I want it easily accesible, portable and priced reasonably. This isn't about artists rights or copyrights as much as it's about distribution control.
Just today I Tivoed a movie called No Man's Land. It's an 80s flick with Charlie Sheen. Ebert gave it 3 stars, so I thought what they heck. Later on I went down to check on it and it was actually a 2001 movie about Bosnia or something.
Now, I wasn't able to get the movie I wanted. Why not let me hope on the internet, let me buy/use the movie for 30 days. Charge me a buck. Heck, encrypt my credit card in it. I don't care. But let me get it A) Right now. B) Let me move it to my laptop to watch on the plane. C) Don't gouge me on the price. It's not costing you anything except some bandwidth.
Palm does it right. They offer topical, up to date ebooks for purchase. They encrypt your credit card in it. This makes sure that you don't pass it around, but also makes it portable. They don't care where you read it. It's a very nice, easy solution for me to buy books for those long flights. I think some of their prices are too high. I think they should pass the savings of not having to publish a book onto me, but that doesn't matter. I vote with my money. I choose reasonably priced titles.
The cat is out of the bag. People want easy, convinient access to digital media. The companies better get in front of this.
As for the movie industry bitching... why? Hasn't the success of videotapes and DVDs shown them that they can make a ton of money. I would suggest to them that they get in front of this.
The RIAA is just lost. They can't seem to grasp the fundamental fact that their market is moving away from them.
Gilligan and the Professor Rejoice
on
Bamboo Bike A Reality
·
· Score: 1, Informative
"Born in Pennsylvania, Gilligan worked at a gas station before joining the Navy where he saved the life of the captain, becoming his "little buddy." In gratitude, when the Skipper started his own charter business, he hired Gilligan to be his first mate despite his incompetence. Gilligan's childlike nature makes him the perfect errand boy often performing many of the menial tasks on the island such as riding the Professor's generator bike, acting as manservant to Mr. Howell or collecting coconuts for the girls. It should be noted, some claim Gilligan's first name is "Willy", though none has been able to prove it."
I guess this will teach him to leave his tapes laying around. Good lesson to learn in case he actually gets out of puberty and starts taping his girlfriends.
Haven't seen it posted, but there is a very good plan for IT folks at Hacker's Diet
"This is not a normal diet book, and I am not a normal diet book author.
I'm not a doctor. Nor am I a nutritionist, psychologist, sports hero, gourmet chef, or any of the other vocations that seem to qualify people to tell you how to lose weight.
I'm an engineer by training, a computer programmer by avocation, and an businessman through lack of alternatives. From grade school in the 1950's until 1988 I was fat--anywhere from 30 to 80 pounds overweight. This is a diet book by somebody who spent most of his life fat. "
How do you set it up as permanent? I looked and the Node Availability preferences are greyed out. It says to go to geek mode, but I cannot find what I need to set there.
And from the "they keep shooting themselves in the head" department, Metallica says no iTunes do to principles.: "Artists hold out on iTunes on principle Reuters News Service
LOS ANGELES -- The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Metallica are refusing to make their music available as individual downloads on Apple Computer's iTunes online music store.
That move comes in response to Apple's decision to allow users to buy single tracks and is intended to protect the future of the long-playing album, said Mark Reiter of Q Prime Management Co., which manages the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica and several other artists.
Green Day and Linkin Park, according to a source familiar with the situation, have also refused to make their songs available as individual downloads on the Apple service, which has sold over 5 million songs. "
-- Hey.. I have a great idea. Let's tick off our customers. They want this, but let's not give it to them. In fact, let's prosecute them. Works for me.
BitTorrent has seen a wide array of usage since it debuted. Many have been surprising and it has caught the fire that makes sofwtare a success. How do you personally measure the success of BitTorrent? Has it achieved the goals you first set?
Do you feel that BitTorrent's core functionality can one day be integrated in the operating system as a file system? The ability to share files among disparate systems in remote locations can be seen as extension of what was started with HTML, et. al.
For 99.9% of the people in the world all they want is PVR functionality. For those.1% who want more 90% will never use the functionality they add. Never.
Add to this that 100% of statistics are made up and you'll see where I am going.
I checked that out and from what I understand it's a narrative and uses the moral decline of society for the breakdown. I'm looking for something that examines all the issues and provides analysis; not just narrative. Thanks, though for the suggestion.
I am a Total Fark susbcriber and the only reason I did it was to get access to EVERYTHING that was submitted.
The enjoyment in using Fark comes from the ability to see what other people think is unique and newsworthy.
Slashdot is a great clearinghouse not only for technical news, but of technical thought as well. How many times have articles been submitted that the editors don't think are relevent to their vision, but that I'll get value from?
