My DSL provider has Verizon Internet Security Suite, but it doesn't appear to be free. Looks like it would cost me 5 dollars extra each month. If I had chosen one of the "portals" like Yahoo I'd get Norton, or MSN/AOL to get Mcafee but unfortnately I didn't.
Maybe the courts should start charging 0.1 million per lawsuit to these corporations, in order to offset the added expense of operations (and also pay down the debt).
Of course fees for individuals would remain the same, so the rest of us can afford it.
I'm sure there will be plenty of nonsense when you graduate circa 2015.
By that point you'll probably have TV broadcasters suing Google, Apple, etc over interference caused by their TV Band/whitespace devices. You'll have these same companies suing to gain control of channels 26 and up for cellphones. Meanwhile Apple will be suing some clone maker who is selling an ePhone - basically a clone of the iPhone. Also that new open source project that mimics OS X 10.10 (Whine). RIAA/MPAA will be suing people bittorrenting to their cellphones. The customers will be suing to raise the 100 GB caps off their homes so they can watch hulu.com, while Comcast/Cox/etc will be suing to block hulu.com from airing programs that Comcast/Cox/etc funded (billions in fees to USA, TNT,ETC) and they consider their exclusive property.
And Microsoft will be getting sued by all of them (per usual).
PBS costs just over $1 per US household. Not as bas as $200-something, but I'd like to see that eliminated. Let PBS convert to an advertiser model, with the adds in the last 10 minutes of the hour..... ya know, like they do now.
Not really. Advertising boosts sales, which means the manufacturing cost per item drops, so the net result is a price drop. If advertising were forbidden, then you'd see the opposite - sales drop and per-item prices would climb to offset the loss.
Bottom Line - Are goods in the UK any cheaper, thanks to the commercial free BBC and other channels? Nope. If anything they are often higher than the US pricetags.
And maybe we won't. Ever wonder why we've never visited by aliens? (And I mean an actual visit, with hand-shaking or gun-shooting, not some drunken redneck staring at weather balloons or lights.)
Maybe it's because the gap across stars is too large to cross, and there's simply no science to bridge the distance. Take Star Trek for example. Completely unrealistic. That one scientist says, "...develop a matter-antimatter drive, and can figure out how to bring along 530 times as much mass in fuel as is contained in the ship and cargo itself." Clearly the enterprise doesn't carry around a fuel tank 500 times itself in size. Instead they run on magic (the fuel never runs out).
Maybe there is NO science that would allow humans/aliens to cross interstellar space within said species existence. Maybe they're quite literally trapped.
Ads in theaters? I agree they are annoying, but ads elsewhere are fine with me. They are what allow me to watch TV or watch the internet or listen to the radio w/o bankrupting myself. i.e. Ads provide free entertainment for poor and middle class citizens
Ads are also what allowed the 1996 Atlanta and 2002 Salt Lake games to be the only Olympics to *make a profit* rather than leave the host city deep in debt. The profit was then donated to various athletic organizations
>>>Either the cable provider should pay for the privilege of letting their customers watch TV shows. They can pay by charging customers.
This is what happens. The average cable channel charges Comcast or Cox or Whoever about 50 cents per household (the lowest price is nothing for shopping channels and 85 cents for TNT and 2.50 for ESPN). HOWEVER the cable channels also run 40 or 45 minute shows with gaps for ads, so the cable channel sticks commercials in there for extra funds.
All of that money goes towards buying the reruns, plus 3-4 original self-made programs like Monk, Greek, Stargate, and so on. If either the fees or the ads were removed, then the originals would have to be canceled due to lack of money.
>>>In glorious soviet UK, we have four major TV channels... $230
No offense but Ick. I pay $0.00 a year and get about 40 channels. Eight of them... PBS, PBSarts, PBSkids, PBSworld, PBSinfo, MiND, Link, Megahertz... are commercial free. The rest have ads but it's easy enough to ignore them (goto bathroom, goto slashdot.org, or fast forward). Our Radio is free too - see the link below.
Also we won't have cops banging on our doors and demanding that $230, or else dragging us off to jail. (No I'm not trolling - that is what happens if you refuse to pay the BBC Tax.)
I haven't been in a regular big movie theater in probably 7-8 years - the damned effort of having to take a bath and get dressed drove me away. Bittorrent is easier. Download at night and watch tomorrow.
is pleased that Microsoft Exploder dropped below 50% share. It hasn't been that low since 1998 (when Mozilla Netscape was on top)
# 2 Mozilla Firefox # 3 Google Chrome # 4 Apple Safari # 5 Opera browser # 6 Amiga Origyn
Okay I made that last one up.;-) And to answer your question: Lots of people still use IE 6 or 7. Last I heard it's around 60% of all MS Exploder users? Like me unfortunately, because it's the only thing that works with AOL Dialup or my workplace apps.
70? Wow that's impressive. Got a list somewhere I can go look them up? I thought DVT-T only had four multiplexes, and each multiplex could only carry 5-6 TV channels.
