How long now before the RIAA starts looking for "hash values" of the latest.mp3s?
It's good at least that the radar is going off for/.ers. This isn't about protecting children. It's about control, control, control--same as always.
Get your foot in the door with "think of the children"--next thing you know we are cutting out pirates, then the fetish porn, pretty soon we are cutting out people who speak against out against big business, the pharmaceuticals or the government. Mission accomplished.
It's sad really that the general populace is so easily swayed by anything that fights "child porn" as if it's the biggest scourge humanity has faced or something--as if it trumps all other values of the world.
Really thought about it, like ran through your head situations where people have different living situations/setups than you. You would have had your answer.
Oh sure that sounds innocuous enough, but that can only lead to reading my posts before I hit submit, which is the gateway into spell checking, and before you know it, I'm actually RTFA before I post. It's a downward spiral.
What I don't understand: is there any advantage to this box over just having my computer output directly to my HDTV (in my case with HDMI) and using full screen with the streaming player on the Netflix website?
The review says we need to use a computer anyway to add things to the queue.
Are people just too dumb to buy a cable for their computer to output to their HDTV? I assume there are some hidden advantages I'm missing? I didn't see anything that says the resolution is higher with the box. Is it?
THEINTERNETS (Reuters)- Following the DOS attack which brought Revision3 to its knees, the site was once against the target of a DOS attack by the popular news site "Slashdot" as thousands of nerds flooded the site at once hoping to find fodder to use against their arch-nemeses the MPAA and the RIAA.
"With a net worth of around $8 billion, Nintendo's former chairman, Hiroshi Yamauchi, is now the richest man in Japan, according to Forbes magazine. (Nintendo does not disclose Mr. Miyamoto's compensation, but it appears that he has not joined the ranks of the superrich.)"
That darn Yamauchi took all Miyamoto's money to the top of a steel girded ramp and started throwing barrels down at Miyamoto!
Because most people who shop for Macs are not interested in additional steps and the possibility of never being able to update. People are drawn to Macs precisely to avoid complications of that sort.
Therefore this is going to be a small, niche market, a *new* market which will not limit Mac sales whatsoever but will contribute to sales of their OS.
Also suing this company will bring way too much attention to a company most people won't bother with. If Apple lost, the company would be that much stronger afterward.
Better to battle these guys with a little subtlety.
I tried out Kitten Auth and it was definitely easier to use than a stupid Captcha, but I have a few questions since this is far from my area of expertise (to say the least):
1) Doesn't it potentially take up a LOT more room on a page than captcha? That might clutter up pages even more than they are already. I guess they could use tiny icon pictures to fix that part.
2) Is there a way that spammers could figure out a way to divert the images to a human's malwared computer and have them do the choosing for the program? I thought I read about this somewhere as one way botnets were getting by captchas as well.
3) Seems something like this would have to catch on in nerd communities first and I loved the kitten idea personally. It's the cutest thing ever, but wouldn't you nerds rather find the Halo guy or Linus Torvalds or something...?
*iza
p.s. (Direct link to test kitten auth, but now I think it is/.ed)
Thank you for your reply. I think you have good points, and I really hope you are right about Sony keeping the platform as open as possible.
The PS3 is the bestselling Blu-ray player in the world. With the death of HD-DVD, it's the bestselling HD videodisc player in the world. It was the first BD player on the market, and has always had more movie than game titles. I don't think it's locked in a definition as "videogame" by a longshot.
This I don't necessarily agree with because Sony is trying to eat its cake and have it too.
They want to force the PS3 into the home as a Blu-ray player, but the only way Blu-ray is going to be a success (compared to DVD) is if there are players under $200 by Christmas (there most likely will be). The PS3 will not last long as the #1 Blu-ray player, and once again will be left to fend its own as a game machine, IMHO.
I really think a lot less people want everything integrated into one machine than you and Sony think. People like a standalone movie player separate from the game machine (which may not even be in the main room of the house).
And this will be a completely moot point when Blu-ray players drop to under a $100. I mean didn't the same thing happen with the PS2 and DVD? After a year or two did anyone use the PS2 to play DVDs? Who still does so?
I enjoyed, and agreed, with most of what you wrote, but:
it sucks to use a PC to watch movies Why is that? We just use an HDMI cable from our computer to our HDTV set when we want to use the computer for movies (including Netflix online movies). Even non-tech people could do that....(Plus I know a lot of people who love to watch movies on their laptop, though that is not us.)
At any rate it is good to see Blockbuster finally going down!
Funny stuff. If it wasn't on Forbes I would have thought it a joke:)
"Network provider Enron Broadband Services, a subsidiary of Enron ene (nyse: ene), partnered with Blockbuster bbi (nyse: bbi) yesterday in a 20-year exclusive deal that aims to sell movie-on-demand services, including 500 titles, on its broadband network by year's end."
