In that case start.com isn't respecting the RSS data...
The idea with RSS is to give the author the flexibility to configure how much or how little an RSS reader should display their feeds. If start.com decide to cripple the feed info, that's their problem and nothing I think readers should strive for.
I first thought this was about EVD, and an ancient dupe, but after RTFA, it sounds like this is YET another one?? They aren't even done with the EVD's...
If each blog is a "site", then that could explain a bit, considering that huge internet trend probably booming this year.
If not, and it's e.g. a domain name, I personally find this a bit surprising. I thought the growth rate would decline a bit, and even recalling seeing such predictions just a few years ago.
If the "time" is to download a movie on a computer overnight, a whole lot will still do it. That may not be too common yet in bandwidth challenged countries, but it's being done country-wide in a number of places these days.
A ton of people will most likely do it even if they were handed out for free, only to rid themselves of the cracked copy protection and restrictions.
You don't think it's illegal? It's still copyright infringement if they aren't a legit distributor and I'm sure they aren't. I'm sure they don't give any of that money to the record company or the artists.
In 1995 (surely before the days of AllofMP3), Russia signed the Berne Convention on the Protection of Literary and Artistic Work, and also the Convention on the Protection of Phonogram Producers against Illegal Copying.
It sounds really strange if they still managed going through this police investigation and violated copyrights like you say.
However, this isn't a new online service to compete with Netflix, this is for the people who physically travel to video stores, rent movies, and return them.
Regarding these things, it matters a lot on if they're talking "play once" or "no rewind" here. These discs need special players according to the article, and that opens a whole lot of possibilities in how it'll be implemented, and I won't speculate in those. We only know that you can't play a movie twice. However, that doesn't necessarily exclude rewinds and pausing. Who knows, these drives may trigger it when stopping a playing movie, and not pausing? It depends to 100% on the unknown implementation.
I seriously hope that people are not becoming so lazy that they can't even run out to the mailbox to return a movie.
I honestly think that still is a sales argument. That, and that you can watch them anytime you want. I mean, there are millions of people renting movies in regular stores, that aren't "into computers" enough to care for Netflix. To those, this may seem like a nice improvement when the local video store starts pushing them with arguments like "You rent, and it's yours to watch whenever you like, and we won't care for returns!"
You must put yourself in a mind of someone who rents from regular stores though. Obviously, there's a world of options already, but I'm speaking of those who rent DVD's "physically". This is just for them; it's not a new "improved" online service.
Seriously, I have used my Gmail account for at least a year, and it uses about 16 MB. Let's say I was a quite heavy mail user and used 40 MB per year... That's 0.04 GB, or 62 years to fill 2.5 GB.
When mail space pass about 1 GB, it's simply not an issue for me anymore. We'll probably use mail in a totally different way than now in 30 years anyway. Maybe we won't even use much e-mail then. It's eons in computer technology.
What matters more to me are the other features. Does this service provide free POP3 server access to use your mail client of choice in addition to the webmail? Uptime? Mail server latencies/delays? Attachement sizes? Mail filter customizability? You know... Important stuff!
Yes, I like the X games too, although I wish they had a broader vision with the game than now, with a lot of base/fleet building and economy focus. The open nature of the X games still allows "lonely pirate" role playing, but you can't say they've put too much focus on alternative gaming styles IMHO. For the explorers, there's for example no planets to land on. Planets are purely background scenery, unlike in Elite, which I found awesome to be able to land on planets of your choice, even if they didn't have spaceports, just for fun.:-)
I hear planet interaction may not be coming in X3 either, so I really have my hopes for X3 finally getting Egosoft satisfied with the economy aspect, so they can move on and take their game from being mostly an economy simulator to a true classic in a sequel or expansion.
It's pretty sad to see beta testing opening now on X2, when X3: Reunion's beta is wrapping up for the release candidates to start getting rolled out these days. X2 was released two years ago, and X3 both has hugely improved graphics and vastly redesigned sectors (much larger, with distancing and scale to feel more right), dynamic economy, and AI. Egosoft have a much larger team making X3 compared to X2 as well.
I wish there'd be a way for Egosoft to work more closely with LGP in the future so we don't get this huge lag between the ports and Windows releases, in case Egosoft don't want to work on the port(s) themselves.
Are companies forced to pay up for building on government land through a deal with such an organization, or not?
I mean... This isn't (or rather shouldn't be IMHO) about whether they "want" or "need" Google's money or not.
The article makes it sound like there isn't something preventing Google from doing that, and in that case, stop bitching and try change the laws instead of Google.
Uh, I liked it part because it's nowhere near either Star Wars or Star Trek and the common genre of strange aliens in strange worlds.:-p
This guy focus on the story, not effects, and the characters, and the dialogue, and not big ass guns like a Death Star and archetypical evil villains in dark cloaks with covered faces. So in a sense, I feel the Firefly series shows the direct opposite to e.g. Star Wars: Episode I while staying in a sci-fi setting.
So that may also be why you disliked it, but for many who've admitted to themselves that they look at Star Wars 4-6 with passion because of how nostalgy makes childhood memories sweet, and that episode 1-3 was a waste, I think Firefly strikes them as something refreshingly new and different.
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Or The Phantom Menace... Equally bad, too!
In that case start.com isn't respecting the RSS data...
The idea with RSS is to give the author the flexibility to configure how much or how little an RSS reader should display their feeds. If start.com decide to cripple the feed info, that's their problem and nothing I think readers should strive for.
So this is essentially a competitor to Bloglines, if I understand the service correctly?
I first thought this was about EVD, and an ancient dupe, but after RTFA, it sounds like this is YET another one?? They aren't even done with the EVD's...
If each blog is a "site", then that could explain a bit, considering that huge internet trend probably booming this year.
