Look at the comments on the same piece of news, but from a site that's predominantly made up of PS3 fans
There are 50 million PS3 consoles out in the real world.
70 million PSN accounts. 17 million PlayStation Home social networking accounts. 8 million MOVE controllers.
These numbers are credible - and nothing of the sort has ever been posted here for Homebrew or home use of the OtherOS.
Firmware upgrades have kept the five year old PS3 feature-competitive with high end, stand-alone, Blu-Ray players.
The mix of HD streaming media and other online services is quite good - Neflix at 1080p with full theater sound.
I don't see much to complain about in the PS3 bestseller lists. - with strong contenders in every genre.
Considered realistically and as it should be - as a home entertainment product - the PS3 serves its users very well -
and the geek is an unwelcome intrusion.
The geek has lived within the "walled garden" of the Linux distribution for fifteen years -
where the "unwelcome" mat is prominently laid out for the gadgets, programs, codecs, drivers, etc., that don't meet his own standards of technological perfection, ideological purity or political correctness.
It makes for a system that is simple, secure and predictable.
But when others choose the same path and prove no less intractable about the details, it always comes as a painful surprise.
Inventor Lee DeForest, known as one of the 'fathers of the electronic age,' declared TV a commercial and financial impossibility, a sentiment that was shared by 20th Century Fox exec Darryl Zanuck
Quotes out of context are useless.
How to fund radio production was an open debate in the twenties.
There was no easy way for a commercial sponsor to estimate the return on his investment.
Television productions would have to fully staged and rehearsed - with sets, props, costumes and so on.
Your actors and production crews can't arrive in shirtsleeves for a single afternoon reading and an early evening performance.
No matter how punishing the schedule, you are going to need them for the better part of a week.
Which means that you won't get a commitment from the box office star and top-flight backstage talent if all you can offer is union scale.
>Surfing the web from a mobile device can be clumsy and expensive.
What is this. People friggin' do this all the time. They've been doing it for years now. What are you even trying to say here?
That the desktop remains supreme when surfing the web. Mobile v. Desktop
That Linux on all platforms has a less visible presence on the web than the iOS. That, in the Net Applications stats, the iOS has a greater market share than Linux and Android combined.
'm not saying we shouldn't be doing our best to deliver great new apps of good stability and functionality (like Inkscape, Scribus etc), I'm saying that the sky isn't falling if we don't deliver X Y or Z.
The problem here is that Inkscape, Scribus, and the rest, are routinely ported to Windows or begin as a native Windows app. There is no compelling reason to migrate to Linux.
"PiTiVi" hurts my eyes - and "Pitiful Video" is an all too plausible mnemonic. I have never understood why the FOSS dveloper insists on shooting himself in the foot.
Does anyone else have a hard time believing the majority of the comments on the blog post are real? They're all along the lines of, "Hallelujah, Sony is wonderful for getting the service back up!!!!!!!
When a system is brought down, people blame the mischief and malice of the hacker and the culture they believe supports and sustains him.
Whenever the geek summons the masses to the barricades he will far more often than not find them aligned with the other side.
There are 70 million PSN accounts.
What would that make it? 35 times the size of Slashdot?
My other point, if there's any to be made, is that if you allow your router to have open access for all, you can claim common carrier status and be exempt from the actions of your "users". Comcast doesn't get arrested for someone downloading kiddie porn using their network, why should you?
I"ll keep this simple:
A common carrier offers its services to the general public under license or authority provided by a regulatory body.
Sony seems to have taken over as the current best example of "Evil Large Corporation" in the public eye
It isn't Sony getting its reputation blackened. It is Anonymous, the geek, the cheat, the thief and the hacker, which the public sees as all of one kind.
Oh come ON! We're geek here, and my non-geek fiance was able to learn how to use the ribbon in a few minutes. Are Linux nuts so incapable of learning a UI? Or is it a UI in a Microsoft product that automatically puts up a mental blinder that they cannot push through?
The ribbon UI in Office was designed for the convenience of the full-time clerical worker, which is not the self-image the geek likes to project.
I mean, seriously, this is more like a FAX technology than a tablet PC if you ask me.
More like a pantograph or auto-pen.
It would have been like standing at the side of the sender as he wrote out his message. You can't get more trustworthy than that.
