After being a cable modem customer for six months, I got a letter from ATT saying that the free cable (TV) was simply part the offer. I called to confirm that I was not being charged for the cable TV and that it was free to use. They said yes, and I've been happily using ATT for cable modem access and cable TV signals for $45/month ever since.
I assumed that this was by design. Maybe this "free cable TV" that they gave me was simply an artifact of getting the interenet access and, rather than discourage people from using it, ATT might have decided to be proactive an make the cable TV a free offer to their appreciated customers.
Sadly, you're probably right. I've never understood why NPR won't make its content available for download rather than just streaming it in some proprietary format. I pledge my support during the drives,what more do they want!?!?
And, since I'm already ranting, why don't companies/advertisers make their commercials available for download as well? You would think they would enjoy all the free advertising from people passing their commercials around on the internet. Last year I searched for some of the funny commercials that aired during the superbowl and I couldn't (legitimately) find them available anywhere. Remember that these companies paid millions of dollars to have these commercials aired on TV, but they refuse to let people download and enjoy them on their own time. Are they afraid I'll profit from their commercials? Perhaps they fear parody? Maybe it scares them that their commercials might come back to haunt them when they don't live up to their claims....
Anyway, to stop ranting and get back to the original post, you might want to interview Bill Joy. I'm not sure if he lives close enough for you to meet with him but he might have some interesting counterpoints to the "information must be free" opinions that you are bound to hear a lot of.
Despite being a bad movie, I was shocked to see a blatant disregard for even basic physics in that scene where the double helix of M&M's is spinning in a circle. (I guess if the M&M's had sufficient gravity then such motion is possible....) Anyway, nice "science" fiction guys.
Here's a shocking idea - How about if I need help I'll ask?
Agreed. Another good idea, at least if you're interested in my business, is to make your contact info easy to find. Give me a phone number for crying out loud! Answer your email! Anything! It amazes me sometimes how hard it is to find contact information for a company I might want to do business with.
It must be that some companies don't want to see their 1-800 phone lines abused in the same way that they abuse their customers email addresses.
Because "The Two Towers" is similar the the world trade center's nickname "The Twin Towers", LoTR producers briefly considered changing the name after the Sept. 11 attacks!
Following the attack on the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001, and because of the similarity between the buildings' nickname, "The Twin Towers", and the movie's title, "The Two Towers", the director and producers briefly considered renaming the second movie in the trilogy. They eventually decided against it, Peter Jackson's main reason being that, "fans would kill me".
MS does build versions of windows that scale to high numbers of processors but they are not available to the general consumer. They must be purchased under special contract from MS with a price tag well into the six figures (USD) per seat.
"One lab I was in that had a lot of computers used deities..."
That's funny, in our lab the administrators named themselves after deity! (Which was fine, except for all the bowing and blood offerings.)
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"...just a problem of very little applications for it."
Ummmm, try "just a little problem of a monopoly using illegal business practices to make sure it never reaches the market."
Hell, PC manufactures were offered the operating system for free if they would just put it on their machines! (Not even replacing Window$, but dual-booting along side it!)
To get the apps, it had to have some penetration in the market. It was penetrating the Microsoft controlled market that was the problem. Oh wait, are we talking about that anti-trust thing again!?!?!
For a time, I used (and loved) this operating system. It had enough apps to do *most* of what I needed to do.
I believe they are likely to get away with moving towards their pay-per-view goal this time.
I'm not sure what to think about this supposed goal. On the one hand, forcing a pay-per-view model on the masses could certainly cause everyone to use a little better judgement in the shows they watch. I can envision a much happier society that has finally given up on all the useless trash on TV/Movies. On the other hand, I can also envision the masses quietly accepting this new reality and cutting into their food/education/retirement budgets to accomodate it.
If you really think (as I do) that this is an indication that MS intends to extend its monopoly by squeezing out competing standards and technology, then make your voice heard!
It is a reference to the TV sitcom "Sienfeld". I will attempt to explain it, but it could never make it as funny as the original.
Elaine uses the sponge as her preferred method of birth control. There is a shortage of sponges, so she (and all women in that episode) start using very strict criteria to determine if a man is "sponge worthy".
I know it doesn't sound very funny now, but it made a great sub-plot.
