Mod parent up. The real danger to old school tv channels isn't where you can get content, but when. I'm currently using Bittorrent a shedload simply to be able to watch the 5 or 6 tv shows I'm interested in without having to contort my life around somebody else's schedule. Once the general perception shifts from "gotta get home, Lost is on soon", to "I'll download it this weekend/I'll wait for the DVD", TV networks as we know them are dead.
"CBS has uploaded more than 300 clips that have a total of 29.2 million views on YouTube, averaging 857,000 views per day, since the service launched on October 18. CBS has three of the top 25 most viewed videos this month (Nov.1-17), including clips from CBS's Tuesday night hit drama 'NCIS,' 'Late Show with David Letterman,' 'The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson' and 'The Early Show.' The CBS Brand Channel is also one of the most subscribed channels of all time with more than 20,000 users subscribing to CBS programming on YouTube since the channel launch last month."
Finally! Hopefully, big media will realise that literally giving away content is good for them in the long run. If this catches on like we've been hoping for years now, the DMCA, copyright laws and its like won't need to be changed, they'll just become irrelevant withg the advent of the new paradigm. (sorry for the buzzwords, folks.)
Oh jesus, don't get me started on Glenn Beck. That pompous, overfed asshole is probably solely responsible for hundreds of young muslims signing up to die in the fight against the great satan.
While poorly worded, O'Reilly actually has a point burried beneath his typical inflamatory rhetoric.
Sadly, that's his M.O. - enveloping a micrsoscopic kernel of truth (although most often it's a "perceived truth" aka preconception and stereotype) in endless rhetoric about how he's right, everybody else is wrong and the world going to hell in a handbasket. How he built a little empire on that, I have no idea. IQs must have dropped sharply while I was away.
Tell that to his millions of viewers/listeners who not only hang on his every word, but also consider him "independent" and "centrist". O'Reilly is a symptom, not the problem.
I'm not annoyed at somebody else's opinion of art, I'm just tired of the whiny LOTR fanboys going on about how Jackson raped their childhood. If the movies were mostly shit, ala SW prequels, I wouldn't really care all that much, but considering how decent they are, all this hyperbole about "hideous mess" and the like just finally got to me. Hey, if you don't want an earful, qualify your statements, don't just throw useless pejorative terms.
I was just re-reading bits of William Goldman's "Which Lie Did I Tell?", and there's a particularly interesting section, dealing with adaptations. And one of the first things he talks about is that, when adapting, you can't keep everything, sometimes, you barely keep anything, the trick being to, as he says, keep the "spine" of the story and reject anything that won't work on the screen, because books and movies ARE TWO DIFFERENT FUCKING MEDIUMS.
I, too have loved the LOTR books since I was a kid, and I too would have loved to have seen Bombadil in the movies, etc., but, let's be honest: Jackson & Co. made an absolutely amazing film trilogy, by ANY standard you care to measure, so can we fucking end shit like "hideous mess" already? It's not true, you know it's not true, so please just fucking leave it, alright? It makes you sound like you live in your mom's basement, and just annoys the rest of us.
...but ultimately slapped down by our Tom for some slowdown and being way too easy - though you'll note he complains about it taking "only" 12 hours to finish...
What the?
Either this Tom fellow is a fucking liar or the greatest gamer EVAR.
I've had that game 3 years, and I still haven't finished it, let alone 12 fucking hours.
Early yes, but nowhere near 5 years. Let's be honest, if I spend the 5-10 minutes required for the various task involved, I could have a new, DVD-quality movie to watch every night of the week. Hell, with my broadband connection, I could do a double header every night, preceded by some catoons and a half-hour news segment (say, a Daily Show ep), and still have bandwith left over. I know this isn't Hi-def, but the installed base for that is ridiculously low, and most people will never notice anyway.
Now, I'll grant you, even with the ridiculous availability of content on the many P2P sites and apps, learning how to torrent/unrar/get codecs/find reliable trackers is not for the faint of heart, but how long until somebody releases an app that incorporates automatic search/RSS functions along with a media player and an archive extractor? Getting the process down to just a few clicks should be fairly easy.
And that's the hard way! The easy way is firing up iTunes (or whatever) and browse/buy effortlessly.
