If they need the money, why don't they just roll back the Bush tax cuts that don't benefit me because I'm not rich and keep the Internet tax free because it benefits everyone who buys or sells things online
DirecTV used to, but that's irrelevant as this is about Dish Network.
I was responding to somebody who asked why TiVo was singling out Dish Network, but not going after DirecTV or Comcast. If DirecTV uses TiVo branded DVRs, that seems like a pretty reasonable explanation for why they weren't suing DirecTV in addition to Dish Network. Perhaps if you had bothered to read the comment I was replying to, you'd have understood the relevance.
I live in IL. The one time I took a ticket to court, everybody who didn't have their cop there had the case thrown out of court...except for me. Another cop came and said that my cop had been injured in the line of duty, and they were requesting a continuance. The judge granted the continuance, so I went back a month or so later (it was actually September 11, 2001, oddly enough), and the cop still wasn't there so they threw it out. In IL, the person who was manning the radar/laser gun is required to be in court. At least, that was what I was told at the time. I'm hardly an expert.
(Yes, that's as insanely dangerous to out-of-towners as it sounds, especially since the distance from Boston within which suburbs share that custom is unpredictable.)
And it's not as if driving in Boston isn't already confusing enough. Last time I was there, I gave up and either walked or took a water taxi everywhere I went, which was actually extraordinarily pleasant. Especially if you're going to/from the airport.
Now the city changes the yellow light length to 3 seconds, without warning. Do I have a choice then?
What's more, the city made this change illegally. If they set the duration of the yellow light below the legal limit, and you've run a red light right as the light changed to red, I would imagine you'd have a pretty good case in court. Assuming the cop actually shows up to court, and your case isn't just thrown out because he's not there.
I remember hearing once that companies like IBM often build a stockpile of patents, not so much to litigate, but so nobody else can tell them what to do with patents they don't have. Even if you're infringing on somebody else's patents, if you have enough patents of your own, you can probably find one that they're infringing on, and you've essentially come to a stalemate, so everybody's happy. Only works for the big players, though. The little guys get screwed.
yeah, podcasts aren't usually streamed. They're downloaded, say when you're not using your car, and then listened to later, say, when you are using your car.
Yeah, if I had an iPhone, I'd do the same thing. The iTouch, obviously, is limited to Wifi. But realistically, wifi would be a reasonable solution for a car podcast. Nobody wants to pay for cellular service for their car radio, and there are probably a lot of people who park their cars overnight within range of a wifi hub.
What car do you have that by merely pressing a few buttons (or turning some knobs), you can listen to podcasts without any extra technology?
I don't know if it exists yet or not, but it can't be too far off. I can already download podcasts to my iTouch directly over wifi. I would imagine it wouldn't be too hard to make a car radio that did the same thing. You could even make it detect when it's entered a location with a wifi connection, such as the garage, and start downloading new episodes.
Of course, some lame-ass company is probably going to patent this idea, and we'll have to wait until the stupid patent expires before we can actually use it...
As is the radio. I'll never understand why people think Television should have killed off the radio. Radio is still around for one major reason: It's hard (and usually illegal) to watch TV while driving. If anything is going to kill radio, it's the advent of the podcast, which in a lot of ways is close enough to the function of radio to be a real threat.
Wanna bet? What is not legalized is uploading. What is legal is making copies of your own CD's so you have copies for the car, boom box, etc. I use music CD's for MP3 archives.
Yeah, that's already legal under copyright law. It's called "fair use". Why should anybody pay anything for that?
They've pulled this BS before. It's why there's a surcharge on "Music" CDRs. It's not actually legalizing it, it's just their way getting more money. And any time you see a list regarding compensation in this order: "songwriters, performers, publishers and music labels", you know for sure it's exactly the other way around. Music labels will take almost all of the money, then the publishers, then the performers, and last but not least, the songwriters.
Now if John Carmack is as legendary as/. is making him out to be, why isn't it John Carmack's Quake/Doom?
George Washington is pretty legendary, but we don't have a George Washington's America, do we? The name is irrelevant. How could the guy who basically invented the First Person Shooter not be legendary? When it first came out, the original Wolfenstein was the most highly optimized game I'd ever played. I still remember thinking it wouldn't run on my slow-ass computer, and being blown away when it ran fast as can be.
I really hope that this isn't truly a "new" discovery. If someone sits and thinks about it it should be really obvious. I have posted a basic explanation as a comment to a number of blogs and I'm not a traffic engineer.
I think what's new here is that it's been shown in an actual experiment using real cars, rather than just theorized or modeled in a computer.
So on some games, after you give up the ghost, it's kind of a letdown. The other player gets to keep running around, and your teammates essentially desert you.
You, um, want your teammates to gather around your rag-doll body or pile of giblets mourning you until you press the space bar and come back to life?
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Since the site is Slashdotted, could somebody post the top-10 language list?
If they need the money, why don't they just roll back the Bush tax cuts that don't benefit me because I'm not rich and keep the Internet tax free because it benefits everyone who buys or sells things online
DirecTV used to, but that's irrelevant as this is about Dish Network.
I was responding to somebody who asked why TiVo was singling out Dish Network, but not going after DirecTV or Comcast. If DirecTV uses TiVo branded DVRs, that seems like a pretty reasonable explanation for why they weren't suing DirecTV in addition to Dish Network. Perhaps if you had bothered to read the comment I was replying to, you'd have understood the relevance.
