The kiosks here in Fishers (Indinapolis), IN, were installed as a trial and removed a couple of weeks later. It was essentially commercial-free and the equivalent of CNN Headline and The Weather Channel. More or less like a doctor's office or waiting area in airports.
I didn't see any benefit other than perhaps get people to "top off" because they wanted to see the reminder of the story in progress.
Because I'd made my observation, it was more fun to watch everyone else and see what they were up to, including whether they were staying to top off and stay with a story. Most people put their windows down and chat back & forth, so the "entertainment" factor was ignored, even if something was really hot. (I'm less than a mile from the stations used) by adding a gallon or two and watch people. Most of my friends had the same reaction (I did): people would likely go there because of $0.05 price difference than because they were getting this "Shell game". The kiosks were there for 2-3 weeks and never returned.
Completely the opposite. The openness allows someone with a "better idea", yet to be proven, to attempt to prove it better, without having to start from scratch.
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I'm voluntarily declare shill! on this and else where it's appropriate: .
It's tried before (and failed), but my pal (creator of voicemail) eight miles (to the inch) has launched an alpha of social searching ChaCha. You can search alone or with a guide.
Q: Why isn't it running Windows?
A: It would only be available [at most] six days a week.
(Remember Patch Tuesday? I can only imagine the number of fixes required for the Interplanetary Edition of Windows XP.)
Actually, the Illinois State Attorney General should skip his|her afternoon round of golf, realize they've got a spammer who has no problems shooting off their mouth in the court system (and public) and drop them into the clink for the weekend.
Remember: SAGs and ISPs are both capable of clobbering the bad guys.
But at least they're doing for us what we can't|won't do for ourselves: fight the good fight against spam.
If someone had put some teeth into U-CAN-SPAM in 2003, we'd have fewer spammers and there'd be the opportunity for individual pursuit; i.e., you could sue them instead of waiting for someone high up on the political ladder to do it. Once they'd get tired of getting slapped around and losing via summary judgement, they'd do some hard thinking about what they're doing. They'd likely move to a warm island with lots of sun, but that's when you go after their connections: put the ISP on notice -- something else spam laws should contain -- harbor a spammer, be given notice, and *smack*.
Here, they tried to created a gutted TCPA law here and didn't provide for individual pursuit. I managed to intervene with the SAG & the bill's sponsor and the language was added at the last minute because they couldn't argue with the logic I provided.
The important thing about the fines (when the offender, offendee are both in the US) is the jokers think they can just look the other way. What people forget is you aren't missing the money right now. So you refer the case to a collection agency. They make candygrams, er, landsharks, look toothless. Anything you get is a reward, knowing someone had some blood squeezed out of them.
At several states got together and got fax.com to change ownership.
IIRC, Kentucky is one of the most stringent. Here in Indiana, the SAG has been pretty harsh. A couple of places have set up shop -- until they get caught and decide to make a go of it in court: 1st Ammendment. So far, no one has even come close to winning. There was a bloc (no, not block) of banks which were setting up a crusade to go against the state and the SAG had a half-page ad in the Indy newspaper with contact info for those banks.
I wrote to the SAG's office, pointing out what they should have done is to get everyone to make copies of the info, or if they are just not able to pay for it, use a page with simply says, [x] No! I do not want...!. Put a stamp on everything and ensure it looks like any other letter. This will force them to open every envelope, regardless of what they suspect what might be included because it might be legit.
The SAG's election two years ago focused upon, "during my first term, I promised I would work to stop telemarketing and I have penalized those who disregard for it. I intend to continue. What he should have said was, "now that the telemarketing is under control, we will keep it there. Now that the U-CAN-SPAM Act 2003 provides SAGs with the abiiity to go after spammers. And I'm going to dedidate this term doing so, either alone, or in conjunction with SAGs of other states".
Maybe you don't understand how personal communication works.
At least with written letters, if you write and send me a letter I can do what I want with it. Read it out loud, publish it online, whatever.
It's long (sorry, I can't validate beyond twenty years first-hand) been an expectation personal email becomes public.
Since the great rush for everyone to plug in and create their own rules, I suppose that's been tossed by the wayside now that everyone seems to think "anything goes"? It would appear it's reached the point of "Say & do everything as though it's published around the world, even if what is said is not true"? (that should be reasonably close to "The Messiah's Handbook" from Richard Bach's "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah".
I suppose someone could claim there are copies of email lodged in servers along the way and they can be retrieved, but you don't see people doing that with the content as part of the original action, just stating it could be done afterwards as justification. Were those challenged to play "Name that Tune", I think we'd see the few claimants become tone deaf.
Let's hope all of the standard eBay sales of special software to cool off your PC are redirected to deal with this problem with Macbook Pro until it can be fixed at the root level.
Does anyone know if it gets any better after six weeks of boot camp?
(please tell me I didn't strain too hard for the paranomasia)
"pay to place a video on YouTube's popular front page."
