Were they (Radio Shack)showing a local broadcast station? Did they (Radio Shack) cut away during the commercial breaks and insert their own Radio Shack ads, thus using programming someone else paid for to attract an audience for their ads? If so, they were breaking the law and as guilty of thievery as anyone walking out of the store with unpaid for merchandise stuffed into their pockets. They probably didn't do that, but just let the ads from the local broadcaster play right along with the program. As long as they weren't charging admission to get into the store to watch, then no problem.
That's if divisible by 4 unless divisible by 100 unless divisible by 400, not 1000. 2400 is the next divisible by 100 leap year, unless there's a new calendar system by then.
"Marconi Corp. GPL's the "Morse Code" stack" It may not be theirs to GPL. Samuel F.B. Morse was using it about a half a century before Marconi, Tesla, Edison, Sarnoff, any of those guys. No doubt his heirs are still vigorously defending all patents, trademarks, copyrights, service marks, etc. You might even want to think twice before using S.O.S. brand soap pads.
Jeepers! Yet another post about electronics by someone that actually knows what they're talking about. On Slashdot! Is that just my head spinning or did the planet just wobble on its axis?
Actually those fortunate enough to be smart enough and educated enough to spell correctly and interpret the calendar correctly are more likely to be the ones able to appreciate the sarcasm of the "double negatives".
Try telling ASCAP,BMI, and SEASAC that you're not going to pay any performance fees to play recorded music on your large commercial radio station and see how fast you learn how many lawyers they can throw at you.
Half the radio station DJs in America are probably working for minimum wage or thereabouts. Management isn't going to trust them to decide what to play. Or even what to say. They're going to pay some consultant to tell them. That's why they're going to sound the same as all the other stations of that same format, 'cause all the other stations are getting advice from the same consultants. Believe it or not, what radio stations want to do is play the songs that their audience wants to hear, or, rather, the songs that those who the stations want to have as their audience (the same people that advertisers will pay lots of money to reach) want to hear. The record companies do more to keep the stations happy than the other way around. (that doesn't mean that it isn't a strange, symbiotic, relationship all the same.)
"...together we will destroy the moderation system here on slash dot" And when you do that and the threads are overrun by trolls and flames, everybody else will give up on this place and the advertisers will notice there's no one worth advertising to anymore and then there will be no Slashdot for either you or us. No doubt you'll consider that a great accomplishment on your part.
There's a story at The Register about a French engineer who found big ol' security holes in the bank card system over there. When he tried to sell the way around the security that he came up with to the outfit that oversees that stuff, they gave him blank cards to prove his method with and then had him arrested, tried and convicted for doing so.
Did you mean rogue domains or do domains come in different colors these days (or were you referring to "abrasive" domains, or "domains with a jewel-like polish"?)
Suggest either "damn it" (formal,two separate words,) or "dammit" (one made-up word, informal, colloquial, vernacular, slightly less vehement type thing).
You are correct that what was wanted here was the "moral" of the story, not the "morale", but the definition you should have supplied was for the noun version of moral, not the adjective.
For those few who might not know, the moral (noun) of a story is the point it's supposed to get across. In olden days stories were told to get across the point that one should be a person of "goodness or correctness of character and behavior", that is, that one should be moral (adj.)
Always Read The Fine Print--before you sign anything, whether it's with the flourish of a fountain pen or the click of a mouse. And keep in mind that when someone offers something for free, they mean according to their definition of the word, not yours.
I would probably support a moderation of the above as redundant (story says company uses ActiveX to &$%#!& over computer users, poster says having ActiveX on your computer will &$%#!& you over), but I'd really like for the person who considered it off-topic to log off and post as AC (to avoid undoing their moderation) and tell us why they think it so.
-insert obligatory "I'll probably be moderated up/down for this, but..." statement-
I leave it to others to decide for themselves whether this is worthy of a score of 5 or if 2 or 3 would have been more appropriate, but it is not insightful. It is informative, and I'd be willing to stretch the point and accept interesting, but someone needs to increase their understanding of the meaning of insightful.
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Were they (Radio Shack)showing a local broadcast station? Did they (Radio Shack) cut away during the commercial breaks and insert their own Radio Shack ads, thus using programming someone else paid for to attract an audience for their ads? If so, they were breaking the law and as guilty of thievery as anyone walking out of the store with unpaid for merchandise stuffed into their pockets. They probably didn't do that, but just let the ads from the local broadcaster play right along with the program. As long as they weren't charging admission to get into the store to watch, then no problem.
