Not only do most networks get paid by cable companies per customer (rather than based on viewership numbers), they also get much higher advertising rates on regular TV.
Wait, wait. The networks mentioned here are ABC, CBS, and NBC. Those are broadcast networks. Until very recently, they didn't get paid at all by cable companies. Since the programming was available for free over-the-air cablecos didn't see any reason why they should have to pay to carry them as well. It's only within the last year or so that this has become an issue and cablecos have had to actually work out fees they pay the networks to carry their feeds. Many people here will redoubtably recall temporary blackouts of some network stations this past year, followed a few months later by an increase in their basic cable bill. That was the cablecos bickering with the networks about the fees and then passing them on to you after they reached an agreement with them.
What happens when a site requires cookies to function properly (for session tracking and such) and the the EverCookies become corrupted? You can't just tell the user to "clear out their cookies" to solve the problem. You've just permanently broken your website on that computer unless you do allow a way for a user to remove them.
By that logic, allowing children to play with soap bubble is child endangerment.
I haven't looked at a bottle of bubble fluid in years, but I seem to remember that the bottle does have a warning that it should only be used with adult supervision.
I wish they'd thought a little bit more about their codec/container choices. They encoded in h264 but didn't use a profile that was DXVA compatible, something you certainly can do with the FOSS X264 encoder, not sure what they used. Also, using MP4 for container and then making the subtitles separate SRT files. Why not use MKV and include all the subtitles embedded?
I wonder how they count text messages for studies like this. Like, lets say I have a a smartphone with a QWERTY keyboard. Does that still count as texting when I don't have to depend on T9 prediction to get something written quickly? What if I send the message via email instead of SMS? With smartphone and mobile Internet service usage on the rise, the amount of text being sent though the Net and not just a cell company's network has changed. What about messages sent via IM services from a phone? Those messages are generally short enough to fit in an SMS, but are sent in real time back and forth and displace regular texting in such a situation since they are more convenient for talking back and forth in a focused manner.
What annoyed me more than being called an idiot was the usage of the word lines to describe phones, or accounts.
Line of Business != accounts, as all the lines are considered under one account. Phones would be an apt comparison, although years ago it used to be possible to clone a GSM SIM card and have two separate phones operate on a single "line". Today I believe only the first phone to connect to the wireless provider's network actually functions properly (the old system would have made it too easy for a family to all share a single wireless account).
Using the word "lines" to describe it is actually good, as it's a term consumers new to mobile phones (at the time they came out) could understand. They knew a traditional phone line was a single in/out connection for voice with an assigned number you'd use to reach it from another phone, having multiple physical lines separate from each other meant multiple conversations and being able to reach a specific line if you wanted because of their separate numbers. Why not carry the term to a new technology that did the same thing? If you get cable internet service and get two modems and service for both, your cableco will also refer to it as two Lines of Business for data service, even though both modems are fed from a single drop. The bandwidth for the modems is not shared. Each gets 5 Mbps down and 768 Kbps up in no relation to what the other is using.
Don't forget to factor in the cost of the Internet service you need for the Skype to function.
'Mr. DePriest of EPB does not expect brisk demand for the one-gigabit service anytime soon. So why offer it? "The simple answer is because we can," he said.'"
They offer it so they can be first to market, of course. Yeah, there isn't much demand for it now, but in five years or so there will start to be demand, and they will be ready.
How many Slashdotters here have had to deal with the service issues that come with trying out a brand-new higher speed tier from their cableco/telecom? I tried my cable company's 50 mbps service more than six months after they began offering it, and I still had a connection was was generally down between 5am and sometime after I went to bed, because they were still "tweaking" their new DOCSIS 3 network every night. By offering this service now the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga can get the kinks worked out with the few customers that do show interest in it, so when the popularity picks up they will have service with a reliability track record while their competitors are still struggling to get their ducks in a row or making vague promises of higher speeds tiers "coming soon".
This is planning for future growth, not bellyaching about having to upgrade infrastructure when they can't meet demand like the duopoly tends to do.
No, but you're the only idiot who seems to be equating "line" with a physical telephone wire, where everyone else knows that "line" in this case refers to a Line of Service: an active phone number that can be used to make/receive calls and texts.
So in a "family plan" type scenario the bill would be $120/mo -- one primary phone on the account and three additional phones ($45+$25+$25+$25) and all four members would be able to talk to each other or anyone else nationwide and text without overages.
