In this case, if they produced downloadable episodes with commercials or product placement, it would be dumb of them to place some sort of (albiet get-around-able) DRM on the file, because it would prevent the mass propagation of their commercials to the public (without clutching up their bandwidth to boot!).
The problem is, how do they measure it? They can't sell a commercial spot to some company when all they know is that 100 people downloaded a particular show, even if 1 million people watched it beacuse one of those people put it out on bittorrent.
So that tends to suggest measurable streaming, which increases the cost by a large margin (even if they distrubute it on Akamai or something). While they can measure it, people will be less inclined to watch something that streams (because it's just less convinient, no storing episodes for that long car trip), not to mention, it will cost the network more anyway.
It's coming, be sure of that. Someone just needs to sort out the details first.
What's the transmission rate on bluetooth? Seems like the perfect Apple-centric design would be a bluetooth iPod rather than a clunky docking station. Although it'd require adding bluetooth to your mac if you don't already have it.
Oklahoma used to use your SSN as your driver's license number! So every time you showed your ID, you gave away your SSN! I went straight to the tag agency and changed my DL number to Pi (OK 031415926). They made me put a 0 in front, so I couldn't match someone's SSN by accident.
They've sence smartened up, but I got to keep Pi.
I don't understand the SSN as secret identification role anyway. There's nothing secret about a number you have to give to every state and federal agency who asks.
I'd rather not see Stewart dishing out real news. He's perfect where he is. I doubt CBS would allow him to do the satire that comedy central does, and that's the strength of the Daily Show.
I understand your point. It's been made here at least 5 or 6 times. It was not my intention to become irate about this, so I'm sorry. I tend to degenerate into writing that sort of tripe after a while, especially here on Slashdot for some reason.
Personally, I don't like Enterprise. To be fair though, I haven't watched it in a few years and I've heard it's gotten better (that seems to be the pattern with Star Trek shows). If you want to pay for another season, then best of luck to you, I hope you get to watch your show.
The only point I was trying to make (maybe poorly) was that I'd rather see 50-80 Million dollars go to cancer research rather than the production of a TV show. That's my opinion, you disagree, that's fine. I'm not insulting you, for all I know you work in a soup kitchen on the weekends.
I do spend money on entertainment of course. I may spend 7 dollars on the HT2G movie (14 if I can talk my wife into it). Probably 7 though. We may see 4 to 5 other movies in addition. That, and we spend 40 dollars a month on cable and maybe 10 dollars a month on movie rentals. So that's almost 700 dollars per year. Last year I spent 4000 dollars on charities. So I do put at least some of my money where my mouth is, although I'm not sure how much credibility that will give me in this botched argument at this point.
So, I'm feeling that I'm portrayed as some sort of bigoted ass in this thread, some of that has to do with me maybe being one I'm sure. I just wanted to let you know that I'm a little better than what I may seem in the context of this thread.
So let's put a nail in this thing. I understand your point (and the points of others). If it were me, I'd spend my money in other ways. But certainly I won't criticize you for spending your money how you see fit.
I do it for free for my family (of course) and my friends. My neighbor always tries to pay me, which is very kind of her, but I've never asked for it. It's just part of being a computer guy I guess. Mechanics and Doctors have the same types of requests. Now if you don't want people asking for your help, Astronaut would be a good profession I think.
I'm really disappointed by the way the slashdot crown has exploded in rage against the few people who had the audacity to suggest that money could be better spent on other things.
Sure, it's opinion. Enterprise can be extremely valuable to one's entertainment. There's a price that should be paid for that. We all understand that and I don't think anyone's arguing that.
The shear kickback I got for suggesting cancer research as an alternative is amazing. I don't understand why so many people here feel personally attacked when an opposing opinion is mentioned. I think I'm going to swear off these juvenile slashdot comments from now on.
okay, point taken, sig removed. You people are all right, how could I be so stingy! Saving Enterprise will help so many people! I'll pledge 100 bucks on behalf of all you people who responded negativly to my post!
...are you saying that because someone thinks that's mediocre, all those fans should have donated to charity instead?
No. They can do what they want. If you have 80 million dollars of charitable donations though, it's sad if you spend it on TV rather than something importiant in the scheme of things. I'm just saying it's sad, that's all.
I'm not really trying to tell people what to do with their money, just pointing out that if you are going to organize and generate 50-80 million dollars of donations, it's kinda sad to spend it on a TV show, rather than a chance at saving even one person's life. That's all, I find it sad, but they can do as they choose. It wasn't my intention to imply anything other than that fact that I think it's sad.
BTW: The Captain's a man, unless something changed after the first season.
