They do but then they whine about "residuals" (money earned every time a show is viewed). Funny. I don't get residuals every time my schematic is dusted-off and used to build a circuit card. Neither does anybody else. Writers need to live in the real world for a change. You get paid; the end.
Clearly Comcast is trying to KILL hulu (see my other post).
Comcast says they will charge me $30 for a basic internet line. That's a lot cheaper than the $85 of CATV+net, so I don't know why I would want to buy CATV? Even telephone-free DSL is cheaper (~$25).
I'll just get my favorite shows on DVD, not comcast. Of course fewer-and-fewer shows are my favorites. [Maybe I'm getting old and stingy.;-) ]
I wonder if NBC/comcast is trying to kill hulu on purpose. Really. This idea is about as brainless as my "Fantasy & Science" magazine saying, "If you want our discounted $11.88 e-book version, you also must subscribe to the print version for $35.99. Sorry." It's almost genius in its malevolence.
(1) NBC/comcast doesn't want people dropping CATV.
(2) NBC/comcast doesn't want people streaming over the net, as it overloads their networks (they claim).
(3) NBC/comcast wants people to watch THEIR streaming video service, not other video services.
Therefore it makes logical sense they would want Hulu to cease to exist through making policies that would scare-off customers. If ever there were grounds for a Sherman Antitrust Lawsuit, these are it. But of course it will never happen as long as Comcast/Hollywood's best friend Obama and his copyright czar is in the white house. (I doubt Romney would bother either.)
Dish Network doesn't have Cartoon, but they have plenty of other kids channels (like boomerang) for only $15/month.
"Vader..... er, I mean Comcast: The more you tighten your grip, the more customers will slip through your fingers." NBC does authentication on their Olympic streaming..... my solution was simply not to watch. I figured I can live without, rather than upgrade to a cable sub.
For a while they had NBC Universal Sports broadcast for free (over channels 10-3 and 11-2 in my area). That provided olympic events to watch, but conveniently Comcast bought NBC and ended the channel just 7 months before London 2012. Now you have to pay for it.:-(
I hope the next move is not an increase in price. I was about to buy a Roku so my parents could get cable shows for $7/month. Now I can't help wondering if (under pressure from cable channels like MSNBC, ABC Family, FX, etc) it will skyrocket to $30/month like a cable subscription. Add $7/extra set.
>>> Avoid it for a month or two and when you return it feels like you are watching a video version of the spam inbox.
Agreed. I was "cutoff" from cable for about 2 years until I recently started traveling again. As I posted on facebook: Flip. Flip. Flip. Nothing on TV. Nothing all day long according to TV guide.
Glad I don't spend $1000/year on this. My hotel has 70 channels and it's a vast wasteland of reality television that I find not the least bit entertaining (Deadliest Catch was interesting for about one season and that's it). Even SyFy Channel is turning into the reality channel. I wish they'd go back to what they were in the 90s, which was a source to find all those classic television shows people had forgotten, like Time Tunnel or U-fo or Dark Shadows. And also interesting "news" shows where they interviewed show creators, book authors, and provided previews of new movies.
TNT still airs reruns of Angel, Charmed, Supernatural, and Law & Order... that may be the last good channel on the air. TCM of course is not on my cable system.:-(
P.S. This will "attract me" to zip through all my bookmarked Hulu shows as quickly as possible, before they install the CATV lockout. Screw paying for cable. I get 40+ channels free off the antenna and that's good enough.
Less attractive? Agreed. I was watching some Syfy shows on Hulu and that's about it. It MIGHT be worthwhile to upgrade to $7/month service to continue watching but I doubt it. I'll just rent the DVDs when they come out.
I assume the Broadcast networks (NBC, FOX, CW, etc) will still be fre-to-view on hulu. I'll just watch them.
