In the early years of the 20th century, "dog and pony show" was a derisive name for a small circus or carnival. These small-town carnivals, not large or fancy enough to offer elephants and tigers, had to make do with more modest acts, such as dancing dogs and prancing ponies, to draw crowds. By the time of World War I, "dog and pony show" was being used as a metaphor for a big show with very little substance.
Many "mom and pop and kids" circuses that toured small towns could not afford the expense of maintaining large animals such as camels and elephants, or dangerous and also expensive ones such as lions and tigers. Often, their only menagerie was a few dogs and a pony. The majority of their entertainment consisted of clowning, acrobatics and juggling, with a few acts that involved the dogs and pony. The larger, more sophisticated and better equipped circuses came to refer to these little guys as "dog and pony shows."
I'm sure there was the occasional carnie who would put on "special" shows for select clients, but so far as I know beastiality has long been illegal in many US states and, therefore, the practice you describe, performed in the US, would present a very real risk of imprisonment to all participants - hence the legends about "pony shows" down in ye olde Tijuana.
There is a lot of freedom in a component CD player to get a proper circuit layout (seperate power for audio section, keep audio traces away from digital signals) in order to achieve the best possible sound quality and least noise. You don't have this kind of freedom on a computer motherboard where your audio signal and power traces are inevitably going to be run next to digital lines.
Obviously you've not peered inside many "component" CD players.
The reason that your example sounds better when burned to a CD is due to electrical noise. The inside of a computer case is an incredibly noisy environment (in both acoustic and EM specra).
What do you think is inside a CD player?
Saying a computer and a cd player is a profoundly bad generalization. I guarantee you I can find a CD player that will not perform as well as a motherboard sound device in a modern computer.
You nor LC are looking at the big picture. Of course most of us do not need 24 lines in our home. My point was simply that line that seems so much more expensive now ($10 vs $40) is not just a little more powerful than the old one - it's a lot more powerful. And despite none of us needing such capabilities at home, consider the impact on a small business; rather than buying a dozen business lines they need only a single DSL line - which, even for businesses that need guaranteed bandwidth, is a mere $100 proposition.
When I lived in LA you could get DSL without dialtone service. There was even a package deal being offered up north (perhaps by Qwest, but I can't recall) that included a DSL line, a specialized router that had network and phone jacks, and voip "dialtone" service. Although I haven't seen it I know some cable companies have experimented with a similar model.
That may have changed now that the phone company convinced the FCC it doesn't have to let others share its lines for internet services, but in many places that only changes who you pay for the service (ie the phone company gets the money instead of an "independant" isp).
Making you pay for a single phone line isn't much of an obstacle to voip. Even if you have to pay for dialtone service in most places that's less than ten bucks a month, and (in theory) there's nothing to prevent you from running a dozen lines off a decent dsl line. The real obstacle to this is the ISP - most of whom are so oversold you'd be doing well to run three simultaneous calls on a 768k line.
But you could operate 24 voip lines in that DSL line you are paying for - and that's only limited because of your upstream rate. If your connection were symmetric you could run a whopping 48 voice conversations on that DSL line, for a grand total of about $2 a line.
Does your phone company require a "hot" line for DSL? They (often) don't here; you can have DSL without even paying for dial tone service, and at prices roughly equal to what you describe. So, even at your asymmetric rates that comes to $4 a line for voip - about a quarter of what you were paying just for the internet connection back in "modem days."
How ironic is it that third world nations could end up leading the way in voip adoption? in the US this is still a mishmash of technologies and there is comparatively little use simply because we have so many competing options for phone service.
This is but one more great example of how monopolies can be good for markets; Put enough pressure on a resource, and people will find alternatives.
It would be great if this could help uplift the entire continent, but I still have my doubts. Corporations bring in the money, and no corporation is going to set up shop in a country with no stable government... which seems to be a real theme on that continent.
So this could become an open XML database of all known attacks and vulnerabilities? I think that's fantastic - not because I like to break into systems, but because it could be a real stick in the eye of all those expensive, proprietary security tools... and I love opportunities to poke sticks in the eyes of the establishment.
It's a very simple idea, but I've never seen anything like it in an open website. Is this new only because it's not a black hat operation?
Is this serious or a troll? So you really think 10 year olds should be allowed to endanger themselves and others by getting behind the wheel of a vehicle? Allowed to sign away their lives by giving them legal status regarding contracts? Allowed to buy booze at the liquor store on the way home from school?
Dude, there's a reason children don't have the right to vote. I also think 18 is a a little older than they should be allowed (I'd be more in favor of 16) but it's still way ahead of much of the "civilized" world. Some places you can't even have sex until you're 21, fer chrissake - or at all, unless you're married in a muslim ceremony.
