Now it would also be very nice if this or similar decision was extended to cars. For now many states require local dealer to sell you car -- you can't just go online and order it from, say, Vermont. In order for online car seller to be able to serve customers in, say, Texas, they have to have local affiliated dealership. While perhaps "back then" it was a useful law, and a part of attempt to separate out dealerships and car manufacturers, so to avoid price gouging, these days it's simply protecting local tax revenue.
I might be wrong, but looks kinda cheesy, like one of those "Direct to Video" releases. Plus... A damsel in distress, and empire in pursuit. Where's the robot with "Help me, *static*! You're my only hope!". Knowle Rohrer. "This is going to be interesting" in trailer. Waaaahh... *runs away*
Wouldn't this decision mean it's better NOT to work in NY remotely? Leave it to guys in India. I am sure NY will be happy with 10x less money they can collect on smaller salaries (I also would love to see them try to collect the tax:) Though they probably demand employers to deduct the tax and pay it directly, rather than wait for individual to pay up).
Letter prefixes are still here, just in a different form:) All is a matter of mnemonics... People thought seven digits were difficult to remember, so they'd tell you "dial TREmont 5532 (873-5532)". But the number of words that start with the "right numbers" is limited, so by 1949 it became two letters and numbers ( BUtterfield 8 - 288 ), and then just numbers.
Now people still prefer to remember words, so you have 1-800-CALL-ATT ( 1-800-225-288 ). Though if someone owns, say 1-800-382-5633, it's very unlikely they give out number in mnemonics;)
All phone numbers in this message are shown for illustrative purposes only...
A link to "Find a normal toaster" on the page, describing Nikkei news about this commerical product is especially cute:) As for the infrared ray toasting... well... that's pretty much standard, unless someone actually makes toasts via Dumb Toaster Called Skillet:)
Those nice phone fees are where the legs of this fee grow from. The FCC line fee was introduced, and then increased under the same pretense -- "long distance rates will continue to fall, so even with increased FCC Line Fee you will see reduction of your overall bill". The hell it did.
So... I guess once this fee is applied and nobody's bottom gets removed from the high and mighty chair over this, there will be a fee increase, then another fee (for the regulation and patent disputes, for example), and another one (to help public schools pay for their domain names) etc. All of those fees will be removed from the registrar's ads, so you'll see ".NET Domains for Only $5.95* " with fine print stating "Please note, additional fees and surcharges may apply" and final price will crawl up to $9 or more.
Look at cell phones and regular land-line phones... That's where it's heading.
Perhaps the Sold-Out one should be recalled? Nothing changes politician's minds faster han a number of signatures on petition to recall them. Magically all the "benefits" of their decision evaporate and they change their minds. So, organize people, get signatures, and don't forget to inform him about your activities.
To REFUSE business of such customers. If system knows Mrs ForgetMyWardrobe has 53% chance to return what she tries to buy, DO NOT SELL IT TO HER. Explain why, say how sorry you are, escort her off. Store can refuse selling to anyone -- that's their right. But this situation is way more honest, than trying to sell something to the customer and then refuse taking it back, even though you claim you would.
So... I suppose once someone bothers to find exploit for Windows Embedded that new postal machines run ("Automated Postal Center") there will be a rampant script-kiddies march on to print free stamps (which, perhaps would be not so successful as there is a main repository of printed stamps in the system ):), or, even worse -- attempts to inject into software some spyware, collecting debit and credit card numbers, and giving them back once a certain combination of "screen clicks" performed (or sending them off to some chinese website, if there is a way to sneak into internet from the machine).
Perhaps the best way would be to research the viability of capturing solar wind and converting it into antimatter on solar orbit? That would solve multiple problems -- no risk to surface-based buildings, all source materials are radiated from the sun (solar panels + hyrdrogen, captured from the solar wind), containment fields would hold finished fuel, which can be picked up by a shuttle:) Hm... but someone already thought of that, I am sure...
I don't believe instant pricecuts indicate "serious market".
