Forget Senator Sanders of Vermont, you won't even hear from him - the republicans were talking about buying another channel because FOX can no longer do the job alone, what better way than to turn MSNBC into FOX2.... kills two bird with one stone, get rid of those nasty liberal shows and get more right wing hate talk.
Well, some of us have gone Satanic, that and the latest KDE will give you a pretty nice desktop, I like "se-bathory-wide" but my wife thinks it's just porn.
Interesting concept : just yesterday the HD TIVO had a Pre-Release movie rental for $9.95 from Amazon. It's the first time I have seen a movie available for renting before it was released to the theaters. I usually don't rent that way, prefer Netflix but if it was a movie I really wanted to see and I could rent it two weeks before it hits the theaters, I may be will to pay $9.95, the costs of two movie tickets.
Cable companies are losing revenue to Netflix as more and more people learn they can get more for less than $10.00 a month then they can get from the cable company premium channels that cost twice as much. They hide behind "piracy" but they are just using it for an excuse to impose usage taxes to offset the revenue they are losing from customers dropping their expensive premium channels, and if those taxes and caps keep some customers from taking advantage of unlimited streaming from Netflix, it is all the more profits for them. People need to wake up and realize this is NOT about piracy it is about monopoly power and protecting their bottom line.
Oh well.. I tried to go legit, but time to fire up bittorrent again, I guess. They are just shooting themselves in the foot.
Any time we have trouble it usually is associated with our provider Comcast, not Netflix. However, with some of the streams from Netfilx the audio is out of sync or the picture quality isn't as good as it should be.
We use the HD Tivo and at times I feel almost guilty for all I get from Netflix, with the 2 at a time unlimited, my actual dvd cost has been about $.95 per dvd (4 dvds a week) and I watch more instant shows than I do from Comcast. I cut back to 1 at a time starting next month, we just can not keep watching 4 rentals a week with the weather getting nicer. Netflix makes it easy to switch between the various plans.
Netflix cured me of downloading movies, I don't get the latest screeners these days but do get anything Netflix has, and they do carry a large selection of classics that you can't find with bittorrent - the best part is there are no upload ratios and I don't have to worry about getting to 90% and having all the seeders bail out. Some rentals you need to wait in line, but if you keep plenty in your queue, the rentals will arrive on a regular basis.
I do keep seeding Ubuntu & Kubuntu, bittorent is still great for linux . There will always be people that will want everything for free, but so far Netflix has done more to curb illegal downloading than any other effort. More companies should follow the Netflix lead, rather than play the silly lawsuit game. On the other hand, Rhapsody was not a worthwhile cost for us, in theory it sounded great but, for us the reliability just was not there, after several months we dropped that subscription - they might have improved it since that time.
Netflix is growing and the cable companies are concerned that too many of their customers will learn they can pay Netflix less than $10.00 a month and get more movies and tv streamed to their tv than the cable companies are willing to provide for twice that amount. The cable companies need to find a way to stop Netflix from stealing thier cutomers without actually saying they are after Netflix, as the FCC would not like it if the cable companies throttles back their competition in order to protect their own products.
Sign me up, and give me some of that good 'ol ubuntu - well, maybe not, when the American resellers get finished with their markups it will cost more than a new Dell loaded with Vista.
I want a lower price. What makes ISPs so brash that they can just alter the terms of an agreement to suit them and we're expected to pay the same price.
it's the same as Wall Street sending all the jobs overseas so they can make more profit but when things get a little rough they cry for the American worker to bail them out.
Now you are getting to the meat of it all - It all has to do with you buying movies and other content from Comcast competitors. Comcast spent a lot of time and effort getting people locked into contracts, and they can bully them into buying more Comcast content. Comcast can do this now, but time is running out, soon they won't have the monoply power them now enjoy and then many customers are going to remember the abuse they got from Comcast. Of course there will always be those individuals that will support everything big business does, heck, they will even give up their social security to bail out Wall Street because someone said it was a crises.
