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Microsoft Eyes UK Digital TV Provider
xiox writes: "This story by the BBC claims that Microsoft are planning to "rescue" the failed digital TV provider in the UK, ITV Digital. This would enable them to get a large share of the British TV market, as the British Government has decided that all TVs will have to switch over to digital by 2010."
New Order - 1963
It was January, 1963
When Johnny came home with a gift for me
He said I bought it for you because I love you
And I bought it for you because it's your birthday, too
He was so very nice, he was so very kind
To think of me at this point in time
I used to think of him, he used think of me
He told me to close my eyes
My gift would be a great surprise
I saw tears were in his eyes
He never meant to hurt me
Oh, God, Johnny, don't point that gun at me
There's so many ways our lives have changed
But please, I beg, don't do this to me
Johnny, don't point that gun at me
Can I save my life at any price?
For God's sake won't you listen to me?
And though he was ashamed that he had took a life
Johnny came home with another wife
And he often remembered how it used to be
Before that special occasion, 1963
There was too many ways that you could kill someone
Like in a love affair, when the love is gone
He told me to close my eyes
My gift would be a great surprise
I saw hatred in his eyes
He never meant to hurt me
Oh, God, Johnny, don't point that gun at me
There's so many ways our lives have changed
But please, I beg, don't do this to me
Johnny, you keep on using me
Can I change my life for any price?
Oh, Johnny, won't you listen to me?
He told me to close my eyes
My gift would be a great surprise
I saw hatred in his eyes
But he never meant to hurt me
Oh, God, Johnny, don't point that gun at me
There's so many ways our lives have changed
But please, I beg, don't do this to me
Johnny, you keep on using me
Can I change my life for any price?
Oh, Johnny, won't you listen to me?
I just want you to be mine,
I don't want this world to shine
I don't want this bridge to burn
Oh, Johnny, do you miss me?
I just want to feel for you
I will always feel for you...
16th post!
You are truly a benefit to mankind, a true smacker of the slashsheep. I applaud you, sir!
Do yourself a favor and check out a new month-old internet site called Serence. Since April 2002 they have had a free / no ads / no spyware download for your Windows desktop called Klipfolio and this thing is great. According to the site statistics 3400+ slashdotters have already downloaded the Slashdot Klip and after joining them today, I can see why. (No, I don't have any personal vested interest in this, I just think it's cool.) The Slashdot Klip stays on your desktop and downloads the XML feed from Andover/Slashdot containing current article headlines, alerting you when there is a new one. Klips from a few dozen other founding news sources with XML newsfeeds are also available in a scrolling, dockable, resizable, skinnable package. In the lower left corner of the previous link you can suggest a new klip feed to Serence you'd like to see - a great thing for you to do, the more sites that use this, the better for all of us. You can even start up your own personal Klip feed! Rack up your favorite sites in one desktop package and you are really in control...click on a headline, up comes the article, click on the site symbol, up comes the home page. Like any dot-com, Serence's success depends on market penetration and this is one idea I think deserves to be slashdotted so it has a shot at succeeding...
Offtopic? Not really, the article I'm posting under went out as a Slashdot Klip headline. And what good is maxed out karma if not to risk it in spreading the word about a cool new Slashdot feature?
First post!! Read it and weep!
Hahahahaa :-) For those that don't know, it's actually an inside joke.
:-)
Back in December I was let go from a company formerly owned by TFSM and I was personally in charge of System Integration for a VOD or what we called "POD" system for Verizon Avenue.
We were deployed in two sites here in the Metro D.C. area and for 8 months of my life I gave my all to this project only to have it shattered to pieces to the poor handling of upper management.
Aside from just providing middleware, we also had a rock solid back office suite that contained everything from targeted advertising (world class Connect system - props to the dev team!), and everything related to CRM. Yet with a solid product, we were still going under. (TLC anyone?)
To my knowledge to date, I have not seen any other system that could come close to what our system could do. Granted it still has many issues to resolve, but for a completely digital system end-to-end, from content management, license management, provider payment, contract management, and to customer retention management, there isn't anything out there can do what we had. But hey, just because we had the best doesn't mean we can stay afloat.
Can we say that I am bitter?
This market is red hot? Red hot my a*s.
My god, have we nothing better to write about than Microsoft? Looking on the front page, I see FOUR stories about Microsoft. There's gotta be something more newsworthy, even for slashdot this is bad.
Even if you accept that extrapolation, and there's countless good reasons for not doing so (and yes, I'll post on that if you like), geology's findings are hostile to any reasonable (or even unreasonable) approximation of a pre-biotic environment in which chemical evolution could possibly operate. So you must invoke Hoyle and Wickramasingh's aliens - or some similar mechanism - in order to get biological evolution even a chance at starting.
And I leave you with a qute from no less than Francis Crick:
Note that Francis hasn't addressed things like the onservation that most amino-amino bonds are not peptide. Oh, well. Is Francis Crick a Creationist?
Just in case the scale eludes you, the universe has about 10E81 atoms in it, and has existed (in theory) for roughly 10E17 seconds. If you combined every atom in the universe with every other atom, every second, you'd still be shy roughly 10E150 universe lifetimes of enough time to get even odds.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing