It's been a few decades since the people have "demanded" ANYTHING. So long as they have their beer and their sports channels and big screen tv's, the people - for perhaps the first time in history - are content to let you take everything else away from them. Or am I wrong?
You're not wrong. You're off topic, but you're certainly not wrong.
take it easy on calling people out who likely *do* know a fair bit more about certain subject matter than you do and let them inform the community.
I'm still waiting for you to inform the community. All you've done so far is make baseless accusations with no proof. That's not information, that's rumor. If the proof is so easy to find, why won't you show it to us? Your assertions imply that posting the proof would have taken less time and effort than posting your previous reply.
Also, don't assume that having an ID number of 871695 makes me a Slashdot rookie. I've been here almost since the beginning, but under a different ID that I abandoned years ago. Further, the claim (again unsubstantiated) that you have a doctorate doesn't impress me or anyone else.
Maybe it's the temperature achieved in the inside of the camera enclosure since it receives direct sunlight for months on end. Maybe it's 30 degrees outside, and 120 inside after baking for that long.
So, in other words you're still not able to back up anything you said.
I don't know much about the history of Google, but Keyhole was a company independent of Google for quite years. I worked for a company that subscribed to its service. Google bought Keyhole years later.
Your original post is completely worthless, with a bunch of home page links pretending to be citations. Lemme take a shot at your style of online journalism:
Google is a company owned by the Dairy Queen corporation with the stated goal of infiltrating homes worldwide Radio Shack microphones and transmitters. They are carrying out this nefarious deed at the behest of the Queen of England, and the president of Mexico.
There. I'm just as factual as you are. And my references are just as good.
People like you are the reason smart people don't trust the internet.
It's also very labor-intensive. Some stations submit their listings by fax or individual e-mails that must then be re-typed into the system. With several thousand TV stations in North America, it's not an easy task. And yes, there are still plenty of TV stations in the United States that don't even have basic internet access, either because of cost, lack of need, or remote location (dialup is their only option).
I think you misunderstand. It's the massive floodlights illuminating the 1,000-foot-tall antennae on top of the buildings that are turned off at night for the birds. The little winky bits remain active because of heavy air traffic in the area.
Wind ginnies, generators, need to be lit at night because of birds. Without the lights birds won't know they are there.
Absolutely false. The city of Chicago encourages the owers of skyscrapers to turn out the lights at night during bird migration season to keep them from flying into the buildings.
Chicago is on a migration route that birds take to and from Canada along the shore of Lake Michigan. Buildings like the Sears Tower and John Hancock Center turn off their decorative lights at night to cut down on the number of bird kills because the birds navigate, in part, by the position of the moon. Bright lights confuse them.
It just isn't a market that pays anything meaningful yet.
IMO, that's mostly because internet radio hasn't given us anything really meaningful yet.
Once you get past the unreliable connections, ever-changing URLs, and random player options... internet radio still hasn't figured out how to be radio yet.
Playing obscure music back-to-back on a loop isn't radio, no matter how obscure a person's taste is. That's called a jukebox. Or an iPod.
Real radio has personality. It informs. It entertains. It communicates. Of the hundreds of internet radio stations I've tried, none achieve that simple premise: communication. They're just pumping out bits and hoping to make some money.
Unfortunately, regular radio has also lost its way and most stations have become little more than juke boxes with voice-tracks. There are notable exceptions, but they are rare. The problem is that internet radio is more of what's WRONG with radio, and little of what radio does right.
last.fm IS affected why are you listening to it anyway? obscure.radio is much more efficient and has a much wider range than last.fm. like you i first found last.fm but now i only listen to obscure.radio because it lets me criticize other people for their musical tastes and i can pretend that i'm better than other people even though i never learned what the shift key is for on my keyboard.
In Run, or Info, or one of those great 80's computer magazines there was a project for building a box that hooked up to a Commodore 64's user port. The other end hooked up to a TVRO antenna (those big old-fashioned black mesh satellite dishes) and you could download the data being sent back by Voyager.
Slashdot Mirror
Well... now we know what to get you for Christmas.
Congrats! You win Slashdot today!
Also, don't assume that having an ID number of 871695 makes me a Slashdot rookie. I've been here almost since the beginning, but under a different ID that I abandoned years ago. Further, the claim (again unsubstantiated) that you have a doctorate doesn't impress me or anyone else.
Maybe it's the temperature achieved in the inside of the camera enclosure since it receives direct sunlight for months on end. Maybe it's 30 degrees outside, and 120 inside after baking for that long.
So, in other words you're still not able to back up anything you said.
I don't know much about the history of Google, but Keyhole was a company independent of Google for quite years. I worked for a company that subscribed to its service. Google bought Keyhole years later.
Your original post is completely worthless, with a bunch of home page links pretending to be citations. Lemme take a shot at your style of online journalism:
Google is a company owned by the Dairy Queen corporation with the stated goal of infiltrating homes worldwide Radio Shack microphones and transmitters. They are carrying out this nefarious deed at the behest of the Queen of England, and the president of Mexico.
There. I'm just as factual as you are. And my references are just as good.
People like you are the reason smart people don't trust the internet.
It's also very labor-intensive. Some stations submit their listings by fax or individual e-mails that must then be re-typed into the system. With several thousand TV stations in North America, it's not an easy task. And yes, there are still plenty of TV stations in the United States that don't even have basic internet access, either because of cost, lack of need, or remote location (dialup is their only option).
Since you brought up Digg, I'll ask you...
Slashdot blows.
Digg blows.
Fark is borderline.
Any GOOD tech-friendly "social news" (or whatever the term is) sites out there these days?
On a cell connection without a contract. Duh.
I think you misunderstand. It's the massive floodlights illuminating the 1,000-foot-tall antennae on top of the buildings that are turned off at night for the birds. The little winky bits remain active because of heavy air traffic in the area.
Chicago is on a migration route that birds take to and from Canada along the shore of Lake Michigan. Buildings like the Sears Tower and John Hancock Center turn off their decorative lights at night to cut down on the number of bird kills because the birds navigate, in part, by the position of the moon. Bright lights confuse them.
And with one final worthless entry, Slashdot officially jumps the shark.
If Carrie is what geeks consider attractive these days, the quality of internet porn has really declined a lot in the last few years.
I haven't tried SomaFM, but I do listen to Radio IO Ambient via iTunes. I liked it enough to actually send a few bucks their way.
Once you get past the unreliable connections, ever-changing URLs, and random player options... internet radio still hasn't figured out how to be radio yet.
Playing obscure music back-to-back on a loop isn't radio, no matter how obscure a person's taste is. That's called a jukebox. Or an iPod.
Real radio has personality. It informs. It entertains. It communicates. Of the hundreds of internet radio stations I've tried, none achieve that simple premise: communication. They're just pumping out bits and hoping to make some money.
Unfortunately, regular radio has also lost its way and most stations have become little more than juke boxes with voice-tracks. There are notable exceptions, but they are rare. The problem is that internet radio is more of what's WRONG with radio, and little of what radio does right.
last.fm IS affected why are you listening to it anyway? obscure.radio is much more efficient and has a much wider range than last.fm. like you i first found last.fm but now i only listen to obscure.radio because it lets me criticize other people for their musical tastes and i can pretend that i'm better than other people even though i never learned what the shift key is for on my keyboard.
In Run, or Info, or one of those great 80's computer magazines there was a project for building a box that hooked up to a Commodore 64's user port. The other end hooked up to a TVRO antenna (those big old-fashioned black mesh satellite dishes) and you could download the data being sent back by Voyager.
It was receive only, but still quite fascinating.