He wasn't fired because he wasn't bringing money in. On the contrary, the case actually boosted the amount of coverage he was getting.
Coverage is pointless if you don't bring the money in. Pets.com got tons of coverage with their Superbowl ads, not that that really improved their business any. He was dropped by the station because the sponsors dropped him after the controversy flared up. They dropped him because they didn't want to be associated with him. Freedom of speech means you can say what you want, but it doesn't mean that people have to provide you a forum for it if they don't want to, nor does it mean anyone has to agree with you or has to support you in it.
They couldn't do server key authentication without assistance from Blizzard who decided not to aid third-party applications (which was their valid choice).
It was unfortunate -- it had a real use for me several years ago when I was trying to play Starcraft with friends over the 'net. Battle.Net was very slow and crashy at the time, and one (and only one) of the people in our group had a slow dialup connection, so IPX bridging wasn't an option (IPX does really strange things if different segments of the "local" network are slower than others). The only real option was for me to run our own bnetd server. Diablo II fixed that issue by adding a "TCP game" option.
He's the creator and has every right to monetize his creation as much as possible but a broadway play? Why not a musical? does he have no integrity left?
Look around for some commercials for the superhero reality show he's chairing now. I would say the answer is 'no.'
It's difficult to be on-call 24/7 and make new customers. New customers are demanding little beasts. Even more than IT bosses. So, women are finding other jobs where they can continue to do something which is, in the long run, far more important than keeping the servers running.
You could also say new customers are their own 24/7 on-call job, and that women don't want to work more than one on-call 24/7.
Of course, the supposedly pro-gun Republicans aren't all that pro-gun either, since Bush said he was going to sign the renewal of the Assault Weapons Ban in 2004 if Congress had bothered to renew it.
But would he have? It's very easy to promise that you'll do something in a circumstance when you know there's pretty much no chance that circumstance will arrive. The renewal failed, 8-90.
My car once hit someone from behind. We were both at a red light when the guy in front of me put his car into reverse and stepped on the gas. Weirdest accident I've ever been in.
I'm actually constantly amazed that California has turned registration from an opportunity to improve safety (by conditionalizing registration renewal on safety inspections of all vehicle systems, as other states do), into simple revenue collection.
A certain amount of inspection is required for most vehicles in California. My car usually requires a smog certification for each DMV renew despite driving a small, energy-efficient (and non-smoggy) car. Quite a few non-smog-related issues can make a smog fail the test. Almost any warning flag in the electrical system, for example. Still not a full safety inspection, but it's something.
Apparently you missed the phrase "forensic quality evidence".
"Yes your honour, I collected this information on my home PC and brought the information in on a burned DVD... here ya go... we'd like them to get 20 years please."
I remember working at a web services company which bought a number of desktop machines, then routed a few dialup phone lines and DSL connections (Earthlink, AOL, some others) into the building for QA purposes to see how the site performed from some standard user desktops with standard net connections. I don't see why the RIAA & MPAA couldn't set up the same type lab to run P2P snoopers. Granted it was a dotcom that was throwing money around (they spent several million dollars hiring an outside agency to... come up with a new name for the company) but this type of lab was hardly all that pricey.
Wild ass guess but I think 99% of the "police deterent" should be presence.
But that would eliminate half the reasoning for traffic law enforcement: police revenues. They need to catch people and ticket them. It's better for the police to catch someone in the act of a nuisance "crime" (like going 10 miles over the speed limit, driving in the HOV, etc) than for the person to not commit the crime in the first place. The latter does no harm and the police get no fines. The former does negligible harm and is a great revenue stream.
As it so happens, the cops can't give you a ticket in my state for under 5 over the limit, but that's because you can argue that you went down a hill or your speedometer was off, and the courts got tired of dealing with it.
Wow. Around here having an inaccurate speedometer isn't counted as an excuse; you still get a ticket. It's considered your fault for not having a working speedometer.
Why did the submitter have to phrase the title that way?! This is some really cool stuff. Yet as it is, I think I saw about three posts that did not in some way allude to sex....
The submitter has traditionally posted stories pointing to his blog as a way of getting hits. Therefore, he's gotten into the habit of posting things in provocative ways. "Robot satellites share resources in space" won't quite get the number of hits and comments that "Satellites mating via robotic arm" will. The quality of discussion is unimportant, he's looking for volume of discussion.
