it looks like the answer is yes, based on this observation reported in the times -
"'Star Trek' seems poised to hold fairly steady next weekend given that its ticket sales rose from Friday to Saturday, a sign of strong word-of-mouth buzz, said Paul Dergarabedian, box office analyst for Hollywood.com."
depends. you can change the password and block guests. then again maybe "guests" can access the router and block you. pogue wasn't clear on the "geeky things" privileges. but either way, problem solved.
you're right. it's a decent sized dual layer dvd iso in ten minutes, assuming somebody has the u/l bandwidth to serve the transfer (big assumption). but man, pretty effing fast all the same. wish i had it.
RCA was the last of the GE units to push any kind of consumer electronic standards onto American consumers but their final true successes were the NTSC color TV and 45 RPM polystyrene disc systems 50 years ago. Their 70s videodisc and tape formats were flops or nonstarters and in any event GE spun off the unit to Thompson decades ago after the acquisition. Meanwhile the media unit they do have, NBC/Universal, isn't a player in international consumer electronics but is in direct competition with other rights holders.
High density discs and have been a PR staple for years. I'm still waiting for one announced in '99. Yes, disc capacity will increase gradually and at some point today's fat Blu-Rays will be hopelessly limited curios, but the trick isn't so much about jamming bits into ever smaller sectors as it is creating compatibility with installed player bases, burner ecosystems and jittery rights holders. GE doesn't come to mind as a company with experience getting that done, nevermind getting such consumer products in the stores or even out of the lab. Good luck guys but I don't see it happening.
the author wrote "videos," not films, a piddling amount really when the avg american presently consumes 6.5 hours of video per day. but it all adds up, and fast. when my household streams 3-4 stations daily my internet radio usage alone consumes 30 gigs a month (one 128k stream uses apx 1 gigabyte every 24 hours). should tv use continue to migrate to the net it won't be long before bandwidth caps make it impossible to afford. fine by me, i stopped watching tv years ago, but don't think for a minute 7.5 hours of video per week is somehow so far outside the bell curve as to be a straw man for some crank's point of view. if anything it's a conservative estimate.
flac is of course lossless, and by definition reproduces a clone of source. it is also becomming ubiquitous. among those who care about quality or who swap bootlegs penetration is near 100%. it's a great format for these reasons. the problem is size. it's huge, on average nearly 2/3 that of a wav file. apes are slightly better, shrinking wavs to about half their size, but still quite large. really, if anything is going to unseat either flac or ape it's not going to be something even larger. it sounds as if this new mp combo file has approached 3/4 of a wav and that is just going the wrong way, paricularly since the disadvantages of girth are not offset by any corresponding advances in sound with everyday players. listeners might as well forget compression, lossless or otherwise and just go with wav files for all the good this piece of pork will do. i'm fairly certain wavs are playable on nearly every existing portable.
the world wasn't waiting for this. but a slim lossless file 1/3 the size of a wav? different story altogether.
i suppose it's possible for people to download more, although my acquaintances seem to be to doing it already with as much abandon as there is impunity. i personally know of no one affected by any legal campaigns, and lets face it, with file sharers numbering the 100s of millions, and lawsuits in the thousands the odds will always favor the file sharers, and overwhelmingly so. the most startling trend however is the exuberent rise of sneakerware. now that harddrives have crossed the 1tb threshold and easily hold 10,000 albums at high bitrates a quick perusal of craigslist shows "dj" drives being openly offered in the 300 dollar range fully loaded with karaoke, cds, videos or any combination the buyer chooses. then there're movies: a 1.5 tb drive holds 1000 high-bit avis when the avg blockbuster has i think less than 5000 titles. obviously at present transfer speeds it would take months to grab such prodigious amounts - assuming the unlikely event one found an uploader willing to service the transfer for that duration, but a friend to friend hard drive dub is measured in hours, and perfect for a socially acceptable afternoon barbecue or big game.
the internet will always be a convenient medium for occasional impulse transfers and the copyright mavens have in all likelihood resigned themselves to it, and the realization their lawsuit strategies are beginning to encounter serious and expensive legal resistance. it's also beginning to dawn on them that the big issues moving forward will be full quality library swaps via hard drive, where the entire tcm archive, or all the films in maltin's movie guide, are available for a few bucks to be plugged directly into a tv via devices such as the western digital tv hd media player, and no amount of limewire trolling is ever going to stop it. in a few years time the riaa will be looking back to the good ol days of napster/bt with fond remembrance because the media companies brain trust will be occupied by a really difficult paradigm: enticing consumers back to the store when they already have every album they can conceivably hear and every movie they could conceivably watch, and for less than the price of the tv they're watching them on.
