So? What did the cable tv industry do? The cable industry had some Congressional hearings and the words "a la carte" dangled over their head, and all of a sudden they move on the issue - enough to keep them out of trouble.
Netflix would already be doing DVDs online if it weren't for the fucking movie industry's bass-ackwards views on digital technology. The deal with TiVo is basically out - Netflix cant negotiate a reasonable deal with the movie industry to allow people to rent DVDs online and have them downloaded to a TiVo box. There is nothing we can do about it until the movie industry either gets investigated by congress (the only real way to make an industry move nowadays) or someone with much closer ties (like what Apple did with ABC/Disney) makes it happen.
There was TheSite - hosted by Soledad O'Brien with the animated charecter "Dev Null" (who was actually voiced by Leo Laporte). Of course this all started in the.com days too - the idea of "convergence" and that starting early would give them a leg up. Well convergence hasnt arrived yet (though I think it will before 2010). It makes sense for MS to exit the partership - they really aren't getting anything out of it. Hell, until this happened, I had forgot that the MS in MSNBC stood for Microsoft.
Mainly because I expect to see Apple's market share grow as soon as the intel macs get out the door and people start to adopt them. If you figure if their share increases to 5%, plus the ~10% of firefox+opera users, 15% should be enough of an audience for most websites to realize that IE-only designs are the past and that they need to modernize.
Have you ever printed an email from g-mail? You click the print link at the right and you get a new window with just the email - no folder information or stuff like that.
Gaming is where the horsepower is needed in the consumer space - and most games aren't multithreaded. An additional core wont do much in terms of performance that a second core doesn't already accomplish. You're just wasting die space and decreasing yields.
I'm almost 25, and I only really know of myspace because my younger sister is on it and I noticed on her computer. I ended up making an account just to look around for people I knew. Turns out a pissload of people I know are on it. Though I resist the urge to start adding "friends", lest I actually begin to use the service.
When I heard there was a press conference between Bram Cohen and the MPAA I thought it would be something neat, like some sort of agreement to explore distributing movies via BT. Instead its just some protection agreement to keep Bram out of court. How lame... the MPAA isnt learning anything. They're still fighting for their old distribution models.
1. Transfers take forever, regardless of wired or wireless connection. 2. No Mac support. 3. Tivo is notoriously hideous on hitting their timelines. They annouced TivoToGo at CES 2004 and only released it a little before CES 2005 to limited beta testers (the full official unveiling of TTG was after CES 05).
Losing the Digg we're-all-equal-community ethos seems inevitable
Didn't Kuro5hin try that? I thought it didnt turn out too good. Although I will volunteer to work for digg on the weekends as an editor if they give me some of that $2.7M in VC funds they have.
Oh, and many of the posters seem to be 15 (at least those tend to get modded down on/.).
My #1 problem with Digg is that it seems to be the same crowd that followed The Screen Savers on ZDTV/TechTV/G4/whatever. Younger kids dumber than I (I am 24 and have a BS in Computer Engineering so I figure I have a higher standard when it comes to the kind of news and analysis I want). I use digg to browse the news and whats going on, like I do here at/. (now that I have excellent Karma, I dont feel the need to post as much), and there have been some real gems I've found at digg that I would have probably not found anywhere else - the Best Buy Xbox 360 allocations was a good one - I found that the store near my house had 54 Xboxes total - so if I wanted one I'd have to get their early, I'm still debating if I want one or can wait 'til after the new year.
I stopped listening to the digg podcast since its basically Kevin Rose and that other guy Alex being drunk and stupid and laughing all the time. Plus their sponsor is GoDaddy, who's owner made some very flawed political statements he heard off some douchebag talk-radio jockey, plus the tasteless superbowl ads last year.
So yea, the only place I go for real in-depth news is ArsTechnica. Everywhere else is just filler.
So wait, code used to circumvent DRM is being used in a tool to enforce DRM (albeit crappily)?
This Sony thing is big, it even made my local news last night - about Sony recalling the discs, although they called the rootkit a "virus". Typical local reporting.
Hah! So I'm a few hours late, and I click on the link in the top and..
The launch of Arianespace's heavy-lift Ariane 5 ECA is postponed
A problem encountered during final preparations of the Ariane 5 ECA launcher has resulted in a postponement of the dual-satellite mission scheduled for this evening.
If they think it's hard to get code in, that's pure nonsense. As a Fedora Extras contributor (fortune-firefly, and coming soon Nethack: Vulture's Eye/Claw) the process is relatively simple, and the people very supportive and responsive.
Isn't firefox impossible to submit code to? At least without being asked to contribute?
I can't begin to tell you how often I have wanted to price-compare Best Buy vs. Staples vs. Circuit City vs. OfficeMax when standing in any one of those stores.
Same here. However, Best Buy has computers hooked up to the internet, just sitting there in the open for anyone to use. I go and browse to OM, OD, CC, Newegg, ZipZoomFly and Monarch for the item I was looking to buy. It was quite funny and informative. And just go jab the blueshirts a bit, I left Newegg up on the browser.
I tell ya, the next killer app for a cellphone is a RFID tag reader and/or barcode reader and a connection to google. Scan in a UPC, enter your zip code (or whatever the last GPS coordinates you got were) and then google will show you the lowest price.
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In the US, the FCC has required cable companies to suppot cablecard 1.0 as of last July. Cablecard 2.0 is required starting sometime in 2008 or 2009.
I, for one, welcome our new DRM overlords.
Yesterday (Jan 2). All 1300+ computers got patched and rebooted. I'm patching my home computers tonight...
So either one or both agencies in question are simply incompetent, or lying to us. Which do you think is more plausible?
What, cant it be both?
