In other words, "Let's change all those pesky clauses that people are using to claim Bush's 'Terrorist Surveillance Program' is illegal." Ironically, Congress would have been willing to give make those changes when the USA-PATRIOT act was first passed. Given all of the violations, from the above-mentioned program, to the FBI's misuse of NSL's (NSL's were Feingold's main objection against extending the PATRIOT Act's sunset provisions), Congress will be much more skeptical. Hopefully theose in Congress pushing for a full investigation of the "Terrorist Surveillance Program" are paying attention and can use this as further legal ammunition.
Each of the major broadcast networks will syndicate a single show of independent music through their syndication subsidiary (Clear Channel: Premiere Radio Networks, Cox: Cox Syndication, CBS: Westwood One) to each of their local affiliates.
Let's face it. Your standard big radio station formats (classic rock, Top 40, country) don't lend themselves to independent music. Some of the rock stations in big cities can focus a one or two hour show on the local music scene, but most large commercial stations aren't interested in promoting small independent acts from other markets, especially if the act doesn't tour and appear in that station's coverage area.
... its smallest 448 radio stations would be sold...
Music fans rejoice. IOW, there's a small chance that, some day, you may be able to find a radio station with Music That Doesn't Suck.
Assuming they aren't sold to one of the remaing three big players (CBS Radio, Entercom, and Citadel). Granted all there are in the ~150 station category, but assuming a three-way split, you have 3 corporations with about 300 radio stations apiece.
If these stations are already being run cheaply as "repeaters" of centralized syndicated CC broadcasting, it may be more appealing for the other big 3 to suck them up rather than for independents, who, if they buy them, must invest more heavily in local infrastucture and staff.
Have the state's electoral votes represent the way the state voted, instead of a "plurality take all" mentality. Since the electoral votes are based on Congressional Districts, do something like this. If a candidate wins the plurality of a Congressional District for a state, that candidate wins the corresponding electoral vote. If a candidate wins the majority of the votes of a state, then that candidate wins the two electoral votes corresponding to the state's Senators. If no candidate wins the majority of votes for a state, the two electoral votes are then split between each of the two highest vote getters.
The drawback is that this assumes a two-party system. A strong third party could potentially mean no candidate wins a majority of electoral votes. This is why the electoral college has evolved the way it has. The other problem would be that a close election, like 2000, would not have a recount limited to a single state, depending on how close the races were in the individual districts throughout the country. More turmoil, but then again, potentially more fair, depending on your point of view.
There definitely was a 1930's (black and white) cartoon where Porky Pig was sent to the store. His repeated line to jog his memory was "A loaf of bread, a quart of milk, and come home right away." He passes a movie theater with the sign reading "Kids admitted free!" He repeats "A loaf of bread, a quart of milk, and kids admitted free." two or three times before what is on the sign registers with him, and he then goes to the movies. Since Sesame Street came out in 1969, Porky Pig preceded it by some 30 years.
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And obviously greater coverage would be much appreciated.
The greater coverage will come as Pictometry scales up to fly over more cities. Their website mentions each pixel equates to roughly 6 inches on the ground. That's a lot of imagery to collect over major metropolitan areas. 8 bits per pixel, covering several thousand square kilometers at that resolution with 4 different viewing angles is a lot of data.
I'd like to see more geospatial information. Lat/Lon coordinates (at least WGS-84), height (ellipsoid or MSL), etc.
Back in 1996 EDS declared IE to be the "standard" browser for use on all internal machines. When those of us who were using Sun boxes asked "What about us?", the reply was "We have Sun users?"
The real question then becomes why don't digital cameras use PNG instead of their own version of a RAW format. Adobe is stepping in to try and consolidate the different formats to simplify importing into Photoshop. I can easily see a couple of questions from a hardware perspective.
What is the time cost of compressing to PNG versus directly writing a larger uncompressed RAW file?
If compression is too costly, can a simple form of run length encoding be used instead of PNG?
Does the flash storage medium have an effect on which file formats are more efficient to write (SD vs. compact flash)? If so, what compromises must be made?
Camera makers are choosing a format based on other considerations than software compatibility. Where do the current formats fail to meet their needs?
In the extra commentary on the DVD "Willow," They mention being the first movie use of morphing software (called M.O.R.F.) for the scene where Willow returns Razel to her original form. Most of the other effects were done by traditional film means. This would have been 1988 or thereabouts.
At first I thought it was "Flesh Mob Supercomputing" and thought of the "Drummers" from "The Diamond Age". Power consumption wouldn't be an issue, but the heat dissapation issues would have a whole other set of consequences.