Yes it collapsed but that was ~600 years after the defeat of Carthage, so that had nothing to do with it. The ultimate reason Rome collapsed was due to wasteful spending on extravagance (welfare, stadium events, monuments galore) which led to a devaluation of their currency to try to keep the whole edifice propped up, and an eventual loss of the middle class as they became a feudal system of serfs and lords. Their economy was a shambles.
Yep. Should have just dusted-off the old WTC schematic, made a few tweaks to modernize the internal skeleton, and then rebuild the whole damn thing again. Plus add a temporary middle finger to the top, aimed towards Mecca.
"You destroy it; we'll rebuild it. You destroy it again; we'll rebuild it again. And again and again." Just like the Senate and People of Rome. They lost 3 navies before finally crushing Carthage. They refused to give up.
Almost 11 years to build a building. Nuts. The Empire State was built in just 2.5 years using primitive 1920s technology, and the first WTC in the same amount of time.
I think the long dragout time is symbolic of how America has lost its ability to get things done in a quick fashion. (And why people turn to India or China or Russia instead.) Too much bureaucracy and second-guessing and twiddling of thumbs.
I didn't buy the Kindle Tablet. No interest. I bought the normal Kindle with black-and-white screen for reading my magazine (the e-version is 67% cheaper) and some web surfing to places my work blocks, like gmail.
The wind dumbfuck. The windmills will suck energy from the wind, and make it move slower, which will affect weather in the short term, and downwind-climate in the long term.
Here's an interview where a band told people NOT to bu their CDs, because they get nothing out of such sales. Instead they ask their fans to acquire their music through the net (torrent), and to support them through concert sales.
Band tells fans not to buy CDs from dishonest label (2nd half of vid) - http://on.rt.com/ekn2z6
My PC has Windows XP. My Mac had OS 10.5. My laptop purchased off Ebay had Ubuntu, kubuntu, xubuntu, and Xfce. My phone has some VirginMobile linux(?). I don't waste time with reinstalling or "customizing" the desktop. Like a car I just take what I get as the default & use it.
And if I had to recommend an OS? I'd recommend buying a whole new PC for ~$300 at staples. Time is more valuable than money, and the average person just wants the easiest solution possible -- brand new out of the box. (If they insisted to keep their current hardware, then Lubuntu Linux because it's lightweight and similar to Windows.)
The technology may be the backdrop but it's supposed to be realistic. Imagine a science fiction story set in the present, and it had Americans simply teleporting themselves to work by saying, "I want to go to work." That's not science; that's not reality or even possible. It's fantasy fiction.
The whole point of SCIENCE-based fiction is to put the emphasis on making an imaginary world that couls exist in the real world. That's why scifi is often predictive of future events. (Whereas junk like Harry Potter isn't predictive of anything.)
Genius. You wouldn't be able to connect to piratebay.org's torrent server but you could still use their website, download their torrent files, and connect to other people (seeds/peers).
In case you haven't noticed, most science fiction TV is really fantasy fiction.
The things they do on shows like Who and Star Trek and Stargate are impossible in the real world, just like Harry Potter is impossible. The only show that could be called Science fiction is Babylon 5, though it too made some errors (the whitestar measured -400 celsius temperature on Jupiter). It's hard to make real honest-to-goodness science-based stories, especially on a TV schedule with one episode filmed every 10 days.
Next Microsoft will release their own Nook-compatible with "extended" features which B&N nooks can't do, because the features will be patented.
Eventually people will buy MS because it can do text-to-speech and live facebook chat with integrated Interet Explorer/Bing (which B&N nooks can't do)..... and that will lead to B&N nooks being extinguished.
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They do but then they whine about "residuals" (money earned every time a show is viewed). Funny. I don't get residuals every time my schematic is dusted-off and used to build a circuit card. Neither does anybody else. Writers need to live in the real world for a change. You get paid; the end.
Clearly Comcast is trying to KILL hulu (see my other post).
Comcast says they will charge me $30 for a basic internet line. That's a lot cheaper than the $85 of CATV+net, so I don't know why I would want to buy CATV? Even telephone-free DSL is cheaper (~$25).
