That's great and all but that is not always the solution. For the most part, when we elect representatives, we are never choosing the right person for the job, we are electing the lesser of two evils. The person that will do the right thing by the consumer will never get enough backing to even show up on the ballad.
It takes some time for them to work into a groove. I didn't think last season was bad at all, and I am looking forward to each episode this season. Its definitely worth a watch.
Am I missing something here, one second you don't want to be clonded, and the next it sounds like you do. Is it only if you're clone (which is not you brought back to life) would be put on a new planet?
The problem with this is that they do not have full intact DNA. They are going for the testicles because the sperm DNA which is more tightly "packed" as they call it. And less likely to decay, and even then they could not produce clones from 50%, but they can impregnate a living elephant with frozon/dead sperm.
They will be fertilizing the eggs with X sperm, so that they create a femal. They are suspecting about 2 years for pregnancy, then they have to wait for the hybrid to mature, at which time they will impregnate her with another X sperm. Rinse and repeat. All that takes time.
It is basically a question of whether or not 10000 year old frozen sperm can still be used to fertilize an egg. There are many people freezing sperm now, but who knows how long they will be good for.
I just saw an hour long program on the Discovery Science channel about this, the only exception they had not found a well enough preserved specimen. They also had one about the Mastadon. They were very interesting.
This would be a bad idea. If the ISP were to block the site, they would receive complaints that people cannot get to the blocked sites. Such as "I can get to it fine on AOL, but not on your service." If the domain is pornographic their will be less complaints as people will be embarrassed, but the damage is that their ISP is censoring their content no matter what the reason is. Now it probably a better idea to simply block mail from that domain, or that mail server, but even that can cause problems. There is no single solution to the problem.
Hmmm, in normal cases it set up such that the jury could be sequestered to make sure they are unnaffected by media coverage or public opinion of the case. Maybe it should be this way for the judge as well, as it should be completely irrelevant what M$ is doing now. If it does sway him in either direction, then there is an inherant flaw in our legal system. This would be like if a theif decided to give the stolen property back after he realizes he is going to be convicted, just to get a lesser sentance.
..would be the old; "I have something to tell you, but you have to promise you wont get mad" bit. How do you really know until the cat is out of the bag?
Right, I guess they figure 'why give up the advertising space', because I am sure they know that if all the chat clients worked together nobody would use theirs.
While the music industry scrambles to keep albums off the Internet before they reach stores, one highly successful artist has managed to skirt online piracy with a surprisingly low-technology solution.
The artist, Bruce Springsteen -- who has released six CD's of material in the Internet era, with another album on the way this month -- has thwarted prerelease file-sharers not through digital protection or online policing, but with an old-fashioned lock-and-key approach. In the weeks before a release, his albums barely see the light of day, frustrating not only downloaders but even music critics and other industry insiders who cannot put their hands on his work.
On July 30, Mr. Springsteen will introduce "The Rising," his much-awaited first studio album with the E Street Band since 1984, on Columbia Records. But even as Mr. Springsteen's camp plans extensive promotions, from premieres of different songs on America Online to a live appearance on "Today" from Asbury Park, N.J., few people outside his inner circle have heard the album.
Recording labels usually ship dozens or hundreds of albums to radio stations, journalists and others involved in the industry months before they go on sale. Mr. Springsteen's organization, on the other hand, sent out fewer than 10 copies as of early July, and only a handful more will join them 14 days ahead of the store date -- if at all, according to a spokeswoman, Marilyn Laverty of Shore Fire Media. Insiders who do obtain advance copies do not distribute them, said Gary Graff, a music journalist at Reuters who has interviewed Mr. Springsteen on several occasions. He said no one wanted to anger the Springsteen camp. "That's almost the best weapon they have," he added.
Mr. Springsteen's success battling online piracy is an outgrowth of his longtime fight for strict control of his work, which has seen him battling bootleggers in court both at home and abroad.
As a result, Mr. Springsteen's prerelease work has been conspicuously absent online. In 1998, he issued the four-CD set "Tracks"; last year, he released the double album "Live In New York City." None of those complete discs were available online before they were available in stores. Indeed, no more than a handful, if that, of the 84 songs on those sets were distributed ahead of time.
By contrast, a scan of the WinMX file-trading network last week turned up complete or nearly complete albums by Linkin Park and Filter, which are not scheduled for release before the end of the month.
Though Mr. Springsteen's core audience is older than most Linkin Park fans, his catalog is still popular -- and once his albums are released, they are as easily traded online as those of any other artist.
