Uncharted 1, 2 and (as of November, 2011) 3, Gran Turismo 5 and Infamous are all PS3 exclusive and more than worth the $60 price of admission in my opinion. Infamous is one easily overlooked but it should not be missed. It is an open sandbox superhero game that is a joy to play. You really feel like the city is your playground and can bat your foes around like a cat toying with a wounded baby bunny. Savagely fun!
I like that Sony can proactively look for cheating on the PS3. If you want to jailbreak your PS3, you are running your own firmware and this doesn't affect you anyway. If someone is pissed that they cannot pirate games or run modded games to cheat, maybe they should work harder at cheating and quit bitching about Sony beating them at their own game.
Currated computing like iPhones and PS3's are preferred by some people. I am an open-source zealot and totally passionate about open systems and software. But sometimes, the system being closed or locked down is a good thing.
Now, I do believe that there should be no repercussion for jailbreaking your PS3. Mod away at that fucker, hardware and software, and if someone tries to attack you via the law that is wrong. However, I do not want to see you on the PSN with your cracked PS3 and I don't care if you cannot play new games on it because they require new firmware. You chose to mod the thing and if that excludes you from the walled garden of the PSN that is because it should. A locked down system with verified binaries is a primary method for preventing cheating with online games.
So why do I like Sony? Why do I buy products from a company that assfucks its customers? The answer is "pragmatism". I love to play video games. Now I used to be a PC gamer. However, the constant fight to keep my hardware current and then paying money to a company that, clearly in my view, is a much bigger assfucker of their customer, Microsoft, was expensive and a less preferrable option.
The PS3 is the beautiful piece of hardware. Microsoft's offering pales in comparison to the PS3. For example, I just played "Dead Space 2" without swapping disks and also got the game "Dead Space: Extraction" with motion controls in HD on the same disk. None of that is an option on the Microsoft console.
I have a dedicated firewall, a laptop, a server and a desktop, all running Linux. There are two computers that have versions of Microsoft OS's installed with GRUB handling the multi-boot but it has been months or years since they have been booted into a Microsoft OS. I partitioned my PS3's new hard drive (that I had just upgraded) with space for the Other OS option years ago and then never even attempted to install Linux on it, because there was no need for me to do so. I prefer my PS3 to run the PS3 OS because I am gaming on it and never needed a 5th box running Linux. The loss of the "Other OS" option didn't upset me in the slightest.
Sony does make some damn fine hardware. It is a huge company with an enormous product line-up. Are there some lemons in the line-up? Sure. But "evil" Sony is pushing the tech of audio/visual hardware into the future and making some exceptional products like the PS3 in the process.
Microsoft didn't see the need for HDMI, Blu-ray, user upgradable hard drives, built-in wifi and ethernet both. Sony did. Microsoft gamers are buying add-on kits, new versions of the console and specialty external drives to mod their console. Mine takes any USB thumb drive or external HD without complaint (as long as the filesystem is FAT - no e2fs or NTFS support). I don't have to switch disks to play a triple-A title from start to finish. Upgrading the hard drive took five minutes, a phillips screw driver and didn't void my warranty. A warranty I have never needed because that PS3 is a rock-solid work-horse, used for many thousands of hours and nary a glitch in all that time.
Sony is a gargantuan company and some arms of said giant have done some shit-tastic things. However, they innovate; they create new standards and new products that fit those standards.
As much as I fear the idea of "Trusted Computing" and worry that the day will come where internet access is only permitted on "Trusted Computing" certified devices, I do prefer to do my online gaming in a ecosystem that makes sure everyone is playing on a level field. That no one has auto-aim mods installed is much more valid a reason to do t
But maybe this is a problem. Just maybe all the college educated people that follow the rules and create an insular network where only other college grads can participate is a really big problem.
Maybe what the degree says about a person is that they are only capable of being lead and following the beaten path. Maybe that degree says the degree holder is a good little robot, a good little cow ready to do what the farmer says it should do and corporate USA loves good little cows.
