But this would go as well for any other music sharing service. So, it's not really a failure in that regard. Also, it's a loss for RIAA, which is enough to make me raise my voice in song. Let'em try to take that away.
Wal-Mart offering PC without Windows installed. Story on Cnet/News.Com They're testing the waters, because people said they wanted a choice. So go get one and install Red Flag, or whichever other flavor (or even BeOS) on one. I might be interested dependng on how good or bad people say these Microtel PCs are, for a cheap firewall or something.
Disclaimer: I do not work at, nor own, Wal-Mart stock. I just find this fascinating.
The networks don't want to protect their sponsors, they want to protect their ratings.
Oh, they certainly do want to protect their sponsors. The ratings are used to negotiate advertising costs, this is where the networks make their earnings. Fail to look after the one who pays the bills and they'll go elsewhere. This is particularly why network news frequently tiptoes around bad news about big advertisers, or buries it altogether. Defense attorneys aren't the only ones adept in the use of the word "alleged".
Believe it or not, there are people who never leave inner cities, like New York. To them, 50 miles south into New Jersey would be alien, threatening even, as they'd lack familiarity and confidence with the surroundings.
I've love the chance to see other worlds, but I do agree, there's much to this one that I love and much that I still haven't seen that I want to. Read Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky sometime, though it's got pretty much a 'Survivor' story, I can see people like Rod Walker leaving the cradle of man to settle other worlds and having a significant following who feel there's not enough room, politically or otherwise, on this one.
I dunno if Elden or anyone still sells the erector sets, but those kicked butt (though I got my finger stuck in the gearbox of a motor when I was about 3) and any extension of that principle of toy design has hight marks with me. =)
So that theory is for every 30 minutes of tv (20 show, 10 commercials) the average viewer must buy, or convince others to buy ("As Seen On TV"), £20 worth of product from the aggregate advertisers. Who's spending all that money? Certainly not me, I rarely buy what I see advertised on TV, particularly now that I make the biggie bucks, rather then puny sum I had when I was young and impressionable.
Well, I have some sympathy in the regard that the broadcasters in my region have been swapping network allegiances to the point I now can watch, off the antenna NBC, NBC, FOX, CBS. So what do I do about the WB stuff I can't watch because they replaced the WB with NBC at one station? Yeah, I got hooked and now I wanna see it, but they won't let me.
Also, I'm rather torqued that after all this time and all this technology, I still can't watch foreign shows, unless they're (like BBC stuff on PBS) about 20 years old. Congress even passed a law, years ago, that prevents you from watching shows carried by a same network affiliate from outside your market. Great! My local station sucked and the other carreid lots of really good shows, but all I got was this black screen telling me how well I was being served by the government (goverment was supposed to be the servant of the people, now we see who they really serve) and broadcasters. The timing was never right for such a law and now its idiocy is compounded.
My dad has a BSCE, that's Chemical Engineer, which he earned back in the day before digital computers were all the distraction. He knows his calc, his physics, and even designed some clever things for his employer of 38 years, which would fall clearly into the realm of mechanical engineering.
I'd have to say, from my experience working at a college for ~15 years, that the curriculums themselves have changed and gotten more targetted. A ChemE could probably make similar charges against a "physicist", or even a math major could.
My personal advice is to take extra classes, yeah, it costs tuition and time, but round out your experience in college, since it's the best time you will ever find for expanding your knowledge base. (Heck, I even use chem and physics carryover into business programming) With the emphasis on computers in today's currculum, look for it to displace something, hence your study will be narrowed, whatever you are studying.
Networks and broadcasters want shows to be popular, producers want shows to be popular, when they are popular they want to control how they are popular, which if you've read/. over the past months, is unpopular. The golden goose who pays for it all is the sponsor, which they want to protect, but since many people are already paying for cable, why not just add a tariff so viewers pay to watch the shows, thus getting rid of sponsors. But wait, they're greedy enough to want it both ways, so they'd have viewers pay and still stick them with commercials and yet not want them to make copies to edit out the commercials to watch when is convenient or interesting to them.
I wonder where TWAOL is planing to take what they've got...
Firstpostium: Always attempts to appear at the top of the Periodic Chart, usually for no fathomable reason, frequently target of moderatium reactions.
Taconium: Bonds readily with Kathleenium.
Kathleenium: Bonds approx. 15 minutes later with Taconium.
