First, I think when they say "Forks" they mean "Blaine" where there IS a border crossing... but ya never know, maybe they were doing a sweep for frostbacks in the Christmas tree farm and came across wetbacks. Still fishy.
The last time I went north, there was no hassle getting into the Great White North (through Peace Arch, Blaine). Had a great time eating Wunderbars and Kinder Surprise eggs. Coming back home was another story, because the US border guard really wanted to see proof that I'm a US Citizen. My driver's license wasn't enough, he said, I need a passport, and launched into this story about how the fourteen terrorists behind 9/11 got boarded to planes because they had driver's licenses. I'm thinking and they had passports, but you didn't stop them anyway. I smiled and nodded, swore to try harder, and went back to where I've lived all my life 200 miles south of the border.
Mmmm hmm, YouTube "depends" upon sources like Viacom to exist, so not all of the site's contents will be teenagers doing stupid human tricks and vapid Vblogs. Without TV shows and such Viacom isn't broadcasting currently, there'd be nothing worth seeing there beside the occasional independant film.
Sounds more like an RIAA v. Public variety argument: one side complains about dropping sales and blames piracy, the other side says "you aren't putting out anything worth buying."
This same tactic is employed by phisher sites, so intelligent users should see those prompts for logins and flee in the opposite direction. Some browsers may even pick up on these fields and put up an alert to be wary.
Of course, that's not how the general public reacts (yet), but the earmarks should set off the alarms for many.
Hey, I think it's great that NBC would want to get into the video offerings business. Reason why people post copyrighted material to YouTube is so it will be available. NBC has already been making overtures in that direction with some of their shows (like the standup routines from 'Last Comic Standing' S5) and Fox has performances from 'American Idol' on their site, ergo you don't have to go to find a Torrent or browse YouTube et aliis to see what you missed.
And for that reason, NBC's assimilating seems a smarter move than Viacom's bitching, IMHO.
What I derive from that 'statistic' is that hybrids are overpriced. This number should go down as they become more the mainstream and less the oddity. And yet......Maybe denying the petroleum companies and your local government (since you're not buying gasoline as often, thus not paying as much in gas taxes as the average citizen) so much funding might account for the markup. I wonder, does the tax credit one gets for driving an earthfriendly car meet the bonus taxation some places want to institute on hybrids for not paying into the gas taxes?
Not to imply that YouTube is in the right for having copyrighted materials or Viacom is in the wrong for wanting to rein in their material, but......Possibly the reason why copyrighted stuff gets put on YouTube is so others can have it because the owners aren't making it available. (This is also my excuse for certain people's P2P activites -- such and such isn't available through 'official' channels, you can't just run out and buy it, and some nice person with it has shared.) If Viacom doesn't want it on YouTube, they should ante up the goods so there isn't a p1r4t3 market for it.
Bless YouTube for giving the power (and 1980's "Time for Timer" PSAs) to the people.
> and the possible danger to national security warranted their decision to let it continue
That's the excuse for everything. You name it, and some pro-security / anti-terrorism phrase will be tossed out, regardless of how irrelevant it factually is. Must be nice to have a bugaboo for all occasions.
Just another year and a month, folks. Just another year and a month.
Hmmm, not in total agreement about the notion of consumers being bright. Apple has a known brand name and a large presence, and there is a certain degree of "if you want things to work, you must get THIS player and use THIS service to fill it." Biggest or best known doesn't make it the best option. The part you can rely on is marketing.
But you will note that the DRM protests of the day are aimed at Apple, not Microsoft, so maybe maybe people would like to use the songs they downloaded from iTunes on their Rio, Sansa, Sony, etc. players, or play them in WinAmp, or use them as a ringtone on their phone, or what have you since they did pay that dollar to get the song.
I'm not going to stir the shit much, I will only say that one problem with DRM is that it causes the music you bought to not be able to be played any way you want. We're not talking public broadcast, we're talking about downloading a WMA file and putting it on your personal player, or burning to CD, or any use other than using Windows Media Player at your computer to hear it. Also, some DRM schemes are broken and won't even play on the equipment they're supposed to be geared for. With DRM you're renting music.
