Yeah, but isn't their whole arguement centered on perfect digital copies of protected works? if you compress the movie to divx format, how are you achieving perfect digital copies? Plus most people skip frames when compressing to divx format in order to reduce the size...
for their perfect digital arguement to work...pirates are tossing around 6gb...
I do tech support in a legal department. I find that on average 15% of the users have a pst that's a gig. Of that 15%, 33% are over 2 gigs. It's a given that everyone has an email storage problem because the average number of people that delete incomming mail after being read is less that 5%.
shredding is a very legit concern. So many things are effected by storing email besides the 'bad' emails....increased storage, support, backup, etc....costs.
I'm glad someone else noticed that! All we need is a computer with an on/off switch that can control the galatic internet and it'll be the same show!
IMHO it's a shame that the US can't seem to create Sci-Fi shows of such depth as Doctor Who, Blake's 7, or Red Dwarf. Other than Star Trek, what have we got? Sliders? That's just a lame Doctor Who with too many supporting charaters.
It has been interesting though with the minor networks (such as SciFi channel, WB,UPN, & FOX) and their attempts to create quality SciFi. The successful shows on those networks seem to be created outside the us or have a more international cast&crew. It seems whenever the US networks try to recreate a show they go for below the belt. Take the US version of Red Dwarf....a female cat sounds nice to my ears, but it misses the point of the originals character...I can only image the jokes....
wish I could remember the quote, (and I don't want to do a search for it from work) but the US reminds me of the general public in Germany during WWII. We don't seem to care about the rights of others because the government is not trampling our rights. However when the government does come for us and tramples our rights, there's nobody around to help.
In some ways I think you can subsititute corporation for government in the US and get the same results.
we'll cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
"If a ReplayTV customer can simply type 'The X-Files'...and have every episode of 'The X-Files'...recorded in perfect digital form and organized, compiled and stored on the hard drive of his or her ReplayTV 4000 device, it will cause substantial harm to the market for prerecorded DVD, videocassette and other copies of those episodes and films,"
What drek! ok, the replaytv 4000 can hold up to 320 hours at it's worst quality. If you recorded at the best ratio, you'd get something like 55 hours. The X-files has (roughly)191 episodes. Anyone see a problem here? They're not going to be recording every episode at the best quality if they plan to record anything else and their life is going to be dedicated to saving to the external hard drive....
I'm sorry but I have better things to do with my time. My suggestion to the network exec is to price the x-file DVDs in a range where it's not worth the bother of saving them to external sources.
Plus the network exec never seems to mention my favorite part....being able to get that rare one that is never played except at late night or is never availible at the store. As a fan, I'm willing to fork over the dough to get a good, clean legal copy of the stuff I love (dvd/cd/whatever.) However, it's hard to see the harm when the man isn't releasing the goods any more.
There will be no time-based competition. Advertisers won't see the point in paying extra for any particular timeslot.
First, I agree with what you're saying and I want to add something.
Network execs are stuck in a runt. Advertisers will be paying above the average IMHO for shows. With the PVR, not only are they going to know I like XYZ show, they're going to know I like ZYX commerical. Talk about sticking a target on my head. Admittedly they'll be hitting everyone who watches XYZ in my zip code, but I'm pretty sure they'll be willing to fork over the cash for a sure thing. Instead of high prices for Friends you'll get above average prices across the spectrum because they'll be certain to hit their audience.
heck if advertisers had their way the remote control would disappear.
admittedly phones aren't a basic right currently. I think they should be. When I was 15, my parents got a divorce. My father cut the phone line and it took a couple of days to get the service started again. In that time, our garage caught fire. The closest neighbor I had was a mile away. That is when I thought phones should be a basic right. Maybe not extra features, but I needed to call 911 and couldn't.
Maybe not now but I can see a day when the same thing with the internet will need to happen. Communication should be a basic right. All of our services revolve around it. (i.e. fire deptment) If you base society around a certain technology then that technology becomes a basic right.
All these replies talking about catching keystrokes including volume struck me as humorous.
I like to play Final Fantasy X on the PS2 and my wife hates the sound effects for FFX. So what do I do while I'm playing FFX, I play with the mute on or the volume very low.
Since my TIVO is connected to the same TV and I use it's mute to control the volume...some random show is getting a thumbs down because I play FFX with the mute button.
In a way this type of technology is already being used. My TIVO is searching the cable listings trying to find shows, actors, and directors that I like.
One tip: never give a thumbs up to an (ahem) adult show...the moment TIVO records something like that on it's own is the moment you are in the dog house with the wife/girlfriend.
Well TIVO at least won my heart. So far, I've bought 3 TIVOs. I bought one last year, one 6 months ago, and another one this month as a x-mas gift to hook someone else on the TIVO experience.
For all the patent wars, at least TIVO is nice about hacked products. In these troubled times, it is hard for me to come down hard on a company that has used such restrait toward hacking their product.
I could've made some $$$ off my Starcrack addiction!/. let me down. I needed to know about this months ago. This is News for Nerd....and this matters to me!
