Cablevision has been more than willing to offer YES as a premium-tier channel, so that only the people who want to watch the channel will have to pay for it. But YankeesNet has refused, because they want every cable subscriber to fork over an extra 15 cents per month or whatever to them, whether they care about the Yankees or not.
I can appreciate the argument that Cablevision is hurting its customers more than it's helping them by standing its ground, but morally Cablevision is in the right on this one.
No, it doesn't bother me. If you analyze the trends on the Forbes 400 over its history, no one stays on top forever. There's pretty rapid turnover -- the fabled 'old money' tends to fall into the hands of heirs who would rather spend their money than make more, and the 'new money' tends to peak and then fall off within a generation or two.
Cite? According to snopes, Coca-Cola did indeed contain cocaine but not THAT much... something like 0.06 grams per 25,000,000 gallons. Of syrup mind you, not the carbonated fountain drink.
Besides, if you don't get intoxicated enough after a series of Jack & Cokes sans cocaine, then I'm worried about you.
This joke hasn't been funny for years, but even less so when you get the joke wrong to begin with.
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In fact, the Declaration of Independence talks about the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" and of the need for its direct influence on manmade government.
The Declaration did not establish our government. Every 4th grader should know this.
And a people's belief in and worship of God directly effects how they want to be governed.
I don't believe in God. I do, however, support a moral code that is substantially similar to the one taught as The Word Of God. The two are not inseparable.
those that would support a separation would do better to leave the country than to try and change it.
Fuck you. Essentially, what you're saying is that every Muslim, Hindu, Jew, Atheist, Pagan, etc., etc., etc. who does not share your Christian ideology is not a real American--that their beliefs are incompatible with those on which this country was founded, so they are not welcome here.
We can see this clearly in the new voting equipment that's being installed in parts of Florida. They've bought equipment that contains closed, proprietary software.
Of all the problems plaguing the recent Florida primaries, approximately ZERO percent can be attributed to the fact that the voting software chosen was closed-source rather than open.
Citizens can't validate the outcome of elections using this software.
As opposed to previous systems, where a simple FOIA request will get crate after crate of punchcards shipped to you for inspection?
Attempting to do so may even be illegal, under the DMCA.
You're not doing anyone a service by invoking the name of the DMCA with no intent other than to scare people.
So anyone who can bribe the software vendors can control the election.
Why bother, when it's easier to bribe the human beings running the election?
An individual is easy to corrupt. An entire company, not quite as much. Too many people within a electronic voting-system company would have to know what's going on in order to rig the election results.
The chances of getting it done without someone on the inside ratting them out, or leaving an evidence trail that could be used to indict them, decrease as the size of the company increases. And I would hope our elected representatives would not be so foolish as to award the contract to a podunk 2-man garage operation.
Another question of accountability -- if the government sets up an open-source voting system and the system is later found to be flawed, who takes the blame for it?
Sure they do. In shipping CDs it's entirely possible that the disc surface will be scratched, or the teeth of the retaining peg broken off, or the jewelcase cracked...
Nonetheless, I agree with you that there's not a chance in hell that there's a 10% breakage rate these days. The principle of a deduction for breakage is sound, but the actual percentage is more likely in the 1-2% range and the industry's reliance on 60 year old figures is indeed tantamount to theft.
If you disagree with an assertion made in an article, post it as a comment like the rest of us do.
I'm sick of the habit of some Slashdot editors, most egregiously yourself, Michael, to use their role as editors as a proselytizing pulpit. Your job is to focus our attention on the articles, not to draw attention away from them and onto yourself.
1. Spend thousands of hours and dollars replacing all your 'bad' HTML code (which works) with 'good' HTML code (which will probably work) 2. ??? 3. Profit!
You're not. You're in an ivory tower of W3C idealism.
Any historian of the Internet must admit that the world wide web proliferated EXACTLY BECAUSE designers could control both the content and the appearance of their pages. The two have been inextricably linked, in EVERY medium, since time immemorial, and people like you are too enamored by the promise of a new paradigm that you fail to heed the lessons of historical precedent.
It's why Mosaic and Netscape won the FIRST round of browser wars, leaving Cello and WinWeb and all the other early browsers behind -- no matter how good the content is, if no page can be anything more than a drab screen with paragraph after paragraph of text, you might as well still be using Gopher, or sending teletext pages over Tymnet.
I believe that the US Goverment should stand back and reflect all the possible concequences of what their olicy of meddling in (and funding of) hardline groups of individuals in other countries could bring about.
No argument here from me, but even when the US Government does start considering possible long-term consequences of its foreign policy decisions, there will be a certain degree of "damned if you do, damned if you don't."
So the US supported the Shah of Iran? If the Shah hadn't had so much power, fundamental Islamist opposition would have never developed!
What if the US had not supported the Shah? Fundamental Islamist movements would have been allowed to develop unopposed!
Predicting the future is always a difficult job, and no one can ever understand every possible ramification of one's present actions, but the US Gov't certainly could do better than they have in the past.
