From Wired: But the campaign claims to be very close to securing $3 million from three anonymous donors who helped fund a commercial space flight venture.
Doesn't sound very anonymous to me:-)
And apatently the money has been pledged but since it is not "legally" obligated, (he could take it back) the total can not be added to the counter. More details....
Its apples to oranges, the replay value of a 40 minute show is far less than a 3 minute song. and with p2p networks bandwith is free( to the distubuter) They won't change the model until they stop thinking they will make more money the way they do now.
For this to change, Advertisers have to stop being willing to spend more than $1 per eyeball per show. The number of PVR/TIVOs out there is still like 1 or 2% of the market, the advertisers still think adds work. ( most people are idiots and still watch ads)
You could be right. I get UPN on cable in the NYC area. It's OK, but none of my cable is noise free. I used to D/L the BT just for the better quality until I Got a DMCA letter from my ISP in response to a complaint from BayTSP
I do have my mpeg encoder (nvrec) crash from time to time, Can it really be related to noise?? It always seemed to me that some channels had more crashes than others.
I don't know if it's totally his fault, or if it's writers who feel that if we have seen an alien before the story line is suddenly boring. Some of the best TNG and DS9 , dealt with long story arcs with recurring characters. One of the biggest problems with voyager was that they really shouldn't have been encountering any of the same people.
This season they are finally doing that with Romulans, the "augments" and other topics that all fans understand automatically.
The problem is that each of these series has had problems in the start. It seems to take Star Trek programs a long time to find their groove. This season they finally got it. They have started doing episodes that embrace the "history" of Star Trek but and I feel are well written. It would be sad to let it die now.
I believe a major part of the problem right now is that they insist on running it on Friday night when even geeks have something else to do. Just putting It in a better time slot would improve the ratings.
They probably aren't doing a good job of selling the market. Yea "girlfriends" gets better ratings. But the disposable income numbers have to be better for the enterprise audience.
And as bad as Ratings are for enterprise It's still doing better than average for UPN programs: No.6 UPN 1.1 No.6 UPN 2,920,000
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This is perhaps the best explanation of what is wrong with the current copyright laws I have seen to date. I'm going to show this text to several people I argue with about this issue, and I have faith that I may finally make the point.
The one thing that I would add is that in these modern times, when information is global, copyright lengths should be getting shorter, not longer. In ~1790 they thought 14 years with a renewable 14 years was enough time to extract value from a copyrighted work for the author.
Today, 5 years is probably too much, but I would gladly settle for 20. 75/100 years doesn't "promote the Progress". It's only about building profit. There is no "balance of rights" here. The current system gives no rights to the public.
I'm pretty sure that they just felt better about the margins. They always Shut down the Earth to Moon booster (stage 3 ) with some feul left in it. they probably just were willing to run it closer and closer to empty once they had real data on how it behaved. ( and this data matched what they expected)
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Either 12 or 17 ( the last ) was the finest moment.
Apollo 12 landed just a few hundred yards from a previous unmanned probe. So close that they walked to it and took samples from it.
It's not a great solution, but you can list your ISP (s) in the SPF records. This way you can still send mail "from" your domain name, and have it delivered by your ISP.
The real problem is compliance, until 99% of mail servers provide this data, I can't reject mail from non SPF listed domains.
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The problem with that is that if it's new content google won't have it yet. Freecache could be a good way of surviving a/.ing , but the problem ( as with all caches) is that the server then doesn't get a accurate count of hits. This matters to some people, particularly people who advertise.
The cool thing here is that you can say, "Cache just these things" and still have your server supply the html but not the images (or movies).
I don't have a link, but I recall reading ( I think it was a FAQ from HBO's Earth to moon series) that the atmosphere limits image resolution to a point that it isn't possible to get an image from a land based telescope that will show the decent modules and lunar rovers left on the moon.
I also suspect that orbiting telescopes can't be configured to focus so close. ( like trying to use binoculars to look at your hand)
It does leave me wounding just how powerful the laser must be to be scattered by the atmosphere on the way up and the way back and still be visible.
I'd have to dispure that, because with a minimum speed needed for orbit of 17,000mph the difference of a few hundred mph isn't going to save you so much.
One of the big saveings is being able to start you trip where the air is thin. I'd like to see somebody try this with weather ballons.
Are you kidding ?? Lots of those stores Re-Shrink wrap stuff and put it on the Shelves.
I had an experience with a Walmart that sold me a VERY BADLY scratched DVD which was in shrink wrap.