Could things be better? Sure... but they could be much worse, too. Children in the US are eligible for free medical care and food under WIC; the government helps parents who cannot care for their children. But do you really want "the government" treating children "better?" We are already to the point children are routinely yanked from their homes with very little (zero) evidence of abuse. Beyond providing free food, medicine and even housing, what else would you have "the government" do? Perhaps all newborns should just become wards of the state so we don't have those nasty parents fucking up their lives? Federal orphanages for "bringing up baby" right? I'm sure the corporations making Billions building and managing prisons would just love that business expansion opportunity...
I don't think he was saying they were failures at all. And I'm pretty sure the reason he didn't offer "solutions or alternatives" is because there are none - and there need be none. To "fix" this (were it broken) would set a precedent pretty much like the one so many of us lambasted corporations for a decade ago - that is, if you use our tools to create a product then you have to abide by our terms, including paying us a license to distribute code made with our compiler. I mean, wasn't this one of the driving forces behind making new compilers and a new OS? One that would be free of this stuff?
Amazon and all the others are free to build and deploy using the same tools everyone else uses, and playing by the same rules. They are not to blame for being successful enough that their data being manipulated by those tools is more valuable than someone elses. Or for having the money and foresight to employ programmers to use those tools to create new tools for the company's own personal use.
There's nothing to "fix" here because nothing is broken. Should you have to license hammers from Black & Decker because you build houses for a living?
Why would you hope that? I could probably find more dirt on Hillary Clinton by hitting the drudge site than I could via this open secrets mirror. If this site is to serve as an open dossier on our politicos I would hope it would have exactly this sort of information - from all sides of the spectrum.
I saw this last night and thought of submitting it, but after looking it over I blew it off because all it seems to be is a differently organized mirror of the opensecrets.org website. Every single "fact" I found was collected from there.
One thing I did find interesting was looking at campaign contributions. The amount of money behind Liddy Dole and Hillary Clinton is fucking astounding. More then Ed Kennedy, more than Fritz Hollings - more than anyone else I looked at (and I looked at many).
aside from campaign money there's just not that much there. No corporate holdings (which would be a helluva lot more interesting than donations), no special interest alliances - not much of nothing.
Yeah, and who is going to regulate that everyone uses power control and that it works right all the time?
Duuuhh.. the same people who allocate "spectrum?"
It's alot easier to partition everything into bands and hand out rights to each chunk
No, it isn't. You still have to enforce the rules. All that would change are the rules being enforced.
Operating equipment that defied the rules would be a stupid waste of time because, with everyone having digital "smart" radios no one would be able to receive your broadcast anyway.
Also, recently it seems that UWB radio itself may not be all its cracked up to be in real life.
Is that why the FCC is allocating more spectrum to tests?
You shouldn't believe everything the military tells you. If it's "not all it's cracked up to be" why the fuck do they use it so much?
I was sitting there musing on the image of EG Daily and Marisa Tomei when another headline caught my eye. Sorry, but I couldn't resist...
Dark Horizons posted speculation about the rumor that Ashton Kutcher is the front-runner for a proposed fifth Batman movie. The '70s Show star is Warner Brothers' first choice, but not that of director Christopher Nolan, the site reported.
Now, back to EG Daily and Marisa... that's right babies... who's your daddy?
With power control and intelligent on-the-fly usage there is no need to allocate "bands." And by using a wider bandwidth you can increase the processing gain in the radio, which means you can have dozens (according to one paper, thousands) of radios all using the same spectrum - all securely (because encryption is inherent to the processing algorithm) and all at the same time.
Intelligence can be pulled from extremely noisy signals; in some cases the noise isn't even relevant because "digital" can slice through time as easily as spectrum. Digital signal processing changes the field considerably.
So allocating an unlicensed band that wasn't allocated before means LESS? It's not as if this band was never regulated before and the nations of the world just decided to take it over.
If you want more RF freedom, get an amateur license and have at it. Or don't, and just ignore the rules - either way it's not as if you were using this spectrum before, now is it?
Having a worldwide market for this stuff means cheaper end user product. That means MORE freedom because MORE people can utilize this spectrum. That means LESS crowding in populated areas. It also means even cheaper 2.4GHz equipment as the urban areas move into this new spectrum. That means rural areas (like mine) can even better afford wireless broadband.
Looks to me like this means more freedom all around. What planet are you from?
Not trying to beat down your point - just setting the record straight. Turns out I was wrong about my printer because I never want to believe I'm as old as I am. That thing was bought like in 1988, which means it's way more than ten years old.
The upside I guess is that a ten year old inkjet - if it's still working - is at least worth using. I wouldn't suffer the noise to use the old dot matrix for code listings. Maybe I should make a robot...
