"In a separate AOL document also dated June 13, AOL explored the possibility of replacing various Microsoft products in Windows XP, including its Windows Media Player for playing online music and video. AOL has a deal with RealNetworks Inc. to use its RealPlayer software."
I, for one, would be happy for the streaming content market to have more choice. More installed RealPlayers == more content creators providing content in this format. And, unless something has changed, there's nothing to play WMA (or whatever it is) files on *nix.
Have you seen what counts as a "top-level athlete" in the UK?
:P
...j
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I'm guessing they've blown too much money on 'net ventures and can only afford two staff: Thomas to write some articles, and George, the night-watchman.
No that will kill the ISPs cause NOBODY will pay for metered Internet access.
Yup. That's why you don't see anyone on the 'net who's from Australia.
Oh, wait...
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The dotcom I used to work for (redundancy - bah!) used to use a specialised office food delivery service - I imagine it was expensive.
Then we moved to Tesco's delivery service. I think delivery used to be free for orders of £50 or more, but even if they were charging £5, it would have been well worth it to get supermarket prices and to have a beefy guy drag all the juice, bottle water and snack treats up the stairs.
I can't immediately find a link, by it's regularly reported that Tesco's online home shopping is the largest web grocer in the world, in terms of turnover.
I've registered for their shopping service, but as my local Tesco is only a few blocks away, it's easier for me to pop down a couple of times a week. They occasionally send me "wish you were here" postcards.
I have amazing brand loyalty to Tesco, which is a bit weird considering they're just a supermarket. I've bought a fair selection of financial products through them.
Oh, and it probably doesn't hurt that they've just listedmy site on their ISPs website, next to other sites with budgets ever so slightly larger than mine.:)
A search on Google for Tierney Gearon will reveal the fuss in the UK recently about some innocent holiday-type snaps of kids being (temporarily) deemed as indecent. Gearon is an artist, and these photos were included in an exhibition at the Saatchi gallery.
Although the charges were dropped, it did temporarily open the possibility of almost everyone having indecent photos in their possession.
The best part of it all, was The Guardian publishing the photo in question in full colour on the front page on the first day of the fuss, when this photo was still being called indecent by the authorities. I was impressed they were willing to so dramatically state their position and hold firm.
As cool as it was that DirecTV came up with a neat techincical solution to their problem, you can bet the reason why they did this was because it was a more cost effective solution than sending in the lawyers.
Even better - I remember the first time I saw a TV remote control which was a little box with one button that would cycle through all 12 (or so) frequencies. Clicked too far? Oops, go around again.
Best part, ofcourse, was the wire from the remote to the TV.:P
I, and a few others, have stated this elsewhere, but i'm going to make this real simple for those with a short attention span.
Go to their open source page, grab the code for the client (dated April 30, 2001) and server (27 October, 2000), and hack away. Form your own Freedom-esque network. Go crazy.
In the case of ZeroKnowledge's Freedom, there's no need to duplicate the functionality, they've released the source over yonder.
While the code they've written is no doubt super groovy (and, indeed it is - i've paid for their top level of service), what they're actually selling is the service. They have a network servers scattered around the globe shifting, I suspect, not insignificant amounts of traffic around. Someone has to pay for that...
The previously free version of their software and service was worth having in itself. Their ad-blocking and password/form management stuff is super-neato. The privacy stuff (what you pay for) is even sweeter.
Now, if someone wants to tell me how to get Freedom on a Windoze box to work behind a twice masquaraded connection, i'll be a happy bunny (yes, I could, and should, ask their support people, but it's not that high a priority for me right now. Aren't I a good customer, paying for their service, and then not using it for a couple of months?)
I had heard that the PS3 was going to employ parallel-processing stuff, which was complicated (at least from the game developers point of view), and the GScubes were being sent out to let people get their head around how it was going to work...
But, why would they rush it to market when there's plenty of good money to be made from the PS2 platform for the next couple of years? They need to get their money back from that platform first.
Yes, I realise, and most of the subdomains (with the exception of dropbear, which is kewl) are pretty lame. But that's where people not fitting in to the other.au namespaces are expected to go.
I'm not saying it's right, or elegant, or groovy, but that's how it's supposed to work.
There's a company here the UK, recently launched, called Homechoice that does VoD, based on BT's ADSL network. According to their FAQ, "[y]ou can pause, rewind, or fast forward it and even watch it as many times as you want over your 24-hour rental period."