Oh the vanity! People really do that??? If I want you to see my video I'll put it on my own site and mention it somewhere, maybe even slashdot and it it's interesting word will get around, if it's not, my ego won't be crushed. I will be pissed if those weasels at thinkgeek steal it for another merchandising product
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There's no reason why they couldn't amend the video directly to put ads 'around' the content, such that they'd still be visible in an embedded player
This is how the World Cup was generally broadcast in the US during '86. I don't recall how much earlier that started. I just remember when I was playing for a club and the refs would stop the game during the next opportunity when they saw later teams' members showing up, cautioning (generally, with a smile) them that if they overheard any discussion about any Cup game activity (and not just the outcome, thankyouverymuch) as they had their VCRs running and would find a creative means to punish offenders. I think this is when people would recall "take out the ref" plays (which were said to occur with some college teams; e.g., a chip shot just high enough to make a header possible and body check the ref. Thankfully, that stuff could only happen in hockey).
The media knew soccer would eventually become "must see" (and some are still waiting) and was trying to find ways to get some ad compensation without cutting to an ad and saying, "While we were away, you missed a forty yard goal with a bicycle kick" and move forward. (These were the same morons who didn't know what nutmeg is. So they started scrunching the pitch a little and run ads in all four margins (usually Budweiser), then restore the pitch's image size. How times have changed (for this year's Cup): "Due to time constraints and little play activity, we'll move ahead into the game." And start the game at 6:37. Fortunately, the Jose +10 ads were outstanding. Worth teaching kids' teams about playing on pared pitches, even to playing walkthrough.
And how many of those 2M cell phones are disposable?
I think there's some monkey business with the statistics (trot out Twain).
I'm certain there's some differences between "permanent" and "disposable" affecting the overall total.
I do have a good cell phone story: even though they are personal cell phones, the missus gets a discount because of where she works - word of mouth to co-workers & whatnot. Anyway, a couple of years ago, we decided to introduce my in-laws[1] who are (now) in their mid-70s. We handed down[2] one of our phones when our contract ended, but put them on our plan to keep an eye on them. They'd take it in the car with them and use it to call us when they were running late to meet us at a restaurant (they're about eighty miles away). The problem? They'd turn the phone on, make the call, then turn the phone back off to conserve energy, even though the phone was plugged in via adaptor. Obviously, they came from the Depression Era, so everything has been critical. It took awhile for them to realize powering the phone is like removing a spoonful of water from the ocean, but they've gone ahead and obtained one for each of them.
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[1] I pity those who have a monster in law, or a mother|father in law they just tolerate. I grew up in an abused house. I've got a Dad and a second Mom. I'd tell Mom about being able to lie on my back on their couch and fade before I could finish a breath (and I can't sleep on my back). I told Mom it was a soft place to fall (see: Dr. Phil). She told me it was a nice couch. It took a little bit to get her to understand it's where the couch was, not the couch itself.
[2] I can't figure out why people turn in their old phones for nothing, even bringing accessories later when left behind, is beyond me. Most carriers don't give you a trade-in and resell them. We usually give them to friends who don't want to spring for a cheap phone with no features or not-for-profits. At least you can get a tax deduction.
There's my way to fix cell phones & pagers when making presentations, particularly larger audiences (the larger, the better):
"Before I begin, I will forewarn you to silence your cell phones and pagers now. If we hear a familiar tone, you'll undoubtedly rush out of the room as though God is about to kill himself and you're the only one working the Suicide Hotline. When you return, you will come up on stage and sing your high school fight song or you *will* be escorted out of this room. If you're going to subject us to your noise, then we will force you to add to the noise. controforce you to let you hear other extra noise. Your devices have vibrate or silent|flash mode. Now...castrate your toys."
The first time someone thinks it's a joke and has been removed didn't think it was so funny...
Parents have lobbied against school boards (and likely in the courts when rebuffed) so their kids can keep their cells with them, "in case of an emergency". What did they do twenty years ago, wait for a carrier pigeon? That's easily fixed - put them all on a table up-front and if one rings, let the owner come up front and deal with the call. That should cut down on the hijinks which otherwise goes on (including sharing answers on tests).
You know, there was a(n) UL/FOAF about someone developing their vacation photos and one shows up with some guy's ass and the camerea owner's toothbrush sticking out of their ass. I'm surprised we don't hear about updates for the cell world when someone leaves their cell unattended...say when they rush into a meeting and it's sitting on their desk?
So you punish fans who have multiple playing devices by paying more in the interest of avoiding sharing?
The missus has a CD collection (Yanni and a lot of other things I won't mention), but she has one of two options (she's not going the iPod way):
1. Pack everything up from home, lug it to the SUV, load whatever she wanted to listen to, then haul it in from the parking lot to her office. Meaning: getting her a decent-sized luggage bag with wheels on it.
2. Make copies of each CD and keep them where appropriate; specfically, home, SUV, work, for her edification.
Door #1 means she will stop buying CDs despite the availability of discretionary income. This (obviously) means the artists will see less money. Not from theft, but inconvenience for the buyer.
Using door #2 means she doesn't have to tow things around. She's not sharing the IP/CDs with anyone else and the artist et al. aren't losing any money. (I suppose you could say the manufacturers of the blank discs are making money as well)
Piracy is going to occur, no matter what you do. That doesn't mean they have to lie down & take it. But they also have to understand that despite a case of "my sandbox (marketshare), my rules", dangling today's version of Rubik's Cube is only going to make people more determined to find a solution[1], silkscreen it on a pair of the company's boxers (purchased from the company store, thank-you very much - after all, this is an academic[1] exercise), and run it up the flagpole (the company likely has their flag on top of whatever country's flag should be on top) for all to see when they go to work the next morning.