VOIP at current prices is severely overpriced. 1000 minutes of voice termination at wholesale rates in US hardly costs $10. How many users actually use more than a thousand minutes? Probably not 90% of them. Additionally, incoming calls reduce that rate even further. Given that most providers started with $30 a month, they can easily drop rate till $19 for unlimited plans. Of course the situation will change radically once FCC forces everyone to pay $6 per line fee, plus extra taxes (for the same of schools and libraries, no less, so that small regional school could be easily lured into buying Catalyst with maintenance contract, and the rest'd go to Bell companies)...
$40 for hardware NAT box (any store has em) $400 for a new computer with Win XP and a whole bunch of preinstalled stuff (practically all retail boxes have some sort antivirus with 3-6-12 months of subscription) $25 for a box of CD-RW for dragging data back and forth. --------- $465. Can I have the rest please?:)
Ever since I moved here from Europe I was wondering WHY I am not allowed to watch local stations from other areas. I mean they are already on the transponder, why can't I see local ABC from, say, NY? FCC does not allow that to protect local tv stations monopoly. If it was not for this rule, you'd always be able to watch your favorite game by simply switching to another local station. So, perhaps we should do something about that rule first. And when all local stations (ok, many local stations if not all, satellite feed is limited in size after all) are easily available anywhere in continental US, NFL et all won't be able to force local black-out, as viewers would simply flip the channel.
What would one expect? I am sure there will be a nice little movement to charge Universal Service Fee as well. Never mind that it's illogical. Just pray that if these fees get added, they'd be one time only, and not "every month that equipment is in use". Then you will pay for VOIP dearly -- your broadband provider, tax on broadband access, tax on VOIP service, tax on WiFi router that is used to connect VOIP box. Socialism is alive and well here...:)
So in worst case scenario Nextel PTT service would be hit. More grief to local construction crews, some joy for people eating out at local chinese buffet [Prr-BEEP] JOHN GET YOUR $%^$ HERE, MIKE JUST SCREWED UP THE LINING ON THE SECOND FLOOR. But seriously -- this plan is quite old. See this article (Motorola drops 800 MHz bomb)
Much easier, though it will cost you extra $5 or so. But then the recepient gets to shop at ANY store. Or that $20 can be spent at the gas station (just go inside and ask for $20 worth of gas, the pump will shut off automatically once it reaches the limit;) )
Delivery addresses don't have to contain any name at all. All they need, is a street address. And, for example, 99.999% of all magazines accept "First name: Our; Last name: Friend" as subscriber info. They don't care, as long, as subscription is paid. That way you get your slice of a dead tree, and marketoids are scratching their head, trying to figure out if "Our Friend, 2nd street 33, New York, NY 10001" is male or female, so they could spam the mailing address with corresponding "Offers"...
I bet the "confusion" is due to famous cultural differences. Where Japanese customer would politely note that "I am confused on how this feature work. Perhaps it's just me, but I can't record the show from tv", US one would spray phone with saliva and salty words, demanding to know "who's that @ssh0le who put this piece of s..t into production"
Hopefully something good comes out of it, and industry would get its nose rubbed into real life customer experience...
As I understand, the fact that seeds were saved and then replanted was equated to, say, finding a disk of very expensive software development tool, making a copy and then using it extensively to make some product.
Of course there are other questions, that are not so obvious -- situation of repeated cross-contamination (someone leaving a disk with the tool every week), ability to easily distinguish modified crops from non-modified (left disk looks like perfectly legitimate copy with keys etc) and so on.
No, really. What is the point of TechTV channel? To educate masses? Masses watch other channels. To provide tech support? Perhaps, but whole TV channel to help one person at a time? To give Tech News? People who are tech savvy get their news online, others are happy with technology inserts in their favourite tv channel. So I think the best way to deal with it is to convert TechTV to On Demand. If someone wants to watch it they would still can. And no 10x a day repeats. Hooray!
Time Warner Austin, for example, has about 10 free On Demand channels -- including BBC America. They've been available for at least a year or so, and most of the shows from BBC America are available for on-demand viewing. It would be interesting to see if they will continue to expand "classical" on demand via cable companies
Closer to PDAs are mobile phones. Look for the tapereel/voice mail icon on button '1'. Hold it, and you're calling your voicemail. Not hold it, and... well... you pressed '1':)
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Now it would also be very nice if this or similar decision was extended to cars. For now many states require local dealer to sell you car -- you can't just go online and order it from, say, Vermont. In order for online car seller to be able to serve customers in, say, Texas, they have to have local affiliated dealership. While perhaps "back then" it was a useful law, and a part of attempt to separate out dealerships and car manufacturers, so to avoid price gouging, these days it's simply protecting local tax revenue.
