Don't forget the bill that is sitting on presiden't desk. The one that will allow the FCC to fine 'individual radio personalities'. I'm all for moderate regulation of our airways, but going after the actors/DJ's is a dangerous precedent.
Obviously I've not been keeping up on things, can someone point me to a reputable report on this?
The obvious question is, if this is the way things are going, how can this fit in with freedom of speech? To me this sounds like speech being less free for those who have gained a large audience and they are to be penalised for not conforming to what a governing body considers acceptable. If that's not censorship, I don't know what is.
I wish they'd listed more of the hardware they're having problems getting hold of or getting working. I found this about the Atlas, and I actually remember the Sinclair ZX-80. Sure enough, as the site says they're sometimes sold on e-bay. Someone want to tell the library to get their bid in?
It is a cunning quote designed to evoke the lyrics of a certain Frank Zappa song. Namely, I'm the Slime
I mean, politicians and lyrics like these...
I am gross and perverted
I'm obsessed 'n deranged
I have existed for years
But very little had changed
I am the tool of the Government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you
I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think I'm delicious
With the stuff that I say
I am the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I am the slime oozin' out
From your TV set
Well 4 hours later for 2 people we get everything cleaned back up. I set the "Tea Timer" on Spybot S&D and set it to show a prompt when it hit something. (setting the prompt is something I have never done before). I fire up IE and the home page is msn.com and BANG "Cannot download file AvenueA, Inc". FROM MSN!!!! Yes folks trying to download in the background from an ad image. Coming from machine name view.atdmt.com and it hiding behind the image trying to sell you msn broadband service!!!
I guess you don't use Spybot S&D on/. then. Adverts such as the Vonage one include AvenueA cookies too.
As far as I can tell they've just expected people to carry on their lives as normal, minus Internet access. That isn't going to work. If there are no other changes to the person's environment/lifestyle then they're left with a gap where they'd use the Internet for recreation or socialising.
People should try avoiding the Internet when they go on holiday (you know, go outside, expose yourself to the daystar, etc.). If you can manage that, then perhaps you can cut back on Internet usage in day-to-day life too.
They should've tried it with some of the right-wing American slashdotters. The researchers would've got a shotgun shoved up their nose and told to reconnect the Internet NOW!
Book comes in at 357, Television comes in at 1022 and TV comes in at 1577.
Ah, now I know what's wrong with it... It's "Artistic" so it doesn't have to mean anything. I mean, nobody would find it useful if the number of occurrences of a word was given.
Here's the bit that would make you choke on your cornflakes...
WordCount recently won
AIGA's (American Institute of Graphic Arts) 2003 Award for Information Design.
Tell me, what was the award trophy? A chocolate tea pot?
Let's see... a site about gadgets might have visitors of a "nerdy" persuasion. What browser do you think they use?!
They may well be more technically inclined, and thus more likely to make the change. However, they're also likely to be the people who get asked to fix the spyware-infested machines of friends and neighbours. Once they're confident Firefox is adequate they'll propose that as the solution.
Hence the submission refers to them as the early-adopter crowd.
What timothy could have done is provided the statistics for/. over a similar time period. Again a techie crowd, but so many people access from work that a significant change in the browsers hitting/. would indicate that companies are changing too.
Why does player #4 need to be a single entity? Can't the large number of small players be thought of as that player ready to asorb the slack?
Businesses don't work like that. They simply won't let the smaller players on the shortlist when selecting their ERP software. Fact is, they need to see a substantial support organization backing the package to give them confidence that the small to medium sized fortune they're about to invest isn't going to be wasted.
Well, I think they do have a point there... there is plenty of competition around in the database market, and Oracle would still have to compete in a 'real' way - as far as I can see they can't be able to abuse their market position, simply because there's enough competition.
This ain't about competition in the database market, it's about competition for ERP software. These work on top of a database, and many ERP packages allow you to choose the underlying database.