Oh, if two of us want to trade movies, even if they're the same price at the site, we cannot do so. This is one of the biggest failings of any e-Book attempts. This is not to mention giving you something I purchased (music,movie,book) because I value giving it to you more than keeping it for myself. The producers are going to use "unfair use" or "piracy" as an attempt to avoid developing more marketing creativity and beeline like an asymptote toward single-use fees for each of those media.
They know people aren't going to stop buying (music,movies,books) altogether because only an egregious mistake of monumental proportiions will co$t them where it hurt$. They're obviously dipping their toes and testing the water. Sony got something soft & fleshy caught in their collective zippers. That's because they tried to sneak it past everyone with the empty beehive trick.[2] Amazon's appearing to take the approach, "things will work well because we're Amazon (never forget that), we're telling everyone up-front, and because we're letting them play it on more than one machine."
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[1] look at all of the weekend events where people are provided opportunities to crack things for the purpose of whose mojo is stronger. Socking it to the man only provides more fun.
[2] I looked at beekeeping once (in the middle of 1-acre lots) and had a nice place or two to stash them. I was concerned about neighbors. It was suggested to me that I put empty boxes where I was going to set up & leave them there for a few months before getting the bees. Once they were in place and if someone thought there was a problem of some type I could claim, "Hey, they weren't there before, why are you having a problem now?" A candygram[3] pointed out that if someone got stung, even if they didn't develop anaphylaxis, they'd try to sue for some type of pain, hoping there'd be a settlement to make it go away."
And Slashdot still supports "editors" posting launched it's Amazon Unbox.
There are two certainties on Slashdot: interesting stories make for melted servers aka the "Slashdot Effect" and postings using contractions instead of pronoun modifiers (showing possession).
I can barely stand "CD's" instead of "CDs", but when you've got a little time before hitting the [submit] button, it's a bit slack.
I passed a pool hall the other day ("Chalkies" - no smoking - where the Black Widow hangs out) and there was a big sign in the window dealing with "Scheduling Party's") and all I could think was, "a Slashdot editor must have done that."
There's more to proofreading than balancing parentheses, making sure there are a couple of periods, and validating the links.
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To the inevitable declaration of "Grammar Nazi!", I offer these two thoughts:
1. Are you willing to tinker with Godwin's Law so quickly?
2. Such a declaration is usually made by a Grammar Idiot.
I'm still waiting for someone to find the golden fleece for this one (seriously).
I'm guessing there are going to have some geographical or cultural constraints in order to solve it:
"What question can you ask where nine out of ten people randomly selected - meaning they may not be online or have any knowledge of the Internet - will know the correct answer but (the answer) cannot be found with a single query+engine search?" The query and engine can be anything you want to use and the query can be as complex as you want.
I've got a second one, although it not as bad: "Are there any activities which are legal online but are illegal offline?"
Season 1, Episode 1: The Train Job - 20 September 2002
Mal and his crew pull a train robbery.
Season 1, Episode 2: Bushwhacked - 27 September 2002
The crew of Serenity stumble upon the ruins of a transport ship and decide to search the vessel for any salvageable goods, only to discover that the ship is not entirely deserted.
Season 1, Episode 3: Our Mrs. Reynolds - 4 October 2002
A woman claiming to be Mal's wife appears aboard Serenity.
Season 1, Episode 4: Jaynestown - 18 October 2002
The crew pulls a heist in a town where Jayne once robbed the local magistrate, making him a local folk hero, and a target for the local police.
Season 1, Episode 5: Out of Gas - 25 October 2002
When Serenity's life support system fails, Mal orders the crew off the ship - but he stays behind.
Season 1, Episode 6: Shindig - 1 November 2002
After scuffling with one of Inara's clients, Mal is challenged to a duel.
Season 1, Episode 7: Safe - 8 November 2002
While visiting an outlying planet, Simon and River are kidnapped by local villagers in need of a doctor. Meanwhile, the rest of the crew are forced to seek medical help from an unlikely source when one of their own is shot.
Season 1, Episode 8: Ariel - 15 November 2002
When the crew of Serenity arrives on the core world 'Ariel', Simon realises it is the perfect opportunity to sneak River in to an Aliiance medical facility and find out what they did to her. In return for the crew's help in getting them in to the facility, Simon helps them organise an operation to steal valuable medical supplies.
Season 1, Episode 9: War Stories - 6 December 2002
Wash feels threatened by the bond between Mal and Zoe. In order to see for himself how the two work together Wash demands that he goes on a mission with Mal to sell the medical supplies instead of Zoe. Unfortunately, Niska has found out where Serenity is and captures Mal and Wash and tortures them as revenge for their failure in the train robbery mission they took from him.
