I have the same problem in a suburb of Washington DC. Based on the availability, you'd think it was Mercury. Trees are a major problem re: DirecTV, and Fios isn't anywhere nearby (in spite of a Fios backbone crossing the road I can see from my community.)
The inserts are being distributed to EW subscribers in NY and LA. Newsstands and other subscribers will get regular versions. The success of Video-In-Print could stimulate more widespread video print ads, but as of now, the prohibitive cost of these items (especially compared to traditional motionless ads) prevents wider distribution.
I be a engineer. Listening to music, especially the commercial-infested kind, is distracting. If anything, I have some background music on a CD available. Company policy doesn't allow online streaming, and radio reception in the lab is all but impossible. (So yes, I pretty much refuse to listen to music at work.)
Note that there's a difference between listening to something from my CD collection and shopping/paying for "new" music. There's a limited amount of time and money available for all of my entertainment desires, and the music industry's value proposition sucks. The music industry isn't accustomed to competing for my entertainment dollars. Until recently, they have completely ignored the external threats, focussing all their energies on the internal ones (i.e. obstruct the up-and-comers.)
Unfortunately for them, the recording equivalent of the Gutenberg Press has come along...
Actually, it's considerably worse than that. Not only are the great unwashed masses capable of publishing their own work in a reasonaly professional format, other industries are competing for the ultimate resource - my time. I have exactly 24 man-hours in a day to spend however I see fit. About 7 of those go to a necessary "glimpse of death" state. Let's say that I spend 8 hours at work, and another 2 commuting. That leaves 7 hours for "everything else." Toss in a couple of hours for eating, bathing, residential maintenance... all items where concurrent "entertainment" isn't particularly practical. You get down to 1-2 hours per day that's available for entertainment. The music industry used to be top dog in that regard, but others have encroached on that territory. Instead of listening to music, I now have many choices as to how to spend my limited entertainment time. Generally, I choose something other than music, simply because I find other stuff to be more compelling. I have several hundred CDs, but nothing has been purchased recently. Why? Because I have choices on how to spend my entertainment-time and entertainment-money, and the music industry's offerings just don't cut it anymore.
There are quite a few vessels in the Beluga Projects family. Seems more like the Marketing guys threw a dart at a dictionary... Beluga Flirtation, Beluga Recommendation, Beluga Fiction... yeah, I don't see anything underhanded here. Odd, yes.
I'm running a stripped-down Debian distro on an embedded control box. IceWM is adequate. We've got 128MB of RAM and a 2GB flash card. The CPU is a 400MHz Pentium 3. (The box has to run on battery, so we're careful with power management.) Granted, I won't be streaming HD video with this rig, but that isn't one of it's tasks...
Agreed. I remember reading the short story, and being completely impressed with the detail to which King described the process of someone's kneecap exploding as it was sucked between two planks on the raft. The Creepshow version didn't do it justice (but it *did* motivate me to go read the source.)
Troll? The vast majority of comments in this thread are about The Blob. I failed to see a single mention of The Raft, and I even provided a link. How the hell is that trolling?
BTW, I think The Raft does a much better job of getting under your skin... so to speak.
And to further expand on your point, any military should be concerned with fuel efficiency, because a machine that can stay on-station or can hang in a firefight longer has a distinct tactical advantage. Granted, that is but one variable that must be balanced against many others, but it's really just as important as offensive and defensive capabilities.
Here's the funny thing... there is plenty of entertainment. That's a bad thing for a media cartel, because a free-market economy will drive the price down due to excess supply. It's not difficult to declare yourself a musician - grab an instrument and go. (note: if you're complaining about "quality" work, that's a completely subjective matter and is the topic of a completely different rant.) The modern distribution model doesn't rely on the middleman anymore, and they're crapping their pants right about now. They've moved from collusion to attempting to legislate their defunct business model in the form of onerous copyright laws and attempts to become a semi-law-enforcement entity (what the hell are RIAA enforcers doing accompanying the FBI on raids?)
When the fruit vendor jacks the price up, you shop elsewhere. If all fruit vendors jack the price up, you bitch and moan, and choose other more affordable foods. When the fruit vendors band together and sue anyone who attempts to grow their own fruit, or purchase legislation that prevents you from selling or giving your fruit to another individual, then you have civil disobedience (i.e. folks disregarding the broken laws.) When truckloads of fruit infringers are shipped off to fruit-piracy re-education camps, you'll end up with civil war.
