Way to jump to conclusions. How do you know that they weren't working on a screenplay, or simply trying to find a phrase they heard mentioned somewhere?
If "End of the world" was searched for, how do you know if they are looking to the lyrics for an REM song, or trying to build a WMD?
I've also got a Samsung laser printer. It's a few years old (Model ML-1710 I think). Not only is it an excellent printer, but the starter toner cartridge that came with the printer has a small, easy to remove plug on it to refill it. I bought a $15 toner refill kit at Sam's Club, and was able to fill it up. So far, it has lasted a few years with moderate usage, and the toner is still pretty full. I wouldn't hesitate to buy another Samsung printer based on my experience.
You can get a similar model for around $50 now, and I think they sell a network enabled one for $50-$100 more.
Ted Stevens, senator for Alaska tried explaining how the internet works, when describing why he is against net neutrality.
There's one company now you can sign up and you can get a movie delivered to your house daily by delivery service. Okay. And currently it comes to your house, it gets put in the mail box when you get home and you change your order but you pay for that, right.
But this service isn't going to go through the internet and what you do is you just go to a place on the internet and you order your movie and guess what you can order ten of them delivered to you and the delivery charge is free.
Ten of them streaming across that internet and what happens to your own personal internet?
I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?
Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially.
So you want to talk about the consumer? Let's talk about you and me. We use this internet to communicate and we aren't using it for commercial purposes.
We aren't earning anything by going on that internet. Now I'm not saying you have to or you want to discriminate against those people
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The regulatory approach is wrong. Your approach is regulatory in the sense that it says "No one can charge anyone for massively invading this world of the internet". No, I'm not finished. I want people to understand my position, I'm not going to take a lot of time.
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You're asking now that to tell people who do have these systems that they can not ask that someone pay for the increased capability provided for what -- for business. I don't have to have that kind of speed they're talking about, in terms of speeds that they're going to put in the internet. But people who are streaming through 10, 12 movies at a time or a whole book at a time for... consumers... those are not you and me, those are not consumers, they're the providers. And those people who provide these things and use the internet for a delivery service, rather than for a concept of communication, that's the difference.
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Here we have a situation where enormous entities want to use the Internet for their purposes to save money for doing what they're doing now. They use FedEx, they use the delivery services, they use the mail. They deliver it in other ways and they want to deliver it vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.
It's a series of tubes.
And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
The Daily Show did a good spoof on it, which you can find here.
Bundled downloads suck, especially for people with slow internet connections.
Just give me what I requested, don't add a bunch of crap to the download that I don't need or want. Does Mozilla want Firefox to become "That crappy browser that came with the music player"?
Over the last several months, quotes of his which are extremely offensive to many people have been slowly dissapearing from his Wikipedia page. They're still on WikiQuote though.
In 1994, Burns told the editorial board of the Bozeman Chronicle that when asked by a constituent, "How can you live back there in Washington, DC with all those niggers?" he replied, "[It's] a hell of a challenge." When he was asked about the use of the racial slur, he said: "I don't know. I never gave it much thought."
On February 17, 1999, while at a meeting of the Montana Implement Dealers Association in Billings, Montana, Burns referred to Arabs as "ragheads". Burns later apologized.
In 2000, he offended a Billings woman when he pointed to her nose ring and asked her what tribe she was from.
On December 21, 2005, Burns stated that "We've got to remember that the people who first hit us in 9/11 entered this country through Canada." This claim, which is false and is directly contradicted by the findings of the 9-11 Commission, drew criticism from those questioning Burns' grasp of domestic security. Canadian ambassador Frank McKenna demanded an apology from Burns.
Recently, Burns ran into a group of firefighters in an airport, who had just finished fighting a 92,000 acre fire, and were getting ready to return home. He walked up to them and said "See that guy over there? He hasn't done a God-damned thing. They sit around. I saw it up on the Wedge fire and in northwestern Montana some years ago. It's wasteful. You probably paid that guy $10,000 to sit around. It's gotta change." That section is still in there, but I bet it'll be gone within a week.
I would change the wiki entry so that those are back in there, because I feel that they are important topics for someone who is running for reelction in a few months. I'm just not familiar enough with how to edit Wikipedia.
And on another note, I highly doubt the accuracy of that map, considering that they show Yellowstone National Park, and Grand Teton National Park both have high speed internet available in them.
According to your image, I live in an area with 1-3 high speed providers available. The one that is available offers an 84kbps connection over 802.11b, which is hardly enough bandwidth for streaming video in any resolution, let alone a resolution that I would want to watch full length movies on. The connection that they provide is often unreliable. They won't improve the connection, because they don't have any competition for us to go to instead. The phone company does not offer DSL anywhere near us, and there is no cable tv company here.
