I've received the moon one twice on mailing lists, and my co-worker keeps trying to send me Elf Bowling. She got the virus hoax letter and got real worried. I knew it was fake but didn't bother to tell her. I thought it served her right for running binaries from goodness-knows-where. I got kicked off a mailing list once for having the nerve to post links to urban-legend debunking sites after the 4th or 5th ill-considered chain mail. I hate chain mail on mailing lists. The Net won't collapse from Y2K, it will be from all the darn chain mail and forwards...
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Netscape is horrid with standards compliance, as earlier posters have stated. IE 5, and to a lesser extent 4, are quite good with supporting HTML 4.0 and the CSS1 (Cascading Style Sheets) specifications. Most of the sites I've seen with "IE only-looks bad in Netscape" only post that because their style sheets are CSS1-correct but Netscape has lots and lots of problems with some of the features in the style sheets. You may want to check out The Little Shop of CSS Horrors for a great demonstration of cross-browser compatibility.
It doesn't matter which company sends them (and you're right, Amazon's constant shipping delays with the Brown Ones frustrates to no end;) the UPS folks don't yellowslip. They stick it right in my front door, or next to the front door, or on our bench or in our geranium pot (no kidding!) I work in the daytime and my grandmother is sick of watching my house when I'm expecting a package.
I'd prefer to come to the UPS office to pick up the packages rather than risk theft by having it stuck near my door. Now that I hear this about the insurance, that makes me even more unlikely to ship anything out via UPS. It's the Postal Service for me!
(And more Amazon funnies-I ordered a bunch of books a few months ago, along with a Pikachu beanie. The books were delayed, and I didn't mind getting them late, so I had the order indicated to ship all at once. They rush-shipped the Pikachu in an absolutely giant box compared to the size of the toy. What a waste! BTW, the UPS guy left the Pika in the door but the books were shipped Priority. Despite what they said about rushing the Pika, the books got to my house first.)
After all, it is bundled with every version of Netscape. 80 million copies may be plausible. If they're counting screen names registered on the service, I'd be a bit doubtful on how many of those names actually use AIM. My uncle has 5 AOL screen names and only one person in the house uses AIM. I don't use AOL, but I did register on AIM, and I haven't used it for 7 months. I only used it because my friend's ICQ was giving her problems, and we wanted to chat. ICQ99a fixed the problems, so we stopped using AIM. My ID is still active though-I don't believe you can delete an AIM profile off the AOL server.
Why wouldn't a large multiple systems operator like Charter Communications want to own a source of programming? You'd be surprised how many cable companies own bits and pieces of cable channels. One of the posters in this thread mentioned Ted Turner and his cable channel empire; Turner actually sold the channels to Time Warner, which also operates as a cable access provider. Time Warner also owns HBO. As for who owns Time Warner, MediaOne Group owns 25% of Time Warner Cable. AT&T is buying MediaOne. AT&T also owns shares in the companies that bring you networks like QVC, USA, and Encore, through their subsidiary Liberty Media Group, which also owns part of Time Warner.
It's much easier to control the media than to pay fees to other media firms. Programming costs are a major part of cable company expenses. Also, owning media maximizes advertising profits and enables a certain spin on what is shown on TV.
I'd post more, but it took me an hour to find all this out (I knew it, but I needed proof because my memory is rather...odd...)
As a previous poster stated, it's mainly a TV, and even as a monitor is intended for viewing from far away by a group of people, as in a company meeting or product demo. My employer is using it as a TV, and it does have a great picture when seen far away. The only drawback I've noticed so far is that bright blues are *painfully* bright...like when accessing the options menu.
I haven't seen how it works under HDTV though, or even if it does without special converters.
The two companies have quite a few products in common; for example, Hasbro has the rights to manufacture Pokémon toys for the U.S. market (at least that's what the tag on my stuffed Pikachu indicates ^_^) and WOtC had the rights to market the Pokémon CCG in the States. Hasbro bought out Microprose, which made the Magic: the Gathering computer game.
This makes me wonder, though; Decipher currently has rights to produce Star Wars CCGs, and Hasbro makes the SW toys. I make a conjecture that some switching of licenses will be going about soon.
Is it easier to buy the company than to just buy the licensing? Hmm...
The merger should be completed by the end of the month.
I can't find any info on the merger at the Decipher website, as they don't seem to have any corporate press releases up that aren't related to their games.
...is probably dependent on someone updating the "channel" or.rdf files that/. pulls from each site.
I'm assuming the person at Ars Technica who is supposed to update the.rdf file doesn't do it at quite the same time the rest of the site is updated. You may want to contact them about it, or ask CowboyNeal here at/. about how the boxes are updated, just in case it really is a/. issue.