The transmitter consists of a stylus which is mechanically connected, through two sets of levers and appropriate swivel joints, to the contact arms of two variable rheostats in such a way that the horizontal and vertical components of the stylus movement are translated into corresponding current variations in two lines connecting the receiver. At the receiver the variations in the line currents produce similar movements in two coils or "buckets" within a magnetic field. The movements of these coils are communicated through a system of levers to a writing pen which reproduces the movements of the sending stylus.
margins :
telautography [The Gray and Tiffany patents with high quality illustrations and photographs]
Gray displayed his telautograph invention in 1893 at the Chicago Columbian Exposition and sold his share in the telautograph shortly after that. Gray was also chairman of the International Congress of Electricians at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.
It marks a strange turn-around from Bell's famous - half-legendary - demonstration of the telephone at the 1876 Centennial Expo in Philadelphia - where Gray, a founding engineer of Western Union, had been a mere specator on holiday.
These are companies that use WebM in some way and who join the CCL to support each other and the format against patent trolls and attacks like that of MPEG-LA (read: Microsoft and Apple).
There are about thirty H.264 licensors.
Including global industrial giants like Mitsubishi, Philips, Samsung and Toshiba.
1,000 H.264 licensees.
H.264 is a global standard in digital television - and if you want to know who the major players are here you need to be looking across the Pacific -
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why gamers will never be taken seriously. This attitude of "Fuck rights! I want mah GAEMS!" that has been displayed by many gamers during the entire GeoHot Vs Sony episode has me seriously perplexed.
There are 50 million PS3 consoles out there.
8 million MOVE controllers.
70 million PSN accounts. 17 million PlayStation Home social networking accounts.
These numbers, sourced here from the Wikipedia, are credible. No one on these pages has ever posted anything of the sort for home use of the OtherOS.
The PS3 Fat has been out of production for close on to three years.
The OtherOS implied dual-booting into a DIY install of an obscure Linux distribution with a desktop GUI and limited access to system resoures.
This isn't the feature that sold the $600 PS3 FAT to the family who had made their first investment in widescreen, big screen, HDTV.
There have been seven firmware upgrades since 3.21 in April of last year.
Firmware upgrades that have kept the five year old PS3 feature-competitive in high definition console gaming, streaming media services, and Blu-Ray media play.
Why the geek expects the gamer to join him at the barricades now is beyond me.
To the best of my understanding there are habitable towns throughout the world whose background radiation levels are higher than anything yet encountered outside the Fukushima plant boundaries.
What you haven't told us is the death rate from cancer in these "habitable" towns.
If most everyone used linux in their homes that would kill off virtually Hundreds of thousands of jobs supporting the crap. .I use linux more than a decade now, and I can't imagine the hell of having to use windows again. And I feel kinda sorry for all those people out there who really don't know any better.
It doesn't matter whether you look at the stats from Statcounter, W3Schools, Net Applications....
all tell the same story and it is a story the geek does not want to hear, much less try to understand.
Microsoft Windows is everyone's first choice as an OEM system install.
It is a strong seller retail boxed. It is pirated everywhere and outperforms Linux in the thieves markets and bazaars of the third world.
Microsoft Windows is not crap. It is not a hell for its users. 1 to1.5 billion users world-wide.
The Windows client is a purely commercial, market oriented, OS whose primary focus has always been on the needs and desires of the non-technical end user.
It makes no concessions whatever to the FOSS zealot's notion of ideological purity or political correctness.
MS Office Home. Paint Shop Pro. Inkscape. Irfanview. Scribus. Microsoft Security Essentials. IE 9 and IE 10 Platform Preview.
Skype.
Netflix and Silverlight. Machinarium, The Complete National Geographic and Adobe Flash. Kindle for the PC. Pandora.
AIM. Windows Live!
The Infocom Adventures. The Dig. Baldur's Gate. Planescape: Torment.
Bioshock. Dragon's Age. Mass Effect. Batman: Arkham Asylum. Tales of Monkey Island.
174 programs monitored by Secunia PSI alone.
16 years of running Windows as a home user beginning with a hand-me-down Win 95 Packard Bell P70 with 8 MB of RAM.
I have never spent a dime on technical support or service. Never been in the least unconvinced by the rare exposure of malware on my system.
I have never found a FOSS app of the remotest use or interest to me that hasn't been ported to Windows or which began as a native Windows app.
