Someone else mentioned how ads are usually regional, so regional blocking is related to that.
I just want to add, everyone keeps referring to hulu's "content providers" and then "customers" - but missing that the customers are chiefly the advertisers.
Advertisers are #1, content providers #2, and viewers a close #3. They need to keep #2 and #3 just happy enough that they can sell #3 to #1.
I want to agree with you but, your analogy is a little too simple. This would be more akin to if you drew up a map of all the street sellers in the city and what bootlegs they had, and distributed it freely from a street stand of your own.
I still wouldn't say you were guilty of copyright infringement... but aiding? Perhaps a little bit, no?
You have a point, except "box does something unexpected, unexplained, mysterious, unintended, wrong" ignores that everyone is different and what one user may expect, intend, or think is right, another may not expect, not intend, or think is wrong. I'm not talking about just strange error messages. I'm talking about things like... RSS readers.
Why are there so many different kinds? Why is RSS ability a feature in major web browsers? Why not just focus on browsing and bugfixing and not add features like this?
Because some users *expect* the browser to be the one stop shop for everything. Some users *intend* to use such a feature if available, while others prefer the box do things separately for them. Etc.
So for some, features are just "more features," but for others, a given feature may be doing exactly what you want: stops the computer doing something obstructive (i.e., not working the way the user would prefer) by enabling a capability they were previously obstructed from enjoying.
Many "features" are exactly that: fixing problems for the user, insofar as everything that a user may want to do that the computer can't do is a problem.
Well, there's a distinct difference there - Republicans put forth a President who himself did very little, if anything, to help his fellow countrymen, before or after his election, so... you could argue, we were just uniting with him in those efforts;)
Now we've got a President coming up who will actually behave, well, like a President, and do the helpful, uniting things you usually expect a President to do, so I think the ball's back in the right wing's court to see if they can get over the Gingrich-y Limbaugh-esque past and start behaving like Americans again.
I love these simple middle-school level analogies everyone repeatedly uses on political issues.
Umm, why do you live in this town? Are you just visiting? Then no, you don't have a right to complain, perhaps the people who do live there quite like cow shit & rotten fish. Move along.
You do live there? Why not move away? Or get involved in the process of choosing what's on the menu. I mean, no, you won't get instant results, it's arguably taken liberal activists *over* 4 years of effort (going back to 2002 if you want to be conservative in your estimate) to move the Democratic Party from the likes of Kerry to the likes of Obama, which *is* a bit of a change.
It's not the best system, but change does happen, inside and outside of parties.
And even in a small town with one restaurant, there would be *some* way to influence the menu.
Those who chose not to and limit themselves to simplistic analogies to justify their laziness are part of the problem, not the solution.
Now, me, I'm not perfect. I'm not involved in politics locally or nationally. I see problems, I let others more capable work on them, and I see some progress. Even if I didn't see the progress, I would at least take responsibility for my laziness and own it without complaint, rather than sit around pretending I'm smart not to get involved in what little system there is.
There are always opportunities. To deny them is ludicrous. To add complaint to the denial is obnoxious. Put up or shut up, I say.
Audacity. Lovely software. The thing is, and, it may be because I'm relatively poor and have never used any so-called "better" apps, but, I can't quite imagine anything doing basic audio editing too much better. Maybe advanced audio editing, but not basic, intuitive audio-editing. I mean, for me, it's basically a free & intuitive reinterpretation of the old Windows Cool Edit software, which was more than adequate, pirated haha.
seriously, yeah, if you have a stalker they can probably get to you somehow through friends etc., but, if you have an employer exhibiting that extensive a "checking up" behavior, i'm sorry but i wouldn't want to work for them anyway.
[blah blah] or hell, it could affect your credit rating probably at some point.
And sadly, I hope you're never running for public office....once on the internet, this kind of stuff will haunt you for life.
