Forgive me for seeing no difference....and your persistence in abusing me despite knowing nothing about me is more than enough evidence to support my conclusion.
Respond again in a similar vein....and my case for your anti-social tendencies will be air-tight.
Existing content providers have a vested interest in keeping their existing distribution models. The existing models give them a HUGE amount of control - and money.
If you want somethig to watch in IPTV....then look for someone NEW to make that content. Yes, Mr. Telco....you may even have to invest some money to kick it off.....and then clip the coupons when your new content business dwarfs your earnings from telecoms.
That anyone moderated this as "insightful" is an endictment of the moderating on Slashdot.
It's pure flamebait....is this entire thread is.
Guess the advice from the Slashdot folks not to impose your own political views when moderating falls on deaf ears.
I'd downloaded and watched the first 12 episodes of CSI:NY before it was even on NZ's TV3.
I like the hi-res format on the PC screen, great sound and and no ads. An episode takes barely 45 minutes to watch. Saves me time.
A key point here is:
I live in a rural area and free-to-air reception is crap. I don't want to pay $50 / month for satellite TV because you MUST take a squillion channels you don't want and it poor value for a guy like me who watches maybe 4-5 hours / month of TV. Had I not been able to see it this way, I would likely not have watched it AT ALL.
If they would make these programs viewable / downloadable for $2-$3 each.....I'd probably pay for the ones I like or that I think I might like.
I posted a comment similar to yours - remarking on and recording the migration of the Washington Post to propagandists status - and some dork graded it "flamebait".....
Moderators are NOT supposed to employ their own political views when grading comments.
Whoever graded my previous post as 'flamebait" has a tenuous grasp on the facts relating to the Washington Post.
If they find the truth antagonising.....then the problem is theirs - not mine.
The Washington Post hasn't been a liberal newspaper for some time now.
Their cheerleading of Bush's lies about WMD - and of the subsequent illegal invasion of Iraq - proved that at least for now, the WashPost is just one more corporate media propaganda organ.
One of the main problems I see with the world today is that we do not live long enough to fully appreciate the consequences of what we do.
If we lived to be 500 or 1,000 years of age, we would do MANY things differently.....and we would have to live a long time with our mistakes....but we would have time to learn form them and make amends.
The old Gore myth, eh?
The truth is that Gore - in 1988 - backed legislation that allowed any person or business to legitimately use what had previously - in law - been a government-funded, academic, research and military network.
In seeing that legislation passed, Gore DID play a critical role in creating the Internet as we know it today. Not the technology......but the legal framework it rests upon (in the US).
The claim that Gore "invented" the Internet is just one more neo-con/rightist lie.
There are so many of them.
I am sad to hear you are suing Google for including your news articles in their free Google News web search service. I use Google News to locate the best and most accurate reporting. If your stories aren't here, I won't see them any other way.
I regret this as I consider AFP to be one of the very best and more reliable news services.
Please reconsider your decision.
News is news......
AFP generally provides a more factual and less overtly biased news service than say - Reuters or AP.
The former can't mention Venezuela without implying their president is a communist dictator and the lateter can't mention Iraq without some kind words Bush and excuses for the failure of his policies.
The US has repeatedly extended the copyright term from 14 years to 75 years.....in part to keep Disney's Mickey Mouse from passing into the public domain.
But the most of the rest of the world uses a 50 year copyright term.
If Scrabble is more than 50 years old, the e-scrabble folks could relocate it to a server in a country with less onerous and unfriendly copyright laws than the US.
I wonder if the US will try to extent their limit from 75 years to 100 years when Mickey comes up for expiry next time?
My local PC store still sells OEM copies of Win 3.11 and Dos 6.22,
It might not be legal....but his customers still own - and buy - systems that really can't use anything more advanced.
There seems to be a growing number of people out there who really appreciate and enjoy old PCs - and their operating systems and software.
I have an Apple Mac Plus here; 9" B&W screen and 512k of RAM. Not to mention that 10MB SCSI hard drive - external, of course.
I'm not surprised women are leaving IT. IT jobs at many companies are virtually 24 / 7 - not including overtime.
Women of childbearing age don't generally want to work like that......and bail out fairly quickly as their biological clocks tick onward toward 30.
There are exceptions, of course, but my 25 years in IT says this is what I have seen - over time - happen to the women who used to work around me.
Another group (or perhaps a subgroup) marry or otherwise hitch up with male co-workers....and then spend a few years at home with babies and some part-time work either contracting or in some other industry completely.
China has announced they will be going to Mars. They followed that up by putting their first man into space shortly afterward.
China is well aware of the American policy to dominate space and China does not want to submit to that American aim.
Bush is going to Mars becasue China announced the same intention 2 years prior.
It's a space race.....and China has the edge in terms of not having to worry about politicking or public opinion....and China is amassing huge wealth, thanks to American and European corporates moving the manufacturing to China.....China then lends it back to the US to keep the US dollar from going down the toilet - thanks to Bush's wild 'spend like there's no tomorrow' as he lines the pockets of his croneis with billions of taxpayer dollars.....funnelled through a war he had to lie about in order to start.
