as long as the molecular shield stays put, this really shouldn't affect much. these are reservoirs we're talking about, typically a man-made body of water. whatever changes to the environment that happen will be changes back to the environment that was there before the man-made reservoir was added.
o more channels than ever before
o more video consoles than ever before
o more online/interactive games
o that intraweb thing
o more movies on dvd
o whole series being released on dvd
o recycled television line-ups
where are those viewers going? so many things to choose from, it will take something with a very strong appeal to draw viewers back in.
given the large amount of crap on tv these days, i don't think they'll ever enjoy the same numbers they've had in the past.
perhaps the heyday is over, and they should stop trying to find something to blame it on.
There's something about Consumer Reports that doesn't make sense in the first place: where DO they get their revenue from?
perhaps the same place where baskin robbins gets their money.
i mean, seriously, have you ever seen enough people go in during a day to pay for the people working there, let alone the product or the rent?
perhaps they are a front, a consumer reports/baskin robbins corporation that is waiting until the day is right to rave about baskin robbins and take over the ice cream market forever.
diabolical.
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it kind of makes me wonder at what point the "cost of illegal downloads" actually approaches the cost of payola for radio play (or "distributors" that work as agents).
imagine, payola ends, and suddenly certain songs flood the p2p networks, or "download centers".
Next thing you know, you'll be claiming MS stole the color blue from IBM.
it does sort of make you wonder if the blue screen of death was meant to be a subtle jab at big blue, in reference to os/2. i'm not sure microsoft is this subtle, but they have been known for this sort of behavior in the past.:)
not to mention that corporations can't be pardoned, only individuals:)
it is too bad that the CEO of the company that's been found guilty of anti-trust violations isn't somehow on the hook. they would obviously have to know what they're doing, and even if they claim ignorance, it's still at least negligence.
wow, thank you for so boldly showing your ignorance.
not everyone buys a bottom of the barrel deck. i'm happy you were able to find good prices, but even musiciansfriend lists the da-p1 at $1700 (list $2200). the fostex is $2500 (list $3300), and while they no longer have my panasonic, it too was well over $1500 in its day.
i'm also happy that devices that remove scms mid-path are now available, but at the time, they were not.
and, as i stated, *i* personally only knew of one single riaa dat release (devo), if you wish to enlighten me to more, please do, name some. don't just pull things out of your ass, as the rest of your post seemed to do.
by the time i bought my deck, there was one consumer full-sized dat on the market (a sony), and one portable deck (forget the brand). i was a broke musician, and needed my music recorded on dat in order to get it published.
a few years later, when money was less of an object, i opted for a nice panasonic deck, and no longer have any issues.
discovery channel has a new show called mythbusters. a recent episode dealt with the cell-phone/gas myth.
the conclusion was that cell phones are safe, but women pumping their own gas are at risk. while they were never able to get a cell-phone to set off gas vapors, they were able to show that static from getting in/out of the car during filling was enough to cause the fire. this, coupled with the observation that women were more likely to get back into their cars during filling, actually matched the statistics and investigations done by the dot.
AHRA-92 mandated that "consumer" DATs add copy protection to unprotected sources, but since the content is secured at the source, why would HDTV "recorders" be required to imprint it in original content?
why wouldn't they?:)
but seriously, to play devils advocate for a moment, let's think about a scenario:
television station zzba invested heavily in an initial hdtv rollout. just like the theaters in the area, the station has been hit with economic woes. now, the content providers are mandating that they broadcast with a content flag. being early adopters, their equipment isn't flexible, and simply can't be "re-flashed" to send the new bit.
they have a choice, get congress to pass a law requiring all consumer devices to set a flag on content that is missing a copyright flag, or force the early adopters to go broke redeploying.
since we already know that the current administration is very pro big-business, which way do you think they'll lean?
i can tell you that as a musician, the copyright bit on the personal dat recorder i purchased did a pretty good job of stopping me.
well, until i spent $1500 more on a professional dat recorder, that didn't contain it.
it's ridiculous. i wasn't even allowed to copy my own recordings. it's not like dat is a hotbed of piracy, i only recall one riaa album *ever* released to dat.
it's nice to see bogus legislature used to stop useful technology from taking hold, and the common man from being able to compete with those already in power.
