CNET reports that Comcast's filing indicates that they 'only manage uploads when the customer is not simultaneously downloading (i.e., when the customer's computer is most likely unattended) ("unidirectional sessions" or "unidirectional uploads")'.
To me, this implies that as long as you're downloading something at some nominal speed, Comcast won't filter. If true, this is great info. All one needs to do is find a site somewhere that will let you download constantly at a very slow speed, and then your uploads should be unimpeded.
Remember when Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered that Microsoft be broken up into 3 separate companies back in 1999? Microsoft appealed the verdict, Bush won the 2000 election, and suddenly the Department of Justice had a strong Republican (i.e., pro-big business) bent. The result is that the original judgment on Microsoft was thrown out, and they instead were served with a comparative slap on the wrist.
I expect something similar to happen here. Right now, the Department of Justice is unlikely to enforce antitrust law too strictly, and so at this point in time I don't expect the DoJ would have a problem with this acquisition. However, if Clinton or Obama wins the presdiency 10 months from now and this acquisition still isn't completed, don't be surprised if the DoJ starts looking at this much more closely and blocks the acquisition.
I traveled extensively around Christmas/New Year a couple of weeks ago, and it was the first time in years that I -DIDN'T- have to remove my shoes as I went through the security x-ray. This was true at both US airports I went through - Las Vegas & LAX. In fact, at both airports I took off my shoes, and both times the security person who saw me told me to put them back on, as it wasn't necessary.
Are people in other regions of the US seeing this recent development? For what it's worth, I was traveling with United.
This may not be how EB employees talk, but it's how A LOT of business people talk.
I've worked in market research, and there we spoke of SKU's all the time. That way, we didn't have to adjust our vocabulary depending on what kind of product we were talking about. That is, instead of having to say "three Xboxes" or "three cereals" or "three toilet bowl cleaners," we could refer to each of them as "three SKU's."
I don't see a problem either way. Just depends on if you prefer typical EB lingo or typical business lingo.:)
Your post failed to show that casinos are "lying" or "defrauding" customers.
The lighting and drinks are lies? What does that mean?
The drugged air? I've heard of that conspiracy theory, but as far as I know, it's only that -- a conspiracy theory which has never been proven. Additionally, many of the casinos in Las Vegas are open to the outside, so it would be really difficult to "drug" the air when so much of it is coming from outside. Unless you'd suggest that the Las Vegas air itself is drugged, but then you'd be loony.
How is the arrangement of odds a lie? There's nothing in any casino anywhere that says that everything is a fair bet, so you're just as likely to win as you are to lose. In fact, at some slot machines, signs advertise your likelihood of winning -- "97% payout", for example.
So tell us again... where are all these lies you're referring to?
Many of the older p2p services have many options for individual tracks rather than having to download the entire album.
I guess you're probably thinking of BitTorrent. But most BT clients these days, such as utorrent (which seems to be the most popular client now) allow you to easily choose which portions of a torrent you want to download. So if someone uploads an entire album, you can choose only the individual tracks you want to download.
- The scrollable graphical price history is pretty neat. You can also easily expand the time horizon. There isn't really a lot you can do with it, but I think it's a fun little toy.
- Important links to each company are included: news, employment opportunities, investor relations, etc. It's nice to have all of those links in one place.
Bad:
- If you're looking for a lot of real information about a company's finances, you'll still have to go elsewhere. A few financial ratios are reported on each company's page, but after those few, you have to click on "more ratios from Reuters." Also, Yahoo has a LOT more data on every company. Here's an example of what I mean: company data.
- No analyst opinion page, like Yahoo has. Here's an example of what I mean: analyst opinion. I think it can be helpful to see how covering analysts view a company.
- Historical price data on Google finance only goes back to 2001. This shouldn't be too difficult to fix in the future.
I expect Google will work on these soon, but they have a long way to go to catch up now.
The market is efficient in a broad sense over the long run, but individual inefficiecies exist everywhere you look. If this were not the case, there would be no big winners (or losers) and stocks would be on a par with fixed income investments.
You're looking at it after-the-fact. If RedHat is $24 now and is $48 by this time next year, does that mean the market was inefficient -NOW-? Of course not. The (semi-strong) EMH says that $24 right now is a fair price given all publicly known information. If it goes up to $48 next year, all it means is that people have adjusted their expectations between now and then. It doesn't mean that the market was inefficient now.
And as far as Martha Stewart goes... Again, just because you see it going into the toilet doesn't mean "the market" does. The fact that it hasn't dropped to the penny range means that "the market" sees the company rebounding. Does that make the market ineffecient, simply because you disagree with it?
