"Found money!" is the right answer, because there are so many people in my psychographic that don't buy movies, pay for cable, or go to theaters. When I want to watch something, I rent it or use a streaming service (Netflix or Amazon). Will studios ever understand that? No, because the people at the top of every major media company are people that don't know anything about the industry, they just know how to say the right things to the right people.
Why spend $50+/month for something that will net me a lower entertainment/dollar than going to see a film 5 times in a month?
go out to the formations where they *do* fracking and take a drive around. You'll find more than a few locations where good chunks of land has been completely sterilized by the truck-driver that got tired of waiting in line at the disposal station and dumped in the ditch.
I don't want to seem like a know-it-all, mainly because I didn't make the original statement, but you do know that salt, vinegar, and citric acid all kill most small plants, right? Just because nothing grows there doesn't mean "OMG it's toxic to everything!!1!", it means that something is inhibiting the growth of indigenous plants.
Ever looked at the land around an organic cattle rancher's feed lot? Organic pig farm? There's a whole lot of dead area, and it's not because they use dangerous chemicals, it's because there's just too much feces, urine, or water, and significant plant life won't exist.
Under _any_ economic conditions, people with two or three jobs are hard-working and industrious. When there are four unemployed people per open position, the position often remains open because the unemployed are too lazy to apply or management has unrealistic expectations of who they want to hire.
Forcing someone not to work is just as morally deplorable as forcing someone to work.
My biggest complaint that drove me away from KDE was the inability to easily program keyboard shortcuts. Can I bind my "menu key" to open a terminal? Can I access the panel menu with the "super L" key?
Until Gnome 3, I was perfectly happy with it. Now, I'm trying to use CentOS because they have Gnome 2.x, but I've been trying KDE occasionally, and it seems to be getting much better.
I agree with this. As the employee of a small ISP, we don't know about problems if someone doesn't tell us. Almost all of our point-to-point links are wireless, and we don't know about something getting out of proper alignment without customer feedback to help us find the issue.
Granted, ISPs oversell, it's the nature of the industry, but there's a rough formula they use so that 90+% of the customers don't notice. We always tell our customers that peak use times will result in lower speeds for many sites, and we can't help that (because we can't). When they're seeing dismal bandwidth at random times, it's worth investigating.
Akamai is like a company that handles the pedestrian and motor traffic, they don't actually generate anything. Their business model is designed around traffic management and _content_delivery_.
I don't mean to sound too cynical, but what laws are being applied? Chinese laws? US laws? Some laws invented by the "disinterested" UN? IANAL, but I think there needs to be clear indication that China had laws on the books to uphold intellectual property rights of citizens, and the suit needs to happen in Chinese courts. Alternatively, these authors could file suit using US laws, but then they would have to do it in US courts.
I don't mean to be especially confrontational, but making any money as a musician has nothing to do with being a musician. As usual, it's all about who you know.
True, but still a great increase over the other models. My Beetle TDI achieves 50+ in warm weather, and that's averaged over a tank of about 50/50 between short high runs, and slower, around town driving. Plus, my car's shipping weight is almost 2900lbs.
In winter, I get closer to 35mpg, but I don't have a coolant heater. This is the only car I've ever found to get similar mileage whether it's left idling or off for two hours at -10F.
True, I'm from the US, but I recall reading not long ago about European phones using a different system (or maybe it was that particular carrier?) in various other parts of the world. With that in mind, buying a phone that has several band capabilities (CDMA, GSM, etc) and having to pay extra for the additional service seemed reasonable at the time.
I know it might be naive, but I assumed that purchasing "international service" meant you had service anywhere in the world just like in your home country. One of my friends spent a month in China over the summer, and I didn't hear him say anything about roaming charges, or anything out of the ordinary.
Similarly, I know that a lot of Canadians who frequent the US will purchase cellular service here, but I assumed that was just because of better service when they're here.
As someone who has not purchased a current generation console, I find this to be a big driving factor that may convince me to buy an Xbox360. If the options to get youtube, hulu, local media, and netflix all work seemlessly, this might also be the final nail in the coffin of expensive cable or satellite services for my house.
Is Sony paying any attention? This is their cue to do something smart.
