Actually I stream videos and music TV over my Galaxy Note II. I also don't know anyone that would use a phone to produce music, that sort of thing is really for PC/Mac
It's funny how we claim in western culture that we should be free to do as we please as long as it's not hurting anyone else, but there are so many that feel the need to jump in and stop others from go on what could be the greatest adventure any of us could ever go on, possibility for the betterment and all mankind, but everyone and their dog feel it's absolutely necessary to try and stop them.
Actually what they did was worse than not listen. The knew what people were requesting, but twisted it around violating the spirit of the request. In other words, they purposely snubbed their user base. They may as well have just hired a team of professional door-to-door salesmen to go around slapping everyone who uses Windows 8 in the face.
Right now, content providers see you as criminals and can sue you or worse put you in jail
Actually I'm Canadian so no they can't:P, we pay a percentage on all blank media (hard drives, CDs, MP3 players, tapes) which goes to the content industry to compensate them for media sharing so.... awkward.
The Gov't sees you as a reason for needing to make more laws favoring content protection thereby opening a door for all kinds of problems.
1) Speak for your own government
2) the content industry bought those laws, the government didn't just wake up one day and say, "You know what we need less of, people trading music and movies"
it does not... give you the right to TAKE something that does NOT belong to you
I already paid for the content through my cable subscription and through the tax levied on blank media. So yeah, it kind of does.
simply because you disagree with something you arrogant prick.
Who was being childish again?
I'm a little concerned for your health, maybe you should stay off the interwebs. I can see through my monitor the vain in you head is ready to explode.
Seems to me file sharing is changing the landscape and giving power back to the consumers for products that we were severely overcharged for in incompatible flawed formats provided by people that decided it wasn't worth making it available in a certain location because there wasn't enough money in it for them. I'm just one of billions of people that decided how things are done needs to change.
So you're welcome. I hope you enjoy the benefits file sharing has brought to you even if you don't agree with it.
Although I don't think Apple was paying for it, it was just the media loves apple, especially writers and artists, so it was just their natural choice to throw in there and the focus, as I remember it, wasn't really on the actual device. It's actually even odder because I see PCs all over the place and just generally assume they're running windows and don't think anything of it. Yet when I see a monitor with the windows logo on the back or someone using Windows 8 in a TV show if feels like someone's beating me over the head with it.
I was rather disappointed in the series Elementary. When the series started there's and episode where Watson was using an android tablet reading in bed, it looked and felt natural, it was just a prop and could have just as easily been a book or magazine. I didn't even think or notice it the first time I saw it, but when I rewatched it later with my wife I noticed. Other than various smart phones technology wasn't even a big deal for the rest of the season up to the last three or four episodes where at some point they whip out a surface tablet and it shows them swiping around on the start screen at least once an episode. It's done in such a way that it totally ruins the mood and flow of the show and for basically thirty seconds to a minute every show it's like Microsoft cool aid man is jumping out of your TV set yelling "OH YEAH!!!!"
I have no problems with a female doctor, my issue is I know it would quickly degrade into a crappy romantic, rather than a great science fiction, drama. I sincerely hope I'm wrong and in the future they do have a female doctor and the writers don't go that route, but history pretty well shows if you have a lead female character she has to be vulnerable emotionally, romantically involved and her underwear must be on display.
If they're able to throw in a female doctor and keep her as genuine as the previous incarnations it could be times two combo breaker interesting. On the other hand, we all pretty well know once the show throws in a female doctor they'll look for every chance they can to show her underwear. At which point we know the series has jumped the shark and it's over.
I'd actually thought about that on Sunday while waiting for the announcement. You know if they went with a female lead someone would take advantage of it to write in some some cheap lesbian make out scenes to try and boost ratings. I'm glad they stuck with a male character instead, I get rather tired of shows throwing women in to a lead role just so they can have them strip to their undies and have sex/make out with other characters for no apparent reason.
Orphan Black is a prime example, it's a great show with a good plot, IMHO, but they had to go and throw in a sex scene with just about every lead character every other episode. It's like watching ten filler episodes of Dragon Ball Z just to see a ten minute fight.