I agree, and already decided that if and when Comcast decides I am an "abusive" user and they cut my access, they will also lose the $200.00+ a month for other services, as I am not bound to Comcast by any contract. I can get HD over the air these days for local and network and currently trying Netflix which will be a lot cheaper than the $200+ a month I am currently paying Comcast.
"I guess cows will become the must-have item for long-distance hikers now"
I guess he doesn't know much about cows, they are not sure footed like deer. Cows are really are poor, sad creatures that get upset very easily. But heck you might be too if someone played with your tits every day and kept you pregnant almost all the time, but never allowed you to have sex - No wonder they have the long faces...
The not-so-hidden secret behind all of this is video. Network owners are waging a quiet campaign to control how video gets distributed via the Web. In their view, the Internet should only be used for e-mail and surfing. Internet video should be distributed via ISPs. It's a model that treats the Internet like cable TV -- where companies like Comcast, AT&T and Verizon get to pick the channels you get to see.
The popular trend in video, however, is streaming in the opposite direction. More and more people are becoming their own creators and distributors of homespun video content. For proof that people like to watch videos created by others, go no further than YouTube, which boasts more than 100 million "views" each day.
YouTube is just the beginning of this revolution. It's heart and soul, though, beats elsewhere -- with the use of peer-to-peer applications. Peer-to-peer traffic is spreading via popular technologies like Bit Torrent and Gnutella, which allow users to upload and share videos, music and other rich media without a middleman. It's follows a non-discriminatory Web model that encourages innovation without permission.
The phone and cable companies are desperate to shut this down. In the case of Comcast, they're doing it by spying on traffic and stifling the free exchange of ideas that will continue to make the Internet so remarkable.
The last time I was on Jury duty, (and I hope never again),the jury consisted mainly of retirees and the chairman had trouble remembering what day of the week it was. However, the most frustrating part of it all was prior to selection they asked specific questions, for example " Do you believe a person is guilty because the police arrest them?" which a "Yes" answer got you kicked off - after saying "no" in the courtroom - one the first arguments used was "The police would not have arrested him if he had not been guilty". Never again will I be on a jury if I can help it. I think you are better off without a jury unless you have something like a "race" card to play that can win over some of the jury. I know they say a jury of your peers but you really only get a limited number of choices and if all of those are individuals with limitations you are in for some serious trouble.
Good to know the current government has Windows to keep an eye on evildoers,someone needs to keep an eye on all the evildoers, you know the people that don't think the way they do or GOD forbid consider voting for the opposition party
earlier Tivos used linux. I am holding out to see what the the Comcast "Tivo" software upgrade will bring,latest news was it will start rolling out in August in some areas. It will be a "Tivo lite" as well. I thought tivo went down hill when they did away with the Tivolution magazine, a Tivo program that helped you manage your program viewing, made it really easy to find the top ten movies etc. I understand that many tivo users just didn't understand and use it,they were more interested in the music and pictures, news, weather and whatever other broadband features, but we use the tivo for watching TV so Tivolution Magazine was a great tool. I am considering dropping Tivo when this contract expires - I did have 4 series one Dtivos and currently have a series 2 (dt) and although the extra features increased, the actual benefits for me and my family did not.
I get sick of all of this FUD , linux is linux, you still use the same programs just minor differences yet they make it out like switching from one distro to another will force you to change all your programs and start over again. Consumers today have progressed a lot further than anyone gives them credit and many know enough about their desktops now that they could handle the switch from ms windows to linux and that is the real fear the individuals that depend on everyone staying with ms windows.
Microsoft has a history of being able to encourage people to buy their products using their desktop domination as a leveraging tool, some may call the practice wrong but in this world it's the money that determines the rules.
Prior versions had 1 dvd that contained everything contained on the included 6 cds. Now they use 2 dvds and only 5 cds - it appears the people without dvd players to install the software will be getting less in the professional package. How else can they explain the need for another DVD at the same time they are reducing the amount of software cds. Is it SuSE way of slowly abandoning those customers that do not own dvd players?
