One does not simply turn on or turn off DSL access for one customer. If you are non-DSL Enabled, then Verizon themselves cannot sell you DSL and the people who resell Verizon DSL ALSO cannot sell you DSL.
I thought I was clear about it...
Sometimes it's the greater regional equipment that prevents DSL, but often it's just the individual line from your house to the switching station or even to the telephone pole at the top of your driveway.
I recently ordered Verizon DSL (NY suburb area, optimum online not available). I asked the sales rep why I should go with Verizon and not with another equally priced DSL provider: He said something about how Verizon has much more experience with DSL.
I found out the real answer later. When the rep was checking my phone line to see if it was DSL capable, he implied that if my line hadn't been DSL-capable (if it was on older wires) then it could have been fixed, by speaking to a local Verizon phone line technician, usually by catching him on the job and asking him politely to hook it up (or possibly by requesting a service job through my local Verizon office, although they wouldn't be obligated to do it).
This gives Verizon a completely unfair advantage, since no other company is authorized to maintain the phone lines in the area. DirectTV DSL can't sell to non-DSL enabled customers, but Verizon DSL can since they can enable just about anyone who asks!
The second picture on this page is actually a photo of a brand new super-toothbrush
This Mother of All Toothbrushes is made from Gecko Hairs. Forget 200 strokes up and down with sticky toothpaste. Now it takes just one swipe to clean your teeth in 1/8000th of a second! Cleans stains from coffee, cigarettes, permanent marker, super glue, napalm, and more!
What is the point of this anyway? So someone's name is on a "future criminals" list. Does that make any difference when a trial comes up?
What about all the people who've spent serious time in jail, or worse those poor souls who are executed, before DNA proves them undeniably innocent? The rate of false-convictions will rise as more innocent people are investigated. It doesn't take much more than a lying witness to put you at the scene of a crime, especially if you have no concrete alibi. Where were you 23 days ago at 3:55 pm? Can you afford a lawyer who can prove that you were alone in your house taking a nap?
If that becomes the general method to force commercials, then give it a few years (months?) and someone will design a real-time video capture device that will screen out the part of the frames used for commercials and display re-formatted images fullscreen that do not contain the ad banners.
Probably, but even though there's software available to strip banner ads off of web pages, how many people actually use it? Plus, would you want to wait however many hours it takes while your machine edits each video frame just to take out a Logo, or a translucent advertisement on the bottom of the screen?
There may be a way to defeat the system, but it may not be worth the trouble.
What about having commercials on the bottom 1/5 or 1/3 of the screen, without sound, that play during the show? Similar to an internet banner-ad? Or just a logo somewhere on-screen?
It's already been done for the World Cup, sort of: Since soccer has few time-outs and never enough paused-gameplay for a 1-2 minute group of advertisements, they sold a Logo-placement spot beneath the onscreen clock, so they could collect advertiser money without interrupting the broadcast.
Could this work for regular television? They could still sell normal commercials, but they could also sell the premium integrated ad spots.
No drum synth machine I know of can react to other band members and the mood of a particular song on a particular night in a particular venue. Phish, Allman Bros, Spin Doctors; all have adaptive drummers. A drum synth can't do jazz/improv like even moderately skilled drummers can.
If anyone from the company is looking on/. trying to get some rid of their old almost-super computers to make way for the new super computers, I can probably manage to take a few off your hands.
Bart: 256? Oh and I'm stuck with this useless 252:kicks it into an open fire: Gamestation 252: Don't destroy me! I can still make you happy! To the maaaax!
True, and that'd be similar to the in-site searches available on many legitimate sites. Misrepresenting data can constitute fraud, as would be the case if the engine claimed it was seaching the web but actually wasn't. It still should be made clear to the user through which data the engine is searching.
Is it fair to call yourself a search engine if you're really just an Ad database? What if a company offers their site as a search engine, but actually only retrieves relevant Advertisement-links frmo their own paid sponsor database, and never searches the rest of the web?
I think we need an official definition of 'Search Engine.' Just like a product can't be certified as "100% Grade-A Beef" without meeting some set standards of ingredients and production process, a 'search engine' should have to meet certain standards as well. Isn't it false advertising if they say they search the web but really search their own Ad databases?
