They're using that money to ensure that this citywide wifi never becomes reality. It's just a cost of doing business that they're happily passing on to you. Think of it as a licensing fee - if they don't pay it, they'll lose their license to bill you you every month!
Clearly you've never had to try and format a document to suit your liking instead of Microsoft's. It's just hideous. Delete a paragraph, lose a seeminly unassociated image somewhere elso on the page. The whole concept of markup is fscked.
Yeah, just what we need. A zillion options for every player to comply with. Heck, I've yet to hear of a rock solid HD tuner. Yeah, what we need is for our media players to have to sort through n codecs and display each one correctly.
I would agree with you if this were a home connection or a corporate connection, but this is public access from a public library. It is "our" bandwidth, paid for by "our" tax dollars for "our" use.
I will agree that it is likely that some limits or metering of use is desired by the library. For example, you are typically limited to check out certain books, in certain quanities, for a limited period of time, after providing your contact information via a library card. If this is the intent of the library for their wireless internet access, I would suggest requiring that patrons register their MAC address along with their physical address and phone numebrs when they get a library card. Simple filtering will suffice (That's how Virginia Tech controls their WiFi network). From the VERY sketch details, it appears as though you ARE allowed to access the network from the inside of the library from your own laptop, and therefore any content monotoring/filtering software would have to be on the server (As opposed to fixed access terminals), meaning that he would not be able to surf anywhere the library didn't want him to.
One final note: I thought is was pretty well gorunded in case law that providers were not responsible for content flowing over their networks? Kiddie Pr0n over Verizon DSL would not result in jail time for Verizon execs, would it?
I wish I could reply AND mod you up (I do have mod points), but I feel more inclined to disagree a bit and expand.
The water foundatain and the McShit both cost the owners EXTRA money (in both cases increasing their water billf ro your usage).
It's a bit more like walking into a McDonalds and wathing their CNN feed on the TV. You are taking up space in their restaurant and watching their television. They pay for their cable feed and body space by the month, not by the viewer. If you camp out at one of the tables 24/7, they won't pay any more in rent or cable bills. HOWEVER, you are reducing their POTENTIAL MAXIMUM customer capacity by one person. In a "saturated" condition, you are reducing the overall capability and comfort of the other McDonalds patrons.
While slower in coming, the EU will fall to corporate greed, just as the US has. We're pissed about it on this side of the pond, too, but there doesn't seem to be any real way to change it now. Michale Moore seems to be the closest to a man-of-the-people with a national voice, and by all reasonable measures he's a freakin' nut case. It's not looking good, I'll tell you...
The key features most likely left out are security related...
I'm not sure if you meant it the way I read your post, but I agree - the DRM will probably be lax in the beta. Once you're "hooked," the _real_ DRM will kick in, and automatically convert (i.e.: lock down) all of you media files on converstion to the full version. It will be part of the standard installation options. If you do a custom install, the option will be somehting like "protect your media files from internet security risks?"
If you meant 7337 h4x0r security...that won't come in the foreseeable future.
Boy, I'm glad Apple doesnt' stifle innovation like Microsoft does with their monopoly. "Apple - open and friendly to all." That's the new slogan, right? Unless you want to interoperate with anything Apple, in which case their blood-sucking lawyers will hunt you down.
Slow down there, little doggie! This is just Beta software. Its taken YEARS for MS to turn NT3.5 into the swiss cheese we call XP. IF you are patient, you will be rewarded with a nearly infinite number of incompatibilities and backdoors when you get the full release.
Well, the site's already/.'d, but 64 or 128MB? I picked up a 128MB Lexar Sport a few weeks ago 'cause it was cheap, and have already found times when it wasn't enough memory.
At $30, you're either out of the US or a lousy shopper. With about 220 DVDs in my collection, I'm somewhere around $5-7 average, after fleabaying the ones I don't like. How? DVDtalk keeps tabs on stuff, and I don't usually have to the discs the day they come out so I'll pick up a half dozen or so at ColumbiaHouse every few months. Often, the resales cover more than my normal per-disc outlay, so the ones I do keep cost me less than the average CH intro prices. For $7, I get a resonable return for my money.
Here's the odd part: I bought the two disc DVD set of School House Rock (from CH) - I think it could have bought it retail for under $20. I saw the single CD with most of the popular tunes from SHR in a Barnes and Noble the other day...for $19.95. WTF? You mean to tell me that the extra song production, video prep, behind the scenes footage, and two physical DVDs cost exactly the same to produce as a CD?
