The only reason Courtney Love doesn't like P2P networks is because she knows that once she makes a mistake of leaking out any unreleased Nirvana music, it's all over the place and she has nothing to fall back on when her bank account flounders.
Is it just me, or is this the same thing that 20 years ago happened to satellite TV? At the start of satellite TV, people were able to take their dishes, point them, and watch some of their favorite shows, such as the late-night variety shows like The Tonight Show, unedited and without commercials. That was soon put to an end with encrypted signals. Throughout the 80's and into the 90's with the introduction of DSS, satellite providers couldn't provide local channels because the cable companies lobbied for bills to outlaw it, giving them an edge in the marketplace. If someone in Washington would get their head out of their ass and realize that the RIAA is going to be the death of music here in America and most of the western world, they will come up with a way to deflate their power.
Also included in the filing is the testimony of several expert witnesses, including Leonard Kleinrock, widely regarded as one of the original founders of the Internet.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but with the oil embargo of the late 1970's, vinyl was cut thinner and decreased sound quality? Isn't that one of the big reasons for the rise of tapes and CD's?
Very true. For people that like it in relatively complicated language, here it goes: The engine (or prime mover in the industry) is run to turn a turbine in the back of the engine room (correct me if I'm wrong along the way here), and that turbine produces electricity for the traction motors. The traction motors come in two different forms: A/C current (newer) or D/C current (more common). All locomotives produce I believe a D/C current. That current is somewhere along the line converted to A/C and is either kept that way on A/C traction motors or converted back to D/C power by the traction motors. Just thought I'd like to make things sound a little more distinguished. Hope I helped someone out. I'd say if you have any questions, ask a railroader, but they will cuff you for trespassing on their property.
The officiating for this tournament has been some of the poorest I have ever seen in my life! FIFA, trying to be politically correct, selected their pool of officials based on equal amounts of referees from each participating. Now, if they wanted to do things right, they would pick the best referees. Period. Regardless of the nationality. In fact, 4-time FIFA referee of the year Calina from Italy (He's totally bald. You can't miss him.), who did the England-Argentina game and the World Cup final, wasn't even included in the pool! How can you have a tournament that is so big that the best referee the game has isn't even in the pool!?
Some of the calls that were bad ironically went in favor of the Koreans. They not only played like they were on uppers the entire time, but because they were smaller than every other team in the tournament, with the exception of Japan, and got an advantage in sympathy calls from the referees. The goal in the Spain game that Spain scored in extra time was clearly in bounds, yet the assistant on that side had his flag up to signal it went out. The Italians also have a reason to be mad, too. The second red cart to Totti in the second half for a dive was a terrible call as well. He was hammered and was called for a dive. Now, I respect these referees for finally calling the dive, but that call was made from 35 yards out and was blown. Everyone who's complaining about the referees have a good case. Even the president of FIFA has been complaining.
Where else could we have the laziest people in the country and with the most junk sitting around making money off of some other schmuck who wants to buy it and get health insurance for it?
Second, when the government cherry-picked the passenger rail from Sante Fe et. al., they really screwed up. SF owns the rail beds, and SF sees no reason to improve the railbeds to allow for fast trains.
You have this all wrong. The only Amtrak is a government subsidary is because the government bailed out the railroads by taking control of the passenger service. Since then, the US government has considerably slashed funding to it. As for the idea of high-speed rail here in the US outside the northeast, it's already a work in progress. The corridor between Chicago and St. Louis is recieving signal, track, and roadbed upgrade to accomodate faster speeds.
The RIAA has made some fatal mistakes in recent times. The whole Napster bit was the beginning of the idiocy parade. Because of their greediness, CD sales have fallen and many broadband internet companies were forced to close up shop because people didn't want to pay for high speed internet if they couldn't get music at a high speed. They tried to watermark CD's so they couldn't be ripped by one of the many programs that can do it that can be found on the Web. They're threatened with a lawsuit from Philips, holder of the CD Patent, citing that it's not a real CD and is falsely identified as one. Now they want us, the music-downloading general public to pay for them to try to track us down? I think not. The only reason most of us are downloading music are 1) We'er too poor to pay 20 bucks a CD or 2) There isn't a band that's on the market that's worth paying 20 bucks to get one or two decent songs and 10 songs that are barely recognizable as songs. What the RIAA needs to do is go to the executives and tell them to start giving them something that they can actual sell to GASP! music listeners so they don't start taking sales away from their other groups. Wake up, RIAA and start thinking.
