Tuesday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on November 8, 2005 at 3:09:16 PM
I posted a review of a nice presentation device, the Memory Pointer: »http://www.aselabs.com/articles.php?id=184
Research sucks in this country.
Ballmer says Microsoft is different. Using our monopoly powers to crush the competition!
Women like jokes better than Men. I disagree (queue Family Guy episode where Peter tells the sexist joke and is forced to go to a women's rights camp).
Content providers still don't get it. I don't want to pay for a show that I missed because you think time-shifting is illegal. If something has been broadcasted publically, ANYONE is able to record it. If I download a TV after it airs, tough. I'm not paying to watch a show WITH COMMERCIALS still in it no less.
Research sucks in this country.
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"I think we are in trouble," said Leonard Kleinrock, professor of computer science at the University of California at Los Angeles and creator of the basic principle of packet switching. "Years ago, people took a long-range view to research. There was high-risk research with the potential for big payoffs. That's no longer the case."
Ballmer says Microsoft is different. Using our monopoly powers to crush the competition!
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Part of our pitch to enterprises is that we will help them save money. In terms of the trustworthiness of the platform, we have plenty of references and we have plenty of scale that should put to bed a lot of the legacy issues related to this stuff being enterprise-ready. We've had those issues for years. At some point, clearly those are legacy issues.
Women like jokes better than Men. I disagree (queue Family Guy episode where Peter tells the sexist joke and is forced to go to a women's rights camp).
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Women and men are often perceived as having differences in their senses of humour but, until now, there had been no neurological evidence for such suspicions. The new brain scanning study showed that although men and women tended to agree on which of the single-panel cartoons they were shown were funny, they processed the humour differently in their brains. In particular, women appear to have a lower expectation that the cartoon will be funny than men. “Women appear to have less expectation of a reward, which in this case was the punch line of the cartoon. So when they got to the joke’s punch line, they were more pleased about it,” says Allan Reiss, one of the study’s authors, at Stanford University School of Medicine in California, US.
Content providers still don't get it. I don't want to pay for a show that I missed because you think time-shifting is illegal. If something has been broadcasted publically, ANYONE is able to record it. If I download a TV after it airs, tough. I'm not paying to watch a show WITH COMMERCIALS still in it no less.
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Both men are taking long-awaited steps to build new revenue streams amid increasing production costs and declining ratings. While new platforms could further drain the broadcast ratings that determine advertising rates, there is the hope that broadcast TV actually could be strengthened, with video-on-demand providing a safety net for viewers who might miss an episode.