Without control[,] free markets quickly end up corrupted when too much ends up in the hands of too few, just as we have now.
No, the free markets are mutated by the few with enough power to influence them. Look at what happened when Ford tried to stagnate the auto market, or Standard Oil, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Xerox, Gates (okay, probably more Ballmer); the list goes on. My point is that the free market is as guilty of becoming corrupt as Smith & Wesson or Colt was for the US to expand across to the Pacific. Time after time, the market has killed bad ideas, or companies that don't respond to changing demographics and needs.
That is why I figure the USA will default in 5 years, 10 tops
As suggested by an economist I know: how will we default on bonds and other securities that we issue? We simply declare them void. Granted, that creates an ugly situation, but it's an option.
Rationed healthcare? I would like to see a list of people in the US who had to pay their bill _before_ the service. No, the fact that services are performed before payment is one of the things killing the hospital system.
If using adblocking software is the only way that people keep their web interface clear of bandwidth stealing ads, then they might have a small problem. Using a proxy and completely blocking the entire ad domain is a great solution, and easy for the average user to do.
What are the parents supposed to do, keep them on a leash?
This is exactly the plan. Over the last 50 or so years, the trend has been to gradually make people afraid of everything, and what better way to be sure that they're afraid of everything than if they fear their own family?
Remember, the more that people are scared, the more they need the government, and the more they are willing to give up for an illusion of security.
Wait... I'm being informed by my attorney that "leap" is too significantly similar to "jump", which is already another's IP. I'm sorry for wasting your time.
This is going to start being a real issue that could amount to many dollars per month for many people. Will these new tiered plans warn you when you're about to get charged (which Verizon does when you attempt to tether, instead of using an implicit agreement)? Whether they do or not, 120MB is a lot of browsing that I don't get to do when I'm at the edge of my 5GB limit (the only higher tier available around here).
IANAL, but I would think part of the problem with incriminating data for a completely unrelated crime being found might have something to do with the proper steps required for the discovery of evidence.
Do any real lawyers or law professors want to weigh in on this?
At this point, the only defense I can claim is ignorance. I did not read all of the comments, and I probably should have logged in prior to posting to read some of the comments that weren't moderated high enough to make the default cut.
On the topic of "broadband", I would suggest that we standardize on what this word means, because I'm accustomed to "broadband" being anything close to 3mb down and 1mb up. This is likely because I live in a community with a municipal monopoly on cable, and sub-par DSL. I am aware that fiber is used for installations with very high bandwidth, but I've never seen anything (in this area) higher than 10mb down and 2mb up. Midcontinent has started offering faster service in neighboring communities, but I haven't actually seen any place with it (backwards thinking community* and entrenched cable company).
I'm not trying to find reasons against installing because I'm against it, I'm merely addressing the first hurdles that I see.
*To clarify what I mean: most people around here refuse to use synthetic oil because they say organic is better.
First, Tennessee isn't "midwest", it's southeast. "Midwest" is generally the accepted term for North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Iowa, Wisconsin, other places are debated. Wikipedia has a broader definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States
Clearly, you've never been to the "midwest". In North Dakota and South Dakota, it's not uncommon to have a single house be a mile or more away from their nearest neighbor, and all of these are 10 miles or more from the nearest post office and bar, which still isn't a hub of activity (by metropolis standards).
I'm no expert on the range of signal for coax transmission of data (I assume that internet and television have different tolerance for signal loss), but I think it's safe to think that one can't realistically expect to get high-speed internet service 100+ miles from a community with more than 1000 people.
While I can't actually afford to part with so much money for something like this, it does appear to be a good way to do something awesome and be remembered for it. As has been mentioned before, this outfit just doesn't have as much exposure and appeal as many of us fans of (true) long-haired music think. Instead of giving money to your college ($3500 probably isn't enough to buy a small plaque), paying for the performance and recording of Rachmaninov's second piano concerto would be truly excellent.
I will be sending them money for a cause that I want to see succeed. Who else is with me?
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"Found money!" is the right answer, because there are so many people in my psychographic that don't buy movies, pay for cable, or go to theaters. When I want to watch something, I rent it or use a streaming service (Netflix or Amazon). Will studios ever understand that? No, because the people at the top of every major media company are people that don't know anything about the industry, they just know how to say the right things to the right people.
