As a former satellite company phone center supervisor, I used to get to explain this fun situation on an hourly basis...
When the satellite system started becoming popular, the local broadcasters and cable companies lobbied Wasington to protect the licenses that they had paid to broadcast their networks (from THEIR POV, this makes sense. They had paid for the right to a certain spectrum to the government when there was no other competition)
And they made the cable companies offer drop rate local only packages, normally cheaper than $10... (BTW, you can still get this package, if you call and ask they will tell you about their "cheapest package" at $30, but if you push them they will offer the $10 package)
It also seems perfectly reasonable, IF you could get the local affiliate from an Over the Air Antenna or Cable, no harm done right?
WRONG!!!!
What if your cable company sucked and (like many companies at that time) went out every time the wind changed direction? And it didn't matter if you actually HAD cable, what mattered was IF it was provided in your neighborhood you had to get the networks through cable.
And if you could receive the local stations signal was determined by: THE LOCAL STATIONS!!! And they based their determinations on distances from their broadcasting towers WHEN USING A ROOFMOUNTED ANTENNA!!! Didn't matter if you were on the other side of a mountain blocking the signal in West Virginia or not, you were within their broadcast area...
And about the only way around it was to get a letter from the local affiliate saying they exempted you.
As the satellite provider we were bound by the laws and by the whim of the local stations, and man did it suck!
Please don't ask me about conditional sports blackouts:ARGHHH!!!!
MS Exchange 2000 has a nice HTTP interface to it as well
AC or no AC, we demand to know the true identity of a Slashdot poster who would DARE make such a positive M$ comment. And on the front page? Timothy must have been duped... Sacrilege!!!
Excellent idea (although perhaps red-on-brown isn't the most ergnomic of configurations):)
Just wait til the lawyers get ahold of this one! Talk about an ergonomic nightmare...
"Your honor, when my client placed his virtual keyboard on a bed of nails/hot grill/downward slope/his boss' wife/Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, he was injured"
Dude, this is fairly drastic actually. If you don't believe me try this experiment...
Get a towel. You do know where your towel is right?
CAREFULLY, fill one of those huge 64oz Texaco cups full of ice, and THEN oh-so delicately fill it up with water. Also, add a little salt (remember, we ARE talking about salt water: Ocean, DUH...)
Now, RUN LIKE HELL!!!
That thing is gonna go off like an ill-measured volcano at a 4th grade science fair!!! The water will overflow the glass and flood your kitchen, so be prepared! Thats what the towel is for!
Luckily, you are on a hill, so just open the door and all the water will flow down on your lowlying neighbors...(for fun, open a door facing someone you don't like!)
*shaking head/rolling eyes/laughing lightly*
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THIS is flamebait???????????????
And a derivative reply to it is funny???????
hehehehehehe OH MAN! Gotta love/. Burn karma burn
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There is also the sport of Google Whacking affecting your search results
SPORT??? Since when was THAT a sport??? That's disgusting!
Some glory hound at Redhat found it.I doubt he fired up a windows machine and tested it before he realized he could get his name in the news.
I bet you are one of the ppl that instantly criticizes when you hear that M$ (or insert fav evil corp) knew about a vulnerability and kept it quiet for a month.
First, it was the logical personification of a computer concept: a "bit" that can only say yes or no. How can you NOT put that in a movie based in a computer world?
Second, comedic value. You can argue if you like if it was funny, but no doubt it tried to be. I can still hear the little guy "NONONONONO" as Flynn crashes his way around
Not only was the movie cool, but for 3 years it was the only movie my family had on VHS...
We were living in England and something about the formats was different over there...luckily a friends dad had a GIANT tape collection but it was all on BETA!!! So my dad went over and dubbed Tron but never got a round to anything else...
Better yet, get some Jai Alai equipment and re-enact the Jai Alai like scene from the movie.
No challenge you say?
Consider that you would still have to bounce the ball off the ceiling. AND that 99.999% of us have never touched and a piece of Jai Alai equipment and even coming close to someone should earn you a point like in horseshoes.
I guess you could use those cheap plastic "scoops" to get a one-on-one game going
Takes me back to when my friend had a "Thundertree" rigged up with tire swings and platforms that was inspired by Beyond Thunderdome...anyways, I'm rambling
Fair use does not really cover all of what is occuring here, I believe
This also comes under licensing. Phillips licenses the technology and dictates that any use of the technology menas that it is universal. You should be able to place ANY CD Disk in ANY CD player and have it work.
Is there a law covering what happens to a company when they bend the license agreement so that their product only plays in certain players because they have ATTEMPTED to prevent copying?
