The problem with TV run by the Feds is that it conforms to their (FCC) standards (e.g., no howard stern), while LOCAL cable conforms to local communinity standards and isn't under the control of the FCC.
This is among other things an attempt to regulate speach on TV which the FCC can't do on cable (today).
Since TV can already come in via the Internet (video.google & iTunes, etc.), the Air and via Cable and via the phone system (via DSL), i'm not sure that there is a market failure here.
I repeat, this seems more like an an attempt to regulate speach on TV which the FCC can't do on cable (today).
In there minds, you just make it illegal, like crossing the border without permission, like certain drugs, like running red lights. It's much easier (for them) you just make it illegal and all that activity just stops..
They didn't think of market based solutions. E.g., If you don't want to see something YOU have to filter it out by buying a cheap piece of software.
The problem is that the software MIGHT not just WORK well 100% of the time, but of course the laws always work 100%...
The Telephony business died some time in 1998 but with 30 to 50 year depreciation cycles it's going to be 20 or 30 years before the carry away the corpse.
The back bone is mostly packets and the cost of transmission is very low.
If you measured all the data in bits that you use for a phone call and priced them by the bit, bit for bit that you might pay for a high speed hollywood movie delivered down a digital pipe.. your yearly telephone bill should about a $1.
They only place they are making money is on software features like call forwarding and call waiting..
Ugly also tends to "test" better in print as well.
I think they come across as more personal/more trusty.. which is what the article said.. It's like you can see the hand of the person who build it but with a glossy site all you can see is some mindless corporation..
Making TV interactive a "a bit" harder than making web sites do the same thing because so much of TV watching happens in synchrony; with millions of viewers watching at the same time. Even when web sites experience heavy loads, you can expect that everyone one isn't doing at the same time. Of course with interactive TV user initialed features will happen more sporadically and more distributed. But watch one when 100 million homes need to have the same interactive element pop up at the same time, and within seconds people in those homes start interacting..
All of the "features" that I mention have been used in various forms over the years in various systems.
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The reality is that interactive TV is here today.
Video on Demand is really the crown jewel of that. The parts that haven't yet made it including being able to vote on American Idol WITHOUT getting off your ass.
The rest, as we always say waits for a "killer app." Who know what that will be, a few suggestions:
1) being able to turn OFF the text Scroll at the bottom of news stations like CNN or control what does scroll.
2) On a sports broadcast controlling what stats are displayed, picking camera angles, etc.
3) Besides voting, all manner of interaction for reality TV shows.
I think one test of the search is when your looking for something you ALREADY know and see if ther are any surprises.
I own a burger joint and I regularly do Google Searches to see what is being written about it.
The same search on Windows Live Search (WLS) yielded marginally better results; that is to say the 1st 44 or so hits on WLS were all 100% about my business while with the Google search (there wasn't # listed and I didn't count) there were about 30-35.
In both cases there were other links to stories about my business but they were intermixed with "stories" about other people & places.
The 1st NPlant in the US came in ahead of time and ahead of budget. Protests have kept every other plant from being on time and on budget. It also made every plant larger and larger; as they tried to make the economics work.
Each plant being so big and so custom made to the area, also makes them hard to inspect; each one is different to some degree.
The French have been building small scale N-Plants w/ passive cooling; meaning if something goes wrong it shuts itself down without any need (or room for) equipment failure. (an example being using the pressure from the reaction to hold back water. If there is less pressure or more pressure the water enters an shuts down the plant.
It seems to be passive cooling and uniform construction is key to safety. Building them smaller means there are more of them and they are closer to "you." So not sure how I feel about size. Also there is security risks, more plants to watch equate to more risk.
There is a reason that mules have been used historically and you make an excellent job of pointing that out. Your point about sticking with the mule. Are you currently using mules in you line of work? or as hobby?
There is also a good reason that mules are not a major line item on the budget of any big Army today.
The lack of comments about the technical or economic merits of this is sad. More sad is that the comments that are posted are all jokes. There is plenty of alt. groups and other places to show off your wit & humor!
My question is the article said metal catalysts are required. How much do they cost? What is the cost of a gallon made this way today (in the lab) and what price do they expect it to cost w/ large scale production?
The most interesting thing is the "natural" looking motion of the "legs". At first I thought it was two guys up in some custom faking it as a robot! They are so natural!
