I was too young to remember the details, but I do recall for certain that our local movie theater sponsored a petition drive to outlaw cable TV in the early 60s. I can imagine this was an organized drive involving other cinemas as well.
...and before computers, many stations did literally use a categorized box of file cards. One adult contemporary station I worked at in the late 70s, had 8 numbered categories. 1s were the top 10 or so current hits. 2s were either upcoming or downsliding current songs. 3s we called recurrents and were mostly hits of the past several months. 4 were album tracks, IIRC. 5s were slightly hippish album tracks (eg. Dire Straits, John Handy "Hard Work"). 6s and 7s were oldies. 8s were older oldies (from 50s & 60s). Depending on daypart we had different repeating sequences of these #s we followed in selecting file cards during our shifts. My evening shift, IIRC, was 62716346271635(repeat). Morning shifts would play less new stuff, the theory being to ease people in to their day with comfortably familiar tunes.
As we played each song we made a notation on a grid on the card of the date and time played. With the older songs particularly, you avoided playing the same song in the same hour of successive days. Pre-disco era there were a couple other rules that were common to most mainstream formats - you never played 2 female vocals in a row and you never played 2 records by black artists in a row (the cards for which had an "R" notation in the upper right corner, to make sure you knew). Yes, that was racist and wrong, but that's the way it was.
Anyone who hasn't worked in the industry probably has no idea how much thought and phychology goes into determining how radio formats work. Of course some of the theory behind some formats was arguably bogus, such as Lee Abrams "Superstars" consultancy (music in a particular key appealed to particular psychographic groups for instance). Superstars and Lee Abrams, then of Burkhart/Abrams, were largely resposible for the homogenization of album rock, beginning in the late 70s.
Yes, but paypalwarning.com was last updated over a year ago. Does paypal still suck in the ways outlined there? Are they still forbidden from doing business in Louisiana? Have things improved under ebay's ownership?
While the Reuters was at one time a prestigious and trusted name in journalism, my impression of their output in recent years is that they are only slightly less objective than PR Newswire.
"Problem with google, and the internet as is, is that the maker of the website gets to decided what search tags it contains."
Only to the extent the website maker gets to decide what textual content a site contains. Goodle ignores meta tags, if you mean that kind of search tags. OTOH, some probably still do manage to game the system, such as by obscuring text (white text on white background for example).
Correction to the article headline and link text - The pr from Nielsen doesn't say what percent of connections are via non-web browser software: "Nielsen//NetRatings, reports that three out of every four home and work Internet users, or 76 percent of active Web surfers, access the Internet using a non-browser based Internet application." That doesn't mean that these same users don't use a web browser for the majority of their http connections, rather it says that 76% of active web surfers *ALSO* use Internet applications other than (as in in addition to) web browsers.
Autonomy has been been offering similar products for 4 or 5 years now and, IIRC, they have a number of Fortune 500 companies among their customers. Their work is based on Baysian algorithms. They used to have a free desktop app incorporating some of this technology, but withdrew that a few years ago. I'd suspect they probably have patents out the wazoo on this stuff, which might come back to bite others using Baysian techniques.
http://autonomy.com/Content/Press/FactSheet
"Autonomy Corporation was founded in 1996 by Dr. Michael Lynch using a proprietary pattern matching technology that was the result of Cambridge University research on the probability theorems of an 18th century mathematician, Reverend Thomas Bayes."
I'll second that; that's where I often stop for my walking around town cuppa Joe. They roast their own bean and serve a perfect cup for only 1.25.
Another truly great Philadelphia coffee roaster is Torreo, a small family-owned biz. They actually travel regularly to coffee-growing countries to select their green beans. I miss their store/cafe in Phila., which they closed last year, apparently to concentrate on their local wholesale. Torreo is served at a number of cafes here.
I remember long ago seeing a price list for Fante's, a cookware shop in Philadelphia's Italian Market area, listing Blue Mountain for 30-some bucks per 1/2 lb. Googled them just now and see they have it for less now - 19.99 for a half lb "...in an attractive burlap pouch with the Jamaican government's certificate of authenticity."
http://fantes.com/coffee_beans.htm
As to brewing, I learned somewhere to use water at 195 F, a fairly fine grind, brewed for ~4 minutes in a French press (served w/ light cream please).
