well... sagetv (not even the v3.03 beta -- yet) doesn't handle DVB-T cards out of the box (there's some community work arounds to mitigate this but still)
And if it *is* freeview, I don't think you can fit 35 PCI cards into a PC =P (or even 17 and a half dual tuner cards -- if there's such thing as a dual tuner DVB-T card)
You could get a job as a tech columnist in a major magazine/site by being a troll...
CC is not really a hard concept to understand.
As the creator of a work, I can actively choose which "license" fits how I wish my content to be re-used. One excellent example of how this can come into play is how Cory Doctorow used the developing country license for his latest sci-fi novel.
If picaso had the option to use a CC license for his work, maybe you wouldn't have the problem with copyright all these years later... (example from the article)
The difference between CC and regular old copyright is that with CC the artist has some choice/say in the matter of how they're work can be redistributed.
Speaking of fair use, how well does the current system work? See this example of a person who contacted 7 movie studios to try and get clearance for some clips for a noncommercial home movie project (seemingly well within fair use?)
I think I used a cuecat to scan a barcode on a TV once... (I'm kidding... but they did have this thing where via an rca audio cable "blip" during commercials you could tie it to their software to automagically pull up a web page! wowzers!)
"But from my past experience, these interactive features throw a graphic up on the screen. You can clear it (at times only temporarily) from the screen with the Clear button, but the capture is already marred by then. But so far ads that have done this haven't been worth keeping."
I'm 90% sure the "graphic" is an overlay that is NOT part of the actual recording/encoding. The recording will probably have the same "meta data" that will upon replaying initiate the same overlay if you watch it on the Tivo again. I wonder what happens if you were to view some of those files offline on your PC via tivo2go (drm be damned!).
I don't really look at it as a bad thing. It's really part of the next step/evolution for TiVo to be an interactive platform. Think amazon.com meets sitcom.
I have a series 2 tivo currently in the rotation and will see if I was one of the "lucky" ones.
There's previously had this functionality where you'd give the thumbs up during certain commercials and then it would take you to another screen where you could request additional information. Unfortunately the turn around time was pretty pathetic... 6 months later I received my glossy print mailer about the new line of Chevrolet Corvettes. That didn't feel quite as interactive or immediate to me.
I see potential and value possible with something like this, but probably not in the form it'll take initially. All I have to say is if I get another Tivo software update and if it makes my interface any more sluggish than it already is i'm canceling my service and promoting the BeyondTV box to the digital cable (currently recording two analog cable sources).
So in short, I'll wait and see and not give the knee jerk "OMG Tivo fux0ring with ads again" response and hope for the best.
" If you have a 1% clickthrough rate, you are the new King of All Media,"
baba booey baba booey...
I was using 1% as an easy to digest figure. The point being that if you get an average of x amount per clickthrough and you average x percentage (or.x percent) and you increase the number of views/unique visitors dramatically you're gonna have a positive effect on clickthrough based revenue.
FWIW, the google adsense clickthrough rate across all my sites *is* 1% on the dot... and that seems to hold for this month, last month, this quarter, or for the past year and a half.
Where can I pick up my crown? I'm sure google would like to hear that I do not get 1% clickthrough on most of my traditional image banner ads.
I think, although technically correct, calling him a "blogger" is slightly misleading. You don't make that type of scratch from one blog (even a high traffic one) via adsense. Unless it's an asbestos lung cancer mortgage blog or other high ticket keyword. He's more a blog publishing mini-mogul.
This guy is making this kind of scratch from running a network of blogs. I don't blame him for that, in fact *kudos* for creating a mini-self publishing empire/network!
But if you or I want to replicate his success, it's not going to happen with pictures of your cat and your mp3 playlist on livejournal or what have you...
At least that's my experience... maybe i have an ugly cat?
" I thought you only make money from AdSense when someone clicks on an actual ad?"
This is true, but if you have say a 1% clickthrough rate, and suddenly have a couple hundred thousand new/extra folks stampeding through your site... you stand to benefit ($$$) from that temporary boost in traffic/exposure.
