But only a couple of times and always downtown. Its seems more of a prestige thing for the city than anything else. I've also seen the Chicago PD Hummer parked at an event. Makes me wonder how better this money could be spent. I guess there's really nothing wrong with a few prestige items, but a troop of segways is really pushing it.
Well, what gets you is swap. (from what I understand) Ideally a flash-based device will have enough RAM so it doesn't swap. Or perhaps a separate "swap/frequent access card" so if you do burn it out your data is still there on the other card.
Keep hoping. The animation quality on that show does not come cheap. Do you remember the ill-fated return of The Critic in Flash? It was terrible. If you cant afford good animators you can't afford good writers. You need x amount of capital to get the ball rolling and I believe Fururama was VERY expensive, moreso than the Simpsons.
Time is also against the Futurama fans, whatever "synergy" the creative team had has changed. Its simply not feasible to expect them to suddenly do high-quality work again from such a long hiatus, and thats assuming you can even get all the people.
Production is a very odd thing, when there's a good team they do good work. There are probably two to three episodes of Futurama which I think are low quality and the rest are really just gems. The problem is the network idiots didn't know they were holding a diamond and wouldnt give them a consistant timeslot.
Ideally, the Simpsons should have been cancelled after the first season of Futurama and Futurama would have taken its place. There's only so much you can do with the Simpsons and its simply been done, over and over. Futurama would have given Fox a new platform to create comedy and sell lots of commercials
They dropped the ball, and here we are. Expect the Simpsons to become a horrible shell of what it used to be (many will say its already happened) and a sad "had it coming" cancelation instead of a proud exit.
>a) the overwhelming majority of owners of these devices have them either directly or indirectly behind a NAT'ing cable modem
What NAT? I've used many different services and have never seen this.
In my experience the router gets a WAN address and it has DHCP enabled for the wireless and wired hosts. It is a real and serious exploit.
Also it is not clear if "the WAN" refers to just the wired connection or the wireless one too. Now you have another vector of attack if the thing isn't using WEP/WPA.
and now they're using Overture's search tech to do web searches. Make no mistake about it, the Overture/Alltheweb.com system rivals google and beats it in a few places. When I can't find something with google I usually find it with Alltheweb.com.
I'd say yahoo is stronger than ever, a few years ago I thought they were going to fold. Granted, the shady practices aren't helping any, but they are far from Microsoftian ethics.
Exactly. That's the model that would work best. Why should I let some other company steal my hardware and my customers? How will I get capital to even build out my devices if I can't convince my investors that I can't even protect my own product or have any kind of customer loyalty?
There's no such thing as "free" hardware, its subsidized hardware. Subsidized hardware means DRM, patents, proprietary tech, etc.
If we truly shift to an age of free stuff, it will also be an age of contracts and we all know how wonderful it is to be stuck with one carrier, their support, their devices, etc. Think Microsoft times ten. No wonder Bill is all for it.
In the end, I doubt it going to happen as predicted. MSN did their "take 300 dollars off a PC at best buy if you sign a contract with us" and a lot of people got burned paying broadband rates for dial-up and vendor lock-in. Not to mention the demographic you're going for at first doesn't have credit. On top of it, the cheap thin client or appliance PC has been a market disaster thus far.
>b) Restaurants normally have to pay someone to have their used oil hauled away.
Actually, thats untrue nowadays, restaurants get money back for their oil.
Ignoring that, lets pretend a biodeisel industry based on restaurant fats flourished as we all converted our cars to biodeisel. How much will it be per gallon? I don't know, but it sure ain't gonna stay at 40 cents. Then again, if its under two dollars most people would do it.
>Seriously, there's nothing else to be said after this post.
Oh please. The post does not go into why the Class D change happened, who is serves, why community radio is being killed in favor of commercial radio, etc.
Last I checked, the people owned the airwaves and the little slice they had for colleges and highschools is being systematically being pull-out in favor of more clear channel crap.
Secondly, if you read the article you'll see the FCC asked them to move to 104.something. If the FCC didn't ask them to move, they wouldn't be having this problem.