If there's a pro-consumer DOJ, then the apparent threat of a viable Linux industry will actually help protect them against the threat of anti-trust punishment.
by funding sco, they aren't eliminating the threat, they're focusing the threat into a company that's guaranteed to be a minor player.
linux won't disappear if sco wins, it will still exist at some level. and the current developers are thrown on to square one. still competition, just drastically reduced.
while microsoft focuses on security, they want all bug reports to silently go away.
somehow, i see steve ballmer walking around like elmer fudd, saying "shhhhh, be vewy vewy quiet, we're hunting bugs" -- with as much success as elmer has.
if they've been unable to find the bugs so far, and attempt to take the pressure off from those publicising the bugs, they run the risk of further, undetected, breakins. this is dangerous, and stupid.
but what else would you expect from a cartoon company?
They didn't develop their own space program, they bought some old russian parts.
China also didn't invent Linux, but they did manage to adapt it, and build on it, to produce their Red Flag operating system.
just because they're starting out with purchased parts, doesn't mean that they won't develop anything new. it simply means that they have a jump on where they would be had they developed all of the technology themselves.
because NASA has already been getting a bad rap with the public lately.
if NASA is late joining the new space race, and other countries get ahead, public support would sway even further away from what would be perceived as an inept agency wasting money.
if NASA doesn't attempt to at least stay in check with a modern space race, it could spell the end of government funded space exploration in this country.
while some may perceive this as a good thing, i happen to believe that the government still has a place in space exploration -- just not in the space tourism business, private companies are coming in to take up that slack.
there's a difference between private companies picking up the space tourism, and the perception that NASA space exploration is being surpassed by what most people still consider to be "third world countries".
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as long as the molecular shield stays put, this really shouldn't affect much. these are reservoirs we're talking about, typically a man-made body of water. whatever changes to the environment that happen will be changes back to the environment that was there before the man-made reservoir was added.
seriously ... between:
o more channels than ever before
o more video consoles than ever before
o more online/interactive games
o that intraweb thing
o more movies on dvd
o whole series being released on dvd
o recycled television line-ups
where are those viewers going? so many things to choose from, it will take something with a very strong appeal to draw viewers back in.
given the large amount of crap on tv these days, i don't think they'll ever enjoy the same numbers they've had in the past.
perhaps the heyday is over, and they should stop trying to find something to blame it on.
There's something about Consumer Reports that doesn't make sense in the first place: where DO they get their revenue from?
perhaps the same place where baskin robbins gets their money.
i mean, seriously, have you ever seen enough people go in during a day to pay for the people working there, let alone the product or the rent?
perhaps they are a front, a consumer reports/baskin robbins corporation that is waiting until the day is right to rave about baskin robbins and take over the ice cream market forever.
diabolical.
it kind of makes me wonder at what point the "cost of illegal downloads" actually approaches the cost of payola for radio play (or "distributors" that work as agents).
imagine, payola ends, and suddenly certain songs flood the p2p networks, or "download centers".
Next thing you know, you'll be claiming MS stole the color blue from IBM.
:)
it does sort of make you wonder if the blue screen of death was meant to be a subtle jab at big blue, in reference to os/2. i'm not sure microsoft is this subtle, but they have been known for this sort of behavior in the past.
not to mention that corporations can't be pardoned, only individuals :)
it is too bad that the CEO of the company that's been found guilty of anti-trust violations isn't somehow on the hook. they would obviously have to know what they're doing, and even if they claim ignorance, it's still at least negligence.
who will be on bush's pardon list (provided he gets booted from office)?
i'm betting kenny-boy, and microsoft.
there's the obvious one -- how many anti-microsoft comments you can get onto slashdot during one day.
but, all kidding aside, what's the scope of the specialty?
o firewalls
o security
o script writing
or are we talking end-user support?
o kde
o gnome
o X configuration
there would also be the need for familiarization with common opensource apps, such as openoffice, gnumeric, kword, etc.
what exactly are we talking about?
devo - total devo.
:)
if i recall correctly, it was released on every "platform" available at the time, including 8-track.
i have it on cd and cassette. i wish i had it on vinyl and dat, don't really care about the 8-track
wow, thank you for so boldly showing your ignorance.
not everyone buys a bottom of the barrel deck. i'm happy you were able to find good prices, but even musiciansfriend lists the da-p1 at $1700 (list $2200). the fostex is $2500 (list $3300), and while they no longer have my panasonic, it too was well over $1500 in its day.
i'm also happy that devices that remove scms mid-path are now available, but at the time, they were not.
and, as i stated, *i* personally only knew of one single riaa dat release (devo), if you wish to enlighten me to more, please do, name some. don't just pull things out of your ass, as the rest of your post seemed to do.
by the time i bought my deck, there was one consumer full-sized dat on the market (a sony), and one portable deck (forget the brand). i was a broke musician, and needed my music recorded on dat in order to get it published.
a few years later, when money was less of an object, i opted for a nice panasonic deck, and no longer have any issues.
discovery channel has a new show called mythbusters. a recent episode dealt with the cell-phone/gas myth.
the conclusion was that cell phones are safe, but women pumping their own gas are at risk. while they were never able to get a cell-phone to set off gas vapors, they were able to show that static from getting in/out of the car during filling was enough to cause the fire. this, coupled with the observation that women were more likely to get back into their cars during filling, actually matched the statistics and investigations done by the dot.
amusing.