I'll just get my favorite shows on DVD, not comcast. ;-) ]
Of course fewer-and-fewer shows are my favorites.
[Maybe I'm getting old and stingy.
I wonder if NBC/comcast is trying to kill hulu on purpose. Really. This idea is about as brainless as my "Fantasy & Science" magazine saying, "If you want our discounted $11.88 e-book version, you also must subscribe to the print version for $35.99. Sorry." It's almost genius in its malevolence.
(1) NBC/comcast doesn't want people dropping CATV.
(2) NBC/comcast doesn't want people streaming over the net, as it overloads their networks (they claim).
(3) NBC/comcast wants people to watch THEIR streaming video service, not other video services.
Therefore it makes logical sense they would want Hulu to cease to exist through making policies that would scare-off customers. If ever there were grounds for a Sherman Antitrust Lawsuit, these are it. But of course it will never happen as long as Comcast/Hollywood's best friend Obama and his copyright czar is in the white house. (I doubt Romney would bother either.)
Dish Network doesn't have Cartoon, but they have plenty of other kids channels (like boomerang) for only $15/month.
"Vader..... er, I mean Comcast: The more you tighten your grip, the more customers will slip through your fingers." NBC does authentication on their Olympic streaming..... my solution was simply not to watch. I figured I can live without, rather than upgrade to a cable sub.
For a while they had NBC Universal Sports broadcast for free (over channels 10-3 and 11-2 in my area). That provided olympic events to watch, but conveniently Comcast bought NBC and ended the channel just 7 months before London 2012. Now you have to pay for it. :-(
I hope the next move is not an increase in price. I was about to buy a Roku so my parents could get cable shows for $7/month. Now I can't help wondering if (under pressure from cable channels like MSNBC, ABC Family, FX, etc) it will skyrocket to $30/month like a cable subscription. Add $7/extra set.
>>> Avoid it for a month or two and when you return it feels like you are watching a video version of the spam inbox.
Agreed. I was "cutoff" from cable for about 2 years until I recently started traveling again. As I posted on facebook:
Flip. Flip. Flip.
Nothing on TV.
Nothing all day long according to TV guide.
Glad I don't spend $1000/year on this. My hotel has 70 channels and it's a vast wasteland of reality television that I find not the least bit entertaining (Deadliest Catch was interesting for about one season and that's it). Even SyFy Channel is turning into the reality channel. I wish they'd go back to what they were in the 90s, which was a source to find all those classic television shows people had forgotten, like Time Tunnel or U-fo or Dark Shadows. And also interesting "news" shows where they interviewed show creators, book authors, and provided previews of new movies.
TNT still airs reruns of Angel, Charmed, Supernatural, and Law & Order... that may be the last good channel on the air. TCM of course is not on my cable system. :-(
P.S. This will "attract me" to zip through all my bookmarked Hulu shows as quickly as possible, before they install the CATV lockout. Screw paying for cable. I get 40+ channels free off the antenna and that's good enough.
Less attractive? Agreed. I was watching some Syfy shows on Hulu and that's about it. It MIGHT be worthwhile to upgrade to $7/month service to continue watching but I doubt it. I'll just rent the DVDs when they come out.
I assume the Broadcast networks (NBC, FOX, CW, etc) will still be fre-to-view on hulu. I'll just watch them.
No the design was not inherently flawed.
Yes it collapsed but that was ~600 years after the defeat of Carthage, so that had nothing to do with it. The ultimate reason Rome collapsed was due to wasteful spending on extravagance (welfare, stadium events, monuments galore) which led to a devaluation of their currency to try to keep the whole edifice propped up, and an eventual loss of the middle class as they became a feudal system of serfs and lords. Their economy was a shambles.
Yep. Should have just dusted-off the old WTC schematic, made a few tweaks to modernize the internal skeleton, and then rebuild the whole damn thing again. Plus add a temporary middle finger to the top, aimed towards Mecca.