You're right. I'm in Dartmouth, Under the Dome is the only show we watch on cable because it's on early. I was wrong when I thought it was on at 9, normally we don't stay up to 10. We tried to stay up last night to watch one of the shark week shows on discovery, but conked out at 9:30.
Yep, I use to have phone too, but since my wife and I both have cells now and the only people who call us on our land line were telemarketers and people looking for donations I decided to save the $10/month and dropped the phone from the bundle. I'm not pay extra just to have people call me and ask for money and/or wake my two year old up at 8:00 after we just got her to sleep. So much for the do not call list, we ended up with more calls after signing up for that three or four years ago than we ever had before it was around.
What you paid for is the opportunity to watch it through your cable provider
An opportunity difficult for me to take advantage of because of my geographic location. I could just say the hell with it and save myself $20/month by just getting internet and downloading everything, which is what I do anyway, and I almost did a couple of months ago. Instead I decided by paying for the cable at least some of that goes toward paying for the shows we watch.
which isn't the same as buying a copy to keep.
Who said I keep them. I download, watch, then delete them to free up space for the next weeks shows. If it's something my wife and I want to keep we buy the box set when it comes out. As we did with Buffy, Angel, House, Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Bones, The Finder, and at least a half a dozen other shows, which we wouldn't have bought had we not been able to watch first, which we couldn't have done had we not downloaded them.
There's no shortage of money here and I'm happy to pay for the content, it just needs to be in an acceptable format at a convenient time for me to consume it and none of this, "Pay $45/month more and get the premium crap you don't want so you can watch the stuff that's on at an inconvenient time".
Although we disagree on what I should be getting for my money, I'm glad you're sensible enough to know it's not stealing in either case.
It's sporadic on what will show up on demand and where in the menu it will show up, there's no easy search. Most of the shows don't show up there until one to two weeks after they've aired and it's not consistent. So we have to sift through dozens of menus every day to see if the latest episode of a show we want has been added. Not to mention some of the shows my wife watches don't even air in Canada so downloading is still the better overall option.
Honestly Sickbeard has made watching TV too easy and without all the nickle and diming the Cable Co puts us through to view content we've already paid for, so even if they did have a better on demand set up, I probably still wouldn't use it. One of the other huge advantages of downloading shows we watch is we can take them with us when we're traveling, which you can't do with a DVR/PVR or on demand.
Actually that's really common now. All kinds of fantasy TV now use windows crap. Part of the reason I stopped watching Arrow was because it seemed like every thirty seconds the hot tech guru babe or Queen were doing something on a surface. No tech person in their right mind looking to do some serious hacking/cracking would use a brand new OS that hasn't even been out for a year, and they certainly wouldn't be using Windows 8.
MS is paying a fortune to have their crap stuffed down everyone's throat.
Some stuff we can. A lot of the time I get "Content not available in your region" some times I even get it when trying to stream from Canadian sites. There are undoubtly 1001 ways I could aviod pirating, but I've already paid for the show on cable so I should be able to access it however is most convienent for me. I shouldn't have to spend extra time or money just to watch stuff I paid for already.
This comes off sounding angry at your question, but I'm not, I'm mad at the cable company for making me pay for service and then nickel and diming me in to oblivion.
Mainly because the cable company wants another $15/mo to rent a DVR, which they only rent to you if you get the premium digital channels another $30/mo. I'm already paying $150/mo for internet and cable. Cable that I don't watch because everything I want to see is on after 11. Sometimes we'll stay up to watch something that's on at 10, but that's still pushing the envelope for us. We're both earlier risers and prefer to be in bed and asleep by 9:30.
So I'm not going to pay another $45/mo on top of $150 to get more channels I don't watch just so I can record the stuff I've already paid for that's on too late for me to see when I can download them the next day while I'm at work anyway. I have Sickbeard setup to get the shows I want when they become available. I only went that far because my wife's download list, which includes a lot of shows we don't get at all in Canada, was getting too long so I setup Sickbeard and she can add the stuff she wants to it.