Having the Sysop of our local Major BBS using Sprint's PC Pursuit to link up with another BBS across the country, using one of his 32 channels to link in another 16-channel BBS. It was a major bummer when Sprint cancelled that discount service for BBS's.
Flash Attack was one of the more interesting of the ANSI-Graphics games that ran over the Major BBS system. I'd love to see a modern update running over TCP/IP.
Real Networks CEO Rob Glaser worked for Microsoft from 1983 to 1993. Also, if I remember correctly, prior to their IPO, Real licensed their technology to Microsoft, giving Microsoft the ability to know all the ins and outs of RealPlayer. This would have been around 1997. If Real Networks can prove Microsoft used that knowledge against them, then they may have a case.
No group has done more to sexualize children for profit than the music industry. Go to amazon and pull up a photo of britney spears' first album -- she's wearing a school girl uniform. They have a lot of nerve talking about this now.
Not to mention the early videos were shot by porn director Greg Dark. He has also shot videos for Mandy Moore and was profiled in Esquire. The hypocracy runs deeper than you think.
It would be an interesting test case, since the DMCA does allow reverse engineering for interoperability. Could such a test case be used to show that the DMCA is inconsistent with itself, preventing what it is meant to allow, and therefore unconstitutional?
I would expect that in most cases you will be able to rely on the librarians to tell you when filters are enabled. The American Library Association has already denounced the decision and, unlike the PATRIOT act, I don't believe CIPA puts librarians under a gag order with respect to disclosing the existence of filters.
Doesn't it seem ironic then, that the ALA press release comes from Toronto, Canada, and not the U.S.?
As many have mentioned.zip is an open standard. In fact, it's rfc 1951". It's the use of encryption that's an issue. Open standards like AES or PGP exist for that as well. What should happen is: Define an rfc for formats using encryption with compression. Then there is an agreed upon implementation, rather than multiple companies trying to define an implemenation. Isn't that what the IETF is for?
Companies could make their entire business collecting royalties from patents they will never use. The company would never need to produce a product to profit, relying instead on revenues from lawsuits and royalties. The company would probably only consist of Marketing and legal departments with a few inventors to make it look vaguely legitimate.
Cool, I stand corrected on throughput. I still prefer the convenience of being able to remove the drive and use it on another machine, or being able to upgrade capacity at a later date.
Compact Flash is a lot slower than firewire if i'm not mistaken... I could look it up, but I'd just stick with my general experience and the fact that half of the CF readers i've used were USB... so I really don't understand your point.
The CF reader I use most is a PCMCIA reader in my laptop. True, most CF readers are USB, so those are a wash as far as speed. Most of my use of CF has been a digital camera, and I much prefer accessing the individual files directly rather than rely on the camera's USB transfer utility. It's as much a matter of convenience and versatility as it is raw speed.
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Another tagline could be what I've been using as a signature all this time.
Anybody starting a trial because something gave him "great pain and mental anguish" needs to be beaten. Hardly.
But if the person is hardly beaten, then it's hardly any punishment then is it? Now, severely beaten, on the other hand...
It used to be "What's good for General Motors is good for the USA."
I guess now it should be:
"What's good for Microsoft is good for business."
In other words, "Let's change all those pesky clauses that people are using to claim Bush's 'Terrorist Surveillance Program' is illegal." Ironically, Congress would have been willing to give make those changes when the USA-PATRIOT act was first passed. Given all of the violations, from the above-mentioned program, to the FBI's misuse of NSL's (NSL's were Feingold's main objection against extending the PATRIOT Act's sunset provisions), Congress will be much more skeptical. Hopefully theose in Congress pushing for a full investigation of the "Terrorist Surveillance Program" are paying attention and can use this as further legal ammunition.
Or...
Each of the major broadcast networks will syndicate a single show of independent music through their syndication subsidiary (Clear Channel: Premiere Radio Networks, Cox: Cox Syndication, CBS: Westwood One) to each of their local affiliates.
Let's face it. Your standard big radio station formats (classic rock, Top 40, country) don't lend themselves to independent music. Some of the rock stations in big cities can focus a one or two hour show on the local music scene, but most large commercial stations aren't interested in promoting small independent acts from other markets, especially if the act doesn't tour and appear in that station's coverage area.
Ron Graham was head of Math Research at AT&T Bell Labs back in the '80's. Knuth should need no introduction.
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Have the state's electoral votes represent the way the state voted, instead of a "plurality take all" mentality. Since the electoral votes are based on Congressional Districts, do something like this. If a candidate wins the plurality of a Congressional District for a state, that candidate wins the corresponding electoral vote. If a candidate wins the majority of the votes of a state, then that candidate wins the two electoral votes corresponding to the state's Senators. If no candidate wins the majority of votes for a state, the two electoral votes are then split between each of the two highest vote getters.
