Just realize that Opera won't be the easiest for the administrator to setup. Which is not to say that it is hard, just that you will have to spend an hour or two configuring everything if you want things to be as simple as possible. Otherwise, Opera can be quite the advanced tool.
The demo convinced me. I had been intending to avoid the game as "another hyped FPS," but the game shows both a strong edge of story telling, and a shockingly strong artistic vision. It almost feels like a cross between myst, and Half Life 2, but adding in elements of a hellish children's book. Also, since it isn't intended to be a multiplayer game or a multiplayer platform, they can get away with weapons and scripting that wouldn't otherwise be possible.
Before this whole MP3 madness, AIWA used to sell a set of pipephone earbuds that gave a wonderful tone. They couldn't compete with a real headphones, but they did beat the pants off of cheap, sub-40-dollar headphones. I wouldn't give up my Seinheisers or Grados for one, but I wouldn't take those on the subway anyway.
In a buffer overflow situation, a system may crash because it attempts to run the overflow data as code and fails. However, 99% of the time you can use buffer overflows to inject your own code to run. You just need to know what system it will be running on.
A buffer overflow is a serious vulnerability, in that finding one is the biggest step towards cracking a system open.
Should copyright just be abolished because we want free access to tv shows and movie clips?
I think the point of the article was that Hollywood could embrace YouTube, providing it with advertiser-supported content. They stand to reap similar rewards to the kinds that they saw upon deciding to sell movies on Video Cassette, instead of fighting it as a piracy monster.
There is little reason for most students to take history or civics. As a programmer, i never EVER need to know anything more recent than mid 90's. Not knowing the past has never ones been a problem in my education or work.
In fact, when i was applying for a military contract position a year ago, i asked if lack of knowledge of past success rates in nation building endeavors would be a problem. The answer was very clearly "no"
at any rate...American schools need to give kids the option of a studying history track or a watching the history channel track. Or perhaps a writing track on proper use of punctuation and capital letters.
The number one goal of military strategy is to destroy your opponents ability to fight effectively. That means destroying his willingness to fight just as much, if not more, than his capability.
No, the number one goal of military strategy is to set realistic target goals, setup conditions and sub-goals for those goals, and create a coherent strategy which achieves those goals. And then plan out the aftermath of how achieving those goals fit into the larger security concern. The singular and only goal here was the overthrow of Saddam, which happened as quickly and painlessly as predicted. The major failing was that we didn't plan out whatever to do afterwards.
We're not still fighting a war. We won. We saw the banner and everything. Saddam's army fell, and he was deposed. What we're fighting now is a combination of a rebellion and a civil war. And we're woefully underprepared to deal with that.
Suppressing a rebellion is very different than fighting against a standing army. You suppress a rebellion by a combination of making it incredibly dangerous to be a rebel while supplying for people's basic needs enough so that they don't want to rebel. We promised the second one, but have pissed away all the money by hiring expensive and unprepared american contractors to do all the work and pocket huge profit margins. The first one we're moderately good at, but just shooting people alone is a bad way to stop a rebellion.
Especially since any enemy the American military goes up against knows that if they can drag the thing out for more than four or five years, the Americans will pack up and leave due to lack of political support.
If we can afford to just pack up and leave, did we really need to be in the war in the first place? I thought wars were just for life-and-death-of-the-country stuff.
I've used a trackball, trackpad, tablet, mouse, dual-mice, and one of those little IBM nipple things professionally for game development, for at least a 6 month period.
My favorite has been the big-arse Kensington Expert Mouse Trackball. It's not quite as precise as a mouse, but it can do something that mice (and smaller balls) can't do: you can spin it, and it keeps going. If you want to spin around in an FPS, you literally spin the ball quickly and catch it. If you want to aim straight up, you spin the ball down and catch it. If you want to go to the windows menu, you spin to that corner. It's really nice, and easy to bounce between hotspots on the screen. Similarly, for really lazy people like me, you're only moving your fingers, not your whole arm. So you always know where you are, and can quickly return to neutral.
