Now Disney can get in on the NASA act, and make a children's movie about the Two Rovers that Left Home.
One got stuck, and the other one thousands of kilometers away, goes on a desperate mission to cross the planet to rescue Opportunity before his battery runs out. All this with help from his sidekick Marvin the Martian, NASA JPL Jake, and Duney the Dune.
Unless the converter is AA batery sized, it's a change that will still cause millions of people to either ditch their TVs, or to rise up against their lawmakers. And don't forget about the TVs without much of an antenna input, like portables, what good will they be?
"That AM radio just wont cut it for the latest and greatest top40 station" I have a different perspective. In my market, there are 2 FM stations, and about 10 AM stations I can pick up. Inside a building is 1FM 4AM. AM covers vast distances better, so is the band of choice out here for talk, music, or anything. Killing off AM radio, means killing off people's ability to get the content they want, at the price they've already invested into their radio communications technology.
"I can't understand how anything he writes is of any interest to/.ers., really."
They are interesting, because I've been in a cave...on Mars,...with my eyes closed, and my hands over my ears./The Simpsons
Not everyone who reads/. is "the uber geek". It's not a bad thing to bring the virtues of Skype, or innovation [or lack thereof] in the gaming industry to the media mainstream of the geek world that is slashdot.org. After all, some people only come here to learn about the latest trends, so if we assume everyone already knows the trends, there's not much to talk about.
Just a point to clarify: Doom the shareware version was available in stores. I bought Doom 1 the shareware version, which was on 2 floppy disks, for about $8 in a Radio Shack, a few days or weeks after it was released as the next best thing since Wolfenstein 3D.
"If they can't afford $20 to buy the converter, maybe they shouldnt be watching so much TV in the first place."
If you have a perfectly good TV, and one that works on an International standard for the past several decades, there's no reason you should HAVE to pay $20 to convert the signal. You don't hear the FCC is going to do away with AM band radio because there's FM, and Satellite now. Too many existing products require AM broadcasting to work, and it works well, so why ruin a good thing, just for the sake of change?
Think of the huge environmental impact of this, there are going to be up to millions of perfectly working TVs thrown into our landfills, and thus poisoning our land, and water supplies. TVs are filled with toxic substances, and if you think even half of those will be properly recycled, you're really kidding yourself.
I clicked it first, and since I was on the incomplete mirror, I hadn't heard the setup to the punchline, but Cleese yells at you, and asks why you clicked the "third button" when he'd specificly told you not to. Then he glares, waggles his finger at you, then his head explodes and balloons float out. It was mildly unsatisfying until I saw the balloons.
I have an idea for his next sketch, and it involves a smoking server, that features a flash animation, and less than NASA-like bandwidth available to it...
"It isn't like these are items of high importance."
Tell that to the hypothetical mother who put her baby's photo CD into her drive, only to have the disk explode into a million pieces, or the student who can't get his photos or report off the disk, or the guy who put his family's Christmas present onto a DVD that isn't readable in any other players.
These devices are about the most important I/O device a computer has besides the monitor and keyboard.
I was going to bring this possibility up too, as it's a much better idea than the "silent cell phone".
Also it may work for people like Stephen Hawkings, and other people who might know what to say but can't speak. It could in theory also be used as a simple universal translator. Each sentence would be run through a computer which could use Babelfish essentially to translate the speech in almost real time. It would be crude, but better than nothing in some situations.
Hopefully enough people like Canadian/.ers will write their Members of Parliament, and point out this article, with a summary of: "Data shows that the CRIA is a lying sack of poop, and is leading Parliament down the garden path to ruin".
Saskatchewan would be a good place, if equatorial proximity isn't required. There's two places that are 2000ft or higher in elevation, in the southern part of the province, and it is more accessible than a mountain top.
I had no idea what Bit Keeper was, so I did some research. OK, I googled it, but what other kind of research do you do anymore these days?
-- BitKeeper is a CM system from the BitMover corp. http://www.bitkeeper.com/ -- OK, so that first find on google wasn't too descriptive, off to try again...
