The need to wake up early to watch them, and also the fact that you would watch a cartoon you really didn't like because it was between two cartoons you did like are both completely foreign to the on-demand children of today.
This was on the four major broadcast networks (sorry, CW) - yet how many of us had no idea it was happening? This Slashdot submission was the first I'd heard of it, in any case...
Yes, but one thing you have to think about is target demographics. The people who participate in running for school board (or even voting for school board members for that matter) tend to be older and more likely to still be watching prime time network TV than your average Slashdot reader.
I did LOGO as a child, and my daughter did the Frozen coding exercises at code.org and I found them very similar, though improved. With LOGO I remember being given sheets of paper with patterns and then having to type in commands with a keyboard to try to match the patterns. The Code.org tutorial was much more interactive, the different snowflake patterns were on the screen and she only had to type a little, mostly dragging code blocks and hooking them together. So FWIW she really enjoyed it, and has moved on to doing projects in Scratch which also uses the drag and drop code blocks.
1. The small screen. - Enjoy the experience of watching a movie in the comfort of your home
2. People everywhere. - If you don't know what movie you want there are plenty of people happy to make recommendations. Plus all of your neighbors probably go to the same store so you get the bump into people who you know but wouldn't otherwise chose to spend time with!
3. Focus. - The best movies are along the outer wall so you can go straight to the good stuff.
4. Rewards - Now when you rent the new movies you want you can also get old movies you don't want for free!
5. Cover Art - A lot of effort went into making the boxes look pretty. Don't you want to look at the pretty boxes?
6. Previews - Conveniently located on screen above your head so you can watch them while finding your movie.
7. Disruption - No longer do you have to go to the movie on their schedule and only see the few movies they are showing. Disrupt the movie industry and take control of your viewing!
8. Alone time - Don't be surrounded by crowds of strangers during the movie who detract from the experience.
9. Movie Snacks - Located conveniently by the cash register, you can get popcorn and movie candy at movie going prices for your home enjoyment
10. Bragging rights - Be the LAST of your friends to still shop here!
This is revolutionary. An amazingly original idea, perhaps some life form that is silicon based instead of carbon based, with no DNA, hiding at the bottom of a mine shaft or something. A Devil in the dark if you will.
I just wonder why no one has ever though of this before now.
So to get this resolved in a timely and efficient manner, we should get governments (all of them maybe?!?) involved. With the track record of government involvement I am amazed that no one else thought of this!
As much as I would love to see this go through, the numbers make this look like a fringe movement to me. There are 349 members of the Riksdag (Swedish Parliament) and the article says only 13 MPs have come out in favor of this. Even though this originated from a member of the leading party, it is still a long ways from becoming more than rhetoric.
I'll definitely be keeping my eyes open for updates on this, though.
The problem is the RIAA is already trying to kill them too. They have convinced the Copyright Royalty Board to increase the royalties for entities that stream and/or distribute music online, they have removed the lower royalties that were available to small businesses. Worst of all they have imposed a $500 fee "per channel" for all broadcasters. So a service like last.fm which provides a different lineup of music to each user might have each individual user stream defined as a "Channel" and be forced to pay $500 per user based on this model.
Many people are calling this the end of Online Commercial Broadcasts.
That would be a small group of Mac users, all of which have awesome nicknames like "Crash" and "Burn", who are lead by a fearless hacker leader who due to his previous hacking antics hasn't actually touched a computer in seven years.
I knew DIVX wouldn't fly from the first time I heard the pitch.
You want me to buy hardware that lets me play these DVDesque discs, which will stop working after two days? I couldn't believe that anyone would buy into this scheme when the alternatives were:
1) Rent movies from a video store that work on your existing hardware (most likely VCR at the time) 2) Invest in a DVD Player since everyone knew that was the next thing (okay everyone except a few diehard LaserDisc fans) and buy the movie
People said that DIVX was comparable in price to movie rentals, but it wasn't. I remember looking at it and thinking that it was a little more expensive even if you ignored the need to buy new hardware.
Most importantly, though, it just felt wrong to me. Buying hardware that was designed to allow you to watch a movie for two days and then disable the disc just felt invasive to me. It felt like I was buying something (since I didn't have to return anything), but that the item I was buying was intentionally made defective.
