Let's assume that half of them are on at any given time (20)...that's 77k per user (1544000/20), barely faster then Dial up!
I'd be complaining too if I were them!
Big business wants to control EVERYTHING!
Their mantra is: If we can't make $$ from it, kill it! Also, the govt. is so corrupt that they're partners in this plan.
C'mon..this shit has been going on for years! I don't know if any of you read last week's L.A. Times article where a VP of Enron admitted that they deliberately created an electric shortage in California during the summer of 2000 to raise electric prices. Not only that, but the (now proven fake) shortage resulted in rolling blackouts, which caused inconvenience at best and were downright dangerous at worst. Sempra Energy just announced record profits because the rates in CA SKYROCKETED thanks to this. My monthly bill went from 45 bucks a month to 72, with no increase in usage. Look, big corporations want to rape consumers. Paid off politicians LOVE to HELP them do it! Until consumers begin empowering themselves (ie: tossing the dirty pols out of office) the trend will just keep going.
The FCC gets involved with the manufacturing, importing and sale of items too. For example, a whole boatload of 2 Ghz cordless phones recently got impounded border because they transmitted too far (ie: did not meet Part 15 Specifications). Yes, you can probably build your own transmitter and if you don't cause (obvious) interference, run it without being hassled for years. BUT...if you try to manufacture and sell them on any large scale, it won't be long before the FCC shuts you down. Also, if you think that receiving signals isn't against the law, think again! Scanners have been cellular blocked for years in this country. It's illegal to intercept most Federal govt. radio transmissions. It's illegal to divulge police calls to a third party. It's against the law to listen to broadcast stations' auxilary frequencies. Should I go on?
A few weeks ago, there was an article from the Director of the Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institute here that explained it all: (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/ 29/0035213&tid=134)
BUT..you know what our President "Clueless George" Bush said about global warming: It doesn't exist.
And remember...C.G. got HIS data from a true expert in the field: Rush Limbaugh!
Why?
Our whole enterprise system is based upon monopolies. Look at the FCC these days... they've been making the monopoly of the airwaves BIGGER! In most cities, instead of having 15 or 20 different radio owners, it's now down to three or four. The U.S. radio spectrum policy is based as much (if not more) on politics as on physics and technology. As long as it stays this way (and it will, trust me), the status quo will prevail.
The unlicensed bands are few compared to the licensed (read: monopolized) ones...they are less then 1 % of the electromagnetic spectrum. This isn't likely to change, either.
That's what Tom's says. C'mon...
Last week I bought a 40 gig 7200 RPM Western Digital drive for 59 bucks (at Circuit City no less). How can they be making any $$ selling drives at these prices? What frankly bothers me is the lousy quality I've seen from drives of late. In the past year I've had to RMA hard drives from every computer I own! This is a real pain in the ass, not so much for losing the drive itself, but for losing what's ON the drive. Though all my important things are stored on my mirrored server (or in two places on each computer on two different physical drives), I'm sure I don't have to tell you how long it takes to get a computer back to where it was before a crash!
I guess the major drive manufacturers are making their products cheaply, selling them cheap and warranting them cheaply too. If you want better drives, you pay more for them. want to bet that at least one of them comes out with a 'premium' drive soon?
He should sneak in from Canada and under the glare of TV lights show up in court at the appointed time. I can see the row that wouls happen in that court when the INS show up to deport him for being in the country illegally.
Ibuiquity is on channel FM. A digital carrier is inserted at a level about 20 db below the main carrier. Because of the 'capture effect' of FM modulation, a signal 20 db down will not interfere with the main (analog)FM signal.
However there is a caveat: The above is true only when the FM receiver is in full limiting (strong signal). With a weak signal, all bets are off.
By the way, Ibquity runs with a (MASSIVE) 96 Kbits/sec, using a modified form of APT-X compression. Try listening to a 96K MP3 file and you'll get the idea of how good (or bad, depending upon your point of view) Digital FM will sound. By the way, Digital AM radio by Ibquity runs with a (HUGE) 32Kbits/second stream. It just don't sound too good....
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There is a change in the paradigm of life since the sixties.
Up until the sixties, one working parent families were the norm. Now two working parents represent by far the largest majority of families. Why? because you need the incompe produced by two to even approach the style of living that took one (income) then. I think that everyone under fifty is doing worse then their parents did. Why? well first off, for the reason above. Second, most people don't have retirement funds set aside. As they reach retirement age, they won't be able to do so. Up until the early seventies, Social Security was sufficent for at least a reasonably comfortable retirement. Now it falls far short of even poverty levels..and the baby boomers haven't really begun to draw it yet! Once they do, we'll be lucky if it can even stay solvent.
