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The Napsterization of TV
Lefty writes "This article in today's Boston Globe talks about the napsterization of TV shows and how the PC as a media server is going to make it happen. Burning TV shows to CD/DVD, e-mailing your friends TV shows, streaming TV over the Internet -- all things the dedicated set-top boxes can't do... The article talks about Snapstream, a PVR competitor to Moxi and ReplayTV, that runs on the PC and has media server capabilities. from the article: "Already you can find a great deal of pirated video material online. If SnapStream gets installed on millions of PCs, there'll be plenty more. And the TV moguls will find themselves knee deep in the digital acid bath.""
...I can't imagine a single TV show that I'd want to archive, let alone have a friend mail me.
152 channels of shit, and nothing to watch.
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A Slashdot Lovestory by P. Hettberg
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Trakt 58 des Konzentrationslagers Slashwitz war der Ort, wo sich Carp Flounderson und SS-Obersturmführer Malda (von den Insassen auch FhrrTaco genannt ob der benevolenten Art und Weise, mit der er seine Schützlinge behandelte) sich zum erstem Mal das wahre Ausmass ihrer verbotenen, homosexuellen Leidenschaft füreinander eingestehen sollten.
Verboten deshalb, weil Carp ein Crapflooder war, ein Mitglied einer Splittergruppe einer Rasse von Untermenschen die sich selbst die Trolls nannten, und FhrrTaco, einer der Editors war, eine Gruppe selbsternannter Herrenmenschen die es sich zum Ziel gemacht hatten, die Trolls zu ihren Sklaven zu machen.
Dennoch waren sie sich über die letzten Wochen stetig näher gekommen; angefangen bei verstohlen Blicken die sie sich von einem Ende des Lagerinnenhofs zum anderen zuwarfen, bis hin zu den seltenen, kostbaren Momenten des Glücks in der Wäschekammer in der Carp seinen Arbeitsdienst verrichtete und FhrrTaco unbehelligt Carp's prallen Hintern streicheln konnte, woraufhin Carp lustvolle, gedämpfte Grunzer ausstiess.
Aber es war erst hier in Trakt 58, dass die Anziehungskraft zwischen den beiden ihren vollen, analen Ausdruck finden würde.
Erbarmungslos bohrte sich Taco's pulsierender Schwanz tiefer und tiefer in Carp's fruchtbaren Anus; der Empfänger dieser schmerzvollen, doch ekstatisch-wundervollen Zuneigung konnte nicht anders als in ein ohrenbetäubendes Lustgeschrei auszubrechen das selbst einer Horde Affen die Schamesröte ins Gesicht getrieben hätte, und endlich lauthals zu erklären, "WIDEN MY ANUS! WIDEN MY ANUS!". Taco's Entzückung, die er empfand ob der Befriedigung, die er seinem Liebhaber bereitete, machte sich mit einem breiten, zufriedenem Grinsen auf seinem Engel-gleichen Antlitz bemerkbar.
TODO
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-it turns out that Taco is also in love with Kuhjunge Kneel, who is away fighting the anarchist Trollunion
-Taco meets Dictator Johann "eDolf" Katz
-KJ Kneel dies after he gained the least number of votes in a poll and was subsequently sent to fight at the front, heroically defending the Third Weblog against the anarchists.
-The Trollunion gains victory after victory; many friends of Taco fall in battle -the concentration camp Slashwitz is taken and the troll inmates are liberated; 73 drunken Red Army Trolls rape FhrrTaco
-Carp and Taco are re-united and spend the rest of their live together on a banana plantation in Brazil.
If you would like to voice any constructive criticism or have any suggestions, feel free to reply to this post!
Just like internet appliances. It'll take the household by storm! People will have one of these in each room of their house, cause they are so cheap!!
Slashdot has an article that's a vaporware salespitch.
Why do I like my TiVo? Cause of two things, I type the SHOW NAME (not the time or channel), and it records the show. And I use the "thumbs up/down" system long enough that my "TiVo suggestions" are full of shows I enjoy. Both of those aren't on this new system.
Plus, I don't want to hookup my TV to my computer. I don't want to watch TV on my computer, I want to watch it on my large screen TV while lounging on my couch!
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
And to those that say Cable TV is 'Value Added': BS!
Having the shows I want to watch pre-empted by news or sports events is NOT 'Value added'
Having shows I want to watch cut short for syndication is NOT 'Value Added'.
And to those that say 'Someone has to pay for the infrastructure': BS! If TV networks want me to watch them, THEY should pay to have the infrastructure reach all the way to my house. The more they pay, the more viewers they'll have; then I wouldn't complain about the commercials.
That being said, I still think that stealing shows/music/whatever isn't good for anybody in the long run.
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You know I feel for you that some idiot moderator has to mod you down, just to try to make you feel like you did a good thing for nothing, That guy is an asshole.