[Fox and Univision] just don't have to grant you access through that antenna since they're the ones who have paid for access to the programs and then redistribute them to those who pay.
Of course, they are free to not air their content over the public airwaves. They can choose not to distribute their content to their OTA affiliates and become (one of very many) cable-/satellite-only channels. And then what will their OTA affiliates air? Will they stop affiliating with local stations and lose that local presence? What happens when a local news story of national significance breaks and they no longer have affiliation with a local news source?
Broadcasters use the public airwaves for free and, in return, have public interest obligations. However, they have spent the last few decades eroding exactly what constitutes "public interest" to the point that the broadcasters' interests are the public interests. The right of the network to make money is in the public interest, right?
Not to mention the "stuff" they make - products, that by design, are destined for a landfill sooner than need be; Glued shut to prevent easy repair, and no way to economically do simple things like replace the battery of a device that is otherwise perfectly functional.
They aren't glued to prevent easy repair. They are glued because it is cheaper and easier to assemble and takes less space than doing it with fasteners.
All of this is part of the general trend (not just an Apple thing) as electronics become appliances and the packaging of smaller and smaller electronic devices. Check out the teardown of the MS Surface. At least Apple will take back your old devices.
If Apple made a car, they'd probably have a sealed engine compartment, "because it looks better" not to have that seam around the hood. Mmmph - they might not even deign put a hole in the car to allow access to the gas tank. Once it runs out of gas, buy another car...
Guess what? Automakers want to make a car with a sealed engine compartment that only their dealers service.
thats just it.. theyve proven they cant operate within a budget. most of the things they do that affect me are negative... they take more and more of my money, and waste it on idiotic adolescent style peer pressure driven garbage. they drive up prices at the pump, at the grocery store with their market monkeying, and now they want their grubby hand in internet commerce. oh goody i cant wait for more of the status quo policy making this will fund while i have even less money to go around.
You still make use of the services offered by the government.
They can't operate within a budget because of people like to make use of these services but no one wants to pay for them. They can't operate within a budget because voters can't agree on what they want from government, so things get pulled one way, then pulled the other way. The government is a reflection of the people.
The government does waste money, but pretty much every entity wastes money. And I think corporations do more to drive up prices at the pump (like defer maintenance at refineries and then enjoy the additional income from the price rise when a refinery does down) as well as the grocery store.
As an observation, if you get it here, you don't get it elsewhere. It's give and take. But, for the Gooberment...it's all pretty much take, take take- unless they can buy your vote with a pittance of the take they're taking from you...
Yeah, that nasty, evil Government that doesn't do anything for you. How dare they ask for money to pay for the expenses of government!
You missed the point, there is no tax form for that in this state that I know of...
Are you sure? There is a form for paying use tax on out-of-state purchases in this state (a state with no state income tax), but most people that I mention it to have never heard of it before.
Border Patrol has been setting up checkpoints inland... ferry terminals in Washington State...
Huh? How do you have inland ferry terminals? The relevant WA state ferry terminals (Port Angeles, San Juan Islands/Anacortes) are Ports of Entry. I think they are talking about the CBP agents picking up undocumented aliens from south of the border out in Forks (which is a bit of a drive from the ferry terminal in Port Angeles).
Are we talking a temporary issue that can be resolved by re-flashing the memory in question or is one of the cells damaged in some un-recoverable way? Either way there are solutions but the latter is far more serious.
Did you read the article? Most of these questions are answered there.
He is wrong sometimes, and when proven wrong I am still to see an occasion he have not accepted it and adapted. The fact is he is right far more times than he is wrong.
In the email discussion that I was referring to, after our private discussion, he did not post a correction to the mailing list. He didn't seem to accept it or adapt. Frankly, he didn't seem to care that he got his facts wrong, because it wasn't stuff that interested him (yet he was willing to comment on how it worked?!?).
I am not trying to convince anyone of anything. Otherwise, I would have found the thread archive and posted it here. I am just explaining why I don't always believe what he says.
He is right and has little patience for stupidity. Furthermore he doesn't need to be nice. So he isn't.
I have found that Linus is willing to make very forceful, negative statements about technology that he is unfamiliar with.
For example, in an email list discussion, he made these kinds of disparaging statements about technology that I work with, describing particular aspects of how the technology work. Unfortunately, his statements were all wrong. I called him on it (in off-list email). He responded indicating that he wasn't interested in the technology and had not looked at it in years.