"Coverage on the bitkeeper announcement from earlier this week is also available." At least the editors admit when they are posting a Dupe not as a Slashback.
In 2003 I got some $1 Sacagewea coins from the USPS post office stamp machine, on purpose. I didn't need to mail anything, but it was the perfect way to satisfy my coin and stamp collecting hobby, and they are very portable souvenirs of a journey to a far away land.
In 2002 for the Queen's Jubilee 50th year, the Mint issued a 50 cent peice distributed as change at Canada Post. I went and picked up a couple rolls for $25, and kept a roll for selling on eBay and my collection, and used another at businesses to see the reactions. At a Burger King in Ottawa, I had the cashier do a double take, but they knew it was real.
I still have one kicking around in my backpack, and traded one at a New York coin shop for some other cooler coins.
On of my clearest memories as a child is making jokes on the front yard lawn at my Grandparents BBQ with my cousins, aunts and uncles, and we talked at least for an hour about nothing but Simpsons quotes.
It has been more than a show, and even though it's maybe "Jumped the Shark" this season, that doesn't make it a less significant force in the 1990s.
Please write your MP on this matter. Use my letter below if you don't want to write your own.
Send your letter for free (no postage necessary), to your MP at the following address: [your MP's name] M.P. House of Commons Ottawa ON K1A 0A6
Find their email address, but write by paper mail too. Look it up.
Dear Mr. Breitkreuz
To summarize the issues in this letter: 1. Internet Service Providers should not be required to keep extensive logs of private and legal online communications.
2. The government must not stop Canadian citizens from making personal-use copies of their legally purchased software, music, and movie media.
Here is the reasoning:
The purpose of the Copyright Act is to support creativity and innovation in the arts and culture. To design a new Act on the failed and draconian Digital Millenium Copyright Act of the United States of America, would be a disaster for Canadian culture, libraries, and innovation. Also our court system could become clogged with law abiding citizens who make personal use copies of their music, software, and movie collections for no personal financial gain. An implementation of the proposed changes to the Copyright Act would unleash another "Gun Registry boondoggle" onto the Canadian people - creating criminals out of law abiding citizens at the expense of Canadian taxpayers. Libraries and schools will be made to pay fees they can not afford to litigation-happy organizations like the Canadian Recording Industry Association.
Internet Service Providers like Sasktel should not be made to keep extensive client usage logs for possible future prosecution by various copyright-based industries. I don't want to pay for that system to be put into effect, and I don't think most people do. The phone companies are not forced by the government to record the content of phone conversations, only police can do that with a proper warrant. ISP logs are going to be equivalent to phone-taps, and that's a violation of my privacy. It's doing the job of the police, and is for the sole benefit of an industry basing its profits on an outdated business model that is no longer realistic for the Canadian government to protect.
It is completely unfair to be paying a levy to artists organizations for purchasing blank CD media to make home-use private copies of legal CD music, and now to also be unable to legally copy the music I've paid for off of Digital Rights Managed CDs. If copying CD music is going to be illegal, why is the government collecting money from the product for an illegal activity? I'm satisfied that the current levy is helping to compensate artists from illegitimate copying, and no new law is required to prevent me and other people from making sensible backups of our legal music, software, and movie collections.
Your representation in the House of Commons on this matter is greatly appreciated by me, and other supporters of personal liberty and innovation in the arts. I look forward to hearing from you.
Slashdot Mirror
Now Disney can get in on the NASA act, and make a children's movie about the Two Rovers that Left Home.
One got stuck, and the other one thousands of kilometers away, goes on a desperate mission to cross the planet to rescue Opportunity before his battery runs out. All this with help from his sidekick Marvin the Martian, NASA JPL Jake, and Duney the Dune.
No, but they had reel to reel, and cassette tapes that could record from the radio and vinyl.
Or maybe they did have fake vinyl, I don't know I guess.
Unless the converter is AA batery sized, it's a change that will still cause millions of people to either ditch their TVs, or to rise up against their lawmakers. And don't forget about the TVs without much of an antenna input, like portables, what good will they be?