I actually remember reading about this very discussion back when the space shuttle was still being designed. One of the issues was apparently the difference between tapes (which they were using) and hard drives because tapes had a "built in" equalization of this effect and hard drives didn't.
I doubt it's an issue any more, I jsut remember it so well because I thought at the time it was interesting. I thought I might find an article mentioning it, but no luck. I did, howewver, find this little bit...
IBM announced that NASA had successfully used its one-inch diameter 1 GB Microdrive to store digital snapshots of deep space and bring them on home to Earth, during recent Atlantis and Discovery shuttle missions. The drive costs $499, the shuttles cost billions.
Not exactly 500GB, but it appears they are already well tested in your application. 500 drives x $500 ain't exactly cheap, but perhaps you could get a sponsorship agreement and an opportunity to employ their more recent, higher capacity drives.
Like I said: how do I get a paypal account without a bank account? Sure, they say you don't need one. I tried that: those fuckers still owe me $20 and they won't let me have it until I "authorize" paypal... meaning I send them a bank account number.
Not exactly "anonymous." No, wait... not even a little "anonymous."
Indeed. I still have a Panasonic nine pin dot matrix printer sitting in my shop. It was the first printer I ever bought and, at the time, was all I could afford. It was $195 and exceedingly loud, but it made up for it by being slow and printing... well, it was a 9 pin dot matrix.
I wouldn't buy a Lexmark printer, but I wouldn't buy one before this lawsuit either because when I hear the name Lexmark I think of cheaply made crap that'll fall apart in six months. My Panasonic printer is close to ten years old and although I never use it, I know I still could. I can even get new ribbons for the damn thing at Wal-Mart.
How many Lexmark inkjet printers will be around in a decade? How many ink cartridges could you go through in that time?
I DID "read about it." I read the part about requiring a credit card or paypal account for purchase. I read the part about the seller not knowing where the money comes from - which means absolutely nothing to my personal privacy because the "bitpass account" can still be traced to a credit card or bank account - which means my purchase is not anonymous at all.
You could probably by one from that american supermarket you mentioned eventually.... once there is a need.
There is a need now. And no, you can't. And the "information superhighway" is littered with the carcasses of companies that tried to fill this "need." Why? because most of'em (paypal included) can't be trusted as far as you could throw their overinflated IPOs.
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Apparently you don't understand the word "only."
Many "mom and pop and kids" circuses that toured small towns could not afford the expense of maintaining large animals such as camels and elephants, or dangerous and also expensive ones such as lions and tigers. Often, their only menagerie was a few dogs and a pony. The majority of their entertainment consisted of clowning, acrobatics and juggling, with a few acts that involved the dogs and pony. The larger, more sophisticated and better equipped circuses came to refer to these little guys as "dog and pony shows."
I'm sure there was the occasional carnie who would put on "special" shows for select clients, but so far as I know beastiality has long been illegal in many US states and, therefore, the practice you describe, performed in the US, would present a very real risk of imprisonment to all participants - hence the legends about "pony shows" down in ye olde Tijuana.
I bet you like playing raquetball in the closet, too, don'tcha?
If you want news, go to the source.
Obviously you've not peered inside many "component" CD players.
You should try it...
What do you think is inside a CD player?
Saying a computer and a cd player is a profoundly bad generalization. I guarantee you I can find a CD player that will not perform as well as a motherboard sound device in a modern computer.
That may have changed now that the phone company convinced the FCC it doesn't have to let others share its lines for internet services, but in many places that only changes who you pay for the service (ie the phone company gets the money instead of an "independant" isp).
Making you pay for a single phone line isn't much of an obstacle to voip. Even if you have to pay for dialtone service in most places that's less than ten bucks a month, and (in theory) there's nothing to prevent you from running a dozen lines off a decent dsl line. The real obstacle to this is the ISP - most of whom are so oversold you'd be doing well to run three simultaneous calls on a 768k line.
Does your phone company require a "hot" line for DSL? They (often) don't here; you can have DSL without even paying for dial tone service, and at prices roughly equal to what you describe. So, even at your asymmetric rates that comes to $4 a line for voip - about a quarter of what you were paying just for the internet connection back in "modem days."
This is but one more great example of how monopolies can be good for markets; Put enough pressure on a resource, and people will find alternatives.
It would be great if this could help uplift the entire continent, but I still have my doubts. Corporations bring in the money, and no corporation is going to set up shop in a country with no stable government... which seems to be a real theme on that continent.
It's a very simple idea, but I've never seen anything like it in an open website. Is this new only because it's not a black hat operation?
Dude, there's a reason children don't have the right to vote. I also think 18 is a a little older than they should be allowed (I'd be more in favor of 16) but it's still way ahead of much of the "civilized" world. Some places you can't even have sex until you're 21, fer chrissake - or at all, unless you're married in a muslim ceremony.