It's OK that he isn't interested in it, but that doesn't give him the right to make up stuff about how it works.
And, because I have observed this with topics that I am familiar with, I am less likely to believe him on topics that I am less familiar.
How is this "Insightful"? Given the low regard that the general public have for reporters, why would they regard the reporter as a customer like them?
Personally, I don't think reporters get called enough on their BS. I am not a big Elon Musk fan (he came across like a baby after the "Top Gear" situation), but his response in this situation raised my opinion of him a couple of notches.
Anyway, in the past, I have observed a strong bias against particular cars in the Automobiles section in the NY Times. There are occasionally very good automotive-related articles there, but, for the most part, I take everything that I read in that section with a grain of salt. Given that NYC is one of the most car-unfriendly cities in the US, I have always wondered why the NY Times even has an Automobiles section.
Google has not responded to news.com.au's request for comment.UPDATE: This story has been amended at the request of Google.
So has Google responded or not?
That would indicate that Google has not issued a public comment in response to the story. That doesn't preclude Google from reviewing the story and requesting a change.
Driving over a German, French, Swiss or Italian highway is, by the way, more like getting presents on Dec. 23rd in a large shopping mall than a free ride on a free highway. It is more or less a like combat situation. At least you have to stay alert all the time. Driving through Germany will take you 8 hours or more. No one interprets a ride on a highway as freedom. You feel relieved when you reach your destination. Therefor, you go by plane or train. And I am absolutely sure, when you ask someone from New York he or she could understand this "European" feeling, while someone from the mid west will most likely think these Europeans are crazy.
The last time I was in Germany, I spent my free day driving the Autobahn. It was awesome (aside from trying to find my hotel at 2am when I got back to Berlin). I listened to the radio for where the traffic was and stayed away from there. There was no traffic on the Autobahn from Luebeck to Rostock or south to Berlin. Well, there was one car that passed me (as I was doing at 110 mph) like I wasn't moving.
On the other hand I want an override as I'm not sure I'd trust a car programmed in California to West Michigan winters...
I took the Udacity course(s) on self-driving cars. One scenario that they they didn't have worked out was driving on snow covered roads.
Right now, the cars are monitored by someone in the car, but the goal is to remove that constraint. One thing that will hold back widespread implementation of self-driving cars is liability in an accident. It is inevitable that a self-driving car will fail and it could fail badly and imagine what a mess that the lawsuits would be. One estimate that I have heard is that self-driving cars will be ready in five years, but the society won't be ready for them for 20-30 years.
I don't even own a Car anymore, I dislike all the new distractions. I want to get from point A to point B without something on the Car telling me I'm doing it wrong. I want a Basic Car, 4 wheels, 5 Speed Manual Tranny, Gas efficient 4 Cyl Combustion engine with Heat and Air. That's all, no fancy doo-dads, do you read that Ford, Toyota, Dodge etc?
If you are not buying cars, why should they care?
In the US, more and more of the doo-dads have become Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard requirements.
...like me, they'll own motorcycles, probably. Riding a bike (full disclosure: I love my Ducati 1098) is about as close to flying as you can get in two dimensions. The subset of the population that enjoys driving cars and riding bikes for the sheer exhilaration of it (vanishingly small, to be sure, but extant nonetheless) are immune to the marketing gimmicks you are basing your argument on. I have a BT-enabled comm system in my helmet that already lets me voice control my phone -- I can drag a knee at a buck-twenty while listening to Moby *and* send a sell order to my broker at the same time. No amount of autonomous vehicle goodness (and it is a goodness, btw) will alter that in the slightest.
I sold my Duc last year because too many clueless drivers tried to take it out. Some like to blame this on texting and cell phone, but it seems mostly because people don't pay attention because they have a million other things to occupy their minds when they should be focused on driving. And these people don't see bikes.
Remind me to not be anywhere near you when you are riding hard enough to drag a knee at 120 and doing a stock transaction at the same time. Doing that is just as dangerous as the distracted mom in the minivan coming at your bike.
What planet did you grow up on? Of course it will affect the warranty! Car makers don't like you screwing around with the car while it is still under warranty for multiple reasons, with one being they like to squeeze money out of you.