Contrary to most news reports, the biologists did not "plant" fur in national forests, and they were not trying to--nor could they have--use the Endangered Species Act to "shut down" the forests for human use. The actual story, according to a U.S. Forest Service investigation, is that biologists for the U.S. Forest Service, Fish and Wildlife Service and the state of Washington--studying where (not whether) lynx live in the state's national forests--sent unauthorized "control samples" of hair obtained from captive lynx and a stuffed bobcat to a DNA lab in 1999 and 2000. The biologists were skeptical that the lab would produce accurate results; they were suspicious of test results, ironically enough, because another lab had found more lynx than the biologists thought was likely.
2) Burn a CD/DVD (you sure as hell had better not need to burn a blu-ray or hd dvd disk!!)
Actually, why not? A key revocation doesn't render your player unable to play blue-ray or hd-dvd discs, and any of the disks that were made before the key revocation should continue to work. Unencrypted discs will be able to play indefinitely.
Because usually other countries want something that the US has. More favorable trade, relaxation of tariffs, etc. Things that come with strings attached. Politics is very much a "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine" game.
The same problem exists with the Ten Commandments. Thou shalt not kill. Seems straightforward. But thou shalt not kill what? Men? Women? Dogs? Cat? Ameobas? Fetuses? You can take a simple 4-word phrase and interpret it in myriad ways, all because of what it doesn't say as much as what it does say.
It's even worse in this case because you also add the ambiguity created when you translate words from one language to another where sentence constructs may have different meanings or words don't map perfectly between the two languages. Does it mean "thou shalt not kill" as in our 21st century conception of what the word 'kill' means or does it mean "thou shalt not murder," sanctioning capital punishment or even any other killing allowed by law? The 2nd amendment of the US Constitution is also interpreted differently depending on which camp you're in. What does the word "militia" mean? Does it refer to organized state forces? Every able-bodied man? (but not women?)
Near the end of the era they were also using carrier-current FM transmission of the sound.
What... you mean have the movie audio transmitted where anyone within range could -steal- the soundtrack?
Given the climate of the movie industry today (or the early 80s for that matter), I think the studios weren't sad to let the drive-ins fade away to let the multiplexes take over. It certainly benefitted their bottom line.
As of maybe a year ago there was one of those operating near Sacremento. Four screens on four sides of the lot, with parking spaces facing each, projector house and concession stand in the middle.
I'm surprised I hadn't heard of it given I spent 6 years in Davis. Then again, I didn't have a car then, so I probably wouldn't have cared.
But really, how many people could each screen support? Compare that to the number of people a sit-down theater can display to. Why did smaller theaters die while the multiplexes thrived? I think many of those reasons can be applied to the drive-ins.
The Newton paved the way for PDAs, and the Newton in certain ways compares more than favorably with existing PDAs today.
I think the Newton's influence is debatable. It's a flop, but maybe not that strong of one.
DAT has been a staple of industry professionals for ages. As an indie filmmaker, I've found cheap digital audio equipment which is supposed to be superior to be rather poor in comparison. I'd kill to have good DAT equipment.
DAT pales in popularity compared to what they were originally supposed to compete against: the audio CD. Eventually it only found a niche role: the recording professional. Most of it wasn't really DAT's fault -- regulations hampered the DAT industry and the convenience of CDs and their own lack of regulation let them take off. I wouldn't say DAT was a failure, but it didn't come close to living up to initial expectations.
eBook readers are perhaps a flop in that few will invest a device that does solely that, but eBooks as a whole gain in popularity every year.
They're gaining popularity every year, but it's still such a tiny number that it doesn't mean much. When eBooks come out with a screen that is as nice to read as the printed page (nothing anywhere even close has appeared yet) then maybe they'll live up to the promises.
The PCjr entered an area when IBM-based PCs had hardly become the norm, and many critics believed a personal computer in the home would never become a reality. It was a step in the right direction, and people forget that there were MANY alternatives back then. The fact that 99% of home computers are based on IBM standards today is not a flop.