Satellite is available, but I doubt I would be able to watch most of a 30 minute tv show before they throttled my connection down for using too much bandwidth.
Blockbuster and NetFlix offices are running around freaking out as we push our net connections to 1Gb/s -- more than fast enough to display HD video real time to the home. While sales numbers may keep climbing, I would venture a guess (an industry-educated guess, at that) that the DVD is already replaced with XViD and fast connections.
Don't forget that a good part of the country still does not have broadband available. Video streaming in is impossible for many places, not to mention streaming in HD. Physical media isn't going anywhere, for quite a while.
I also worry, frankly, about the lack of noise. How many times, as a kid, did you hear a car coming and get out of the way?
I think at lower speeds (Like you would see on a residential street with kids playing), most of the sound from approaching cars comes from the tires on the road.
On a side note, what happens when it's cold out in the morning? Most batteries lose most of their power when it gets close to freezing.
The touch wheel doesn't work when you're wearing normal gloves, but supposedly it does with the "ipod gloves". It's useful if you're out skiing or something with your ipod.
In my case, during the winter here, it often gets to -30F overnight, and so when I get in the car to go to work in the morning, it's too cold to not wear gloves, but I can't control some functions of the ipod with gloves. It doesn't bother me enough to go get special gloves for that purpose, but I'm sure there are people who would.
I live in a city too, and you can't go two blocks without tripping over a USPS "blue box." Plus, every apartment building that I've ever been in has an outgoing mailbox, right next to the incoming boxes (which are actually superior to the way you do outgoing mail in a rural area -- where you put it in your regular box and put the flag up -- since it can't be stolen).
That's not rural:) The post office doesn't even deliver to our house, they give us a free PO box instead. In fact, it was only a a few years ago that we even got street addresses, and that was so that 911 would have an address to go to, instead of "Look for the third house past the dry creek. If you get to herd of cattle, you've gone too far." To this day, all of the online mapping services are incorrect, with the exception of Google Maps. They made an update about a month ago that finally got our area right.
I'd say that Netflix is much more convenient/practical for people in urban areas than in rural ones, since the delivery turnaround times are usually faster, and in many cases you can send the discs back faster. When I lived in a rural area, I'd stick them in my mailbox and wait for the carrier to pick them up the next morning; now that I live in a city, I put them in the USPS box on the corner, and they go out that afternoon (pickup at 4:30 pm), effectively cutting a day off the mail-in time. When I'm feeling lazy, I just put them in the box on my house and they get picked up the next day.
NetFlix is definitely more convenient for urban folks. We tried NetFlix for a few months. Generally, it took about 3 days to get a movie, and 3 days to send one back. Also, mail is only delivered to, and picked up from our local post office once a day, so if you miss that cutoff time, it would add a day to the time. My main complaint with NetFlix was how long it took to get a new movie from the queue. They would probably get a lot more rural business if they made some sort of provision for that.
AllOfMP3 is insanely easy to use. Have you tried their new software, AllTunes? It's as easy to use as iTunes, and still lets you choose the encoding of your music. Neither my parents or my wife were willing to mess around with trying to search and download stuff using newsgroups or other file sharing programs, but they use AllTunes without any problems.
If I go to newsgroups, or other file sharing services, I can't always get the encoding that I want. There's also a good chance that the stuff is mislabeled, or is totally corrupted. Those aren't problems when buying from AllOfMP3.
Basically, I don't use AllOfMP3 because I feel guilty, I use it because it is by far the easiest way to get music in the format that I want, and I don't have to worry about it installing crap on my computer when I play a song.
From what I understand, the goverment does take computer crime seriously, and does go after virus & rootkit authors. Unless that author happens to be a corporation, in which case it's a-ok.
On the otherhand, I was very unimpressed with certain issues concerning lack of professionalism in the lecture. As one example, though this is only an impression, it seemed that he felt he could just get away with wearing jeans and a Google t-shirt for the few days that he was with us because he worked at the ever prestigious Google. It seemed a bit arrogant.
Why does he have to wear anything more than jeans & a Google shirt? A computer guy in a shirt & tie is not a happy computer guy.
It's been my experience that the companies who worried most about what their IT staff was wearing were the worst to work for.
Better yet, the RIAA should simply buy AllOfMP3. They've got a good website, it works good, and people know how to use it. Also, their new "AllTunes" software is simple to use. It's every bit as easy as the original Napster was. Also, by buying the site, they wouldn't have to fight to get it turned off, and they could have their new "RIAA Approved" site up and running within a few days.
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Way to jump to conclusions. How do you know that they weren't working on a screenplay, or simply trying to find a phrase they heard mentioned somewhere?