Athlonium and Pentium: Elements which increase energy levels frequently, highly exothermic, although less so as they are refined, in constant competition for best performance.
Trollium: Densest element known to man, will react even with itself but prefers to bond to any other element.
Moderatium: Appears in cyberspace, sometimes where least needed or bonds inappropraitely, sometimes replaced by Metamoderatium.
Katzium: Occasionally emits photons of insight in cyberspace, frequent target of trollium reactions.
Slashdottium: Highly radioactive, half-life ~20 minutes, when bonded to a link often replaces it with blackhole.
Redmondium: Pervasive, claims to be more stable than linuxium, but is frequently reduced by hax0rium, replaces atomic structure every ~2 years, but still looks almost exactly the same.
Hax0rium: Great affinity for almost any of the Techthanide or Codeinide series of elements, will often reduce or produce warzeides.
CowboyNealium: Only exists in the margins of cyberspace, always appears last in Periodic Chart, regardless of the number of elements represented.
C'mon, they're sterilized. The do that here in California to battle non-native fruitflies (medflies) and tried that a lot back in Michigan to battle mosquitoes. Nothing new, nothing particularly to get worked up about,
However,
If they're really trying to eradicate an insect then there are other factors they should be taking into account. What feeds on the fly? What service to the environment does the fly do (eat something nothing else does?) Where in the food chain does it fit and what impact is this really going to have? Worst part is, these "good" ideas often come about because people have inserted themselves into the insects domain, even if that insect only shows up in big numbers every 70 years, and make the mistake that the insect is the problem, rather than the human being there. Once I see a phrase like this:
Annual economic losses are put at $4.5 billion.
I've got a pretty good idea it's another attempt to fsck with nature. Next thing you know they'll be cloning some extinct tsetse fly eating bird...
It is better to have a manager who was a programmer/engineer/samethingyoudo than to have someone who picked up Access or VB and does a couple things and say, "Hey, this stuff isn't hard, why does it take you so long to do things?"
You should have asked how much time it would add to the project, having to find or hire someone else to do it. But, yeah, if someone's like that, you're probably better off elsewhere. Good luck.
As there are pirate radio stations, expect pirate web stations, since the RIAA seems determined to make it very hard for me or you as a consumer to listen to music made by their slave^H^H^H^H^H artists. Perhaps the RIAA isn't all to blame for this as I expect broadcasters associations might have something to do with this. But it smells like they are in this together and are trying to hold onto a past that's gonna die fitfully, screaming and begging all the way and making sure the consumer has to listen to this ugly swan song.
Why is broadcasting over the internet different from airwaves, and how do XM and
and Sirius satellite radio sidestep these hurdles? It seems like conveneint interpretation or drafting of law to screw selective businesses. The RIAA is, IMHO, as much an evil monopoly (oligarchy, actually, but acting monopolistic, and worse) as Microsft, if not more so. This stinks worse than most of the government corruption I've ever read about.
Cultural issues also contribute to the problem. Many spammers in Asia say they do
not understand why spam is a problem.
"It's a sign of respect that someone sends you an electric business card. It means
he wants you as a customer," said Zhao Peng, owner of a computer store in Hong
Kong.
There was a joke, which if you look at it the right way, underscores the problem that is overlooked.
If everyone in the world threw a stone into the river it would dam the river.
But if everyone in the world came to the spot and threw a stone into the river, the crowding, wastemanagement, transportation, security, and environmental impact on the spot would make damming the river trivial in comparison.
Imagine even half the people in China trying to send you an email, "Hi, How are you? I am from xyzzy and would like to tell you about..."
I do a bit of email with people in China and it does have me concerned that my ISP would cut them off. In the even that happened, I'd probably setup an alternate email address at hotmail or yahoo, just to have an open avenue.
As to parts of the story:
"China Telecom's complaints address is auto-answered by a robot message that replies, 'It's not under our control,' to any message you send."
That's so ironic it's funny!
Some Chinese and Korean systems administrators said documentation for the
software they use is often available only in English, which complicates securing their systems.
Not just Duh!, but Duh! So hire some english fluent contractors to help with it. Damn. That excuse is as bad as the crematorium in Georgia, USA, where they tossed bodies in the woods, for 20 years because, and this is just fantasy to think anyone could believe this, because the cremation chamber was broken, like 20 years isn't long enough to actually fix it... So how long before these ISPs decide to stop putting it off and actually fix it? Sorry man, if you get blocked, you did everything to earn it, as inaction is action in this regard.
