The problem is that advertisers aren't complete idiots. If 25% of the American population were to suddenly go out and purchase a PVR, something tells me advertising firms would realise that 25% of the American population is watching fewer commercials. Maybe not 25% fewer, but they could probably figure out about how much their viewership would go down. Then, when the cable/satellite companies tell them their viewership remained a steady 10 million, they would scoff at them, and offer to pay them less for the same air time.
Recently, two Finnish churches refused to pay royalties to the country's copyright society for the performance of Christmas hymns. The congregations won their case in a district court, but the society has appealed.
They sued churches. This blows my mind. What do they want as punishment, to get to kick the old ladies in the congregation? Or maybe conjugal visits with the church nuns? Surely payment for the right to carol isn't enough to deter these Christian fiends from violating copyright law again...
My head hurts. I'm going back to watching Buffy. Her world makes more sense.
From your comment title I thought you were advocating a switch of your own... Anyway, Ellen Fiess is a girl who made a commercial as part of Apple's switch campain, where real people (some famous, some not) talk about why Windows sucks (which is kind of like talking about why water is wet), and why Macs rock. She happened to be to have a stoney disposition in the commercial, though, which sets her apart from the other commercials. Now she's the main obsession of Mac enthusiasts.
This is even less effort involved than playing Tony Hawk! Now I can avoid that Tekken thumb I thought I was going to get around Christmas with THPS4...
Jesse Helms blocked the legislation because the lower rates were still too high for many webcasters. However, these lower rates were not worse for the webcasters than the higher ones. The legislation was to change the rate from 0.07 per listener to some percentage of the webcasters' profits. For most webcasters, about 10%, for more profitable channels, 12%. However good intentioned Mr. Helms' blocking was, it will force webcasters to start paying (retroactively) fees based on the old system. They don't have to start ponying up all the dough quite yet, though, as this Salon article details.
You are right that the RIAA should be paying the webcasters, just as they do with the regular radio station promoters (that's a whole other problem, though).
Evidently oblivion exists at www.mplayerhq.hu. They have an encoder that lets you rip your dvd to DivX4 using 1, 2 or 3 pass encoding. Instuctions are here. Is three lines at a command prompt simple enough?
Toronto is another one of those cities. Actually, it played here September 7th (dub) and 9th (sub) at the Toronto International Film Festival. I tried to get tickets, but was denied. I'm going to try and head to a matinee this afternoon, yipee! I hope this film does well, so that I can see more anime films at my local theatre. For those who need convincing, check out some reviews here, and here.
I don't know, dude. This involves you receiving a document from a name you don't recognize (unless the attacker has your company's employee list, and then I think you have bigger problems) on a topic that the attacker probably has very little knowledge of. Maybe (s)he knows what your company does, but could they write a document passable as one of the members of your particular group (even if it is 400 people)? You make it sound like some guy could send you his term paper, and you would edit and return it with grammar corrections.
Isn't the interviewer the same guy who was saying that the DMCA isn't so bad? I remember some posts talking about how this guy just jumps on any bandwagon that furthers his career, but these articles are a week apart. Verizon (or at least Sarah Deutsch) may be a new ally in the fight against the DMCA, but I don't think Declan McCullagh is.
I see a lot of wma files, too, but mostly from this annoying Johnny Virgil guy. This dude seems to pop up in my KaZaA Lite searches, with a little gold icon by his files. I guess the gold icon means it's like search matching spam, but who is this guy? I don't want to download it, because that would be like clicking through the spam link (maybe my penis could use those extra two inches...). Anyway, I think MPlayer will play wmv files in linux.
Also for the benefits of Canadians, I think that Mt. Dew is caffeine-free in Canada. Any non-dark pop has to be (I think). Anyway, I think coffee is yummy.
1. All networks (not just subscriber networks) take cut from cable providers. PRO: TV goes on like we're used to, only without commercials. CON: increased cable bills.
2. Everything becomes pay-per-view. PRO: only charged for what you watch, things seem to be moving that way anyway. CON: casual viewing becomes much more hastle, you may miss stuff you didn't know you would like.