"... Hillary Rodham Clinton will hold a press conference to discuss legislative solutions to keep inappropriate video game content out of the hands of young people."
well that's kinda the point. The barrier for distribution (sorta) has gone down. If you/someone could produce a quality gardening show on the cheap, this idea could be replicated for that topic.
I completely agree about vendors that "make up the difference" on ludicrous shipping and handling... but your method for weeding them out doesn't make sense to me.
I mean, at some point during the shopping ordering process you need to tell the shopping cart where you live in order to calculate *actual* shipping costs... Granted some vendors have better shop-flows and integrated tools to display/estimate that during the shopping experience, but I can think of a few excellent niche vendors that have you provide shipping info later in the process (but before CC info).
it is about money... frequency spectrum is expensive/lucrative, and if TV moves to the more efficient (smaller spectrum footprint) digital broadcasts, the old spectrum can be carved up and sold for big bucks. (to be fair: some of the spectrum will be allocated to public good stuff like emergency services communication/etc)
"Can anyone point out some good sites that review/give options on which video cards to get? Was gonna jump on a HD-capable capture card earlier this year just because of the mess with the Broadcast flag, then it was okay again, then it was a mess again, etc."
I assume you mean tuner/encoder card right and not video card? And you're kidding about looking for a review/options site, as there were two listed in TFA!
It depends on what you want to do (SD vs HD) what platform/software you're thinking of using.
The Broadcast Flag right now shouldn't influence your decision too much at this point (although be active in voicing your displeasure about it to your local congresscritter), it's more of a matter of what HD content is available Over The Air (OTA) in your area (see Antenna web for a rough idea of what DTV stations are in your area ), what your budget is, what platform, etc...
*shrug* The author of TFA used the venerable HD-3000 which is a good choice for linux use... I think the air2pc card has both linux/windows drivers but I'm not sure about that off hand...
In windoze the ATI HDTV wonder had a bad rap, and rightfully so, for crap drivers at launch, but seems to have rectified that... I'm interested in trying the really cheap OEM Avermedia A80 which is MCE 2005 certified, but don't know anything about it first hand. The Dvico fusion III QAM seems pretty popular for those that want to try there luck at QAM 256 digital cable streams.
" Why can't someone(not me, don't know how) make a PVR/DVR software that supports the crappy PCI tv cards you can get off ebay for $15?
If there is such a software, where can it be downloaded?"
There are plenty of software options that support the cheaper "software encoding" TV tuner cards including MythTV (hauppauge winTV go for example or other BTTV chipset ones).
Since you will be relying on your main CPU to do the MPEG encoding you'll want a decent machine.
I usually strongly recommend (FWIW) ponying up a bit more for a hardware encoding tuner/encoder card as it's usually better supported by the different software out there and you don't have to worry about dropped frames because you opened a web browser or something...
Spend a little more on the tuner card (like 70 bucks on a pvr150 MCE -- or at circuit city this week a Hauppauge wintv PVR 150 is 59.99 after evil rebates ) and then use the excellent and free GBPVR ( http://www.gbpvr.com/ if you're on windows that is, else mythtv/knoppmyth again)
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well... sagetv (not even the v3.03 beta -- yet) doesn't handle DVB-T cards out of the box (there's some community work arounds to mitigate this but still)
And if it *is* freeview, I don't think you can fit 35 PCI cards into a PC =P (or even 17 and a half dual tuner cards -- if there's such thing as a dual tuner DVB-T card)
*shrug*
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you can get porn via bittorrent?! Holy cripes, why did no one tell me of this development?!
this is hasselholfs other gig besides lifeguard, and german pop star... it all makes sense now.
You could get a job as a tech columnist in a major magazine/site by being a troll...
CC is not really a hard concept to understand.
As the creator of a work, I can actively choose which "license" fits how I wish my content to be re-used. One excellent example of how this can come into play is how Cory Doctorow used the developing country license for his latest sci-fi novel.
