A "members only" idea scares me. You'd have to sign the non disclosure, and there is no telling what they will put in that. To top it off they could eventually require "membership dues" to "cover costs" associated with the membership. The dues then could set so high to eliminate everybody except the rich.
Don't we have enough problems with all the plastic that gets put into our dumps now? Do we really want cheap, desposeable(SP?) chips? We'd have to start a "recycle your old chips" campaign.
Jon,
You have to remember the sources. 98.5% of the media is liberal and they admit it. I htink you may be in for a surprise. Bush has twin daughters that are 19. I DOUBT he doesn't know anything about the internet. I think he may surprise you. None of the things you mention were high on his list of things to do.
If you look here you will see some of Bushes plans for Technology. You will note the following quote:
"Use Technology to Boost Student Achievement: Governor Bush will ensure that education technology is used to boost student achievement (Fact Sheet: Enhancing Education Through Technology), and strengthen math and science education (Fact Sheet: Improving Math And Science In America). Governor Bush has proposed creating a new, flexible $3 billion fund to integrate technology in schools and libraries, and $400 million in new money to help ensure that technology is boosting student achievement."
Please consider your sources before you rant on about speculation! I really think in the long run you will be surprised.
The must be using a better DSL than the standard ADSL the most providers use. Maybe the ISDN DSL (IDSL or what ever it's called).
I don't I would get it to start. I wonder if they are providing local stations? I also wonder if they are a middle man and they are just getting it from the local cable company. This might have a future in places where cable doesn't go currently.
Does John Gilmore know his email was posted? Isn't it proper edicate(sp?) to ask/notify beofre posting? Or is it required? I was just wondering. Some people get upset when you don't ask them first before posting emial online, and you can get into the grey area of publishing when you do so without the authors permission.
That aside, I did find it informative. I also worry if any of these companies are listening to the consumers.
This design would also help with the muscles of you lower arms. I had Pronators(SP?) syndrome, basically problems with the muscles in my lower arms because my arms spent most of their time palms down. I am not explaining this very good, but it can be a problem. All the muscles that do the work for moving your fingers are in your lower arm.
A key board in this position, vertically, keeps your arms in a neutral position. Assuming your hand is flat and your thumb rests on your hand in such a way that everything is flat, when you hand is perpendicular to the floor is when the muscles in your lower arm are at rest.
This key board might be ok, but I would much rather have a keybaord that can adjust. This keyboard rotates from flat to 90 degrees and you can sperate the the parts up to 6 feet apart. This is the one I would because you can adjust it.
I don't see how anyone could get an indexing related patent. Indexing has been around since before computers. The only spiders really do is automate what people used to do. This too was done before computers--people did it be hand and recorded it. Remember the card catalogs that used to be in every library? Those are a type of index. A spider could apply to the people who select the books to bring into the library and update that catalog.
I REALLY don't see how ANYONE could get a patent on this! Somebody at the patent office MUST be high on something. Maybe a patent would be viable if it were submitted before the industrial revolution, but even then I think the Romans, Greek, Egyptians, et. al. also had forms of indexing and some system that oculd be consider a type of spider. These patents are getting REALLY stupid!
I think I might try sbmitting a patent for typing in symbols to a box that then displays the symbols. I might even get the patent.
You forgot to mention the MACs are mouse challenged. They only have one button. How many of us would be happy with a MAC? I like being able to upgrade my system myself from parts I got at the local Computer Show for a great deal! I would never give that up. Not mention everything on a MAC costs more! From what I can see, a lot of the new user are from the college scene, and how many of them do you think have the money for a MAC or MAC hardware?
Does anybody else have a problem with NASA hitting a comment with a projectile? I do. Barely measureable propogates into trouble over time. Where once that comet may have missed the Earth by a small amount, it might now hit the Earth. The orbit could change drastically. I like this idea about as much as the idea some scientist had to creae a small black whole on Earth.
There is something you can do. Tell the companies you won't go to there sites if you can't view it in Netscape! IF enough people do that, they will change there code. If you design web pages, don't design pages that only work for one brwoser.