The video delivers what is promised but notice that when it does go up that steep hill there is no 40+ kg of weight on it...
It also seems a bit to loud and well, in need of some body armor.
they have to index it and maybe build a concordence. etc... that is sweat of the brow type work. its also really because of that sweat a dirivitive (sp?) work. furthermore indexes are treated uniquely by the IPO.
A key difference here being that a thumbnail contains 100% of the information even though the size is reduced (personally i think its clear that a thumbnail has reduced value (See Below)).
Google isn't putting entire books online in the same way. They are only telling you which books contain the terms your searching on and show some (hopefully) fair use sized examples.
The idea that someone is going to a porn site is so they can become sexually excited. I have no doubt that a thumbnail might cause some excitement depending on the image, but that people are going to be giving pleasure to themselves by looking at thumbnails and then not pay for the site is silly.
So if they did merge, they would have to merge their business goals.. The entertainment thing is something that Apple is big on creating but not really so big on distributing (even w/ iTunes).
What TV network and movide studio is going to use Apple Hardware if its owned by the competition?
Besides the channel conflict (hardware and software) w/ other providers (networks, studios, etc.), unless Apple wanted to get into the home robot market via Animatronics I don't see any synergy. Even if Apple wanted to a) get further into consumer electronics and do TVs, etc. they don't need to buy Disney to get content.
Not supporting the project and in agreement about the nastyness of profiling Americans, but specifically to your point, "They know you are American citizen, not even a suspect foreigner - yet want to know what you buy, where you travel - everything. They want to profile you..."
One could imagine that if they had enough profiles of Americans doing their "normal" activities it would be easier to find the profiles of those within America who don't fit.
I doubt it would work, but that might be what is in their minds (beyond fear and loathing..).
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The problem with TV run by the Feds is that it conforms to their (FCC) standards (e.g., no howard stern), while LOCAL cable conforms to local communinity standards and isn't under the control of the FCC.
This is among other things an attempt to regulate speach on TV which the FCC can't do on cable (today).
Since TV can already come in via the Internet (video.google & iTunes, etc.), the Air and via Cable and via the phone system (via DSL), i'm not sure that there is a market failure here.
I repeat, this seems more like an an attempt to regulate speach on TV which the FCC can't do on cable (today).
It's for Teens.. i guess, like hmm I didn't know there was a branch of the Library at the shopping Mall!!
Apple licensed the APPLE logo from the Beatles.
They agreed not to sell music.
They broke that agreement.
In there minds, you just make it illegal, like crossing the border without permission, like certain drugs, like running red lights. It's much easier (for them) you just make it illegal and all that activity just stops..
They didn't think of market based solutions. E.g., If you don't want to see something YOU have to filter it out by buying a cheap piece of software.
The problem is that the software MIGHT not just WORK well 100% of the time, but of course the laws always work 100%...
The Telephony business died some time in 1998 but with 30 to 50 year depreciation cycles it's going to be 20 or 30 years before the carry away the corpse.
The back bone is mostly packets and the cost of transmission is very low.
If you measured all the data in bits that you use for a phone call and priced them by the bit, bit for bit that you might pay for a high speed hollywood movie delivered down a digital pipe.. your yearly telephone bill should about a $1.
They only place they are making money is on software features like call forwarding and call waiting..
Ugly also tends to "test" better in print as well.
I think they come across as more personal/more trusty.. which is what the article said.. It's like you can see the hand of the person who build it but with a glossy site all you can see is some mindless corporation..
I thought Billy was a Lady...
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Making TV interactive a "a bit" harder than making web sites do the same thing because so much of TV watching happens in synchrony; with millions of viewers watching at the same time. Even when web sites experience heavy loads, you can expect that everyone one isn't doing at the same time. Of course with interactive TV user initialed features will happen more sporadically and more distributed. But watch one when 100 million homes need to have the same interactive element pop up at the same time, and within seconds people in those homes start interacting..
All of the "features" that I mention have been used in various forms over the years in various systems.
The reality is that interactive TV is here today.
Video on Demand is really the crown jewel of that. The parts that haven't yet made it including being able to
vote on American Idol WITHOUT getting off your ass.
The rest, as we always say waits for a "killer app." Who know what that will be, a few suggestions:
1) being able to turn OFF the text Scroll at the bottom of
news stations like CNN or control what does scroll.
2) On a sports broadcast controlling what stats are displayed, picking camera angles, etc.
