Yes, there is someone that can. Joe Baptista. Why don't you ask him?
Do you really imagine there's some cabal somewhere that meets weekly in smoke filled rooms to register TLA's that don't meet with your approval? Or are you asking us to use our Amazing Psychic Powers to read his mind and report back to you?
Yeah, I went to their site. Once. About four months ago. And never, ever, went back. What crap. It was Flash Gone Bad. OK, granted a flash site is never really a good sign, but boo.com was way over the top and it certainly had an influence on my decision not to buy anything from them.
The problem is the same one that mp3.com had: you aren't timeshifting your shows. Just like mp3.com was making copies of songs that mp3.com owned and broadcasting them to other people, this service is taking video content that's being delivered to them and rebroadcasting it to you.
With the RIO, there's at least a chance that you downloaded mp3's that were taken from CD's that you actually own. With these mp3.com and this service there's no chance at all.
That's a very nicely defined example. Let's try this one:
You're one of the declining number of people that still watches "South Park". You're also too cheap to pay for cable. You go to your "friend", who does have cable, and ask him to tape it for you.
You give him a tape and he records it for you. When you get the tape back, it's got a few ads on it that your "friend" put there to cover the cost of his time to record it.
Suddenly, your "friend" is no longer time shifting programs, but rebroadcasting without the consent of the copyright holder. It's never been legal, on or off the internet, to do that.
It's a neat idea, but I'm going to be surprised if they are still going by the end of the week.
I think the distinction here is that even if you do own the CD's, you didn't rip and convert them to MP3 and upload the to MP3.com. It's not "your" music that you are listening to. MP3.com owns the copy of the music that people listen to when they connect to my.mp3.com and they are playing it for you, presumably, to make some sort of profit.
Whether people own a copy of the music they are listening to or not doesn't really seem relevant, the copy that comes from my.mp3.com isn't theirs.
The decision doesn't affect what sort of peas you can store in your freezer. All it means is that the seller of the peas has to compensate the grower of the peas when he sells them you.
If you want to time and format shift your CD's, there's nothing here to prevent it. Rip them and put them on a streaming server that only you have reasonable access to.
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Yeah well, not really. While it's unlikely that you will be sued, your telco may take a dim view of you running DSL (and all the RF it spits out) on an alarm circuit. While this guy sounds like he's got the World's Most Understanding Phone Company, there are some *cough* USWest *cough* that don't like it at all.
Nice try, conspiracy boy. There's a very public and compelling reason to burn the sats. The IRS. Assets that are floating around in orbit ready to be turned back on or sold at some later date, aren't *nearly* as deductible as assets that have been reduced to a fine dust floating in the Indian Ocean. Someone would have to come up with a lot more than 5% to make it worthwhile to sell Iridium.
Well, no. Only your domain controllers have to be Win2k to run in native mode. And native mode doesn't really buy you most of the "strong points". What you probably meant to say is that you have to have Win2k on the desktop to get a lot of the nifty stuff. Which means that there's going to be a long, long transition time for most organizations.
Buy a server. Buy a USENET feed. Refuse to process cancel requests. Sell the service to like minded individuals. If there are enough of you, eventually, the UDP won't mean a thing. You're free to specify what messages you accept on your own hardware. As are others.
Did you even read the article? It didn't matter what sort "fast shipping" you paid for, the stuff wasn't going out the door. I ordered from Toysrus.com the day after Thanksgiving. The order was delivered on 12/22, 3 1/2 weeks later; and they had to ship it FedEx to get it delivered on time. They missed three promised ship dates. Thank god it was a Christmas present and not a birthday gift.
My best Toysrus.com moment? The second time I called to find out why the order hadn't shipped even though it was two days after they swore it would arrive, the CS guys asks for my email address. OK. Then he asks for my password for their web site. His plan was to check their publicly available order status page to confirm for me that, yes, the order hadn't shipped. Thank you very much Mr. Highly-Trained-Customer-Service-Agent, I couldn't have done that for myself.
Well. NSI does not have the best record for actually getting out bills lately. I have two domains at work that were up for renewal in October. In September, I got the "watch for our bill in the mail" emails from NSI. So I did. Nothing came. Waited. On one day I got four bills. None of the them were for the two domains that were expiring. They were for four completley unrelated domains that didn't belong to us, but somehow had my contact information on the bill. I checked whois on the 4 domains and our 2 domains and everything looked OK. Called NSI. "Oh yes", they say, "we're having billing problems. Everything will be straightened out. You won't be cut off." So we get the service clone's name and wait. Over the next month we get three more bills for domains we don't own. Finally, six weeks after the domain expired, we get a bill, but it's not a normal bill, it's a "pay now or you're cut off bill" and the cutoff date is two days before the bill was mailed. More phone calls. Everything was eventualy straightened out, but now one of my tasks for the coming year is to see if it's possible to move existing domains to a new registrar. Anyone know if you can?
