All indications are that this is not VOD, but live TV, so multicasting would indeed work.
VOD over IP would be awesome, but it's not going to happen until the cable companies get smart and start embracing torrent-type technology to enable much better distribution of large chunks of data.
No, not seriously. I was just reading an article on the Patriot Act, though, and was thinking about how the masses--the same ones who are willing to accept that using BitTorrent is equivalent to terrorism--might see this sort of endeavor.
...testing the limits of the first ammendment. And all for a beer!
Seriously, though, this is (obviously) a lot like the obfuscated c contest, but it's a cool idea, in that there's an important lesson to learn about evaluating code.
Mac OS 8.0 was released in July of 1997, compared to Win 2K's Feb 2000.
New major revisions of the Mac OS (9, X.2, X.3, X.4) tend to choose to do the upgrade rather than hanging on forever because they are afraid of changing. Heck, I know they have made some updates to the Classic environment relatively recently, and it still works well enough that I am still able to play Armor Alley, a Mac game that was written in 1989 under OS 6 or before!
Last, but not least, I hate to sound like a zealot, but Mac OS 8, while not perfectly stable, was way ahead of Win2K in performance and stability areas.
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WRT the movie take, I can't believe how many news stories I've seen about the evils of piracy (omigawd, there's already copies on the net!) followed or preceeded almost immediately by stories about how much money this movie has taken in.
No matter how much protection is put in place, people who want to see the movie for free will see it for free. People who believe in paying for what they get will continue to pay for what they get. And as long as the quality of a movie is good enough, the ratio of payors to non-payors will remain good enough that there will be no reason to cry for the producers, who will inevitably be sleeping on beds stuffed with money.
I'm not totally against DRM, but when it's totally invasive (if the fingerprint stuff takes off, I'm switching to shadow-puppets for entertainment!), it's worthless. And when our lawmakers are wasting time on protecting the wealth of billionaires instead of educating our children and providing for the health care of the masses, I wonder where we all went wrong.
Honestly, no. It was self indulgent and silly. The only part of those movies that I thought was really very cool was the anime film in the KB Part I about the one woman's childhood. That alone was worth the price of admission.
And then when Uma Thurman spanks the young Crazy 88 kid and sends him away, it was pretty funny. But the rest of that set was waaaaay to self-consciously "cool" (with the quotes).
Reservoir Dogs: awesome.
Pulp Fiction: classic.
The episode of ER he directed: great.
The writing in True Romance: excellent.
Sigh. Maybe I just got my hopes up too high. What do I know? I write haiku about movies I like and limericks about movies I don't.
Let's face it; he's richer than Monty Burns, and his products, while questionable these days, are not quite to the same level of toxicity. It may make us sad that his day has passed, but another dog will be along soon enough.
Heck, even Quentin Tarantino isn't as cutting-edge as he once was. And Martin Scorcese acting in the Shark Tale movie? That's hardly the Scorcese I know and love...
Yeah, I got that "my argument could be better" feeling in the pit of my stomache as I was writing, but I figured enough people would know what I meant. I'd thank you for the constructive criticism, but it was mostly just criticism.
There are indeed dangers, but we've been doing this sort of thing for thousands of years; breeding of animals and plants is an old, old practice.
I know people who are geneticists, and who work in a lab where they are able to essentially make a mouse to order. You want one that grooms obsessively, here you go! Want one that glows in the dark? You got it. Just because they do it through genetic manipulation rather than breeding doesn't make it any more evil than other means.
What it does do is accelerate our ability to learn about life. Should we take things in measured steps? Absolutely! We should also have been more careful about asbestos, lead based paint, DDT, agent orange and more. But should we ignore these amazing advances? Absolutely not!
With advances in communications technology, our Defense Department can outsource this sort of research to universities in countries where the cost is much lower. Countries like Iran, Yemen and North Korea are on the forefront of nuclear defense research, and would be happy to accept our funds for these sorts of purposes.