As a government body the people have an avenue for redress. If it was private, then we would have no such avenue.
If it were private we would have the best avenue of redress there is, taking our money to a competitor.
And if there wasn't a government agency controlling it, then all the airwaves would belong to the biggest private bully.
Where do you get such an idea? The Federal Radio Commission (which later became the FCC) was created because of too many stations trying to be heard on too few frequencies. There was so much competition that they were literally drowning each other out.
Look at Virgin Airlines, they want to provide more competition to the Airline industry and would be doing so right now if it weren't for the government. Removal of government restrictions doesn't reduce competition to "the biggest private bully" it increases competition.
You are arguing with a definition that includes the word Appropriate without looking at its definition. Here are the definitions of appropriate as a verb.
verb (used with object) 3. to set apart, authorize, or legislate for some specific purpose or use: The legislature appropriated funds for the university. 4. to take to or for oneself; take possession of. 5. to take without permission or consent; seize; expropriate: He appropriated the trust funds for himself. 6. to steal, esp. to commit petty theft.
You'll notice that apart from the last one (which is simple a circular definition in our context) they all point to removing an object. Set apart, take for oneself. Making an exact duplicate is gray area at best... and there is certainly not enough justification to say it is clearly stealing simply based on the language.
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So I guess we're going to start seeing BSOD (Blue Sole of Death) now?
"We're trying to engineer the craft brewing revolution in electronics."
I for one am looking forward to running a computer based on The Great, Big Kentucky Sausage Fest Chip
This is exactly why I hate seeing trailers these days... they practically spoil the whole movie!
The need to wake up early to watch them, and also the fact that you would watch a cartoon you really didn't like because it was between two cartoons you did like are both completely foreign to the on-demand children of today.
This was on the four major broadcast networks (sorry, CW) - yet how many of us had no idea it was happening? This Slashdot submission was the first I'd heard of it, in any case...
Yes, but one thing you have to think about is target demographics. The people who participate in running for school board (or even voting for school board members for that matter) tend to be older and more likely to still be watching prime time network TV than your average Slashdot reader.
I did LOGO as a child, and my daughter did the Frozen coding exercises at code.org and I found them very similar, though improved. With LOGO I remember being given sheets of paper with patterns and then having to type in commands with a keyboard to try to match the patterns. The Code.org tutorial was much more interactive, the different snowflake patterns were on the screen and she only had to type a little, mostly dragging code blocks and hooking them together. So FWIW she really enjoyed it, and has moved on to doing projects in Scratch which also uses the drag and drop code blocks.
1. The small screen. - Enjoy the experience of watching a movie in the comfort of your home
2. People everywhere. - If you don't know what movie you want there are plenty of people happy to make recommendations. Plus all of your neighbors probably go to the same store so you get the bump into people who you know but wouldn't otherwise chose to spend time with!
3. Focus. - The best movies are along the outer wall so you can go straight to the good stuff.
4. Rewards - Now when you rent the new movies you want you can also get old movies you don't want for free!
5. Cover Art - A lot of effort went into making the boxes look pretty. Don't you want to look at the pretty boxes?
6. Previews - Conveniently located on screen above your head so you can watch them while finding your movie.
7. Disruption - No longer do you have to go to the movie on their schedule and only see the few movies they are showing. Disrupt the movie industry and take control of your viewing!
8. Alone time - Don't be surrounded by crowds of strangers during the movie who detract from the experience.
9. Movie Snacks - Located conveniently by the cash register, you can get popcorn and movie candy at movie going prices for your home enjoyment
10. Bragging rights - Be the LAST of your friends to still shop here!
Actually, just yesterday my daughter said "Alexa, Thank you" to our Amazon Echo. Alexa replied, "no problem." which made my daughter smile.
This is revolutionary. An amazingly original idea, perhaps some life form that is silicon based instead of carbon based, with no DNA, hiding at the bottom of a mine shaft or something. A Devil in the dark if you will.
I just wonder why no one has ever though of this before now.
So to get this resolved in a timely and efficient manner, we should get governments (all of them maybe?!?) involved. With the track record of government involvement I am amazed that no one else thought of this!
