Just posing a question for thought / debate. Personally I dislike GoDaddy.com. Their VDS product is crap and their service is a joke. I don't register any domains through them, but I have a client who uses them for a VDS I administer and it's really a waste of money. I'm surprised they stay in business with their level of ineptitude.
I wonder what impact this will have on registrars such as GoDaddy.com who (according to Wikipedia) have 55.1 million domain names registered a year of which 51.5 million are canceled and refunded just before the 5 day grace period.
While GoDaddy.com doesn't get to keep that money, it does generate a revenue flow. That is, GoDaddy.com must return the money, but there's no requirement to cut a check that day. It may be a week or three before GoDaddy.com has to cut a refund check. In the meantime they have money to work with much like banks do. Most businesses operate on revenue flow and not strictly the net balance they have available at any one time.
If ICANN drops this grace period and domain tasters drop away (possible if unlikely) that leaves GoDaddy.com with 51.5 million domains at $10 per domain (or $515 million) in revenue flow that just dried up. That's a lot of money to just disappear from your business finances.
IANAA, but I think that this decision will have the most impact on large registrars. Perhaps a one day grace period for people who honestly made a mistake would have been more appropriate. One day is not enough to get a domain properly "tasted" because it takes about that long for the DNS entry to propagate through the network, and by the time it was out the domain would either be permanent or gone.
Fair enough. I haven't changed plans or upgraded phones in over 2 years. I know you can keep your current plan as long as you keep your phone functional, but with each phone upgrade you (usually) have to upgrade your plan to the next-lowest plan and all the restrictions it entails.
I just checked my family plan with Sprint (though I doubt it's different from a individual plan) where I know my wife text messaged me yesterday (she sent, I received and replied). On her phone it shows one text message used (not two if the receipt of my response were to count). Mine account shows 18 messages used (I have no data plan, so these are 10c apiece), but I know I've received more messages within the last month and that 18 reflects only the ones I've sent.
I don't know where people get the notion that Sprint charges for incoming text messages because they don't. They also don't charge you for minutes spent listening to voicemail or charge you roaming charges at all inside the U.S.
Say what you will about Sprint being one of the big bad telcos (and they are), but they certainly are doing a good job of steering clear from all the other crap the Verizon and AT&T do to their customers which keeps me locked into Sprint out of sheer audacity that a phone company would do such things to their customers and expect them to stay.
I'm also waiting to see what Sprint/Nextel have to offer in the way of Android-enabled phones this year. Believe me, if Sprint started pulling the stunts Verizon and AT&T are pulling, then I would go without a cell phone.
Free markets and fair markets do not coincide. A free market will tend to turn the tables in favor of the strongest player making it unfair for everyone else. A fair market is necessarily not a free one because rules are put in place and enforced to prevent the strongest player(s) from playing unfairly.
The concept of "fair" is a matter of perspective also, so in a totally free market it is completely fair to the dominating entity, but completely unfair to the dominated. Likewise an regulated market is unfair to the would-be dominator and fair to the would-be dominated.
It's pretty much a guarantee that you're going to break ribs applying CPR, usually on the first compression. Broken ribs are far less of a problem than dying. However, if CPR is not administered correctly, then a compression in the wrong place can push the sternum (I believe) into the lungs and create all sorts of new (probably fatal) problems.
Also, the "CPR" you see on TV is nothing even close to real CPR in terms of how you actually perform a compression (for obvious reasons that they'd seriously injure the actors being "saved"), so just because you saw it on ER or Law & Order (the first half-hour) don't think you're qualified to administer CPR.
I haven't taken a CPR/AED course since high school (>10 yrs)and I probably remember enough to be effective, but I would never volunteer if there was anyone more qualified than myself in the situation.
Not that anyone actually reads TFA, but did anyone else think the baby and the bun looked like a baby trying to suck on a sesame-seeded hamburger-bun breast?
We'll ignore for the moment that McDonald's basic burgers don't have seeded buns.
I have an IBM PCjr at home but they keyboard looks nothing like the one in the photo. Did PCjr come out with a second keyboard design in one year before they were discontinued?
My keyboard looks fairly normal (white keys with black lettering and colored function keys). It was connected to the computer via what looks like a telephone cord but also had a wireless mode (as stated) that was IR I'm sure, but was not very powerful and the keyboard had to be level with the sensor. This basically required that you set the keyboard down right in front of the machine on the same table to use it.
I personally think the PCjr was ahead of its time. It had a three-button optical mouse (on a reflective grid pad). It had a 16 color display (only 4 of which could be shown at one time, IIRC). It also had the "wireless" keyboard and expandable memory (albeit you had to attach a small plastic brick to the side of the machine to expand the RAM from 16k to 64k).