In the US, as long as you keep to the maintenance schedule, don't upgrade components (don't "chip" the engine, put those crazy large wheels on, etc.), and keep the receipts, working on your car yourself or having your own mechanic work on the car will not void your warranty. Modern cars usually have long service intervals (longer than someone should probably go between services if he will be keeping the car beyond the warranty period), so it isn't hard to keep to the maintenance schedule.
The previously mentioned mirror likely costs $150 because it contains a heating element. One of my cars has a heated door mirror that is throwing intermittent failure codes; it is not just a piece of glass. Replacing just the glass in a door mirror (as opposed to the entire mirror assembly) can be complicated.
In other words, when Murray asks if you can work fast, you can't just say yes. You'll have to use your previous achievements to prove that you can.
Yeah, that's not quite how it worked in my interviews with EMC. Did I get asked about projects that I worked on? For the most part, no.
I did get asked to write a lot of code on a white board. That's how software is designed these days, right? And we all rewrite sort (and other basic algorithms) from scratch rather than use highly optimized libraries, right?
And, IIRC, East Germany was about 1/4 the size of Germany. North Korea is 1/3.
East Germany was about 108000 km2 and West Germany was about 248000 km2. Population in the east was around 16 million and in the west it was around 63 million. In the east, per capita GDP was about half what it was in the west.
North Korea is about 128000 km2 and South Korea is about 100000 km2. Population in the north is about 24 million. Population in the south is about 50 million. In the north, per capita GDP is less that a tenth of what it is in the south.
From what I have read, the reintegration of N. Korea is going to be a bigger deal then East Germany.
I have been peppering my FB check-ins with places that I have been to, noting events that never took place, mixed in with real check-ins. I have set my "Lives in" city to somewhere different every day this year. Unless you know me, good luck figuring out what on my FB page is real and what isn't.
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[Fox and Univision] just don't have to grant you access through that antenna since they're the ones who have paid for access to the programs and then redistribute them to those who pay.
Of course, they are free to not air their content over the public airwaves. They can choose not to distribute their content to their OTA affiliates and become (one of very many) cable-/satellite-only channels. And then what will their OTA affiliates air? Will they stop affiliating with local stations and lose that local presence? What happens when a local news story of national significance breaks and they no longer have affiliation with a local news source?
Broadcasters use the public airwaves for free and, in return, have public interest obligations. However, they have spent the last few decades eroding exactly what constitutes "public interest" to the point that the broadcasters' interests are the public interests. The right of the network to make money is in the public interest, right?
The battery has not marred the plane's launch. In fact, the plane has been launched and in service for a while.
Being grounded for weeks due to a marked tendency to catch fire is the kind of thing that most people would consider to have marred its launch.
I certainly don't plan to get on a Doomliner in the next couple of years.
The battery has not marred the plane's launch. Being three years late (and all of the issues that caused the delay) marred the plane's launch.
Not to mention the "stuff" they make - products, that by design, are destined for a landfill sooner than need be; Glued shut to prevent easy repair, and no way to economically do simple things like replace the battery of a device that is otherwise perfectly functional.
They aren't glued to prevent easy repair. They are glued because it is cheaper and easier to assemble and takes less space than doing it with fasteners.
All of this is part of the general trend (not just an Apple thing) as electronics become appliances and the packaging of smaller and smaller electronic devices. Check out the teardown of the MS Surface. At least Apple will take back your old devices.
If Apple made a car, they'd probably have a sealed engine compartment, "because it looks better" not to have that seam around the hood. Mmmph - they might not even deign put a hole in the car to allow access to the gas tank. Once it runs out of gas, buy another car...
Guess what? Automakers want to make a car with a sealed engine compartment that only their dealers service.
thats just it.. theyve proven they cant operate within a budget. most of the things they do that affect me are negative... they take more and more of my money, and waste it on idiotic adolescent style peer pressure driven garbage. they drive up prices at the pump, at the grocery store with their market monkeying, and now they want their grubby hand in internet commerce. oh goody i cant wait for more of the status quo policy making this will fund while i have even less money to go around.
You still make use of the services offered by the government.
They can't operate within a budget because of people like to make use of these services but no one wants to pay for them. They can't operate within a budget because voters can't agree on what they want from government, so things get pulled one way, then pulled the other way. The government is a reflection of the people.
The government does waste money, but pretty much every entity wastes money. And I think corporations do more to drive up prices at the pump (like defer maintenance at refineries and then enjoy the additional income from the price rise when a refinery does down) as well as the grocery store.
...this country was founded on a Tax Revolt?
