Yes, the dark ages. There are an insigificant number of more modern meters, but those few reportedly require a special meter card, not ones credit card. Good Grief.
Ken Garcia, local columnist, reported earlier this year that the San Francisco department that handles meters spends more in salary and maintenance than the meters bring in.
They won't accept pennies. 99% accept only coins. San Francisco is talking about 7 day a week parking meter enforcement, Many at $3 per hour (or more?). And in San Francisco the collection/enforcement departments spend more money than the meters take in! Net loss.
For example, reduce copyright to shorter amount of time (say 10 years). Disney could no longer rely on their backlog to stay profitable (re-releasing every old move over and over), instead they'd have to innovate and create new content and services.
It's been pointed out before, but all of Disney's early work was based on copying works with expired copyrights. Micky Mouse, the whole lot. Reportedly critical early movies were delayed while waiting for copyright expiration. Now of course, they want Mickey Mouse to be theirs for infinity plus 95 years.
Really?... But while it's certainly not an admission of guilt, it would only be done by someone who could contribute nothing, or very little, positive to their own defense (since otherwise they'd be telling their side).
Whoosh! Proving you did not watch the video about the 5th!
I live less than 10 miles from the border of San Francisco and the only service I can get that is faster than 1 megabit/sec is Comcast Cable Internet (and I essentially never get the full speed I pay for from Comcast).
Beautiful? Did you ever really try to understand how the stack is managed? It's a horrible mess with daunting complexity with hardware running asynchronously from software. And HP/Intel insisted on designing their own software-stack data format, ignoring today's defacto standard (DWARF).
Calling the design of anything in Itanium beautiful seems really odd.
The picture looks strikingly like the graphics of outer space entities shown on various episodes of the original star trek. But without the story line:-)
Uhhh... Missing my point. Kindle downloads through cell phone facilities, bundled by Amazon, so Kindle allows browsing and buying anywhere you have a signal. No signup, just buy a Kindle and it's connected. It's called Whispernet (by Amazon) and just works. Wonderful for impulse buying.
So will these Ipad clones be that way? Or will they use only WiFi? Or use Your cell-phone facilities (on your nickel)? I'll bet not like Kindle.
At that point is there really much to discuss? Everyone who actually uses the internet in any significant fashion is on broadband.
Lots of people within an hour of San Francisco have zero or 1 supplier capable of 1MBit/s. Prices are outrageous and there is no competition. Only the US Govt could count 1MegaBit/s as broadband, and yes, they do count even lower speeds as broadband.
I luck out as the outrageous Comcast price does get decent data rates some of the time, and only goes down for 10 minutes per month, approximately. ADSL speeds here at home are approximately 128KBit/s down (impressive, what? Forget it.). And I'm just a 20 minute drive from my door to the city of San Francisco, not in the middle of Montana.
They might sell you a policy. And then deny benefits if you failed to list every cold you had (making colds a pre-existing condition)! A 60 Minutes show had a young woman who got trapped like this.
Can the IOC really claim an Olypmian's name as their own intellectual property?
.
Hmm. What about that other Lindsey Vonn (you know, the one not connected with sport in any way. At home somewhere in the USA.). Someone getting the rights to -my- rather common name when I'm not involved in any way would be so....weird.
The bad guys are way better at getting this sort of data out of the ISPs than the ISPs are at protecting it. The scammers are going to love this new data, nicely collecting valid IP addresses, email addresses, and more in convenient form to steal.
If you live close to a used book store and are just reading what strikes your fancy then sure, a used book store can be great. Just try to find the new book Fatal System Error in such a store. Oh. First wait a couple years and then hope this low-volume book will show up in your local?
Sure, Kindle won't do everything. But it is a wonderful reading device and the software update of a couple months ago vastly improved the appearance and readability of photos and diagrams and pdfs.
I now buy more via kindle than on paper, and am frequently annoyed when a kindle version is not available. Recently a book published in 1924 was recommended. ebook format? Not available. Only dead tree. Half the books I find on amazon seem to be unavailable on kindle. I don't buy the paper one (with rare exceptions), I just skip that title.
On pricing: it seems the publishers want us to believe they don't price based on print cost but instead on 'value'. But we all notice that is contradictory to our experience, they generally do price exactly on print cost (at least it sure feels that way when looking at books in the store).