My wife and I watch it at 9:00 PM Atlantic time. I thought it was on Global, but the Global site says it's on at 10:00 PM Eastern time, that's 11 for us. part of the reason I pirate a lot of the shows we watch is because most don't come on until 11 our time and staying up until midnight knowing I have to get up at five the next day to look after our 2 year old or go to work just doesn't work. It sucks paying $150 a month for basic cable and internet and all the stuff you want to see is on after you go to bed.
Under the dome is one of the only shows we watch on cable because it's actually on at a decent hour.
I don't know who this "we" you're talking about is. Every comment section for every article on UEFI and secure boot that was posted on/. was filled with commenter saying it was useless, would be bypassed within a year and was how MS was going to use it to lock average people into Windows. Followed by reams of MS shills saying it was only mandatory on ARM devices and it can be turned off on anything else. Followed by more posts of "Until MS requires it and it can't be turned off".
So far to me it looks like things are playing out exactly as/. predicted. Looks like the next step will be for MS to just require it on everything, even though it doesn't work.
I know what you're getting at there, but my first thought when I read "Put a hind leg over each of your ears" was that you'd actually be wearing the dog like a hat with its stomach resting on the top of your head.
I actually have an aunt from Manila in the Philippines who asked me if I knew why her dog was called a chow. I said I didn't know and she respond with, "because when you catch one that's what time it is."
My family is primarily descended from the UK so she's normally the odd one out at family reunions. She's easily one of the best Asian cooks I know, but she likes to comment that her dog ran away after supper's over. She's done it for as long as I can remember.
Have you already forgotten about all the DRM crap they were going to, and probably still will, stick in. This is a shallow attempt to regain some public face, they're still planning on screwing their customers, and any developers, that buy into this over.
One of the things that killed Unity on Ubuntu for me was that I couldn't move the launcher. I agree with you though about putting things on the sides. For the most part the aspect ratio of monitors has been getting wider, but that was because we needed wider screens to read content to help mitigate endless vertical scrolling. Now that we have nice wide screens applications are starting to suck up the left and right making the content viewing area smaller and smaller. But what I find is worse is the stupid ribbon interface for office, it's like poorly organized game of find the hidden object.
I'd propose that you just let people chose where they want to dock tool bars.
The point still stands, the media cartel is preventing us from getting content and forcing us to find alternate means of consuming something we otherwise might pay for. I pay for Netflix, but only because I can get a free proxy so I have the American version. If I had the crappy Canadian version, which I did initially and canceled, I wouldn't bother paying for Netflix and would just pirate the content I want to watch. Which is what I do when I can't find something locally at a reasonable price.
To me it doesn't matter if it's the American or Canadian media cartel, they both do the same thing and it's ridiculous to stop people from paying for something they want when you're trying to make money by selling a product, but only to certain people. There are a lot of other products this is done with.
At one point I wanted to by a dedicated media server I found one I liked at Best Buy, but was disappointing with the specs on it. I looked it up on-line to compare it with other similar machines and found there was an american version of the same system, except it actually had good specs. The Canadian version came with 2 GB ram, and a 250 GB hard drive, the American version was 8 GB ram and a 1 TB hard drive for basically a $100 more. They wouldn't ship the American version to Canada and for awhile I contemplated having it shipped to my mother in South Carolina and having her ship it to me.
Another example, Amazon's Kindle Fire. My brother and sister wanted to get one for my step-mother, quite a while ago, and had planned on ordering one from the states until I pointed out that you couldn't use the Amazon app store or the network the Fire ran on in Canada.
Fortunately it's not a problem as long as you don't need them to be one of your providers.
That's easy to say when you're not the one surfing the net and come across several news articles a day that consist of blocked videos. I remember once CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) posted an article with a link to a youtube video that just said "Content not available in your region" The article was only up on CBC for about 20 minutes before they corrected it, but it was still kind of a slap in the face when our own public news corporation is posting stuff their supposed audience can't watch because we live north of the border.