DVDs are pretty close to worth while, CD prices, however, are still way out of whack.
The superior quality of a CD is far more important than the ability to make a perfect copy.
If you believe this, then you obviously haven't sat through a vinyl devotee opining the loss of the superior bandwidth and realism of his favorite albums.
(24/96 nothwithstanding)
And, btw - people bought those first CD players 'cause they were cool, the format was enticing (a 5" indestructible disc with 75 minutes of music), and it was NEW. People bought DAT players, too. Now very few use them due to DRM issues, among other things.
Every CD that leaves the confines of my jukebox gets a duplicate. Car player? Duplicate. My 2 year old's room. Duplicate. At $50 for three Sesame Street discs, you'd better believe that the origianls are going somewhere safe.
Recently, my FLAC backups have saved me. I got a gift of an off-the-wall CD made by an artist in Colorado (Actually, a set of three). I've never heard of them anywhere else. Well, as fate would have it, I broke my own rule and had the disc out of the jukebox. Someone, who shall go nameless, bumped into the small bookshelf where the CD was sitting, and it hit the floor along with several other items. It broke cleanly into two pieces. After a moments panic, I verified that I had ripped - EAC to FLAC - and the content was safely stored on my hard drive. I'm bummed that I won't have the original disc anymore, but I still have the music.
Every DVD that leaves the confines of my jukebox gets a duplicate. Taking a couple of movies to the Beach? Duplicates or rips to the laptop HD. Loaning a movie to a friend/relative? DVD+RW. Want to borrow another movie? Bring back the rewritable and you can "borrow" another. I've also started to rip my DVDs to HD, in hopes of transitioning from the jukebox to a media server. At only 500G in my current serverm I'm still about 1 to 1.5 TB of storage away from being able to store the whole collection, but within two years it will probably all be there.
I have no idea how you've managed to keep your discs pristine. Most of my CDs have (minor) scratches on them from careful use. I even have a DVD or two with a minor scratch, and I have no idea how they got there, as I usually take them out of the shrink wrap, rip them, and put them into my jukebox - never again to be touched by human hands.
Quit muddying the water with distributed, secure, paper-trail systems which are in existence already. The whole theory behind these "problems" is that there is no practical way to implement a system which can process 150 million votes in one day. Showing an example just makes them look bad.;-)
I'll add three: Get up Early. Do the homeworks. Work in the summer.
Nobody gets up at 8am in college - be the exception. If you don't want a class first thing, get to the gym every day. It's a habit you'll thank yourself for when your thirty five and your waist measuement seems to want to progress with your age. Can't get up in the winter? Take the $130 you were going to waste on an MP3 player and buy a SunRizr http://www.lighttherapyproducts.com/products_dawn. html instead. It'll make getting up much easier.
Do your homework. 9 times out of 10 the tests are going to look just like the homework. Do every problem. You're paying $100 every time you walk into a class, you may as well be prepared.
Work in the summer, not during the school year. Work you @ss off at two jobs if necessary, or do a co-op program (work/school alternately, usu as an intern-type job in your field). School schedules aren't always a good match for work schedules, no matter how flexible the employer is. Focus on the school work, play when you have "slow" times, make money when you don't have classes to worry about.
Your subject makes you look like a paraniod Kerry supporter. Nonetheless, you should never have to worry about your in-line management knowing your political stance, should you desire to keep it a secret. This would hold true for any party affiliation.
I happen to vote mostly Democrat as I tend to disagree with their stances less often than Republicans. Actually, I'm a fiscal conservative, a social moderate, an environmental liberal and - more recently - have a bit of a libertarian streak when it comes to privacy rights. As a result, I don't find many perfect matches in politics.
Nonetheless, I keep most of my politics under wraps in the workplace, since I'm usually outnumbered. I usually chime in on areas of agreement, and slip in some "not-quite-mainstream" thoughts when I can. And, of course, from time to time I announce that we really should use nuclear weapons more often - it seems to keep everyone on their toes. (No, not big ones. Two, maybe three cities, tops. It worked on the Jananese, right? And we're friends now!)
Oh, I don't think it could be that hard. Amazon.com has figured out how to charge sales tax in the several-hundred different tax areas in the US. You'd think the military could figure out the 50 state requirements and pass out correct forms.