China could well get to mars first.
Before anyone starts terraforming Mars, let's make sure the place is completely dead.
Given its past, there may be life (bacterial....?) UNDER the surface (200 meters? Deeper?).....near warm, maybe wet, spots in the crust. Perhaps as relics of a by-gone era where the surface was more suitable for life.
Percy Schmieser claims he did not deliberately use Monsanto's seed. He says he re-used his own seed....and it became contaminated with the Round-up resistance gene from wild stuff growing along the side of the road. Evenetually, nearly 90% of his seed stock became contaminated.
Monsanto say's that's "proof" he was cross-breeding their seed. Percy say's it's proof their lifeform is way out of control.
No He can't.
Monsanto didn't trespass.....one of their seed licensees did. It's your mission to find out which one that seed came from (.....and good luck!)
You would think so.....but the law in many countries is FIRMLY slanted in Monsanto's favour.
One of the key issues with genetically modified lifeforms is who pays for any dmanage done. Today, the victim wears the cost....and the "owner" of the lifeform just whistles and walks away.
So if your fields are contaminated with Monsanto's seeds, YOU need to pay to have it removed - or they will sue you.
Fair? Hell no.....but that is the sort of law that has been put into place while most of us were watching TV and sipping beers.
We - collectively - need to wake up and pay atention.
The BBC will be putting all their TV programmes made over the past 40 years online to be watched by anyone.
Now THAT is cool. Reminds you that "public good" can be very good indeed.
Don't forget: the Internet was the result of government-commissioned work. Compuserve was the best that private business dished up.
If it weren't for open technologies freely available for anyone to use, funded by taxpayer dollars, we woulnd't have half the cool stuuf we have today....and most of us couldn't afford what was available.
What amazes me is that lying, cheating John Howard won the recent election. The dumbing down process that let Bush win in the US must have prgressed even further in Australia.......where Howard's many and several lies, about kids being thrown into the sea and other matters, actually WERE covered in the media......while the lapdog American media gave Bush a free pass.
I can handle the spam......but can Ohio run a an honest election? Precincts with 3,800 votes for Bush, but only 800 voters in total suggest Ohio's priorities should be other than spam.
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Forgive me for seeing no difference. ...and your persistence in abusing me despite knowing nothing about me is more than enough evidence to support my conclusion.
Respond again in a similar vein....and my case for your anti-social tendencies will be air-tight.
Your anti-social tendencies are noted. Flame away.....this thread was flame-bait anyway.
Existing content providers have a vested interest in keeping their existing distribution models. The existing models give them a HUGE amount of control - and money. If you want somethig to watch in IPTV....then look for someone NEW to make that content. Yes, Mr. Telco....you may even have to invest some money to kick it off.....and then clip the coupons when your new content business dwarfs your earnings from telecoms.
That anyone moderated this as "insightful" is an endictment of the moderating on Slashdot. It's pure flamebait....is this entire thread is. Guess the advice from the Slashdot folks not to impose your own political views when moderating falls on deaf ears.
I'd downloaded and watched the first 12 episodes of CSI:NY before it was even on NZ's TV3. I like the hi-res format on the PC screen, great sound and and no ads. An episode takes barely 45 minutes to watch. Saves me time. A key point here is: I live in a rural area and free-to-air reception is crap. I don't want to pay $50 / month for satellite TV because you MUST take a squillion channels you don't want and it poor value for a guy like me who watches maybe 4-5 hours / month of TV. Had I not been able to see it this way, I would likely not have watched it AT ALL. If they would make these programs viewable / downloadable for $2-$3 each.....I'd probably pay for the ones I like or that I think I might like.
I posted a comment similar to yours - remarking on and recording the migration of the Washington Post to propagandists status - and some dork graded it "flamebait"..... Moderators are NOT supposed to employ their own political views when grading comments.
Whoever graded my previous post as 'flamebait" has a tenuous grasp on the facts relating to the Washington Post. If they find the truth antagonising.....then the problem is theirs - not mine.
The Washington Post hasn't been a liberal newspaper for some time now. Their cheerleading of Bush's lies about WMD - and of the subsequent illegal invasion of Iraq - proved that at least for now, the WashPost is just one more corporate media propaganda organ.
One of the main problems I see with the world today is that we do not live long enough to fully appreciate the consequences of what we do. If we lived to be 500 or 1,000 years of age, we would do MANY things differently.....and we would have to live a long time with our mistakes....but we would have time to learn form them and make amends.
The old Gore myth, eh? The truth is that Gore - in 1988 - backed legislation that allowed any person or business to legitimately use what had previously - in law - been a government-funded, academic, research and military network. In seeing that legislation passed, Gore DID play a critical role in creating the Internet as we know it today. Not the technology......but the legal framework it rests upon (in the US). The claim that Gore "invented" the Internet is just one more neo-con/rightist lie. There are so many of them.
