Ah, there's the lynchpin. If you hadn't noticed, there's been a concerted effort in the mobile industry to make sure that even "if [you] wish", you can't. The point is to make you dependent on them, even when you could easily solve the problem yourself.
But isn't that how it's always been since the beginning though? You make it sound as though the the situation is becoming more restrictive through recent efforts of the mobile industry.
Go back 7-10 years in mobile phone history. Your phone came with its firmware and that was that. You rarely got an update unless the issue was really bad, and then you sometimes had to visit a carrier's store to get the phone reflashed. The features the phone had were the features it had. If you wanted to add functionality some phones supported paid downloadable apps. With the advent of the iPhone, and mainstream updatable operating systems on phones you can have phones that actually gain features and usability throughout their lifetime. And with Android the operating system is more portable and customizable. Carriers are making these handsets available on their networks and allowing consume to be less dependent on them.
You end up with a system that's either hugely expensive and a losing battle because there are millions of these sites or it's just not effective. The cost of putting these systems in place outweigh the benefits, to my mind.
Just release a public statement that you'll be happy to institute this filter but you'll have to significantly raise rates for customers to recoup the cost. Angry constituents will be flooding the politician's in-boxes to put a stop to this.
I have a brilliant idea. Let's just measure wireless internet speed the same way we do consumer broadband -- by the actual speed of the service, rather then using all these "-G" codes. Honestly, "2.75G"? Talk about splitting hairs!
The information might have been linked to the Monopoly game since this round was done online. No paper game boards customers affixed pieces to. And in the past prizes in the Monopoly games have actually included cars.
...And with their special interest dollars lining the pockets of the chicken-shit politicians too afraid to take on business in a frail economy, it can only get worse.
I don't see what the economy has to do with it. They wont take on big business either way. When the economy is good those businesses become more powerful politically through lobbing. When the economy is bad, they provide jobs to constituents so bothering them will rile up the political power of their employees and their families.
It's sort of like college tuition rates. When the economy is good, the rates go up because people are doing well financially and the schools know they can milk another thousand or so out of mom and pop. When the economy is bad, a degree is seen as an edge in a tough job market, so tuition rates go up because the value of a college education has gone up.
I actually rarely ever type anything in Google's search box. I use a Quicksearch set up in Firefox instead and just type "g " in the address bar. It just occurred to me I can add the "-buy -purchase -price -shop" as part of the bookmark the quicksearch runs off of and get those terms added to pretty much all my searches automatically now with no change in my searching behavior. The bookmark simply becomes http://www.google.com/search?&q=%25s+-buy+-purchase+-price+-shop
Apple openly acknowledges that the iPhone is cannibalizing its iPods — and they don't seem to care...
Oh no! Sales of a product we make are being cannibalized by sales of a more expensive product we make that, save a few chips, is virtually identical! What will we do?
Policymakers are great about talking up justice for everyone and saying no to special interests until thy actually have to put pen to paper. The FCC can make all the noise they want, but until this Net Neutrality is actually on the books and being enforced call me skeptical at best.
I thought works created by the government were public domain, and therefore could not be copyrighted. Even if they can as a citizen of the United States and of the people who elected the government and paid the tax bill that created the works I don't know how they could argue I wasn't the owner to begin with.
I especially like these new ones that don't tell you what they have in stock and what's out before you try to buy it.
If you push the button before putting your money in, it flashes the price on the LED display. If you have enough money inserted first it either dispenses the drink or tells you it's sold out on the display. I notice that the change return buttons suspiciously tend to not work on these new machines more often than I remember when I was a kid -- so if the item you wanted is out of stock you're now stuck buying something you don't or leaving your money for the next guy.
Didn't have this issue with those soda machines a decade ago with a little light on every button. You'd think LED's suddenly became more expensive than back then since they don't add them anymore.
If the money isn't raised, the papers could disappear into a private archive, never to be seen again."
OR they could be bought by a private collector who could just as easily "indefinitely loan" them to Bletchley Park. Just as many private art collectors have pieces on loan to museums.
They could also present the user with MSE and other security software at the same time and choosing one of the others takes the user to that company's site to purchase/download it.
