However, there's an implicit agreement between the provider and user. The provider will not charge you for content, but the content will include some ads. By removing the ads, you're not holding up your end of the bargain.
No there isn't. I am under no obligation to look at, click on, or otherwise interact in any way with any web ads, just like I'm under no obligation to watch the ads on TV (which I don't, thanks to Tivo).
The only agreement is between the advertiser and the web site. The web site says "we get so many clicks per day, and we'll put your ad out here where people can see it". The advertiser says "Great, here's a check!"
That's it.
And there's something else to consider. Not everyone has broadband. My access at home is IDSL, which is 144K up/down. There are some that still have dialup. In those situations, ads suck up a significant chunk of the bancwidth. Click on a link, and 30 seconds later the page finishes loading. And somehow, it's the ads that always load first, never the content.
So I use AdBlock. I block as much of them as I can, from every site I can. And the web is suddenly much more usable.
Yeah, this can be tricky. I didn't trust etc-update, so what I used to do was find all the new config files ("locate._cfg"), then manually diff them to see what changed.
That got real old real fast, but at least I was sure that I wasn't going to clobber anything.
Then I got pointed to dispatch-conf. It's MUCH better. It can be set to automatically update if the only differences are in whitespace and comments, or if you haven't edited the original file.
And it archives the old versions, so that even if you clobber something, you can go back.
Every time I've changed ISP's, I've always deleted everything after moving it to the new place. Files, folders, web pages, email archives, everything.
As to the personal info you give them when signing up, I don't expect them to get rid of it. Nobody else does, why should the ISP be any different? Plus, I think businesses are required to hold onto records for 7 years.
Without knowing what the base rate is ("How likely is a 2 year old to develop ADHD in the future?"), it's impossible to do any sort of real risk assesment on "your kid will be 30% more likely to develop ADHD if they watch 3 hours of TV a day".
In the fearfest that's going to follow this, that figure will probably be conflated in the public mind to "you child has a 30% chance of developing ADHD if they watch 3 hours of TV a day", which is not what it's saying at all.
George won't be around forever. Eventually, he'll retire or be bought out or be pushed aside in a merger.
Eventually, someone else will be in charge, and that someone else will not be blinded by an emotional attachment to the work. THEN you may see the original movies released.
Unless, of course, George does something stupid like get the original masters from the film vault and destroy them...
Who says you can't? You need a phone number to get DSL initially installed, but once it's installed you can have the phone service disconnected while still keeping the DSL service.
It's not so much that people are duplicating currency all over the place as it is that currency tends to enter the world much much faster than it leaves it.
For example, in Everquest, this is how money enters the world: You kill a monster. That monster drops a junk item and a little bit of cash. You then take the junk item to an NPC merchant and sell that for more cash.
Money leaves the world when you buy things from NPC merchants. Food and water are so cheap that they might as well be free. The only things that really cost money are trade skill items and spell reagents.
The problem is that people kill stuff far far more than they buy things, so money enters the world at a faster rate than it leaves. Eventually, you wind up with tens or even hundreds of thousands of platinum pieces.
What really needs to happen is to somehow balance the game so that cash coming in is balanced by cash going out. If there's too much money in the world, monsters drop less cash, merchants raise prices to suck some out, and lower the prices they give for stuff. If there's too little, do the reverse.
"The process of confiscating bootleg CDs from street vendors is exactly what the RIAA should be doing," said Jason Schultz, a staff attorney for the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
The EFF as an organization generally focuses on online matters, which street vendors pretty obviously are not.
This gives me *all* the features of TiVo (except season passes, big whoop)
This is where the people that don't get Tivo often get confused. Season passes are THE big feature. You don't tell it to record something by time/date - you tell it to record something by name, and it will do it, even if the show time changes.
For example, Fox continually rearranges their Sunday night lineup. Sometimes shows are skipped. Sometimes they show multiple episodes of one show. But I don't care. I told my Tivo to record the Simpsons, and it does. If they stick a bonus episode in there, it gets that one too. If they move it back a half-hour, it finds it. If they skip it that weekend, it doesn't record anything. If they put a bonus episode on in the middle of the week, it finds it.
If you dismiss season passes with "big whoop", it tells me that you just don't get it.
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With the space available on a CD, they should have allowed space for Artist / Album / Songname / etc on the disk itself.
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To be fair, this should be an option on a configuration menu. You should never have to manually edit a configuration file for something this basic.
However, there's an implicit agreement between the provider and user. The provider will not charge you for content, but the content will include some ads. By removing the ads, you're not holding up your end of the bargain.
No there isn't. I am under no obligation to look at, click on, or otherwise interact in any way with any web ads, just like I'm under no obligation to watch the ads on TV (which I don't, thanks to Tivo).
The only agreement is between the advertiser and the web site. The web site says "we get so many clicks per day, and we'll put your ad out here where people can see it". The advertiser says "Great, here's a check!"
That's it.
And there's something else to consider. Not everyone has broadband. My access at home is IDSL, which is 144K up/down. There are some that still have dialup. In those situations, ads suck up a significant chunk of the bancwidth. Click on a link, and 30 seconds later the page finishes loading. And somehow, it's the ads that always load first, never the content.
So I use AdBlock. I block as much of them as I can, from every site I can. And the web is suddenly much more usable.
I have no problem with this, AS LONG AS THEY PUT THE CORRECT TIMES ON THE SCHEDULE.
If the show runs from 9:00 - 10:01, then don't list 9:00 - 10:00 in the schedule.
