They should stop being jerks. They should stop fixating on imagined theives and instead concentrate on actual paying customers. Stoping piracy is not going to gain you anything. Increasing sales will gain you something.
Strangely enough the upper management at HBO seems to get this. The people that matter seem to understand the situation. It's just web forum trolls that don't get it.
The peasants eagerly defending their lords are a step or two behind.
Schmidt may find that the biggest tragedy by far is that he loses his own anonymity. He will find himself in the same position as Romney. He will stick a big size 14 foot in his mouth and some bartender will have it all on video.
The problem with tablets is that their catching up has more to do with corporate policy than technology.
It's kind of like you calling me a luddite for saying that my microwave or my bluray player will never catch up with the functionality and usefulness of my PC.
The PC would have been laughed at in the beginning because it was primitive. While you could interact with a PC in a manner similar to a mainframe, it took about 10 more years for PCs to start to catch up to a mainframe in terms of capability and sophistication.
Tablets aren't just primitive. They don't just have a different and less useful form factor. They are specifically crippled to be less useful and more primitive than they otherwise could be.
They're like Fortune 100 corporate IT policies applied to a consumer computing device.
No. It's an obvious contradiction. It's just that most people are too stupid to realize it. Much like anything else, they don't put any thought into their religious beliefs either. A number of religions actively discourage the application of intellect to the subject of faith or dogma.
This is why even other religions are prone to snicker and engage in childish namecalling.
There's a spectrum of religious nonsense with some of it being worse than others.
> Supermarkets are the simplest and laziest method for obtaining food. I don't see you hunting, gathering or farming all your calories.
I have a garden in the back yard. It's there because I care about quality and I like control. There are also some severe quality issues with what's available at the local supermarket. So I like to grow my own food as much as I can manage on a tiny suburban lot.
I also seek out alternatives to the local supermarket.
Even when I do shop in the supermarket, I like to read labels and understand what I am getting and avoid pre-packaged tripe whenever I can.
I don't just blindly accept whatever is shoved in front of me. I also try to have some deeper awareness of what it is.
The garden helps in that regard even if it can't make me completely independent.
> atheists are religious too; they prescribe to the dogma that there is no god
It's not dogma unless someone is willing to burn you at the stake for it.
Now trying to distort the world to fit your worldview... THAT is dogma. You can't handle the fact that you are out of touch with some or most of the modern world so you find the need to attack or subvert it.
The second sentence doesn't matter. If you can't access the video then it's existence is moot. That means that survellance has to be public and realtime. Otherwise no one is ever going to be able to see it. There will simply never be an audit. Tapes will be mysteriously lost or redacted for whatever excuse is popular.
That would be the same "mature" operating systems that have generally needed to employ products from 3rd party vendors in order to have interesting filesystems.
Nope. Because copyright exists to encourage the current set of artists to create new. Expansive copyright interferes with that and even prevents the publishing of old work too.
...all of which just demonstrate how badly Windows does at pretending to be Unix.
The thing about this claim of yours is that pretty much everyone here is in a good position to test out anything you have to say should you actually say something testable. Between friends machines, office desktops, and virtual machines the lot of us could quickly see just how full of sh*t you are.
Replacement shells for Windows all suck and they always have. It's true today as much as it was back in the days of Norton Desktop. There will always be some integration problem that arises from the fact that you are forcing WinDOS ot do something that it's not designed to do.
So this is supposed to be about the new Amazon pilots on Prime?
This would be the those same pilots which I am running on my Linux box right now? I am at a loss to see what exactly the problem is supposed to be here.
This nonsense did caused me to give those pilots a second look ironically enough.
No. You have to be a pretty determined idiot to hold onto the idea that DRM ever stopped copying. All it takes is one motivated pirate on a planet of 6 billion to enable the other 5,999,999,999 thieves to completely have their way with something.
It's a MUCH more simple issue than gun control by far.
I will just get the disc through Netflix or wait until it goes on sale. That's assuming I'm not the sort of user that just goes straight to TPB.