If not, and it's e.g. a domain name, I personally find this a bit surprising. I thought the growth rate would decline a bit, and even recalling seeing such predictions just a few years ago.
On August 8th, 2010, nematodes running on government networks became self aware.
Well, do they have a plan for that?!
If the "time" is to download a movie on a computer overnight, a whole lot will still do it. That may not be too common yet in bandwidth challenged countries, but it's being done country-wide in a number of places these days.
A ton of people will most likely do it even if they were handed out for free, only to rid themselves of the cracked copy protection and restrictions.
You don't think it's illegal? It's still copyright infringement if they aren't a legit distributor and I'm sure they aren't. I'm sure they don't give any of that money to the record company or the artists.
In 1995 (surely before the days of AllofMP3), Russia signed the Berne Convention on the Protection of
Literary and Artistic Work, and also the Convention on the Protection of Phonogram Producers against Illegal Copying.
It sounds really strange if they still managed going through this police investigation and violated copyrights like you say.
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/6013d4189a6126e91 d2664e5ba57f581/index.html
However, this isn't a new online service to compete with Netflix, this is for the people who physically travel to video stores, rent movies, and return them.
Regarding these things, it matters a lot on if they're talking "play once" or "no rewind" here. These discs need special players according to the article, and that opens a whole lot of possibilities in how it'll be implemented, and I won't speculate in those. We only know that you can't play a movie twice. However, that doesn't necessarily exclude rewinds and pausing. Who knows, these drives may trigger it when stopping a playing movie, and not pausing? It depends to 100% on the unknown implementation.
I seriously hope that people are not becoming so lazy that they can't even run out to the mailbox to return a movie.
I honestly think that still is a sales argument. That, and that you can watch them anytime you want. I mean, there are millions of people renting movies in regular stores, that aren't "into computers" enough to care for Netflix. To those, this may seem like a nice improvement when the local video store starts pushing them with arguments like "You rent, and it's yours to watch whenever you like, and we won't care for returns!"
You must put yourself in a mind of someone who rents from regular stores though. Obviously, there's a world of options already, but I'm speaking of those who rent DVD's "physically". This is just for them; it's not a new "improved" online service.
There's a lot of people who like to rent DVD's. Now they won't need to return them. Or watch them in time. What's not to like?
VNC clients often have some sort of file transfer feature built-in, even encrypted, so that in particular is not such a huge obstacle.
Seriously, is there a business model for this or is it just a way to lessen Microsoft's dominance?
If it lessens Microsoft's dominance, it's a working business model.
Funny coincidence, too.
enormous increases in wealth (the average person will be capable of feats, like traveling in space, only available to nation-states today)
Isn't that what we see today with inflation?
Seriously, I have used my Gmail account for at least a year, and it uses about 16 MB. Let's say I was a quite heavy mail user and used 40 MB per year... That's 0.04 GB, or 62 years to fill 2.5 GB.
When mail space pass about 1 GB, it's simply not an issue for me anymore. We'll probably use mail in a totally different way than now in 30 years anyway. Maybe we won't even use much e-mail then. It's eons in computer technology.
What matters more to me are the other features. Does this service provide free POP3 server access to use your mail client of choice in addition to the webmail? Uptime? Mail server latencies/delays? Attachement sizes? Mail filter customizability? You know... Important stuff!
Sadly, I think that won't be left to our imagination. :-(
Yes, I like the X games too, although I wish they had a broader vision with the game than now, with a lot of base/fleet building and economy focus. The open nature of the X games still allows "lonely pirate" role playing, but you can't say they've put too much focus on alternative gaming styles IMHO. For the explorers, there's for example no planets to land on. Planets are purely background scenery, unlike in Elite, which I found awesome to be able to land on planets of your choice, even if they didn't have spaceports, just for fun. :-)
I hear planet interaction may not be coming in X3 either, so I really have my hopes for X3 finally getting Egosoft satisfied with the economy aspect, so they can move on and take their game from being mostly an economy simulator to a true classic in a sequel or expansion.
It's pretty sad to see beta testing opening now on X2, when X3: Reunion's beta is wrapping up for the release candidates to start getting rolled out these days. X2 was released two years ago, and X3 both has hugely improved graphics and vastly redesigned sectors (much larger, with distancing and scale to feel more right), dynamic economy, and AI. Egosoft have a much larger team making X3 compared to X2 as well.
I wish there'd be a way for Egosoft to work more closely with LGP in the future so we don't get this huge lag between the ports and Windows releases, in case Egosoft don't want to work on the port(s) themselves.
Why's an Alienware computer ranked so highly, even above Google?
God, that must be a hell of a computer... Or a hell of a sponsoring.
Are companies forced to pay up for building on government land through a deal with such an organization, or not?
I mean... This isn't (or rather shouldn't be IMHO) about whether they "want" or "need" Google's money or not.
The article makes it sound like there isn't something preventing Google from doing that, and in that case, stop bitching and try change the laws instead of Google.
I heard a Finnish guy on IMDb having seen this saying it was maybe even among the best Finnish movies made, which is saying... nothing. :-s
Uh, I liked it part because it's nowhere near either Star Wars or Star Trek and the common genre of strange aliens in strange worlds. :-p
This guy focus on the story, not effects, and the characters, and the dialogue, and not big ass guns like a Death Star and archetypical evil villains in dark cloaks with covered faces. So in a sense, I feel the Firefly series shows the direct opposite to e.g. Star Wars: Episode I while staying in a sci-fi setting.
So that may also be why you disliked it, but for many who've admitted to themselves that they look at Star Wars 4-6 with passion because of how nostalgy makes childhood memories sweet, and that episode 1-3 was a waste, I think Firefly strikes them as something refreshingly new and different.