3. Give advertisers personal profile, allow them to advertise to me before show. PRO: I don't have to watch adds for tampons. CON: doesn't seem practical. Wouldn't I be less likely to watch a big batch of commercials at the start of a show, as opposed to 2 minutes of commercials in the middle of my program? Also, I don't like the idea of giving my personal info to advertisers.
4. Product placement. PRO: I'd rather see Buffy slamming back a Coke (tm) for a few seconds as opposed to a 30 second spot for Coke. I realize that in real like people use brand-name products. CON: I don't want to see Buffy slam back a Coke and then exclaim to Xander how refreshing the new XtraClear Vanilla Lemon-lime Coke is. I don't want a product placement that, in any way, distracts me from the story.
Personally, I would like to see 2 and 4 in combination. I would like some product placement to subsidize pay-per-view costs.
Kept only 10% of games you purchased? Sounds like you need to start reading some magazine reviews, dude, or find a rental store.
There is a high crap-to-quality ratio, but I think this is going to happen on any dominant console. Nintendo used to be the king of crap (I don't know the state of affairs now, I don't know anyone with a Gamecube).
For those of us who don't have the ~$850 (US) to buy the 4 consoles, we have to roll the dice on which console will dominate.
Dominant console => more games developed & more high profile developers making exclusive-console games. More games developed => better chance of more good games (in spite of poorer crap-to-quality ratio).
For curiosity, what are the 4 games you kept? I only own three games (MGS2, THPS3, and GT3), but I can think of a couple more I'd like to own (GTA3, FFX).
I don't know about the relative graphics handling capabilities or programming ease (the latter I've heard has been getting better for PS2), but I do see the end result:
My PS2 has better games, plays DVDs, and has the best damn controller design in the history of gaming.
I know the Dreamcast is a whole lot cheaper, and hackable, and if I want to learn some embedded linux stuff, I'll go pick one up sometime. This is good news for linux on console enthusiasts, and maybe the diehard PSO players still left, but I'm more excited about the broadband adaptor for PS2 that's coming out soon, and seeing what impact it has on console gaming, and the linux for PS2 initiatives.
I'm not saying the Dreamcast didn't have great games. Sega has brilliant games, and I'm thankful that they're now developing games for PS2. But you can't deny that there are fantastic games on PS2 that outclass any other console's efforts. Also, last time I checked, there wasn't anybody developing new games for Dreamcast that would exploit this new hardware.
Use KDE. Windows users freeze the second they see Gnome.
I think you mean that Gnome freezes when it sees Windows users.
As far as locking down the desktop, Linux and KDE are infinitely configurable so this won't be a problem.
Hmmm... I would say that Linux and KDE are infinitely configurable, so this IS a problem, as far as locking down a desktop. Setting it up to clean out their home directory would be an option, as long as it would only clean out appropriate files, but I would say that somehow preventing a user from changing the desktop would be a better option. I haven't used KDE or Gnome a lot (I prefer FVWM, now THAT's infinitely configurable), but I'm assuming that all the control-panel-like things they have are just frontends to some.kderc file or something, right? Can't you just lock down that file?
I'm not too familiar with blogging, but to set up a blognovel, wouldn't you need to write something where the concept of "what happens next" is unimportant? Can one write an story without chronology? I suppose Naked Lunch was pretty devoid of a timeline.
I don't know about New Jersey, but here's what I know about Toronto:
Up until AnimeXtreme opened a store on 315 Spadina Ave. (a block north of Dundas), Suspect Video had the best selection of anime for rent. I haven't had a chance to visit the AnimeXtreme store (it just opened a week ago or so), so Suspect may still be king. There's two locations for Suspect, one on 619 Queen St. W. and one on 605 Markham St., just below Bloor (on the far west side of Honest Ed's).
The AnimeXtreme club also shows anime at Bloor Cinema every other Saturday. The cinema is located at 506 Bloor St. W. (just around the corner from Suspect, actually).
As far as purchasing anime, I've found no better place than The Beguiling. Very knowledgeable staff. This is just south of Suspect on Markham. Again, the new AnimeXtreme store may have better selection, I haven't scoped it out.
