Good God, can you imagine the hassle if there are 5 or 6 startups all wanting to lay cable/fiber/etc on your street and across your property? Especially since they won't all come at the same time.
What is needed is one company controlling the local infrastructure, and charging for access to it. The access cost would have to cover the cost of installation, maintenance, and upgrades.
Those Salon pieces are an excellent companion to the Post piece. They show how CC is not only killing radio, it's damaging the music industry and making it even more difficult for new bands to make a go of it.
...to mediocre ones. Yup. Spiderman is a better movie, and people like it more. Whoda thunk it?
Oddly (since I've been a SW fan since it opened, when I was 10), I haven't seen either yet (due to a lack of time). But friends who have seen both like Spiderman enough to see it a second time (apparently it's a good date flick). I don't know anyone, other than a few obsessive fanboys, who want to sit through AoTC twice.
How many TV shows do you watch in reruns, that you would otherwise have to buy the DVD's for? How long did they run? Even if the disks sell for $4 apiece, how many disks to hold an entire season? Given what the season one set cost, the entire run of Buffy will probably cost $200. X-files around $400. B5 for $200. Soon you're spending thousands of dollars for something which used to be effectively free.
It's not so much with the first runs, such as Buffy on WB, it's with the syndication. Placement spots, where you see Buffy drinking Coke instead of Pepsi, could be sold to replace the advertising spots. Some movies already do that.
But how to make money off of syndication? When a show is in reruns the local station, or cable network, makes money by selling advertising. But if the ads are embedded in the show, how will the station make any money? Remembering that, without money they don't show the show. Will the backgrounds of the shots have to be digitally altered to sell new advertising? Or the foreground? Will we see Willow using a Mac on the first run, and a Dell in the rerun?
A haiku "about a petrified Natalie Portman slathered in hot grits driving the Slashdot Cruiser over to a Beowulf cluster" would probably get modded up to +5 for the sheer creativity inherent in the thing.
Silly people the Jedi are, with the partial exception of Yoda who at least knows not to show up for a gunfight without some guns. The other Jedi always bring a knife to a gunfight.
People as stupid as these, in possession of the kinds of weapons they have, probably NEED an Emperor,...
maybe he wants to be Emperor because he realizes these people are idiots playing with machine guns and atom bombs, and need to be protected from themselves, and the Jedi sure aren't smart enough to do it.
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It's a Jewish religious convention. IIRC, His name is never supposed to be written.
What is needed is one company controlling the local infrastructure, and charging for access to it. The access cost would have to cover the cost of installation, maintenance, and upgrades.
Take a bunch of strands and wrap them together.
Actually, FM radio is line of sight.
Serving With Linux is interesting.
Those Salon pieces are an excellent companion to the Post piece. They show how CC is not only killing radio, it's damaging the music industry and making it even more difficult for new bands to make a go of it.
Clear Channel is losing billions/year. Also, read the series that salon.com has run on CC.
What about Mrs. Torvalds?
Oddly (since I've been a SW fan since it opened, when I was 10), I haven't seen either yet (due to a lack of time). But friends who have seen both like Spiderman enough to see it a second time (apparently it's a good date flick). I don't know anyone, other than a few obsessive fanboys, who want to sit through AoTC twice.
and you pay $10/month for it. How many other stations do you watch, and how much would it cost if you had to pay $10/month to watch each of them?
Nat Geo does have slightly higher quality printing than Mad.
How many TV shows do you watch in reruns, that you would otherwise have to buy the DVD's for? How long did they run? Even if the disks sell for $4 apiece, how many disks to hold an entire season? Given what the season one set cost, the entire run of Buffy will probably cost $200. X-files around $400. B5 for $200. Soon you're spending thousands of dollars for something which used to be effectively free.
And, since no show can attract enough conventional ad dollars, no show goes into reruns.
But how to make money off of syndication? When a show is in reruns the local station, or cable network, makes money by selling advertising. But if the ads are embedded in the show, how will the station make any money? Remembering that, without money they don't show the show. Will the backgrounds of the shots have to be digitally altered to sell new advertising? Or the foreground? Will we see Willow using a Mac on the first run, and a Dell in the rerun?
Geeze. You had it easy. When I was in the Army we got up at zero-dark-hundred.
but Absolute Power would be cool!
A haiku "about a petrified Natalie Portman slathered in hot grits driving the Slashdot Cruiser over to a Beowulf cluster" would probably get modded up to +5 for the sheer creativity inherent in the thing.
Fewer scruples? Than Microsoft? <Bill_And_Ted>Whoa</Bill_And_Ted>
Admittedly, the fields are small, but still...
You did...
You said that you were doing it for personal use. His problem is with people who do it, and then re-sell it, or give it away, to the world.
If Dr Dobbs was slashdotted, it might be understandable. As it is, you're just being an asshole.
I guess that's "relative to other mass-murdering dictators". Funny line though.
Some people think so.