I am sad to hear you are suing Google for including your news articles in their free Google News web search service. I use Google News to locate the best and most accurate reporting. If your stories aren't here, I won't see them any other way. I regret this as I consider AFP to be one of the very best and more reliable news services. Please reconsider your decision. News is news......
AFP generally provides a more factual and less overtly biased news service than say - Reuters or AP. The former can't mention Venezuela without implying their president is a communist dictator and the lateter can't mention Iraq without some kind words Bush and excuses for the failure of his policies.
The US has repeatedly extended the copyright term from 14 years to 75 years.....in part to keep Disney's Mickey Mouse from passing into the public domain. But the most of the rest of the world uses a 50 year copyright term. If Scrabble is more than 50 years old, the e-scrabble folks could relocate it to a server in a country with less onerous and unfriendly copyright laws than the US. I wonder if the US will try to extent their limit from 75 years to 100 years when Mickey comes up for expiry next time?
My local PC store still sells OEM copies of Win 3.11 and Dos 6.22, It might not be legal....but his customers still own - and buy - systems that really can't use anything more advanced. There seems to be a growing number of people out there who really appreciate and enjoy old PCs - and their operating systems and software. I have an Apple Mac Plus here; 9" B&W screen and 512k of RAM. Not to mention that 10MB SCSI hard drive - external, of course.
I'm not surprised women are leaving IT. IT jobs at many companies are virtually 24 / 7 - not including overtime. Women of childbearing age don't generally want to work like that......and bail out fairly quickly as their biological clocks tick onward toward 30. There are exceptions, of course, but my 25 years in IT says this is what I have seen - over time - happen to the women who used to work around me. Another group (or perhaps a subgroup) marry or otherwise hitch up with male co-workers....and then spend a few years at home with babies and some part-time work either contracting or in some other industry completely.
China has announced they will be going to Mars. They followed that up by putting their first man into space shortly afterward. China is well aware of the American policy to dominate space and China does not want to submit to that American aim. Bush is going to Mars becasue China announced the same intention 2 years prior. It's a space race.....and China has the edge in terms of not having to worry about politicking or public opinion....and China is amassing huge wealth, thanks to American and European corporates moving the manufacturing to China.....China then lends it back to the US to keep the US dollar from going down the toilet - thanks to Bush's wild 'spend like there's no tomorrow' as he lines the pockets of his croneis with billions of taxpayer dollars.....funnelled through a war he had to lie about in order to start. China could well get to mars first.
Before anyone starts terraforming Mars, let's make sure the place is completely dead. Given its past, there may be life (bacterial....?) UNDER the surface (200 meters? Deeper?).....near warm, maybe wet, spots in the crust. Perhaps as relics of a by-gone era where the surface was more suitable for life.
Agreed. I bought Halflife 2 and now I'm sorry I did. By comparison, DOOM3 was easy *and* has a Linux version....and kept me busy for a LONG time.
I'd like a 200GB flash (or whatever it takes) RAM drive with an access rate measured in nano-seconds. THEN we're talkin' storage!
Percy Schmieser claims he did not deliberately use Monsanto's seed. He says he re-used his own seed....and it became contaminated with the Round-up resistance gene from wild stuff growing along the side of the road. Evenetually, nearly 90% of his seed stock became contaminated. Monsanto say's that's "proof" he was cross-breeding their seed. Percy say's it's proof their lifeform is way out of control.
No He can't. Monsanto didn't trespass.....one of their seed licensees did. It's your mission to find out which one that seed came from (.....and good luck!)
You would think so.....but the law in many countries is FIRMLY slanted in Monsanto's favour. One of the key issues with genetically modified lifeforms is who pays for any dmanage done. Today, the victim wears the cost....and the "owner" of the lifeform just whistles and walks away. So if your fields are contaminated with Monsanto's seeds, YOU need to pay to have it removed - or they will sue you. Fair? Hell no.....but that is the sort of law that has been put into place while most of us were watching TV and sipping beers. We - collectively - need to wake up and pay atention.
The BBC will be putting all their TV programmes made over the past 40 years online to be watched by anyone. Now THAT is cool. Reminds you that "public good" can be very good indeed. Don't forget: the Internet was the result of government-commissioned work. Compuserve was the best that private business dished up. If it weren't for open technologies freely available for anyone to use, funded by taxpayer dollars, we woulnd't have half the cool stuuf we have today....and most of us couldn't afford what was available.
What amazes me is that lying, cheating John Howard won the recent election. The dumbing down process that let Bush win in the US must have prgressed even further in Australia.......where Howard's many and several lies, about kids being thrown into the sea and other matters, actually WERE covered in the media......while the lapdog American media gave Bush a free pass.
I can handle the spam......but can Ohio run a an honest election? Precincts with 3,800 votes for Bush, but only 800 voters in total suggest Ohio's priorities should be other than spam.