X10 is great if you want the lights to work 40% of the time. the rest of us use Crestron,AMX, or a system that is 100% reliable and two way communication.
Sounds great if Google will tell Motorola and Samsung to have sex with themselves when they demand changes to the OS to remove features. Leave it a "pure" Android and not allow them to do the nasty whore job they did with android phone OS.
I can see AT&T demanding to Motorola who demands to Google that it cant play mkv files because that helps support piracy.
They are doing this to keep the low cost tablets from competing hand in and with their big partners. Motorola and Samsung pitched a bitch about a china maker putting out a $199.00 tablet that is close to the overpriced tablets they are currently putting out.
Agreed, let them destroy themselves. just mark those waters as dangerous and allow freighters to arm themselves to the teeth and tell freighters to "blow out of the water" any boat that get's within 2000 feet of them.
Suddenly the pirate problem goes away when you launch harpoon missiles at fishing boats and chum the water with the pirates innards.
Yes, I am recommending overreaction. no bullets, a minimum of 500 pounds of explosive as your first response. no pieces of the ship left larger than 3 inches.
You dont realize how digital cable works do you....
IT's all ip based for the most part. right now it's a mpeg2 broadcast stream that you "tune into" but it does not need to be that way, they are doing it that way because they are live feeds of video. if they were not live feeds than it can all be On demand without any changes to how the digital cable TV distribution works.
It's specific streams ONLY because the channels are "live streams".
And CableTV is dead because they dont want to change their business model. Comcast 10 years ago should have focused on the internet side first, they would be kind right now... (also get rid of the "we hate the customer" attitude, but that has been there for decades)
"Some of the puzzles require a hell of a lot of trust "
why? do you have to send them naked photos of yourself dressed in bondage leather that they use to get to the next level and you need to trust they wont post them to the internet? Or does portal 2 come with electrodes that shock your testicles and the other player has control of the shock power?
IT's a fricking game, you don't need to "trust" them at all.
Are you insane you cant trust the consumer to even hold a disk they may Selfishly to a terrorist act of sharing that disk with a friend that did not pay for the right to play it or WORSE invite others over to play it. What is needed is the console to NOT have any drives or even processor, but the games are played on the local servers safe in our bunker 30 miles below the surface away from the dirty disgusting consumers.
That along with our lobbying to get implants required on all gamers so we can blind them and electrocute them when we need to will protect our precious!
The handeykey Twiddler is still in production and still used by many. It's a godsend to people with disabilities.
Frnaklin ebookman worked great for when it was viable. It's failure was that publishers were afraid of ebooks. it had good readability unti lthe Rex came about with a far better screen. Both were ahead of their time and only "failed" because of publishers.
A lot of that stuff were far from failures. they were designed for a specific task. the 3d mousing devices are STILL used to this day in high end 3d CAD.
I think the submitter needs to understand what "failed" means.
But it doesn't. They are paying far too much to film the episodes... and that is ALSO a problem... they are FILMING THEM. 35mm film using, 1,000,000 Arriflex lenses and film production crews. AVCHD cameras shoot video good enough for TV shows, hell cheap ass Canon D7's do as well and gives them the "artsey film lense look" if they want it. Otherwise they could significantly cut production costs by doing multi camera shooting instead of one Film camera and the 8 people that go with it.
Also the sets can be cheaper. the stuff that is not the regular locations can be green screen or do the "star trek" trick and have generic hallway sections that can always be assembled to make 20 miles of corridors. Honestly set making is cheap and easy and can all be foam board like they did on Enterprise.
The expense is the current actors all getting SAG rate scale pay. fire the whole crew and replace with non SAG actors and non union writers and crew. Restart SGU as a band of the ancestors kids on a seed ship. A nice reboot of the series with all new cast that will accept a street urchin beggers pay scale of only $65,000 a year.
Oh also shoot in a old factory in Iowa instead of overpriced land of movies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexx also was low budget and was decent until the last year when they had their budget cut in 1/2 by Syfy in an attempt to kill it.
Also everyone forgets that Mad Max was made on a shoestring budget, they could only afford ONE leather jacket.
Primer in 2004 was also very low budget and a great film.
Moon made in 2009 was also very low budget and good.
Only people that know nothing at all about TV and movie production think it's all very expensive to make anything quality. It's not.
Lumpy(tm) is a registered trademark of LumpyCo a subsidary of the Lumpy Foundation.
Honestly, if you pull the same shenanigans that corporations do you can control them.
Trademark your persona along with copyrighting it. then you have a legal standing to FORCE companies like facebook, blogger.com, etc.. to do what you tell them to.
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30% of 30% is 10%.. RTFA yourself. the 30% is from NET revenue not Gross.
Sounds like most slashdotters need to take Accounting 101.
And they wonder why people like me buy the paperback and then torrent the ebook version. Fuck the publishers and their over the top greed.
and who cares, click on browser, click on amazon.com website link.
It's enough to make a profit, just not enough to become obscenely rich instantly.
Dear iflowerreader devs....
EULAS SUCK... glad to see a software company get their asses bitten by a EULA.
Yet Amazon is doing well.
you need to play their game. buy in all you pay a hefty fee. buy through the website and ZERO fee.
BRILLIANT! built in mind wipes of all players! You're going to be CEO soon!
X-10 != reliable.
X10 is great if you want the lights to work 40% of the time. the rest of us use Crestron,AMX, or a system that is 100% reliable and two way communication.
Hello Bluetooth mouse. Did you even try?
It works on the galaxy pad.
Sounds great if Google will tell Motorola and Samsung to have sex with themselves when they demand changes to the OS to remove features. Leave it a "pure" Android and not allow them to do the nasty whore job they did with android phone OS.