This makes more sense from a "nerd" point of view, but I don't feel it will pan out like that.
The PS3 is not the answer, nor is any other game system. Why? Simply because they are considered "game systems" by the mainstream world, and I don't feel that will change no matter how hard Sony pushes the media center aspect of the PS3. It will fail or succeed on its merits as a game system.
So where will the answer come from? Who knows, but I think perhaps Netflix is a good contender for creating something mainstream and popular. I think maybe Apple can pull something off eventually too (Jobs seems committed to AppleTV, so he might tweak it till it's a hit like the iPod).
Change the subject slightly, I have a question:
On this PlayTV, you can record from TV without any DRM. I'm kind of surprised to see a product like this from Sony. Wouldn't they care about the potential use for piracy?
Lucas Licensing called the prop designer a "fan" even though he created the Stormtroopers!
A spokesman for Lucas Licensing said: "We would never want to discourage fans from showcasing their enthusiasm for the movies. However, anyone who tried to profit from using our copyrights and trademarks without authorisation... we will go after them."
This guy made one of the really cool things about Star Wars!! We all see the sort of nonsense Lucas came up with without this guy:-( Nothing in the newer 3 movies was there anything as memorable as Stormtroopers. Am I wrong??
TFA doesn't really say anything about the details of the original contract, but it seems ridiculous for someone with the money of God to come after a little guy who did so much to make his movies distinctive.
#1 Take the most popular online game on the market (EQ), copy it, dumb it down, make it so easy that even an 8 year old can get level 50 (60, 70, whatever it is now:), and you have a winner!
I wish all POD books would just go away for the most part. They are often of poor quality both in content and presentation.
I wrote a sci-fi novel last year and we published it hardback with our own press.
What's the difference between that and POD? Pretty much everything. We registered a business, raised capital, had everything professionally laid out, cover designed, then offset printed in a large quantity and warehoused them with a real distributor (that can deal with Ingram and hence the rest of the world, including Barnes and Noble, Borders, etc.). This will net you a quality book!
POD, on the other hand is about a big company milking newbie authors of their dreams and pumping out inferior (even "crappy") products.
I stand by the quality of my book as an independent publisher. I guarantee its quality, that's why it is *returnable.*
In POD things aren't returnable which is why retail outlets stay away from them.
Amazon just wants to milk the little guy like all the other POD companies. They don't mind pushing out the other POD books because they know they don't sell for beans anyway! That's why Amazon will make their money off the authors like the other PODs, but since the only major outlet that will even touch POD books is Amazon, it means most POD authors will now flock to Amazon's POD since who else will carry their book?
Slashdot Mirror
Wasn't that already proven with the rise of homo sapiens?
How long now before the RIAA starts looking for "hash values" of the latest .mp3s?
It's good at least that the radar is going off for /.ers. This isn't about protecting children. It's about control, control, control--same as always.
Get your foot in the door with "think of the children"--next thing you know we are cutting out pirates, then the fetish porn, pretty soon we are cutting out people who speak against out against big business, the pharmaceuticals or the government. Mission accomplished.
It's sad really that the general populace is so easily swayed by anything that fights "child porn" as if it's the biggest scourge humanity has faced or something--as if it trumps all other values of the world.
Oh sure that sounds innocuous enough, but that can only lead to reading my posts before I hit submit, which is the gateway into spell checking, and before you know it, I'm actually RTFA before I post. It's a downward spiral.
The review says we need to use a computer anyway to add things to the queue.
Are people just too dumb to buy a cable for their computer to output to their HDTV? I assume there are some hidden advantages I'm missing? I didn't see anything that says the resolution is higher with the box. Is it?
Uhm...not the Peter Brady one either.
Jeeze. Will the real Chris Knight please stand up?
Not only would they be "fully articulated" in the bedroom they would also be "sensitive enough" to pick up flowers & wine beforehand.
Clearly this is bad karma resulting from all their years of human rights violations....especially Tiananmen Square...oh wait--
THEINTERNETS (Reuters)- Following the DOS attack which brought Revision3 to its knees, the site was once against the target of a DOS attack by the popular news site "Slashdot" as thousands of nerds flooded the site at once hoping to find fodder to use against their arch-nemeses the MPAA and the RIAA.
That darn Yamauchi took all Miyamoto's money to the top of a steel girded ramp and started throwing barrels down at Miyamoto!
It's not like keeping people from reselling things on ebay will stop piracy....
So if Windows came pre-installed with "Alien Munchies" or "People Pong" then THOSE would be the most played computer games ever??
Throttling conjures up a more accurate image. (I think of Homer throttling Bart.)
And if they insist on shaping my traffic, I hope they can shape it into things I'm comfortable with like hearts, moons, and stars.
Why?