More to the point, if there's such a hubbub, just have the military collect all the absentee ballot forms in sealed envelopes and mark your service ID on a master list when you turn yours in. If you choose not to submit one, you ask to have your name marked "abstain." You'd have a verifiable ballots in = ballots out check, and a list to ensure all military personnel made a choice (candidate or not to vote). These clowns running for office aren't going to become different people in the last month...vote early.
Have you seen the President's motorcade? Whether Kerry "owns" the SUVs or not, he can only personally drive one at a time, and if he's president he won't be driving any of them. Putting him in office will take those gas hogs off the street.
Hey, that's a good reason to vote for John Kerry! Save the environment, keep JK's SUVs in the garage! Vote him into office and he won't drive for four years!
Hmmm...I'm not sure that's really a good reason. Then again, it beats anything else I've come up with. (Except, of course, keeping the current nimrod from spending every last cent going after the "!@#$%# ragheads," as my Father-in-law calls them.)
Yes, there was a surplus. You can write it off somewhat because revenues were inflated by internet bubble cap gains taxes, but we really were spending less than we took in (the national debt did not grow).
As for Bush, he'll get my vote when retires the national debt. (at $50/bbl, daddy should be able to stoke a check for half, right?)
Oddly enough, I received an unsolicited fax a while back offering to send me valuable information for donating to worthwile companies. I just needed to sign on the bottom and fax it back.
This was, of course, and unsolicited fax trying to get me to open the doors to a fax-spam-a-thon. What I found interesting is that the number dialed (according to the fax header) was *67 [my number] and thier fax number in the header was blank.
If I weren't so busy, it would have been fun to hunt them down.
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They're using that money to ensure that this citywide wifi never becomes reality. It's just a cost of doing business that they're happily passing on to you. Think of it as a licensing fee - if they don't pay it, they'll lose their license to bill you you every month!
Which would you choose
I would choose to have a job, if I were the meter reader being laid off.
I would choose to lay off that meter reader if I had a stable job and it meant lower taxes or better services.
Remember, the good of the many only outweigh the good of the few if you are in the former group. Otherwise, you're just being unfairly picked on.
Clearly you've never had to try and format a document to suit your liking instead of Microsoft's. It's just hideous. Delete a paragraph, lose a seeminly unassociated image somewhere elso on the page. The whole concept of markup is fscked.
God, I wish WordPerfect hadn't sold out and let Novell drive it into the dirt.
Yeah, just what we need. A zillion options for every player to comply with. Heck, I've yet to hear of a rock solid HD tuner. Yeah, what we need is for our media players to have to sort through n codecs and display each one correctly.
No thanks.
I would agree with you if this were a home connection or a corporate connection, but this is public access from a public library. It is "our" bandwidth, paid for by "our" tax dollars for "our" use.
I will agree that it is likely that some limits or metering of use is desired by the library. For example, you are typically limited to check out certain books, in certain quanities, for a limited period of time, after providing your contact information via a library card. If this is the intent of the library for their wireless internet access, I would suggest requiring that patrons register their MAC address along with their physical address and phone numebrs when they get a library card. Simple filtering will suffice (That's how Virginia Tech controls their WiFi network). From the VERY sketch details, it appears as though you ARE allowed to access the network from the inside of the library from your own laptop, and therefore any content monotoring/filtering software would have to be on the server (As opposed to fixed access terminals), meaning that he would not be able to surf anywhere the library didn't want him to.
One final note: I thought is was pretty well gorunded in case law that providers were not responsible for content flowing over their networks? Kiddie Pr0n over Verizon DSL would not result in jail time for Verizon execs, would it?
I wish I could reply AND mod you up (I do have mod points), but I feel more inclined to disagree a bit and expand.
The water foundatain and the McShit both cost the owners EXTRA money (in both cases increasing their water billf ro your usage).
It's a bit more like walking into a McDonalds and wathing their CNN feed on the TV. You are taking up space in their restaurant and watching their television. They pay for their cable feed and body space by the month, not by the viewer. If you camp out at one of the tables 24/7, they won't pay any more in rent or cable bills. HOWEVER, you are reducing their POTENTIAL MAXIMUM customer capacity by one person. In a "saturated" condition, you are reducing the overall capability and comfort of the other McDonalds patrons.
Yes...and, Yes.