I heard some talk about this on public radio last night, and the were talking with someone from out in California that new what went on. The way I understand it, the problem lies in the way they deregulated the utilities--specifically the power companies.
Contrary to popular belief they do have the power available. The problem is that they are losing money. When they deregulated the power companies and allowed competition and whole sale of the power, they only put a cap on the cost of the power companies. This idea came from the power companies themselves. One of the problems was no cap was put on the cost of whole sale electricity, and the power companies assumed they would make there profit from the difference between the price they were selling the power to the users for and the cost of the power from whole sale. Nobody accounted for the possibility that the cost of whole sale would go over the Power companies were charging (remember they have a cap and can't raise it).
Now, the power companies are face with get power at one cost and then selling it at about half the price the purchased it for. The manditory blackouts are to try and change this.
One possible way out of this is for California to temporarliy raise the cap on the amount the power companies can charge the users, and at the same time put a cap on the amount charged by those selling the power wholesale. They deffinately need to put a cap on the whole sale cost. I would not only put a cap on it, but I would gradually lower the cap to bring the wholesale cost under the original amount that the power companies are allowed to charge.
In New Hampshire, we are trying are deregulating soon, but I HOPE that the Governer learns from Californias mistake!!!
The comments in question were made AFTER a judgement had been made. His part in the cas eis over unlees a high court sends it back to him. Those comments do not give evidence to the judge being biased during the court case. Remember all of the blunders Microsoft did during the case. All he did was state a conclusion he reach after the facts were presented to him.
There argument doesn't float.
Well, what the DOJ said is part of a 150 page brief in respounce to things mentioned in Microsoft's appeal. Taken in this sense, it is a part of there arguement against the appeal. They are responding to what Microsoft is saying. Using your arguments, Microsoft is biased too, so we should ignore what they say?
Also using your arguments, both defendants and plaintiffs are baised so why should they be in court?
There is always baiseness(is this a word?) in court cases. That is the point. Someone is defending there point while at the same time disproving the other parties point! Did you even read the article? I read it on Friday 1/12/2001 (but I didn't bother to submit it because my submissions get rejected).
I did like some of what Jackson said. I like the section where Jaskson compares Bill Gates to Napoleon and said Microsoft "executives behave like children"
Seriously, does Schnedt Microne's comment deserve a 5? Watch, I get marked down for pointing out the flaws in his argument.
I would deffinately have to agree. In a society like ours, psuedo capitalist, money is what count. Vote with your money. I won't by a digital TV for a long time for several reasons. One, the price is too high. I refuse to pay that much for a TV. Two, I am not going to buy somehting that may limit my ability to timeshift shows, specials, news, etc. I am not home 100% of the time, and most Americans are not home either. The ability to record a special, or a show, is needed.
In the long run, I don't think this will catch on. If you can't set a timer and record a show, then their some of the pontential audience will be lost. SO what you may say, but that makes a difference to the people buying advertisements during those time slots. If the show is a special, it usually costs more, and if the people can't record it, viewers will be lost. If viewers are lost, the TV Stations will then start to realise (probably slowly given they can be dense) that what they are charging for the advertisement isn't worth it because people weren't able to record it, and thus viewers were lost.
Even if we fast forward during the comercials, we still see them, and if you pause them out, someone had to watch at least the first and lst to pause out the comercials--thus they have an audience!
Eventually the entertainment industry will realise this idea of limiting the ability to record shows will hurt them. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT RECORDING HAS OR WILL HURT THEIR BUSINESS!!! They already make incrediably large amounts of money. They are not hurt, and they are deffinately not starving. This is just pure and simple greed.
Let's say this does pass, what you might see is a charge to record shows. In other words, you pay a fee for the rights to record a show(s). So the content provider would probably have a deal the maker of the content to split the profit from it. You could end up with all kinds of pricing sturctures. Structures to record a whole serious, specials, movies, a show, and so forth. The only thing they would have to do is provide a reliable way to determine wether a show will be a repeat, and a method to know how many episodes would be in a show/special. This would also require them to continue a show till they finish the number of episodes people have paid to record.