I, for one, simply don't give a rat's ass if Sony were losing money on those PS3's
You don't care.
But Walmart did.
It needs to see a product with a compelling feature set, an attractive price, and strong after-market sales.
It needs to see synergy. The HD video game console that helps drive sales of the big screen HDTV set.
PS2 emulation? Too expensive.
SACD? High end audiophile market. Not our thing.
The OtherOS?
Dual boot into a DIY install of an obscure Linux distro with a desktop GUI and limited access to system resoutces.
How do we sell this? How do we support it? We can't. We won't.
3: change the existing PS3's into two lines, one optimized for the clusters, the other optimized for gaming, and price them accordingly
Why do you think the cash-strapped research lab buys video game consoles in wholesale lots?
EULA's mean diddly shit.... They mean nothing to me, and I'll break them forever.
They may mean something to your lawyer and they may mean something to your wife when she sees service of process.
Now, as for that cash settlement - I find that to be unsatisfactory. Any rational court of law should force Sony to restore those features that the original purchasers paid for.
Your aging PS3 Fat is a small appliance three years out of production and even longer out of warranty.
A court will put a monetary value on the OtherOS.
That is what courts do. It would be reasonable as well, I think, for a court to consider the monetary value of subsequent firmware upgrades.
If the coldly calculated cash value of a PS3 Fat with support for MOVE, Avatar on Blu-Ray and the 1080p Netflix stream is more than the PS3 with the OtherOS, you have a problem when you demand the big-bucks refund.
In framing a remedy, a court must look at the impact on other users of the PS3, and on other parties whose interests are at stake.
It is certainly within bounds to consider the impact on multiplayer gaming, intellectual property rights and so on.
The cash settlement, I am afraid to tell you, is as good as it gets.
You also lose the ability to play new games, not just PSN...
The firmware upgrade is needed to support new Blu-Ray videos. stereographic 3D video and gaming, the MOVE controller and other enhancements like deep color and 1080p Netflix streams with full theater sound.
This is a no-brainer in the home entertainment market - and the geek needs to see that clearly.
The OtherOS implied dual-booting into a DIY install of an obscure Linux distro with a desktop GUI and significantly restricted access to system resources.
Unity comes too late..
You could argue quite fairly, I think, that all Linux distributions are little known in the home market.
The Android logo is Eve's brother, not Tux. after all.
But the point is that, if you can't get the masses behind the OtherOS and Homebrew, you have no leverage.
Your aging PS3 Fat is out of production, out of warranty, and no one gives a damn.
Because most techie types simply will refuse to buy it. Anything Sony has a bad smell about it now
The PS3 has an installed base of 50 million.
It delivers a sophisticated mix of social networking, high definition console gaming, media play and online services.
It is a friends-and-family oriented home entertainment product - which the Walmart Superstore sells as the perfect compliant for your big screen HDTV.
What the techie is more likely to accomplish than wounding Sony is to give the OnLive! gaming app a boost-up on every Internet enabled HDTV and "Roku" set-top box.
There is nothing in the store to buy but the controller. The cheat, the pirate and the modder are left out in the cold.
Decades ago, NBC was in on the ground floor of a multibillion dollar franchise ("Star Trek").
Star Trek was not a billion dollar franchise in 1966.
Lost In Space was a mild ratings success, unlike Star Trek, which received very poor ratings during its original network TV run. The more "cerebral" Star Trek never averaged higher than 52nd in the ratings during its three seasons, while Lost in Space finished season one with a rating of 32nd, season two in 35th place, and the third and final season in 33rd place.
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenbery insisted that the two shows could not be compared. He was more of a philosopher, while understanding that Irwin Allen was a storyteller. When asked about Lost in Space, Roddenberry acknowledged: "That show accomplishes what it sets out to do. Star Trek is not the same thing".
I remember reading about sound exchange, on how they collect royalty irregardless whether they have any rights to collect the royalty at all.
You remember wrong.
The Library of Congress, as an agent of the Congress of the United States, has authorized SoundExchange as the only group that can administer government sound recording licenses.
SoundExchange is a non-profit corporation that collects and distributes the statutory royalties for performances in new media:
- Digital cable and satellite television services (Music Choice and Muzak) - Non-interactive 'webcasters" (including original programmers and retransmissions of FCC-licensed radio stations by aggregators) - Satellite radio services.