While slower in coming, the EU will fall to corporate greed, just as the US has. We're pissed about it on this side of the pond, too, but there doesn't seem to be any real way to change it now. Michale Moore seems to be the closest to a man-of-the-people with a national voice, and by all reasonable measures he's a freakin' nut case. It's not looking good, I'll tell you...
The key features most likely left out are security related...
I'm not sure if you meant it the way I read your post, but I agree - the DRM will probably be lax in the beta. Once you're "hooked," the _real_ DRM will kick in, and automatically convert (i.e.: lock down) all of you media files on converstion to the full version. It will be part of the standard installation options. If you do a custom install, the option will be somehting like "protect your media files from internet security risks?"
If you meant 7337 h4x0r security...that won't come in the foreseeable future.
Boy, I'm glad Apple doesnt' stifle innovation like Microsoft does with their monopoly. "Apple - open and friendly to all." That's the new slogan, right? Unless you want to interoperate with anything Apple, in which case their blood-sucking lawyers will hunt you down.
Slow down there, little doggie! This is just Beta software. Its taken YEARS for MS to turn NT3.5 into the swiss cheese we call XP. IF you are patient, you will be rewarded with a nearly infinite number of incompatibilities and backdoors when you get the full release.
Well, the site's already /.'d, but 64 or 128MB? I picked up a 128MB Lexar Sport a few weeks ago 'cause it was cheap, and have already found times when it wasn't enough memory.
Too little, too late.
At $30, you're either out of the US or a lousy shopper. With about 220 DVDs in my collection, I'm somewhere around $5-7 average, after fleabaying the ones I don't like. How? DVDtalk keeps tabs on stuff, and I don't usually have to the discs the day they come out so I'll pick up a half dozen or so at ColumbiaHouse every few months. Often, the resales cover more than my normal per-disc outlay, so the ones I do keep cost me less than the average CH intro prices. For $7, I get a resonable return for my money.
Here's the odd part: I bought the two disc DVD set of School House Rock (from CH) - I think it could have bought it retail for under $20. I saw the single CD with most of the popular tunes from SHR in a Barnes and Noble the other day...for $19.95. WTF? You mean to tell me that the extra song production, video prep, behind the scenes footage, and two physical DVDs cost exactly the same to produce as a CD?
DVDs are pretty close to worth while, CD prices, however, are still way out of whack.
Trueth is, if they were to line all us leet hackers up against the wall they wouldn't need much of a mass grave to hide our bodies.
;-)
I wouldn't go around making suggestions like that...Jack might just come back for one encore performance.
The superior quality of a CD is far more important than the ability to make a perfect copy.
If you believe this, then you obviously haven't sat through a vinyl devotee opining the loss of the superior bandwidth and realism of his favorite albums.
(24/96 nothwithstanding)
And, btw - people bought those first CD players 'cause they were cool, the format was enticing (a 5" indestructible disc with 75 minutes of music), and it was NEW. People bought DAT players, too. Now very few use them due to DRM issues, among other things.
Every CD that leaves the confines of my jukebox gets a duplicate. Car player? Duplicate. My 2 year old's room. Duplicate. At $50 for three Sesame Street discs, you'd better believe that the origianls are going somewhere safe.
Recently, my FLAC backups have saved me. I got a gift of an off-the-wall CD made by an artist in Colorado (Actually, a set of three). I've never heard of them anywhere else. Well, as fate would have it, I broke my own rule and had the disc out of the jukebox. Someone, who shall go nameless, bumped into the small bookshelf where the CD was sitting, and it hit the floor along with several other items. It broke cleanly into two pieces. After a moments panic, I verified that I had ripped - EAC to FLAC - and the content was safely stored on my hard drive. I'm bummed that I won't have the original disc anymore, but I still have the music.
Every DVD that leaves the confines of my jukebox gets a duplicate. Taking a couple of movies to the Beach? Duplicates or rips to the laptop HD. Loaning a movie to a friend/relative? DVD+RW. Want to borrow another movie? Bring back the rewritable and you can "borrow" another. I've also started to rip my DVDs to HD, in hopes of transitioning from the jukebox to a media server. At only 500G in my current serverm I'm still about 1 to 1.5 TB of storage away from being able to store the whole collection, but within two years it will probably all be there.