Why spend $50+/month for something that will net me a lower entertainment/dollar than going to see a film 5 times in a month?
go out to the formations where they *do* fracking and take a drive around. You'll find more than a few locations where good chunks of land has been completely sterilized by the truck-driver that got tired of waiting in line at the disposal station and dumped in the ditch.
I don't want to seem like a know-it-all, mainly because I didn't make the original statement, but you do know that salt, vinegar, and citric acid all kill most small plants, right? Just because nothing grows there doesn't mean "OMG it's toxic to everything!!1!", it means that something is inhibiting the growth of indigenous plants.
Ever looked at the land around an organic cattle rancher's feed lot? Organic pig farm? There's a whole lot of dead area, and it's not because they use dangerous chemicals, it's because there's just too much feces, urine, or water, and significant plant life won't exist.
Remember, "natural" doesn't mean "harmless".
Under _any_ economic conditions, people with two or three jobs are hard-working and industrious. When there are four unemployed people per open position, the position often remains open because the unemployed are too lazy to apply or management has unrealistic expectations of who they want to hire.
Forcing someone not to work is just as morally deplorable as forcing someone to work.
My biggest complaint that drove me away from KDE was the inability to easily program keyboard shortcuts. Can I bind my "menu key" to open a terminal? Can I access the panel menu with the "super L" key?
Until Gnome 3, I was perfectly happy with it. Now, I'm trying to use CentOS because they have Gnome 2.x, but I've been trying KDE occasionally, and it seems to be getting much better.
I agree with this. As the employee of a small ISP, we don't know about problems if someone doesn't tell us. Almost all of our point-to-point links are wireless, and we don't know about something getting out of proper alignment without customer feedback to help us find the issue.
Granted, ISPs oversell, it's the nature of the industry, but there's a rough formula they use so that 90+% of the customers don't notice. We always tell our customers that peak use times will result in lower speeds for many sites, and we can't help that (because we can't). When they're seeing dismal bandwidth at random times, it's worth investigating.
Akamai is like a company that handles the pedestrian and motor traffic, they don't actually generate anything. Their business model is designed around traffic management and _content_delivery_.
Amazon, Google, et al are generating the traffic.
I don't mean to sound too cynical, but what laws are being applied? Chinese laws? US laws? Some laws invented by the "disinterested" UN? IANAL, but I think there needs to be clear indication that China had laws on the books to uphold intellectual property rights of citizens, and the suit needs to happen in Chinese courts. Alternatively, these authors could file suit using US laws, but then they would have to do it in US courts.
I don't mean to be especially confrontational, but making any money as a musician has nothing to do with being a musician. As usual, it's all about who you know.
True, but still a great increase over the other models. My Beetle TDI achieves 50+ in warm weather, and that's averaged over a tank of about 50/50 between short high runs, and slower, around town driving. Plus, my car's shipping weight is almost 2900lbs.
In winter, I get closer to 35mpg, but I don't have a coolant heater. This is the only car I've ever found to get similar mileage whether it's left idling or off for two hours at -10F.
Because I was too distracted by my roommate's laptop, I wasn't able to focus fast enough for first post.
Those are solid ideas. We can only hope that things do change before that first point goes away.
True, I'm from the US, but I recall reading not long ago about European phones using a different system (or maybe it was that particular carrier?) in various other parts of the world. With that in mind, buying a phone that has several band capabilities (CDMA, GSM, etc) and having to pay extra for the additional service seemed reasonable at the time.
I know it might be naive, but I assumed that purchasing "international service" meant you had service anywhere in the world just like in your home country. One of my friends spent a month in China over the summer, and I didn't hear him say anything about roaming charges, or anything out of the ordinary.
Similarly, I know that a lot of Canadians who frequent the US will purchase cellular service here, but I assumed that was just because of better service when they're here.
Will you be the first to start a new search engine for the technical? www.1337-$34R(|-|.com?
As someone who has not purchased a current generation console, I find this to be a big driving factor that may convince me to buy an Xbox360. If the options to get youtube, hulu, local media, and netflix all work seemlessly, this might also be the final nail in the coffin of expensive cable or satellite services for my house.
