And as soon as big business (cable companies, etc) decide you're providing them with some actual competition over those unlicensed frequencies look for them to start buying politicians and FCC commissioners to take those frequencies away from you.
If you live out in the boonies where no corporation is interested in providing service then that avenue is open to you and is probably the only way you're going to get what you want.
But if you're living somewhere a bit less rural then there's already a phone company and a cable company in place and they already have the local franchise and right of way wrapped up and plenty of money to buy local politicians with, so your chances of getting approval from your local municipality to go into business in competition with them are probably pretty slim.
If people came to you and said "How about letting me have a copy of foobrowser 0.x on CD", you might not charge them for the software itself, but you wouldn't feel bad about making them pay for the CD itself, would you? Or for telling them to provide a blank CD-R? Why not set up to collect a Paypal'ed bandwidth fee, or get them to mirror what they download for a few days or over a throttled connection?
Supporting free speech doesn't mean that you're obligated to go into your own pocket to provide everyone with free beer.
I've already got an Apple II someone gave me. What I don't have is any software, manuals, previous experience with any kind of Apple, or much of a clue what to do with it (although if someone gave me one of those O'scope things for it that I used to see advertised in RE and PE I know exactly what I'd want to do with it), or a lot of money to spend buying stuff for it. Any (polite) suggestions?
Well let's see. If the big broadcasting companies aren't getting screwed at all, but are continuing to be granted a government license to print money, and the little guys running the chewing gum and baling wire operations are totally screwed, then, yeah, that averages out to broadcasters in general not getting totally screwed.
Both of you are correct in what you said, allowing for some use of different phraseology. When he says "ghosty" he probably means what you and I would call "snowy". When he calls UHF low frequency microwaves he isn't necessarily saying that he thinks VHF is higher in frequency.
He has a good point about UHF being more useful in cities that are built wide instead of tall.
Well now that I've tried Altavista I appreciate Google even more, but all Altavista seems to return is other people saying that Gates said that. I can say that the missing 18.5 minutes of tape was Nixon saying that Coca-Cola is a miracle drug and Pepsi-Cola (for whom he worked at one point) is made from fetuses conceived and aborted expressly for that purpose, but no matter how many times it might get repeated, that won't make it true (or false, for that matter).
"...more companies are coming out with their version of the DVD-R."
As someone once said, that's the great thing about standards, there are so many of them. You might want to wait and let the dust settle rather than risk a heavy investment in a possible orphan format. Already HP and a couple of other makers are weasling on drives that were supposed to be software upgradeable to record more than one DVD-R or RW format, but it turns out it's not going to be that simple and the hardware will have to be replaced.
You think that's bad, at least twice a decade since the fifties there's been a big media whoop about how videophones are the next big thing.
I'm in no hurry for videophones myself, just tired of the stories. As for this new storage technology, they'll sell the media as something awkward, unprotected and easily damaged, just like CDs and DVDs, so I yawn in their general direction.
Speaking of government regulations (and construction) Home Depot now has a policy of not selling anything to the Federal government or anyone acting for them due to all the regulations and paperwork involved. Apparently they save more money that way than they lose in sales.
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And as soon as big business (cable companies, etc) decide you're providing them with some actual competition over those unlicensed frequencies look for them to start buying politicians and FCC commissioners to take those frequencies away from you.
So are you agreeing with me, disagreeing, or were you actually trying to reply to the parent of my reply?
So basically TW is admitting that their security is so poor that they let someone else exploit his account?
But if you're living somewhere a bit less rural then there's already a phone company and a cable company in place and they already have the local franchise and right of way wrapped up and plenty of money to buy local politicians with, so your chances of getting approval from your local municipality to go into business in competition with them are probably pretty slim.
Just set up a checking account with a debit card and keep the balance near zero, only transferring funds into it when you're getting ready to use it.
Let's see, I've got a lot of old junk like monochrome TTL monitors I don't want to pay the landfill fees on...:-)
That's The Association. There's no "s" on the end. But there are a lot of others to add before you've got the best of the '60s.
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List of bands with underappreciated guitar players (mostly because of the keyboard player):
The (Young) Rascals
The Guess Who
The Doors
Or one which takes itself unseriously enough to have one called "The Who Sell Out".
Supporting free speech doesn't mean that you're obligated to go into your own pocket to provide everyone with free beer.
I'd like to see a Windows compatible version of Windows, just for the novelty factor.
I've already got an Apple II someone gave me. What I don't have is any software, manuals, previous experience with any kind of Apple, or much of a clue what to do with it (although if someone gave me one of those O'scope things for it that I used to see advertised in RE and PE I know exactly what I'd want to do with it), or a lot of money to spend buying stuff for it. Any (polite) suggestions?
Six grand for a machine that basically justs accepts and displays a short serial transfer of data? What a racket.
So why haven't you been back to that GM dealership for a refund?
Well let's see. If the big broadcasting companies aren't getting screwed at all, but are continuing to be granted a government license to print money, and the little guys running the chewing gum and baling wire operations are totally screwed, then, yeah, that averages out to broadcasters in general not getting totally screwed.
He has a good point about UHF being more useful in cities that are built wide instead of tall.
Well now that I've tried Altavista I appreciate Google even more, but all Altavista seems to return is other people saying that Gates said that. I can say that the missing 18.5 minutes of tape was Nixon saying that Coca-Cola is a miracle drug and Pepsi-Cola (for whom he worked at one point) is made from fetuses conceived and aborted expressly for that purpose, but no matter how many times it might get repeated, that won't make it true (or false, for that matter).
Please cite your source.
BSDM? Berkeley Software Distribution Masochist?
We didn't attack Canada, we just defended ourselves against the English who were using Canada in their attacks on us.
You should have said "...attacking, of all people, the pope...". He's most definitely not the pope of all people.
As someone once said, that's the great thing about standards, there are so many of them. You might want to wait and let the dust settle rather than risk a heavy investment in a possible orphan format. Already HP and a couple of other makers are weasling on drives that were supposed to be software upgradeable to record more than one DVD-R or RW format, but it turns out it's not going to be that simple and the hardware will have to be replaced.
Wouldn't you be better off thinking of them as equally insecure?
I'm in no hurry for videophones myself, just tired of the stories. As for this new storage technology, they'll sell the media as something awkward, unprotected and easily damaged, just like CDs and DVDs, so I yawn in their general direction.
Speaking of government regulations (and construction) Home Depot now has a policy of not selling anything to the Federal government or anyone acting for them due to all the regulations and paperwork involved. Apparently they save more money that way than they lose in sales.