At Target the other day, I saw a portable FM stereo modulator that took a single AAA battery and plugged into a headphone jack. Tune your existing car stereo to one of two channels and your listening to your portable whatever. FM modulators are nothing new but seeing a portable one at Target for $19 was. FM tuners don't always have the best quality but a majority of that poor quality comes from the crap signal the stations are broadcasting, not all a fault of the tuner itself.
I've often wondered about the self placement commercials. Is this a real benefit? You are already paying for the premium service. I guess if you were considering dropping the service, a commercial may swing you the other way but I figured the annoyance of the commercials would cause a net loss of customers. The Disney Channel does the same thing. For broadcast stations it makes sense but for pay stations, it seems questionable.
i don't think there is anything wrong with lexmark wanting to make you buy lexmark cartridges
Wanting you to buy them is one thing, trying to force you to buy them with the law is another. Imagine if Lexmark used the same legal methods to force you to use a Lexmark power strip? Lexmark paper? Lexmark USB cable? All of these can cause just as much damage to the printer that bad ink can.
Check this quote out: "There is a little underappreciation by the FTC for the applications that don't get allowed," he said, adding that more than 80 percent of business method patents are rejected.
It is NOT illegal for me to say 14th and K when someone asks me where the hookers hang out. Should it be illegal for me to post this on a web site?
If someone asks me where to find MP3's I can tell them what I know. What is the difference when I post it on a web site? What about a snail mail, an email, a weekly publication, a megaphone, a sign on the side of my car?
That is a nice post you referenced but, posting ONE link in one thread of communication between two parties does not provide the context or big picture that lead to that. Basically you should not create judgement off of this alone. With the exception of journalism and campaign speeches, this principal should apply to anything in life.
Ford Mustang 5.0l with a 2.73 differential is 2000rpm@80mph and 3000@120mph. One of the things I have noticed over the past few years with cars is higher horsepower "ratings" but without the following increase in torque. IMHO, the current peak HP ratings that cars have is for the spec sheet and sales flyers, eventually people are going to figure out that the peak HP rating is almost useless when comparing a cars power. A perfect example is the Elantra I just bought, a 140HP rating but anything under 3500rpm sucks. I had a 1973 Mustang (not the one referenced above) and it to had a rating of 140HP, the difference between the two is night and day.
Not to take away from the figures, but how much of that weight figure is moisture? I'll make a non scientific WAG and estimate 90% of plant life is water and probably 90% of thier figure.
I have experienced similar but I'd like to expand a little. Their favorite answer for ANY problem when dealing with the MS side is "Did you reboot the servers?". After that it gets worse. Having a support contract for a backup structure on paper is a great thing for a PHB but it has severe limits. 9 out of 10 times when we have an issue with backups, Veritas immediately jumps on the "its the other hardware" bandwagon. We end up going around and around with Compaq, Cisco, Veritas and MS over slow and non working backups and restores. Veritas will never take the lead or provide any support for their equipment outside a small subset of troubleshooting the equipment directly, maybe higher up in the support channel you can get that but not in the first few lower levels. Any type of potential connectivity issues or slowness or specific issues with a certain job or backing up a certain type of data are met with a blank stare. The problem may not be directly related to the harware or software they provide, but they will not work with you to isolate the problem on how their equipment interfaces with other systems, which a backup operation requires. We normally play the firmware upgrade game, reboot some servers and most of the time it will work fine for a week or two after that. During these events, we normally find out a few things that we thought the equipment and software was supposed to do, does NOT work correctly without something extra or some extra work that was not brought up to us before (backing up Exchange stores a perfect example). To sum it up, I believe a support contract is a good thing to use for a crutch but the scope of a contract with Veritas is very limited on what they will do for you.
Good point. I don't know the details other then what was posted here and the article itself. IMHO, the original company is acting very arrogant and does not seem to care about the previous end users at all, which is expected from someone suddenly closing the doors for good. Of course that is the point of the article comparing open to closed source.
Gang related. If they let Susie good grades where a hat they have to let Joe Thug wear his gang colored bandana. Neither piece of clothing is a distraction itself but the fact of wearing them and what they mean is what they are trying to remove. IMHO, this is not without flaw, you can take the gang colored hat off of Joe, but the gang is still with him. In my time frame, jean jackets where considered to be a drug users jacket. The school board initially had a code to not allow jean jackets. Enough people complained about the lack or equality and they changed the code to not allow ANY jackets to be worn. I don't have any hard numbers but I can tell you that the same people that used to wear the jean jackets and get stoned still got stoned so the end result was nothing but a temporary image coverup.
