plenty of it here, and there are tons of online streaming services. the cable/SAT TV companies all have options for paid foreign channels. people i know pay the $15 a month for a package of Russian channels. and there are tons of russian owned stores with decent russian DVD selections. there are channels for almost every major ethnicity in the US and anything else like a DVD can be bought on the internet
Since you're one of the 1% no one cares about you. or buy a Roku or something similar and use that. appleTV, Roku, boxee, iOS, Android and whatever all use linux or some other ^nix
it's 2010 and we have netflix with it's so so instant streaming. along with a few other buy/rent online stores that offer content at decent prices. we even have blu ray's coming out with a digital copy so you can watch it on your phone, ipad, laptop without an optical drive, etc.
it's not the ideal where any blu ray or DVD should come with a digital copy and iTunes is not the greatest place to buy/rent from but they are all good enough not to steal with the excuse that the media companies aren't offering an easy way to consume media. only excuse you may have is that you're outside the USA and want US content
VHS movies took a long time to copy, the blank tapes were fairly expensive and you had to pay to rent or know someone with a movie collection. not like BT where it's like the Quest TV ad from 10 years ago. "we have every movie ever made in every language"
most times a pioneer will create something new and cool but it will need a few changes for really mass adoption. the pioneer refuses to change because he/she is stubborn. someone else rakes in the cash
diablo was an almost exact copy of a 1980's arcade game called Gauntlet. it had 4 controllers so 4 people could play together and keep putting quarters in
i've played starcraft, the total war series and others. it's the same game mechanics with small modifications getting later into the game. mine, buy and fight. same with diablo.
zynga's games are also balanced just as good as Blizzard's. only difference is they are balanced to make you progress slowly unless you send them cash
point is that two guys in a garage will take a risk and create something revolutionary like youtube or facebook or a personal computer. their risk is their time and a little money they might lose.
large companies will have Oracle Financials and other software to model risk and there will be endless meetings about a new product, evolving feature sets, etc. Sony had some cool stuff in the 1990's in the labs except the media guys would cry piracy and the top management killed or crippled every single potential product that seemed cool. Microsoft, Apple and Google didn't invent any of the ideas in their top products. they weren't even the first ones to make a product. they copied from someone else and got it right. or they buy them out. Apple didn't make up multi-touch, they bought a company in 2005. i heard Google bought the companies that made up google voice and android
this goes back years. Microsoft used to do the same thing. they would visit a company, see a product, decline to buy it and then it would come up in the next version of WIndows. lately i see that Windows has a lot of third party licensed software. Apple is buying up small companies and last week there was news how Apple stopped doing business with a design firm that showed off an ipad lookalike. apple pays others to design products or parts of them.
big companies with herds of MBA's take years to do anything and then it's so bad no one wants to use it. a few guys in a garage always innovate. look at YouTube, Facebook and all the current big names. AOL had a video service years ago and they used the actor from married with children to advertise it on TV. shockingly it died.
my wife used to buy the scratch off tickets and once in a while i used to take the winning ones to the store to cash them out. i noticed that they scan the bar code to verify a winning ticket. and most of the people i see buying them scratch them off with hope and dreams.
farmville is not that different than most RPGs except its freemium. most RPG's the game play is very repetitive with minor rewards along the way. farmville is free to start and you pay if you want the rewards faster.
I think this idea started with Napoleon and his practice of giving soldiers ribbons for bravery in battle. people would risk their lives for a colored piece of cloth
i've done jury duty and watched Court TV. it's like watching trees grow. I'll take the law and order or the 30 minute court shows any day over the real thing
too late for that once apple blinked on the dev kit thing
iphones and android phones are almost identical right now with 80% or more functionality being the same. unlike the early computer era when everyone seemed to use different CPU's
android and iphone both use ARM CPU's the OS is ^nix in both cases almost all of the top apps are available on each platform
big differences are the form factor with android coming in different form factors. iOS is still better for games and you need a computer to run iTunes if you have an iPhone where Android phones are stand alone phones
in both cases they still command a premium for businesses selling them, but in the next year or two i think margins will start falling just like with PC's around 2000. if you look at the teardowns this year there is a lot more integration which means it will be easier to manufacture and source the parts
up until the iphone 3GS it was a mess in there with chips and wires everywhere. iphone 4 looks a lot cleaner with almost everything integrated on one circuit board. and with android being open source expect to see tier b phones pop up where some company takes the code, puts it into a cheap phone with no new featues and sells it on metro PCS or boost mobile for $50 a month talk, text, email and web
it's a lot more expensive to produce a TV show or movie than a song. and until itunes and digital revenues catch up to advertising and cable revenues don't bet on apple
lady gaga and kings of leon still signed with the big labels
used to be that people moved on after going to a different school or graduating from college. chicks write letters, guys don't.closest thing was alumni newsletters
then came email, but it was tied to your ISP. then came hotmail but it stopped being cool and people went to gmail. people found it a PITA to change email addresses
facebook you can keep in touch with people without updating your email address or any other info no matter where you move to
i've handled the iPad in the Apple Store and it feels better made than a $1500 HP laptop i used to have that is now in a junk pile after less than 3 years of use
few months ago the NY Times did a breakdown of a $250,000 salary in NYC. after the insane "progressive" taxes, the mortgage and HOA fees of living on the upper east side or UWS, the nanny or the crazy elite day care there is very little left.