The entertainment industry is notorious for creating an artificial scarcity. They squeeze the distribution pipe between the content creators and the customers. There's plenty of content, and the economics dictate that the price should drop. However, that prevents the media cartels from making "good healthy profits" (as defined by *them*.) Their solution isn't to flood the market with lots of content... that would entail more work for them for the same return. They have chosen to choke-off the supply line, separating the product from the customer such that they may dictate the market price for a given set of products. This method is only sustainable if no one is allowed to circumvent their choke hold, which is why legislative actions are so important to them. If there are no repercussions to you bypassing the toll booth, their economic model fails.
The revolution is upon them. It snuck up in the darkness of the internet, and the media companies are scrambling to kill it. If they had any vision a few decades ago, we would be begging Paramount-Verizon or Universal-Bell-South to deploy video-on-demand services through the government-restricted 2B+D ISDN services residential customers are allowed to have. (Corporate customers may petition the Federal Digital Communications Commission for higher bandwidth access... and trust me, you don't want to run afoul of the FDCC.)
About a decade ago, I worked with a Vietnamese guy. His very-traditional Vietnamese wife would prepare his lunch for him every day. Wednesdays were... the dreaded "dead fish" sandwich. Folks learned to avoid the beak room, as he would put this fish-goop sandwich into the microwave and... OH GOD, THE HORRID STENCH ! I'M HAVING A FLASHBACK !!! KILL ME NOW.
I don't know what it was, but it had the power to clear the second-floor break room in about 30 seconds.
I had the same de-certification read, only I was confounded about how bacteria could help teachers retain their credentials. (my brain processed it as a typical/. typo that got past the editors... just like all the rest)
How the hell are you supposed to pronounce that bizarre word, anyway?
Lazy? How, pray tell, am I supposed to "automate" the pressing of the development system power switch? Get one of those Radio Shack robotic arms to reach over and turn the power on?
Actually, it's even better if you're working on a contract that has any association with the US government. You're basically bound, contractually, to not waste the government's money. Turning the systems off and on repeatedly is considered "inefficient use of the government resources" and is very frowned upon.
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Not to be pedantic, but technically it's a bacronym.
I have the same problem in a suburb of Washington DC. Based on the availability, you'd think it was Mercury. Trees are a major problem re: DirecTV, and Fios isn't anywhere nearby (in spite of a Fios backbone crossing the road I can see from my community.)
So don't expect to buy one off the shelf.
Where's an Ewok when you need one?
Any chance that comes with a free Frogurt? That would be good.
I be a engineer. Listening to music, especially the commercial-infested kind, is distracting. If anything, I have some background music on a CD available. Company policy doesn't allow online streaming, and radio reception in the lab is all but impossible. (So yes, I pretty much refuse to listen to music at work.)
Note that there's a difference between listening to something from my CD collection and shopping/paying for "new" music. There's a limited amount of time and money available for all of my entertainment desires, and the music industry's value proposition sucks. The music industry isn't accustomed to competing for my entertainment dollars. Until recently, they have completely ignored the external threats, focussing all their energies on the internal ones (i.e. obstruct the up-and-comers.)
The League of Extraordinary Evil, perhaps?
Actually, it's considerably worse than that. Not only are the great unwashed masses capable of publishing their own work in a reasonaly professional format, other industries are competing for the ultimate resource - my time. I have exactly 24 man-hours in a day to spend however I see fit. About 7 of those go to a necessary "glimpse of death" state. Let's say that I spend 8 hours at work, and another 2 commuting. That leaves 7 hours for "everything else." Toss in a couple of hours for eating, bathing, residential maintenance ... all items where concurrent "entertainment" isn't particularly practical. You get down to 1-2 hours per day that's available for entertainment. The music industry used to be top dog in that regard, but others have encroached on that territory. Instead of listening to music, I now have many choices as to how to spend my limited entertainment time. Generally, I choose something other than music, simply because I find other stuff to be more compelling. I have several hundred CDs, but nothing has been purchased recently. Why? Because I have choices on how to spend my entertainment-time and entertainment-money, and the music industry's offerings just don't cut it anymore.
There are some photos of the ship available. She's mostly blue, and looks to be in need of a paint job.
... Beluga Flirtation, Beluga Recommendation, Beluga Fiction ... yeah, I don't see anything underhanded here. Odd, yes.
There are quite a few vessels in the Beluga Projects family. Seems more like the Marketing guys threw a dart at a dictionary
I'm running a stripped-down Debian distro on an embedded control box. IceWM is adequate. We've got 128MB of RAM and a 2GB flash card. The CPU is a 400MHz Pentium 3. (The box has to run on battery, so we're careful with power management.) Granted, I won't be streaming HD video with this rig, but that isn't one of it's tasks ...
