That's exactly what was done with the A, B, and E blocks. The fact is that there exist nationwide players interested in buying up nationwide licenses, and so rather than forcing them to do so by stitching together a bunch of regional licenses, the C & D blocks were set up especially for them. Of course, the D block was made a bit too specifically for a single bidder so when Frontline couldn't get any money the block didn't sell, but the C block went over so well that it was all anyone could talk about and people like yourself were left thinking that it was all that was auctioned off.
Exactly. It also forces out any type of small players for the wireless spectrums and decreases competition so that only the very rich can compete. It totally goes against capitalism to do this, it's really stupid.
I would have expected more savvy behavior from Google. So your preferred model would be to have absolutely no spectrum regulation, interference be damned? Yes, only the rich were able to compete for the C block, but I don't think anyone who can't afford to put down a few billion dollars on a spectrum license is in any position to build out a nationwide wireless network. There were hundreds of local spectrum licenses in this auction which the smaller players were able to bid on and obtain. Those smaller players are still pretty rich compared to you or I, granted, but you can't build a radio tower with happy thoughts and bubblegum.
How will one go about securing the rights to Don't Stop Believing with the RIAA gone, though?
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When I was coming up, all I heard was that Perl was read-only, and that anyone with a large Perl codebase was in big trouble as soon as anyone who wrote any part of that code left the company, and that no one serious about long-term stability would ever even think about using Perl. And blah blah blah.
Were you trying to imply that these facts had changed, or just that people had stopped talking about them?
The mindboggling thing is that his metaphor is far and away the best description of sandvining I have ever seen. The fact that you find it so unbelievable shows just how ridiculous what Comcast is doing really is.
Because there was surely no productive results out of this. If he had used some open source (sorry) spreadsheet program at least he may have found and filed some bugs. If you can find bugs in open source spreadsheets with simple arithmetic and conditional formatting, it's no wonder Microsoft has the market tied up.
Right, and now the "Fermi Paradox" suddenly become much more interesting. If there's a strong likelihood of other life out there, where in the heck are they? Why haven't they contacted us? How would they know where we were to initiate contact? The biggest footprint we leave to the universe, our radio communications, doesn't even make it to Proxima Centauri before getting drowned out by background noise.
Joss Whedon, Dollhouse. I was really expecting Dollhouse to get killed during the strike before it ever even had a chance to get off the ground, but it looks like Fox is fully committed to letting me see it, fall in love, and then break my heart after 14 episodes. Thanks, guys.
I'm not talking about the ones where the car is featured prominently (Transporter, Transformers, etc.) - in those the movie studio clearly got permission (or was paid prominently for their use).
Usually the money is going in the other direction, hence the frequent pace-destroying shots that prominently feature the vehicle's badge you see in a modern car chase.
D&D Insider's current idea of access control is to include the full content of "premium" articles inside of a hidden div. The upshot is that any idiot can see the content without a login using only a single line of javascript; are you guys going to do anything about this before you start charging a monthly fee for that access? Not that I won't enjoy having what amounts to a free subscription to the stripped down versions of Dungeon and Dragon magazines, but an oversight like this doesn't really bode well for your plans to spearhead 4th edition with premium online content.
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
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That's exactly what was done with the A, B, and E blocks. The fact is that there exist nationwide players interested in buying up nationwide licenses, and so rather than forcing them to do so by stitching together a bunch of regional licenses, the C & D blocks were set up especially for them. Of course, the D block was made a bit too specifically for a single bidder so when Frontline couldn't get any money the block didn't sell, but the C block went over so well that it was all anyone could talk about and people like yourself were left thinking that it was all that was auctioned off.
The definition of a word is not the same thing as its etymology.
How will one go about securing the rights to Don't Stop Believing with the RIAA gone, though?
When I was coming up, all I heard was that Perl was read-only, and that anyone with a large Perl codebase was in big trouble as soon as anyone who wrote any part of that code left the company, and that no one serious about long-term stability would ever even think about using Perl. And blah blah blah.
Were you trying to imply that these facts had changed, or just that people had stopped talking about them?The mindboggling thing is that his metaphor is far and away the best description of sandvining I have ever seen. The fact that you find it so unbelievable shows just how ridiculous what Comcast is doing really is.
Isn't being engaged in tax fraud a prerequisite for having a bank account in the Cayman Islands?
Oh, wait, I mean the other thing - insightful
There's no such thing as software, I own my hardware and every single one of the 2^bignum potential states it can be in.
They aren't printing calendars that say 1988 anymore.
Umm, the Atari predates 3-D. It wouldn't be possible to view the joystick from that angle.
This is why we can't have nice things.
D&D Insider's current idea of access control is to include the full content of "premium" articles inside of a hidden div. The upshot is that any idiot can see the content without a login using only a single line of javascript; are you guys going to do anything about this before you start charging a monthly fee for that access? Not that I won't enjoy having what amounts to a free subscription to the stripped down versions of Dungeon and Dragon magazines, but an oversight like this doesn't really bode well for your plans to spearhead 4th edition with premium online content.
http://www.algorithm.com.au/code/vimacs/
I guess, but doesn't Microsoft's hotmail system also "scan your emails" to put them into TCP packets?
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
But 2.99999999999999999999999999999... is exactly equal to 3