The lifetime subscription is the same as paying two years of monthly subscription but in one lump sum. So you really get your money's worth if the system is still around in 24 months. I have had my Tivo for 14 months, 10 more to go. So the quesiton is not whether the system will be valid in 40 years, but will it still be good in 25 months.
Actually, I think I kind of understand where this is coming from. I worked at a company that tried to be at the cutting edge of e-books (they fell off the edge, but whatever). I was a project manager and lead architect (sure blame me). I was constantly hounded by the biz and marketing side for more security and encryption on the books. I repeatedly told them how if a user can read it someone will figure out a way to copy it.
One day I was taken in to our VP's office and told that he understood that someone would always figure out a way to copy the ebook, but could I come up with a way to keep our clients from being able to copy their own books. See if I could come up with a clever scheme that thwarted dumb publisher and his "tech-wizard" friend/brother/brother-in-law (who ever they may be) then they will at least think their books are secure. So I did, the clients ooh'ed and ahh'ed, and life was good.
I am guessing that these new copy protection schemes have nothing to do with the actual populace that will use the games and more to do with marketing and biz talk.....bleck.
Most of the games that are pirated are available from warez sources a couple of weeks prior to the games going on store shelves. I would bet the trend will continue. So in some ways I would agree with you, move the warez release out and more people will buy. I would say not 30-60 days, but maybe even a week would have an impact.
There have been instances when I have played a game, enjoyed a game, and been bored with a game, prior to it ever being released to stores...no excuses here, just stating a fact.
But what is Tivo web for? I read about it being easier to install now and really neat, but never got the picture for what it actually does. I love my Tivo and would never want to do anything to hurt it but people seem pretty pumped about the Tivo Web....any help you can give me?
I have to disagree with you. I was less able to comprehend what I was seeing then realize that this was going to have a very lasting impact on our way of life. Unlike the poster you were replying to, I don't think I specifically felt that freedoms would be taken away. I was more concerned about how this would increase anxiety and fear. I knew that it was a horrible reality check to people that thought we were safe from people that hated us.
So I did not first think of fire and death, I thought more of how my Mom must be really upset and scared in her "safe" downtown condo in Florida. She was also the first person I called.
I was surprised to hear there was a "1 mile out" of Orlando. Last I checked everything is in Orlando until you get to Tampa, Daytona, Ocala or heck, what is to the South of Orlando?
[note: you would have to have grown up in central florida to get this, if you are not from here, ignore]
No joke, when I look out my window while working I am always greated by the view of a llama munching grass 50 yards away. For some reason it is really relaxing and mildly uplifting. What a strange and gentle beast.
I agree with you completely. If this is really being done by the label, it is one of the smartest things they could do. Turning up the noise level in the trading world will increase the cost (time) of downloading illegal music. I unknowingly downloaded the bogus Eminem songs...I immediately looked for Eminem's contact email address to congratulate him. I then went on IRC and downloaded a valid album, but still it made Gnutella about worthless, as far as I was concerned, for that album.
This is exactly what happened at a Boulder based eBook company I just left. In Novemeber they said they were out of money. They laid off half the company and told the rest of us that we would work for $350/week (everyone including the CEO). The argument was that we were being paid what unemployment pays but still had a job. After a month of this lowered salary they laid off another third of the company, this time with zero severance. When they re-instated salaries in January, management was given a bonus. Which shattered the "save the company" attitude that everyone had shared... There has been a constant stream out every since, with everyone I know saying they will leave if they find anthing else.
I see you argument, but I really think it may be what we tell ourselves to feel better about the less fortunate. If we remove a level defects, don't you think we may find new challenges and have an opportunity to rise to new levels?
- Listen to us, not to the consultants
- Decide on the plan, stand back, and let us implement
- Act as a filter for the politics
Those were nearly my exact goals 12 months ago, when I dove in to Project Management, our middle tier management. I thought I could be that geek sensitive manager that we all dream about. And it really did start that way! But our company is heavily pushed on the Biz side and I was being pressured to get things done by their terms. And those terms change, and biz priorities change. And they layed off a key member and still needed everything done....Look around at your company and see if you really can make a difference or not
I have now gone back to System's Engineer/Lead Troubleshooter and will shortly get back into coding.