I can see AT&T demanding to Motorola who demands to Google that it cant play mkv files because that helps support piracy.
Nope.
They are doing this to keep the low cost tablets from competing hand in and with their big partners. Motorola and Samsung pitched a bitch about a china maker putting out a $199.00 tablet that is close to the overpriced tablets they are currently putting out.
IT's all about the Benjamin's... nothing else.
That is why we need to overreact. overreact so badly that the whiners of the world will be scared to say anything...
"American is not helping the pirate problem"
Launch a mirv 12, neutron bomb a 600 mile radius.
"America overreacted!"
Launch a Mirv12 nutron bomb a 600 mile radios centered on the home of the asshole that complained...
".,.... America is great... woooo!... where can we buy American flags to wave? please don't nuke us!"
That way all the infrastructure is safe and the area is clean to re-inhabit after 30 years. WE can be eco-friendly!
"The lawyers were from the Navy, I doubt they were paid for."
Three is one constant in the universe that is even more solid than any other...
Lawyers are NEVER free... they cost, they cost a lot.
Agreed, let them destroy themselves. just mark those waters as dangerous and allow freighters to arm themselves to the teeth and tell freighters to "blow out of the water" any boat that get's within 2000 feet of them.
Suddenly the pirate problem goes away when you launch harpoon missiles at fishing boats and chum the water with the pirates innards.
Yes, I am recommending overreaction. no bullets, a minimum of 500 pounds of explosive as your first response. no pieces of the ship left larger than 3 inches.
Actually they would be the precipitate.. unless we ground them up first so they will dissolve into the sea water easier...
I am NOT against grinding them all up.
You dont realize how digital cable works do you....
IT's all ip based for the most part. right now it's a mpeg2 broadcast stream that you "tune into" but it does not need to be that way, they are doing it that way because they are live feeds of video. if they were not live feeds than it can all be On demand without any changes to how the digital cable TV distribution works.
It's specific streams ONLY because the channels are "live streams".
And CableTV is dead because they dont want to change their business model. Comcast 10 years ago should have focused on the internet side first, they would be kind right now... (also get rid of the "we hate the customer" attitude, but that has been there for decades)
"Some of the puzzles require a hell of a lot of trust "
why? do you have to send them naked photos of yourself dressed in bondage leather that they use to get to the next level and you need to trust they wont post them to the internet? Or does portal 2 come with electrodes that shock your testicles and the other player has control of the shock power?
IT's a fricking game, you don't need to "trust" them at all.
Are you insane you cant trust the consumer to even hold a disk they may Selfishly to a terrorist act of sharing that disk with a friend that did not pay for the right to play it or WORSE invite others over to play it. What is needed is the console to NOT have any drives or even processor, but the games are played on the local servers safe in our bunker 30 miles below the surface away from the dirty disgusting consumers.
That along with our lobbying to get implants required on all gamers so we can blind them and electrocute them when we need to will protect our precious!
The handeykey Twiddler is still in production and still used by many. It's a godsend to people with disabilities.
Frnaklin ebookman worked great for when it was viable. It's failure was that publishers were afraid of ebooks. it had good readability unti lthe Rex came about with a far better screen. Both were ahead of their time and only "failed" because of publishers.
A lot of that stuff were far from failures. they were designed for a specific task. the 3d mousing devices are STILL used to this day in high end 3d CAD.
I think the submitter needs to understand what "failed" means.
In the architectural world that is called "time lord technology" and we typically don't like to talk about it.
But it doesn't. They are paying far too much to film the episodes... and that is ALSO a problem... they are FILMING THEM. 35mm film using, 1,000,000 Arriflex lenses and film production crews. AVCHD cameras shoot video good enough for TV shows, hell cheap ass Canon D7's do as well and gives them the "artsey film lense look" if they want it. Otherwise they could significantly cut production costs by doing multi camera shooting instead of one Film camera and the 8 people that go with it.
Also the sets can be cheaper. the stuff that is not the regular locations can be green screen or do the "star trek" trick and have generic hallway sections that can always be assembled to make 20 miles of corridors. Honestly set making is cheap and easy and can all be foam board like they did on Enterprise.
The expense is the current actors all getting SAG rate scale pay. fire the whole crew and replace with non SAG actors and non union writers and crew. Restart SGU as a band of the ancestors kids on a seed ship. A nice reboot of the series with all new cast that will accept a street urchin beggers pay scale of only $65,000 a year.
Oh also shoot in a old factory in Iowa instead of overpriced land of movies.
http://www.pioneerone.tv/ proof that you do not need big budgets...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexx also was low budget and was decent until the last year when they had their budget cut in 1/2 by Syfy in an attempt to kill it.
Also everyone forgets that Mad Max was made on a shoestring budget, they could only afford ONE leather jacket.
Primer in 2004 was also very low budget and a great film.
Moon made in 2009 was also very low budget and good.
Only people that know nothing at all about TV and movie production think it's all very expensive to make anything quality. It's not.
As a service I can subscribe to on a roku Box? YES. itunes? YES,
Sorry but Cable TV is dead, it's body just has not stopped flailing. Why would a company be silly and continue a dying business model.
Also they can cut back on production costs and still out out a fantastic show. SGU did not need to cost that much to produce.
Lumpy(tm) is a registered trademark of LumpyCo a subsidary of the Lumpy Foundation.
Honestly, if you pull the same shenanigans that corporations do you can control them.
Trademark your persona along with copyrighting it. then you have a legal standing to FORCE companies like facebook, blogger.com, etc.. to do what you tell them to.
Hey boss, someone keyed the crap out of your Audi this morning... you should really go look at it, what kind of scumbag would do that....