Casinos are out to make a buck, with little regard for the welfare of future of the players. They don't care if an addict comes in with all of his life savings, and blows it all in one sitting.
Not unlike sweepstakes, multi-state lotteries, the stock market, etc.
A business that has millions, but really gives you nothing for your money in return, deserves a good stinging pinch like this.
some state-specific lotteries claim that their profits pay toward education costs, so that would be a benefit. And it's easy to let other people playing the lottery help pay for your child's education.
I think we should accept reality and just get rid of trademark registration altogether except for xemes(TM) containing the letter x.
This why companies often phonetically (mis)spell products' names -- so that those names can be trademarked. Just think of products containing made-up words like krispy, cheeze, stix, froot,....
In a "winner take all" system like the US, we will never really have strong 3rd parties- too much of a barrier to entry. The 3rd parties lack access to debates, federal dollars, media focus, fundraising dollars, etc. Sure a few idealists support them, and they get a percentage point or two, but it's been a long time since a viable 3rd party was a national player over a period of time.
It's been my belief that having a third party just jump into a national election is just like a car spinning its wheels in the mud. Change at the national level will take time (barring a global or national disaster or other imperative), and that can happen with people starting to vote for third parties at their local goverment level. It gets voters comfortable with the idea of a thrid party running things. If the candidates have done a good job, voters will encourage them to run for county and state levels of goverment.
Broadcom already announced that one of their access points and one reference design are WMM-certified.
No kidding. But a couple of saving graces might be Atheros (Prism chipsets) and (cough) Intel (gigabit ethernet; Centrino 2100/2200), since they are part of the Wi-Fi Alliance.
here will be chilling effects on our 1st amendment right to assemble.
Camera aren't needed for this. Weren't there demonstrators in the vicinity of the Republican convention who were arrested apparently for no good reason, other than as perhaps a potential threat?
It's not the publishing that's expensive. Proofreading and editing is expensive.
Some journals request authors to produce properly formatted docs with camera-ready images, with the right font size and labels, etc., warning otherwise that errors "may delay" publication. It's mentioned that too many errors will result in extra surcharges. It seems to me that the authors are doing more of the publishers' work.
Or, is the publish-or-perish phenomenon forcing publishers to streamline too much?
please! not KDE vs. GNOME again
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This basically seems like giving find the capability to do file and then storing the results with locate. And add some time stamping, sorting capabilities and GUI.
Since all but the GUI are basic commands, it would seem sensible to have an underlying library with hooks for use by your choice of desktop manager.
Perhaps this is where closed source vendors (read: Microsoft) will lead the adoption of Sender-ID.
The article mentions that Microsoft's Sender ID is an extension of the SPF standard. Further, "SPF/Sender-ID requires changes to DNS and MTAs in order to work. The changes to DNS involve the addition of new records which identify machines authorized to send mail for a specific domain". I'm inferring that the internet's root DNS's have to be modified. Allowing Microsoft's "standard" on the root servers is hardly nonpartial if the open community is disagreeing so much.
with a mathematical pattern embedded into it. Use the amino acid codings. Maybe encode a special pattern into both a new radio signal and into the DNA. That should reduce odds of the signal being interpreted as a freak of Nature (unless of course the alien civilization chooses to believe the signals are $DEITY in origin).
There was a giant untapped market of people who wanted to buy movies/TV shows on a permant media, but the sound/image quality and physical size of video tapes didn't make it worth it for them.
While BD-ROM will appeal to the home cinema fanatics, who will have the kit to really appreciate the HD images and ungodly number of sound channels that can be put on these disks. For most people though, the jump in image and sound quality is trivial compared to that when going from cassette to DVD.
Or the quality in going from vinyl records to CD.
Judging by the gratuitous market for DVD-ROM movies, I'd say a lot of casual enjoyers of TV and movies already have some kind of sizable collection. I'd expect only the real afficionados (at most a small minority) to replace their DVD collection with BluRay. Maybe I'm thinking too much.
If the industry really wanted to make gobs of money, it should sell BluRay players that can play BlueRay-ROM and DVD and stop selling DVD media.
most DSL carriers require you to 1) sign a contract, and 2) buy the modem (either from them or bring your own). Msot even charge you to install it as well.
My provider is SBC. 1) True, 1 year. 2) False. A DSL modem comes with your contract and must be returned when you stop the service. This means that the modem is "free" if you install the modem yourself, whereas SBC will allow you to open your wallet to have them come do the installation of the modem and/or do a home-run wiring to the NID.
Another point: Is it still the case that one isn't allowed to run servers over cable internet? I am not aware of such a restriction for DSL.
More like Microsoft releasing the service pack for Windows XP Professional via Windows Update/Automatic Update.
SP2 has been available for a week or two (there was a link posted on Slashdot to the download page) to (I think) business and netadmins. My guess is that black hat hackers have found some holes and are perched to launch new exploits. That's the only meltdown I can conceive at the moment.
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Casinos are out to make a buck, with little regard for the welfare of future of the players. They don't care if an addict comes in with all of his life savings, and blows it all in one sitting.
Not unlike sweepstakes, multi-state lotteries, the stock market, etc.
A business that has millions, but really gives you nothing for your money in return, deserves a good stinging pinch like this.
some state-specific lotteries claim that their profits pay toward education costs, so that would be a benefit. And it's easy to let other people playing the lottery help pay for your child's education.
I think we should accept reality and just get rid of trademark registration altogether except for xemes(TM) containing the letter x.
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This why companies often phonetically (mis)spell products' names -- so that those names can be trademarked. Just think of products containing made-up words like krispy, cheeze, stix, froot,
if you are not on the ballot you can still be written in
This is really a most important point, I think, as many people just choose from among the options presented.