Well, this does concern me some. My company writes instructional material for students. Basically we avoided the "put a dead-tree book online" approach and are working directly with publishers and authors to write true digital textbooks availible over the web. We of course are heavy on flash, quicktime and the like. Looks like we have more work to do if this is the true direction of education.
Quick question....Does any tech industry exec still have secretaries? We have HR people that do some secretarial stuff and admin assistants that kinda help sometimes, but no real, honest too goodness secretaries any longer. You know what I mean, the true Personal Assistants of our fathers generation...
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Actually our goal is to make it as easy as possible to access the books from any computer anywhere. Which in my opinion really contradicts the idea of then trying to control the distribution of the content. I guess the real problem is that we sold the publishers on the idea of "anywhere, anytime, KISS," but now they want all that and a bag of security tricks.
In order to achive our goal, we display the pages of the book in plain HTML.
I find it so interesting that scientists believe we can communicate with distant alien life forms. Maybe they should make a little more progress with the dolphins and chimps of this planet. Shouldn't they expect similar results?
The ref mics were hillarious. I don't even remember which game I was watching, but listening to the refs argue over "why in the world was that flag thrown," was side splitting. This was worth hearing, "Hey Ed, HEY ED, what number, what number was it, ED! I need to know what number....HEY, tell me what number so I can do this. NO! There is no number 47, pick another one.....fine 57 it is, hope he was on the field." (and indeed he was not)
And then to see the ref walk over to do the official announcement all proper like.
-chaswell
NOTE: this was posted while I had a fever over 102, please excuse any major mistakes, I was delerious.
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The lifetime subscription is the same as paying two years of monthly subscription but in one lump sum. So you really get your money's worth if the system is still around in 24 months. I have had my Tivo for 14 months, 10 more to go. So the quesiton is not whether the system will be valid in 40 years, but will it still be good in 25 months.
tack on to this list anyone who says that they are, "kinda pregnant."
If I remember correctly the DMCA was passed with a voice vote and so you can only find out who commented and not necessarily who voted for or against.
I really wish we had an "open source" government where every dollar they spend and every comment they make was indexed and easy to correlate.
Actually, I think I kind of understand where this is coming from. I worked at a company that tried to be at the cutting edge of e-books (they fell off the edge, but whatever). I was a project manager and lead architect (sure blame me). I was constantly hounded by the biz and marketing side for more security and encryption on the books. I repeatedly told them how if a user can read it someone will figure out a way to copy it.
One day I was taken in to our VP's office and told that he understood that someone would always figure out a way to copy the ebook, but could I come up with a way to keep our clients from being able to copy their own books. See if I could come up with a clever scheme that thwarted dumb publisher and his "tech-wizard" friend/brother/brother-in-law (who ever they may be) then they will at least think their books are secure. So I did, the clients ooh'ed and ahh'ed, and life was good.
I am guessing that these new copy protection schemes have nothing to do with the actual populace that will use the games and more to do with marketing and biz talk.....bleck.
Most of the games that are pirated are available from warez sources a couple of weeks prior to the games going on store shelves. I would bet the trend will continue. So in some ways I would agree with you, move the warez release out and more people will buy. I would say not 30-60 days, but maybe even a week would have an impact.
There have been instances when I have played a game, enjoyed a game, and been bored with a game, prior to it ever being released to stores...no excuses here, just stating a fact.
stupid question and heading off-topic...
But what is Tivo web for? I read about it being easier to install now and really neat, but never got the picture for what it actually does. I love my Tivo and would never want to do anything to hurt it but people seem pretty pumped about the Tivo Web....any help you can give me?
I have to disagree with you. I was less able to comprehend what I was seeing then realize that this was going to have a very lasting impact on our way of life. Unlike the poster you were replying to, I don't think I specifically felt that freedoms would be taken away. I was more concerned about how this would increase anxiety and fear. I knew that it was a horrible reality check to people that thought we were safe from people that hated us.
So I did not first think of fire and death, I thought more of how my Mom must be really upset and scared in her "safe" downtown condo in Florida. She was also the first person I called.
I was surprised to hear there was a "1 mile out" of Orlando. Last I checked everything is in Orlando until you get to Tampa, Daytona, Ocala or heck, what is to the South of Orlando?