Thinking about LAN parties, got me thinking about my own addiction: RPGs (role playing games like Dungeons and Dragons) Oh I know quite well that I 'could' get hooked on games like Everquest, but that would be a waste of time. It's not like I can port the character to another computer game.
However, with paper and pencil (and D&D's new d20 system) I can port my character to any number of game systems. I'm not wasting time I'm just developing a new recreational...hmm...fantasy....
ok, it's a waste of time, but I'm having fun!
(PS. anyone can get hooked on anything. Heck, some people get hooked on their significate others and never want to game again...I call those people losers)
Whether this is scientifically feasible is a trivial question compared to the ethics of such an endeavor. If one believes that humans are different from animals in that we contain a spirit and an awareness of God, then should a cross between a human and an animal be considered an animal or a spiritual being?
Sounds like a good way to find out. Create one and ask it.
first off, if communication is possible, don't call them 'it'.
This/. article talks about how users of PVR forget what channel they are watching. I agree with the article because I own 2 TIVOs (bow before them) and I forget what channel my shows are coming on.
Without station logos, I would have to look at my TIVO recorded stats to figure out what station my show came on...
Of course I don't care, but I see the station's economic need to brand me.
Televisions network execs clearly forgot that braodcast television is a priviledge provided them by the people via the government.
I was thinking the same thing. I was wondering how this product would be received in countries where TV is owned by the government. Since our tax dollars already paid for the program, I can't see a problem sharing PBS programs...heck more entertainment bang for the tax dollar buck!
Also, I find it silly to be fighting over this when TV is going to go digital eventually and they can put all the watermarks on their copywrited material to prevent legit devices from sharing. They just need to hurry up and dump analog...I won't complain!
It looks to me that this company was founded after TiVo and Replay were already products. They must have bought a patent from someone so they could try to exploit other companies that actually did something with the technology.
I'd like to see a time limit on selling patents. Something like 3 years sounds good to me. I think that would stop all these silly and expensive lawsuits. No longer could company X buy company or patent Y just so they could sue company Z. Like wise 3 years is enough time to find a buyer for a patent. For all those/.ers that think selling patents is wrong first look at IDEO. Selling patents are a good idea as it keeps researchers and sales seperate and lets everyone perfect there respective industries...IMHO of course...
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Yeah, but isn't their whole arguement centered on perfect digital copies of protected works? if you compress the movie to divx format, how are you achieving perfect digital copies? Plus most people skip frames when compressing to divx format in order to reduce the size...
for their perfect digital arguement to work...pirates are tossing around 6gb...
I guess the artists are going to have to break up their songs to make money....
oh, you want the rest of that song? All you have to do is pay for the other 49 downloads....
or $0.0115 please....oh heck...just give me the penny.
I do tech support in a legal department. I find that on average 15% of the users have a pst that's a gig. Of that 15%, 33% are over 2 gigs. It's a given that everyone has an email storage problem because the average number of people that delete incomming mail after being read is less that 5%.
shredding is a very legit concern. So many things are effected by storing email besides the 'bad' emails....increased storage, support, backup, etc....costs.
I'm glad someone else noticed that! All we need is a computer with an on/off switch that can control the galatic internet and it'll be the same show!
IMHO it's a shame that the US can't seem to create Sci-Fi shows of such depth as Doctor Who, Blake's 7, or Red Dwarf. Other than Star Trek, what have we got? Sliders? That's just a lame Doctor Who with too many supporting charaters.
It has been interesting though with the minor networks (such as SciFi channel, WB,UPN, & FOX) and their attempts to create quality SciFi. The successful shows on those networks seem to be created outside the us or have a more international cast&crew. It seems whenever the US networks try to recreate a show they go for below the belt. Take the US version of Red Dwarf....a female cat sounds nice to my ears, but it misses the point of the originals character...I can only image the jokes....
and publicly funded elections can easily be financed at least in the short term...require anyone who doesn't want to vote to pay of not voting...
I think, though someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but in Austrialia you have to pay $50 not to vote.
wish I could remember the quote, (and I don't want to do a search for it from work) but the US reminds me of the general public in Germany during WWII. We don't seem to care about the rights of others because the government is not trampling our rights. However when the government does come for us and tramples our rights, there's nobody around to help.
In some ways I think you can subsititute corporation for government in the US and get the same results.
we'll cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
"If a ReplayTV customer can simply type 'The X-Files'...and have every episode of 'The X-Files'...recorded in perfect digital form and organized, compiled and stored on the hard drive of his or her ReplayTV 4000 device, it will cause substantial harm to the market for prerecorded DVD, videocassette and other copies of those episodes and films,"
What drek! ok, the replaytv 4000 can hold up to 320 hours at it's worst quality. If you recorded at the best ratio, you'd get something like 55 hours. The X-files has (roughly)191 episodes. Anyone see a problem here? They're not going to be recording every episode at the best quality if they plan to record anything else and their life is going to be dedicated to saving to the external hard drive....
I'm sorry but I have better things to do with my time. My suggestion to the network exec is to price the x-file DVDs in a range where it's not worth the bother of saving them to external sources.
