All this ammounts to is some PHB whining about the wording in a press release. He says it gives the impression they had something to do with marketing the free service and he is worried about "stepping on toes" of one of his large sponsors. The article says _nothing_ about Comcast having exclusive rights to provide any kind of communication service.
PGE Park gets free Wi-Fi thanks to Personal Telco and Moonlight Staffing
It kind of does, but so what? Probably the whole thing would amount to zero issues if the press release said something like
"Personal Telco and Moonlight Staffing bring free Wi-Fi to vicinity of PGE Park."
really, this is about some PHB getting his undies in a knot without really understanding the problem. Comcast apparently didn't complain and really doesn't even give a shit.
"I just don't want to step on anyone's toes," Metz said.
Comcast, however, is not in this ballgame. Comcast prohibits its customers from distributing the company's Internet services to the public, said Sarah Eder, a Comcast spokeswoman. But Moonlight Staffing broadcasts a high-speed service from Beaverton-based EasyStreet Online Services, not Comcast.
To buy music/listen to samples or just browse the site?
I'm using Opera here at work and the ony thing I can't do is listen to the samples. (I get the pop-up saying I need to dl WMP9)
I fired up NS7.1 (don't ask) and I get:
In order to take full advantage of BuyMusic.com's offerings you must be on a Windows Operating System using Internet Explorer version 5.0 or higher. Download Internet Explorer Here.
Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam? Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got much spam in it. Mrs. Bun: I don't want any spam! Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage? Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it. Mr. Bun: It hasn't got as much spam in it as spam, egg, sausage and spam has it? Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam! Mr. Bun: Shh dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam. Waitress: Shut up! Baked beans are off. Mr. Bun: Well, can I have her spam instead of the baked beans?
Other explanations of the origin of the term include "SPiced hAM", "Spiced Pork And haM", "Specially Processed Army Meat"; the current official expansion is the acronym "Specially Processed Assorted Meat" as the SPAM Lite variety contains both pork and chicken meat.
Monty Python SPAM was the subject of a well-known and much-loved Monty Python sketch, in which various customers of a cafe requested a meal without SPAM. Inevitably, all of the comestibles available came with varying quantities of SPAM. The sketch reflected British rationing policies, in which SPAM was one of the few meats always available. Towards the end of the sketch a song, satirical in nature, was sung, extolling the dubious virtues of SPAM, with a repeated chorus:
In the beginning Hormel had sold only twenty thousand tons of Spam when World War 2 started; it was during the war that SPAM, like S.O.S. (dried chipped beef on toast, known to soldiers as ?Shit on a Shingle?), became notorious. SPAM was a lendlease staple, sent in such abundance to Allied troops that Nikita Khrushchev later credited it with the survival of the otherwise starving Russian army, a can of SPAM is like heaven after eating a shoe sole. In England, where beef was severely rationed, SPAM was the only meat like matter many families ate for weeks on end.
Hawaii, staging ground for the war in the Pacific, fell so in love with SPAM that to this day, Hawaiians eat an average of six cans per person per year, far more than in any other place on earth. I know a few Hawaiians who eat two cans a week. Because it was unaffected by meat rationing, SPAM was eaten on the American home front in record quantity, too.
After doing a little more googling, I found that SPAM filled an important niche during wartime. It was the only meat-product to be exempt from rationing. It was very popular in wartime England and in the states. It was extremely popular in Hawaii and is still eaten in large quantities there today.
SPAM is a canned meat product made by the Hormel Foods Corporation company that has entered into folklore. SPAM luncheon meat is also used as an artistic medium in SPAM carving contests. The labeled ingredients on the original SPAM are chopped pork shoulder meat with ham meat added, salt, water, sugar and sodium nitrite.
A Hormel official once stated that the original source of the name SPAM was "Shoulder of Pork And haM".
I seem to recall that the story was that the shoulder meat was being discarded/wasted and that the owner wanted to do something with it. He had the idea for 'canned luncheon meat' and the army picked it up and the rest is history.
The use of TVBrick appliances for private use within the same family is compatible with Copyright Law in Europe and in Japan. This is why Nexedi is selling TVBrick to families only, mainly Japanese.
Hmm, I think France is an example (only saw it in the diagram, not anywhere in the actual announcement.
Seems that Japan-Euro application is most likely because of "compatible copyright law":
The use of TVBrick appliances for private use within the same family is compatible with Copyright Law in Europe and in Japan. This is why Nexedi is selling TVBrick to families only, mainly Japanese.
Who knows, maybe there _are_ lots of families of Japanese businessmen that live in Europe.
Slashdot Mirror
Really.
All this ammounts to is some PHB whining about the wording in a press release. He says it gives the impression they had something to do with marketing the free service and he is worried about "stepping on toes" of one of his large sponsors. The article says _nothing_ about Comcast having exclusive rights to provide any kind of communication service.
PGE Park gets free Wi-Fi thanks to Personal Telco and Moonlight Staffing
It kind of does, but so what? Probably the whole thing would amount to zero issues if the press release said something like
"Personal Telco and Moonlight Staffing bring free Wi-Fi to vicinity of PGE Park."
slow news day
really, this is about some PHB getting his undies in a knot without really understanding the problem. Comcast apparently didn't complain and really doesn't even give a shit.
