My point is that these technologies simply have made it easier to aquire their product without paying for it.
You think computerized digital copying is easier than cassette tapes? Everyone I know can record things on cassette, but not everyone can operate--let alone install--copying/ripping/p2p and player software. I was making tapes when I was 4 and younger.
And I may be too young to remember, but I don't recall any music company suing a radio station over listeners who were recording songs from the airwaves.
But you do know that a portion of blank cassette sales goes to the music industry because they assume they are used for "piracy", right? They didn't go after radio, but they did go after the hardware to record from it.
For the US to use these technologies would require a huge investment on upgrading the current track to electrified.
Which, of course, is not as cost effective as it would be in Europe or Japan because the US is less densely populated.. (For those of you who thought: "well, why not do it right the first time?")
Jet fuel is some pretty nasty stuff, enviromentally speaking.
JET-A fuel (used in the big jets like DC10's and 727's) is very similar to diesel, but more refined and pure.
When I used to load planes on the ramp we put JET-A in all the ground support equipment like portable ramp lights, belt loaders, container loaders and pushback tugs. They were all made for diesel, though. Worked fine.
Well, actually the fuelling company did that. I think that's why we used JET-A: I think it was cheaper to have the plane fuellers go ahead and fill up our GSE while they were out there with the truck than take all that stuff to our diesel pump or buy our own portable fueller.
Solid objects (like ink-printed paper) reflect light and therfore have subtractive coloring. The CMY inks don't absorb enough light to make black well, or at least they're hard to combine that way.
Lights, like these OLEDs, are additive color. I can't imagine them not being able to make white.
I've played with colored light bulbs in a darkroom before and you can make it perfectly white pretty easily. Mixing crayons to make black doesn't seem to work, though. Same concepts as far as I can see.
These things sound interesting. There is no constant backlight, so presumably you save a lot of enery buy using just enough to make the right color and brightness instead of powering a constant white and dimming it with LCDs in front.
But the point still works. If you just want dialup PPP, then you can get it cheaper than AOL. AOL price isn't competitive, probably because of all the bizarre "extra" services.
People don't all buy the cheapest thing that gets the job done. Lexus and Mercedes wouldn't exist if they did.
Generally geeks loathe AOL's "'extra' services" but many AOL'ers love it.
I hope that AOL's woes don't tear down Time/Warner which has many great media properties that will be scattered to the winds if AOL needs to gin up some cash.
Did I just read a Slashdot comment lamenting the possibility of a media giant crumbling into its components?
Hello?
Perhaps you'd be happier if Time Warner, Viacom and Disney all merged under the RIAA.
You're assuming everyone wants and would benefit from broadband.
I'm a geek and I've considered getting rid of mine. Most of what I do on the internet is casual surfing and email reading. I currently don't have Flash installed and block popups; in the past I've disabled downloading graphics and don't miss much.
Sometimes I do some work from home (via VNC or PuTTY), but I could do that with dialup, albeit painfully slowly.
Basically I'm paying for broadand to have the convenince of fast downloads occasionally. (OS updates, GNU/Linux and other free downloads, the occasional silly video, etc.) And I used to do that before I had broadband--I'd just start downloading before I went to bed.
If a non-geek is not a heavy Kazaa user I don't see that they would benefit much from broadband.
Besides, some people are afraid of "on all the time" internet.
There is too much of a community there. That's worth something to someone. It it cost too much money to run they might sell the operation to MSN or Amazon or someone else who might be able to squeeze some profit from that user base.
Splitting it up into regional ISPs would probably kill much of the community feeling.
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Copyright isn't very respected here. Unless it's the copyright that is the only protection of GPL'd software, of course.
Copyright is dead! Long live the GPL!
My point is that these technologies simply have made it easier to aquire their product without paying for it.
You think computerized digital copying is easier than cassette tapes? Everyone I know can record things on cassette, but not everyone can operate--let alone install--copying/ripping/p2p and player software. I was making tapes when I was 4 and younger.
And I may be too young to remember, but I don't recall any music company suing a radio station over listeners who were recording songs from the airwaves.
But you do know that a portion of blank cassette sales goes to the music industry because they assume they are used for "piracy", right? They didn't go after radio, but they did go after the hardware to record from it.
Is it shoplifting or trespass if your neighbour put a radio in the window and you listen to it while relaxing in your yard?
SHHHHH!!! Do you want the RIAA to lobby for a law telling us where we can place our radios?!
Well, the one with the "seventh grade" kid has been pulled too.
Heheh, that was the one using the stock photo with a kid, the "dad" and an old Mac in it, right? (Not a toaster, but one of the thin wide models.)
I guess that means Microsoft reads Slashdot. Hi Bill! Hi Steve! BTW, DRM sucks!
The phrase you must remember is:
"My port 139 is wide OPEN!"
I covered 55 aol disks with fondu fuel and burned them into one mass of metal.
A CD = polycarbonate + Mylar film layer + printing ink/plastic/whatever
Is there metal in Mylar? I did a quick Google search and several sites say it's a reflective plastic.
55 burning CDs soudns like bad news. Kids, don't try this at home!