Season 1, Episode 10: Objects in Space - 13 December 2002
The crew of Serenity consider ways to deal with River as her illness makes her a danger to them. That night, a bounty hunter named Jubal Early, who has been tracking Serenity since it left Ariel, invades the ship in order to try and take River and Simon. Early gets the crew in lock-down and it seems that River is the only one who can stop him.
Season 1, Episode 11: Serenity - 20 December 2002
In the first half of the original pilot episode, the crew of Serenity takes on several passengers and make their way to another planet to try and sell goods they salvaged from a wrecked ship. Their efforts are impeded, though, when Wash and Mal realize that there is an undercover alliance fed on board. In the second half of the original pilot, Simon struggles to save Kaylee, and in turn River and himself while Mal, Zoe, and Jayne attempt to unload the cargo from the salvage to a trigger-happy mayor of a border moon.
Season 1, Episode 12: Heart of Gold - 4 August 2003
Serenity responds to a distress call from Nandi, an old friend of Inara's, who is running
When she's not understood something, she's asked questons, but she usually able to figure things out for herself.
Her time is spent dealng with email and message from various family members who are online (or acting as a go-between); surfing, and Word for Windows to develop a family journal whilst she can and there are enough other family members old enoug she can contact those who are online and know (or those family members onlne instead of LD phone calls. ("who was this in the picture?" "Why wasn't in this photo?" -- "that's when they had smallpox", etc.
She hasn't had her keys taken away [yet]; but there are lots of passenges evaluating her quality to determine when enough is enough. When that does happen her outdoor garden work and onlne work will preven her from being disconnected from the rest of the world.
And to paraphrase her in widowhood, "I am alone, but I'm not lonely."
There's an easy reason for the math behind this -- and it's the answer I've posted since $0.99 songs ala carte could be D/Led legally:
- Songs expected to be "hits" number no more than four or five per album.
- Let's say that album has thirteen songs on it and costs $13 (actually, $12.87)
- If people purchase five hits from every album, the production companies (or whomever is collecting the money) is receiving $4.95.
- The difference is ca. $8 ($7.92)
Someone is putting a lot of work into the thirteen songs put onto the CD but everyone who picks up their four-five hits via iTunes is paying $4-$5, it should produce the same effect as sales dropping dramatically. Are they willing to eat this much and now long do they think they can sustain it? Or, is this a deal with the devil to keep everyone (or nearly everyone) legal?
When you say Nick at Nite, you have to mention its spinoff, TV Land.
The way TV Land was able to motivate cable companies to add it to the list was cable companies were guaranteed they wouldn't be charged any fees for the first five years. The old drug dealer philosophy: "The first one is free...
Satellite and telco participation may appear to throw this off, or make it seem unnecessary, but it's not been all that long ago the statistic was, "95% of those with access to cable have no options for a cable service - you have a choice of option A or elect to have no cable service [at all].
And that's the low end - if such schemes were being plotted, they should thank their lucky stars it's now and not several years ago when it was ca. $600B. IIRC, that's about the last time (or most previous to) the stock split and has languised since that time.
<< sidenote(s): When Microsoft went public, Gates owned ca. 44%. I think he's down to 13%-14% (at most). I've previously related the story from Forbes|Fortune six to seven years ago when his money manager was selling 80'000 shares/day. At that time, he'd turned $800'000 into something like $10B-$12B. Either very shrewd in markets & investments or has a good friend in Bogotá, Colombia. There were two stated restrictions: the tech businesses which Microsoft may have been competing against, may compete against, or may be setting up some type of purchase or alliance. One has to keep the girls & boys at the SEC. Oh, the other restriction: genetic engineering. Apparently, Gates saw this as a private sandbox to play with investments as he may see interesting. It's going to be interesting to see Buffett's offer of pushing a goodly sum of his handiwork going into the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (with the provision at least one of them is on the board)>>
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The kiosks here in Fishers (Indinapolis), IN, were installed as a trial and removed a couple of weeks later. It was essentially commercial-free and the equivalent of CNN Headline and The Weather Channel. More or less like a doctor's office or waiting area in airports.
I didn't see any benefit other than perhaps get people to "top off" because they wanted to see the reminder of the story in progress.
Because I'd made my observation, it was more fun to watch everyone else and see what they were up to, including whether they were staying to top off and stay with a story. Most people put their windows down and chat back & forth, so the "entertainment" factor was ignored, even if something was really hot. (I'm less than a mile from the stations used) by adding a gallon or two and watch people. Most of my friends had the same reaction (I did): people would likely go there because of $0.05 price difference than because they were getting this "Shell game". The kiosks were there for 2-3 weeks and never returned.
yet another example of "open" failing....
Completely the opposite. The openness allows someone with a "better idea", yet to be proven, to attempt to prove it better, without having to start from scratch.
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It's tried before (and failed), but my pal (creator of voicemail) eight miles (to the inch) has launched an alpha of social searching ChaCha. You can search alone or with a guide.
And just like ST:TOS, another split infinitive:
To go boldly where no penguin has gone before.
But I have a good question:
Q: Why isn't it running Windows?
A: It would only be available [at most] six days a week.
(Remember Patch Tuesday? I can only imagine the number of fixes required for the Interplanetary Edition of Windows XP.)
