I doubt that my local government (Lancaster PA) would allow me to set-up a second cable company. They've already made up their minds to only string ONE cable to the city homes, and therefore a new startup is blocked from entry.
It's a regulated monopoly.
And being a monopoly, Comcast can do whatever they want (like block access to Itunes) as long as Comcast keeps bribing the Lancaster politicians to keep quiet.
Ya know, "U.S. has one of the worst broadband speeds" is a myth. If you take all the European Union states and compare them to the United States (as a whole region), you will discover that they are essentially equal. U.S. = 5.1 and E.U. = 4.9 megabit/s per home. Furthermore, if you take highly-populated states such as New Jersey or Connecticut, you will find that they provide average speeds (11 mbps) almost as good as the #1 country, Japan.
"U.S. is slow" is a myth that is not sustained by the available data.
In fact, U.S. is the 2nd fastest region in the world (behind Japan, and just above the E.U.).
What the hell are you talking about??? There's nothing disruptive or illegal about P2P software. How do you think Linux distributions get sent? Just last week, I downloaded the latest version of Firefox using P2P. (And the month before, Spybot, because the virus that had infected my system was blocking all browser downloads. P2P was the only way to get Spybot and fix the problem.)
Don't sit there and make false accusations that P2P Software does not have any legitimate use or is "disruptive".
P2P is a tool, just like any other tool (gopher, ftp, usenet, et cetera), ands Comcast has no fucking right to block its usage by its customers.
The reason why ISPs and phone companies are "exempt" for illegal activities passing over their lines is because they are granted Common Carrier status. i.e. AOL and Bell are not liable for someone using their lines to hire a prostitute, arrange a hitman, traffic narcotics, or share stolen files. Their common carrier status makes them exempt.
If Comcast claims they are Not a common carrier, then they are liable for illegal activity over their lines and can be prosecuted for same.
In other words Comcast's denial of common carrier status is a big mistake, because they are opening themselves to many, many lawsuits because their lines were used (by the customers) to conduct illegal activities.
In a different age and under a different president (Jimmy Carter), the FCC chairman could simply pick up his phone & ask his buddy in the white house to apply Antitrust Legislation to the Comcast monopoly..... thereby breaking apart the cable tv and internet arms into competing forces..... as was done with AT&T.
Who knows. Perhaps the next president will do exactly that.
DVDs are in fact based-upon NTSC. They operate at 60 fields per second, each field interlaced. While those interlaced fields can be back-converted for progressive display, the information is still stored on the disc as 480i at 60 fps.
DVD is essentially NTSC-III (digitized NTSC). Ditto other digital formats like DigiBetacam or D-VHS.
My brother is running Vista on a 512 megabyte machine, which is heavily-dependent on hard drive caching (virtual memory). Will SP1 make it run faster or slower?
- If SP1 eats more memory, it will probably be slower (due to more acessing of the hard drive).
- If SP1 eats less memory, maybe it will actually run faster?
His granddaughter was watching the Disney Channel, and there was a scene where a girl kissed a boy, and the boy passed out. I thought it was cute & innocent, but my brother said, "If Disney was alive, he'd never allow that stuff to be shown to young children." So I asked him,
"If you find it offensive, why are you leaving it turned on?"
He looked stumped, as if it never ocurred to him to turn off the television. (My brother's not the sharpest knife in the drawer.) And then he mumbled something about, "Well I'm not her dad," as if that somehow let him off the responsibility of training his granddaughter. ----- If he gave the real reason it would probably be, "It keeps her quiet and let's me go off and do something else."
Parents (and grandparents) are simply too lazy to do their job.
What I don't understand is why many people say WordPerfect's GUI did not work on Intel/Windows. The GUI worked flawlessly on my Amiga and Macintosh platforms... it should have worked just as well when ported to Intel/Windows systems.
This Stealth Bat seems like a HUGE waste of taxpayer dollars.
Haven't they noticed that the government is almost 1000 trillion dollars in debt, and on the verge of bankruptcy? It'd be wiser (and cheaper) to just pay-off the enemy in the same way the mob pays off its rivals.
- At work: I'm not allowed to install Firefox, so I'm stuck. - On the road: I used Netscape ISP, and although it works fine with Firefox, the web accelerator (actually compressor) only works with IE. - At home: I uninstalled IE.
NOW:
My brother is running Vista on a 512 megabyte machine, which is heavily-dependent on hard drive caching (virtual memory). Will SP1 make it run faster or slower?
If I were Professor Felton I'd tell them to "fuck off" and do the review anyway. Every citizen has the right to obtain a piece of software or hardware (or movie or videogame or whatever), and then issue his or her comments about the product.
It's called free speech.
Free speech, being a Constitutional law, trumps congressional law regarding intellectual "property". Professor Felton's Constitutional rights reign paramount in the legal hierarchy.
