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I think that some content provider will goo in a free to air mode. This in obvious on terrestrial television and also on satellite TV: if you're getting money from advertising being FTA will make tour channel more interesting for advertisers than ona in a pay tv bundle because more people will watch it. Maybe for CATV the dynamics are different, or the fact that in USA there's not TV licensing is limiting the number of FTA or FTV channels. Italy,France, Austria have a choice of free to view/free to air channels, not to mention UK and Germany that transmit a lot o free to air channels on satellites.

The problem with this idea is that the US is so damn BIG! We already have FTA programming for most of our Big 4 networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox) and PBS. The problem is that they don't make as much FTA as they do selling to cable/IPTV/satellite providers, where they charge the carrier per subscriber. They PREFER cable/IPTV/satellite because of that extra income, even though their license requires them to service the customers in those areas and their radio cannot reach.

As far as I am concerned, this is totally wrong and backwards. If they refuse to put in more transmitters to provide good signal to the people that their licenses state they are to provide signal to, then they should be paying the cable/IPTV/satellite providers to carry the signal, not the other way around.

The other problem is radio bandwidth. The FCC just killed a whole bunch of it, and there isn't much left, especially now with HD and 4k right around the corner.

Posting anon because of my employment.

I think that some content provider will goo in a free to air mode. This in obvious on terrestrial television and also on satellite TV: if you're getting money from advertising being FTA will make tour channel more interesting for advertisers than ona in a pay tv bundle because more people will watch it. Maybe for CATV the dynamics are different, or the fact that in USA there's not TV licensing is limiting the number of FTA or FTV channels.
Italy,France, Austria have a choice of free to view/free to air channels, not to mention UK and Germany that transmit a lot o free to air channels on satellites.

As a matter of fact, I am in Austria right now, and it is snowing right now with the temperatures barely above feezing point.

Nope. Austria was on the chopping block for the same reason a month ago.

Get your thinking right! FTA: "Last week, Austrian broadcaster ORF," Show me the Australian broadcaster ORF. There is none? Too bad. http://www.orf.at/

ORF reports (machine translation) that the city council of Vienna, the capital of Austria, plans to spend 8 Mio. Euros in 2008 chiefly for Windows Vista and Office 2007 licenses. The migration plans include undoing the efforts of the most important Linux deployment-at-large, namely 720 computers used in kindergartens running the custom Wienux distribution; this costs 105000 Euros additionally. One thousand of the 32000 PCs in government and official departments runs Linux.

Cause of the plans is that a certain language test software for kindergarten kids only works in IE. A Firefox-compatible version is only expected next year. Critics note that a part of that money could have been used to accelerate the completion of the software and accuse the council of not consistently following their Open Source concept, not creating incentives for migrations from Windows and neglecting the 1000 businesses in the region that produce Open Source software.

Hi,

the Austrian public radio has a very successful alternative program called FM4 and they have a (in Austria) very well known platform for people who make music to exchange their songs and make them available for the public.

This platform is located at http://fm4.orf.at/soundpark and has (metric!) tons of music of all different kinds. I'm afraid the website is German only but it should be accessible for you English speaking people too.

Greetings, astifter

Of course, the corresponding Word release will not allow you to mix german and slovenian text in the same document.

Fly Austrian Airlines (www.aua.at), it got a special status and they only transmit 10 fields to the US. Apparently the small market share was sufficient to have them slip through the rake. Here is the Austrian press (sorry, it's in German): http://futurezone.orf.at/business/stories/141834/

Have fun.

The Commission seems to have made its favorite dead cat return from the grave (where Parliament overwhelmingly sent it just months ago) this week:
See recent links to key articles on Slashdot, as well as the latest attempts to spin the issue uncovered (alleging double jeu - albeit in "Austrian" only, so far).

Translate with http://babelfish.altavista.com/ or similar.

