Ink jet is just a huge ripoff as far as I'm concerned.
really? Try color laser toner. At least it last a little bit longer, but two or three cartridges and, like inkjet, you've just about paid for the printer.
The solution? Buy a really expensive laser printer......
All they have to do is make sure that wine gets developed more, and they can then have their cake and eat it too.
This nails it. Wine still has too many shortcomings. Find a way to make Windows apps run on, say Ubuntu, and make it as bulletproof as possible, and M$ will finally have a true competitor.
I can see the commercials now: "hi, I'm a PC......I'm a Mac....and I'm the new kid on the block."
Online pedophiles? How can you have sex with a child online?
It's not about "sex online". It's about the exploitation of the kids that are models for the pedo pervs. And who says it's not online sex? What about the 14 year olds that do nude webcam shows for the pervs? Isn't that sex online?
There is an attempt in stop online exploitation of children by making the consumers scared to buy the crap. It's no different than when the local vice squad starts busting johns who are in pursuit of street hookers - kill the demand for the service and it will go away.
With the internet, I doubt it will ever go away, but the shameless exploitation of children for the pedo pervs of the world has to stop.
Now I know to research IDE bootability before I buy my next mobo, whereas before, I would have taken it for granted since it's something I've been able to do for well over a decade.
No one knows if Verizon will sue the other companies yet. My guess is that they will.
Well, they won't have to. Vonage is the biggest player in residential VoIP, so when they're knocked down the others will simply get cease and desist letters. Unless one of them has a printing press that produces US greenbacks, they will simply close their doors and cease to exist.
As a Vonage customer, I must ask - where are the class action lawyers now? How about the customers having a say in all of this?
Police, fire trucks, and ambulances are all legal to run red lights under the condition that they run their lights and/or siren to indicate their intent. In fact, I've seen officers on many occasions run their lights JUST to proceed through an intersection, then turn them off.
I don't know where you live, but in Massachusetts, any firefighter, police officer or paramedic that activates the lights and sirens for a non-emergency reason, can receive a citation and a suspension for that action. I'm certain that it happens, but the few firefighter / paramedics I've known claim they would never do it because of the penalty.
As long as I'm in a writing mood, let me add that in many municipalities, traffic lights have been equipped with sensors that cause the lights to all turn red. The sensor is activated by a strobe on top of an emergency vehicle. In other places, the traffic lights on the route to the emergency are under the control of the emergency dispatch center and can be set to red with a few keystrokes. This type of system is very expensive and only used in a handful of locations I'm aware of.
I've tried that and there are still places where a PDF is opened via a php script and that prevents the user from right click saving or opening in another tab.
The overuse of PDF documents is what makes this handy, and while setting the preferences can do the same thing, I've found the extension quite useful.
Gmail is my web choice, but recently, a number of users have been locked out due to a mistake made by Google engineers trying to clear out a spam gang. More than one week later, many legitimate users still have no access to their Gmail.Good reason not to trust them with everything.
My email server is accessible from anywhere in the world, and I use Gmail to access it. But, why would I trust Google or any third party with my important email alone? It's my stuff, so I'm responsible for it and I'm the only one to blame if something gets ef'd up.
My solution might not fit everybody, but it will work with many users who maintain their own servers or whose employers maintain their own.
Years ago the FTC green lighted advertisers to use a competitor's product in their advertising as long as it was for comparison purposes. In other words, Kellog's couldn't demean Post cereals, but they could (and do) make comparison ads. You know, "How many bowls of X does it take to get the same nutrients as Y"? Maybe I got the products and producers wrong in my example but you've seen thee ads if you watch US TV.
Searching on a term that brings up a competitor's product isn't a problem, it's just an extension of the example I mentioned.
Eastman sounds like the kind of politician Ed Markey, from my home state of Massachusetts is - utterly clueless. Markey is the chairman of the House Subcommitte on telecommunications and the internet but he's as dopey as Eastman - trying to regulate something he has little knowledge of.
Slashdot types have, but then again, there are many systems out there that didn't even have WEP turned on. They plugged it in, turned on their PC and that was the last time they had anything to do with wireless networking.
