I wouldn't say I have a right by any stretch. I don't. These guys provide the content to me at their discretion.
I think what people are "upset" about is the fact that:
1) Companies (Hulu or otherwise) seriously think that they can control HOW someone access their content. Technology or not, you can't force me to listen to a song on the radio anymore than I can force you to play the song I want to hear. You can't force me to listen to that CD I bought in my car vice my house.
2) People were more than happy to access the content via legal means via Hulu. No one WANTS to pirate anything. It's a pain in the ass. A standard non-HD conversion of a tv show without the commercials over bittorrent still takes in the neighborhood of 30 minutes to download on a standard internet connection. God forbid I want something that is more than a few weeks old.
With Hulu I could sit down and watch the shows on my couch with my wife (when the kid was in bed). Now? Not so much.
The absolutely ASININE part is that users were screaming for this for years. For once, it seemed like the media companies actually GOT it. We were naive. Hulu was working on Boxee for the better part of a year if not longer. It wasn't until Boxee started gaining attention that someone said "You mean people aren't watching this stuff on a computer?"
Let's ignore for a minute how fucking stupid that question is. I *AM* (well was) watching it on a pc. It just happened to be hooked up to a television. What possible idiot doesn't have such a grasp of technology that they don't realize that you can hook a computer up to a television? Who, on the grandiose payroll of the media companies, didn't see this coming?
In the end, they DID hurt themselves. Ad revenues are already down. The company I was laid off from was in the business of television advertising. Between DVRs and P2P, you have a choice. Either provide the content and get at least a sliver of revenue or don't get any at all.
Sure, it may be costing you up front to build support for Hulu advertising among the advertisers but once the ball is rolling, it becomes a more viable outlet for advertising.
Here's the thing. Television advertising is a split bag. Local networks sell ads. National networks sell ads. There's a whole business around brokering advertising spots between buyers and the people with the air time. It's a complex machine. Hulu essentially cut out a few layers of that.
In the end, Hulu was a step in the right direction. Boxee was the "killer application" for Hulu. They really did screw themselves.
Good point. I didn't get into Hulu until last summer some time. I do remember that, even recently, one episode of something or the other basically played the same commercial every single time.
But it would seem to me that Hulu's model is actually BETTER for the content providers and advertisers. With my myth setup at home, I don't watch commercials. EVER. At least with Hulu, I did watch commercials because they were fairly minimal.
It has nothing to do with piracy. It has to do with revenue from cable company contracts. The problem the "content providers" had was that via Boxee and other set-top pcs, people could forgo cable all-together and that would be a huge chunk of lost revenue. Hulu is popular but the ad revenue from Hulu is nothing compared to the money the cable companies pay "content providers".
* I quote "content providers" because Hulu liked to use that phrase when Boxee was shut out. The fact of the matter is that Hulu is co-owned by two of these "content providers" so in essence, Hulu *IS* the "content provider"
Not far enough IMHO. For some of them, it appears they went with the most recent that would get the achievement. However, I'd really like it to go back and find the OLDEST.
Then again, they may not have relevant data from the early years.
Yeah I remember the first time I worked with wildcard certs. We had a client that wanted a fairly "dynamic" and on-demand url system for new customers (the following is not the actual info obviously):
www.myonlineschool.com
Customer Georgia signs up:
georgia.myonlineschool.com
Redneck Elementary signs up from GA: redneckelementary.georgia.myonlineschool.com
We had a wildcard DNS record. If you went to myonlineschool.com, you were presented with three login boxes - user,pass,organization. If you went to georgia.myonlineschool.com, you only had two form elements. It inferred the organization from the requested hostname and worked it's way back until if found a match. It's a pretty common technique and really smooth. Except it breaks with SSL.
The wildcard certs work up until the last example. They actually wanted the flexibility to nest even farther. It took some explaining but they realized they didn't want to pay for that many wildcard certs and we would have had to move each level of nesting to a different VIP on the Netscalers to actually make use of the SSL accelerator. Each VIP can only present one certificate chain.