Mice, on the other hand, seem to be better when finer movement is required. If you're trying to quickly get another player in your sites for a rail gun shot, a mouse will be more precise. If you're trying to draw an image hand and you don't have a tablet, you probably want a mouse.
Tablets and pens are great for drawing, but sadly not much else. High precision, but lots of movement required for the simplest of tasks.
Trackpads and those IBM nipples are the devil.
I can similarly understand disliking small trackballs. Aside from reduced hand motion, they provide little advantage over a mouse, and with all of the trackball's traditional disadvantages. But once you get to a ball big enough that your fingers can walk over it, the ball's advantages become apparent.
Actually, Bizzare Creations has since retracted that statement, saying instead that the real reason was they wanted to focus financial resources on a weather system.
Which is all fine and good. "Crowing" about it seems reasonable (as defined as "to gloat, boast, or exult"). I'd hardly call that Bile. Also, Sony did use this slightly thin example to say that their Overpriced-but-with-blu-ray strategy had been vindicated.
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Consoles... specifically Xbox and Playstation lines.
Now, by "not cracked" I mean that the software encryption hasn't been solved and people can't run custom applications on unmodified consoles.
It seems to me like the ATM is operating at the will of the bank. It was programmed by the bank, it accepts and dispenses tender for the bank, it engages in transactions. In the most significant ways, the ATM is a Teller, operating as an agent for the interests of the bank.
Who said anything about the power to change the software? If you know the software is working incorrectly (which you do, if you get $10 credit for inserting $1), and you use that fact to exploit the machine for your financial gain at the expense of the casino, then you do bear responsibility for their loss.
The software is designed to have a 95% (or so) payout rate. In essence, this one had a 1000% payout rate. The patrons, more or less by definition, are bad at math and have been conditioned to expect that kind of result.
Casinos prey upon the illusion that you can walk in and make a ton of cash on a hot machine. That's exactly what people here were doing... being the "big winners" that the casino pretended they could be.
Ah yes, the cube. While I loved the form factor, those things were notorious Hard Drive easy-bake ovens. I get nervous over 110f (about 44c) for most drives, and as you can see yours is well above that right now.
I'd fork the HDD's molex and throw in a voltage regulator + the aforementioned fan. The cube was really not ready to be fanless. One 7v FDB fan is going to be inaudible in anything but laboratory conditions, but dying HDD's are a real pain.
Oddly enough, I've got a real, non MST3K copy of Santa Claus Conquers The Martians, bought at a supermarket.
(the Martian communication system is on their belt) "Oh when I call my Cap-tain I touch myself."
Other great lines:
(from the MST3K movie, as air shoots out of the ship and Crow reviews his plans) "Well look at that, 'breach hull, all die', I even had it underlined."
"I calculated the odds of this succeeding versus the odds I was doing something incredibly stupid...and I did it anyway."
"Ho Ho Ho. I'm Santa Claus. I'm hear to eat candy canes and kick ass, and I'm all out of candy canes."
"Why don't you come over and listen to some music?" "Uh... I've got to go finish my letter to Jodie Foster." (seconds later) "That Hurt. I'm all messed up inside. If only an androgynous man would come and visit me." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8kH4XyWjq4
"I hate movies where the men wear shorter skirts than the women."
"Gamera! Gamera! Gamera is really sweet, he is filled with turtle meat! We've been eating Gamera!"
(to simulated 50's "making out") "The tepid embrace tells me they're ready for marriage." "Welcome to as far as you're gonna get." "Oh, You're so Suitable."
"you know that chicken? Here's how it looks when Tommy sits down to supper." "Trumpy NO!" "Goodnight Father. Goodnight Mother." "Goodnight Oedipus."
