A 'Niche' market with 20 million subscribers? I don't think that word means what you think it means. They are the largest satellite provider in the U.S.
That is not a niche market.
As to content providers and carriers, none of these have enough of both to be fully sustainable except to a small portion of the population. I wouldn't be satisfied with only channels owned by Sony, or Time Warner, etc.
I fully blame the content owners here (Viacom). They are forcing the carriers to buy bundled services for 'crap' channels just to get the premium channels. Hitting the carriers with a 30% increase is crazy as they will in turn just have to pass that off to their customers. The providers do the same thing. If they all went to ala-carte, there would be a huge drop in garbage channels, and the consumer would be better off overall, with the exception of the aforementioned content and carriers since their entire profit model runs off of bundling at this point. They don't produce enough 'good' content to justify the prices that we pay for unless it's bundled with a lot of 'crap' channels to make up for the lack of general quality overall.
I find grammar trolls to beone of the lowest forms of Internet life. The recipient will judge the content and ether won't notice such errors, or they will note them and form their own opinion. Whether the grammar or spelling police point it out is redundant.
Grammar and spelling police seem to thrive on the thrill of pointing out someone else's error while adding nothing of value to a topic.
As to grammar in general, the medium is important. A mistyped tweet sent from a phone is excusable. A formal response from a corporate CEO should always be proofread. However, claiming someone is insulting or dismissive simply because they failed to notice an error is pompous. It implies malice where logically none exists.
No, only the Ron Paul fans fawn over what he says. The rest of us see what the evidence provides and I've seen nothing of substance to prove otherwise. A republican in libertarian shoes. He's all about personal liberty and whatnot, unless it goes against his personal social views, which puts him right in line with the rest of their ilk.
Simply saying everything should be a state right does nothing but turn one system into 50 feudal systems of government, with the citizens being the unfortunate homeowners in each, subject to a new 'ruler' every few years.
True, but I liken these types of discoveries to something similar to a sudoku puzzle. Each 'known' element makes the puzzle easier, and this is a very fundamental clue to the puzzle.
Well considering this can't self-replciate, and you must be duped into opening the zip, then launching the attachment, your statement is true in the scope of this malware. It's a trojan, not a virus.
This is about as nefarious as me sending a batch file to you saying 'run this safe file'.
It is pure social engineering, and has nothing to do with the OS security, other than it targets a Mac. Rather poor social engineering at that, as the message itself appears to be gibberish, with an attachment. The least they could have done is put something that even remotely interested the user into opening the attachment, rather than a random string of alpha characters.
Exactly correct. Space is anything but empty. It's full of gases, high energy particulate matter (dust), etc. Although the concentration of such is much less than you'd find here on planet earth, calling it truly 'empty' is a bit of a stretch.;)
I was always told that space is anything but empty.
What extent of 'empty' does this imply?
Any advance of this nature will set us on the proper track and eliminate 'noise' and better focus research in the right directions. Unlike a very specific discovery along a very specific area of science, this is a fundamental discovery about the way the universe works (the basic building blocks of matter in our universe). The implications are huge with anything from artificial gravity, FTL, advances in dark matter theory, etc. If it's affected by mass, it's on the table.
A good example is gravity. We can map it's properties, theorize as to it's extremes and how it reacts and how things react to it, but we simply don't know how it works (cause) at a very basic level. This is that kind of fundamental discovery. Not a discovery about a new light source, or a new type of fuel, but a fundamental building block of our universe.
I told my parents they should be ashamed. They first wanted to know what pwnd meant and if it involved urination. Then then wanted to know what Remote Management meant and how they get it. They looked for a radio button on the router, but couldn't find any stations they liked to listen to, and when they tried to dial the radio button, the antenna fell off.
They weren't worried about the interwebs though, as they were sure they had a floppy for it in their desk drawer...
Odds are your taxes will go up to support enforcing this program, as will your health insurance costs as they struggle to compete with it.