I know because I have used my neighbor's connection. I am such a scumbag........
Things like lath&plaster, plumbing, strange placement of studs, lack of crawlspaces, windows, carpet, laminates, tile, doors, fireplaces, and foundations - all sorts of stuff really makes it not, well, trivial.
Not to mention that too many home owners are tool challenged.
In 1781, Congress ratified the Articles of Confederation. Article IX addressed postal issues:
The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of... establishing or regulating post offices from one State to another, throughout all the United States, and exacting such postage on the papers passing through the same as may be requisite to defray the expenses of the said office...
There is a write-up on Wikipedia, but you always take Wikipedia with a grain of salt. As for it being a monopoly, the quote explains why the post office was created. The monopoly on first class mail continues because in a competitive environment, many small cities and towns would be under served by other companies. Even now, the commercial carriers impose rural surcharges on nearly 25,000 zip codes to increase their revenue on sparsely populated delivery points. In all US locations the carriers impose a residential surcharge, even though a home may be right next door to an industrial park. Ironically, the determination as to what zip codes are rural and what addresses are residential comes from the Postal Service! Yet, the USPS doesn't impose surcharges and still delivers to every legal address in the US.
That's why they are a monopoly. And, like any business, their operating costs increase each year, which is why rates go up. But a first class stamp is still a huge bargain, considering what it can do.
In this thread, I seem to have been put in the position of defending the USPS, which was not my intention. You've raised questions which I, as someone very familiar with the transportation industry, have tried to answer. I won't respond to any further posts on this thread, instead, inviting you or anyone else to seek answers on the web. Competition is usually a good thing, but it wouldn't make any economic sense for a business to take a handful of letters bearing.39 postage several miles to their delivery address. So, a monopoly has to be tolerated to make the system work.
You are correct, the mailbox on the pole or your front door is Federally protected and is for the exclusive use of the Postal Service. That's a good thing because it gives your mail a stronger layer of protection. UPS, Fedex and DHL don't use a "mailbox" model because it would be a logistical nightmare. Instead, they usually require a signature when items are delivered.
All in all, the Postal Service, which has never been considered a model of efficiency, actually has become a huge force of change in the letter and parcel delivery business. If you order small items from Amazon, Buy.com or any other major web retailer, there's a good chance it will ship via the USPS.
"Unsubscribing" from the service is not an issue because it's still Constitutionally protected. You can just ignore it, or go to your local post office and file a stop order. It will expire but why bother? It's free, and think what you'd miss without all of those catalogs and sales flyers!
The US Postal Service has no restrictions on who appears on a stamp. Several sites on the web allow you to put pictures of your kids, your dogs, cats or significant other if you want on official stamps.
The postings on here have shown me a lot of old stereotypes still exist about the USPS. They are no longer a sloth-laden government agency, but rather a big, dynamic business - bigger than any Fortune 500 company. It seems they need to do a better job communicating this to the general public a little better.
While I wouldn't buy these stamps as "collectibles", many people will. Maybe not because they have some intrinsic value, but because it's fun. The USPS has been selling collectible stamps for several years now and it's one of their most profitable products.
No, not true. You open an account with UPS, pay for your shipments with a credit card and they will come to your house and pick up anything you care to ship. Minimum cost for letters is now around $18 for a letter not exceeding 8 oz. Of course, it makes no economic sense, so no one will send you your mail that way either. It makes sense to use the USPS for lightweight first class mail. But, there is a choice. It's just not a realistic one.
You may be surprised to learn that Fedex, UPS and DHL all have arrangements to pick up lightweight mail parcels from businesses and deliver them to the Postal Service who ultimately delivers the parcels to residentail customers. The USPS offers a service called Parcel Select. A carrier or business that generates thousands of small parcels can participate in it. A shipper routes a quantity of small parcels via this service, and the carrier picks up the parcels and delivers them to a Postal delivery unit near the recipient's address. The USPS then sorts the parcel into the regular mail delivery. Very cost effective and further blurs the distinction between the old Post Office and private industry.
