See this within the totality of what Google's trying to do. Right now, the American cell market is locked down by the providers, such that most phones are tied to a contract. Americans can't just buy a new phone and swap their SIM cards particularly easily. And even then, it wouldn't get much since all the providers suck anyway.
This situation hampers Google. It's hard for them to develop for the mobile environment on another company's system because the stuff's locked down. So if they're going to do it, they pretty much have to do it themselves. Add in the spectre of broadband companies demanding ransom not to throttle Google's traffic (absent net neutrality legislation), and Google is at the mercy of other companies who are between them and their users.
So first, Google liberates the phone, and makes it an open platform, not locked down. Then Google buys a whole lot of 700MHz spectrum and builds a network that they can use, possibly for the phone but also new efforts. Probably wireless data, possibly a means of distributing other content as well. Also consider the portable data centers Google has been designing.
One could begin to see how Google might be on the verge of doing something very big. Google already has the content and useful applications for exploring the content. Now they need to be able to find better ways of getting that content to their users. Developing a phone, wireless capability, and backbone capacity would allow them to completely cut out the middleman.
Paramount was paid for switching to HD-DVD, but it's not the only reason. Paramount does appear to believe HD-DVD is technically a superior system.
If they believed all that strongly in HD-DVD's technical merits, the switch wouldn't have required grease on the wheels. Additionally, you're citing Panasonic's CTO as to the switch. No matter what the reason was, he's going to tell you it wasn't the money. Even if it was, in fact, the money.
Standing is an artificial object: it is created by law, and needn't correspond with anyone's intuitions about who has the right to complain. While standing exists in a highly limited capacity for non-statutory claims, almost 100% of claims which can be filed in court (criminal or civil) have their issues of standing defined by statute.
OK. So the state wins, no problem. What's the judgement, $1, since they weren't harmed?
Again, I realize I'm not a lawyer and am well out of my depth, but this just doesn't make sense.
While IANAL, I've never heard of the state bringing a civil suit against an individual citizen. Does that ever even happen?
Also not a lawyer...but I can't possibly see how the state could bring a civil suit since it's not the aggrieved party. How is the state damaged? Please tell me they're not going to try some dumb thing like lost tax revenue from the RIAA's sales that didn't occur. Leahy's comments certainly suggest it:
"Copyright infringement silently drains America's economy and undermines the talent, creativity and initiative that are a great source of strength to our nation," said Leahy. "When we protect intellectual property from copyright infringement, we protect our economy and our ideas."
why anyone thinks the encryption will be effective? Since the RIAA (for example) catches torrenters by downloading the file from them in order to prove that they were 'making copyrighted content available', it doesn't really seem to matter whether or not it's encrypted. You're sending the RIAA a file that won't be encrypted on their end....
So just be a leach, don't 'make it available.' Not exactly neighborly, but it'll keep you clean.
For the Chicxulub impact to have caused the mass extinction, it *must* have predated the mass extinction. How's it going to cause a mass extinction if it takes place after the mass extinction occurs?
Geologic timescales. Here, 'predated' implies 'predated significantly enough such as to be unrelated.' This is understood by everyone who isn't trying to be as pedantic as humanly possible.
So I'm sitting with a 1.25 GHz PB with 512MB of RAM. I was planning to avoid Leopard because Tiger was a helluvalot slower than Panther, and I assumed Leopard would be worse still. Do you think Leopard would be better than Tiger for such an antiquated system? Do the paging improvements tend to reduce the 'beach ball effect'?
Exactly, a couple years back at vegas, the roulette wheel spun black 13 times in a row.
Thats like 1/.48^13th.
Do you mean *you* saw it a couple of years ago? I only as because it should happen every few thousand spins on every roulette wheel, shouldn't be newsworthy.
Seems to me it's about once every 6685 spins (1/.48^12; red would be just as noticeable as black). With 30 spins an hour (conservatively), 3 wheels per casino operating on average 12 hours a day (conservatively; the number of wheels active varies throughout the day), I'll go ahead and guess this averages at least every other day at a given casino.
Instead, we could just go back to explaining things orally
Oral presentations can be bad too. You can get some guy who talks in loops and says "...uh....uh..." all the time.