Given that those who currently cost many times more for health coverage by visiting the emergency room will now have such insurance, the average unexpected costs of health care will actually go down. Other than throwing some unsupported politicized catch phrase out there, why not throw out some supporting arguments or facts?
Given that an insured family shells out an estimated additional $1000 dollars for uninsured patients who visit the emergency room, what do you think willl happen when the majority of those will now be covered?
Remember the number of 'families' in the U.S., multiple that by $1000 each for every family with insurance, and you begin to understand the scope of the unplanned costs that the uninsured add to every responsible persons budget.
I'm floored that the Republicans, who originally championed this idea, were so quick to do an about face simply because it was pushed through by a Democrat. This is a good thing, and necessary to control costs. Anyone who runs a budget or does accounting would always prefer a controlled (known) costs to an unknown cost. it's common sense and makes planning easier, as well as smooths out any financial distress to the system.
Note this is for the base model. The top end gets closer to a conventional combustion vehicle for not much more than a higher end sedan, and the car performs like a high end sorts sedan. This price is actually one of the better ones out there considering its capabilities, and it's capable of traveleling farther than most electrics on the market at the high end (300 miles per charge).
You should check out GOOD for mobile devices. It will create an encrypted sandbox for any corporate data/applications and works on a variety of phones. It also comes with some decent enterprise tools. The drawback is it requires changes to some 'user' plans and that creates headaches if you allow personal devices on corporate networks.
You would rather have the entire financial sector melt down? You thought the recession was unpleasant?
It amazes me that people still question the need for the bailout. We all know it was a necessary evil. Bush was pleading with the GOP to pass it. It was a bitter pill for everyone to swallow. Especially once the funds went in, and the financial sector went right back to what they are doing. The other choice (do nothing) was even worse. Greece is a good example of this.
Claiming some sort of 'socialist' plan here is ingenious at best, and downright wrong at it's worst, but I suspect you know that.
You also seem to forget that President Bush had veto power, but even he with his limited intelligence understood the need.
It took a TARP 2 (and some Democrat bribes) to get enough republicans to side with the Democrats. In other words: The Democrats are the ones who really enjoy handing-out bailouts/corporate welfare ("stimulus").
Lastly, do you seriously believe that anyone 'enjoyed' those bailouts? They were political poison and the 2010 elections shows that. They did what was necessary.
The recipient of such messages is in complete control as to whether or not to acknowledge such messages. Although this might on the surface seem similar to cases where a bartender was held responsible for serving a 'drunk', in this case, the recipient of the messages is in full control of their faculties.
Can't agree more, but any IS Security shop would have concerns about any cloud service, or the ability for employees to easily port data 'outside' of the company LAN/WAN. This is a common sense move, and speaks less about those specific services but rather more about controlling ANY data leaving the company firewalls.
For example, Siri must convert spoken words to text for many queries, which is a concern, just as it would be a concern to allow employees access to social networks, 3rd party email services, and certainly any cloud based service should be a no-no.
You date back a bit farther than me. I think when I entered the workforce, the min. wage was $2.50. Instead of 'Fast Forward', it was 'Fast Food' for me..lol
I wonder if these folks would be shocked to hear that even VCR's had a feature known as 'Fast Forward'. It was a ground breaking function that allowed one to skip content they did not want to see on a recording.
Not sure what I said that deserved this from my above post in it's entirety?
Sony, stood their ground and gave us the VCR and made it so that ungrateful snots like DJRumpy don't even remember that once the media he has been spoonfed since birth wanted to deny him this.
I happen to think this is a rediculous lawsuit. These folks made a recording for personal use, just as we used to 'back in the day' on VCR's, and we also made liberal use of the Forward Fast button.
I think it's pretty fucked up that Fox would ever think it had a right to force you to watch a commercial on a personal recording you made after the fact.
I wonder if these folks would be shocked to hear that even VCR's had a feature known as 'Fast Forward'. It was a ground breaking function that allowed one to skip content they did not want to see on a recording.