Because most people who shop for Macs are not interested in additional steps and the possibility of never being able to update. People are drawn to Macs precisely to avoid complications of that sort.
Therefore this is going to be a small, niche market, a *new* market which will not limit Mac sales whatsoever but will contribute to sales of their OS.
Also suing this company will bring way too much attention to a company most people won't bother with. If Apple lost, the company would be that much stronger afterward.
Better to battle these guys with a little subtlety.
We'll see I guess....:)
Play pin the tail on the integer?
Dress up as your favorite nonlinear equation.
Start a drinking game where everyone increases their drinks parabolically. (or alternatively: everyone drinks when someone says "Archimedes.")
TP the English department utilizing the golden spiral....
1) Doesn't it potentially take up a LOT more room on a page than captcha? That might clutter up pages even more than they are already. I guess they could use tiny icon pictures to fix that part.
2) Is there a way that spammers could figure out a way to divert the images to a human's malwared computer and have them do the choosing for the program? I thought I read about this somewhere as one way botnets were getting by captchas as well.
3) Seems something like this would have to catch on in nerd communities first and I loved the kitten idea personally. It's the cutest thing ever, but wouldn't you nerds rather find the Halo guy or Linus Torvalds or something...?
*iza
p.s. (Direct link to test kitten auth, but now I think it is /.ed)
This I don't necessarily agree with because Sony is trying to eat its cake and have it too.
They want to force the PS3 into the home as a Blu-ray player, but the only way Blu-ray is going to be a success (compared to DVD) is if there are players under $200 by Christmas (there most likely will be). The PS3 will not last long as the #1 Blu-ray player, and once again will be left to fend its own as a game machine, IMHO.
I really think a lot less people want everything integrated into one machine than you and Sony think. People like a standalone movie player separate from the game machine (which may not even be in the main room of the house).
And this will be a completely moot point when Blu-ray players drop to under a $100. I mean didn't the same thing happen with the PS2 and DVD? After a year or two did anyone use the PS2 to play DVDs? Who still does so?
At any rate it is good to see Blockbuster finally going down!
"Network provider Enron Broadband Services, a subsidiary of Enron ene (nyse: ene), partnered with Blockbuster bbi (nyse: bbi) yesterday in a 20-year exclusive deal that aims to sell movie-on-demand services, including 500 titles, on its broadband network by year's end."
The PS3 is not the answer, nor is any other game system. Why? Simply because they are considered "game systems" by the mainstream world, and I don't feel that will change no matter how hard Sony pushes the media center aspect of the PS3. It will fail or succeed on its merits as a game system.
So where will the answer come from? Who knows, but I think perhaps Netflix is a good contender for creating something mainstream and popular. I think maybe Apple can pull something off eventually too (Jobs seems committed to AppleTV, so he might tweak it till it's a hit like the iPod).
Change the subject slightly, I have a question:
On this PlayTV, you can record from TV without any DRM. I'm kind of surprised to see a product like this from Sony. Wouldn't they care about the potential use for piracy?
*iza
A spokesman for Lucas Licensing said: "We would never want to discourage fans from showcasing their enthusiasm for the movies. However, anyone who tried to profit from using our copyrights and trademarks without authorisation ... we will go after them."
This guy made one of the really cool things about Star Wars!! We all see the sort of nonsense Lucas came up with without this guy :-( Nothing in the newer 3 movies was there anything as memorable as Stormtroopers. Am I wrong??
TFA doesn't really say anything about the details of the original contract, but it seems ridiculous for someone with the money of God to come after a little guy who did so much to make his movies distinctive.
I think she'd be what we call coy ;-)
#1 Take the most popular online game on the market (EQ), copy it, dumb it down, make it so easy that even an 8 year old can get level 50 (60, 70, whatever it is now :), and you have a winner!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2KqKRY2XKI
Good for Iceland. I hope they get some big fish.
I wrote a sci-fi novel last year and we published it hardback with our own press.
What's the difference between that and POD? Pretty much everything. We registered a business, raised capital, had everything professionally laid out, cover designed, then offset printed in a large quantity and warehoused them with a real distributor (that can deal with Ingram and hence the rest of the world, including Barnes and Noble, Borders, etc.). This will net you a quality book!
POD, on the other hand is about a big company milking newbie authors of their dreams and pumping out inferior (even "crappy") products.
I stand by the quality of my book as an independent publisher. I guarantee its quality, that's why it is *returnable.*
In POD things aren't returnable which is why retail outlets stay away from them.
Amazon just wants to milk the little guy like all the other POD companies. They don't mind pushing out the other POD books because they know they don't sell for beans anyway! That's why Amazon will make their money off the authors like the other PODs, but since the only major outlet that will even touch POD books is Amazon, it means most POD authors will now flock to Amazon's POD since who else will carry their book?
It's pretty genius, if ruthless, if you ask me.
*iza