I've seen too many times the big talkers gets ahead while the person that has the actual imagination and talent get left behind because no one noticed them - they're just not the type of people who "toot their own horn" and they're humble.
Aren't the type of people who BS and steal others' credit the ones that tend to end up in management positions anyway? This simply puts them in a position to be the "big brother" that monitors everyone else. I'm sure they will be looking out for threats to their own corporate dominance more than people who are talented and introverted. Corporate management culture remains the way it is decade after decade because the managers favor individuals most like themselves when it comes to promotions, and not necessarily the best person for the job.
After all when you own only a pair or two of shoes of a style and become a suspect, having just replaced them with brand new shoes is very suspicious.
You could buy the new shows (cheap ones) before the crime, wear them while committing it, and then get rid of them. You get to keep your old comfy shoes and the police will be thrown off on a false trail!
This reminds me of the people who hold up the retail value of their home theater setup as some measure of their own intelligence in audio reproduction. "This $500 wooden volume knob definitely improves my stereo's sound playback. Take my word for it, I have a thousand dollar Marantz Reciever and blahblahblah..."
Not saying anything about you personally, but lots of people who know nothing about raising children still have them.
How often do you see vehicles with every seat filled? It doesn't matter if it's a 15 passenger van or a five passenger Prius if it spends most of its time with 1-2 people riding in it. The automaker can only count on there being one person in the car at any time it's operating -- the driver. So it would be stupid to rate a vehicle based on seating capacity.
Automakers would sure love it, they could get B and A grades for their gas guzzling SUVs because the vehicle technically can carry seven people.
If a newcomer does somehow make it then they are usually bought out by one of the monsters.
And who's fault is that? If the newcomer is privately held they don't have to accept an offer. They have no one to answer to like shareholders in that situation. It's simply human greed and an unwillingness to try to change the system by staying that causes the competition to fall apart then.
The school should turn off the Wi-Fi for a couple weeks, but don't tell anyone they did. Then ask again if children are still feeling the effects. Parents will be forced to admit it's not the WiFi once it's no longer an available cause and youngsters are still complaining.
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Wait, wait. The networks mentioned here are ABC, CBS, and NBC. Those are broadcast networks. Until very recently, they didn't get paid at all by cable companies. Since the programming was available for free over-the-air cablecos didn't see any reason why they should have to pay to carry them as well. It's only within the last year or so that this has become an issue and cablecos have had to actually work out fees they pay the networks to carry their feeds. Many people here will redoubtably recall temporary blackouts of some network stations this past year, followed a few months later by an increase in their basic cable bill. That was the cablecos bickering with the networks about the fees and then passing them on to you after they reached an agreement with them.
What happens when a site requires cookies to function properly (for session tracking and such) and the the EverCookies become corrupted? You can't just tell the user to "clear out their cookies" to solve the problem. You've just permanently broken your website on that computer unless you do allow a way for a user to remove them.
I haven't looked at a bottle of bubble fluid in years, but I seem to remember that the bottle does have a warning that it should only be used with adult supervision.
The phone or the user?
How is this easier?
Voice method:
Text method:
I wish they'd thought a little bit more about their codec/container choices. They encoded in h264 but didn't use a profile that was DXVA compatible, something you certainly can do with the FOSS X264 encoder, not sure what they used. Also, using MP4 for container and then making the subtitles separate SRT files. Why not use MKV and include all the subtitles embedded?
The original Telecommunications Act of 1934 is still very relevant in today's world.
You use transparent aluminum, of course. This allows the construction of a see-through wessel. I mean vessel.
I wonder how they count text messages for studies like this. Like, lets say I have a a smartphone with a QWERTY keyboard. Does that still count as texting when I don't have to depend on T9 prediction to get something written quickly? What if I send the message via email instead of SMS? With smartphone and mobile Internet service usage on the rise, the amount of text being sent though the Net and not just a cell company's network has changed. What about messages sent via IM services from a phone? Those messages are generally short enough to fit in an SMS, but are sent in real time back and forth and displace regular texting in such a situation since they are more convenient for talking back and forth in a focused manner.
Look at the bright side: none of the articles will be dupes!