As an observation, if you get it here, you don't get it elsewhere. It's give and take. But, for the Gooberment...it's all pretty much take, take take- unless they can buy your vote with a pittance of the take they're taking from you...
Yeah, that nasty, evil Government that doesn't do anything for you. How dare they ask for money to pay for the expenses of government!
You missed the point, there is no tax form for that in this state that I know of ...
Are you sure? There is a form for paying use tax on out-of-state purchases in this state (a state with no state income tax), but most people that I mention it to have never heard of it before.
Since this type of people are generally not *computer literature* at all and never have been.
They probably aren't computer literate either.
5. Hardware arrives a week later.
So when your keyboard or HDD craps out, you can sit around for a week twiddling your thumbs?
Border Patrol has been setting up checkpoints inland ... ferry terminals in Washington State ...
Huh? How do you have inland ferry terminals? The relevant WA state ferry terminals (Port Angeles, San Juan Islands/Anacortes) are Ports of Entry. I think they are talking about the CBP agents picking up undocumented aliens from south of the border out in Forks (which is a bit of a drive from the ferry terminal in Port Angeles).
Are we talking a temporary issue that can be resolved by re-flashing the memory in question or is one of the cells damaged in some un-recoverable way? Either way there are solutions but the latter is far more serious.
Did you read the article? Most of these questions are answered there.
He is wrong sometimes, and when proven wrong I am still to see an occasion he have not accepted it and adapted. The fact is he is right far more times than he is wrong.
In the email discussion that I was referring to, after our private discussion, he did not post a correction to the mailing list. He didn't seem to accept it or adapt. Frankly, he didn't seem to care that he got his facts wrong, because it wasn't stuff that interested him (yet he was willing to comment on how it worked?!?).
I am not trying to convince anyone of anything. Otherwise, I would have found the thread archive and posted it here. I am just explaining why I don't always believe what he says.
He is right and has little patience for stupidity. Furthermore he doesn't need to be nice. So he isn't.
I have found that Linus is willing to make very forceful, negative statements about technology that he is unfamiliar with.
For example, in an email list discussion, he made these kinds of disparaging statements about technology that I work with, describing particular aspects of how the technology work. Unfortunately, his statements were all wrong. I called him on it (in off-list email). He responded indicating that he wasn't interested in the technology and had not looked at it in years.
It's OK that he isn't interested in it, but that doesn't give him the right to make up stuff about how it works.
And, because I have observed this with topics that I am familiar with, I am less likely to believe him on topics that I am less familiar.
How is this "Insightful"? Given the low regard that the general public have for reporters, why would they regard the reporter as a customer like them?
Personally, I don't think reporters get called enough on their BS. I am not a big Elon Musk fan (he came across like a baby after the "Top Gear" situation), but his response in this situation raised my opinion of him a couple of notches.
Anyway, in the past, I have observed a strong bias against particular cars in the Automobiles section in the NY Times. There are occasionally very good automotive-related articles there, but, for the most part, I take everything that I read in that section with a grain of salt. Given that NYC is one of the most car-unfriendly cities in the US, I have always wondered why the NY Times even has an Automobiles section.
From the article:
Google has not responded to news.com.au's request for comment. UPDATE: This story has been amended at the request of Google.
So has Google responded or not?
That would indicate that Google has not issued a public comment in response to the story. That doesn't preclude Google from reviewing the story and requesting a change.
Driving over a German, French, Swiss or Italian highway is, by the way, more like getting presents on Dec. 23rd in a large shopping mall than a free ride on a free highway. It is more or less a like combat situation. At least you have to stay alert all the time. Driving through Germany will take you 8 hours or more. No one interprets a ride on a highway as freedom. You feel relieved when you reach your destination. Therefor, you go by plane or train. And I am absolutely sure, when you ask someone from New York he or she could understand this "European" feeling, while someone from the mid west will most likely think these Europeans are crazy.
The last time I was in Germany, I spent my free day driving the Autobahn. It was awesome (aside from trying to find my hotel at 2am when I got back to Berlin). I listened to the radio for where the traffic was and stayed away from there. There was no traffic on the Autobahn from Luebeck to Rostock or south to Berlin. Well, there was one car that passed me (as I was doing at 110 mph) like I wasn't moving.
On the other hand I want an override as I'm not sure I'd trust a car programmed in California to West Michigan winters...