Unfortunately the retailers have exclusive contracts forbidding them to sell any cd's from non RIAA approved companies.
Post proof or retract. My opinion is that you're making that up.
I know of several small labels (as in, the entire company has 2-3 employees) whose CDs can be found alongside the Columbia's and the Warner Bros'es in major record stores. I can vouch that these labels have absolutely no affiliation with the RIAA.
Sure, you can only find RIAA-member-label discs if you shop for music at Wal-Mart, but that's a symptom, not a cause, of the position of RIAA labels at the top of the industry.
Many of the comments here describe how things have changed in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but for the most part the changes have not affected the Internet. Although awareness of privacy concerns online is greater now than it was before, the online world has not changed much.
I live and work within a few miles of the WTC site. During that morning one year ago, I couldn't get in touch with my mother to let her know I was alright. The phone lines were overloaded; the cellular networks too were beyond capacity. I eventually did manage to get the word to her by IM'ing a friend who lived further away, and he was able to call her and pass the message. Because I had a net connection (one that did not rely on a phone circuit, I suppose I must mention), I was able to keep in touch with loved ones with whom I otherwise would not have.
Having to go through 2 x-rays instead of 1 doesn't necessarily mean the security is better. If the first screening does what it's supposed to, the second is redundant; if the first doesn't, there's no guarantee the second would either.
I think the ultimate stopping point of development on emacs is going to be when the emacs hackers sit down to make improvements in the program, and the program ends up responding, "I wouldn't do that if I were you, Dave"
Who knows, maybe some bands run their stuff through a codec before it is put on CD to make it sound better?
Pretty much, yeah.
Barely any audio signal goes directly from the live instrument to the CD master without some kind of processing done on it -- a touch of reverb on the voice, noise gates on the drums, compression on the master tracks, etc. Some of this is usually done in the analog domain, but digital is becoming more and more common.
Additionally, most high-end recording is done at 24-bit resolution or better, which has to be downsampled to 16 for the CD.
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You could have just said "RTFM"...
Blame YankeesNet for their bullying tactics.
Cablevision has been more than willing to offer YES as a premium-tier channel, so that only the people who want to watch the channel will have to pay for it. But YankeesNet has refused, because they want every cable subscriber to fork over an extra 15 cents per month or whatever to them, whether they care about the Yankees or not.
I can appreciate the argument that Cablevision is hurting its customers more than it's helping them by standing its ground, but morally Cablevision is in the right on this one.
No, it doesn't bother me. If you analyze the trends on the Forbes 400 over its history, no one stays on top forever. There's pretty rapid turnover -- the fabled 'old money' tends to fall into the hands of heirs who would rather spend their money than make more, and the 'new money' tends to peak and then fall off within a generation or two.
Cite? According to snopes, Coca-Cola did indeed contain cocaine but not THAT much... something like 0.06 grams per 25,000,000 gallons. Of syrup mind you, not the carbonated fountain drink.
Besides, if you don't get intoxicated enough after a series of Jack & Cokes sans cocaine, then I'm worried about you.
The IBM machine was the "PS/2", not the "PS2".
This joke hasn't been funny for years, but even less so when you get the joke wrong to begin with.
In fact, the Declaration of Independence talks about the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" and of the need for its direct influence on manmade government.
The Declaration did not establish our government. Every 4th grader should know this.
And a people's belief in and worship of God directly effects how they want to be governed.
I don't believe in God. I do, however, support a moral code that is substantially similar to the one taught as The Word Of God. The two are not inseparable.
those that would support a separation would
do better to leave the country than to try and change it.
Fuck you. Essentially, what you're saying is that every Muslim, Hindu, Jew, Atheist, Pagan, etc., etc., etc. who does not share your Christian ideology is not a real American--that their beliefs are incompatible with those on which this country was founded, so they are not welcome here.
Fuck you.
And if players start turning away from it, companies will stop doing it.
And this is why you never get spam email or see popup ads on the Internet anymore...!
We can see this clearly in the new voting equipment that's being installed in parts of Florida. They've bought equipment that contains closed, proprietary software.
Of all the problems plaguing the recent Florida primaries, approximately ZERO percent can be attributed to the fact that the voting software chosen was closed-source rather than open.
Citizens can't validate the outcome of elections using this software.
As opposed to previous systems, where a simple FOIA request will get crate after crate of punchcards shipped to you for inspection?
Attempting to do so may even be illegal, under
the DMCA.
You're not doing anyone a service by invoking the name of the DMCA with no intent other than to scare people.
So anyone who can bribe the software vendors can control the election.
Why bother, when it's easier to bribe the human beings running the election?
An individual is easy to corrupt. An entire company, not quite as much. Too many people within a electronic voting-system company would have to know what's going on in order to rig the election results.
The chances of getting it done without someone on the inside ratting them out, or leaving an evidence trail that could be used to indict them, decrease as the size of the company increases. And I would hope our elected representatives would not be so foolish as to award the contract to a podunk 2-man garage operation.