I have to admit I've been guilty more than thrice of updating my main site without putting anything on the Updates page. It happens, people get busy.
Most of the downward moderation I've seen is related to "first posts", completely offtopic posts, spam, and other such Dangers of Public Message Boards.
The MetaModeration system should take care of the odd misguided moderator who downs something for arbitrary or malicious reasons. I think it's a pretty good idea. Making downward moderation more expensive would make junk posts even more noticeable for those who read/. without logging in, and those who filter by score when logged in.
Road Runner makes every customer SIGN and DATE a copy of the TOS at every install. They keep it on file. I have the service, I had to sign the TOS, and they change it every so often (see @Home's debacle w/TOS changes) so I read it every so often. It's best to be informed.
I'm sorry, you should have known. It's idjits like this that make ISPs create bandwidth caps...
It's owned by a partnership called ServiceCo, which is jointly owned by MediaOne, Time Warner (that's where the beeping bird comes from ^_^) and some other partners who I can't remember offhand. IIRC they are Advance/Newhouse and Microsoft, but I could be wrong...it's Sunday, and all my nifty business bookmarks are at work.
I'm still looking for more info, but at this time, I'm pretty much dead on info other than what I put above.
Almost everybody's personal site has had something like a message board for years. They called them "guestbooks." Now you can even get message boards for free and you don't even have to know any programming languages to put them up. I helped my 10-year-old cousin put up a site last year (now defunct, she lost interest) and it had a guestbook, chat applet, message board, and poll, all obtained from various sites offering free ad-supported utilities. We even put up links to pages that she liked once or twice a week and put up the reasons why she liked them. I suppose you could call it a weblog, although the focus was on Lisa Frank and Beanie Babies rather than Linux or new media. We called it "her homepage." In fact, I've seen a few "weblogs" run by adults based on Beanie collecting. I run a sort of weblog, which I more or less describe as a "vertical portal" if I want to get fancy (it's actually a links list, but that's not cool any longer) dedicated to fairies. I've been doing that for 3 years.
In short, this isn't anything new, and it's already become co-opted by the masses. Even the under-12 crowd is doing it now.
From reading the News.com article, it seems that the current issue here was with companies like Muzak that transmit music to customers through satellites and broadband connections, i.e. what you hear in malls over the public address system.
But what intrigues me is this comment: "The fight is a product of a 1995 law that for the first time let recording companies collect royalties for performances of digital music. Until then, only the copyright owners for the lyrics or notes could demand payments."
What law is that? How does it affect certain types of music, for example, something I write and record myself, and distribute myself? Would I have to pay RIAA royalties on something they haven't touched?
Does anyone have/know of a list of licenses? It would be certainly useful so we could compare them.
Mainly I'm looking for something to release not software, but graphics and other intellectual property under, and I was wondering if there was a precedent for that. But the list of licenses would be nice for any code I happen to write, too.
In fact they have a whole listing of where they are, including the Netherlands. If your local cable or wireless phone company is owned by MediaOne, you should care what happens to them...and most of you probably have no idea who owns part of your local cable company.
I work for a cable company, which should remain unnamed for the purpose of this comment. A good many of our customers fall into 2 groups:
1. Those who subscribe to the level offering the most sports;
2. Those who subscribe to the level offering the most educational/intellectual channels (I'm counting things like the Independent Film Channel here, there's a lot of crossover between audiences.)
Don't worry about your Discovery Channel feed being blocked off, or anything else, because AFAIK the cable company usually has to take packages of stations owned by the same company; in other words, they're forced to take a bundle of things that customers may not necessarily like in order to get the things they DO like.
My mom is clueless about Windows. I finally taught her how to use Netscape in Windows 3.1, but I had to write down all the steps. However, she had used Unix at work for 10 years. (The "real" UNIX, AT&T variety.) When I told her about Linux, she was shocked. "Unix is popular? There is a free kind? What can it do for a family?" Apparently she likes the command-line interface more than GUI...
So, in the end, it turns out she isn't scared of Linux, and we just might end up installing it on the old Win3.1 box. The bad part is that I still haven't gotten around to putting in the RAM I was supposed to have put in 2 years ago, and the components are probably not Linux-compatible. I guess Linux is only free if your time has no value, as has been frequently stated around here:o)
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I've received the moon one twice on mailing lists, and my co-worker keeps trying to send me Elf Bowling. She got the virus hoax letter and got real worried. I knew it was fake but didn't bother to tell her. I thought it served her right for running binaries from goodness-knows-where. I got kicked off a mailing list once for having the nerve to post links to urban-legend debunking sites after the 4th or 5th ill-considered chain mail. I hate chain mail on mailing lists. The Net won't collapse from Y2K, it will be from all the darn chain mail and forwards...
