DirectTV and dish nework, eh. I guess that is a lot of potential viewers for their half-billion or whatever. I had suspected that it had to do with channel space, since there are differing lineups even by comcast cable depending on where you live. I didn't get TechTV before, but my boss did, only 20 minutes away in the same county, but he didn't get G4. So they took the quick, expensive way. No wonder my cable bill is so freakin high. I help subsidize their crap.
Wonder how that "accountability" think will work out.
This is probably the only good thing G4 has EVER done. I still can't figure out why they bought TechTV, since They killed nearly every show, and fired everyone from Screen Savers and changed the name. (Why not just make a new show and leave screen savers alone?) Oh, wait. I forgot Morgan Webb. Is her whiny, sacrastic ass really worth $300 million? Xplay is redundant, since G4 already had a game review show, and everyone hates Adam Sessler because, although he is just as whiny and sarcastic as Webb, he lacks the cleavage to hold the viewers attention and make them forget about how whiny and sarcastic they are. So basically all comcast wanted was her ablility to pull in the geek demographic while at the same time they "urbanize" the network with more hip-hop, "bling" and "whip" style. Hey, comcast! Wake the freak up and see how badly this channel is.
THIS is what happens when you let the marketing people run the programming.
Like others here, I haven't found new music by using p2p, but used it to try to find samples of artists I heard of elsewhere like streaming radio, blogs, DJ set lists, college and public radio playlists, etc.
I did, however, discover the pleasant effect of browsing people's online music libraries way back in the heady pre-napster days of Hotline. Browsing various hotline servers devoted to MP3s was like going down a street with 500 record stores, some disorganized and broad, others tightly focused and tidy. Like someone mentioned before, I discovered whole new GENRES this way. P2P apps used to work this way, at least my version of Limewire used to, I haven't used it in a couple of years. Once you found a file, you could browse that user's library, without that P2P searches are like being in a vacuum. The connections can be really facinating. A jazz-fusion fan might get into hip-hop because he found an US3 track on someone's share amongst the Miles and Brubeck files. That guy got the track because he heard it had a Herbie Hancock sample on it. P2P is limited for me because I can't look on the "shelf" next to the stuff I like.
Maybe you didn't notice, but mac mp3 players have been around as long as winamp. At the height of the napster days, before the napster mac client came out, I was still grabbing mp3's from scour net and hotline sites and playing them with macamp, soundjam, and audion. And those were just the popular apps.
I just realized that with Firefox's live bookmarks feature, and del.icio.us's XML feeds, you can have your del.icio.us bookmarks in the firefox bookmark menu and toolbar.
True, it is time-consuming, even with the GUI front end for the command-line tools. I'm building a DVD library of one of my favorite cancelled shows, which ran for 70 episodes. At 30 minutes each, I might need a couple more hard drives before I can finish.
Are you aware that shows recorded at the medium setting on replaytv are dvd-compatible mpeg-2 files? They need a conversion using a couple of free tools, but no recompression. Plus, if you record with commercial skip, your dvd will be commercial-skipped as well. I found the tools looking through DVarchive forums.
No marketing expert would ever recommend a strategy that limits the public's exposure to a franchise at the specific times that it is unpopular, ie., not filling the stadium.
Trouble is, it will probably get worse as more cable-owned stations actually OWN the teams.
Credit card companies, banks, paypal, and any site that deals with financial transactions that could be comprimised by phishing scams need to establish a 1-point policy for client email: never link back to the site from the email. If every company did this, and users were instructed to always type the url in the browser to access thier account, and made if clear that the company would never send an email with links to the site or account, eventually people would be able to tell the phishing from the real. I know its not a perfect solution, but the convenience of "click here to access your account" emails is what fuels the phishing scams.
OTOH, I have yet to personally get a phising scam (and I get them every day) that purported to be from a company I actually do business with, with the exception of paypal. And all my credit cards are from big, national companies.
Didn't several search engines do this already, with lukewarm results? If what makes google different is pagerank*, what exactly are they bringing to the table for searching your hard drive that hasn't already been done?
(*whether you agree or not that it creates better search results)
Since the Archos device has been out a while, and i think even Creative has one, that Apple would have had an answer to those devices already. OTOH, you could be right. With the iPod, Apple did seem to wait, while the other companies (creative and rio) released several revisions to thier products, until they had developed a device that has proven to kick thier competitors asses. That could be the case now, too.
My point was just that video iPod rumors have been pervasive for years, but then so have apple PDA rumors. The rumor sites throw enough shit at the wall that occasionally something sticks.
What is this, the 5th time iPod video or photo rumors have surfaced? I think if apple wanted to do this, it would have been done a while ago. How long have there been products in this sector, 3 years or so?
I get a "cry wolf" vibe from rumor sites these days.
"But we do put a lot of trust on cruise control. On really wet surfaces, the wheel will be spun really fast because it slips and the car is trying to speed itself up. Once it grips, the car goes flying."
This makes no sense. If the wheels are spinning, the cruise control will think the car IS going faster and will slow it down. As far as the cruise knows, the speed of the wheels IS the speed of the car.
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DirectTV and dish nework, eh. I guess that is a lot of potential viewers for their half-billion or whatever. I had suspected that it had to do with channel space, since there are differing lineups even by comcast cable depending on where you live. I didn't get TechTV before, but my boss did, only 20 minutes away in the same county, but he didn't get G4. So they took the quick, expensive way. No wonder my cable bill is so freakin high. I help subsidize their crap.
Wonder how that "accountability" think will work out.