But I'd be interested to find out who is funding this. 100% of the production cost, distribution, etc. should be borne by Lucas.
The USPS is paying for the entire promo, because the USPS is a business, not a government agency. It's been a business for a number of years. It's just not the typical private sector business.
Having been involved in the logistics field for a number of years, I know from personal experience that the USPS marketing department has one of the biggest budgets in the transportation industry. When I attended various trade conferences, the biggest and best parties (or receptions as they are often called) were always sponsored by the USPS. And there were often some real nice giveaways too - windbreaker jackets, top notch dinners and other really nice amenities. They do it because they are big and generate lots of money.
They're a monopoly, and should not be allowed to advertise at all. No commercials, no ads, fund from the stamps and add some value. Well, no they're not. Years ago, sending an overnight letter via Fedex or UPS required the mailer to add first class postage, even though the Postal Service would never touch the thing. That was a ruling by the Supreme Court, if memory serves, due to the Constitutional beginnings of the Post Office. The requirement was done away with years ago, the Post Office became The US Postal Service and they are mandated to be profitable. And they are.
As someone who regularly shipped thousands of parcels via the USPS each month, if you believe it takes two weeks to go from Omaha to Denver, then you haven't mailed a parcel in a long time. The Postal Service is competitive with UPS and Fedex in nearly every category. The pay scales are competitive with the private companies and they don't charge as much, because they have what the private companies don't have - volume. UPS, Fedex and DHL can only wish they handled as many parcels and letters as the USPS.
Of course not everyone should be allowed to pilot/drive a flying car.
Are you saying some people can't drive safely? What's wrong with hitting the gas when it was the brake they meant to hit? That would be no problem at a few hundred feet up, would it?
In real life, they get an advance, a lot of coke and a year after, the record company tells them that the promotion and the coke cost a lot and that they have to pay back 150 to 200% of the advance (that they already totally spent).
This sounds like a movie plot - oh, wait - it's the Blues Brothers bar scene.
Who knew Belushi and Ackroyd were making a commentary on the music business so many years ago.
IANAL but I don't think the judge should rule for anyone if either plaintiff or defendant is outside the judges jurisdiction. And as Spamhaus isn't US based, they're outside of the judges jurisdiction.
The only thing they can't sensibly do now is set up business on US soil, but why would they need to do that?
As another poster mentioned, when the defendant fails to appear for a hearing, the plaintiff is victorious. The "ruling" is just a technicality.
While Spamhaus probably has no plans to set up in the USA, this ruling wouldn't stop them. I could incorporate a business today called Spamhaus, Inc. and the ruling would not affect my business. A new corporation is a new entity, and, unless a deep investigation into the stockholders was made and revealed an attempt to circumvent the court's ruling, only then could the ruling have any impact. It would still require a significant amount of litigation to prove such a ploy.
This was particularly a problem for girl programmers, since at the time getting into trouble because you missed a period had serious consequences. Cobol simply put too much emphasis on a nearly invisible and easily missed period.
You didn't mark this sentence as humor. There are people reading this that will mod you down to the ground because of your humor. Oh the horror.
P2P File Sharing Ruining Physical Piracy Business
Man, I thought I hit the wrong link and was looking at The Onion for a second there. I know it makes perfect sense, but that obviousness was part of the reaction.
So, what do you think - maybe there's a need for the PPRIAA (Physical Pirates Recording Industries, etc) now?
Slashdot Mirror
I am too, or at least until Verizon puts FIOS on my street.
Man, talking about sleeping with the devil......
and the problem with that is?
See, if you'd been able to figure out the puzzle, no telling where you'd be today.
really? Try color laser toner. At least it last a little bit longer, but two or three cartridges and, like inkjet, you've just about paid for the printer.
The solution? Buy a really expensive laser printer......
Obligatory cliche:
"great minds think alike...."
or maybe just realizing your sig is more true than you know.
This nails it. Wine still has too many shortcomings. Find a way to make Windows apps run on, say Ubuntu, and make it as bulletproof as possible, and M$ will finally have a true competitor.