> As our friends at Disney recognize, if there is this debate, we will have won.
DRM is not their thing, but copyright control is. Winnie The Pooh has been imprisoned for way beyond the standard copyright limits. Odd that they'd be for freeing the music but not the cartoons that sang it.
Everyone should put "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" on their digital players.:)
The fine folks at DAP Review suggested "dapcast" (for Digital Audio Player) several months ago to emphasize you don't need an Apple product to play the audio/video.
I know that Hamsterdance's animated GIFs and sped-up Roger Miller laugh predates Badger Badger Badger, All Your Base Are Belong To Us, and whatever other Flash goodies are out there, but it's really a matter of taste whether Hamsterdance is more annoying, eh?
You didn't mention whether the computer was on a network. I see CMD windows pop up for a second to run things once in awhile on work machines, so there could be any number of applications which aren't in the msconfig list being invoked upon you.
If you're not on a network, as some others said earlier have a look at msconfig... that'd spook me.
After having only customers who were friends or my wife's associates, and paying more in taxes than I took in because the Schedule C didn't give me gas credit like it should have, I've given up on the home computer repair business (or as a business). People I talked to when I was getting started said they only did business support because there isn't as much money in home support, and less return business if you've done your job right (or their computer isn't a complete POS).
Suggestion is to have a client list drawn up before you start and to advertise wherever you can. Just being told that there are X-thousand users locally and they need help [my wife, who works at a library near our home, told me regularly there were "10 people a week" who came in looking for computer help and they could not recommend anyone... and apparently never recommended me either] doesn't mean they'll beat a path to your door. Also, be aware that you're not the only fish in the pond, no matter what you think. I didn't find out who my "competition" was until I put up my shingle.
The next use of this paper will be for printing those Microsoft Genuine Advantage certificates with your Windows registration code on them. Made expecially for those rare folk who do know where their documentation is.
Odd... Jobs leave the US for India, causing Americans to get hungry. Then Indian outsourcers start rejecting those jobs because they pay so low the Indians go hungry. Sounds like there's a worldwide hunger crisis in the works, so to speak.
So if India can demand better wages and reject outsource work, can America have those jobs back? We already know the language. Or will we have to wait until Business is done exploiting China and the third- and fourth-world countries? Some companies have come to their senses, but not all and not fast enough.
Which brings to mind a Dilbert strip about how the outsourced work had been so undercut while being bounced to foreign markets that eventually it went to the lowest bidder -- the original company.
Currenly, St. Cloud, Florida is the only one that can make that claim.
Bzzzzzt! again
Spokane, WA has citywide free wi-fi too. Or for 100 blocks of the downtown anyway -- though it's 2nd or 3rd largest city in the state, as opposed to a small town where the entire area would be covered.
The increased popularity of Treos will be all for naught if they are still flakier than pie crust. Imagine all these new excited business customers calling their cellular carriers twice a week about how their non-Blackberries keep locking up, dropping calls, and so forth. They'll wish they could get out of their contracts/layouts and switch to Blackberries. (Not claiming BB's are all the sh!t, but that the Palms... are sh!t. Buy your local PDA-phone support person a beer, he or she needs one.)
My wife and I are bibliophiles too with a familyroom full of IKEA shelves. We group by subject, like any library but without the specificness of Dewey. Feminist lit, humor, antique reference, current reference, children's lit, novels/classics, and so forth.
Try this: set the engine to Yahoo, the first country to France, and the search term to "hitler". The biggest fonted word under France is "bush"... and "nazi" isn't even on the list.
Slashdot Mirror
First, I think when they say "Forks" they mean "Blaine" where there IS a border crossing... but ya never know, maybe they were doing a sweep for frostbacks in the Christmas tree farm and came across wetbacks. Still fishy.