I took the Udacity course(s) on self-driving cars. One scenario that they they didn't have worked out was driving on snow covered roads.
Right now, the cars are monitored by someone in the car, but the goal is to remove that constraint. One thing that will hold back widespread implementation of self-driving cars is liability in an accident. It is inevitable that a self-driving car will fail and it could fail badly and imagine what a mess that the lawsuits would be. One estimate that I have heard is that self-driving cars will be ready in five years, but the society won't be ready for them for 20-30 years.
I don't even own a Car anymore, I dislike all the new distractions. I want to get from point A to point B without something on the Car telling me I'm doing it wrong. I want a Basic Car, 4 wheels, 5 Speed Manual Tranny, Gas efficient 4 Cyl Combustion engine with Heat and Air. That's all, no fancy doo-dads, do you read that Ford, Toyota, Dodge etc?
If you are not buying cars, why should they care?
In the US, more and more of the doo-dads have become Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard requirements.
he's on a motorcycle.
Like in Bullitt and Le Mans. Watched Thomas Crowne Affair last night and he was in a dune buggy.
He does one movie on a motorcycle and that is all people can think of?
...like me, they'll own motorcycles, probably. Riding a bike (full disclosure: I love my Ducati 1098) is about as close to flying as you can get in two dimensions. The subset of the population that enjoys driving cars and riding bikes for the sheer exhilaration of it (vanishingly small, to be sure, but extant nonetheless) are immune to the marketing gimmicks you are basing your argument on. I have a BT-enabled comm system in my helmet that already lets me voice control my phone -- I can drag a knee at a buck-twenty while listening to Moby *and* send a sell order to my broker at the same time. No amount of autonomous vehicle goodness (and it is a goodness, btw) will alter that in the slightest.
I sold my Duc last year because too many clueless drivers tried to take it out. Some like to blame this on texting and cell phone, but it seems mostly because people don't pay attention because they have a million other things to occupy their minds when they should be focused on driving. And these people don't see bikes.
Remind me to not be anywhere near you when you are riding hard enough to drag a knee at 120 and doing a stock transaction at the same time. Doing that is just as dangerous as the distracted mom in the minivan coming at your bike.
What planet did you grow up on? Of course it will affect the warranty! Car makers don't like you screwing around with the car while it is still under warranty for multiple reasons, with one being they like to squeeze money out of you.
In the US, as long as you keep to the maintenance schedule, don't upgrade components (don't "chip" the engine, put those crazy large wheels on, etc.), and keep the receipts, working on your car yourself or having your own mechanic work on the car will not void your warranty. Modern cars usually have long service intervals (longer than someone should probably go between services if he will be keeping the car beyond the warranty period), so it isn't hard to keep to the maintenance schedule.
The previously mentioned mirror likely costs $150 because it contains a heating element. One of my cars has a heated door mirror that is throwing intermittent failure codes; it is not just a piece of glass. Replacing just the glass in a door mirror (as opposed to the entire mirror assembly) can be complicated.
In other words, when Murray asks if you can work fast, you can't just say yes. You'll have to use your previous achievements to prove that you can.
Yeah, that's not quite how it worked in my interviews with EMC. Did I get asked about projects that I worked on? For the most part, no.
I did get asked to write a lot of code on a white board. That's how software is designed these days, right? And we all rewrite sort (and other basic algorithms) from scratch rather than use highly optimized libraries, right?
And, IIRC, East Germany was about 1/4 the size of Germany. North Korea is 1/3.
East Germany was about 108000 km2 and West Germany was about 248000 km2. Population in the east was around 16 million and in the west it was around 63 million. In the east, per capita GDP was about half what it was in the west.
North Korea is about 128000 km2 and South Korea is about 100000 km2. Population in the north is about 24 million. Population in the south is about 50 million. In the north, per capita GDP is less that a tenth of what it is in the south.
From what I have read, the reintegration of N. Korea is going to be a bigger deal then East Germany.
It certainly seems that way.
Could you elaborate? Was there a lighting incident in 1976 that only you remember?
The audio went out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrP5ZM0otP8
I have been peppering my FB check-ins with places that I have been to, noting events that never took place, mixed in with real check-ins. I have set my "Lives in" city to somewhere different every day this year. Unless you know me, good luck figuring out what on my FB page is real and what isn't.
$0.42 per play is not a bad price ...
The summary says ".. or an average of 0.42 cent a play ..." (like under half a penny), not $0.42.