Actually, the Illinois State Attorney General should skip his|her afternoon round of golf, realize they've got a spammer who has no problems shooting off their mouth in the court system (and public) and drop them into the clink for the weekend.
Remember: SAGs and ISPs are both capable of clobbering the bad guys.
But at least they're doing for us what we can't|won't do for ourselves: fight the good fight against spam.
If someone had put some teeth into U-CAN-SPAM in 2003, we'd have fewer spammers and there'd be the opportunity for individual pursuit; i.e., you could sue them instead of waiting for someone high up on the political ladder to do it. Once they'd get tired of getting slapped around and losing via summary judgement, they'd do some hard thinking about what they're doing. They'd likely move to a warm island with lots of sun, but that's when you go after their connections: put the ISP on notice -- something else spam laws should contain -- harbor a spammer, be given notice, and *smack*.
Here, they tried to created a gutted TCPA law here and didn't provide for individual pursuit. I managed to intervene with the SAG & the bill's sponsor and the language was added at the last minute because they couldn't argue with the logic I provided.
The important thing about the fines (when the offender, offendee are both in the US) is the jokers think they can just look the other way. What people forget is you aren't missing the money right now. So you refer the case to a collection agency. They make candygrams, er, landsharks, look toothless. Anything you get is a reward, knowing someone had some blood squeezed out of them.
At several states got together and got fax.com to change ownership.
I think it's the original redirect. If you go here, click "Giant Leap for Robotics", it'll take you to the dead link.
So you can take the directions below a few messages.
I think it varies by state.
IIRC, Kentucky is one of the most stringent. Here in Indiana, the SAG has been pretty harsh. A couple of places have set up shop -- until they get caught and decide to make a go of it in court: 1st Ammendment. So far, no one has even come close to winning. There was a bloc (no, not block) of banks which were setting up a crusade to go against the state and the SAG had a half-page ad in the Indy newspaper with contact info for those banks.
I wrote to the SAG's office, pointing out what they should have done is to get everyone to make copies of the info, or if they are just not able to pay for it, use a page with simply says, [x] No! I do not want...!. Put a stamp on everything and ensure it looks like any other letter. This will force them to open every envelope, regardless of what they suspect what might be included because it might be legit.
The SAG's election two years ago focused upon, "during my first term, I promised I would work to stop telemarketing and I have penalized those who disregard for it. I intend to continue. What he should have said was, "now that the telemarketing is under control, we will keep it there. Now that the U-CAN-SPAM Act 2003 provides SAGs with the abiiity to go after spammers. And I'm going to dedidate this term doing so, either alone, or in conjunction with SAGs of other states".
Maybe you don't understand how personal communication works.
At least with written letters, if you write and send me a letter I can do what I want with it. Read it out loud, publish it online, whatever.
It's long (sorry, I can't validate beyond twenty years first-hand) been an expectation personal email becomes public.
Since the great rush for everyone to plug in and create their own rules, I suppose that's been tossed by the wayside now that everyone seems to think "anything goes"? It would appear it's reached the point of "Say & do everything as though it's published around the world, even if what is said is not true"? (that should be reasonably close to "The Messiah's Handbook" from Richard Bach's "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah".
I suppose someone could claim there are copies of email lodged in servers along the way and they can be retrieved, but you don't see people doing that with the content as part of the original action, just stating it could be done afterwards as justification. Were those challenged to play "Name that Tune", I think we'd see the few claimants become tone deaf.
You forgot to point out the problem Macbook Pro seem to have with non-Apple OSes [in general].
That would have been better deserving of the Insightful mod you got.
Both reported this weekend, no less.
First, this , and now this.
Wow.
Let's hope all of the standard eBay sales of special software to cool off your PC are redirected to deal with this problem with Macbook Pro until it can be fixed at the root level.
Does anyone know if it gets any better after six weeks of boot camp?
(please tell me I didn't strain too hard for the paranomasia)
"pay to place a video on YouTube's popular front page."
Oh the vanity! People really do that??? If I want you to see my video I'll put it on my own site and mention it somewhere, maybe even slashdot and it it's interesting word will get around, if it's not, my ego won't be crushed. I will be pissed if those weasels at thinkgeek steal it for another merchandising product
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There's no reason why they couldn't amend the video directly to put ads 'around' the content, such that they'd still be visible in an embedded player
This is how the World Cup was generally broadcast in the US during '86. I don't recall how much earlier that started. I just remember when I was playing for a club and the refs would stop the game during the next opportunity when they saw later teams' members showing up, cautioning (generally, with a smile) them that if they overheard any discussion about any Cup game activity (and not just the outcome, thankyouverymuch) as they had their VCRs running and would find a creative means to punish offenders. I think this is when people would recall "take out the ref" plays (which were said to occur with some college teams; e.g., a chip shot just high enough to make a header possible and body check the ref. Thankfully, that stuff could only happen in hockey).
The media knew soccer would eventually become "must see" (and some are still waiting) and was trying to find ways to get some ad compensation without cutting to an ad and saying, "While we were away, you missed a forty yard goal with a bicycle kick" and move forward. (These were the same morons who didn't know what nutmeg is. So they started scrunching the pitch a little and run ads in all four margins (usually Budweiser), then restore the pitch's image size. How times have changed (for this year's Cup): "Due to time constraints and little play activity, we'll move ahead into the game." And start the game at 6:37. Fortunately, the Jose +10 ads were outstanding. Worth teaching kids' teams about playing on pared pitches, even to playing walkthrough.