The 33-year-old resident of Forney, 20 miles east of Dallas, makes custom light sabers,
Huh?
weapons used by Jedi knights in the Star Wars films.
Ohhhh...
Also, on Parks' website, you can get a utility belt! I thought it was funny that it lists it as The DefianceTM Belt, Adjustable to fit sizes 32-40. I think he's grossly underestimated his clientelle...
if a problem develops, that problem will affect EVERY SINGLE MACHINE you have.
And the solution will solve the problem on EVERY SINGLE MACHINE you have. Therefore, if a problem IS to develop, homogeneity is preferred, because you're going to have to solve it anyway.
Maybe the missing submission was mine...
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I thought it was interesting that Acclaim unvieled a console game with full frontal nudity, Dave Mirra: XXX. No nude screen shots (unfortunately), but IGN has a story about it. Here's the link. As far as I know this is a first, but can anybody fill me in as to past console games with nudity (at least, North American games)?
Giant magnetoresistance (GMR) and tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) hard disk technologies cannot achieve Terrabit per square inch performance. Neither can the "extraordinary" magnetoresistive (EMR) hard disk that is proposed. It is hoped that in the near future "extra-extraordinary" magnetoresistance (EEMR) hard disk technology is developed, and then perhaps "goddamn-extraordinary" magnetoresistance (GDEMR).
I just have a small correction here... I think the price went from $40 CDN (not $30) to $45. The caps you have seem correct, but I have to wonder, how do you consume 5GB/month when your upload is 16KB/s (especially without P2P)? That's a solid 3 hours a day of uploading. I guess if you ran a file server... For more info on the changes to Bell Sympatico, here's a link.
I agree with you that these changes should prompt the users to consider other options. I certainly will be. All those posters complaining that we can't expect flat rate service haven't looked into all the service providers competing for my dollars.
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The problem is that advertisers aren't complete idiots. If 25% of the American population were to suddenly go out and purchase a PVR, something tells me advertising firms would realise that 25% of the American population is watching fewer commercials. Maybe not 25% fewer, but they could probably figure out about how much their viewership would go down. Then, when the cable/satellite companies tell them their viewership remained a steady 10 million, they would scoff at them, and offer to pay them less for the same air time.
From article:
Recently, two Finnish churches refused to pay royalties to the country's copyright society for the performance of Christmas hymns. The congregations won their case in a district court, but the society has appealed.
They sued churches. This blows my mind. What do they want as punishment, to get to kick the old ladies in the congregation? Or maybe conjugal visits with the church nuns? Surely payment for the right to carol isn't enough to deter these Christian fiends from violating copyright law again...
My head hurts. I'm going back to watching Buffy. Her world makes more sense.
From your comment title I thought you were advocating a switch of your own... Anyway, Ellen Fiess is a girl who made a commercial as part of Apple's switch campain, where real people (some famous, some not) talk about why Windows sucks (which is kind of like talking about why water is wet), and why Macs rock. She happened to be to have a stoney disposition in the commercial, though, which sets her apart from the other commercials. Now she's the main obsession of Mac enthusiasts.
Gaim handles MSN IM just fine. Nothing like having all your buddies in one window.
just sit on your backside and watch it!
This is even less effort involved than playing Tony Hawk! Now I can avoid that Tekken thumb I thought I was going to get around Christmas with THPS4...
Jesse Helms blocked the legislation because the lower rates were still too high for many webcasters. However, these lower rates were not worse for the webcasters than the higher ones. The legislation was to change the rate from 0.07 per listener to some percentage of the webcasters' profits. For most webcasters, about 10%, for more profitable channels, 12%. However good intentioned Mr. Helms' blocking was, it will force webcasters to start paying (retroactively) fees based on the old system. They don't have to start ponying up all the dough quite yet, though, as this Salon article details.
You are right that the RIAA should be paying the webcasters, just as they do with the regular radio station promoters (that's a whole other problem, though).
Evidently oblivion exists at www.mplayerhq.hu. They have an encoder that lets you rip your dvd to DivX4 using 1, 2 or 3 pass encoding. Instuctions are here. Is three lines at a command prompt simple enough?
