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> Now if people actually paid for what they use, it would be a different story
Yeah, its a shame that last year was such a banner year for the music industry. CDs sell plenty. I have difficulty seeing how the industry is being hurt when they're making more money than ever. If there was actually a drop in sales in the last few years that didn't correlate exactly with the general economic downturn there might be something to those lies.
The problem is that while trying to eliminate a "piracy" problem that doesn't really exist ("Yarrrrr!"), they're making it more difficult to legally use the music one purchases.
If NPR put up their own WAV files of their own content, there wouldn't be a copyright issue. They would just, you know, "lose control" or something like that.
I don't understand it. Isn't the whole idea of radio that they want people to listen to it? Wouldn't making the programs more accessible be a good thing? Clearly they agree, or else they wouldn't have any sort of streaming.
mp3s will play on pretty much ANY media player. So ANYONE could listen to it using whatever program they prefer and are familiar. Is listening to AUDIO in one player somehow better than another?
Or just use the Ad-hoc connection type and connect with everyone arround you. I haven't been able to load the article (friggin slashdot...;) so I may be missing out on something, but I don't see what makes this interesting.
NeXT was originally a hardware company, too. They also had their operating system, NeXTStep, which ran on their custom 68000-based hardware. After a few years of people not buying thier overpriced boxes in droves, they ported to several platforms, including x86. Then they got bought out by Apple, and several years later, we got OSX.
There are constant rumors that Apple has OSX running on x86. The open source Darwin bits run on x86. They use PC(-ish) video cards and peripherals. If at some point they decide to officially support other platforms, they can easily do it.
But the company is fine. They don't need 95% marketshare in order to be a success. This Highlander-like obsession with consolidation and suing competitors into bankruptcy is insane. There CAN be more than one.
If CBS is one of, say, 5 channels that you actually watch, then knocking off $1 doesn't go very far.
I can't see Viacom holding out on this. If they do, it will set a bad precedent for extorting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H...no, extorting... money from DirectTV and Cable in the future. The way the media companies are consolidating, its only a matter of time before our 150 "basic" channels are really just 50-incarnations each of 3 channels (Viacom, ClearChannel, and Time Warner).
That happened with NBC, too. I remember not having NBC on my dish for a while. Some station owner was holding the bay area hostage to try and get a premium for their LA NBC affiliate or something like that. In the end, 2 local stations swapped affiliates, and i started getting NBC. Echostar held out for quite a while.
I don't need more more channels. I only watch a few as it is (HBO, CBS, and SpikeTV). I don't want my rate to go up just because Viacom somehow feels entitled to artificially create more guaranteed revenue for themselves.
MythTV and Freevo (and, again, probably others) address that.
I haven't used MythTV (yet), but Freevo will let you browse the file hierarchy, so organize the DVDs into directories by genre, or whatever. You can also create XML files to fill in the details, and probably do more advanced structuring (though I haven't figured out how to do that yet).
I've heard MythTV is better. But since Macs are better than Windows, Coke is better than Pepsi, and Emacs is better than vi, I'll be sticking with Freevo until I need something it won't do.
If more than 2 of my xboxes are in use at any given time (aside from now, while I'm testing), I'd be very surprised. However there will be 2 of them in use at the same time quite often, based on my wife's and my viewing habits.
As for DVD menus, I wish every DVD went right to playing the movie when I put it in. Instead I have to wait for an FBI warning, a bunch of previews, and then some pointless menu animation before I can hit play, see the menu-closing animation, then finally the movie.
I copy my DVDs to hard drive, then use DVD2oneX to get rid of the menu and bonus crap.. i mean features. I have well over 300 DVDs, and I've watched the extra junk on maybe 5 of them. That stuff doesn't interest me at all (in case that wasn't clear enough;). I don't necessarily mind it being there, but I do mind it getting in the way of my viewing experience.
The freevo setup (i'll try mythtv eventually, i'm sure) works great for me. I could probably do the same thing with a changer, but I'd have to actually burn my own copy of every DVD to get what I want (though I'd still be limited to one at a time).
The disc changer is a neat idea if you only ever plan to watch movies in one room. Yes, its cheaper, but you (and your family) can only watch one movie at a time on that.