Maybe people that are willing to do endless hours of pointless busy work that, in some case has nothing at all to do with their future career, are demonstrating how totally cattle-like they are.
To me it appears that education system we have in place today teaches students to always respect authority, to be punctual, to stay in line, color inside the lines and to be a good little cog in a much larger machine. It seems that it is common knowledge that schools in the USA are designed around the idea of preparing student to be good assembly-line workers when they grow up.
No matter that these assembly-lines no longer run and there are so few manufacturing jobs left. In the USA it is tradition for the sake of tradition; truth, reason and logic be damned. Maybe the authority doesn't deserve respect, the lines we are not to cross are arbitrary and meaningless and we are following many pointless rules. Maybe we would notice this if we stopped to question it all.
Maybe those people that don't fit in with the system, reject it, self-educate and go into the workforce without debt are actually living life more effectively than the college educated. Maybe they show initative, drive and self-sufficience where the college educated counterparts show complacency, laziness and dependence.
Maybe you respond with, "Well, those people could easily join the club by getting a degree, too."
But maybe, just maybe, by getting the degree they become broken. Maybe while being educated, they also lose part of themselves, their minds being slowly eroded, so slowy to be almost imperceptible, until their world view is such that titles and laurels matter more ability.
Maybe?
Maybe getting the degree indicates that you are like cattle and you are rewarded by a system run by cattle in order to perpetuate your cattle-like materialistic, consumption-driven lives.
Maybe you don't care about any of this because you already bought your ticket on the cattle train and second-guessing yourself now would mean taking a hard look at how shallow the system is, to put a piece of paper before actual skills. Maybe it is easier to just look for the stamp of approval (BA, BS, MA, MS, PhD) that it is took take a deeper look at the job canidate because, after all, it is about money and not about people. Maybe after years of education you have been trained to trust those systems and to see people as pegs to be put into round or square holes. Maybe you only see the degree and not the person because that is what you paid to be trained to see.
Smart phone owner here. No data plan, voice only. I have wifi at home and work. The GPS maps for the USA, Canada and Mexico are stored on the phone. Who on earth thinks everyone makes the sames decisions and has the same priorities? Who on earth thinks that some people might not want to follow the herd and strike out on their own instead?
And when I did have the data plan, my usage was approximately 150 MBs a month down and 60 MBs a month up.
We were just hiring for a programming position at our office.
The hiring announcement (job ad) specifically asked for the resume to be sent as a plain text file. Anyone that could not follow instructions and sent a Word document was immediately disqualified from consideration for the job. If you cannot follow the directions in the employment ad you are responding to, you probably aren't going to be detail oriented on the job, either.
You would be amazed at what a large percentage of people sent Word documents. I can only guess that is because some of them truly believed that a Word doc is "plain text". Now, I would have more sympathy if it were encoded in UTF-16, UTF-32 or ISO-8859 and not ASCII but thinking Word is plain text? FUCK ME! I bet we all know programmers out there that don't know what binary, hexadecimal, octal or ASCII are. I bet we all know a programmer that cannot tell you how many bits are in a byte. What happened to programmers knowing their fundamentals?
It works for the church. Witches are just using a well proven strategy. If threatening the government to get tax breaks and special treatment worked for fans of Jesus Christ, it should work for the witches, I expect.
I know. Networking. No one networks computers anymore. Shit, this is a pointless as Australia. Who fucking care about some backward shit like networking or a continent? If I bet that it took you longer to write it than to think of what to write, I would be winning some cash, now wouldn't I?
Yes, I know you are Australian.
Alternative response: Republicans use ".com" because they have murdered (and will again murder) innocent women and children is there is a nice profit in it? Shit, if you do a good job killing innocents it can land you a cushy job with Fox News.
I love the two sides of the Democrat/Republican coin. Democrats are commies and Republicans murder innocent people. I used to wonder why republicans are the ones popular with Christians but I guess that it might be because Christians have a long history of murdering innocent people and feel a common bond with Republicans. As someone that goes to a church, are you willing to confirm or deny this connection?
Haha! See how much fun that is making gross generalizations about a political party? FUN!!!