The funny thing is, even though the next-gen DVD debate has been going for what seems like years now, it had not occurred to me that VOD and the like would even make an impact until I read the article. Blu-ray and HD-DVD already have a ton of problems ahead of them without considering video over the Web.
Jesus Christ, I'm sick of this shit - anybody wandering around saying the sky is going to fall is not a "Peakist", he's a loon. What is going to happen is some major shit though, the most important of which is realigning everybody's goddamn perceptions that the easy energy days are over, at least for a good while. That, my friend, is fucking scary.
Yeah, but those 2 different assumptions are based on the same thing: the extraction of unconventional oil will "smooth things out". Much of that has already been factored into the equation. Quite frankly, once we start gong after that PITA oil, most oil cartels will have gone bankrupt, quuite a few large nations will be fubared. The "plateau", even if it is true, will only provide comfort to that slim sliver of Eauropeans/N. Americans who can still afford oil.
Jeezus, instead of arguing the merits of TFA, can we instead discuss TFA instead?
Like, for example, the report pretty much dovetailing nicely with Peak Oil theorywith the only majot difference being when the peak happens?
Or how about that he report talks about ALL know oil sources, when in fact Peak Oil theory is based around EASILY recoverable sources, basically making this report an apple and oranges thing.
This is what Peak Oil sceptics don't get: Yes, we have a shitload of oil, but when you eliminate the stuff that's a PITA to recover, it doesn't leave a whole lot. It will probably take us a few decades at least to run out, but that downward slide is going to be a bitch.
10 players? That is indeed much cooler. However, I only had 3 friends back in the SNES days who were any good/interested in videogames, so it's not like we had a lot of people sitting around waiting for a turn;)
Negatory good buddy. While Puppet Masters will never win any Oscars, It's as good a sci-fi B-movie as you're likely to see. The pace is tight, the effects clean with little to no CGI, and Donald Sutherland actually bothered to act for once. Definitely worth a rental.
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Mod parent up. The real danger to old school tv channels isn't where you can get content, but when. I'm currently using Bittorrent a shedload simply to be able to watch the 5 or 6 tv shows I'm interested in without having to contort my life around somebody else's schedule. Once the general perception shifts from "gotta get home, Lost is on soon", to "I'll download it this weekend/I'll wait for the DVD", TV networks as we know them are dead.
Finally! Hopefully, big media will realise that literally giving away content is good for them in the long run. If this catches on like we've been hoping for years now, the DMCA, copyright laws and its like won't need to be changed, they'll just become irrelevant withg the advent of the new paradigm. (sorry for the buzzwords, folks.)
Cocaine is a hell of a drug!
Oh jesus, don't get me started on Glenn Beck. That pompous, overfed asshole is probably solely responsible for hundreds of young muslims signing up to die in the fight against the great satan.
Jebus, I can't believe how your post got moderated. Hopefully I'll catch in in M2.
While poorly worded, O'Reilly actually has a point burried beneath his typical inflamatory rhetoric.
Sadly, that's his M.O. - enveloping a micrsoscopic kernel of truth (although most often it's a "perceived truth" aka preconception and stereotype) in endless rhetoric about how he's right, everybody else is wrong and the world going to hell in a handbasket. How he built a little empire on that, I have no idea. IQs must have dropped sharply while I was away.
Tell that to his millions of viewers/listeners who not only hang on his every word, but also consider him "independent" and "centrist". O'Reilly is a symptom, not the problem.
I'm not annoyed at somebody else's opinion of art, I'm just tired of the whiny LOTR fanboys going on about how Jackson raped their childhood. If the movies were mostly shit, ala SW prequels, I wouldn't really care all that much, but considering how decent they are, all this hyperbole about "hideous mess" and the like just finally got to me. Hey, if you don't want an earful, qualify your statements, don't just throw useless pejorative terms.
I was just re-reading bits of William Goldman's "Which Lie Did I Tell?", and there's a particularly interesting section, dealing with adaptations. And one of the first things he talks about is that, when adapting, you can't keep everything, sometimes, you barely keep anything, the trick being to, as he says, keep the "spine" of the story and reject anything that won't work on the screen, because books and movies ARE TWO DIFFERENT FUCKING MEDIUMS.