AHRA-92 mandated that "consumer" DATs add copy protection to unprotected sources, but since the content is secured at the source, why would HDTV "recorders" be required to imprint it in original content?
:)
why wouldn't they?
but seriously, to play devils advocate for a moment, let's think about a scenario:
television station zzba invested heavily in an initial hdtv rollout. just like the theaters in the area, the station has been hit with economic woes. now, the content providers are mandating that they broadcast with a content flag. being early adopters, their equipment isn't flexible, and simply can't be "re-flashed" to send the new bit.
they have a choice, get congress to pass a law requiring all consumer devices to set a flag on content that is missing a copyright flag, or force the early adopters to go broke redeploying.
since we already know that the current administration is very pro big-business, which way do you think they'll lean?
i can tell you that as a musician, the copyright bit on the personal dat recorder i purchased did a pretty good job of stopping me.
well, until i spent $1500 more on a professional dat recorder, that didn't contain it.
it's ridiculous. i wasn't even allowed to copy my own recordings. it's not like dat is a hotbed of piracy, i only recall one riaa album *ever* released to dat.
it's nice to see bogus legislature used to stop useful technology from taking hold, and the common man from being able to compete with those already in power.
there are stories?
now, if only they would give the name or number of the exit :)
last time, we had to zoom way in on the map, deduce where the exit would be, and figure out which exit to take based on the roads around it.
this is fine for someone familiar with the area, but not acceptable for someone that does not know where they are going.
i rarely use mapquest. maybe i'm just unlucky, but every time i've tried to use mapquest, i've gotten driving directions like this:
Take the exit
or
Turn left on unnamed street
Turn right on unnamed byway
it never fails. perhaps i'm not going to approved places or something, but it's frustrating.
If there's a pro-consumer DOJ, then the apparent threat of a viable Linux industry will actually help protect them against the threat of anti-trust punishment.
by funding sco, they aren't eliminating the threat, they're focusing the threat into a company that's guaranteed to be a minor player.
linux won't disappear if sco wins, it will still exist at some level. and the current developers are thrown on to square one. still competition, just drastically reduced.
er, dat->cd is not lossy if the dat is recorded at 44.1khz, only if it is recorded at either 48khz or 32khz.
mp3->cd is not lossy, either.
even though it costs them nothing when you use it
how does it cost them nothing? let's break it down:
o guide information has to come from somewhere. in tivo's case, they outsource
o bandwidth for guide information needs to come from somewhere, also outsourced
o upgrades, bug fixes, and new versions of the OS need to come from somewhere. things still cost money
it's obvious that it costs them nothing to me, how about you?
while microsoft focuses on security, they want all bug reports to silently go away.
somehow, i see steve ballmer walking around like elmer fudd, saying "shhhhh, be vewy vewy quiet, we're hunting bugs" -- with as much success as elmer has.
if they've been unable to find the bugs so far, and attempt to take the pressure off from those publicising the bugs, they run the risk of further, undetected, breakins. this is dangerous, and stupid.
but what else would you expect from a cartoon company?
doesn't surprise me. $300 for a gameboy? i think not.
unusual proportions of the jury's judgment
it sounds like the jury has been forced to use microsoft products and finally got to give some payback for all of the frustration they've suffered.
go figure.
They didn't develop their own space program, they bought some old russian parts.
China also didn't invent Linux, but they did manage to adapt it, and build on it, to produce their Red Flag operating system.
just because they're starting out with purchased parts, doesn't mean that they won't develop anything new. it simply means that they have a jump on where they would be had they developed all of the technology themselves.
And why is that?
because NASA has already been getting a bad rap with the public lately.
if NASA is late joining the new space race, and other countries get ahead, public support would sway even further away from what would be perceived as an inept agency wasting money.
if NASA doesn't attempt to at least stay in check with a modern space race, it could spell the end of government funded space exploration in this country.
while some may perceive this as a good thing, i happen to believe that the government still has a place in space exploration -- just not in the space tourism business, private companies are coming in to take up that slack.
there's a difference between private companies picking up the space tourism, and the perception that NASA space exploration is being surpassed by what most people still consider to be "third world countries".