Except Aereo was providing the rebroadcast. With sling box you are redirecting broadcasts from your own home. The courts saw little difference between leasing an antenna and providing a subscription service and saw the former as an attempt to provide the latter without having to pay rebroadcast fees to the local affiliates.
This seems to further re-affirm the court's position (agree with it or not) that Aereo is a cable company even though they use the internet for transfer.
Why would we not agree? It doesn't matter what media or protocol being used to forward the television signal. What mattered was that Aereo provided a service to forward all the live broadcasts to you which seems very similar to the early cable companies. We had wireless cable companies in the 90's. The fact that they were wireless didn't diminish their ability to be a cable service.
Slingbox is very different. It's a personal device that does nothing but forward a single channel from your own cable box (or DirectTV receiver) to your current location.
I think you meant to say is "Bitcoin ISN'T US Currency". It still has value and used in the trade of goods and commodities. It is a local currency (aka community currency).
Anyway, a lot of innovation is being stifled by liability. The fact that someone can do something bad to someone else wearing a medical device is enough for most to keep it off the market.
What killed guilds are the large number of teenagers who joined the game and over compensated for being a nobody at high school by being massive dicks online. They would act nice until they joined and then they would troll the guild channel and create "drama" all fucking night. You can/gkick them to the cows come home and you'll find put that they left an alt character behind to continue to fuck with the guild. We had trouble managing the banks because they would constantly raid it without putting anything of value back. Not to mention they felt entitled to a rank promotion after only being a member for a week and bitch when we tell them no because we only had 4 ranks in our guild to control access to the bank ("recruit", "member", "veteran", "Guild Master").
The guild I'm in now (when I'm online) only has about 250 characters (including alts) and because we are all working adults, we average around 11 to 17 people online during the evenings. We don't recruit anymore. We just invite friends we know personally or people who are raiding with us on a regular basis. We enjoy the Flex raid feature and do the regular raids too. We view the LFR feature positively since it allows us working folks to farm for gear that can be used during flex and regular 10-man and 25-man raids. The gear from LFR is not high enough to do anything worthwhile in the end games so it's a nice compromise.
Zoltan Szabadi agreed to the non-compete and in returned was employed by Amazon. Now that Zoltan can find a job a Google he decides to go against the contract that he signed.
And in instances where under-served areas tried to create their own municipal broadband network, the ISPs that weren't serving them sued to stop them or got their lobbied state officials to pass laws declaring that illegal.
Their argument is that government shouldn't compete against private enterprise. They didn't sue to stop an independent non-profit or an small business from starting an ISP.
If a community isn't being served by an existing ISP, why is municipal broadband "eliminating competition"? If an area has an ISP but they are refusing to improve service, how is adding a municipal broadband option eliminating competition?
Again is it okay for the government to compete with private enterprise?
People were upset when Walmart used their corporate capital and scale to undercut local businesses and caused them to close and eliminated a lot of competition in rural America (remember Walmart targeted rural markets first). People should be even more upset if the government used tax dollars to undercut a business and cause them to close. It sets a dangerous precedent and a lot of people prefer the government to stick to the basics.
Is the presence of the USPS eliminating competition from FedEx and UPS?
Apple vs. Oranges. The USPS already existed when both FedEx and UPS were formed. Also FedEx and UPS are private enterprises that offered services that weren't available from the government backed USPS.
People take offense when the government decides to compete with private enterprise in an established industry. People do not take offense when private enterprise competes with the government by offering services not provided by the government. A capitalist society favor capitalist solutions. I don't always agree but that's the meat of the argument.
I would like to add that if I wanted to simply be an ISP, I could easily offer DSL and attach some value added service to it. There are a number of communication companies that advertise in my area that offer business communication solutions including DSL internet and PBX services. I'm sure the same can be said in other cities in the US.
Do you speak from experience? I am and the real roadblock is cost and market inertia.
If I wanted to invest a lot of money into fiber optics and spend the next 10 to 20 years recouping my capital investment I do not believe city hall would be my roadblock. I would need to convince my investors and bank that we could recoup our money and make a profit despite the established carriers using their size and mostly paid for infrastructure to undercut us.