No. Depending on the location and crime, the danger either peaked in the late 70's or the early 90's. Ever since then, we've been enjoying declining crime rates. The crime decline has been most positive in those urban areas traditionally seen as the most dangerous, such as San Diego and New York City.
Please note, that this is more than just a joke. I've made a lot of "silent" machines over the years (I was a quiet computer consultant for a while), and it's relatively easy to quiet a CPU or PSU safely. Most CPU's have thermal controls that will let you run more or less fanless, and with PSU's you just overbuy and underdraw.
But the Hard Drive is always the problem. HDD's don't generally have thermal protections, and the kinds of problems you're likely to see with hard drives are the ones that show up six months to one year after setting up the machine. They also can get quite hot inside without triggering external heat alarms.
Run your machine for a few hours in its normally concealed environment. Then touch your Hard Drive. If it's warm enough that leaving your fingers on indefinitely would cause mild discomfort from heat, you need to add protections. I'd generally recommend a shielded air tunnel from your HDD, up over your CPU, and out your PSU, with a pair of undervolted lo-flow panaflo's driving the configuration. YMMV.
The best stuff for this, if you happen to not know, is probably still the forums at Silent Pc Review.
Good luck! By the way, the slower Maxtor FDB's are only a hair louder than the Seagate Barracudas, but are a lot cheaper and more widely available.
Could Ebert be participating in a form of self-protection? Here is a man who has invested his life in the art of movie making... and here comes a form of cultural communication which he doesn't understand in the least.
He probably percieves movie making to be threatened more by the video game generation than any thing else he has seen in the past. This is probably the driving force behind his terribly flawed arguments. Games are the enemy (to him).
"While the RIAA has temporary gotten a high royalty rate, the broadcasters are not going to be able to pay it, and the RIAA's profits will go down as a result. After a few quarter they'll wake up to this fact and get down to bargaining seriously on a reduced rate. Eventually they'll hammer out a rate somewhere in the middle that both sides can live with. Then they can get back to the more profitable business of screwing the consumer."
The RIAA is not about profiting from internet radio. The RIAA is about profiting from ensuring people are only exposed to music from the 6 major labels. They make much more if they can ensure that people don't start looking elsewhere for their music. It doesn't matter if the problem is illegal file sharing or (what was) legal internet streaming, or even terrestrial radio playing music they don't approve of (which has led to the payola scandals).
The major labels profit from control. Internet radio is currently viewed as a threat to that control, and as such they want it shut down.
"The broadcasters would like to have zero royalties, or better yet be paid by the RIAA for playing the music. That's not going to happen either."
Ironically, the internet broadcasters are fighting for a royalty rate that is higher than the terrestrial one: satellite radio. For satellite radio, you pay a (rather high) percent of station profits. Terrestrial radio is much cheaper. Internet radio, on the other hand, is massively high in comparison, and is irrespective of profit margins.
Also, it's retroactive to the beginning of 2006, thus instantly bankrupting many broadcasters.
I don't know about ClearChannel, but one of the most successful radio stations in the country, KROQ, would face fees that are four times their yearly revenue, and would grow to twenty times yearly revenue by 2010.
Yahoo shopping: Good comparison site with lots of smaller stores. Use in conjunction with Amazon. My.Yahoo: As far as bandwidth-sucking front pages go, this one is pretty configurable. Calendar.yahoo.com: A pretty good online calendaring app with outlook and palm sync, but a huge bonus is the phone-screen support. Yahoo Games: A solid little group of online games, better because yahoo provides non-english versions for your friends overseas.
Unless you think us Americans really ought to go to stay ignorant and go to Disneyland every year (I give no money to that company).