Would 50% of the post be discussing the third party news source instead of the real news. I don't even think the news is the spin of the third party (which was, "Look! Scientists have goofed an estimate!" (One that will alway be a moving target, in this case the plant count)). I think the real news is this: There is a group working to create an open, coordinated effort to prevent the very thing that the triple-faced thirdy party is spinning negatively.
In other news, post is now both the plurar and singular form of the word "post".
I have been in a cave in the side of a mesa in the low desert of the state of Arizona. Coatimundi, coyote, gila monsters, rattle snakes and javelina are my companions. We learn from each other and live in mutual respect and harmony.
Where is your cave? Is it in Oxfordshire?
Would you be interested in learning why I like the desert? It's clean.
You are demonstrating logical thinking, critical reasoning and independence. We frown on that sort of thing in the USA. Please respect our authority and submit by no longer thinking. We will be doing that for you going forward. It is for your own good . . .
I thought both films were about the ideal of a free, flexible and open computer system versus the ideal of a totalitarian, inflexible and closed computer system.
So, this is what both Tron films were about. Apple, Microsoft and Oracle (corporations) play the role of CLU/MCP and we the individuals of the world (human beings) play the role of the relatively powerless programs that die on the grid as punishment for defiance (a metaphor for what happens when an individual attempts to confront a corporation in court).
Are you serious or trolling?
Why is there no reason to buy PS3 titles? Do you only play Halo?
What about PS3 exclusives? Shooter, Eden, Infamous, Little Big Planet, Luminez, Uncharted 1&2?
Some of these are not just exclusives, they are games that raise the bar, shining examples of the medium taken to the next level.
Again, are you serious or trolling? Honestly, I cannot tell.
(Obligatory grammer nazi comment: You cannot capitalize the first word of your sentences but you capitalize the "PS" in "PS3"? Really?)
But my mom's basement is dark and cozy and I feel safe down here. No one bothers me in the basement. My games and porn are down here too. Why would I want to leave?
Maybe we would point the AC to Landover Baptist Church for more jokers he can regail with his indignation. Maybe they can explain *WHOOSH* to him. Maybe?
I, personally, thought your comment was fucking hilarious.
A final note, if all those people want you dead . . . you must be happy, kind and enjoying life.
Why do devotees of the avatar of compassion (aka Christians) have such a problem with fun? I guess there is no point in questioning all the paradoxes in the universe. Best to accept them and roll with it.
Uninterestingly, "Woodpecker From Mars" is my theme song. It plays in my head whenever I enter a room.
It is also playing on my cheap $12 desk speakers as I type this at work. My coworkers already dislike me so I am not harming my already low office reputation.
Oddly, though, I am the overlord of Mu and not Mars, but they start with the same letter so that must count for something, right?
Nice sarcasm. It works better if you know what you are talking about.
There are impressively high cost per sub per channel ('subs' is what subscribers are called in the cable industry). Also, a small number of companys (7) own 90% of cable TV channels. With that market power they can force the cable company to buy whole groups of channels with stipulations about placement (such as: no MTV or Nickelodeon if you don't put QVC on a single digit channel). As an aside, if we want a-la-cart channel selection with sat or cable (and we do), we must take it up with the FCC. Those seven big boys have both cable and sat by the balls on this issue. Only the we the people can make a-la-cart a reality, so write your Congressperson. Moving on.
Back to your ranting being all kinds of wrong: the ISP side of cable is the cash cow. The profit margins on family cable are orders of magnitude smaller than the profit margins on cable internet.
Video delivery is like the gas at the Circle-K (or 7-11). The store owner is making pennies per gallon.
You bought $50 in gas? Profit is $1.25 for the store (Exxon is getting rich though). A 3% profit. That is video.
You bought a 20 oz soda for $1.50? It was only $0.75 from the Pepsi distributor. That is 50% profit. That is the cable internet.
Adjust the costs to $55 at 3% and $45 at 50% and tell me again which service is the cash cow.
"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences."