- not in cellphones but other areas. Like DAB radio and DVB television that has limited space, and therefore allows governments to block people from setting-up their own private stations. For example you probably won't find TBN over there (a small religious broadcaster) or MINDtv (independent liberal station) or Rush Limbaugh Show (talk jock) or Megahertz (retransmits news from China, Russia, India, and so on). Because there's not enough space on the multiplex, they are "disapproved" from both DAB or DVB.
So for every advantage the EU has, it also has some disadvantages too. Lock-out.
>>>against authoritarian control - do not buy the offending company's product.
That's what I do. I don't buy Apple or Microsoft or Comcast or another other product I don't need (or can get free). Unfortunately that's won me the label "cheapass". I wonder if the time will come when not buying will be considered unpatriotic.
Darn it's in Russian. Well basically it's a Sci-Fi Channel episode of Sliders where everyone is a number and no one talks to real people, except through online chat rooms. You can not do anything but what Data Universal (equivalent to Google) let's you do and based upon your Google-determined preferences.
Let's keep the cash and credit cards separate from the people that have ~100,000 pieces of data about us.
>>>I bought the iPhone because I know they are controlling the user experience. I'm greatly enjoying my user experience on my iOS devices. I feel like I got what I paid for, and am likely to get more apple products in the future. >>>
Fahrenheit 451 is the kindling point for books. What is it for bullshit?
In my experience they are usually inferior in appearance. Plus bitmaps can get pretty damn small (I just mailed off a Penn & Teller episode at 10 megabytes). GIFs and JPGS can be squeezed to just a few K. I'm confused why you'd say vectors are simpler.
>>>I got rid of my cable feed because I found that I was only watching a couple channels --
Ditto. I used to like history and animal planet, but neither is as good as they used to be (History isn't history anymore). So the only channel I was still watching was Sci-Fi and I could stream those shows off hulu, or buy on DVD for much cheaper, so why pay ~$800/year to Comsucks?
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My DSL provider has Verizon Internet Security Suite, but it doesn't appear to be free. Looks like it would cost me 5 dollars extra each month.
If I had chosen one of the "portals" like Yahoo I'd get Norton, or MSN/AOL to get Mcafee but unfortnately I didn't.
Would ye two guys still feel the same way if it was YOU who was cutoff, and it turns-out you've an infection you don't know how to get rid of?
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Maybe the courts should start charging 0.1 million per lawsuit to these corporations, in order to offset the added expense of operations (and also pay down the debt).
Of course fees for individuals would remain the same, so the rest of us can afford it.
I'm sure there will be plenty of nonsense when you graduate circa 2015.
By that point you'll probably have TV broadcasters suing Google, Apple, etc over interference caused by their TV Band/whitespace devices. You'll have these same companies suing to gain control of channels 26 and up for cellphones. Meanwhile Apple will be suing some clone maker who is selling an ePhone - basically a clone of the iPhone. Also that new open source project that mimics OS X 10.10 (Whine). RIAA/MPAA will be suing people bittorrenting to their cellphones. The customers will be suing to raise the 100 GB caps off their homes so they can watch hulu.com, while Comcast/Cox/etc will be suing to block hulu.com from airing programs that Comcast/Cox/etc funded (billions in fees to USA, TNT,ETC) and they consider their exclusive property.
And Microsoft will be getting sued by all of them (per usual).
Oh yeah.
PBS costs just over $1 per US household. Not as bas as $200-something, but I'd like to see that eliminated. Let PBS convert to an advertiser model, with the adds in the last 10 minutes of the hour..... ya know, like they do now.
Not really. Advertising boosts sales, which means the manufacturing cost per item drops, so the net result is a price drop.
If advertising were forbidden, then you'd see the opposite - sales drop and per-item prices would climb to offset the loss.
Bottom Line - Are goods in the UK any cheaper, thanks to the commercial free BBC and other channels? Nope. If anything they are often higher than the US pricetags.
And maybe we won't. Ever wonder why we've never visited by aliens? (And I mean an actual visit, with hand-shaking or gun-shooting, not some drunken redneck staring at weather balloons or lights.)
Maybe it's because the gap across stars is too large to cross, and there's simply no science to bridge the distance. Take Star Trek for example. Completely unrealistic. That one scientist says, "...develop a matter-antimatter drive, and can figure out how to bring along 530 times as much mass in fuel as is contained in the ship and cargo itself." Clearly the enterprise doesn't carry around a fuel tank 500 times itself in size. Instead they run on magic (the fuel never runs out).
Maybe there is NO science that would allow humans/aliens to cross interstellar space within said species existence. Maybe they're quite literally trapped.
Not really. (1) I don't by anything advertised. (2) Advertising drives down prices because as more people buy the item, its per item cost drops.
I like commercials.
