In this study, however, docs told patients they were getting placebos. Eighty patients with irritable bowel syndrome were instructed to take two sugar pills daily. The bottle even had "placebo" printed on it. After three weeks, 60 percent of the placebo group reported relief from symptoms, compared to 35 percent who’d received no treatment at all.
We have an OS2 voicemail server running since 1997--that except for a HD crash--has never been down. This box is slated to be replaced today with a W2K box...ugh
Buy a firewire card. Borrow a DV camcorder that supports capturing video from an analog input. Then connect the analog out from your Hi8 to the analog input of the DV cam. Record the signal from the Hi8 cam onto the DV tape. Then output the captured DV footage via firewire.
This may seem like it would take more time than it would to directly capture the video via the AIW, but having experienced all the hassles of analog capture via an AIW--dropped frames, and a myriad of other problems--this has worked out best and fastest for me. YMMV
Open date and time and set the year to something like 2024. Then save this time. Launch Quicktime and click on later to register sometime in the future.
Now reset the year.
Re-launch quicktime...no nag to upgrade to Quicktime Pro.
This has worked for years, and is pretty widely known...I saw it on a Mac forum and have forgotten who the poster was so I cannot give credit to the original poster.
I understand,but in the just over three years I have had DirecTV, they have added channels with much greater frequency than the local cable company and I have only had the one rate change...DOWN.
Before I got DirecTV our cable bill went up every year like clock work.
This year DirecTV added channels AND dropped my rates.
DirecTV and DishNetwork compete with the cable companies more than they compete with each other. This is beacuse they don't have the bandwidth to serve local channels to all the DMAs (designated market areas). They have to make themselves extremely atractive to the potential cable refugees--the new sat customer has to install an antenna to get local service or pay the cable company for "lifeline" service.
The cable companies went to court and got the FCC to force the Sats to follow the same must carry provisions that the cables follow. That is if they carry one local channel they have to add ALL the local channels. That amounted to about 1600 channels nationwide. That put an end to my hope of getting local channels from the Sats. They just can't individually carry all of these channels.
I live in Little Rock AR and as the 56th (I think) DMA in the nation the sats were about to add LR to the system when cable companies got the lawyers involved.
If the merger had been approved, I would have gotten my local channels from DirecTV, as the merged company would have been called. The combination of the two would have the bandwidth to carry ALL THE DMAs.
Screwed by the cable company and I don't even have cable anymore.
Clear Channel owns stock in XM
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Clear Channel owns stock in XM. The info can be found in the links from this previous story about FightCloud CDs
The Recording Industry Association of America is the trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry. Our mission is to foster a business and legal climate that supports and promotes our members' creative and financial vitality. Our members are the record companies that comprise the most vibrant national music industry in the world. RIAAÆ members create, manufacture and/or distribute approximately 90% of all legitimate sound recordings produced and sold in the United States.
The emphasis is mine. The RIAA is a designated payee. The RIAA will collect and "supposedly" distribute this fee to the artist.
I say supposedly because in audits of payments to artists the RIAA has been found to underpay the artist 90% of the time. I might believe this was an honest bookmaking mistake if the RIAA overpayed artists 50, 40, or even as little as 30% of the time, but to UNDERPAY the artist 9 out of 10 times is ridiculous. Over 9000 accounts where audited.
It has gotten so bad that four concerts were held prior to the Grammys by artists represented by the RIAA protesting the mistreatment by the very group that is supposed to represent them.
Why the artists don't get out is another long story and getting way off target. Suffice it to say that the RIAA doesn't want you to hear non RIAA members music and this tax above and beyond what BROADCASTERS pay is designed to keep you listening to their brand of music.
I have been digging through the CARP proposal to try and find the passage that this panel, upon doing the math, states that if imposed the fee structure will be a burden that what is likely to kill most media outlets. There are many documents and some are very long document, so I have not yet found the statement.
If you support the CARP prosposal then say why Internet broadcasters should pay this when they all already pay the BMI and ASCAP fees like a radio station. Why is the exposure provided by being aired on the radio payment enough for the artist and yet not enough on the Internet?
Many Internet stations already pay these fees to so that the composer will be compensated. This is the fee that AM/FM radio stations pay.