A friend of mine has it - apparently one month they got their on-demand charges to over £100 because of the sheer convenience of clicking a button to get a movie they (more or less) wanted to watched streamed to them instantly.
The biggest problem with HomeChoice, from what I hear, is their range of content. And this comes down to business issues, rather than technical. I believe a lot of the TV channels they have show older re-runs than you would expect to get on a normal cable/satellite/digital terrestrial service.
No idea what HomeChoice's back-end looks like. I pressume the infrastructure costs have come down significantly since the Time-Warner (?) trials in Florida in the early '90s - the trials that get quoted so often as to how VoD will never catch on (and I guess that's the what Wired was talking about in the above comment).
Homechoice also does a bearable always-on 'net connection, although with some pretty significant limitations (128k, NAT, etc) - but I imagine it's quite attractive to your ma-and-pa style home users. ADSL Guide probably talks about their net services. You'll probably have to dig around their message forums to find some users of the service.
As far as Blockbuster goes, I thought I read something recently about them doing a JV in the UK to provide VoD-style services. Can't find a link to that story, but here's something about them doing a JV with DirecTV in the States. Blockbuster thinks, probably correctly, that their brand is worth something in the PPV/VoD market.
Slashdot Mirror
Just give me a minute while I send OpenPrivacy a letter informing them of this, and a bill for one meeeeeellion dollars.
"In a separate AOL document also dated June 13, AOL explored the possibility of replacing various Microsoft products in Windows XP, including its Windows Media Player for playing online music and video. AOL has a deal with RealNetworks Inc. to use its RealPlayer software."
I, for one, would be happy for the streaming content market to have more choice. More installed RealPlayers == more content creators providing content in this format. And, unless something has changed, there's nothing to play WMA (or whatever it is) files on *nix.
(Little) huzzah for AOL!
...j
Anyone interested in this should go read Where Wizards Stay Up Late - an excellent read on the origins of the Intenet.
One of Cringley's documentary series also had a chunk on historical 'net stuff. Triumph of the Nerds (or similar) was the name of that.
...j
No, it's almost certainly true.
Have you seen what counts as a "top-level athlete" in the UK?
:P
...j
Poor dears.
What use are the CDs intended for? If they're intended to be played on a hifi audio player only, then you might run in to problems.
Typically it comes down to what the "reasonable man" considers would happen.
If, on the other hand, you specifically ask if it will work on your computer's CD drive and they say yes, you have a right to complain.
IANAL, obviously enough.
...j
No that will kill the ISPs cause NOBODY will pay for metered Internet access.
Yup. That's why you don't see anyone on the 'net who's from Australia.
Oh, wait...
The dotcom I used to work for (redundancy - bah!) used to use a specialised office food delivery service - I imagine it was expensive.
:)
Then we moved to Tesco's delivery service. I think delivery used to be free for orders of £50 or more, but even if they were charging £5, it would have been well worth it to get supermarket prices and to have a beefy guy drag all the juice, bottle water and snack treats up the stairs.
I can't immediately find a link, by it's regularly reported that Tesco's online home shopping is the largest web grocer in the world, in terms of turnover.
I've registered for their shopping service, but as my local Tesco is only a few blocks away, it's easier for me to pop down a couple of times a week. They occasionally send me "wish you were here" postcards.
I have amazing brand loyalty to Tesco, which is a bit weird considering they're just a supermarket. I've bought a fair selection of financial products through them.
Oh, and it probably doesn't hurt that they've just listed my site on their ISPs website, next to other sites with budgets ever so slightly larger than mine.
A search on Google for Tierney Gearon will reveal the fuss in the UK recently about some innocent holiday-type snaps of kids being (temporarily) deemed as indecent. Gearon is an artist, and these photos were included in an exhibition at the Saatchi gallery.
Although the charges were dropped, it did temporarily open the possibility of almost everyone having indecent photos in their possession.
The best part of it all, was The Guardian publishing the photo in question in full colour on the front page on the first day of the fuss, when this photo was still being called indecent by the authorities. I was impressed they were willing to so dramatically state their position and hold firm.
As cool as it was that DirecTV came up with a neat techincical solution to their problem, you can bet the reason why they did this was because it was a more cost effective solution than sending in the lawyers.
Move to new york, period, bottom line, end of the story. You think the like of damian hirst will generate any buzz in Mississippi?
