In this case, it's We Love the MPAA, Particularly Disney, and We Will Gladly Lie Down and Take It While They Force Us to Accept Delayed Region 1 Discs, and Pay Inflated Prices that Fund Jack Valenti Day.
I'll expect MPAA Is Evil announcements again tomorrow.
Because limits on posts work so well for the slashdot trolls.
Seriously, who spams from Hotmail anyway? Don't all the real spammers use custom software with a built-in smtp server? I've gotten enough spams advertising it, after all.
I'm inclined to think that all of this discussion of "shock & awe" was all disinformation, aimed at fooling the Iraqi authorities into not responding very aggressively to the US attack. Just a hunch.
Advertisers: tivo has no effect whatsoever on my willingness to buy what you're selling. I am sure I will buy even more of it now that I skip^H^H^HFF the ads.
They do take Mute into account, however. think of all those ads with excessive text on the screen - clearly to get the mute-button-wielding viewer's attention. (Of course I don't remember what those ads are, hence they're not that effective.)
Okay, but if you were (for example) on an IPSec tunnel to a private network (logged onto by you) and accessing the TurboTax website via proxy, and you submitted a tax return in error, wouldn't that be a special circumstance for tax fraud? It's just as absurd.
Usually when the "initial target market is business customers" this means cost is $100/month or more. Meanwhile, wardriving is free. Which do you choose?
Seriously, the problem is the contract arrangements described by another poster. You'd think, though, that MLB would find some way to share those eighty dollars a year with the teams.
As for blackout rules on sellouts, you're confusing MLB with the NFL. There, games not sold out are blacked out locally (also a dumbass rule IMHO). In baseball, the local teams get cable contracts & revenue (except the Expos, who need to move to Washington, but I digress).
Right. But a webcast of home games would be very useful on (for example) a work PC. And not every game is free-to-air - most local games are on Fox Sports Net, a cable channel.
I think they wasted a ton of effort to do the geographic limitation. Why bother? Yes, broadcasters paid for exclusive tv rights, but this is a different medium. Getting people to pay for webcasts must surely be nothing but new revenue.
Several different techno-fied versions of "The Raven" circle on the net. My favorite:
Once upon a midnight dreary, fingers cramped and vision bleary, System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor, Longing for the warmth of bed sheets, still I sat there doing spreadsheets. Having reached the bottom line I took a floppy from the drawer, I then invoked the SAVE command and waited for the disk to store, Only this and nothing more.
Deep into the monitor peering, long I sat there wond'ring, fearing, Doubting, while the disk kept churning, turning yet to churn some more. But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token. "Save!" I said, "You cursed mother! Save my data from before!" One thing did the phosphors answer, only this and nothing more, Just, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"
Was this some occult illusion, some maniacal intrusion? These were choices undesired, ones I'd never faced before. Carefully I weighed the choices as the disk made impish noises. The cursor flashed, insistent, waiting, baiting me to type some more. Clearly I must press a key, choosing one and nothing more, From "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"
With fingers pale and trembling, slowly toward the keyboard bending, Longing for a happy ending, hoping all would be restored, Praying for some guarantee, timidly, I pressed a key. But on the screen there still persisted words appearing as before. Ghastly grim they blinked and taunted, haunted, as my patience wore, Saying "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"
I tried to catch the chips off guard, and pressed again, but twice as hard. I pleaded with the cursed machine: I begged and cried and then I swore. Now in mighty desperation, trying random combinations, Still there came the incantation, just as senseless as before. Cursor blinking, angrily winking, blinking nonsense as before. Reading, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"
There I sat, distraught, exhausted, by my own machine accosted. Getting up I turned away and paced across the office floor. And then I saw a dreadful sight: a lightning bolt cut through the night. A gasp of horror overtook me, shook me to my very core. The lightning zapped my previous data, lost and gone forevermore. Not even, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"
To this day I do not know the place to which lost data go. What demonic nether world us wrought where lost data will be stored, Beyond the reach of mortal souls, beyond the ether, into black holes? But sure as there's C, Pascal, Lotus, Ashton-Tate and more, You will be one day be left to wander, lost on some Plutonian shore, Pleading, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?"
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In this case, it's We Love the MPAA, Particularly Disney, and We Will Gladly Lie Down and Take It While They Force Us to Accept Delayed Region 1 Discs, and Pay Inflated Prices that Fund Jack Valenti Day.
I'll expect MPAA Is Evil announcements again tomorrow.
That would be a downloading DVD. And, by some interpretations of the law, it would be illegal.
Hence: downloading DVDs are illegal.
So you're both right. (On the pedantic-grammar front, that is.)
Seriously, who spams from Hotmail anyway? Don't all the real spammers use custom software with a built-in smtp server? I've gotten enough spams advertising it, after all.
I'm inclined to think that all of this discussion of "shock & awe" was all disinformation, aimed at fooling the Iraqi authorities into not responding very aggressively to the US attack. Just a hunch.
Sorry, dipshit, you just did. Effect on the war: goose egg. Effect on "business as usual": nil. (I telecommute, haha!)
and 9 year, 364 day anniversary of dying
Isn't FK kind of a troll already? he's got the freaks list for it.
Yup, no effect at all!
They do take Mute into account, however. think of all those ads with excessive text on the screen - clearly to get the mute-button-wielding viewer's attention. (Of course I don't remember what those ads are, hence they're not that effective.)
Don't forget, CmdrTaco is only three degrees from Bacon!
Didn't someone write a script measuring people's degrees of separation from each other on slashdot via Zoo?
Okay, but if you were (for example) on an IPSec tunnel to a private network (logged onto by you) and accessing the TurboTax website via proxy, and you submitted a tax return in error, wouldn't that be a special circumstance for tax fraud? It's just as absurd.
From reading this thread, it seems like that's what's on freenet.
Usually when the "initial target market is business customers" this means cost is $100/month or more. Meanwhile, wardriving is free. Which do you choose?
So not only you get to breathe everyone else's exhaust, you get to produce your own via a two-stroke engine directly under your nose? Yucko.
The day it was announced, I gave $20 to SomaFM. Hopefully not all of it will go to pay RIAA extortion.
Don't read slashdot much, eh?
Seriously, the problem is the contract arrangements described by another poster. You'd think, though, that MLB would find some way to share those eighty dollars a year with the teams.
As for blackout rules on sellouts, you're confusing MLB with the NFL. There, games not sold out are blacked out locally (also a dumbass rule IMHO). In baseball, the local teams get cable contracts & revenue (except the Expos, who need to move to Washington, but I digress).
I think they wasted a ton of effort to do the geographic limitation. Why bother? Yes, broadcasters paid for exclusive tv rights, but this is a different medium. Getting people to pay for webcasts must surely be nothing but new revenue.
Blooming, blithering, drivelling, sputtering, drooling morons. But this is what we have come to expect from Bud Selig, unfortunately.
Almost as good: USian Pie
Ah, the good old days of Musical Trolls.
It's just you.
I emailed Taco, as he requested. Oh well.
essential security for temporary Liberty deserve neither.