I use mailinator if I think I will need to contact a company down the road. If they want my address just so I can view a post in a forum or download a file, I use Ten Minute Mail. The email address lasts just long enough to receive a confirmation email and hit the confirmation link. After ten minutes it goes poof. Ten minute mail also rotates their domain regularly so they tend to stay in front of the sites that may block mailinator addresses.
Honestly, this head long drive to streaming only makes no sense when so little content can be streamed.
In addition to the small amount of content that they have for streaming, there is the issue of net neutrality. Until a workable net neutrality law can be passed, I think business models based on high volume streaming are counting their chickens before they are hatched. Between being beholden to the studios for creation of content, they will be at the mercy of the ISPs for the delivery of that content to the consumer. The fact is that a lot of people only one or two choices for ISPs. Choosing a different provider isn't an option when there's only one ISP in town.
Sounds very exciting. But interestingly, the BBC is currently saying 3 deaths.
The accuracy of the news report is inversely proportional to the distance between the event and the audience. The number of injured or dead will be directly proportional to the distance.
Perhaps if they had a client for linux, there would be some amount of offset due to incoming subscribers. If there were a player, I would be fine with paying their new price for service on linux. The only computers I have run either linux or FreeBSD, so there are no options for netflix for me at the moment.
Do you really think all three of them will make up the difference?
No no, you're thinking C#. Which is not in any way to be confused with C3. Which is not at all a typo that completely slipped through... Nothing to see here.
That's a bit harsh, don't you think? I mean I could see the criticism if this were a professional news outlet rather than someone's personal blog...
According to the complaint, Warner systematically misused the anti-piracy takedown tool (SRA) Hotfile had built for them.
So Hotfile built a tool called SRA (which stands for Special Rightsholder Account? Go figure.) that Warner uses to take down whatever it wants without Hotfile having to get involved. Is anyone surprised that Warner then took down whatever they thought might in some way, shape or form relate to something that they do hold the copyright to?
Near the end of the article it is mentioned that files taken down by the tool were replaced with links to legally procure similar works from Warner Bros.
Just to clarify any misunderstandings about what this meant(Emphasis mine):
Hotfile suspects that the overbroad takedowns were not only an attempt to prevent copyright infringement, but also a scheme to make profits. Warner proposed to Hotfile an affiliate deal where content that was taken down would be replaced with links to movie stores where users could buy Warner movies. More takedowns thus means more potential revenue.
"Warner had an economic motive to make these misrepresentations. As noted above, in early 2010, Warner proposed a business arrangement with Hotfile whereby Warner sought to present ecommerce links to Hotfile users who might purchase a Warner file for Warner's profit in place of links that Warner had deleted using its SRA."
It's not replacing humans yet. And that's fine. When it does, investors will simply move to a higher level of abstraction and a new level of economic engagement will come into being. Larger, more subtle patterns will become apparent and we will simply have a new game to play.
In the end though it will be turtles all the way down.
Doesn't matter. There will always be failures in any manual process. About once a week I get multi-page faxes to my home phone number, destined for law firms in my home town, that contain confidential information. In those cases I contact the firm and forward the information to them in whatever manner they ask, then destroy my copy. Funny thing is that in most cases, the real fax number isn't even close.
You actually can, but the services on each must comply with the state in which they reside. I know this for an absolute fact, because there's a strip club that straddles the Idaho/Washington border about 40 miles from my house that is operated in exactly this manner.
Ok, I really don't want to know what is being passed back and forth across the state line in this case.
All this occurred because customers flock to Amazon like buzzards to a carcass so they can buy merchandise without having to pay tax (outside of WA).
No, I buy my books at Amazon because
I can purchase them for 35-40% off list versus 15% off at Borders and Noble.
I don't have to drive 20 miles to get them. The books come to me.
Yes, I know buyers are supposed to pay an Internet use tax, but the reality does not match the theory.
And there is nothing wrong with paying taxes. It buys civilization. I pay $40K in taxes out of my salary each year. Do your fair share.
Sorry but there is no such thing. Individual states may have passed their own version of a "use" tax to try and get around the Commerce Clause, but that is not some National tax.
Do your fair share.
I am doing my fair share. It just doesn't happen to be the same as what you think my fair share should be. In fact, when someone else wants to tell me what my "fair share" is, that's a red flag right there and I have to question their motives.