LPFM is largely a joke and its too late to get licenses now. A LPFM station covers a few blocks at best, especially if there are any tall buildings.
As far as the "keeping up with the changes" comment goes, well its important to ask why and understand such changes. What if your city aldermen or state legislature decided the land you live on is too close to the freeway and the Walmart people should have it? Would you and the grandparent be quick to defend a change of law without asking the ethical questions involved? Or is it "that's the law, shut up" all the way?
FCC is not above criticism, especially when its run by Michael Powell and the GOP.
Yes, it was a autonomous repressive theocracy based on a feudal system with serfs with almost no rights while the monks ran everything from controlling currency to taking children from their homes and turning them into monks.
Of course the free tibet people won't tell you this.
I'm not taking any sides on the people's communist revolution vs. a small theocracy but if we're going to talk about history its important to know that the very same Lama who does talk shows and is an inspiration to millions cared nothing for democracy and was the first Lama to use modern arms and sent his men to their deaths when they fought the far more capable (both in technology and training) and numerous people's army.
ActiveX: Unless you like cleaning up after your secretary's "web trail" of spyware.
Sure, you can disable it, but they can just re-enable it. Of course you can run all your users with user level permissions, but your hypothetical question assumes the ability to install stuff.
Security issues, have they fixed that URL spoof yet?
Stability. Not only do the moz-based browsers tend to crash less, they don't take the entire explorer.exe shell or desktop down with them when they do go down. That's a real downside of "IE is the OS."
The built in pop up blocker goes a long way to fighting spyware. Afterall, many of those ads look like MS Windows OS windows and contain the word "update." Why not click on them? Seems logical.
Lastly, I don't like the word "political." Is it political to do a small part to help fight for web standards? Sites following web standards helps everyone in the end. A responsible netizen should be helping standards whenever he or she can.
No, outbound or inbound port 25 are not blocked. What's probably happening is that the recpient's mail server saw that the IP was from Comcast's IP block and either deleted it outright or labeled it as spam.
For instance, I can send messages my mail server on comcast and it'll get to most places just fine but both Yahoo and Hotmail will just delete it. Or Comcast already has a system to block these messages to popular domains like yahoo or hotmail. So perhaps there is limited filtering.
>As a retailer, I am *much* less likely to carry a product that is also sold online, undercutting my own business.
Err, not usually. Maybe thats your personal opinion but consider the following:
1. No waiting and no shipping charges.
2. The overall effect on sales if your store is perceived as not being able to stock popular or novel items, i.e. becoming stale.
As a consumer, if I want something and I know I can get it online or through retail I will go the proper route depending on my priority. I really wanted to play City of Heroes; so I bought it retail. I wanted a book, but I knew I wont start reading it for some time, so I paid shipping and dealt with the 3-4 days delivery.
If anything online sales are simply readjusting what retail can offer, not eliminating it. An impulse item like the Geekman belongs in retail, somewhere near the registers.
what the fuck does that mean in english? you should understand that having a day job precludes me from 'keeping it real' and as such, I lack a certain familiarity with the language of the 'streets' as it were.
There's a huge difference between legitimate porn sites that keep their noses clean, have good credit, and will not sell your name or credit card to Russian bank frauders and spammers who put up fly-by-night porn sites to get your info and make a quick buck.
Lets not confuse the two because there's overlap in the content. Its like saying "Playboy shows kiddie porn, because they share the word 'porn.'"
Ignoring the over-the-top slippery slope argument you made, have you considered that a lot of spyware is designed to look like "updates" and other misleading Windows widgets?
Users click on this stuff thinking they're getting a windows or security update because they are being misled. That's false advertising and that's a serious problem. Do you want to do business with a company that says "hey visit our site" only to find your computer stuffed with spyware because of illegal business dealings? Maybe not you, but perhaps a non-techie you know would fall for it.