I hope to hell people doing these things just keep doing them because, hopefully, non-existent deity willing, in short order none of this will matter and people will shrug. "Oh, he drinks and smokes? Well that doesn't indicate he's a bad worker and I do half of that myself so whatever."
Because really, f*#@#&ing puritans. Most people *DO* do this stuff and live well enough as it is. The fact that people have to hide the way most people live a reasonable life is just rediculous. Closeted humanity, look at yourself and accept it. Even the most pious do drugs and drink.
What *MATTERS* is billing your state for your housing costs or making money off of energy subsidies. THESE are the important things.
I realize your job may be special, but "I work long days" screams to me for a solution of working fewer hours, not buying more to enable doing more in the small amount of free time you have. I'm thinking of the disparity in free time between, say, Americans and Europeans.... I'm American and think we need drastically more vacation time and shorter work days.
Again, though, I realize your job might be the kind that wouldn't be affected by such a development, and you may not even be American, so... take my observation with appropriate disdain:)
Rather a few years back, there was a big press release about Verizon making their pay phones in NYC WiFi access points. I found out about this 2-3 years after it was announced, and excitedly tried to get internet access on the corner of my block, where a WiFi-enabled payphone was reportedly located (by an old section of their own website).
Not only could I not locate a signal, I felt pretty stupid standing on the sidewalk with my laptop. I don't think they kept up this plan and quietly cancelled it when it proved fruitless.
WiFi doesn't reach very far, and it's kinda useless most places where payphones are located, unless there's ample public space infrastructure on the sidewalks for people to sit & use the service.
This is why I've often thought that, politically, organizationally, etc. - random lottery appointments would probably be at least equal to, if not better than, informed elections.
Not sure how that would work for wikipedia, but when it comes to politics, establish a system like America's congress/executive/judiciary, and inject some randomness into it. Say, take one half of congress, and have its members selected by random every 4 years. Something like that...
Not really. There are a fair amount of 100-year-old and older businesses in the world that aren't going anywhere anytime soon, many of them defacto governments in their own right, at least on par with some of the world's smaller governments. (or religions, for that matter). And those are just exactly the ones that can waste millions of dollars and not care.
Um, yeah, until people figured out there was no parking there. People aren't as stupid as some Slashdotters seem to make them out to be.
I mean, people drive to the mall because there's parking. If there was no parking, they wouldn't drive to the mall en masse and circle around looking for parking.
Count me in that market segment. (and to one of your other repliers, no, I don't care about YouTube and other Flash stuff on a phone/PDA)
However, count me out of that market segment at the iPhone price range. The thing looks great, except too expensive... and the restrictions don't help.
I be po'.
However, considering I (and people like me) didn't get an iPod until 3-4 years after they were first introduced, I have a feeling the iPhone could still be a long-term success.
The goal of health care is to get everyone covered, at the lowest possible cost, with the highest possible quality. But in the United States, our system seeks to get everyone covered, at the lowest possible cost, with the highest possible quality, while generating the maximum possible profits.
Within that context, the trade-offs and outcomes all seem to benefit the last goal, and so we tolerate 45 million uninsured Americans, unbelievably high prices, and a fractured system that lacks the proper incentives to deliver high-quality care.
Many solutions have been tested, and they're all better in many ways than what we have now. But god forbid someone miss out on a profit opportunity in the grand ol' U S of A.
I think there's your problem. You're confusing the people who make the waste disposal laws with the people encouraging CFL use. The waste disposal people largely care not a lick about CFL adoption, and the CFL promoters would love for there to be widespread disposal options for CFLs but have little they can do to make it happen.
How will it happen? When enough people with CFLs are pestering the waste disposal people (that's your government, depending on where you live) to get off their damn asses and provide a good way to get rid of the CFLs.
Really, the companies making them should be responsible for convenient methods of taking them back - any legal person should be responsible for the products and wastes they generate - but good luck forcing them to do it. It's always easier to force a government to act than to force a business to act. Except when they're in cahoots, but that wouldn't seem to apply in this case.
