The article says that the FAA's air traffic control system is broken and needs a bunch of help, but the article doesn't give any real suggestions. I'll give mine.
1) Give pilots in-flight radar.
2) Create new ATC system to make sure pilots follow flight plan
3) ??????
4) Lose money (cause you're an airline)
5) ??????
6) Profit?
"If a company exports a product at a price lower than the price it normally charges on its own home market, it is said to be "dumping" the product." --from Wikipedia
"A loss leader...is a product sold at a low price to stimulate other, profitable sales." --from Wikipedia
The XBOX is a loss leader because people will buy it at its cheap price, then people will want to play the XBOX. Those people will be required to buy games. The games are high margin products. Microsoft makes both so it's all good for them. It's just like with printers and ink or razors and blades.
Microsoft would be guilty of dumping the XBOX if they sold the XBOX in say Europe for 20 USD, which I don't think they do.
If you had watched the actual broadcast on your local NBC affiliate, and then watched the online version, as I did, you would see that NBC screwed up while putting up the parade online. The segments between "commercial breaks", as in the content segments, were placed online out of the order they were originally broadcast in. That's why it appears not in order online.
viewing the 2008 Olympics opening ceremony online at NBC's Olympics website, you can see that the order in which the countries were presented was very different from the actual order of the countries in the ceremony, as listed at Wikipedia. NBC skipped roughly 100 countries ahead, then jumped back and forth, apparently delaying the appearance of the United States in its home market until later in the broadcast. (In fact, the US team was shown on the infield before they were shown marching!) NBC did not acknowledge this in its broadcast. Is NBC altering the reality of the broadcast to boost ratings? Was this true only online, or also in the live broadcast?"
emphasis mine
To sum up NBC's 12 hour tape-delayed broadcast was in order, while the online version was shown out of order either due to NBC wanting it like that or, more likely, whoever put the parade online didn't pay attention as he/she was supposed to.
Huh? If people are too dumb to be able to tell the difference between "sponsored" links and relevant sites returned from a search inquiry, then maybe they should ask someone else to find things for them. Google's ads are pretty unintrusive but clearly marked - should they be blinking so people notice them more as advertising?
My parents are both quite smart at what they do. I searched for something on my laptop one evening and asked both of them if they could tell the difference. Neither of them could. There was a study done by Harris Interactive that said that only 56% of searchers could tell the difference. If 56% of searchers cannot tell the difference then maybe something should change. I don't have a link to the study, but I have a link to a short description.
Copyright isn't a right at all, it's a privilege which we the people grant to copyright holders, for limited times, for the benefit of the public.
IANAL, I just read the constitution in my spare time.
I disagree. The basis of copyright in the US comes from this clause in Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution (emphasis mine): "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;"
"Copyright is a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. At its most general, it is literally 'the right to copy' an original creation." from:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
Copyright governs the exclusive right of an author/artist/musician to publish their works. Copyright was originally intended to be granted for a limited time, so that the author/artist/musician could earn an income and be inclined to create more works. Copyright was also originally intended for the benefit of the public, so the public could use the author/artist/musician's works in derivative works after the author/artist/musician was finished making money and so that the author/artist/musician would be inclined to create more works and earn more money.
However, they have been screwed up by the US Congress, US corporation, and others so much that they are granted forever and for the benefit of US corporations so that US corporations can make more money than they deserve.
I have a fully legit copy of Vista that I got through MSDN-Academic Alliance, while I was in school. I received a DVD image and burned it to a DVD. Fully legal. No fancy hologram. I have since paid $150 for the Ultimate Upgrade.
Hmm, I'd say he's got a good point - there's simply not a culture of privilege awareness in Windows developers.
It's not just that. It's also that there's not privilege awareness in Windows users. With XPSP2 and before, users turn the box on and it boots to an admin privileged user by default. Home users normally don't want to be bothered with setting up multiple accounts on the computer. They just want the computer to do what they want it to do.
Google's employees. IMHO, Google is making the Google Phone/Tablet available inside Google as a convenient device for Google employees. Similar to how Google uses Gdrive internally. It makes sense to me that Google employees should have quick and easy access to their own network. And with their own phone to do it.
The site's copyright notice states that you can't copy anything on the site. And if you do, you must pay her money before you print it or something. But, my browser copied it to my hard drive. Will she sue me too? That can be solved with a pragma no-cache header, but the site does not use.