The split looks like this:
50% to the sound recording copyright owmer. 45% to the featured artist. (which can be a group or ensemble) 5% to non-featured artists.
The payout to date: $614 million.
To about 46,000* registered performers and 6,000 SCROs - an SCRO can be an artist owned "label," of course.
Registration is free, "membership" is free, but membership is not required. SoundExchange
____
* In a population of 300 million, this may give you some notion of what it takes to become a professional musician with significant national exposure.
Slashdot Mirror
Look at the comments on the same piece of news, but from a site that's predominantly made up of PS3 fans
There are 50 million PS3 consoles out in the real world.
70 million PSN accounts. 17 million PlayStation Home social networking accounts. 8 million MOVE controllers.
These numbers are credible - and nothing of the sort has ever been posted here for Homebrew or home use of the OtherOS.
Firmware upgrades have kept the five year old PS3 feature-competitive with high end, stand-alone, Blu-Ray players.
The mix of HD streaming media and other online services is quite good - Neflix at 1080p with full theater sound.
I don't see much to complain about in the PS3 bestseller lists. - with strong contenders in every genre.
Considered realistically and as it should be - as a home entertainment product - the PS3 serves its users very well -
and the geek is an unwelcome intrusion.
The geek has lived within the "walled garden" of the Linux distribution for fifteen years -
where the "unwelcome" mat is prominently laid out for the gadgets, programs, codecs, drivers, etc., that don't meet his own standards of technological perfection, ideological purity or political correctness.
It makes for a system that is simple, secure and predictable.
But when others choose the same path and prove no less intractable about the details, it always comes as a painful surprise.
Inventor Lee DeForest, known as one of the 'fathers of the electronic age,' declared TV a commercial and financial impossibility, a sentiment that was shared by 20th Century Fox exec Darryl Zanuck
Quotes out of context are useless.
How to fund radio production was an open debate in the twenties.
There was no easy way for a commercial sponsor to estimate the return on his investment.
Television productions would have to fully staged and rehearsed - with sets, props, costumes and so on.
Your actors and production crews can't arrive in shirtsleeves for a single afternoon reading and an early evening performance.
No matter how punishing the schedule, you are going to need them for the better part of a week.
Which means that you won't get a commitment from the box office star and top-flight backstage talent if all you can offer is union scale.
>Surfing the web from a mobile device can be clumsy and expensive.
What is this. People friggin' do this all the time. They've been doing it for years now. What are you even trying to say here?
That the desktop remains supreme when surfing the web. Mobile v. Desktop That Linux on all platforms has a less visible presence on the web than the iOS. That, in the Net Applications stats, the iOS has a greater market share than Linux and Android combined.
It's not the 90s anymore, dude.
Your Uncle Joe was a success - pretty much like every other Linux conversion story posted to Slashdot in the last fifteen years.
But there is often more to be learned from failure.
It doesn't much matter whether you look at Net Applications, W3Schools or Statcounter.
The numbers for Linux are eminently lousy.
Surfing the web from a mobile device can be clumsy and expensive.
It is all the more telling then that in the Net Applications stats for May 1, the iOS mobile device alone has twice the market share of Linux -
all distros, all platforms.
Operating System Market Share
'm not saying we shouldn't be doing our best to deliver great new apps of good stability and functionality (like Inkscape, Scribus etc), I'm saying that the sky isn't falling if we don't deliver X Y or Z.
The problem here is that Inkscape, Scribus, and the rest, are routinely ported to Windows or begin as a native Windows app. There is no compelling reason to migrate to Linux.
"PiTiVi" hurts my eyes - and "Pitiful Video" is an all too plausible mnemonic. I have never understood why the FOSS dveloper insists on shooting himself in the foot.
Does anyone else have a hard time believing the majority of the comments on the blog post are real? They're all along the lines of, "Hallelujah, Sony is wonderful for getting the service back up!!!!!!!
When a system is brought down, people blame the mischief and malice of the hacker and the culture they believe supports and sustains him.
Whenever the geek summons the masses to the barricades he will far more often than not find them aligned with the other side.
There are 70 million PSN accounts.
What would that make it? 35 times the size of Slashdot?