Another sucessfull kill of competitor, much like Microsoft did in Europe to kill off DR DOS, it costs money to make it appear no one wanted DR DOS - but in the end it was a priceless investment
Many people have an idea that linux is some mysterous type of operating system that only computer geeks can use. Last week a coworker that was interested asked me a lot about it. My advice was to stick the installation cd in and boot the computer to see what happens, he did: the SuSE 8.0 installation went flawlessly and soon he had a dual boot system with windows and linux. He said his son was shocked to see how nice the KDE3 desktop was and both were pleasantly surprised how easy it was to install a linux distribution on a computer already loaded with windows. The more peopel realize you don't have to be a computer geek to run linux, the more they will find it a worthwhile investment. It's ironic, windows users spend months learning how to use windows and complain they are afraid to try linux because it will take too long to learn - well, some are realizing it is NOT that difficult. WalMart selling pre-loaded systems ready to go for less than $200 that work well is a very prudent thing to do these days when one does not know how long they will have a job.
In America the powerful always abuse their power and just as the democrats are too afraid of the republicans to question the policies that have America where it is today, customer of Microsoft are afraid to challenge them. It's becoming a "Yes sir" type of America, take whatever they give you and thank them or elese they will destroy your lives, take away your jobs and leave you on the streets to fend for your next meal. These are facist times and the facists are in control, others will follow and not complain or be forced out in the cold. It's not unlike the old days in Chicago when Al Capone ran everything.
I miss the dolby digital sound of SG-1 on commercial free Showtime, but will settle for new episodes. It has become one of my favorite shows, and although I enjoy the earlier season shows, I am looking forward to new episodes. The toughest acting job must be Tealk ( not sure how they spell it) - that guy walks around the entire show with a disgusting look on his face. However, the witty humor of the O'neil really adds to the show.
Considering the lack of great games, the linux distro on the xbox will help cut the loses for those people that purchased it thinking there would be this great exodus from the PS2 to the xbox by the great game makers.
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Forget Senator Sanders of Vermont, you won't even hear from him - the republicans were talking about buying another channel because FOX can no longer do the job alone, what better way than to turn MSNBC into FOX2.... kills two bird with one stone, get rid of those nasty liberal shows and get more right wing hate talk.
Well, some of us have gone Satanic, that and the latest KDE will give you a pretty nice desktop, I like "se-bathory-wide" but my wife thinks it's just porn.
Interesting concept : just yesterday the HD TIVO had a Pre-Release movie rental for $9.95 from Amazon. It's the first time I have seen a movie available for renting before it was released to the theaters. I usually don't rent that way, prefer Netflix but if it was a movie I really wanted to see and I could rent it two weeks before it hits the theaters, I may be will to pay $9.95, the costs of two movie tickets.
Cable companies are losing revenue to Netflix as more and more people learn they can get more for less than $10.00 a month then they can get from the cable company premium channels that cost twice as much. They hide behind "piracy" but they are just using it for an excuse to impose usage taxes to offset the revenue they are losing from customers dropping their expensive premium channels, and if those taxes and caps keep some customers from taking advantage of unlimited streaming from Netflix, it is all the more profits for them. People need to wake up and realize this is NOT about piracy it is about monopoly power and protecting their bottom line.
Oh well.. I tried to go legit, but time to fire up bittorrent again, I guess. They are just shooting themselves in the foot.
Any time we have trouble it usually is associated with our provider Comcast, not Netflix. However, with some of the streams from Netfilx the audio is out of sync or the picture quality isn't as good as it should be.
We use the HD Tivo and at times I feel almost guilty for all I get from Netflix, with the 2 at a time unlimited, my actual dvd cost has been about $.95 per dvd (4 dvds a week) and I watch more instant shows than I do from Comcast. I cut back to 1 at a time starting next month, we just can not keep watching 4 rentals a week with the weather getting nicer. Netflix makes it easy to switch between the various plans.