So you are saying they are stalling because they can, not as a direct result of badmouthing causing the delay. I understand that. The way I read it is, they are in negotiations with a party to take over the project. Their current users are badmouthing them and theatning them directly to come up with a solution. I do not see how they can blame a delay on that.
but the process has apparently been stalled a bit by the volume of badmouthing and threats (legal and physical) against those who were involved with the Appgen company.
Yeah.. Exactly how is badmouthing causing a deal to be delayed? Sounds like a piss poor excuse. There is no excuse for a deal not being made before the plug was pulled. Sounds to me the badmouthing and uproar is having a positive effect.
RIAA makes up only a portion of the lables in the iTMS.
Nice way to put it, but do you care to put that portion into a percentage? 95-97%? I really do not know myself but your arguement would be more justified with some numbers or estimates. Buying songs from them and buying an IPOD to play those songs is a big investment to have legal access to ~3-5% of their total non RIAA songs.
I've never had to deal with blocking at work or from a provider other then my local library but you do have a valid point. The error message I posted was from my local home network where I control the banned list. I monitor my kids (teen and almost teen) online activity. Along with talking to them about what is online and the hazards of being online, I use the banned list, time based ACLs and blocking certain ports like IM (5190) on an automatted basis to help me and my computers out. Them defaulting to Mozilla Firebird is a big help too.
I tried to go to your link. I got the below error page, looks like the administrator on my home network has that blocked;) Squid rules..
ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.gator.com/
The following error was encountered:
* Access Denied.
This site has been BANNED from loading
Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is incorrect.
Your cache administrator is root. Generated Thu, 23 Oct 2003 01:39:14 GMT by squid.xxxxxx.org (Squid/2.4.STABLE6)
Redhat is a perfect example. You are able to download RH iso's directly from Redhat, as a paid subscriber, you will even be able to get them before the general public. Problem though. They have limits on what they can provide. The last bittorrent for RH was flying, I averaged 150KB/sec for the entire 3 cd set which was about 15 times what others claimed RH was giving out under load. The choice is there for you. Stick to downloading at maybe 15k/sec or jump on a torrent and get 150k/sec. You wanting 150k available to you via direct download and the other 100k people that want direct download is unrealistic and not going to happen.
Bittorent has options to limit your upload speed when invoked from the CLI. I limit my throttled 256kbit up to 192kbits and everything operates fine. You can also set this option on a more permenant basis in Windows by adding the switch in the command line in the file assocoiation for.torrent
I had similar problem that the OP had with AT&T on my unlisted/unpublished number. My first attempt to say "Do not call again" was treated with a hangup by them. I called ATT CS and reported the issue, of course they blamed it on a third party contracting company which is probably true but they need to realize that company is representing them. I was added to the "Do not call" list and sent a written later that I will not be called again. So far it's been trhee years without a call from them. But... They have my address now and I recieve constant mail from them. Funny as I gave them the wrong spelling of my first name and it's obvious where this junk mail is coming from.
I was not stationed overseas at the time so I had to pay the duty fees. I did not but more then a few things a year subject to the duty fees so I don't know what limits there were. I do remember a check box or a verbal confirmation when ordering that you were buying the equipment for your own personal use or as a bona fide gift for someone else.
Back in the day, I used to order stereo equipment from a Air Force Military BX catalog. Almost every time, I'd recieve a customs bill several months later. I believe they were roughly $15 for each piece of equipment. Still not bad considering two of the purchases were for car stereo amplifiers that I only paid $165 each and they were selling at the local Circuit City for $479 each. A few pieces of Yamaha stereo equipment was about a 1/3 of the local stores. The duty fee's were clearly marked in the catalogs so you knew what the total would be. A few times I did not recieve a bill when I should have. Maybe the customs office was too busy or I'll eventually get some $15 bills with $2000 in late fee's.
Your information may be true but you get different resuts with each. I have found that although both will get you to point B, Mapquest seems to take the more logical (shorter) route through the suburban areas. Yahoo seems to have a higher weighting on larger roads then Mapquest. I remember a really old version of some mapping software I had for win3.11 back in the day that you could rate specific items that were important to you for trip planning, like speed limits, large roads, small roads, avoid highways, avoid specific roads etc.. and then it would give you the path based on your input. I'm sure mapping software does this today but I have not used any since them
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At Target the other day, I saw a portable FM stereo modulator that took a single AAA battery and plugged into a headphone jack. Tune your existing car stereo to one of two channels and your listening to your portable whatever. FM modulators are nothing new but seeing a portable one at Target for $19 was. FM tuners don't always have the best quality but a majority of that poor quality comes from the crap signal the stations are broadcasting, not all a fault of the tuner itself.