Netscape is horrid with standards compliance, as earlier posters have stated. IE 5, and to a lesser extent 4, are quite good with supporting HTML 4.0 and the CSS1 (Cascading Style Sheets) specifications. Most of the sites I've seen with "IE only-looks bad in Netscape" only post that because their style sheets are CSS1-correct but Netscape has lots and lots of problems with some of the features in the style sheets. You may want to check out The Little Shop of CSS Horrors for a great demonstration of cross-browser compatibility.
It doesn't matter which company sends them (and you're right, Amazon's constant shipping delays with the Brown Ones frustrates to no end;) the UPS folks don't yellowslip. They stick it right in my front door, or next to the front door, or on our bench or in our geranium pot (no kidding!) I work in the daytime and my grandmother is sick of watching my house when I'm expecting a package.
I'd prefer to come to the UPS office to pick up the packages rather than risk theft by having it stuck near my door. Now that I hear this about the insurance, that makes me even more unlikely to ship anything out via UPS. It's the Postal Service for me!
(And more Amazon funnies-I ordered a bunch of books a few months ago, along with a Pikachu beanie. The books were delayed, and I didn't mind getting them late, so I had the order indicated to ship all at once. They rush-shipped the Pikachu in an absolutely giant box compared to the size of the toy. What a waste! BTW, the UPS guy left the Pika in the door but the books were shipped Priority. Despite what they said about rushing the Pika, the books got to my house first.)
After all, it is bundled with every version of Netscape. 80 million copies may be plausible. If they're counting screen names registered on the service, I'd be a bit doubtful on how many of those names actually use AIM. My uncle has 5 AOL screen names and only one person in the house uses AIM. I don't use AOL, but I did register on AIM, and I haven't used it for 7 months. I only used it because my friend's ICQ was giving her problems, and we wanted to chat. ICQ99a fixed the problems, so we stopped using AIM. My ID is still active though-I don't believe you can delete an AIM profile off the AOL server.
Why wouldn't a large multiple systems operator like Charter Communications want to own a source of programming? You'd be surprised how many cable companies own bits and pieces of cable channels. One of the posters in this thread mentioned Ted Turner and his cable channel empire; Turner actually sold the channels to Time Warner, which also operates as a cable access provider. Time Warner also owns HBO. As for who owns Time Warner, MediaOne Group owns 25% of Time Warner Cable. AT&T is buying MediaOne. AT&T also owns shares in the companies that bring you networks like QVC, USA, and Encore, through their subsidiary Liberty Media Group, which also owns part of Time Warner.
It's much easier to control the media than to pay fees to other media firms. Programming costs are a major part of cable company expenses. Also, owning media maximizes advertising profits and enables a certain spin on what is shown on TV.
I'd post more, but it took me an hour to find all this out (I knew it, but I needed proof because my memory is rather...odd...)
Isn't media consolidation interesting?
Its new location is at:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
The CMU address still works for the opening page, but the site manager is recommending that everybody link and bookmark the new URL.
A text file of HR 3028 can be found at ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/thomas/cp106/hr4 12.txt
As a previous poster stated, it's mainly a TV, and even as a monitor is intended for viewing from far away by a group of people, as in a company meeting or product demo.
My employer is using it as a TV, and it does have a great picture when seen far away. The only drawback I've noticed so far is that bright blues are *painfully* bright...like when accessing the options menu.
I haven't seen how it works under HDTV though, or even if it does without special converters.
Gee, I thought it was just a funny in the Jargon File. It is a pity...I want that recipe :o)
Right now, at 10:30AM CDT, Google is acting very very pokey. I just did a search on "free graphics" and it's taken about 5 minutes to return results.
/. effect? Eeek...
Didn't they expect a
The two companies have quite a few products in common; for example, Hasbro has the rights to manufacture Pokémon toys for the U.S. market (at least that's what the tag on my stuffed Pikachu indicates ^_^) and WOtC had the rights to market the Pokémon CCG in the States. Hasbro bought out Microprose, which made the Magic: the Gathering computer game.
This makes me wonder, though; Decipher currently has rights to produce Star Wars CCGs, and Hasbro makes the SW toys. I make a conjecture that some switching of licenses will be going about soon.
Is it easier to buy the company than to just buy the licensing? Hmm...
Check out info here and here.
The merger should be completed by the end of the month.
I can't find any info on the merger at the Decipher website, as they don't seem to have any corporate press releases up that aren't related to their games.
...is probably dependent on someone updating the "channel" or .rdf files that /. pulls from each site.
.rdf file doesn't do it at quite the same time the rest of the site is updated. You may want to contact them about it, or ask CowboyNeal here at /. about how the boxes are updated, just in case it really is a /. issue.