The last time I went north, there was no hassle getting into the Great White North (through Peace Arch, Blaine). Had a great time eating Wunderbars and Kinder Surprise eggs. Coming back home was another story, because the US border guard really wanted to see proof that I'm a US Citizen. My driver's license wasn't enough, he said, I need a passport, and launched into this story about how the fourteen terrorists behind 9/11 got boarded to planes because they had driver's licenses. I'm thinking and they had passports, but you didn't stop them anyway. I smiled and nodded, swore to try harder, and went back to where I've lived all my life 200 miles south of the border.
Mmmm hmm, YouTube "depends" upon sources like Viacom to exist, so not all of the site's contents will be teenagers doing stupid human tricks and vapid Vblogs. Without TV shows and such Viacom isn't broadcasting currently, there'd be nothing worth seeing there beside the occasional independant film.
Sounds more like an RIAA v. Public variety argument: one side complains about dropping sales and blames piracy, the other side says "you aren't putting out anything worth buying."
This same tactic is employed by phisher sites, so intelligent users should see those prompts for logins and flee in the opposite direction. Some browsers may even pick up on these fields and put up an alert to be wary.
Of course, that's not how the general public reacts (yet), but the earmarks should set off the alarms for many.
...join 'em.
Hey, I think it's great that NBC would want to get into the video offerings business. Reason why people post copyrighted material to YouTube is so it will be available. NBC has already been making overtures in that direction with some of their shows (like the standup routines from 'Last Comic Standing' S5) and Fox has performances from 'American Idol' on their site, ergo you don't have to go to find a Torrent or browse YouTube et aliis to see what you missed.
And for that reason, NBC's assimilating seems a smarter move than Viacom's bitching, IMHO.
What I derive from that 'statistic' is that hybrids are overpriced. This number should go down as they become more the mainstream and less the oddity. And yet... ...Maybe denying the petroleum companies and your local government (since you're not buying gasoline as often, thus not paying as much in gas taxes as the average citizen) so much funding might account for the markup. I wonder, does the tax credit one gets for driving an earthfriendly car meet the bonus taxation some places want to institute on hybrids for not paying into the gas taxes?
Hydrogen engines: Just add water.
Not to imply that YouTube is in the right for having copyrighted materials or Viacom is in the wrong for wanting to rein in their material, but... ...Possibly the reason why copyrighted stuff gets put on YouTube is so others can have it because the owners aren't making it available. (This is also my excuse for certain people's P2P activites -- such and such isn't available through 'official' channels, you can't just run out and buy it, and some nice person with it has shared.) If Viacom doesn't want it on YouTube, they should ante up the goods so there isn't a p1r4t3 market for it.
Bless YouTube for giving the power (and 1980's "Time for Timer" PSAs) to the people.
Finally, the Mind Link-exclusive game Bionic Breakthrough will be playable!
Or just as playable as Impossible Mission.
> and the possible danger to national security warranted their decision to let it continue
That's the excuse for everything. You name it, and some pro-security / anti-terrorism phrase will be tossed out, regardless of how irrelevant it factually is. Must be nice to have a bugaboo for all occasions.
Just another year and a month, folks. Just another year and a month.
Hmmm, not in total agreement about the notion of consumers being bright. Apple has a known brand name and a large presence, and there is a certain degree of "if you want things to work, you must get THIS player and use THIS service to fill it." Biggest or best known doesn't make it the best option. The part you can rely on is marketing.
But you will note that the DRM protests of the day are aimed at Apple, not Microsoft, so maybe maybe people would like to use the songs they downloaded from iTunes on their Rio, Sansa, Sony, etc. players, or play them in WinAmp, or use them as a ringtone on their phone, or what have you since they did pay that dollar to get the song.
Apparently you haven't been on MySpace and seen either the boobies or the kids. ;-)
I'm not going to stir the shit much, I will only say that one problem with DRM is that it causes the music you bought to not be able to be played any way you want. We're not talking public broadcast, we're talking about downloading a WMA file and putting it on your personal player, or burning to CD, or any use other than using Windows Media Player at your computer to hear it. Also, some DRM schemes are broken and won't even play on the equipment they're supposed to be geared for. With DRM you're renting music.
