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that the internet bubble was a hoax?
Proof it wasn't - you better have a bunch of grade A stock options to fling at a handtop.
For the "under $2000 price tag, you get a box with: - state of the art OQO handtop - power cord & AC adaptor - docking cable - desktop stand - digital pen - carrying case and a manual/guide
You know that 16:9 can fit within 4:3 with no problem right? As long as the resolution is high enough on the display it doesn't matter. HD is 1080i or 720p at 16:9 - My (remember cheap) 800 x 600 4:3 DLP Projector is just a few pixels shy of HD at Progressive scan. Now when my projector poops out in a few years, I will then buy most likely a 1080p native Projector or something even higher (?) but the price will lower than today.
As for price, the current HD (16:9) projectors cost quite a bit more than the current run of the mille 4:3 computer projectors. Save your money and it 16:9 will still fit within the 4:3 frame. Best part is that nothing is preventing me from getting a HD turner and using it, my configuration is modular.
Just accept the fact that 4:3 TVs and go on. See in HD the width is 16:9 and if you want to watch 90% of the Broadcasts in today market than that 16:9 is going to have to be stretched or chopped from the 4:3. Now lets say that you accepted that 90% of the broadcasts are 4:3 and that neither chopping nor stretching is acceptable then what do you do - get a 4:3 TV.
Ahh, I here but what about HD 16:9 signals - well we have watched DVD that can range are even wider than 16:9 on 4:3 TVs for years and I can accept the black bars at the top and bottom.
Do I hear more rumbling about screen size and weight as the wight of a 4:3 is quite high - Well I have two Tivo machines and a replay (for comparisons) driving a projector as I don't have digital TV at my local yet. In the past with digital, I could hook up directly from my digital turner to my audio tuner to handle the audio video distribution.
Let me tell you that anyone that sees the Projector is astounded and its only an cheap HP with 1500 Lumens @ 800x600. Yeah it needs to have the curtains closed but at night it like a movie screen. The cost was only like ~700 bucks and the weight savings is a factor of like 500 pounds. The projector can't show true HD quality but it is more than enough for DVD 480p; thus, save your money if you go this route and wait until more Lumens (brightness) and resolution (something that can show 1080p) comes along at a cheaper price.
The Internet Spyware Prevention Act would give the Justice Department $10 million to crack down on companies and others that secretly install spyware and those who attempt to dupe victims into releasing personal details and financial information in e-mail scams.
What would you do with $10 Million. Could it be better used for education as these rulings wont cover EULAs nor the 600 North Korea Hackers.
In America, we would like to think all the world encompass the borders of the US, whereby we can extend our laws to any region yet there are some countries that refuse to enforce unscrupulous acts. What would North Korea do to this guy?
As for software and being installed; EULAs will just have a clause accommodating for the future law. Should something in a capitalist society prevent two parties agreeing to contract terms? If this guy's EULA didn't state the condition then he violated present laws such as fraud.
Let's think about these laws before we cheer - say to yourself will the world be a better place with yet another law. I applaud the efforts of the government protecting the people but marketing comes has to come from somewhere; like Nielsen rating system by which advertisers use to by spots on TV, somewhere there has to be a way to understand what works on the internet. The law bill clearly states that installing tracking devices on someone else computer will be punishable by imprisonment - you will no longer to be able to track logins via cookies or be running a risk from court interpretations of the law.
As for the second part of the law, phishing:
Zoe Lofgren D-Calif. - cited estimates that up to 90 percent of computers contain some forms of spyware. Lofgren said her daughter was recently victimized by electronic thieves in a phishing scam
It is good thing that 10% of the market is either running an alternative browser and/or operating system preventing those infections. But being victimized via email I tend to say that email isn't secure therefore nothing in email can be trusted - thus let the buyer (user) beware. Over the long haul, Darwinism will balance things out and the law will be just a hoop and dance show for elections.
I don't know if you mean US thing - are you Brit with the toilet humor; Russian with the outlawed gay humor; Australia with thumb up the crock's butt humor, and yes I am generalizing as the as you did because I don't really know each culture's humor - Howard has just a different humor. Like it or not it's the way it is.
However, you're missing a more important decision. Howard has been severally fined from the FCC and decided to leave over the air broadcast - it huge, go look at Siruis stock - it went up 18% today. He is leaving what he thinks to be censorship from OTA broadcast in favor of freedom to do as he wishes on the show. We'll see how it pans out in 2005.
Remember that anyone who encrypts their email obviously has something to hide and doesn't support their government and their own freedom!
There are so many sides to a coin - case in point you brought up a very good flip side.
But lets say that enough people started recognizing that email isn't *gasp* private and, visioning everyone knowing email isn't private; that all email (lets extend it to internet traffic) became encrypted. This ruling only helps the civil libertarian groups on getting the word out to protect the civil liberties at an individual level.