"To alcohol! The cause of -- and solution to -- all of life's problems."
In a "winner take all" system like the US, we will never really have strong 3rd parties- too much of a barrier to entry. The 3rd parties lack access to debates, federal dollars, media focus, fundraising dollars, etc. Sure a few idealists support them, and they get a percentage point or two, but it's been a long time since a viable 3rd party was a national player over a period of time.
It's been my belief that having a third party just jump into a national election is just like a car spinning its wheels in the mud. Change at the national level will take time (barring a global or national disaster or other imperative), and that can happen with people starting to vote for third parties at their local goverment level. It gets voters comfortable with the idea of a thrid party running things. If the candidates have done a good job, voters will encourage them to run for county and state levels of goverment.
To third parties, I say: Baby steps.
Broadcom already announced that one of their access points and one reference design are WMM-certified.
No kidding. But a couple of saving graces might be Atheros (Prism chipsets) and (cough) Intel (gigabit ethernet; Centrino 2100/2200), since they are part of the Wi-Fi Alliance.
here will be chilling effects on our 1st amendment right to assemble.
Camera aren't needed for this. Weren't there demonstrators in the vicinity of the Republican convention who were arrested apparently for no good reason, other than as perhaps a potential threat?
so they don't have to serve you if they don't want to, as long as they are not violating the Constitution.
Also, maybe the federal rule is said to be "secret" because there is no secret.
It's not the publishing that's expensive. Proofreading and editing is expensive.
Some journals request authors to produce properly formatted docs with camera-ready images, with the right font size and labels, etc., warning otherwise that errors "may delay" publication. It's mentioned that too many errors will result in extra surcharges. It seems to me that the authors are doing more of the publishers' work.
Or, is the publish-or-perish phenomenon forcing publishers to streamline too much?
This basically seems like giving find the capability to do file and then storing the results with locate. And add some time stamping, sorting capabilities and GUI.
Since all but the GUI are basic commands, it would seem sensible to have an underlying library with hooks for use by your choice of desktop manager.
It's called directed sound. There was also a big deal made about it for the Republican convention (e.g., here and here). as a crowd control measure.
Perhaps this is where closed source vendors (read: Microsoft) will lead the adoption of Sender-ID.
The article mentions that Microsoft's Sender ID is an extension of the SPF standard. Further, "SPF/Sender-ID requires changes to DNS and MTAs in order to work. The changes to DNS involve the addition of new records which identify machines authorized to send mail for a specific domain".
I'm inferring that the internet's root DNS's have to be modified. Allowing Microsoft's "standard" on the root servers is hardly nonpartial if the open community is disagreeing so much.
This script can be used to remotely block or unblock the delivery of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) from the Windows Update Web site or via Automatic Updates.
It makes a lot more sense for non open source operating systems
Yes. Sun does this with Solaris, just SGI did with IRIX.
You're not being original by ripping off someone's recent idea without giving them credit.
Actually I thought it up myself. Besides, the New Scientist article was slashdotted at the time.
Name your reference, or are you trolling?
Perhaps you would like to choose from these:
with a mathematical pattern embedded into it. Use the amino acid codings. Maybe encode a special pattern into both a new radio signal and into the DNA. That should reduce odds of the signal being interpreted as a freak of Nature (unless of course the alien civilization chooses to believe the signals are $DEITY in origin).
Unless any of them turns out to be Alice. Or Bob.
There was a giant untapped market of people who wanted to buy movies/TV shows on a permant media, but the sound/image quality and physical size of video tapes didn't make it worth it for them.
While BD-ROM will appeal to the home cinema fanatics, who will have the kit to really appreciate the HD images and ungodly number of sound channels that can be put on these disks. For most people though, the jump in image and sound quality is trivial compared to that when going from cassette to DVD.
Or the quality in going from vinyl records to CD.
Judging by the gratuitous market for DVD-ROM movies, I'd say a lot of casual enjoyers of TV and movies already have some kind of sizable collection. I'd expect only the real afficionados (at most a small minority) to replace their DVD collection with BluRay. Maybe I'm thinking too much.
If the industry really wanted to make gobs of money, it should sell BluRay players that can play BlueRay-ROM and DVD and stop selling DVD media.
The question is, how are YOU supposed to know if the access point owner does not want you to use the signal where it is technically available?
Don't lease an IP address until user visits a web splash page listing the terms of service and clicks Agree.
Why is it so hard for these people to implement Write-Once Read-Many? Burn the vote(s) onto optical media and be done with it.
Also make multiple backups onsite at the polling site, and send the media to multiple locations. Also note the sha1 sums for verification.
By 2010 I might even have all my home machines upgraded to GigE...
Why wait until 2010 when PCI gigabit NICs cost as little as USD 20-25?
Or if you are building a new system, motherboards equipped with gigabit LANs are reasonably affordable.
most DSL carriers require you to 1) sign a contract, and 2) buy the modem (either from them or bring your own). Msot even charge you to install it as well.
My provider is SBC.
1) True, 1 year.
2) False. A DSL modem comes with your contract and must be returned when you stop the service. This means that the modem is "free" if you install the modem yourself, whereas SBC will allow you to open your wallet to have them come do the installation of the modem and/or do a home-run wiring to the NID.
Another point: Is it still the case that one isn't allowed to run servers over cable internet? I am not aware of such a restriction for DSL.
More like Microsoft releasing the service pack for Windows XP Professional via Windows Update/Automatic Update.
SP2 has been available for a week or two (there was a link posted on Slashdot to the download page) to (I think) business and netadmins. My guess is that black hat hackers have found some holes and are perched to launch new exploits. That's the only meltdown I can conceive at the moment.
Yep. hosts.deny is your friend.