The only thing that is hard to do (or, I guess I just didn't try to learn) is adding other people's keys to your database.
Just get the other person to send you a gpg-signed email. That's all it takes.
It's not your fault this was not obvious to you. That is precisely my point earlier: even the simplest steps are not documented in an easy to understand way.
Yes, too hard to set up in email. Even on Linux, where support is built into thunderbird, it is more trouble to set up than most would endure. And the certificate providers are so focused on big-customers it's hard to understand how to even buy a cheap non-expiring certificate! I use a free one from Comodo, but it expires in a year. I'd pay for one but they explain nothing on the comodo web site on how to do that (cost being a secret?)!
On Mac-mail and Windows mail I had little luck finding decent explanations of how to go about it (maybe it's just me).
"transit has to pay for itself" is indeed the US policy, but it's a fake. The airlines don't pay for airports, and net over the years of airline passenger service have never made a dime (very bad investment for stockholders, unless you think owning an airline is glamorous).
"You're asking people to accept that they exist at the whim of some other business and through rules that they can't influence or control. Would you put your own business at that level of dependence? Why should a publisher?"
One wonders if the publishers thought they were really in control? Of what? Customers? Self deception!
"Google may be superficially good for a publisher today, but the reality is that they lose influence and control over their own product. They become commodity suppliers to Google, and that's no good to them. It may or may not be good for you-the-consumer, but that's not the viewpoint being argued."
The publisher's product still is the content. The illusion they controlled the customer has vanished though.
Instead of fighting the last battle publishers should be figuring out how to keep the folks interested, the ones the search engine points to the publisher's content.
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Yes, the dark ages. There are an insigificant
number of more modern meters, but those few
reportedly require a special meter card, not
ones credit card. Good Grief.
Ken Garcia, local columnist, reported
earlier this year that
the San Francisco department that handles
meters spends more in salary and maintenance
than the meters bring in.
They won't accept pennies. 99% accept only coins. San Francisco is talking about 7 day a week
parking meter enforcement, Many at $3 per hour (or more?). And in San Francisco the
collection/enforcement departments spend more money than the meters take in! Net loss.
For example, reduce copyright to shorter amount of time (say 10 years). Disney could no longer rely on their backlog to stay profitable (re-releasing every old move over and over), instead they'd have to innovate and create new content and services.
It's been pointed out before, but all of Disney's early work was based on copying
works with expired copyrights. Micky Mouse, the whole lot. Reportedly critical early
movies were delayed while waiting for copyright expiration. Now of course, they
want Mickey Mouse to be theirs for infinity plus 95 years.
Really? ... But while it's certainly not an admission of guilt, it would only be done by someone who could contribute nothing, or very little, positive to their own defense (since otherwise they'd be telling their side).
Whoosh! Proving you did not watch the video about the 5th!
I live less than 10 miles from the border of San Francisco and the only service
I can get that is faster than 1
megabit/sec is Comcast Cable Internet
(and I essentially never get the full speed I pay for from Comcast).
Beautiful? Did you ever really try to understand how the stack is
managed? It's a horrible mess with daunting complexity with
hardware running asynchronously from software.
And HP/Intel insisted on designing
their own software-stack data format, ignoring today's defacto
standard (DWARF).
Calling the design of anything in Itanium beautiful seems really odd.
The linked newscientist article requires a subscription to actually see it in full. No way. Forget it.
The picture looks strikingly like the graphics of outer space entities shown :-)
on various episodes of the original star trek. But without the story line
Uhhh... Missing my point. Kindle downloads through cell phone facilities, bundled by Amazon,
so Kindle allows browsing and buying anywhere you have a signal.
No signup, just buy a Kindle and it's connected. It's called
Whispernet (by Amazon) and just works. Wonderful for impulse buying.
So will these Ipad clones be that way? Or will they use only WiFi? Or use
Your cell-phone facilities (on your nickel)? I'll bet not like Kindle.
The key is going to be how easy it is to buy and download books.
Kindle gets this right.
And of course how many books are available.
Kindle has a ways to go, though Amazon tries.
At that point is there really much to discuss? Everyone who actually uses the internet in any significant fashion is on broadband.