If picaso had the option to use a CC license for his work, maybe you wouldn't have the problem with copyright all these years later... (example from the article)
The difference between CC and regular old copyright is that with CC the artist has some choice/say in the matter of how they're work can be redistributed.
Speaking of fair use, how well does the current system work? See this example of a person who contacted 7 movie studios to try and get clearance for some clips for a noncommercial home movie project (seemingly well within fair use?)
e.
I think I used a cuecat to scan a barcode on a TV once... (I'm kidding... but they did have this thing where via an rca audio cable "blip" during commercials you could tie it to their software to automagically pull up a web page! wowzers!)
*sigh*
"But from my past experience, these interactive features throw a graphic up on the screen. You can clear it (at times only temporarily) from the screen with the Clear button, but the capture is already marred by then. But so far ads that have done this haven't been worth keeping."
I'm 90% sure the "graphic" is an overlay that is NOT part of the actual recording/encoding. The recording will probably have the same "meta data" that will upon replaying initiate the same overlay if you watch it on the Tivo again. I wonder what happens if you were to view some of those files offline on your PC via tivo2go (drm be damned!).
e.
I don't really look at it as a bad thing. It's really part of the next step/evolution for TiVo to be an interactive platform. Think amazon.com meets sitcom.
I have a series 2 tivo currently in the rotation and will see if I was one of the "lucky" ones.
There's previously had this functionality where you'd give the thumbs up during certain commercials and then it would take you to another screen where you could request additional information. Unfortunately the turn around time was pretty pathetic... 6 months later I received my glossy print mailer about the new line of Chevrolet Corvettes. That didn't feel quite as interactive or immediate to me.
I see potential and value possible with something like this, but probably not in the form it'll take initially. All I have to say is if I get another Tivo software update and if it makes my interface any more sluggish than it already is i'm canceling my service and promoting the BeyondTV box to the digital cable (currently recording two analog cable sources).
So in short, I'll wait and see and not give the knee jerk "OMG Tivo fux0ring with ads again" response and hope for the best.
" If you have a 1% clickthrough rate, you are the new King of All Media,"
.x percent) and you increase the number of views/unique visitors dramatically you're gonna have a positive effect on clickthrough based revenue.
baba booey baba booey...
I was using 1% as an easy to digest figure. The point being that if you get an average of x amount per clickthrough and you average x percentage (or
FWIW, the google adsense clickthrough rate across all my sites *is* 1% on the dot... and that seems to hold for this month, last month, this quarter, or for the past year and a half.
Where can I pick up my crown? I'm sure google would like to hear that I do not get 1% clickthrough on most of my traditional image banner ads.
e.
I think, although technically correct, calling him a "blogger" is slightly misleading. You don't make that type of scratch from one blog (even a high traffic one) via adsense. Unless it's an asbestos lung cancer mortgage blog or other high ticket keyword. He's more a blog publishing mini-mogul.
This guy is making this kind of scratch from running a network of blogs. I don't blame him for that, in fact *kudos* for creating a mini-self publishing empire/network!
But if you or I want to replicate his success, it's not going to happen with pictures of your cat and your mp3 playlist on livejournal or what have you...
At least that's my experience... maybe i have an ugly cat?
e.
" I thought you only make money from AdSense when someone clicks on an actual ad?"
This is true, but if you have say a 1% clickthrough rate, and suddenly have a couple hundred thousand new/extra folks stampeding through your site... you stand to benefit ($$$) from that temporary boost in traffic/exposure.
e.
"ot real time collaborative, wiki wont let you see real time as someone else is typing"
countdown till someone makes an AJAX'ian wiki...3....2.....1....
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(I think that would be both maddening and intriguing at the same time)
you've got the pooooowwwweeerr!
(now try to get that out of your noggin) =P
I hope Optimus recovers from his bout with prostate cancer
"... Hillary Rodham Clinton will hold a press conference to discuss legislative solutions to keep inappropriate video game content out of the hands of young people."