Define much
That's if divisible by 4 unless divisible by 100 unless divisible by 400, not 1000. 2400 is the next divisible by 100 leap year, unless there's a new calendar system by then.
"Marconi Corp. GPL's the "Morse Code" stack"
It may not be theirs to GPL. Samuel F.B. Morse was using it about a half a century before Marconi, Tesla, Edison, Sarnoff, any of those guys. No doubt his heirs are still vigorously defending all patents, trademarks, copyrights, service marks, etc. You might even want to think twice before using S.O.S. brand soap pads.
You're confusing David Bowie (bow as in bow and arrow) with Jim Bowie (boo-ee).
Jeepers! Yet another post about electronics by someone that actually knows what they're talking about. On Slashdot! Is that just my head spinning or did the planet just wobble on its axis?
So nice to see a post on a technical topic by someone who knows what they're talking about. Are you sure you're in the right place?
You mean he actually acknowledged the existance of Slashdot this time? Unlike a year ago, when he made no mention of it whatsoever.
Actually those fortunate enough to be smart enough and educated enough to spell correctly and interpret the calendar correctly are more likely to be the ones able to appreciate the sarcasm of the "double negatives".
-insert obligatory anti-Katz snide remark here-
Try telling ASCAP ,BMI, and SEASAC that you're not going to pay any performance fees to play recorded music on your large commercial radio station and see how fast you learn how many lawyers they can throw at you.
Half the radio station DJs in America are probably working for minimum wage or thereabouts. Management isn't going to trust them to decide what to play. Or even what to say.
They're going to pay some consultant to tell them. That's why they're going to sound the same as all the other stations of that same format, 'cause all the other stations are getting advice from the same consultants.
Believe it or not, what radio stations want to do is play the songs that their audience wants to hear, or, rather, the songs that those who the stations want to have as their audience (the same people that advertisers will pay lots of money to reach) want to hear. The record companies do more to keep the stations happy than the other way around. (that doesn't mean that it isn't a strange, symbiotic, relationship all the same.)
"...together we will destroy the moderation system here on slash dot"
And when you do that and the threads are overrun by trolls and flames, everybody else will give up on this place and the advertisers will notice there's no one worth advertising to anymore and then there will be no Slashdot for either you or us. No doubt you'll consider that a great accomplishment on your part.
There's a story at The Register about a French engineer who found big ol' security holes in the bank card system over there. When he tried to sell the way around the security that he came up with to the outfit that oversees that stuff, they gave him blank cards to prove his method with and then had him arrested, tried and convicted for doing so.
--the #$%@^% submit and preview buttons are *really* too close together.
This post from the ICANN story thread may be of some help.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/02/26/20312 10&cid=28This post
Did you mean rogue domains or do domains come in different colors these days (or were you referring to "abrasive" domains, or "domains with a jewel-like polish"?)
from the story
'..."I compliment GoHip for a fine marketing effort as I certainly know who they are. I hate them, but I know who they are," he said.'
Suggest either "damn it" (formal,two separate words,) or "dammit" (one made-up word, informal, colloquial, vernacular, slightly less vehement type thing).
For those few who might not know, the moral (noun) of a story is the point it's supposed to get across. In olden days stories were told to get across the point that one should be a person of "goodness or correctness of character and behavior", that is, that one should be moral (adj.)
Hope this improves everyone's morale.
Always Read The Fine Print--before you sign anything, whether it's with the flourish of a fountain pen or the click of a mouse. And keep in mind that when someone offers something for free, they mean according to their definition of the word, not yours.
I would probably support a moderation of the above as redundant (story says company uses ActiveX to &$%#!& over computer users, poster says having ActiveX on your computer will &$%#!& you over), but I'd really like for the person who considered it off-topic to log off and post as AC (to avoid undoing their moderation) and tell us why they think it so.
When did computers that'll boot from a cd become more common than computers with floppy drives?
They also used them for promoting their web portal (countdown 9/9/99 or something like that, was supposed to go online Sept. 9, 1999).
I leave it to others to decide for themselves whether this is worthy of a score of 5 or if 2 or 3 would have been more appropriate, but it is not insightful. It is informative, and I'd be willing to stretch the point and accept interesting, but someone needs to increase their understanding of the meaning of insightful.