the store part is a web browser with a slightly different GUI than other web browsers. even on my iphone, which is how they added Ping to it without me upgrading to the latest firmware. i'm still on 4.0.
the local storage part is either xml files or a sqllite database. that's the slow part unless you have a new computer with lots of RAM
the problem is not building a new iTunes, that's easy. it's migrating the existing data over. the big challenge will be to migrate the existing data seamlessly during an upgrade, which will probably cost too much money to code so apple won't do it since there is no return on investment and no viable competitor. we will just have to wait for a technological evolution
Ping is a major fail so far. no facebook because apple tried to bully them and got told to go away. no twitter integration. Ping doesn't even have an auto scan of gmail and other email account address books. who is going to manually try all their contacts? no artists. i think there are only 20 or so on there spammers have taken over everything is geared to make you buy something, no real social networking people on macrumors have figured out that a lot of content comes from Tumblr and is not even original a lot of artist postings seem fake and like they were done in some call center. some celeb tweets are like this, but compare Lady Gaga's twitter feed and Ping feed. the twitter feed seems like it's really her
either this is a public beta or this will die in a few months like digital LP. Apple wants to hoard cash and maintain profit margins at the expense of hiring enough people to code these things to completion. there were stories earlier this year how developers at apple are always changing projects depending on what is priority. also explains why some things like an iPad OS update are so far behind schedule
one shocking thing i learned on the Pong of social networking sites this morning. Lady Gaga like Iron Maiden and Faith no More.
he told his boss how much iphone sucks because it's closed and android is open and now he has egg on his face because the new cool phone doesn't work with his infrastructure. while the closed iphone does.
you can scan the traffic from the ISP's. blackberries are encrypted at the phone itself along with 3G and other encryption
or in the real world a tiny minority of people are going to be using IMAP + SSL or HTTPS to check email. since this is outside the USA and there are less rights to worry about, just follow those people
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plenty of it here, and there are tons of online streaming services. the cable/SAT TV companies all have options for paid foreign channels. people i know pay the $15 a month for a package of Russian channels. and there are tons of russian owned stores with decent russian DVD selections. there are channels for almost every major ethnicity in the US and anything else like a DVD can be bought on the internet
Since you're one of the 1% no one cares about you. or buy a Roku or something similar and use that. appleTV, Roku, boxee, iOS, Android and whatever all use linux or some other ^nix
it's 2010 and we have netflix with it's so so instant streaming. along with a few other buy/rent online stores that offer content at decent prices. we even have blu ray's coming out with a digital copy so you can watch it on your phone, ipad, laptop without an optical drive, etc.
it's not the ideal where any blu ray or DVD should come with a digital copy and iTunes is not the greatest place to buy/rent from but they are all good enough not to steal with the excuse that the media companies aren't offering an easy way to consume media. only excuse you may have is that you're outside the USA and want US content
VHS movies took a long time to copy, the blank tapes were fairly expensive and you had to pay to rent or know someone with a movie collection. not like BT where it's like the Quest TV ad from 10 years ago. "we have every movie ever made in every language"
Microsoft in the mobile space
most times a pioneer will create something new and cool but it will need a few changes for really mass adoption. the pioneer refuses to change because he/she is stubborn. someone else rakes in the cash
almost all UFO's in the 50's and 60's were round
they aren't fun, they are repetative with gradual rewards
diablo was an almost exact copy of a 1980's arcade game called Gauntlet. it had 4 controllers so 4 people could play together and keep putting quarters in
i've played starcraft, the total war series and others. it's the same game mechanics with small modifications getting later into the game. mine, buy and fight. same with diablo.
zynga's games are also balanced just as good as Blizzard's. only difference is they are balanced to make you progress slowly unless you send them cash
point is that two guys in a garage will take a risk and create something revolutionary like youtube or facebook or a personal computer. their risk is their time and a little money they might lose.
large companies will have Oracle Financials and other software to model risk and there will be endless meetings about a new product, evolving feature sets, etc. Sony had some cool stuff in the 1990's in the labs except the media guys would cry piracy and the top management killed or crippled every single potential product that seemed cool. Microsoft, Apple and Google didn't invent any of the ideas in their top products. they weren't even the first ones to make a product. they copied from someone else and got it right. or they buy them out. Apple didn't make up multi-touch, they bought a company in 2005. i heard Google bought the companies that made up google voice and android
this goes back years. Microsoft used to do the same thing. they would visit a company, see a product, decline to buy it and then it would come up in the next version of WIndows. lately i see that Windows has a lot of third party licensed software. Apple is buying up small companies and last week there was news how Apple stopped doing business with a design firm that showed off an ipad lookalike. apple pays others to design products or parts of them.
big companies with herds of MBA's take years to do anything and then it's so bad no one wants to use it. a few guys in a garage always innovate. look at YouTube, Facebook and all the current big names. AOL had a video service years ago and they used the actor from married with children to advertise it on TV. shockingly it died.
my wife used to buy the scratch off tickets and once in a while i used to take the winning ones to the store to cash them out. i noticed that they scan the bar code to verify a winning ticket. and most of the people i see buying them scratch them off with hope and dreams.
farmville is not that different than most RPGs except its freemium. most RPG's the game play is very repetitive with minor rewards along the way. farmville is free to start and you pay if you want the rewards faster.