The CARP fee is for the Artist and RIAA. The AM/FM only broadcasters will not pay this fee. Once a broadcaster starts simulcasting on the Internet then they start paying the CARP fees.
This is what is unfair. Radio broadcasters don't pay the fee because getting played is enough compensation so that the stations don't have to pay a fee to the artist. If getting played is enough compensation on the Radio, why did RIAA lobby so hard to get this ball rolling?
They, the big media co.s, do not want to bankroll an artist with funding for studio time, video production, and all the other costs associated with big music production, and then have people listen to small homegrown groups on the Internet. Instead they want you to listen to the radio and hear the same old MOR crap. Classic payola is dead, but the relationship between most stations and the big producers is very incestous.
In my area Clear Channel productions owns nearly all the radio stations and two of the TV stations. I never hear any songs that aren't on the standard playlist.
From http://www.saveinternetradio.org/pressroom.asp
HISTORICAL NOTE : Over-the-air radio stations have historically had to pay royalties to composers (in total, about 3% of revenues, via ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC), but not to the record companies or artists, as Congress felt that those parties benefitted sufficiently from the promotional value of radio airplay.
They will not pay this fee. If they did then payments to the RIAA from broadcasters would total $3.3 BILLION and this is even ignoring ignoring overnight.
I live five miles away from being able to qualify to get the NY or LA locals. I have the deepest fringe antenna and a high quality booster and the picture is still crap.
I got a small dish system because I got tired of getting screwed by the local cable monopoly. Dish and DirecTV were both in talks with the broadcast affiliates to provide local feeds to my area when I bought my system.
Then I get screwed by cable again. The Cable companies got together and lobbied to have the Sats follow a MUST CARRY clause. If they provide ANY local channels they have to provide them all. Not just ABC,NBC, CBS and Fox, but all the independents and crap channels. There are something like 1600 television stations broadcasting in the USA. The cable companies knew that the Sats would not have the bandwidth to carry all those added channels.
Screwed by the cable company again and I don't even have cable anymore.
I think this is why Echostar is really gong to court. To get out of the MUST CARRY clause.
I have read through the articles and no one seems to be hitting on this, but I could be wrong. Of course this is recent addition to the rules the Sats follow.
Does anyone that gets Sat service use cable for the local life line service (cable service that provides local channels only). If so, what are you paying? Ours is $14 a month. I have heard that in other areas this usually runs about $9 a month.
The faculty on campus here is evaluating is service. One of the reasons they keep copies is to check future submissions against this copy. This keeps students from selling their papers to the next class for use with a different Prof.
Now why they have to own the paper is beyond me...but IANAL
I'll do a re-read on it tonight. I haven't touched it since 1998.
It seems that if they are putting that much cache on the die it must not be for grins and giggles.
Space is at such a premium, they would not have undertaken adding that much cache without a great deal of thought.
It's how you use it
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Way back when the 386 was hot stuff there was a series of mother boards that had a 64K of cache that was outperformed by a board that had 16K of cache.
How? The 16K board cache was four way set associative. This allowed for the CPU to determine in one clock cycle if the next instruction was in cache. The 64K cache design could not always do this. Thus it was often slower. Why not make the 64K cache 4 way set associative? Cost. The overhead in silcon and motherboard space made this impossible at the time.
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In this study, however, docs told patients they were getting placebos. Eighty patients with irritable bowel syndrome were instructed to take two sugar pills daily. The bottle even had "placebo" printed on it. After three weeks, 60 percent of the placebo group reported relief from symptoms, compared to 35 percent who’d received no treatment at all.
No sorry this is what they should do...
http://flyinmiata.com/V8/
I have a 2002 LS6 and a '93 smurf ... a work in progress
Anonymous my ASS
Convenient scape goat
AK = Alaska
AR = Arkansas
How about
Bald Knob, AR?
Toad Suck, AR
Snowball, AR
Apt, AR
Ink, AR
Gid, AR
Marked Tree, AR
This website is incredibly helpful for determining what you'll need for getting the best reception:
http://www.antennaweb.com/
Try TV Fool http://www.tvfool.com/
Better by far than most other sites...ymmv
DirecTV supports media sharing.