Granted you are probably trolling, but a student takes a class knowing full well they will be graded, and expecting such. One doesn't typically have sex, expecting to be taped, and then have it aired in public.
All of which means dick when you are tried as an adult. That's why they have that special protection. You can't tell me this guy didn't realize the mental anguish it would cause his room mate. 'We' didn't seek to ruin his life. He's doing a good enough job of that on his own. He was tried as an adult and found guilty on all 15 charges. A man died as a direct result of this douche bag's actions.
Rates on popular student loans would be barred from doubling as scheduled on July 1 under Republican-authored legislation that the House of Representatives passed Friday – but the change would be funded by slashing money from a fund for disease prevention and public health.
From the Democrat bill:
Republicans oppose the Democratic plan to pay for the bill by forcing high-earning stockholders in some privately owned corporations and professional practices to pay additional Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes. Even if it passed the Senate, it would have no chance of emerging from the Republican-controlled House.
What I see here are those who have already reaped the benefits of an education, and who can certainly afford a minimal increase in their taxes assist those trying to better themselves.
Every GOP sponsored bill has been slash and burn to 'spare' the wealthy from shouldering a burden in this recession, when they are the ones most able to afford it. While poor families are trying to figure out how to eat for the week, the rich would have to decide whether to buy the Rolls, or the Mercedes. It's a fair comparison. The wealth gap between the poor and rich has never been more pronounced. The rich do not need coddling. They need to pay their dues. I'm moderately well off and pay far more than any typical millionaire in taxes, but I understand the need. Without a health lower and middle class, the economy sucks. Jobs are not created in a vacuum. You need customers and those customers are supplied by the low and middle class, not the rich.. You also need an educated workforce to compete in a global industry. If only those able to afford an education could actually get one, we will plummet even further in the global market as there are simply not enough 'rich' folk to make the workforce competitive on a global scale let alone a national scale.
Someone help me out here, but couldn't they observe it directly with earth based telescopes without having to look at a reflected image? Wouldn't a direct observation (albeit through he earths atmosphere) be better in this case?
Because a person can't typically say 'I payed out more money than I took in, so therefore I made a "loss" this year'. A person is billed for any revenue tbey make. It doesn't matter what they spend. The only exceptions are for things like charities.
Not so for a business. They get a free pass on expenditures and balancing their sheet against income.
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A 'Niche' market with 20 million subscribers? I don't think that word means what you think it means. They are the largest satellite provider in the U.S.
That is not a niche market.
As to content providers and carriers, none of these have enough of both to be fully sustainable except to a small portion of the population. I wouldn't be satisfied with only channels owned by Sony, or Time Warner, etc.
I fully blame the content owners here (Viacom). They are forcing the carriers to buy bundled services for 'crap' channels just to get the premium channels. Hitting the carriers with a 30% increase is crazy as they will in turn just have to pass that off to their customers. The providers do the same thing. If they all went to ala-carte, there would be a huge drop in garbage channels, and the consumer would be better off overall, with the exception of the aforementioned content and carriers since their entire profit model runs off of bundling at this point. They don't produce enough 'good' content to justify the prices that we pay for unless it's bundled with a lot of 'crap' channels to make up for the lack of general quality overall.
I find grammar trolls to beone of the lowest forms of Internet life. The recipient will judge the content and ether won't notice such errors, or they will note them and form their own opinion. Whether the grammar or spelling police point it out is redundant.
Grammar and spelling police seem to thrive on the thrill of pointing out someone else's error while adding nothing of value to a topic.
As to grammar in general, the medium is important. A mistyped tweet sent from a phone is excusable. A formal response from a corporate CEO should always be proofread. However, claiming someone is insulting or dismissive simply because they failed to notice an error is pompous. It implies malice where logically none exists.
No, only the Ron Paul fans fawn over what he says. The rest of us see what the evidence provides and I've seen nothing of substance to prove otherwise. A republican in libertarian shoes. He's all about personal liberty and whatnot, unless it goes against his personal social views, which puts him right in line with the rest of their ilk.