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Actually I stream videos and music TV over my Galaxy Note II. I also don't know anyone that would use a phone to produce music, that sort of thing is really for PC/Mac
It's funny how we claim in western culture that we should be free to do as we please as long as it's not hurting anyone else, but there are so many that feel the need to jump in and stop others from go on what could be the greatest adventure any of us could ever go on, possibility for the betterment and all mankind, but everyone and their dog feel it's absolutely necessary to try and stop them.
I find it very disheartening
Actually what they did was worse than not listen. The knew what people were requesting, but twisted it around violating the spirit of the request. In other words, they purposely snubbed their user base. They may as well have just hired a team of professional door-to-door salesmen to go around slapping everyone who uses Windows 8 in the face.
Right now, content providers see you as criminals and can sue you or worse put you in jail
Actually I'm Canadian so no they can't :P, we pay a percentage on all blank media (hard drives, CDs, MP3 players, tapes) which goes to the content industry to compensate them for media sharing so.... awkward.
The Gov't sees you as a reason for needing to make more laws favoring content protection thereby opening a door for all kinds of problems.
1) Speak for your own government
2) the content industry bought those laws, the government didn't just wake up one day and say, "You know what we need less of, people trading music and movies"
it does not ... give you the right to TAKE something that does NOT belong to you
I already paid for the content through my cable subscription and through the tax levied on blank media. So yeah, it kind of does.
simply because you disagree with something you arrogant prick.
Who was being childish again?
I'm a little concerned for your health, maybe you should stay off the interwebs. I can see through my monitor the vain in you head is ready to explode.
Quit acting like a spoiled little brat.
Say's the AC throwing a tantrum.
Seems to me file sharing is changing the landscape and giving power back to the consumers for products that we were severely overcharged for in incompatible flawed formats provided by people that decided it wasn't worth making it available in a certain location because there wasn't enough money in it for them. I'm just one of billions of people that decided how things are done needs to change.
So you're welcome. I hope you enjoy the benefits file sharing has brought to you even if you don't agree with it.
LOL, true that.
Although I don't think Apple was paying for it, it was just the media loves apple, especially writers and artists, so it was just their natural choice to throw in there and the focus, as I remember it, wasn't really on the actual device. It's actually even odder because I see PCs all over the place and just generally assume they're running windows and don't think anything of it. Yet when I see a monitor with the windows logo on the back or someone using Windows 8 in a TV show if feels like someone's beating me over the head with it.
I was rather disappointed in the series Elementary. When the series started there's and episode where Watson was using an android tablet reading in bed, it looked and felt natural, it was just a prop and could have just as easily been a book or magazine. I didn't even think or notice it the first time I saw it, but when I rewatched it later with my wife I noticed. Other than various smart phones technology wasn't even a big deal for the rest of the season up to the last three or four episodes where at some point they whip out a surface tablet and it shows them swiping around on the start screen at least once an episode. It's done in such a way that it totally ruins the mood and flow of the show and for basically thirty seconds to a minute every show it's like Microsoft cool aid man is jumping out of your TV set yelling "OH YEAH!!!!"
I have no problems with a female doctor, my issue is I know it would quickly degrade into a crappy romantic, rather than a great science fiction, drama. I sincerely hope I'm wrong and in the future they do have a female doctor and the writers don't go that route, but history pretty well shows if you have a lead female character she has to be vulnerable emotionally, romantically involved and her underwear must be on display.
If they're able to throw in a female doctor and keep her as genuine as the previous incarnations it could be times two combo breaker interesting. On the other hand, we all pretty well know once the show throws in a female doctor they'll look for every chance they can to show her underwear. At which point we know the series has jumped the shark and it's over.
I'd actually thought about that on Sunday while waiting for the announcement. You know if they went with a female lead someone would take advantage of it to write in some some cheap lesbian make out scenes to try and boost ratings. I'm glad they stuck with a male character instead, I get rather tired of shows throwing women in to a lead role just so they can have them strip to their undies and have sex/make out with other characters for no apparent reason.
Orphan Black is a prime example, it's a great show with a good plot, IMHO, but they had to go and throw in a sex scene with just about every lead character every other episode. It's like watching ten filler episodes of Dragon Ball Z just to see a ten minute fight.