Be retained the right to antitrust lawsuits against a certain company.
Duh! But, what is their goal? To get rich? To enjoin Microsoft? To do both? Another reason? Yeah, the hook was set long ago and now they're going to reel the fish in, but what's the real purpose? You can choose to believe the article, concerning compensating the investors, or maybe there's another alliance here we don't see. In any case, it certainly is the right timing. If there's a political agenda attached, i.e. make Ashcroft and the current administration looks soft, that gets accomplished, as well.
A single employee is necessary if the owners of Be, Inc., have planned what I think they have planned.
Consider that they may have purchased Be only to use it as a battering ram against Microsoft and all this time tossed it a carrot here and there and finally closed it down after suffering enough losses to look good in court. Depending on how the judge decides to view this it may work, it may not, or Microsoft may just say, "How much do you want to shut up and go away?", and settle out of court.
A sad end for Be, anyway, particularly after watching something like this happen to my prior employer. The name may be the same, but there's a different soul, not to be trusted as the old one was.
Dial 1-900-555-1234 to auto download and install the latest Virusscan for Cell Phones. Since I suggested it here, maybe I've headed off a potential patent:)
Mobile cellular telephone device auto update service via phone call. May require some navigation by keypad.
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But this would go as well for any other music sharing service. So, it's not really a failure in that regard. Also, it's a loss for RIAA, which is enough to make me raise my voice in song. Let'em try to take that away.
Disclaimer: I do not work at, nor own, Wal-Mart stock. I just find this fascinating.
Oh, they certainly do want to protect their sponsors. The ratings are used to negotiate advertising costs, this is where the networks make their earnings. Fail to look after the one who pays the bills and they'll go elsewhere. This is particularly why network news frequently tiptoes around bad news about big advertisers, or buries it altogether. Defense attorneys aren't the only ones adept in the use of the word "alleged".
The difference is..
USA: In cyberspace noone can hear you scream.
CDN: In cyberspace anyone, even americans, can hear you scream.
Today's lesson: Set up a site in a country which actually respects "freedom of speech" then gripe.
I've love the chance to see other worlds, but I do agree, there's much to this one that I love and much that I still haven't seen that I want to. Read Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky sometime, though it's got pretty much a 'Survivor' story, I can see people like Rod Walker leaving the cradle of man to settle other worlds and having a significant following who feel there's not enough room, politically or otherwise, on this one.
I dunno if Elden or anyone still sells the erector sets, but those kicked butt (though I got my finger stuck in the gearbox of a motor when I was about 3) and any extension of that principle of toy design has hight marks with me. =)
My bags are packed, let's blow this hotdog stand, when do we leave for Alpha Centauri?
Hmmm...
Also, I'm rather torqued that after all this time and all this technology, I still can't watch foreign shows, unless they're (like BBC stuff on PBS) about 20 years old. Congress even passed a law, years ago, that prevents you from watching shows carried by a same network affiliate from outside your market. Great! My local station sucked and the other carreid lots of really good shows, but all I got was this black screen telling me how well I was being served by the government (goverment was supposed to be the servant of the people, now we see who they really serve) and broadcasters. The timing was never right for such a law and now its idiocy is compounded.
So, yeah, I do have some sympathy.
I'd have to say, from my experience working at a college for ~15 years, that the curriculums themselves have changed and gotten more targetted. A ChemE could probably make similar charges against a "physicist", or even a math major could.
My personal advice is to take extra classes, yeah, it costs tuition and time, but round out your experience in college, since it's the best time you will ever find for expanding your knowledge base. (Heck, I even use chem and physics carryover into business programming) With the emphasis on computers in today's currculum, look for it to displace something, hence your study will be narrowed, whatever you are studying.
That's my 2.1414.. cents
I wonder where TWAOL is planing to take what they've got...
Firstpostium: Always attempts to appear at the top of the Periodic Chart, usually for no fathomable reason, frequently target of moderatium reactions.
Taconium: Bonds readily with Kathleenium.
Kathleenium: Bonds approx. 15 minutes later with Taconium.
Athlonium and Pentium: Elements which increase energy levels frequently, highly exothermic, although less so as they are refined, in constant competition for best performance.
Trollium: Densest element known to man, will react even with itself but prefers to bond to any other element.