Toronto is another one of those cities. Actually, it played here September 7th (dub) and 9th (sub) at the Toronto International Film Festival. I tried to get tickets, but was denied. I'm going to try and head to a matinee this afternoon, yipee! I hope this film does well, so that I can see more anime films at my local theatre. For those who need convincing, check out some reviews here, and here.
I don't know, dude. This involves you receiving a document from a name you don't recognize (unless the attacker has your company's employee list, and then I think you have bigger problems) on a topic that the attacker probably has very little knowledge of. Maybe (s)he knows what your company does, but could they write a document passable as one of the members of your particular group (even if it is 400 people)? You make it sound like some guy could send you his term paper, and you would edit and return it with grammar corrections.
Isn't the interviewer the same guy who was saying that the DMCA isn't so bad? I remember some posts talking about how this guy just jumps on any bandwagon that furthers his career, but these articles are a week apart. Verizon (or at least Sarah Deutsch) may be a new ally in the fight against the DMCA, but I don't think Declan McCullagh is.
I see a lot of wma files, too, but mostly from this annoying Johnny Virgil guy. This dude seems to pop up in my KaZaA Lite searches, with a little gold icon by his files. I guess the gold icon means it's like search matching spam, but who is this guy? I don't want to download it, because that would be like clicking through the spam link (maybe my penis could use those extra two inches...). Anyway, I think MPlayer will play wmv files in linux.
Also for the benefits of Canadians, I think that Mt. Dew is caffeine-free in Canada. Any non-dark pop has to be (I think). Anyway, I think coffee is yummy.
1. All networks (not just subscriber networks) take cut from cable providers. PRO: TV goes on like we're used to, only without commercials. CON: increased cable bills.
2. Everything becomes pay-per-view. PRO: only charged for what you watch, things seem to be moving that way anyway. CON: casual viewing becomes much more hastle, you may miss stuff you didn't know you would like.
3. Give advertisers personal profile, allow them to advertise to me before show. PRO: I don't have to watch adds for tampons. CON: doesn't seem practical. Wouldn't I be less likely to watch a big batch of commercials at the start of a show, as opposed to 2 minutes of commercials in the middle of my program? Also, I don't like the idea of giving my personal info to advertisers.
4. Product placement. PRO: I'd rather see Buffy slamming back a Coke (tm) for a few seconds as opposed to a 30 second spot for Coke. I realize that in real like people use brand-name products. CON: I don't want to see Buffy slam back a Coke and then exclaim to Xander how refreshing the new XtraClear Vanilla Lemon-lime Coke is. I don't want a product placement that, in any way, distracts me from the story.
Personally, I would like to see 2 and 4 in combination. I would like some product placement to subsidize pay-per-view costs.
Kept only 10% of games you purchased? Sounds like you need to start reading some magazine reviews, dude, or find a rental store.
There is a high crap-to-quality ratio, but I think this is going to happen on any dominant console. Nintendo used to be the king of crap (I don't know the state of affairs now, I don't know anyone with a Gamecube).
For those of us who don't have the ~$850 (US) to buy the 4 consoles, we have to roll the dice on which console will dominate.
Dominant console => more games developed & more high profile developers making exclusive-console games.
More games developed => better chance of more good games (in spite of poorer crap-to-quality ratio).
For curiosity, what are the 4 games you kept? I only own three games (MGS2, THPS3, and GT3), but I can think of a couple more I'd like to own (GTA3, FFX).
I don't know about the relative graphics handling capabilities or programming ease (the latter I've heard has been getting better for PS2), but I do see the end result:
My PS2 has better games, plays DVDs, and has the best damn controller design in the history of gaming.
I know the Dreamcast is a whole lot cheaper, and hackable, and if I want to learn some embedded linux stuff, I'll go pick one up sometime. This is good news for linux on console enthusiasts, and maybe the diehard PSO players still left, but I'm more excited about the broadband adaptor for PS2 that's coming out soon, and seeing what impact it has on console gaming, and the linux for PS2 initiatives.