Simply saying everything should be a state right does nothing but turn one system into 50 feudal systems of government, with the citizens being the unfortunate homeowners in each, subject to a new 'ruler' every few years.
Not exactly ideal.
True, but I liken these types of discoveries to something similar to a sudoku puzzle. Each 'known' element makes the puzzle easier, and this is a very fundamental clue to the puzzle.
Exciting times.
Well considering this can't self-replciate, and you must be duped into opening the zip, then launching the attachment, your statement is true in the scope of this malware. It's a trojan, not a virus.
This is about as nefarious as me sending a batch file to you saying 'run this safe file'.
It is pure social engineering, and has nothing to do with the OS security, other than it targets a Mac. Rather poor social engineering at that, as the message itself appears to be gibberish, with an attachment. The least they could have done is put something that even remotely interested the user into opening the attachment, rather than a random string of alpha characters.
Hate replying to my own posts, but I meant high energy, particulate matter (dust), etc.
Funny how much emphasis a simple comma adds to a sentence.
Exactly correct. Space is anything but empty. It's full of gases, high energy particulate matter (dust), etc. Although the concentration of such is much less than you'd find here on planet earth, calling it truly 'empty' is a bit of a stretch. ;)
I was always told that space is anything but empty.
What extent of 'empty' does this imply?
Any advance of this nature will set us on the proper track and eliminate 'noise' and better focus research in the right directions. Unlike a very specific discovery along a very specific area of science, this is a fundamental discovery about the way the universe works (the basic building blocks of matter in our universe). The implications are huge with anything from artificial gravity, FTL, advances in dark matter theory, etc. If it's affected by mass, it's on the table.
A good example is gravity. We can map it's properties, theorize as to it's extremes and how it reacts and how things react to it, but we simply don't know how it works (cause) at a very basic level. This is that kind of fundamental discovery. Not a discovery about a new light source, or a new type of fuel, but a fundamental building block of our universe.
I told my parents they should be ashamed. They first wanted to know what pwnd meant and if it involved urination. Then then wanted to know what Remote Management meant and how they get it. They looked for a radio button on the router, but couldn't find any stations they liked to listen to, and when they tried to dial the radio button, the antenna fell off.
They weren't worried about the interwebs though, as they were sure they had a floppy for it in their desk drawer...
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Given that those who currently cost many times more for health coverage by visiting the emergency room will now have such insurance, the average unexpected costs of health care will actually go down. Other than throwing some unsupported politicized catch phrase out there, why not throw out some supporting arguments or facts?
Given that an insured family shells out an estimated additional $1000 dollars for uninsured patients who visit the emergency room, what do you think willl happen when the majority of those will now be covered?
Remember the number of 'families' in the U.S., multiple that by $1000 each for every family with insurance, and you begin to understand the scope of the unplanned costs that the uninsured add to every responsible persons budget.
I'm floored that the Republicans, who originally championed this idea, were so quick to do an about face simply because it was pushed through by a Democrat. This is a good thing, and necessary to control costs. Anyone who runs a budget or does accounting would always prefer a controlled (known) costs to an unknown cost. it's common sense and makes planning easier, as well as smooths out any financial distress to the system.
Note this is for the base model. The top end gets closer to a conventional combustion vehicle for not much more than a higher end sedan, and the car performs like a high end sorts sedan. This price is actually one of the better ones out there considering its capabilities, and it's capable of traveleling farther than most electrics on the market at the high end (300 miles per charge).
0 to 60 times in 5.7 seconds.
Not bad at all...
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You should check out GOOD for mobile devices. It will create an encrypted sandbox for any corporate data/applications and works on a variety of phones. It also comes with some decent enterprise tools. The drawback is it requires changes to some 'user' plans and that creates headaches if you allow personal devices on corporate networks.
You would rather have the entire financial sector melt down? You thought the recession was unpleasant?
