And mostly because they don't want to lose their existing analog signal, so they are stalling. The know that spectrum is worth big money and they are going to do everything they can to either make sure they don't lose it or make a lot of money selling it.
That is just plain wrong. The TV stations don't own the spectrum they use. The spectrum is licensed to them and may only be used for the purpose it was assigned. They cannot sell the spectrum and certainly cannot use it for any other purposes. The only thing they can do with the spectrum they have is broadcast TV signals.
You are goddamned fucking lucky that the government tells you what the default values for things should be. That's what the government is there for, mostly; to tell you that the default value for a building is to have a fire exit and that it may not be locked.
That's a safety standard. The government does not tell you what color the walls should be, however. It doesn't tell you whether you should use carpet or hardwood on the floors.
But if you really think they have no right doing these things, go live in a 3rd world country; they generallly have the government telling you less about what to do. Except once in a while when they kill your familiy. You could be armed of course. You know what a totally armed society with a weak government looks like? Afghanistan.
Assuming you're talking about Afghanistan before the US bombed the hell out of it, you are wrong again. The government in Afghanistan told you exactly what you could or could not do. It told you what you could wear and how much. It told you how long to keep your beard. It told you whether you could study or not (if you were a woman). It told you what you could study. It told you who you could sleep with.
That's the way Von Neumann machines work. This is not the OS getting involved in executing the code from the MP3. When a buffer overflow occurs, the OS is overwritten by the data that's overflowing. The result of this is that when that OS function is called, instead of the code for the OS function running, you have the code that was in the data running instead.
I remember about 10 or so years ago when there were designs for machines with separate data and control areas of memory. Such a machine wouldn't have buffer overflow issues since a buffer overflow would only corrupt data, not trash control code.
A few years ago (not sure what I was thinking) I registered for a Yahoo! account. Of course, I wouldn't tell the scumbags my real DOB or zip code. Later I forgot about this account.
A few months ago Yahoo changed their spam policy to opt-out. Suddenly I started getting junk mail in my regular account. I tried to login to the Yahoo account to change the settings but couldn't since I forgot my password. I couldn't use the online thing to get a new password since it required my DOB and zip code to do that.
After several attempts at trying to sort it out with Yahoos customer disservice, I arrived at the following conclusions: - I could not change the spam policy without signing in. - They would not stop sending me junk mail to my regular email account without signing in. - They would not delete the account unless I could prove it was me - having the same name and access to the email account registered for the account did not count. - They would not give me the password to my account or change it.
I ended up just dumping the email account and starting afresh. Luckily, it was not one I used heavily.
You really think Al Gore invented the internet don't you? You give MS way too much credit here.
Microsoft didn't create the FTP standard. I've been using FTP from before Microsoft thought of connecting two computers together and ASCII has always been the default.
Take a look at your Yahoo! Profile. They have your name, birthday, address, phone number and any information you have ever given to a Yahoo! property. I was shocked to discover information about me on my wife (then fiance)'s profile. Turns out we had ordered plane tickets once and these people diligently tracked and recorded that information.
Yahoo! is a lot more insidious now than Passport ever will be.
Idiot moderators, the parent is NOT a troll. The article posted was indeed from Nov 26th. You might call it a flamebait for the cardinal sin of criticising Slashdot but it is not a troll. Please learn to moderate before doing it again.
Unfortunately, none of this shrink-wrap and click-through stuff is a situation where you really have any power or any ability to negotiate. You can't strike out clauses and see if they'll agree to accept them.
The same holds true when you're signing, say a morgage. The person in front of you is typically a minion from a third-party (escrow company). They don't have the power to accept or reject changes and asking for any change will only result in a several-day delay.
From everything I have seen and heard, the licensing model you are refering to is targeted at corporate consumers. Even Microsoft are not so stupid as to think that something like that will fly in the regular consumer market. Can you imagine all the hassle of billing and trying to recover annual subscription dues from hundreds of millions of users? It is much easier to make it a Point of Sale transaction where you get your money and be done with it.
I visited it in 2000 when I was in Berlin. I took the "guided tour" of the area.
Ostbahnhof was a station on a line that started in West Berlin, ducked into East Berlin for a little bit, through one station and then went back into West Berlin. The U-Bahn did not stop at Ostbahnhof while the city was divided. However, that did not stop some East Berliners from trying to use that train to escape East Berlin - which resulted in some fatalities until the East German government wised up.
