This is re-aired content. Why should you get it free twice when you paid once?
You are a nut job. The player is free. "Almost all BBC TV content broadcast over the last seven days is available, free of charge." And it's already cost $6.1 million to re-air the content online. Tax payers don't own the content, they have usage permissions. http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=9651
How about the BBC just calling it even, airing content once, and then you can never see it again. Even American PBS sells its post-aired content.
There is no room in this world for lazy and cheap-ass communists.
I realize everyone hates DRM - prosting in the street!? Over previously aired TV!!!??? Don't Briton's have something better to do - like going to work!?
People need to grow up. You can't have everything for free - or the way you want. And PLEASE go protest something important like excessive waiting lines for tax funded health care.
Of course there is music missing. Thats what happens when you convert analog to digital. However, today's digitizing technology makes the omitted part unnoticable. CDs are lacking parts of the music! However, what a user chooses to compress is subjective. I used to be OK with low resolution compression, but now my min grade is the quality Apple uses in its DRM protected music. Which the average ear won't have any problems with.
I can't believe someone is complaining about music quality today after more than 20 years of digital music.
All its going to become is a pissing fight just like here on Slashdot. Look at what the doctor says in this example.
Like it or not food chains are in it for profit. Profit requires marketing stimulate demand. The responsibility for educating the children is 99% the parents' responsibility. I am sick and tired of people abandoning their responsibilities and especiaclly tax funded government intervention. If people managed their personal responsibilities this particular story wouldnt be news in the first palce.
I have already lost HTML/CSS production to overseas. Some clients are paying me just to design it in photoshop and then their team in China does the rest. Its already happening.
I also think you should be careful with your assumption that there are no creative people in billions of chinese and indians out there.
The problem with CSS - and I find it a healthy challenge - is that no two browsers render it the same. The more browsers my patron is aware of, the more duplicate work must be done.
However, we are purists. We are not looking at it from the common person's perspective. When joe-consumer browses, all he cares about is that the site works and the page is not all screwed up. How that is accomplished is unimportant.
And what we in America have to worry about is that as the difficulty in achieving this increases; the higher the labor costs; the more likely the web designing and developing jobs will move overseas.
Where did you get this "we are equals" nonsense? The only time we are equals is when it comes to opportunity in the eyes of law. Thats it. Everywhere else we are definitely unequal. ESPECIALLY at work. Thats why we have systems of varying pay scales, authority, seniority, access level, clearance...
Why on earth should I pay for your needs and wants? Paying for you makes me less able to provide for myself. If you really think we are equals on all these levels then you are nothing else but a communist.
As a healthy person I HATE having to pay any insurance at all. So generally I prefer to pay less if I am not seeing a doctor. Plus, our media and the Democrats are brainwashing Americans to be hypochondriacs. Making healthcare a greater issue than it really is (only about 13% of adults dont have health insurance of some kind).
And face it. The more we hype up going to the doctor and magic-pill-solutions, the greater demand for drugs, the higher the price. If we didnt buy the drugs and refrained from needless trips to the doctor, the price or medical care would drop.
There are other factors too. Americans - especially union and government employees - like pay raises and benefits and high wages regardless of their personal productivity. That means researchers, doctors, nurses, technicians etc all want to be paid $100k+ annually. The only person who can pay that wage is the patient.
The alternative.
The whole point of having group insurance through the employer is to share the cost. So maybe it should be a tiered cost for employees: the basic coverage is the same for all - with those on regular care and prescriptions paying more for those extra services. There needs to be a distinction between "insurance" and what we really have "medical care memberships".
Insurance is for the emergencies, the unexpected. There are no surprises when you hire fat, alcoholic, smoker, allergenic, out of shape employees. They are going to be at the doctors office the first day their medical coverage kicks in. And will go to the doctor on a monthly or weekly regular basis. They should pay more.