Of course, if you believe in the Efficient Markets Hypothesis, then these future expectations of growth are already built into the price of RedHat. In other words, people already expect RedHat to outperform the market over the next six months, and therefore RedHat's price has already risen to account for that. And although the company itself might perform well, the stock has the same expected return over the next six months as the rest of the market.
On the other hand, if you don't believe markets are efficient... you might have an argument here.:)
So it coincides with the 87th anniversary of the Nazi party. What does that have to do with anything?
The linked article doesn't imply Sober has anything to do with Nazism. Was the Sober writer a Neo-Nazi? If so, it would've made much more sense to include this in the article or submitter's comments so the "Nazi anniversary" comment would mean something.
You know what else happens on 5 January 2006? This guy turns 75. Maybe the Sober writer also hates The Godfather! Who knows?
The company who administers the GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test) has been using a computer grader for the analytical writing portion of the exam for several years now. They call it the e-rater. Both a human and the e-rater grade every essay.
According to ETS, the e-rater agrees with the human grader 98% of the time.
While I'm not going to complain about a spamming company's bankruptcy, I'm a little bothered by how this was handled. From the article:
Microsoft officials called the filing a victory. "Microsoft and the state of New York said we would drive him into bankruptcy, and together we have," said Aaron Kornblum, Microsoft's Internet safety enforcement attorney. "The kind of spam Mr. Richter was sending was not only annoying, it was illegal, and the law sets out penalties for this kind of illegal activity."
It sounds like Microsoft took the law into its own hands. They saw that the government couldn't/wouldn't do anything about him, so MS blasted him with lawsuits until he succumbed.
Isn't this the kind of justice most of us Slashdotters don't like? After all, many of us have complained about the RIAA suing someone, and that person has to settle out of court because they can't afford to fight. Isn't this the same thing?
Tomorrow's spammer will be much more sophisticated, both technologically and when it comes to the law. Tomorrow's spammers will know the tricks around the CAN SPAM act and whatever else the governments of the world throw at them.
Why? Because IF they are able to operate within the rules of the law, they can make money. People keep spamming because other people keep clicking on the ads. Spammers won't stop until people stop clicking on the ads!
Think about the war on drugs. It'll never end until either the government gives up, or demand for drugs decreases substantially. Same thing here.
This quote means a little more in context. From this site:
Headlining an appearance with other Democratic women senators on behalf of Sen. Barbara Boxer, who is up for re-election this year, Hillary Clinton told several hundred supporters -- some of whom had ponied up as much as $10,000 to attend -- to expect to lose some of the tax cuts passed by President Bush if Democrats win the White House and control of Congress.
In other words, she was speaking to a room full of really wealthy people when she said this. I'm not saying that I agree or disagree with her statement in general.
I just wanted it to be clear that she wasn't saying this to a mixed group of people. She was saying this to a room full of really wealthy people.
Clinton has been joined in her attack on violent games by Republican senators Sam Brownback and Rick Santorum - the latter of whom is best known for his outspoken stance on homosexuality, which he is accused of comparing to bestiality in public statements.
Obviously Senator Clinton wouldn't agree with everything Senator Santorum says... But given that she may try to run for President in 2008, you'd think she'd try to be careful so as not to align herself with someone who says something as wacky as that.
Gamers play an average of 20 hours a week; ten percent spend 40 plus hours a week.
Based on this, I'd say it's pretty clear that teens and college students are overrepresented in the survey relative to the true gaming population. I don't know anyone in their mid-20's or older who can come close to averaging 20 hours a week. At the same time, nearly every male I know that's my age games on a reasonably frequent basis. So I'm guessing not many of them responded to this poll.
This would've been more helpful if they'd have published an age breakdown of survey respondents. I think it'd be interesting to know, for example, how many hours per week 25+ year olds can play.
I completely agree that your SSN is commonly used now, and that alone will get a lot of people to drop their guards when they shouldn't. The following story is illustrative:
A couple of months ago, someone called me out of the blue claiming to be a collection agency. They said that I owed a hospital ~$400 for some surgery that was performed on me, and they wanted me to pay up. I told them they were wrong. So then to confirm that I was who she thought I was, she asked me for my address and last 4 digits of my SSN. I refused because I felt uncomfortable giving that over the phone. She became very angry and hung up on me.
I called the phone company and the police saying that I thought someone tried to defraud me. After speaking with the phone company, it became clear that the person who called me actually WAS a collection agency! They just mistook me for another person of the same name.
But think about it: if a collection agency wants personal info like address and SSN, some people would give them the info just to get them off their back. Identity thiefs could use the exact same method.