Lots of people within an hour of San Francisco have zero or 1 supplier capable of 1MBit/s.
Prices are outrageous and there is no competition. Only the US Govt could count 1MegaBit/s as
broadband, and yes, they do count even lower speeds as broadband.
I luck out as the outrageous Comcast price does get decent data rates some of the time, and
only goes down for 10 minutes per month, approximately. ADSL speeds here at home are approximately
128KBit/s down (impressive, what? Forget it.). And I'm just a 20 minute drive from my door
to the city of San Francisco, not in the middle of Montana.
They might sell you a policy. And then deny benefits if you failed to list every
cold you had (making colds a pre-existing condition)! A 60 Minutes
show had a young woman who got trapped like this.
Can the IOC really claim an Olypmian's name as their own intellectual property?
.
Hmm. What about that other Lindsey Vonn (you know, the one not connected with sport
in any way. At home somewhere in the USA.). Someone getting the rights to -my- rather common name
when I'm not involved in any way would be so....weird.
Lets call the US the "No Fly Zone".
Number of times you can loan: 1 (it never comes back).
Resale value: 0 (someone else has it)
There, fixed that for you.
The bad guys are way better at getting this sort of data out of the ISPs
than the ISPs are at protecting it. The scammers are going to love
this new data, nicely collecting valid IP addresses, email addresses,
and more in convenient form to steal.
If you live close to a used book store and are just reading what strikes your fancy
then sure, a used book store can be great. Just try to find the new book
Fatal System Error in such a store. Oh. First wait a couple years and then
hope this low-volume book will show up in your local?
Sure, Kindle won't do everything. But it is a wonderful reading device and the software update of a couple months ago vastly improved the appearance and readability of photos and diagrams and pdfs.
I now buy more via kindle than on paper, and am frequently annoyed when a kindle version is not available. Recently a book published in 1924 was recommended. ebook format? Not available. Only dead tree. Half the books I find on amazon seem to be unavailable on kindle. I don't buy the paper one (with rare exceptions), I just skip that title.
On pricing: it seems the publishers want us to believe they don't price based on print cost but instead on 'value'.
But we all notice that is contradictory to our experience, they generally do price exactly on print cost (at least it sure feels that way when looking at books in the store).
The only thing that is hard to do (or, I guess I just didn't try to learn) is adding other people's keys to your database.
Just get the other person to send you a gpg-signed email. That's all it takes.
It's not your fault this was not obvious to you. That is precisely my point earlier: even the simplest steps are not documented in an easy to understand way.
Yes, too hard to set up in email. Even on Linux, where support is built into thunderbird,
it is more trouble to set up than most would endure. And the certificate providers
are so focused on big-customers it's hard to understand how to even buy a cheap
non-expiring certificate! I use a free one from Comodo, but it expires in a year.
I'd pay for one but they explain nothing on the comodo web site on how to do that
(cost being a secret?)!
On Mac-mail and Windows mail I had little luck finding decent explanations of how to go about it
(maybe it's just me).
We're not very good at handling the waste from coal either. Never stopped us from using it.
I understand quinzillion dollars, but I've been unable to find quinzillia on the map.
"transit has to pay for itself" is indeed
the US policy, but it's a fake. The airlines
don't pay for airports, and net over the
years of airline passenger service have never
made a dime (very bad investment for
stockholders, unless you think owning
an airline is glamorous).
Since when do streets pay for themselves?
Nonsense policy. Oh wait...
"You're asking people to accept that they exist at the whim of some other business and through rules that they can't influence or control. Would you put your own business at that level of dependence?
Why should a publisher?"
One wonders if the publishers thought they were really in control? Of what? Customers?
Self deception!
"Google may be superficially good for a publisher today, but the reality is that they lose influence and control over their own product. They become commodity suppliers to Google, and that's no good to them. It may or may not be good for you-the-consumer, but that's not the viewpoint being argued."
The publisher's product still is the content. The illusion they controlled the customer has vanished though.
Instead of fighting the last battle publishers should be figuring out how to keep the folks interested,
the ones the search engine points to the publisher's content.
It's a pity, but once again Linux users left out. No demonstratiion on Linux
google earth... Sigh.