I probably shouldn't have said these things because I don't want to give them ideas, but these are a couple of ways things tend to be going. Everybody wants into the business of providing a service for a fee, and the entertainment industry is no different. They see big dollar signs ahead!
IT's simple. This person was stupid enough to buy the stock at or near the apex of the initial climb, and this person held on to it too long. This person obviously didn't realise that stocks jump in their initial release and then settle down to their normal price. This is just someone crying, and wanting his money back. Also, this could have a long term impact on the stock market if this perosn wins. Every person who lost money in the initial offering will start sueing companies. This lawsuit falls under the stupid category.
I can see where the author is coming from because some proffessors swear by OOP. Stuff like, "it's not right unless it's OOP and/or OOD". At the same time, I think he is over stating the procedural languages.
In some ways procedural languages like C could be confusing. You'd have all these functions working on data, and unless the person did a good job of documenting it, it can be hard to follow.
Add to that the fact that in C, and other procedural language, if you wanted a function to work on some variable you had two real choices. You could make the variable global--which some consider a big no no, or you can pass it in the arguments. You can really increase the number of augments fast that way.
I use mainly C++ because it is not a pure OOP language. This allows you to use a function where appropriate, and a class where it would work better. For example, let's say you have complex numbers you want to manipulate. In languages like C, you need to create a function(s) for all the mathematical operations you want to perform. Then the code reads something like this:
...
complex res,x1,x2;
...
multiplycomplex(x1,x2,res);
...
In C++, you can incorporate all the functions into one class, and you can overload operators to make the code more readable. The above example could look like this:
...
complex x1,x2;
...
res = x1 * x2;
...
To me, this is more readable and it looks more like the what you want the operation to do.
In the end, no mater what style of programming you use, it comes down to how you design it. While I like using OOP, I don't like religous use of OOP just for the sake of OOP.
You seem to forget. This law refers to public employees viewing porn on state computers. This is the same issue as filters inthe library the only difference is the state made it a law to prohibit the view of porn and such material on state owned systems. It comes down to this: it's their equipment, and they can determine who can view what on it.
My educated guess would be that is was aimed at helping give the state some teeth to bite with when an employee sues the state because an employee was view pron on one of their system and they were "mentally damaged for life". This law allows the state to tell the employee who viewed the material that he was definately in the wrong because he used state computers.
Whether you like it or not the state has a right to do this. Does your company (assuming you work for a company) allow you to view porn ontheir systems? Most I know don't. They have to protect themselves from lawsuits from people who feel they could be "mentally harmed" by such mages.
Note there is nothing in the law stating that the employee can't view the material at home. Nothing saying the employee can't do the reseach of that nature at home. A lot of people have to do research, or educating, themselves outside of work to keep up their skills and keep on the edge. This is especially true in the computer industry.
Personally, I just think you're upset that someone can't watch porn.
OR it could be distorted radio waves from Earth distorted and reflected/refracted through various sources. I wonder if anyone has tried adjust the waves to take into acount for this. Then again it could have been distorted by the Earth's atmosphere, and we'd find out that is was a song played by some astronaut that was being silly after long hours of research.
This is just a publicity stunt. After they have moved the it around a while somebody will take respouncibility for it and get their five minutes of fame. I don't see why this is such a big deal. It's not like we are being invaded.
Boycott Digital TV. Don't get digital cable. Don't get a Digital TV. Hurt the industry where it counts--in their pockets. If we don't buy the digital equipment, they can't switch to it without losing viewers. If they lose viewers, then the customers (those renting ad space) lose their audience. If the customers lose their audience, they will buy ad space in other mediums such as magazines, radio, news paper, the web, etc.
If consumers don't like this idea, which I doubt they will, the companies pushing this and many others will be hurt in the long run.
I just scrapped any plans I had of buying a digital TV!!!!!!!!!!
This would be a great accomplishment, but it would be twenty years from when they start. This could help Russian ecconomy and US ecconomy. Shipping goods between the two countries would become easier, and safer.