The drawback is that this assumes a two-party system. A strong third party could potentially mean no candidate wins a majority of electoral votes. This is why the electoral college has evolved the way it has. The other problem would be that a close election, like 2000, would not have a recount limited to a single state, depending on how close the races were in the individual districts throughout the country. More turmoil, but then again, potentially more fair, depending on your point of view.
At first glance, I thought the headline was "Orrin Hatch Becoming Irrelevant."
One can dream, I suppose.
There definitely was a 1930's (black and white) cartoon where Porky Pig was sent to the store. His repeated line to jog his memory was "A loaf of bread, a quart of milk, and come home right away." He passes a movie theater with the sign reading "Kids admitted free!" He repeats "A loaf of bread, a quart of milk, and kids admitted free." two or three times before what is on the sign registers with him, and he then goes to the movies. Since Sesame Street came out in 1969, Porky Pig preceded it by some 30 years.
And obviously greater coverage would be much appreciated.
The greater coverage will come as Pictometry scales up to fly over more cities. Their website mentions each pixel equates to roughly 6 inches on the ground. That's a lot of imagery to collect over major metropolitan areas. 8 bits per pixel, covering several thousand square kilometers at that resolution with 4 different viewing angles is a lot of data.
I'd like to see more geospatial information. Lat/Lon coordinates (at least WGS-84), height (ellipsoid or MSL), etc.
Back in 1996 EDS declared IE to be the "standard" browser for use on all internal machines. When those of us who were using Sun boxes asked "What about us?", the reply was "We have Sun users?"
The real question then becomes why don't digital cameras use PNG instead of their own version of a RAW format. Adobe is stepping in to try and consolidate the different formats to simplify importing into Photoshop. I can easily see a couple of questions from a hardware perspective.
What is the time cost of compressing to PNG versus directly writing a larger uncompressed RAW file?
If compression is too costly, can a simple form of run length encoding be used instead of PNG?
Does the flash storage medium have an effect on which file formats are more efficient to write (SD vs. compact flash)? If so, what compromises must be made?
Camera makers are choosing a format based on other considerations than software compatibility. Where do the current formats fail to meet their needs?
In the extra commentary on the DVD "Willow," They mention being the first movie use of morphing software (called M.O.R.F.) for the scene where Willow returns Razel to her original form. Most of the other effects were done by traditional film means. This would have been 1988 or thereabouts.
At first I thought it was "Flesh Mob Supercomputing" and thought of the "Drummers" from "The Diamond Age". Power consumption wouldn't be an issue, but the heat dissapation issues would have a whole other set of consequences.
Having the Sysop of our local Major BBS using Sprint's PC Pursuit to link up with another BBS across the country, using one of his 32 channels to link in another 16-channel BBS. It was a major bummer when Sprint cancelled that discount service for BBS's.
Flash Attack was one of the more interesting of the ANSI-Graphics games that ran over the Major BBS system. I'd love to see a modern update running over TCP/IP.
Interesting that nobody is mentioning the Apple III as a big miss.
Real Networks CEO Rob Glaser worked for Microsoft from 1983 to 1993. Also, if I remember correctly, prior to their IPO, Real licensed their technology to Microsoft, giving Microsoft the ability to know all the ins and outs of RealPlayer. This would have been around 1997. If Real Networks can prove Microsoft used that knowledge against them, then they may have a case.
Not to mention the early videos were shot by porn director Greg Dark. He has also shot videos for Mandy Moore and was profiled in Esquire. The hypocracy runs deeper than you think.
It would be an interesting test case, since the DMCA does allow reverse engineering for interoperability. Could such a test case be used to show that the DMCA is inconsistent with itself, preventing what it is meant to allow, and therefore unconstitutional?
Doesn't it seem ironic then, that the ALA press release comes from Toronto, Canada, and not the U.S.?
As many have mentioned .zip is an open standard.
In fact, it's rfc 1951". It's the use of encryption that's an issue. Open standards like AES or PGP exist for that as well. What should happen is: Define an rfc for formats using encryption with compression. Then there is an agreed upon implementation, rather than multiple companies trying to define an implemenation. Isn't that what the IETF is for?
Dude! You've just described Rambus.
Cool, I stand corrected on throughput. I still prefer the convenience of being able to remove the drive and use it on another machine, or being able to upgrade capacity at a later date.
The CF reader I use most is a PCMCIA reader in my laptop. True, most CF readers are USB, so those are a wash as far as speed. Most of my use of CF has been a digital camera, and I much prefer accessing the individual files directly rather than rely on the camera's USB transfer utility. It's as much a matter of convenience and versatility as it is raw speed.