Perhaps your comment could be more correctly summed up as: "SUGGESTION: Allow the Search bar to float and not be locked at the bottom of the window."
No. If I may be so bold as to speak for the other poster, that's not what he meant.
He was referring to the RSS feature of Safari which includes a search field on the side that most definitely does not cover up text. And it's specific to the RSS feeds.
Generally, the text search function in Safari sucks and Apple would be better to imitate Firefox in this matter. But the special RSS feed display & search is much better than Firefox's RSS functions.
My favorite part is where, if you create a bookmark folder containing a bunch of RSS feeds, you can choose to "view all feeds in this folder" and it aggregates all the feeds together. It's a great way to scan posts on similar subject matter, for example, in one fell swoop.
Plus, in the sidebar with the search field, are links to show posts only one feed or another, and a slider that lets you show more or less of each post using OS X's built in "summary" feature. It works reasonably well.
You people don't buy real peanut butter? Strange. I find it's at almost every good grocery store these days, not just the organic and natural foods ones. There's plenty of brands, even the big chain grocers usually stock at least one brand of real peanut butter.
I'm sorry, but I don't understand the popularity of Bladerunner. It's a horrible film. It has practically no depth and basically just drags on for a while and then turns into a cheap '80s action flick.
Oh, but it has oodles of style! It's basically a template for every crappy sci-fi film made since: style, weak premise, style, cardboard characters, style, action action action! and a little more style for good measure.
Bladerunner has pulled the wool over too many people's eyes. It's a BAD FILM.
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Someone else mentioned how ads are usually regional, so regional blocking is related to that.
I just want to add, everyone keeps referring to hulu's "content providers" and then "customers" - but missing that the customers are chiefly the advertisers.
Advertisers are #1, content providers #2, and viewers a close #3. They need to keep #2 and #3 just happy enough that they can sell #3 to #1.
I want to agree with you but, your analogy is a little too simple. This would be more akin to if you drew up a map of all the street sellers in the city and what bootlegs they had, and distributed it freely from a street stand of your own.
I still wouldn't say you were guilty of copyright infringement ... but aiding? Perhaps a little bit, no?
You have a point, except "box does something unexpected, unexplained, mysterious, unintended, wrong" ignores that everyone is different and what one user may expect, intend, or think is right, another may not expect, not intend, or think is wrong. I'm not talking about just strange error messages. I'm talking about things like ... RSS readers.
Why are there so many different kinds? Why is RSS ability a feature in major web browsers? Why not just focus on browsing and bugfixing and not add features like this?
Because some users *expect* the browser to be the one stop shop for everything. Some users *intend* to use such a feature if available, while others prefer the box do things separately for them. Etc.
So for some, features are just "more features," but for others, a given feature may be doing exactly what you want: stops the computer doing something obstructive (i.e., not working the way the user would prefer) by enabling a capability they were previously obstructed from enjoying.
Many "features" are exactly that: fixing problems for the user, insofar as everything that a user may want to do that the computer can't do is a problem.
Well, there's a distinct difference there - Republicans put forth a President who himself did very little, if anything, to help his fellow countrymen, before or after his election, so... you could argue, we were just uniting with him in those efforts ;)
Now we've got a President coming up who will actually behave, well, like a President, and do the helpful, uniting things you usually expect a President to do, so I think the ball's back in the right wing's court to see if they can get over the Gingrich-y Limbaugh-esque past and start behaving like Americans again.
I love these simple middle-school level analogies everyone repeatedly uses on political issues.
Umm, why do you live in this town? Are you just visiting? Then no, you don't have a right to complain, perhaps the people who do live there quite like cow shit & rotten fish. Move along.
You do live there? Why not move away? Or get involved in the process of choosing what's on the menu. I mean, no, you won't get instant results, it's arguably taken liberal activists *over* 4 years of effort (going back to 2002 if you want to be conservative in your estimate) to move the Democratic Party from the likes of Kerry to the likes of Obama, which *is* a bit of a change.