You're right. I'm in Dartmouth, Under the Dome is the only show we watch on cable because it's on early. I was wrong when I thought it was on at 9, normally we don't stay up to 10. We tried to stay up last night to watch one of the shark week shows on discovery, but conked out at 9:30.
Yep, I use to have phone too, but since my wife and I both have cells now and the only people who call us on our land line were telemarketers and people looking for donations I decided to save the $10/month and dropped the phone from the bundle. I'm not pay extra just to have people call me and ask for money and/or wake my two year old up at 8:00 after we just got her to sleep. So much for the do not call list, we ended up with more calls after signing up for that three or four years ago than we ever had before it was around.
What you paid for is the opportunity to watch it through your cable provider
An opportunity difficult for me to take advantage of because of my geographic location. I could just say the hell with it and save myself $20/month by just getting internet and downloading everything, which is what I do anyway, and I almost did a couple of months ago. Instead I decided by paying for the cable at least some of that goes toward paying for the shows we watch.
which isn't the same as buying a copy to keep.
Who said I keep them. I download, watch, then delete them to free up space for the next weeks shows. If it's something my wife and I want to keep we buy the box set when it comes out. As we did with Buffy, Angel, House, Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Bones, The Finder, and at least a half a dozen other shows, which we wouldn't have bought had we not been able to watch first, which we couldn't have done had we not downloaded them.
There's no shortage of money here and I'm happy to pay for the content, it just needs to be in an acceptable format at a convenient time for me to consume it and none of this, "Pay $45/month more and get the premium crap you don't want so you can watch the stuff that's on at an inconvenient time".
Although we disagree on what I should be getting for my money, I'm glad you're sensible enough to know it's not stealing in either case.
I do have on demand, but it's next to useless.
It's sporadic on what will show up on demand and where in the menu it will show up, there's no easy search. Most of the shows don't show up there until one to two weeks after they've aired and it's not consistent. So we have to sift through dozens of menus every day to see if the latest episode of a show we want has been added. Not to mention some of the shows my wife watches don't even air in Canada so downloading is still the better overall option.
Honestly Sickbeard has made watching TV too easy and without all the nickle and diming the Cable Co puts us through to view content we've already paid for, so even if they did have a better on demand set up, I probably still wouldn't use it. One of the other huge advantages of downloading shows we watch is we can take them with us when we're traveling, which you can't do with a DVR/PVR or on demand.
Actually that's really common now. All kinds of fantasy TV now use windows crap. Part of the reason I stopped watching Arrow was because it seemed like every thirty seconds the hot tech guru babe or Queen were doing something on a surface. No tech person in their right mind looking to do some serious hacking/cracking would use a brand new OS that hasn't even been out for a year, and they certainly wouldn't be using Windows 8.
MS is paying a fortune to have their crap stuffed down everyone's throat.
Some stuff we can. A lot of the time I get "Content not available in your region" some times I even get it when trying to stream from Canadian sites. There are undoubtly 1001 ways I could aviod pirating, but I've already paid for the show on cable so I should be able to access it however is most convienent for me. I shouldn't have to spend extra time or money just to watch stuff I paid for already.
How is it stealing when I already paid for it?
This comes off sounding angry at your question, but I'm not, I'm mad at the cable company for making me pay for service and then nickel and diming me in to oblivion.
Mainly because the cable company wants another $15/mo to rent a DVR, which they only rent to you if you get the premium digital channels another $30/mo. I'm already paying $150/mo for internet and cable. Cable that I don't watch because everything I want to see is on after 11. Sometimes we'll stay up to watch something that's on at 10, but that's still pushing the envelope for us. We're both earlier risers and prefer to be in bed and asleep by 9:30.
So I'm not going to pay another $45/mo on top of $150 to get more channels I don't watch just so I can record the stuff I've already paid for that's on too late for me to see when I can download them the next day while I'm at work anyway. I have Sickbeard setup to get the shows I want when they become available. I only went that far because my wife's download list, which includes a lot of shows we don't get at all in Canada, was getting too long so I setup Sickbeard and she can add the stuff she wants to it.
