Hey, it's Fox News... they report... you decide. Actually, I work in the Fox News building for another company. Today during lunch they were covering two wood-chopping guys swinging axes out on 6th ave. That's newsworthy.
After all... They're not accurately defining the word "insane". It's a term that really should be entirely reserved for describing SCO's recent actions.
"New HP calculator hoaxs are not uncommon. Don't ask me why... The folks on comp.sys.hp48 have their doubts that this is real."
Because if you subscribe to a newsgroup about calculators, after you've taped the "X" on your window, all that's left to do is speculate about fictional calculators.
"Glossmarks can consist of binary or multi-level images, graphics, text or bar codes, and can be detected by the human eye, cameras, scattering meters and laser scanners but cannot be detected by conventional scanners, copiers, colorimeters or densitometers."
I'll believe that one when I see it... and when my scanner doesn't.
"So basically all they did was smarten up a few thousand/. comments and put it into a PDF? so buissness plan for them is. 1: read/. comments 2: insert good grammer and spelling 3: mash them all together 4: release as pdf 5: ??? 6: Profit!!!"
I'm on my 5th cable-box in my living room, and it's still not working properly. I started out with a digital cable box. (#1) Worked fine. Upgraded to a new HDTV box. (#2) It broke in a day. Called for a replacement... they accidentally brought another digital cable box (#3), so I was without my HDTV box for another week. A week later, they brought that one (#4). Recently, that box started flaking out. Dropped signals, using the guide would reboot the box. Video on demand was inopperable. They sent out a tech who gave me a new HDTV box (#5) but didn't have a clue as to how to fix the video on demand. He said "maybe it'll fix itself in a couple hours"... like when he's gone I presume. Last night I was on the phone with TimeWarner and was forwarded 6 times between departments... each time being told that they were forwarding me onto the department that handles these issues. I'm at the point where I'm ready to cancel cable from TimeWarner. They can't seem to fix the problems that they have in their own system or in their customer support. I'd rather put my money into DirecTV or something else. I've got a standalone TiVo which I love, and don't plan on shelling out an extra $5 for TimeWarner's DTV service. It may be cool... it may be great, but out of principle, I refuse to give that company an extra dollar.
I once saw an episode of COPS where they sent out contest-winning announcements to people they'd been trying to arrest for awhile, but never seemed to get able to get their hands on. The people gladly showed up to claim their prize where they were promptly arrested.
Post 9/11 there was a lot of evidence indicating that there had been a great deal of activity short-selling holdings in the airline industry. 9/11 happened... shares were repurchased at a drastically lower price... and terrorists probably gained financially from information they had about the upcoming events.
Translate that to this futures market. The very nature of this market can serve as an indicator for future terror events. Every major investments will serve as a lead for investigators to track where the money is coming from to see if there are terrorist ties. The feds may be allowing the average Joe to gamble on terrorism, but they're also opening the door... waiting for the terrorists to come claim their prize.
I was listening to an artist interview tonight and one of the things they mentioned is how expensive it is to produce a CD. Agreed. Under the current scheme, producing a CD is expensive. I think the problem is that many artists just don't even consider that there are alternatives.
The problem is that the paradigm shift from pressing CDs to electronic distribution cannot happen overnight. Not only that, not everyone has access to the internet... so there will continue to be a desire for printed CDs. Furthermore, the people that artists pay to tell them what to do (agents, etc.) aren't going to deep-six their own jobs by telling their artists that they don't need to go the CD route anymore.
So where's the leave artists? Aside from a few, they're still holding onto the notion that pressing a CD of their music is the only way to be successful. Let's face it, that's how they currently get ranked and rated... on CD sales. What artist would want to remove themself from the rating scheme even before their "album" comes out? The RIAA... this entity that's convinced everyone under them that they're a necessary component of producing an album surely isn't going to do a 180 and admit that they're less relevant than every before.
So where's that leave everyone? Pretty much right where they were. Artists will continue thinking that the RIAA helps more than hurts. The RIAA will continue their assault on consumers with the help of politicians that have been nicely rewarded with campaign contributions paid for with the very money the RIAA wins from their lawsuits against consumers. And the new guy will most-likely maintain the status quo at the RIAA. Hate to say it... but:
"According to the authors, the same method, when used on Mac OS X, Unix and Linux boxes, however, could require either 4,096 times more memory or 4,096 times longer."
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flavor vs. flavour.
Next!
Next week will we be covering Linus's trip to the bathroom?