As much as I would love to see this go through, the numbers make this look like a fringe movement to me. There are 349 members of the Riksdag (Swedish Parliament) and the article says only 13 MPs have come out in favor of this. Even though this originated from a member of the leading party, it is still a long ways from becoming more than rhetoric.
I'll definitely be keeping my eyes open for updates on this, though.
<80's Computer Voice>
"Would you like to play a game?"
</80's Computer Voice>
The problem is the RIAA is already trying to kill them too. They have convinced the Copyright Royalty Board to increase the royalties for entities that stream and/or distribute music online, they have removed the lower royalties that were available to small businesses. Worst of all they have imposed a $500 fee "per channel" for all broadcasters. So a service like last.fm which provides a different lineup of music to each user might have each individual user stream defined as a "Channel" and be forced to pay $500 per user based on this model.
- radio-copyright-royalty-board-releases-decision-ra tes-are-going-up-significantly.html
Many people are calling this the end of Online Commercial Broadcasts.
You can read more about this here:
http://www.broadcastlawblog.com/archives/internet
That would be a small group of Mac users, all of which have awesome nicknames like "Crash" and "Burn", who are lead by a fearless hacker leader who due to his previous hacking antics hasn't actually touched a computer in seven years.
DUH!
I knew DIVX wouldn't fly from the first time I heard the pitch.
You want me to buy hardware that lets me play these DVDesque discs, which will stop working after two days? I couldn't believe that anyone would buy into this scheme when the alternatives were:
1) Rent movies from a video store that work on your existing hardware (most likely VCR at the time)
2) Invest in a DVD Player since everyone knew that was the next thing (okay everyone except a few diehard LaserDisc fans) and buy the movie
People said that DIVX was comparable in price to movie rentals, but it wasn't. I remember looking at it and thinking that it was a little more expensive even if you ignored the need to buy new hardware.
Most importantly, though, it just felt wrong to me. Buying hardware that was designed to allow you to watch a movie for two days and then disable the disc just felt invasive to me. It felt like I was buying something (since I didn't have to return anything), but that the item I was buying was intentionally made defective.
Former Revenue Commissioner Bill Corbus said no one was ever blamed for the incident.
"Everybody felt very bad about it and we all learned a lesson. There was no witch hunt," Corbus said.
Yeah, that pretty much sums up working for the government.
So would you be in favor of a license more in line with GNU copyleft ideas, like maybe the Free Artist Community License?
How much do you want to bet there is already a Virgin Megastore there by the time NASA makes it back?
You are forgetting that any attempt to build any sort of competing "Time Warp" device is going to land you in court.
I wonder if this technology might one day put Kavka's toxin puzzle to rest.
The puzzle is a thought exercise that boils down to, "Can someone INTEND to do something, knowing that they aren't actually going to have to do it?"
As a government body the people have an avenue for redress. If it was private, then we would have no such avenue.
If it were private we would have the best avenue of redress there is, taking our money to a competitor.
And if there wasn't a government agency controlling it, then all the airwaves would belong to the biggest private bully.
Where do you get such an idea? The Federal Radio Commission (which later became the FCC) was created because of too many stations trying to be heard on too few frequencies. There was so much competition that they were literally drowning each other out.
Look at Virgin Airlines, they want to provide more competition to the Airline industry and would be doing so right now if it weren't for the government. Removal of government restrictions doesn't reduce competition to "the biggest private bully" it increases competition.
Well, I don't know about winning the Nobel Prize... but I was Time's Person of the Year in 2006!!!
That's has to be good for a couple of extra months right???
You are arguing with a definition that includes the word Appropriate without looking at its definition. Here are the definitions of appropriate as a verb.
verb (used with object)
3. to set apart, authorize, or legislate for some specific purpose or use: The legislature appropriated funds for the university.
4. to take to or for oneself; take possession of.
5. to take without permission or consent; seize; expropriate: He appropriated the trust funds for himself.
6. to steal, esp. to commit petty theft.
You'll notice that apart from the last one (which is simple a circular definition in our context) they all point to removing an object. Set apart, take for oneself. Making an exact duplicate is gray area at best... and there is certainly not enough justification to say it is clearly stealing simply based on the language.
There a potential replacement called Y, though I don't see that exactly taking off at the moment.
How about 50% savings on price? The iRobot Create starts at $129.99. Lego Mindstorms on the other hand start at $249.99.