Anyway, I'm sitting here trying to get Freevo running on an Xbox, so I can watch DVDs over my network. I had it working (briefly last week, before trying to update some stuff and blowing it), and it was pretty sweet. I want to rip my 300+ DVDs to a RAID, then serve them to Freevo (or mythtv, or whatever) clients throughout my house. When I get my system finished, I'll be able to watch 4 different movies on 4 different TVs (i bought 4 xboxes for this project), and each addition client costs about $230 (xbox+dvd remote kit). The server storage will be the expensive part.
Another cool bonus... When I rip the movies to my server, I can copy just the movie, and not all of the unskippable trailers or FBI warnings. Instead of putting in a disc and having to wander off and do something else for 10 minutes (like sit there and curse the movie studio for ruining my Zen), the movie will start right away.
Radiohead called. You're watching those movies improperly, and you should stop doing so immediately.
What I plan to do is backup all of my 300+DVDs (yes, the MPAA has made, and continues to make, a lot of money off me!) to a RAID, sans FBI warnings (which i've seen plenty of times already), trailers (which i've seen plenty of times already) and other stuff that doesn't work properly on my DVD player (ie. temporarily breaks the "next chapter" and "menu" buttons). Then I can watch any of the movies I have bought on any TV in my house without having to dig through shelves and shelves of discs, and without having to start it up 15 minutes before I actually want to watch (so the non-skip previews will be over by the time i sit down to watch).
I don't understand why the MPAA doesn't want me to enjoy watching the DVDs I buy.
Are you trying to suggest that manually associating a waypoint with an image is a good solution? The first time, yeah. For 10 images, maybe. For 100 images, no way. For 1000 images, you've got to be kidding me. Even in smaller daily batches, it would get tedious. And computers excel at tedious jobs.
Kodak had a camera a while back that ran Java. You could plug a GPS into its serial port and it would automatically stamp the images. That was a pretty cool solution, but it required tethering your (bulky) camera to a (bulky) GPS unit.
With microsoft getting into the action, hopefully Delorme and others will jump on board, too. Maybe even iPhoto will have some way to correlate the timestamps from photos with a GPS track log. It should be fairly straightforward, once you have the data.
You don't just take it out of the box and start pressing buttons
No, that's exactly how it should work.
When I got my iMac, I took it out of the box and started pressing buttons. When there are updates, a window pops up and I click "Install". Granted, I have been using computer for about 17 years now, so difficult concepts like "pressing buttons" are pretty easty for me.
When I got my parents an iMac, they took it out of the box and started pressing buttons. When there are updates, the window pops up and they press "Install". They did call me the first time it happened, but I told them that its normal. 2 years later they're still doing fine.
The way computers are used my many people (maybe even most?), they are glorified appliances. They are fancy TVs with a mouse and keyboard.
The problem isn't that consumers are in the "Press Button to Internet" mindset. Its that many computer manufacturers promise that, but don't deliver. "Press Button to Internet" works just fine on MacOSX. It doesn't work on Windows.
Some people with large (ie. more than will fit on their ipod) use applescript and smart playlists to change the music on their ipod very often.
If you have, say, 100MB or so of MP3 to pull from (either due to a huge library, or high bitrates), and use a random playlist generator, its quite possible that most of the 20G (and much of even a 40G) could be re-written every time you sync.
(and it is quite possible to have a 100% legal music library that goes beyond 100MB. its just probably not terribly common.)
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> Now if people actually paid for what they use, it would be a different story
Yeah, its a shame that last year was such a banner year for the music industry. CDs sell plenty. I have difficulty seeing how the industry is being hurt when they're making more money than ever. If there was actually a drop in sales in the last few years that didn't correlate exactly with the general economic downturn there might be something to those lies.
The problem is that while trying to eliminate a "piracy" problem that doesn't really exist ("Yarrrrr!"), they're making it more difficult to legally use the music one purchases.
If NPR put up their own WAV files of their own content, there wouldn't be a copyright issue. They would just, you know, "lose control" or something like that.