Isn't that what Slashdot should be selling? Access to the stuff other people consider important?
When I read Taco's explanation about the early preview the only thing it does is:
1) Offer the community the ability to check dupes. 2) Offer a headstart on crushing a site.
If a site is going to get slashdotted what is the big deal if it's slashdotted by the first 100 or the last 100? It's still going to be slashdotted.
If anyone from the Slashdot editor team is listening... why not open up the whole queue for people to read? No comments, but at least let us check out what other people think is important and relevent.
Right now your model is focused on avoiding ads. Why? Focus on the CONTENT and you'll do much much better.
Here is a great paper on the subject. The site is down, but Google has a cache of it.
A quote: "Michael M, Editor-in-Chief of PC Magazine was looking at the executive report on the latest graphics benchmarks which were to appear in the June 29th issue. As he got deeper into the summary, his face took on a baffled look. He picked up the phone to call Bill M, Vice President for Technology, and asked him to come by his office with the detailed test results. Five minutes later, they were pouring over the data on Bill's laptop."
Checkpoint is the Leader
on
NYT on RFID Tags
·
· Score: 2, Informative
Checkpoint is the leader in the industry. They have been at this the longest and have developed a very system for handling all the backend as well.
Many of their early success stories have been libraries. Having been a customer of a library that uses this it's very cool... not so much for loss prevention, but for availability and auditing of book inventory.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually I don't want it for free.
... why? Hasn't the success of videotapes and DVDs shown them that they can make a ton of money. I would suggest to them that they get in front of this.
I want it easily accesible, portable and priced reasonably. This isn't about artists rights or copyrights as much as it's about distribution control.
Just today I Tivoed a movie called No Man's Land. It's an 80s flick with Charlie Sheen. Ebert gave it 3 stars, so I thought what they heck. Later on I went down to check on it and it was actually a 2001 movie about Bosnia or something.
Now, I wasn't able to get the movie I wanted. Why not let me hope on the internet, let me buy/use the movie for 30 days. Charge me a buck. Heck, encrypt my credit card in it. I don't care. But let me get it A) Right now. B) Let me move it to my laptop to watch on the plane. C) Don't gouge me on the price. It's not costing you anything except some bandwidth.
Palm does it right. They offer topical, up to date ebooks for purchase. They encrypt your credit card in it. This makes sure that you don't pass it around, but also makes it portable. They don't care where you read it. It's a very nice, easy solution for me to buy books for those long flights. I think some of their prices are too high. I think they should pass the savings of not having to publish a book onto me, but that doesn't matter. I vote with my money. I choose reasonably priced titles.
The cat is out of the bag. People want easy, convinient access to digital media. The companies better get in front of this.
As for the movie industry bitching
The RIAA is just lost. They can't seem to grasp the fundamental fact that their market is moving away from them.
"Born in Pennsylvania, Gilligan worked at a gas station before joining the Navy where he saved the life of the captain, becoming his "little buddy." In gratitude, when the Skipper started his own charter business, he hired Gilligan to be his first mate despite his incompetence. Gilligan's childlike nature makes him the perfect errand boy often performing many of the menial tasks on the island such as riding the Professor's generator bike, acting as manservant to Mr. Howell or collecting coconuts for the girls. It should be noted, some claim Gilligan's first name is "Willy", though none has been able to prove it."
TV Land Rules
Here is the original and remix videos
of the kid. Pretty funny stuff.
I guess this will teach him to leave his tapes laying around. Good lesson to learn in case he actually gets out of puberty and starts taping his girlfriends.
Haven't seen it posted, but there is a very good plan for IT folks at Hacker's Diet
"This is not a normal diet book, and I am not a normal diet book author.
I'm not a doctor. Nor am I a nutritionist, psychologist, sports hero, gourmet chef, or any of the other vocations that seem to qualify people to tell you how to lose weight.
I'm an engineer by training, a computer programmer by avocation, and an businessman through lack of alternatives. From grade school in the 1950's until 1988 I was fat--anywhere from 30 to 80 pounds overweight. This is a diet book by somebody who spent most of his life fat. "
How do you set it up as permanent? I looked and the Node Availability preferences are greyed out. It says to go to geek mode, but I cannot find what I need to set there.
And from the "they keep shooting themselves in the head" department, Metallica says no iTunes do to principles. :
.. I have a great idea. Let's tick off our customers. They want this, but let's not give it to them. In fact, let's prosecute them. Works for me.
"Artists hold out on iTunes on principle
Reuters News Service
LOS ANGELES -- The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Metallica are refusing to make their music available as individual downloads on Apple Computer's iTunes online music store.