Really? You do realize that disney owns:
Buena Vista Motion Pictures Walt Disney Animation Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Buena Vista Music Group Buena Vista Theatrical Group Disney Interactive Buena Vista Games Disney Live Family Entertainment Touchstone Pictures Miramax films Hollywood Pictures Pixar ABC ESPN SOAPnet Lifetime Walt Disney Internet Group E! A&E (not 100%) ABC Radio Network Go.com Infoseek.com Movies.com Sanrio Mammoth Records Lyric Street Records Hyperion Theatrical Hollywood Records Seven Peaks Music Seven Summits Music Touchstone Pictures Music & Songs FFM Publishing Saban Music USA KDIS, KDIZ, KESN, KSPN, WEAE, WEPN, WFDF, WMVP, WQEW Reedy Creek Energy Services Citadel Broadcasting Avalanche Software Propaganda Games Fall Line Studios Climax Racing Hyperion Books for Children Steamboat Ventures Vista Federal Credit Union Ready Creek Improvement District
They also own: The Muppets, Power Rangers, Schoolhouse Rock, Doug, The Gremlins, all US rights to dubbed Studio Ghibli films, Zorro, The Golden Girls, Empty Nest, Regis & Kathy Lee / Kelly, Full House, Home Improvement, CSI, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Gargoyles, Clerks: The Animated Series, Who wants to be a millionaire, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Chronicles of Narnia, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lumines II, the new Turok, etc.
Music artists they've released include: They Might Be Giants, Queen, Indigo Girls, Rascal Flatts, Los Lobos, Juliana Hatfield, and Squirrel Nut Zippers
Econ 101 also says that monopoly pricing is always ridiculously high, and in no way encourages efficiencies in the market. Which is to say, even if the monopoly is legitimately earned (and cutting off public-funded copper does not sound legitimate), it is very likely to cause major disruptions in fair market value.
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Just realize that Opera won't be the easiest for the administrator to setup. Which is not to say that it is hard, just that you will have to spend an hour or two configuring everything if you want things to be as simple as possible. Otherwise, Opera can be quite the advanced tool.
The demo convinced me. I had been intending to avoid the game as "another hyped FPS," but the game shows both a strong edge of story telling, and a shockingly strong artistic vision. It almost feels like a cross between myst, and Half Life 2, but adding in elements of a hellish children's book. Also, since it isn't intended to be a multiplayer game or a multiplayer platform, they can get away with weapons and scripting that wouldn't otherwise be possible.
Truly an experience.
Before this whole MP3 madness, AIWA used to sell a set of pipephone earbuds that gave a wonderful tone. They couldn't compete with a real headphones, but they did beat the pants off of cheap, sub-40-dollar headphones. I wouldn't give up my Seinheisers or Grados for one, but I wouldn't take those on the subway anyway.
In a buffer overflow situation, a system may crash because it attempts to run the overflow data as code and fails. However, 99% of the time you can use buffer overflows to inject your own code to run. You just need to know what system it will be running on.
A buffer overflow is a serious vulnerability, in that finding one is the biggest step towards cracking a system open.
NASA looks to me like an outfit that will keep launching these "beaters" until they HAVE to stop (after the next accident anyone can see is coming).
Ah right, like the spaceplane that congress keeps cutting the funding for?
Should copyright just be abolished because we want free access to tv shows and movie clips?
I think the point of the article was that Hollywood could embrace YouTube, providing it with advertiser-supported content. They stand to reap similar rewards to the kinds that they saw upon deciding to sell movies on Video Cassette, instead of fighting it as a piracy monster.
There is little reason for most students to take history or civics. As a programmer, i never EVER need to know anything more recent than mid 90's. Not knowing the past has never ones been a problem in my education or work.
In fact, when i was applying for a military contract position a year ago, i asked if lack of knowledge of past success rates in nation building endeavors would be a problem. The answer was very clearly "no"
at any rate...American schools need to give kids the option of a studying history track or a watching the history channel track. Or perhaps a writing track on proper use of punctuation and capital letters.
The number one goal of military strategy is to destroy your opponents ability to fight effectively. That means destroying his willingness to fight just as much, if not more, than his capability.