I don't understand it. Isn't the whole idea of radio that they want people to listen to it? Wouldn't making the programs more accessible be a good thing? Clearly they agree, or else they wouldn't have any sort of streaming.
mp3s will play on pretty much ANY media player. So ANYONE could listen to it using whatever program they prefer and are familiar. Is listening to AUDIO in one player somehow better than another?
Or just use the Ad-hoc connection type and connect with everyone arround you. I haven't been able to load the article (friggin slashdot... ;) so I may be missing out on something, but I don't see what makes this interesting.
NeXT was originally a hardware company, too. They also had their operating system, NeXTStep, which ran on their custom 68000-based hardware. After a few years of people not buying thier overpriced boxes in droves, they ported to several platforms, including x86. Then they got bought out by Apple, and several years later, we got OSX.
There are constant rumors that Apple has OSX running on x86. The open source Darwin bits run on x86. They use PC(-ish) video cards and peripherals. If at some point they decide to officially support other platforms, they can easily do it.
But the company is fine. They don't need 95% marketshare in order to be a success. This Highlander-like obsession with consolidation and suing competitors into bankruptcy is insane. There CAN be more than one.
Imagine how much more they would make if they targetted only the morons^H^H^H^H^H^H people who buy.
Getting 1 hit in 10 has got to be better than 1 hit in 10,000.
If CBS is one of, say, 5 channels that you actually watch, then knocking off $1 doesn't go very far.
...no, extorting... money from DirectTV and Cable in the future. The way the media companies are consolidating, its only a matter of time before our 150 "basic" channels are really just 50-incarnations each of 3 channels (Viacom, ClearChannel, and Time Warner).
I can't see Viacom holding out on this. If they do, it will set a bad precedent for extorting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
That happened with NBC, too. I remember not having NBC on my dish for a while. Some station owner was holding the bay area hostage to try and get a premium for their LA NBC affiliate or something like that. In the end, 2 local stations swapped affiliates, and i started getting NBC. Echostar held out for quite a while.
I don't need more more channels. I only watch a few as it is (HBO, CBS, and SpikeTV). I don't want my rate to go up just because Viacom somehow feels entitled to artificially create more guaranteed revenue for themselves.
MythTV and Freevo (and, again, probably others) address that.
I haven't used MythTV (yet), but Freevo will let you browse the file hierarchy, so organize the DVDs into directories by genre,
or whatever. You can also create XML files to fill in the details, and probably do more advanced structuring (though I haven't figured out how to do that yet).
I've heard MythTV is better. But since Macs are better than Windows, Coke is better than Pepsi, and Emacs is better than vi, I'll be sticking with Freevo until I need something it won't do.
Yeah, there's that.
But do we even want all those brains at Google helping the government spy on us better?
FSF != GPL
You can release a project under the GPL without assigning copyright to the FSF.
Aren't the little bulbs on the christmas lights 4 watts each? that's not much light.
Also at 4 watts its producing a "travel-TV sized" projection. What's a travel TV? Like 13"? 5"?
I don't think this is going after the powerpoint or home theater markets.
If more than 2 of my xboxes are in use at any given time (aside from now, while I'm testing), I'd be very surprised. However there will be 2 of them in use at the same time quite often, based on my wife's and my viewing habits.
;). I don't necessarily mind it being there, but I do mind it getting in the way of my viewing experience.
As for DVD menus, I wish every DVD went right to playing the movie when I put it in. Instead I have to wait for an FBI warning, a bunch of previews, and then some pointless menu animation before I can hit play, see the menu-closing animation, then finally the movie.
I copy my DVDs to hard drive, then use DVD2oneX to get rid of the menu and bonus crap.. i mean features. I have well over 300 DVDs, and I've watched the extra junk on maybe 5 of them. That stuff doesn't interest me at all (in case that wasn't clear enough
The freevo setup (i'll try mythtv eventually, i'm sure) works great for me. I could probably do the same thing with a changer, but I'd have to actually burn my own copy of every DVD to get what I want (though I'd still be limited to one at a time).
Maybe they can paint it Ferarri red and have it go "Vrooom Vrooom" when you turn it on. Then this tool will surely buy one.
no. it can be changed to cill (as in "C I L L, my land lord")
Mplayer, Xine, VLC, MacOSX DVD Player...