I find it very sad that people are willing to pay (or even contemplate paying) this much money in order to experience one mediocre hour of TV a week, rather than dontate their money to good causes like cancer research or some other deserving charity.
Good god people, what's this world coming too? Way to let "The Man" know how much of our soles he ownes!
If they come up with the 50-80 million dollars. I'm gonna cry.
With all the people complaining about global warming on Earth, and how man's interference with nature destroys the natural planetary process. I'm surprised that these same groups aren't up in arms about people mentioning radically changing the environment of Mars!
You know the other thing that bugs me? I know some people with nice expensive theater systems. At first, it all works like advertised, but as soon as you introduce some new component like a Tivo or something, you're screwed. It goes like this at my friends house.
"Ok, to watch the Tivo, use this remote to change to that input. Then because the TIVO is a HD tivo I can't run it through this receiver, so I had to get this other one over here to handle the HD signal. So use that remote. But if you want to watch a DVD, use this one here. Oh, and you have to switch the TV to use this resolution when doing this but not when doing that... blah blah blah."
The end result is that it takes him 30 min to start watching something and then he complains that the signal he gets from the cable company looks horrible on his awesome setup. And it does. Then I go home and watch my crappy TV, listen to the crappy sound that comes out of the side of the TV, and I'm very happy.
What a worthless technology. I have a cheap TV, a cheap VCR, and a cheap DVD player. So I have to hook the DVD player to the VCR and then go into the TV via the cable jack. This works brilliantly.
Try to do the same thing with the more expensive set of equipment in the living room and you get nothing but rubbish on the screen thanks to Macrovision.
All this plus the fact that the cheap stuff is over 10 years old (except the DVD player). What a crock. I have no desire to buy any new electronic equipment because of all these ridiculous DRM schemes. I'll take a computer, a nice monitor, a comphy chair, and bittorrent anyday.
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In this case, if they produced downloadable episodes with commercials or product placement, it would be dumb of them to place some sort of (albiet get-around-able) DRM on the file, because it would prevent the mass propagation of their commercials to the public (without clutching up their bandwidth to boot!).
The problem is, how do they measure it? They can't sell a commercial spot to some company when all they know is that 100 people downloaded a particular show, even if 1 million people watched it beacuse one of those people put it out on bittorrent.
So that tends to suggest measurable streaming, which increases the cost by a large margin (even if they distrubute it on Akamai or something). While they can measure it, people will be less inclined to watch something that streams (because it's just less convinient, no storing episodes for that long car trip), not to mention, it will cost the network more anyway.
It's coming, be sure of that. Someone just needs to sort out the details first.
We need these works of art preserved forever. What better way to preserve them then by spreading high quality copies all over the world?
It's more about what's running inside the Mac (OSX), rather than how tiny it is, and what processor it uses. For me anyway.
What's the transmission rate on bluetooth? Seems like the perfect Apple-centric design would be a bluetooth iPod rather than a clunky docking station. Although it'd require adding bluetooth to your mac if you don't already have it.
Right, and it's now that Apple needs to use the bargining power it has accumulated, or lose it forever.
Oklahoma used to use your SSN as your driver's license number! So every time you showed your ID, you gave away your SSN! I went straight to the tag agency and changed my DL number to Pi (OK 031415926). They made me put a 0 in front, so I couldn't match someone's SSN by accident.
They've sence smartened up, but I got to keep Pi.
I don't understand the SSN as secret identification role anyway. There's nothing secret about a number you have to give to every state and federal agency who asks.
-troy
Your post makes me think about a guy with a sore thumb trying to time a snippet of code with a stopwatch.
CLICK! damn.
CLICK! damn.
CLICK! damn.
I'd rather not see Stewart dishing out real news. He's perfect where he is. I doubt CBS would allow him to do the satire that comedy central does, and that's the strength of the Daily Show.
Hmm, warmest year in roughly 200 years... Not counting the previous 5 billion years. I wonder what that means?
That's alright. I'm at fault too. I'd shake your hand and buy you a beer, but I'll mark you as a "friend" instead.
Later-
I understand your point. It's been made here at least 5 or 6 times. It was not my intention to become irate about this, so I'm sorry. I tend to degenerate into writing that sort of tripe after a while, especially here on Slashdot for some reason.
Personally, I don't like Enterprise. To be fair though, I haven't watched it in a few years and I've heard it's gotten better (that seems to be the pattern with Star Trek shows). If you want to pay for another season, then best of luck to you, I hope you get to watch your show.
The only point I was trying to make (maybe poorly) was that I'd rather see 50-80 Million dollars go to cancer research rather than the production of a TV show. That's my opinion, you disagree, that's fine. I'm not insulting you, for all I know you work in a soup kitchen on the weekends.