Who would have thought 15 years ago, before the Republican efforts ended the Cold War, that we would be talking about building a tunnel between the two coutries. Two super powers that were once bitter enemies building a connecting tunnel that would have been filled with distrust and bad intentions ten years ago.
Look what happened when we hired a Russian construction company to build an embacy over in Russia. The bugged the whole building, and the bugges we built into the structure of the building. We had to build another floor, and we had to sound proof that floor.
If this does happen, this would be a great achievement for peace between our country and Russia.
7.1 When you use the Services for Internet access, you must protect the Sprint network by either disabling or password protecting file and print sharing on your computer(s) or have a firewall solution that prohibits unauthorized access to your computer.
SO they are forcing people to protect there system, but do they require people to know how to do that too?
7.1.4 post, publish, transmit, reproduce, distribute or in any way exploit any information, software or other material obtained through Services for commercial purposes;
This basically eliminates you from doing anything useful with the material you get. Suppose you find an algoryth, or code, that would work great in the shareware project your working on, well you can't use it because it could be considered use for comercial purposes.
The more I look at this TOS, the more I realise not to do business with Sprint--AT ALL! You can't do anything on there service!
People this preview has been available for a while (atleast the mirrors)--since about April 2000! I haven't been able to get to the site, but the official site still has the same one. You can find an explanation of the frames here. Some of the stuff doesn't hold any more. I remember hereing the ditched the stilts idea.
It is good to see a voice of wisdom amoungst this mess of anti-Christian comments. You know if this were a story about some human sacraficing cult that filtered Christian web sites some of you people wouldn't mind at all. You be saying "Good for them," and stuff like that. Freedom for you and them.
It comes down to this, it's their equipment, they can filter all they want and whom they want. Just because some of you don't like Christians, or Catholics, don't let those judgements get in the way of allowing a company's, organization's, or religious group's, right to filter what they want. You may not agree with it, but that doesn't mean it's evil. As many people have said, use another service if you don't like the one you're using.
I know I will get moderated down for these comments, but these are the facts. I seem so hypocritical comments, and just ot make things clear I am supporting gunner800's comment, and not condeming it.
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A "members only" idea scares me. You'd have to sign the non disclosure, and there is no telling what they will put in that. To top it off they could eventually require "membership dues" to "cover costs" associated with the membership. The dues then could set so high to eliminate everybody except the rich.
I don't like the idea.
Don't we have enough problems with all the plastic that gets put into our dumps now? Do we really want cheap, desposeable(SP?) chips? We'd have to start a "recycle your old chips" campaign.
Jon,
You have to remember the sources. 98.5% of the media is liberal and they admit it. I htink you may be in for a surprise. Bush has twin daughters that are 19. I DOUBT he doesn't know anything about the internet. I think he may surprise you. None of the things you mention were high on his list of things to do.
If you look here you will see some of Bushes plans for Technology. You will note the following quote:
"Use Technology to Boost Student Achievement: Governor Bush will ensure that education technology is used to boost student achievement (Fact Sheet: Enhancing Education Through Technology), and strengthen math and science education (Fact Sheet: Improving Math And Science In America). Governor Bush has proposed creating a new, flexible $3 billion fund to integrate technology in schools and libraries, and $400 million in new money to help ensure that technology is boosting student achievement."
Please consider your sources before you rant on about speculation! I really think in the long run you will be surprised.
The must be using a better DSL than the standard ADSL the most providers use. Maybe the ISDN DSL (IDSL or what ever it's called).
I don't I would get it to start. I wonder if they are providing local stations? I also wonder if they are a middle man and they are just getting it from the local cable company. This might have a future in places where cable doesn't go currently.
Does John Gilmore know his email was posted? Isn't it proper edicate(sp?) to ask/notify beofre posting? Or is it required? I was just wondering. Some people get upset when you don't ask them first before posting emial online, and you can get into the grey area of publishing when you do so without the authors permission.
That aside, I did find it informative. I also worry if any of these companies are listening to the consumers.
This design would also help with the muscles of you lower arms. I had Pronators(SP?) syndrome, basically problems with the muscles in my lower arms because my arms spent most of their time palms down. I am not explaining this very good, but it can be a problem. All the muscles that do the work for moving your fingers are in your lower arm.