Imagine if office buildings could somehow be turned into secure sleeping quarters during their unused hours. In places like NYC, where the homeless population is too high for shelters and the winters cut you to the bone, it's a shame there is so much floor space that is lighted and heated while people are shivering and dying outside.
I'm not saying it would be easy, but imagine if...
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VOD over IP would be awesome, but it's not going to happen until the cable companies get smart and start embracing torrent-type technology to enable much better distribution of large chunks of data.
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No, not seriously. I was just reading an article on the Patriot Act, though, and was thinking about how the masses--the same ones who are willing to accept that using BitTorrent is equivalent to terrorism--might see this sort of endeavor.
Seriously, though, this is (obviously) a lot like the obfuscated c contest, but it's a cool idea, in that there's an important lesson to learn about evaluating code.
...what are you doing on /.?
Mac OS 8.0 was released in July of 1997, compared to Win 2K's Feb 2000.
New major revisions of the Mac OS (9, X.2, X.3, X.4) tend to choose to do the upgrade rather than hanging on forever because they are afraid of changing. Heck, I know they have made some updates to the Classic environment relatively recently, and it still works well enough that I am still able to play Armor Alley, a Mac game that was written in 1989 under OS 6 or before!
Last, but not least, I hate to sound like a zealot, but Mac OS 8, while not perfectly stable, was way ahead of Win2K in performance and stability areas.
Naw, all it takes is a hundred.
Those would be blah-gers.
Surely you meant that people should have dedicated themselves to CP/M! Now THAT's an OS!
No, because in Russia, the power waters you! Or...?
'nuff sed.
WRT the movie take, I can't believe how many news stories I've seen about the evils of piracy (omigawd, there's already copies on the net!) followed or preceeded almost immediately by stories about how much money this movie has taken in.
No matter how much protection is put in place, people who want to see the movie for free will see it for free. People who believe in paying for what they get will continue to pay for what they get. And as long as the quality of a movie is good enough, the ratio of payors to non-payors will remain good enough that there will be no reason to cry for the producers, who will inevitably be sleeping on beds stuffed with money.
I'm not totally against DRM, but when it's totally invasive (if the fingerprint stuff takes off, I'm switching to shadow-puppets for entertainment!), it's worthless. And when our lawmakers are wasting time on protecting the wealth of billionaires instead of educating our children and providing for the health care of the masses, I wonder where we all went wrong.
OK, I'll get off my soapbox now.
Well, Google has news posts of mine going back to 1991. Does that count?
D'oh.
And then when Uma Thurman spanks the young Crazy 88 kid and sends him away, it was pretty funny. But the rest of that set was waaaaay to self-consciously "cool" (with the quotes).
Reservoir Dogs: awesome.
Pulp Fiction: classic.
The episode of ER he directed: great.
The writing in True Romance: excellent.
Sigh. Maybe I just got my hopes up too high. What do I know? I write haiku about movies I like and limericks about movies I don't.
Heck, even Quentin Tarantino isn't as cutting-edge as he once was. And Martin Scorcese acting in the Shark Tale movie? That's hardly the Scorcese I know and love...
So, thanks for the criticism :-)
I know people who are geneticists, and who work in a lab where they are able to essentially make a mouse to order. You want one that grooms obsessively, here you go! Want one that glows in the dark? You got it. Just because they do it through genetic manipulation rather than breeding doesn't make it any more evil than other means.
What it does do is accelerate our ability to learn about life. Should we take things in measured steps? Absolutely! We should also have been more careful about asbestos, lead based paint, DDT, agent orange and more. But should we ignore these amazing advances? Absolutely not!
With advances in communications technology, our Defense Department can outsource this sort of research to universities in countries where the cost is much lower. Countries like Iran, Yemen and North Korea are on the forefront of nuclear defense research, and would be happy to accept our funds for these sorts of purposes.
No, with a mainframe the request is silently implied.
I'm not saying it would be easy, but imagine if...