What is not as well known is that the label execs (many of whom I know and work with) rely on P2P statistics to decide which records to promote and which songs to shoot videos for.
Indeed. This topic has been covered on slashdot before, too! One such company who provides these statistics is BigChampagne.
'The Beatles could not have faced that criteria and come up with anything other than the most mediocre, conservative music,' said Maitreya.
I'm not sure that the Beatles are a good example here. By the time they started doing really revolutionary stuff on Revolver, they'd already had 10 #1 singles. I'd suspect that any artist who reached that point would have a lot more freedom in what they did.
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To me, this implies that as long as you're downloading something at some nominal speed, Comcast won't filter. If true, this is great info. All one needs to do is find a site somewhere that will let you download constantly at a very slow speed, and then your uploads should be unimpeded.
Has anyone verified this?
I expect something similar to happen here. Right now, the Department of Justice is unlikely to enforce antitrust law too strictly, and so at this point in time I don't expect the DoJ would have a problem with this acquisition. However, if Clinton or Obama wins the presdiency 10 months from now and this acquisition still isn't completed, don't be surprised if the DoJ starts looking at this much more closely and blocks the acquisition.
Are people in other regions of the US seeing this recent development? For what it's worth, I was traveling with United.
I've worked in market research, and there we spoke of SKU's all the time. That way, we didn't have to adjust our vocabulary depending on what kind of product we were talking about. That is, instead of having to say "three Xboxes" or "three cereals" or "three toilet bowl cleaners," we could refer to each of them as "three SKU's."
I don't see a problem either way. Just depends on if you prefer typical EB lingo or typical business lingo. :)
The lighting and drinks are lies? What does that mean?
The drugged air? I've heard of that conspiracy theory, but as far as I know, it's only that -- a conspiracy theory which has never been proven. Additionally, many of the casinos in Las Vegas are open to the outside, so it would be really difficult to "drug" the air when so much of it is coming from outside. Unless you'd suggest that the Las Vegas air itself is drugged, but then you'd be loony.
How is the arrangement of odds a lie? There's nothing in any casino anywhere that says that everything is a fair bet, so you're just as likely to win as you are to lose. In fact, at some slot machines, signs advertise your likelihood of winning -- "97% payout", for example.
So tell us again... where are all these lies you're referring to?
WOPR blows up, the world is saved from nuclear disaster, and the system asks if you'd like to play a nice game of chess.
The headline implies that Ritek is located in Thailand.
Way to go, American geography experts!
In 2006, he predicted 102 Yankee wins. They won 97. Not too bad.
In 2005, he predicted 113 Yankee wins. They won 95. Way off.
In 2004, he predicted 117 Yankee wins. They won 101. Way off.
In 2003, he predicted 110 Yankee wins. They won 101. Not great.
In other words, take this forecast with a big boulder of salt.
I guess you're probably thinking of BitTorrent. But most BT clients these days, such as utorrent (which seems to be the most popular client now) allow you to easily choose which portions of a torrent you want to download. So if someone uploads an entire album, you can choose only the individual tracks you want to download.
Not that I've ever done this before... *cough*
- The scrollable graphical price history is pretty neat. You can also easily expand the time horizon. There isn't really a lot you can do with it, but I think it's a fun little toy.
- Important links to each company are included: news, employment opportunities, investor relations, etc. It's nice to have all of those links in one place.
Bad:
- If you're looking for a lot of real information about a company's finances, you'll still have to go elsewhere. A few financial ratios are reported on each company's page, but after those few, you have to click on "more ratios from Reuters." Also, Yahoo has a LOT more data on every company. Here's an example of what I mean: company data.
- No analyst opinion page, like Yahoo has. Here's an example of what I mean: analyst opinion. I think it can be helpful to see how covering analysts view a company.
- Historical price data on Google finance only goes back to 2001. This shouldn't be too difficult to fix in the future.
I expect Google will work on these soon, but they have a long way to go to catch up now.
You're looking at it after-the-fact. If RedHat is $24 now and is $48 by this time next year, does that mean the market was inefficient -NOW-? Of course not. The (semi-strong) EMH says that $24 right now is a fair price given all publicly known information. If it goes up to $48 next year, all it means is that people have adjusted their expectations between now and then. It doesn't mean that the market was inefficient now.
And as far as Martha Stewart goes... Again, just because you see it going into the toilet doesn't mean "the market" does. The fact that it hasn't dropped to the penny range means that "the market" sees the company rebounding. Does that make the market ineffecient, simply because you disagree with it?