Is Sony paying any attention? This is their cue to do something smart.
Without control[,] free markets quickly end up corrupted when too much ends up in the hands of too few, just as we have now.
No, the free markets are mutated by the few with enough power to influence them. Look at what happened when Ford tried to stagnate the auto market, or Standard Oil, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Xerox, Gates (okay, probably more Ballmer); the list goes on. My point is that the free market is as guilty of becoming corrupt as Smith & Wesson or Colt was for the US to expand across to the Pacific. Time after time, the market has killed bad ideas, or companies that don't respond to changing demographics and needs.
That is why I figure the USA will default in 5 years, 10 tops
As suggested by an economist I know: how will we default on bonds and other securities that we issue? We simply declare them void. Granted, that creates an ugly situation, but it's an option.
Rationed healthcare? I would like to see a list of people in the US who had to pay their bill _before_ the service. No, the fact that services are performed before payment is one of the things killing the hospital system.
If using adblocking software is the only way that people keep their web interface clear of bandwidth stealing ads, then they might have a small problem. Using a proxy and completely blocking the entire ad domain is a great solution, and easy for the average user to do.
What are the parents supposed to do, keep them on a leash?
This is exactly the plan. Over the last 50 or so years, the trend has been to gradually make people afraid of everything, and what better way to be sure that they're afraid of everything than if they fear their own family?
Remember, the more that people are scared, the more they need the government, and the more they are willing to give up for an illusion of security.
Are you sure you don't mean "leap"?
Wait... I'm being informed by my attorney that "leap" is too significantly similar to "jump", which is already another's IP. I'm sorry for wasting your time.
This is going to start being a real issue that could amount to many dollars per month for many people. Will these new tiered plans warn you when you're about to get charged (which Verizon does when you attempt to tether, instead of using an implicit agreement)? Whether they do or not, 120MB is a lot of browsing that I don't get to do when I'm at the edge of my 5GB limit (the only higher tier available around here).
IANAL, but I would think part of the problem with incriminating data for a completely unrelated crime being found might have something to do with the proper steps required for the discovery of evidence.
Do any real lawyers or law professors want to weigh in on this?
At this point, the only defense I can claim is ignorance. I did not read all of the comments, and I probably should have logged in prior to posting to read some of the comments that weren't moderated high enough to make the default cut.
On the topic of "broadband", I would suggest that we standardize on what this word means, because I'm accustomed to "broadband" being anything close to 3mb down and 1mb up. This is likely because I live in a community with a municipal monopoly on cable, and sub-par DSL. I am aware that fiber is used for installations with very high bandwidth, but I've never seen anything (in this area) higher than 10mb down and 2mb up. Midcontinent has started offering faster service in neighboring communities, but I haven't actually seen any place with it (backwards thinking community* and entrenched cable company).
I'm not trying to find reasons against installing because I'm against it, I'm merely addressing the first hurdles that I see.
*To clarify what I mean: most people around here refuse to use synthetic oil because they say organic is better.
First, Tennessee isn't "midwest", it's southeast. "Midwest" is generally the accepted term for North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Iowa, Wisconsin, other places are debated. Wikipedia has a broader definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States
Clearly, you've never been to the "midwest". In North Dakota and South Dakota, it's not uncommon to have a single house be a mile or more away from their nearest neighbor, and all of these are 10 miles or more from the nearest post office and bar, which still isn't a hub of activity (by metropolis standards).
I'm no expert on the range of signal for coax transmission of data (I assume that internet and television have different tolerance for signal loss), but I think it's safe to think that one can't realistically expect to get high-speed internet service 100+ miles from a community with more than 1000 people.
While I can't actually afford to part with so much money for something like this, it does appear to be a good way to do something awesome and be remembered for it. As has been mentioned before, this outfit just doesn't have as much exposure and appeal as many of us fans of (true) long-haired music think. Instead of giving money to your college ($3500 probably isn't enough to buy a small plaque), paying for the performance and recording of Rachmaninov's second piano concerto would be truly excellent.
I will be sending them money for a cause that I want to see succeed. Who else is with me?