I can even go the old school route and just wait until it makes it onto one of my local network affiliates that I can capture with a pair of rabbit ears.
Free media is nothing new. It's been the default state of thing since the introduction of radio.
It's still the same thing as Flash and Silverlight.
It's a wolf in sheep's clothing. All you're really accomplishing is hiding the fact that you're still using proprietary crap. There is no value in subverting an open standard so people can kid themselves that things have improved when they really haven't.
You can set up an HTPC but it's still something that's intended to behave like a Tivo or a Roku. Anything else is going to get end user resistance from "normal people".
The problem with that snark is that web based video streaming on a PC still sucks. It's a variation on the "Flash sucks" meme. Silverlight isn't much better. You're still going to be going about the task in the least efficient manner possible. You will need more machine than what's really necessary.
This is why a $60 speciality appliance can manage the task better.
> For all the time you spend messing with Linux setups and devices, a $100 Roku 3 will last you a decade and save you time and shelf space
The only thing that Roku will buy you is the extra shelf space. It will still be an inferior device despite being a 3rd generation unit. It will still be unable to handle it's own content decoding and be inferior to a 6 year old HTPC in this regard.
I have an HTPC that's older than the entire Roku line and it's still more capable than any ARM appliance once you get past the whole proprietary DRM thing.
A Roku is a nice supplement for an HTPC, not a replacement for one.
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They should stop being jerks. They should stop fixating on imagined theives and instead concentrate on actual paying customers. Stoping piracy is not going to gain you anything. Increasing sales will gain you something.
Strangely enough the upper management at HBO seems to get this. The people that matter seem to understand the situation. It's just web forum trolls that don't get it.
The peasants eagerly defending their lords are a step or two behind.
Schmidt may find that the biggest tragedy by far is that he loses his own anonymity. He will find himself in the same position as Romney. He will stick a big size 14 foot in his mouth and some bartender will have it all on video.
He thinks he's exempt but he won't be.
The problem with tablets is that their catching up has more to do with corporate policy than technology.
It's kind of like you calling me a luddite for saying that my microwave or my bluray player will never catch up with the functionality and usefulness of my PC.
The PC would have been laughed at in the beginning because it was primitive. While you could interact with a PC in a manner similar to a mainframe, it took about 10 more years for PCs to start to catch up to a mainframe in terms of capability and sophistication.
Tablets aren't just primitive. They don't just have a different and less useful form factor. They are specifically crippled to be less useful and more primitive than they otherwise could be.
They're like Fortune 100 corporate IT policies applied to a consumer computing device.
They are "massively adopting" them as overpriced toys.
The reasons for our derision have yet to be disproven.
No. It's an obvious contradiction. It's just that most people are too stupid to realize it. Much like anything else, they don't put any thought into their religious beliefs either. A number of religions actively discourage the application of intellect to the subject of faith or dogma.
This is why even other religions are prone to snicker and engage in childish namecalling.
There's a spectrum of religious nonsense with some of it being worse than others.
> Supermarkets are the simplest and laziest method for obtaining food. I don't see you hunting, gathering or farming all your calories.
I have a garden in the back yard. It's there because I care about quality and I like control. There are also some severe quality issues with what's available at the local supermarket. So I like to grow my own food as much as I can manage on a tiny suburban lot.
I also seek out alternatives to the local supermarket.
Even when I do shop in the supermarket, I like to read labels and understand what I am getting and avoid pre-packaged tripe whenever I can.
I don't just blindly accept whatever is shoved in front of me. I also try to have some deeper awareness of what it is.
The garden helps in that regard even if it can't make me completely independent.
> atheists are religious too; they prescribe to the dogma that there is no god
It's not dogma unless someone is willing to burn you at the stake for it.
Now trying to distort the world to fit your worldview... THAT is dogma. You can't handle the fact that you are out of touch with some or most of the modern world so you find the need to attack or subvert it.