6. What, no rollover minutes?
You got gypped.
And how many of those 2M cell phones are disposable?
I think there's some monkey business with the statistics (trot out Twain).
I'm certain there's some differences between "permanent" and "disposable" affecting the overall total.
I do have a good cell phone story: even though they are personal cell phones, the missus gets a discount because of where she works - word of mouth to co-workers & whatnot. Anyway, a couple of years ago, we decided to introduce my in-laws[1] who are (now) in their mid-70s. We handed down[2] one of our phones when our contract ended, but put them on our plan to keep an eye on them. They'd take it in the car with them and use it to call us when they were running late to meet us at a restaurant (they're about eighty miles away). The problem? They'd turn the phone on, make the call, then turn the phone back off to conserve energy, even though the phone was plugged in via adaptor. Obviously, they came from the Depression Era, so everything has been critical. It took awhile for them to realize powering the phone is like removing a spoonful of water from the ocean, but they've gone ahead and obtained one for each of them.
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[1] I pity those who have a monster in law, or a mother|father in law they just tolerate. I grew up in an abused house. I've got a Dad and a second Mom. I'd tell Mom about being able to lie on my back on their couch and fade before I could finish a breath (and I can't sleep on my back). I told Mom it was a soft place to fall (see: Dr. Phil). She told me it was a nice couch. It took a little bit to get her to understand it's where the couch was, not the couch itself.
[2] I can't figure out why people turn in their old phones for nothing, even bringing accessories later when left behind, is beyond me. Most carriers don't give you a trade-in and resell them. We usually give them to friends who don't want to spring for a cheap phone with no features or not-for-profits. At least you can get a tax deduction.
There's my way to fix cell phones & pagers when making presentations, particularly larger audiences (the larger, the better):
"Before I begin, I will forewarn you to silence your cell phones and pagers now. If we hear a familiar tone, you'll undoubtedly rush out of the room as though God is about to kill himself and you're the only one working the Suicide Hotline. When you return, you will come up on stage and sing your high school fight song or you *will* be escorted out of this room. If you're going to subject us to your noise, then we will force you to add to the noise. controforce you to let you hear other extra noise. Your devices have vibrate or silent|flash mode. Now...castrate your toys."
The first time someone thinks it's a joke and has been removed didn't think it was so funny...
Parents have lobbied against school boards (and likely in the courts when rebuffed) so their kids can keep their cells with them, "in case of an emergency". What did they do twenty years ago, wait for a carrier pigeon? That's easily fixed - put them all on a table up-front and if one rings, let the owner come up front and deal with the call. That should cut down on the hijinks which otherwise goes on (including sharing answers on tests).
You know, there was a(n) UL/FOAF about someone developing their vacation photos and one shows up with some guy's ass and the camerea owner's toothbrush sticking out of their ass. I'm surprised we don't hear about updates for the cell world when someone leaves their cell unattended...say when they rush into a meeting and it's sitting on their desk?
So you punish fans who have multiple playing devices by paying more in the interest of avoiding sharing?
The missus has a CD collection (Yanni and a lot of other things I won't mention), but she has one of two options (she's not going the iPod way):
1. Pack everything up from home, lug it to the SUV, load whatever she wanted to listen to, then haul it in from the parking lot to her office. Meaning: getting her a decent-sized luggage bag with wheels on it.
2. Make copies of each CD and keep them where appropriate; specfically, home, SUV, work, for her edification.
Door #1 means she will stop buying CDs despite the availability of discretionary income. This (obviously) means the artists will see less money. Not from theft, but inconvenience for the buyer.
Using door #2 means she doesn't have to tow things around. She's not sharing the IP/CDs with anyone else and the artist et al. aren't losing any money. (I suppose you could say the manufacturers of the blank discs are making money as well)
Piracy is going to occur, no matter what you do. That doesn't mean they have to lie down & take it. But they also have to understand that despite a case of "my sandbox (marketshare), my rules", dangling today's version of Rubik's Cube is only going to make people more determined to find a solution[1], silkscreen it on a pair of the company's boxers (purchased from the company store, thank-you very much - after all, this is an academic[1] exercise), and run it up the flagpole (the company likely has their flag on top of whatever country's flag should be on top) for all to see when they go to work the next morning.
Oh, if two of us want to trade movies, even if they're the same price at the site, we cannot do so. This is one of the biggest failings of any e-Book attempts. This is not to mention giving you something I purchased (music,movie,book) because I value giving it to you more than keeping it for myself. The producers are going to use "unfair use" or "piracy" as an attempt to avoid developing more marketing creativity and beeline like an asymptote toward single-use fees for each of those media.
They know people aren't going to stop buying (music,movies,books) altogether because only an egregious mistake of monumental proportiions will co$t them where it hurt$. They're obviously dipping their toes and testing the water. Sony got something soft & fleshy caught in their collective zippers. That's because they tried to sneak it past everyone with the empty beehive trick.[2] Amazon's appearing to take the approach, "things will work well because we're Amazon (never forget that), we're telling everyone up-front, and because we're letting them play it on more than one machine."