If history proves me wrong on this, it'll make me happy.
I thought that if you registered your last name as a domain name that no one else could take it from you..because it's YOUR NAME!
Am I wrong here? Seems to me that HE has more right to HIS OWN NAME then some car comapny does...especially when they were Datsun for many years BEFORE they changed their name to Nissan!
Back in the 1960's, the U.S. State Department used to warn U.S. citizens of the dangers of travelling to the USSR, siting that the KGB (secret police) could do whatever they wanted to them while they were there.
NOW..we have the Russian Foreign Ministry warning Russian Citizens of the dangers of travelling in the USA, siting that the FBI (secret police) could do whhatever they wanted to them while they were there.
Is it me, or is something really, really wrong here? It sure seems to me that the USA has become more and more oppressive even as the (former) USSR becomes less so.
In settling the lawsuit, Universal BMG and Warner said they simply wanted to avoid court costs and defended the practice.
"We believe our policies were pro-competitive and geared toward keeping more retailers, large and small, in business," Universal said in a statement.
They should have had to drop all P2P lawsuits.
This is a perfect example of the pot calling the kettle black! The only difference is that the pot has paid off a few Congressmen, so they get whatever they want, be it illegal or not.
Just watch...Congress will pass a law legalizing this MAP pricing.
If you remember high school physics, there's something called the heat of liquification. It takes heat to convert ice into liquid and it takes heat to convert water at 212 F into steam at 212 F.
Actually, water is at it's densist at about 4 C, and solid water (ice) is less dense then liquid water (otherwise ice would sink). You cn obeseve this by looking at the water in a glass of ice water...there's a definite layer of denser water at the bottom of the glass that can be seen.
After all, he's only the President and Director of the Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institute, probably the most prestigious in the world. Remember, all scientists are crackpots.
Rush Limbaugh said so, and that's good enough for me!
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They'll let this one lie.. This isn't about software licenses, it's about commerce...
The Govt. already believes they're one big dick of a corporation....Messing about in bankrupcies is kicking someone when they're down and out.
You have a lousy P.R. Dept., Ball(buster)mer.
Better fire them and get one that KNOWS how to make a good image for M$.
Let's assume that half of them are on at any given time (20)...that's 77k per user (1544000/20), barely faster then Dial up! I'd be complaining too if I were them!
Big business wants to control EVERYTHING! Their mantra is: If we can't make $$ from it, kill it! Also, the govt. is so corrupt that they're partners in this plan. C'mon..this shit has been going on for years! I don't know if any of you read last week's L.A. Times article where a VP of Enron admitted that they deliberately created an electric shortage in California during the summer of 2000 to raise electric prices. Not only that, but the (now proven fake) shortage resulted in rolling blackouts, which caused inconvenience at best and were downright dangerous at worst. Sempra Energy just announced record profits because the rates in CA SKYROCKETED thanks to this. My monthly bill went from 45 bucks a month to 72, with no increase in usage. Look, big corporations want to rape consumers. Paid off politicians LOVE to HELP them do it! Until consumers begin empowering themselves (ie: tossing the dirty pols out of office) the trend will just keep going.
Well actually it's: "an organic system for extracting and concentrating oxygen from gases present in the atmosphere".... Or am I full of hot air?
The FCC gets involved with the manufacturing, importing and sale of items too. For example, a whole boatload of 2 Ghz cordless phones recently got impounded border because they transmitted too far (ie: did not meet Part 15 Specifications). Yes, you can probably build your own transmitter and if you don't cause (obvious) interference, run it without being hassled for years. BUT...if you try to manufacture and sell them on any large scale, it won't be long before the FCC shuts you down. Also, if you think that receiving signals isn't against the law, think again! Scanners have been cellular blocked for years in this country. It's illegal to intercept most Federal govt. radio transmissions. It's illegal to divulge police calls to a third party. It's against the law to listen to broadcast stations' auxilary frequencies. Should I go on?
A few weeks ago, there was an article from the Director of the Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institute here that explained it all: (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/ 29/0035213&tid=134)
BUT..you know what our President "Clueless George" Bush said about global warming: It doesn't exist.
And remember...C.G. got HIS data from a true expert in the field: Rush Limbaugh!
Why? Our whole enterprise system is based upon monopolies. Look at the FCC these days... they've been making the monopoly of the airwaves BIGGER! In most cities, instead of having 15 or 20 different radio owners, it's now down to three or four. The U.S. radio spectrum policy is based as much (if not more) on politics as on physics and technology. As long as it stays this way (and it will, trust me), the status quo will prevail. The unlicensed bands are few compared to the licensed (read: monopolized) ones...they are less then 1 % of the electromagnetic spectrum. This isn't likely to change, either.