I would tend to agree with this ruling. I believe that an individual should protect her property as it's kind of like leaving a sofa on the curb not expecting it to be removed or like not having curtains on your windows and expecting people to not look in as the drive by. The property owner of the email should be protecting it via encryption or its there for anyone to read.
I like double rot-13; if it is encrypted and someone cracks it than I guess you should find a better encryption algorithm.
Add to the question about what he thinks of the government forcing Bell to sell of the Unix OS (because the parent company was considered a monopoly) inlight of today's litigation wrangling.
Well, actually the WiFi card isn't tied so directly to the PDA as tires are to a car. Shipping a car without tires would be more akin to shipping a pda without a screen. As shipping a car with something cheap, or not there, allowing the user to upgrade or modify for the intended use. Why should I buy something that I may not use or have to upgrade to WPA, 802.11[a-z] anyway?
By your logic, should every component be user-upgradable just because the technologies might change?
Whaaa?? you dont like zif sockets nor PCI slots? So a componenet changes you should be able to simply remove the device and plug in a new one. What is wrong with having a component that is a little imature in the hands of the consumer for upgrades rather than a manufactuer? In your logic you would not use newer tire techology on your car because you should just by a new car when better material such as radial tires are introduced. Its good to be able to swap components and enhance current in hand hardware (even if its removing 5 lug nuts).
Hmm, that would fall under Section 1 paragraph II - heading A - The Village Idiot.
The owner would be the village idiot for these reasons: 1) You're standing in front of the door 2) You brought your beer to the bathroom 3) You didn't finish your drink *before* going to the bathroom 4) You are walking in pee 5) You're in crowded men's room
Possible Remedies 1) Pee in your beer bottle to rectify anyone from stealing your beer in the future 2) Finish drink before going to bathroom 3) Plan on going to the bathroom before ordering drink 4) Don't walk in Pee 5) Don't take drink to bathroom. 6) Don't stand in front of a bathroom door 7) Let the dog have it - or you're the village idiot.
The 5-second rule - if food product should land on the ground and if the dog doesn't eat said food product in 5 seconds than you can have it.
In conjunction with:
Read your town charter, boy. `If food stuffs should touch the ground, said food stuffs shall be turned over to the village idiot.' Since I don't see him around, start shoveling! - Homer.
I would like to say that only the next thing we need is a motion picture camera to capture full 35mm frames... Then I thought of the next level of using IMAX frames and realized that upgrading will never end.
Well, actually the would be a good justification for my scenario. Think about it - the FCC sells the band at 1210 AM in both Philadelphia and Michigan to whoever wants to buy it - that may include a local station trampling over the long distance one. Now with the state agreement - the two states would know that there is an agreement for this spectrum since there is a market for it.
But after typing the sentence above, I realized that this could be used as a political censorship tool. Hmm a state could trample on transmissions they deemed undesirable - what would some conservative states say about the Howard Stern show?
I really don't know why the federal government is selling the rights that the individual States should be doing. Each state should have the right to lease or sell spectrum. That includes keeping your spectrum off other peoples land (interstates) unless there is an agreement between states. At the local level, I would never outright sell a commodity without some kind of royalties in return - think about land property tax we all pay; so why isn't there a property value assets towards the highly valuable spectrum? This would allow the state to boot venders that violate some quality standard and re-sell it to a better vendor if the state (local population) decides to.
In marketing, you would learn that all arenas of buinsess have 4 players. The 4 companies will occupy 80% of that market. Thus what you are seeing is certain players aligning to fit the model.
I thoroughly enjoy wikpedia and I have always thought of new ways of using the wiki concept - here is one solution to spam without privacy concerns.
Your email interface would look at a list on the wiki page and filter out any known spam. One spam slips through and you can make a new entry at wik (like database or text page whatever). The entry could be the whole email or an algorithm but either way an algorithm would eventually be made based on a pattern to reduce the entry size (who knows the community is in control of it). Fixed the privacy concerns unless you did it to yourself.
The next great thing about the wiki is you could take that 20 bucks a month and make a donation to the wiki. Not only would you be helping thwart spam but also supporting a great dictionary, encyclopedia and all things great with the open concept.
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These 28 customers accused of music file-sharing are from North Korea. Then what are you going to do?
But can they get anyone to read them?
Yeah there pleanty of people reading the prosco.net link. Click on it
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Drudge Report is running an article about Tennessee Democrats Compare Republicans To Special Olympians.
that the internet bubble was a hoax?
Proof it wasn't - you better have a bunch of grade A stock options to fling at a handtop.
