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• On the post: Nissan To Add Futuristic Sound Effects To Its Electric Car To Keep It From Hitting Unaware Pedestrians

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2009 @ 02:43pm

  Re: Re: Proprietary Noises

  I want my car to sound like a Stage Coach with two horses.
  
  Actually I want to be able to change the sound on a whim. Enterprise whooshes one day, wild horses the next, a bike with baseball cards in the spokes the next....

• On the post: Nissan To Add Futuristic Sound Effects To Its Electric Car To Keep It From Hitting Unaware Pedestrians

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2009 @ 02:40pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: deaf law makers

  >>Braille is on drive-thru ATMs because the same
  >>models of ATMs are used in non-drive-thru locations as >>well.
  
  >I've seen braille stickers added onto
  >drive-through ATMs that did not originally have it.
  
  Don't any of you have a back seat? The braille is for a backseat passenger to be driven to the cash machine.

• On the post: Movie Industry Overreaction: Attacking Fan Subbers

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2009 @ 05:30pm

  Perhaps they need to follow the Rifftrax model. Release an MP3 that you listen to concurrently while watching the film.

• On the post: Only 8% Of Journalist Coverage Of Healthcare Debate Is Actually About The Healthcare System

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2009 @ 05:17am

  Re: What to do

  >Why don't newspapera give the printed version away for free?
  
  Some papers with lots of online components do. They just charge for the paper, ink and it's delivery.

• On the post: Doubleplusungood: That Copy Of 1984 On Your Kindle Is Now Gone

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2009 @ 06:01pm

  Another lawsuit Amazon may want to lose.

  Well we have to figure someone will be annoyed enough to sue Amazon over the disappearing Orwell. Given that perhaps Amazon wants a court telling them they can't do that anymore giving them the right to tell any publisher who wants to shove off.
  
  I still am waiting for a blind organization to sue over the disabled text to speech feature.

• On the post: Why Should A TV Show Need Permission To Include A University Logo?

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2009 @ 06:29am

  FAUX brands become real Re:

  My daughter watches iCarly on nick and they feature computers and phones with a big pear on the back of the phone and computer.
  
  Homer Simpson drinks Duff bear which I have never found on a shelf. I wonder if people have tried to buy the rights to that faux brand. I don think a few faux brands have made the jump to the store shelves.

• On the post: If Your Tribute To Pez Gets Too Much Attention, Pez Might Sue

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2009 @ 02:08pm

  There was a movie that showed a video of a band dressed as pez dispensers presumably made by one of the characters. I wonder if they got sued.

• On the post: Palin Threats To News Organizations Seem Misguided

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2009 @ 05:11am

  Palin is a sure loser

  About the only reason to run Palin in 2012 is that the republicans don't want to waste a more viable candidate against Obama.
  
  I think she is a looney and too thin skinned to survive long in a high visibility position. That said I'd put a couple of quatloos on her getting a show on FOX News by the end of the decade. But I wouldn't be shocked if she joined Barnum and Bailey as a clown either.

• On the post: If You're Going To Meter Broadband, Shouldn't You At Least Make Sure The Meters Work?

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 26 Jun, 2009 @ 07:02am

  TOO CHEAP TO METER

  This is like trying to sell water by the drop. You could do it but it isn't really worth the hassle.
  
  I can't wait for the first big company to walk away from the idea because it was costing them more to meter than adding more bandwidth would cost.

• On the post: So Why Can't Major Record Labels Provide Accurate Accounting To Bands?

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 20 Jun, 2009 @ 06:55am

  Sarbanes Oxley

  If any of the recording industry accounting is suspect it is all suspect. They need a visit from the people who enforce SOX accounting rules.

• On the post: How Can There Be Unauthorized Playing With Toys?

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2009 @ 08:04am

  How much farther than Playmobil did they go? Playmobil has a winebar set that it sells in the UK.
  
  http://www.delongwine.com/news/2009/03/31/playmobil-wine-bar/

• On the post: The Constitutional Problems With The Award In The Jammie Thomas Case

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2009 @ 06:44am

  Madoff only got five years to protect him from his clients.
  
  
  This needs to go to the Supremes if only to see if RIAA folds again. Prediction is that they will lose badly and fold somewhere on the appellate ladder.

• On the post: IBM's Where-in-HQ-is-Samuel-J-Palmisano? Patent

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2009 @ 04:46am

  I use a similar system with my cat-a bell around it's neck.

• On the post: US Switches To Digital TV And The World Doesn't End — Nor Does Hollywood

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2009 @ 11:00am

  Re: Re: Down four channels since Friday

  Those are MHz channels on 35 if you are in the DC market.
  
  7 & 9 thought staying on VHF would be a better deal for them but the don't have the signal strength to reach outside the beltway to Fairfax. 5 and 20 turned up today when I switched antennas.

• On the post: US Switches To Digital TV And The World Doesn't End — Nor Does Hollywood

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2009 @ 05:39am

  Down four channels since Friday

  I have a digital tuner box and was doing pretty well with it a few months ago when I first tested it. I settled on a little simple bowtie antenna I had in the junk box.
  
  I rescanned Saturday and lost 5-FOX, 7-ABC, 9-CBS and 20-MYTV. 20 always was iffy. The other three had been solid. 7 and 9 switched their digital signal to their old VHF frequencies and out of the range of my antenna. I have no idea what happened to 5.
  
  I have 14 assorted channels left with 3 on the NBC affiliate and 4 on the ION affiliate.

• On the post: Ticketmaster Takes Another Stab At Shutting Down Scalpers With Paperless Tickets

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2009 @ 03:35pm

  Tickmaster Next step

  Seatless tickets.

• On the post: Ticketmaster Takes Another Stab At Shutting Down Scalpers With Paperless Tickets

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2009 @ 03:34pm

  Tickmaster Next step

• On the post: Idaho Potato Commission As Trademark Trolls

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2009 @ 05:55am

  This just in

  Idaho is now suing Frank Herbert to change the name of Duncan Idaho from his classic novel Dune.
  
  Mister Herbert has been dead since 1986 and is unavailable for comment.

• On the post: YouTube's Big Traffic Stick Forces PRS To Slash UK Streaming Royalty Rate

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2009 @ 12:06pm

  Re: Re: Re: being optimistic are we?

  >I just think that they're not happy about this and decided
  >to go along cause there was no other alternative.
  
  Well it is like not being willing to meet WalMart's requirements in a town where there is only WalMart. If you want to be in the market you need to dance with the devil.
  
  People hearing new music is the life's blood of getting any chance for people to buy new music. Screwing all your sampling venues will destroy your market.

• On the post: YouTube's Big Traffic Stick Forces PRS To Slash UK Streaming Royalty Rate

  

  John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2009 @ 05:13am

  Re: being optimistic are we?

  >i think PRS feels its getting the short end of the stick >and i bet if they could sue youtube for black mail (or what >ever else) that's what we would be reading about on >BestNetTech today.
  
  Well I doubt PRS has anything to sue over. Youtube decided it isn't willing to pay the rate so it isn't running the material. Now that turns out to be more painful for PRS than youtube.

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