The reason that Comcast and others are offering higher bandwidths (without raising the cap) is not because of consumer demand but to defend their territory. It's hard to convince the bank that you will offer something not available elsewhere when they see commercials for "up to 150 mbps" offered at a price below what you would have to charge just to break even.
The only way I would be able to even apply for a permit and pay the franchise fees is by making an insane amount of profit in an internet related venture and I wanted to spend some of the profits to have direct access to my customers (or users). This would not only allowed me to experiment with services that require high bandwidth but also provide good public relations stories to advertise in my other markets. You know like Google does. Also notice how many large cities compete for their next fiber deployment.
I've almost gotten T-boned by a impatient driver pulling a similar stunt.
My street is one block away from a intersection with a traffic signal. The city decided that instead of putting another light synced with the intersection they would save money and prevent congestion by putting up a "Do Not Block Intersection" sign. The light was red and both west bound lanes were stopped and the the drivers in both of those lanes left enough room for me to exit my south bound road and turn east. Unfortunately the street I'm turning on has a turning lane that runs the length of the entire street and an impatient driver thought he could use it as a passing lane more than several car lengths away since he was ultimately going to make a left turn at the intersection with the signal. He had to skid to a complete stop when he realized that our paths would meet. I really wish they would put some concrete islands on the street to prevent this kind of bad driving.
Government bans competition. You can't very well expect an agency that claims a "natural monopoly" to not consider other "natural monopolies" both wise and judicious.
Not true. Anyone can start an ISP as long as they are willing to pay for the infrastructure to deliver the last mile connection to their customers.
Community fiber is still the answer - there are just so many hurdles that make it slow in coming.
You just criticized both the government and lack of competition and your answer is to eliminate competition and let the government run it?
The question that I don't see being asked: "Is there a 'web' language that warrants my employer paying me to learn and use?"
If I was an employer and had a lot invested in Perl, I would view any attempt to introduce yet another language into the shop with suspicion. Does the employee's suggestion merit consideration or is he trying to get me to pay him to learn a new language to pad his resume?
Would I rather have someone with years of experience using Perl work on my enterprise code or would I prefer to have someone with practically no experience in some other language or its associated framework using that language to develop my enterprise code?
Short parking times are in the order of 45 to 60 mins.
We actually have shuttle buses that travel from a park and ride station near the suburbs to the stadium during the two annual college bowl games and other sport events. They close a route to only shuttle busses during that time. I've been able to park my car and be at the front entrance of the stadium in 20 mins.
They can always increase the meter rate while enforcing maximum time and possibly shortening them. The more active areas will have short term parking freed more often and if you need somewhere to park for a leisurely dinner or movie (possibly both) you can always use the parking garage.
I used to lease a parking space downtown for work, and they always had reasonable hourly rates for the people visiting downtown after hours. Some would allow you to reserve a spot. Even the city contracted garages had decent spots. The city provides a downtown shuttle for those who park in garages on the edge of downtown so you don't have to walk if you don't want to.
The only thing the auction app provides is a method for individuals to make a buck off of a public parking space from people who don't mind paying for a privilege that isn't offered
Baltimore has a population of 670,000. Between the parking garages and street parking, there's room for over three million cars to park in a one mile radius from Power Plant Live. There's also metro service, bus service, and light rail service. Maryland has a population of 5.7 million.
The population of Baltimore's metropolitan statistical area is 2.7 million. I doubt everybody in that 7 county area will all want to go to Baltimore every night.
Public parking is inaccessible because it's scarce; this scarcity also denies access to public roadways. This solution frees up some access to roadways, and lets you find out how much parking is being opened up--you can then decide if it's worth looking for a public parking space or just go to a parking garage, or take public transit.
So parking should only be accessible to those willing to pay someone to release it to them? We are still talking about an auction app.
Because the third party currently has rights to that public parking by writ of using it at the time. Otherwise I'd just call a tow truck to remove the Ferrari parked in my spot.
Not always true. Where I live there is a maximum time you can stay in a metered spot no matter how willing you are to feed the meter. This is to encourage people to use the lots for long term (2+ hr) parking which aren't really that expensive.