Translation: If you try to fix big problems you are going to look like a crazy. Steel yourself for it, look crazy and fix shit!
Anyone know the source of the quote (WITHOUT GOOGLING FOR IT, CHEATER!)?
I am with you, datajack. I had an debate on/. with someone about Blu-Ray quality and they thought I was a fool for wanting to watch 'Lawrence of Arabia' in HD in a widescreen format.
They said I was being prissy and that no one could tell the difference. I complained about compression distortion in MP3's and they told me I was making it up and that a human ear could never hear the difference. I told the person that while they might suffer from hearing loss, the comparison to me was quite obvious and that would never spend money on such junk.
I fear that you and I will be forced to accept the low quality product or pay a premium for quality formats. I am ready to vote with my money. I don't drink Bud Light. I don't listen to MP3s and I don't like streamed movies. I will spend the extra cash for good beer, quality tunes and to see the glint in Lawrence's eyes as he yells, "No prisoners! No prisoners!"
Hopefully there will always be a place in the marketplace for those of us that want the good stuff and are willing to pony up a little extra for it. For the rest, let them drink that swill, listen to their distortion and enjoy 'Scary Movie Forty-Two' in all is lo-res, low-brow mediocrity.
The aliens caused the oil spill to increase the number of oil covered animals, which while totally inedible to them, are a source of great comfort to them.
You haven't see cute until you have seen an Alterian cuddling a rotting, oil-covered pelican corpse like a teddy bear.
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Uncharted 1, 2 and (as of November, 2011) 3, Gran Turismo 5 and Infamous are all PS3 exclusive and more than worth the $60 price of admission in my opinion. Infamous is one easily overlooked but it should not be missed. It is an open sandbox superhero game that is a joy to play. You really feel like the city is your playground and can bat your foes around like a cat toying with a wounded baby bunny. Savagely fun!
I like that Sony can proactively look for cheating on the PS3. If you want to jailbreak your PS3, you are running your own firmware and this doesn't affect you anyway. If someone is pissed that they cannot pirate games or run modded games to cheat, maybe they should work harder at cheating and quit bitching about Sony beating them at their own game.
Currated computing like iPhones and PS3's are preferred by some people. I am an open-source zealot and totally passionate about open systems and software. But sometimes, the system being closed or locked down is a good thing.
Now, I do believe that there should be no repercussion for jailbreaking your PS3. Mod away at that fucker, hardware and software, and if someone tries to attack you via the law that is wrong. However, I do not want to see you on the PSN with your cracked PS3 and I don't care if you cannot play new games on it because they require new firmware. You chose to mod the thing and if that excludes you from the walled garden of the PSN that is because it should. A locked down system with verified binaries is a primary method for preventing cheating with online games.
So why do I like Sony? Why do I buy products from a company that assfucks its customers? The answer is "pragmatism". I love to play video games. Now I used to be a PC gamer. However, the constant fight to keep my hardware current and then paying money to a company that, clearly in my view, is a much bigger assfucker of their customer, Microsoft, was expensive and a less preferrable option.
The PS3 is the beautiful piece of hardware. Microsoft's offering pales in comparison to the PS3. For example, I just played "Dead Space 2" without swapping disks and also got the game "Dead Space: Extraction" with motion controls in HD on the same disk. None of that is an option on the Microsoft console.
I have a dedicated firewall, a laptop, a server and a desktop, all running Linux. There are two computers that have versions of Microsoft OS's installed with GRUB handling the multi-boot but it has been months or years since they have been booted into a Microsoft OS. I partitioned my PS3's new hard drive (that I had just upgraded) with space for the Other OS option years ago and then never even attempted to install Linux on it, because there was no need for me to do so. I prefer my PS3 to run the PS3 OS because I am gaming on it and never needed a 5th box running Linux. The loss of the "Other OS" option didn't upset me in the slightest.
Sony does make some damn fine hardware. It is a huge company with an enormous product line-up. Are there some lemons in the line-up? Sure. But "evil" Sony is pushing the tech of audio/visual hardware into the future and making some exceptional products like the PS3 in the process.