No, the number one goal of military strategy is to set realistic target goals, setup conditions and sub-goals for those goals, and create a coherent strategy which achieves those goals. And then plan out the aftermath of how achieving those goals fit into the larger security concern. The singular and only goal here was the overthrow of Saddam, which happened as quickly and painlessly as predicted. The major failing was that we didn't plan out whatever to do afterwards.
We're not still fighting a war. We won. We saw the banner and everything. Saddam's army fell, and he was deposed. What we're fighting now is a combination of a rebellion and a civil war. And we're woefully underprepared to deal with that.
Suppressing a rebellion is very different than fighting against a standing army. You suppress a rebellion by a combination of making it incredibly dangerous to be a rebel while supplying for people's basic needs enough so that they don't want to rebel. We promised the second one, but have pissed away all the money by hiring expensive and unprepared american contractors to do all the work and pocket huge profit margins. The first one we're moderately good at, but just shooting people alone is a bad way to stop a rebellion.
Especially since any enemy the American military goes up against knows that if they can drag the thing out for more than four or five years, the Americans will pack up and leave due to lack of political support.
If we can afford to just pack up and leave, did we really need to be in the war in the first place? I thought wars were just for life-and-death-of-the-country stuff.
I've used a trackball, trackpad, tablet, mouse, dual-mice, and one of those little IBM nipple things professionally for game development, for at least a 6 month period.
My favorite has been the big-arse Kensington Expert Mouse Trackball. It's not quite as precise as a mouse, but it can do something that mice (and smaller balls) can't do: you can spin it, and it keeps going. If you want to spin around in an FPS, you literally spin the ball quickly and catch it. If you want to aim straight up, you spin the ball down and catch it. If you want to go to the windows menu, you spin to that corner. It's really nice, and easy to bounce between hotspots on the screen. Similarly, for really lazy people like me, you're only moving your fingers, not your whole arm. So you always know where you are, and can quickly return to neutral.
Mice, on the other hand, seem to be better when finer movement is required. If you're trying to quickly get another player in your sites for a rail gun shot, a mouse will be more precise. If you're trying to draw an image hand and you don't have a tablet, you probably want a mouse.
Tablets and pens are great for drawing, but sadly not much else. High precision, but lots of movement required for the simplest of tasks.
Trackpads and those IBM nipples are the devil.
I can similarly understand disliking small trackballs. Aside from reduced hand motion, they provide little advantage over a mouse, and with all of the trackball's traditional disadvantages. But once you get to a ball big enough that your fingers can walk over it, the ball's advantages become apparent.
Actually, Bizzare Creations has since retracted that statement, saying instead that the real reason was they wanted to focus financial resources on a weather system.
Which is all fine and good. "Crowing" about it seems reasonable (as defined as "to gloat, boast, or exult"). I'd hardly call that Bile. Also, Sony did use this slightly thin example to say that their Overpriced-but-with-blu-ray strategy had been vindicated.
Consoles... specifically Xbox and Playstation lines.
Now, by "not cracked" I mean that the software encryption hasn't been solved and people can't run custom applications on unmodified consoles.
If there is something wrong with 2003, what is it?
Apparently, the menus weren't confusing enough.
It seems to me like the ATM is operating at the will of the bank. It was programmed by the bank, it accepts and dispenses tender for the bank, it engages in transactions. In the most significant ways, the ATM is a Teller, operating as an agent for the interests of the bank.
Who said anything about the power to change the software? If you know the software is working incorrectly (which you do, if you get $10 credit for inserting $1), and you use that fact to exploit the machine for your financial gain at the expense of the casino, then you do bear responsibility for their loss.
The software is designed to have a 95% (or so) payout rate. In essence, this one had a 1000% payout rate. The patrons, more or less by definition, are bad at math and have been conditioned to expect that kind of result.