When I went to return it, they noticed that the package had an original "k-mart" price tag on it. SO it became apparent, that somebody got it at another store, returned it to Walmart and they must have shrunk wrapped it and stocked it.
Lucky for me, Walmart has lose policy with regard to this stuff. They credited my card. But many stores would have made me exchange it for another.
Want to guess if they sold that damaged disk to somebody else ?? ( it played through the first few minutes, but no longer)
There's no way microbes could survive in space - how would they live?
Apollo 12 brought back pieces of the surveyor probe that had living microbes on them. These were left by improper decontamination of the probe before it left earth.
In that case, I believe the microbes were dormant while they stayed on the moon for ~18 months. With Mir, the "space fungus" is supposed to be active. I don't know what it's living on, probably something in the metal or some such.
but, clearly, whatever it was, it most likely came from earth. No big deal to return it there.
Do you have ANY clue how much power it would take to get something so big out of earth orbit. I don't have numbers but clearly the thing is several times larger than the largest objects ever tossed our of Earth Orbit. (Apollo Command Modules and Lunar Modules)
Are you suggesting that the current space budgets be hacked up even more to pay for a couple of Saturn Vs (Billions in today's dollars) to perform this task.
It would probably be cheaper to send 10 or so shuttle missions up to bring it down in pieces.. and I'll bet some of the pieces wouldn't fit in the shuttle bay.
besides, the bacteria was on the outside, which probably reaches autoclave temperatures on the way down. I doubt much could survive that.
I was sure it wouldn't, and I just checked to prove it to myself, but shockingly. It worked.
Now, it's clearly not the best solution, I'd like to see platform independent players for all the media formats, and lacking that I'd like to see people stop using formats that are platform specific.
Also, My system is dual-boot, not sure how well it would work on a system where wine doesn't have a real c:\windows directory to call out to.
When I discover stuff like this, I find myself having to reboot less and less......
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according to the docs, the root password is: machtNix
;-(
But by the time I found that they took it off line. ( probably due to the slashdotting ) so I can't test it.
From Wired:
:-)
But the campaign claims to be very close to securing $3 million from three anonymous donors who helped fund a commercial space flight venture.
Doesn't sound very anonymous to me
And apatently the money has been pledged but since it is not "legally" obligated, (he could take it back) the total can not be added to the counter.
More details....
Its apples to oranges, the replay value of a 40 minute show is far less than a 3 minute song. and with p2p networks bandwith is free( to the distubuter) They won't change the model until they stop thinking they will make more money the way they do now.
For this to change, Advertisers have to stop being willing to spend more than $1 per eyeball per show. The number of PVR/TIVOs out there is still like 1 or 2% of the market, the advertisers still think adds work. ( most people are idiots and still watch ads)
That is what has to change first
Thanks, Just ordered it.
What book is that? Sounds interesting.
You could be right. I get UPN on cable in the NYC area. It's OK, but none of my cable is noise free. I used to D/L the BT just for the better quality until I Got a DMCA letter from my ISP in response to a complaint from BayTSP
I do have my mpeg encoder (nvrec) crash from time to time, Can it really be related to noise?? It always seemed to me that some channels had more crashes than others.
I don't know if it's totally his fault, or if it's writers who feel that if we have seen an alien before the story line is suddenly boring. Some of the best TNG and DS9 , dealt with long story arcs with recurring characters. One of the biggest problems with voyager was that they really shouldn't have been encountering any of the same people.
This season they are finally doing that with Romulans, the "augments" and other topics that all fans understand automatically.
The problem is that each of these series has had problems in the start. It seems to take Star Trek programs a long time to find their groove. This season they finally got it. They have started doing episodes that embrace the "history" of Star Trek but and I feel are well written. It would be sad to let it die now.
But 3000 times perhaps a bit more than $12 could easily make up for not the whole cost but the shortfall.
And they won't do it, but they could make it more attractive by selling these producers coupons to apply towards DVD purchases.
Shows are often canceled when they shouldn't be.
I believe a major part of the problem right now is that they insist on running it on Friday night when even geeks have something else to do. Just putting It in a better time slot would improve the ratings.
They probably aren't doing a good job of selling the market. Yea "girlfriends" gets better ratings. But the disposable income numbers have to be better for the enterprise audience.
And as bad as Ratings are for enterprise It's still doing better than average for UPN programs: No.6 UPN 1.1 No.6 UPN 2,920,000
This is perhaps the best explanation of what is wrong with the current copyright laws I have seen to date. I'm going to show this text to several people I argue with about this issue, and I have faith that I may finally make the point.
