People who pretend to be the media should be cautioned against editorializing new facts into existence. Show does not say:
she failed to see how an increased labor supply could result in wage depression for engineers and computer workers.
She says:
in no sense could "wage depression through the economic forces of supply and demand" rise to the level of justiciable injury, rather than the "conjecture or hypothetical."
Instead of assuming the judge is an idiot, why not favor the much more likely scenario that the suit failed to show how the plaintiffs would be harmed and to what degree. They are claiming they are would be harmed by having their salaries reduced, when in fact they are "employed" or "underemployed". You can't claim you'll be harmed by having you salary reduce if your salary is already zero.
It is not the judges job to "see" how harm could be done. It is the plaintiff's job to demonstrate how harm will be done. If they cannot do that, the judge's hands are tied.
How does channel switching work? Are they decoding and sending all the channels into the house, or do they pick the one(s) currently tuned to and just docode/send them (from the garage or the box under the street)? If they send them all, they should (and I stress "should" instead of "do"), send them in just like cable so you can hook any box up to it. If they don't send them in the standard method, or only send the tuned channels, they can plead "technical capability" to the FCC and get an exemption to tying. But clearly, if they have added more bandwidth to the connection (which is what they're advertising), then they should have no problem getting everything into your house that was there before.
I'm willing to bet they are using an intentionally incompatable (to standard STBs) design to allow them to plead "technical capability" so they can force you to pay for their box.
And the Motorola DVRs absolutely suck.
The provider's point of view:
1. Bandwidth is not for the user, it's for us to make "premium content" available to the user. Premium content is anything we can up-charge for.
2. Premium content is compressable. We have not yet reached the limits of compression. Compression may degrade subjective quality, but if we label it HD, the end used will believe us not notice it's worse than SD.*
3. Since our primary goal can be reached through more compression, additional bandwith is not necessary.
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*God should strike down UHD for showing beach volleyball so compressed that swinging ponytails morphed into oozing blobs.
He also says Andersen said in her deposition that she knew or listened to some of the country and rock artists whose songs were offered for download.
RIAA: Ma'am, have you ever heard of Johnny Cash.
Andersen: Yes, I saw that movie about him.
RIAA: Pirate!!!!! Say goodbye to your children, it's Gitmo for you!!!
Government employees are allowed to own home computers connected to the real internet, where they can stroke pr0n and post wikileaks to their heart's content.
Hellman therefore did a preliminary analysis and found the risk to be 'equivalent to having your home surrounded by thousands of nuclear power plants.'
I can't think of one plausible reason why all the nuclear power plants in the world would come down here and surround my house. I doubt if I have anything they want, and wouldn't even know what to offer them. Do you suppose they drink sweet tea?
The reactor was shut down because the water exiting the plant's cooling system exceeded an average of 90 degrees F over a 24 hour period. The plants have an agreement with the state to limit the temperature of the water they put into the river. The water in the river is not even remotely 90 degrees F.
Brown's Ferry also just recently started one of its reactors after a long downtime, so this only kicked us back a few months. It's not a big impact to the nation's grid, not even to the local area.
As for why we don't recapture the energy in the heated water to make even more power, well, they just didn't think it was necessary back when we used to build power plants back in the 60's. Investing money in anything nuclear in the US is political suicide.
As we all know that Microsoft Vista was originally scheduled to be released in 2003, after two years of Windows XP, but it got delayed by over five years due to various reasons.
I was in Best Buy today and noticed the console displays. One guy in his mid-40's playing the PS-3, nobody watching. There was nobody near the Wii. I didn't look at the 360 (forgot about it, actually), but there were about 10 people standing around watching a kid play Guitar hero on a PS-2.
Looks like the last gen is winning the next gen war.
And if the firmware on the HDD won't talk to the PC, what happens then?
What you have to do is do a hard reset, which is done by leaving on until the battery dies, and then leave it sit for 24 hours after that so that the back-up battery dies. Then it will boot from ROM, and you start over. But this is not documented, and Apple's solution is to send it back for a hard drive replacement.
I was using that as a juxtaposition, in the sense of say - "You got a black eye? Big deal! I got my arm cut off!" Software not installing is a big deal, but not as big a deal as bricking the hardware. Besides, it sounds like all he had to do was manually copy a.dll, and I'm willing to be the cause of that is some program had the.dll locked, and rebooting (or quitting all other apps like the installer told him to) might have made it all better.
It's not so much a review as a rant. Hardly any info is given about how the thing works. The software didn't install? Big deal! When I updated the firmware on my brand-new iPod 3 years ago, it bricked it. Most of the other complaints also apply to the iPod - works only with supplied software (theoretically, both players have workarounds), not compatible with other on-line stores, DRM, yada yada yada. Since most people don't actually buy from the store and rip their own CD's, maybe he could have talked about how that works for a bit. Or sound quality, or battery life, or how the UI works. But no, it's more fun and easier just to rip out a bash. Yay lazy journalists!