It sounds like you are extremely vulnerable to insider attacks or insider leaks. The information you posted in you question is probably more than you should have let out. Given a very motivated person, anything you do will be at risk. It is all about risk management. Good luck and ENCRYPT you signals for crying out loud!!!
but then again I've been watching high quality movies for about a year now.
And you've probably paid handsomely for that opportunity. Let's say that you bought your HDTV for $5800 USD a year ago. (I think that was about what a good HDTV cost about a year ago.) Let's say you could buy a comparable TV now for $3300. (Correct me if you feel this is a exaggeration of the price drop.) That means you paid $2500 over the course of the year to enjoy HD movies at home.
That's $6.85/day!!
Almost the price of a regular movie ticket. Ouch. It amazes me to hear people throwing around a price like $1700 for a HDTV-ready TV and calling it reasonable. I'm not dirt poor, but it would be a very big deal for me to spend half that on a TV!
For those who missed it. In 1992 Rambus joined an industry consortium (Joint Electron Device Engineering Council JEDEC) made up of companies seeking to develop a *royalty-free* standard for the next generation of memory chips. The resulting standards (SDRAM, and DDR RAM) have been widely adopted during the past few years.
Then, about a year ago, Rambus let the lawyers loose. They claimed that, despite its participation in JEDEC, it owned patents that were being infringed upon by any company making SDRAM or DDR RAM chips without a license. Moreover, Rambus claimed it was entitled to damages in the form of retroactive royalty payments.
I suggest you stop paying your bills. The real company should show up very quickly. Who knows? You might get lucky and continue to receive service because ATT/Mediacom won't have a clue who should be handling your account. Since you'll probably lose service on Fri. with the rest of us, it couldn't hurt.:-)
I'm pretty sure the water is distilled (so as to NOT conduct electricity) and that the whole watermarking process is carefully implemented by a crack team of RIAA engineers!;-)
It sounds like his resignation goes a lot deeper than simple GPL violations. Sounds like "the community" he is involved with is less than appreciative. His feelings of frustration are understandable. I hope these experiences don't scar his attitude permamnently, good hackers are rare breed.
OK, I recognize those are assembler instructions. Is that as deep as it goes? Are these some sort of infamous intel intructions? Is it fearful to code in assembly these days? What gives? I just gotta know....
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After being a cable modem customer for six months, I got a letter from ATT saying that the free cable (TV) was simply part the offer. I called to confirm that I was not being charged for the cable TV and that it was free to use. They said yes, and I've been happily using ATT for cable modem access and cable TV signals for $45/month ever since.
I assumed that this was by design. Maybe this "free cable TV" that they gave me was simply an artifact of getting the interenet access and, rather than discourage people from using it, ATT might have decided to be proactive an make the cable TV a free offer to their appreciated customers.
-Derek
And, since I'm already ranting, why don't companies/advertisers make their commercials available for download as well? You would think they would enjoy all the free advertising from people passing their commercials around on the internet. Last year I searched for some of the funny commercials that aired during the superbowl and I couldn't (legitimately) find them available anywhere. Remember that these companies paid millions of dollars to have these commercials aired on TV, but they refuse to let people download and enjoy them on their own time. Are they afraid I'll profit from their commercials? Perhaps they fear parody? Maybe it scares them that their commercials might come back to haunt them when they don't live up to their claims....
Anyway, to stop ranting and get back to the original post, you might want to interview Bill Joy. I'm not sure if he lives close enough for you to meet with him but he might have some interesting counterpoints to the "information must be free" opinions that you are bound to hear a lot of.
-Derek
Despite being a bad movie, I was shocked to see a blatant disregard for even basic physics in that scene where the double helix of M&M's is spinning in a circle. (I guess if the M&M's had sufficient gravity then such motion is possible....) Anyway, nice "science" fiction guys.
-Derek
-Derek
It must be that some companies don't want to see their 1-800 phone lines abused in the same way that they abuse their customers email addresses.
-Derek
Heh heh. It's going to take a bag of twenties for the secretary just to have you put on the calendar!
-Derek
You might want to look the the ACM position letter found here:
http://www.acm.org/usacm/SSSCA-letter.html
It is a little bit dated (Sept. 2001) but it was well thought out and has many valid points. Let me know if there is any way I can help personally...
-Derek
I'm not even kidding about this one...
According to the Internet Movie Database:
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Interesting, thanks. I didn't know exactly where the limits were.
.gif patent, Unisys is still doing some cool stuff with their hardware.