I might be wrong, but looks kinda cheesy, like one of those "Direct to Video" releases. Plus... A damsel in distress, and empire in pursuit. Where's the robot with "Help me, *static*! You're my only hope!". Knowle Rohrer. "This is going to be interesting" in trailer. Waaaahh... *runs away*
Gives a whole new meaning to that classic
;)
Fly, my pretties!
Wouldn't this decision mean it's better NOT to work in NY remotely? Leave it to guys in India. I am sure NY will be happy with 10x less money they can collect on smaller salaries (I also would love to see them try to collect the tax :) Though they probably demand employers to deduct the tax and pay it directly, rather than wait for individual to pay up).
Letter prefixes are still here, just in a different form :) All is a matter of mnemonics... People thought seven digits were difficult to remember, so they'd tell you "dial TREmont 5532 (873-5532)". But the number of words that start with the "right numbers" is limited, so by 1949 it became two letters and numbers ( BUtterfield 8 - 288 ), and then just numbers.
;)
Now people still prefer to remember words, so you have 1-800-CALL-ATT ( 1-800-225-288 ). Though if someone owns, say 1-800-382-5633, it's very unlikely they give out number in mnemonics
All phone numbers in this message are shown for illustrative purposes only...
A link to "Find a normal toaster" on the page, describing Nikkei news about this commerical product is especially cute :) :)
As for the infrared ray toasting... well... that's pretty much standard, unless someone actually makes toasts via Dumb Toaster Called Skillet
Those nice phone fees are where the legs of this fee grow from. The FCC line fee was introduced, and then increased under the same pretense -- "long distance rates will continue to fall, so even with increased FCC Line Fee you will see reduction of your overall bill". The hell it did.
So... I guess once this fee is applied and nobody's bottom gets removed from the high and mighty chair over this, there will be a fee increase, then another fee (for the regulation and patent disputes, for example), and another one (to help public schools pay for their domain names) etc.
All of those fees will be removed from the registrar's ads, so you'll see ".NET Domains for Only $5.95* " with fine print stating "Please note, additional fees and surcharges may apply" and final price will crawl up to $9 or more.
Look at cell phones and regular land-line phones... That's where it's heading.
Perhaps the Sold-Out one should be recalled?
Nothing changes politician's minds faster han a number of signatures on petition to recall them. Magically all the "benefits" of their decision evaporate and they change their minds. So, organize people, get signatures, and don't forget to inform him about your activities.
To REFUSE business of such customers. If system knows Mrs ForgetMyWardrobe has 53% chance to return what she tries to buy, DO NOT SELL IT TO HER. Explain why, say how sorry you are, escort her off. Store can refuse selling to anyone -- that's their right. But this situation is way more honest, than trying to sell something to the customer and then refuse taking it back, even though you claim you would.
So... I suppose once someone bothers to find exploit for Windows Embedded that new postal machines run ("Automated Postal Center") there will be a rampant script-kiddies march on to print free stamps (which, perhaps would be not so successful as there is a main repository of printed stamps in the system ) :), or, even worse -- attempts to inject into software some spyware, collecting debit and credit card numbers, and giving them back once a certain combination of "screen clicks" performed (or sending them off to some chinese website, if there is a way to sneak into internet from the machine).
Perhaps the best way would be to research the viability of capturing solar wind and converting it into antimatter on solar orbit? :)
That would solve multiple problems -- no risk to surface-based buildings, all source materials are radiated from the sun (solar panels + hyrdrogen, captured from the solar wind), containment fields would hold finished fuel, which can be picked up by a shuttle
Hm... but someone already thought of that, I am sure...
I don't believe instant pricecuts indicate "serious market".
VOIP at current prices is severely overpriced. 1000 minutes of voice termination at wholesale rates in US hardly costs $10. How many users actually use more than a thousand minutes? Probably not 90% of them. Additionally, incoming calls reduce that rate even further. Given that most providers started with $30 a month, they can easily drop rate till $19 for unlimited plans.
