We've been almost certain that this was coming since mid-October. What we were told at that point was that MPC's finances were shut down - hard - and as a result they had no working capital to purchase any product. In other words, they haven't been able to build or ship product since the middle of October. (This was before they went Chapter 11... and before they were delisted from NASDAQ.)
Fortunately, we stopped buying desktops from them a while back... but unfortunately we were still buying laptops from them. In fact, we just bought about 10 laptops just in September. So much for the 3 year warranty we paid extra for on them.:(
If you're going to insist on anti-corporate whining, at least whine about the right reason. FTFA: "Previously, cable or wire video-service companies had to negotiate local franchises with each municipality or township." This merely prevents them from having to individually deal with every little rural hick town and arrogant bedroom community in the state, some of which may indeed have already negotiated exclusive "monopoly" deals with another provider.
Thank you, I was beginning to wonder if I had wandered into bizarro-land or something! I cannot for the life of me fathom the negative reaction to this. Wisconsin is currently passing a similar bill, and I am 100% in favor of it. Previously, when a new provider wanted to enter a community, they wouldn't be able to, because some other cable company was granted an exclusive contract for that community.
Now, if Time Warner wants to compete with Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, or whomever else, they can. They get the statewide contract, and no more messing around with local politicos with delusions of grandeur. It levels the playing field so that anyone can compete.
There's a reason that the cable companies have been running a campaign against such bills... they don't want to have to compete. They like the cushy exclusive local contracts because it means they only have to worry about actually doing enough of their job to make it look good every few years when the contract comes up for renewal... then pay off enough politicians to get them to either be in favor of the new contract without even reading it, or better yet, be 'sick' on the day it's up for renewal.
The link in the article now just links to a generic Digital Music Association page with no real content, but when you click on "press releases" you now get the goatse image. Not cool.
I opened a TD Ameritrade account a couple of months ago, and I too started getting slammed with pump-and-dump spam. The problem for me is that I went IN PERSON to a TD Ameritrade branch and opened the account, so it's not like a "man in the middle" attack, unless this hypothetical man in the middle is actually opening up brick-and-mortar branches.
I was simply using the account to hold the relatively small stock portfolio I have, so I have no problem moving my account elsewhere.
The primary thing I care about is uninterrupted service, at my current service and price level, with my current telephone number.
If Verizon intends to squish Vonage, they had better be completely prepared to seamlessly transition me to their service, at my current price and service level. If they are willing and able to do that, I'm OK with it. (Well, I'm not thrilled with this abuse of patent law, but I can't do much about that myself.)
Is there anyway I can contact the court system and have them consider this as a term in the injunction order?
Well, I'll respectfully disagree. I thought Rose was easily the best companion so far, particularly after series 2 (series 28, if you include the former run) greatly improved the chemistry between Rose and The Doctor.
As for the differences between Eccleston and Tennant - I was concerned when I heard that they were going to have another regeneration after just one series, particularly with how well Eccleston took to the role... but my concerns were quickly eliminated after just the first episode with Tennant. I don't think the series has ever been better than it was during series 2, honestly. I'm cautiously optimistic about series 3... I'll be interested to see how the chemistry changes with the new companion, Martha Jones.
Agreed. The recording industry is claiming that the XM portable units turn the service into a subscription music service, much like Napster et.al. However, this infers that the devices have the capability to segment the recording into seperate songs and listen to them at a later point non-sequentially, which they most certainly do not do (nor does it appear that XM has any plans to implement this). Without this ability, there is practically no difference between this and hooking a tape recorder up to the headphone out jack of an XM receiver.
In fact, XM's device is considerably more limited than recording with a tape recorder, as you can only retain the recording for a limited number of days, and you can't listen to recordings if your subscription lapses, as far as I'm aware. XM really bent over backwards to implement a device that would protect the recording industry's interests.
Likewise, if you look at the first season "Conn" and "Ops" seats on the Enterprise-D on The Next Generation, they were reclined at what I'd guestimate was a 130-140 degree angle... and much of the time, the cast was said to fall asleep in those chairs, proving how comfortable that seated position was. Guess they knew something too.
A better question: why didn't they go with Mac OS X's launchd approach, which is also open source and licensed under the Apache license? It'd be nice if, for once, the open source community would use what's already out there in the community rather than perpetually reinventing the wheel.