Later, West Berliners taking the train would be able to see a "ghost" station as the train sped by Ostbahnhof with armed guards patrolling the station to prevent East Berliners from trying to escape.
Not the article on ESC, which is actually a funny one but what is posted on Slashdot.
The TabletPC does have a "doodle setting". Rather, it will only recognize the portions that you want it to convert to text, leaving the rest as "digital ink".
First, if you don't know anything about a product, you should shut up rather than making snide remarks.
Second, exactly how stupid do you have to be to realize that the very motivation for a product like this is the ability to easily capture "doodles", etc as part of your notes?
This is not a Palm Pilot. Maybe you should spend some time playing with the product or reading about it to try and understand what it is before you talk about it.
Q: Have you ever used the Tablet PC or do you know anything about it? A: The short answer is 'no'. The long answer is that I know that I'll get modded up on Slashdot as long as I somehow make fun of Microsoft.
I think all the posters who are talking about the relationship between this and the fact that MS is competing with Sony with the X-BOX are just plain wrong.
If Sony was a well-run organization, its computer division would be making business decisions based on their own market rather than some vague spite because of some other divisions battles. There are several valid business reasons why offering a cheaper (to Sony) Office solution would make business sense.
MS is not going to run out of money any time soon - so suggesting that this is being done so MS stops spending money is just plain asinine. Rather, the very reason MS is investing in the XBOX is because they want to earn money in more diverse ways and if the Office business were to become less profitable, that would only encourage them to invest further into other markets in the hopes of being able to grow or maintain revenue.
It is possible that management asked the computer division to do this and use that as a threat to ask Microsoft to back off from the XBOX. However, that is arguably an antitrust violation similar to the one Microsoft got into trouble for since the PS2 is a virtual monopoly. However, I sincerely doubt that this is the case.
Read what I said about certificates. You could replace the meta data with a certificate that would only be issued to companies that qualified. And that certificate could be withdrawn....
WHY? Why do you need a separate domain to separate kids? Why not just add it as meta information to the existing web page? Then you can program browsers to only go to pages with the appropriate meta information.
If you are worried about the lack of supervision, it wouldn't be hard to have some kind of certificates be issued and have the browser require the appropriate certificates.
That's how the content ratings on TV work and I don't see any problems with that.
This problem does not demand separate domain names as a solution.
If the *AA would learn from that example, then maybe they wouldn't be $1B behind the Game Industry.
Read the article. Then read it again carefully. The *AA is not $1B behind the Game Industry. The Game Industry makes $1B more in total revenue than the MPAA makes in box office sales. You totally forgot about the market for DVDs, Videos, Rentals and Cable deals.
The article is comparing the Gaming industries total revenues with the box office sales of the movie industry. They're ignoring the huge video/dvd/rental/cable-deal/fast-food-promotions revenues that the movie industry makes.
That being said, I'm still impressed by the fact that the gaming industry exceeds box office revenues by $1 Billion.
-Game reviews are plentiful. Movie reviews are even more plentiful.
-Demo/rental versions are easy to acquire to try out. Last time I went to Blockbuster there were more movies for rent than there were games.
-You can trade/sell a game to try out other ones. There's more entertainment for your buck. And you can trade videos and DVDs. I'll give you the "more entertainment for your buck" since that's a subjective thing.
-You have the time to sit down and enjoy the game at your leisure. (as opposed to being at a theater by a certain time...) You don't HAVE to watch the movie in the theaters. You can wait for it to come out at the video store or on PPV or on one of the premium cable channels.
I have plenty of karma to burn so I don't care what the slashbots do to this post...
You ramble and ramble in your reply but you don't address the point I made. The X-Box is not substandard. It is technologically superior.
Pointing out the lack of developer mindshare or customer demand does not prove that it is substandard. Those are different things. Ditto about the lack of games. That does not mean it is substandard.
Unless you use the word "substandard" in a completely different way from how it is defined in the English language.
Either you know nothing about gaming and technology or you're a petty troll.
The X-BOX is NOT a substandard console. It is far superior, technologically, to the PS2 or GameCube. There are several things wrong with the XBOX including how expensive it is to produce, the lack of developer mindshare, etc. but you sound like a clueles Slash-bot when you call it substandard.
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And mostly because they don't want to lose their existing analog signal, so they are stalling. The know that spectrum is worth big money and they are going to do everything they can to either make sure they don't lose it or make a lot of money selling it.
That is just plain wrong. The TV stations don't own the spectrum they use. The spectrum is licensed to them and may only be used for the purpose it was assigned. They cannot sell the spectrum and certainly cannot use it for any other purposes. The only thing they can do with the spectrum they have is broadcast TV signals.