OnStar isn't the only way that people can eavesdrop in your travels. Cell phone companies can tell via their networks as to where you are if you have your cell phone turned on. There was also talks about selling rights to call you on your cell phone while driving and telling you that their restaurant or other business is up ahead.
This idea of putting something similar to black boxes in cars is nothing new. CART has started putting crash analyzers in cars. CART has been doing it for a couple of years (They call them "Blue Boxes" because they're made of blue aluminum and are from Ford), and NASCAR has been talking about them since the accident with Dale Earnhardt. They use it to make our passenger cars safer. If this does come to the consumer market, I can assume that this is the only reason it would be used for. The only thing I can see that would screw this up is the amount of time it takes to analyze the data. If they can make the time it takes really fast, then it could be used to put the blame on accidents and disperse tickets accordingly.
If you're looking for a locker to store your mp3's online, go to MyPlay.com.They allow 3 gigs of space for your mp3's so you can listen anywhere or backup your library online, granted you don't go over 3 gigs.
I am wondering this one: Hasn't anyone thought of wearing a hat and/or sunglasses to prevent recognition? A demo on TechTV shows that it only works if you aren't working any sunglasses or hats, unless the picture on file of you is of you wearing a hat and/or sunglasses. Keep trying...
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The satellite was recovered and restored to its orbit, and there was much rejoicing... ...yaaay...
It will be crap. There's no "What if" question here.
too bad her music sucks
The only reason Courtney Love doesn't like P2P networks is because she knows that once she makes a mistake of leaking out any unreleased Nirvana music, it's all over the place and she has nothing to fall back on when her bank account flounders.
I can get off at my PC tonight! It's legal!
At least my data isn't being uploaded to a secret government satellite! ...So that's why my downloads speed suck! Oh, wait...I'm on dial-up....
Is it just me, or is this the same thing that 20 years ago happened to satellite TV? At the start of satellite TV, people were able to take their dishes, point them, and watch some of their favorite shows, such as the late-night variety shows like The Tonight Show, unedited and without commercials. That was soon put to an end with encrypted signals. Throughout the 80's and into the 90's with the introduction of DSS, satellite providers couldn't provide local channels because the cable companies lobbied for bills to outlaw it, giving them an edge in the marketplace. If someone in Washington would get their head out of their ass and realize that the RIAA is going to be the death of music here in America and most of the western world, they will come up with a way to deflate their power.
Why didn't they get Al Gore?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but with the oil embargo of the late 1970's, vinyl was cut thinner and decreased sound quality? Isn't that one of the big reasons for the rise of tapes and CD's?
Don't give the people in Formula 1 yet another exotic alloy to use in their cars.
Very true. For people that like it in relatively complicated language, here it goes:
The engine (or prime mover in the industry) is run to turn a turbine in the back of the engine room (correct me if I'm wrong along the way here), and that turbine produces electricity for the traction motors. The traction motors come in two different forms: A/C current (newer) or D/C current (more common). All locomotives produce I believe a D/C current. That current is somewhere along the line converted to A/C and is either kept that way on A/C traction motors or converted back to D/C power by the traction motors. Just thought I'd like to make things sound a little more distinguished. Hope I helped someone out. I'd say if you have any questions, ask a railroader, but they will cuff you for trespassing on their property.
The track about nothing!
The officiating for this tournament has been some of the poorest I have ever seen in my life! FIFA, trying to be politically correct, selected their pool of officials based on equal amounts of referees from each participating. Now, if they wanted to do things right, they would pick the best referees. Period. Regardless of the nationality. In fact, 4-time FIFA referee of the year Calina from Italy (He's totally bald. You can't miss him.), who did the England-Argentina game and the World Cup final, wasn't even included in the pool! How can you have a tournament that is so big that the best referee the game has isn't even in the pool!?