There are a couple ways to solve this. You could have a robots.txt file on a web server by default. You could even have a easy-to-use GUI to maintain it. The robots.txt would be defaulted to not let any crawler to the site. Problem solved!
Or web site development tools could automatically create the robots.txt with a dialog box or two as part of the setup. Those same dialogs can also set the pragma no-cache meta tag as well. This idiot proofs the process a little.
If the US was unable to keep nuclear weapons technology secret after WW2, there is no way the MPAA can ask consumer electronics companies to keep movies and music 100% secure, especially when the whole intent of music/movies is to be seen and heard. That says it right there. In order to play content, in must be decoded somewhere. The crackers WILL figure out where it is decoded and reverse engineer it. That's how it they did it before. And that's exactly how they'll do it again.
It's hilarious to see the DRM technology break after every iteration that it goes through. While very amusing, it shows that DRM will lose in the end. Once a movie/album/software/ebook/etc is de-DRMed, then... well, you know.
On a side note but relevant, I was trying to explain DRM to my dad, who is actually someone who doesn't know ads from results on Google. After I was done explaing, he said, "So, it just keeps honest people honest." My dad hit the nail on the head. The crackers will still figure out a way to disassemble DRM. The law-abiding goodie-two-shoes will not.
Off-topic, I know. My sister bought her computer from Wal-Mart. I'm sure my parents would as well. Maybe the/. crowd wouldn't buy computers from Wal-Mart, but the people who don't know computers definitely would.
Parent has excellent points. I just want to address that Google's plan for Googls D&S in the beginning was not to replace MS Office, but to supplement it. Google D&S was going to include the online functionality that MS Office lacked, and kinda still does lack. Someone said that they use D&S for writing the content, because many people can edit at the same time. Then, they use Word to format it. I believe that D&S and other AJAXy office apps are great for many users editing one document and for one user editing a document in many places.
These types of articles are misleading. The speed of light in a vacuum is c or 299,792,458 m/s. This obviously cannot change. How the slowing of light does occur is not by slowing the photon, but by the electrons interfering with the electromagnetic radiation that is light. This gives the illusion of "slower" light.
Obligatory Wikipedia article to back me up.
FTA,
Caminiti argues that the cost of the hydrogen/solar setup works out at about $4,000 a year when its $100,000 cost is spread over the anticipated 25-year lifespan of the equipment. That's still a lot higher than the $1,500 a year the average U.S. homeowner spends on energy, according to the federal government. Even if gasoline costs averaging about $1,000 per car annually are included in the energy mix, the renewables option is still more expensive than the grid/gasoline combination. AND this doesn't include the half million for research and development so the actual cost is 6 times $4k per year or $24,000 per year. That amount seems ridiculous for Joe Average.
This is the precise reason why I host everything myself including my own series of tubes, dubbed the Internets. I host not only every file that my site uses, but I also have a program that regularly crawls the entire Internet and compresses it onto my own distributed system. That way I can browse the Internet by myself without worrying if someone else's system will fail. Although I do need to replace systems every now and then. But that's not a problem, b/c the distributed system has 3-5 copies of the Internet, each copy in a different place. Wait, isn't their some other company that does that? I can't quite place the name.
Seriously though, relying on some other system so your site will work is a recipe for disaster. It's similar to relying on someone to take you to work everyday. After a while, you get used to that fact that someone else is driving you that you don't even think about it. Then your driver gets deleted somehow. And you're stuck with no way to work.
Don't click on any links in AIM unless you asked for the link yourself. Then check the link and make sure it is from a trusted domain name. I think I'm telling the wrong crowd though./. users should know this.
Why are people making comparisons between HD standards that I personally:
1) Won't need. Current DVD produce is fine.
2) Can't afford. Bring prices down for HD TVs, HD cable boxes, HD cable, HD players, etc.
3) Don't want. *cough* DRM *cough* and too few selections for movies, currently anyway.
I watch movies for the content and story, NOT for the blemishes on the actors faces. My 19" screens and standard DVDs are good enough. That said, HD is good for sporting events. That's all I'd use it for.