The speech argument would hold more water if we weren't already talking about:
1. Illegal activities: false advertising. 2. Speech "rights" of corporations. (commercial speech) 3. Misleading ads and software. 4. Privacy violating software couched in unreadable EULAs. 5. ActiveX installers ready to push any junk on a misconfigured browser.
Number 1 really trumps them all. Its an illegal activity, and rightly so. Rights are limited when doing illegal things. If we write up a contract for a big herion shipment and I reneg you have no legal recourse because you knew you were doing something illegal with me.
>I would say that a preferred splitting is far more egocentric than only wanting to have 1 universe.
Its just a sci-fi idea people love, hence all the posts here about Star Trek. Sometimes lay people defending "many worlds" come off as practically religious.
First off, every manufacturer complains that the EPA estimates do not reflect real world use. In my experience I tend to agree.
In some cases, depending on the car's architecture, you'll get better mileage and in others worse than what is "advertised." To be fair, the advertised numbers are the EPAs.
There are Honda Insight owners who log and brag (of course) of getting 90 mpg on the highway and Prius owners complaining about not getting the advertised 60(?) mpg in the city.
I'm not sure what the solution to this problem is. Maybe better tests? Different tests? Giving up on tests in lieu of real world statistical data?
If you liked this you might like my Diary of the First Segway Owner. Yes, its satire. Hopefully, this time people won't start emailing me about my non-existant segway.
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But only a couple of times and always downtown. Its seems more of a prestige thing for the city than anything else. I've also seen the Chicago PD Hummer parked at an event. Makes me wonder how better this money could be spent. I guess there's really nothing wrong with a few prestige items, but a troop of segways is really pushing it.
Well, what gets you is swap. (from what I understand) Ideally a flash-based device will have enough RAM so it doesn't swap. Or perhaps a separate "swap/frequent access card" so if you do burn it out your data is still there on the other card.
Keep hoping. The animation quality on that show does not come cheap. Do you remember the ill-fated return of The Critic in Flash? It was terrible. If you cant afford good animators you can't afford good writers. You need x amount of capital to get the ball rolling and I believe Fururama was VERY expensive, moreso than the Simpsons.
Time is also against the Futurama fans, whatever "synergy" the creative team had has changed. Its simply not feasible to expect them to suddenly do high-quality work again from such a long hiatus, and thats assuming you can even get all the people.
Production is a very odd thing, when there's a good team they do good work. There are probably two to three episodes of Futurama which I think are low quality and the rest are really just gems. The problem is the network idiots didn't know they were holding a diamond and wouldnt give them a consistant timeslot.
Ideally, the Simpsons should have been cancelled after the first season of Futurama and Futurama would have taken its place. There's only so much you can do with the Simpsons and its simply been done, over and over. Futurama would have given Fox a new platform to create comedy and sell lots of commercials
They dropped the ball, and here we are. Expect the Simpsons to become a horrible shell of what it used to be (many will say its already happened) and a sad "had it coming" cancelation instead of a proud exit.
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>a) the overwhelming majority of owners of these devices have them either directly or indirectly behind a NAT'ing cable modem
What NAT? I've used many different services and have never seen this.
In my experience the router gets a WAN address and it has DHCP enabled for the wireless and wired hosts. It is a real and serious exploit.
Also it is not clear if "the WAN" refers to just the wired connection or the wireless one too. Now you have another vector of attack if the thing isn't using WEP/WPA.
Yahoo is a great resource.
I use:
Yahoo movies. Listings, reviews, etc.
maps.yahoo.com
yp.yahoo.com yellow pages
yahoo groups
yahoo mail (you can actually get *gasp* POP3)
yahoo's messenger does video and sound now.
and now they're using Overture's search tech to do web searches. Make no mistake about it, the Overture/Alltheweb.com system rivals google and beats it in a few places. When I can't find something with google I usually find it with Alltheweb.com.
I'd say yahoo is stronger than ever, a few years ago I thought they were going to fold. Granted, the shady practices aren't helping any, but they are far from Microsoftian ethics.
> please kill yourself now.