Also you fail to explain how the auction app doesn't provide an incentive to stay in that parking place until you make money off the auction. The result being that people not using the app or unwilling to be extorted are being denied a parking space.
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Except Aereo was providing the rebroadcast. With sling box you are redirecting broadcasts from your own home. The courts saw little difference between leasing an antenna and providing a subscription service and saw the former as an attempt to provide the latter without having to pay rebroadcast fees to the local affiliates.
Why would we not agree? It doesn't matter what media or protocol being used to forward the television signal. What mattered was that Aereo provided a service to forward all the live broadcasts to you which seems very similar to the early cable companies. We had wireless cable companies in the 90's. The fact that they were wireless didn't diminish their ability to be a cable service.
Slingbox is very different. It's a personal device that does nothing but forward a single channel from your own cable box (or DirectTV receiver) to your current location.
I guess you never been bored one weekend and shopped at Home Depot. It is never cheap especially if your spouse is with you.
I think you meant to say is "Bitcoin ISN'T US Currency". It still has value and used in the trade of goods and commodities. It is a local currency (aka community currency).
Depends on the definition of "good".
Anyway, a lot of innovation is being stifled by liability. The fact that someone can do something bad to someone else wearing a medical device is enough for most to keep it off the market.
What killed guilds are the large number of teenagers who joined the game and over compensated for being a nobody at high school by being massive dicks online. They would act nice until they joined and then they would troll the guild channel and create "drama" all fucking night. You can /gkick them to the cows come home and you'll find put that they left an alt character behind to continue to fuck with the guild. We had trouble managing the banks because they would constantly raid it without putting anything of value back. Not to mention they felt entitled to a rank promotion after only being a member for a week and bitch when we tell them no because we only had 4 ranks in our guild to control access to the bank ("recruit", "member", "veteran", "Guild Master").
The guild I'm in now (when I'm online) only has about 250 characters (including alts) and because we are all working adults, we average around 11 to 17 people online during the evenings. We don't recruit anymore. We just invite friends we know personally or people who are raiding with us on a regular basis. We enjoy the Flex raid feature and do the regular raids too. We view the LFR feature positively since it allows us working folks to farm for gear that can be used during flex and regular 10-man and 25-man raids. The gear from LFR is not high enough to do anything worthwhile in the end games so it's a nice compromise.
The more powerful the tool, the more it can be used for both good or harm.
Damn... forgot the "Get off my lawn!"
Kids and their entitlement issues.
In the good old days we had to power up our laptops at the security checkpoint before bringing them on the plane as carry on and this was before 2001.
Everything you just said is easily explained by:
Counter example: VA benefits.
You've confused pointing out the situation Zoltan knowingly got himself into with defending his so-called corporate master.
Zoltan Szabadi agreed to the non-compete and in returned was employed by Amazon. Now that Zoltan can find a job a Google he decides to go against the contract that he signed.
Their argument is that government shouldn't compete against private enterprise. They didn't sue to stop an independent non-profit or an small business from starting an ISP.
Again is it okay for the government to compete with private enterprise?
People were upset when Walmart used their corporate capital and scale to undercut local businesses and caused them to close and eliminated a lot of competition in rural America (remember Walmart targeted rural markets first). People should be even more upset if the government used tax dollars to undercut a business and cause them to close. It sets a dangerous precedent and a lot of people prefer the government to stick to the basics.
Apple vs. Oranges. The USPS already existed when both FedEx and UPS were formed. Also FedEx and UPS are private enterprises that offered services that weren't available from the government backed USPS.
People take offense when the government decides to compete with private enterprise in an established industry. People do not take offense when private enterprise competes with the government by offering services not provided by the government. A capitalist society favor capitalist solutions. I don't always agree but that's the meat of the argument.
I would like to add that if I wanted to simply be an ISP, I could easily offer DSL and attach some value added service to it. There are a number of communication companies that advertise in my area that offer business communication solutions including DSL internet and PBX services. I'm sure the same can be said in other cities in the US.
Do you speak from experience? I am and the real roadblock is cost and market inertia.