I'm pretty sure my system would still run and play Montezuma's Revenge or baron.exe (Red Baron game) plus the paint program I have on cartridge.
It's unclear to me from your post if you're saying that the environmentalist claims of catastrophe are as unfounded and unprovable as religious claims of God and heaven or if you're just saying that carbon credits are as feel-good as indulgence was.
Either way the situation is one in which the environmentalists cannot win. If they are right and nothing is done, it's the end of the world as we know it (that's bad). If they are wrong and nothing is done, it's life as usual (that's good). If they are right or wrong and things are done to prevent catastrophe, we'll never know if it worked because there will be no catastrophe and people will claim that they were wrong and we simply wasted a lot of time and effort for something futile.
This is much like the Y2K bug "problem" -- was it real or imagined? Hard to tell, but so much went in to preventing it that all (or most) critical systems that could have failed and lead to catastrophe were patched before the zero hour and thus we'll never know if that work hadn't been done, would we have actually had the problems predicted?
Democrats want immunity for big business. Republicans want big government.
Are the parties flip-flopping again or are they finally coming into parity with the fact that they're just one big party with two masks so the people get a sense they they're getting a change every 4 or 8 years?
The threat of a filibuster shouldn't have even been necessary if the government was really for the people by the people.
It's really hard to laugh dismiss Jack and his "FPS games are murder trainers" when the U.S. Government is using them exactly for that purpose. Even better they distribute it to impressionable young gamers at no cost (except your voluntary enlistment in their database).
While I'm not conceding that Jack isn't a certifiable nut, I'm simply seeing this as some degree of validation for some of his arguments.
Perhaps, but Target is still running ads that show people having fun playing the Wii constantly.
Nintendo pulling their ads only solves part of the hype problem. All the resellers that are hyping it also contribute to the problem and I don't see any of them pulling their ads.
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No, that is quite different. He is (we assume) provably the original copyright owner of the content in question, has proof that the MPAA has violated his rights with respect to the GPL and he would be rightfully using the law to protect his work. The RI/MPAA use the law to protect copyrights they claim on works that they did not create with no proof of violation of the accused. They use threats to extort money from people and bail (if they can) before they get thwacked in court (though you can see lately how well that tactic is working).
This guy has a legitimate claim and bringing a lawsuit would not be condoning the RI/MPAA's actions of bringing frivolous lawsuits against people to extort money.
The law is what it is and we'd like to think was originally drafted to help our society maintain equitable balance. Some have abused the law by finding loopholes or gaming the system, but his use of it here would not be one of those times.
I won't bother denying that it doesn't get abused, but I do think that it is important to recognize that somebody that is tazered is far less likely to come to permanent harm than one that has been shot.
So you are denying that it gets abused? (won't... deny [admit] that it doesn't get abused) Watch out for those double (or is that quadruple?) negatives.
There are already network transparency provisions on this frequency which makes it particularly appealing for consumers to buy devices designed to run on this spectrum. Last year Google petitioned the FCC to include four conditions of sale for this spectrum including network transparency for devices (meaning you can't be locked in like you are with Sprint/Verizon/AT&T/T-Mobile when you buy a phone) and something about requiring the high bidder to provide access to competitors for a reasonable price.
The FCC shot down two of the four suggestions, but the network transparency provisions stayed in. I'm holding off on buying a new phone for a while because if I can get a device (from any carrier) on this frequency I know I'm not locked in by the technology according to the conditions of sale.
Verizon and Sprint are fighting this condition in a lawsuit against the FCC.
Because you wouldn't get geek cred for citing your cultural sources. If you're "in" you'll know the source, if you're not, well then you probably wouldn't get it anyway.
Not being flamebait here, just stating the unspoken (am I losing geek cred for pointing this out?).
Methinks that Rockstar has gotten too sensitive to anything that looks like "Violent video games are Bad(TM)" thanks to Jack Thompson. Simpsons are parodying GTA and perhaps even Jack himself but it's not beyond the realm of what's already been covered in the Simpson's show itself (i.e. Marge going on a crusade against something she finds indecent like a burlesque house, etc.).
Rockstar is simply making themselves look like fools and in some ways giving Jack Thompson some comfort by letting him know that he got under their skin.
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Just posing a question for thought / debate. Personally I dislike GoDaddy.com. Their VDS product is crap and their service is a joke. I don't register any domains through them, but I have a client who uses them for a VDS I administer and it's really a waste of money. I'm surprised they stay in business with their level of ineptitude.