I have no idea how you've managed to keep your discs pristine. Most of my CDs have (minor) scratches on them from careful use. I even have a DVD or two with a minor scratch, and I have no idea how they got there, as I usually take them out of the shrink wrap, rip them, and put them into my jukebox - never again to be touched by human hands.
W's strategy is good but poorly executed. Kerry's plan doesn't make sense. Bush is, at the moment, the least bad choice.
Well, it's good to hear that the supporters of Bush think the same of their "choice" as the supporters of Kerry. Or maybe its just depressing.
Quit muddying the water with distributed, secure, paper-trail systems which are in existence already. The whole theory behind these "problems" is that there is no practical way to implement a system which can process 150 million votes in one day. Showing an example just makes them look bad. ;-)
But come on. Are we so ADHD in this country we can't vote on paper and wait for real people to count them?
In a word, yes.
I'll add three: Get up Early. Do the homeworks. Work in the summer.
. html instead. It'll make getting up much easier.
Nobody gets up at 8am in college - be the exception. If you don't want a class first thing, get to the gym every day. It's a habit you'll thank yourself for when your thirty five and your waist measuement seems to want to progress with your age. Can't get up in the winter? Take the $130 you were going to waste on an MP3 player and buy a SunRizr http://www.lighttherapyproducts.com/products_dawn
Do your homework. 9 times out of 10 the tests are going to look just like the homework. Do every problem. You're paying $100 every time you walk into a class, you may as well be prepared.
Work in the summer, not during the school year. Work you @ss off at two jobs if necessary, or do a co-op program (work/school alternately, usu as an intern-type job in your field). School schedules aren't always a good match for work schedules, no matter how flexible the employer is. Focus on the school work, play when you have "slow" times, make money when you don't have classes to worry about.
Your subject makes you look like a paraniod Kerry supporter. Nonetheless, you should never have to worry about your in-line management knowing your political stance, should you desire to keep it a secret. This would hold true for any party affiliation.
I happen to vote mostly Democrat as I tend to disagree with their stances less often than Republicans. Actually, I'm a fiscal conservative, a social moderate, an environmental liberal and - more recently - have a bit of a libertarian streak when it comes to privacy rights. As a result, I don't find many perfect matches in politics.
Nonetheless, I keep most of my politics under wraps in the workplace, since I'm usually outnumbered. I usually chime in on areas of agreement, and slip in some "not-quite-mainstream" thoughts when I can. And, of course, from time to time I announce that we really should use nuclear weapons more often - it seems to keep everyone on their toes. (No, not big ones. Two, maybe three cities, tops. It worked on the Jananese, right? And we're friends now!)
Oh, I don't think it could be that hard. Amazon.com has figured out how to charge sales tax in the several-hundred different tax areas in the US. You'd think the military could figure out the 50 state requirements and pass out correct forms.
More to the point, if there's such a hubbub, just have the military collect all the absentee ballot forms in sealed envelopes and mark your service ID on a master list when you turn yours in. If you choose not to submit one, you ask to have your name marked "abstain." You'd have a verifiable ballots in = ballots out check, and a list to ensure all military personnel made a choice (candidate or not to vote). These clowns running for office aren't going to become different people in the last month...vote early.
Have you seen the President's motorcade? Whether Kerry "owns" the SUVs or not, he can only personally drive one at a time, and if he's president he won't be driving any of them. Putting him in office will take those gas hogs off the street.
Hey, that's a good reason to vote for John Kerry! Save the environment, keep JK's SUVs in the garage! Vote him into office and he won't drive for four years!
Hmmm...I'm not sure that's really a good reason. Then again, it beats anything else I've come up with. (Except, of course, keeping the current nimrod from spending every last cent going after the "!@#$%# ragheads," as my Father-in-law calls them.)
Yes, there was a surplus. You can write it off somewhat because revenues were inflated by internet bubble cap gains taxes, but we really were spending less than we took in (the national debt did not grow).
As for Bush, he'll get my vote when retires the national debt. (at $50/bbl, daddy should be able to stoke a check for half, right?)
Oddly enough, I received an unsolicited fax a while back offering to send me valuable information for donating to worthwile companies. I just needed to sign on the bottom and fax it back.
This was, of course, and unsolicited fax trying to get me to open the doors to a fax-spam-a-thon. What I found interesting is that the number dialed (according to the fax header) was *67 [my number] and thier fax number in the header was blank.
If I weren't so busy, it would have been fun to hunt them down.