Microsoft didn't see the need for HDMI, Blu-ray, user upgradable hard drives, built-in wifi and ethernet both. Sony did. Microsoft gamers are buying add-on kits, new versions of the console and specialty external drives to mod their console. Mine takes any USB thumb drive or external HD without complaint (as long as the filesystem is FAT - no e2fs or NTFS support). I don't have to switch disks to play a triple-A title from start to finish. Upgrading the hard drive took five minutes, a phillips screw driver and didn't void my warranty. A warranty I have never needed because that PS3 is a rock-solid work-horse, used for many thousands of hours and nary a glitch in all that time.
Sony is a gargantuan company and some arms of said giant have done some shit-tastic things. However, they innovate; they create new standards and new products that fit those standards.
As much as I fear the idea of "Trusted Computing" and worry that the day will come where internet access is only permitted on "Trusted Computing" certified devices, I do prefer to do my online gaming in a ecosystem that makes sure everyone is playing on a level field. That no one has auto-aim mods installed is much more valid a reason to do t
But maybe this is a problem. Just maybe all the college educated people that follow the rules and create an insular network where only other college grads can participate is a really big problem.
Maybe what the degree says about a person is that they are only capable of being lead and following the beaten path. Maybe that degree says the degree holder is a good little robot, a good little cow ready to do what the farmer says it should do and corporate USA loves good little cows.
Maybe people that are willing to do endless hours of pointless busy work that, in some case has nothing at all to do with their future career, are demonstrating how totally cattle-like they are.
To me it appears that education system we have in place today teaches students to always respect authority, to be punctual, to stay in line, color inside the lines and to be a good little cog in a much larger machine. It seems that it is common knowledge that schools in the USA are designed around the idea of preparing student to be good assembly-line workers when they grow up.
No matter that these assembly-lines no longer run and there are so few manufacturing jobs left. In the USA it is tradition for the sake of tradition; truth, reason and logic be damned. Maybe the authority doesn't deserve respect, the lines we are not to cross are arbitrary and meaningless and we are following many pointless rules. Maybe we would notice this if we stopped to question it all.
Maybe those people that don't fit in with the system, reject it, self-educate and go into the workforce without debt are actually living life more effectively than the college educated. Maybe they show initative, drive and self-sufficience where the college educated counterparts show complacency, laziness and dependence.
Maybe you respond with, "Well, those people could easily join the club by getting a degree, too."
But maybe, just maybe, by getting the degree they become broken. Maybe while being educated, they also lose part of themselves, their minds being slowly eroded, so slowy to be almost imperceptible, until their world view is such that titles and laurels matter more ability.
Maybe?
Maybe getting the degree indicates that you are like cattle and you are rewarded by a system run by cattle in order to perpetuate your cattle-like materialistic, consumption-driven lives.
Maybe you don't care about any of this because you already bought your ticket on the cattle train and second-guessing yourself now would mean taking a hard look at how shallow the system is, to put a piece of paper before actual skills. Maybe it is easier to just look for the stamp of approval (BA, BS, MA, MS, PhD) that it is took take a deeper look at the job canidate because, after all, it is about money and not about people. Maybe after years of education you have been trained to trust those systems and to see people as pegs to be put into round or square holes. Maybe you only see the degree and not the person because that is what you paid to be trained to see.
What do you think about this possibility?
Smart phone owner here. No data plan, voice only. I have wifi at home and work. The GPS maps for the USA, Canada and Mexico are stored on the phone. Who on earth thinks everyone makes the sames decisions and has the same priorities? Who on earth thinks that some people might not want to follow the herd and strike out on their own instead?
And when I did have the data plan, my usage was approximately 150 MBs a month down and 60 MBs a month up.
We were just hiring for a programming position at our office.
The hiring announcement (job ad) specifically asked for the resume to be sent as a plain text file. Anyone that could not follow instructions and sent a Word document was immediately disqualified from consideration for the job. If you cannot follow the directions in the employment ad you are responding to, you probably aren't going to be detail oriented on the job, either.