The reason Cisco is patenting this is because they now own Scientific-Atlanta, who are one of a few companies that provide the infrastructure that make it possible for Time Warner, Comcast, et. al. to offer "triple play" or "all in one" or whatever brand name your particular cable operator uses for the combination. If Cisco were to sue someone for using this, it wouldn't be the cable operators - it'd be Motorola or whomever, their competitors who also offer a similar infrastructure.
I'm not exactly sure why the author of the article thinks that they'd sue the cable operators, many of whom use the Scientific-Atlanta technology in question... perhaps he wasn't aware of the link between Cisco and Sci-Atl.. which leads me to question his authority to even speak on the topic in the first place.
I definitely recognize EasyJet, though I question it's status as "world-changing," particularly a "world changing website." As for FriendsReunited - who? I'd also argue against Napster - it was the Napster program and service that possibly had a "world-changing" impact, not so much the website itself.
As for what they missed - 1) Hotmail, of course. It's really lame now, but it really was one of the catalysts for people adopting email en masse. 2) CNN.com - I mean, just think back to 9/11/01. Many people didn't turn to TV for news, they went to CNN.com (as well as MSNBC.com and a host of other news sites, admittedly, but CNN.com was probably most prominent that day). 3) NetworkSolutions.com, just because for a long time, they were the ONLY.com TLD registrar.
Over 2 years, not a single problem worth noting, and I've saved a TON of cash. I'm extremely happy with Vonage. If I had it to do over again, I'd have switched SOONER to Vonage.
They also forgot Value America. Similar to the CyberRebate.com which was mentioned in the article, except even less thought through than that... they pretty much gave stuff away for practically nothing. I can't even describe how much cheap stuff I got from them at half price or less.
Value America was a textbook case of the dot bomb. Literally... the book "dot.bomb: My Days and Nights at an Internet Goliath" describes the rise and fall of Value America.
I actually miss PointCast, particularly the screensaver featuring live data that was pushed to it. Most of the other features of PointCast are easily found in any number of RSS readers these days... but I have yet to find an RSS screensaver as functional as the PointCast screensaver.
PointCast was just ahead of it's time... it really needed the always-on high speed home connections that only really became widespread years after it went under.
The Commerce Suite was a product line purchased from AT&T several years ago, and is mostly seperate from the Academic Suite. This merger mostly affects the Academic Suite.
Correction to the submission: this is being released by United International Pictures, the company responsible for international release of Serenity. Since UIP is partially owned by Universal, it might be seen as semantics, but UIP has a distinct marketing plan for the movie from that of Universal.
It's also important to note, because it might seem like odd timing for Universal to release new marketing materials for a movie already released - it might even seem a move of desperation to get "butts in seats" before it leaves theaters... but it makes more sense as new marketing released by UIP for a movie they are opening today or within the next few weeks.
The Motorola device requires a proprietary wireless receiver to be tethered via USB to a computer with a working internet connection, and the wireless is most certainly not WiFi. Additionally, the Motorola device is a closed device compared with the ZipIt.
I'm sorely tempted to get one of these ZipIts. I saw the Motorola device, thought it might be useful for being contacted with short text messages without the cell phone charges, but then found out about the Moto's limitations. The ZipIt seems to correct on all of them./p.
There is no alternative... Science tell that the simple anwser to that is: we don`t know, lets try to find out...
Ok, I can agree with that first part. We don't know. We can look at the evidence we have and see where it points us. Which immediately discounts 95% of the responses to this article thus far, because they all start out with the presupposition that they know exactly what happened, and proceed to ridicule those who espouse an alternative explanation.
Thats why religion is bad (alot of religious people adopt a *I just know it* approach)...
The second... well, the two sentences have a disconnect. Religion isn't bad. In fact, a true religion has a lot in common with science - it's a continual proofing to make sure the belief holds. A follower of a religion should also be able to explain to others not only what they believe, but why they believe it - a study called "apologetics."
I loved the part in the earlier post that said that "it raises more questions than answers" and somehow, there was the implication that this is a _bad_ thing. There's a LOT about science that just raises more questions than answers. Find me something about science that _doesn't_ raise more questions than answers. I'd like to hear a scientist say to his fellow scientists, "Sorry, guys, time to close up shop. We've answered all the questions, there's nothing more to find. I suggest a career in IT - at least there you have some more questions to answer."
Damn right. The most important being "If anything complex requires a creator (the fundamental axiom pf Intelligent Design), it seems logical that such a creator would be need to be complex Himself (or Herself). So, who designed the creator?"