"If you want to call "B.S.", I suggest you call it on Forbes."
Er, the article says "subpoena provided to Forbes," *NOT* served on Forbes. In other words some other party let a Forbes reporter have a looksee at a subpoena.
"you can't have a local line with no long distance service; maybe a second line, but the primary line requires it according to them."
Not true w/ Verizon anyway. When ATT briefly dabbled with charging a monthly min of $5 whether you made any calls or not, I ditched long distance. More correctly, I lost phone service for non-payment to Vz for several months when I was out of work a few years ago. When I paid the Vz charges and restarted my service, I did so with no long distance provider. ATT continued to dun me for a while for the ~$30 they claim I owe them (not for calls, but for the monthly minimum); I refuse to ack their supposed right to have unilaterally instituted the monthly min without my agreeing to such charges. Note that without long distance svc I am still able to reach toll-free #s.
There may be a few shreds of altruism in Doyle's motivations (not to say he doesn't also wish to reap many dollah), if one were to take his comments to Cringely of a year ago as sincere. We won't know till this plays out further of course.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit2002110 7. html
What about the anti-spam lameware products that CC spam complaints to multiple role accounts at each and every ISP and upstream with an even a distant cousin relation to the spam. I've counted over 100 CCs in some of these. As a NOC monkey at an ISP (well, of course they CC the NOC role addy and just about any standard ISP role account you can imagine), even though we have a responsive abuse role), my typical reaction is to LART the complainant and send my own abuse complaint to the luser's ISP.
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I call bullshit on this. The access to the press is there for the asking, but it requires some work. The United States Postal Service will cheerfully deliver press releases to any and all news agencies and individual reporters from any and all groups and individuals. Likewise the public phone network will route your followup calls to the same organizations. That newfangled Internet thingie will also deliver emailed digital press releases to news purveyors far and wide.
Naw, I believe the CNET reporter effectively told eBay to pull the auction by making a live person there aware of it:
--quote-- Informed of the auction by a CNET reporter, an eBay representative said the item would be removed, since "it does indeed violate eBay's listing guidelines on the sale of products delivered electronically through the Internet." --end quote--
IRandom wrote: "Just a note, a patent may still be kept secret. So the fact that a method is patented doesn't mean that anybody can access it. If i'm not mistaken the formula for coca-cola is patented and secret."
You're mistaken on both counts.A google search on patent vs "trade secret" will set you straight.
I didn't notice it when I first installed my Netgear RP614 last fall, but several months ago I noticed that my dsl modem and RP614 activity lights were blinking once per second round the clock. Just in recent days it occurred to me that this activity had stopped. Having read the article (sorry I do that once in awhile,/. tradition notwithstanding) I see that UWisc's stopgap solution a was to begin servicing the sntp requests again and as such my Netgear device no longer feels compelled to query them every second
As a side note, one thing that frustrates me about the RP614, although I'm otherwise happy with it, is that even though I can choose an option to allow ping to function, it still wont allow other types icmp traffic through and renders traceroutes out from my workstation useless.
>(1) Independently of the author's economic rights, and even after the transfer of the said rights, the author shall have the right to claim authorship of the work and to object to any distortion, mutilation or other modification of, or other derogatory action in relation to, the said work, which would be prejudicial to his honor or reputation.
Isn't that rather counter to to concept of criticism under Fair Use Doctrine? Well, not really I suppose, as it says the original author can point out his authorship and "object," which is exactly the most he can do.
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I was too young to remember the details, but I do recall for certain that our local movie theater sponsored a petition drive to outlaw cable TV in the early 60s. I can imagine this was an organized drive involving other cinemas as well.
...and before computers, many stations did literally use a categorized box of file cards. One adult contemporary station I worked at in the late 70s, had 8 numbered categories. 1s were the top 10 or so current hits. 2s were either upcoming or downsliding current songs. 3s we called recurrents and were mostly hits of the past several months. 4 were album tracks, IIRC. 5s were slightly hippish album tracks (eg. Dire Straits, John Handy "Hard Work"). 6s and 7s were oldies. 8s were older oldies (from 50s & 60s). Depending on daypart we had different repeating sequences of these #s we followed in selecting file cards during our shifts. My evening shift, IIRC, was 62716346271635(repeat). Morning shifts would play less new stuff, the theory being to ease people in to their day with comfortably familiar tunes.