Can you legislate good parenting?
e.
well that's kinda the point. The barrier for distribution (sorta) has gone down. If you/someone could produce a quality gardening show on the cheap, this idea could be replicated for that topic.
you hear that Paul james?!
boooooooooo! hisssssss!
intentionally crippling consumer electronic devices to try and lockout the analog loop hole...booo!
*sigh*
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counterstrike *used* to run on crap hardware.
feel free to dust off your crap hardware and load the latest version of non-source engine counterstrike via bloated/slow steam delivery platform.
I used to love how CS 1.5 and older ran on modest hardware... not so much anymore =(
e
is that like a party without any nookie?
e.
I completely agree about vendors that "make up the difference" on ludicrous shipping and handling... but your method for weeding them out doesn't make sense to me.
I mean, at some point during the shopping ordering process you need to tell the shopping cart where you live in order to calculate *actual* shipping costs... Granted some vendors have better shop-flows and integrated tools to display/estimate that during the shopping experience, but I can think of a few excellent niche vendors that have you provide shipping info later in the process (but before CC info).
*shrug*
e.
it is about money... frequency spectrum is expensive/lucrative, and if TV moves to the more efficient (smaller spectrum footprint) digital broadcasts, the old spectrum can be carved up and sold for big bucks. (to be fair: some of the spectrum will be allocated to public good stuff like emergency services communication/etc)
e,
" During semesters... neither I nor my gf has a tv, so we pretty much never see any."
Ah to be young again... trust me years down the road when you're married you'll appreciate the soothing glow of the moving picture box.
E.
I'm a little dissapointed the geocoding functions didn't make the first release of the API (and hope they are added/included soon).
e.
another silent front end/client to consider is a MediaMVP which has a very active hacking community.
e.
"Can anyone point out some good sites that review/give options on which video cards to get? Was gonna jump on a HD-capable capture card earlier this year just because of the mess with the Broadcast flag, then it was okay again, then it was a mess again, etc."
I assume you mean tuner/encoder card right and not video card? And you're kidding about looking for a review/options site, as there were two listed in TFA!
It depends on what you want to do (SD vs HD) what platform/software you're thinking of using.
The Broadcast Flag right now shouldn't influence your decision too much at this point (although be active in voicing your displeasure about it to your local congresscritter), it's more of a matter of what HD content is available Over The Air (OTA) in your area (see Antenna web for a rough idea of what DTV stations are in your area ), what your budget is, what platform, etc...
*shrug* The author of TFA used the venerable HD-3000 which is a good choice for linux use... I think the air2pc card has both linux/windows drivers but I'm not sure about that off hand...
In windoze the ATI HDTV wonder had a bad rap, and rightfully so, for crap drivers at launch, but seems to have rectified that... I'm interested in trying the really cheap OEM Avermedia A80 which is MCE 2005 certified, but don't know anything about it first hand. The Dvico fusion III QAM seems pretty popular for those that want to try there luck at QAM 256 digital cable streams.
e.
" Why can't someone(not me, don't know how) make a PVR/DVR software that supports the crappy PCI tv cards you can get off ebay for $15?
If there is such a software, where can it be downloaded?"
There are plenty of software options that support the cheaper "software encoding" TV tuner cards including MythTV (hauppauge winTV go for example or other BTTV chipset ones).
Since you will be relying on your main CPU to do the MPEG encoding you'll want a decent machine.
I usually strongly recommend (FWIW) ponying up a bit more for a hardware encoding tuner/encoder card as it's usually better supported by the different software out there and you don't have to worry about dropped frames because you opened a web browser or something...
Spend a little more on the tuner card (like 70 bucks on a pvr150 MCE -- or at circuit city this week a Hauppauge wintv PVR 150 is 59.99 after evil rebates ) and then use the excellent and free GBPVR ( http://www.gbpvr.com/ if you're on windows that is, else mythtv/knoppmyth again)
e.