Amazing how many points you got wrong.
You are goddamned fucking lucky that the government tells you what the default values for things should be. That's what the government is there for, mostly; to tell you that the default value for a building is to have a fire exit and that it may not be locked.
That's a safety standard. The government does not tell you what color the walls should be, however. It doesn't tell you whether you should use carpet or hardwood on the floors.
But if you really think they have no right doing these things, go live in a 3rd world country; they generallly have the government telling you less about what to do. Except once in a while when they kill your familiy. You could be armed of course. You know what a totally armed society with a weak government looks like? Afghanistan.
Assuming you're talking about Afghanistan before the US bombed the hell out of it, you are wrong again. The government in Afghanistan told you exactly what you could or could not do. It told you what you could wear and how much. It told you how long to keep your beard. It told you whether you could study or not (if you were a woman). It told you what you could study. It told you who you could sleep with.
Government standards are why you can buy screws and nuts from different manufacturers and have them work together.
Nonsense. Screw and nut sizes have been standardized without government involvement.
How the hell is the parent insightful?
That's the way Von Neumann machines work. This is not the OS getting involved in executing the code from the MP3. When a buffer overflow occurs, the OS is overwritten by the data that's overflowing. The result of this is that when that OS function is called, instead of the code for the OS function running, you have the code that was in the data running instead.
I remember about 10 or so years ago when there were designs for machines with separate data and control areas of memory. Such a machine wouldn't have buffer overflow issues since a buffer overflow would only corrupt data, not trash control code.
A few years ago (not sure what I was thinking) I registered for a Yahoo! account. Of course, I wouldn't tell the scumbags my real DOB or zip code. Later I forgot about this account.
A few months ago Yahoo changed their spam policy to opt-out. Suddenly I started getting junk mail in my regular account. I tried to login to the Yahoo account to change the settings but couldn't since I forgot my password. I couldn't use the online thing to get a new password since it required my DOB and zip code to do that.
After several attempts at trying to sort it out with Yahoos customer disservice, I arrived at the following conclusions:
- I could not change the spam policy without signing in.
- They would not stop sending me junk mail to my regular email account without signing in.
- They would not delete the account unless I could prove it was me - having the same name and access to the email account registered for the account did not count.
- They would not give me the password to my account or change it.
I ended up just dumping the email account and starting afresh. Luckily, it was not one I used heavily.
You really think Al Gore invented the internet don't you? You give MS way too much credit here.
Microsoft didn't create the FTP standard. I've been using FTP from before Microsoft thought of connecting two computers together and ASCII has always been the default.
Take a look at your Yahoo! Profile. They have your name, birthday, address, phone number and any information you have ever given to a Yahoo! property. I was shocked to discover information about me on my wife (then fiance)'s profile. Turns out we had ordered plane tickets once and these people diligently tracked and recorded that information.
Yahoo! is a lot more insidious now than Passport ever will be.
Idiot moderators, the parent is NOT a troll. The article posted was indeed from Nov 26th. You might call it a flamebait for the cardinal sin of criticising Slashdot but it is not a troll. Please learn to moderate before doing it again.
That article was on the front page of MSNBC on Nov 26th!
Slashdot: News thats old. Stuff that doesn't matter anymore.
Unfortunately, none of this shrink-wrap and click-through stuff is a situation where you really have any power or any ability to negotiate. You can't strike out clauses and see if they'll agree to accept them.
The same holds true when you're signing, say a morgage. The person in front of you is typically a minion from a third-party (escrow company). They don't have the power to accept or reject changes and asking for any change will only result in a several-day delay.
That's a clueless and uninformed comment.
From everything I have seen and heard, the licensing model you are refering to is targeted at corporate consumers. Even Microsoft are not so stupid as to think that something like that will fly in the regular consumer market. Can you imagine all the hassle of billing and trying to recover annual subscription dues from hundreds of millions of users? It is much easier to make it a Point of Sale transaction where you get your money and be done with it.
Real already knows my genenetic code/i
So that's what they're using in the Helix DNA Producer!
I visited it in 2000 when I was in Berlin. I took the "guided tour" of the area.
Ostbahnhof was a station on a line that started in West Berlin, ducked into East Berlin for a little bit, through one station and then went back into West Berlin. The U-Bahn did not stop at Ostbahnhof while the city was divided. However, that did not stop some East Berliners from trying to use that train to escape East Berlin - which resulted in some fatalities until the East German government wised up.
