How is it that so many are enraged by people that violate copyright when they ignore the GPL, yet many of the very same people will violate copyright and download a gazillion MP3s?
A lot of the network's big shows will do things like go for a few extra minutes one week, then start a few extra minutes the next, but only be a "normal" sized episode.
Then there's Fox... A network where it seems that no show ever airs regularly. How many times have they shown "a special episode" of your favorite show at the last minute? Unless you scan the TV listings on a daily (or even hourly) basis so you can update your VCR, you'll miss stuff.
I've run into that problem; so all I do now is tell it to start recording 10 minutes before the scheduled start time, and stop recording 10 minutes after (i'll tell it to tape Fox on Tuesdays from 8:50pm to 10:10pm, for example.)
But as far as geniunely shifting the schedule around -- that is, moving a show to different times, different nights -- it rarely happens to shows.
Shows that get moved are either not good enough to compete with something else that everyone else is watching (based on ratings), are pre-empted for something special, or are really good shows that they move to attract ratings to other programs (and they will thus heavily hype the move.) But none of those situations occur frequently enough for people to warrant bitching about it -- except, as I've said, hypersensitive people and those who spend too much time in front of the TV.
It doesn't happen often enough to warrant spending four times the money -- if you think it does, you either watch too much TV or you're too sensitive.;-)
Even if a person is just "recording stuff" a VCR is a suboptimal solution in the face of constantly shifting network schedules and preemptions. There's a vast chasm of difference between telling a device "I sure like that show 'Ed'. If it comes on (and only if it's a new episode) please record it." and telling a device "record whatever is on channel 9 on Fridays at 8:00pm. If the schedule changes I'll be sure to remember to update it."
Try that for more than two or three programs and you've graduated to needing multiple VCRs or devising a complex tape-changing ritual to ensure they all get recorded.
How often do shows get shifted around to make it an inconvenience, though? It doesn't happen often enough to warrant spending four times the money -- if you think it does, you either watch too much TV or you're too sensitive.;-)
The RIAA and their ilk should just forget about the people who can't afford to buy CDs. Trying to stop piracy from that quarter is a waste of their time and we all know it's a losing battle.
If someone can afford a computer and the bandwidth to download mp3's, then they can afford a fucking CD. Your argument makes ZERO sense.
VCRs perform only a small portion of what a PVR does that it's really unfair to compare them.
It's not, though. Most people use their PVRs to record stuff or to pause commercials. So, you ignore the commercial pausing stuff, and a VCR fits the bill.
They should have kept Napster running and offered all of their music. Kazaa and Bearshare would have never been developed, or at best they would have been tiny. If you knew that you could get what you wanted 100% of the time, you wouldn't even mess with the rest.
You, sir, are missing the point. Why get shit-quality copies of music for free from Napster, when a different p2p service would offer sales-quality copies of music for free?
First of all, it was a joke. Your sense of humor probably went down the toilet with your brain:
Of course no one wants it to happen to them. It wouldn't be a punishment otherwise.
No one wants to be imprisoned, either, but it is PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE for the government to imprison people that have broken the law. Prison is a form of punishment -- you're not there to get rewarded with cookies.
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At least Ashcroft hasn't labeled spammers as enemy combatants engaged in cyberterrorism and shipped them all off to Guantonomo Bay without a trial -- yet.
Paul Allen's thing seems to be developing properties, like museums and stadiums. Properties like these do not magically run themselves. You have to pay people to operate them. Now, I don't know if you looked outside lately, but there are no magic money trees growing anywhere near Seattle, or anywhere else for that matter.
Secondly, some of these properties, stadiums in particular, are city-owned, and thus their revenues go to the city. Therefore, the cities that profit from them should be paying for them.
Paul Allen is doing good -- by stimulating the economy. If you have to charge money to make a profit for the city, and to maintain the property, how is that skewed?
Another thing: if you're rich, you have an obligation to donate money to charity from time to time -- but not to to give everyone everything for free.