For now, it'd be useful if each search engine had an About page which describes the type of search they do; be it a monthly crawl, a live search of popular sites or info services, free and paid submitted links, etc, or any combination.
The only question that should be debated in congress is where the responsibility lies for user-education, sort of a consumer responsibilty clause or free speech thing. Should the sites tell you, or should you figure it out yourself?
As long as there are administrators of a security technology, the security can be compromised. Any sysadmin in the world knows that with all the security they may put in place, revealing the root password means the front door's wide open.
There will always be measures available to circumvent security; as hard as the corporations are at work developing security, there's some 15-year old Lithuanian genius breaking it in a week. Still, I hope there will be alternatives (AMD to the rescue?) available to users who prefer to administer their own hardware.
Pro: this text entry method is silent (as silent as your mouse is, anyway), and purely silent if you use eye tracing. I wish I could try it with an eye tracer, I imagine it would become almost like just thinking what you want to type, like natural speech or expert typists, but without the dexterity of manually pressing the correct keys.
Recording industry profits greatly from digital media. Most CD revenue goes back to the publisher. Artists profit from performance talent in concerts that can't be captured on a CD (think Phish, Kiss, Bon Jovi). Record labels did not reduce their prices to pass on savings to the customer, since they have a near monopoly, in radio + contracts. They took all the profit from technology advances. Now that customers are taking advantage on the benefits of digital media, rc's complain. The digital revolution cannot be owned. Only those without something valuable to sell are the ones who complain.
Record companies used to provide a unique service; but now there are other ways of distributing music. Record companies are upset because they realize their products are easily reproducible. Yet, artists will be more widely heard, and isn't that a desire a true artist should wish for? Provide unique services, innovate, don't just exploit your current capital monopolies. Make CD's more than digital distributions of sound. Cover art, mail-in offers, and other extras will protect CD sales from MP3 trading losses. Music will always be copiable, but live performances, true art, and unique services will never be.
(This was scribbled into my Clié while on the train)
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One does not simply turn on or turn off DSL access for one customer. If you are non-DSL Enabled, then Verizon themselves cannot sell you DSL and the people who resell Verizon DSL ALSO cannot sell you DSL.
I thought I was clear about it...
Sometimes it's the greater regional equipment that prevents DSL, but often it's just the individual line from your house to the switching station or even to the telephone pole at the top of your driveway.
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I recently ordered Verizon DSL (NY suburb area, optimum online not available). I asked the sales rep why I should go with Verizon and not with another equally priced DSL provider: He said something about how Verizon has much more experience with DSL.
I found out the real answer later. When the rep was checking my phone line to see if it was DSL capable, he implied that if my line hadn't been DSL-capable (if it was on older wires) then it could have been fixed, by speaking to a local Verizon phone line technician, usually by catching him on the job and asking him politely to hook it up (or possibly by requesting a service job through my local Verizon office, although they wouldn't be obligated to do it).
This gives Verizon a completely unfair advantage, since no other company is authorized to maintain the phone lines in the area. DirectTV DSL can't sell to non-DSL enabled customers, but Verizon DSL can since they can enable just about anyone who asks!
The second picture on this page is actually a photo of a brand new super-toothbrush
This Mother of All Toothbrushes is made from Gecko Hairs. Forget 200 strokes up and down with sticky toothpaste. Now it takes just one swipe to clean your teeth in 1/8000th of a second! Cleans stains from coffee, cigarettes, permanent marker, super glue, napalm, and more!
Order yours today!
What is the point of this anyway? So someone's name is on a "future criminals" list. Does that make any difference when a trial comes up?
What about all the people who've spent serious time in jail, or worse those poor souls who are executed, before DNA proves them undeniably innocent? The rate of false-convictions will rise as more innocent people are investigated. It doesn't take much more than a lying witness to put you at the scene of a crime, especially if you have no concrete alibi. Where were you 23 days ago at 3:55 pm? Can you afford a lawyer who can prove that you were alone in your house taking a nap?
If that becomes the general method to force commercials, then give it a few years (months?) and someone will design a real-time video capture device that will screen out the part of the frames used for commercials and display re-formatted images fullscreen that do not contain the ad banners.