Later, West Berliners taking the train would be able to see a "ghost" station as the train sped by Ostbahnhof with armed guards patrolling the station to prevent East Berliners from trying to escape.
Not the article on ESC, which is actually a funny one but what is posted on Slashdot.
The TabletPC does have a "doodle setting". Rather, it will only recognize the portions that you want it to convert to text, leaving the rest as "digital ink".
First, if you don't know anything about a product, you should shut up rather than making snide remarks.
Second, exactly how stupid do you have to be to realize that the very motivation for a product like this is the ability to easily capture "doodles", etc as part of your notes?
This is not a Palm Pilot. Maybe you should spend some time playing with the product or reading about it to try and understand what it is before you talk about it.
Q: Have you ever used the Tablet PC or do you know anything about it?
A: The short answer is 'no'. The long answer is that I know that I'll get modded up on Slashdot as long as I somehow make fun of Microsoft.
.. his lawsuit. Then we use that precedent and slam him for 1 million times worse than he got.
I think all the posters who are talking about the relationship between this and the fact that MS is competing with Sony with the X-BOX are just plain wrong.
If Sony was a well-run organization, its computer division would be making business decisions based on their own market rather than some vague spite because of some other divisions battles. There are several valid business reasons why offering a cheaper (to Sony) Office solution would make business sense.
MS is not going to run out of money any time soon - so suggesting that this is being done so MS stops spending money is just plain asinine. Rather, the very reason MS is investing in the XBOX is because they want to earn money in more diverse ways and if the Office business were to become less profitable, that would only encourage them to invest further into other markets in the hopes of being able to grow or maintain revenue.
It is possible that management asked the computer division to do this and use that as a threat to ask Microsoft to back off from the XBOX. However, that is arguably an antitrust violation similar to the one Microsoft got into trouble for since the PS2 is a virtual monopoly. However, I sincerely doubt that this is the case.
Read what I said about certificates. You could replace the meta data with a certificate that would only be issued to companies that qualified. And that certificate could be withdrawn....
WHY? Why do you need a separate domain to separate kids? Why not just add it as meta information to the existing web page? Then you can program browsers to only go to pages with the appropriate meta information.
If you are worried about the lack of supervision, it wouldn't be hard to have some kind of certificates be issued and have the browser require the appropriate certificates.
That's how the content ratings on TV work and I don't see any problems with that.
This problem does not demand separate domain names as a solution.
If the *AA would learn from that example, then maybe they wouldn't be $1B behind the Game Industry.
Read the article. Then read it again carefully. The *AA is not $1B behind the Game Industry. The Game Industry makes $1B more in total revenue than the MPAA makes in box office sales. You totally forgot about the market for DVDs, Videos, Rentals and Cable deals.
The article is comparing the Gaming industries total revenues with the box office sales of the movie industry. They're ignoring the huge video/dvd/rental/cable-deal/fast-food-promotions revenues that the movie industry makes.
That being said, I'm still impressed by the fact that the gaming industry exceeds box office revenues by $1 Billion.
You're kidding, right?
-Game reviews are plentiful.
Movie reviews are even more plentiful.
-Demo/rental versions are easy to acquire to try out.
Last time I went to Blockbuster there were more movies for rent than there were games.
-You can trade/sell a game to try out other ones. There's more entertainment for your buck.
And you can trade videos and DVDs. I'll give you the "more entertainment for your buck" since that's a subjective thing.
-You have the time to sit down and enjoy the game at your leisure. (as opposed to being at a theater by a certain time...)
You don't HAVE to watch the movie in the theaters. You can wait for it to come out at the video store or on PPV or on one of the premium cable channels.
I have plenty of karma to burn so I don't care what the slashbots do to this post...
You ramble and ramble in your reply but you don't address the point I made. The X-Box is not substandard. It is technologically superior.
Pointing out the lack of developer mindshare or customer demand does not prove that it is substandard. Those are different things. Ditto about the lack of games. That does not mean it is substandard.
Unless you use the word "substandard" in a completely different way from how it is defined in the English language.
Either you know nothing about gaming and technology or you're a petty troll.
The X-BOX is NOT a substandard console. It is far superior, technologically, to the PS2 or GameCube. There are several things wrong with the XBOX including how expensive it is to produce, the lack of developer mindshare, etc. but you sound like a clueles Slash-bot when you call it substandard.
Funny how that is the subject of this article on Slate right now - not sure if you had read it.