...then you don't belong on/. - but nonetheless, the article points out an interesting problem.
Lots of posters have pointed out good ways to get around commercial skipping by doing in-show product placements, etc. Those techniques work well for dramas, sports, etc.
The network affiliates - you know, local stations - don't have that option. They don't produce the shows. The revenue that they get is from their (short) block of local commercials per hour and from the local news shows that they produce.
Doing product placements in the news isn't going to work - and those nastily produced local commercials are going to be skipped BIG time.
I love my THREE TiVos as much as anyone, but even I can see that the local affiliates are going to have trouble in 5 years.
I was lucky enough to have a tour of and dinner on the SS Great Britain, which was also built by Brunel. It's even older than the Great Eastern, being launched in 1843. It was the FIRST ship to have a screw propeller. While only a fraction of the size of the Great Eastern at 3,443 tons, it is still a HUGE thing to see...and an engineering marvel. Truly the "space program" of its day.
It's presently a tourist attraction in Bristol, England.
...then I guess you can do it in an SUV. I'm always amazed by the system that JetBlue uses, which must be similar to this one - JetBlue has DirecTV onboard, and their antenna system tracks the satellite during most manoeuvers. Only when the plane goes into a really steep bank during final approach will the sat go out for a few seconds.
The video was very enlightening. YOU pick where the car should wind up, using a GUI on the dash. YOU press "OK" after a full screen of legalese pops up. THEN the car goes where you told it to go, very slowly.
Hey, if we combine this with Geocaching (www.geocaching.com), then you're getting somewhere! A network of covert communications nodes that volunteers go and babysit periodically. Put a few McDonald's toys, travel-bugs and a collection of state quarters inside, and the nodes could be self-sustaining forever....:-)
Do you use any commercial, 3rd party software on those Red Hat boxes? If so, you'll be better off using Advanced Server. It's a major league pain for ISVs to support 3 or 4 Red Had "hobbyist" releases per year; a more stable release stream more like a commercial OS is a blessing for ISVs. I'd rather support 4 flavors of Linux than 25.
Yeah, that bit about 5 MP cameras was pretty bone-headed.
1080i is 1920 x 1080 at 30 frames per second. Figure 16 bits per pixel and that's 995,328,000 bits per second coming out of the CCD. Yeah, I can't imagine why a camera like that took so long for that to come out.
Sheesh.
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...then you don't belong on /. - but nonetheless, the article points out an interesting problem.
Lots of posters have pointed out good ways to get around commercial skipping by doing in-show product placements, etc. Those techniques work well for dramas, sports, etc.
The network affiliates - you know, local stations - don't have that option. They don't produce the shows. The revenue that they get is from their (short) block of local commercials per hour and from the local news shows that they produce.
Doing product placements in the news isn't going to work - and those nastily produced local commercials are going to be skipped BIG time.
I love my THREE TiVos as much as anyone, but even I can see that the local affiliates are going to have trouble in 5 years.
Long Live TiVo!
I was lucky enough to have a tour of and dinner on the SS Great Britain, which was also built by Brunel. It's even older than the Great Eastern, being launched in 1843. It was the FIRST ship to have a screw propeller. While only a fraction of the size of the Great Eastern at 3,443 tons, it is still a HUGE thing to see...and an engineering marvel. Truly the "space program" of its day.
It's presently a tourist attraction in Bristol, England.
http://www.ss-great-britain.com/
...then I guess you can do it in an SUV. I'm always amazed by the system that JetBlue uses, which must be similar to this one - JetBlue has DirecTV onboard, and their antenna system tracks the satellite during most manoeuvers. Only when the plane goes into a really steep bank during final approach will the sat go out for a few seconds.
The video was very enlightening. YOU pick where the car should wind up, using a GUI on the dash. YOU press "OK" after a full screen of legalese pops up. THEN the car goes where you told it to go, very slowly.
Er...in the same day they (1) switched to Linux, and (2) the network went down. D'oh! :-)
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/9637.shtml
Hey, if we combine this with Geocaching (www.geocaching.com), then you're getting somewhere! A network of covert communications nodes that volunteers go and babysit periodically. Put a few McDonald's toys, travel-bugs and a collection of state quarters inside, and the nodes could be self-sustaining forever.... :-)
Who wants a cellphone you can only use within 10 feet of a Starbucks?
Do you use any commercial, 3rd party software on those Red Hat boxes? If so, you'll be better off using Advanced Server. It's a major league pain for ISVs to support 3 or 4 Red Had "hobbyist" releases per year; a more stable release stream more like a commercial OS is a blessing for ISVs. I'd rather support 4 flavors of Linux than 25.
Yeah, that bit about 5 MP cameras was pretty bone-headed. 1080i is 1920 x 1080 at 30 frames per second. Figure 16 bits per pixel and that's 995,328,000 bits per second coming out of the CCD. Yeah, I can't imagine why a camera like that took so long for that to come out. Sheesh.
Blatantly false. ObjectStore has been around since WAY before XML was.