Plus the network exec never seems to mention my favorite part....being able to get that rare one that is never played except at late night or is never availible at the store. As a fan, I'm willing to fork over the dough to get a good, clean legal copy of the stuff I love (dvd/cd/whatever.) However, it's hard to see the harm when the man isn't releasing the goods any more.
There will be no time-based competition. Advertisers won't see the point in paying extra for any particular timeslot.
First, I agree with what you're saying and I want to add something.
Network execs are stuck in a runt. Advertisers will be paying above the average IMHO for shows. With the PVR, not only are they going to know I like XYZ show, they're going to know I like ZYX commerical. Talk about sticking a target on my head. Admittedly they'll be hitting everyone who watches XYZ in my zip code, but I'm pretty sure they'll be willing to fork over the cash for a sure thing. Instead of high prices for Friends you'll get above average prices across the spectrum because they'll be certain to hit their audience.
heck if advertisers had their way the remote control would disappear.
Over the weekend I watched an old STNG episode where the Enterprise saves a genticly pure race where those who are blind, deaf, etc. don't exist.
The Enterprise rescues them by using technology developed for Geordi's (msp?) visor. saved by the blind so to speak....
If you're looking for a weed out factor, all you have to do is wait. It'll fix itself no matter what we do.
What Kind of PHB Do You Want?
wow...I thought this article was going to be about different players hand books for D&D....
I had this whole idea of posting something about wanting a phb where the pages don't fall out.
the IT department hands you a shiny new blazingly fast feature filled replacement.
that is why you want some standards in your department...that way he gets the same thing again minus the data.
admittedly phones aren't a basic right currently. I think they should be. When I was 15, my parents got a divorce. My father cut the phone line and it took a couple of days to get the service started again. In that time, our garage caught fire. The closest neighbor I had was a mile away. That is when I thought phones should be a basic right. Maybe not extra features, but I needed to call 911 and couldn't.
Maybe not now but I can see a day when the same thing with the internet will need to happen. Communication should be a basic right. All of our services revolve around it. (i.e. fire deptment) If you base society around a certain technology then that technology becomes a basic right.
All these replies talking about catching keystrokes including volume struck me as humorous.
I like to play Final Fantasy X on the PS2 and my wife hates the sound effects for FFX. So what do I do while I'm playing FFX, I play with the mute on or the volume very low.
Since my TIVO is connected to the same TV and I use it's mute to control the volume...some random show is getting a thumbs down because I play FFX with the mute button.
too cute.
:)
Before the end of the year we will have full access to all the hardware on both systems and have full system specs
what are you smoking? PS2 has been out a year and nothing sigdig has happened!
now the xbox is another story. I could see ms releasing a crackable console just to win market share.
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I guess Micheal Jackson won't be doing any moon walking any time soon. He probably wouldn't want to anyway...no kids there.
actually, wait, I didn't see any age requirement.
It is sad when you can consider yourself a veteran of /. after a few days of posts.
Same topic different day
In a way this type of technology is already being used. My TIVO is searching the cable listings trying to find shows, actors, and directors that I like.
One tip: never give a thumbs up to an (ahem) adult show...the moment TIVO records something like that on it's own is the moment you are in the dog house with the wife/girlfriend.
For all the patent wars, at least TIVO is nice about hacked products. In these troubled times, it is hard for me to come down hard on a company that has used such restrait toward hacking their product.
I could've made some $$$ off my Starcrack addiction! /. let me down. I needed to know about this months ago. This is News for Nerd....and this matters to me!
However, with paper and pencil (and D&D's new d20 system) I can port my character to any number of game systems. I'm not wasting time I'm just developing a new recreational...hmm...fantasy....
ok, it's a waste of time, but I'm having fun!
(PS. anyone can get hooked on anything. Heck, some people get hooked on their significate others and never want to game again...I call those people losers)
Whether this is scientifically feasible is a trivial question compared to the ethics of such an endeavor. If one believes that humans are different from animals in that we contain a spirit and an awareness of God, then should a cross between a human and an animal be considered an animal or a spiritual being?
Sounds like a good way to find out. Create one and ask it.
first off, if communication is possible, don't call them 'it'.
Without station logos, I would have to look at my TIVO recorded stats to figure out what station my show came on...
Of course I don't care, but I see the station's economic need to brand me.
I was thinking the same thing. I was wondering how this product would be received in countries where TV is owned by the government. Since our tax dollars already paid for the program, I can't see a problem sharing PBS programs...heck more entertainment bang for the tax dollar buck!
Also, I find it silly to be fighting over this when TV is going to go digital eventually and they can put all the watermarks on their copywrited material to prevent legit devices from sharing. They just need to hurry up and dump analog...I won't complain!
I'd like to see a time limit on selling patents. Something like 3 years sounds good to me. I think that would stop all these silly and expensive lawsuits. No longer could company X buy company or patent Y just so they could sue company Z. Like wise 3 years is enough time to find a buyer for a patent. For all those /.ers that think selling patents is wrong first look at IDEO. Selling patents are a good idea as it keeps researchers and sales seperate and lets everyone perfect there respective industries...IMHO of course...
I think some of the techs in my building could be our backup UPS if they designed these into s3x toys....
also, how would these things work for those of us who are cold blooded (son of two lawyers)?