You would be amazed at what a large percentage of people sent Word documents. I can only guess that is because some of them truly believed that a Word doc is "plain text". Now, I would have more sympathy if it were encoded in UTF-16, UTF-32 or ISO-8859 and not ASCII but thinking Word is plain text? FUCK ME! I bet we all know programmers out there that don't know what binary, hexadecimal, octal or ASCII are. I bet we all know a programmer that cannot tell you how many bits are in a byte. What happened to programmers knowing their fundamentals?
It works for the church. Witches are just using a well proven strategy. If threatening the government to get tax breaks and special treatment worked for fans of Jesus Christ, it should work for the witches, I expect.
I know. Networking. No one networks computers anymore. Shit, this is a pointless as Australia. Who fucking care about some backward shit like networking or a continent? If I bet that it took you longer to write it than to think of what to write, I would be winning some cash, now wouldn't I? Yes, I know you are Australian.
The subgenius can have all my slack they can carry. There are not enough subgenius in all of history to impact my slack.
You Bob-hugging lads need to remember that it is all a matter of perspective. Perspective does not cost $30. Someone is stealing from YOU!
Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!
Alternative response: Republicans use ".com" because they have murdered (and will again murder) innocent women and children is there is a nice profit in it? Shit, if you do a good job killing innocents it can land you a cushy job with Fox News.
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_North
I love the two sides of the Democrat/Republican coin. Democrats are commies and Republicans murder innocent people. I used to wonder why republicans are the ones popular with Christians but I guess that it might be because Christians have a long history of murdering innocent people and feel a common bond with Republicans. As someone that goes to a church, are you willing to confirm or deny this connection?
Haha! See how much fun that is making gross generalizations about a political party? FUN!!!
What if instead of linking to news source third party slashdot linked to THIS: http://www.theplantlist.org/
Would 50% of the post be discussing the third party news source instead of the real news. I don't even think the news is the spin of the third party (which was, "Look! Scientists have goofed an estimate!" (One that will alway be a moving target, in this case the plant count)). I think the real news is this: There is a group working to create an open, coordinated effort to prevent the very thing that the triple-faced thirdy party is spinning negatively.
In other news, post is now both the plurar and singular form of the word "post".
Is that office a long way away from your cave?
I have been in a cave in the side of a mesa in the low desert of the state of Arizona. Coatimundi, coyote, gila monsters, rattle snakes and javelina are my companions. We learn from each other and live in mutual respect and harmony.
Where is your cave? Is it in Oxfordshire?
Would you be interested in learning why I like the desert? It's clean.
You are demonstrating logical thinking, critical reasoning and independence. We frown on that sort of thing in the USA. Please respect our authority and submit by no longer thinking. We will be doing that for you going forward. It is for your own good . . .
I thought both films were about the ideal of a free, flexible and open computer system versus the ideal of a totalitarian, inflexible and closed computer system.
So, this is what both Tron films were about. Apple, Microsoft and Oracle (corporations) play the role of CLU/MCP and we the individuals of the world (human beings) play the role of the relatively powerless programs that die on the grid as punishment for defiance (a metaphor for what happens when an individual attempts to confront a corporation in court).
I hope this doesn't depress you too much . . .
Are you serious or trolling?
Why is there no reason to buy PS3 titles? Do you only play Halo?
What about PS3 exclusives? Shooter, Eden, Infamous, Little Big Planet, Luminez, Uncharted 1&2?
Some of these are not just exclusives, they are games that raise the bar, shining examples of the medium taken to the next level.
Again, are you serious or trolling? Honestly, I cannot tell.
(Obligatory grammer nazi comment: You cannot capitalize the first word of your sentences but you capitalize the "PS" in "PS3"? Really?)
But my mom's basement is dark and cozy and I feel safe down here. No one bothers me in the basement. My games and porn are down here too. Why would I want to leave?
Maybe we would point the AC to Landover Baptist Church for more jokers he can regail with his indignation. Maybe they can explain *WHOOSH* to him. Maybe?
I, personally, thought your comment was fucking hilarious.