My other point, if there's any to be made, is that if you allow your router to have open access for all, you can claim common carrier status and be exempt from the actions of your "users". Comcast doesn't get arrested for someone downloading kiddie porn using their network, why should you?
I"ll keep this simple:
A common carrier offers its services to the general public under license or authority provided by a regulatory body.
Common Carrier
The common carrier is defined by law and regulated in the public interest.
We're sorry Nokia, we don't know of anyone surviving Microsoft deals.
You mean like Ford and Toyota? Microsoft and Toyota form new telematics company
Sony seems to have taken over as the current best example of "Evil Large Corporation" in the public eye
It isn't Sony getting its reputation blackened. It is Anonymous, the geek, the cheat, the thief and the hacker, which the public sees as all of one kind.
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I intend to be elsewhere when the 70 million PSN account holders get a real live geek within their sights.
It is not going to be pretty.
Not to mention the money and firepower backing up those who sell products and services through PSN -
and the banks who finance and service the transactions. They too will be out for blood.
Oh come ON! We're geek here, and my non-geek fiance was able to learn how to use the ribbon in a few minutes.
Are Linux nuts so incapable of learning a UI? Or is it a UI in a Microsoft product that automatically puts up a mental blinder that they cannot push through?
The ribbon UI in Office was designed for the convenience of the full-time clerical worker, which is not the self-image the geek likes to project.
I mean, seriously, this is more like a FAX technology than a tablet PC if you ask me.
More like a pantograph or auto-pen.
It would have been like standing at the side of the sender as he wrote out his message. You can't get more trustworthy than that.
The transmitter consists of a stylus which is mechanically connected, through two sets of levers and appropriate swivel joints, to the contact arms of two variable rheostats in such a way that the horizontal and vertical components of the stylus movement are translated into corresponding current variations in two lines connecting the receiver. At the receiver the variations in the line currents produce similar movements in two coils or "buckets" within a magnetic field. The movements of these coils are communicated through a system of levers to a writing pen which reproduces the movements of the sending stylus.
margins : telautography [The Gray and Tiffany patents with high quality illustrations and photographs]
Gray displayed his telautograph invention in 1893 at the Chicago Columbian Exposition and sold his share in the telautograph shortly after that. Gray was also chairman of the International Congress of Electricians at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.
Elisha Gray
It marks a strange turn-around from Bell's famous - half-legendary - demonstration of the telephone at the 1876 Centennial Expo in Philadelphia - where Gray, a founding engineer of Western Union, had been a mere specator on holiday.
These are companies that use WebM in some way and who join the CCL to support each other and the format against patent trolls and attacks like that of MPEG-LA (read: Microsoft and Apple).
There are about thirty H.264 licensors.
Including global industrial giants like Mitsubishi, Philips, Samsung and Toshiba.
1,000 H.264 licensees.
H.264 is a global standard in digital television - and if you want to know who the major players are here you need to be looking across the Pacific -
and not at Cupertino or Redmond.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why gamers will never be taken seriously. This attitude of "Fuck rights! I want mah GAEMS!" that has been displayed by many gamers during the entire GeoHot Vs Sony episode has me seriously perplexed.
There are 50 million PS3 consoles out there.
8 million MOVE controllers.
70 million PSN accounts. 17 million PlayStation Home social networking accounts.
These numbers, sourced here from the Wikipedia, are credible. No one on these pages has ever posted anything of the sort for home use of the OtherOS.
The PS3 Fat has been out of production for close on to three years.
The OtherOS implied dual-booting into a DIY install of an obscure Linux distribution with a desktop GUI and limited access to system resoures.
This isn't the feature that sold the $600 PS3 FAT to the family who had made their first investment in widescreen, big screen, HDTV.
There have been seven firmware upgrades since 3.21 in April of last year.
Firmware upgrades that have kept the five year old PS3 feature-competitive in high definition console gaming, streaming media services, and Blu-Ray media play.
Why the geek expects the gamer to join him at the barricades now is beyond me.
To the best of my understanding there are habitable towns throughout the world whose background radiation levels are higher than anything yet encountered outside the Fukushima plant boundaries.
What you haven't told us is the death rate from cancer in these "habitable" towns.
If most everyone used linux in their homes that would kill off virtually Hundreds of thousands of jobs supporting the crap.