While his approach clearly prevents his work's being swapped before release, how it affects sales is unclear. Take the case of the rapper Eminem. His latest album, "The Eminem Show," was scheduled to be in stores on June 4. But in the weeks leading up the release, the disc was already available in MP3 form on file-sharing networks like Kazaa. Afraid of losing sales, Interscope Records took the extremely rare step of bumping up the release to a Sunday, May 26, rather than the usual Tuesday release.
And when SoundScan released its figures for the week ended May 26, "The Eminem Show" had sold nearly 285,000 copies, and the disc had shot to No. 1 on Billboard magazine's albums chart.
"Within less than a month, he had the biggest-selling album of the year," said Geoff Mayfield, Billboard's director of charts. "So if he did lose sales to people copying the album before it was released in stores, he still wrapped up some pretty significant numbers since it came out. It's hard to say how much damage it did to that album."
Some music executives think prerelease exposure could actually be beneficial. "If you're trying to have a hit song and really have a phenomenon, the momentum of huge word-of-mouth and media exposure may be worth creating or risking a leak," said Danny Goldberg, former chief executive for the Mercury and Warner Brothers labels and current chief of the independent Artemis Records.
And for someone like the 52-year-old Mr. Springsteen, who has more fans near his own age than his children's, prerelease distribution might actually help him generate sales with a younger demographic.
"The Springsteen crowd now, if you wanted to reach them, then you do it at Starbucks and the supermarket," Mr. Graff said. "Young people, you put it where they spend their time, which is online."
Stacey Herron, music analyst for Jupiter Research, said she thought Mr. Springsteen might sell more albums to younger listeners if he reached them through file-sharing. But Mr. Springsteen is not going quite that far with his arrangement with America Online that allows him to reach the digital set while still maintaining a modicum of control.
AOL is introducing four songs from "The Rising" over four weeks before July 30, but those songs are being streamed, not posted for downloading.
Still, it can be difficult to keep the reins tight in cyberspace, even for Mr. Springsteen. A week before the second promotional track was released, an enterprising fan uncovered the file on AOL by guessing its likely name. Within two hours, the song had been converted to an MP3 and distributed.
Ms. Laverty would not comment on the AOL promotion, nor would Mr. Springsteen's managers and representatives of Columbia, a unit of Sony.
An AOL Music spokeswoman, Ann Burkart, said she was unaware of the advance distribution of the second promotional song, "Lonesome Day." But she did add that the promotion's first single, "The Rising," was streamed 755,000 times in 48 hours, putting it among the five most popular songs of AOL's Listen First campaign since it was begun earlier this year.
This would not work, as they would do what they could to avoid the charge. If the limit is set to 50, they would set up a system to do bulk mail to groups of 50 at time. It would be a little harder, and take a little longer, but it would get out. Even then there are otherways to do this, set up multiple distributions lists on different networks. Each containing 50 or so addresses. There is no easy 1 shot fix.
The reason I say this, is that I do technical support for a local ISP, we have both Unix and W2K webservers on our system and a couple thousand customers that don't know the difference. I would say that most people wont even know they are getting these boards whent they purchase a new machine. Then they will be calling me up to find out why they cant view their favorite webpages. The answer, "Your hardware is restricting your access to the site" is just going to blow right over their head, they are not going to understand why. They are just going to be pissed at us for not being able to help them, probably switch to AOL or something before they find out the real problem, but by then it is way to late. They will just deal with it. Complacency is the name of the game, this is the same reason why companies offer rebates, because a good portion of the customers are not going to bother doing anything about it. Sure some will, or try to return their hardware, but most will not, they will assume it is the new standard and everyone else will have to change to meet it. After all, their stuff is brand new, how could it be wrong?
Quote "The country -- better known as the home of legendary Loch Ness monster -- has the highest concentration of UFO sightings on the planet, according to figures released Monday."
The article did mention this. "The group is pushing a new blue-laser format for standard-sized CDs, which will increase their capacity to 27GB."
Were you just looking at the pictures?
Of course a standard sized CD would not work well for PDA's or small portable devices.
Would this be considered plagerism, since it was shamelessly ripped from another site and pasted into your post? At the very least, you could have given credit to where you copied it from. Or even give put some kind of opinion in with it.
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That's great and all but that is not always the solution. For the most part, when we elect representatives, we are never choosing the right person for the job, we are electing the lesser of two evils. The person that will do the right thing by the consumer will never get enough backing to even show up on the ballad.
Hey now doesn't spamming support terrorism?
The cost of the TIVO and the lifetime subscription is just about equal to that of the replay TV, possibly even cheaper.
