The porn industry has actually been a driver for most video technologies used on the web today. They had the money to pay for them when they were first being made, and they have content that needs to be in the highest resolution available.
Content companies, whatever kind they are, have to give away some of their content for free in order to be able to profit on their premium content.
Consumers are not going to turn over money for content when they can't look inside the box to see what they're getting. If a content pusher doesn't have some free samples floating somewhere, there's no way they're going to be able to convince consumers that they've got the goods inside their sealed box. There has to be a free preview of some kind.
You're never going to buy a CD from an artist you've never heard sing, therefore some form of advanced sampling has to exist. I guess the porn industry realizes that the same rules apply to them, and since they don't quite yet have the ability to broadcast on the radio, they're letting filesharing do the job for them.
Does the FDIC actually do this to people? Is suspending account insurance part of an existing govn't process?
There's no way an individual can lose their FDIC insurance. The FDIC doesn't have insurance for people directly. The FDIC insures that the obligations of the bank will still be honored even if the bank fails. Which means, if your bank goes down, the FDIC will step in and bail out the operation. The FDIC has no need to even care who the depositors are unless and until that event happens.
Read the CNN article you linked to. It says that if the Palm Beach County standard was used in every jurisdiction, that Gore would have won the state by 42 votes...
And that's a bit disturbing... we're not supposed to have multiple standards to which a ballot is read possible, a ballot is supposed to be night-and-day clear who it's a vote for. I'm not saying Bush didn't win fair and square by the rules in play, I'm saying that Florida's vote was so close that errors that we put up with in prior elections as insignificant finally became significant enough to cause a mess. There did exist a possible set of rules that with the same ballots produces a Gore win, it just wasn't the set of rules in play.
Here in my hometown, the local schools are badly underfunded, and the main cause is that the federal grants that the school used the thrive on have dried up, local aid from the state to the city has dried up, yet the local mayor will not sign a tax increase that was passed by the City Council.
In short, nobody wants to raise taxes, so nobody pays for the service, so the quality of the service goes down. No need to point fingers, there's enough blame to go around for everybody.
The Supreme Court didn't directly vote on who should win the 2000 election, the question they voted 5-4 on was whether Kathrine Harris, a Republican who the Secretary of State of Florida, did her job correctly.
Florida law, as it had been on the books for years, had a rather blatent loophole. Kathrine Harris could certify the election results on Monday, or she could, at her sole option, open her office on Saturday for sole purpose of handling the election results then. Knowing that if she waited until Monday and allowed the Palm Beach recount to finish, Gore would win, but if she froze the numbers on Saturday, Bush would win, she chose to put on way too much makeup and announce that the results were certified on Saturday, and therefore Florida would send the presidential electors who had been selected by the Bush campaign.
Media recounts would later find that if Palm Beach had finished, Gore would win. However, if the entire state did a recount, it would be the decision on which standard of chad-counting was used that would decide the winner.
The Florida election was truely too close to call. The number of punchcard ballots that had an unclear intent of the voter were greater than the margin of victory. However, there's no ties in American politics, so we have to pick a winner somehow.
There are several cases where small town political races for offices such as mayor end in a dead heat tie where after several recounts the numbers are exactly the same. In such cases, a random game of chance involving a coin, dice, straws or cards are used as the tiebreaker to determine the final outcome. Given the complexity in Florida... I'd call the process that got us Bush pretty random too.
Republicans make fun of "tax and spend liberals", but President Bush is doing even worse, he signed a budget that didn't tax enough to cover its spending, and therefore created a deficit. Just as we were finally getting around to paying off the national debt, we're now getting deeper into the hole. These are indisputable facts... the FY 2003 budget didn't cover the spending, and the FY 2004 budget proposal Bush submitted doesn't check either.
"Tax and spend" might be bad, but "Not tax and spend" is even worse.
You can't quite create a transport device that can't be punctured period, but you can secure the route that cargo will take on the night that it will be transported so that nobody can get close enough to threaten the caravan.
The Secret Service knows all of the things that can be done to protect a route, they do high-profile ground transports for VIPs all of the time, not just the president but every high-level governmental leader. (Even the Democratic challenger to President Bush will get Secret Service protection once he is officially is selected.) Sure, this will be a higher-stakes project, but that just means no expense will be spared in making sure that terrorists don't know which vehicle in the caravan has the payload, nobody will know what time exactly the caravan will pass, and every point where there is a chance to interfere with the path has already been secured and monitored until it does pass.