My wife and I watch it at 9:00 PM Atlantic time. I thought it was on Global, but the Global site says it's on at 10:00 PM Eastern time, that's 11 for us. part of the reason I pirate a lot of the shows we watch is because most don't come on until 11 our time and staying up until midnight knowing I have to get up at five the next day to look after our 2 year old or go to work just doesn't work. It sucks paying $150 a month for basic cable and internet and all the stuff you want to see is on after you go to bed. Under the dome is one of the only shows we watch on cable because it's actually on at a decent hour.
I don't know who this "we" you're talking about is. Every comment section for every article on UEFI and secure boot that was posted on /. was filled with commenter saying it was useless, would be bypassed within a year and was how MS was going to use it to lock average people into Windows. Followed by reams of MS shills saying it was only mandatory on ARM devices and it can be turned off on anything else. Followed by more posts of "Until MS requires it and it can't be turned off".
/. predicted. Looks like the next step will be for MS to just require it on everything, even though it doesn't work.
So far to me it looks like things are playing out exactly as
I know what you're getting at there, but my first thought when I read "Put a hind leg over each of your ears" was that you'd actually be wearing the dog like a hat with its stomach resting on the top of your head.
I actually have an aunt from Manila in the Philippines who asked me if I knew why her dog was called a chow. I said I didn't know and she respond with, "because when you catch one that's what time it is."
My family is primarily descended from the UK so she's normally the odd one out at family reunions. She's easily one of the best Asian cooks I know, but she likes to comment that her dog ran away after supper's over. She's done it for as long as I can remember.
Have you already forgotten about all the DRM crap they were going to, and probably still will, stick in. This is a shallow attempt to regain some public face, they're still planning on screwing their customers, and any developers, that buy into this over.
One of the things that killed Unity on Ubuntu for me was that I couldn't move the launcher. I agree with you though about putting things on the sides. For the most part the aspect ratio of monitors has been getting wider, but that was because we needed wider screens to read content to help mitigate endless vertical scrolling. Now that we have nice wide screens applications are starting to suck up the left and right making the content viewing area smaller and smaller. But what I find is worse is the stupid ribbon interface for office, it's like poorly organized game of find the hidden object.
I'd propose that you just let people chose where they want to dock tool bars.
Go home AC, your drunk.
The point still stands, the media cartel is preventing us from getting content and forcing us to find alternate means of consuming something we otherwise might pay for. I pay for Netflix, but only because I can get a free proxy so I have the American version. If I had the crappy Canadian version, which I did initially and canceled, I wouldn't bother paying for Netflix and would just pirate the content I want to watch. Which is what I do when I can't find something locally at a reasonable price.
To me it doesn't matter if it's the American or Canadian media cartel, they both do the same thing and it's ridiculous to stop people from paying for something they want when you're trying to make money by selling a product, but only to certain people. There are a lot of other products this is done with.
At one point I wanted to by a dedicated media server I found one I liked at Best Buy, but was disappointing with the specs on it. I looked it up on-line to compare it with other similar machines and found there was an american version of the same system, except it actually had good specs. The Canadian version came with 2 GB ram, and a 250 GB hard drive, the American version was 8 GB ram and a 1 TB hard drive for basically a $100 more. They wouldn't ship the American version to Canada and for awhile I contemplated having it shipped to my mother in South Carolina and having her ship it to me.
Another example, Amazon's Kindle Fire. My brother and sister wanted to get one for my step-mother, quite a while ago, and had planned on ordering one from the states until I pointed out that you couldn't use the Amazon app store or the network the Fire ran on in Canada.
Fortunately it's not a problem as long as you don't need them to be one of your providers.
That's easy to say when you're not the one surfing the net and come across several news articles a day that consist of blocked videos. I remember once CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) posted an article with a link to a youtube video that just said "Content not available in your region" The article was only up on CBC for about 20 minutes before they corrected it, but it was still kind of a slap in the face when our own public news corporation is posting stuff their supposed audience can't watch because we live north of the border.