> As our friends at Disney recognize, if there is this debate, we will have won.
:)
DRM is not their thing, but copyright control is. Winnie The Pooh has been imprisoned for way beyond the standard copyright limits. Odd that they'd be for freeing the music but not the cartoons that sang it.
Everyone should put "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" on their digital players.
Gee, sounds like text messages and email that your average tech support person sends their customer...
*ding* "I just received my password! Er, now I can't find it."
The fine folks at DAP Review suggested "dapcast" (for Digital Audio Player) several months ago to emphasize you don't need an Apple product to play the audio/video.
Problem there is, Verizon Wireless has the trademark on the word "Vcast". And most video-casts work much better than Vcast. :)
I admit that I too wondered where the navigation links were. Usually there's a "Next 5" and "Previous 5" below the important text, right? Right? Uh...
I know that Hamsterdance's animated GIFs and sped-up Roger Miller laugh predates Badger Badger Badger, All Your Base Are Belong To Us, and whatever other Flash goodies are out there, but it's really a matter of taste whether Hamsterdance is more annoying, eh?
You didn't mention whether the computer was on a network. I see CMD windows pop up for a second to run things once in awhile on work machines, so there could be any number of applications which aren't in the msconfig list being invoked upon you.
If you're not on a network, as some others said earlier have a look at msconfig... that'd spook me.
After having only customers who were friends or my wife's associates, and paying more in taxes than I took in because the Schedule C didn't give me gas credit like it should have, I've given up on the home computer repair business (or as a business). People I talked to when I was getting started said they only did business support because there isn't as much money in home support, and less return business if you've done your job right (or their computer isn't a complete POS).
Suggestion is to have a client list drawn up before you start and to advertise wherever you can. Just being told that there are X-thousand users locally and they need help [my wife, who works at a library near our home, told me regularly there were "10 people a week" who came in looking for computer help and they could not recommend anyone... and apparently never recommended me either] doesn't mean they'll beat a path to your door. Also, be aware that you're not the only fish in the pond, no matter what you think. I didn't find out who my "competition" was until I put up my shingle.
Mush -- ex Geekery Ltd.
The next use of this paper will be for printing those Microsoft Genuine Advantage certificates with your Windows registration code on them. Made expecially for those rare folk who do know where their documentation is.
Odd... Jobs leave the US for India, causing Americans to get hungry. Then Indian outsourcers start rejecting those jobs because they pay so low the Indians go hungry. Sounds like there's a worldwide hunger crisis in the works, so to speak.
So if India can demand better wages and reject outsource work, can America have those jobs back? We already know the language. Or will we have to wait until Business is done exploiting China and the third- and fourth-world countries? Some companies have come to their senses, but not all and not fast enough.
Which brings to mind a Dilbert strip about how the outsourced work had been so undercut while being bounced to foreign markets that eventually it went to the lowest bidder -- the original company.
Currenly, St. Cloud, Florida is the only one that can make that claim.
Bzzzzzt! again
Spokane, WA has citywide free wi-fi too. Or for 100 blocks of the downtown anyway -- though it's 2nd or 3rd largest city in the state, as opposed to a small town where the entire area would be covered.
The increased popularity of Treos will be all for naught if they are still flakier than pie crust. Imagine all these new excited business customers calling their cellular carriers twice a week about how their non-Blackberries keep locking up, dropping calls, and so forth. They'll wish they could get out of their contracts/layouts and switch to Blackberries. (Not claiming BB's are all the sh!t, but that the Palms... are sh!t. Buy your local PDA-phone support person a beer, he or she needs one.)
My wife and I are bibliophiles too with a familyroom full of IKEA shelves. We group by subject, like any library but without the specificness of Dewey. Feminist lit, humor, antique reference, current reference, children's lit, novels/classics, and so forth.
Try this: set the engine to Yahoo, the first country to France, and the search term to "hitler". The biggest fonted word under France is "bush" ... and "nazi" isn't even on the list.
Food for thought or just curious?