Despite the crappy ad campaign and the
-Derek
MS does build versions of windows that scale to high numbers of processors but they are not available to the general consumer. They must be purchased under special contract from MS with a price tag well into the six figures (USD) per seat.
-Derek
Ummmm, try "just a little problem of a monopoly using illegal business practices to make sure it never reaches the market."
Hell, PC manufactures were offered the operating system for free if they would just put it on their machines! (Not even replacing Window$, but dual-booting along side it!)
To get the apps, it had to have some penetration in the market. It was penetrating the Microsoft controlled market that was the problem. Oh wait, are we talking about that anti-trust thing again!?!?!
For a time, I used (and loved) this operating system. It had enough apps to do *most* of what I needed to do.
-Derek
I'm not sure what to think about this supposed goal. On the one hand, forcing a pay-per-view model on the masses could certainly cause everyone to use a little better judgement in the shows they watch. I can envision a much happier society that has finally given up on all the useless trash on TV/Movies. On the other hand, I can also envision the masses quietly accepting this new reality and cutting into their food/education/retirement budgets to accomodate it.
-Derek
If you really think (as I do) that this is an indication that MS intends to extend its monopoly by squeezing out competing standards and technology, then make your voice heard!
According to the US law you still have until Jan 28th to comment on the court's final judgement.
I recommend you take a minute and make sure the US justice department hears your concern.
-Derek
They'll show up in the collectors edition DVD. Mark my words.
-Derek
It is a reference to the TV sitcom "Sienfeld". I will attempt to explain it, but it could never make it as funny as the original.
Elaine uses the sponge as her preferred method of birth control. There is a shortage of sponges, so she (and all women in that episode) start using very strict criteria to determine if a man is "sponge worthy".
I know it doesn't sound very funny now, but it made a great sub-plot.
-Derek
"I wonder if WC3 will be reboot worthy."
Uhhh, is that anything like being "sponge worthy"?
-Derek
It sounds like you are extremely vulnerable to insider attacks or insider leaks. The information you posted in you question is probably more than you should have let out. Given a very motivated person, anything you do will be at risk. It is all about risk management. Good luck and ENCRYPT you signals for crying out loud!!!
-Derek
And you've probably paid handsomely for that opportunity. Let's say that you bought your HDTV for $5800 USD a year ago. (I think that was about what a good HDTV cost about a year ago.) Let's say you could buy a comparable TV now for $3300. (Correct me if you feel this is a exaggeration of the price drop.) That means you paid $2500 over the course of the year to enjoy HD movies at home.
That's $6.85/day!!
Almost the price of a regular movie ticket. Ouch. It amazes me to hear people throwing around a price like $1700 for a HDTV-ready TV and calling it reasonable. I'm not dirt poor, but it would be a very big deal for me to spend half that on a TV!
-Derek
For those who missed it. In 1992 Rambus joined an industry consortium (Joint Electron Device Engineering Council JEDEC) made up of companies seeking to develop a *royalty-free* standard for the next generation of memory chips. The resulting standards (SDRAM, and DDR RAM) have been widely adopted during the past few years.
Then, about a year ago, Rambus let the lawyers loose. They claimed that, despite its participation in JEDEC, it owned patents that were being infringed upon by any company making SDRAM or DDR RAM chips without a license. Moreover, Rambus claimed it was entitled to damages in the form of retroactive royalty payments.
And then the lawsuits began....
-Derek
I suggest you stop paying your bills. The real company should show up very quickly. Who knows? You might get lucky and continue to receive service because ATT/Mediacom won't have a clue who should be handling your account. Since you'll probably lose service on Fri. with the rest of us, it couldn't hurt. :-)
-Derek
I'm pretty sure the water is distilled (so as to NOT conduct electricity) and that the whole watermarking process is carefully implemented by a crack team of RIAA engineers! ;-)
-Derek
I don't know, he sounded like a typical teenager to me! :-)
-Derek
It sounds like his resignation goes a lot deeper than simple GPL violations. Sounds like "the community" he is involved with is less than appreciative. His feelings of frustration are understandable. I hope these experiences don't scar his attitude permamnently, good hackers are rare breed.
-Derek
Clear as mud. Thank you.
OK, I recognize those are assembler instructions. Is that as deep as it goes? Are these some sort of infamous intel intructions? Is it fearful to code in assembly these days? What gives? I just gotta know....
-Derek