While you're trying to be trite and cute (and failing, I might add), the Civil War was indeed about federalism and state's rights.
Slavery just happened to be the lynch pin issue at the center of that debate.
As to the person you're responding to, it's true. History is written by the winners. We can go round and round on this but there's no FEDERAL constitutional law regarding secession. In fact, if you interpret the 10th Amendment the way MOST people interpret it, that's a power reserved to the states because it's not explicitly listed as a power of the federal government.
I'm born and bred deep south. That doesn't make me an idiot or some sort of "war of northern aggression" idiot but to call something revisionism without evidence is pretty silly.
The market segment for BeOS absolutely needed fast boot times.
BeOS will never make a comeback in its original form. Too much legal bs in the way. Haiku won't really gain much "market share" but that isn't the goal. BeOS always was a niche product and a damn good one at that.
Did you ever use the original BeOS? It's probably the OS I've enjoyed using the most. I still have the disks around (R4 and R5).
BeOS WAS something to get excited about when it came out. It was pretty much the best platform for digital audio work. It just ran into too many hurdles to work its way into the market.
Having done enterprise installations of both (pre-Citrix), vmware took the cake.
The problem with Xen was the problem with a lot of open source "products". They may be superior in terms of resources or technology but they aren't "enterprise-ready".
You can argue all you want about "hiring someone to hack on it" or "developing support tools internally" but those honestly don't fly except at a very specific company size. There are certain features and expectations that someone has when using something as core to infrastructure as virtualization and Xen isn't it (or at least wasn't at the time).
but it's pointless in any organization of any size worth mentioning to be all whimsical with the naming. Eventually it falls apart and makes it a pain in the ass to actually do work. Where is that server? Which datacenter is it? What does it run exactly?
One of my first corporate jobs was right when color lasers were coming out. They were still rare to see.
We had four of them - each named after a season. Then we added a 5th and the whole scheme fell apart. At another company, we used baseball team names. Another place used x-men characters.
After an infinite number of years dealing with that, I was glad to get in on the ground floor at a previous company and do the naming myself.
We did -..domainname.com. At first we did something like "websphere-01.domainname.com" but when we got to 10 servers, it was hard keeping track of which was production and which wasn't. Did we move the dev codebase to that server last week or no? It also fell apart when we stopped running websphere and moved to tomcat.
The "best" (imho) system makes it perfectly clear what the box is used for, where it's located and what environment it is:
though we considered it. We just donated it. I'm kind of of the mind that by the time we would actually need something from it, hopefully we won't need it.
Next time I get a job from a poor person, I'll be sure and be concerned about how their finances are.
Rich people screw over poor people? Seriously? How does that work? What's the definition of "rich"? You know, I consider someone who makes 150k a year rich.
That is until I realize they live in fucking California and 150k translates to less than I make now.
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I wouldn't say I have a right by any stretch. I don't. These guys provide the content to me at their discretion.
I think what people are "upset" about is the fact that:
1) Companies (Hulu or otherwise) seriously think that they can control HOW someone access their content. Technology or not, you can't force me to listen to a song on the radio anymore than I can force you to play the song I want to hear. You can't force me to listen to that CD I bought in my car vice my house.
2) People were more than happy to access the content via legal means via Hulu. No one WANTS to pirate anything. It's a pain in the ass. A standard non-HD conversion of a tv show without the commercials over bittorrent still takes in the neighborhood of 30 minutes to download on a standard internet connection. God forbid I want something that is more than a few weeks old.
With Hulu I could sit down and watch the shows on my couch with my wife (when the kid was in bed). Now? Not so much.
The absolutely ASININE part is that users were screaming for this for years. For once, it seemed like the media companies actually GOT it. We were naive. Hulu was working on Boxee for the better part of a year if not longer. It wasn't until Boxee started gaining attention that someone said "You mean people aren't watching this stuff on a computer?"