I watched this documentary from the torrent d/l several days ago. While technically proficient (and for a 47 min doc curiously large as far as files go) I couldn't help thinking it wasn't going to change many of the minds of the very people it seems to be aimed at: those who hold the future of Canada's copyright laws in their pens. Yes, it reaffirms to some small extent what we in the (legally marginalized) P2P community have been writing for a decade and it certainly amplifies many of the warnings raised by opponents of D igitally R estricted M edia schemes, and I suppose if one was fascinated enough about this topic to actually take the time to download, burn and watch it - and yet had somehow never heard nor seen anything beyond the bankrupt corporate-media party line - it could be thought provoking...but ultimately it simply doesn't make for effective advocacy, not the kind measured in how many politicians move from one column to another, nor for that matter how many voters.
A major problem with many of the lawyer/professor/advocates in this copyright revolution is their own apparent self censorship, stemming perhaps from years of legal training and background. They're really more lawyer than revolutionary, more staid officer of the court than fiery leader of guerillas. It's hard to advocate effectively for activities that are at present assumed by many to be illegal if one spends so much time dryly repeating bromides against violating the laws...i.e. "While I can't condone illegal file-sharing..." Their very arguments tend to become unfocused and diluted, and horror, not-so-subtly affirm the status quo. Thankfully this production spares us that particular embarrassment but if there are measured rehashes of long-term grievances here there are ultimately no shots against parliament's bow, no cries de cour, no up against the wall...no passion in this documentary. And if anything is going to get parliament, or congress, or voters for that matter off their comfy chairs and onto an edgy new paradigm it's going to take something truly galvanizing. Delivering agit-prop electronically is a good start, but the amperage needs to be ramped up. Way up.
This drawing board nonsense is not recognised by the FDA as a medical device and never will be. For PR purposes, or perhaps for other reasons entirely, Constitution Arms merely registered the company and device with the FDA - and as the fpfd clearly states, registration "does not, in any way, constitute FDA approval of your
facility or your devices."
Good for a laugh, maybe but nobody's getting an RX for a 9. Chill ffs.
"Thanks to the ePassports is it now possible to build Smart-IED's. A Smart-IED waits until a specific person passes by before detonating or let's say until there are more than 10 americans in the room. Boom." -John Doe
Be nice if these papers would occasionally have a chemist or engineer to cover the announcement instead of sending down whatever college intern is handy to rewrite a press release. I mean I'm not expecting much from the daily flood of "this one will really change the world" energy articles, but if newspapers hope to survive as a viable news distribution medium, editors might give pause before allowing their products to be used for recycling too-good-to-be-true nonsense.
Agreed. You'd basically need a new constitution for this to work, and I'm not sure "work" is the proper term. I think the concept is understandable in a sophomoric, philosophical sense, like some utopian "telephone party" of the 1920s, but its execution on a federal level would be a national nightmare. Practically speaking it's nonsense.
been using lightweight thinkpads since the x22 (am using it atm). still performs well in heavy ambient light. maybe you get used to glossy i don't know. but when i walk into the local apple store i'm thinking "way too shiny for me."
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it looks like the answer is yes, based on this observation reported in the times -
"'Star Trek' seems poised to hold fairly steady next weekend given that its ticket sales rose from Friday to Saturday, a sign of strong word-of-mouth buzz, said Paul Dergarabedian, box office analyst for Hollywood.com."
depends. you can change the password and block guests. then again maybe "guests" can access the router and block you. pogue wasn't clear on the "geeky things" privileges. but either way, problem solved.
how cute is that?
- js.