It's not the best system, but change does happen, inside and outside of parties.
And even in a small town with one restaurant, there would be *some* way to influence the menu.
Those who chose not to and limit themselves to simplistic analogies to justify their laziness are part of the problem, not the solution.
Now, me, I'm not perfect. I'm not involved in politics locally or nationally. I see problems, I let others more capable work on them, and I see some progress. Even if I didn't see the progress, I would at least take responsibility for my laziness and own it without complaint, rather than sit around pretending I'm smart not to get involved in what little system there is.
There are always opportunities. To deny them is ludicrous. To add complaint to the denial is obnoxious. Put up or shut up, I say.
"The concept of the limited company" is rather distant from the concept of corporate personhood.
Audacity. Lovely software. The thing is, and, it may be because I'm relatively poor and have never used any so-called "better" apps, but, I can't quite imagine anything doing basic audio editing too much better. Maybe advanced audio editing, but not basic, intuitive audio-editing. I mean, for me, it's basically a free & intuitive reinterpretation of the old Windows Cool Edit software, which was more than adequate, pirated haha.
paranoia? see parent.
seriously, yeah, if you have a stalker they can probably get to you somehow through friends etc., but, if you have an employer exhibiting that extensive a "checking up" behavior, i'm sorry but i wouldn't want to work for them anyway.
I hope to hell people doing these things just keep doing them because, hopefully, non-existent deity willing, in short order none of this will matter and people will shrug. "Oh, he drinks and smokes? Well that doesn't indicate he's a bad worker and I do half of that myself so whatever."
Because really, f*#@#&ing puritans. Most people *DO* do this stuff and live well enough as it is. The fact that people have to hide the way most people live a reasonable life is just rediculous. Closeted humanity, look at yourself and accept it. Even the most pious do drugs and drink.
What *MATTERS* is billing your state for your housing costs or making money off of energy subsidies. THESE are the important things.
What a waste of an experiment. They should have really put people in life-threatening danger and seen if any of them could jaunte...
I realize your job may be special, but "I work long days" screams to me for a solution of working fewer hours, not buying more to enable doing more in the small amount of free time you have. I'm thinking of the disparity in free time between, say, Americans and Europeans.... I'm American and think we need drastically more vacation time and shorter work days.
:)
Again, though, I realize your job might be the kind that wouldn't be affected by such a development, and you may not even be American, so... take my observation with appropriate disdain
Rather a few years back, there was a big press release about Verizon making their pay phones in NYC WiFi access points. I found out about this 2-3 years after it was announced, and excitedly tried to get internet access on the corner of my block, where a WiFi-enabled payphone was reportedly located (by an old section of their own website).
Not only could I not locate a signal, I felt pretty stupid standing on the sidewalk with my laptop. I don't think they kept up this plan and quietly cancelled it when it proved fruitless.
WiFi doesn't reach very far, and it's kinda useless most places where payphones are located, unless there's ample public space infrastructure on the sidewalks for people to sit & use the service.
This is why I've often thought that, politically, organizationally, etc. - random lottery appointments would probably be at least equal to, if not better than, informed elections.
Not sure how that would work for wikipedia, but when it comes to politics, establish a system like America's congress/executive/judiciary, and inject some randomness into it. Say, take one half of congress, and have its members selected by random every 4 years. Something like that...
Not really. There are a fair amount of 100-year-old and older businesses in the world that aren't going anywhere anytime soon, many of them defacto governments in their own right, at least on par with some of the world's smaller governments. (or religions, for that matter). And those are just exactly the ones that can waste millions of dollars and not care.
Um, yeah, until people figured out there was no parking there. People aren't as stupid as some Slashdotters seem to make them out to be.
I mean, people drive to the mall because there's parking. If there was no parking, they wouldn't drive to the mall en masse and circle around looking for parking.
Behavior can change based on expectations.
