Wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it. I'm sure eventually they'll come out with cameras that aren't fooled. And my first thought at that was, good, make the 'em spend money buying new equipment. Then I realized whose money it is they will be spending.
No, because this is only Viacom. All programmers continually pull this shit. The only solution is to start paring the number of channels. The programmers anticipate this and keep large groups of channels together in all-or-nothing packages. The same things people bitch about the cable or satellite companies doing are the same things the programmers do to the providers. Providers need to start holding their ground on these things and be willing to permanently give up certain channels if necessary.
Well, it's hard to compete with free. But (if I were in the carriers' position) I would stress the privacy/advertising/data mining issues, and try to appeal to people who have no facebook account an no interest in getting one. And lower the prices... I think the gravy train for them is nearing the end for SMS messages. So at least facebook is a positive in that regard. Anyway, wouldn't Twitter be more along the lines of direct competition?
Not if the service worked the way it should. While actual calls should be done peer-to-peer, things like requests for information, call setup/teardown, etc should be handled by Skype's servers, not exposing the IP of another user until a call has been established.
They will keep putting forward bill after bill, chipping away privacy rights a little at a time if necessary. Any setback is merely temporary for them. Time (and money) is on their side.
What someone should be doing is introducing legislation that enumerates, codifies, and protects specific rights and expectations of privacy that citizens have, and then work the anti-terrorist/copying/IP laws around that framework. (I know, we shouldn't need to do this, but it's our system apparently.) This is bass-ackwards.
I don't understand much about particle physics, but perhaps someone could give a quick explanation of how a particle made of three quarks has a mass equivalent to an entire atom of atomic number 3 and atomic weight almost 7? Is it because a bottom quark is one of its constituents?
I think what surprises him (and me too, frankly) is that when the PS3 if powered 'off', it's not really off, merely in more of a sleep state. There are still active parts of the machine doing things like keeping the little red LED lit on the front, the bluetooth circuitry is active waiting for someone to hit the power button on a controller, etc. There really is no reason that they couldn't keep the USB ports powered up as well. I've often left my PS3 on overnight to charge the controllers, and then forgot to turn it off for several more days afterward.
I think one of the real culprits here is code, OS, and library bloat that causes boot times on consumer devices to be in the seconds or 10's of seconds from a cold start. Even my TV takes about 5-10 seconds after I hit power before I can actually watch anything. The lazy way to mitigate this is to not ever really power down, but just appear to. There really is no excuse to take this long to boot into what should be a minimal OS from flash memory. This laziness costs consumers cold hard cash, albeit over months and years.
Do they understand what this would do to the price of gold (not to mention platinum and palladium)? Most of the gold bugs make themselves feel good about their investment with the mantra 'you can't print gold.' It's trading in the stratosphere as it is, and the Wolfram Alpha link in TFS uses the current commodity price of gold.
No, but it could answer the question of how life managed to arise here on earth in a relatively short period of time, and would also exponentially expand the potential area we consider when we think about places that could have been suitable, both chemically and environmentally.
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so... what happened
A stack overflow.
I would have to agree. It also doesn't hurt that you can tether on their network for free, and there's really not a whole hell of a lot they can do about it.
It demonstrates how it uses a cheap, plentiful materials (unlike Lithium).
Or just use the Corporate BS Generator.
Or, alternatively, here.
Kind of reminds me of the Saga of Seven Suns series of books by Kevin J Anderson.
Picture of subjects face. Yeah, that makes more sense than what I was thinking (detached head).
Wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it. I'm sure eventually they'll come out with cameras that aren't fooled. And my first thought at that was, good, make the 'em spend money buying new equipment. Then I realized whose money it is they will be spending.
No, because this is only Viacom. All programmers continually pull this shit. The only solution is to start paring the number of channels. The programmers anticipate this and keep large groups of channels together in all-or-nothing packages. The same things people bitch about the cable or satellite companies doing are the same things the programmers do to the providers. Providers need to start holding their ground on these things and be willing to permanently give up certain channels if necessary.
230*24*365=2,014,800. TFS says they the industry responded to 1.3M. Can they possibly have that many pending? Where are Verizon's stats?
Link for anyone that didn't hear about this.
And immune to viruses, too.
And is still used there.
I would assume the employees are working in multiple shifts, in other words, not all 35,800 are in the building at the same time.
Isn't cyberterrorism a threat? That way we can worry about it all at the same time, which is really more efficient don't ya know.
Well, it's hard to compete with free. But (if I were in the carriers' position) I would stress the privacy/advertising/data mining issues, and try to appeal to people who have no facebook account an no interest in getting one. And lower the prices ... I think the gravy train for them is nearing the end for SMS messages. So at least facebook is a positive in that regard. Anyway, wouldn't Twitter be more along the lines of direct competition?
Not if the service worked the way it should. While actual calls should be done peer-to-peer, things like requests for information, call setup/teardown, etc should be handled by Skype's servers, not exposing the IP of another user until a call has been established.
Either that, or just dial *67 first...
They will keep putting forward bill after bill, chipping away privacy rights a little at a time if necessary. Any setback is merely temporary for them. Time (and money) is on their side.
What someone should be doing is introducing legislation that enumerates, codifies, and protects specific rights and expectations of privacy that citizens have, and then work the anti-terrorist/copying/IP laws around that framework. (I know, we shouldn't need to do this, but it's our system apparently.) This is bass-ackwards.
I don't understand much about particle physics, but perhaps someone could give a quick explanation of how a particle made of three quarks has a mass equivalent to an entire atom of atomic number 3 and atomic weight almost 7? Is it because a bottom quark is one of its constituents?
No, we just need to mix antibiotics with the pesticide and spray that everywhere. Problem solved.
The only thing that's unique about Siri is that the search engine companies can't put their ads in there.
Yet.
I think what surprises him (and me too, frankly) is that when the PS3 if powered 'off', it's not really off, merely in more of a sleep state. There are still active parts of the machine doing things like keeping the little red LED lit on the front, the bluetooth circuitry is active waiting for someone to hit the power button on a controller, etc. There really is no reason that they couldn't keep the USB ports powered up as well. I've often left my PS3 on overnight to charge the controllers, and then forgot to turn it off for several more days afterward.
I think one of the real culprits here is code, OS, and library bloat that causes boot times on consumer devices to be in the seconds or 10's of seconds from a cold start. Even my TV takes about 5-10 seconds after I hit power before I can actually watch anything. The lazy way to mitigate this is to not ever really power down, but just appear to. There really is no excuse to take this long to boot into what should be a minimal OS from flash memory. This laziness costs consumers cold hard cash, albeit over months and years.
Do they understand what this would do to the price of gold (not to mention platinum and palladium)? Most of the gold bugs make themselves feel good about their investment with the mantra 'you can't print gold.' It's trading in the stratosphere as it is, and the Wolfram Alpha link in TFS uses the current commodity price of gold.
Put a TrueCrypt partition on the drive. Encryption needs to be done at the ends; they are just providing a bit storage medium.
No, but it could answer the question of how life managed to arise here on earth in a relatively short period of time, and would also exponentially expand the potential area we consider when we think about places that could have been suitable, both chemically and environmentally.
I don't know, but this sounds more like a lightsaber. Just crank up the power a little bit.