The FCC has been metric for years. Go figure
She wasn't that bad looking. I wonder how well she fuc NEVER MIND!!
With a petty dictator at it's helm...
But aliens ate my Buick!
That's enough for me.....
That's what Tom's says. C'mon... Last week I bought a 40 gig 7200 RPM Western Digital drive for 59 bucks (at Circuit City no less). How can they be making any $$ selling drives at these prices? What frankly bothers me is the lousy quality I've seen from drives of late. In the past year I've had to RMA hard drives from every computer I own! This is a real pain in the ass, not so much for losing the drive itself, but for losing what's ON the drive. Though all my important things are stored on my mirrored server (or in two places on each computer on two different physical drives), I'm sure I don't have to tell you how long it takes to get a computer back to where it was before a crash! I guess the major drive manufacturers are making their products cheaply, selling them cheap and warranting them cheaply too. If you want better drives, you pay more for them. want to bet that at least one of them comes out with a 'premium' drive soon?
He should sneak in from Canada and under the glare of TV lights show up in court at the appointed time. I can see the row that wouls happen in that court when the INS show up to deport him for being in the country illegally.
and it was rejected THEN...! Why NOW is this news? It WAS news two days ago, but now it's STALE!
Oh wait..the house calls would be by a virtual doctor... Never Mind!
Ibuiquity is on channel FM. A digital carrier is inserted at a level about 20 db below the main carrier. Because of the 'capture effect' of FM modulation, a signal 20 db down will not interfere with the main (analog)FM signal. However there is a caveat: The above is true only when the FM receiver is in full limiting (strong signal). With a weak signal, all bets are off. By the way, Ibquity runs with a (MASSIVE) 96 Kbits/sec, using a modified form of APT-X compression. Try listening to a 96K MP3 file and you'll get the idea of how good (or bad, depending upon your point of view) Digital FM will sound. By the way, Digital AM radio by Ibquity runs with a (HUGE) 32Kbits/second stream. It just don't sound too good....
There is a change in the paradigm of life since the sixties. Up until the sixties, one working parent families were the norm. Now two working parents represent by far the largest majority of families. Why? because you need the incompe produced by two to even approach the style of living that took one (income) then. I think that everyone under fifty is doing worse then their parents did. Why? well first off, for the reason above. Second, most people don't have retirement funds set aside. As they reach retirement age, they won't be able to do so. Up until the early seventies, Social Security was sufficent for at least a reasonably comfortable retirement. Now it falls far short of even poverty levels..and the baby boomers haven't really begun to draw it yet! Once they do, we'll be lucky if it can even stay solvent. If history proves me wrong on this, it'll make me happy.
I thought that if you registered your last name as a domain name that no one else could take it from you..because it's YOUR NAME! Am I wrong here? Seems to me that HE has more right to HIS OWN NAME then some car comapny does...especially when they were Datsun for many years BEFORE they changed their name to Nissan!
Back in the 1960's, the U.S. State Department used to warn U.S. citizens of the dangers of travelling to the USSR, siting that the KGB (secret police) could do whatever they wanted to them while they were there. NOW..we have the Russian Foreign Ministry warning Russian Citizens of the dangers of travelling in the USA, siting that the FBI (secret police) could do whhatever they wanted to them while they were there. Is it me, or is something really, really wrong here? It sure seems to me that the USA has become more and more oppressive even as the (former) USSR becomes less so.
No wonder why it pulls tantrums from time to time!
In settling the lawsuit, Universal BMG and Warner said they simply wanted to avoid court costs and defended the practice.
"We believe our policies were pro-competitive and geared toward keeping more retailers, large and small, in business," Universal said in a statement.
They should have had to drop all P2P lawsuits.
This is a perfect example of the pot calling the kettle black! The only difference is that the pot has paid off a few Congressmen, so they get whatever they want, be it illegal or not.
Just watch...Congress will pass a law legalizing this MAP pricing.
If you remember high school physics, there's something called the heat of liquification. It takes heat to convert ice into liquid and it takes heat to convert water at 212 F into steam at 212 F. Actually, water is at it's densist at about 4 C, and solid water (ice) is less dense then liquid water (otherwise ice would sink). You cn obeseve this by looking at the water in a glass of ice water...there's a definite layer of denser water at the bottom of the glass that can be seen.
After all, he's only the President and Director of the Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institute, probably the most prestigious in the world. Remember, all scientists are crackpots. Rush Limbaugh said so, and that's good enough for me!
God, I hope so! An HP or Tek costs the same as a small house.