I wonder what impact this will have on registrars such as GoDaddy.com who (according to Wikipedia) have 55.1 million domain names registered a year of which 51.5 million are canceled and refunded just before the 5 day grace period.
While GoDaddy.com doesn't get to keep that money, it does generate a revenue flow. That is, GoDaddy.com must return the money, but there's no requirement to cut a check that day. It may be a week or three before GoDaddy.com has to cut a refund check. In the meantime they have money to work with much like banks do. Most businesses operate on revenue flow and not strictly the net balance they have available at any one time.
If ICANN drops this grace period and domain tasters drop away (possible if unlikely) that leaves GoDaddy.com with 51.5 million domains at $10 per domain (or $515 million) in revenue flow that just dried up. That's a lot of money to just disappear from your business finances.
IANAA, but I think that this decision will have the most impact on large registrars. Perhaps a one day grace period for people who honestly made a mistake would have been more appropriate. One day is not enough to get a domain properly "tasted" because it takes about that long for the DNS entry to propagate through the network, and by the time it was out the domain would either be permanent or gone.
Fair enough. I haven't changed plans or upgraded phones in over 2 years. I know you can keep your current plan as long as you keep your phone functional, but with each phone upgrade you (usually) have to upgrade your plan to the next-lowest plan and all the restrictions it entails.
I just checked my family plan with Sprint (though I doubt it's different from a individual plan) where I know my wife text messaged me yesterday (she sent, I received and replied). On her phone it shows one text message used (not two if the receipt of my response were to count). Mine account shows 18 messages used (I have no data plan, so these are 10c apiece), but I know I've received more messages within the last month and that 18 reflects only the ones I've sent.
I don't know where people get the notion that Sprint charges for incoming text messages because they don't. They also don't charge you for minutes spent listening to voicemail or charge you roaming charges at all inside the U.S.
Say what you will about Sprint being one of the big bad telcos (and they are), but they certainly are doing a good job of steering clear from all the other crap the Verizon and AT&T do to their customers which keeps me locked into Sprint out of sheer audacity that a phone company would do such things to their customers and expect them to stay.
I'm also waiting to see what Sprint/Nextel have to offer in the way of Android-enabled phones this year. Believe me, if Sprint started pulling the stunts Verizon and AT&T are pulling, then I would go without a cell phone.
Free markets and fair markets do not coincide. A free market will tend to turn the tables in favor of the strongest player making it unfair for everyone else. A fair market is necessarily not a free one because rules are put in place and enforced to prevent the strongest player(s) from playing unfairly.
The concept of "fair" is a matter of perspective also, so in a totally free market it is completely fair to the dominating entity, but completely unfair to the dominated. Likewise an regulated market is unfair to the would-be dominator and fair to the would-be dominated.
It's pretty much a guarantee that you're going to break ribs applying CPR, usually on the first compression. Broken ribs are far less of a problem than dying. However, if CPR is not administered correctly, then a compression in the wrong place can push the sternum (I believe) into the lungs and create all sorts of new (probably fatal) problems.
Also, the "CPR" you see on TV is nothing even close to real CPR in terms of how you actually perform a compression (for obvious reasons that they'd seriously injure the actors being "saved"), so just because you saw it on ER or Law & Order (the first half-hour) don't think you're qualified to administer CPR.
I haven't taken a CPR/AED course since high school (>10 yrs)and I probably remember enough to be effective, but I would never volunteer if there was anyone more qualified than myself in the situation.
To be fair, Postal looks rather funny and certainly no worse than a number of recent low-brow comedy/parody movies made here in the U.S.
Assuming I have to get ANOTHER id in 2015 after mine expires in 2014.
Plus, what about citizens who don't (or can't) drive? Does that mean they can't ride a plane or a train?
Not that anyone actually reads TFA, but did anyone else think the baby and the bun looked like a baby trying to suck on a sesame-seeded hamburger-bun breast?
We'll ignore for the moment that McDonald's basic burgers don't have seeded buns.
I have an IBM PCjr at home but they keyboard looks nothing like the one in the photo. Did PCjr come out with a second keyboard design in one year before they were discontinued?
My keyboard looks fairly normal (white keys with black lettering and colored function keys). It was connected to the computer via what looks like a telephone cord but also had a wireless mode (as stated) that was IR I'm sure, but was not very powerful and the keyboard had to be level with the sensor. This basically required that you set the keyboard down right in front of the machine on the same table to use it.
I personally think the PCjr was ahead of its time. It had a three-button optical mouse (on a reflective grid pad). It had a 16 color display (only 4 of which could be shown at one time, IIRC). It also had the "wireless" keyboard and expandable memory (albeit you had to attach a small plastic brick to the side of the machine to expand the RAM from 16k to 64k).