Laser light has significant disadvantages compared to the other kind. (what's the word for non-laser?) It may be less efficient to just spread several shades of light everywhere but it's kind of necessary to see everything.
They won't be using the laser light directly. It will be passed through a secondary material to convert it into white light.
Laser headlamps would be safe, BMW says, because the illumination leaving the headlamp is indirect. The blue laser beam is also converted by a fluorescent phosphor material into a pure white light - "pleasant to the eye," BMW says...
The article did not indicate what that might do to the collimation though.
And as they stated, the LEDs are bright enough.. WTF we need lasers?
Among other things, laser light is a lot more energy efficient. According to the article, BMW is getting 170 lumens per watt as compared to 100 lumens per watt for LED lights.
Our interest in releasing this code as an Apache incubator project is due to its strong relationship with other Apache projects, i.e. Accumulo has dependencies on Hadoop, Zookeeper, and Thrift and has complementary goals to HBase.
"Optical drive"? Is that the slidey thing you put those sort of shaving mirror thingies into? I remember we used to use something like that in the olden days.
It's the slide out thingie that you set your coffee mug on.
Netflix spokesman Steve Swasey said the company was "confident we can take the money we had earmarked for Starz renewal next year, and spend it with other content providers to maintain or even improve the Netflix experience."
Good luck with that. What content would that be exactly? Losing access to Sony and Disney will be a fairly large void to fill, especially for the amount Netflix has "earmarked" for it. On the other hand I wonder how much of a "bonus" Starz might be receiving from cable or satellite providers to play hard ball with Netflix?
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I use mailinator if I think I will need to contact a company down the road. If they want my address just so I can view a post in a forum or download a file, I use Ten Minute Mail. The email address lasts just long enough to receive a confirmation email and hit the confirmation link. After ten minutes it goes poof. Ten minute mail also rotates their domain regularly so they tend to stay in front of the sites that may block mailinator addresses.
Honestly, this head long drive to streaming only makes no sense when so little content can be streamed.
In addition to the small amount of content that they have for streaming, there is the issue of net neutrality. Until a workable net neutrality law can be passed, I think business models based on high volume streaming are counting their chickens before they are hatched. Between being beholden to the studios for creation of content, they will be at the mercy of the ISPs for the delivery of that content to the consumer. The fact is that a lot of people only one or two choices for ISPs. Choosing a different provider isn't an option when there's only one ISP in town.
See also this site for some good pics of vandalized speed cameras in the UK.
Sooner or later, high-gain audio sensors and computer voice processing will be added, and then you can be prosecuted for "cursing in public."
"John Spartan, you are fined one credit for a violation of the verbal morality statute."
Sounds very exciting. But interestingly, the BBC is currently saying 3 deaths.
The accuracy of the news report is inversely proportional to the distance between the event and the audience. The number of injured or dead will be directly proportional to the distance.
The only negative to Prime (I have a free one year shipping only student Prime account) is that there's no app on PS3 for watching Amazon videos.
Well that and the fact that they have crap in their catalog...
Perhaps if they had a client for linux, there would be some amount of offset due to incoming subscribers. If there were a player, I would be fine with paying their new price for service on linux. The only computers I have run either linux or FreeBSD, so there are no options for netflix for me at the moment.
Do you really think all three of them will make up the difference?
No no, you're thinking C#. Which is not in any way to be confused with C3. Which is not at all a typo that completely slipped through... Nothing to see here.
That's a bit harsh, don't you think? I mean I could see the criticism if this were a professional news outlet rather than someone's personal blog...
So instead of a GED they can now earn a BOFH?
I'd like to know which "general public" you deal with.
You probably know him as Colonel Public. He was promoted recently.
According to the complaint, Warner systematically misused the anti-piracy takedown tool (SRA) Hotfile had built for them.
So Hotfile built a tool called SRA (which stands for Special Rightsholder Account? Go figure.) that Warner uses to take down whatever it wants without Hotfile having to get involved. Is anyone surprised that Warner then took down whatever they thought might in some way, shape or form relate to something that they do hold the copyright to?
Near the end of the article it is mentioned that files taken down by the tool were replaced with links to legally procure similar works from Warner Bros.