So what's the alternative? Either you argue for an eternal Creator that set everything in motion - or you argue for an eternal Universe that just happened. Either way, you're arguing for an eternal _something_ that set the universe in motion, both of which take no small amount of faith. Personally, I'd rather put my faith in the evidence we do have in a Creator, than putting my faith in a still mysterious _something_ that caused the universe to do the whole big *foom* thing.
Ever since G4, I've basically stopped watching "TechTV" since it's no longer, well, 'TechTV'. TSS was just about the only info show I watched on it (besides battlebots etc), and pretty much the only raison d'être of the station. Glad to see they're back in this format.
BattleBots was a Comedy Central production. The show that was on TechTV was rebroadcasts of BBC's Robot Wars, I believe. Yes, I know, I'm probably nitpicking.
It seemed that a lot of the reason that Hammer and Tongs was chosen to do this film was their unique style, and in a lot of ways, it works with Douglas Adams' creative vision. However, it's being distributed by Touchstone Pictures, a division of the Walt Disney Corporation, and the quirky nature of Hammer and Tongs doesn't seem like it'd mesh with the culture at Disney. Additionally, I'd imagine the "suits" would have a lot of problems with a faithful treatment of Adams' work.
My question: how was the working relationship between the filmmakers and Disney (Touchstone)? Were there elements of the movie that were cut by Disney because they "just didn't get it," or were they pretty supportive of the decisions made by the filmmakers?
While the technical underpinnings may be fascinating for this new music distribution system, the fact remains that the core content is still the same. It's plain old jive-ass radio; the same as you would get (and from which you would want to get away) from Clear Channel. Irritating announcers, insufferable commercials, lame music. Just coming to you through the wire instead of the air.
Actually, it's not the same "jive-ass radio." XM Radio is commercial free, most stations are announcer free, and the music is highly focused to a specific genre so you can never complain that they play the song you really like then a song from a totally different genre that you hate.
And as for your suggestion about copying others music collections - that's copyright infringement and illegal (at least in the US). You might not care, but that's the truth.
HHGTTG is a Touchstone movie, not a Disney movie. Yes, yes, I know, Touchstone is owned by the Walt Disney Company, but the types of movies that Touchstone produces are far different from the types of movies that Disney produces.
Additionally, the creative decisions that Disney makes have no bearing on the creative decisions that Touchstone makes.
Nothing like watching a great show and having to minimize the link for the latest viagra pill with your kids.
And to think, TiVo use to be a quality DVR...
This is INSIGHTFUL?!?
First of all, the ad is for the product you're fast forwarding through - that is, if you fast forward throughb a movie ad, you'll see a "billboard" or a banner ad for THAT MOVIE.
Second, you don't have to minimize anything. The ad appears for the exact length of the ad as it's being fast forwarded - that is, about a second or two. (How an ad that is only visible for about a second or two is cost effective is highly questionable to me, but that's how it works.)
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We've been almost certain that this was coming since mid-October. What we were told at that point was that MPC's finances were shut down - hard - and as a result they had no working capital to purchase any product. In other words, they haven't been able to build or ship product since the middle of October. (This was before they went Chapter 11... and before they were delisted from NASDAQ.)
Fortunately, we stopped buying desktops from them a while back... but unfortunately we were still buying laptops from them. In fact, we just bought about 10 laptops just in September. So much for the 3 year warranty we paid extra for on them. :(
Thank you, I was beginning to wonder if I had wandered into bizarro-land or something! I cannot for the life of me fathom the negative reaction to this. Wisconsin is currently passing a similar bill, and I am 100% in favor of it. Previously, when a new provider wanted to enter a community, they wouldn't be able to, because some other cable company was granted an exclusive contract for that community.
Now, if Time Warner wants to compete with Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, or whomever else, they can. They get the statewide contract, and no more messing around with local politicos with delusions of grandeur. It levels the playing field so that anyone can compete.
There's a reason that the cable companies have been running a campaign against such bills... they don't want to have to compete. They like the cushy exclusive local contracts because it means they only have to worry about actually doing enough of their job to make it look good every few years when the contract comes up for renewal... then pay off enough politicians to get them to either be in favor of the new contract without even reading it, or better yet, be 'sick' on the day it's up for renewal.
The link in the article now just links to a generic Digital Music Association page with no real content, but when you click on "press releases" you now get the goatse image. Not cool.
I opened a TD Ameritrade account a couple of months ago, and I too started getting slammed with pump-and-dump spam. The problem for me is that I went IN PERSON to a TD Ameritrade branch and opened the account, so it's not like a "man in the middle" attack, unless this hypothetical man in the middle is actually opening up brick-and-mortar branches.