But, the key is, that "CaCO3 + 2 HNO3 -> Ca(NO3)2 + H2O + CO2" reaction can't go on forever... the paint's eventually going to run out of its supply of the reactants. So, the discoloration is actually a good thing... it's the reminder that the smog-killing feature has worn out and you've got to paint again anyway.
The way paint is sold today, all nearly paint is shipped to the store as a white base. The store is also machine that contains a rainbow of concentrated pigment colors. The various colors that are shown in paint chips equate to a formula of the concentrated pigments that need to be added to the base. A computer instructs the machine to squirt in the right pigments in the right quanities to make the requested color, the cover is hammered back on and then another machine shakes the paint to blend it. The cover is taken off, a dab of the paint is put on the color to mark what it is, and then the cover is placed back on, and it's ready to go.
So I highly doubt the only-in-white limitation on this will hold for very long...
Nah, it's just that you don't care about listening to live out-of-town radio coverage of NFL or MLB games. They're not the exclusive providers of the facts the programs relay, but they are the exclusive providers of the specific programs.
Another problem is that nanotech could possibly have the ability to create a human-infecting virus, since they'd be able to manipulate things at a molecular level... we don't want anybody going there.
If by 'deal with' you mean dump in a hole in the ground and hope no one goes near it for a few millenia, then yes.
And we have said hole in the ground selected, and already have the security tech and plans to make sure nobody goes near it for a few millenia.
What's interesting about the protests about the project is that the political types that represent the area where the hole is are fine with the project... it brings plenty of jobs to their area, and they're convinced of the safety. Therefore, the FUD-spreaders are trying to construct "What if..." situations arround the movement of the nuclear mater to the hole, but we've got secure ways to move nuclear stuff. So really, what's the problem with the plan?
HP's protection scheme at least tries to take that into account... that something 11"x17" is to big. Besides, they're not going to stop you, just mess up your printout by a few 300 dpi pixels...
Nope. Those of us who bought the red box with a screaming man on the cover back in the late 90s paid $30 or so for it... and got RealAudio Plus 3.0. However, when the 4 version of RealAudio came out, most of the "Plus" features we had paid for got moved into the new free version, and a new set of "Plus" features would be ours if we paid again. Real had a rinse, wash, repeat routine going with that...
Now, if you want the present "Plus" feature set, you have to subscribe to GoldPass and pay for it every month...
Well, the old RealAudio business model didn't work. Give away the client-side software and charge for the encoders... well, eventually people stopped buying the encoders because they realized that nobody could make money streaming content on the Internet for free.
Rather than fold, Real adapted into a pay-for-content distributor. Not only did they provide the tech to stream content, but they provided the structure with which the content owners could charge for the right to hear the stream, and Real and content owners split the profits.
But that basically makes them no better than a cable TV company, who is more interested in collecting the money than providing perfect service. Afterall, for most of the content Real is selling, it's take it or leave it offers... Real is the only place you can get certain major sports and news content.
I guess the free streaming content of the 1999 era was too good to have lasted...
I'm not sure if that's any solution. Helix may have inherited this bug when it was started from a subset of the RealPlayer code. Many of the affected versions of Real products bear a "Powered by Helix" marking...
It seems like this mistake is in some low-level C library involved in the Real codecs, since it's been there ever since RealPlayer 8 and nearly every release after that point. I wonder if that means Helix inherited the bug as well...
An ActiveX wrapper in its base defintion offers no protection from this kind of flaw... in simplistic terms, ActiveX is a standard by which a controling program links up to other pre-programed objects which exist either inside a.dll file, or posibly even inside a free-standing.exe file that could possibly be run on its own... if the underlying object contains a flaw, then every other program that refers to that object will end up inheriting that flaw in the same situations, it'll be the same code making that same mistake actually running.
However, since Real Alternative is a reverse-engineered program, it's highly doubtful that they failed to check the same buffer that Real failed to check, so it's unlikely they have the same flaw in their code. If the Alternative has the same bug, then it starts to be likely they stole the code... let's hope we don't have to go there.
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Well, maybe HDTV might be the upper limits, but porn at 3 frames a second in a 120 pixel wide screen just doesn't work.
The average porn consumer's attention span was over by the end of the subject line...
So, in other words, this is where SCO got the idea for their business model.