Netflix cured me of downloading movies, I don't get the latest screeners these days but do get anything Netflix has, and they do carry a large selection of classics that you can't find with bittorrent - the best part is there are no upload ratios and I don't have to worry about getting to 90% and having all the seeders bail out. Some rentals you need to wait in line, but if you keep plenty in your queue, the rentals will arrive on a regular basis.
I do keep seeding Ubuntu & Kubuntu, bittorent is still great for linux . There will always be people that will want everything for free, but so far Netflix has done more to curb illegal downloading than any other effort. More companies should follow the Netflix lead, rather than play the silly lawsuit game. On the other hand, Rhapsody was not a worthwhile cost for us, in theory it sounded great but, for us the reliability just was not there, after several months we dropped that subscription - they might have improved it since that time.
HD Tivo has DRM as well and it seems to work pretty good with Netflix. I don't think this is a problem related to DRM.
Netflix is growing and the cable companies are concerned that too many of their customers will learn they can pay Netflix less than $10.00 a month and get more movies and tv streamed to their tv than the cable companies are willing to provide for twice that amount. The cable companies need to find a way to stop Netflix from stealing thier cutomers without actually saying they are after Netflix, as the FCC would not like it if the cable companies throttles back their competition in order to protect their own products.
Sign me up, and give me some of that good 'ol ubuntu - well, maybe not, when the American resellers get finished with their markups it will cost more than a new Dell loaded with Vista.
That was their selling point.
I want a lower price. What makes ISPs so brash that they can just alter the terms of an agreement to suit them and we're expected to pay the same price.
it's the same as Wall Street sending all the jobs overseas so they can make more profit but when things get a little rough they cry for the American worker to bail them out.
Now you are getting to the meat of it all - It all has to do with you buying movies and other content from Comcast competitors. Comcast spent a lot of time and effort getting people locked into contracts, and they can bully them into buying more Comcast content. Comcast can do this now, but time is running out, soon they won't have the monoply power them now enjoy and then many customers are going to remember the abuse they got from Comcast. Of course there will always be those individuals that will support everything big business does, heck, they will even give up their social security to bail out Wall Street because someone said it was a crises.
I agree, and already decided that if and when Comcast decides I am an "abusive" user and they cut my access, they will also lose the $200.00+ a month for other services, as I am not bound to Comcast by any contract. I can get HD over the air these days for local and network and currently trying Netflix which will be a lot cheaper than the $200+ a month I am currently paying Comcast.
"I guess cows will become the must-have item for long-distance hikers now"
I guess he doesn't know much about cows, they are not sure footed like deer. Cows are really are poor, sad creatures that get upset very easily. But heck you might be too if someone played with your tits every day and kept you pregnant almost all the time, but never allowed you to have sex - No wonder they have the long faces...
From "savetheinternet.com"
It's About Video
The not-so-hidden secret behind all of this is video. Network owners are waging a quiet campaign to control how video gets distributed via the Web. In their view, the Internet should only be used for e-mail and surfing. Internet video should be distributed via ISPs. It's a model that treats the Internet like cable TV -- where companies like Comcast, AT&T and Verizon get to pick the channels you get to see.
The popular trend in video, however, is streaming in the opposite direction. More and more people are becoming their own creators and distributors of homespun video content. For proof that people like to watch videos created by others, go no further than YouTube, which boasts more than 100 million "views" each day.
YouTube is just the beginning of this revolution. It's heart and soul, though, beats elsewhere -- with the use of peer-to-peer applications. Peer-to-peer traffic is spreading via popular technologies like Bit Torrent and Gnutella, which allow users to upload and share videos, music and other rich media without a middleman. It's follows a non-discriminatory Web model that encourages innovation without permission.
The phone and cable companies are desperate to shut this down. In the case of Comcast, they're doing it by spying on traffic and stifling the free exchange of ideas that will continue to make the Internet so remarkable.
willing or not here they come....