Just to clarify any misunderstandings about what this meant(Emphasis mine):
Hotfile suspects that the overbroad takedowns were not only an attempt to prevent copyright infringement, but also a scheme to make profits. Warner proposed to Hotfile an affiliate deal where content that was taken down would be replaced with links to movie stores where users could buy Warner movies. More takedowns thus means more potential revenue.
"Warner had an economic motive to make these misrepresentations. As noted above, in early 2010, Warner proposed a business arrangement with Hotfile whereby Warner sought to present ecommerce links to Hotfile users who might purchase a Warner file for Warner's profit in place of links that Warner had deleted using its SRA."
That's why architects design buildings, and not engineers. They are actually educated to do this sort of thing, believe it or not.
The last time an architect tried to design an engineer the results were definitely not "aesthetically pleasing".
It's not replacing humans yet. And that's fine. When it does, investors will simply move to a higher level of abstraction and a new level of economic engagement will come into being. Larger, more subtle patterns will become apparent and we will simply have a new game to play.
In the end though it will be turtles all the way down.
Confidential things? Over email? Is this 1983?
Doesn't matter. There will always be failures in any manual process. About once a week I get multi-page faxes to my home phone number, destined for law firms in my home town, that contain confidential information. In those cases I contact the firm and forward the information to them in whatever manner they ask, then destroy my copy. Funny thing is that in most cases, the real fax number isn't even close.
You actually can, but the services on each must comply with the state in which they reside. I know this for an absolute fact, because there's a strip club that straddles the Idaho/Washington border about 40 miles from my house that is operated in exactly this manner.
Ok, I really don't want to know what is being passed back and forth across the state line in this case.
All this occurred because customers flock to Amazon like buzzards to a carcass so they can buy merchandise without having to pay tax (outside of WA).
No, I buy my books at Amazon because
Yes, I know buyers are supposed to pay an Internet use tax, but the reality does not match the theory.
And there is nothing wrong with paying taxes. It buys civilization. I pay $40K in taxes out of my salary each year. Do your fair share.
Sorry but there is no such thing. Individual states may have passed their own version of a "use" tax to try and get around the Commerce Clause, but that is not some National tax.
Do your fair share.
I am doing my fair share. It just doesn't happen to be the same as what you think my fair share should be. In fact, when someone else wants to tell me what my "fair share" is, that's a red flag right there and I have to question their motives.
It's been a while since we've seen a good Packt book review here...
The duration "eternity" springs to mind...
I'd think that if they're taking payment via credit card then they damned well should be traceable by some means.
Because we all know that no one would think to use anonymous prepaid cards to pay for such services.
Laser light has significant disadvantages compared to the other kind. (what's the word for non-laser?) It may be less efficient to just spread several shades of light everywhere but it's kind of necessary to see everything.
They won't be using the laser light directly. It will be passed through a secondary material to convert it into white light.
Laser headlamps would be safe, BMW says, because the illumination leaving the headlamp is indirect. The blue laser beam is also converted by a fluorescent phosphor material into a pure white light - "pleasant to the eye," BMW says...
The article did not indicate what that might do to the collimation though.
And as they stated, the LEDs are bright enough.. WTF we need lasers?
Among other things, laser light is a lot more energy efficient. According to the article, BMW is getting 170 lumens per watt as compared to 100 lumens per watt for LED lights.
Apache Brand
Our interest in releasing this code as an Apache incubator project is due to its strong relationship with other Apache projects, i.e. Accumulo has dependencies on Hadoop, Zookeeper, and Thrift and has complementary goals to HBase.
"Optical drive"? Is that the slidey thing you put those sort of shaving mirror thingies into? I remember we used to use something like that in the olden days.
It's the slide out thingie that you set your coffee mug on.
Netflix spokesman Steve Swasey said the company was "confident we can take the money we had earmarked for Starz renewal next year, and spend it with other content providers to maintain or even improve the Netflix experience."
Good luck with that. What content would that be exactly? Losing access to Sony and Disney will be a fairly large void to fill, especially for the amount Netflix has "earmarked" for it. On the other hand I wonder how much of a "bonus" Starz might be receiving from cable or satellite providers to play hard ball with Netflix?
You start with a simple task: making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
I would suggest a cheese sandwich, peanut allergies being what they are these days.