If "End of the world" was searched for, how do you know if they are looking to the lyrics for an REM song, or trying to build a WMD?
Some customers just aren't worth having. It's a tough choice to make sometimes, but every now and then you've got to drop a customer.
I've also got a Samsung laser printer. It's a few years old (Model ML-1710 I think). Not only is it an excellent printer, but the starter toner cartridge that came with the printer has a small, easy to remove plug on it to refill it. I bought a $15 toner refill kit at Sam's Club, and was able to fill it up. So far, it has lasted a few years with moderate usage, and the toner is still pretty full. I wouldn't hesitate to buy another Samsung printer based on my experience.
You can get a similar model for around $50 now, and I think they sell a network enabled one for $50-$100 more.
The Daily Show did a good spoof on it, which you can find here.
Through tubes.
Bundled downloads suck, especially for people with slow internet connections.
Just give me what I requested, don't add a bunch of crap to the download that I don't need or want. Does Mozilla want Firefox to become "That crappy browser that came with the music player"?
Conrad Burns, senator for Montana.
Over the last several months, quotes of his which are extremely offensive to many people have been slowly dissapearing from his Wikipedia page. They're still on WikiQuote though.
I would change the wiki entry so that those are back in there, because I feel that they are important topics for someone who is running for reelction in a few months. I'm just not familiar enough with how to edit Wikipedia.
And on another note, I highly doubt the accuracy of that map, considering that they show Yellowstone National Park, and Grand Teton National Park both have high speed internet available in them.
According to your image, I live in an area with 1-3 high speed providers available. The one that is available offers an 84kbps connection over 802.11b, which is hardly enough bandwidth for streaming video in any resolution, let alone a resolution that I would want to watch full length movies on. The connection that they provide is often unreliable. They won't improve the connection, because they don't have any competition for us to go to instead. The phone company does not offer DSL anywhere near us, and there is no cable tv company here.
Satellite is available, but I doubt I would be able to watch most of a 30 minute tv show before they throttled my connection down for using too much bandwidth.
Speaking of beating things, they must be marketing to the teenage/early 20's male programmer.
Have you seen their slogan?
Release early, release often
With Sony continuing to try to block homebrew on PSP, why do people keep assuming that the PS3 is going to include a full version of Linux?
I'm not sure if it was posted yesterday or not, but there is a quick and easy javascript fix for transparent PNGs in IE.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/
I know it isn't perfect, and is a hack, but it is useful for using PNG graphics on sites displated in IE.
On a side note, what happens when it's cold out in the morning? Most batteries lose most of their power when it gets close to freezing.
The touch wheel doesn't work when you're wearing normal gloves, but supposedly it does with the "ipod gloves". It's useful if you're out skiing or something with your ipod.
In my case, during the winter here, it often gets to -30F overnight, and so when I get in the car to go to work in the morning, it's too cold to not wear gloves, but I can't control some functions of the ipod with gloves. It doesn't bother me enough to go get special gloves for that purpose, but I'm sure there are people who would.
NetFlix is definitely more convenient for urban folks. We tried NetFlix for a few months. Generally, it took about 3 days to get a movie, and 3 days to send one back. Also, mail is only delivered to, and picked up from our local post office once a day, so if you miss that cutoff time, it would add a day to the time. My main complaint with NetFlix was how long it took to get a new movie from the queue. They would probably get a lot more rural business if they made some sort of provision for that.
AllOfMP3 is insanely easy to use. Have you tried their new software, AllTunes? It's as easy to use as iTunes, and still lets you choose the encoding of your music. Neither my parents or my wife were willing to mess around with trying to search and download stuff using newsgroups or other file sharing programs, but they use AllTunes without any problems.
If I go to newsgroups, or other file sharing services, I can't always get the encoding that I want. There's also a good chance that the stuff is mislabeled, or is totally corrupted. Those aren't problems when buying from AllOfMP3.
Basically, I don't use AllOfMP3 because I feel guilty, I use it because it is by far the easiest way to get music in the format that I want, and I don't have to worry about it installing crap on my computer when I play a song.
Where did I defend script kiddies?
From what I understand, the goverment does take computer crime seriously, and does go after virus & rootkit authors. Unless that author happens to be a corporation, in which case it's a-ok.
It's been my experience that the companies who worried most about what their IT staff was wearing were the worst to work for.
Free crap is still crap.
Not unless it has wireless, and more space than a Nomad. Otherwise it's just lame.
Better yet, the RIAA should simply buy AllOfMP3. They've got a good website, it works good, and people know how to use it. Also, their new "AllTunes" software is simple to use. It's every bit as easy as the original Napster was. Also, by buying the site, they wouldn't have to fight to get it turned off, and they could have their new "RIAA Approved" site up and running within a few days.