If the times were correct, then Tivo would be able to figure it out.
Yeah, this can be tricky. I didn't trust etc-update, so what I used to do was find all the new config files ("locate ._cfg"), then manually diff them to see what changed.
That got real old real fast, but at least I was sure that I wasn't going to clobber anything.
Then I got pointed to dispatch-conf. It's MUCH better. It can be set to automatically update if the only differences are in whitespace and comments, or if you haven't edited the original file.
And it archives the old versions, so that even if you clobber something, you can go back.
This may have been the first time that Clarke wrote about a space elevator, but the concept was not original with him.
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Tsiolkovsky first proposed it in 1895.
See http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/TETHER/space
Not to mention that any present level designation would get dated really quickly. Today's level 7 would only qualify as a level 5 in two years.
Unless, of course, they propose to make the level designation open-ended, which means that in 10 years, level 22 would be the midrange.
There are LOTS of franchises out there that could be used.
The Matrix (set before the movies). You could play a human or an AI.
Zelazny's Amber books would be very cool, but hard to get right. Items that are powerful in one universe could be useless in another, etc.
Lovecraft. "Hey, let's go raid R'Lyeh and gank Cthulhu!"
Niven's Known Space. Lots of interesting races to play. As a subset, it could be limited to Ringworld.
Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, but it'd have to be set before the books.
The Thomas Covenant books.
Brin's Uplift books. Instead of a single character, you could take charge of an entire species and try to increase your influence.
Iain Banks' Culture universe. This could be very very cool.
Gor. Adult only.
Planet of the Apes. Play a human, or a damned dirty ape.
There are two magazines whose subscriptions I have never let lapse:
Science News and National Geographic
Others have come and gone over the years, but those two have been consistently excellent.
He'll publish.
The point of the report is not to be correct, but to give MS (and others) something to point to and say "See? That there Linux thing is EEEEEVUL!"
Every time I've changed ISP's, I've always deleted everything after moving it to the new place. Files, folders, web pages, email archives, everything.
As to the personal info you give them when signing up, I don't expect them to get rid of it. Nobody else does, why should the ISP be any different? Plus, I think businesses are required to hold onto records for 7 years.
If you want a firewall/NAT box, just go buy a hardware router. It uses even less power than a mini-ITX box.
I have programmed while altered, but when I looked at the code the next day, I couldn't understand it. But it worked fine, though.
Without knowing what the base rate is ("How likely is a 2 year old to develop ADHD in the future?"), it's impossible to do any sort of real risk assesment on "your kid will be 30% more likely to develop ADHD if they watch 3 hours of TV a day".
In the fearfest that's going to follow this, that figure will probably be conflated in the public mind to "you child has a 30% chance of developing ADHD if they watch 3 hours of TV a day", which is not what it's saying at all.
This is a LEGAL question. Go ask a lawyer.
If you don't have a lawyer, look for your local legal aid or lawyer referral service, or ask your county bar association.
So what?
George won't be around forever. Eventually, he'll retire or be bought out or be pushed aside in a merger.
Eventually, someone else will be in charge, and that someone else will not be blinded by an emotional attachment to the work. THEN you may see the original movies released.
Unless, of course, George does something stupid like get the original masters from the film vault and destroy them...
Who says you can't? You need a phone number to get DSL initially installed, but once it's installed you can have the phone service disconnected while still keeping the DSL service.
That's what I did.
Don't believe me? Call your phone company.
It's not so much that people are duplicating currency all over the place as it is that currency tends to enter the world much much faster than it leaves it.
For example, in Everquest, this is how money enters the world: You kill a monster. That monster drops a junk item and a little bit of cash. You then take the junk item to an NPC merchant and sell that for more cash.
Money leaves the world when you buy things from NPC merchants. Food and water are so cheap that they might as well be free. The only things that really cost money are trade skill items and spell reagents.
The problem is that people kill stuff far far more than they buy things, so money enters the world at a faster rate than it leaves. Eventually, you wind up with tens or even hundreds of thousands of platinum pieces.
What really needs to happen is to somehow balance the game so that cash coming in is balanced by cash going out. If there's too much money in the world, monsters drop less cash, merchants raise prices to suck some out, and lower the prices they give for stuff. If there's too little, do the reverse.
Phase 1: Submit story referring to my article in PC Magazine to Slashdot.
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: PROFIT!
Tomorrow, according to Groklaw.
Did you RTFA?
"The process of confiscating bootleg CDs from street vendors is exactly what the RIAA should be doing," said Jason Schultz, a staff attorney for the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
The EFF as an organization generally focuses on online matters, which street vendors pretty obviously are not.
This gives me *all* the features of TiVo (except season passes, big whoop)
This is where the people that don't get Tivo often get confused. Season passes are THE big feature. You don't tell it to record something by time/date - you tell it to record something by name, and it will do it, even if the show time changes.
For example, Fox continually rearranges their Sunday night lineup. Sometimes shows are skipped. Sometimes they show multiple episodes of one show. But I don't care. I told my Tivo to record the Simpsons, and it does. If they stick a bonus episode in there, it gets that one too. If they move it back a half-hour, it finds it. If they skip it that weekend, it doesn't record anything. If they put a bonus episode on in the middle of the week, it finds it.
If you dismiss season passes with "big whoop", it tells me that you just don't get it.
Dell's inventory stock is measured in hours. I doubt seriously that they have ANYTHING overstocked.
How is this different from those tags your vet can put in yout cat or dog? It's just extending it a little bit.
The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 4 - 7.