*I am overweight and I realize that reducing my weight will reduce my need for health care. Maybe we should just charge fat people more. They are going to be the ones on cholesterol pills, heart medicines and surgery, diabetes, etc
Thats like $22 per American if they were all on the net. Kinda crazy, if you believe this hocus pocus. These loses are always pumped up via mystery numbers equaling potential profit and potential sales. If 7 billion were really lost, the interent would be a ghost town.
Whatever - its still an appeal to emotion whether its a popular writing or not. And its funny, rather than arguing the issue - you take addition hyperbole.
Privacy in communication is not an "unalienable Right"... its a right established only by the Constitution. The Constitution is designed to fluctuate with time.
You are totally appealing to emotion which is a fallacy.
Legislation sought by President Bush to revise U.S. law regarding anti-terrorist electronic surveillance overseas has failed a vote in the House of Representatives.
Many front doors and locks on houses have been defeated too. Does that mean we should stop using them, and it should not be against the law to "break and enter?" You guys are completely illogical.
Sounds like she stopped her while recording. Thats why the lenght is so short. EVERYONE knows not to record movies. The law doesnt stipulate a lenth of time. It says none at all. I been caught doing something briefly too. It sucks, but thats life. We all do stupid things for fun and regret it real bad when we get in trouble.
That is not exactly true. Much of the electricity is bought from the midwest. Remember Enron and the energy crisis in CA? CA, for example, is only 34% wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, and nuclear...
Although the dirtiest coal plants are east-ish. Texas produces the most calo-electricty and is the dirtiest state.
Slashdot Mirror
Yea, more monopolies.
Free software and free access to RE-AIRING of content is not outrageous. Educate yourself.
Don't be a lazy-assed communist.
This is re-aired content. Why should you get it free twice when you paid once?
You are a nut job. The player is free. "Almost all BBC TV content broadcast over the last seven days is available, free of charge." And it's already cost $6.1 million to re-air the content online. Tax payers don't own the content, they have usage permissions.
http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=9651
How about the BBC just calling it even, airing content once, and then you can never see it again. Even American PBS sells its post-aired content.
There is no room in this world for lazy and cheap-ass communists.
Why do athletes need internet terminals!? Just because technology exist doesn't mean its appropriate for every aspect of life. Sheesh.
I realize everyone hates DRM - prosting in the street!? Over previously aired TV!!!??? Don't Briton's have something better to do - like going to work!?
People need to grow up. You can't have everything for free - or the way you want. And PLEASE go protest something important like excessive waiting lines for tax funded health care.
Of course there is music missing. Thats what happens when you convert analog to digital. However, today's digitizing technology makes the omitted part unnoticable. CDs are lacking parts of the music! However, what a user chooses to compress is subjective. I used to be OK with low resolution compression, but now my min grade is the quality Apple uses in its DRM protected music. Which the average ear won't have any problems with.
I can't believe someone is complaining about music quality today after more than 20 years of digital music.
They could have bought a 1992 Macintosh.
All its going to become is a pissing fight just like here on Slashdot. Look at what the doctor says in this example.
Like it or not food chains are in it for profit. Profit requires marketing stimulate demand. The responsibility for educating the children is 99% the parents' responsibility. I am sick and tired of people abandoning their responsibilities and especiaclly tax funded government intervention. If people managed their personal responsibilities this particular story wouldnt be news in the first palce.
Maybe Adobe will be forced to lower it's outrageous prices.
I have already lost HTML/CSS production to overseas. Some clients are paying me just to design it in photoshop and then their team in China does the rest. Its already happening.
I also think you should be careful with your assumption that there are no creative people in billions of chinese and indians out there.
The problem with CSS - and I find it a healthy challenge - is that no two browsers render it the same. The more browsers my patron is aware of, the more duplicate work must be done.
However, we are purists. We are not looking at it from the common person's perspective. When joe-consumer browses, all he cares about is that the site works and the page is not all screwed up. How that is accomplished is unimportant.
