I find it intresting that you (and big business) think that the ability to buy "A La Carte" would be bad for the less wanted stations. I do not have several "niche" channels offered in my area because the majority of the people around me couldn't care less about them. Therefore, the producers of these channels get NO money from my area until enough Cable customers are intrested in the channel to make the cable company want to include it. Under "A La Carte" pricing, however, these niche channels would be receiving my money and the money of many people like me who like their special content.
Saying that cable TV A La Carte pricing would hurt the little stations is like saying breaking up ClearChannel would hurt the small bands and record producers, because they couldn't get national coverage. The problem is, the small people would be able to get more access to markets if the content provider didn't require something to be popular (or at least WANT it to become popular) to allow the content to reach the public.
Come on folks, the big cable companies' claim that they act as they do to protect the smaller channels is codswollop. The smaller companies would benifit from A La Carte Programming and the popular channels that are already on everybody's standard package (but could be eliminated under A La Carte programming) would loose out. THINK ABOUT IT!
You realize, of course, that the elimination of copyright would make the GPL invalid as well don't you. That's right, the GPL is only valid because of the protections offered under copyright law, otherwise anyone could just disregaurd the General Public License.
Or do you know anybody who does? Do you refer to the geek community. If so, you realize, you are talking about drinking chicken blood. Yes that is the origional definition of "geek". Do you want to argue that that isn't what it means anymore? If so you have a double standard, some words can change in meaning, others can't.
English is a live language, words change meaning constantly. Instead of trying to go against the public's view of the definition of a word, use words that mean what the audience will think they mean, and limit uses of Jargon to fields where the Jargon is understood. Eventually even the Jargon's meaning will change (i.e. in radio, the meaning of "ham" was origionaly derogatory). If you don't like this, you can try learning a dead language, it will continue to have meaning not influenced by the social enviroment, but you also won't be able to refer to some modern concepts.
Frankly, I'll stick with live languages, and except that a word only means what it is excepted to mean; it has no inherent meaning. If you know what somebody else means when they say a word, use the word as they would use it. If the general public beleives a word has a certain meaning or connotation, don't continue using it to mean something different, or if you do, don't get upset when your statements are misconstrued. This is what language is all about.
um i think the problem here wasn't OS X but a PEBKAC issue. (Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair) I have an iBook running OS X Jaguar (10.2.1 I beleive, I'm not on it this second) and seting up a network printer was easier than any other system I have ever used. I have set up my laptop to access UNIX lpd queues, samba print servers and HP TCP/IP printing (whatever that protocal is). Those people you saw wern't gurus, they were (l)users with very little brain.
Ok, you halfway agree with this, so what's my point? OS X's UI was easy enough for me to figure out how to add a network printer in seconds. I had never done so before, before the iBook the last apple I owned was an Apple IIe. I read no documentation on setting up printers. No, pretty UI's won't fix the inability of some people to understand how computers work, but they CAN make it easy for people who understand the basics to work smoothly with tasks they are not familiar with.
I personaly think this is a hoax (bad day to post this one fella), but if it is not, he could just be looking at his DHCP server's logs or something similar. And if he has his network secured so only certain MAC addresses can even access it, he'd have no problem looking into the database to see what the address he had enabled was.
Let me guess, in the movie Monsters inc. you also saw the monster's break room and said to yourself, "ah, real coffee"?
For those sad neglicted few who havn't seen the movie, it comes out at a consistancy of crude oil mixed with sand. mmmhh Coffee.
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Dude! I've drunk 20 cups of coffe at a sitting before, and I'm fine. Hrmm come to think of it it did get up to use the bathroom a couple of times, but it was within a three hour period, what's the halflife of caffeine? (Ah, I love Waffle House)
I didn't see a "dig" at the USA in that, just a statement of fact. Countries that do not like the USA, and do not want to support them, will go to software that they can, at least localy, control, this means an OSS branch. The government can make their own GNU/???? distribution and suddenly there is a software option that is at least nominaly in-house that doesn't give finincial support to the "Great Satan".
In the real world there are people beleive all kinds of evils about the USA (a very few are even correct, but that is beside the point). It is not taking a dig at the USA to point out that some people hate them and will take a software solution not finincialy tied with the USA. It is not taking a dig at the USA to say Anti-US sentiment is on the rize. These are varrifiable facts. They SHOULD be recognized, and analyzed. One of the effects of this worldwide change in opinion about the US will be a rise in OSS support. Is this justification for Anti-US sentiments? No. This is simply an analysis of effects of varrified patterns. Don't read into this what is not there.
