The article suggests we will see the slow erosion of traditional television broadcasting, and with it, the death of the great TV ads of the past. The article offers an alternative possibility for the future of television.
And I'd suggest then that the article is wrong. How about, I don't know, just MORE ADS EVERYWHERE, all the time? Television isn't going anywhere, but it is losing its monopoly on moving images in the home. So the shifting around is going to be natural. That doesn't mean moving images will stop being ad-supported and suddenly everybody will throw away their HDTVs in favor of the 5-inch Youtube player.
TV ads will die when they decide the Superbowl thing isn't working out any more. Convergence is a double edged sword: your technologies are getting in bed together, and so will your advertising. More importantly, it means the diversification of advertising - there is not One True Way that a company must get its name out there. It may be via text ads next to an online video or it may be via a 30-second spot, but either way, the article is predicting ultimately fewer ads. I don't think so. I think it means more ads. More ads on TV, online, in your e-mail, cereal. A big fat OS X logo branded onto my chicken. Lightspeed underwear.
"Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ballgames, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written in the sky. But not in dreams, no sirree."
That was pretty classy. (Even if ultimately it was intended as a bit of good-natured competitive ribbing, which it doesn't look like.)
I have to say, often times we're prone to think that large organizations such as Microsoft are just a big, faceless entity. As a whole, this may or may not be true, but either way, they're only made up of people. The IE team only wants to ship the best software possible given their resources, as does Mozilla.
The best to both teams -- let the competition continue!
I absolutely second DokuWiki. I've used it in several projects and it's incredibly easy to work with, and requires no database. I've set it up a few times as a beginner Wiki as well.
This entire project is either a very good or very bad idea.
(1) Automated searching for security vulnerabilities. (2) A lot of that code is copyrighted. Which yes, it's transmitted over the Intarwebs regularly, but now it's just a little easier.
I'm not saying it's not a *cool* idea, but from the looks of the Slashdotters trying out this new power, I'm not sure Google thought this all the way through. (1) is great when your code runs a web service and nobody sees it but your team or organization. (2) I can foresee a lot of CS kids using this to find that magic snippet to complete Problem Set 13, and/or a lot of copyrighted code finding its way into private projects.
It's a matter of companies that don't exist because it's illegal.
I'm not following you entirely here, though it's probably my fault. There are plenty of companies that sell non-DRM media, most come in the form of CD stores. I'm guessing you mean taking the file and moving it to another device. My response would be that falls under the further problem of laws that enforce DRM as a legal solution to something that should remain firmly in the technological world. If I agree to a license that restricts my rights, then that's my problem; but if the government makes it their problem, I'd agree, we have an issue.
Even then, distributing tools that *allow* you to circumvent DRM under those narrow exceptions is illegal. Given that it's possible for me to break a DRM scheme without ever agreeing to any license*, it can hardly be said that it's the license that's harming one's rights. Clearly it's laws like the DMCA that extend copyright to third parties.
I should have been more specific. The legal entanglements of license agreements as well as bodies of law like the DMCA is a problem, but in this case I don't find the two issues linked. If it wasn't enforced by law then it would be enforced by some measure of contract; if it wasn't via giving up certain fair use rights, it would be via agreements that indirectly and further extended the domain of the contract. But as for your main point, I agree.
When you agreed to their license, which was a binding legal contract. If you don't agree to their license, and therefore don't get their product, you're not affected.
DRM doesn't intrinsically interfere with fair use, because non DRM'd media is not affected. The license, not the technology, is what harms your rights.
Q. Since when is it the right of the company to do anything? A. Since I agreed to it.
In addition, I don't suppose it means anything that the United States has about 300 million people and vast infrastructural needs, while Denmark has a population of 5.4 million (less than New York) and an area of 43,000 sq. km (where the US has 9,600,000 km).
Italy: 58,750,000 people and 301,000 sq. km Spain: 43,000,000 people and 506,000 sq. km UK: 60,200,000 people 244,820 sq. km
(I mention population, only because articles like this usually list "X% have dialup/broadband/etc." as a proving factor. I mention land area, because it's much easier to get fiber to every corner when you don't have to lay a lot in the first place.)