For the "under $2000 price tag, you get a box with:
- state of the art OQO handtop
- power cord & AC adaptor
- docking cable
- desktop stand
- digital pen
- carrying case and a manual/guide
You know that 16:9 can fit within 4:3 with no problem right? As long as the resolution is high enough on the display it doesn't matter. HD is 1080i or 720p at 16:9 - My (remember cheap) 800 x 600 4:3 DLP Projector is just a few pixels shy of HD at Progressive scan. Now when my projector poops out in a few years, I will then buy most likely a 1080p native Projector or something even higher (?) but the price will lower than today.
As for price, the current HD (16:9) projectors cost quite a bit more than the current run of the mille 4:3 computer projectors. Save your money and it 16:9 will still fit within the 4:3 frame. Best part is that nothing is preventing me from getting a HD turner and using it, my configuration is modular.
Just accept the fact that 4:3 TVs and go on. See in HD the width is 16:9 and if you want to watch 90% of the Broadcasts in today market than that 16:9 is going to have to be stretched or chopped from the 4:3. Now lets say that you accepted that 90% of the broadcasts are 4:3 and that neither chopping nor stretching is acceptable then what do you do - get a 4:3 TV.
Ahh, I here but what about HD 16:9 signals - well we have watched DVD that can range are even wider than 16:9 on 4:3 TVs for years and I can accept the black bars at the top and bottom.
Do I hear more rumbling about screen size and weight as the wight of a 4:3 is quite high - Well I have two Tivo machines and a replay (for comparisons) driving a projector as I don't have digital TV at my local yet. In the past with digital, I could hook up directly from my digital turner to my audio tuner to handle the audio video distribution.
Let me tell you that anyone that sees the Projector is astounded and its only an cheap HP with 1500 Lumens @ 800x600. Yeah it needs to have the curtains closed but at night it like a movie screen. The cost was only like ~700 bucks and the weight savings is a factor of like 500 pounds. The projector can't show true HD quality but it is more than enough for DVD 480p; thus, save your money if you go this route and wait until more Lumens (brightness) and resolution (something that can show 1080p) comes along at a cheaper price.
What about $10 million in eduational seminars and ads to inform users on how to protect theirselves?
The Internet Spyware Prevention Act would give the Justice Department $10 million to crack down on companies and others that secretly install spyware and those who attempt to dupe victims into releasing personal details and financial information in e-mail scams.
What would you do with $10 Million. Could it be better used for education as these rulings wont cover EULAs nor the 600 North Korea Hackers.
In America, we would like to think all the world encompass the borders of the US, whereby we can extend our laws to any region yet there are some countries that refuse to enforce unscrupulous acts. What would North Korea do to this guy?
As for software and being installed; EULAs will just have a clause accommodating for the future law. Should something in a capitalist society prevent two parties agreeing to contract terms? If this guy's EULA didn't state the condition then he violated present laws such as fraud.
Let's think about these laws before we cheer - say to yourself will the world be a better place with yet another law. I applaud the efforts of the government protecting the people but marketing comes has to come from somewhere; like Nielsen rating system by which advertisers use to by spots on TV, somewhere there has to be a way to understand what works on the internet. The law bill clearly states that installing tracking devices on someone else computer will be punishable by imprisonment - you will no longer to be able to track logins via cookies or be running a risk from court interpretations of the law.
As for the second part of the law, phishing:
Zoe Lofgren D-Calif. - cited estimates that up to 90 percent of computers contain some forms of spyware. Lofgren said her daughter was recently victimized by electronic thieves in a phishing scam
It is good thing that 10% of the market is either running an alternative browser and/or operating system preventing those infections. But being victimized via email I tend to say that email isn't secure therefore nothing in email can be trusted - thus let the buyer (user) beware. Over the long haul, Darwinism will balance things out and the law will be just a hoop and dance show for elections.
Hold on a second.
I don't know if you mean US thing - are you Brit with the toilet humor; Russian with the outlawed gay humor; Australia with thumb up the crock's butt humor, and yes I am generalizing as the as you did because I don't really know each culture's humor - Howard has just a different humor. Like it or not it's the way it is.
However, you're missing a more important decision. Howard has been severally fined from the FCC and decided to leave over the air broadcast - it huge, go look at Siruis stock - it went up 18% today. He is leaving what he thinks to be censorship from OTA broadcast in favor of freedom to do as he wishes on the show. We'll see how it pans out in 2005.
Remember that anyone who encrypts their email obviously has something to hide and doesn't support their government and their own freedom!
There are so many sides to a coin - case in point you brought up a very good flip side.
But lets say that enough people started recognizing that email isn't *gasp* private and, visioning everyone knowing email isn't private; that all email (lets extend it to internet traffic) became encrypted. This ruling only helps the civil libertarian groups on getting the word out to protect the civil liberties at an individual level.