When obnoxious teenage 1337 w4r3z d00dz upload poorly encoded video or video encoded with some retarded codec that almost no one uses...
I find this comment very amusing. If you look at what people are using for their codecs you see... 1) An astonishing number of files using XviD for video (a codec that plays just fine on WMP). 2) Audio in DTS and AC3, in other words, the exact same codecs the studios are distributing the films on.
The only "retarded codecs almost no one uses" are Ogg and Thora.
Because you know there's a series of cell towers and satellites that need to be in place for cell phones to work and I don't recall anyone having the foresight to erect such towers in 1928.
The Eiffel Tower was erected in 1889. It had a radio transmitter added in 1914 that was used for jamming German radio communication.
I don't see a black object, I see two of the fingers around what would be the 'top' of the phone which is uncharacteristically how people hold cell phones.
Enlarging class sizes in the face of budget shortfalls means it becomes more difficult for teachers to actually learn and keep track of that many students and roll call becomes impractical due to time constraints, not to mention knowing your class enough you can tell if the person you called on is the same one answering as present.
Maybe it's because today's 70-year-olds are more educated than their predecessors were. If we look at what time frames today's seniors verses yester-decade's seniors grew up in we'll find more of the older generation came from times when child labor was more common, education depreciated for the common man, and agriculture families were more common. Fewer kids stayed in school beyond what was required by law (if there were requirements in their state) so they were on average less educated.
Does he video actually play through Google TV? Or does Google TV simply make it easier to find the video. If the consumer has to go to the website where the video is hosted to watch it I don't see how using Google TV to find videos is any different than using Google image search to find a picture. All it's really doing is increasing awareness of a video available on the site.
If the content providers want consumers to watch the show on TV instead of streaming it, maybe they shouldn't make it available on their site to begin with?
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Ah, there's the lynchpin. If you hadn't noticed, there's been a concerted effort in the mobile industry to make sure that even "if [you] wish", you can't. The point is to make you dependent on them, even when you could easily solve the problem yourself.
But isn't that how it's always been since the beginning though? You make it sound as though the the situation is becoming more restrictive through recent efforts of the mobile industry.
Go back 7-10 years in mobile phone history. Your phone came with its firmware and that was that. You rarely got an update unless the issue was really bad, and then you sometimes had to visit a carrier's store to get the phone reflashed. The features the phone had were the features it had. If you wanted to add functionality some phones supported paid downloadable apps. With the advent of the iPhone, and mainstream updatable operating systems on phones you can have phones that actually gain features and usability throughout their lifetime. And with Android the operating system is more portable and customizable. Carriers are making these handsets available on their networks and allowing consume to be less dependent on them.
We are not letting a student's keyboarding skills get in the way of being able to judge their writing ability
Yup. Because keyboarding skills are not important at all on the job market.
You end up with a system that's either hugely expensive and a losing battle because there are millions of these sites or it's just not effective. The cost of putting these systems in place outweigh the benefits, to my mind.
Just release a public statement that you'll be happy to institute this filter but you'll have to significantly raise rates for customers to recoup the cost. Angry constituents will be flooding the politician's in-boxes to put a stop to this.
I have a brilliant idea. Let's just measure wireless internet speed the same way we do consumer broadband -- by the actual speed of the service, rather then using all these "-G" codes. Honestly, "2.75G"? Talk about splitting hairs!
It's a damn burger, not a car...
The information might have been linked to the Monopoly game since this round was done online. No paper game boards customers affixed pieces to. And in the past prizes in the Monopoly games have actually included cars.
"A touching film of humanity at its best when all the cards are down..."
...And with their special interest dollars lining the pockets of the chicken-shit politicians too afraid to take on business in a frail economy, it can only get worse.
I don't see what the economy has to do with it. They wont take on big business either way. When the economy is good those businesses become more powerful politically through lobbing. When the economy is bad, they provide jobs to constituents so bothering them will rile up the political power of their employees and their families.
It's sort of like college tuition rates. When the economy is good, the rates go up because people are doing well financially and the schools know they can milk another thousand or so out of mom and pop. When the economy is bad, a degree is seen as an edge in a tough job market, so tuition rates go up because the value of a college education has gone up.
