of these city-wide games have emerged recently.
Re:Still Logging In? The System Isn't Finished.
on
Weighing the Internet
·
· Score: 1
there's several points i would like to refute.
There is no way to bring down the whole phone network just by dialing the wrong number or saying the wrong thing into it.
u cant take down the whole internet just by connecting to some website or crashing particular servers either. what you can do is take down particular servers which might cause paths to be re-routed, but still the internet holds. to take down the entire internet would require synchronized attacks on all or most major backbones which you would probably have to do to take down the telephone network too. to take down a particular telephone portal is as easy as cutting some wires. though you may be right about dialing wrong #s and saying stuff won't crash a telephone network, but we can still DDOS by having a whole bunch of people try to use the telephone network at once and just clog the network.
but we don't log in to our telephones, we just dial
many computers don't require login to get onto the machine. though it may be a security concern, many people i would say don't have a login to start their OS, since many people are probably using windows xp w/o multiple users set up. you just bootup your computer and wala, everything's there. you can even log onto an unsecure wifi connection w/o any login info. but just like when you try to access your credit card account through the telephone, they'll ask for your credit card # and your ssn or other info which is basically the login screen to your credit card website.
for example, i link to google's search results for "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams". i may have wanted someone to find lyrics or info about Green Day, but some of the links may point to an actual mp3... can I be convicted then?
According to the new study, about a third of all major studies from the last 15 years were subsequently shown to be inaccurate or overblown.
if they # they provided was overblown, that means this article itself has a higher chance of being legit. on the otherhand, if the figure they provided was understated, then this study is most likely inaccurate making this discussion nonsense.
i've always purchased epson printers because of the fact that epson ink is basically bottles of ink. hp puts the printer head on the cartridges themselves making them very expensive and hard to buy generics. when i was able to buy generic epson color ink for $3, hp ink no matter generic or not was $15 or more.
epson however later got smart and started installing chips verifying that this is indeed genuine epson ink, only to find out later that their chip system was easily programmable. it made the generic inks go up, but not by much.
saying hp invents a new way to print by saying hp is now starting to use printer heads inside the printer is like saying windows invents a new interface by introducing transparency.
Slashdot Mirror
i found an interesting article on john wall and vista and his product:
http://www.threenorth.com/sco/john_wall.html
23 April 2005
It seems that John Wall is selling Vista.com. Well, sort of selling it
after reading that, i don't feel sorry for this john wall guy at all.
many of you may be microsoft bashers, and maybe rightfully so. but to be illogical and say john wall deserves this payment just because you dislike microsoft is just wrong.
if microsoft was wrong, i'd say they are. but this case is pretty clear that vista does not deserve a single penny.
i skimmed through the article, but who is to say they didn't. microsoft has a team of lawyers broken up into groups, and one of them specifically takes care of copyright, patent, trademark issues. i'm pretty sure they've done their homework and realiazed that their product has nothing to compete against this 'vista' tech company.
i mean, it's just as absurb as tigerdirect for suing apple for using tiger as ther os name. i mean if this 'vista' tech company wrote a operating system called vista, then i can see why they'd be suing. but this is probably another case of i'm scared my google ranking will drop.
i've always wondered, if you lifted imaginary weights, but you put a lot of energy into trying to lift it, meaning you can actually see my arm shaking trying to lift this imaginary weight, how much exercise am i doing? is it really the same as lifting 0lbs? i mean, you can be sweating lifting imaginary weights. i know that the resistance isn't there, but much works is my body doing when imagining resistance and my body against it?
google map has a way nicer interface than any of the 2 leading/competiting map websites. i haven't seen yahoo maps or mapquest introduce much more features to their mapping software. though the other software do allow searching for hotels, restaurants, airports, shopping, travel, entertainment and etc. but those are just a database of locations which is easily implemented. the interface of google maps was the hard part.
though froogle is nice, it's pretty hard to find deals on it. most times, prices on pricewatch or other price search engines would return the same product at cheaper prices.
of course what froogle does is automated by scanning websites, but it's far from competing against it's rivals at the moment. i'd say at least a few years worth. a lot of refining work on their froogle engine is needed.
so how's this going to be different to you? imagine google did remove the beta word from their google maps software. would you know the difference? would it matter if it was exactly the same product that it was during beta form?
in my opinion, beta is just a term google likes to fool the public with. if something is truly beta, you have 'beta' testers which usually are a select group to test out the product before releasing to the general public. this is usually a process to find bugs and etc. google has made the ENTIRE WORLD their beta testers, which i don't really mind, but final question that i want to ask you is how is sticking the word 'beta' or removing it from their products going to be any difference to you.