Samba too, while we're at it!
smbclient and other SMB tools have reportedly been ported to windows. Some people like the CLI interface or ftp-like client for some applications.
I'm here, all weak...
Does she have a sister?
Most city buses now use turbines for their engine and they aren't that loud.
Which city? Which buses? Do you have any links? I'm curious.
The ones I've heard lately don't sound like turbines.
For the US to use these technologies would require a huge investment on upgrading the current track to electrified.
Which, of course, is not as cost effective as it would be in Europe or Japan because the US is less densely populated.. (For those of you who thought: "well, why not do it right the first time?")
I forgot to mention that diesel (and JET-A) emissions are less harmful than gasoline emissions, environmentally.
Diesel emmisions may seem worse because they smell worse to most humans, but they're actually safer than gasoline emissions.
Jet fuel is some pretty nasty stuff, enviromentally speaking.
JET-A fuel (used in the big jets like DC10's and 727's) is very similar to diesel, but more refined and pure.
When I used to load planes on the ramp we put JET-A in all the ground support equipment like portable ramp lights, belt loaders, container loaders and pushback tugs. They were all made for diesel, though. Worked fine.
Well, actually the fuelling company did that. I think that's why we used JET-A: I think it was cheaper to have the plane fuellers go ahead and fill up our GSE while they were out there with the truck than take all that stuff to our diesel pump or buy our own portable fueller.
*wonders if anybody'll get that.*
Like the AC said, modern electroncis run on smoke.
This is demonstratable: if you let the smoke out, they never work again.
Do you have any sources for that?
Frankly it sounds like BS to me.
Solid objects (like ink-printed paper) reflect light and therfore have subtractive coloring. The CMY inks don't absorb enough light to make black well, or at least they're hard to combine that way.
Lights, like these OLEDs, are additive color. I can't imagine them not being able to make white.
I've played with colored light bulbs in a darkroom before and you can make it perfectly white pretty easily. Mixing crayons to make black doesn't seem to work, though. Same concepts as far as I can see.
These things sound interesting. There is no constant backlight, so presumably you save a lot of enery buy using just enough to make the right color and brightness instead of powering a constant white and dimming it with LCDs in front.
I would think it might be more productive to scan outer space instead of the southern half of our own planet
On second thought, perhaps they should scan women. Most of the ones I've met I think are from outer space.
Now go KaZaA yourself a clue...
What's the filename?
But the point still works. If you just want dialup PPP, then you can get it cheaper than AOL. AOL price isn't competitive, probably because of all the bizarre "extra" services.
People don't all buy the cheapest thing that gets the job done. Lexus and Mercedes wouldn't exist if they did.
Generally geeks loathe AOL's "'extra' services" but many AOL'ers love it.
Duh, you know that. I just got trolled.
How did it come to pass that world domination is our only criteria for success?
I think that happened in the '90's when everyone became a successful investor.
If you can make money, pay your employees decently, and you have happy customers, you are not a failure
Amen to that, brother! Now that I'm an employee again and not an investor destined to be a billionaire, that is my attitude.
all we need is "/.IM" for this to be a full-featured nerd community a-la AOL forums
:) ...
...
Early AOL IM:
1: Hi
2: Hello
1: Are you over 16?
2: Yes
1: What are you wearing?
Early Slashdot IM:
1: D00d
2: Whassup?
1: You on Gentoo or Debian?
I wish I could have seen the demographics statistics peoples' faces when they tried to add *that* to a pre-defined category!
|x| Customer is satisfied with AOL CD promotion and continues using it.
I hope that AOL's woes don't tear down Time/Warner which has many great media properties that will be scattered to the winds if AOL needs to gin up some cash.
Did I just read a Slashdot comment lamenting the possibility of a media giant crumbling into its components?
Hello?
Perhaps you'd be happier if Time Warner, Viacom and Disney all merged under the RIAA.
You're assuming everyone wants and would benefit from broadband.
I'm a geek and I've considered getting rid of mine. Most of what I do on the internet is casual surfing and email reading. I currently don't have Flash installed and block popups; in the past I've disabled downloading graphics and don't miss much.
Sometimes I do some work from home (via VNC or PuTTY), but I could do that with dialup, albeit painfully slowly.
Basically I'm paying for broadand to have the convenince of fast downloads occasionally. (OS updates, GNU/Linux and other free downloads, the occasional silly video, etc.) And I used to do that before I had broadband--I'd just start downloading before I went to bed.
If a non-geek is not a heavy Kazaa user I don't see that they would benefit much from broadband.
Besides, some people are afraid of "on all the time" internet.
There is too much of a community there. That's worth something to someone. It it cost too much money to run they might sell the operation to MSN or Amazon or someone else who might be able to squeeze some profit from that user base.
Splitting it up into regional ISPs would probably kill much of the community feeling.
The two respondents as of this posting say valmalgal.com, but at 9:28pm EST (Indiana) it's a default "Coming Soon..." page by register.com.
Was it something else before? I checked Google but didn't find a cache.
But at least you can now use Office XP and Internet Explorer 6.