A key board in this position, vertically, keeps your arms in a neutral position. Assuming your hand is flat and your thumb rests on your hand in such a way that everything is flat, when you hand is perpendicular to the floor is when the muscles in your lower arm are at rest.
This key board might be ok, but I would much rather have a keybaord that can adjust. This keyboard rotates from flat to 90 degrees and you can sperate the the parts up to 6 feet apart. This is the one I would because you can adjust it.
Don't count on it. Apple LOVES to be in complete control of hardware.
I don't see how anyone could get an indexing related patent. Indexing has been around since before computers. The only spiders really do is automate what people used to do. This too was done before computers--people did it be hand and recorded it. Remember the card catalogs that used to be in every library? Those are a type of index. A spider could apply to the people who select the books to bring into the library and update that catalog.
I REALLY don't see how ANYONE could get a patent on this! Somebody at the patent office MUST be high on something. Maybe a patent would be viable if it were submitted before the industrial revolution, but even then I think the Romans, Greek, Egyptians, et. al. also had forms of indexing and some system that oculd be consider a type of spider. These patents are getting REALLY stupid!
I think I might try sbmitting a patent for typing in symbols to a box that then displays the symbols. I might even get the patent.
You forgot to mention the MACs are mouse challenged. They only have one button. How many of us would be happy with a MAC? I like being able to upgrade my system myself from parts I got at the local Computer Show for a great deal! I would never give that up. Not mention everything on a MAC costs more! From what I can see, a lot of the new user are from the college scene, and how many of them do you think have the money for a MAC or MAC hardware?
Does anybody else have a problem with NASA hitting a comment with a projectile? I do. Barely measureable propogates into trouble over time. Where once that comet may have missed the Earth by a small amount, it might now hit the Earth. The orbit could change drastically. I like this idea about as much as the idea some scientist had to creae a small black whole on Earth.
There is something you can do. Tell the companies you won't go to there sites if you can't view it in Netscape! IF enough people do that, they will change there code. If you design web pages, don't design pages that only work for one brwoser.
I heard some talk about this on public radio last night, and the were talking with someone from out in California that new what went on. The way I understand it, the problem lies in the way they deregulated the utilities--specifically the power companies.
Contrary to popular belief they do have the power available. The problem is that they are losing money. When they deregulated the power companies and allowed competition and whole sale of the power, they only put a cap on the cost of the power companies. This idea came from the power companies themselves. One of the problems was no cap was put on the cost of whole sale electricity, and the power companies assumed they would make there profit from the difference between the price they were selling the power to the users for and the cost of the power from whole sale. Nobody accounted for the possibility that the cost of whole sale would go over the Power companies were charging (remember they have a cap and can't raise it).
Now, the power companies are face with get power at one cost and then selling it at about half the price the purchased it for. The manditory blackouts are to try and change this.
One possible way out of this is for California to temporarliy raise the cap on the amount the power companies can charge the users, and at the same time put a cap on the amount charged by those selling the power wholesale. They deffinately need to put a cap on the whole sale cost. I would not only put a cap on it, but I would gradually lower the cap to bring the wholesale cost under the original amount that the power companies are allowed to charge.
In New Hampshire, we are trying are deregulating soon, but I HOPE that the Governer learns from Californias mistake!!!
The comments in question were made AFTER a judgement had been made. His part in the cas eis over unlees a high court sends it back to him. Those comments do not give evidence to the judge being biased during the court case. Remember all of the blunders Microsoft did during the case. All he did was state a conclusion he reach after the facts were presented to him.
There argument doesn't float.
Well, what the DOJ said is part of a 150 page brief in respounce to things mentioned in Microsoft's appeal. Taken in this sense, it is a part of there arguement against the appeal. They are responding to what Microsoft is saying. Using your arguments, Microsoft is biased too, so we should ignore what they say?
Also using your arguments, both defendants and plaintiffs are baised so why should they be in court?
There is always baiseness(is this a word?) in court cases. That is the point. Someone is defending there point while at the same time disproving the other parties point! Did you even read the article? I read it on Friday 1/12/2001 (but I didn't bother to submit it because my submissions get rejected).