I think this idea started with Napoleon and his practice of giving soldiers ribbons for bravery in battle. people would risk their lives for a colored piece of cloth
court is the most boring thing to watch
i've done jury duty and watched Court TV. it's like watching trees grow. I'll take the law and order or the 30 minute court shows any day over the real thing
that way Rodney King can stream his next beat down
too late for that once apple blinked on the dev kit thing
iphones and android phones are almost identical right now with 80% or more functionality being the same. unlike the early computer era when everyone seemed to use different CPU's
android and iphone both use ARM CPU's
the OS is ^nix in both cases
almost all of the top apps are available on each platform
big differences are the form factor with android coming in different form factors.
iOS is still better for games
and you need a computer to run iTunes if you have an iPhone where Android phones are stand alone phones
in both cases they still command a premium for businesses selling them, but in the next year or two i think margins will start falling just like with PC's around 2000. if you look at the teardowns this year there is a lot more integration which means it will be easier to manufacture and source the parts
up until the iphone 3GS it was a mess in there with chips and wires everywhere. iphone 4 looks a lot cleaner with almost everything integrated on one circuit board. and with android being open source expect to see tier b phones pop up where some company takes the code, puts it into a cheap phone with no new featues and sells it on metro PCS or boost mobile for $50 a month talk, text, email and web
it's a lot more expensive to produce a TV show or movie than a song. and until itunes and digital revenues catch up to advertising and cable revenues don't bet on apple
lady gaga and kings of leon still signed with the big labels
used to be that people moved on after going to a different school or graduating from college. chicks write letters, guys don't.closest thing was alumni newsletters
then came email, but it was tied to your ISP. then came hotmail but it stopped being cool and people went to gmail. people found it a PITA to change email addresses
facebook you can keep in touch with people without updating your email address or any other info no matter where you move to
no
all updates from the jailbreakme hotfix to a major OS upgrade come as a new version of the OS and are installed via iTunes
i've handled the iPad in the Apple Store and it feels better made than a $1500 HP laptop i used to have that is now in a junk pile after less than 3 years of use
few months ago the NY Times did a breakdown of a $250,000 salary in NYC. after the insane "progressive" taxes, the mortgage and HOA fees of living on the upper east side or UWS, the nanny or the crazy elite day care there is very little left.
the store part is a web browser with a slightly different GUI than other web browsers. even on my iphone, which is how they added Ping to it without me upgrading to the latest firmware. i'm still on 4.0.
the local storage part is either xml files or a sqllite database. that's the slow part unless you have a new computer with lots of RAM
the problem is not building a new iTunes, that's easy. it's migrating the existing data over. the big challenge will be to migrate the existing data seamlessly during an upgrade, which will probably cost too much money to code so apple won't do it since there is no return on investment and no viable competitor. we will just have to wait for a technological evolution
Ping is a major fail so far. no facebook because apple tried to bully them and got told to go away. no twitter integration.
Ping doesn't even have an auto scan of gmail and other email account address books. who is going to manually try all their contacts?
no artists. i think there are only 20 or so on there
spammers have taken over
everything is geared to make you buy something, no real social networking
people on macrumors have figured out that a lot of content comes from Tumblr and is not even original
a lot of artist postings seem fake and like they were done in some call center. some celeb tweets are like this, but compare Lady Gaga's twitter feed and Ping feed. the twitter feed seems like it's really her
either this is a public beta or this will die in a few months like digital LP. Apple wants to hoard cash and maintain profit margins at the expense of hiring enough people to code these things to completion. there were stories earlier this year how developers at apple are always changing projects depending on what is priority. also explains why some things like an iPad OS update are so far behind schedule
one shocking thing i learned on the Pong of social networking sites this morning. Lady Gaga like Iron Maiden and Faith no More.
you don't understand
he told his boss how much iphone sucks because it's closed and android is open and now he has egg on his face because the new cool phone doesn't work with his infrastructure. while the closed iphone does.
The PC was invented before the internet and the security model was set up to allow everyone to do almost anything
the smart phone was made for the internet and manufacturers seem to be locking them down. completely opposite of the PC
you can scan the traffic from the ISP's. blackberries are encrypted at the phone itself along with 3G and other encryption
or in the real world a tiny minority of people are going to be using IMAP + SSL or HTTPS to check email. since this is outside the USA and there are less rights to worry about, just follow those people
because even amateur photographers have a few lenses
which one you use depends on your location, lighting, etc