Another question of accountability -- if the government sets up an open-source voting system and the system is later found to be flawed, who takes the blame for it?
CDs don't break.
Sure they do. In shipping CDs it's entirely possible that the disc surface will be scratched, or the teeth of the retaining peg broken off, or the jewelcase cracked...
Nonetheless, I agree with you that there's not a chance in hell that there's a 10% breakage rate these days. The principle of a deduction for breakage is sound, but the actual percentage is more likely in the 1-2% range and the industry's reliance on 60 year old figures is indeed tantamount to theft.
In fact the act of strimming wires has been illegal for years -- regardless of what body part you use to do it.
You pervert.
'things are broken for an hour or a day' is not acceptable for production-candidate code.
If you disagree with an assertion made in an article, post it as a comment like the rest of us do.
I'm sick of the habit of some Slashdot editors, most egregiously yourself, Michael, to use their role as editors as a proselytizing pulpit. Your job is to focus our attention on the articles, not to draw attention away from them and onto yourself.
I mod you down -1, Offtopic.
Please post one historical instance where the 'slippery slope' scenario you envision (as inevitable, I might add) has actually panned out that way.
If it's opinion, sure, that's great. But if you're going to assert that 'this is how it happens', I need proof.
I'd say it's more like:
1. Spend thousands of hours and dollars replacing all your 'bad' HTML code (which works) with 'good' HTML code (which will probably work)
2. ???
3. Profit!
... I'm quite grounded in the real world.
You're not. You're in an ivory tower of W3C idealism.
Any historian of the Internet must admit that the world wide web proliferated EXACTLY BECAUSE designers could control both the content and the appearance of their pages. The two have been inextricably linked, in EVERY medium, since time immemorial, and people like you are too enamored by the promise of a new paradigm that you fail to heed the lessons of historical precedent.
It's why Mosaic and Netscape won the FIRST round of browser wars, leaving Cello and WinWeb and all the other early browsers behind -- no matter how good the content is, if no page can be anything more than a drab screen with paragraph after paragraph of text, you might as well still be using Gopher, or sending teletext pages over Tymnet.
You have a separate back-end script for every single browser that exists? No, I didn't think so.
I believe that the US Goverment should stand back and reflect all the possible concequences of what their olicy of meddling in (and funding of) hardline groups of individuals in other countries could bring about.
No argument here from me, but even when the US Government does start considering possible long-term consequences of its foreign policy decisions, there will be a certain degree of "damned if you do, damned if you don't."
So the US supported the Shah of Iran? If the Shah hadn't had so much power, fundamental Islamist opposition would have never developed!
What if the US had not supported the Shah? Fundamental Islamist movements would have been allowed to develop unopposed!
Predicting the future is always a difficult job, and no one can ever understand every possible ramification of one's present actions, but the US Gov't certainly could do better than they have in the past.
The Amiga's sound system was 4-channel (2L, 2R) 22kHz, 8-bit, right?
So why is the mp3 stream being broadcast in 128 kbps, 44kHz, 16-bit fidelity?
Unfortunately the retailers have exclusive contracts forbidding them to sell any cd's from non RIAA approved companies.
Post proof or retract. My opinion is that you're making that up.
I know of several small labels (as in, the entire company has 2-3 employees) whose CDs can be found alongside the Columbia's and the Warner Bros'es in major record stores. I can vouch that these labels have absolutely no affiliation with the RIAA.
Sure, you can only find RIAA-member-label discs if you shop for music at Wal-Mart, but that's a symptom, not a cause, of the position of RIAA labels at the top of the industry.
Many of the comments here describe how things have changed in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but for the most part the changes have not affected the Internet. Although awareness of privacy concerns online is greater now than it was before, the online world has not changed much.
I live and work within a few miles of the WTC site. During that morning one year ago, I couldn't get in touch with my mother to let her know I was alright. The phone lines were overloaded; the cellular networks too were beyond capacity. I eventually did manage to get the word to her by IM'ing a friend who lived further away, and he was able to call her and pass the message.
Because I had a net connection (one that did not rely on a phone circuit, I suppose I must mention), I was able to keep in touch with loved ones with whom I otherwise would not have.
Having to go through 2 x-rays instead of 1 doesn't necessarily mean the security is better. If the first screening does what it's supposed to, the second is redundant; if the first doesn't, there's no guarantee the second would either.
What was that Vonnegut bit about it being miles long, but most of it was in another dimension...?
Who knows, maybe some bands run their stuff through a codec before it is put on CD to make it sound better?
Pretty much, yeah.
Barely any audio signal goes directly from the live instrument to the CD master without some kind of processing done on it -- a touch of reverb on the voice, noise gates on the drums, compression on the master tracks, etc. Some of this is usually done in the analog domain, but digital is becoming more and more common.
Additionally, most high-end recording is done at 24-bit resolution or better, which has to be downsampled to 16 for the CD.