I would tend to agree with this ruling. I believe that an individual should protect her property as it's kind of like leaving a sofa on the curb not expecting it to be removed or like not having curtains on your windows and expecting people to not look in as the drive by. The property owner of the email should be protecting it via encryption or its there for anyone to read.
I like double rot-13; if it is encrypted and someone cracks it than I guess you should find a better encryption algorithm.
Add to the question about what he thinks of the government forcing Bell to sell of the Unix OS (because the parent company was considered a monopoly) inlight of today's litigation wrangling.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
...
It was worse than a nightmare: A normal route on the motorway
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-
To be stopped suddenly will the car ever faster, is no more
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping
Well one hour long hunted a French driver with speed 200 over the runway, in the Slalom around the other cars
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door
Debt is to have defective electronics, the manufacturer examines the incident
"'T is some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-
Only this and nothing more."
The Tempomat of its Renault Vel Satis was defective -
A cause for the Horrortrip
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
The pressestelle of the manufacturer Renault confirmed the incident;
which occurred on Sunday
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor
- nevermore - nevermore
Well, actually the WiFi card isn't tied so directly to the PDA as tires are to a car. Shipping a car without tires would be more akin to shipping a pda without a screen. As shipping a car with something cheap, or not there, allowing the user to upgrade or modify for the intended use. Why should I buy something that I may not use or have to upgrade to WPA, 802.11[a-z] anyway?
By your logic, should every component be user-upgradable just because the technologies might change?
Whaaa?? you dont like zif sockets nor PCI slots? So a componenet changes you should be able to simply remove the device and plug in a new one. What is wrong with having a component that is a little imature in the hands of the consumer for upgrades rather than a manufactuer? In your logic you would not use newer tire techology on your car because you should just by a new car when better material such as radial tires are introduced. Its good to be able to swap components and enhance current in hand hardware (even if its removing 5 lug nuts).
Hmm, that would fall under Section 1 paragraph II - heading A - The Village Idiot.
The owner would be the village idiot for these reasons:
1) You're standing in front of the door
2) You brought your beer to the bathroom
3) You didn't finish your drink *before* going to the bathroom
4) You are walking in pee
5) You're in crowded men's room
Possible Remedies
1) Pee in your beer bottle to rectify anyone from stealing your beer in the future
2) Finish drink before going to bathroom
3) Plan on going to the bathroom before ordering drink
4) Don't walk in Pee
5) Don't take drink to bathroom.
6) Don't stand in front of a bathroom door
7) Let the dog have it - or you're the village idiot.
The 5-second rule - if food product should land on the ground and if the dog doesn't eat said food product in 5 seconds than you can have it.
In conjunction with:
Read your town charter, boy. `If food stuffs should touch the ground, said food stuffs shall be turned over to the village idiot.' Since I don't see him around, start shoveling! - Homer.
I would like to say that only the next thing we need is a motion picture camera to capture full 35mm frames... Then I thought of the next level of using IMAX frames and realized that upgrading will never end.
A wiki page about Wiki.
Well, actually the would be a good justification for my scenario. Think about it - the FCC sells the band at 1210 AM in both Philadelphia and Michigan to whoever wants to buy it - that may include a local station trampling over the long distance one. Now with the state agreement - the two states would know that there is an agreement for this spectrum since there is a market for it.
But after typing the sentence above, I realized that this could be used as a political censorship tool. Hmm a state could trample on transmissions they deemed undesirable - what would some conservative states say about the Howard Stern show?
I really don't know why the federal government is selling the rights that the individual States should be doing. Each state should have the right to lease or sell spectrum. That includes keeping your spectrum off other peoples land (interstates) unless there is an agreement between states. At the local level, I would never outright sell a commodity without some kind of royalties in return - think about land property tax we all pay; so why isn't there a property value assets towards the highly valuable spectrum? This would allow the state to boot venders that violate some quality standard and re-sell it to a better vendor if the state (local population) decides to.
In marketing, you would learn that all arenas of buinsess have 4 players. The 4 companies will occupy 80% of that market. Thus what you are seeing is certain players aligning to fit the model.
privacy concerns are big of course
I thoroughly enjoy wikpedia and I have always thought of new ways of using the wiki concept - here is one solution to spam without privacy concerns.
Your email interface would look at a list on the wiki page and filter out any known spam. One spam slips through and you can make a new entry at wik (like database or text page whatever). The entry could be the whole email or an algorithm but either way an algorithm would eventually be made based on a pattern to reduce the entry size (who knows the community is in control of it). Fixed the privacy concerns unless you did it to yourself.
The next great thing about the wiki is you could take that 20 bucks a month and make a donation to the wiki. Not only would you be helping thwart spam but also supporting a great dictionary, encyclopedia and all things great with the open concept.