And what we in America have to worry about is that as the difficulty in achieving this increases; the higher the labor costs; the more likely the web designing and developing jobs will move overseas.
...and HTML elements come with styling that you have to suppress and replace with CSS.
Its because everyone is hyping CSS and its practically terrorism to use HTML.
especially when it comes to health needs!
Where did you get this "we are equals" nonsense? The only time we are equals is when it comes to opportunity in the eyes of law. Thats it. Everywhere else we are definitely unequal. ESPECIALLY at work. Thats why we have systems of varying pay scales, authority, seniority, access level, clearance...
Why on earth should I pay for your needs and wants? Paying for you makes me less able to provide for myself. If you really think we are equals on all these levels then you are nothing else but a communist.
As a healthy person I HATE having to pay any insurance at all. So generally I prefer to pay less if I am not seeing a doctor. Plus, our media and the Democrats are brainwashing Americans to be hypochondriacs. Making healthcare a greater issue than it really is (only about 13% of adults dont have health insurance of some kind). And face it. The more we hype up going to the doctor and magic-pill-solutions, the greater demand for drugs, the higher the price. If we didnt buy the drugs and refrained from needless trips to the doctor, the price or medical care would drop. There are other factors too. Americans - especially union and government employees - like pay raises and benefits and high wages regardless of their personal productivity. That means researchers, doctors, nurses, technicians etc all want to be paid $100k+ annually. The only person who can pay that wage is the patient. The alternative. The whole point of having group insurance through the employer is to share the cost. So maybe it should be a tiered cost for employees: the basic coverage is the same for all - with those on regular care and prescriptions paying more for those extra services. There needs to be a distinction between "insurance" and what we really have "medical care memberships". Insurance is for the emergencies, the unexpected. There are no surprises when you hire fat, alcoholic, smoker, allergenic, out of shape employees. They are going to be at the doctors office the first day their medical coverage kicks in. And will go to the doctor on a monthly or weekly regular basis. They should pay more. *I am overweight and I realize that reducing my weight will reduce my need for health care. Maybe we should just charge fat people more. They are going to be the ones on cholesterol pills, heart medicines and surgery, diabetes, etc
Thats like $22 per American if they were all on the net. Kinda crazy, if you believe this hocus pocus. These loses are always pumped up via mystery numbers equaling potential profit and potential sales. If 7 billion were really lost, the interent would be a ghost town.
Whatever - its still an appeal to emotion whether its a popular writing or not. And its funny, rather than arguing the issue - you take addition hyperbole.
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/03/fisa.up grade.ap/index.html
Privacy in communication is not an "unalienable Right"... its a right established only by the Constitution. The Constitution is designed to fluctuate with time.
You are totally appealing to emotion which is a fallacy.
http://voanews.com/english/2007-08-04-voa2.cfm
Legislation sought by President Bush to revise U.S. law regarding anti-terrorist electronic surveillance overseas has failed a vote in the House of Representatives.
By Dan Robinson
Capitol Hill
04 August 2007
Many front doors and locks on houses have been defeated too. Does that mean we should stop using them, and it should not be against the law to "break and enter?" You guys are completely illogical.
Sounds like she stopped her while recording. Thats why the lenght is so short. EVERYONE knows not to record movies. The law doesnt stipulate a lenth of time. It says none at all. I been caught doing something briefly too. It sucks, but thats life. We all do stupid things for fun and regret it real bad when we get in trouble.
I use the same trackball. I am a designer. I have been using Kensington for 10 years at least. I miss my wireless trackball...
That is not exactly true. Much of the electricity is bought from the midwest. Remember Enron and the energy crisis in CA? CA, for example, is only 34% wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, and nuclear... Although the dirtiest coal plants are east-ish. Texas produces the most calo-electricty and is the dirtiest state.
Most of the electricity in the US is generated by burning coal. Its worse than burning gas in a car!