The sad thing is that typically the most read early posts are the least informed due to the fact that they skipped the actual step of checking the source first
Does anybody really think that those little blinky lights are going fast enough to transmit any data
Yes, its called "Fiber Optic" and there are a few companies pursuing the technology right now. I tell you this "Fiber Optic" thing is going to be big if they can ever get those "little blinky lights" going fast enough *smirk*
RTFA and they explain the following among other things:
It only worked on 36% of the subjects tested
The ANP Model 100 short-haul modem, Hayes Smartmodem OPTIMA 9600 and 14400, and a Practical Peripherals PM14400FXMT fax modem were all examined.
There tons of these old "standards" still running in the real world. Well above your 300 baud assumption
And last I heard from greenpeace, the world was ending tomorrow...
Reliable as your information is sure to be, this would be a far more costly way of business than the normal "bribing and dumping" disposal model. Why would they do this???
Use the proxy bid system correctly. Seriously consider what you are willing to pay and place your bid. Ebay will incrementally raise your bid against other bidders. This way no one is "pushing up" what you are willing to pay.
If you REALLY are serious, wait til the last minute of the auction and place your highest willing bid then and make it an odd amount like $102.26. That way you don't get caught in the frenzy and you beat out someone else chance to outbid you who is waiting around to see what happens.
The other defense is that the idiot might mave got $90 for an item from you, but since he went and bid $100 on it himself and beat your bid, he is now going to get nothing. Most ppl are swift enough to avoid this
If you don't get caught up in the "bidding frenzy" you will be fine.
If you are willing to pay $102.26 for something will it bother you if you get it for $75.50?
Los Angeles took action to prevent automobile accidents by closing all incoming roads.
Obviously, nothing useful comes from Asia, huh?
Even in its simplest form=Those cheap DVD players will never get sold to Best Buy when the Asian maker can't reply back to the buyer. Geeks everwhere revolt...
"You'll see us taking FULL SUPPORT RESPONSIBILITY for Linux," he said. "If you're running the app server and something goes wrong, call us and we'll come and fix it."
Hmmm, gonna be pulling some late nighters there. I'll give him that its good talk. But I bet this is one case where the "sales" department hasn't told the support department their pitch yet.
/.ers will scurry from it like programmers from soap...*grin*
Now, if they invent a device that washes your clothes when they are thrown on the floor and you can buy it for 50plat EQ currency, then they will have a geekhit on their hands...
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I guess more secure. Do you check every snail you meet for cash???
It shouldn't.
HOWEVER, indirectly, things will trickle out of legislation such as this that will affect legal users-
Maybe ISPs will start filtering for all MP3s due to fear of legal action or the such...
Oddly enough, I'm still not exactly sure what they were trying to do.
Taco still says the same thing about the night he walked in on "those gross naked people"!
Sorry, it was too easy a softball to leave alone...
When the satellite system started becoming popular, the local broadcasters and cable companies lobbied Wasington to protect the licenses that they had paid to broadcast their networks (from THEIR POV, this makes sense. They had paid for the right to a certain spectrum to the government when there was no other competition)
And they made the cable companies offer drop rate local only packages, normally cheaper than $10... (BTW, you can still get this package, if you call and ask they will tell you about their "cheapest package" at $30, but if you push them they will offer the $10 package)
It also seems perfectly reasonable, IF you could get the local affiliate from an Over the Air Antenna or Cable, no harm done right?
WRONG!!!!
What if your cable company sucked and (like many companies at that time) went out every time the wind changed direction? And it didn't matter if you actually HAD cable, what mattered was IF it was provided in your neighborhood you had to get the networks through cable.
And if you could receive the local stations signal was determined by: THE LOCAL STATIONS!!! And they based their determinations on distances from their broadcasting towers WHEN USING A ROOFMOUNTED ANTENNA!!! Didn't matter if you were on the other side of a mountain blocking the signal in West Virginia or not, you were within their broadcast area...
And about the only way around it was to get a letter from the local affiliate saying they exempted you.
As the satellite provider we were bound by the laws and by the whim of the local stations, and man did it suck!
Please don't ask me about conditional sports blackouts:ARGHHH!!!!
MS Exchange 2000 has a nice HTTP interface to it as well
AC or no AC, we demand to know the true identity of a Slashdot poster who would DARE make such a positive M$ comment. And on the front page? Timothy must have been duped... Sacrilege!!!
---Your friends, the Slashdotologists---
It has been drifting nothward for decades
This line just hits me as inherently funny, given the subject.
The slashdotted site became more slashdotted
CmdrTaco REALLY starting liking anime
ACs posted even stupider comments including the word stupider...
I KNOW, I KNOW...magnetic vs. true, etc. But its still funny
Excellent idea (although perhaps red-on-brown isn't the most ergnomic of configurations) :)
Just wait til the lawyers get ahold of this one! Talk about an ergonomic nightmare...
"Your honor, when my client placed his virtual keyboard on a bed of nails/hot grill/downward slope/his boss' wife/Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, he was injured"
*grin*
Get a towel. You do know where your towel is right?