File extensions are an IBM/Microsoft concept, and don't apply to other operating systems. Many OSes were designed from the ground up with no extensions whatsoever.
when it's actually *the corporation* that is filling the role of Big Brother? Thomas Jefferson predicted 200 years ago that too much money in the hands of just a few would lead to fewer freedoms for the average citizen. It is now "those few" that we call CEOs and CIOs that are doing the job of censorship.
My company (General Dynamics) has a really simple solution to this problem of younger workers "jacking in" with all the latest gizmos & gadgets:
- Your C: drive is write-protected. You can alter the desktop to store temporary files, but no sub-directories. (All permanent files should be stored on the central network drive.)
- Which means you can not install any exterior software like Itunes.
- The internet is accessible but heavily censored (i.e. no watching American Idol at fox.com, or radio at shoutcast.com, because you can't reach them).
- No laptops, camera-phones, portable hard drives, et cetera.
- Ipods are allowed but if you plug them into the USB port, your Ipod will be confiscated & erased. You also might get fired.
-
It's kinda like working for Hister or Big Brother.
You want to take the gay sex off the TV? Here I am, finally found something worthwhile to enjoy (two women making sweet, sweet love), and you want to censor it.
Man.
Might as well just sell the television, because I don't want to watch the other boring junk you consider "decent" for viewing. YAWN.
I don't see any reason to censor my children. - "Where do babies come from?" - "Well..." (flips over to Playboy channel) "...here you can see for yourself."
What?
Do I hear objections? Well I don't understand why? "Making babies" is a part of life, and I've taught my children how to use a toilet ("Everybody Poops"), which is certainly more gross than creating babies (where my children came from in the first place). I don't see any reason to act as if I am ashamed of the act which created my daughters, because I'm not.
About the only thing I censor are bloody movies, and that's only because I don't want them thinking that violence is okay.
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Alright.
So if Comcast is not a common carrier, they can block access to Itunes.com and get away with it. Is this how you interpret the FCC regulations?
I doubt that my local government (Lancaster PA) would allow me to set-up a second cable company. They've already made up their minds to only string ONE cable to the city homes, and therefore a new startup is blocked from entry.
It's a regulated monopoly.
And being a monopoly, Comcast can do whatever they want (like block access to Itunes) as long as Comcast keeps bribing the Lancaster politicians to keep quiet.
Ya know, "U.S. has one of the worst broadband speeds" is a myth. If you take all the European Union states and compare them to the United States (as a whole region), you will discover that they are essentially equal. U.S. = 5.1 and E.U. = 4.9 megabit/s per home. Furthermore, if you take highly-populated states such as New Jersey or Connecticut, you will find that they provide average speeds (11 mbps) almost as good as the #1 country, Japan.
"U.S. is slow" is a myth that is not sustained by the available data.
In fact, U.S. is the 2nd fastest region in the world (behind Japan, and just above the E.U.).
What the hell are you talking about??? There's nothing disruptive or illegal about P2P software. How do you think Linux distributions get sent? Just last week, I downloaded the latest version of Firefox using P2P. (And the month before, Spybot, because the virus that had infected my system was blocking all browser downloads. P2P was the only way to get Spybot and fix the problem.)
Don't sit there and make false accusations that P2P Software does not have any legitimate use or is "disruptive".
P2P is a tool, just like any other tool (gopher, ftp, usenet, et cetera), ands Comcast has no fucking right to block its usage by its customers.
Incorrect.
The reason why ISPs and phone companies are "exempt" for illegal activities passing over their lines is because they are granted Common Carrier status. i.e. AOL and Bell are not liable for someone using their lines to hire a prostitute, arrange a hitman, traffic narcotics, or share stolen files. Their common carrier status makes them exempt.
If Comcast claims they are Not a common carrier,
then they are liable for illegal activity over
their lines and can be prosecuted for same.
In other words Comcast's denial of common carrier status is a big mistake, because they are opening themselves to many, many lawsuits because their lines were used (by the customers) to conduct illegal activities.
SUCH ARROGANCE BY COMCAST!
In a different age and under a different president (Jimmy Carter), the FCC chairman could simply pick up his phone & ask his buddy in the white house to apply Antitrust Legislation to the Comcast monopoly..... thereby breaking apart the cable tv and internet arms into competing forces..... as was done with AT&T.
Who knows. Perhaps the next president will do exactly that.
DVDs are in fact based-upon NTSC. They operate at 60 fields per second, each field interlaced. While those interlaced fields can be back-converted for progressive display, the information is still stored on the disc as 480i at 60 fps.
DVD is essentially NTSC-III (digitized NTSC).
Ditto other digital formats like DigiBetacam or D-VHS.
Maybe we should have stayed with XP.
It's now a nice, stable OS and it'd be foolish to upgrade to a new OS (either vista or linux) that is known to be UNstable and crash services.
What's Microsoft going to do? Sue me because I posted a few stopwatch results for copying files?
Ha.
Bring it on. I'm not afraid of nonsense cases that have no validity. (Don't make me angry; you wouldn't like me when I'm angry Mr. Gates.)