As we played each song we made a notation on a grid on the card of the date and time played. With the older songs particularly, you avoided playing the same song in the same hour of successive days. Pre-disco era there were a couple other rules that were common to most mainstream formats - you never played 2 female vocals in a row and you never played 2 records by black artists in a row (the cards for which had an "R" notation in the upper right corner, to make sure you knew). Yes, that was racist and wrong, but that's the way it was.
Anyone who hasn't worked in the industry probably has no idea how much thought and phychology goes into determining how radio formats work. Of course some of the theory behind some formats was arguably bogus, such as Lee Abrams "Superstars" consultancy (music in a particular key appealed to particular psychographic groups for instance). Superstars and Lee Abrams, then of Burkhart/Abrams, were largely resposible for the homogenization of album rock, beginning in the late 70s.
Yes, but paypalwarning.com was last updated over a year ago. Does paypal still suck in the ways outlined there? Are they still forbidden from doing business in Louisiana? Have things improved under ebay's ownership?
While the Reuters was at one time a prestigious and trusted name in journalism, my impression of their output in recent years is that they are only slightly less objective than PR Newswire.
I had missed an earlier post from Wayne that indicates aol was just testing it briefly and planned to roll it back temporarily:
9 27 250
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=92139&cid=7
I'm probably missing something stupid, but why do I get a 0 answer on the query?
~$ dig aol.com txt
; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> aol.com txt
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 11765
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;aol.com. IN TXT
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
aol.com. 600 IN SOA dns-01.ns.aol.com. hostmaster.aol.net. 2004010902 1800 300 604800 600
;; Query time: 25 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Fri Jan 9 18:08:39 2004
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 89
~$ dig @dns-01.ns.aol.com aol.com txt
; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> @dns-01.ns.aol.com aol.com txt
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 31149
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;aol.com. IN TXT
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
aol.com. 600 IN SOA dns-01.ns.aol.com. hostmaster.aol.net. 2004010902 1800 300 604800 600
;; Query time: 23 msec
;; SERVER: 152.163.159.232#53(dns-01.ns.aol.com)
;; WHEN: Fri Jan 9 18:09:43 2004
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 89
"Problem with google, and the internet as is, is that the maker of the website gets to decided what search tags it contains."
Only to the extent the website maker gets to decide what textual content a site contains. Goodle ignores meta tags, if you mean that kind of search tags. OTOH, some probably still do manage to game the system, such as by obscuring text (white text on white background for example).
Correction to the article headline and link text - The pr from Nielsen doesn't say what percent of connections are via non-web browser software: "Nielsen//NetRatings, reports that three out of every four home and work Internet users, or 76 percent of active Web surfers, access the Internet using a non-browser based Internet application." That doesn't mean that these same users don't use a web browser for the majority of their http connections, rather it says that 76% of active web surfers *ALSO* use Internet applications other than (as in in addition to) web browsers.
a well-worn shirt no doubt - he was also wearing it when Charlie Rose interviewed him on PBS a few years back.
Autonomy has been been offering similar products for 4 or 5 years now and, IIRC, they have a number of Fortune 500 companies among their customers. Their work is based on Baysian algorithms. They used to have a free desktop app incorporating some of this technology, but withdrew that a few years ago. I'd suspect they probably have patents out the wazoo on this stuff, which might come back to bite others using Baysian techniques.
http://autonomy.com/Content/Press/FactSheet
"Autonomy Corporation was founded in 1996 by Dr. Michael Lynch using a proprietary pattern matching technology that was the result of Cambridge University research on the probability theorems of an 18th century mathematician, Reverend Thomas Bayes."
Bad example maybe; still litigating and maybe winning:
6 95 3138.htm
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/
I'll second that; that's where I often stop for my walking around town cuppa Joe. They roast their own bean and serve a perfect cup for only 1.25.
Another truly great Philadelphia coffee roaster is Torreo, a small family-owned biz. They actually travel regularly to coffee-growing countries to select their green beans. I miss their store/cafe in Phila., which they closed last year, apparently to concentrate on their local wholesale. Torreo is served at a number of cafes here.