"That AM radio just wont cut it for the latest and greatest top40 station"
I have a different perspective. In my market, there are 2 FM stations, and about 10 AM stations I can pick up. Inside a building is 1FM 4AM. AM covers vast distances better, so is the band of choice out here for talk, music, or anything. Killing off AM radio, means killing off people's ability to get the content they want, at the price they've already invested into their radio communications technology.
"I can't understand how anything he writes is of any interest to /.ers., really."
/The Simpsons
/. is "the uber geek". It's not a bad thing to bring the virtues of Skype, or innovation [or lack thereof] in the gaming industry to the media mainstream of the geek world that is slashdot.org. After all, some people only come here to learn about the latest trends, so if we assume everyone already knows the trends, there's not much to talk about.
They are interesting, because I've been in a cave...on Mars,...with my eyes closed, and my hands over my ears.
Not everyone who reads
Just a point to clarify:
Doom the shareware version was available in stores. I bought Doom 1 the shareware version, which was on 2 floppy disks, for about $8 in a Radio Shack, a few days or weeks after it was released as the next best thing since Wolfenstein 3D.
"If they can't afford $20 to buy the converter, maybe they shouldnt be watching so much TV in the first place."
If you have a perfectly good TV, and one that works on an International standard for the past several decades, there's no reason you should HAVE to pay $20 to convert the signal. You don't hear the FCC is going to do away with AM band radio because there's FM, and Satellite now. Too many existing products require AM broadcasting to work, and it works well, so why ruin a good thing, just for the sake of change?
Think of the huge environmental impact of this, there are going to be up to millions of perfectly working TVs thrown into our landfills, and thus poisoning our land, and water supplies. TVs are filled with toxic substances, and if you think even half of those will be properly recycled, you're really kidding yourself.
I clicked it first, and since I was on the incomplete mirror, I hadn't heard the setup to the punchline, but Cleese yells at you, and asks why you clicked the "third button" when he'd specificly told you not to. Then he glares, waggles his finger at you, then his head explodes and balloons float out. It was mildly unsatisfying until I saw the balloons.
I have an idea for his next sketch, and it involves a smoking server, that features a flash animation, and less than NASA-like bandwidth available to it...
Zug.com has a funny prank, that was listed on /. the other month, about someone signing his credit card receipts with phony names or pictures.
I tried it, it's no problem, just sign all of your bills "It's Me", no one cares.
"It isn't like these are items of high importance."
Tell that to the hypothetical mother who put her baby's photo CD into her drive, only to have the disk explode into a million pieces, or the student who can't get his photos or report off the disk, or the guy who put his family's Christmas present onto a DVD that isn't readable in any other players.
These devices are about the most important I/O device a computer has besides the monitor and keyboard.
In Soviet China, holes dig you!
I was going to bring this possibility up too, as it's a much better idea than the "silent cell phone".
Also it may work for people like Stephen Hawkings, and other people who might know what to say but can't speak. It could in theory also be used as a simple universal translator. Each sentence would be run through a computer which could use Babelfish essentially to translate the speech in almost real time. It would be crude, but better than nothing in some situations.
Hopefully enough people like Canadian /.ers will write their Members of Parliament, and point out this article, with a summary of:
"Data shows that the CRIA is a lying sack of poop, and is leading Parliament down the garden path to ruin".
Only put in a bit nicer way.
It comes with the Case, MB, and Hard drive.
Then add a monitor = $100
Video Card = $40
Peripherals = $40
CPU = $40
Now THAT'S a cheap computer. If you're looking to save money, why buy a Mac?
Saskatchewan would be a good place, if equatorial proximity isn't required. There's two places that are 2000ft or higher in elevation, in the southern part of the province, and it is more accessible than a mountain top.
In post 9/11 Slashdot, Cliches about BitKeeper dye you.
I had no idea what Bit Keeper was, so I did some research. OK, I googled it, but what other kind of research do you do anymore these days?
--
BitKeeper is a CM system from the BitMover corp. http://www.bitkeeper.com/
--
OK, so that first find on google wasn't too descriptive, off to try again...