This is probably the only good thing G4 has EVER done. I still can't figure out why they bought TechTV, since They killed nearly every show, and fired everyone from Screen Savers and changed the name. (Why not just make a new show and leave screen savers alone?) Oh, wait. I forgot Morgan Webb. Is her whiny, sacrastic ass really worth $300 million? Xplay is redundant, since G4 already had a game review show, and everyone hates Adam Sessler because, although he is just as whiny and sarcastic as Webb, he lacks the cleavage to hold the viewers attention and make them forget about how whiny and sarcastic they are. So basically all comcast wanted was her ablility to pull in the geek demographic while at the same time they "urbanize" the network with more hip-hop, "bling" and "whip" style. Hey, comcast! Wake the freak up and see how badly this channel is.
THIS is what happens when you let the marketing people run the programming.
Like others here, I haven't found new music by using p2p, but used it to try to find samples of artists I heard of elsewhere like streaming radio, blogs, DJ set lists, college and public radio playlists, etc.
I did, however, discover the pleasant effect of browsing people's online music libraries way back in the heady pre-napster days of Hotline. Browsing various hotline servers devoted to MP3s was like going down a street with 500 record stores, some disorganized and broad, others tightly focused and tidy. Like someone mentioned before, I discovered whole new GENRES this way. P2P apps used to work this way, at least my version of Limewire used to, I haven't used it in a couple of years. Once you found a file, you could browse that user's library, without that P2P searches are like being in a vacuum. The connections can be really facinating. A jazz-fusion fan might get into hip-hop because he found an US3 track on someone's share amongst the Miles and Brubeck files. That guy got the track because he heard it had a Herbie Hancock sample on it. P2P is limited for me because I can't look on the "shelf" next to the stuff I like.
Prices all went down. $449 is the most expensive iPod you can buy now, with 60g, color screen, photo viewer, etc. HD iPods start at $199.
Maybe you didn't notice, but mac mp3 players have been around as long as winamp. At the height of the napster days, before the napster mac client came out, I was still grabbing mp3's from scour net and hotline sites and playing them with macamp, soundjam, and audion. And those were just the popular apps.
I discovered a new one, well, new to me.
http://www.spurl.net/
I just realized that with Firefox's live bookmarks feature, and del.icio.us's XML feeds, you can have your del.icio.us bookmarks in the firefox bookmark menu and toolbar.
Duh, why didn't I think of that sooner.
Well, if you get cartoon network, then you already get those shows.
This lets you manage bookmarks, share them with other users, and let your browse their lists.
http://del.icio.us/
So, you're saying he won an academy award because he had a big render farm?
True, it is time-consuming, even with the GUI front end for the command-line tools. I'm building a DVD library of one of my favorite cancelled shows, which ran for 70 episodes. At 30 minutes each, I might need a couple more hard drives before I can finish.
DVarchive is a great tool.
Are you aware that shows recorded at the medium setting on replaytv are dvd-compatible mpeg-2 files? They need a conversion using a couple of free tools, but no recompression. Plus, if you record with commercial skip, your dvd will be commercial-skipped as well. I found the tools looking through DVarchive forums.
No marketing expert would ever recommend a strategy that limits the public's exposure to a franchise at the specific times that it is unpopular, ie., not filling the stadium.
Trouble is, it will probably get worse as more cable-owned stations actually OWN the teams.
Maybe the reality distortion field isn't calibrated properly.
How does the pizza boy know your email address?
Credit card companies, banks, paypal, and any site that deals with financial transactions that could be comprimised by phishing scams need to establish a 1-point policy for client email: never link back to the site from the email. If every company did this, and users were instructed to always type the url in the browser to access thier account, and made if clear that the company would never send an email with links to the site or account, eventually people would be able to tell the phishing from the real. I know its not a perfect solution, but the convenience of "click here to access your account" emails is what fuels the phishing scams.
OTOH, I have yet to personally get a phising scam (and I get them every day) that purported to be from a company I actually do business with, with the exception of paypal. And all my credit cards are from big, national companies.
A while ago I remember hearing about the potential of this use for the segway when I read an article about disneyworld and segways
Apparently, they will rent you a segway, but you can't bring your own.
Maybe Moore's law will be repealed.
Or declared unconstitutional.
Didn't several search engines do this already, with lukewarm results? If what makes google different is pagerank*, what exactly are they bringing to the table for searching your hard drive that hasn't already been done?
(*whether you agree or not that it creates better search results)
Since the Archos device has been out a while, and i think even Creative has one, that Apple would have had an answer to those devices already. OTOH, you could be right. With the iPod, Apple did seem to wait, while the other companies (creative and rio) released several revisions to thier products, until they had developed a device that has proven to kick thier competitors asses. That could be the case now, too.
My point was just that video iPod rumors have been pervasive for years, but then so have apple PDA rumors. The rumor sites throw enough shit at the wall that occasionally something sticks.
What is this, the 5th time iPod video or photo rumors have surfaced? I think if apple wanted to do this, it would have been done a while ago. How long have there been products in this sector, 3 years or so?
I get a "cry wolf" vibe from rumor sites these days.
"But we do put a lot of trust on cruise control. On really wet surfaces, the wheel will be spun really fast because it slips and the car is trying to speed itself up. Once it grips, the car goes flying."
This makes no sense. If the wheels are spinning, the cruise control will think the car IS going faster and will slow it down. As far as the cruise knows, the speed of the wheels IS the speed of the car.
How quaint. I haven't had a car with a distributor for years. Even on my cheap car.
Of course, nothing ever goes wrong
Worst spammers are big business? Hardly. Ask anyone if thier email is full of unsolicited GE and Chevy ads.
Everyone I ask says no, its all pr0n, mortgages, male enhancement and bootleg software offers.