.I use linux more than a decade now, and I can't imagine the hell of having to use windows again. And I feel kinda sorry for all those people out there who really don't know any better.
It doesn't matter whether you look at the stats from Statcounter, W3Schools, Net Applications....
all tell the same story and it is a story the geek does not want to hear, much less try to understand.
Microsoft Windows is everyone's first choice as an OEM system install.
It is a strong seller retail boxed. It is pirated everywhere and outperforms Linux in the thieves markets and bazaars of the third world.
Microsoft Windows is not crap. It is not a hell for its users. 1 to1.5 billion users world-wide.
The Windows client is a purely commercial, market oriented, OS whose primary focus has always been on the needs and desires of the non-technical end user.
It makes no concessions whatever to the FOSS zealot's notion of ideological purity or political correctness.
MS Office Home. Paint Shop Pro. Inkscape. Irfanview. Scribus. Microsoft Security Essentials. IE 9 and IE 10 Platform Preview.
Skype.
Netflix and Silverlight. Machinarium, The Complete National Geographic and Adobe Flash. Kindle for the PC. Pandora.
AIM. Windows Live!
The Infocom Adventures. The Dig. Baldur's Gate. Planescape: Torment.
Bioshock. Dragon's Age. Mass Effect. Batman: Arkham Asylum. Tales of Monkey Island.
174 programs monitored by Secunia PSI alone.
16 years of running Windows as a home user beginning with a hand-me-down Win 95 Packard Bell P70 with 8 MB of RAM.
I have never spent a dime on technical support or service. Never been in the least unconvinced by the rare exposure of malware on my system.
I have never found a FOSS app of the remotest use or interest to me that hasn't been ported to Windows or which began as a native Windows app.
That's should stop a lot of companies from removing features at will..
It will stop companies from adding features that appeal to a tiny minority of users and may prove troublesome somewhere down the road.
The next generation "console" may be an Internet app for your Roku set top box or wll-sized Internet enabled HDTV.
There will be nothing in the stores to buy but the controller.
I, for one, simply don't give a rat's ass if Sony were losing money on those PS3's
You don't care.
But Walmart did.
It needs to see a product with a compelling feature set, an attractive price, and strong after-market sales.
It needs to see synergy. The HD video game console that helps drive sales of the big screen HDTV set.
PS2 emulation? Too expensive.
SACD? High end audiophile market. Not our thing.
The OtherOS?
Dual boot into a DIY install of an obscure Linux distro with a desktop GUI and limited access to system resoutces.
How do we sell this? How do we support it? We can't. We won't.
3: change the existing PS3's into two lines, one optimized for the clusters, the other optimized for gaming, and price them accordingly
Why do you think the cash-strapped research lab buys video game consoles in wholesale lots?
EULA's mean diddly shit. ... They mean nothing to me, and I'll break them forever.
They may mean something to your lawyer and they may mean something to your wife when she sees service of process.
Now, as for that cash settlement - I find that to be unsatisfactory. Any rational court of law should force Sony to restore those features that the original purchasers paid for.
Your aging PS3 Fat is a small appliance three years out of production and even longer out of warranty.
A court will put a monetary value on the OtherOS.
That is what courts do. It would be reasonable as well, I think, for a court to consider the monetary value of subsequent firmware upgrades.
If the coldly calculated cash value of a PS3 Fat with support for MOVE, Avatar on Blu-Ray and the 1080p Netflix stream is more than the PS3 with the OtherOS, you have a problem when you demand the big-bucks refund.
In framing a remedy, a court must look at the impact on other users of the PS3, and on other parties whose interests are at stake.
It is certainly within bounds to consider the impact on multiplayer gaming, intellectual property rights and so on.
The cash settlement, I am afraid to tell you, is as good as it gets.
I wonder if people complained about talkies.
Of course they did. Charlie Chaplin and the director D.W. Griffith most famously, perhaps.
Doug Fairbanks and Harold Lloyd built on the illusion of effortless physical action, which sound destroys.
But look at Buster Keaton.
His props are steamboats and locomotives. He was quite capable of staging a hurricane to set up a single classic sight gag:
The collapse of a wall which he survives only because he is perfectly positioned to be protected by an empty window frame.
It is easy to see him working in sound and color and 3D.
You also lose the ability to play new games, not just PSN...
