Oh yes, I will voluntarily buy a cell phone that zaps me. . . sure. .. These features may be great for the people standing around the caller, but no one, other than perhaps a sadistic corporate purchasing department, would buy one of these.
"Without a merger, it is not cost effective for either company to rebroadcast local channels is (sic) ALL markets...."
So what's preventing DirecTV and Echostar from standardizing their local channel satellite broadcasts? They could have some sort of agreement, short of a merger, that would allow both services to offer local channels for all major markets. They could pool their local satellite channels, and broadcast them in some form that both companies' receivers could decode. If there had been a merger, it would have required new equipment to receive their combined satellite broadcasts anyway....
5) "Around the same time, Linux surfaced. Based on the Minix kernel..." Um, no. There's a fairly famous Usenet exchange between Linus and some Minix guys from way back about how the Linux kernel was not based on Minix. I think Minix was even microkernel based -- that's not even the same kernel philosophy as Linux.
As a friend of mine who worked there (as a contractor) once said, "You work with these people, and many of them are just brilliant people...but they also think Microsoft software is the best in the world... You really wonder what's wrong with them..."
MOTHER: "Okay, boss. This LTX-71 concealable mic is part of the same system that NASA used when they faked the Apollo moon landings. The astronauts broadcast around the world from a soundstage at Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, California, so if it worked for them, it shouldn't give us too many problems."
The real problem is that little piece about civil suits. While anyone can really be sued by anyone at any time, the *really* frivolous lawsuits tend to get thrown out. However, if the judge feels there is a reason to hear the case, they will. According to this article, "Actual violations of the DMCA can be punished with a civil suit for damages..." Sometimes academic research could lead to damages to a corporation (or could be construed that way). The nasty thing about civil cases is that you are, more or less, guilty until proven innocent. At best, you've got a whole pile of court costs to contend with. While a big corporation can afford to go to court and lose, most people can't. So, even if you're in the right (even according to the DMCA), but a copyright holder thinks you're not, they can tie you up in court until you're bankrupt. The DMCA really gives them the ability to do this, and this is dangerous.
As always, it's the lawyers who make their money both ways. They tend to craft these sorts of things, then cash in on them again when they get fought in court. Quite a nice little system they've got going for themselves...
How about the ban on reception of the 800 MHz analog cellular band that passed a few years ago? That passed the Radio Shack test too, but the law was still passed.
No time in the history of radio in the United States has a license ever been necessary to receive a broadcast -- until that law was passed (I think in 1995). Did you know that reselling an old TV that receives UHF channels 69-83 is trafficking an illegal radio receiver?
Don't sleep on this one or you might find A-Ds without watermark detection illegal too.
Lovely, just more legislation for the hell of it. We get closer to a totalitarian state every day... We've gotta keep those Senators and Reps employed, you know.
(Please note: I am not for or against any of these bills, as I have not read them. However, I am completely frustrated with the number of bills pertaining to person freedom that are getting introduced every day.)
I kinda doubt this. While this is an issue to cable modem operators (vs DSL), the cost of their pipe to a higher-tier provider is probably a bigger headache. Thousands of broadband users agregated together is a lot of bandwidth!
At one point in our young company's early days, we noticed than half of the, then, 8 employees were named John. This led to the inside joke of naming all computers after famous Johns. The supply is nearly endless....
doe candy lithgow belushijacobjingleheimersch midt (cnamed to jocob) bonham carmack glenn malkovich
I've always heard that if you put all those asteroids together in the asteroid belt, you still wouldn't have enought mass to make much of a planet (think very small Jovian moon sized). Is this no longer a common theory?
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Oh yes, I will voluntarily buy a cell phone that zaps me. . . sure. . .
These features may be great for the people standing around the caller, but no one, other than perhaps a sadistic corporate purchasing department, would buy one of these.
"Without a merger, it is not cost effective for either company to rebroadcast local channels is (sic) ALL markets...."
So what's preventing DirecTV and Echostar from standardizing their local channel satellite broadcasts? They could have some sort of agreement, short of a merger, that would allow both services to offer local channels for all major markets. They could pool their local satellite channels, and broadcast them in some form that both companies' receivers could decode. If there had been a merger, it would have required new equipment to receive their combined satellite broadcasts anyway....
5) "Around the same time, Linux surfaced. Based on the Minix kernel..." Um, no. There's a fairly famous Usenet exchange between Linus and some Minix guys from way back about how the Linux kernel was not based on Minix. I think Minix was even microkernel based -- that's not even the same kernel philosophy as Linux.
As a friend of mine who worked there (as a contractor) once said, "You work with these people, and many of them are just brilliant people...but they also think Microsoft software is the best in the world... You really wonder what's wrong with them..."
MOTHER: "Okay, boss. This LTX-71 concealable mic is part of the same system that NASA used when they faked the Apollo moon landings. The astronauts broadcast around the world from a soundstage at Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, California, so if it worked for them, it shouldn't give us too many problems."
- "Sneakers"
Um, if it's a Mac, Apple's received revenue....
The real problem is that little piece about civil suits. While anyone can really be sued by anyone at any time, the *really* frivolous lawsuits tend to get thrown out. However, if the judge feels there is a reason to hear the case, they will. According to this article, "Actual violations of the DMCA can be punished with a civil suit for damages..." Sometimes academic research could lead to damages to a corporation (or could be construed that way).
The nasty thing about civil cases is that you are, more or less, guilty until proven innocent. At best, you've got a whole pile of court costs to contend with. While a big corporation can afford to go to court and lose, most people can't.
So, even if you're in the right (even according to the DMCA), but a copyright holder thinks you're not, they can tie you up in court until you're bankrupt. The DMCA really gives them the ability to do this, and this is dangerous.
As always, it's the lawyers who make their money both ways. They tend to craft these sorts of things, then cash in on them again when they get fought in court. Quite a nice little system they've got going for themselves...
How about the ban on reception of the 800 MHz analog cellular band that passed a few years ago? That passed the Radio Shack test too, but the law was still passed.
No time in the history of radio in the United States has a license ever been necessary to receive a broadcast -- until that law was passed (I think in 1995).
Did you know that reselling an old TV that receives UHF channels 69-83 is trafficking an illegal radio receiver?
Don't sleep on this one or you might find A-Ds without watermark detection illegal too.
Lovely, just more legislation for the hell of it. We get closer to a totalitarian state every day...
We've gotta keep those Senators and Reps employed, you know.
(Please note: I am not for or against any of these bills, as I have not read them. However, I am completely frustrated with the number of bills pertaining to person freedom that are getting introduced every day.)
I kinda doubt this. While this is an issue to cable modem operators (vs DSL), the cost of their pipe to a higher-tier provider is probably a bigger headache. Thousands of broadband users agregated together is a lot of bandwidth!
Um, they're still around in Columbus Ohio.....
I don't eat there regularly, though, so I can't comment on the odor...
At one point in our young company's early days, we noticed than half of the, then, 8 employees were named John. This led to the inside joke of naming all computers after famous Johns. The supply is nearly endless....
h midt (cnamed to jocob)
doe
candy
lithgow
belushijacobjingleheimersc
bonham
carmack
glenn
malkovich
...the list goes on and on...
I've always heard that if you put all those asteroids together in the asteroid belt, you still wouldn't have enought mass to make much of a planet (think very small Jovian moon sized). Is this no longer a common theory?