3) Besides voting, all manner of interaction for reality TV shows.
The price is cheaper that 1.99 a show.. but 16 esp. for $10.00 isn't cheap enough.
I think one test of the search is when your looking for something you ALREADY know and see if ther are any surprises.
I own a burger joint and I regularly do Google Searches to see what is being written about it.
The same search on Windows Live Search (WLS) yielded marginally better results; that is to say the 1st 44 or so hits on WLS were all 100% about my business while with the Google search (there wasn't # listed and I didn't count) there were about 30-35.
In both cases there were other links to stories about my business but they were intermixed with "stories" about other people & places.
One thing for sure is if you can have mass production of common parts, you would gain some cost advantage!
Has any group or project vet'd it for security related bugs?
The 1st NPlant in the US came in ahead of time and ahead of budget. Protests have kept every other plant from being on time and on budget. It also made every plant larger and larger; as they tried to make the economics work.
Each plant being so big and so custom made to the area, also makes them hard to inspect; each one is different to some degree.
The French have been building small scale N-Plants w/ passive cooling; meaning if something goes wrong it shuts itself down without any need (or room for) equipment failure. (an example being using the pressure from the reaction to hold back water. If there is less pressure or more pressure the water enters an shuts down the plant.
It seems to be passive cooling and uniform construction is key to safety. Building them smaller means there are more of them and they are closer to "you." So not sure how I feel about size. Also there is security risks, more plants to watch equate to more risk.
There is a reason that mules have been used historically and you make an excellent job of pointing that out. Your point about sticking with the mule. Are you currently using mules in you line of work? or as hobby?
There is also a good reason that mules are not a major line item on the budget of any big Army today.
The lack of comments about the technical or economic merits of this is sad. More sad is that the comments that are posted are all jokes. There is plenty of alt. groups and other places to show off your wit & humor!
My question is the article said metal catalysts are required. How much do they cost? What is the cost of a gallon made this way today (in the lab) and what price do they expect it to cost w/ large scale production?
The most interesting thing is the "natural" looking motion of the "legs". At first I thought it was two guys up in some custom faking it as a robot! They are so natural!
The video delivers what is promised but notice that when it does go up that steep hill there is no 40+ kg of weight on it...
It also seems a bit to loud and well, in need of some body armor.
Sounds like a great idea for a data center w/ lots of devices that have AC/DC converters already in them.
Not a great idea for wiring towns, counties, states and communities, etc. In terms of the big picture old Nic. T was right!
they have to index it and maybe build a concordence. etc... that is sweat of the brow type work. its also really because of that sweat a dirivitive (sp?) work. furthermore indexes are treated uniquely by the IPO.
A key difference here being that a thumbnail contains 100% of the information even though the size is reduced (personally i think its clear that a thumbnail has reduced value (See Below)).
Google isn't putting entire books online in the same way. They are only telling you which books contain the terms your searching on and show some (hopefully) fair use sized examples.
The idea that someone is going to a porn site is so they can become sexually excited. I have no doubt that a thumbnail might cause some excitement depending on the image, but that people are going to be giving pleasure to themselves by looking at thumbnails and then not pay for the site is silly.
Very different businesses! agreed.
So if they did merge, they would have to merge their business goals.. The entertainment thing is something that Apple is big on creating but not really so big on distributing (even w/ iTunes).
What TV network and movide studio is going to use Apple Hardware if its owned by the competition?
Besides the channel conflict (hardware and software) w/ other providers (networks, studios, etc.), unless Apple wanted to get into the home robot market via Animatronics I don't see any synergy. Even if Apple wanted to a) get further into consumer electronics and do TVs, etc. they don't need to buy Disney to get content.
the point is we would fall into 1 or more profiles. but like I said I doubt it would help.
Not supporting the project and in agreement about the nastyness of profiling Americans, but specifically to your point, "They know you are American citizen, not even a suspect foreigner - yet want to know what you buy, where you travel - everything. They want to profile you..."
One could imagine that if they had enough profiles of Americans doing their "normal" activities it would be easier to find the profiles of those within America who don't fit.
I doubt it would work, but that might be what is in their minds (beyond fear and loathing..).
> Remember folks, denial is the first step.
> Then comes anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
The bottom line is there are plenty of choices. Other music stores, ripping CDs, and sharing via P2P.
On the other hand you can sign up for iTunes and download their free weekly song for free!