Wow, thanks.
I actually rarely ever type anything in Google's search box. I use a Quicksearch set up in Firefox instead and just type "g " in the address bar. It just occurred to me I can add the "-buy -purchase -price -shop" as part of the bookmark the quicksearch runs off of and get those terms added to pretty much all my searches automatically now with no change in my searching behavior. The bookmark simply becomes http://www.google.com/search?&q=%25s+-buy+-purchase+-price+-shop
Maybe he was referring to Windows Vista.
I think the U.S. Coast Guard should sue the U.S. Copyright Group.
Clearly they aren't happy with being expected to find pirates outside of U.S. waters.
Apple openly acknowledges that the iPhone is cannibalizing its iPods — and they don't seem to care...
Oh no! Sales of a product we make are being cannibalized by sales of a more expensive product we make that, save a few chips, is virtually identical! What will we do?
Not a lot of Macs at the federal government.
Really?
Policymakers are great about talking up justice for everyone and saying no to special interests until thy actually have to put pen to paper. The FCC can make all the noise they want, but until this Net Neutrality is actually on the books and being enforced call me skeptical at best.
I thought works created by the government were public domain, and therefore could not be copyrighted. Even if they can as a citizen of the United States and of the people who elected the government and paid the tax bill that created the works I don't know how they could argue I wasn't the owner to begin with.
I especially like these new ones that don't tell you what they have in stock and what's out before you try to buy it.
If you push the button before putting your money in, it flashes the price on the LED display. If you have enough money inserted first it either dispenses the drink or tells you it's sold out on the display. I notice that the change return buttons suspiciously tend to not work on these new machines more often than I remember when I was a kid -- so if the item you wanted is out of stock you're now stuck buying something you don't or leaving your money for the next guy.
Didn't have this issue with those soda machines a decade ago with a little light on every button. You'd think LED's suddenly became more expensive than back then since they don't add them anymore.
If the money isn't raised, the papers could disappear into a private archive, never to be seen again."
OR they could be bought by a private collector who could just as easily "indefinitely loan" them to Bletchley Park. Just as many private art collectors have pieces on loan to museums.
Australia's banks must be pretty bad if people trust PayPal more.
Many people have my email address, very few of them know who I am dating or what I did last night.
If you were that worried about people knowing who you are dating or what you did last night, why would you post it on Facebook to start with?
They could also present the user with MSE and other security software at the same time and choosing one of the others takes the user to that company's site to purchase/download it.
Sort of like the EU "Browser Choice" screen.
I find this comment very amusing. If you look at what people are using for their codecs you see...
1) An astonishing number of files using XviD for video (a codec that plays just fine on WMP).
2) Audio in DTS and AC3, in other words, the exact same codecs the studios are distributing the films on.
The only "retarded codecs almost no one uses" are Ogg and Thora.
The Eiffel Tower was erected in 1889. It had a radio transmitter added in 1914 that was used for jamming German radio communication.
Maybe it's an iPhone 4.
Enlarging class sizes in the face of budget shortfalls means it becomes more difficult for teachers to actually learn and keep track of that many students and roll call becomes impractical due to time constraints, not to mention knowing your class enough you can tell if the person you called on is the same one answering as present.
It might just be a vote for extreme laziness. Some people assume their candidate will win anyway without their vote.
Maybe it's because today's 70-year-olds are more educated than their predecessors were. If we look at what time frames today's seniors verses yester-decade's seniors grew up in we'll find more of the older generation came from times when child labor was more common, education depreciated for the common man, and agriculture families were more common. Fewer kids stayed in school beyond what was required by law (if there were requirements in their state) so they were on average less educated.
Does he video actually play through Google TV? Or does Google TV simply make it easier to find the video. If the consumer has to go to the website where the video is hosted to watch it I don't see how using Google TV to find videos is any different than using Google image search to find a picture. All it's really doing is increasing awareness of a video available on the site.
If the content providers want consumers to watch the show on TV instead of streaming it, maybe they shouldn't make it available on their site to begin with?