The last time I was on Jury duty, (and I hope never again) ,the jury consisted mainly of retirees and the chairman had trouble remembering what day of the week it was. However, the most frustrating part of it all was prior to selection they asked specific questions, for example " Do you believe a person is guilty because the police arrest them?" which a "Yes" answer got you kicked off - after saying "no" in the courtroom - one the first arguments used was "The police would not have arrested him if he had not been guilty". Never again will I be on a jury if I can help it. I think you are better off without a jury unless you have something like a "race" card to play that can win over some of the jury. I know they say a jury of your peers but you really only get a limited number of choices and if all of those are individuals with limitations you are in for some serious trouble.
Good to know the current government has Windows to keep an eye on evildoers,someone needs to keep an eye on all the evildoers, you know the people that don't think the way they do or GOD forbid consider voting for the opposition party
earlier Tivos used linux. I am holding out to see what the the Comcast "Tivo" software upgrade will bring,latest news was it will start rolling out in August in some areas. It will be a "Tivo lite" as well. I thought tivo went down hill when they did away with the Tivolution magazine, a Tivo program that helped you manage your program viewing, made it really easy to find the top ten movies etc. I understand that many tivo users just didn't understand and use it ,they were more interested in the music and pictures, news, weather and whatever other broadband features, but we use the tivo for watching TV so Tivolution Magazine was a great tool. I am considering dropping Tivo when this contract expires - I did have 4 series one Dtivos and currently have a series 2 (dt) and although the extra features increased, the actual benefits for me and my family did not.
I get sick of all of this FUD , linux is linux, you still use the same programs just minor differences yet they make it out like switching from one distro to another will force you to change all your programs and start over again. Consumers today have progressed a lot further than anyone gives them credit and many know enough about their desktops now that they could handle the switch from ms windows to linux and that is the real fear the individuals that depend on everyone staying with ms windows.
Microsoft has a history of being able to encourage people to buy their products using their desktop domination as a leveraging tool, some may call the practice wrong but in this world it's the money that determines the rules.
Prior versions had 1 dvd that contained everything contained on the included 6 cds. Now they use 2 dvds and only 5 cds - it appears the people without dvd players to install the software will be getting less in the professional package. How else can they explain the need for another DVD at the same time they are reducing the amount of software cds. Is it SuSE way of slowly abandoning those customers that do not own dvd players?
Another sucessfull kill of competitor, much like Microsoft did in Europe to kill off DR DOS, it costs money to make it appear no one wanted DR DOS - but in the end it was a priceless investment
Many people have an idea that linux is some mysterous type of operating system that only computer geeks can use. Last week a coworker that was interested asked me a lot about it. My advice was to stick the installation cd in and boot the computer to see what happens, he did: the SuSE 8.0 installation went flawlessly and soon he had a dual boot system with windows and linux. He said his son was shocked to see how nice the KDE3 desktop was and both were pleasantly surprised how easy it was to install a linux distribution on a computer already loaded with windows. The more peopel realize you don't have to be a computer geek to run linux, the more they will find it a worthwhile investment. It's ironic, windows users spend months learning how to use windows and complain they are afraid to try linux because it will take too long to learn - well, some are realizing it is NOT that difficult. WalMart selling pre-loaded systems ready to go for less than $200 that work well is a very prudent thing to do these days when one does not know how long they will have a job.
In America the powerful always abuse their power and just as the democrats are too afraid of the republicans to question the policies that have America where it is today, customer of Microsoft are afraid to challenge them. It's becoming a "Yes sir" type of America, take whatever they give you and thank them or elese they will destroy your lives, take away your jobs and leave you on the streets to fend for your next meal. These are facist times and the facists are in control, others will follow and not complain or be forced out in the cold. It's not unlike the old days in Chicago when Al Capone ran everything.
I miss the dolby digital sound of SG-1 on commercial free Showtime, but will settle for new episodes. It has become one of my favorite shows, and although I enjoy the earlier season shows, I am looking forward to new episodes. The toughest acting job must be Tealk ( not sure how they spell it) - that guy walks around the entire show with a disgusting look on his face. However, the witty humor of the O'neil really adds to the show.
Considering the lack of great games, the linux distro on the xbox will help cut the loses for those people that purchased it thinking there would be this great exodus from the PS2 to the xbox by the great game makers.