Line of Business != accounts, as all the lines are considered under one account. Phones would be an apt comparison, although years ago it used to be possible to clone a GSM SIM card and have two separate phones operate on a single "line". Today I believe only the first phone to connect to the wireless provider's network actually functions properly (the old system would have made it too easy for a family to all share a single wireless account).
Using the word "lines" to describe it is actually good, as it's a term consumers new to mobile phones (at the time they came out) could understand. They knew a traditional phone line was a single in/out connection for voice with an assigned number you'd use to reach it from another phone, having multiple physical lines separate from each other meant multiple conversations and being able to reach a specific line if you wanted because of their separate numbers. Why not carry the term to a new technology that did the same thing? If you get cable internet service and get two modems and service for both, your cableco will also refer to it as two Lines of Business for data service, even though both modems are fed from a single drop. The bandwidth for the modems is not shared. Each gets 5 Mbps down and 768 Kbps up in no relation to what the other is using.
Don't forget to factor in the cost of the Internet service you need for the Skype to function.
I, sadly, read that line of the summary as "Master of Porn and Waterways".
They offer it so they can be first to market, of course. Yeah, there isn't much demand for it now, but in five years or so there will start to be demand, and they will be ready.
How many Slashdotters here have had to deal with the service issues that come with trying out a brand-new higher speed tier from their cableco/telecom? I tried my cable company's 50 mbps service more than six months after they began offering it, and I still had a connection was was generally down between 5am and sometime after I went to bed, because they were still "tweaking" their new DOCSIS 3 network every night. By offering this service now the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga can get the kinks worked out with the few customers that do show interest in it, so when the popularity picks up they will have service with a reliability track record while their competitors are still struggling to get their ducks in a row or making vague promises of higher speeds tiers "coming soon".
This is planning for future growth, not bellyaching about having to upgrade infrastructure when they can't meet demand like the duopoly tends to do.
No, but you're the only idiot who seems to be equating "line" with a physical telephone wire, where everyone else knows that "line" in this case refers to a Line of Service: an active phone number that can be used to make/receive calls and texts.
So in a "family plan" type scenario the bill would be $120/mo -- one primary phone on the account and three additional phones ($45+$25+$25+$25) and all four members would be able to talk to each other or anyone else nationwide and text without overages.
Aren't the type of people who BS and steal others' credit the ones that tend to end up in management positions anyway? This simply puts them in a position to be the "big brother" that monitors everyone else. I'm sure they will be looking out for threats to their own corporate dominance more than people who are talented and introverted. Corporate management culture remains the way it is decade after decade because the managers favor individuals most like themselves when it comes to promotions, and not necessarily the best person for the job.
I think the "iPhone funeral" will come back to be one of the biggest laughing-stock moments of Microsoft.
I fully expect a parody funeral by Jobs when WinMob 7 fails to make any sizable dent in the phone marketplace at Apple or Google's expense, if at all.
In Pirate Germany, exposed Plan of Surveillance by EU!
You could buy the new shows (cheap ones) before the crime, wear them while committing it, and then get rid of them. You get to keep your old comfy shoes and the police will be thrown off on a false trail!
This reminds me of the people who hold up the retail value of their home theater setup as some measure of their own intelligence in audio reproduction. "This $500 wooden volume knob definitely improves my stereo's sound playback. Take my word for it, I have a thousand dollar Marantz Reciever and blahblahblah..."
Not saying anything about you personally, but lots of people who know nothing about raising children still have them.
How often do you see vehicles with every seat filled? It doesn't matter if it's a 15 passenger van or a five passenger Prius if it spends most of its time with 1-2 people riding in it. The automaker can only count on there being one person in the car at any time it's operating -- the driver. So it would be stupid to rate a vehicle based on seating capacity.
Automakers would sure love it, they could get B and A grades for their gas guzzling SUVs because the vehicle technically can carry seven people.
And who's fault is that? If the newcomer is privately held they don't have to accept an offer. They have no one to answer to like shareholders in that situation. It's simply human greed and an unwillingness to try to change the system by staying that causes the competition to fall apart then.
Refried beans? ... I'll let myself out now.
My cableco sends out most "regular" cable channels and quite a few HD stations in ClearQAM.
The school should turn off the Wi-Fi for a couple weeks, but don't tell anyone they did. Then ask again if children are still feeling the effects. Parents will be forced to admit it's not the WiFi once it's no longer an available cause and youngsters are still complaining.
Is that supposed to be our car analogy for this article?