To build an analogy using cable TV it would be more like this:
You pay for your providers full cable package, so you get all the channels. However, PBS has decided not to pay the "premium service fees" set by Big Cable, Inc., where as NBC has paid them plenty of money. You like PBS, and watch it a lot. Slowly but surely, the signal for PBS is getting fuzzier. You can still watch the shows, but the picture isn't as crisp as it is for NBC because Big Cable has decided he'd prefer your eyes on NBC, who pays them money. So he throws some noise onto the PBS frequency.
Seriously- it's past its prime.
We should just be using PCs with TV outputs. I use that at school, and it looks great. Mind you, it's S-Video to a non-HD TV, but I assume with would be equally pretty with DVI to HDTV.
Why are will still using 30 year old damage prone media?
Seems like a back-door to temporary ownership/licenses to me. Convince people they can burn their DVDs themselves after paying for a downloaded copy, only to have the disc fail a few years down the road.
Now you can have the fun of shopping for your favorite movies every 3 years!
Tennis and I don't even remember the other two/three.
Bought the system at EB after it failed miserably. $40 got me the system and those 3 or 4 games.:cool:
Sounds like they should be handing out monthly credits to accounts left right and centre.
1. Call
2. Claim they lost an important email (True? Irrelevent, they don't have any record! But for the sake of arguement...)
3. Get free month(s) of service...
4....
5. Profits (unless you did have some valuable email that costs you more than the $40 of internet credit you just got)
I'd be pissed if, say, Google possibly deleted some unread mail, and I'd never know if I was missing out.
Grrrrrrr.
All this patent-whoring is ridiculous. You can't patent ideas. That's stupid. You can patent designs for things you've invented and/or spend significant time and effort developing, but it needs to end there.
On top of the general bad-idea-to-further-distract-people thing, current cell data rates make this completely unreasonable to use.
The Tour on the site shows that every zoom/map move is a 10 to 100KB image download. My carrier, Rogers Canada, charges for data transfer on the net like this at 5 cents/KB (or, if I commit to a "plan" it would only be $7 for the first MB then 2 cents/KB after that. hooray.). This means I could end up paying over $1 every time I move or zoom on the map. While this is more my Carrier's fault than Google's, it has the same end result of preventing me from actively using the service.
Just another reason we need proper wireless internet providers.
I was wondering about this too.
I have folders of "favorites" in my bookmark toolbar that I "open all in tabs" regularly.
Clearly this is not a case of missing functionality, but rather of failure to "idiot-proof" it.
Sad, really.
Not to mention that Session Restore is included in FF2. ( One article from yesterday for eg, but it's in all the articles )
The author has not checked his facts very carefully.
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To build an analogy using cable TV it would be more like this:
You pay for your providers full cable package, so you get all the channels. However, PBS has decided not to pay the "premium service fees" set by Big Cable, Inc., where as NBC has paid them plenty of money. You like PBS, and watch it a lot. Slowly but surely, the signal for PBS is getting fuzzier. You can still watch the shows, but the picture isn't as crisp as it is for NBC because Big Cable has decided he'd prefer your eyes on NBC, who pays them money. So he throws some noise onto the PBS frequency.
That's what we need to prevent.
Seriously- it's past its prime.
We should just be using PCs with TV outputs. I use that at school, and it looks great. Mind you, it's S-Video to a non-HD TV, but I assume with would be equally pretty with DVI to HDTV.
Why are will still using 30 year old damage prone media?
Seems like a back-door to temporary ownership/licenses to me. Convince people they can burn their DVDs themselves after paying for a downloaded copy, only to have the disc fail a few years down the road.
Now you can have the fun of shopping for your favorite movies every 3 years!
Probably tastes like chicken. Chickem and fist.
Tennis and I don't even remember the other two/three. :cool:
Bought the system at EB after it failed miserably. $40 got me the system and those 3 or 4 games.
Sounds like they should be handing out monthly credits to accounts left right and centre.
...
1. Call
2. Claim they lost an important email (True? Irrelevent, they don't have any record! But for the sake of arguement...)
3. Get free month(s) of service...
4.
5. Profits (unless you did have some valuable email that costs you more than the $40 of internet credit you just got)
I'd be pissed if, say, Google possibly deleted some unread mail, and I'd never know if I was missing out.
Grrrrrrr.
then I want a patent on what I call "breathing."
All this patent-whoring is ridiculous. You can't patent ideas. That's stupid. You can patent designs for things you've invented and/or spend significant time and effort developing, but it needs to end there.
Then he played around trying to make a "superhuman" by making XXY. It didn't pan out.
I'm standing right behind you.
The porn industry.
Shouldn't this have happened to some rabbits and mice first?
It's really scary to imagine this happening, regardless of any blanket agreement signed.
Couldn't we just pass legislation banning parents from raising stupid children?
On top of the general bad-idea-to-further-distract-people thing, current cell data rates make this completely unreasonable to use.
The Tour on the site shows that every zoom/map move is a 10 to 100KB image download. My carrier, Rogers Canada, charges for data transfer on the net like this at 5 cents/KB (or, if I commit to a "plan" it would only be $7 for the first MB then 2 cents/KB after that. hooray.). This means I could end up paying over $1 every time I move or zoom on the map. While this is more my Carrier's fault than Google's, it has the same end result of preventing me from actively using the service.
Just another reason we need proper wireless internet providers.
I was wondering about this too.
I have folders of "favorites" in my bookmark toolbar that I "open all in tabs" regularly.
Clearly this is not a case of missing functionality, but rather of failure to "idiot-proof" it.
Sad, really.
Not to mention that Session Restore is included in FF2. ( One article from yesterday for eg, but it's in all the articles )
The author has not checked his facts very carefully.
I'm not so sure that's a coined term yet.
School's out. No kidding those jobless high school oddballs are buying games.
Seems like the smart bet.
Live and be rich vs die and who cares.
good ol' pandemic. A real nasty beast of a bug.
Kill off a couple billion, and we'll be good to go for a while.
I don't know of any big, bone marrow stem cell companies. :( I feel left out.
...they used the word fortnight in the article. And that's just awesome.
Well, I feel like a dolt.
:/ Live and learn to read.
I guess I assumed there wouldn't have been any issue with a sign.
Wouldn't it solve the problem just to have a small sign in the front window saying "This Area Under Video Surveillance" ?