The porn industry has actually been a driver for most video technologies used on the web today. They had the money to pay for them when they were first being made, and they have content that needs to be in the highest resolution available.
Content companies, whatever kind they are, have to give away some of their content for free in order to be able to profit on their premium content.
Consumers are not going to turn over money for content when they can't look inside the box to see what they're getting. If a content pusher doesn't have some free samples floating somewhere, there's no way they're going to be able to convince consumers that they've got the goods inside their sealed box. There has to be a free preview of some kind.
You're never going to buy a CD from an artist you've never heard sing, therefore some form of advanced sampling has to exist. I guess the porn industry realizes that the same rules apply to them, and since they don't quite yet have the ability to broadcast on the radio, they're letting filesharing do the job for them.
Does the FDIC actually do this to people? Is suspending account insurance part of an existing govn't process? There's no way an individual can lose their FDIC insurance. The FDIC doesn't have insurance for people directly. The FDIC insures that the obligations of the bank will still be honored even if the bank fails. Which means, if your bank goes down, the FDIC will step in and bail out the operation. The FDIC has no need to even care who the depositors are unless and until that event happens.
Read the CNN article you linked to. It says that if the Palm Beach County standard was used in every jurisdiction, that Gore would have won the state by 42 votes...
And that's a bit disturbing... we're not supposed to have multiple standards to which a ballot is read possible, a ballot is supposed to be night-and-day clear who it's a vote for. I'm not saying Bush didn't win fair and square by the rules in play, I'm saying that Florida's vote was so close that errors that we put up with in prior elections as insignificant finally became significant enough to cause a mess. There did exist a possible set of rules that with the same ballots produces a Gore win, it just wasn't the set of rules in play.
And when I read the article... I had a nice big MSN butterly ad breaking it up. Does Microsoft have it's finger into everything?
Why does Microsoft have so many anti-trust concerns? I mean, is there anybody left who still actually trusts Microsoft?
Here in my hometown, the local schools are badly underfunded, and the main cause is that the federal grants that the school used the thrive on have dried up, local aid from the state to the city has dried up, yet the local mayor will not sign a tax increase that was passed by the City Council.
In short, nobody wants to raise taxes, so nobody pays for the service, so the quality of the service goes down. No need to point fingers, there's enough blame to go around for everybody.
The Supreme Court didn't directly vote on who should win the 2000 election, the question they voted 5-4 on was whether Kathrine Harris, a Republican who the Secretary of State of Florida, did her job correctly.
Florida law, as it had been on the books for years, had a rather blatent loophole. Kathrine Harris could certify the election results on Monday, or she could, at her sole option, open her office on Saturday for sole purpose of handling the election results then. Knowing that if she waited until Monday and allowed the Palm Beach recount to finish, Gore would win, but if she froze the numbers on Saturday, Bush would win, she chose to put on way too much makeup and announce that the results were certified on Saturday, and therefore Florida would send the presidential electors who had been selected by the Bush campaign.
Media recounts would later find that if Palm Beach had finished, Gore would win. However, if the entire state did a recount, it would be the decision on which standard of chad-counting was used that would decide the winner.
The Florida election was truely too close to call. The number of punchcard ballots that had an unclear intent of the voter were greater than the margin of victory. However, there's no ties in American politics, so we have to pick a winner somehow.
There are several cases where small town political races for offices such as mayor end in a dead heat tie where after several recounts the numbers are exactly the same. In such cases, a random game of chance involving a coin, dice, straws or cards are used as the tiebreaker to determine the final outcome. Given the complexity in Florida... I'd call the process that got us Bush pretty random too.
Republicans make fun of "tax and spend liberals", but President Bush is doing even worse, he signed a budget that didn't tax enough to cover its spending, and therefore created a deficit. Just as we were finally getting around to paying off the national debt, we're now getting deeper into the hole. These are indisputable facts... the FY 2003 budget didn't cover the spending, and the FY 2004 budget proposal Bush submitted doesn't check either.
"Tax and spend" might be bad, but "Not tax and spend" is even worse.
You can't quite create a transport device that can't be punctured period, but you can secure the route that cargo will take on the night that it will be transported so that nobody can get close enough to threaten the caravan. The Secret Service knows all of the things that can be done to protect a route, they do high-profile ground transports for VIPs all of the time, not just the president but every high-level governmental leader. (Even the Democratic challenger to President Bush will get Secret Service protection once he is officially is selected.) Sure, this will be a higher-stakes project, but that just means no expense will be spared in making sure that terrorists don't know which vehicle in the caravan has the payload, nobody will know what time exactly the caravan will pass, and every point where there is a chance to interfere with the path has already been secured and monitored until it does pass.