"One hundred thirty eight uses of the most foul of the foul words. *The Blair Witch Project* actually beat *South Park:BLU* in use of the most foul of the foul words. Also were 71 uses of other three/four letter foul words PLUS 17 uses of God's name in vain, 6 of which were with the foul letter expletive and 3 of which were vain use of the name of our Savior."
The image of some guy sitting in a theatre making little check marks everytime some let slip with the most foul of the foul words just makes me laugh.
Yes. But AFAIK this is the first time we've tried to set down a probe using thrusters that couldn't be throttled. If the MPL needed varied thrust, it had to pulse the thrusters to achieve some sort of pseudo-throttling.
I remember reading in some article after the probe was in flight that there was concern that the pulsing might cause irregular fuel flow that would make landing even more difficult, but I never heard any followup.
Anyone know why they didn't use the "bounce it like a beach ball" landing technique instead of trying to set down the probe using constant thrust engines? At least the beachball technique had the advantage of actually being done before.
But DJ's don't own the songs, they own a round piece of plastic.
The $200 CAN fee buys business users of the song the right to transfer it into a form that they find more convienent or efficient. I don't think it's too unreasonable to expect copyright holders to receive payment from businesses for making copies of their works.
When I went to UCLA the "student association" sold official UCLA-approved class notes. They also went to great lengths to ensure that they were the only viable source for those notes, including the funky paper trick and getting really, really, bent out of shape when some students banded together and tried to sell their own notes. It's a little hard to believe that they aren't just a little bit behind the uproar there.
If I remember correctly, you, the IP consumer, only get about 64 bits to play with. The first half of the addresses goes to identifying packet types and providers and stuff. You can't just choose a random 128 bit number and expect it to work.
>And the people complaining are not Mac users, they are Mac haters.
Really? How bizarre. I have an entire advertising department that uses nothing but G3 Macs. They've clutched them to their breast and given me evil stares everytime I've made half-hearted attempts to take them away. I was under the impression that they liked them, but since they are upset about this whole G4 thing, they must be secret Mac haters! Time for another talk on Tuesday!
I just went to the mirror page listed above and put in an account I use when posting on Usenet and got the usual whole page of spam messages. Then I went back in through the portal nad got the same spam messages.
I may have gotten confused by The Creative Capitalization but this scheme didn't sound like it could be put into place without a re-write of existing IP stacks. If the only benefit is that we get to keep 32 bit addresses, I'll take an IPv6 to go, please.
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Yes, there is someone that can. Joe Baptista. Why don't you ask him?
Do you really imagine there's some cabal somewhere that meets weekly in smoke filled rooms to register TLA's that don't meet with your approval? Or are you asking us to use our Amazing Psychic Powers to read his mind and report back to you?
Yeah, I went to their site. Once. About four months ago. And never, ever, went back. What crap. It was Flash Gone Bad. OK, granted a flash site is never really a good sign, but boo.com was way over the top and it certainly had an influence on my decision not to buy anything from them.
The problem is the same one that mp3.com had: you aren't timeshifting your shows. Just like mp3.com was making copies of songs that mp3.com owned and broadcasting them to other people, this service is taking video content that's being delivered to them and rebroadcasting it to you.
With the RIO, there's at least a chance that you downloaded mp3's that were taken from CD's that you actually own. With these mp3.com and this service there's no chance at all.
That's a very nicely defined example. Let's try this one:
You're one of the declining number of people that still watches "South Park". You're also too cheap to pay for cable. You go to your "friend", who does have cable, and ask him to tape it for you.
You give him a tape and he records it for you. When you get the tape back, it's got a few ads on it that your "friend" put there to cover the cost of his time to record it.
Suddenly, your "friend" is no longer time shifting programs, but rebroadcasting without the consent of the copyright holder. It's never been legal, on or off the internet, to do that.
It's a neat idea, but I'm going to be surprised if they are still going by the end of the week.
I think the distinction here is that even if you do own the CD's, you didn't rip and convert them to MP3 and upload the to MP3.com. It's not "your" music that you are listening to. MP3.com owns the copy of the music that people listen to when they connect to my.mp3.com and they are playing it for you, presumably, to make some sort of profit.
Whether people own a copy of the music they are listening to or not doesn't really seem relevant, the copy that comes from my.mp3.com isn't theirs.
The decision doesn't affect what sort of peas you can store in your freezer. All it means is that the seller of the peas has to compensate the grower of the peas when he sells them you.
If you want to time and format shift your CD's, there's nothing here to prevent it. Rip them and put them on a streaming server that only you have reasonable access to.
Yeah well, not really. While it's unlikely that you will be sued, your telco may take a dim view of you running DSL (and all the RF it spits out) on an alarm circuit. While this guy sounds like he's got the World's Most Understanding Phone Company, there are some *cough* USWest *cough* that don't like it at all.
Nice try, conspiracy boy. There's a very public and compelling reason to burn the sats. The IRS. Assets that are floating around in orbit ready to be turned back on or sold at some later date, aren't *nearly* as deductible as assets that have been reduced to a fine dust floating in the Indian Ocean. Someone would have to come up with a lot more than 5% to make it worthwhile to sell Iridium.