Except, ofcourse, that the artist in your example is London based.
Even better - I remember the first time I saw a TV remote control which was a little box with one button that would cycle through all 12 (or so) frequencies. Clicked too far? Oops, go around again.
:P
Best part, ofcourse, was the wire from the remote to the TV.
Still, I was seriously impressed.
I would think that if there were any (major) violations within Microsoft of the GPL that there would have been some whistleblowers by now.
Freedom is open source!
I, and a few others, have stated this elsewhere, but i'm going to make this real simple for those with a short attention span.
Go to their open source page, grab the code for the client (dated April 30, 2001) and server (27 October, 2000), and hack away. Form your own Freedom-esque network. Go crazy.
"Even if it "required a little hacking," ZeroKnowledge is closed source."
Or, to rephrase that, it's open source.
In the case of ZeroKnowledge's Freedom, there's no need to duplicate the functionality, they've released the source over yonder.
While the code they've written is no doubt super groovy (and, indeed it is - i've paid for their top level of service), what they're actually selling is the service. They have a network servers scattered around the globe shifting, I suspect, not insignificant amounts of traffic around. Someone has to pay for that...
The previously free version of their software and service was worth having in itself. Their ad-blocking and password/form management stuff is super-neato. The privacy stuff (what you pay for) is even sweeter.
Now, if someone wants to tell me how to get Freedom on a Windoze box to work behind a twice masquaraded connection, i'll be a happy bunny (yes, I could, and should, ask their support people, but it's not that high a priority for me right now. Aren't I a good customer, paying for their service, and then not using it for a couple of months?)
...j
I had heard that the PS3 was going to employ parallel-processing stuff, which was complicated (at least from the game developers point of view), and the GScubes were being sent out to let people get their head around how it was going to work...
But, why would they rush it to market when there's plenty of good money to be made from the PS2 platform for the next couple of years? They need to get their money back from that platform first.
Yes, I realise, and most of the subdomains (with the exception of dropbear, which is kewl) are pretty lame. But that's where people not fitting in to the other .au namespaces are expected to go.
I'm not saying it's right, or elegant, or groovy, but that's how it's supposed to work.
That, or go get yourself a cheap com, net or org.
FWIW, it seems as though yahoo.fr is served from London, along with the rest of Yahoo's european operations.
There's a company here the UK, recently launched, called Homechoice that does VoD, based on BT's ADSL network. According to their FAQ, "[y]ou can pause, rewind, or fast forward it and even watch it as many times as you want over your 24-hour rental period."
A friend of mine has it - apparently one month they got their on-demand charges to over £100 because of the sheer convenience of clicking a button to get a movie they (more or less) wanted to watched streamed to them instantly.
The biggest problem with HomeChoice, from what I hear, is their range of content. And this comes down to business issues, rather than technical. I believe a lot of the TV channels they have show older re-runs than you would expect to get on a normal cable/satellite/digital terrestrial service.
No idea what HomeChoice's back-end looks like. I pressume the infrastructure costs have come down significantly since the Time-Warner (?) trials in Florida in the early '90s - the trials that get quoted so often as to how VoD will never catch on (and I guess that's the what Wired was talking about in the above comment).
Homechoice also does a bearable always-on 'net connection, although with some pretty significant limitations (128k, NAT, etc) - but I imagine it's quite attractive to your ma-and-pa style home users. ADSL Guide probably talks about their net services. You'll probably have to dig around their message forums to find some users of the service.
As far as Blockbuster goes, I thought I read something recently about them doing a JV in the UK to provide VoD-style services. Can't find a link to that story, but here's something about them doing a JV with DirecTV in the States. Blockbuster thinks, probably correctly, that their brand is worth something in the PPV/VoD market.
I think you'll find people in Hollywood are thinking of snorting cocaine of nekkid prostitutes.
...j
As someone else pointed out, assuming you live in Australia, you qualify for a free id.au domain.
.au namespace.
It may not be particularly sexy, but that's where you fit in to the
...j
/me looks around
You mean to tell me this isn't paradise?
Oh...
...j
Whaddya know? I've recently started newsfilter.co.uk for vaguely the same purposes - deals with .ukian issues, obviously enough.
Bzzt. Pay more attention in maths tomorrow - you've converted everything the wrong way.
AUS$89 = US$45.7194
Unlimited broadband in Australia was way too good to be true. Get over it already.
...j