"Coverage on the bitkeeper announcement from earlier this week is also available." At least the editors admit when they are posting a Dupe not as a Slashback.
Correction the Pengrowth Saddledome ;-)
It'll always be just the Saddledome to me though.
A friend of mine in Ottawa had a friend accosted by the US Embasy staff, who insisted on having his film after he photographed the Embasy.
I photographed it several times successfully, but always at a good enough distance I guess.
I'm surprised this happened to you in Calgary, I'd have thought the police would have enough sense there not to act like cowboys themselves.
In 2003 I got some $1 Sacagewea coins from the USPS post office stamp machine, on purpose. I didn't need to mail anything, but it was the perfect way to satisfy my coin and stamp collecting hobby, and they are very portable souvenirs of a journey to a far away land.
In 2002 for the Queen's Jubilee 50th year, the Mint issued a 50 cent peice distributed as change at Canada Post. I went and picked up a couple rolls for $25, and kept a roll for selling on eBay and my collection, and used another at businesses to see the reactions. At a Burger King in Ottawa, I had the cashier do a double take, but they knew it was real.
I still have one kicking around in my backpack, and traded one at a New York coin shop for some other cooler coins.
1996 is the year the Toonie or $2 coin went into circulation. There is no 1995 issued Toonie.
How come it's dead? /Homer
/. fix for their server.
I hope they have Professor Frink working on a
On of my clearest memories as a child is making jokes on the front yard lawn at my Grandparents BBQ with my cousins, aunts and uncles, and we talked at least for an hour about nothing but Simpsons quotes.
It has been more than a show, and even though it's maybe "Jumped the Shark" this season, that doesn't make it a less significant force in the 1990s.
DMCA for Canada
Friday March 25, @09:31PM
Please write your MP on this matter. Use my letter below if you don't want to write your own.
Send your letter for free (no postage necessary), to your MP at the following address:
[your MP's name] M.P.
House of Commons
Ottawa ON K1A 0A6
Find their email address, but write by paper mail too. Look it up.
Dear Mr. Breitkreuz
To summarize the issues in this letter:
1. Internet Service Providers should not be required to keep extensive logs of private and legal online communications.
2. The government must not stop Canadian citizens from making personal-use copies of their legally purchased software, music, and movie media.
Background:
Here is the reasoning:
The purpose of the Copyright Act is to support creativity and innovation in the arts and culture. To design a new Act on the failed and draconian Digital Millenium Copyright Act of the United States of America, would be a disaster for Canadian culture, libraries, and innovation. Also our court system could become clogged with law abiding citizens who make personal use copies of their music, software, and movie collections for no personal financial gain. An implementation of the proposed changes to the Copyright Act would unleash another "Gun Registry boondoggle" onto the Canadian people - creating criminals out of law abiding citizens at the expense of Canadian taxpayers. Libraries and schools will be made to pay fees they can not afford to litigation-happy organizations like the Canadian Recording Industry Association.
Internet Service Providers like Sasktel should not be made to keep extensive client usage logs for possible future prosecution by various copyright-based industries. I don't want to pay for that system to be put into effect, and I don't think most people do. The phone companies are not forced by the government to record the content of phone conversations, only police can do that with a proper warrant. ISP logs are going to be equivalent to phone-taps, and that's a violation of my privacy. It's doing the job of the police, and is for the sole benefit of an industry basing its profits on an outdated business model that is no longer realistic for the Canadian government to protect.
It is completely unfair to be paying a levy to artists organizations for purchasing blank CD media to make home-use private copies of legal CD music, and now to also be unable to legally copy the music I've paid for off of Digital Rights Managed CDs. If copying CD music is going to be illegal, why is the government collecting money from the product for an illegal activity? I'm satisfied that the current levy is helping to compensate artists from illegitimate copying, and no new law is required to prevent me and other people from making sensible backups of our legal music, software, and movie collections.
Your representation in the House of Commons on this matter is greatly appreciated by me, and other supporters of personal liberty and innovation in the arts. I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
my name