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Won't we need some female DNA to rebuild the population?
she failed to see how an increased labor supply could result in wage depression for engineers and computer workers.
She says:
in no sense could "wage depression through the economic forces of supply and demand" rise to the level of justiciable injury, rather than the "conjecture or hypothetical."
Instead of assuming the judge is an idiot, why not favor the much more likely scenario that the suit failed to show how the plaintiffs would be harmed and to what degree. They are claiming they are would be harmed by having their salaries reduced, when in fact they are "employed" or "underemployed". You can't claim you'll be harmed by having you salary reduce if your salary is already zero. It is not the judges job to "see" how harm could be done. It is the plaintiff's job to demonstrate how harm will be done. If they cannot do that, the judge's hands are tied.
How does channel switching work? Are they decoding and sending all the channels into the house, or do they pick the one(s) currently tuned to and just docode/send them (from the garage or the box under the street)? If they send them all, they should (and I stress "should" instead of "do"), send them in just like cable so you can hook any box up to it. If they don't send them in the standard method, or only send the tuned channels, they can plead "technical capability" to the FCC and get an exemption to tying. But clearly, if they have added more bandwidth to the connection (which is what they're advertising), then they should have no problem getting everything into your house that was there before. I'm willing to bet they are using an intentionally incompatable (to standard STBs) design to allow them to plead "technical capability" so they can force you to pay for their box. And the Motorola DVRs absolutely suck.
Why did you sign up for FIOS? Did you not realize you didn't have a fiber input on your TV?
The provider's point of view: 1. Bandwidth is not for the user, it's for us to make "premium content" available to the user. Premium content is anything we can up-charge for. 2. Premium content is compressable. We have not yet reached the limits of compression. Compression may degrade subjective quality, but if we label it HD, the end used will believe us not notice it's worse than SD.* 3. Since our primary goal can be reached through more compression, additional bandwith is not necessary. ----------------- *God should strike down UHD for showing beach volleyball so compressed that swinging ponytails morphed into oozing blobs.
Sooo... no different than the last 3 movies, eh?
Is NBC altering the reality of the broadcast to boost ratings?
Your question is easily answered by looking up "television" in the dictionary.
The court said the government cannot be sued. But it pretty directly pointed out that the individuals involved can be.
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Andersen: Yes, I saw that movie about him.
RIAA: Pirate!!!!! Say goodbye to your children, it's Gitmo for you!!!
Government employees are allowed to own home computers connected to the real internet, where they can stroke pr0n and post wikileaks to their heart's content.
I'm not so sure about that.
Does any one really think that the terrorists are more worried about IP law than they are with a Predator dropping a missle on their hut?
Funny, I've never mistaken "Wanna ball" to mean "Let's just be friends."
And how to write code that isn't vulnerable to buffer-on-the-stack overflow exploits.
...would stop the RIAA dead in their tracks.
The reactor was shut down because the water exiting the plant's cooling system exceeded an average of 90 degrees F over a 24 hour period. The plants have an agreement with the state to limit the temperature of the water they put into the river. The water in the river is not even remotely 90 degrees F.
Brown's Ferry also just recently started one of its reactors after a long downtime, so this only kicked us back a few months. It's not a big impact to the nation's grid, not even to the local area.
As for why we don't recapture the energy in the heated water to make even more power, well, they just didn't think it was necessary back when we used to build power plants back in the 60's. Investing money in anything nuclear in the US is political suicide.
Must be the new math.
I was in Best Buy today and noticed the console displays. One guy in his mid-40's playing the PS-3, nobody watching. There was nobody near the Wii. I didn't look at the 360 (forgot about it, actually), but there were about 10 people standing around watching a kid play Guitar hero on a PS-2.
Looks like the last gen is winning the next gen war.
Which demonstrates exactly what I mean. Besides podcasts, what features are missing? You can't tell from this "review".
And if the firmware on the HDD won't talk to the PC, what happens then? What you have to do is do a hard reset, which is done by leaving on until the battery dies, and then leave it sit for 24 hours after that so that the back-up battery dies. Then it will boot from ROM, and you start over. But this is not documented, and Apple's solution is to send it back for a hard drive replacement.
I was using that as a juxtaposition, in the sense of say - "You got a black eye? Big deal! I got my arm cut off!" Software not installing is a big deal, but not as big a deal as bricking the hardware. Besides, it sounds like all he had to do was manually copy a .dll, and I'm willing to be the cause of that is some program had the .dll locked, and rebooting (or quitting all other apps like the installer told him to) might have made it all better.
It's not so much a review as a rant. Hardly any info is given about how the thing works. The software didn't install? Big deal! When I updated the firmware on my brand-new iPod 3 years ago, it bricked it. Most of the other complaints also apply to the iPod - works only with supplied software (theoretically, both players have workarounds), not compatible with other on-line stores, DRM, yada yada yada. Since most people don't actually buy from the store and rip their own CD's, maybe he could have talked about how that works for a bit. Or sound quality, or battery life, or how the UI works. But no, it's more fun and easier just to rip out a bash. Yay lazy journalists!