I agree that the US may be "behind", but the needs of setting up high-speed in Denmark are going to be much different than setting it up in the United States./just my 0.02
Do/did you ever get to work with the writers on material, or improvise something on your own that makes it into the show? It seems like separating the inherent humor of many of the voices (Zoidberg comes to mind) and the way they speak, and the written material itself, would be hard.
I don't want to have to make this point, but I feel obligated in light of all the Smug that's about to enter the thread -- but this study isn't really useful for debunking anything except the previous "studies" that it did help patients. "Prayer is more about changing the person doing the praying, than about bringing changes to world events."
"Even if all the things that people prayed for happened -- which they do not -- this would not prove what Christians mean by the efficacy of prayer. For prayer is request.
The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them. Invariable "success" in prayer would not prove the Christian doctrine at all.
It would prove something more like magic -- a power in certain human beings to control, or compel, the course of nature." (C.S. Lewis)
I'm not religious by any means, but I think Lewis has a fair point.
Maybe it's because people don't want to rebuy their movies -- yet again -- for yet another -- format that will be outdated in two years, just to watch it on a six inch screen.
I'm sorry, but "shortage of new titles" and "oh crap, teh warez!1" are even crappy excuses.
It's a good idea. In theory -- and only in theory.
In reality, everybody will still call them games. I mean, I still snicker when I hear "graphic novel". Why? It's kind of stupid, IMHO -- changing the name doesn't really change the thing, and I identify "graphic novel" (vs. comic book) more with the people who insist on calling it that than with the thing itself. Same with people who insist on differences between "film" and "movie".
How about instead of changing the name, people change their associations? (Why are people so hellbent on making sure "mainstream society" accepts gaming? The majority of "mainstream society" still hasn't accepted that sex exists. Slashdot joke here.)
It's still significant enough to warrant a discount, which is something AMD can't really bring to the table. Their Q3 2005 results are impressive -- 1.18 million Macs shipped for the *quarter* (35% growth) -- 687,000 desktops; 495,000 portables. and 6.155 million iPods shipped for quarter (616% growth). Now I'm no industry expert, but 1.18 million chips is enough to warrant a discount, hell, lots of 1000 are enough to knock a few bucks off per chip for chains and resellers.
Now imagine Apple keeping this phenomenal growth up, and you get the idea that cost-savings is going to be a big deal at this size.
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, SWEET FUCKING CHRIST!!
Can we postpone these stories until the production runs of both the boxes and OS X comes out? Please? All these stories in the past few weeks have read like the following and have steadily decreased in poster IQ:
Apple: Wild speculation abounds on developer-only releases of software, hardware OMGWTF
Apple: Apple may/may not use DRM, based on developer-only releases of software and hardware OMGWTF!!!1
Apple: Teh interface is pretyOMGWTF!!!!!11eleventyone Anonymous Coward writes: i am LOVE MY MACCY from BITTTORRRENT!!! I kissed it becos it tastES LIKE CANDY!!
Calm down, people. I'm not saying these things will or won't come to pass, but everybody assuming that a developer-only release will be anything like its comparable production release -- not to mention one that won't be available for a year -- is silly.
Of course, your most important ingredient is this baby right here: the external web service. You can get it in a can but to really do things right, you gotta strangle yourself a fresh one.
We're going to sync with our outside web service using a simple SOAP client, written in whatever language you prefer, and setting the time. (Your users will get their time from you via NTP still, of course.) This isn't required, but for that fresh BAM! taste, it's recommended. Mind the delay calculations if you're writing the client side of it yourself, the WWWait will have a little bit more effect here depending on your setup. If you want to make it quick and dirty, there's no reason to go through the SOAP/WSDL hoops, the point is having it on a known port and piggybacking across HTTP's fame and success, and then sleeping with its girlfriend, and stealing her wallet on the way out. BAM!
Geeklog. Pathetically easy to set up and use, even moreso to administer. Plugins aplenty from squatty.com. And of course you need themes.
PHPNuke is OK, but I've found Geeklog to be a lot cleaner, and the community support is insane[ly good]. For your purposes, comments, stories, and calendars (including per-user calendaring, I believe) is included. There are several plugins that connect Geeklog and Coppermine, Gallery, etc.