I have DirecTV and use PlayOn to stream to my DirecTV HD DVR.
So not all Sat. users are left on in the cold
RS might not be far off. You might want to brush up on Hubbert peak theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil
http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=529
We have an OS2 voicemail server running since 1997--that except for a HD crash--has never been down. This box is slated to be replaced today with a W2K box...ugh
Buy a firewire card. Borrow a DV camcorder that supports capturing video from an analog input. Then connect the analog out from your Hi8 to the analog input of the DV cam. Record the signal from the Hi8 cam onto the DV tape. Then output the captured DV footage via firewire.
This may seem like it would take more time than it would to directly capture the video via the AIW, but having experienced all the hassles of analog capture via an AIW--dropped frames, and a myriad of other problems--this has worked out best and fastest for me. YMMV
Open date and time and set the year to something like 2024. Then save this time. Launch Quicktime and click on later to register sometime in the future.
Now reset the year.
Re-launch quicktime...no nag to upgrade to Quicktime Pro.
This has worked for years, and is pretty widely known...I saw it on a Mac forum and have forgotten who the poster was so I cannot give credit to the original poster.
I understand,but in the just over three years I have had DirecTV, they have added channels with much greater frequency than the local cable company and I have only had the one rate change...DOWN.
Before I got DirecTV our cable bill went up every year like clock work.
This year DirecTV added channels AND dropped my rates.
DirecTV and DishNetwork compete with the cable companies more than they compete with each other. This is beacuse they don't have the bandwidth to serve local channels to all the DMAs (designated market areas). They have to make themselves extremely atractive to the potential cable refugees--the new sat customer has to install an antenna to get local service or pay the cable company for "lifeline" service.
The cable companies went to court and got the FCC to force the Sats to follow the same must carry provisions that the cables follow. That is if they carry one local channel they have to add ALL the local channels. That amounted to about 1600 channels nationwide. That put an end to my hope of getting local channels from the Sats. They just can't individually carry all of these channels.
I live in Little Rock AR and as the 56th (I think) DMA in the nation the sats were about to add LR to the system when cable companies got the lawyers involved.
If the merger had been approved, I would have gotten my local channels from DirecTV, as the merged company would have been called. The combination of the two would have the bandwidth to carry ALL THE DMAs.
Screwed by the cable company and I don't even have cable anymore.
Clear Channel owns stock in XM. The info can be found in the links from this previous story about FightCloud CDs
Try the Internet Wayback machine. This is an archive of the Internet. Great site.
Wayback...Surf the Web as it was.
RocketGuy
No pictures but all the text is there from their last update on January 25, 2002
From RIAA.COM: Mission Statement
The Recording Industry Association of America is the trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry. Our mission is to foster a business and legal climate that supports and promotes our members' creative and financial vitality. Our members are the record companies that comprise the most vibrant national music industry in the world. RIAAÆ members create, manufacture and/or distribute approximately 90% of all legitimate sound recordings produced and sold in the United States.
The emphasis is mine. The RIAA is a designated payee. The RIAA will collect and "supposedly" distribute this fee to the artist.
I say supposedly because in audits of payments to artists the RIAA has been found to underpay the artist 90% of the time. I might believe this was an honest bookmaking mistake if the RIAA overpayed artists 50, 40, or even as little as 30% of the time, but to UNDERPAY the artist 9 out of 10 times is ridiculous. Over 9000 accounts where audited.
It has gotten so bad that four concerts were held prior to the Grammys by artists represented by the RIAA protesting the mistreatment by the very group that is supposed to represent them.
Why the artists don't get out is another long story and getting way off target. Suffice it to say that the RIAA doesn't want you to hear non RIAA members music and this tax above and beyond what BROADCASTERS pay is designed to keep you listening to their brand of music.
I have been digging through the CARP proposal to try and find the passage that this panel, upon doing the math, states that if imposed the fee structure will be a burden that what is likely to kill most media outlets. There are many documents and some are very long document, so I have not yet found the statement.
If you support the CARP prosposal then say why Internet broadcasters should pay this when they all already pay the BMI and ASCAP fees like a radio station. Why is the exposure provided by being aired on the radio payment enough for the artist and yet not enough on the Internet?