I was simply using the account to hold the relatively small stock portfolio I have, so I have no problem moving my account elsewhere.
The primary thing I care about is uninterrupted service, at my current service and price level, with my current telephone number.
If Verizon intends to squish Vonage, they had better be completely prepared to seamlessly transition me to their service, at my current price and service level. If they are willing and able to do that, I'm OK with it. (Well, I'm not thrilled with this abuse of patent law, but I can't do much about that myself.)
Is there anyway I can contact the court system and have them consider this as a term in the injunction order?
Well, I'll respectfully disagree. I thought Rose was easily the best companion so far, particularly after series 2 (series 28, if you include the former run) greatly improved the chemistry between Rose and The Doctor.
As for the differences between Eccleston and Tennant - I was concerned when I heard that they were going to have another regeneration after just one series, particularly with how well Eccleston took to the role... but my concerns were quickly eliminated after just the first episode with Tennant. I don't think the series has ever been better than it was during series 2, honestly. I'm cautiously optimistic about series 3... I'll be interested to see how the chemistry changes with the new companion, Martha Jones.
Agreed. The recording industry is claiming that the XM portable units turn the service into a subscription music service, much like Napster et.al. However, this infers that the devices have the capability to segment the recording into seperate songs and listen to them at a later point non-sequentially, which they most certainly do not do (nor does it appear that XM has any plans to implement this). Without this ability, there is practically no difference between this and hooking a tape recorder up to the headphone out jack of an XM receiver.
In fact, XM's device is considerably more limited than recording with a tape recorder, as you can only retain the recording for a limited number of days, and you can't listen to recordings if your subscription lapses, as far as I'm aware. XM really bent over backwards to implement a device that would protect the recording industry's interests.
Likewise, if you look at the first season "Conn" and "Ops" seats on the Enterprise-D on The Next Generation, they were reclined at what I'd guestimate was a 130-140 degree angle... and much of the time, the cast was said to fall asleep in those chairs, proving how comfortable that seated position was. Guess they knew something too.
A better question: why didn't they go with Mac OS X's launchd approach, which is also open source and licensed under the Apache license? It'd be nice if, for once, the open source community would use what's already out there in the community rather than perpetually reinventing the wheel.
The reason Cisco is patenting this is because they now own Scientific-Atlanta, who are one of a few companies that provide the infrastructure that make it possible for Time Warner, Comcast, et. al. to offer "triple play" or "all in one" or whatever brand name your particular cable operator uses for the combination. If Cisco were to sue someone for using this, it wouldn't be the cable operators - it'd be Motorola or whomever, their competitors who also offer a similar infrastructure.
I'm not exactly sure why the author of the article thinks that they'd sue the cable operators, many of whom use the Scientific-Atlanta technology in question... perhaps he wasn't aware of the link between Cisco and Sci-Atl.. which leads me to question his authority to even speak on the topic in the first place.
I definitely recognize EasyJet, though I question it's status as "world-changing," particularly a "world changing website." As for FriendsReunited - who? I'd also argue against Napster - it was the Napster program and service that possibly had a "world-changing" impact, not so much the website itself.
.com TLD registrar.
As for what they missed -
1) Hotmail, of course. It's really lame now, but it really was one of the catalysts for people adopting email en masse.
2) CNN.com - I mean, just think back to 9/11/01. Many people didn't turn to TV for news, they went to CNN.com (as well as MSNBC.com and a host of other news sites, admittedly, but CNN.com was probably most prominent that day).
3) NetworkSolutions.com, just because for a long time, they were the ONLY
Over 2 years, not a single problem worth noting, and I've saved a TON of cash. I'm extremely happy with Vonage. If I had it to do over again, I'd have switched SOONER to Vonage.
They also forgot Value America. Similar to the CyberRebate.com which was mentioned in the article, except even less thought through than that... they pretty much gave stuff away for practically nothing. I can't even describe how much cheap stuff I got from them at half price or less.
Value America was a textbook case of the dot bomb. Literally... the book "dot.bomb: My Days and Nights at an Internet Goliath" describes the rise and fall of Value America.
I actually miss PointCast, particularly the screensaver featuring live data that was pushed to it. Most of the other features of PointCast are easily found in any number of RSS readers these days... but I have yet to find an RSS screensaver as functional as the PointCast screensaver.