I thought DirecTV already used TiVo brand DVRs?
I live in IL. The one time I took a ticket to court, everybody who didn't have their cop there had the case thrown out of court...except for me. Another cop came and said that my cop had been injured in the line of duty, and they were requesting a continuance. The judge granted the continuance, so I went back a month or so later (it was actually September 11, 2001, oddly enough), and the cop still wasn't there so they threw it out. In IL, the person who was manning the radar/laser gun is required to be in court. At least, that was what I was told at the time. I'm hardly an expert.
I was just going to say that. Chicago does actually make their cameras pretty obvious. Here's a picture: http://www.rajivshah.com/camera/camera.jpg
I think it's because they're also there as a crime deterrent.
(Yes, that's as insanely dangerous to out-of-towners as it sounds, especially since the distance from Boston within which suburbs share that custom is unpredictable.)
And it's not as if driving in Boston isn't already confusing enough. Last time I was there, I gave up and either walked or took a water taxi everywhere I went, which was actually extraordinarily pleasant. Especially if you're going to/from the airport.
Now the city changes the yellow light length to 3 seconds, without warning. Do I have a choice then?
What's more, the city made this change illegally. If they set the duration of the yellow light below the legal limit, and you've run a red light right as the light changed to red, I would imagine you'd have a pretty good case in court. Assuming the cop actually shows up to court, and your case isn't just thrown out because he's not there.
I remember hearing once that companies like IBM often build a stockpile of patents, not so much to litigate, but so nobody else can tell them what to do with patents they don't have. Even if you're infringing on somebody else's patents, if you have enough patents of your own, you can probably find one that they're infringing on, and you've essentially come to a stalemate, so everybody's happy. Only works for the big players, though. The little guys get screwed.
yeah, podcasts aren't usually streamed. They're downloaded, say when you're not using your car, and then listened to later, say, when you are using your car.
Yeah, if I had an iPhone, I'd do the same thing. The iTouch, obviously, is limited to Wifi. But realistically, wifi would be a reasonable solution for a car podcast. Nobody wants to pay for cellular service for their car radio, and there are probably a lot of people who park their cars overnight within range of a wifi hub.
What car do you have that by merely pressing a few buttons (or turning some knobs), you can listen to podcasts without any extra technology?
I don't know if it exists yet or not, but it can't be too far off. I can already download podcasts to my iTouch directly over wifi. I would imagine it wouldn't be too hard to make a car radio that did the same thing. You could even make it detect when it's entered a location with a wifi connection, such as the garage, and start downloading new episodes.
Of course, some lame-ass company is probably going to patent this idea, and we'll have to wait until the stupid patent expires before we can actually use it...
As is the radio. I'll never understand why people think Television should have killed off the radio. Radio is still around for one major reason: It's hard (and usually illegal) to watch TV while driving. If anything is going to kill radio, it's the advent of the podcast, which in a lot of ways is close enough to the function of radio to be a real threat.
I'll bet he's not running any games past D9 on it.
Since DX10 is only available for Vista, I'd say that's a pretty safe bet.
it's just absolutely absurd to SELL someone a device and tell them they can't hack it.
fixed that for you
The original Wolfenstein 3D.
Wanna bet? What is not legalized is uploading. What is legal is making copies of your own CD's so you have copies for the car, boom box, etc. I use music CD's for MP3 archives.
Yeah, that's already legal under copyright law. It's called "fair use". Why should anybody pay anything for that?
They've pulled this BS before. It's why there's a surcharge on "Music" CDRs. It's not actually legalizing it, it's just their way getting more money. And any time you see a list regarding compensation in this order: "songwriters, performers, publishers and music labels", you know for sure it's exactly the other way around. Music labels will take almost all of the money, then the publishers, then the performers, and last but not least, the songwriters.
Nah, not Google Mail. Google's just redefined the meaning of beta...
Now if John Carmack is as legendary as /. is making him out to be, why isn't it John Carmack's Quake/Doom?
George Washington is pretty legendary, but we don't have a George Washington's America, do we? The name is irrelevant. How could the guy who basically invented the First Person Shooter not be legendary? When it first came out, the original Wolfenstein was the most highly optimized game I'd ever played. I still remember thinking it wouldn't run on my slow-ass computer, and being blown away when it ran fast as can be.
Though the summary is retarded. Police can't ban anything. Their job is to enforce existing law. They can't make new ones.
It happens to real cars every day. In fact, it'll even happen to me when I finish work today. I'm not theorised or modelled in a computer.
Thank you for demonstrating the difference between anecdotal and experimental evidence.
I really hope that this isn't truly a "new" discovery. If someone sits and thinks about it it should be really obvious. I have posted a basic explanation as a comment to a number of blogs and I'm not a traffic engineer.
I think what's new here is that it's been shown in an actual experiment using real cars, rather than just theorized or modeled in a computer.
No, Comcast doesn't.
Just noticed that somebody has already registered jkshdfkljh23sadf.com. Way to go Mr. Private, Registration...
So on some games, after you give up the ghost, it's kind of a letdown. The other player gets to keep running around, and your teammates essentially desert you.
You, um, want your teammates to gather around your rag-doll body or pile of giblets mourning you until you press the space bar and come back to life?
You know who wouldn't do that?
Um...the Marines, I guess?