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And I'd suggest then that the article is wrong. How about, I don't know, just MORE ADS EVERYWHERE, all the time? Television isn't going anywhere, but it is losing its monopoly on moving images in the home. So the shifting around is going to be natural. That doesn't mean moving images will stop being ad-supported and suddenly everybody will throw away their HDTVs in favor of the 5-inch Youtube player.
TV ads will die when they decide the Superbowl thing isn't working out any more. Convergence is a double edged sword: your technologies are getting in bed together, and so will your advertising. More importantly, it means the diversification of advertising - there is not One True Way that a company must get its name out there. It may be via text ads next to an online video or it may be via a 30-second spot, but either way, the article is predicting ultimately fewer ads. I don't think so. I think it means more ads. More ads on TV, online, in your e-mail, cereal. A big fat OS X logo branded onto my chicken. Lightspeed underwear.
"Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ballgames, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written in the sky. But not in dreams, no sirree."
That was pretty classy. (Even if ultimately it was intended as a bit of good-natured competitive ribbing, which it doesn't look like.)
I have to say, often times we're prone to think that large organizations such as Microsoft are just a big, faceless entity. As a whole, this may or may not be true, but either way, they're only made up of people. The IE team only wants to ship the best software possible given their resources, as does Mozilla.
The best to both teams -- let the competition continue!
I absolutely second DokuWiki. I've used it in several projects and it's incredibly easy to work with, and requires no database. I've set it up a few times as a beginner Wiki as well.
This entire project is either a very good or very bad idea.
(1) Automated searching for security vulnerabilities.
(2) A lot of that code is copyrighted. Which yes, it's transmitted over the Intarwebs regularly, but now it's just a little easier.
I'm not saying it's not a *cool* idea, but from the looks of the Slashdotters trying out this new power, I'm not sure Google thought this all the way through. (1) is great when your code runs a web service and nobody sees it but your team or organization. (2) I can foresee a lot of CS kids using this to find that magic snippet to complete Problem Set 13, and/or a lot of copyrighted code finding its way into private projects.
Just sayin'.
Oh, let's not.
Alternatively, everybody can get it out of their systems today if I never have to hear it again.
I'm not following you entirely here, though it's probably my fault. There are plenty of companies that sell non-DRM media, most come in the form of CD stores. I'm guessing you mean taking the file and moving it to another device. My response would be that falls under the further problem of laws that enforce DRM as a legal solution to something that should remain firmly in the technological world. If I agree to a license that restricts my rights, then that's my problem; but if the government makes it their problem, I'd agree, we have an issue.
I should have been more specific. The legal entanglements of license agreements as well as bodies of law like the DMCA is a problem, but in this case I don't find the two issues linked. If it wasn't enforced by law then it would be enforced by some measure of contract; if it wasn't via giving up certain fair use rights, it would be via agreements that indirectly and further extended the domain of the contract. But as for your main point, I agree.
When you agreed to their license, which was a binding legal contract. If you don't agree to their license, and therefore don't get their product, you're not affected.
DRM doesn't intrinsically interfere with fair use, because non DRM'd media is not affected. The license, not the technology, is what harms your rights.
Q. Since when is it the right of the company to do anything?
A. Since I agreed to it.
In addition, I don't suppose it means anything that the United States has about 300 million people and vast infrastructural needs, while Denmark has a population of 5.4 million (less than New York) and an area of 43,000 sq. km (where the US has 9,600,000 km).
/just my 0.02
Italy: 58,750,000 people and 301,000 sq. km
Spain: 43,000,000 people and 506,000 sq. km
UK: 60,200,000 people 244,820 sq. km
(I mention population, only because articles like this usually list "X% have dialup/broadband/etc." as a proving factor. I mention land area, because it's much easier to get fiber to every corner when you don't have to lay a lot in the first place.)
I agree that the US may be "behind", but the needs of setting up high-speed in Denmark are going to be much different than setting it up in the United States.
According to submitter, you need more cores.
Do/did you ever get to work with the writers on material, or improvise something on your own that makes it into the show? It seems like separating the inherent humor of many of the voices (Zoidberg comes to mind) and the way they speak, and the written material itself, would be hard.
Since OS X.3, I believe the kernel has defragmented files under 20 MB on the fly.