Let's ignore for a minute how fucking stupid that question is. I *AM* (well was) watching it on a pc. It just happened to be hooked up to a television. What possible idiot doesn't have such a grasp of technology that they don't realize that you can hook a computer up to a television? Who, on the grandiose payroll of the media companies, didn't see this coming?
In the end, they DID hurt themselves. Ad revenues are already down. The company I was laid off from was in the business of television advertising. Between DVRs and P2P, you have a choice. Either provide the content and get at least a sliver of revenue or don't get any at all.
Sure, it may be costing you up front to build support for Hulu advertising among the advertisers but once the ball is rolling, it becomes a more viable outlet for advertising.
Here's the thing. Television advertising is a split bag. Local networks sell ads. National networks sell ads. There's a whole business around brokering advertising spots between buyers and the people with the air time. It's a complex machine. Hulu essentially cut out a few layers of that.
In the end, Hulu was a step in the right direction. Boxee was the "killer application" for Hulu. They really did screw themselves.
Good point. I didn't get into Hulu until last summer some time. I do remember that, even recently, one episode of something or the other basically played the same commercial every single time.
But it would seem to me that Hulu's model is actually BETTER for the content providers and advertisers. With my myth setup at home, I don't watch commercials. EVER. At least with Hulu, I did watch commercials because they were fairly minimal.
It has nothing to do with piracy. It has to do with revenue from cable company contracts. The problem the "content providers" had was that via Boxee and other set-top pcs, people could forgo cable all-together and that would be a huge chunk of lost revenue. Hulu is popular but the ad revenue from Hulu is nothing compared to the money the cable companies pay "content providers".
* I quote "content providers" because Hulu liked to use that phrase when Boxee was shut out. The fact of the matter is that Hulu is co-owned by two of these "content providers" so in essence, Hulu *IS* the "content provider"
I don't think OMGPONIES was around for his UID ;)
Not far enough IMHO. For some of them, it appears they went with the most recent that would get the achievement. However, I'd really like it to go back and find the OLDEST.
Then again, they may not have relevant data from the early years.
I have a long lost 3 digit UID that I can never get back because I lost access to the email account. I'll be happy with my 5 digit UID for now =/
I've implemented to large databases on both MySQL and PostgreSQL (500GB-1TB) and both have ups and downs.
Large datasets is a relative term. My general rule these days is OLTP on pgsql and OLAP on mysql.
Yeah I remember the first time I worked with wildcard certs. We had a client that wanted a fairly "dynamic" and on-demand url system for new customers (the following is not the actual info obviously):
www.myonlineschool.com
Customer Georgia signs up:
georgia.myonlineschool.com
Redneck Elementary signs up from GA:
redneckelementary.georgia.myonlineschool.com
We had a wildcard DNS record. If you went to myonlineschool.com, you were presented with three login boxes - user,pass,organization. If you went to georgia.myonlineschool.com, you only had two form elements. It inferred the organization from the requested hostname and worked it's way back until if found a match. It's a pretty common technique and really smooth. Except it breaks with SSL.
The wildcard certs work up until the last example. They actually wanted the flexibility to nest even farther. It took some explaining but they realized they didn't want to pay for that many wildcard certs and we would have had to move each level of nesting to a different VIP on the Netscalers to actually make use of the SSL accelerator. Each VIP can only present one certificate chain.
If I weren't married and straight(?) I'd plant a big sloppy kiss on you right now.
It's sad how many people think we're a democracy and that we have majority rules.
While you're trying to be trite and cute (and failing, I might add), the Civil War was indeed about federalism and state's rights.
Slavery just happened to be the lynch pin issue at the center of that debate.
As to the person you're responding to, it's true. History is written by the winners. We can go round and round on this but there's no FEDERAL constitutional law regarding secession. In fact, if you interpret the 10th Amendment the way MOST people interpret it, that's a power reserved to the states because it's not explicitly listed as a power of the federal government.
I'm born and bred deep south. That doesn't make me an idiot or some sort of "war of northern aggression" idiot but to call something revisionism without evidence is pretty silly.