[note: you would have to have grown up in central florida to get this, if you are not from here, ignore]
thank you all for confirming the /. steriotype...
No joke, when I look out my window while working I am always greated by the view of a llama munching grass 50 yards away. For some reason it is really relaxing and mildly uplifting. What a strange and gentle beast.
Are they really as dumb as they look?
I agree with you completely. If this is really being done by the label, it is one of the smartest things they could do. Turning up the noise level in the trading world will increase the cost (time) of downloading illegal music. I unknowingly downloaded the bogus Eminem songs...I immediately looked for Eminem's contact email address to congratulate him. I then went on IRC and downloaded a valid album, but still it made Gnutella about worthless, as far as I was concerned, for that album.
This is exactly what happened at a Boulder based eBook company I just left. In Novemeber they said they were out of money. They laid off half the company and told the rest of us that we would work for $350/week (everyone including the CEO). The argument was that we were being paid what unemployment pays but still had a job. After a month of this lowered salary they laid off another third of the company, this time with zero severance. When they re-instated salaries in January, management was given a bonus. Which shattered the "save the company" attitude that everyone had shared... There has been a constant stream out every since, with everyone I know saying they will leave if they find anthing else.
-Chaswell Freewill
I see you argument, but I really think it may be what we tell ourselves to feel better about the less fortunate. If we remove a level defects, don't you think we may find new challenges and have an opportunity to rise to new levels?
Just one small thing to add here. Right now on Paypal you have the option to upgrade your account to a mutual fund account.
- Listen to us, not to the consultants
- Decide on the plan, stand back, and let us implement
- Act as a filter for the politics
Those were nearly my exact goals 12 months ago, when I dove in to Project Management, our middle tier management. I thought I could be that geek sensitive manager that we all dream about. And it really did start that way! But our company is heavily pushed on the Biz side and I was being pressured to get things done by their terms. And those terms change, and biz priorities change. And they layed off a key member and still needed everything done....Look around at your company and see if you really can make a difference or not
I have now gone back to System's Engineer/Lead Troubleshooter and will shortly get back into coding.
I wish you more luck then I had...
Well, this does concern me some. My company writes instructional material for students. Basically we avoided the "put a dead-tree book online" approach and are working directly with publishers and authors to write true digital textbooks availible over the web. We of course are heavy on flash, quicktime and the like. Looks like we have more work to do if this is the true direction of education.
Quick question....Does any tech industry exec still have secretaries? We have HR people that do some secretarial stuff and admin assistants that kinda help sometimes, but no real, honest too goodness secretaries any longer. You know what I mean, the true Personal Assistants of our fathers generation...
Actually our goal is to make it as easy as possible to access the books from any computer anywhere. Which in my opinion really contradicts the idea of then trying to control the distribution of the content. I guess the real problem is that we sold the publishers on the idea of "anywhere, anytime, KISS," but now they want all that and a bag of security tricks.
In order to achive our goal, we display the pages of the book in plain HTML.
- chaswell
can't we just use the philotic twinings on our ansibles? It really appears to be the most promising form of communication across galactic distances.
-chaswell, who doesn't even know if he was trying to be funny.
I find it so interesting that scientists believe we can communicate with distant alien life forms. Maybe they should make a little more progress with the dolphins and chimps of this planet. Shouldn't they expect similar results?
- chaswell
I have always disliked that definition of vaporware.
It is vaporware until there is something concrete to point at. Until then it is just vapor.
-chaswell
The ref mics were hillarious. I don't even remember which game I was watching, but listening to the refs argue over "why in the world was that flag thrown," was side splitting. This was worth hearing, "Hey Ed, HEY ED, what number, what number was it, ED! I need to know what number....HEY, tell me what number so I can do this. NO! There is no number 47, pick another one.....fine 57 it is, hope he was on the field." (and indeed he was not)
And then to see the ref walk over to do the official announcement all proper like.
-chaswell
NOTE: this was posted while I had a fever over 102, please excuse any major mistakes, I was delerious.
It is an option.
I have to know, does it ever get you down that they are this rough on you? Were you born under a bad star or what?
Or is it more of a social thing - Everone must love linux & open source, but hate M$ and JonKatz?
-chaswell
OS 10
Current Mac is OS 9. Tricky guys!
-chaswell that ends well