PointCast was just ahead of it's time... it really needed the always-on high speed home connections that only really became widespread years after it went under.
To clarify: the vulnerability that the Georgia Tech student found was in the Blackboard Commerce Suite, not the Academic Suite.
The Commerce Suite was a product line purchased from AT&T several years ago, and is mostly seperate from the Academic Suite. This merger mostly affects the Academic Suite.
Correction to the submission: this is being released by United International Pictures, the company responsible for international release of Serenity. Since UIP is partially owned by Universal, it might be seen as semantics, but UIP has a distinct marketing plan for the movie from that of Universal.
It's also important to note, because it might seem like odd timing for Universal to release new marketing materials for a movie already released - it might even seem a move of desperation to get "butts in seats" before it leaves theaters... but it makes more sense as new marketing released by UIP for a movie they are opening today or within the next few weeks.
The Motorola device requires a proprietary wireless receiver to be tethered via USB to a computer with a working internet connection, and the wireless is most certainly not WiFi. Additionally, the Motorola device is a closed device compared with the ZipIt.
I'm sorely tempted to get one of these ZipIts. I saw the Motorola device, thought it might be useful for being contacted with short text messages without the cell phone charges, but then found out about the Moto's limitations. The ZipIt seems to correct on all of them./p.
Ok, I can agree with that first part. We don't know. We can look at the evidence we have and see where it points us. Which immediately discounts 95% of the responses to this article thus far, because they all start out with the presupposition that they know exactly what happened, and proceed to ridicule those who espouse an alternative explanation.
The second... well, the two sentences have a disconnect. Religion isn't bad. In fact, a true religion has a lot in common with science - it's a continual proofing to make sure the belief holds. A follower of a religion should also be able to explain to others not only what they believe, but why they believe it - a study called "apologetics."
Thank you. Agree 100%.
I loved the part in the earlier post that said that "it raises more questions than answers" and somehow, there was the implication that this is a _bad_ thing. There's a LOT about science that just raises more questions than answers. Find me something about science that _doesn't_ raise more questions than answers. I'd like to hear a scientist say to his fellow scientists, "Sorry, guys, time to close up shop. We've answered all the questions, there's nothing more to find. I suggest a career in IT - at least there you have some more questions to answer."
So what's the alternative? Either you argue for an eternal Creator that set everything in motion - or you argue for an eternal Universe that just happened. Either way, you're arguing for an eternal _something_ that set the universe in motion, both of which take no small amount of faith. Personally, I'd rather put my faith in the evidence we do have in a Creator, than putting my faith in a still mysterious _something_ that caused the universe to do the whole big *foom* thing.
BattleBots was a Comedy Central production. The show that was on TechTV was rebroadcasts of BBC's Robot Wars, I believe. Yes, I know, I'm probably nitpicking.
It seemed that a lot of the reason that Hammer and Tongs was chosen to do this film was their unique style, and in a lot of ways, it works with Douglas Adams' creative vision. However, it's being distributed by Touchstone Pictures, a division of the Walt Disney Corporation, and the quirky nature of Hammer and Tongs doesn't seem like it'd mesh with the culture at Disney. Additionally, I'd imagine the "suits" would have a lot of problems with a faithful treatment of Adams' work.
My question: how was the working relationship between the filmmakers and Disney (Touchstone)? Were there elements of the movie that were cut by Disney because they "just didn't get it," or were they pretty supportive of the decisions made by the filmmakers?
Actually, it's not the same "jive-ass radio." XM Radio is commercial free, most stations are announcer free, and the music is highly focused to a specific genre so you can never complain that they play the song you really like then a song from a totally different genre that you hate.
And as for your suggestion about copying others music collections - that's copyright infringement and illegal (at least in the US). You might not care, but that's the truth.
HHGTTG is a Touchstone movie, not a Disney movie. Yes, yes, I know, Touchstone is owned by the Walt Disney Company, but the types of movies that Touchstone produces are far different from the types of movies that Disney produces.
Additionally, the creative decisions that Disney makes have no bearing on the creative decisions that Touchstone makes.
This is INSIGHTFUL?!?
First of all, the ad is for the product you're fast forwarding through - that is, if you fast forward throughb a movie ad, you'll see a "billboard" or a banner ad for THAT MOVIE.
Second, you don't have to minimize anything. The ad appears for the exact length of the ad as it's being fast forwarded - that is, about a second or two. (How an ad that is only visible for about a second or two is cost effective is highly questionable to me, but that's how it works.)