I agree that I don't think the PCjr was a flop. The chiclet design of the keyboard let them add some interesting templates to it on a per-application bases (each application could come with a template to lay over the keyboard giving an at-a-glance reading of what each key would do) but overall typing on a chiclet keyboard is still painful.
You'd be surprised how much technology comes from the porn industry.
Oh no I wouldn't! It's a huge industry but one that people understandably don't like to talk about.. They're content producers, but they have a starkly different attitude from the RIAA/MPAA producers either -- they're especially practical about the technologies they'll support, and aggressive about adopting newer ones. The RIAA/MPAA by contrast are much more conservative, more concerned about relying on what works for them already and resisting change that new technology brings.
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Hey, if a corporation can be a "person," why not a government entity? As long as companies have rights, I don't see why states can't either.
He didn't mention hippies. He probably should have.
Coverage is pointless if you don't bring the money in. Pets.com got tons of coverage with their Superbowl ads, not that that really improved their business any. He was dropped by the station because the sponsors dropped him after the controversy flared up. They dropped him because they didn't want to be associated with him. Freedom of speech means you can say what you want, but it doesn't mean that people have to provide you a forum for it if they don't want to, nor does it mean anyone has to agree with you or has to support you in it.
It was unfortunate -- it had a real use for me several years ago when I was trying to play Starcraft with friends over the 'net. Battle.Net was very slow and crashy at the time, and one (and only one) of the people in our group had a slow dialup connection, so IPX bridging wasn't an option (IPX does really strange things if different segments of the "local" network are slower than others). The only real option was for me to run our own bnetd server. Diablo II fixed that issue by adding a "TCP game" option.
Look around for some commercials for the superhero reality show he's chairing now. I would say the answer is 'no.'
My God, that would have made the rest of that ghastly musical worth it to watch.
You know you're in trouble when the Matt Stone/Trey Parker parody of your show is far superior to the original.
Does that happen because something of yours breaks or someone else's junk messes up?
You could also say new customers are their own 24/7 on-call job, and that women don't want to work more than one on-call 24/7.
But would he have? It's very easy to promise that you'll do something in a circumstance when you know there's pretty much no chance that circumstance will arrive. The renewal failed, 8-90.
My car once hit someone from behind. We were both at a red light when the guy in front of me put his car into reverse and stepped on the gas. Weirdest accident I've ever been in.
A certain amount of inspection is required for most vehicles in California. My car usually requires a smog certification for each DMV renew despite driving a small, energy-efficient (and non-smoggy) car. Quite a few non-smog-related issues can make a smog fail the test. Almost any warning flag in the electrical system, for example. Still not a full safety inspection, but it's something.
There are times I wished Slashdot would let you delete your own posts. Or at the least replace it with "this post has been deleted by the poster."
The correct answer: dragons.
I know, I was surprised too.
That brings up a good point -- do individually-owned franchises count as smaller businesses or just a part of a large corporation like GE?
That's when they ask for government assistance with the claim that the losses are due to piracy, not lack of interest.
"Yes your honour, I collected this information on my home PC and brought the information in on a burned DVD... here ya go... we'd like them to get 20 years please."
I remember working at a web services company which bought a number of desktop machines, then routed a few dialup phone lines and DSL connections (Earthlink, AOL, some others) into the building for QA purposes to see how the site performed from some standard user desktops with standard net connections. I don't see why the RIAA & MPAA couldn't set up the same type lab to run P2P snoopers. Granted it was a dotcom that was throwing money around (they spent several million dollars hiring an outside agency to ... come up with a new name for the company) but this type of lab was hardly all that pricey.
But that would eliminate half the reasoning for traffic law enforcement: police revenues. They need to catch people and ticket them. It's better for the police to catch someone in the act of a nuisance "crime" (like going 10 miles over the speed limit, driving in the HOV, etc) than for the person to not commit the crime in the first place. The latter does no harm and the police get no fines. The former does negligible harm and is a great revenue stream.
Wow. Around here having an inaccurate speedometer isn't counted as an excuse; you still get a ticket. It's considered your fault for not having a working speedometer.