Nope.

http://www.darc.de/aktuell/plc/pdf/cqdl0204_eng.pd f http://justizportal-bw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=967 11
http://www.pte.at/pte.mc?pte=050124014
http://futurezone.orf.at/futurezone.orf?read=detai l&id=260949
http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp/whp067.shtml
http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/aud-vid.html

etc. etc.

(Some of the above are in German)

the magazines i read regulary in austria (schwarzenegger) are c't, iX and the online-mag telepolis. on telepolis there're english articles too and an interessting column named WTC Conspiracy, with the first article about 9/11 posted on 9/13! other good literature is: linux magazine, freeX and of course SPIEGEL. on the web good places are golem, ORF, n-tv. unfortunately are the english magazines quite expensive (wired or hustler, both over EUR 10|-!). grtngs

i read that the meteorite is only worth 5000 euro..
see the text in german i think this is rather poor.

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but there's a DMCA like law in Austria. Since July 1st to be exact.
Every country in the EU needs to pass a simmilar law.

Here are two links about the new copyright law in Austria (in German):
http://futurezone.orf.at/futurezone.orf?read=detai l&id=157846&tmp=64022
http://futurezone.orf.at/futurezone.orf?read=detai l&id=165149&tmp=65605

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but there's a DMCA like law in Austria. Since July 1st to be exact.
Every country in the EU needs to pass a simmilar law.

Here are two links about the new copyright law in Austria (in German):
http://futurezone.orf.at/futurezone.orf?read=detai l&id=157846&tmp=64022
http://futurezone.orf.at/futurezone.orf?read=detai l&id=165149&tmp=65605

Well, I heard on radio (Ö1 broadcasted it a while ago), and it was quite fun. I even was able to find which file they were currently broadcasting. :-))

Well in Austria (no kangarooes) a very
alternative radiostation has put up such a site where u can dl any music for free. Its
mostly Austrian but still there is a lot of good music out their.

Check out their webseite:
http://fm4.orf.at/soundpark

According to this article (sorry, german only) the EU knows exactly what Microsoft is up to with Palladium and they do want to work against it!

Here is a translation using Google.

this "mashed-up" music style is calles "bastard pop".
see more at http://fm4.orf.at/connected/81238/main (sorry only german).

-pommes

• Official site for the match
• Brain Games network
• CNN report
• CBS News report
• BBC News report
• The Times
• Financial Times
• Daily Telegraph
• Associated Press
• Reuters
• Britannica India
• International Herald Tribune

• Netzeitung report (German)
• Yahoo.de (German)
• ORF Futurezone (German)
• Financial Times (German)
• Chesslines survey (French)
• CNN en Español (Spanish)
• CNN Italia (Italian)
• BBC Brasil (Portugese)
• Express (Swedish)
• El Comercio Peru (Spanish

Hi, I recently saw this article about a guy who overclocked his Pentium III to 993 MHz. Interesting reading, -150 degree Celsius cooling involved. Article is in German, babelfish it.

Here is an interesting article based on the recent Munich convention. It basically says that PICS is dead and that their programmers call it "the best porn search engine around". Article is in German, babelfish it :)

There is an article with some pics. Article is in German, use BabelFish for translation.

We drove 200 km to Linz, to see Linus Torvaldes personally. Unfortunally they didn't left us in. :(
Until now, the afterparty was always opened to the public... sadly, that the tv-company changed this policy this year :(

greetings mond.

Mind you, this is the german -> babelfish -> english translation, so be warned. A yoda filter would be just as correct.

The competitor star Office: " those will not remain in the market. "

Linux: " one of the five problems, which employ me before falling asleep. But I sleep nevertheless still quite well.

" Apache is simply better "
" do not offer if we with our servers enough features, which justify our prices, are we ourselves debt. Apache is simply better than we, if it concerns, several Sites on a server version to hosten. Windows 2000 will solve, says this problem " Ballmer. [ the free ] ApacheServer holds with a market share of 57 per cent. Microsoft is with scarce 23 % of the server market because of second place.