Could things be better? Sure... but they could be much worse, too. Children in the US are eligible for free medical care and food under WIC; the government helps parents who cannot care for their children. But do you really want "the government" treating children "better?" We are already to the point children are routinely yanked from their homes with very little (zero) evidence of abuse. Beyond providing free food, medicine and even housing, what else would you have "the government" do? Perhaps all newborns should just become wards of the state so we don't have those nasty parents fucking up their lives? Federal orphanages for "bringing up baby" right? I'm sure the corporations making Billions building and managing prisons would just love that business expansion opportunity...
Amazon and all the others are free to build and deploy using the same tools everyone else uses, and playing by the same rules. They are not to blame for being successful enough that their data being manipulated by those tools is more valuable than someone elses. Or for having the money and foresight to employ programmers to use those tools to create new tools for the company's own personal use.
There's nothing to "fix" here because nothing is broken. Should you have to license hammers from Black & Decker because you build houses for a living?
Why would you hope that? I could probably find more dirt on Hillary Clinton by hitting the drudge site than I could via this open secrets mirror. If this site is to serve as an open dossier on our politicos I would hope it would have exactly this sort of information - from all sides of the spectrum.
One thing I did find interesting was looking at campaign contributions. The amount of money behind Liddy Dole and Hillary Clinton is fucking astounding. More then Ed Kennedy, more than Fritz Hollings - more than anyone else I looked at (and I looked at many).
aside from campaign money there's just not that much there. No corporate holdings (which would be a helluva lot more interesting than donations), no special interest alliances - not much of nothing.
Duuuhh.. the same people who allocate "spectrum?"
It's alot easier to partition everything into bands and hand out rights to each chunk
No, it isn't. You still have to enforce the rules. All that would change are the rules being enforced.
Operating equipment that defied the rules would be a stupid waste of time because, with everyone having digital "smart" radios no one would be able to receive your broadcast anyway.
Also, recently it seems that UWB radio itself may not be all its cracked up to be in real life.
Is that why the FCC is allocating more spectrum to tests?
You shouldn't believe everything the military tells you. If it's "not all it's cracked up to be" why the fuck do they use it so much?
Dark Horizons posted speculation about the rumor that Ashton Kutcher is the front-runner for a proposed fifth Batman movie. The '70s Show star is Warner Brothers' first choice, but not that of director Christopher Nolan, the site reported.
Now, back to EG Daily and Marisa... that's right babies... who's your daddy?
Intelligence can be pulled from extremely noisy signals; in some cases the noise isn't even relevant because "digital" can slice through time as easily as spectrum. Digital signal processing changes the field considerably.
If you want more RF freedom, get an amateur license and have at it. Or don't, and just ignore the rules - either way it's not as if you were using this spectrum before, now is it?
Having a worldwide market for this stuff means cheaper end user product. That means MORE freedom because MORE people can utilize this spectrum. That means LESS crowding in populated areas. It also means even cheaper 2.4GHz equipment as the urban areas move into this new spectrum. That means rural areas (like mine) can even better afford wireless broadband.
Looks to me like this means more freedom all around. What planet are you from?
The upside I guess is that a ten year old inkjet - if it's still working - is at least worth using. I wouldn't suffer the noise to use the old dot matrix for code listings. Maybe I should make a robot...
I wonder if Prince had anything to do with this project...
I doubt it's an issue any more, I jsut remember it so well because I thought at the time it was interesting. I thought I might find an article mentioning it, but no luck. I did, howewver, find this little bit...
IBM announced that NASA had successfully used its one-inch diameter 1 GB Microdrive to store digital snapshots of deep space and bring them on home to Earth, during recent Atlantis and Discovery shuttle missions. The drive costs $499, the shuttles cost billions.
Not exactly 500GB, but it appears they are already well tested in your application. 500 drives x $500 ain't exactly cheap, but perhaps you could get a sponsorship agreement and an opportunity to employ their more recent, higher capacity drives.
Not exactly "anonymous." No, wait... not even a little "anonymous."
I wouldn't buy a Lexmark printer, but I wouldn't buy one before this lawsuit either because when I hear the name Lexmark I think of cheaply made crap that'll fall apart in six months. My Panasonic printer is close to ten years old and although I never use it, I know I still could. I can even get new ribbons for the damn thing at Wal-Mart.
How many Lexmark inkjet printers will be around in a decade? How many ink cartridges could you go through in that time?
You could probably by one from that american supermarket you mentioned eventually.... once there is a need.
There is a need now. And no, you can't. And the "information superhighway" is littered with the carcasses of companies that tried to fill this "need." Why? because most of'em (paypal included) can't be trusted as far as you could throw their overinflated IPOs.