I prefer my booze radioactive. The buzz is zippier, and my dates glow.
A quick "age" in the hot pile does the trick.
- js.
...not.
you're right. it's a decent sized dual layer dvd iso in ten minutes, assuming somebody has the u/l bandwidth to serve the transfer (big assumption). but man, pretty effing fast all the same. wish i had it.
- js.
Re:Huh?
RCA was the last of the GE units to push any kind of consumer electronic standards onto American consumers but their final true successes were the NTSC color TV and 45 RPM polystyrene disc systems 50 years ago. Their 70s videodisc and tape formats were flops or nonstarters and in any event GE spun off the unit to Thompson decades ago after the acquisition. Meanwhile the media unit they do have, NBC/Universal, isn't a player in international consumer electronics but is in direct competition with other rights holders.
- js.
High density discs and have been a PR staple for years. I'm still waiting for one announced in '99. Yes, disc capacity will increase gradually and at some point today's fat Blu-Rays will be hopelessly limited curios, but the trick isn't so much about jamming bits into ever smaller sectors as it is creating compatibility with installed player bases, burner ecosystems and jittery rights holders. GE doesn't come to mind as a company with experience getting that done, nevermind getting such consumer products in the stores or even out of the lab. Good luck guys but I don't see it happening.
- js.
that site so doesn't work in chrome.
orly?
the author wrote "videos," not films, a piddling amount really when the avg american presently consumes 6.5 hours of video per day. but it all adds up, and fast. when my household streams 3-4 stations daily my internet radio usage alone consumes 30 gigs a month (one 128k stream uses apx 1 gigabyte every 24 hours). should tv use continue to migrate to the net it won't be long before bandwidth caps make it impossible to afford. fine by me, i stopped watching tv years ago, but don't think for a minute 7.5 hours of video per week is somehow so far outside the bell curve as to be a straw man for some crank's point of view. if anything it's a conservative estimate.
- js.
heh. wouldn't it be funny if a user was downloading soame basically inocuous copyrighted crap but the app swarmed him with kiddie porn, hehheh.
yikes.
- js.
say bone!
flac is of course lossless, and by definition reproduces a clone of source. it is also becomming ubiquitous. among those who care about quality or who swap bootlegs penetration is near 100%. it's a great format for these reasons. the problem is size. it's huge, on average nearly 2/3 that of a wav file. apes are slightly better, shrinking wavs to about half their size, but still quite large. really, if anything is going to unseat either flac or ape it's not going to be something even larger. it sounds as if this new mp combo file has approached 3/4 of a wav and that is just going the wrong way, paricularly since the disadvantages of girth are not offset by any corresponding advances in sound with everyday players. listeners might as well forget compression, lossless or otherwise and just go with wav files for all the good this piece of pork will do. i'm fairly certain wavs are playable on nearly every existing portable.
the world wasn't waiting for this. but a slim lossless file 1/3 the size of a wav? different story altogether.
- js.
and i'm sure he flips a few cents to the hard workers at andersen everytime he gazes out his windows.
i suppose it's possible for people to download more, although my acquaintances seem to be to doing it already with as much abandon as there is impunity. i personally know of no one affected by any legal campaigns, and lets face it, with file sharers numbering the 100s of millions, and lawsuits in the thousands the odds will always favor the file sharers, and overwhelmingly so. the most startling trend however is the exuberent rise of sneakerware. now that harddrives have crossed the 1tb threshold and easily hold 10,000 albums at high bitrates a quick perusal of craigslist shows "dj" drives being openly offered in the 300 dollar range fully loaded with karaoke, cds, videos or any combination the buyer chooses. then there're movies: a 1.5 tb drive holds 1000 high-bit avis when the avg blockbuster has i think less than 5000 titles. obviously at present transfer speeds it would take months to grab such prodigious amounts - assuming the unlikely event one found an uploader willing to service the transfer for that duration, but a friend to friend hard drive dub is measured in hours, and perfect for a socially acceptable afternoon barbecue or big game.