Never in my life have I seen an ATM with $1 bills. I'm currious, up near Purdue, do most other ATMS allow $1.00 transactions? At most ATMS here in Murfreesboro Tennessee (not to far from Nashville) most ATMS only carry $20 bills, and I only know of one that carries denomonations as low as $5.00, and it has a large sign proudly advertising this fact. (It also has the highest out-of-bank service charg I've seen, $3.00)
Not sure if this makes me pro-MS or anti, but I refer to Windows XP as their 1.0 version, they finaly have a shipable product. (Now why they've been shipping those pre-alphas as release versions, I'm still not sure)
Instead of getting all self righteous and commenting on what was happening, why don't you read the article before commenting on it. If you have to "guess" about what the cop was doing, don't comment it just adds to the noise here on slashdot, like we need more mindless noise. If it is unavailable and you can't read the article, wait a while, someone will have it mirrored shortly I'm sure, that is just as sure a thing on/. as the hippies going on about security and liberty.
Heh, agreed on the W part, wasn't thinking:) (And I still have to think HARD to do morse code) Yes, it will take much longer to send at, the @ is helpful, but not neccicary. Thanks for the correction:)
His daughter was the one driving. (After protesting his arrest, she was arrested too(brutaly according to the writeup, I couldn't see the vidio because server was./ed before I could load it), charges against her were dropped)
Morse code isn't a binary language (dits and dahs) it is a trinary language, with SPACES. So it wouldn't parse out to: catatatnt.org but to cat at atnt.org which is, so far as I'm concerned perfectly comprehendable. Furthermore, if you don't put the normal space between the a and the t in "at" you have even further shown that it is a seperate character instead of a-t.
My recomendation would be to go with the Fujitsu Lifebook P1000 Ultra-compact notebooks. They will fit in your pocket, yet have a fully-functional keyboard for touch-type notetaking (which is much faster than handwriting). Furthermore, P1000 notebooks include a stilus/touchscreen for tasks that require diagraming or drawing. This device would take the place of a tablet, home PC (if you get an external monitor and arn't an avid gamer) and PDA for an under $1,500 Pricetag. And, if you customize it to the max for battery life, it will last an estimated 10 hours without recharging. That should get you through your classes easily. It has 802.11b, 10/100 wired Networking, USB and PCMCIA to connect to other devices/systems. Most importantly for a college student, (trust me) it weighs less than three pounds (less than some of your textbooks will). It will be easy enough to cary around you won't just leave it in the dorm room (like you might a 15-17" uberlaptop) because it is to heavy to carry along with all your books. This is the only specific system I would recomend for college use (at one time I recomended iBooks as well, but they were, at the time, much cheeper than the P1000).
Yes, I agree that BPL will be felt by everybody. Never said otherwise. What I said is that Canada isn't regulated by the FCC. I pointed out that citing US law to a Canadian enterprise is pretty pointless. (As another poster pointed out, Canada has similar laws, if the origional poster had discussed these laws, instead of the FCC's it would have been a great post, or if they had said "Canada has similar laws" or somesuch.)
Try reading a little more carefully before posting, you might come accross a little better.
What does the FCC have to do with a Canadian outfit, like the one mentioned? Yes, the Canadian government has their own equivilant to the FCC, but the rules arn't identical, so your siting is pretty much irrelavant.
Beleive it or not, US law is not applicable outside of the US.
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Saying that cable TV A La Carte pricing would hurt the little stations is like saying breaking up ClearChannel would hurt the small bands and record producers, because they couldn't get national coverage. The problem is, the small people would be able to get more access to markets if the content provider didn't require something to be popular (or at least WANT it to become popular) to allow the content to reach the public.
Come on folks, the big cable companies' claim that they act as they do to protect the smaller channels is codswollop. The smaller companies would benifit from A La Carte Programming and the popular channels that are already on everybody's standard package (but could be eliminated under A La Carte programming) would loose out. THINK ABOUT IT!
You realize, of course, that the elimination of copyright would make the GPL invalid as well don't you. That's right, the GPL is only valid because of the protections offered under copyright law, otherwise anyone could just disregaurd the General Public License.
English is a live language, words change meaning constantly. Instead of trying to go against the public's view of the definition of a word, use words that mean what the audience will think they mean, and limit uses of Jargon to fields where the Jargon is understood. Eventually even the Jargon's meaning will change (i.e. in radio, the meaning of "ham" was origionaly derogatory). If you don't like this, you can try learning a dead language, it will continue to have meaning not influenced by the social enviroment, but you also won't be able to refer to some modern concepts.
Frankly, I'll stick with live languages, and except that a word only means what it is excepted to mean; it has no inherent meaning. If you know what somebody else means when they say a word, use the word as they would use it. If the general public beleives a word has a certain meaning or connotation, don't continue using it to mean something different, or if you do, don't get upset when your statements are misconstrued. This is what language is all about.
Ok, you halfway agree with this, so what's my point? OS X's UI was easy enough for me to figure out how to add a network printer in seconds. I had never done so before, before the iBook the last apple I owned was an Apple IIe. I read no documentation on setting up printers. No, pretty UI's won't fix the inability of some people to understand how computers work, but they CAN make it easy for people who understand the basics to work smoothly with tasks they are not familiar with.