I can see the commercials now: "hi, I'm a PC......I'm a Mac....and I'm the new kid on the block."
It's not about "sex online". It's about the exploitation of the kids that are models for the pedo pervs. And who says it's not online sex? What about the 14 year olds that do nude webcam shows for the pervs? Isn't that sex online?
There is an attempt in stop online exploitation of children by making the consumers scared to buy the crap. It's no different than when the local vice squad starts busting johns who are in pursuit of street hookers - kill the demand for the service and it will go away.
With the internet, I doubt it will ever go away, but the shameless exploitation of children for the pedo pervs of the world has to stop.
I still miss 5.25 floppies
Well, they won't have to. Vonage is the biggest player in residential VoIP, so when they're knocked down the others will simply get cease and desist letters. Unless one of them has a printing press that produces US greenbacks, they will simply close their doors and cease to exist.
As a Vonage customer, I must ask - where are the class action lawyers now? How about the customers having a say in all of this?
I don't know where you live, but in Massachusetts, any firefighter, police officer or paramedic that activates the lights and sirens for a non-emergency reason, can receive a citation and a suspension for that action. I'm certain that it happens, but the few firefighter / paramedics I've known claim they would never do it because of the penalty.
As long as I'm in a writing mood, let me add that in many municipalities, traffic lights have been equipped with sensors that cause the lights to all turn red. The sensor is activated by a strobe on top of an emergency vehicle. In other places, the traffic lights on the route to the emergency are under the control of the emergency dispatch center and can be set to red with a few keystrokes. This type of system is very expensive and only used in a handful of locations I'm aware of.
The overuse of PDF documents is what makes this handy, and while setting the preferences can do the same thing, I've found the extension quite useful.
My email server is accessible from anywhere in the world, and I use Gmail to access it. But, why would I trust Google or any third party with my important email alone? It's my stuff, so I'm responsible for it and I'm the only one to blame if something gets ef'd up.
My solution might not fit everybody, but it will work with many users who maintain their own servers or whose employers maintain their own.
Searching on a term that brings up a competitor's product isn't a problem, it's just an extension of the example I mentioned.
Eastman sounds like the kind of politician Ed Markey, from my home state of Massachusetts is - utterly clueless. Markey is the chairman of the House Subcommitte on telecommunications and the internet but he's as dopey as Eastman - trying to regulate something he has little knowledge of.
Slashdot types have, but then again, there are many systems out there that didn't even have WEP turned on. They plugged it in, turned on their PC and that was the last time they had anything to do with wireless networking.
I know because I have used my neighbor's connection. I am such a scumbag........
Not to mention that too many home owners are tool challenged.
The above quote is from the USPS website at: http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub100/pub100.ht m#thepostal
There is a write-up on Wikipedia, but you always take Wikipedia with a grain of salt. As for it being a monopoly, the quote explains why the post office was created. The monopoly on first class mail continues because in a competitive environment, many small cities and towns would be under served by other companies. Even now, the commercial carriers impose rural surcharges on nearly 25,000 zip codes to increase their revenue on sparsely populated delivery points. In all US locations the carriers impose a residential surcharge, even though a home may be right next door to an industrial park. Ironically, the determination as to what zip codes are rural and what addresses are residential comes from the Postal Service! Yet, the USPS doesn't impose surcharges and still delivers to every legal address in the US.
That's why they are a monopoly. And, like any business, their operating costs increase each year, which is why rates go up. But a first class stamp is still a huge bargain, considering what it can do.
In this thread, I seem to have been put in the position of defending the USPS, which was not my intention. You've raised questions which I, as someone very familiar with the transportation industry, have tried to answer. I won't respond to any further posts on this thread, instead, inviting you or anyone else to seek answers on the web. Competition is usually a good thing, but it wouldn't make any economic sense for a business to take a handful of letters bearing .39 postage several miles to their delivery address. So, a monopoly has to be tolerated to make the system work.
All in all, the Postal Service, which has never been considered a model of efficiency, actually has become a huge force of change in the letter and parcel delivery business. If you order small items from Amazon, Buy.com or any other major web retailer, there's a good chance it will ship via the USPS.
