Apple going through the trouble of abandoning their old proprietary connector and MAKING A NEW PROPRIETARY ONE instead of going to a standard one like every other phone has had for years sounds at least a bit nefarious to me.
Is it possible that a standard micro or mini USB cable didn't do everything they wanted?
Let me guess, you only trust phones from RIM, a company that can neither market nor innovate!
I guess that's a better guess than Windows Phone.
Most of us are agnostic atheists. Including Dawkins, Hitchens, and the rest. You may have missed that.
a-theist means without God. One who does not accept that God exists is an atheist. One does not need to also hold the positive belief that God does not exist.
I doubt that very much, in the case of Hitchens. Right now he's either nothing, or very much a believer.
If this is illegal, what the fuck is a DVR? What the fuck is a VCR? Both can be used to circumvent commercials.
I suspect they see a difference between the fact that they can't stop YOU from doing anything (hitting fast forward, hitting mute, walking out of the room, singing at the top of your lungs with your fingers stuck in your ears) with a rebroadcaster removing the ads automatically. You can take an action, they would like to think Dish cannot take that action for you automatically.
Personally, I don't want to see all ads removed. They are just going to raise rates to cover it. This is one time where status quo is better for me than the alternative.
I hear ya. Same for Satellite radio. Bought my first new car with one two months back and I was quite surprised to hear commercials on the non-native channels (Fox, CNN, etc).
Why would that surprise you? What did you expect, dead air? If they are rebroadcasting a channel that broadcasts 24 hours a day with commercials, it's awfully hard to fill 24 hours by skipping those commercials.
Doesn't Dish already pay licensing fees to the networks as well?
Exactly.
Dish pays millions of dollars a year to the networks for the "right" to carry their programs. If Dish completely cuts out commercials on every channel they carry, the networks still get money.
This would lead to higher costs, of course. Right now channels make money by selling retransmission rights and ad slots. They spend money by producing shows or licensing syndicated programs. If you remove some of the income but none of the expenditures, they'll no doubt raise prices to the cable and satellite firms, who guess what - will raise rates to you!
I've lost a few channels on DirecTV for short periods of time (a couple of weeks) while they fought over retransmission rights. I'm sure that's happened to Dish as well. Yes and Cablevision went at it very publically a few years ago. I think it's safe to say the channels will want higher fees from Dish, to offset the lower ad revenue once advertisers realize a few million potential customers no longer see their ads across the board on one carrier.
Someone will pay. Either Dish customers will routinely lose local channels during drawn out negotiations, or the cost of service will go up. But I doubt your local affiliate will just lie down and say "ok, it was fun while we made money off ads, have a good one...."
Cable companies are just distributors, not show producers, yet they're always referring to their pay-TV as a "product". How is that any different than pirates offering the same "product" as television without ads delivered over the Internet for free?
Other than this being Slashdot, I'm not sure why you are currently modded +4 Insightful, but probably because Cable companies are licensed distributors, paying and receiving retransmission rights. They in turn recoup their cost through charging the recipients, as well as some of the ads which are local slots, available for them to sell.
The pirates do none of that, they take something, strip out the ads, and redistribute it without permission. People like it, because it's free, but that doesn't make it the same as what cable companies do.
I'm sure the carriers will just love this and push windows phones even harder in their stores.
Yeah. They will push other phones, without Skype. Oh wait...
How quickly will students learn to game the system to get perfect scores with perfect gibberish?
Spammers with poor spelling and grammar figured out combinations of gibberish to get around Bayesian spam filtering, I can only imagine relatively smart students will figure out ways to beat the software in time. But hopefully, if people implement systems like this, there will be some checks and balances. Fear of receiving a '0' for a test coupled with having essays randomly graded (smaller numbers) and reviewed / skimmed quickly (larger numbers) ought to be a good start.
Not every "creed" or political system is a religion. There are plenty of liberal Christians for instance.
Jesus was fairly liberal for His time.
I work in the upgrades department, which means that people buy phones from me. I can tell you from personal experience, no one ever comes on the phone and asks "You got any of those windows phones?" My current ratio is 20 iphones for every 17 android devices to every 1 windows phone. Nobody buys them, and here's the reason: they're all inferior, by a long shot. HTC released the one series of phones a couple weeks back, android to the core. Where are the quad core phones for windows? I dont see them.
I'm not sure about your numbers. Besides being slightly anecdotal, you went from nobody wants Windows, to 1 in 38 want Windows. All joking aside, nobody is going to release a quad core phone for Windows, the OS isn't ready for it, and the spec doesn't call for it. Nokia is capable of slapping a better processor in a case, there's just really no reason to do so at this time.
Nobody in this thread said anything about being on the Internet through Compuserve in 1983, or indeed anything about the Internet whatsoever during that time frame. The claim was that CIS did not exist in 1983, which I refuted, albeit with a different name (but the Wikipedia page didn't date the name change and I can't be arsed to look it up at 3am). CIS, previously known as MicroNET, goes back further than 1983.
Actually the claim was that he didn't recall CompuServe in 1983. That's okay. I don't recall what I ate for dinner last week, but that doesn't mean I didn't have dinner.
Memory fault -- core...uh...um...core... Oh dammit, I forget!