I suggest getting over your entitlement complex and learning how to do things for yourself.
There are plenty of things that are more rad which would perpetuate SF is all i'm saying.
I totally agree; we need to bring science fiction to the fans, and possibly even integrate it with real life.
We're getting somewhere with the portable phones. Flying cars, though, would be an excellent example of integration of sci-fi into real life. Or holographic movies!
Just bringing a little bit of sci fi into our homes would help keep the genre alive and kicking. We need more characters that can plant the seed of sci fi in children's imaginations; cartoons and movies could pique their interest, and playing with sci fi toys at a young age could help us produce the next breed of science fiction writers and visionaries.
We, too, could be visionaries, our imaginations dormant, waiting for something to trigger it to consciousness. What better way to awaken that consciousness than to roleplay an alien anal probe experiments with your lover or pet?
Such an elaborate setup... if even one of you laughs, mission accomplished!
I could walk up to your house and tap your phone line and you'd never notice -- why are you bitching about this protocol but not the telephone system? How is this *any* different?
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No safeguards whatsoever -- Mr. Burns is going to block out the beam and charge the good citizens of Springfield!
Not really. If you can make money for it, then you are more likely to turn people in.
Hell, if I found out someone I knew was spamming or pirating thousands of MP3's, I'd turn them in for free, cuz it sickens me.
How is it that so many are enraged by people that violate copyright when they ignore the GPL, yet many of the very same people will violate copyright and download a gazillion MP3s?
A lot of the network's big shows will do things like go for a few extra minutes one week, then start a few extra minutes the next, but only be a "normal" sized episode.
Then there's Fox... A network where it seems that no show ever airs regularly. How many times have they shown "a special episode" of your favorite show at the last minute? Unless you scan the TV listings on a daily (or even hourly) basis so you can update your VCR, you'll miss stuff.
I've run into that problem; so all I do now is tell it to start recording 10 minutes before the scheduled start time, and stop recording 10 minutes after (i'll tell it to tape Fox on Tuesdays from 8:50pm to 10:10pm, for example.)
But as far as geniunely shifting the schedule around -- that is, moving a show to different times, different nights -- it rarely happens to shows.
Shows that get moved are either not good enough to compete with something else that everyone else is watching (based on ratings), are pre-empted for something special, or are really good shows that they move to attract ratings to other programs (and they will thus heavily hype the move.) But none of those situations occur frequently enough for people to warrant bitching about it -- except, as I've said, hypersensitive people and those who spend too much time in front of the TV.
It doesn't happen often enough to warrant spending four times the money -- if you think it does, you either watch too much TV or you're too sensitive. ;-)
:-)
You are in category A!
BMW vs. Scooter: They both accomplish the same primary function, getting you from point A to point B.
Tivo vs. VCR: Primary function: record shows.
BMW vs. Scooter: The beemer has more features than the scooter -- air conditioning, a roof, stereo, etc.
Tivo vs. VCR: Tivo has time shifting, more capactity, less effort, etc.
BMW vs. Scooter: A BMW costs much more than does a scooter.
Tivo vs. VCR: Tivo costs much more than a VCR.
Primary task: record stuff. How the fuck can't I compare them? Your argument is flimsy at best.
Even if a person is just "recording stuff" a VCR is a suboptimal solution in the face of constantly shifting network schedules and preemptions. There's a vast chasm of difference between telling a device "I sure like that show 'Ed'. If it comes on (and only if it's a new episode) please record it." and telling a device "record whatever is on channel 9 on Fridays at 8:00pm. If the schedule changes I'll be sure to remember to update it."
;-)
Try that for more than two or three programs and you've graduated to needing multiple VCRs or devising a complex tape-changing ritual to ensure they all get recorded.
How often do shows get shifted around to make it an inconvenience, though? It doesn't happen often enough to warrant spending four times the money -- if you think it does, you either watch too much TV or you're too sensitive.