the internet will always be a convenient medium for occasional impulse transfers and the copyright mavens have in all likelihood resigned themselves to it, and the realization their lawsuit strategies are beginning to encounter serious and expensive legal resistance. it's also beginning to dawn on them that the big issues moving forward will be full quality library swaps via hard drive, where the entire tcm archive, or all the films in maltin's movie guide, are available for a few bucks to be plugged directly into a tv via devices such as the western digital tv hd media player, and no amount of limewire trolling is ever going to stop it. in a few years time the riaa will be looking back to the good ol days of napster/bt with fond remembrance because the media companies brain trust will be occupied by a really difficult paradigm: enticing consumers back to the store when they already have every album they can conceivably hear and every movie they could conceivably watch, and for less than the price of the tv they're watching them on.
- js.
take that aussies!
If the IFPI says so it must be true.
and here i thought all twits were spam.
I watched this documentary from the torrent d/l several days ago. While technically proficient (and for a 47 min doc curiously large as far as files go) I couldn't help thinking it wasn't going to change many of the minds of the very people it seems to be aimed at: those who hold the future of Canada's copyright laws in their pens. Yes, it reaffirms to some small extent what we in the (legally marginalized) P2P community have been writing for a decade and it certainly amplifies many of the warnings raised by opponents of D igitally R estricted M edia schemes, and I suppose if one was fascinated enough about this topic to actually take the time to download, burn and watch it - and yet had somehow never heard nor seen anything beyond the bankrupt corporate-media party line - it could be thought provoking...but ultimately it simply doesn't make for effective advocacy, not the kind measured in how many politicians move from one column to another, nor for that matter how many voters.
A major problem with many of the lawyer/professor/advocates in this copyright revolution is their own apparent self censorship, stemming perhaps from years of legal training and background. They're really more lawyer than revolutionary, more staid officer of the court than fiery leader of guerillas. It's hard to advocate effectively for activities that are at present assumed by many to be illegal if one spends so much time dryly repeating bromides against violating the laws...i.e. "While I can't condone illegal file-sharing..." Their very arguments tend to become unfocused and diluted, and horror, not-so-subtly affirm the status quo. Thankfully this production spares us that particular embarrassment but if there are measured rehashes of long-term grievances here there are ultimately no shots against parliament's bow, no cries de cour, no up against the wall...no passion in this documentary. And if anything is going to get parliament, or congress, or voters for that matter off their comfy chairs and onto an edgy new paradigm it's going to take something truly galvanizing. Delivering agit-prop electronically is a good start, but the amperage needs to be ramped up. Way up.
- js.
This drawing board nonsense is not recognised by the FDA as a medical device and never will be. For PR purposes, or perhaps for other reasons entirely, Constitution Arms merely registered the company and device with the FDA - and as the fpfd clearly states, registration "does not, in any way, constitute FDA approval of your facility or your devices."
Good for a laugh, maybe but nobody's getting an RX for a 9. Chill ffs.
- js.
From the related article:
"Thanks to the ePassports is it now possible to build Smart-IED's. A Smart-IED waits until a specific person passes by before detonating or let's say until there are more than 10 americans in the room. Boom." -John Doe
isn't that lovely.
- js.
http://blog.thc.org/index.php?/archives/4-The-Risk-of-ePassports-and-RFID.html
yeah, i changed my starter belt - but my pants still fell down.
Be nice if these papers would occasionally have a chemist or engineer to cover the announcement instead of sending down whatever college intern is handy to rewrite a press release. I mean I'm not expecting much from the daily flood of "this one will really change the world" energy articles, but if newspapers hope to survive as a viable news distribution medium, editors might give pause before allowing their products to be used for recycling too-good-to-be-true nonsense.
- js.
Agreed. You'd basically need a new constitution for this to work, and I'm not sure "work" is the proper term. I think the concept is understandable in a sophomoric, philosophical sense, like some utopian "telephone party" of the 1920s, but its execution on a federal level would be a national nightmare. Practically speaking it's nonsense.
- js.
Hmmm. Nothing in TFA about it really.
been using lightweight thinkpads since the x22 (am using it atm). still performs well in heavy ambient light. maybe you get used to glossy i don't know. but when i walk into the local apple store i'm thinking "way too shiny for me."