We are about 100 Miles north of DC, also connected via UUNet, and are not experiencing the problem, but our TN office is experiencing them.
This makes me wonder, how many microsoft developers have worked on opensource code?
It takes some time for them to work into a groove. I didn't think last season was bad at all, and I am looking forward to each episode this season. Its definitely worth a watch.
There is no limit to the speed of nothing.
Am I missing something here, one second you don't want to be clonded, and the next it sounds like you do. Is it only if you're clone (which is not you brought back to life) would be put on a new planet?
The problem with this is that they do not have full intact DNA. They are going for the testicles because the sperm DNA which is more tightly "packed" as they call it. And less likely to decay, and even then they could not produce clones from 50%, but they can impregnate a living elephant with frozon/dead sperm.
They will be fertilizing the eggs with X sperm, so that they create a femal. They are suspecting about 2 years for pregnancy, then they have to wait for the hybrid to mature, at which time they will impregnate her with another X sperm. Rinse and repeat. All that takes time.
It is basically a question of whether or not 10000 year old frozen sperm can still be used to fertilize an egg. There are many people freezing sperm now, but who knows how long they will be good for.
I just saw an hour long program on the Discovery Science channel about this, the only exception they had not found a well enough preserved specimen. They also had one about the Mastadon. They were very interesting.
This would be a bad idea. If the ISP were to block the site, they would receive complaints that people cannot get to the blocked sites. Such as "I can get to it fine on AOL, but not on your service." If the domain is pornographic their will be less complaints as people will be embarrassed, but the damage is that their ISP is censoring their content no matter what the reason is. Now it probably a better idea to simply block mail from that domain, or that mail server, but even that can cause problems. There is no single solution to the problem.
Hmmm, in normal cases it set up such that the jury could be sequestered to make sure they are unnaffected by media coverage or public opinion of the case. Maybe it should be this way for the judge as well, as it should be completely irrelevant what M$ is doing now. If it does sway him in either direction, then there is an inherant flaw in our legal system. This would be like if a theif decided to give the stolen property back after he realizes he is going to be convicted, just to get a lesser sentance.
I have been beginning to bulge out at my equator as well. Maybe this phenomenon is contagious.
..would be the old; "I have something to tell you, but you have to promise you wont get mad" bit. How do you really know until the cat is out of the bag?
Its called Barratry. Barratry is the assertion of a frivolous or malicious claim or defense or the filing of any document with malice or in bad faith.
Right, I guess they figure 'why give up the advertising space', because I am sure they know that if all the chat clients worked together nobody would use theirs.
Damned good quote!
While the music industry scrambles to keep albums off the Internet before they reach stores, one highly successful artist has managed to skirt online piracy with a surprisingly low-technology solution.
The artist, Bruce Springsteen -- who has released six CD's of material in the Internet era, with another album on the way this month -- has thwarted prerelease file-sharers not through digital protection or online policing, but with an old-fashioned lock-and-key approach. In the weeks before a release, his albums barely see the light of day, frustrating not only downloaders but even music critics and other industry insiders who cannot put their hands on his work.
On July 30, Mr. Springsteen will introduce "The Rising," his much-awaited first studio album with the E Street Band since 1984, on Columbia Records. But even as Mr. Springsteen's camp plans extensive promotions, from premieres of different songs on America Online to a live appearance on "Today" from Asbury Park, N.J., few people outside his inner circle have heard the album.
Recording labels usually ship dozens or hundreds of albums to radio stations, journalists and others involved in the industry months before they go on sale. Mr. Springsteen's organization, on the other hand, sent out fewer than 10 copies as of early July, and only a handful more will join them 14 days ahead of the store date -- if at all, according to a spokeswoman, Marilyn Laverty of Shore Fire Media. Insiders who do obtain advance copies do not distribute them, said Gary Graff, a music journalist at Reuters who has interviewed Mr. Springsteen on several occasions. He said no one wanted to anger the Springsteen camp. "That's almost the best weapon they have," he added.
Mr. Springsteen's success battling online piracy is an outgrowth of his longtime fight for strict control of his work, which has seen him battling bootleggers in court both at home and abroad.
As a result, Mr. Springsteen's prerelease work has been conspicuously absent online. In 1998, he issued the four-CD set "Tracks"; last year, he released the double album "Live In New York City." None of those complete discs were available online before they were available in stores. Indeed, no more than a handful, if that, of the 84 songs on those sets were distributed ahead of time.
