Thank you for a good obituary for the Encyclopaedia Britannica. When it goes, its passing will be the end of an era -- and not just a passing of technology, a passing of quality.
While Wikipedia is an amazing effort, it will not ever be Britannica, unless you pour a lot of money into it to hire writers and editors. They are both a luxury in the Internet media world, and the lack of them shows in the uneven writing and many factual errors Wikipedia suffers from.
You can still rightfully call Wikipedia an experiment. There was nobody who could apply that term to Britannica. It strived to be a reference worthy of inclusion in all the libraries of the world. It shaped our world. Be a little bit in awe of it before it finally sinks beneath the waves.
I get a lot of apps to use as blades in a Swiss Army knife -- you know, you have blades you hardly ever use on your knife, but when you need them you're glad they're there.
I don't need a flashlight every day, but I have a flashlight app on my iPhone "just in case." Same for a unit converter app. Many of the travel apps will not get used every day, but will likely see use for the few times a year I travel.
The DMCA is American law -- unless the European companies being "infringed upon" have American ties, then the DMCA shouldn't apply.
If I'm also reading the article correctly, the Cornell researchers were doing this in part because the European satellite concerns didn't release PRN data as they had promised.
An illuminating look at how the Indian techs on the other end of the line are told about Americans. It was on Weekend America this week:
http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/programs/ind ex_20060429.html
Both "Dial 'I' For India" and "God Calls the Call Center" are good pieces. "God Calls" is especially enlightening, as it's an interview with the author of "One Night at a Call Center." He advocates some chitchat with the tech support person as a way to break the ice, and talks about the formula "10=35," taught to workers to make them patient with the Americans, as a 35-year-old caller supposedly has the IQ of a 10-year-old Indian.
Does anyone here note that my telco (formerly SBC, formerly Ameritech, now AT&T) has a monetary interest in Dish Network (formerly Echostar)? I bought DSL + landline + Dish satellite TV in one call to them back a year and a half ago, and am being charged on the same bill. Some points here:
* Is there room for IPTV when satellite is ubiquitous, cheap, offers many channels and supports multi-room setups?
* If IPTV is the wave of the future, does AT&T have a problem now that they own some of Dish, and were promoting it as a cable alternative? Or does Dish have a problem?
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Um, do you have satellite TV? It takes a moment for a channel to come up as the MPEG-2 data assembles itself. Digital cable, the last time I looked at it, suffers the same problem. Would a few extra packets make a big difference?
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Fifteen enormous cocks raping every orifice in your body.
I couldn't describe hiring the geeksquad any better then that.
Please note that "enormous cocks" is what the Geeksquad is, not what they have.
Thank you for a good obituary for the Encyclopaedia Britannica. When it goes, its passing will be the end of an era -- and not just a passing of technology, a passing of quality. While Wikipedia is an amazing effort, it will not ever be Britannica, unless you pour a lot of money into it to hire writers and editors. They are both a luxury in the Internet media world, and the lack of them shows in the uneven writing and many factual errors Wikipedia suffers from. You can still rightfully call Wikipedia an experiment. There was nobody who could apply that term to Britannica. It strived to be a reference worthy of inclusion in all the libraries of the world. It shaped our world. Be a little bit in awe of it before it finally sinks beneath the waves.
I get a lot of apps to use as blades in a Swiss Army knife -- you know, you have blades you hardly ever use on your knife, but when you need them you're glad they're there. I don't need a flashlight every day, but I have a flashlight app on my iPhone "just in case." Same for a unit converter app. Many of the travel apps will not get used every day, but will likely see use for the few times a year I travel.
Ten minutes to Wapner. We're definitely locked in this box with no TV.
The DMCA is American law -- unless the European companies being "infringed upon" have American ties, then the DMCA shouldn't apply. If I'm also reading the article correctly, the Cornell researchers were doing this in part because the European satellite concerns didn't release PRN data as they had promised.
An illuminating look at how the Indian techs on the other end of the line are told about Americans. It was on Weekend America this week: http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/programs/ind ex_20060429.html
Both "Dial 'I' For India" and "God Calls the Call Center" are good pieces. "God Calls" is especially enlightening, as it's an interview with the author of "One Night at a Call Center." He advocates some chitchat with the tech support person as a way to break the ice, and talks about the formula "10=35," taught to workers to make them patient with the Americans, as a 35-year-old caller supposedly has the IQ of a 10-year-old Indian.
Does anyone here note that my telco (formerly SBC, formerly Ameritech, now AT&T) has a monetary interest in Dish Network (formerly Echostar)? I bought DSL + landline + Dish satellite TV in one call to them back a year and a half ago, and am being charged on the same bill. Some points here: * Is there room for IPTV when satellite is ubiquitous, cheap, offers many channels and supports multi-room setups? * If IPTV is the wave of the future, does AT&T have a problem now that they own some of Dish, and were promoting it as a cable alternative? Or does Dish have a problem? ahref=http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20051229/19 9211_F.shtmlrel=url2html-27661http://www.techdirt. com/articles/20051229/199211_F.shtml>
Um, do you have satellite TV? It takes a moment for a channel to come up as the MPEG-2 data assembles itself. Digital cable, the last time I looked at it, suffers the same problem. Would a few extra packets make a big difference?
Disney produces content. ABC airs content.
Why wasn't that deal stopped years ago, then?