Of course, if you believe in the Efficient Markets Hypothesis, then these future expectations of growth are already built into the price of RedHat. In other words, people already expect RedHat to outperform the market over the next six months, and therefore RedHat's price has already risen to account for that. And although the company itself might perform well, the stock has the same expected return over the next six months as the rest of the market.
On the other hand, if you don't believe markets are efficient... you might have an argument here. :)
The linked article doesn't imply Sober has anything to do with Nazism. Was the Sober writer a Neo-Nazi? If so, it would've made much more sense to include this in the article or submitter's comments so the "Nazi anniversary" comment would mean something.
You know what else happens on 5 January 2006? This guy turns 75. Maybe the Sober writer also hates The Godfather! Who knows?
Revolution controller.
Hopefully this one won't be as uncomfortable and unintuitive as the old one.
According to ETS, the e-rater agrees with the human grader 98% of the time.
Microsoft officials called the filing a victory. "Microsoft and the state of New York said we would drive him into bankruptcy, and together we have," said Aaron Kornblum, Microsoft's Internet safety enforcement attorney. "The kind of spam Mr. Richter was sending was not only annoying, it was illegal, and the law sets out penalties for this kind of illegal activity."
It sounds like Microsoft took the law into its own hands. They saw that the government couldn't/wouldn't do anything about him, so MS blasted him with lawsuits until he succumbed.
Isn't this the kind of justice most of us Slashdotters don't like? After all, many of us have complained about the RIAA suing someone, and that person has to settle out of court because they can't afford to fight. Isn't this the same thing?
Tomorrow's spammer will be much more sophisticated, both technologically and when it comes to the law. Tomorrow's spammers will know the tricks around the CAN SPAM act and whatever else the governments of the world throw at them.
Why? Because IF they are able to operate within the rules of the law, they can make money. People keep spamming because other people keep clicking on the ads. Spammers won't stop until people stop clicking on the ads!
Think about the war on drugs. It'll never end until either the government gives up, or demand for drugs decreases substantially. Same thing here.
If you hear something, that's my head exploding.
Headlining an appearance with other Democratic women senators on behalf of Sen. Barbara Boxer, who is up for re-election this year, Hillary Clinton told several hundred supporters -- some of whom had ponied up as much as $10,000 to attend -- to expect to lose some of the tax cuts passed by President Bush if Democrats win the White House and control of Congress.
In other words, she was speaking to a room full of really wealthy people when she said this. I'm not saying that I agree or disagree with her statement in general.
I just wanted it to be clear that she wasn't saying this to a mixed group of people. She was saying this to a room full of really wealthy people.
Clinton has been joined in her attack on violent games by Republican senators Sam Brownback and Rick Santorum - the latter of whom is best known for his outspoken stance on homosexuality, which he is accused of comparing to bestiality in public statements.
Obviously Senator Clinton wouldn't agree with everything Senator Santorum says... But given that she may try to run for President in 2008, you'd think she'd try to be careful so as not to align herself with someone who says something as wacky as that.
Based on this, I'd say it's pretty clear that teens and college students are overrepresented in the survey relative to the true gaming population. I don't know anyone in their mid-20's or older who can come close to averaging 20 hours a week. At the same time, nearly every male I know that's my age games on a reasonably frequent basis. So I'm guessing not many of them responded to this poll.
This would've been more helpful if they'd have published an age breakdown of survey respondents. I think it'd be interesting to know, for example, how many hours per week 25+ year olds can play.
A couple of months ago, someone called me out of the blue claiming to be a collection agency. They said that I owed a hospital ~$400 for some surgery that was performed on me, and they wanted me to pay up. I told them they were wrong. So then to confirm that I was who she thought I was, she asked me for my address and last 4 digits of my SSN. I refused because I felt uncomfortable giving that over the phone. She became very angry and hung up on me.
I called the phone company and the police saying that I thought someone tried to defraud me. After speaking with the phone company, it became clear that the person who called me actually WAS a collection agency! They just mistook me for another person of the same name.
But think about it: if a collection agency wants personal info like address and SSN, some people would give them the info just to get them off their back. Identity thiefs could use the exact same method.
Indeed. This topic has been covered on slashdot before, too! One such company who provides these statistics is BigChampagne.
I'm not sure that the Beatles are a good example here. By the time they started doing really revolutionary stuff on Revolver, they'd already had 10 #1 singles. I'd suspect that any artist who reached that point would have a lot more freedom in what they did.
At this site, you can find updated Adblock definitions that you can easily import. Just scroll down to the most recent update, download, and install.
Ever since I installed these, I've had to manually block something only a couple of times. They work great!