"You destroy it; we'll rebuild it. You destroy it again; we'll rebuild it again. And again and again." Just like the Senate and People of Rome. They lost 3 navies before finally crushing Carthage. They refused to give up.
Almost 11 years to build a building. Nuts. The Empire State was built in just 2.5 years using primitive 1920s technology, and the first WTC in the same amount of time.
I think the long dragout time is symbolic of how America has lost its ability to get things done in a quick fashion. (And why people turn to India or China or Russia instead.) Too much bureaucracy and second-guessing and twiddling of thumbs.
I didn't buy the Kindle Tablet. No interest. I bought the normal Kindle with black-and-white screen for reading my magazine (the e-version is 67% cheaper) and some web surfing to places my work blocks, like gmail.
>>>what system? the earth ?
The wind dumbfuck. The windmills will suck energy from the wind, and make it move slower, which will affect weather in the short term, and downwind-climate in the long term.
Here's an interview where a band told people NOT to bu their CDs, because they get nothing out of such sales. Instead they ask their fans to acquire their music through the net (torrent), and to support them through concert sales.
Band tells fans not to buy CDs from dishonest label (2nd half of vid) - http://on.rt.com/ekn2z6
>>>google for filetype:torrent FFS.
"INDIAN GIRL BELINDA NOT A DESI AUNTY FFS - FREE Torrent"
What on earth did you lead me too? :-o
I just use whatever's installed on the machine.
My PC has Windows XP. My Mac had OS 10.5. My laptop purchased off Ebay had Ubuntu, kubuntu, xubuntu, and Xfce. My phone has some VirginMobile linux(?). I don't waste time with reinstalling or "customizing" the desktop. Like a car I just take what I get as the default & use it.
And if I had to recommend an OS? I'd recommend buying a whole new PC for ~$300 at staples. Time is more valuable than money, and the average person just wants the easiest solution possible -- brand new out of the box. (If they insisted to keep their current hardware, then Lubuntu Linux because it's lightweight and similar to Windows.)
The technology may be the backdrop but it's supposed to be realistic. Imagine a science fiction story set in the present, and it had Americans simply teleporting themselves to work by saying, "I want to go to work." That's not science; that's not reality or even possible. It's fantasy fiction.
The whole point of SCIENCE-based fiction is to put the emphasis on making an imaginary world that couls exist in the real world. That's why scifi is often predictive of future events. (Whereas junk like Harry Potter isn't predictive of anything.)
Genius. You wouldn't be able to connect to piratebay.org's torrent server but you could still use their website, download their torrent files, and connect to other people (seeds/peers).
Is BPI part of this group?
"Artists' lawsuit: major record labels are the real pirates" http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/artists-lawsuit-major-record-labels-are-the-real-pirates.ars
It's blocked.
Got another link to a non-torrent site?
In case you haven't noticed, most science fiction TV is really fantasy fiction.
The things they do on shows like Who and Star Trek and Stargate are impossible in the real world, just like Harry Potter is impossible. The only show that could be called Science fiction is Babylon 5, though it too made some errors (the whitestar measured -400 celsius temperature on Jupiter). It's hard to make real honest-to-goodness science-based stories, especially on a TV schedule with one episode filmed every 10 days.
"And with Three settings! " +1 Master of Geekdom to whomever identifies this quote first. ;-)
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"I've been wanting to get my hands on one of these female models. And look I've got a pair of Dalek bumps too." - "Those aren't bumps doctor....."
No we're still at the embrace part.
Next Microsoft will release their own Nook-compatible with "extended" features which B&N nooks can't do, because the features will be patented.
Eventually people will buy MS because it can do text-to-speech and live facebook chat with integrated Interet Explorer/Bing (which B&N nooks can't do)..... and that will lead to B&N nooks being extinguished.
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>>>Even the first Xbox - that first caused large loss - showed this, as they are now the market leader.
Since when is 2nd place == leader?
>>>Microsoft also starts to control mobile market
Since when is a distant 2nd place == control? I feel like your post was written by MS marketing.