i can see why you'd complain if it wasn't release to the general public, while beta users reaped all the usefulness. sorta like how people felt when only a select few got 1gb gmail accounts. gmail was in beta, and people were fighting to get accounts paying over $50 for 1 account. i could see why you'd want to see gmail go outta beta just for that reason. but google maps doesn't require subscription fees, no one has exclusive access, and it works beautifully.
in fact, as someone else mention, google beta products are AD free!
for those that dont want to load adobe or whatever pdf viewer you have, here's a text/html version. of course the pictures weren't included.
http://www.krunk007.com/temp/hate_apache.html
i think it's different in this case. anyone can access orkut, because google's provided it as a public service. however, cell phones and other network mediums are private transactions, meaning i'm not allowed to listen into another person's conversation and they system won't allow me unless i deliberately hack into it. (sorta like kevin mitnick in hackers 2).
it's the same as someone posting an ad on a newspaper selling drugs. by law, i think the newspaper is responsible for not letting that happen.
that totally felt like a line straight out of minority report. *shivers*
i think it means you'll have no life. daytime lifeguard, nighttime it manager. when do u find time to even talk to girls?
speaking of which, i just got to play with the msn toolbar for ie. did you know that the toolbar gave ie tab-support?
i was quite amaze. even google toobar doesn't have that feature. now if only google implemented that...
but google wouldn't want ie to win the browser war again...
hacking a wireless network?
I was very lucky to find an extremely bad connection via Wi-Fi.
hmmmmmm.
this proves it! the moon is indeed made out of cheese. when you zoom in all the way, you can clearly see... well... cheese!
i've always thought ingdirect had a weak security since all it needed was an account #, 4 digit pin, and a secret question usually the first or last 3 or 4 digits of your ssn, your zip code, etc.
with only a 4 digit pin and maybe a 5 digit zip code, that's only 9 #s, not even alphabets! but the funny thing is, you've never heard of any ingdirect account being hacked into. maybe there is merit behind these type of secret questions.
the correct link for the 2nd article [Mozilla: IE7 will boost Firefox take-up] is:9 020384,39209591,00.htm
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,3
i thought the reason why pensions were gone were because 401K showed up.
i would like to see a study on what percentage of scheduled vcr recordings are done by women. my mom would used to always record tv dramas and soap operas on tape so that she can watch them later. for me, i just watched whatever's available on tv at the moment and hardly ever use the vcr to record and watch later.
i remember i got rejected for this reason...
http://www.streetwars.net/
although quite a different game, it does involve having a bunch of people from 1 city play it, probably people you've never met or heard of. a bunch of these city-wide games have emerged recently.
there's several points i would like to refute.
There is no way to bring down the whole phone network just by dialing the wrong number or saying the wrong thing into it.
u cant take down the whole internet just by connecting to some website or crashing particular servers either. what you can do is take down particular servers which might cause paths to be re-routed, but still the internet holds. to take down the entire internet would require synchronized attacks on all or most major backbones which you would probably have to do to take down the telephone network too. to take down a particular telephone portal is as easy as cutting some wires. though you may be right about dialing wrong #s and saying stuff won't crash a telephone network, but we can still DDOS by having a whole bunch of people try to use the telephone network at once and just clog the network.
but we don't log in to our telephones, we just dial
many computers don't require login to get onto the machine. though it may be a security concern, many people i would say don't have a login to start their OS, since many people are probably using windows xp w/o multiple users set up. you just bootup your computer and wala, everything's there. you can even log onto an unsecure wifi connection w/o any login info. but just like when you try to access your credit card account through the telephone, they'll ask for your credit card # and your ssn or other info which is basically the login screen to your credit card website.
for example, i link to google's search results for "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams". i may have wanted someone to find lyrics or info about Green Day, but some of the links may point to an actual mp3... can I be convicted then?
According to the new study, about a third of all major studies from the last 15 years were subsequently shown to be inaccurate or overblown.
if they # they provided was overblown, that means this article itself has a higher chance of being legit. on the otherhand, if the figure they provided was understated, then this study is most likely inaccurate making this discussion nonsense.
my head hurts now...
i've always purchased epson printers because of the fact that epson ink is basically bottles of ink. hp puts the printer head on the cartridges themselves making them very expensive and hard to buy generics. when i was able to buy generic epson color ink for $3, hp ink no matter generic or not was $15 or more.
epson however later got smart and started installing chips verifying that this is indeed genuine epson ink, only to find out later that their chip system was easily programmable. it made the generic inks go up, but not by much.
saying hp invents a new way to print by saying hp is now starting to use printer heads inside the printer is like saying windows invents a new interface by introducing transparency.
sigh... my photobucket bw probably burst by now.
i'd think it'd take more energy to heat up soup since it's thicker and contains a lot more solids unlike coffee which is basically brown water.