Maybe so, but what's so great about the data stream from every TV station that we value it so highly that we're willing to invest THAT MUCH in order to keep redundant month-old archives of it all?
I can guarantee you that people will take longer than a month to sift through a month's worth of every channel's TV programming, and so that's going to stack up or get thrown out. And there will be stuff that some people will want to archive more or less permanently -- historical newscasts, every episode of their favorite show, their favorite movies...
And of course the content cartels are going to take serious issue with that, and make every effort to make this sort of thing illegal, even though it's falls well under fair use provisions.
And for what? Fucking television. Where 95% of the content is unwatchable. Why would anyone want to archive every last bit of it? It's like saving all your junk mail in case you might want to apply for a credit card sometime.
Why? Dell, IBM, and HP are all on-board with Linux. Only Microsoft is anti-Linux. They can put significant pressure on Dell, IBM, and HP, but if these three companies wanted to they could unite against MS and coronate Linux as the successor to the MS empire.
'Why program a TiVo to get certain shows for you when you can record every single show on the air, all at once, and then use recommendations, search, a grid, or any other means you care to name to figure out which of those thousands and thousands and thousands of hours of programming you want to watch.'
Because the amount of overhead involved is ludicrous?
Downloading every show broadcast in a month would be like downloading the entire internet and then running searches on your local server for the information that interests you.
Imagine duplicating this in EVERY household in the country. The impact to our energy grid would be sickening. We should be looking to lessen the amount of power we are sucking down, not increase it.
Moreover, there's no need -- TV listings are announced, you know what's going to be on, you can narrow down significantly what you know is highly unlikely to be of any interest to you. You don't want to capture something and then have to sift through it all. Finding that one good show or moment in a month of crap content will be like finding a needle in a haystack, unless you can find a way to dope the captured video stream with some metadata that you can use to aid your search.
There might be the occasional oddball thing that no one predicted would happen on TV that you might miss, but (and this is the true beauty of the internet) if that happens, there's sure to be SOMEONE who captured it, and it will be hosted on the internet somewhere (copyright laws be damned). It's just a matter of finding it. Google can make that reasonably easy. Friends and family forwarding links that they found interesting to your email can take up any slack.
If NASA gets slashdotted, be sure to bookmark the link and check back later. The sound is REALLY cool! It sounds just like the sound effects from those sci fi B movies from the 50's!
The police who killed him shot him 5 times in the head and torso AFTER they had pinned him to the ground. How in the hell is shooting him in that situation necessary?
Dude, that's a great rant, except for one thing...
Advertising predates Google. By, like,...a lot.
If you changed the subject line for this post to "Did advertising ruin the internet?" I think many would agree.
Did google ruin the internet? Hell no. Google actually made advertising that doesn't completely suck ass. Nice, inobtrusive text-based ads, that don't blink at you or animate, what a concept. It's easy not to click on them if you don't want to, they don't suck down a lot of bandwidth the way a flash ad or.gif does, they don't hijack your browser, and no monkeys were ever harmed.
It'd be a stretch to say that Google saved the internet, but they do a lot of nice things which make it a better place. No one's perfect, but I'm glad the world has at least one Google in it.
Well, now I know where I'm going to get my next PC... the curb!
I'm going to pick up every junked-by-idiots PC I find and reformat them, and implement some basic protections, and then sell them back to the idiots' neighbors.
I say, as a gift idea, we send the Longhorn DRM development team a huge collection of DivX movies. (The Circuit City disks that got killed in the market by DVD.)
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Maybe so, but what's so great about the data stream from every TV station that we value it so highly that we're willing to invest THAT MUCH in order to keep redundant month-old archives of it all?
I can guarantee you that people will take longer than a month to sift through a month's worth of every channel's TV programming, and so that's going to stack up or get thrown out. And there will be stuff that some people will want to archive more or less permanently -- historical newscasts, every episode of their favorite show, their favorite movies...
And of course the content cartels are going to take serious issue with that, and make every effort to make this sort of thing illegal, even though it's falls well under fair use provisions.
And for what? Fucking television. Where 95% of the content is unwatchable. Why would anyone want to archive every last bit of it? It's like saving all your junk mail in case you might want to apply for a credit card sometime.