I do spend money on entertainment of course. I may spend 7 dollars on the HT2G movie (14 if I can talk my wife into it). Probably 7 though. We may see 4 to 5 other movies in addition. That, and we spend 40 dollars a month on cable and maybe 10 dollars a month on movie rentals. So that's almost 700 dollars per year. Last year I spent 4000 dollars on charities. So I do put at least some of my money where my mouth is, although I'm not sure how much credibility that will give me in this botched argument at this point.
So, I'm feeling that I'm portrayed as some sort of bigoted ass in this thread, some of that has to do with me maybe being one I'm sure. I just wanted to let you know that I'm a little better than what I may seem in the context of this thread.
So let's put a nail in this thing. I understand your point (and the points of others). If it were me, I'd spend my money in other ways. But certainly I won't criticize you for spending your money how you see fit.
-T.
Well, you know, that would make for awkward block parties!
I do it for free for my family (of course) and my friends. My neighbor always tries to pay me, which is very kind of her, but I've never asked for it. It's just part of being a computer guy I guess. Mechanics and Doctors have the same types of requests. Now if you don't want people asking for your help, Astronaut would be a good profession I think.
I'm really disappointed by the way the slashdot crown has exploded in rage against the few people who had the audacity to suggest that money could be better spent on other things.
Sure, it's opinion. Enterprise can be extremely valuable to one's entertainment. There's a price that should be paid for that. We all understand that and I don't think anyone's arguing that.
The shear kickback I got for suggesting cancer research as an alternative is amazing. I don't understand why so many people here feel personally attacked when an opposing opinion is mentioned. I think I'm going to swear off these juvenile slashdot comments from now on.
okay, point taken, sig removed. You people are all right, how could I be so stingy! Saving Enterprise will help so many people! I'll pledge 100 bucks on behalf of all you people who responded negativly to my post!
Geez. Just thought it was sad to burn 80 million bucks like that. I don't need a lecture from some ass I don't even know.
BTW: I actually am Folding like a biznatch!
This one wins the most creative pun award though, for going with a subtle "cobble", instead of just coming out with "shoe"!
None of your business, thanks for asking.
No. They can do what they want. If you have 80 million dollars of charitable donations though, it's sad if you spend it on TV rather than something importiant in the scheme of things. I'm just saying it's sad, that's all.
I'm not really trying to tell people what to do with their money, just pointing out that if you are going to organize and generate 50-80 million dollars of donations, it's kinda sad to spend it on a TV show, rather than a chance at saving even one person's life. That's all, I find it sad, but they can do as they choose. It wasn't my intention to imply anything other than that fact that I think it's sad.
BTW: The Captain's a man, unless something changed after the first season.
Awesome. One word mixup and I'm destined to hear thousands of shoe jokes for the life of this story! Argh!
I find it very sad that people are willing to pay (or even contemplate paying) this much money in order to experience one mediocre hour of TV a week, rather than dontate their money to good causes like cancer research or some other deserving charity.
Good god people, what's this world coming too? Way to let "The Man" know how much of our soles he ownes!
If they come up with the 50-80 million dollars. I'm gonna cry.
With all the people complaining about global warming on Earth, and how man's interference with nature destroys the natural planetary process. I'm surprised that these same groups aren't up in arms about people mentioning radically changing the environment of Mars!
Why does a crappy article like this show up on Slashdot?
Why? We'll never know.
You know the other thing that bugs me? I know some people with nice expensive theater systems. At first, it all works like advertised, but as soon as you introduce some new component like a Tivo or something, you're screwed. It goes like this at my friends house.
"Ok, to watch the Tivo, use this remote to change to that input. Then because the TIVO is a HD tivo I can't run it through this receiver, so I had to get this other one over here to handle the HD signal. So use that remote. But if you want to watch a DVD, use this one here. Oh, and you have to switch the TV to use this resolution when doing this but not when doing that... blah blah blah."
The end result is that it takes him 30 min to start watching something and then he complains that the signal he gets from the cable company looks horrible on his awesome setup. And it does. Then I go home and watch my crappy TV, listen to the crappy sound that comes out of the side of the TV, and I'm very happy.
What a worthless technology. I have a cheap TV, a cheap VCR, and a cheap DVD player. So I have to hook the DVD player to the VCR and then go into the TV via the cable jack. This works brilliantly.
Try to do the same thing with the more expensive set of equipment in the living room and you get nothing but rubbish on the screen thanks to Macrovision.
All this plus the fact that the cheap stuff is over 10 years old (except the DVD player). What a crock. I have no desire to buy any new electronic equipment because of all these ridiculous DRM schemes. I'll take a computer, a nice monitor, a comphy chair, and bittorrent anyday.
-t.