Their crappy algorithmic "music" has driven me to drink. Does my alcoholism require a performance royalty to the RIAA?
Citizen, if you have nothing to hide, why didn't you volunteer for the Truth Scan?
Yeah, that wouldn't be subject to abuse, just like the current legal system isn't.
Agreed. I remember reading the short story, and being completely impressed with the detail to which King described the process of someone's kneecap exploding as it was sucked between two planks on the raft. The Creepshow version didn't do it justice (but it *did* motivate me to go read the source.)
Troll? The vast majority of comments in this thread are about The Blob. I failed to see a single mention of The Raft, and I even provided a link. How the hell is that trolling?
... so to speak.
BTW, I think The Raft does a much better job of getting under your skin
The young-uhns don't appear to know what you're talking about.
And to further expand on your point, any military should be concerned with fuel efficiency, because a machine that can stay on-station or can hang in a firefight longer has a distinct tactical advantage. Granted, that is but one variable that must be balanced against many others, but it's really just as important as offensive and defensive capabilities.
Man, I swear I'm looking at the cockpit module from an Eagle. BTW, what's Catherine Schell up to these days?
This sounds a lot like the plot from the ST:TNG episode "Arsenal of Freedom." Just make sure the E-Stop switch on the product demo actually works.
That'd be "vector graphics," you damned whippersnapper.
Here's the funny thing ... there is plenty of entertainment. That's a bad thing for a media cartel, because a free-market economy will drive the price down due to excess supply. It's not difficult to declare yourself a musician - grab an instrument and go. (note: if you're complaining about "quality" work, that's a completely subjective matter and is the topic of a completely different rant.) The modern distribution model doesn't rely on the middleman anymore, and they're crapping their pants right about now. They've moved from collusion to attempting to legislate their defunct business model in the form of onerous copyright laws and attempts to become a semi-law-enforcement entity (what the hell are RIAA enforcers doing accompanying the FBI on raids?)
When the fruit vendor jacks the price up, you shop elsewhere. If all fruit vendors jack the price up, you bitch and moan, and choose other more affordable foods. When the fruit vendors band together and sue anyone who attempts to grow their own fruit, or purchase legislation that prevents you from selling or giving your fruit to another individual, then you have civil disobedience (i.e. folks disregarding the broken laws.) When truckloads of fruit infringers are shipped off to fruit-piracy re-education camps, you'll end up with civil war.
The entertainment industry is notorious for creating an artificial scarcity. They squeeze the distribution pipe between the content creators and the customers. There's plenty of content, and the economics dictate that the price should drop. However, that prevents the media cartels from making "good healthy profits" (as defined by *them*.) Their solution isn't to flood the market with lots of content ... that would entail more work for them for the same return. They have chosen to choke-off the supply line, separating the product from the customer such that they may dictate the market price for a given set of products. This method is only sustainable if no one is allowed to circumvent their choke hold, which is why legislative actions are so important to them. If there are no repercussions to you bypassing the toll booth, their economic model fails.
... and trust me, you don't want to run afoul of the FDCC.)
The revolution is upon them. It snuck up in the darkness of the internet, and the media companies are scrambling to kill it. If they had any vision a few decades ago, we would be begging Paramount-Verizon or Universal-Bell-South to deploy video-on-demand services through the government-restricted 2B+D ISDN services residential customers are allowed to have. (Corporate customers may petition the Federal Digital Communications Commission for higher bandwidth access
Victory by attrition is still victory.
About a decade ago, I worked with a Vietnamese guy. His very-traditional Vietnamese wife would prepare his lunch for him every day. Wednesdays were ... the dreaded "dead fish" sandwich. Folks learned to avoid the beak room, as he would put this fish-goop sandwich into the microwave and ... OH GOD, THE HORRID STENCH ! I'M HAVING A FLASHBACK !!! KILL ME NOW.
I don't know what it was, but it had the power to clear the second-floor break room in about 30 seconds.
I had the same de-certification read, only I was confounded about how bacteria could help teachers retain their credentials. (my brain processed it as a typical /. typo that got past the editors ... just like all the rest)
How the hell are you supposed to pronounce that bizarre word, anyway?
Lazy? How, pray tell, am I supposed to "automate" the pressing of the development system power switch? Get one of those Radio Shack robotic arms to reach over and turn the power on?
Actually, it's even better if you're working on a contract that has any association with the US government. You're basically bound, contractually, to not waste the government's money. Turning the systems off and on repeatedly is considered "inefficient use of the government resources" and is very frowned upon.