The firmware upgrade is needed to support new Blu-Ray videos. stereographic 3D video and gaming, the MOVE controller and other enhancements like deep color and 1080p Netflix streams with full theater sound.
This is a no-brainer in the home entertainment market - and the geek needs to see that clearly.
The OtherOS implied dual-booting into a DIY install of an obscure Linux distro with a desktop GUI and significantly restricted access to system resources.
Unity comes too late..
You could argue quite fairly, I think, that all Linux distributions are little known in the home market.
The Android logo is Eve's brother, not Tux. after all.
But the point is that, if you can't get the masses behind the OtherOS and Homebrew, you have no leverage.
Your aging PS3 Fat is out of production, out of warranty, and no one gives a damn.
Because most techie types simply will refuse to buy it. Anything Sony has a bad smell about it now
The PS3 has an installed base of 50 million.
It delivers a sophisticated mix of social networking, high definition console gaming, media play and online services.
It is a friends-and-family oriented home entertainment product - which the Walmart Superstore sells as the perfect compliant for your big screen HDTV.
What the techie is more likely to accomplish than wounding Sony is to give the OnLive! gaming app a boost-up on every Internet enabled HDTV and "Roku" set-top box.
There is nothing in the store to buy but the controller. The cheat, the pirate and the modder are left out in the cold.
Decades ago, NBC was in on the ground floor of a multibillion dollar franchise ("Star Trek").
Star Trek was not a billion dollar franchise in 1966.
Lost In Space was a mild ratings success, unlike Star Trek, which received very poor ratings during its original network TV run. The more "cerebral" Star Trek never averaged higher than 52nd in the ratings during its three seasons, while Lost in Space finished season one with a rating of 32nd, season two in 35th place, and the third and final season in 33rd place.
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenbery insisted that the two shows could not be compared. He was more of a philosopher, while understanding that Irwin Allen was a storyteller. When asked about Lost in Space, Roddenberry acknowledged: "That show accomplishes what it sets out to do. Star Trek is not the same thing".
Lost in Space
Roddenberry's "storyteller" quote is telling.
There is a kind of sterile idealism about Star Trek that I can find wearisome and more than a little self-righteous.
Allen's basic formula was to throw his miss-matched characters into an intensely melodramatic situation with no textbook solution.
[Rather like The Wrath of Khan.]
Improvisation makes for a good story. It reveals character and ideas more entertainingly than a talking head.
lol. soundexchange is the fraudulent operation, albeit one abetted by congress.
Tell me what is fraudulent about collecting royalties for public performance - 45% of which go straight to the featured artist.
5% to the session players.
50% to the sound recording copyright owner, which can be an Indie label or the artist himself.
If you want to know who pays royalties to SoundExchange, the full list for 2010 can be found here.
CBS, Clear Channel, Music Choice, Muzak, Pandora and so on. Muzak has been around since 1936.
"Performance Rights" issues - wired and wireless - are nothing new.
One of the first telephone exchanges in the states had an "on demand" phonographic music service in the 1880s.
Subscribers could ask Central to play Edison cylinders over the line for an additional monthly fee.
I remember reading about sound exchange, on how they collect royalty irregardless whether they have any rights to collect the royalty at all.
You remember wrong.
The Library of Congress, as an agent of the Congress of the United States, has authorized SoundExchange as the only group that can administer government sound recording licenses.
General Questions
You do not have to a member of SoundExhange to collect your royalties. You only have to register. Registration and membership are both free.
It is a little more compex for the (unlogged) session player - SoundExchange pays out his share to AFTRA and AFM for distribution.
SoundExchange is a non-profit corporation that collects and distributes the statutory royalties for performances in new media:
- Digital cable and satellite television services (Music Choice and Muzak)
- Non-interactive 'webcasters" (including original programmers and retransmissions of FCC-licensed radio stations by aggregators)
- Satellite radio services.
The split looks like this:
50% to the sound recording copyright owmer.
45% to the featured artist. (which can be a group or ensemble)
5% to non-featured artists.
The payout to date: $614 million.
To about 46,000* registered performers and 6,000 SCROs - an SCRO can be an artist owned "label," of course.
Registration is free, "membership" is free, but membership is not required. SoundExchange
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* In a population of 300 million, this may give you some notion of what it takes to become a professional musician with significant national exposure.