Filing patent for "Curbside Suicide Booth" as we speak. Just like in Futurama.
>something akin to the cell phone market
Exactly. That's the model that would work best. Why should I let some other company steal my hardware and my customers? How will I get capital to even build out my devices if I can't convince my investors that I can't even protect my own product or have any kind of customer loyalty?
There's no such thing as "free" hardware, its subsidized hardware. Subsidized hardware means DRM, patents, proprietary tech, etc.
If we truly shift to an age of free stuff, it will also be an age of contracts and we all know how wonderful it is to be stuck with one carrier, their support, their devices, etc. Think Microsoft times ten. No wonder Bill is all for it.
In the end, I doubt it going to happen as predicted. MSN did their "take 300 dollars off a PC at best buy if you sign a contract with us" and a lot of people got burned paying broadband rates for dial-up and vendor lock-in. Not to mention the demographic you're going for at first doesn't have credit. On top of it, the cheap thin client or appliance PC has been a market disaster thus far.
>b) Restaurants normally have to pay someone to have their used oil hauled away.
Actually, thats untrue nowadays, restaurants get money back for their oil.
Ignoring that, lets pretend a biodeisel industry based on restaurant fats flourished as we all converted our cars to biodeisel. How much will it be per gallon? I don't know, but it sure ain't gonna stay at 40 cents. Then again, if its under two dollars most people would do it.
>and Martin unscrewed
Canceled? More like a mercy killing.
>Seriously, there's nothing else to be said after this post.
Oh please. The post does not go into why the Class D change happened, who is serves, why community radio is being killed in favor of commercial radio, etc.
Last I checked, the people owned the airwaves and the little slice they had for colleges and highschools is being systematically being pull-out in favor of more clear channel crap.
Secondly, if you read the article you'll see the FCC asked them to move to 104.something. If the FCC didn't ask them to move, they wouldn't be having this problem.
LPFM is largely a joke and its too late to get licenses now. A LPFM station covers a few blocks at best, especially if there are any tall buildings.
As far as the "keeping up with the changes" comment goes, well its important to ask why and understand such changes. What if your city aldermen or state legislature decided the land you live on is too close to the freeway and the Walmart people should have it? Would you and the grandparent be quick to defend a change of law without asking the ethical questions involved? Or is it "that's the law, shut up" all the way?
FCC is not above criticism, especially when its run by Michael Powell and the GOP.
> Tibet *was* an independent sovereign nation
Yes, it was a autonomous repressive theocracy based on a feudal system with serfs with almost no rights while the monks ran everything from controlling currency to taking children from their homes and turning them into monks.
Of course the free tibet people won't tell you this.
I'm not taking any sides on the people's communist revolution vs. a small theocracy but if we're going to talk about history its important to know that the very same Lama who does talk shows and is an inspiration to millions cared nothing for democracy and was the first Lama to use modern arms and sent his men to their deaths when they fought the far more capable (both in technology and training) and numerous people's army.
ActiveX: Unless you like cleaning up after your secretary's "web trail" of spyware.
Sure, you can disable it, but they can just re-enable it. Of course you can run all your users with user level permissions, but your hypothetical question assumes the ability to install stuff.
Security issues, have they fixed that URL spoof yet?
Stability. Not only do the moz-based browsers tend to crash less, they don't take the entire explorer.exe shell or desktop down with them when they do go down. That's a real downside of "IE is the OS."
The built in pop up blocker goes a long way to fighting spyware. Afterall, many of those ads look like MS Windows OS windows and contain the word "update." Why not click on them? Seems logical.
Lastly, I don't like the word "political." Is it political to do a small part to help fight for web standards? Sites following web standards helps everyone in the end. A responsible netizen should be helping standards whenever he or she can.
No, outbound or inbound port 25 are not blocked. What's probably happening is that the recpient's mail server saw that the IP was from Comcast's IP block and either deleted it outright or labeled it as spam.
For instance, I can send messages my mail server on comcast and it'll get to most places just fine but both Yahoo and Hotmail will just delete it. Or Comcast already has a system to block these messages to popular domains like yahoo or hotmail. So perhaps there is limited filtering.