I don't have a shorter attention span than anyon.... hey, let's go ride bikes!
machines are going to take over the world ... so those anti-social rejects are just laying the groundwork for their future girlfriends...
In case the site gets slashdotted, I put a copy of the video up on Kazaa.
Hey, it's Fox News ... they report ... you decide.
Actually, I work in the Fox News building for another company. Today during lunch they were covering two wood-chopping guys swinging axes out on 6th ave. That's newsworthy.
So how does SCO know that the TiVo's code infringes on their IP? Can't we sick the DMCA on them for reverse-engineering the TiVo?
So let me get this straight ... Intellectual Property Misappropriation is worth $650 and Copyright Infringement is worth $150,000? That's balance...
After all ... They're not accurately defining the word "insane".
It's a term that really should be entirely reserved for describing SCO's recent actions.
Who needs shenanigins when you've got a busy beaver?
Don't you get it? It's in lawyers' interests to disagree. Otherwise, they go home without a paycheck.
I'm on my 5th cable-box in my living room, and it's still not working properly. I started out with a digital cable box. (#1) Worked fine. Upgraded to a new HDTV box. (#2) It broke in a day. Called for a replacement ... they accidentally brought another digital cable box (#3), so I was without my HDTV box for another week. A week later, they brought that one (#4). Recently, that box started flaking out. Dropped signals, using the guide would reboot the box. Video on demand was inopperable. They sent out a tech who gave me a new HDTV box (#5) but didn't have a clue as to how to fix the video on demand. He said "maybe it'll fix itself in a couple hours" ... like when he's gone I presume. Last night I was on the phone with TimeWarner and was forwarded 6 times between departments ... each time being told that they were forwarding me onto the department that handles these issues. I'm at the point where I'm ready to cancel cable from TimeWarner. They can't seem to fix the problems that they have in their own system or in their customer support. I'd rather put my money into DirecTV or something else. I've got a standalone TiVo which I love, and don't plan on shelling out an extra $5 for TimeWarner's DTV service. It may be cool ... it may be great, but out of principle, I refuse to give that company an extra dollar.
I once saw an episode of COPS where they sent out contest-winning announcements to people they'd been trying to arrest for awhile, but never seemed to get able to get their hands on. The people gladly showed up to claim their prize where they were promptly arrested.
... shares were repurchased at a drastically lower price ... and terrorists probably gained financially from information they had about the upcoming events.
... waiting for the terrorists to come claim their prize.
Post 9/11 there was a lot of evidence indicating that there had been a great deal of activity short-selling holdings in the airline industry. 9/11 happened
Translate that to this futures market. The very nature of this market can serve as an indicator for future terror events. Every major investments will serve as a lead for investigators to track where the money is coming from to see if there are terrorist ties. The feds may be allowing the average Joe to gamble on terrorism, but they're also opening the door
I was listening to an artist interview tonight and one of the things they mentioned is how expensive it is to produce a CD. Agreed. Under the current scheme, producing a CD is expensive. I think the problem is that many artists just don't even consider that there are alternatives.
... so there will continue to be a desire for printed CDs. Furthermore, the people that artists pay to tell them what to do (agents, etc.) aren't going to deep-six their own jobs by telling their artists that they don't need to go the CD route anymore.
... on CD sales. What artist would want to remove themself from the rating scheme even before their "album" comes out? The RIAA ... this entity that's convinced everyone under them that they're a necessary component of producing an album surely isn't going to do a 180 and admit that they're less relevant than every before.
... but:
... same as the old boss."
The problem is that the paradigm shift from pressing CDs to electronic distribution cannot happen overnight. Not only that, not everyone has access to the internet
So where's the leave artists? Aside from a few, they're still holding onto the notion that pressing a CD of their music is the only way to be successful. Let's face it, that's how they currently get ranked and rated
So where's that leave everyone? Pretty much right where they were. Artists will continue thinking that the RIAA helps more than hurts. The RIAA will continue their assault on consumers with the help of politicians that have been nicely rewarded with campaign contributions paid for with the very money the RIAA wins from their lawsuits against consumers. And the new guy will most-likely maintain the status quo at the RIAA. Hate to say it
"Meet the new boss
It's not the Seattle Weekly's job to point out Microsoft's failures ... that's a job for Slashdot!
What's it matter? Everybody's password is written on a Post-It next to their terminal anyway.
My Sony KV-36HS510 has an DVI input ... and it's 36".
All they need to do is combine this new video monitoring with this lip-reading speech recognition program with this walking-recognition software for those trips to the can ... and they'll be all set!