Casinos prey upon the illusion that you can walk in and make a ton of cash on a hot machine. That's exactly what people here were doing... being the "big winners" that the casino pretended they could be.
Ah yes, the cube. While I loved the form factor, those things were notorious Hard Drive easy-bake ovens. I get nervous over 110f (about 44c) for most drives, and as you can see yours is well above that right now.
I'd fork the HDD's molex and throw in a voltage regulator + the aforementioned fan. The cube was really not ready to be fanless. One 7v FDB fan is going to be inaudible in anything but laboratory conditions, but dying HDD's are a real pain.
Oddly enough, I've got a real, non MST3K copy of Santa Claus Conquers The Martians, bought at a supermarket.
(the Martian communication system is on their belt)
"Oh when I call my Cap-tain I touch myself."
Other great lines:
(from the MST3K movie, as air shoots out of the ship and Crow reviews his plans)
"Well look at that, 'breach hull, all die', I even had it underlined."
"I calculated the odds of this succeeding versus the odds I was doing something incredibly stupid...and I did it anyway."
"Ho Ho Ho. I'm Santa Claus. I'm hear to eat candy canes and kick ass, and I'm all out of candy canes."
"Why don't you come over and listen to some music?" "Uh... I've got to go finish my letter to Jodie Foster." (seconds later) "That Hurt. I'm all messed up inside. If only an androgynous man would come and visit me."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8kH4XyWjq4
"I hate movies where the men wear shorter skirts than the women."
"Gamera!
Gamera!
Gamera is really sweet,
he is filled with turtle meat!
We've been eating Gamera!"
(to simulated 50's "making out")
"The tepid embrace tells me they're ready for marriage." "Welcome to as far as you're gonna get." "Oh, You're so Suitable."
"you know that chicken? Here's how it looks when Tommy sits down to supper." "Trumpy NO!"
"Goodnight Father. Goodnight Mother." "Goodnight Oedipus."
Is the world really that much more dangerous?
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No. Depending on the location and crime, the danger either peaked in the late 70's or the early 90's. Ever since then, we've been enjoying declining crime rates. The crime decline has been most positive in those urban areas traditionally seen as the most dangerous, such as San Diego and New York City.
Look at the per X inhabitants rates.
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
http://www.sandiego.gov/police/pdf/UCRrates50to20
http://samoa.istat.it/Eventi/sicurezza/relazioni/
Please note, that this is more than just a joke. I've made a lot of "silent" machines over the years (I was a quiet computer consultant for a while), and it's relatively easy to quiet a CPU or PSU safely. Most CPU's have thermal controls that will let you run more or less fanless, and with PSU's you just overbuy and underdraw.
But the Hard Drive is always the problem. HDD's don't generally have thermal protections, and the kinds of problems you're likely to see with hard drives are the ones that show up six months to one year after setting up the machine. They also can get quite hot inside without triggering external heat alarms.
Run your machine for a few hours in its normally concealed environment. Then touch your Hard Drive. If it's warm enough that leaving your fingers on indefinitely would cause mild discomfort from heat, you need to add protections. I'd generally recommend a shielded air tunnel from your HDD, up over your CPU, and out your PSU, with a pair of undervolted lo-flow panaflo's driving the configuration. YMMV.
The best stuff for this, if you happen to not know, is probably still the forums at Silent Pc Review.
Good luck! By the way, the slower Maxtor FDB's are only a hair louder than the Seagate Barracudas, but are a lot cheaper and more widely available.
Could Ebert be participating in a form of self-protection? Here is a man who has invested his life in the art of movie making... and here comes a form of cultural communication which he doesn't understand in the least.
He probably percieves movie making to be threatened more by the video game generation than any thing else he has seen in the past. This is probably the driving force behind his terribly flawed arguments. Games are the enemy (to him).