Moderatium: Appears in cyberspace, sometimes where least needed or bonds inappropraitely, sometimes replaced by Metamoderatium.
Katzium: Occasionally emits photons of insight in cyberspace, frequent target of trollium reactions.
Slashdottium: Highly radioactive, half-life ~20 minutes, when bonded to a link often replaces it with blackhole.
Redmondium: Pervasive, claims to be more stable than linuxium, but is frequently reduced by hax0rium, replaces atomic structure every ~2 years, but still looks almost exactly the same.
Hax0rium: Great affinity for almost any of the Techthanide or Codeinide series of elements, will often reduce or produce warzeides.
CowboyNealium: Only exists in the margins of cyberspace, always appears last in Periodic Chart, regardless of the number of elements represented.
However,
If they're really trying to eradicate an insect then there are other factors they should be taking into account. What feeds on the fly? What service to the environment does the fly do (eat something nothing else does?) Where in the food chain does it fit and what impact is this really going to have? Worst part is, these "good" ideas often come about because people have inserted themselves into the insects domain, even if that insect only shows up in big numbers every 70 years, and make the mistake that the insect is the problem, rather than the human being there. Once I see a phrase like this:
Annual economic losses are put at $4.5 billion.
I've got a pretty good idea it's another attempt to fsck with nature. Next thing you know they'll be cloning some extinct tsetse fly eating bird...
It's just about enough to make you scream.
You should have asked how much time it would add to the project, having to find or hire someone else to do it. But, yeah, if someone's like that, you're probably better off elsewhere. Good luck.
looking for Osama? Did they find him?
As there are pirate radio stations, expect pirate web stations, since the RIAA seems determined to make it very hard for me or you as a consumer to listen to music made by their slave^H^H^H^H^H artists. Perhaps the RIAA isn't all to blame for this as I expect broadcasters associations might have something to do with this. But it smells like they are in this together and are trying to hold onto a past that's gonna die fitfully, screaming and begging all the way and making sure the consumer has to listen to this ugly swan song.
Why is broadcasting over the internet different from airwaves, and how do XM and and Sirius satellite radio sidestep these hurdles? It seems like conveneint interpretation or drafting of law to screw selective businesses. The RIAA is, IMHO, as much an evil monopoly (oligarchy, actually, but acting monopolistic, and worse) as Microsft, if not more so. This stinks worse than most of the government corruption I've ever read about.
There was a joke, which if you look at it the right way, underscores the problem that is overlooked.
Imagine even half the people in China trying to send you an email, "Hi, How are you? I am from xyzzy and would like to tell you about ..."
As to parts of the story:
That's so ironic it's funny!
Not just Duh!, but Duh! So hire some english fluent contractors to help with it. Damn. That excuse is as bad as the crematorium in Georgia, USA, where they tossed bodies in the woods, for 20 years because, and this is just fantasy to think anyone could believe this, because the cremation chamber was broken, like 20 years isn't long enough to actually fix it... So how long before these ISPs decide to stop putting it off and actually fix it? Sorry man, if you get blocked, you did everything to earn it, as inaction is action in this regard.
We chose it because it's portable, and we have Macs and PCs in the organization. Also, likely to be supported in the future.
Duh! But, what is their goal? To get rich? To enjoin Microsoft? To do both? Another reason? Yeah, the hook was set long ago and now they're going to reel the fish in, but what's the real purpose? You can choose to believe the article, concerning compensating the investors, or maybe there's another alliance here we don't see. In any case, it certainly is the right timing. If there's a political agenda attached, i.e. make Ashcroft and the current administration looks soft, that gets accomplished, as well.
Consider that they may have purchased Be only to use it as a battering ram against Microsoft and all this time tossed it a carrot here and there and finally closed it down after suffering enough losses to look good in court. Depending on how the judge decides to view this it may work, it may not, or Microsoft may just say, "How much do you want to shut up and go away?", and settle out of court.
A sad end for Be, anyway, particularly after watching something like this happen to my prior employer. The name may be the same, but there's a different soul, not to be trusted as the old one was.
Dial 1-900-555-1234 to auto download and install the latest Virusscan for Cell Phones. Since I suggested it here, maybe I've headed off a potential patent :)
Mobile cellular telephone device auto update service via phone call. May require some navigation by keypad.
Prior art! Prior art! Woo hoo!
And then we get McAfee for the phone. Whee!