"Unsubscribing" from the service is not an issue because it's still Constitutionally protected. You can just ignore it, or go to your local post office and file a stop order. It will expire but why bother? It's free, and think what you'd miss without all of those catalogs and sales flyers!
The postings on here have shown me a lot of old stereotypes still exist about the USPS. They are no longer a sloth-laden government agency, but rather a big, dynamic business - bigger than any Fortune 500 company. It seems they need to do a better job communicating this to the general public a little better.
While I wouldn't buy these stamps as "collectibles", many people will. Maybe not because they have some intrinsic value, but because it's fun. The USPS has been selling collectible stamps for several years now and it's one of their most profitable products.
Of course, it makes no economic sense, so no one will send you your mail that way either. It makes sense to use the USPS for lightweight first class mail. But, there is a choice. It's just not a realistic one.
You may be surprised to learn that Fedex, UPS and DHL all have arrangements to pick up lightweight mail parcels from businesses and deliver them to the Postal Service who ultimately delivers the parcels to residentail customers. The USPS offers a service called Parcel Select. A carrier or business that generates thousands of small parcels can participate in it. A shipper routes a quantity of small parcels via this service, and the carrier picks up the parcels and delivers them to a Postal delivery unit near the recipient's address. The USPS then sorts the parcel into the regular mail delivery. Very cost effective and further blurs the distinction between the old Post Office and private industry.
The USPS is paying for the entire promo, because the USPS is a business, not a government agency. It's been a business for a number of years. It's just not the typical private sector business.
Having been involved in the logistics field for a number of years, I know from personal experience that the USPS marketing department has one of the biggest budgets in the transportation industry. When I attended various trade conferences, the biggest and best parties (or receptions as they are often called) were always sponsored by the USPS. And there were often some real nice giveaways too - windbreaker jackets, top notch dinners and other really nice amenities. They do it because they are big and generate lots of money.
They're a monopoly, and should not be allowed to advertise at all. No commercials, no ads, fund from the stamps and add some value. Well, no they're not. Years ago, sending an overnight letter via Fedex or UPS required the mailer to add first class postage, even though the Postal Service would never touch the thing. That was a ruling by the Supreme Court, if memory serves, due to the Constitutional beginnings of the Post Office. The requirement was done away with years ago, the Post Office became The US Postal Service and they are mandated to be profitable. And they are.As someone who regularly shipped thousands of parcels via the USPS each month, if you believe it takes two weeks to go from Omaha to Denver, then you haven't mailed a parcel in a long time. The Postal Service is competitive with UPS and Fedex in nearly every category. The pay scales are competitive with the private companies and they don't charge as much, because they have what the private companies don't have - volume. UPS, Fedex and DHL can only wish they handled as many parcels and letters as the USPS.
That's what they wanted you to think.
Are you saying some people can't drive safely? What's wrong with hitting the gas when it was the brake they meant to hit? That would be no problem at a few hundred feet up, would it?
This sounds like a movie plot - oh, wait - it's the Blues Brothers bar scene.
Who knew Belushi and Ackroyd were making a commentary on the music business so many years ago.
The only thing they can't sensibly do now is set up business on US soil, but why would they need to do that?
As another poster mentioned, when the defendant fails to appear for a hearing, the plaintiff is victorious. The "ruling" is just a technicality.
While Spamhaus probably has no plans to set up in the USA, this ruling wouldn't stop them. I could incorporate a business today called Spamhaus, Inc. and the ruling would not affect my business. A new corporation is a new entity, and, unless a deep investigation into the stockholders was made and revealed an attempt to circumvent the court's ruling, only then could the ruling have any impact. It would still require a significant amount of litigation to prove such a ploy.
You didn't mark this sentence as humor. There are people reading this that will mod you down to the ground because of your humor. Oh the horror.
So, what do you think - maybe there's a need for the PPRIAA (Physical Pirates Recording Industries, etc) now?
Modgods - that was an attempt at sarcasm.