The one thing that I would add is that in these modern times, when information is global, copyright lengths should be getting shorter, not longer. In ~1790 they thought 14 years with a renewable 14 years was enough time to extract value from a copyrighted work for the author.
Today, 5 years is probably too much, but I would gladly settle for 20. 75/100 years doesn't "promote the Progress". It's only about building profit. There is no "balance of rights" here. The current system gives no rights to the public.
why does the XP machine at work bluescreen when I plug in my USB keychain in it at boot, but not while it is already running
That's the hardware trying to boot from the USB device. Can't really blame that on M$.
Tiger direct sells lots of them. This is whare I get all of mine.
But in that case the same person wouldn't get to be prosecutor, judge and jury. That's the most offensive part of this action.
I'm pretty sure that they just felt better about the margins. They always Shut down the Earth to Moon booster (stage 3 ) with some feul left in it. they probably just were willing to run it closer and closer to empty once they had real data on how it behaved. ( and this data matched what they expected)
Either 12 or 17 ( the last ) was the finest moment. Apollo 12 landed just a few hundred yards from a previous unmanned probe. So close that they walked to it and took samples from it.
( image of both spacecraft)
This proved once and for all that they could land the spacecraft on target. That was quite an achievement.
It's not a great solution, but you can list your ISP (s) in the SPF records. This way you can still send mail "from" your domain name, and have it delivered by your ISP.
The real problem is compliance, until 99% of mail servers provide this data, I can't reject mail from non SPF listed domains.
The problem with that is that if it's new content google won't have it yet. Freecache could be a good way of surviving a /.ing , but the problem ( as with all caches) is that the server then doesn't get a accurate count of hits. This matters to some people, particularly people who advertise.
The cool thing here is that you can say, "Cache just these things" and still have your server supply the html but not the images (or movies).
But you still have to have a decent pipe.
I don't have a link, but I recall reading ( I think it was a FAQ from HBO's Earth to moon series) that the atmosphere limits image resolution to a point that it isn't possible to get an image from a land based telescope that will show the decent modules and lunar rovers left on the moon.
I also suspect that orbiting telescopes can't be configured to focus so close. ( like trying to use binoculars to look at your hand)
It does leave me wounding just how powerful the laser must be to be scattered by the atmosphere on the way up and the way back and still be visible.
I'd have to dispure that, because with a minimum speed needed for orbit of 17,000mph the difference of a few hundred mph isn't going to save you so much.
One of the big saveings is being able to start you trip where the air is thin. I'd like to see somebody try this with weather ballons.
Are you kidding ?? Lots of those stores Re-Shrink wrap stuff and put it on the Shelves.
I had an experience with a Walmart that sold me a VERY BADLY scratched DVD which was in shrink wrap.
When I went to return it, they noticed that the package had an original "k-mart" price tag on it. SO it became apparent, that somebody got it at another store, returned it to Walmart and they must have shrunk wrapped it and stocked it.
Lucky for me, Walmart has lose policy with regard to this stuff. They credited my card. But many stores would have made me exchange it for another.
Want to guess if they sold that damaged disk to somebody else ?? ( it played through the first few minutes, but no longer)
Your correct, of course.
so it would cost even more.
There's no way microbes could survive in space - how would they live?
Apollo 12 brought back pieces of the surveyor probe that had living microbes on them. These were left by improper decontamination of the probe before it left earth.
In that case, I believe the microbes were dormant while they stayed on the moon for ~18 months. With Mir, the "space fungus" is supposed to be active. I don't know what it's living on, probably something in the metal or some such.
but, clearly, whatever it was, it most likely came from earth. No big deal to return it there.
Do you have ANY clue how much power it would take to get something so big out of earth orbit. I don't have numbers but clearly the thing is several times larger than the largest objects ever tossed our of Earth Orbit. (Apollo Command Modules and Lunar Modules)
Are you suggesting that the current space budgets be hacked up even more to pay for a couple of Saturn Vs (Billions in today's dollars) to perform this task.
It would probably be cheaper to send 10 or so shuttle missions up to bring it down in pieces.. and I'll bet some of the pieces wouldn't fit in the shuttle bay.
besides, the bacteria was on the outside, which probably reaches autoclave temperatures on the way down. I doubt much could survive that.
I was sure it wouldn't, and I just checked to prove it to myself, but shockingly. It worked.
Now, it's clearly not the best solution, I'd like to see platform independent players for all the media formats, and lacking that I'd like to see people stop using formats that are platform specific.
Also, My system is dual-boot, not sure how well it would work on a system where wine doesn't have a real c:\windows directory to call out to.
When I discover stuff like this, I find myself having to reboot less and less......