I'm assuming the person at Ars Technica who is supposed to update the
I have to admit I've been guilty more than thrice of updating my main site without putting anything on the Updates page. It happens, people get busy.
Most of the downward moderation I've seen is related to "first posts", completely offtopic posts, spam, and other such Dangers of Public Message Boards.
/. without logging in, and those who filter by score when logged in.
The MetaModeration system should take care of the odd misguided moderator who downs something for arbitrary or malicious reasons. I think it's a pretty good idea. Making downward moderation more expensive would make junk posts even more noticeable for those who read
Road Runner makes every customer SIGN and DATE a copy of the TOS at every install. They keep it on file. I have the service, I had to sign the TOS, and they change it every so often (see @Home's debacle w/TOS changes) so I read it every so often. It's best to be informed.
I'm sorry, you should have known. It's idjits like this that make ISPs create bandwidth caps...
It's owned by a partnership called ServiceCo, which is jointly owned by MediaOne, Time Warner (that's where the beeping bird comes from ^_^) and some other partners who I can't remember offhand. IIRC they are Advance/Newhouse and Microsoft, but I could be wrong...it's Sunday, and all my nifty business bookmarks are at work.
I'm still looking for more info, but at this time, I'm pretty much dead on info other than what I put above.
http://www.bell-labs.com/news/199 9/june/24/1.html
For more info, of course...
Almost everybody's personal site has had something like a message board for years. They called them "guestbooks." Now you can even get message boards for free and you don't even have to know any programming languages to put them up. I helped my 10-year-old cousin put up a site last year (now defunct, she lost interest) and it had a guestbook, chat applet, message board, and poll, all obtained from various sites offering free ad-supported utilities. We even put up links to pages that she liked once or twice a week and put up the reasons why she liked them. I suppose you could call it a weblog, although the focus was on Lisa Frank and Beanie Babies rather than Linux or new media. We called it "her homepage." In fact, I've seen a few "weblogs" run by adults based on Beanie collecting. I run a sort of weblog, which I more or less describe as a "vertical portal" if I want to get fancy (it's actually a links list, but that's not cool any longer) dedicated to fairies. I've been doing that for 3 years.
In short, this isn't anything new, and it's already become co-opted by the masses. Even the under-12 crowd is doing it now.
From reading the News.com article, it seems that the current issue here was with companies like Muzak that transmit music to customers through satellites and broadband connections, i.e. what you hear in malls over the public address system.
But what intrigues me is this comment: "The fight is a product of a 1995 law that for the first time let recording companies collect royalties for performances of digital music. Until then, only the copyright owners for the lyrics or notes could demand payments."
What law is that? How does it affect certain types of music, for example, something I write and record myself, and distribute myself? Would I have to pay RIAA royalties on something they haven't touched?
Does anyone have/know of a list of licenses? It would be certainly useful so we could compare them.
Mainly I'm looking for something to release not software, but graphics and other intellectual property under, and I was wondering if there was a precedent for that. But the list of licenses would be nice for any code I happen to write, too.
Those were registered by Mr. Bush's proponents several years ago in order to encourage him to run for president, AFAIK.
And he can't get bush.com, some other guy named Bush registered it in 1995 (smart guy, that one. Got his own name first!)
In fact they have a whole listing of where they are, including the Netherlands. If your local cable or wireless phone company is owned by MediaOne, you should care what happens to them...and most of you probably have no idea who owns part of your local cable company.
A letter referencing Slashdot was quoted in today's St. Paul Pioneer Press. I suppose some non-geeks will come by now and look at what we're saying...
I work for a cable company, which should remain unnamed for the purpose of this comment. A good many of our customers fall into 2 groups:
1. Those who subscribe to the level offering the most sports;
2. Those who subscribe to the level offering the most educational/intellectual channels (I'm counting things like the Independent Film Channel here, there's a lot of crossover between audiences.)
Don't worry about your Discovery Channel feed being blocked off, or anything else, because AFAIK the cable company usually has to take packages of stations owned by the same company; in other words, they're forced to take a bundle of things that customers may not necessarily like in order to get the things they DO like.
My mom is clueless about Windows. I finally taught her how to use Netscape in Windows 3.1, but I had to write down all the steps. However, she had used Unix at work for 10 years. (The "real" UNIX, AT&T variety.) When I told her about Linux, she was shocked. "Unix is popular? There is a free kind? What can it do for a family?" Apparently she likes the command-line interface more than GUI...
:o)
So, in the end, it turns out she isn't scared of Linux, and we just might end up installing it on the old Win3.1 box. The bad part is that I still haven't gotten around to putting in the RAM I was supposed to have put in 2 years ago, and the components are probably not Linux-compatible. I guess Linux is only free if your time has no value, as has been frequently stated around here