Count me in that market segment. (and to one of your other repliers, no, I don't care about YouTube and other Flash stuff on a phone/PDA)
... and the restrictions don't help.
However, count me out of that market segment at the iPhone price range. The thing looks great, except too expensive
I be po'.
However, considering I (and people like me) didn't get an iPod until 3-4 years after they were first introduced, I have a feeling the iPhone could still be a long-term success.
And people wonder why omnivores tend to be overweight. Three servings of meat at each meal and mashed potatoes? Might want to reconsider that diet ;-)
Careful, cowboy, God made humans out of meat, too. You might want to reconsider that one... ;-)
It's all much simpler than that.
The goal of health care is to get everyone covered, at the lowest possible cost, with the highest possible quality. But in the United States, our system seeks to get everyone covered, at the lowest possible cost, with the highest possible quality, while generating the maximum possible profits.
Within that context, the trade-offs and outcomes all seem to benefit the last goal, and so we tolerate 45 million uninsured Americans, unbelievably high prices, and a fractured system that lacks the proper incentives to deliver high-quality care.
It doesn't have to be this way.
And it doesn't have to be socialized. Canada, Germany, France, the UK, and our very own VHA all have different solutions; only France's and the UK's can properly be termed "socialized medicine."
Many solutions have been tested, and they're all better in many ways than what we have now. But god forbid someone miss out on a profit opportunity in the grand ol' U S of A.
"powers-that-be"
I think there's your problem. You're confusing the people who make the waste disposal laws with the people encouraging CFL use. The waste disposal people largely care not a lick about CFL adoption, and the CFL promoters would love for there to be widespread disposal options for CFLs but have little they can do to make it happen.
How will it happen? When enough people with CFLs are pestering the waste disposal people (that's your government, depending on where you live) to get off their damn asses and provide a good way to get rid of the CFLs.
Really, the companies making them should be responsible for convenient methods of taking them back - any legal person should be responsible for the products and wastes they generate - but good luck forcing them to do it. It's always easier to force a government to act than to force a business to act. Except when they're in cahoots, but that wouldn't seem to apply in this case.
Yup, it's gotta be the parasites. But why are they suddenly killing off all the bees?
Some are saying (not me, I don't know enough about it) it could be genetically modified food crops.
The rationale being that genes have been demonstrated to jump species, specifically, even, from crops into microbes in the guts of bees (RTFA).
Just posting this because I heard about it and it sounds somewhat reasonable, not because I'm advocating against genetic modification of anything.
No. If I may be so bold as to speak for the other poster, that's not what he meant.
He was referring to the RSS feature of Safari which includes a search field on the side that most definitely does not cover up text. And it's specific to the RSS feeds.
Generally, the text search function in Safari sucks and Apple would be better to imitate Firefox in this matter. But the special RSS feed display & search is much better than Firefox's RSS functions.
My favorite part is where, if you create a bookmark folder containing a bunch of RSS feeds, you can choose to "view all feeds in this folder" and it aggregates all the feeds together. It's a great way to scan posts on similar subject matter, for example, in one fell swoop.
Plus, in the sidebar with the search field, are links to show posts only one feed or another, and a slider that lets you show more or less of each post using OS X's built in "summary" feature. It works reasonably well.
You people don't buy real peanut butter? Strange. I find it's at almost every good grocery store these days, not just the organic and natural foods ones. There's plenty of brands, even the big chain grocers usually stock at least one brand of real peanut butter.
Stung a little too personally, huh, Anonymous Coward?
I'm sorry, but I don't understand the popularity of Bladerunner. It's a horrible film. It has practically no depth and basically just drags on for a while and then turns into a cheap '80s action flick.
Oh, but it has oodles of style! It's basically a template for every crappy sci-fi film made since: style, weak premise, style, cardboard characters, style, action action action! and a little more style for good measure.
Bladerunner has pulled the wool over too many people's eyes. It's a BAD FILM.