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[1] look at all of the weekend events where people are provided opportunities to crack things for the purpose of whose mojo is stronger. Socking it to the man only provides more fun.
[2] I looked at beekeeping once (in the middle of 1-acre lots) and had a nice place or two to stash them. I was concerned about neighbors. It was suggested to me that I put empty boxes where I was going to set up & leave them there for a few months before getting the bees. Once they were in place and if someone thought there was a problem of some type I could claim, "Hey, they weren't there before, why are you having a problem now?" A candygram[3] pointed out that if someone got stung, even if they didn't develop anaphylaxis, they'd try to sue for some type of pain, hoping there'd be a settlement to make it go away."
[3] "Candygram." {pause} "Landshark".
I have three questions:
1. Does anyone know what patent number Jeff got for this?
2. Where did he hang the appropriate gold plaque?
3. Where can we buy the preapproved pads he uses to save time & effort?
(I know there's prior art just in Sony's DRM foobar, but I think Jeff would just say this is different because it's for DVDs).
And Slashdot still supports "editors" posting launched it's Amazon Unbox.
There are two certainties on Slashdot: interesting stories make for melted servers aka the "Slashdot Effect" and postings using contractions instead of pronoun modifiers (showing possession).
I can barely stand "CD's" instead of "CDs", but when you've got a little time before hitting the [submit] button, it's a bit slack.
I passed a pool hall the other day ("Chalkies" - no smoking - where the Black Widow hangs out) and there was a big sign in the window dealing with "Scheduling Party's") and all I could think was, "a Slashdot editor must have done that."
There's more to proofreading than balancing parentheses, making sure there are a couple of periods, and validating the links.
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To the inevitable declaration of "Grammar Nazi!", I offer these two thoughts:
1. Are you willing to tinker with Godwin's Law so quickly?
2. Such a declaration is usually made by a Grammar Idiot.
I'm still waiting for someone to find the golden fleece for this one (seriously).
I'm guessing there are going to have some geographical or cultural constraints in order to solve it:
"What question can you ask where nine out of ten people randomly selected - meaning they may not be online or have any knowledge of the Internet - will know the correct answer but (the answer) cannot be found with a single query+engine search?" The query and engine can be anything you want to use and the query can be as complex as you want.
I've got a second one, although it not as bad: "Are there any activities which are legal online but are illegal offline?"
FireFly Episode List
Season 1
1. 1- 1 1AGE01 20 Sep 02 The Train Job
2. 1- 2 1AGE02 27 Sep 02 Bushwhacked
3. 1- 3 1AGE05 4 Oct 02 Our Mrs. Reynolds
4. 1- 4 1AGE06 18 Oct 02 Jaynestown
5. 1- 5 1AGE07 25 Oct 02 Out of Gas
6. 1- 6 1AGE03 1 Nov 02 Shindig
7. 1- 7 1AGE04 8 Nov 02 Safe
8. 1- 8 1AGE08 15 Nov 02 Ariel
9. 1- 9 1AGE09 6 Dec 02 War Stories
10. 1-10 1AGE11 13 Dec 02 Objects in Space
11. 1-11 1AGE79 20 Dec 02 Serenity (1)
12. 1-12 1AGE79 20 Dec 02 Serenity (2)
13. 1-13 1AGE10 UNAIRED Heart of Gold
14. 1-14 1AGE12 UNAIRED Trash
15. 1-15 1AGE13 UNAIRED The Message
Feature Movie
F- 1 30 Sep 05 Serenity
IMDB Episode Guide
Season 1, Episode 1: The Train Job - 20 September 2002
Mal and his crew pull a train robbery.
Season 1, Episode 2: Bushwhacked - 27 September 2002
The crew of Serenity stumble upon the ruins of a transport ship and decide to search the vessel for any salvageable goods, only to discover that the ship is not entirely deserted.
Season 1, Episode 3: Our Mrs. Reynolds - 4 October 2002
A woman claiming to be Mal's wife appears aboard Serenity.
Season 1, Episode 4: Jaynestown - 18 October 2002
The crew pulls a heist in a town where Jayne once robbed the local magistrate, making him a local folk hero, and a target for the local police.
Season 1, Episode 5: Out of Gas - 25 October 2002
When Serenity's life support system fails, Mal orders the crew off the ship - but he stays behind.
Season 1, Episode 6: Shindig - 1 November 2002
After scuffling with one of Inara's clients, Mal is challenged to a duel.
Season 1, Episode 7: Safe - 8 November 2002
While visiting an outlying planet, Simon and River are kidnapped by local villagers in need of a doctor. Meanwhile, the rest of the crew are forced to seek medical help from an unlikely source when one of their own is shot.
Season 1, Episode 8: Ariel - 15 November 2002
When the crew of Serenity arrives on the core world 'Ariel', Simon realises it is the perfect opportunity to sneak River in to an Aliiance medical facility and find out what they did to her. In return for the crew's help in getting them in to the facility, Simon helps them organise an operation to steal valuable medical supplies.