But, the key is, that "CaCO3 + 2 HNO3 -> Ca(NO3)2 + H2O + CO2" reaction can't go on forever... the paint's eventually going to run out of its supply of the reactants. So, the discoloration is actually a good thing... it's the reminder that the smog-killing feature has worn out and you've got to paint again anyway.
The way paint is sold today, all nearly paint is shipped to the store as a white base. The store is also machine that contains a rainbow of concentrated pigment colors. The various colors that are shown in paint chips equate to a formula of the concentrated pigments that need to be added to the base. A computer instructs the machine to squirt in the right pigments in the right quanities to make the requested color, the cover is hammered back on and then another machine shakes the paint to blend it. The cover is taken off, a dab of the paint is put on the color to mark what it is, and then the cover is placed back on, and it's ready to go.
So I highly doubt the only-in-white limitation on this will hold for very long...
Just how long will the Nebula Awards broadcast be delayed by the network just to make sure nothing untoward gets broadcast?
Nah, it's just that you don't care about listening to live out-of-town radio coverage of NFL or MLB games. They're not the exclusive providers of the facts the programs relay, but they are the exclusive providers of the specific programs.
Another problem is that nanotech could possibly have the ability to create a human-infecting virus, since they'd be able to manipulate things at a molecular level... we don't want anybody going there.
If by 'deal with' you mean dump in a hole in the ground and hope no one goes near it for a few millenia, then yes.
And we have said hole in the ground selected, and already have the security tech and plans to make sure nobody goes near it for a few millenia.
What's interesting about the protests about the project is that the political types that represent the area where the hole is are fine with the project... it brings plenty of jobs to their area, and they're convinced of the safety. Therefore, the FUD-spreaders are trying to construct "What if..." situations arround the movement of the nuclear mater to the hole, but we've got secure ways to move nuclear stuff. So really, what's the problem with the plan?
HP's protection scheme at least tries to take that into account... that something 11"x17" is to big. Besides, they're not going to stop you, just mess up your printout by a few 300 dpi pixels...
Nope. Those of us who bought the red box with a screaming man on the cover back in the late 90s paid $30 or so for it... and got RealAudio Plus 3.0. However, when the 4 version of RealAudio came out, most of the "Plus" features we had paid for got moved into the new free version, and a new set of "Plus" features would be ours if we paid again. Real had a rinse, wash, repeat routine going with that...
Now, if you want the present "Plus" feature set, you have to subscribe to GoldPass and pay for it every month...
Well, the old RealAudio business model didn't work. Give away the client-side software and charge for the encoders... well, eventually people stopped buying the encoders because they realized that nobody could make money streaming content on the Internet for free.
Rather than fold, Real adapted into a pay-for-content distributor. Not only did they provide the tech to stream content, but they provided the structure with which the content owners could charge for the right to hear the stream, and Real and content owners split the profits.
But that basically makes them no better than a cable TV company, who is more interested in collecting the money than providing perfect service. Afterall, for most of the content Real is selling, it's take it or leave it offers... Real is the only place you can get certain major sports and news content.
I guess the free streaming content of the 1999 era was too good to have lasted...
I'm not sure if that's any solution. Helix may have inherited this bug when it was started from a subset of the RealPlayer code. Many of the affected versions of Real products bear a "Powered by Helix" marking...
It seems like this mistake is in some low-level C library involved in the Real codecs, since it's been there ever since RealPlayer 8 and nearly every release after that point. I wonder if that means Helix inherited the bug as well...
An ActiveX wrapper in its base defintion offers no protection from this kind of flaw... in simplistic terms, ActiveX is a standard by which a controling program links up to other pre-programed objects which exist either inside a .dll file, or posibly even inside a free-standing .exe file that could possibly be run on its own... if the underlying object contains a flaw, then every other program that refers to that object will end up inheriting that flaw in the same situations, it'll be the same code making that same mistake actually running.
However, since Real Alternative is a reverse-engineered program, it's highly doubtful that they failed to check the same buffer that Real failed to check, so it's unlikely they have the same flaw in their code. If the Alternative has the same bug, then it starts to be likely they stole the code... let's hope we don't have to go there.