If you really want too know what it is all about check http://cows-ajax.sourceforge.net/. From that domain, "Instead of each site owner making their own tools, now a single author can make and distribute a cool tool or service that is easily installed on countless sites with the simple addition of one or two lines of code." It's really for lazy webmasters who want ajax gadgets and gizmos with as little actual ajax as possible. This is done by linking to an external site. You still have to learn the COWS API, but come on. If I wanted to do something with my site, I'd learn how and do it myself. That way I would not be requiring an outside server. I'm sure that's why XmlHttpRequest has the same origin limitation on it. It would force you to create your own applications with your own data. It would force a webmaster to learn.
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The article says that the FAA's air traffic control system is broken and needs a bunch of help, but the article doesn't give any real suggestions. I'll give mine.
1) Give pilots in-flight radar.
2) Create new ATC system to make sure pilots follow flight plan
3) ??????
4) Lose money (cause you're an airline)
5) ??????
6) Profit?
"If a company exports a product at a price lower than the price it normally charges on its own home market, it is said to be "dumping" the product." --from Wikipedia
"A loss leader...is a product sold at a low price to stimulate other, profitable sales." --from Wikipedia
The XBOX is a loss leader because people will buy it at its cheap price, then people will want to play the XBOX. Those people will be required to buy games. The games are high margin products. Microsoft makes both so it's all good for them. It's just like with printers and ink or razors and blades. Microsoft would be guilty of dumping the XBOX if they sold the XBOX in say Europe for 20 USD, which I don't think they do.
viewing the 2008 Olympics opening ceremony online at NBC's Olympics website, you can see that the order in which the countries were presented was very different from the actual order of the countries in the ceremony, as listed at Wikipedia. NBC skipped roughly 100 countries ahead, then jumped back and forth, apparently delaying the appearance of the United States in its home market until later in the broadcast. (In fact, the US team was shown on the infield before they were shown marching!) NBC did not acknowledge this in its broadcast. Is NBC altering the reality of the broadcast to boost ratings? Was this true only online, or also in the live broadcast?"
emphasis mine
To sum up NBC's 12 hour tape-delayed broadcast was in order, while the online version was shown out of order either due to NBC wanting it like that or, more likely, whoever put the parade online didn't pay attention as he/she was supposed to.
Yes, but will anyone perform a Boycott?
Was that "sigh" because you know Myspace and Facebook suck because of word of mouth or is it because you yourself have looked?
My parents are both quite smart at what they do. I searched for something on my laptop one evening and asked both of them if they could tell the difference. Neither of them could. There was a study done by Harris Interactive that said that only 56% of searchers could tell the difference. If 56% of searchers cannot tell the difference then maybe something should change. I don't have a link to the study, but I have a link to a short description.
IANAL, I just read the constitution in my spare time.
I disagree. The basis of copyright in the US comes from this clause in Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution (emphasis mine): "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;"
"Copyright is a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. At its most general, it is literally 'the right to copy' an original creation." from:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
Copyright governs the exclusive right of an author/artist/musician to publish their works. Copyright was originally intended to be granted for a limited time, so that the author/artist/musician could earn an income and be inclined to create more works. Copyright was also originally intended for the benefit of the public, so the public could use the author/artist/musician's works in derivative works after the author/artist/musician was finished making money and so that the author/artist/musician would be inclined to create more works and earn more money.
However, they have been screwed up by the US Congress, US corporation, and others so much that they are granted forever and for the benefit of US corporations so that US corporations can make more money than they deserve.
Sorry to nitpick, but increased sales and increased revenue are the same thing. It's increased profit that you were looking for.
Can beer bubbles run Linux?
Can beer bubbles make Duke Nukem Forever?
How 'bout a Beowulf Cluster of beer bubbles?
I have a fully legit copy of Vista that I got through MSDN-Academic Alliance, while I was in school. I received a DVD image and burned it to a DVD. Fully legal. No fancy hologram. I have since paid $150 for the Ultimate Upgrade.
Hmm, I'd say he's got a good point - there's simply not a culture of privilege awareness in Windows developers.
It's not just that. It's also that there's not privilege awareness in Windows users. With XPSP2 and before, users turn the box on and it boots to an admin privileged user by default. Home users normally don't want to be bothered with setting up multiple accounts on the computer. They just want the computer to do what they want it to do.
If 42 is the answer, what is the question?
Google's employees. IMHO, Google is making the Google Phone/Tablet available inside Google as a convenient device for Google employees. Similar to how Google uses Gdrive internally. It makes sense to me that Google employees should have quick and easy access to their own network. And with their own phone to do it.