"While the RIAA has temporary gotten a high royalty rate, the broadcasters are not going to be able to pay it, and the RIAA's profits will go down as a result. After a few quarter they'll wake up to this fact and get down to bargaining seriously on a reduced rate. Eventually they'll hammer out a rate somewhere in the middle that both sides can live with. Then they can get back to the more profitable business of screwing the consumer."
The RIAA is not about profiting from internet radio. The RIAA is about profiting from ensuring people are only exposed to music from the 6 major labels. They make much more if they can ensure that people don't start looking elsewhere for their music. It doesn't matter if the problem is illegal file sharing or (what was) legal internet streaming, or even terrestrial radio playing music they don't approve of (which has led to the payola scandals).
The major labels profit from control. Internet radio is currently viewed as a threat to that control, and as such they want it shut down.
"The broadcasters would like to have zero royalties, or better yet be paid by the RIAA for playing the music. That's not going to happen either."
Ironically, the internet broadcasters are fighting for a royalty rate that is higher than the terrestrial one: satellite radio. For satellite radio, you pay a (rather high) percent of station profits. Terrestrial radio is much cheaper. Internet radio, on the other hand, is massively high in comparison, and is irrespective of profit margins.
Also, it's retroactive to the beginning of 2006, thus instantly bankrupting many broadcasters.
I don't know about ClearChannel, but one of the most successful radio stations in the country, KROQ, would face fees that are four times their yearly revenue, and would grow to twenty times yearly revenue by 2010.
http://www.idobi.com/news/?p=25408
Yahoo shopping: Good comparison site with lots of smaller stores. Use in conjunction with Amazon.
My.Yahoo: As far as bandwidth-sucking front pages go, this one is pretty configurable.
Calendar.yahoo.com: A pretty good online calendaring app with outlook and palm sync, but a huge bonus is the phone-screen support.
Yahoo Games: A solid little group of online games, better because yahoo provides non-english versions for your friends overseas.
Unless you think us Americans really ought to go to stay ignorant and go to Disneyland every year (I give no money to that company).
Really? You do realize that disney owns:
Buena Vista Motion Pictures
Walt Disney Animation
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
Buena Vista Music Group
Buena Vista Theatrical Group
Disney Interactive
Buena Vista Games
Disney Live Family Entertainment
Touchstone Pictures
Miramax films
Hollywood Pictures
Pixar
ABC
ESPN
SOAPnet
Lifetime
Walt Disney Internet Group
E!
A&E (not 100%)
ABC Radio Network
Go.com
Infoseek.com
Movies.com
Sanrio
Mammoth Records
Lyric Street Records
Hyperion Theatrical
Hollywood Records
Seven Peaks Music
Seven Summits Music
Touchstone Pictures Music & Songs
FFM Publishing
Saban Music USA
KDIS, KDIZ, KESN, KSPN, WEAE, WEPN, WFDF, WMVP, WQEW
Reedy Creek Energy Services
Citadel Broadcasting
Avalanche Software
Propaganda Games
Fall Line Studios
Climax Racing
Hyperion Books for Children
Steamboat Ventures
Vista Federal Credit Union
Ready Creek Improvement District
They also own:
The Muppets, Power Rangers, Schoolhouse Rock, Doug, The Gremlins, all US rights to dubbed Studio Ghibli films, Zorro, The Golden Girls, Empty Nest, Regis & Kathy Lee / Kelly, Full House, Home Improvement, CSI, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Gargoyles, Clerks: The Animated Series, Who wants to be a millionaire, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Chronicles of Narnia, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lumines II, the new Turok, etc.
Music artists they've released include:
They Might Be Giants, Queen, Indigo Girls, Rascal Flatts, Los Lobos, Juliana Hatfield, and Squirrel Nut Zippers
Econ 101 also says that monopoly pricing is always ridiculously high, and in no way encourages efficiencies in the market. Which is to say, even if the monopoly is legitimately earned (and cutting off public-funded copper does not sound legitimate), it is very likely to cause major disruptions in fair market value.