Probably, but even though there's software available to strip banner ads off of web pages, how many people actually use it? Plus, would you want to wait however many hours it takes while your machine edits each video frame just to take out a Logo, or a translucent advertisement on the bottom of the screen?
There may be a way to defeat the system, but it may not be worth the trouble.
What about having commercials on the bottom 1/5 or 1/3 of the screen, without sound, that play during the show? Similar to an internet banner-ad? Or just a logo somewhere on-screen?
It's already been done for the World Cup, sort of: Since soccer has few time-outs and never enough paused-gameplay for a 1-2 minute group of advertisements, they sold a Logo-placement spot beneath the onscreen clock, so they could collect advertiser money without interrupting the broadcast.
Could this work for regular television? They could still sell normal commercials, but they could also sell the premium integrated ad spots.
No drum synth machine I know of can react to other band members and the mood of a particular song on a particular night in a particular venue. Phish, Allman Bros, Spin Doctors; all have adaptive drummers. A drum synth can't do jazz/improv like even moderately skilled drummers can.
And no CG can smile like Julia Roberts.
(I'm just not sure how Cleveland, OH is considered part of the west....)
Well, it's mostly because we here in the Northeast don't want it.
If anyone from the company is looking on /. trying to get some rid of their old almost-super computers to make way for the new super computers, I can probably manage to take a few off your hands.
:kicks it into an open fire:
Bart: 256? Oh and I'm stuck with this useless 252
Gamestation 252: Don't destroy me! I can still make you happy! To the maaaax!
True, and that'd be similar to the in-site searches available on many legitimate sites. Misrepresenting data can constitute fraud, as would be the case if the engine claimed it was seaching the web but actually wasn't. It still should be made clear to the user through which data the engine is searching.
Is it fair to call yourself a search engine if you're really just an Ad database? What if a company offers their site as a search engine, but actually only retrieves relevant Advertisement-links frmo their own paid sponsor database, and never searches the rest of the web?
I think we need an official definition of 'Search Engine.' Just like a product can't be certified as "100% Grade-A Beef" without meeting some set standards of ingredients and production process, a 'search engine' should have to meet certain standards as well. Isn't it false advertising if they say they search the web but really search their own Ad databases?
For now, it'd be useful if each search engine had an About page which describes the type of search they do; be it a monthly crawl, a live search of popular sites or info services, free and paid submitted links, etc, or any combination.
The only question that should be debated in congress is where the responsibility lies for user-education, sort of a consumer responsibilty clause or free speech thing. Should the sites tell you, or should you figure it out yourself?
Homer: "Explain how." Homer's brain: "Money can be exchanged for goods and services!" Homer: "Woo hoo!"
As long as there are administrators of a security technology, the security can be compromised. Any sysadmin in the world knows that with all the security they may put in place, revealing the root password means the front door's wide open.
There will always be measures available to circumvent security; as hard as the corporations are at work developing security, there's some 15-year old Lithuanian genius breaking it in a week. Still, I hope there will be alternatives (AMD to the rescue?) available to users who prefer to administer their own hardware.
Pro: this text entry method is silent (as silent as your mouse is, anyway), and purely silent if you use eye tracing. I wish I could try it with an eye tracer, I imagine it would become almost like just thinking what you want to type, like natural speech or expert typists, but without the dexterity of manually pressing the correct keys.
Not on the new P4 evos...
Recording industry profits greatly from digital media. Most CD revenue goes back to the publisher. Artists profit from performance talent in concerts that can't be captured on a CD (think Phish, Kiss, Bon Jovi). Record labels did not reduce their prices to pass on savings to the customer, since they have a near monopoly, in radio + contracts. They took all the profit from technology advances. Now that customers are taking advantage on the benefits of digital media, rc's complain. The digital revolution cannot be owned. Only those without something valuable to sell are the ones who complain. Record companies used to provide a unique service; but now there are other ways of distributing music. Record companies are upset because they realize their products are easily reproducible. Yet, artists will be more widely heard, and isn't that a desire a true artist should wish for? Provide unique services, innovate, don't just exploit your current capital monopolies. Make CD's more than digital distributions of sound. Cover art, mail-in offers, and other extras will protect CD sales from MP3 trading losses. Music will always be copiable, but live performances, true art, and unique services will never be. (This was scribbled into my Clié while on the train)