I'm not saying the Dreamcast didn't have great games. Sega has brilliant games, and I'm thankful that they're now developing games for PS2. But you can't deny that there are fantastic games on PS2 that outclass any other console's efforts. Also, last time I checked, there wasn't anybody developing new games for Dreamcast that would exploit this new hardware.
Use KDE. Windows users freeze the second they see Gnome.
.kderc file or something, right? Can't you just lock down that file?
I think you mean that Gnome freezes when it sees Windows users.
As far as locking down the desktop, Linux and KDE are infinitely configurable so this won't be a problem.
Hmmm... I would say that Linux and KDE are infinitely configurable, so this IS a problem, as far as locking down a desktop. Setting it up to clean out their home directory would be an option, as long as it would only clean out appropriate files, but I would say that somehow preventing a user from changing the desktop would be a better option. I haven't used KDE or Gnome a lot (I prefer FVWM, now THAT's infinitely configurable), but I'm assuming that all the control-panel-like things they have are just frontends to some
if you buy one of the special editions with the 4-hour cut, will you be able to play the original cut (ie. leave out the extra half-hour)?
This is something that would affect my decision of whether to hold off or not.
the Choose Your Own Adventure books I used to read, at least in the non-linear navigation aspect.
I'm not too familiar with blogging, but to set up a blognovel, wouldn't you need to write something where the concept of "what happens next" is unimportant? Can one write an story without chronology? I suppose Naked Lunch was pretty devoid of a timeline.
I don't know about New Jersey, but here's what I know about Toronto:
Up until AnimeXtreme opened a store on 315 Spadina Ave. (a block north of Dundas), Suspect Video had the best selection of anime for rent. I haven't had a chance to visit the AnimeXtreme store (it just opened a week ago or so), so Suspect may still be king. There's two locations for Suspect, one on 619 Queen St. W. and one on 605 Markham St., just below Bloor (on the far west side of Honest Ed's).
The AnimeXtreme club also shows anime at Bloor Cinema every other Saturday. The cinema is located at 506 Bloor St. W. (just around the corner from Suspect, actually).
As far as purchasing anime, I've found no better place than The Beguiling. Very knowledgeable staff. This is just south of Suspect on Markham. Again, the new AnimeXtreme store may have better selection, I haven't scoped it out.
That's all I've got. Hope this helps.
The 33-year-old resident of Forney, 20 miles east of Dallas, makes custom light sabers,
Huh?
weapons used by Jedi knights in the Star
Wars films.
Ohhhh...
Also, on Parks' website, you can get a utility belt! I thought it was funny that it lists it as The DefianceTM Belt, Adjustable to fit sizes 32-40. I think he's grossly underestimated his clientelle...
if a problem develops, that problem will affect EVERY SINGLE MACHINE you have.
And the solution will solve the problem on EVERY SINGLE MACHINE you have. Therefore, if a problem IS to develop, homogeneity is preferred, because you're going to have to solve it anyway.
I thought it was interesting that Acclaim unvieled a console game with full frontal nudity, Dave Mirra: XXX. No nude screen shots (unfortunately), but IGN has a story about it. Here's the link. As far as I know this is a first, but can anybody fill me in as to past console games with nudity (at least, North American games)?
Giant magnetoresistance (GMR) and tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) hard disk technologies cannot achieve Terrabit per square inch performance. Neither can the "extraordinary" magnetoresistive (EMR) hard disk that is proposed. It is hoped that in the near future "extra-extraordinary" magnetoresistance (EEMR) hard disk technology is developed, and then perhaps "goddamn-extraordinary" magnetoresistance (GDEMR).
I just have a small correction here... I think the price went from $40 CDN (not $30) to $45. The caps you have seem correct, but I have to wonder, how do you consume 5GB/month when your upload is 16KB/s (especially without P2P)? That's a solid 3 hours a day of uploading. I guess if you ran a file server... For more info on the changes to Bell Sympatico, here's a link.
I agree with you that these changes should prompt the users to consider other options. I certainly will be. All those posters complaining that we can't expect flat rate service haven't looked into all the service providers competing for my dollars.
Come on! The story this repeats is still on the front page! Strangely it's under a different topic...