By contrast, a scan of the WinMX file-trading network last week turned up complete or nearly complete albums by Linkin Park and Filter, which are not scheduled for release before the end of the month.
Though Mr. Springsteen's core audience is older than most Linkin Park fans, his catalog is still popular -- and once his albums are released, they are as easily traded online as those of any other artist.
While his approach clearly prevents his work's being swapped before release, how it affects sales is unclear. Take the case of the rapper Eminem. His latest album, "The Eminem Show," was scheduled to be in stores on June 4. But in the weeks leading up the release, the disc was already available in MP3 form on file-sharing networks like Kazaa. Afraid of losing sales, Interscope Records took the extremely rare step of bumping up the release to a Sunday, May 26, rather than the usual Tuesday release.
And when SoundScan released its figures for the week ended May 26, "The Eminem Show" had sold nearly 285,000 copies, and the disc had shot to No. 1 on Billboard magazine's albums chart.
"Within less than a month, he had the biggest-selling album of the year," said Geoff Mayfield, Billboard's director of charts. "So if he did lose sales to people copying the album before it was released in stores, he still wrapped up some pretty significant numbers since it came out. It's hard to say how much damage it did to that album."
Some music executives think prerelease exposure could actually be beneficial. "If you're trying to have a hit song and really have a phenomenon, the momentum of huge word-of-mouth and media exposure may be worth creating or risking a leak," said Danny Goldberg, former chief executive for the Mercury and Warner Brothers labels and current chief of the independent Artemis Records.
And for someone like the 52-year-old Mr. Springsteen, who has more fans near his own age than his children's, prerelease distribution might actually help him generate sales with a younger demographic.
"The Springsteen crowd now, if you wanted to reach them, then you do it at Starbucks and the supermarket," Mr. Graff said. "Young people, you put it where they spend their time, which is online."
Stacey Herron, music analyst for Jupiter Research, said she thought Mr. Springsteen might sell more albums to younger listeners if he reached them through file-sharing. But Mr. Springsteen is not going quite that far with his arrangement with America Online that allows him to reach the digital set while still maintaining a modicum of control.
AOL is introducing four songs from "The Rising" over four weeks before July 30, but those songs are being streamed, not posted for downloading.
Still, it can be difficult to keep the reins tight in cyberspace, even for Mr. Springsteen. A week before the second promotional track was released, an enterprising fan uncovered the file on AOL by guessing its likely name. Within two hours, the song had been converted to an MP3 and distributed.
Ms. Laverty would not comment on the AOL promotion, nor would Mr. Springsteen's managers and representatives of Columbia, a unit of Sony.
An AOL Music spokeswoman, Ann Burkart, said she was unaware of the advance distribution of the second promotional song, "Lonesome Day." But she did add that the promotion's first single, "The Rising," was streamed 755,000 times in 48 hours, putting it among the five most popular songs of AOL's Listen First campaign since it was begun earlier this year.
This would not work, as they would do what they could to avoid the charge. If the limit is set to 50, they would set up a system to do bulk mail to groups of 50 at time. It would be a little harder, and take a little longer, but it would get out. Even then there are otherways to do this, set up multiple distributions lists on different networks. Each containing 50 or so addresses. There is no easy 1 shot fix.
The reason I say this, is that I do technical support for a local ISP, we have both Unix and W2K webservers on our system and a couple thousand customers that don't know the difference. I would say that most people wont even know they are getting these boards whent they purchase a new machine. Then they will be calling me up to find out why they cant view their favorite webpages. The answer, "Your hardware is restricting your access to the site" is just going to blow right over their head, they are not going to understand why. They are just going to be pissed at us for not being able to help them, probably switch to AOL or something before they find out the real problem, but by then it is way to late. They will just deal with it. Complacency is the name of the game, this is the same reason why companies offer rebates, because a good portion of the customers are not going to bother doing anything about it. Sure some will, or try to return their hardware, but most will not, they will assume it is the new standard and everyone else will have to change to meet it. After all, their stuff is brand new, how could it be wrong?
Quote "The country -- better known as the home of legendary Loch Ness monster -- has the highest concentration of UFO sightings on the planet, according to figures released Monday."
They all just need to get their eyes checked.
The article did mention this. "The group is pushing a new blue-laser format for standard-sized CDs, which will increase their capacity to 27GB." Were you just looking at the pictures? Of course a standard sized CD would not work well for PDA's or small portable devices.
Would this be considered plagerism, since it was shamelessly ripped from another site and pasted into your post? At the very least, you could have given credit to where you copied it from. Or even give put some kind of opinion in with it.