I think this is a dreadful decision, Oracle's ERP offering is horrid, and the intent is simply to kill a competitor. If the takeover does go through I hope the clients Oracle is hoping to acquire go elsewhere. What is even more scary is to discover that Microsoft has considered buying SAP. That would instantly give MS a huge market share in back-end business software. You can bet that SAP on non-MS platforms wouldn't be kept up to date with features despite the fact that it runs like a two-legged dog when implemented on Windows.
No. It won't be free, at least I don't believe so. Instead it will probably be like roaming. You'll pay a similar charge to using your phone in a foreign country, and if anyone calls you they'll pay "local" rate and you pay the "international" segment.
2. If it will work with all cell phone carriers. If they are gonan charge 30 buvks for a call, then screw it.
They'll want it to work with as many cellular companies as possible. I have no knowledge of what sort of billing plan you'd need in the US for your phone to work elsewhere, but roaming on GSM as described above covers all of Europe and a significant chunk of the rest of the world. Many billing plans default to permitting roaming with a restriction that you can call the country you are in and your home country.
The interesting bit will be the hardware. I remember when digital cellular was just coming out there were experiments with outgoing-only callpoints. A desktop PC sized box would be installed somewhere and a sign outside indicate that you could call from that point. The range these things had would probably be comparable with what you'd need for an aircraft so, it looks like all you'd need to do is build and certify the hardware. Unfortunately, you'd also need to certify its operation with every make of cellphone it might encounter. That, I believe, will be the biggest hurdle to overcome.
Have we been so primed by TV and movies to expect fantastical aliens that we don't think that we may end up finding the technological equivalent to ourselves fifty or a hundred years ago?
Just think, we finally discover we're not alone. Then we realise that in however-many-lightyears-away they are, they'll be watching us get Mexicans to eat beetle-filled burritos just for laughs.
Ban reality TV now! Think of the damage to our interstellar image!
I saw this article on the BBC website. According to them there's currently somewhere around 500,000 songs available. Nowhere near the number the beta site hypes as being licensed.
I suppose/. isn't the place to ask if this will take off or not, we all know Microsoft will leverage their monopoly in some way to drive people to the site.
Was it just me, or did anyone else find the "interview" pathetic?
Where's the followup questions? Jack gives us his crackpot analogy of backup being the same as physical replacement and the interviewer doesn't query him on the differences.
This is a fawning and pathetic excuse of an interview that's only been done because the interviewer promised to play nice in exchange for the exposure his site would get interviewing Jack Valenti.
After all, an atomic timekeeper is just that: atomic. It only needs to measure the radiation of a cesium atom. So the core of the clock is simple to make. All the measuring equipment, OTOH, has been huge.
One Cesium atom? Radiation?
A Cesium clock operates by exposing the Cesium-133 isotope to microwaves and measuring the frequency of the emitted spectral line. If you were measuring atomic decay and using one atom you'd get one decay. Then it'd most likely no longer be Cesium.
``We never asked the record companies to offer their songs only to us,'' said a Label Mobile official. ``The record companies would not be likely to do that anyway.''
Of course, Label Mobile never had to ask for the monopoly. They were set up by the record companies for that very purpose.
You've gotta love the bit in the letter where your computer supposedly gets on the Internet and fileshares with the power off...
Furthermore, P2p file-sharing technology can allow its users to access the files of others, even when the computer is "off" if the computer itself is connected to the Internet via broadband.
Cretins.
Now, what I really want to see is the letter(s) the RIAA and MPAA sent to the AGs to prompt this action.
Slashdot Mirror
The obvious question is, if this is the way things are going, how can this fit in with freedom of speech? To me this sounds like speech being less free for those who have gained a large audience and they are to be penalised for not conforming to what a governing body considers acceptable. If that's not censorship, I don't know what is.
Of course it's a complete coincidence that when the story mentions COBOL, the /. fortune cookie I get says "VMS must die.".
This is stupid. Here's why: What will the average parent do when they get an alert by phone that their child is 20mph over the speed limit?