So? What did the cable tv industry do? The cable industry had some Congressional hearings and the words "a la carte" dangled over their head, and all of a sudden they move on the issue - enough to keep them out of trouble.
Netflix would already be doing DVDs online if it weren't for the fucking movie industry's bass-ackwards views on digital technology. The deal with TiVo is basically out - Netflix cant negotiate a reasonable deal with the movie industry to allow people to rent DVDs online and have them downloaded to a TiVo box. There is nothing we can do about it until the movie industry either gets investigated by congress (the only real way to make an industry move nowadays) or someone with much closer ties (like what Apple did with ABC/Disney) makes it happen.
There was TheSite - hosted by Soledad O'Brien with the animated charecter "Dev Null" (who was actually voiced by Leo Laporte). Of course this all started in the .com days too - the idea of "convergence" and that starting early would give them a leg up. Well convergence hasnt arrived yet (though I think it will before 2010). It makes sense for MS to exit the partership - they really aren't getting anything out of it. Hell, until this happened, I had forgot that the MS in MSNBC stood for Microsoft.
is the fucking man. This man should be President.
You mean to say that there are a few thousand 360s in the hands of /. users?
Mainly because I expect to see Apple's market share grow as soon as the intel macs get out the door and people start to adopt them. If you figure if their share increases to 5%, plus the ~10% of firefox+opera users, 15% should be enough of an audience for most websites to realize that IE-only designs are the past and that they need to modernize.
With that whole merging accounts and stuff. I'd hate to see what they're going to do with del.icio.us.
Have you ever printed an email from g-mail? You click the print link at the right and you get a new window with just the email - no folder information or stuff like that.
isnt even ready for multithreading yet.
Gaming is where the horsepower is needed in the consumer space - and most games aren't multithreaded. An additional core wont do much in terms of performance that a second core doesn't already accomplish. You're just wasting die space and decreasing yields.
I'm almost 25, and I only really know of myspace because my younger sister is on it and I noticed on her computer. I ended up making an account just to look around for people I knew. Turns out a pissload of people I know are on it. Though I resist the urge to start adding "friends", lest I actually begin to use the service.
When I heard there was a press conference between Bram Cohen and the MPAA I thought it would be something neat, like some sort of agreement to explore distributing movies via BT. Instead its just some protection agreement to keep Bram out of court. How lame... the MPAA isnt learning anything. They're still fighting for their old distribution models.
In the wish-it-wasn't-shown category, I bet Adam would include the "Am I missing an eyebrow?" event.
1. Transfers take forever, regardless of wired or wireless connection.
2. No Mac support.
3. Tivo is notoriously hideous on hitting their timelines. They annouced TivoToGo at CES 2004 and only released it a little before CES 2005 to limited beta testers (the full official unveiling of TTG was after CES 05).
Since when does money = speech? Money facilitates and assists speech, but I dont think it is speech itself.
And ask them if they're really doing their job instead of just standing around looking helpless.
TSA = Thousands Standing Around
Losing the Digg we're-all-equal-community ethos seems inevitable
Didn't Kuro5hin try that? I thought it didnt turn out too good. Although I will volunteer to work for digg on the weekends as an editor if they give me some of that $2.7M in VC funds they have.
Oh, and many of the posters seem to be 15 (at least those tend to get modded down on /.).
/. (now that I have excellent Karma, I dont feel the need to post as much), and there have been some real gems I've found at digg that I would have probably not found anywhere else - the Best Buy Xbox 360 allocations was a good one - I found that the store near my house had 54 Xboxes total - so if I wanted one I'd have to get their early, I'm still debating if I want one or can wait 'til after the new year.
My #1 problem with Digg is that it seems to be the same crowd that followed The Screen Savers on ZDTV/TechTV/G4/whatever. Younger kids dumber than I (I am 24 and have a BS in Computer Engineering so I figure I have a higher standard when it comes to the kind of news and analysis I want). I use digg to browse the news and whats going on, like I do here at
I stopped listening to the digg podcast since its basically Kevin Rose and that other guy Alex being drunk and stupid and laughing all the time. Plus their sponsor is GoDaddy, who's owner made some very flawed political statements he heard off some douchebag talk-radio jockey, plus the tasteless superbowl ads last year.
So yea, the only place I go for real in-depth news is ArsTechnica. Everywhere else is just filler.
So wait, code used to circumvent DRM is being used in a tool to enforce DRM (albeit crappily)?
This Sony thing is big, it even made my local news last night - about Sony recalling the discs, although they called the rootkit a "virus". Typical local reporting.
Hah! So I'm a few hours late, and I click on the link in the top and..
The launch of Arianespace's heavy-lift Ariane 5 ECA is postponed
A problem encountered during final preparations of the Ariane 5 ECA launcher has resulted in a postponement of the dual-satellite mission scheduled for this evening.
If they think it's hard to get code in, that's pure nonsense. As a Fedora Extras contributor (fortune-firefly, and coming soon Nethack: Vulture's Eye/Claw) the process is relatively simple, and the people very supportive and responsive.
Isn't firefox impossible to submit code to? At least without being asked to contribute?
I can't begin to tell you how often I have wanted to price-compare Best Buy vs. Staples vs. Circuit City vs. OfficeMax when standing in any one of those stores.
Same here. However, Best Buy has computers hooked up to the internet, just sitting there in the open for anyone to use. I go and browse to OM, OD, CC, Newegg, ZipZoomFly and Monarch for the item I was looking to buy. It was quite funny and informative. And just go jab the blueshirts a bit, I left Newegg up on the browser.
I tell ya, the next killer app for a cellphone is a RFID tag reader and/or barcode reader and a connection to google. Scan in a UPC, enter your zip code (or whatever the last GPS coordinates you got were) and then google will show you the lowest price.