Why? Dell, IBM, and HP are all on-board with Linux. Only Microsoft is anti-Linux. They can put significant pressure on Dell, IBM, and HP, but if these three companies wanted to they could unite against MS and coronate Linux as the successor to the MS empire.
Because the amount of overhead involved is ludicrous?
Downloading every show broadcast in a month would be like downloading the entire internet and then running searches on your local server for the information that interests you.
Imagine duplicating this in EVERY household in the country. The impact to our energy grid would be sickening. We should be looking to lessen the amount of power we are sucking down, not increase it.
Moreover, there's no need -- TV listings are announced, you know what's going to be on, you can narrow down significantly what you know is highly unlikely to be of any interest to you. You don't want to capture something and then have to sift through it all. Finding that one good show or moment in a month of crap content will be like finding a needle in a haystack, unless you can find a way to dope the captured video stream with some metadata that you can use to aid your search.
There might be the occasional oddball thing that no one predicted would happen on TV that you might miss, but (and this is the true beauty of the internet) if that happens, there's sure to be SOMEONE who captured it, and it will be hosted on the internet somewhere (copyright laws be damned). It's just a matter of finding it. Google can make that reasonably easy. Friends and family forwarding links that they found interesting to your email can take up any slack.
and probably visible to some CCTV camera.
It's going to be an uphill battle for England.
If NASA gets slashdotted, be sure to bookmark the link and check back later. The sound is REALLY cool! It sounds just like the sound effects from those sci fi B movies from the 50's!
When murder is outlawed, only outlaws will brutally murder spammers.
Besides, this guy was a spammer. This isn't really murder, it's justifiable homicide.
That SpamAssassin really takes its job seriously, yo.
This game rated A: Contains advertising content.
Shooting him could have detonated it. Either directly (unlikely unless the explosives were very unstable) or if he was wearing a dead man switch.
The police who killed him shot him 5 times in the head and torso AFTER they had pinned him to the ground. How in the hell is shooting him in that situation necessary?
If so, then we ought to be able to exploit OS X, Linux, and BSD in the same way. Can we? Let's see it.
When your iBook died, did it make a sound like this: "Beep beep beep"?
Did you lose a paper that you were working on for school? Was it a really good paper, too?
is this the quietest, most boring underwater earthquake ever recorded?
This was a great idea in the 19th century when Jules Verne wrote about it powering the Nautilus.
It was posted last night. Were you going to wait for the dupe to confirm it?
Your use of elipsis betray you, Kirk... or should I say... William Shatner!
Cancer or MS... cancer or MS... Hmmm... Server 2003 is actually decent... but I think, in the long run, cancer has a lower TCO.
Plus, there's still hope that science may one day cure cancer.
1970: I don't think it's a good idea to give root access to just anyone.
That sounds EXACTLY like the problem *I* have!!!!
I hope there's a cure...
How about a multiple-targeted hyperlink for the masses so we can put all the dupes behind one link???
No, more like 19.9999 in 20 Applications will run, but 1 in 20 of the new features of the latest version of the software won't work right.
But no one actually uses those features, so you're mostly OK.
Look out, someone's bound to patent naming businesses "*le" if this trend continues much further.
Dude, that's a great rant, except for one thing...
...a lot.
.gif does, they don't hijack your browser, and no monkeys were ever harmed.
Advertising predates Google. By, like,
If you changed the subject line for this post to "Did advertising ruin the internet?" I think many would agree.
Did google ruin the internet? Hell no. Google actually made advertising that doesn't completely suck ass. Nice, inobtrusive text-based ads, that don't blink at you or animate, what a concept. It's easy not to click on them if you don't want to, they don't suck down a lot of bandwidth the way a flash ad or
It'd be a stretch to say that Google saved the internet, but they do a lot of nice things which make it a better place. No one's perfect, but I'm glad the world has at least one Google in it.
Well, now I know where I'm going to get my next PC... the curb!
I'm going to pick up every junked-by-idiots PC I find and reformat them, and implement some basic protections, and then sell them back to the idiots' neighbors.
I say, as a gift idea, we send the Longhorn DRM development team a huge collection of DivX movies. (The Circuit City disks that got killed in the market by DVD.)
They'd have to appreciate the irony.