I did like some of what Jackson said. I like the section where Jaskson compares Bill Gates to Napoleon and said Microsoft "executives behave like children"
Seriously, does Schnedt Microne's comment deserve a 5? Watch, I get marked down for pointing out the flaws in his argument.
I would deffinately have to agree. In a society like ours, psuedo capitalist, money is what count. Vote with your money. I won't by a digital TV for a long time for several reasons. One, the price is too high. I refuse to pay that much for a TV. Two, I am not going to buy somehting that may limit my ability to timeshift shows, specials, news, etc. I am not home 100% of the time, and most Americans are not home either. The ability to record a special, or a show, is needed.
In the long run, I don't think this will catch on. If you can't set a timer and record a show, then their some of the pontential audience will be lost. SO what you may say, but that makes a difference to the people buying advertisements during those time slots. If the show is a special, it usually costs more, and if the people can't record it, viewers will be lost. If viewers are lost, the TV Stations will then start to realise (probably slowly given they can be dense) that what they are charging for the advertisement isn't worth it because people weren't able to record it, and thus viewers were lost.
Even if we fast forward during the comercials, we still see them, and if you pause them out, someone had to watch at least the first and lst to pause out the comercials--thus they have an audience!
Eventually the entertainment industry will realise this idea of limiting the ability to record shows will hurt them. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT RECORDING HAS OR WILL HURT THEIR BUSINESS!!! They already make incrediably large amounts of money. They are not hurt, and they are deffinately not starving. This is just pure and simple greed.
Let's say this does pass, what you might see is a charge to record shows. In other words, you pay a fee for the rights to record a show(s). So the content provider would probably have a deal the maker of the content to split the profit from it. You could end up with all kinds of pricing sturctures. Structures to record a whole serious, specials, movies, a show, and so forth. The only thing they would have to do is provide a reliable way to determine wether a show will be a repeat, and a method to know how many episodes would be in a show/special. This would also require them to continue a show till they finish the number of episodes people have paid to record.
I probably shouldn't have said these things because I don't want to give them ideas, but these are a couple of ways things tend to be going. Everybody wants into the business of providing a service for a fee, and the entertainment industry is no different. They see big dollar signs ahead!
IT's simple. This person was stupid enough to buy the stock at or near the apex of the initial climb, and this person held on to it too long. This person obviously didn't realise that stocks jump in their initial release and then settle down to their normal price. This is just someone crying, and wanting his money back. Also, this could have a long term impact on the stock market if this perosn wins. Every person who lost money in the initial offering will start sueing companies. This lawsuit falls under the stupid category.
I can see where the author is coming from because some proffessors swear by OOP. Stuff like, "it's not right unless it's OOP and/or OOD". At the same time, I think he is over stating the procedural languages.
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In some ways procedural languages like C could be confusing. You'd have all these functions working on data, and unless the person did a good job of documenting it, it can be hard to follow.
Add to that the fact that in C, and other procedural language, if you wanted a function to work on some variable you had two real choices. You could make the variable global--which some consider a big no no, or you can pass it in the arguments. You can really increase the number of augments fast that way.
I use mainly C++ because it is not a pure OOP language. This allows you to use a function where appropriate, and a class where it would work better. For example, let's say you have complex numbers you want to manipulate. In languages like C, you need to create a function(s) for all the mathematical operations you want to perform. Then the code reads something like this:
complex res,x1,x2;
multiplycomplex(x1,x2,res);
In C++, you can incorporate all the functions into one class, and you can overload operators to make the code more readable. The above example could look like this:
complex x1,x2;
res = x1 * x2;
To me, this is more readable and it looks more like the what you want the operation to do.
In the end, no mater what style of programming you use, it comes down to how you design it. While I like using OOP, I don't like religous use of OOP just for the sake of OOP.
You seem to forget. This law refers to public employees viewing porn on state computers. This is the same issue as filters inthe library the only difference is the state made it a law to prohibit the view of porn and such material on state owned systems. It comes down to this: it's their equipment, and they can determine who can view what on it.