A final note, if all those people want you dead . . . you must be happy, kind and enjoying life.
Why do devotees of the avatar of compassion (aka Christians) have such a problem with fun? I guess there is no point in questioning all the paradoxes in the universe. Best to accept them and roll with it.
Uninterestingly, "Woodpecker From Mars" is my theme song. It plays in my head whenever I enter a room.
It is also playing on my cheap $12 desk speakers as I type this at work. My coworkers already dislike me so I am not harming my already low office reputation.
Oddly, though, I am the overlord of Mu and not Mars, but they start with the same letter so that must count for something, right?
Nice sarcasm. It works better if you know what you are talking about.
There are impressively high cost per sub per channel ('subs' is what subscribers are called in the cable industry). Also, a small number of companys (7) own 90% of cable TV channels. With that market power they can force the cable company to buy whole groups of channels with stipulations about placement (such as: no MTV or Nickelodeon if you don't put QVC on a single digit channel). As an aside, if we want a-la-cart channel selection with sat or cable (and we do), we must take it up with the FCC. Those seven big boys have both cable and sat by the balls on this issue. Only the we the people can make a-la-cart a reality, so write your Congressperson. Moving on.
Back to your ranting being all kinds of wrong: the ISP side of cable is the cash cow. The profit margins on family cable are orders of magnitude smaller than the profit margins on cable internet.
Video delivery is like the gas at the Circle-K (or 7-11). The store owner is making pennies per gallon.
You bought $50 in gas? Profit is $1.25 for the store (Exxon is getting rich though). A 3% profit. That is video.
You bought a 20 oz soda for $1.50? It was only $0.75 from the Pepsi distributor. That is 50% profit. That is the cable internet.
Adjust the costs to $55 at 3% and $45 at 50% and tell me again which service is the cash cow.
Again, nice rant, but you were wrong.
"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences."
Translation: If you try to fix big problems you are going to look like a crazy. Steel yourself for it, look crazy and fix shit!
Anyone know the source of the quote (WITHOUT GOOGLING FOR IT, CHEATER!)?
And if you choose to play "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" please remember these two films:
'Flatliners' and Oliver Stones 'JFK'
Kevin was in both of those with some other long-time and/or prolific actors.
Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts and William Baldwin in 'Flatliners'.
Jack Lemmon, Kevin Cosner, Walter Matthau, Vincent D'Onofrio, Joe Pesci, Gary Oldman, Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, John Candy were all in 'JFK'.
Hell, Fidel Castro was in some archive footagein 'JFK'. There is one degree of separation between Kevin Bacon and Castro.
I know people who consider including 'JFK' in a Kevin Bacon chain to be cheating.
I am with you, datajack. I had an debate on /. with someone about Blu-Ray quality and they thought I was a fool for wanting to watch 'Lawrence of Arabia' in HD in a widescreen format.
They said I was being prissy and that no one could tell the difference. I complained about compression distortion in MP3's and they told me I was making it up and that a human ear could never hear the difference. I told the person that while they might suffer from hearing loss, the comparison to me was quite obvious and that would never spend money on such junk.
I fear that you and I will be forced to accept the low quality product or pay a premium for quality formats. I am ready to vote with my money. I don't drink Bud Light. I don't listen to MP3s and I don't like streamed movies. I will spend the extra cash for good beer, quality tunes and to see the glint in Lawrence's eyes as he yells, "No prisoners! No prisoners!"
Hopefully there will always be a place in the marketplace for those of us that want the good stuff and are willing to pony up a little extra for it. For the rest, let them drink that swill, listen to their distortion and enjoy 'Scary Movie Forty-Two' in all is lo-res, low-brow mediocrity.
I thought Debian was left handed, not gay. Am I wrong?
Nice! I am stupid too! It is good to know I am not alone.
The aliens caused the oil spill to increase the number of oil covered animals, which while totally inedible to them, are a source of great comfort to them.
You haven't see cute until you have seen an Alterian cuddling a rotting, oil-covered pelican corpse like a teddy bear.