I've often wondered about the self placement commercials. Is this a real benefit? You are already paying for the premium service. I guess if you were considering dropping the service, a commercial may swing you the other way but I figured the annoyance of the commercials would cause a net loss of customers. The Disney Channel does the same thing. For broadcast stations it makes sense but for pay stations, it seems questionable.
i don't think there is anything wrong with lexmark wanting to make you buy lexmark cartridges
Wanting you to buy them is one thing, trying to force you to buy them with the law is another. Imagine if Lexmark used the same legal methods to force you to use a Lexmark power strip? Lexmark paper? Lexmark USB cable? All of these can cause just as much damage to the printer that bad ink can.
FTC floats patent changes
Released yesterday from the the FTC
Comments from law.com
Check this quote out:
"There is a little underappreciation by the FTC for the applications that don't get allowed," he said, adding that more than 80 percent of business method patents are rejected.
Sounds great but 20% do make it..
Each instance is treated diferent by society.
It is NOT illegal for me to say 14th and K when someone asks me where the hookers hang out. Should it be illegal for me to post this on a web site?
If someone asks me where to find MP3's I can tell them what I know. What is the difference when I post it on a web site? What about a snail mail, an email, a weekly publication, a megaphone, a sign on the side of my car?
That is a nice post you referenced but, posting ONE link in one thread of communication between two parties does not provide the context or big picture that lead to that. Basically you should not create judgement off of this alone. With the exception of journalism and campaign speeches, this principal should apply to anything in life.
Ford Mustang 5.0l with a 2.73 differential is 2000rpm@80mph and 3000@120mph. One of the things I have noticed over the past few years with cars is higher horsepower "ratings" but without the following increase in torque. IMHO, the current peak HP ratings that cars have is for the spec sheet and sales flyers, eventually people are going to figure out that the peak HP rating is almost useless when comparing a cars power. A perfect example is the Elantra I just bought, a 140HP rating but anything under 3500rpm sucks. I had a 1973 Mustang (not the one referenced above) and it to had a rating of 140HP, the difference between the two is night and day.
Not to take away from the figures, but how much of that weight figure is moisture? I'll make a non scientific WAG and estimate 90% of plant life is water and probably 90% of thier figure.
I have experienced similar but I'd like to expand a little. Their favorite answer for ANY problem when dealing with the MS side is "Did you reboot the servers?". After that it gets worse. Having a support contract for a backup structure on paper is a great thing for a PHB but it has severe limits. 9 out of 10 times when we have an issue with backups, Veritas immediately jumps on the "its the other hardware" bandwagon. We end up going around and around with Compaq, Cisco, Veritas and MS over slow and non working backups and restores. Veritas will never take the lead or provide any support for their equipment outside a small subset of troubleshooting the equipment directly, maybe higher up in the support channel you can get that but not in the first few lower levels. Any type of potential connectivity issues or slowness or specific issues with a certain job or backing up a certain type of data are met with a blank stare. The problem may not be directly related to the harware or software they provide, but they will not work with you to isolate the problem on how their equipment interfaces with other systems, which a backup operation requires. We normally play the firmware upgrade game, reboot some servers and most of the time it will work fine for a week or two after that. During these events, we normally find out a few things that we thought the equipment and software was supposed to do, does NOT work correctly without something extra or some extra work that was not brought up to us before (backing up Exchange stores a perfect example). To sum it up, I believe a support contract is a good thing to use for a crutch but the scope of a contract with Veritas is very limited on what they will do for you.
But what prevents someone from using your code and when you produce proof of date, the say they created it on date -1 month from your claim?
Good point. I don't know the details other then what was posted here and the article itself. IMHO, the original company is acting very arrogant and does not seem to care about the previous end users at all, which is expected from someone suddenly closing the doors for good. Of course that is the point of the article comparing open to closed source.
Gang related. If they let Susie good grades where a hat they have to let Joe Thug wear his gang colored bandana. Neither piece of clothing is a distraction itself but the fact of wearing them and what they mean is what they are trying to remove. IMHO, this is not without flaw, you can take the gang colored hat off of Joe, but the gang is still with him. In my time frame, jean jackets where considered to be a drug users jacket. The school board initially had a code to not allow jean jackets. Enough people complained about the lack or equality and they changed the code to not allow ANY jackets to be worn. I don't have any hard numbers but I can tell you that the same people that used to wear the jean jackets and get stoned still got stoned so the end result was nothing but a temporary image coverup.
So you are saying they are stalling because they can, not as a direct result of badmouthing causing the delay. I understand that.