Some of the calls that were bad ironically went in favor of the Koreans. They not only played like they were on uppers the entire time, but because they were smaller than every other team in the tournament, with the exception of Japan, and got an advantage in sympathy calls from the referees. The goal in the Spain game that Spain scored in extra time was clearly in bounds, yet the assistant on that side had his flag up to signal it went out. The Italians also have a reason to be mad, too. The second red cart to Totti in the second half for a dive was a terrible call as well. He was hammered and was called for a dive. Now, I respect these referees for finally calling the dive, but that call was made from 35 yards out and was blown. Everyone who's complaining about the referees have a good case. Even the president of FIFA has been complaining.
Where else could we have the laziest people in the country and with the most junk sitting around making money off of some other schmuck who wants to buy it and get health insurance for it?
It looks like we have more proof that digital is killing the analog star (or at least beating it into submission).
It sounds to me like the record companies are trying to compete with the government in the stealing game.
Second, when the government cherry-picked the passenger rail from Sante Fe et. al., they really screwed up. SF owns the rail beds, and SF sees no reason to improve the railbeds to allow for fast trains.
You have this all wrong. The only Amtrak is a government subsidary is because the government bailed out the railroads by taking control of the passenger service. Since then, the US government has considerably slashed funding to it. As for the idea of high-speed rail here in the US outside the northeast, it's already a work in progress. The corridor between Chicago and St. Louis is recieving signal, track, and roadbed upgrade to accomodate faster speeds.
Who really needs a 42" plasma screen and surround sound to watch porn in a hot tub?
The RIAA has made some fatal mistakes in recent times. The whole Napster bit was the beginning of the idiocy parade. Because of their greediness, CD sales have fallen and many broadband internet companies were forced to close up shop because people didn't want to pay for high speed internet if they couldn't get music at a high speed. They tried to watermark CD's so they couldn't be ripped by one of the many programs that can do it that can be found on the Web. They're threatened with a lawsuit from Philips, holder of the CD Patent, citing that it's not a real CD and is falsely identified as one. Now they want us, the music-downloading general public to pay for them to try to track us down? I think not. The only reason most of us are downloading music are 1) We'er too poor to pay 20 bucks a CD or 2) There isn't a band that's on the market that's worth paying 20 bucks to get one or two decent songs and 10 songs that are barely recognizable as songs. What the RIAA needs to do is go to the executives and tell them to start giving them something that they can actual sell to GASP! music listeners so they don't start taking sales away from their other groups. Wake up, RIAA and start thinking.
OnStar isn't the only way that people can eavesdrop in your travels. Cell phone companies can tell via their networks as to where you are if you have your cell phone turned on. There was also talks about selling rights to call you on your cell phone while driving and telling you that their restaurant or other business is up ahead.
This idea of putting something similar to black boxes in cars is nothing new. CART has started putting crash analyzers in cars. CART has been doing it for a couple of years (They call them "Blue Boxes" because they're made of blue aluminum and are from Ford), and NASCAR has been talking about them since the accident with Dale Earnhardt. They use it to make our passenger cars safer. If this does come to the consumer market, I can assume that this is the only reason it would be used for. The only thing I can see that would screw this up is the amount of time it takes to analyze the data. If they can make the time it takes really fast, then it could be used to put the blame on accidents and disperse tickets accordingly.
We have a team of robots that are extremely expensive that disco dance. What a sad society we live in.....
If you're looking for a locker to store your mp3's online, go to MyPlay.com.They allow 3 gigs of space for your mp3's so you can listen anywhere or backup your library online, granted you don't go over 3 gigs.
I am wondering this one: Hasn't anyone thought of wearing a hat and/or sunglasses to prevent recognition? A demo on TechTV shows that it only works if you aren't working any sunglasses or hats, unless the picture on file of you is of you wearing a hat and/or sunglasses. Keep trying...