I don't want to have to make this point, but I feel obligated in light of all the Smug that's about to enter the thread -- but this study isn't really useful for debunking anything except the previous "studies" that it did help patients. "Prayer is more about changing the person doing the praying, than about bringing changes to world events." "Even if all the things that people prayed for happened -- which they do not -- this would not prove what Christians mean by the efficacy of prayer. For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them. Invariable "success" in prayer would not prove the Christian doctrine at all. It would prove something more like magic -- a power in certain human beings to control, or compel, the course of nature." (C.S. Lewis) I'm not religious by any means, but I think Lewis has a fair point.
Your ideas actually intrigue me and I would actually like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Maybe it's because people don't want to rebuy their movies -- yet again -- for yet another -- format that will be outdated in two years, just to watch it on a six inch screen.
I'm sorry, but "shortage of new titles" and "oh crap, teh warez!1" are even crappy excuses.
It's a good idea. In theory -- and only in theory.
In reality, everybody will still call them games. I mean, I still snicker when I hear "graphic novel". Why? It's kind of stupid, IMHO -- changing the name doesn't really change the thing, and I identify "graphic novel" (vs. comic book) more with the people who insist on calling it that than with the thing itself. Same with people who insist on differences between "film" and "movie".
How about instead of changing the name, people change their associations? (Why are people so hellbent on making sure "mainstream society" accepts gaming? The majority of "mainstream society" still hasn't accepted that sex exists. Slashdot joke here.)
No you're NOT!
Aw, hell no.
It's still significant enough to warrant a discount, which is something AMD can't really bring to the table. Their Q3 2005 results are impressive -- 1.18 million Macs shipped for the *quarter* (35% growth) -- 687,000 desktops; 495,000 portables. and 6.155 million iPods shipped for quarter (616% growth). Now I'm no industry expert, but 1.18 million chips is enough to warrant a discount, hell, lots of 1000 are enough to knock a few bucks off per chip for chains and resellers.
Now imagine Apple keeping this phenomenal growth up, and you get the idea that cost-savings is going to be a big deal at this size.
Maybe massive, cost-saving volume discounts were a factor too?
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, SWEET FUCKING CHRIST!!
Can we postpone these stories until the production runs of both the boxes and OS X comes out? Please? All these stories in the past few weeks have read like the following and have steadily decreased in poster IQ:
Apple: Wild speculation abounds on developer-only releases of software, hardware OMGWTF
Apple: Apple may/may not use DRM, based on developer-only releases of software and hardware OMGWTF!!!1
Apple: Teh interface is pretyOMGWTF!!!!!11eleventyone
Anonymous Coward writes: i am LOVE MY MACCY from BITTTORRRENT!!! I kissed it becos it tastES LIKE CANDY!!
Calm down, people. I'm not saying these things will or won't come to pass, but everybody assuming that a developer-only release will be anything like its comparable production release -- not to mention one that won't be available for a year -- is silly.
Disclaimer: Mac user at home.
Of course, your most important ingredient is this baby right here: the external web service. You can get it in a can but to really do things right, you gotta strangle yourself a fresh one.
We're going to sync with our outside web service using a simple SOAP client, written in whatever language you prefer, and setting the time. (Your users will get their time from you via NTP still, of course.) This isn't required, but for that fresh BAM! taste, it's recommended. Mind the delay calculations if you're writing the client side of it yourself, the WWWait will have a little bit more effect here depending on your setup. If you want to make it quick and dirty, there's no reason to go through the SOAP/WSDL hoops, the point is having it on a known port and piggybacking across HTTP's fame and success, and then sleeping with its girlfriend, and stealing her wallet on the way out. BAM!
We should form a committee to consolidate and leverage synergy for our information technology solutions in the marketplace!
THIS IS A PERFECT OPPORTUNITY FOR BUREAUCRACY!!1
Geeklog. Pathetically easy to set up and use, even moreso to administer. Plugins aplenty from squatty.com. And of course you need themes.
PHPNuke is OK, but I've found Geeklog to be a lot cleaner, and the community support is insane[ly good]. For your purposes, comments, stories, and calendars (including per-user calendaring, I believe) is included. There are several plugins that connect Geeklog and Coppermine, Gallery, etc.
Anybody know how big their launch window is? I was under the impression they had a very small amount of time to be able to meet the ISS.
Smokey the Marsupial seems to have far better sentence construction skills than his friend Pyro.