The way I read it is, they are in negotiations with a party to take over the project. Their current users are badmouthing them and theatning them directly to come up with a solution. I do not see how they can blame a delay on that.
but the process has apparently been stalled a bit by the volume of badmouthing and threats (legal and physical) against those who were involved with the Appgen company.
Yeah..
Exactly how is badmouthing causing a deal to be delayed? Sounds like a piss poor excuse. There is no excuse for a deal not being made before the plug was pulled. Sounds to me the badmouthing and uproar is having a positive effect.
RIAA makes up only a portion of the lables in the iTMS.
Nice way to put it, but do you care to put that portion into a percentage? 95-97%? I really do not know myself but your arguement would be more justified with some numbers or estimates. Buying songs from them and buying an IPOD to play those songs is a big investment to have legal access to ~3-5% of their total non RIAA songs.
I've never had to deal with blocking at work or from a provider other then my local library but you do have a valid point. The error message I posted was from my local home network where I control the banned list. I monitor my kids (teen and almost teen) online activity. Along with talking to them about what is online and the hazards of being online, I use the banned list, time based ACLs and blocking certain ports like IM (5190) on an automatted basis to help me and my computers out.
Them defaulting to Mozilla Firebird is a big help too.
I tried to go to your link. I got the below error page, looks like the administrator on my home network has that blocked ;) Squid rules..
ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.gator.com/
The following error was encountered:
* Access Denied.
This site has been BANNED from loading
Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is incorrect.
Your cache administrator is root.
Generated Thu, 23 Oct 2003 01:39:14 GMT by squid.xxxxxx.org (Squid/2.4.STABLE6)
So you want something for nothing?
.torrent
Redhat is a perfect example. You are able to download RH iso's directly from Redhat, as a paid subscriber, you will even be able to get them before the general public. Problem though. They have limits on what they can provide. The last bittorrent for RH was flying, I averaged 150KB/sec for the entire 3 cd set which was about 15 times what others claimed RH was giving out under load. The choice is there for you. Stick to downloading at maybe 15k/sec or jump on a torrent and get 150k/sec. You wanting 150k available to you via direct download and the other 100k people that want direct download is unrealistic and not going to happen.
Bittorent has options to limit your upload speed when invoked from the CLI. I limit my throttled 256kbit up to 192kbits and everything operates fine. You can also set this option on a more permenant basis in Windows by adding the switch in the command line in the file assocoiation for
It's got the fastest quarter mile time -- off a cliff!
Even ignoring wind resistance, it would take 10.42 seconds to go a 1/4 mile off a cliff. Of course it would be going 234 MPH at that point.
I had similar problem that the OP had with AT&T on my unlisted/unpublished number.
My first attempt to say "Do not call again" was treated with a hangup by them. I called ATT CS and reported the issue, of course they blamed it on a third party contracting company which is probably true but they need to realize that company is representing them. I was added to the "Do not call" list and sent a written later that I will not be called again. So far it's been trhee years without a call from them. But... They have my address now and I recieve constant mail from them. Funny as I gave them the wrong spelling of my first name and it's obvious where this junk mail is coming from.
I was not stationed overseas at the time so I had to pay the duty fees. I did not but more then a few things a year subject to the duty fees so I don't know what limits there were. I do remember a check box or a verbal confirmation when ordering that you were buying the equipment for your own personal use or as a bona fide gift for someone else.
Back in the day, I used to order stereo equipment from a Air Force Military BX catalog. Almost every time, I'd recieve a customs bill several months later. I believe they were roughly $15 for each piece of equipment.
Still not bad considering two of the purchases were for car stereo amplifiers that I only paid $165 each and they were selling at the local Circuit City for $479 each. A few pieces of Yamaha stereo equipment was about a 1/3 of the local stores. The duty fee's were clearly marked in the catalogs so you knew what the total would be. A few times I did not recieve a bill when I should have. Maybe the customs office was too busy or I'll eventually get some $15 bills with $2000 in late fee's.
Your information may be true but you get different resuts with each. I have found that although both will get you to point B, Mapquest seems to take the more logical (shorter) route through the suburban areas. Yahoo seems to have a higher weighting on larger roads then Mapquest. I remember a really old version of some mapping software I had for win3.11 back in the day that you could rate specific items that were important to you for trip planning, like speed limits, large roads, small roads, avoid highways, avoid specific roads etc.. and then it would give you the path based on your input. I'm sure mapping software does this today but I have not used any since them
Part of Yahoo's disclaimer:
When using any driving directions or map, it's a good idea to do a reality check and make sure the road still exists
How many people would get to a certain point and then consider going "off-road" to follow the way of the map had that sentence not been there.
Before I was using the internet for maps, it was uphill both ways!