The submitter has traditionally posted stories pointing to his blog as a way of getting hits. Therefore, he's gotten into the habit of posting things in provocative ways. "Robot satellites share resources in space" won't quite get the number of hits and comments that "Satellites mating via robotic arm" will. The quality of discussion is unimportant, he's looking for volume of discussion.
http://www.fair.org/extra/0205/lynxgate.html
Contrary to most news reports, the biologists did not "plant" fur in national forests, and they were not trying to--nor could they have--use the Endangered Species Act to "shut down" the forests for human use. The actual story, according to a U.S. Forest Service investigation, is that biologists for the U.S. Forest Service, Fish and Wildlife Service and the state of Washington--studying where (not whether) lynx live in the state's national forests--sent unauthorized "control samples" of hair obtained from captive lynx and a stuffed bobcat to a DNA lab in 1999 and 2000. The biologists were skeptical that the lab would produce accurate results; they were suspicious of test results, ironically enough, because another lab had found more lynx than the biologists thought was likely.
Actually, why not? A key revocation doesn't render your player unable to play blue-ray or hd-dvd discs, and any of the disks that were made before the key revocation should continue to work. Unencrypted discs will be able to play indefinitely.
Because usually other countries want something that the US has. More favorable trade, relaxation of tariffs, etc. Things that come with strings attached. Politics is very much a "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine" game.
It's even worse in this case because you also add the ambiguity created when you translate words from one language to another where sentence constructs may have different meanings or words don't map perfectly between the two languages. Does it mean "thou shalt not kill" as in our 21st century conception of what the word 'kill' means or does it mean "thou shalt not murder," sanctioning capital punishment or even any other killing allowed by law? The 2nd amendment of the US Constitution is also interpreted differently depending on which camp you're in. What does the word "militia" mean? Does it refer to organized state forces? Every able-bodied man? (but not women?)
What... you mean have the movie audio transmitted where anyone within range could -steal- the soundtrack?
Given the climate of the movie industry today (or the early 80s for that matter), I think the studios weren't sad to let the drive-ins fade away to let the multiplexes take over. It certainly benefitted their bottom line.
As of maybe a year ago there was one of those operating near Sacremento. Four screens on four sides of the lot, with parking spaces facing each, projector house and concession stand in the middle.
I'm surprised I hadn't heard of it given I spent 6 years in Davis. Then again, I didn't have a car then, so I probably wouldn't have cared.
But really, how many people could each screen support? Compare that to the number of people a sit-down theater can display to. Why did smaller theaters die while the multiplexes thrived? I think many of those reasons can be applied to the drive-ins.
I think the Newton's influence is debatable. It's a flop, but maybe not that strong of one.
DAT has been a staple of industry professionals for ages. As an indie filmmaker, I've found cheap digital audio equipment which is supposed to be superior to be rather poor in comparison. I'd kill to have good DAT equipment.
DAT pales in popularity compared to what they were originally supposed to compete against: the audio CD. Eventually it only found a niche role: the recording professional. Most of it wasn't really DAT's fault -- regulations hampered the DAT industry and the convenience of CDs and their own lack of regulation let them take off. I wouldn't say DAT was a failure, but it didn't come close to living up to initial expectations.
eBook readers are perhaps a flop in that few will invest a device that does solely that, but eBooks as a whole gain in popularity every year.
They're gaining popularity every year, but it's still such a tiny number that it doesn't mean much. When eBooks come out with a screen that is as nice to read as the printed page (nothing anywhere even close has appeared yet) then maybe they'll live up to the promises.
The PCjr entered an area when IBM-based PCs had hardly become the norm, and many critics believed a personal computer in the home would never become a reality. It was a step in the right direction, and people forget that there were MANY alternatives back then. The fact that 99% of home computers are based on IBM standards today is not a flop.
I agree that I don't think the PCjr was a flop. The chiclet design of the keyboard let them add some interesting templates to it on a per-application bases (each application could come with a template to lay over the keyboard giving an at-a-glance reading of what each key would do) but overall typing on a chiclet keyboard is still painful.
You'd be surprised how much technology comes from the porn industry.
Oh no I wouldn't! It's a huge industry but one that people understandably don't like to talk about.. They're content producers, but they have a starkly different attitude from the RIAA/MPAA producers either -- they're especially practical about the technologies they'll support, and aggressive about adopting newer ones. The RIAA/MPAA by contrast are much more conservative, more concerned about relying on what works for them already and resisting change that new technology brings.