That move comes in response to Apple's decision to allow users to buy single tracks and is intended to protect the future of the long-playing album, said Mark Reiter of Q Prime Management Co., which manages the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica and several other artists.
Green Day and Linkin Park, according to a source familiar with the situation, have also refused to make their songs available as individual downloads on the Apple service, which has sold over 5 million songs. "
-- Hey
Idiots.
Please contact me if you are there or close to there. I'd like to bid on the name and use you as a proxy.
What you forget it that the internet is the place where national sovereignty melts away.
Did you know that Direct TV cannot be bought in Canada due to law?
Direct TV in Canada?
There are only two sat companies in Canada recognized?
Canada doesn't recognize Direct TV
Here's another article
that explains the situation.
What you have is one country setting the laws for itself, but the internet crosses all national lines.
Instead of saying this is what the DMCA will be used for focus your efforts on the fact that the DMCA should be modified. Canada is doing us a favor.
BitTorrent has seen a wide array of usage since it debuted. Many have been surprising and it has caught the fire that makes sofwtare a success. How do you personally measure the success of BitTorrent? Has it achieved the goals you first set?
Do you feel that BitTorrent's core functionality can one day be integrated in the operating system as a file system? The ability to share files among disparate systems in remote locations can be seen as extension of what was started with HTML, et. al.
Does anyone know where I can purchase a print for framing of an F5 tornado?
That's great. So, can I have some of the time you have?
It's well worth it for me to have the best device invented since the car FREE MY TIME and no longer FORCE ME TO BE A SLAVE to the TV programming gods.
$4.99 a month and all I had to do was plug it in, connect three cables and turn it on. Kick ass. Count me in.
As for being a more open platform, check out:
Tivo Forums
And neither can my fridge. So what?
.1% who want more 90% will never use the functionality they add. Never.
For 99.9% of the people in the world all they want is PVR functionality. For those
Add to this that 100% of statistics are made up and you'll see where I am going.
How many of these topics will we see?
They are $200 and you save time, money and effort. Even the geek effect isn't worth it this time.
Spend the money and help a company.
Here's a list of sites that can help if you're married to doing this:
Freevo
XMLTV
Dan Bricklin has a page or two on the history from his perspective.
Unlike many software programs after it, the basic concepts of Visicalc were never patented.
You can read about why Visicalc wasn't patented here.
I checked that out and from what I understand it's a narrative and uses the moral decline of society for the breakdown. I'm looking for something that examines all the issues and provides analysis; not just narrative. Thanks, though for the suggestion.
What about expansion? Didn't they expand their land holding too far to support and defend?
That's a bummer on the book. I've always thought world super powers last about 300 years and then it's someone else's turn.
Is there a good book that describes how and why Rome fell?
This is all of them. Thumbnails and normal size.
Screen Shot Mirror
They screens look gorgeous. I don't know how they can use the copyrighted elements from Microsoft, but they look great.
Here is a real screenshot mirror with all the screem shots included. Thumbnails and full size:
Screen Shot Mirror
I am a Total Fark susbcriber and the only reason I did it was to get access to EVERYTHING that was submitted.
... why not open up the whole queue for people to read? No comments, but at least let us check out what other people think is important and relevent.
The enjoyment in using Fark comes from the ability to see what other people think is unique and newsworthy.
Slashdot is a great clearinghouse not only for technical news, but of technical thought as well. How many times have articles been submitted that the editors don't think are relevent to their vision, but that I'll get value from?
Isn't that what Slashdot should be selling? Access to the stuff other people consider important?
When I read Taco's explanation about the early preview the only thing it does is:
1) Offer the community the ability to check dupes.
2) Offer a headstart on crushing a site.
If a site is going to get slashdotted what is the big deal if it's slashdotted by the first 100 or the last 100? It's still going to be slashdotted.
If anyone from the Slashdot editor team is listening
Right now your model is focused on avoiding ads. Why? Focus on the CONTENT and you'll do much much better.
What's organic about them?
That's one of the funniest things I have read on Slashdot in a long time! Very clever and topical!
Here is a great paper on the subject. The site is down, but Google has a cache of it.
A quote:
"Michael M, Editor-in-Chief of PC Magazine was looking at the executive report on the latest graphics benchmarks which were to appear in the June 29th issue. As he got deeper into the summary, his face took on a baffled look. He picked up the phone to call Bill M, Vice President for Technology, and asked him to come by his office with the detailed test results. Five minutes later, they were pouring over the data on Bill's laptop."
Source:
Hercules Cheating
Checkpoint is the leader in the industry. They have been at this the longest and have developed a very system for handling all the backend as well.
... not so much for loss prevention, but for availability and auditing of book inventory.
Many of their early success stories have been libraries. Having been a customer of a library that uses this it's very cool