The RIAA and their ilk should just forget about the people who can't afford to buy CDs. Trying to stop piracy from that quarter is a waste of their time and we all know it's a losing battle.
If someone can afford a computer and the bandwidth to download mp3's, then they can afford a fucking CD. Your argument makes ZERO sense.
VCRs perform only a small portion of what a PVR does that it's really unfair to compare them.
It's not, though. Most people use their PVRs to record stuff or to pause commercials. So, you ignore the commercial pausing stuff, and a VCR fits the bill.
At a quarter of the price.
And without a subscription fee.
Isn't that why you have a computer?
But it's a lot harder to get the pages of your e-book stuck together...
They should have kept Napster running and offered all of their music. Kazaa and Bearshare would have never been developed, or at best they would have been tiny. If you knew that you could get what you wanted 100% of the time, you wouldn't even mess with the rest.
You, sir, are missing the point. Why get shit-quality copies of music for free from Napster, when a different p2p service would offer sales-quality copies of music for free?
Duhhhhhhhh
First of all, it was a joke. Your sense of humor probably went down the toilet with your brain:
Of course no one wants it to happen to them. It wouldn't be a punishment otherwise.
No one wants to be imprisoned, either, but it is PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE for the government to imprison people that have broken the law. Prison is a form of punishment -- you're not there to get rewarded with cookies.
At least Ashcroft hasn't labeled spammers as enemy combatants engaged in cyberterrorism and shipped them all off to Guantonomo Bay without a trial -- yet.
Not yet is right -- what if those spammers are trying to sell Weapons of Ass Destruction?
It's a shame that nowhere in the article does the FTC even imply that the spammer will be sent to a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
I am so crying right now.
You are retarded, and here's why:
Paul Allen's thing seems to be developing properties, like museums and stadiums. Properties like these do not magically run themselves. You have to pay people to operate them. Now, I don't know if you looked outside lately, but there are no magic money trees growing anywhere near Seattle, or anywhere else for that matter.
Secondly, some of these properties, stadiums in particular, are city-owned, and thus their revenues go to the city. Therefore, the cities that profit from them should be paying for them.
Paul Allen is doing good -- by stimulating the economy. If you have to charge money to make a profit for the city, and to maintain the property, how is that skewed?
Another thing: if you're rich, you have an obligation to donate money to charity from time to time -- but not to to give everyone everything for free.
I suggest getting over your entitlement complex and learning how to do things for yourself.
Obviously some of us reading comments tonight are missing the point:
It was a joke.
But what about the anal probes, damn you!! :-)
Paul also raped a girl at his home - He setteled out of court and the girl refused to testify - it never went to trial.
I just searched Google and can find no stories whatsoever to even remotely substantiate this claim. All I have to say is HOLY LIBEL, BATMAN!
There are plenty of things that are more rad which would perpetuate SF is all i'm saying.
I totally agree; we need to bring science fiction to the fans, and possibly even integrate it with real life.
We're getting somewhere with the portable phones. Flying cars, though, would be an excellent example of integration of sci-fi into real life. Or holographic movies!
Just bringing a little bit of sci fi into our homes would help keep the genre alive and kicking. We need more characters that can plant the seed of sci fi in children's imaginations; cartoons and movies could pique their interest, and playing with sci fi toys at a young age could help us produce the next breed of science fiction writers and visionaries.
We, too, could be visionaries, our imaginations dormant, waiting for something to trigger it to consciousness. What better way to awaken that consciousness than to roleplay an alien anal probe experiments with your lover or pet?
Such an elaborate setup... if even one of you laughs, mission accomplished!
It is a fantastic idea, marred by a single flaw:
That giant fuckin' mouse is much less scary than those yellow fuckin' teeth.
Wizards of the Goatse make some very, VERY interesting collectible card games...
I could walk up to your house and tap your phone line and you'd never notice -- why are you bitching about this protocol but not the telephone system? How is this *any* different?
How is it "fair use" to take a copy and not compensate the copyright holder?
Answer that and we're done.