My educated guess would be that is was aimed at helping give the state some teeth to bite with when an employee sues the state because an employee was view pron on one of their system and they were "mentally damaged for life". This law allows the state to tell the employee who viewed the material that he was definately in the wrong because he used state computers.
Whether you like it or not the state has a right to do this. Does your company (assuming you work for a company) allow you to view porn ontheir systems? Most I know don't. They have to protect themselves from lawsuits from people who feel they could be "mentally harmed" by such mages.
Note there is nothing in the law stating that the employee can't view the material at home. Nothing saying the employee can't do the reseach of that nature at home. A lot of people have to do research, or educating, themselves outside of work to keep up their skills and keep on the edge. This is especially true in the computer industry.
Personally, I just think you're upset that someone can't watch porn.
OR it could be distorted radio waves from Earth distorted and reflected/refracted through various sources. I wonder if anyone has tried adjust the waves to take into acount for this. Then again it could have been distorted by the Earth's atmosphere, and we'd find out that is was a song played by some astronaut that was being silly after long hours of research.
This is just a publicity stunt. After they have moved the it around a while somebody will take respouncibility for it and get their five minutes of fame. I don't see why this is such a big deal. It's not like we are being invaded.
Boycott Digital TV. Don't get digital cable. Don't get a Digital TV. Hurt the industry where it counts--in their pockets. If we don't buy the digital equipment, they can't switch to it without losing viewers. If they lose viewers, then the customers (those renting ad space) lose their audience. If the customers lose their audience, they will buy ad space in other mediums such as magazines, radio, news paper, the web, etc.
If consumers don't like this idea, which I doubt they will, the companies pushing this and many others will be hurt in the long run.
I just scrapped any plans I had of buying a digital TV!!!!!!!!!!
This would be a great accomplishment, but it would be twenty years from when they start. This could help Russian ecconomy and US ecconomy. Shipping goods between the two countries would become easier, and safer.
Who would have thought 15 years ago, before the Republican efforts ended the Cold War, that we would be talking about building a tunnel between the two coutries. Two super powers that were once bitter enemies building a connecting tunnel that would have been filled with distrust and bad intentions ten years ago.
Look what happened when we hired a Russian construction company to build an embacy over in Russia. The bugged the whole building, and the bugges we built into the structure of the building. We had to build another floor, and we had to sound proof that floor.
If this does happen, this would be a great achievement for peace between our country and Russia.
7.1 When you use the Services for Internet access, you must protect the Sprint network by either disabling or password protecting file and print sharing on your computer(s) or have a firewall solution that prohibits unauthorized access to your computer.
SO they are forcing people to protect there system, but do they require people to know how to do that too?
7.1.4 post, publish, transmit, reproduce, distribute or in any way exploit any information, software or other material obtained through Services for commercial purposes;
This basically eliminates you from doing anything useful with the material you get. Suppose you find an algoryth, or code, that would work great in the shareware project your working on, well you can't use it because it could be considered use for comercial purposes.
The more I look at this TOS, the more I realise not to do business with Sprint--AT ALL! You can't do anything on there service!
People this preview has been available for a while (atleast the mirrors)--since about April 2000! I haven't been able to get to the site, but the official site still has the same one. You can find an explanation of the frames here. Some of the stuff doesn't hold any more. I remember hereing the ditched the stilts idea.
It is good to see a voice of wisdom amoungst this mess of anti-Christian comments. You know if this were a story about some human sacraficing cult that filtered Christian web sites some of you people wouldn't mind at all. You be saying "Good for them," and stuff like that. Freedom for you and them.
It comes down to this, it's their equipment, they can filter all they want and whom they want. Just because some of you don't like Christians, or Catholics, don't let those judgements get in the way of allowing a company's, organization's, or religious group's, right to filter what they want. You may not agree with it, but that doesn't mean it's evil. As many people have said, use another service if you don't like the one you're using.
I know I will get moderated down for these comments, but these are the facts. I seem so hypocritical comments, and just ot make things clear I am supporting gunner800's comment, and not condeming it.