Good presentations do have relevant graphics on nearly every slide, and about 3 short bullets per slide which highlight the major talking points. I try to do that with my own presentations. No paragraphs in text boxes.
* and sub-bullets
* which don't really add anything
* and are hard to read while listening to the speaker
* and often just say the same anyway
Sometimes having redundant information isn't bad - some people (like me) are visual learners, and will probably prefer to read the slides as opposed to listening to the (usually bad) speaker. And then there are conferences in the sciences, where the "speaker" doesn't speak anything I'd remotely call English and I'm reduced to reading the slides (and I'm very tolerant of poor English, but sometimes even I give up).
Oh, I see - an article on a local band that played every bar between Maryland and Massachusetts for the better part of 15 years and whose members went on to other cultural exploits, but NEVER PUT OUT A RECORD, is not notable
Correct. Regional bar bands are of exceptionally little interest to anyone except the members. Wikipedia isn't the place for vanity pages.
I guess data for contemporary anthropology doesn't qualify as "notable" for those asshats.
Bar bands that no one cares about don't qualify as contemporary anthropology any more than does my family tree, and Wikipedia isn't the place for *that*, either.
Some people seem to have the idea that Wikipedia is a dumping ground for personal web pages. It's not. It's a reference for many millions of people, and search pollution is a problem. So, I'm sorry, but no one cares about your band. Get your own hosting and your own site to promote your now-defunct bar band.
Your average cubicle drone machine usually runs in the neighborhood of $800 to $1200 depending on what is needed. Not to mention that a lot of companies are going with laptops for most employees nowadays (basically, anybody above CS). These are investments that only the most ignorant CFO would view as disposable.
Depends where and who the workers are. With highly trained professionals in high cost of living areas, $1000 is basically nothing. With benefits and everything, that's about 0.3% of an employee's annual salary, or about 4 hours. The cost of the computer becomes quite miniscule.
When you factor in failure rates, productivity lost do to reimaging a machine that just needs a new ram chip, etc etc, it is much cheaper to have onstaff hardware people.
Depends how cheap you can get them. In our market, with benefits and overhead the cost of that hardware guy would cost us $100,000 a year. It would actually be cheaper to have a spare, clone laptop for every employee, with data stored centrally.
What's the status of Over-the-Air Broadcast TV? Is that still available?
Yes. Analog up to 2012 and digital thereafter.
Do the rabbit ears still do the trick?
Depends how close you live to the stations, but I'm sure it still works as well as it ever did. If it's a long-term situation a permanent antenna is always an option too.
Will I need to upgrade to a "digital broadcast" receiver when the government cuts off the broadcast of TV (which I think is scheduled for 2008)?
I think that was originally scheduled for 2009 but the broadcasters don't have their acts together, so that was recently pushed back to 2012 if I recall. By then high-def TVs with internal tuners will probably be nearly ubiquitous. Eventually they are supposed to switch, but they keep pushing it back, so I wouldn't bet on them switching by 2012.
The article also discusses the impact this may have on low- to middle-income families, who disproportionately live in apartment complexes."
Now I hate cable monopolies as much as the next guy (have Comcast because I practically live in a forest that prevents view of satellites). But come on - you don't *need* cable. If people are paying the cable bill over, say, rent, groceries, or health insurance, there's a clear imbalance of priorities here.
If you're in middle school, you shouldn't be citing encyclopedias. Particularly ones that, for all intents and purposes, seem to be edited primarily by your classmates.
For your average middle schooler, I'd be happy if they could *read* Wikipedia. Or 'See Spot Run'.
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am i missing something here?
Yes. Reading comprehension.
See this within the totality of what Google's trying to do. Right now, the American cell market is locked down by the providers, such that most phones are tied to a contract. Americans can't just buy a new phone and swap their SIM cards particularly easily. And even then, it wouldn't get much since all the providers suck anyway.
This situation hampers Google. It's hard for them to develop for the mobile environment on another company's system because the stuff's locked down. So if they're going to do it, they pretty much have to do it themselves. Add in the spectre of broadband companies demanding ransom not to throttle Google's traffic (absent net neutrality legislation), and Google is at the mercy of other companies who are between them and their users.