I'm pretty sure my system would still run and play Montezuma's Revenge or baron.exe (Red Baron game) plus the paint program I have on cartridge.
It's unclear to me from your post if you're saying that the environmentalist claims of catastrophe are as unfounded and unprovable as religious claims of God and heaven or if you're just saying that carbon credits are as feel-good as indulgence was.
Either way the situation is one in which the environmentalists cannot win. If they are right and nothing is done, it's the end of the world as we know it (that's bad). If they are wrong and nothing is done, it's life as usual (that's good). If they are right or wrong and things are done to prevent catastrophe, we'll never know if it worked because there will be no catastrophe and people will claim that they were wrong and we simply wasted a lot of time and effort for something futile.
This is much like the Y2K bug "problem" -- was it real or imagined? Hard to tell, but so much went in to preventing it that all (or most) critical systems that could have failed and lead to catastrophe were patched before the zero hour and thus we'll never know if that work hadn't been done, would we have actually had the problems predicted?
Democrats want immunity for big business. Republicans want big government.
Are the parties flip-flopping again or are they finally coming into parity with the fact that they're just one big party with two masks so the people get a sense they they're getting a change every 4 or 8 years?
The threat of a filibuster shouldn't have even been necessary if the government was really for the people by the people.
In every dictatorship you've ever studied?
Understood, but that's not the way the media and JT can spin it.
We should know better, these days it's all about spin and emotion not about facts and logic.
It's really hard to laugh dismiss Jack and his "FPS games are murder trainers" when the U.S. Government is using them exactly for that purpose. Even better they distribute it to impressionable young gamers at no cost (except your voluntary enlistment in their database).
While I'm not conceding that Jack isn't a certifiable nut, I'm simply seeing this as some degree of validation for some of his arguments.
Perhaps, but Target is still running ads that show people having fun playing the Wii constantly.
Nintendo pulling their ads only solves part of the hype problem. All the resellers that are hyping it also contribute to the problem and I don't see any of them pulling their ads.
Don't you mean Saiint Lou-wii?
No, that is quite different. He is (we assume) provably the original copyright owner of the content in question, has proof that the MPAA has violated his rights with respect to the GPL and he would be rightfully using the law to protect his work. The RI/MPAA use the law to protect copyrights they claim on works that they did not create with no proof of violation of the accused. They use threats to extort money from people and bail (if they can) before they get thwacked in court (though you can see lately how well that tactic is working).
This guy has a legitimate claim and bringing a lawsuit would not be condoning the RI/MPAA's actions of bringing frivolous lawsuits against people to extort money.
The law is what it is and we'd like to think was originally drafted to help our society maintain equitable balance. Some have abused the law by finding loopholes or gaming the system, but his use of it here would not be one of those times.
So you are denying that it gets abused? (won't ... deny [admit] that it doesn't get abused) Watch out for those double (or is that quadruple?) negatives.
There are already network transparency provisions on this frequency which makes it particularly appealing for consumers to buy devices designed to run on this spectrum. Last year Google petitioned the FCC to include four conditions of sale for this spectrum including network transparency for devices (meaning you can't be locked in like you are with Sprint/Verizon/AT&T/T-Mobile when you buy a phone) and something about requiring the high bidder to provide access to competitors for a reasonable price.
The FCC shot down two of the four suggestions, but the network transparency provisions stayed in. I'm holding off on buying a new phone for a while because if I can get a device (from any carrier) on this frequency I know I'm not locked in by the technology according to the conditions of sale.
Verizon and Sprint are fighting this condition in a lawsuit against the FCC.
Because you wouldn't get geek cred for citing your cultural sources. If you're "in" you'll know the source, if you're not, well then you probably wouldn't get it anyway.
Not being flamebait here, just stating the unspoken (am I losing geek cred for pointing this out?).
I guess that means I'm "stealing" from Dvorak right? Seems like a fair exchange to me.
Why would a robot want to eat our brains exactly?
Unless you're talking about ZOMBIE robots, in which case I'll have to update my Zombie Plan
Methinks that Rockstar has gotten too sensitive to anything that looks like "Violent video games are Bad(TM)" thanks to Jack Thompson. Simpsons are parodying GTA and perhaps even Jack himself but it's not beyond the realm of what's already been covered in the Simpson's show itself (i.e. Marge going on a crusade against something she finds indecent like a burlesque house, etc.).
Rockstar is simply making themselves look like fools and in some ways giving Jack Thompson some comfort by letting him know that he got under their skin.
Idiots.
How about IANJT of you are a lawyer?