It amazes me that people still question the need for the bailout. We all know it was a necessary evil. Bush was pleading with the GOP to pass it. It was a bitter pill for everyone to swallow. Especially once the funds went in, and the financial sector went right back to what they are doing. The other choice (do nothing) was even worse. Greece is a good example of this.
Claiming some sort of 'socialist' plan here is ingenious at best, and downright wrong at it's worst, but I suspect you know that.
You also seem to forget that President Bush had veto power, but even he with his limited intelligence understood the need.
Lastly, do you seriously believe that anyone 'enjoyed' those bailouts? They were political poison and the 2010 elections shows that. They did what was necessary.
The recipient of such messages is in complete control as to whether or not to acknowledge such messages. Although this might on the surface seem similar to cases where a bartender was held responsible for serving a 'drunk', in this case, the recipient of the messages is in full control of their faculties.
Can't agree more, but any IS Security shop would have concerns about any cloud service, or the ability for employees to easily port data 'outside' of the company LAN/WAN. This is a common sense move, and speaks less about those specific services but rather more about controlling ANY data leaving the company firewalls.
For example, Siri must convert spoken words to text for many queries, which is a concern, just as it would be a concern to allow employees access to social networks, 3rd party email services, and certainly any cloud based service should be a no-no.
You date back a bit farther than me. I think when I entered the workforce, the min. wage was $2.50. Instead of 'Fast Forward', it was 'Fast Food' for me..lol
Did I forget my /Sarcasm tags?
Not sure what I said that deserved this from my above post in it's entirety?
I happen to think this is a rediculous lawsuit. These folks made a recording for personal use, just as we used to 'back in the day' on VCR's, and we also made liberal use of the Forward Fast button.
I think it's pretty fucked up that Fox would ever think it had a right to force you to watch a commercial on a personal recording you made after the fact.
I wonder if these folks would be shocked to hear that even VCR's had a feature known as 'Fast Forward'. It was a ground breaking function that allowed one to skip content they did not want to see on a recording.
Granted you are probably trolling, but a student takes a class knowing full well they will be graded, and expecting such. One doesn't typically have sex, expecting to be taped, and then have it aired in public.
Hopefully you can see the difference?
All of which means dick when you are tried as an adult. That's why they have that special protection. You can't tell me this guy didn't realize the mental anguish it would cause his room mate. 'We' didn't seek to ruin his life. He's doing a good enough job of that on his own. He was tried as an adult and found guilty on all 15 charges. A man died as a direct result of this douche bag's actions.
This is just wrong.
Don't some big party apps from Amazon require this setting to be turned off?
Of the two I prefer the dem bill.
From the House passed Republican bill:
From the Democrat bill:
What I see here are those who have already reaped the benefits of an education, and who can certainly afford a minimal increase in their taxes assist those trying to better themselves.
Every GOP sponsored bill has been slash and burn to 'spare' the wealthy from shouldering a burden in this recession, when they are the ones most able to afford it. While poor families are trying to figure out how to eat for the week, the rich would have to decide whether to buy the Rolls, or the Mercedes. It's a fair comparison. The wealth gap between the poor and rich has never been more pronounced. The rich do not need coddling. They need to pay their dues. I'm moderately well off and pay far more than any typical millionaire in taxes, but I understand the need. Without a health lower and middle class, the economy sucks. Jobs are not created in a vacuum. You need customers and those customers are supplied by the low and middle class, not the rich.. You also need an educated workforce to compete in a global industry. If only those able to afford an education could actually get one, we will plummet even further in the global market as there are simply not enough 'rich' folk to make the workforce competitive on a global scale let alone a national scale.
Someone help me out here, but couldn't they observe it directly with earth based telescopes without having to look at a reflected image? Wouldn't a direct observation (albeit through he earths atmosphere) be better in this case?
Because a person can't typically say 'I payed out more money than I took in, so therefore I made a "loss" this year'. A person is billed for any revenue tbey make. It doesn't matter what they spend. The only exceptions are for things like charities.
Not so for a business. They get a free pass on expenditures and balancing their sheet against income.
Did you read the article?