They'll phone them.
Stupid.
An MD5 of fullname plus SSN would be more sensible I think.
I'm disappointed, I was expecting something more like this
I wish they'd listed more of the hardware they're having problems getting hold of or getting working. I found this about the Atlas, and I actually remember the Sinclair ZX-80. Sure enough, as the site says they're sometimes sold on e-bay. Someone want to tell the library to get their bid in?
I mean, politicians and lyrics like these... And here ends the preview of the next TV debate.
As far as I can tell they've just expected people to carry on their lives as normal, minus Internet access. That isn't going to work. If there are no other changes to the person's environment/lifestyle then they're left with a gap where they'd use the Internet for recreation or socialising.
People should try avoiding the Internet when they go on holiday (you know, go outside, expose yourself to the daystar, etc.). If you can manage that, then perhaps you can cut back on Internet usage in day-to-day life too.
Sheesh!
They should've tried it with some of the right-wing American slashdotters. The researchers would've got a shotgun shoved up their nose and told to reconnect the Internet NOW!
Yes, I had to Google because I couldn't remember the album name, yes I laughed at all the Google Gamers with lyrics pages for an instrumental.
While you're waiting for the broadcast you can always play the game.
What is the millionth article?
It might be something completely useless, but I'm in the habit of making myself a mine of useless information.
Book comes in at 357, Television comes in at 1022 and TV comes in at 1577.
Ah, now I know what's wrong with it... It's "Artistic" so it doesn't have to mean anything. I mean, nobody would find it useful if the number of occurrences of a word was given.
Here's the bit that would make you choke on your cornflakes... Tell me, what was the award trophy? A chocolate tea pot?
Hence the submission refers to them as the early-adopter crowd.
What timothy could have done is provided the statistics for
I think this is a dreadful decision, Oracle's ERP offering is horrid, and the intent is simply to kill a competitor. If the takeover does go through I hope the clients Oracle is hoping to acquire go elsewhere. What is even more scary is to discover that Microsoft has considered buying SAP. That would instantly give MS a huge market share in back-end business software. You can bet that SAP on non-MS platforms wouldn't be kept up to date with features despite the fact that it runs like a two-legged dog when implemented on Windows.
They'll want it to work with as many cellular companies as possible. I have no knowledge of what sort of billing plan you'd need in the US for your phone to work elsewhere, but roaming on GSM as described above covers all of Europe and a significant chunk of the rest of the world. Many billing plans default to permitting roaming with a restriction that you can call the country you are in and your home country.
The interesting bit will be the hardware. I remember when digital cellular was just coming out there were experiments with outgoing-only callpoints. A desktop PC sized box would be installed somewhere and a sign outside indicate that you could call from that point. The range these things had would probably be comparable with what you'd need for an aircraft so, it looks like all you'd need to do is build and certify the hardware. Unfortunately, you'd also need to certify its operation with every make of cellphone it might encounter. That, I believe, will be the biggest hurdle to overcome.
Ban reality TV now! Think of the damage to our interstellar image!
I saw this article on the BBC website. According to them there's currently somewhere around 500,000 songs available. Nowhere near the number the beta site hypes as being licensed.
/. isn't the place to ask if this will take off or not, we all know Microsoft will leverage their monopoly in some way to drive people to the site.
I suppose
Was it just me, or did anyone else find the "interview" pathetic?
Where's the followup questions? Jack gives us his crackpot analogy of backup being the same as physical replacement and the interviewer doesn't query him on the differences.
This is a fawning and pathetic excuse of an interview that's only been done because the interviewer promised to play nice in exchange for the exposure his site would get interviewing Jack Valenti.
A Cesium clock operates by exposing the Cesium-133 isotope to microwaves and measuring the frequency of the emitted spectral line. If you were measuring atomic decay and using one atom you'd get one decay. Then it'd most likely no longer be Cesium.
Now, what I really want to see is the letter(s) the RIAA and MPAA sent to the AGs to prompt this action.