Well, no. Only your domain controllers have to be Win2k to run in native mode. And native mode doesn't really buy you most of the "strong points". What you probably meant to say is that you have to have Win2k on the desktop to get a lot of the nifty stuff. Which means that there's going to be a long, long transition time for most organizations.
Buy a server. Buy a USENET feed. Refuse to process cancel requests. Sell the service to like minded individuals. If there are enough of you, eventually, the UDP won't mean a thing. You're free to specify what messages you accept on your own hardware. As are others.
Did you even read the article? It didn't matter what sort "fast shipping" you paid for, the stuff wasn't going out the door. I ordered from Toysrus.com the day after Thanksgiving. The order was delivered on 12/22, 3 1/2 weeks later; and they had to ship it FedEx to get it delivered on time. They missed three promised ship dates. Thank god it was a Christmas present and not a birthday gift.
My best Toysrus.com moment? The second time I called to find out why the order hadn't shipped even though it was two days after they swore it would arrive, the CS guys asks for my email address. OK. Then he asks for my password for their web site. His plan was to check their publicly available order status page to confirm for me that, yes, the order hadn't shipped. Thank you very much Mr. Highly-Trained-Customer-Service-Agent, I couldn't have done that for myself.
Well. NSI does not have the best record for actually getting out bills lately. I have two domains at work that were up for renewal in October. In September, I got the "watch for our bill in the mail" emails from NSI. So I did. Nothing came. Waited. On one day I got four bills. None of the them were for the two domains that were expiring. They were for four completley unrelated domains that didn't belong to us, but somehow had my contact information on the bill. I checked whois on the 4 domains and our 2 domains and everything looked OK. Called NSI. "Oh yes", they say, "we're having billing problems. Everything will be straightened out. You won't be cut off." So we get the service clone's name and wait. Over the next month we get three more bills for domains we don't own. Finally, six weeks after the domain expired, we get a bill, but it's not a normal bill, it's a "pay now or you're cut off bill" and the cutoff date is two days before the bill was mailed. More phone calls. Everything was eventualy straightened out, but now one of my tasks for the coming year is to see if it's possible to move existing domains to a new registrar. Anyone know if you can?
My favorite was the review for Blair Witch:
"One hundred thirty eight uses of the most foul of the foul words. *The Blair Witch Project* actually beat *South Park:BLU* in use of the most foul of the foul words. Also were 71 uses of other three/four letter foul words PLUS 17 uses of God's name in vain, 6 of which were with the foul letter expletive and 3 of which were vain use of the name of our Savior."
The image of some guy sitting in a theatre making little check marks everytime some let slip with the most foul of the foul words just makes me laugh.
Yes. But AFAIK this is the first time we've tried to set down a probe using thrusters that couldn't be throttled. If the MPL needed varied thrust, it had to pulse the thrusters to achieve some sort of pseudo-throttling.
I remember reading in some article after the probe was in flight that there was concern that the pulsing might cause irregular fuel flow that would make landing even more difficult, but I never heard any followup.
Anyone know why they didn't use the "bounce it like a beach ball" landing technique instead of trying to set down the probe using constant thrust engines? At least the beachball technique had the advantage of actually being done before.
But DJ's don't own the songs, they own a round piece of plastic.
The $200 CAN fee buys business users of the song the right to transfer it into a form that they find more convienent or efficient. I don't think it's too unreasonable to expect copyright holders to receive payment from businesses for making copies of their works.
I was scratching my head over that sentence too. How exactly do you get a gas giant into a 4 day orbit?
When I went to UCLA the "student association" sold official UCLA-approved class notes. They also went to great lengths to ensure that they were the only viable source for those notes, including the funky paper trick and getting really, really, bent out of shape when some students banded together and tried to sell their own notes. It's a little hard to believe that they aren't just a little bit behind the uproar there.
Tried that. I actually had a Radio Shack cashier refuse to sell me a $2 watch battery because I wouldn't give them my address.
If I remember correctly, you, the IP consumer, only get about 64 bits to play with. The first half of the addresses goes to identifying packet types and providers and stuff. You can't just choose a random 128 bit number and expect it to work.
>And the people complaining are not Mac users, they are Mac haters.
Really? How bizarre. I have an entire advertising department that uses nothing but G3 Macs. They've clutched them to their breast and given me evil stares everytime I've made half-hearted attempts to take them away. I was under the impression that they liked them, but since they are upset about this whole G4 thing, they must be secret Mac haters! Time for another talk on Tuesday!
I just went to the mirror page listed above and put in an account I use when posting on Usenet and got the usual whole page of spam messages. Then I went back in through the portal nad got the same spam messages.
Pretty clever fake, that is.
I may have gotten confused by The Creative Capitalization but this scheme didn't sound like it could be put into place without a re-write of existing IP stacks. If the only benefit is that we get to keep 32 bit addresses, I'll take an IPv6 to go, please.
Most likely because the State Department made them disable coverage over Cuba.