"I just don't want to step on anyone's toes," Metz said.
Oohh! Stop the presses!!
Huh?
Comcast, however, is not in this ballgame.
Comcast prohibits its customers from distributing the company's Internet services to the public, said Sarah Eder, a Comcast spokeswoman.
But Moonlight Staffing broadcasts a high-speed service from Beaverton-based EasyStreet Online Services, not Comcast.
Bathroom door, not stall door. Sliding under the bathroom door would be a real trick.
see my sig...
To buy music/listen to samples or just browse the site?
I'm using Opera here at work and the ony thing I can't do is listen to the samples. (I get the pop-up saying I need to dl WMP9)
I fired up NS7.1 (don't ask) and I get:
In order to take full advantage of BuyMusic.com's offerings you must be on a Windows Operating System using Internet Explorer version 5.0 or higher.
Download Internet Explorer Here.
>What do you call a dead SCO-employee?
What do you call 10 dead SCO executives as the bottom of the ocean?
A start.
I get
The scents of the breathing of my cat have taste of the food for cats.
Your cat's breath tastes like catfood?
... and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
Guess when you run the country for a better part of a decade (and don't resign or get impeached), they tend to name stuff after ya, huh?
yeah, there's something wrong with this picture
on the other hand, at least Bush Sr was an actualy Navy pilot "hero".
>to go from the Lincoln and Washington to the Reagan and Bush
well, not exactly
USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN-71)
USS FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT (CVB-42)
USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (CVN 75)
USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN-69)
USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CVA-67)
but I agree with the point that this seems premature (but aren't _all_ naval ship namings politically motivated?)
Guess you missed that Futurama episode...
"Snoo-snoo!!! Me want snoo-snoo!!!"
Probably because those states prohibit certain types of contests (or require lots of conditions that the contest holder isn't willing to deal with).
Right you are:
Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got much spam in it.
Mrs. Bun: I don't want any spam!
Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage?
Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it.
Mr. Bun: It hasn't got as much spam in it as spam, egg, sausage and spam has it?
Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam!
Mr. Bun: Shh dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam.
Waitress: Shut up! Baked beans are off.
Mr. Bun: Well, can I have her spam instead of the baked beans?
Other explanations of the origin of the term include "SPiced hAM", "Spiced Pork And haM", "Specially Processed Army Meat"; the current official expansion is the acronym "Specially Processed Assorted Meat" as the SPAM Lite variety contains both pork and chicken meat.
>Isn't pork ham?
Not all pork is ham, but all ham is pork.
Had to do with rationing during WW2:
http://www.modernsurf.com/spam/
In the beginning Hormel had sold only twenty thousand tons of Spam when World War 2 started; it was during the war that SPAM, like S.O.S. (dried chipped beef on toast, known to soldiers as ?Shit on a Shingle?), became notorious. SPAM was a lendlease staple, sent in such abundance to Allied troops that Nikita Khrushchev later credited it with the survival of the otherwise starving Russian army, a can of SPAM is like heaven after eating a shoe sole. In England, where beef was severely rationed, SPAM was the only meat like matter many families ate for weeks on end.
Hawaii, staging ground for the war in the Pacific, fell so in love with SPAM that to this day, Hawaiians eat an average of six cans per person per year, far more than in any other place on earth. I know a few Hawaiians who eat two cans a week. Because it was unaffected by meat rationing, SPAM was eaten on the American home front in record quantity, too.
That was my point. It's not a by-product.
After doing a little more googling, I found that SPAM filled an important niche during wartime. It was the only meat-product to be exempt from rationing. It was very popular in wartime England and in the states. It was extremely popular in Hawaii and is still eaten in large quantities there today.
according to the wikipedia:
SPAM is a canned meat product made by the Hormel Foods Corporation company that has entered into folklore. SPAM luncheon meat is also used as an artistic medium in SPAM carving contests.
The labeled ingredients on the original SPAM are chopped pork shoulder meat with ham meat added, salt, water, sugar and sodium nitrite.
A Hormel official once stated that the original source of the name SPAM was "Shoulder of Pork And haM".
I seem to recall that the story was that the shoulder meat was being discarded/wasted and that the owner wanted to do something with it. He had the idea for 'canned luncheon meat' and the army picked it up and the rest is history.
That's why the amount they are seeking is $0.98
RTA:
The use of TVBrick appliances for private use within the same family is compatible with Copyright Law in Europe and in Japan. This is why Nexedi is selling TVBrick to families only, mainly Japanese.
Hmm, I think France is an example (only saw it in the diagram, not anywhere in the actual announcement.
Seems that Japan-Euro application is most likely because of "compatible copyright law":
The use of TVBrick appliances for private use within the same family is compatible with Copyright Law in Europe and in Japan. This is why Nexedi is selling TVBrick to families only, mainly Japanese.
Who knows, maybe there _are_ lots of families of Japanese businessmen that live in Europe.
What site?
/.-ed at the mo
seems to be quite