Season 1, Episode 9: War Stories - 6 December 2002
Wash feels threatened by the bond between Mal and Zoe. In order to see for himself how the two work together Wash demands that he goes on a mission with Mal to sell the medical supplies instead of Zoe. Unfortunately, Niska has found out where Serenity is and captures Mal and Wash and tortures them as revenge for their failure in the train robbery mission they took from him.
Season 1, Episode 10: Objects in Space - 13 December 2002
The crew of Serenity consider ways to deal with River as her illness makes her a danger to them. That night, a bounty hunter named Jubal Early, who has been tracking Serenity since it left Ariel, invades the ship in order to try and take River and Simon. Early gets the crew in lock-down and it seems that River is the only one who can stop him.
Season 1, Episode 11: Serenity - 20 December 2002
In the first half of the original pilot episode, the crew of Serenity takes on several passengers and make their way to another planet to try and sell goods they salvaged from a wrecked ship. Their efforts are impeded, though, when Wash and Mal realize that there is an undercover alliance fed on board. In the second half of the original pilot, Simon struggles to save Kaylee, and in turn River and himself while Mal, Zoe, and Jayne attempt to unload the cargo from the salvage to a trigger-happy mayor of a border moon.
Season 1, Episode 12: Heart of Gold - 4 August 2003
Serenity responds to a distress call from Nandi, an old friend of Inara's, who is running
I suppose it'll make it easier to automate how Yoda talks.
I'm still waiting for them to surpass patenting "How to Tell When a Baseball Game is Exciting." or patenting their apple.
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It's going to take some work, although one never knows when opportunity will strike:
A local anchor once said, "...killed him to death..."
She left the city and returned (to a different station) and I was waiting for another one as she's also the "Health & Technology" reporter.
This time, however, it was the "alternative" anchor team (it's a mess) and the story was about acupuncture and overcoming issues in getting pregnant.
The anchor turned to her and said, "I guess it just takes a little prick, eh?". Deadpan.
If I'd have that taped, it would have been on YouTube about five minutes later, but alas...all I could do was change my boxers.
My grandma will be 89 on November 2.
When she's not understood something, she's asked questons, but she usually able to figure things out for herself.
Her time is spent dealng with email and message from various family members who are online (or acting as a go-between); surfing, and Word for Windows to develop a family journal whilst she can and there are enough other family members old enoug she can contact those who are online and know (or those family members onlne instead of LD phone calls. ("who was this in the picture?" "Why wasn't in this photo?" -- "that's when they had smallpox", etc.
She hasn't had her keys taken away [yet]; but there are lots of passenges evaluating her quality to determine when enough is enough. When that does happen her outdoor garden work and onlne work will preven her from being disconnected from the rest of the world.
And to paraphrase her in widowhood, "I am alone, but I'm not lonely."
But AZ doesn't observe Daylight Saving Time, does it?
(the same for Hawaii)
Here in Indiana, we a few months into our first bout.
There's an easy reason for the math behind this -- and it's the answer I've posted since $0.99 songs ala carte could be D/Led legally:
- Songs expected to be "hits" number no more than four or five per album.
- Let's say that album has thirteen songs on it and costs $13 (actually, $12.87)
- If people purchase five hits from every album, the production companies (or whomever is collecting the money) is receiving $4.95.
- The difference is ca. $8 ($7.92)
Someone is putting a lot of work into the thirteen songs put onto the CD but everyone who picks up their four-five hits via iTunes is paying $4-$5, it should produce the same effect as sales dropping dramatically. Are they willing to eat this much and now long do they think they can sustain it? Or, is this a deal with the devil to keep everyone (or nearly everyone) legal?
When you say Nick at Nite, you have to mention its spinoff, TV Land.
The way TV Land was able to motivate cable companies to add it to the list was cable companies were guaranteed they wouldn't be charged any fees for the first five years. The old drug dealer philosophy: "The first one is free...
Satellite and telco participation may appear to throw this off, or make it seem unnecessary, but it's not been all that long ago the statistic was, "95% of those with access to cable have no options for a cable service - you have a choice of option A or elect to have no cable service [at all].
And that's the low end - if such schemes were being plotted, they should thank their lucky stars it's now and not several years ago when it was ca. $600B. IIRC, that's about the last time (or most previous to) the stock split and has languised since that time.
<< sidenote(s): When Microsoft went public, Gates owned ca. 44%. I think he's down to 13%-14% (at most). I've previously related the story from Forbes|Fortune six to seven years ago when his money manager was selling 80'000 shares/day. At that time, he'd turned $800'000 into something like $10B-$12B. Either very shrewd in markets & investments or has a good friend in Bogotá, Colombia. There were two stated restrictions: the tech businesses which Microsoft may have been competing against, may compete against, or may be setting up some type of purchase or alliance. One has to keep the girls & boys at the SEC. Oh, the other restriction: genetic engineering. Apparently, Gates saw this as a private sandbox to play with investments as he may see interesting. It's going to be interesting to see Buffett's offer of pushing a goodly sum of his handiwork going into the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (with the provision at least one of them is on the board)>>
It's the one all of the wrong people fail:
How lazy are you?
(think about it)