I, too have loved the LOTR books since I was a kid, and I too would have loved to have seen Bombadil in the movies, etc., but, let's be honest: Jackson & Co. made an absolutely amazing film trilogy, by ANY standard you care to measure, so can we fucking end shit like "hideous mess" already? It's not true, you know it's not true, so please just fucking leave it, alright? It makes you sound like you live in your mom's basement, and just annoys the rest of us.
A real hacker always shims something!
...but ultimately slapped down by our Tom for some slowdown and being way too easy - though you'll note he complains about it taking "only" 12 hours to finish...
What the?
Either this Tom fellow is a fucking liar or the greatest gamer EVAR.
I've had that game 3 years, and I still haven't finished it, let alone 12 fucking hours.
Early yes, but nowhere near 5 years. Let's be honest, if I spend the 5-10 minutes required for the various task involved, I could have a new, DVD-quality movie to watch every night of the week. Hell, with my broadband connection, I could do a double header every night, preceded by some catoons and a half-hour news segment (say, a Daily Show ep), and still have bandwith left over. I know this isn't Hi-def, but the installed base for that is ridiculously low, and most people will never notice anyway.
Now, I'll grant you, even with the ridiculous availability of content on the many P2P sites and apps, learning how to torrent/unrar/get codecs/find reliable trackers is not for the faint of heart, but how long until somebody releases an app that incorporates automatic search/RSS functions along with a media player and an archive extractor? Getting the process down to just a few clicks should be fairly easy.
And that's the hard way! The easy way is firing up iTunes (or whatever) and browse/buy effortlessly.
The funny thing is, even though the next-gen DVD debate has been going for what seems like years now, it had not occurred to me that VOD and the like would even make an impact until I read the article. Blu-ray and HD-DVD already have a ton of problems ahead of them without considering video over the Web.
Great, magic oil. I feel soooooooooooo much better...
Jesus Christ, I'm sick of this shit - anybody wandering around saying the sky is going to fall is not a "Peakist", he's a loon. What is going to happen is some major shit though, the most important of which is realigning everybody's goddamn perceptions that the easy energy days are over, at least for a good while. That, my friend, is fucking scary.
Yeah, but those 2 different assumptions are based on the same thing: the extraction of unconventional oil will "smooth things out". Much of that has already been factored into the equation. Quite frankly, once we start gong after that PITA oil, most oil cartels will have gone bankrupt, quuite a few large nations will be fubared. The "plateau", even if it is true, will only provide comfort to that slim sliver of Eauropeans/N. Americans who can still afford oil.
Jeezus, instead of arguing the merits of TFA, can we instead discuss TFA instead?
Like, for example, the report pretty much dovetailing nicely with Peak Oil theorywith the only majot difference being when the peak happens?
Or how about that he report talks about ALL know oil sources, when in fact Peak Oil theory is based around EASILY recoverable sources, basically making this report an apple and oranges thing.
This is what Peak Oil sceptics don't get: Yes, we have a shitload of oil, but when you eliminate the stuff that's a PITA to recover, it doesn't leave a whole lot. It will probably take us a few decades at least to run out, but that downward slide is going to be a bitch.
10 players? That is indeed much cooler. However, I only had 3 friends back in the SNES days who were any good/interested in videogames, so it's not like we had a lot of people sitting around waiting for a turn ;)
Oh, and Saturn Bomber Man is the best iteration of that series, IMHO.
Really? Because I thought the SNES version (the multiplayer part, anyway) was pretty tight, but I never played the Saturn version.
I thought the pedant's meeting wasn't until tommorow?
Pfff, amateur. Real misanthropes move to a hellhole specifically to avoid people.
God, I hate it here...
Negatory good buddy. While Puppet Masters will never win any Oscars, It's as good a sci-fi B-movie as you're likely to see. The pace is tight, the effects clean with little to no CGI, and Donald Sutherland actually bothered to act for once. Definitely worth a rental.
Well, in all fairness, at we least we furriners just give you an earful, whereas typical American hubris is usually delivered via shock and awe.
Mods: go nuts! I have karma to burn, bitches.
Man, america has peaked...
Jumped the shark?
That kind of humour would work better if you weren't a typical Republican.
Also, Mencia? Try harder, princess.
That's 6,500 years, you heathen!