There are plenty of players for VOB files. You're probably using one already. (I'm sure they exist for Windows, too, I just don't know them off hand).
The disc changer is a neat idea if you only ever plan to watch movies in one room. Yes, its cheaper, but you (and your family) can only watch one movie at a time on that.
Anyway, I'm sitting here trying to get Freevo running on an Xbox, so I can watch DVDs over my network. I had it working (briefly last week, before trying to update some stuff and blowing it), and it was pretty sweet. I want to rip my 300+ DVDs to a RAID, then serve them to Freevo (or mythtv, or whatever) clients throughout my house. When I get my system finished, I'll be able to watch 4 different movies on 4 different TVs (i bought 4 xboxes for this project), and each addition client costs about $230 (xbox+dvd remote kit). The server storage will be the expensive part.
Another cool bonus... When I rip the movies to my server, I can copy just the movie, and not all of the unskippable trailers or FBI warnings. Instead of putting in a disc and having to wander off and do something else for 10 minutes (like sit there and curse the movie studio for ruining my Zen), the movie will start right away.
Radiohead called. You're watching those movies improperly, and you should stop doing so immediately.
What I plan to do is backup all of my 300+DVDs (yes, the MPAA has made, and continues to make, a lot of money off me!) to a RAID, sans FBI warnings (which i've seen plenty of times already), trailers (which i've seen plenty of times already) and other stuff that doesn't work properly on my DVD player (ie. temporarily breaks the "next chapter" and "menu" buttons). Then I can watch any of the movies I have bought on any TV in my house without having to dig through shelves and shelves of discs, and without having to start it up 15 minutes before I actually want to watch (so the non-skip previews will be over by the time i sit down to watch).
I don't understand why the MPAA doesn't want me to enjoy watching the DVDs I buy.
Dude, I'll complain for you...
Are you trying to suggest that manually associating a waypoint with an image is a good solution? The first time, yeah. For 10 images, maybe. For 100 images, no way. For 1000 images, you've got to be kidding me. Even in smaller daily batches, it would get tedious. And computers excel at tedious jobs.
Kodak had a camera a while back that ran Java. You could plug a GPS into its serial port and it would automatically stamp the images. That was a pretty cool solution, but it required tethering your (bulky) camera to a (bulky) GPS unit.
With microsoft getting into the action, hopefully Delorme and others will jump on board, too. Maybe even iPhoto will have some way to correlate the timestamps from photos with a GPS track log. It should be fairly straightforward, once you have the data.
I need a bluetooth GPS. Badly.
You don't just take it out of the box and start pressing buttons
No, that's exactly how it should work.
When I got my iMac, I took it out of the box and started pressing buttons. When there are updates, a window pops up and I click "Install". Granted, I have been using computer for about 17 years now, so difficult concepts like "pressing buttons" are pretty easty for me.
When I got my parents an iMac, they took it out of the box and started pressing buttons. When there are updates, the window pops up and they press "Install". They did call me the first time it happened, but I told them that its normal. 2 years later they're still doing fine.
The way computers are used my many people (maybe even most?), they are glorified appliances. They are fancy TVs with a mouse and keyboard.
The problem isn't that consumers are in the "Press Button to Internet" mindset. Its that many computer manufacturers promise that, but don't deliver. "Press Button to Internet" works just fine on MacOSX. It doesn't work on Windows.
So is that the consumer's problem, or Microsofts?
crap. yeah, i meant GB.
Some people with large (ie. more than will fit on their ipod) use applescript and smart playlists to change the music on their ipod very often.
If you have, say, 100MB or so of MP3 to pull from (either due to a huge library, or high bitrates), and use a random playlist generator, its quite possible that most of the 20G (and much of even a 40G) could be re-written every time you sync.
(and it is quite possible to have a 100% legal music library that goes beyond 100MB. its just probably not terribly common.)
Dude. The ad needs a captive audience. The defibrulator should show the ads before, and perhaps between, shocks.
You misunderstood the parent. He defended himself in court, instead of getting a lawyer.
Nah. its just caching the "sorry our site is dead" page that vospad has put up.
So you're saying that killing people is of better Christian moral value than killing satanic monsters?