I remember long ago seeing a price list for Fante's, a cookware shop in Philadelphia's Italian Market area, listing Blue Mountain for 30-some bucks per 1/2 lb. Googled them just now and see they have it for less now - 19.99 for a half lb "...in an attractive burlap pouch with the Jamaican government's certificate of authenticity."
http://fantes.com/coffee_beans.htm
As to brewing, I learned somewhere to use water at 195 F, a fairly fine grind, brewed for ~4 minutes in a French press (served w/ light cream please).
"If you want to call "B.S.", I suggest you call it on Forbes."
Er, the article says "subpoena provided to Forbes," *NOT* served on Forbes. In other words some other party let a Forbes reporter have a looksee at a subpoena.
that coding for standards can save boku bucks in the here and now, in terms of bandwidth costs and in the costs of designing and maintaining sites.
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid =03/09/30/1633204
(remove space from above url)
"you can't have a local line with no long distance service; maybe a second line, but the primary line requires it according to them."
Not true w/ Verizon anyway. When ATT briefly dabbled with charging a monthly min of $5 whether you made any calls or not, I ditched long distance. More correctly, I lost phone service for non-payment to Vz for several months when I was out of work a few years ago. When I paid the Vz charges and restarted my service, I did so with no long distance provider. ATT continued to dun me for a while for the ~$30 they claim I owe them (not for calls, but for the monthly minimum); I refuse to ack their supposed right to have unilaterally instituted the monthly min without my agreeing to such charges. Note that without long distance svc I am still able to reach toll-free #s.
Hmmm, amusing how much they've yet to learn about anything tech. Notice that all download links are of the form:
/ Tr ialHbk.zip"
"file:///C:/FrontPage%20Webs/Content/MassJuryV2
Content Generator is Front Page 3.0, btw.
Maybe because they can't spell defamation either? Defimation? Defamination (massive aid shipments of Twinkies to starving geeks)?
There may be a few shreds of altruism in Doyle's motivations (not to say he doesn't also wish to reap many dollah), if one were to take his comments to Cringely of a year ago as sincere. We won't know till this plays out further of course.
0 7. html
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit200211
What about the anti-spam lameware products that CC spam complaints to multiple role accounts at each and every ISP and upstream with an even a distant cousin relation to the spam. I've counted over 100 CCs in some of these. As a NOC monkey at an ISP (well, of course they CC the NOC role addy and just about any standard ISP role account you can imagine), even though we have a responsive abuse role), my typical reaction is to LART the complainant and send my own abuse complaint to the luser's ISP.
I call bullshit on this. The access to the press is there for the asking, but it requires some work. The United States Postal Service will cheerfully deliver press releases to any and all news agencies and individual reporters from any and all groups and individuals. Likewise the public phone network will route your followup calls to the same organizations. That newfangled Internet thingie will also deliver emailed digital press releases to news purveyors far and wide.
Naw, I believe the CNET reporter effectively told eBay to pull the auction by making a live person there aware of it:
--quote--
Informed of the auction by a CNET reporter, an eBay representative said the item would be removed, since "it does indeed violate eBay's listing guidelines on the sale of products delivered electronically through the Internet."
--end quote--
IRandom wrote:
"Just a note, a patent may still be kept secret.
So the fact that a method is patented doesn't mean that anybody can access it.
If i'm not mistaken the formula for coca-cola is patented and secret."
You're mistaken on both counts.A google search on patent vs "trade secret" will set you straight.
I didn't notice it when I first installed my Netgear RP614 last fall, but several months ago I noticed that my dsl modem and RP614 activity lights were blinking once per second round the clock. Just in recent days it occurred to me that this activity had stopped. Having read the article (sorry I do that once in awhile, /. tradition notwithstanding) I see that UWisc's stopgap solution a was to begin servicing the sntp requests again and as such my Netgear device no longer feels compelled to query them every second
As a side note, one thing that frustrates me about the RP614, although I'm otherwise happy with it, is that even though I can choose an option to allow ping to function, it still wont allow other types icmp traffic through and renders traceroutes out from my workstation useless.
>Article 6bis
>(1) Independently of the author's economic rights, and even after the transfer of the said rights, the author shall have the right to claim authorship of the work and to object to any distortion, mutilation or other modification of, or other derogatory action in relation to, the said work, which would be prejudicial to his honor or reputation.
Isn't that rather counter to to concept of criticism under Fair Use Doctrine? Well, not really I suppose, as it says the original author can point out his authorship and "object," which is exactly the most he can do.