Ads in theaters? I agree they are annoying, but ads elsewhere are fine with me. They are what allow me to watch TV or watch the internet or listen to the radio w/o bankrupting myself. i.e. Ads provide free entertainment for poor and middle class citizens
Ads are also what allowed the 1996 Atlanta and 2002 Salt Lake games to be the only Olympics to *make a profit* rather than leave the host city deep in debt. The profit was then donated to various athletic organizations
>>>Either the cable provider should pay for the privilege of letting their customers watch TV shows. They can pay by charging customers.
This is what happens. The average cable channel charges Comcast or Cox or Whoever about 50 cents per household (the lowest price is nothing for shopping channels and 85 cents for TNT and 2.50 for ESPN). HOWEVER the cable channels also run 40 or 45 minute shows with gaps for ads, so the cable channel sticks commercials in there for extra funds.
All of that money goes towards buying the reruns, plus 3-4 original self-made programs like Monk, Greek, Stargate, and so on. If either the fees or the ads were removed, then the originals would have to be canceled due to lack of money.
>>>In glorious soviet UK, we have four major TV channels... $230
No offense but Ick. I pay $0.00 a year and get about 40 channels. Eight of them... PBS, PBSarts, PBSkids, PBSworld, PBSinfo, MiND, Link, Megahertz... are commercial free. The rest have ads but it's easy enough to ignore them (goto bathroom, goto slashdot.org, or fast forward).
Our Radio is free too - see the link below.
Also we won't have cops banging on our doors and demanding that $230, or else dragging us off to jail. (No I'm not trolling - that is what happens if you refuse to pay the BBC Tax.)
I haven't been in a regular big movie theater in probably 7-8 years - the damned effort of having to take a bath and get dressed drove me away. Bittorrent is easier. Download at night and watch tomorrow.
Not really. IE9 will run on the old Vista PCs his family might own.
I love this image (a Fox eating the "e" logo)
http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w197/julianoeb/viva_firefox_eats_ie.jpg
is pleased that Microsoft Exploder dropped below 50% share. It hasn't been that low since 1998 (when Mozilla Netscape was on top)
# 2 Mozilla Firefox
# 3 Google Chrome
# 4 Apple Safari
# 5 Opera browser
# 6 Amiga Origyn
Okay I made that last one up. ;-) And to answer your question: Lots of people still use IE 6 or 7. Last I heard it's around 60% of all MS Exploder users? Like me unfortunately, because it's the only thing that works with AOL Dialup or my workplace apps.
How do vector graphics reduce space?
GIFs and JPGS can be squeezed to just a few K. I'm confused why you'd say vectors are simpler.
70? Wow that's impressive. Got a list somewhere I can go look them up? I thought DVT-T only had four multiplexes, and each multiplex could only carry 5-6 TV channels.
Most USians get about 20 channels.
Europe has its own lock-in problems
- not in cellphones but other areas. Like DAB radio and DVB television that has limited space, and therefore allows governments to block people from setting-up their own private stations. For example you probably won't find TBN over there (a small religious broadcaster) or MINDtv (independent liberal station) or Rush Limbaugh Show (talk jock) or Megahertz (retransmits news from China, Russia, India, and so on). Because there's not enough space on the multiplex, they are "disapproved" from both DAB or DVB.
So for every advantage the EU has, it also has some disadvantages too. Lock-out.
>>>against authoritarian control - do not buy the offending company's product.
That's what I do. I don't buy Apple or Microsoft or Comcast or another other product I don't need (or can get free). Unfortunately that's won me the label "cheapass". I wonder if the time will come when not buying will be considered unpatriotic.
>>>because in the future the phone will be my credit card
Oh man, I hope not. Otherwise this is the future we'll be facing: http://video.yandex.ru/users/sotniko-aleksand/view/142/
Darn it's in Russian. Well basically it's a Sci-Fi Channel episode of Sliders where everyone is a number and no one talks to real people, except through online chat rooms. You can not do anything but what Data Universal (equivalent to Google) let's you do and based upon your Google-determined preferences.
Let's keep the cash and credit cards separate from the people that have ~100,000 pieces of data about us.
>>>I bought the iPhone because I know they are controlling the user experience. I'm greatly enjoying my user experience on my iOS devices. I feel like I got what I paid for, and am likely to get more apple products in the future.
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Fahrenheit 451 is the kindling point for books.
What is it for bullshit?
Mod Robert Gilbert - 1 Troll for attacking apple.
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joking
This past weekend I got to see all kinds of baseball and football games over Free TV. The cable channels haven't locked them all up
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How do vector graphics reduce space?
In my experience they are usually inferior in appearance. Plus bitmaps can get pretty damn small (I just mailed off a Penn & Teller episode at 10 megabytes). GIFs and JPGS can be squeezed to just a few K. I'm confused why you'd say vectors are simpler.
>>>I got rid of my cable feed because I found that I was only watching a couple channels --
Ditto. I used to like history and animal planet, but neither is as good as they used to be (History isn't history anymore). So the only channel I was still watching was Sci-Fi and I could stream those shows off hulu, or buy on DVD for much cheaper, so why pay ~$800/year to Comsucks?