So first, Google liberates the phone, and makes it an open platform, not locked down. Then Google buys a whole lot of 700MHz spectrum and builds a network that they can use, possibly for the phone but also new efforts. Probably wireless data, possibly a means of distributing other content as well. Also consider the portable data centers Google has been designing.
One could begin to see how Google might be on the verge of doing something very big. Google already has the content and useful applications for exploring the content. Now they need to be able to find better ways of getting that content to their users. Developing a phone, wireless capability, and backbone capacity would allow them to completely cut out the middleman.
Paramount was paid for switching to HD-DVD, but it's not the only reason. Paramount does appear to believe HD-DVD is technically a superior system.
If they believed all that strongly in HD-DVD's technical merits, the switch wouldn't have required grease on the wheels. Additionally, you're citing Panasonic's CTO as to the switch. No matter what the reason was, he's going to tell you it wasn't the money. Even if it was, in fact, the money.
Standing is an artificial object: it is created by law, and needn't correspond with anyone's intuitions about who has the right to complain. While standing exists in a highly limited capacity for non-statutory claims, almost 100% of claims which can be filed in court (criminal or civil) have their issues of standing defined by statute.
OK. So the state wins, no problem. What's the judgement, $1, since they weren't harmed?
Again, I realize I'm not a lawyer and am well out of my depth, but this just doesn't make sense.
While IANAL, I've never heard of the state bringing a civil suit against an individual citizen. Does that ever even happen?
Also not a lawyer...but I can't possibly see how the state could bring a civil suit since it's not the aggrieved party. How is the state damaged? Please tell me they're not going to try some dumb thing like lost tax revenue from the RIAA's sales that didn't occur. Leahy's comments certainly suggest it:
Oh boo hoo.
Because I'm that fucking lazy. And there's not much point if I'm not switching off the computer too, which I'm also not doing.
why anyone thinks the encryption will be effective? Since the RIAA (for example) catches torrenters by downloading the file from them in order to prove that they were 'making copyrighted content available', it doesn't really seem to matter whether or not it's encrypted. You're sending the RIAA a file that won't be encrypted on their end....
So just be a leach, don't 'make it available.' Not exactly neighborly, but it'll keep you clean.
Old, dupey, probably hokey news.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/26/1917259
Yeah. I wish the monkey could tell them, 'You know what? Did it ever occur to you I just don't like blue fucking M&M's? They're just unnatural.'
Do you remember when they arrested CEOs of foreign gambling sites whose servers were overseas and legal in the nations they operated in?
That one was a little different because (to my knowledge) all those CEOs were American citizens who got busted when they came back to US soil.
It's defamation in Candada, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway at least. Probably many more.
To say something true about somebody? Wow. Just seems incomprehensible to me.
For the Chicxulub impact to have caused the mass extinction, it *must* have predated the mass extinction. How's it going to cause a mass extinction if it takes place after the mass extinction occurs?
Geologic timescales. Here, 'predated' implies 'predated significantly enough such as to be unrelated.' This is understood by everyone who isn't trying to be as pedantic as humanly possible.
Only one I see mentioned is the Philippines. Am I missing something?
So I'm sitting with a 1.25 GHz PB with 512MB of RAM. I was planning to avoid Leopard because Tiger was a helluvalot slower than Panther, and I assumed Leopard would be worse still. Do you think Leopard would be better than Tiger for such an antiquated system? Do the paging improvements tend to reduce the 'beach ball effect'?
Exactly, a couple years back at vegas, the roulette wheel spun black 13 times in a row. Thats like 1/.48^13th.
Do you mean *you* saw it a couple of years ago? I only as because it should happen every few thousand spins on every roulette wheel, shouldn't be newsworthy.
Seems to me it's about once every 6685 spins (1/.48^12; red would be just as noticeable as black). With 30 spins an hour (conservatively), 3 wheels per casino operating on average 12 hours a day (conservatively; the number of wheels active varies throughout the day), I'll go ahead and guess this averages at least every other day at a given casino.
rapidly morph into the deranged land of our most cheese-fuelled nightmares
Now *that's* an interesting phobia.