Many Internet stations already pay these fees to so that the composer will be compensated. This is the fee that AM/FM radio stations pay.
The CARP fee is for the Artist and RIAA. The AM/FM only broadcasters will not pay this fee. Once a broadcaster starts simulcasting on the Internet then they start paying the CARP fees.
This is what is unfair. Radio broadcasters don't pay the fee because getting played is enough compensation so that the stations don't have to pay a fee to the artist. If getting played is enough compensation on the Radio, why did RIAA lobby so hard to get this ball rolling?
They, the big media co.s, do not want to bankroll an artist with funding for studio time, video production, and all the other costs associated with big music production, and then have people listen to small homegrown groups on the Internet. Instead they want you to listen to the radio and hear the same old MOR crap. Classic payola is dead, but the relationship between most stations and the big producers is very incestous.
In my area Clear Channel productions owns nearly all the radio stations and two of the TV stations. I never hear any songs that aren't on the standard playlist.
Plus you forgot to multiply per listener.
So take that fee times the number of active streams. Then you get the correct number.
It really is hundredths (sp?) of a cent. Those fractions of a penny add up fast if you are streaming to hundreds of listeners.
That is just one of the reasons why this is so unfair and doomed to kill internet radio.
From http://www.saveinternetradio.org/pressroom.asp
HISTORICAL NOTE : Over-the-air radio stations have historically had to pay royalties to composers (in total, about 3% of revenues, via ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC), but not to the record companies or artists, as Congress felt that those parties benefitted sufficiently from the promotional value of radio airplay.
They will not pay this fee. If they did then payments to the RIAA from broadcasters would total $3.3 BILLION and this is even ignoring ignoring overnight.
That is the problem with this proposal. AM or FM only Radio stations don't pay this fee.
AM or FM Radio stations that also simulcast on the Internet will pay 0.07 cents per song per listener.
Internet only radio pays twice that fee.
That may not sound like much but do the math. Wolffm will owe $500,000 as soon as this goes into effect. The rate is retroactive.
Netradio liquidated as soon as they heard about this proposal.
This was pushed by the big companies trying to make sure you hear the music in which they have an investment.
Tell me about it.
I live five miles away from being able to qualify to get the NY or LA locals. I have the deepest fringe antenna and a high quality booster and the picture is still crap.
I got a small dish system because I got tired of getting screwed by the local cable monopoly. Dish and DirecTV were both in talks with the broadcast affiliates to provide local feeds to my area when I bought my system.
Then I get screwed by cable again. The Cable companies got together and lobbied to have the Sats follow a MUST CARRY clause. If they provide ANY local channels they have to provide them all. Not just ABC,NBC, CBS and Fox, but all the independents and crap channels. There are something like 1600 television stations broadcasting in the USA. The cable companies knew that the Sats would not have the bandwidth to carry all those added channels.
Screwed by the cable company again and I don't even have cable anymore.
I think this is why Echostar is really gong to court. To get out of the MUST CARRY clause.
I have read through the articles and no one seems to be hitting on this, but I could be wrong. Of course this is recent addition to the rules the Sats follow.
Does anyone that gets Sat service use cable for the local life line service (cable service that provides local channels only). If so, what are you paying? Ours is $14 a month. I have heard that in other areas this usually runs about $9 a month.
The faculty on campus here is evaluating is service. One of the reasons they keep copies is to check future submissions against this copy. This keeps students from selling their papers to the next class for use with a different Prof.
Now why they have to own the paper is beyond me...but IANAL
I'll do a re-read on it tonight. I haven't touched it since 1998.
It seems that if they are putting that much cache on the die it must not be for grins and giggles.
Space is at such a premium, they would not have undertaken adding that much cache without a great deal of thought.
Way back when the 386 was hot stuff there was a series of mother boards that had a 64K of cache that was outperformed by a board that had 16K of cache.
How? The 16K board cache was four way set associative. This allowed for the CPU to determine in one clock cycle if the next instruction was in cache. The 64K cache design could not always do this. Thus it was often slower. Why not make the 64K cache 4 way set associative? Cost. The overhead in silcon and motherboard space made this impossible at the time.