I personaly think this is a hoax (bad day to post this one fella), but if it is not, he could just be looking at his DHCP server's logs or something similar. And if he has his network secured so only certain MAC addresses can even access it, he'd have no problem looking into the database to see what the address he had enabled was.
For those sad neglicted few who havn't seen the movie, it comes out at a consistancy of crude oil mixed with sand. mmmhh Coffee.
Dude! I've drunk 20 cups of coffe at a sitting before, and I'm fine. Hrmm come to think of it it did get up to use the bathroom a couple of times, but it was within a three hour period, what's the halflife of caffeine? (Ah, I love Waffle House)
In the real world there are people beleive all kinds of evils about the USA (a very few are even correct, but that is beside the point). It is not taking a dig at the USA to point out that some people hate them and will take a software solution not finincialy tied with the USA. It is not taking a dig at the USA to say Anti-US sentiment is on the rize. These are varrifiable facts. They SHOULD be recognized, and analyzed. One of the effects of this worldwide change in opinion about the US will be a rise in OSS support. Is this justification for Anti-US sentiments? No. This is simply an analysis of effects of varrified patterns. Don't read into this what is not there.
Never in my life have I seen an ATM with $1 bills. I'm currious, up near Purdue, do most other ATMS allow $1.00 transactions? At most ATMS here in Murfreesboro Tennessee (not to far from Nashville) most ATMS only carry $20 bills, and I only know of one that carries denomonations as low as $5.00, and it has a large sign proudly advertising this fact. (It also has the highest out-of-bank service charg I've seen, $3.00)
Er, I wish I could see my errors when I preview, but no! Everything looks fine, for the record not was supposed to be note.
Try this link And look for the "website" heading, not that the second, most complete date is the access date.
Not sure if this makes me pro-MS or anti, but I refer to Windows XP as their 1.0 version, they finaly have a shipable product. (Now why they've been shipping those pre-alphas as release versions, I'm still not sure)
Sadly, I didn't make any comments in the previous thread, but if I had, I'm sure they would have been wrong. Ok, nothing to see here, move along.
Do you really think that, or is that just the effects of your cat's mind control?
True, but if you sacrificed image quality you could get the 3d effects at the same filesizes. But then, who wants 3d ASCII art porn?
Instead of getting all self righteous and commenting on what was happening, why don't you read the article before commenting on it. If you have to "guess" about what the cop was doing, don't comment it just adds to the noise here on slashdot, like we need more mindless noise. If it is unavailable and you can't read the article, wait a while, someone will have it mirrored shortly I'm sure, that is just as sure a thing on /. as the hippies going on about security and liberty.
And if you read the article you would know his daughter had been the one driving.
Heh, agreed on the W part, wasn't thinking :) (And I still have to think HARD to do morse code) Yes, it will take much longer to send at, the @ is helpful, but not neccicary. Thanks for the correction :)
His daughter was the one driving. (After protesting his arrest, she was arrested too(brutaly according to the writeup, I couldn't see the vidio because server was ./ed before I could load it), charges against her were dropped)
The cops arrest YOU for not showing papers. Wait, I didn't have to reverse it this time, what's going on?
Morse code isn't a binary language (dits and dahs) it is a trinary language, with SPACES. So it wouldn't parse out to: catatatnt.org but to cat at atnt.org which is, so far as I'm concerned perfectly comprehendable. Furthermore, if you don't put the normal space between the a and the t in "at" you have even further shown that it is a seperate character instead of a-t.
My recomendation would be to go with the Fujitsu Lifebook P1000 Ultra-compact notebooks. They will fit in your pocket, yet have a fully-functional keyboard for touch-type notetaking (which is much faster than handwriting). Furthermore, P1000 notebooks include a stilus/touchscreen for tasks that require diagraming or drawing. This device would take the place of a tablet, home PC (if you get an external monitor and arn't an avid gamer) and PDA for an under $1,500 Pricetag. And, if you customize it to the max for battery life, it will last an estimated 10 hours without recharging. That should get you through your classes easily. It has 802.11b, 10/100 wired Networking, USB and PCMCIA to connect to other devices/systems. Most importantly for a college student, (trust me) it weighs less than three pounds (less than some of your textbooks will). It will be easy enough to cary around you won't just leave it in the dorm room (like you might a 15-17" uberlaptop) because it is to heavy to carry along with all your books. This is the only specific system I would recomend for college use (at one time I recomended iBooks as well, but they were, at the time, much cheeper than the P1000).
I don't know, but you've got a much better chance to see the day without sunshine.
Try reading a little more carefully before posting, you might come accross a little better.
Beleive it or not, US law is not applicable outside of the US.