"AOL's actions are unprecedented and completely anti-consumer," said Microsoft spokesman Vivek Varma. "AOL is paying [computer makers] to eliminate consumer choice, forcing people to select the most expensive service in the industry."
... and if anyone knows about eliminating consumer choice and forcing people to select the most expensive option, it's Microsoft!
You can kinda-sorta opt out of X10 ads by going here. Although I believe the net effect is that it loads the ad, reads your optout preference from a cookie, then immediately closes the ad window. Plus, you have to re-opt after 30 days. Better than nothing, I guess.
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Tauzin's district office is in Gonzales, LA. EATEL, a major CLEC player in Louisiana, is headquartered in Gonzales as well. Hmmm I wonder who won't be getting a nice campaign contribution from Eatel next time around... ?
I recently drove from New Orleans to Albuquerque and back, and it was Clear Channel ALL THE WAY. Clear Channel Communications as snapping up every decent station in the company and currently owns over 1,700 stations.
According to this article, there are 269 radio markets in the US and the average market can handle about 15 stations on the FM band. That puts Clear Channel in control of over a third of the radio market nationwide! They run the same contests and play the same music nationwide, and they even advertise other Clear Channel stations - like I need to know where to find "the best country music" when I'm rocking out to Tool or whatever. Please.
So, just to keep things ontopic;) I'd definitely consider paying for commercial radio, if it could get me out from under Clear Channel!
Man, would that be cool or WHAT? Everyone would look like desktop icons! Just don't let MS do the software for it - wouldn't want the wallpaper color showing up behind their names;)
The launch of space tourist Dennis Tito aboard a Russian Soyuz craft on Saturday will have to be delayed if the computer problem is not corrected, NASA spokesman Doug Peterson told Reuters.
It's no secret that NASA isn't too keen on Tito's
planned visit to the station. Looks like their choice of Windows will help them out in this regard!
How does the latest Gnome compare to the latest KDE? I recently ditched my old Ximian Gnome desktop for KDE2 and I gotta say I'm fairly impressed. It seems much more responsive, and Konquerer absolutely smokes compared to Mozilla or Netscape 4.
Any comments? I'd make this comparison myself if the Ximian servers weren't swamped right now...
In the interesting of helping out a fellow Sean, I've set up a forwarding address for the superintendent of the school district - send mail to injustice@seanmeister.com
Additionally, if Evolution becomes a full Outlook replacement...
Well, I tried Evolution some time ago, and it crashed just as often as Outlook does on the ol windows box - looks like they have at least THAT Outlook "feature" working!
If my memory serves me correctly (and it often does NOT), your statement is not quite correct. I think Gnutella was originally created by Justin Frankel (of Winamp fame). He worked for AOL at the time, but it never an AOL project.
My point was that the Napster service is run entirely by Napster, servers and all. (OpenNap servers don't count!) Therefore, it's easy for the RIAA to point their finger at Napster and say "stop that". Gnutella doesn't have any central servers under anyone's control - hell, there's not even an official client - so there's not really anyone to go after except the ISP's or individual users.
Because Napster has a little entity called "Napster, Inc." running it. It's (unfortunately) much easier to sue Napster, Inc. than it is to go after hundreds of ISP's.
In Georgia, Lewis has patented a hand-held "biosensor," and puts his wasps -- much smaller than the bees -- inside. When the insects smell an odor, they duck their heads to receive the reward, tripping an electric eye. Lewis said such a device could work well searching for explosives at airports, cocaine at the border, or even traces of disease in odors from the human body.
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geez. In the twenty seconds I took to draft this comment, two other people submitted the exact same thing...
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I think it's safe to say that you could fly through the mountains, or just about any other surface feature, on Saturn.
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Forgive me for asking, but if we "take out our planet", who's going to be around to fret about the moon?
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the font is called "draw-straight-lines-that-look-like-letters". You've already got it.
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More like "from the picking-the-flesh-from-the-corpse-of-Douglas-Adams dept"... maybe there's a reason these works were unfinished?
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What do you mean, "replaced"? ;-)
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Tauzin's district office is in Gonzales, LA. EATEL, a major CLEC player in Louisiana, is headquartered in Gonzales as well. Hmmm I wonder who won't be getting a nice campaign contribution from Eatel next time around... ?
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I recently drove from New Orleans to Albuquerque and back, and it was Clear Channel ALL THE WAY. Clear Channel Communications as snapping up every decent station in the company and currently owns over 1,700 stations.
According to this article, there are 269 radio markets in the US and the average market can handle about 15 stations on the FM band. That puts Clear Channel in control of over a third of the radio market nationwide! They run the same contests and play the same music nationwide, and they even advertise other Clear Channel stations - like I need to know where to find "the best country music" when I'm rocking out to Tool or whatever. Please.
So, just to keep things ontopic ;) I'd definitely consider paying for commercial radio, if it could get me out from under Clear Channel!
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It seems to me that if you're FORCED to use free software, it would somehow feel a little less free. Isn't freedom of choice important as well?
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I say we start here. When he grows up, I've got some serious questions I'd like him to answer.
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Man, would that be cool or WHAT? Everyone would look like desktop icons! Just don't let MS do the software for it - wouldn't want the wallpaper color showing up behind their names ;)
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It's no secret that NASA isn't too keen on Tito's planned visit to the station. Looks like their choice of Windows will help them out in this regard!
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Any comments? I'd make this comparison myself if the Ximian servers weren't swamped right now...
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Now go get 'em...
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Or maybe it's just a movie.
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Well, I tried Evolution some time ago, and it crashed just as often as Outlook does on the ol windows box - looks like they have at least THAT Outlook "feature" working!
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If my memory serves me correctly (and it often does NOT), your statement is not quite correct. I think Gnutella was originally created by Justin Frankel (of Winamp fame). He worked for AOL at the time, but it never an AOL project.
My point was that the Napster service is run entirely by Napster, servers and all. (OpenNap servers don't count!) Therefore, it's easy for the RIAA to point their finger at Napster and say "stop that". Gnutella doesn't have any central servers under anyone's control - hell, there's not even an official client - so there's not really anyone to go after except the ISP's or individual users.
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Because Napster has a little entity called "Napster, Inc." running it. It's (unfortunately) much easier to sue Napster, Inc. than it is to go after hundreds of ISP's.
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Cool - like a tamagotchi thing, only it can really die!!
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