Instead, we could just go back to explaining things orally
Oral presentations can be bad too. You can get some guy who talks in loops and says "...uh....uh..." all the time.
Good presentations do have relevant graphics on nearly every slide, and about 3 short bullets per slide which highlight the major talking points. I try to do that with my own presentations. No paragraphs in text boxes.
* and sub-bullets
* which don't really add anything
* and are hard to read while listening to the speaker
* and often just say the same anyway
Sometimes having redundant information isn't bad - some people (like me) are visual learners, and will probably prefer to read the slides as opposed to listening to the (usually bad) speaker. And then there are conferences in the sciences, where the "speaker" doesn't speak anything I'd remotely call English and I'm reduced to reading the slides (and I'm very tolerant of poor English, but sometimes even I give up).
Philip Smith was able to obtain a special sanction after the Plaintiff attorney put a 'notice of lien' (called lis pendens) on Smith's residence.
Slander of title?
Oh, I see - an article on a local band that played every bar between Maryland and Massachusetts for the better part of 15 years and whose members went on to other cultural exploits, but NEVER PUT OUT A RECORD, is not notable
Correct. Regional bar bands are of exceptionally little interest to anyone except the members. Wikipedia isn't the place for vanity pages.
I guess data for contemporary anthropology doesn't qualify as "notable" for those asshats.
Bar bands that no one cares about don't qualify as contemporary anthropology any more than does my family tree, and Wikipedia isn't the place for *that*, either.
Some people seem to have the idea that Wikipedia is a dumping ground for personal web pages. It's not. It's a reference for many millions of people, and search pollution is a problem. So, I'm sorry, but no one cares about your band. Get your own hosting and your own site to promote your now-defunct bar band.
Couldn't you argue that more layers = more possibilities for attack vectors?
Only if they were run in parallel (which wouldn't make any obvious sense) instead of serial (which is the implication, I believe).
Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Your average cubicle drone machine usually runs in the neighborhood of $800 to $1200 depending on what is needed. Not to mention that a lot of companies are going with laptops for most employees nowadays (basically, anybody above CS). These are investments that only the most ignorant CFO would view as disposable.
Depends where and who the workers are. With highly trained professionals in high cost of living areas, $1000 is basically nothing. With benefits and everything, that's about 0.3% of an employee's annual salary, or about 4 hours. The cost of the computer becomes quite miniscule.
When you factor in failure rates, productivity lost do to reimaging a machine that just needs a new ram chip, etc etc, it is much cheaper to have onstaff hardware people.
Depends how cheap you can get them. In our market, with benefits and overhead the cost of that hardware guy would cost us $100,000 a year. It would actually be cheaper to have a spare, clone laptop for every employee, with data stored centrally.
What's the status of Over-the-Air Broadcast TV? Is that still available?
Yes. Analog up to 2012 and digital thereafter.
Do the rabbit ears still do the trick?
Depends how close you live to the stations, but I'm sure it still works as well as it ever did. If it's a long-term situation a permanent antenna is always an option too.
Will I need to upgrade to a "digital broadcast" receiver when the government cuts off the broadcast of TV (which I think is scheduled for 2008)?
I think that was originally scheduled for 2009 but the broadcasters don't have their acts together, so that was recently pushed back to 2012 if I recall. By then high-def TVs with internal tuners will probably be nearly ubiquitous. Eventually they are supposed to switch, but they keep pushing it back, so I wouldn't bet on them switching by 2012.
The article also discusses the impact this may have on low- to middle-income families, who disproportionately live in apartment complexes."
Now I hate cable monopolies as much as the next guy (have Comcast because I practically live in a forest that prevents view of satellites). But come on - you don't *need* cable. If people are paying the cable bill over, say, rent, groceries, or health insurance, there's a clear imbalance of priorities here.
If you're in middle school, you shouldn't be citing encyclopedias. Particularly ones that, for all intents and purposes, seem to be edited primarily by your classmates.
For your average middle schooler, I'd be happy if they could *read* Wikipedia. Or 'See Spot Run'.