The site's copyright notice states that you can't copy anything on the site. And if you do, you must pay her money before you print it or something. But, my browser copied it to my hard drive. Will she sue me too? That can be solved with a pragma no-cache header, but the site does not use.
There are a couple ways to solve this. You could have a robots.txt file on a web server by default. You could even have a easy-to-use GUI to maintain it. The robots.txt would be defaulted to not let any crawler to the site. Problem solved!
Or web site development tools could automatically create the robots.txt with a dialog box or two as part of the setup. Those same dialogs can also set the pragma no-cache meta tag as well. This idiot proofs the process a little.
It's hilarious to see the DRM technology break after every iteration that it goes through. While very amusing, it shows that DRM will lose in the end. Once a movie/album/software/ebook/etc is de-DRMed, then... well, you know.
On a side note but relevant, I was trying to explain DRM to my dad, who is actually someone who doesn't know ads from results on Google. After I was done explaing, he said, "So, it just keeps honest people honest." My dad hit the nail on the head. The crackers will still figure out a way to disassemble DRM. The law-abiding goodie-two-shoes will not.
Off-topic, I know. My sister bought her computer from Wal-Mart. I'm sure my parents would as well. Maybe the /. crowd wouldn't buy computers from Wal-Mart, but the people who don't know computers definitely would.
Parent has excellent points. I just want to address that Google's plan for Googls D&S in the beginning was not to replace MS Office, but to supplement it. Google D&S was going to include the online functionality that MS Office lacked, and kinda still does lack. Someone said that they use D&S for writing the content, because many people can edit at the same time. Then, they use Word to format it. I believe that D&S and other AJAXy office apps are great for many users editing one document and for one user editing a document in many places.
These types of articles are misleading. The speed of light in a vacuum is c or 299,792,458 m/s. This obviously cannot change. How the slowing of light does occur is not by slowing the photon, but by the electrons interfering with the electromagnetic radiation that is light. This gives the illusion of "slower" light.
Obligatory Wikipedia article to back me up.
This is the precise reason why I host everything myself including my own series of tubes, dubbed the Internets. I host not only every file that my site uses, but I also have a program that regularly crawls the entire Internet and compresses it onto my own distributed system. That way I can browse the Internet by myself without worrying if someone else's system will fail. Although I do need to replace systems every now and then. But that's not a problem, b/c the distributed system has 3-5 copies of the Internet, each copy in a different place. Wait, isn't their some other company that does that? I can't quite place the name.
Seriously though, relying on some other system so your site will work is a recipe for disaster. It's similar to relying on someone to take you to work everyday. After a while, you get used to that fact that someone else is driving you that you don't even think about it. Then your driver gets deleted somehow. And you're stuck with no way to work.
This reminds me of when phone booths were taken out of cities due to the overwhelming use of cell phones.
Don't click on any links in AIM unless you asked for the link yourself. Then check the link and make sure it is from a trusted domain name. I think I'm telling the wrong crowd though. /. users should know this.
FTA:
"7. Virus, adware, and spyware free. No porn, no viruses. 'Nuff said."
No porn, WTH??? That's the only reason I buy games. Crap!
Why are people making comparisons between HD standards that I personally:
1) Won't need. Current DVD produce is fine.
2) Can't afford. Bring prices down for HD TVs, HD cable boxes, HD cable, HD players, etc.
3) Don't want. *cough* DRM *cough* and too few selections for movies, currently anyway.
I watch movies for the content and story, NOT for the blemishes on the actors faces. My 19" screens and standard DVDs are good enough. That said, HD is good for sporting events. That's all I'd use it for.
If you really want too know what it is all about check http://cows-ajax.sourceforge.net/. From that domain, "Instead of each site owner making their own tools, now a single author can make and distribute a cool tool or service that is easily installed on countless sites with the simple addition of one or two lines of code." It's really for lazy webmasters who want ajax gadgets and gizmos with as little actual ajax as possible. This is done by linking to an external site. You still have to learn the COWS API, but come on. If I wanted to do something with my site, I'd learn how and do it myself. That way I would not be requiring an outside server. I'm sure that's why XmlHttpRequest has the same origin limitation on it. It would force you to create your own applications with your own data. It would force a webmaster to learn.