CAREFULLY, fill one of those huge 64oz Texaco cups full of ice, and THEN oh-so delicately fill it up with water. Also, add a little salt (remember, we ARE talking about salt water: Ocean, DUH...)
Now, RUN LIKE HELL!!!
That thing is gonna go off like an ill-measured volcano at a 4th grade science fair!!! The water will overflow the glass and flood your kitchen, so be prepared! Thats what the towel is for!
Luckily, you are on a hill, so just open the door and all the water will flow down on your lowlying neighbors...(for fun, open a door facing someone you don't like!)
*shaking head/rolling eyes/laughing lightly*
And a derivative reply to it is funny???????
hehehehehehe OH MAN! Gotta love
Burn karma burn
SPORT??? Since when was THAT a sport??? That's disgusting!
I bet you are one of the ppl that instantly criticizes when you hear that M$ (or insert fav evil corp) knew about a vulnerability and kept it quiet for a month.
Damned if ya do...
First, it was the logical personification of a computer concept: a "bit" that can only say yes or no. How can you NOT put that in a movie based in a computer world?
Second, comedic value. You can argue if you like if it was funny, but no doubt it tried to be. I can still hear the little guy "NONONONONO" as Flynn crashes his way around
OBVIOUSLY, to avoid having little 2 year old "lit-up" Tron re-enactors.
Turn off the lights and the kids glow as they fly across the room
ZZhhCK. "Mommy!"
We were living in England and something about the formats was different over there...luckily a friends dad had a GIANT tape collection but it was all on BETA!!! So my dad went over and dubbed Tron but never got a round to anything else...
That music haunts me sometimes though...
No challenge you say?
Consider that you would still have to bounce the ball off the ceiling. AND that 99.999% of us have never touched and a piece of Jai Alai equipment and even coming close to someone should earn you a point like in horseshoes.
I guess you could use those cheap plastic "scoops" to get a one-on-one game going
Takes me back to when my friend had a "Thundertree" rigged up with tire swings and platforms that was inspired by Beyond Thunderdome...anyways, I'm rambling
This also comes under licensing. Phillips licenses the technology and dictates that any use of the technology menas that it is universal. You should be able to place ANY CD Disk in ANY CD player and have it work.
Is there a law covering what happens to a company when they bend the license agreement so that their product only plays in certain players because they have ATTEMPTED to prevent copying?
"/. needs a RTFA mod"
The sad thing is that typically the most read early posts are the least informed due to the fact that they skipped the actual step of checking the source first
Yes, its called "Fiber Optic" and there are a few companies pursuing the technology right now. I tell you this "Fiber Optic" thing is going to be big if they can ever get those "little blinky lights" going fast enough *smirk*
RTFA and they explain the following among other things:
It only worked on 36% of the subjects tested
The ANP Model 100 short-haul modem, Hayes Smartmodem OPTIMA 9600 and 14400, and a Practical
Peripherals PM14400FXMT fax modem were all examined.
There tons of these old "standards" still running in the real world. Well above your 300 baud assumption
*MUST RESIST URGE TO FLAME...*
Reliable as your information is sure to be, this would be a far more costly way of business than the normal "bribing and dumping" disposal model. Why would they do this???
Not all followups are flamebait, BTW...
Here's your defense to "shill bidding":
Use the proxy bid system correctly. Seriously consider what you are willing to pay and place your bid. Ebay will incrementally raise your bid against other bidders. This way no one is "pushing up" what you are willing to pay.
If you REALLY are serious, wait til the last minute of the auction and place your highest willing bid then and make it an odd amount like $102.26. That way you don't get caught in the frenzy and you beat out someone else chance to outbid you who is waiting around to see what happens.
The other defense is that the idiot might mave got $90 for an item from you, but since he went and bid $100 on it himself and beat your bid, he is now going to get nothing. Most ppl are swift enough to avoid this
If you don't get caught up in the "bidding frenzy" you will be fine.
If you are willing to pay $102.26 for something will it bother you if you get it for $75.50?
Geeks United concluded "Slashdot Is Almost Like *Real Life* Society" with hot grits, Natalie Portman dreams, Beowulf clusters and no women...
Well, how does this matter?
*grin*
Los Angeles took action to prevent automobile accidents by closing all incoming roads.
Obviously, nothing useful comes from Asia, huh?
Even in its simplest form=Those cheap DVD players will never get sold to Best Buy when the Asian maker can't reply back to the buyer. Geeks everwhere revolt...
Hmmm, gonna be pulling some late nighters there. I'll give him that its good talk. But I bet this is one case where the "sales" department hasn't told the support department their pitch yet.
"YOU TOLD THE CUSTOMERS WE'D DO WHAT?"
/.ers will scurry from it like programmers from soap...*grin*
Now, if they invent a device that washes your clothes when they are thrown on the floor and you can buy it for 50plat EQ currency, then they will have a geekhit on their hands...