My brother is running Vista on a 512 megabyte machine, which is heavily-dependent on hard drive caching (virtual memory). Will SP1 make it run faster or slower?
- If SP1 eats more memory, it will probably be slower (due to more acessing of the hard drive).
- If SP1 eats less memory, maybe it will actually run faster?
I witnessed this with my brother.
His granddaughter was watching the Disney Channel, and there was a scene where a girl kissed a boy, and the boy passed out. I thought it was cute & innocent, but my brother said, "If Disney was alive, he'd never allow that stuff to be shown to young children." So I asked him,
"If you find it offensive, why are you leaving it turned on?"
He looked stumped, as if it never ocurred to him to turn off the television. (My brother's not the sharpest knife in the drawer.) And then he mumbled something about, "Well I'm not her dad," as if that somehow let him off the responsibility of training his granddaughter. ----- If he gave the real reason it would probably be, "It keeps her quiet and let's me go off and do something else."
Parents (and grandparents) are simply too lazy to do their job.
So they "drug" their children with televisions.
Very true.
What I don't understand is why many people say WordPerfect's GUI did not work on Intel/Windows. The GUI worked flawlessly on my Amiga and Macintosh platforms... it should have worked just as well when ported to Intel/Windows systems.
Unless it was deliberately sabotaged?
Hmmm.
This Stealth Bat seems like a HUGE waste of taxpayer dollars.
Haven't they noticed that the government is almost 1000 trillion dollars in debt, and on the verge of bankruptcy? It'd be wiser (and cheaper) to just pay-off the enemy in the same way the mob pays off its rivals.
>>>"After much prevaricating and slipping out then pulling back"
Sounds like my first date.
(ducking and running)
I use IE for two reasons:
- At work: I'm not allowed to install Firefox, so I'm stuck.
- On the road: I used Netscape ISP, and although it works fine with Firefox, the web accelerator (actually compressor) only works with IE.
- At home: I uninstalled IE.
NOW:
My brother is running Vista on a 512 megabyte machine, which is heavily-dependent on hard drive caching (virtual memory). Will SP1 make it run faster or slower?
If I were Professor Felton I'd tell them to "fuck off" and do the review anyway. Every citizen has the right to obtain a piece of software or hardware (or movie or videogame or whatever), and then issue his or her comments about the product.
It's called free speech.
Free speech, being a Constitutional law, trumps congressional law regarding intellectual "property". Professor Felton's Constitutional rights reign paramount in the legal hierarchy.
Neither does AmigaOS.
File extensions are an IBM/Microsoft concept, and don't apply to other operating systems. Many OSes were designed from the ground up with no extensions whatsoever.
If you've read Bill Gates CUG letter circa 1979 which argued *against* open source software, it is obvious why we do not want him on the board.
Within 5 years he'll have turned Open-source into Closed-source.
When I stare at an Amiga logo, I cry.
(so much wasted potential for such an awesome machine)
I've heard great sex is also a positive correlation.
Just ask Einstein's wife.
&#^&$($& . . . CARRIER LOST ;-)
I'm an addict. I'm addicted to the chat forums, and can't stop myself. I am neglecting my job, because chatting is more fun than working!
Yeah, why fear the government's censorship
when it's actually *the corporation* that is filling the role of Big Brother? Thomas Jefferson predicted 200 years ago that too much money in the hands of just a few would lead to fewer freedoms for the average citizen. It is now "those few" that we call CEOs and CIOs that are doing the job of censorship.
My company (General Dynamics) has a really simple solution to this problem of younger workers "jacking in" with all the latest gizmos & gadgets:
- Your C: drive is write-protected. You can alter the desktop to store temporary files, but no sub-directories. (All permanent files should be stored on the central network drive.)
- Which means you can not install any exterior software like Itunes.
- The internet is accessible but heavily censored (i.e. no watching American Idol at fox.com, or radio at shoutcast.com, because you can't reach them).
- No laptops, camera-phones, portable hard drives, et cetera.
- Ipods are allowed but if you plug them into the USB port, your Ipod will be confiscated & erased. You also might get fired.
-
It's kinda like working for Hister or Big Brother.
Oh c'mon!
You want to take the gay sex off the TV? Here I am, finally found something worthwhile to enjoy (two women making sweet, sweet love), and you want to censor it.
Man.
Might as well just sell the television, because I don't want to watch the other boring junk you consider "decent" for viewing. YAWN.
I don't see any reason to censor my children.
- "Where do babies come from?"
- "Well..." (flips over to Playboy channel) "...here you can see for yourself."
What?
Do I hear objections? Well I don't understand why? "Making babies" is a part of life, and I've taught my children how to use a toilet ("Everybody Poops"), which is certainly more gross than creating babies (where my children came from in the first place). I don't see any reason to act as if I am ashamed of the act which created my daughters, because I'm not.
About the only thing I censor are bloody movies, and that's only because I don't want them thinking that violence is okay.
But nudity? I see no harm.