Finalscratch. Most amazing BeOS demo ever.
Oh come on. People DID used to have problems with Linux hardware. Serial mice. How many different cdrom drivers did we have to deal with back then?
It's sad when we forget how far we've come. Remember passing parameters to various drivers for the IRQ or IO port?
Methinks bebits is undervalued these days =( Sad, really.
The market segment for BeOS absolutely needed fast boot times.
BeOS will never make a comeback in its original form. Too much legal bs in the way. Haiku won't really gain much "market share" but that isn't the goal. BeOS always was a niche product and a damn good one at that.
Did you ever use the original BeOS? It's probably the OS I've enjoyed using the most. I still have the disks around (R4 and R5).
BeOS WAS something to get excited about when it came out. It was pretty much the best platform for digital audio work. It just ran into too many hurdles to work its way into the market.
I was thinking the same thing. BOTH clerks knew it was a Batleth? Sounds like an inside job to me.
Here here. It's sad that I have to have a VM of windows running to communicate with a Virtualcenter server hosting Linux VMs.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
Having done enterprise installations of both (pre-Citrix), vmware took the cake.
The problem with Xen was the problem with a lot of open source "products". They may be superior in terms of resources or technology but they aren't "enterprise-ready".
You can argue all you want about "hiring someone to hack on it" or "developing support tools internally" but those honestly don't fly except at a very specific company size. There are certain features and expectations that someone has when using something as core to infrastructure as virtualization and Xen isn't it (or at least wasn't at the time).
but it's pointless in any organization of any size worth mentioning to be all whimsical with the naming. Eventually it falls apart and makes it a pain in the ass to actually do work. Where is that server? Which datacenter is it? What does it run exactly?
One of my first corporate jobs was right when color lasers were coming out. They were still rare to see.
We had four of them - each named after a season. Then we added a 5th and the whole scheme fell apart. At another company, we used baseball team names. Another place used x-men characters.
After an infinite number of years dealing with that, I was glad to get in on the ground floor at a previous company and do the naming myself.
We did -..domainname.com. At first we did something like "websphere-01.domainname.com" but when we got to 10 servers, it was hard keeping track of which was production and which wasn't. Did we move the dev codebase to that server last week or no? It also fell apart when we stopped running websphere and moved to tomcat.
The "best" (imho) system makes it perfectly clear what the box is used for, where it's located and what environment it is:
prodapp-01.atl.domainname.com
proddb-02.dal.domainname.com
devmail-01.nyc.domainname.com
For networking gear, we stuck with having the gear in the name somewhere since it's not like we would "swap" the hardware and keep the name:
csc2620-01.atl.domainname.com - Cisco 2620 router
hp5308xl-02.nyc.domainname.com - procurve 5308xl Switch (my all time favorite switch - love procurve gear)
acs32-01.dal.domainname.com - Cyclades (now Avocent) 32 port console server
though we considered it. We just donated it. I'm kind of of the mind that by the time we would actually need something from it, hopefully we won't need it.
If that makes ANY sense at all.
Sigh. I miss the old days of wmaker discussion with Trae and the gang. I wonder if my old themes are still out there?
EDIT: Well shit!
http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/drew/
http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/pimp_/
http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/drewbw_lusis/
http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/dystopia/
God I feel old.
where's the compelling state interest that justifies taking money from me to do this?
Sigh.
My son is going to live in a bankrupt country.
I apologize. I get slightly ticked when I see class warfare being espoused regardless of who's doing it. Bush did it. Obama is doing it.
It's a hot button issue for me right up there with calling our country a "democracy".
Next time I get a job from a poor person, I'll be sure and be concerned about how their finances are.
Rich people screw over poor people? Seriously? How does that work? What's the definition of "rich"? You know, I consider someone who makes 150k a year rich.
That is until I realize they live in fucking California and 150k translates to less than I make now.
Wait? Am I the hated evil rich now?
Wow. Where'd the racist bit come from? Or is it now assumed that if you don't agree with the new administration, you're automatically a racist?