Of course the situation will change radically once FCC forces everyone to pay $6 per line fee, plus extra taxes (for the same of schools and libraries, no less, so that small regional school could be easily lured into buying Catalyst with maintenance contract, and the rest'd go to Bell companies)...
The probes are temporary swapped out, while the Universe Emulator is loading necessary modules for areas outside of this Solar system. :)
Who would want to drink cold Java anyways? :)
$40 for hardware NAT box (any store has em) :)
$400 for a new computer with Win XP and a whole bunch of preinstalled stuff (practically all retail boxes have some sort antivirus with 3-6-12 months of subscription)
$25 for a box of CD-RW for dragging data back and forth.
---------
$465.
Can I have the rest please?
Ever since I moved here from Europe I was wondering WHY I am not allowed to watch local stations from other areas. I mean they are already on the transponder, why can't I see local ABC from, say, NY? FCC does not allow that to protect local tv stations monopoly. If it was not for this rule, you'd always be able to watch your favorite game by simply switching to another local station.
So, perhaps we should do something about that rule first. And when all local stations (ok, many local stations if not all, satellite feed is limited in size after all) are easily available anywhere in continental US, NFL et all won't be able to force local black-out, as viewers would simply flip the channel.
What would one expect? I am sure there will be a nice little movement to charge Universal Service Fee as well. Never mind that it's illogical. Just pray that if these fees get added, they'd be one time only, and not "every month that equipment is in use". Then you will pay for VOIP dearly -- your broadband provider, tax on broadband access, tax on VOIP service, tax on WiFi router that is used to connect VOIP box. :)
Socialism is alive and well here...
So in worst case scenario Nextel PTT service would be hit. More grief to local construction crews, some joy for people eating out at local chinese buffet [Prr-BEEP] JOHN GET YOUR $%^$ HERE, MIKE JUST SCREWED UP THE LINING ON THE SECOND FLOOR.
But seriously -- this plan is quite old.
See this article (Motorola drops 800 MHz bomb)
Much easier, though it will cost you extra $5 or so. But then the recepient gets to shop at ANY store. Or that $20 can be spent at the gas station (just go inside and ask for $20 worth of gas, the pump will shut off automatically once it reaches the limit ;) )
Delivery addresses don't have to contain any name at all. All they need, is a street address. And, for example, 99.999% of all magazines accept "First name: Our; Last name: Friend" as subscriber info. They don't care, as long, as subscription is paid.
That way you get your slice of a dead tree, and marketoids are scratching their head, trying to figure out if "Our Friend, 2nd street 33, New York, NY 10001" is male or female, so they could spam the mailing address with corresponding "Offers"...
I bet the "confusion" is due to famous cultural differences. Where Japanese customer would politely note that "I am confused on how this feature work. Perhaps it's just me, but I can't record the show from tv", US one would spray phone with saliva and salty words, demanding to know "who's that @ssh0le who put this piece of s..t into production"
Hopefully something good comes out of it, and industry would get its nose rubbed into real life customer experience...
As I understand, the fact that seeds were saved and then replanted was equated to, say, finding a disk of very expensive software development tool, making a copy and then using it extensively to make some product.
Of course there are other questions, that are not so obvious -- situation of repeated cross-contamination (someone leaving a disk with the tool every week), ability to easily distinguish modified crops from non-modified (left disk looks like perfectly legitimate copy with keys etc) and so on.
No, really. What is the point of TechTV channel? To educate masses? Masses watch other channels. To provide tech support? Perhaps, but whole TV channel to help one person at a time? To give Tech News? People who are tech savvy get their news online, others are happy with technology inserts in their favourite tv channel. So I think the best way to deal with it is to convert TechTV to On Demand. If someone wants to watch it they would still can. And no 10x a day repeats. Hooray!
Time Warner Austin, for example, has about 10 free On Demand channels -- including BBC America. They've been available for at least a year or so, and most of the shows from BBC America are available for on-demand viewing. It would be interesting to see if they will continue to expand "classical" on demand via cable companies
Closer to PDAs are mobile phones. Look for the tapereel/voice mail icon on button '1'. Hold it, and you're calling your voicemail. Not hold it, and... well... you pressed '1' :)