If I wanted to invest a lot of money into fiber optics and spend the next 10 to 20 years recouping my capital investment I do not believe city hall would be my roadblock. I would need to convince my investors and bank that we could recoup our money and make a profit despite the established carriers using their size and mostly paid for infrastructure to undercut us.
The reason that Comcast and others are offering higher bandwidths (without raising the cap) is not because of consumer demand but to defend their territory. It's hard to convince the bank that you will offer something not available elsewhere when they see commercials for "up to 150 mbps" offered at a price below what you would have to charge just to break even.
The only way I would be able to even apply for a permit and pay the franchise fees is by making an insane amount of profit in an internet related venture and I wanted to spend some of the profits to have direct access to my customers (or users). This would not only allowed me to experiment with services that require high bandwidth but also provide good public relations stories to advertise in my other markets. You know like Google does. Also notice how many large cities compete for their next fiber deployment.
I've almost gotten T-boned by a impatient driver pulling a similar stunt.
My street is one block away from a intersection with a traffic signal. The city decided that instead of putting another light synced with the intersection they would save money and prevent congestion by putting up a "Do Not Block Intersection" sign. The light was red and both west bound lanes were stopped and the the drivers in both of those lanes left enough room for me to exit my south bound road and turn east. Unfortunately the street I'm turning on has a turning lane that runs the length of the entire street and an impatient driver thought he could use it as a passing lane more than several car lengths away since he was ultimately going to make a left turn at the intersection with the signal. He had to skid to a complete stop when he realized that our paths would meet. I really wish they would put some concrete islands on the street to prevent this kind of bad driving.
You can't have burn in when it's a blank black screen. Turn off the video signal to the monitor and let the power saver mode kick in.
Not true. Anyone can start an ISP as long as they are willing to pay for the infrastructure to deliver the last mile connection to their customers.
You just criticized both the government and lack of competition and your answer is to eliminate competition and let the government run it?
The question that I don't see being asked: "Is there a 'web' language that warrants my employer paying me to learn and use?"
If I was an employer and had a lot invested in Perl, I would view any attempt to introduce yet another language into the shop with suspicion. Does the employee's suggestion merit consideration or is he trying to get me to pay him to learn a new language to pad his resume?
Would I rather have someone with years of experience using Perl work on my enterprise code or would I prefer to have someone with practically no experience in some other language or its associated framework using that language to develop my enterprise code?
Do I really want to fix what is not broken?
I think the poster may be referring to the three cousins: Perl, Ruby, and Python.
Short parking times are in the order of 45 to 60 mins.
We actually have shuttle buses that travel from a park and ride station near the suburbs to the stadium during the two annual college bowl games and other sport events. They close a route to only shuttle busses during that time. I've been able to park my car and be at the front entrance of the stadium in 20 mins.
They can always increase the meter rate while enforcing maximum time and possibly shortening them. The more active areas will have short term parking freed more often and if you need somewhere to park for a leisurely dinner or movie (possibly both) you can always use the parking garage.
I used to lease a parking space downtown for work, and they always had reasonable hourly rates for the people visiting downtown after hours. Some would allow you to reserve a spot. Even the city contracted garages had decent spots. The city provides a downtown shuttle for those who park in garages on the edge of downtown so you don't have to walk if you don't want to.
The only thing the auction app provides is a method for individuals to make a buck off of a public parking space from people who don't mind paying for a privilege that isn't offered
The population of Baltimore's metropolitan statistical area is 2.7 million. I doubt everybody in that 7 county area will all want to go to Baltimore every night.
So parking should only be accessible to those willing to pay someone to release it to them? We are still talking about an auction app.
Not always true. Where I live there is a maximum time you can stay in a metered spot no matter how willing you are to feed the meter. This is to encourage people to use the lots for long term (2+ hr) parking which aren't really that expensive.
Also you fail to explain how the auction app doesn't provide an incentive to stay in that parking place until you make money off the auction. The result being that people not using the app or unwilling to be extorted are being denied a parking space.
Sounds like you need to lobby Baltimore for better parking solutions and offer San Francisco as an example.