>As a retailer, I am *much* less likely to carry a product that is also sold online, undercutting my own business.
Err, not usually. Maybe thats your personal opinion but consider the following:
1. No waiting and no shipping charges.
2. The overall effect on sales if your store is perceived as not being able to stock popular or novel items, i.e. becoming stale.
As a consumer, if I want something and I know I can get it online or through retail I will go the proper route depending on my priority. I really wanted to play City of Heroes; so I bought it retail.
I wanted a book, but I knew I wont start reading it for some time, so I paid shipping and dealt with the 3-4 days delivery.
If anything online sales are simply readjusting what retail can offer, not eliminating it. An impulse item like the Geekman belongs in retail, somewhere near the registers.
what the fuck does that mean in english? you should understand that having a day job precludes me from 'keeping it real' and as such, I lack a certain familiarity with the language of the 'streets' as it were.
(stolen from IRC)
There's a huge difference between legitimate porn sites that keep their noses clean, have good credit, and will not sell your name or credit card to Russian bank frauders and spammers who put up fly-by-night porn sites to get your info and make a quick buck.
Lets not confuse the two because there's overlap in the content. Its like saying "Playboy shows kiddie porn, because they share the word 'porn.'"
Ignoring the over-the-top slippery slope argument you made, have you considered that a lot of spyware is designed to look like "updates" and other misleading Windows widgets?
Users click on this stuff thinking they're getting a windows or security update because they are being misled. That's false advertising and that's a serious problem. Do you want to do business with a company that says "hey visit our site" only to find your computer stuffed with spyware because of illegal business dealings? Maybe not you, but perhaps a non-techie you know would fall for it.
The speech argument would hold more water if we weren't already talking about:
1. Illegal activities: false advertising.
2. Speech "rights" of corporations. (commercial speech)
3. Misleading ads and software.
4. Privacy violating software couched in unreadable EULAs.
5. ActiveX installers ready to push any junk on a misconfigured browser.
Number 1 really trumps them all.
Its an illegal activity, and rightly so. Rights are limited when doing illegal things. If we write up a contract for a big herion shipment and I reneg you have no legal recourse because you knew you were doing something illegal with me.
>were simply a mechanism that doesnt understand ourself?
Sorry if reality gets your down.
>isnt this a better description of a robot than a person?
An autonomous working AI would be the same as a human once you drop all the meta-physical garbage. Its materialism all the way.
Also, all analogies are flawed to a certain degree as they are always comparing apples and oranges, some are simply better comparisions than others.
>I would say that a preferred splitting is far more egocentric than only wanting to have 1 universe.
Its just a sci-fi idea people love, hence all the posts here about Star Trek. Sometimes lay people defending "many worlds" come off as practically religious.
How about....
"MICHAEL JACKSON hasn't seen article about Justice Department Censoring ACLU Web Site"
Or
"KOBI BRYANT in Court; Court Rules ACLU Violated Anti-Terror Law"
At least they'll get read.
> a given audio stream, at a given bitrate, for a given length of time, always has the same filesize.
Actually, for the test the MS codec is a VBR at 128 so the file size will not be the same.
I maintain a small, fast, hosts file which targets major ad servers. The file and a windows installer are on the page. Enjoy.
First off, every manufacturer complains that the EPA estimates do not reflect real world use. In my experience I tend to agree.
In some cases, depending on the car's architecture, you'll get better mileage and in others worse than what is "advertised." To be fair, the advertised numbers are the EPAs.
There are Honda Insight owners who log and brag (of course) of getting 90 mpg on the highway and Prius owners complaining about not getting the advertised 60(?) mpg in the city.
I'm not sure what the solution to this problem is. Maybe better tests? Different tests? Giving up on tests in lieu of real world statistical data?
If you liked this you might like my Diary of the First Segway Owner. Yes, its satire. Hopefully, this time people won't start emailing me about my non-existant segway.