> $10m is a lot of money, but with top rate talent that can easily translate into a much larger profit than going with a nobody
You are paying $10M not for talent but for a big name that's expected to draw an audience regardless of the quality of the work or their performance.
That can also translate into a big fat flop as you fixate on bean counting and forget about art and craftsmanship.
The box set can also be stripped of it's DRM and converted to any format and played on any device or app you want.
The second sentence doesn't matter. If you can't access the video then it's existence is moot. That means that survellance has to be public and realtime. Otherwise no one is ever going to be able to see it. There will simply never be an audit. Tapes will be mysteriously lost or redacted for whatever excuse is popular.
That would be the same "mature" operating systems that have generally needed to employ products from 3rd party vendors in order to have interesting filesystems.
> Why? Is it because you want to hear this song?
Nope. Because copyright exists to encourage the current set of artists to create new. Expansive copyright interferes with that and even prevents the publishing of old work too.
...all of which just demonstrate how badly Windows does at pretending to be Unix.
The thing about this claim of yours is that pretty much everyone here is in a good position to test out anything you have to say should you actually say something testable. Between friends machines, office desktops, and virtual machines the lot of us could quickly see just how full of sh*t you are.
Been there. Done that. Not impressed.
Are you kidding?
Replacement shells for Windows all suck and they always have. It's true today as much as it was back in the days of Norton Desktop. There will always be some integration problem that arises from the fact that you are forcing WinDOS ot do something that it's not designed to do.
Expecting users to edit conf files is just silly.
My republican senators act like they represent Los Angeles rather than the red state that actually elected them.
So this is supposed to be about the new Amazon pilots on Prime?
This would be the those same pilots which I am running on my Linux box right now? I am at a loss to see what exactly the problem is supposed to be here.
This nonsense did caused me to give those pilots a second look ironically enough.
> Why would they spend the time to cater to 2% of the market?
That 2% influences many others.
> . But if a service elects to use it anyway - why not just give them a standardized way to do it - that will work across all devices
That's a nice fantasy.
Unfortunately, the reality is much less ideal.
It is not standardized. I will not work across all devices.
It's really just like the current solutions (Flash, Silverlight).
No. You have to be a pretty determined idiot to hold onto the idea that DRM ever stopped copying. All it takes is one motivated pirate on a planet of 6 billion to enable the other 5,999,999,999 thieves to completely have their way with something.
It's a MUCH more simple issue than gun control by far.
That's just silly.
I will just get the disc through Netflix or wait until it goes on sale. That's assuming I'm not the sort of user that just goes straight to TPB.
I can even go the old school route and just wait until it makes it onto one of my local network affiliates that I can capture with a pair of rabbit ears.
Free media is nothing new. It's been the default state of thing since the introduction of radio.
It's still the same thing as Flash and Silverlight.
It's a wolf in sheep's clothing. All you're really accomplishing is hiding the fact that you're still using proprietary crap. There is no value in subverting an open standard so people can kid themselves that things have improved when they really haven't.
> It's "nerd" to watch movies on a computer?
Pretty much.
You can set up an HTPC but it's still something that's intended to behave like a Tivo or a Roku. Anything else is going to get end user resistance from "normal people".
The problem with that snark is that web based video streaming on a PC still sucks. It's a variation on the "Flash sucks" meme. Silverlight isn't much better. You're still going to be going about the task in the least efficient manner possible. You will need more machine than what's really necessary.
This is why a $60 speciality appliance can manage the task better.
> For all the time you spend messing with Linux setups and devices, a $100 Roku 3 will last you a decade and save you time and shelf space
The only thing that Roku will buy you is the extra shelf space. It will still be an inferior device despite being a 3rd generation unit. It will still be unable to handle it's own content decoding and be inferior to a 6 year old HTPC in this regard.
I have an HTPC that's older than the entire Roku line and it's still more capable than any ARM appliance once you get past the whole proprietary DRM thing.
A Roku is a nice supplement for an HTPC, not a replacement for one.