I agree for the most part. But people largely don't know about other tech out there, albeit in its infancy. I hardly EVER watch TV live anymore because of a tiny, and I mean tiny, little set top box that'll stream from my networked PC to my TV (PrismIQ, for those that care). Initially, I had a ton of problems getting certain downloaded AVIs to play properly - synced audio being the problem. However, once the problem was sorted out, I turned to torrents of my shows. As long as I can, this is the way I'll watch TV, until some superior tech comes along that will allow me to do the equivalent. The torrents that I get (I'm downloading at least one show a day now) are very good quality, and commercial free.
Anyway, I went off on a tangent. My point was really that as households become equiped with broadband and network connectivity throughout the entire house, more of these devices are going to come to market. Just as people started buying TVs and telephones for other rooms in the house - because there was a jack installed. And unless some law is passed that criminalizes torrents or whatever equivalent there may be in the future, this is only going to increase.
Huh? So now anyone who doesn't buy a Mac is cheap?
Sorry, but Apple hasn't (so far, anyway) set the market rates. Other companies have. And they ALL seem to be able to match a lower price point. Everyone except Apple, that is.
Hopefully, you didn't openly gloat over it. If you are still in the industry, you're bound to run into an ex-coworker who will a) give you the thumbs up when you need it or b) tell everybody how you left everything in shambles when you left.
Yes, you are confused. It's not specifically illegal, but dipping babies in vats of liquid mercury isn't specifically illegal either. One is a kind of copyright infringement, and the other is a kind of murder, and those two things are illegal.
Sorry, you lost any credibility right there. How can you possibly compare the two things? You can't, unless you're the MPAA, which only seems to understand fear-mongering. Wouldn't it be nice if logic were actually used instead of fear (and mesunderstanding, I might add)?
I'm not trolling or trying to start a flamewar, but I was severely dissapointed by the new series. As a fan of the original, I didn't like the feel of this nü-Battlestar Galactica.
Obviously these things are subjective, but I LOVED the new series. And the season cliffhanger... I knew what was coming, but still flinched!
Maybe you equate "survive" with "die", but they are doing exactly what I said - surviving. Their profits are NOWHERE near what they were. And will probably never return to previous profitability levels.
Or maybe you just don't know their history.
In any case, I repeat: They're doing what they have to do to survive.
Theatrics aside, the cost of quality cable or satellite programming has gone up, but the quality has been on a steady decline because of the loss of ad revenue.
By extension, you could say that the quality has gone down because actors demand sky-high fees, which advertisers are unwilling to pay.
I consistently download 8 shows a week, ranging from Sci-Fi to comedy, to drama.
Then I stream them to my PrismIQ. I have plenty of entertainment throughout the week, but feel no need to woprk around anybody else's schedule but my own. And I don't see commercials, to boot.
I beg to differ. When there is an emergency in your community, how do you (collectively) find out about it?
Through the emergency broadcasting system. And pretty much nowhere else.
Communication doesn't have to be two way to be effective.
Actually, he makes a valid point. I hadn't used the two mentioned, but tvtorrents and tv-swarm are always having some sort of problems. This week it's w2.tvtorrents.tv (but was www.tvtorrents.com - yeah, a while ago), or maybe w1. Try them both. Eventually one will work. Tv-swarm is off for good, as far as I can tell. It's no fun just getting into the swing of things, only to be punted somewhere else.
There's btefnet.com, but the shows I want seem to be in AC3 audio. No good to stream to my prismiq. And something I really never had to deal with from the other sites. Yet I seem to put up with the frustrations, partly because I'm learing something new, and partly because it's still free.
I suppose the etymology would be the same as with any other word. In the case of "barn", it comes from "barley house" - a contraction of two different words in old English. Yet we no longer keep barley in barns. Meanings change. That's the very essense of a living language. So is the interaction and corruption of different dialiects and other languages.
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
I suspect the crux of the matter is in the word offenders, but since I (nor you, I'm assuming) don't speak or read ancient Greek we can't be sure, can we?
I've actually tested in a corporate envorin... It's a bout 30k, not 5k. Can spike as high as 50k. They themselves claim that 5k is the bare minimum, and 25-30k is much more likely.
They do the bidding of the big record labels, and take all the heat from people like you so Sony Music and the other actual villains in this story don't have to.
Do you think they do all this out of the goodness of their heart?" There's good reason they do the bidding and representation - they're compensated for it. It's just another cog in the music machine.
There were no Tomatoes in Europe, so if people think of pizza as "cheese and tomato with stuff on", which I would argue most people do, then one could see it as having American origins. Although...that is using "American" in its very loosest sense as a continent where tomatoes came from...
Pizza as it's known today gets its roots from Naples. When tomatoes were brought back from the new world - in the 16th century. It really wasn't perfected until the 17th century. Again in Naples. The only thing America had to do with pizza was that single ingredient.
There will ALWAYS be some rebel musicians out there to provide their music in an accessible format, without DRM or monthly subscriptions.
Some of the best musicians I know are not in it for the money (or even do it full time, for that matter). All they care about is getting their music heard.
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Anyway, I went off on a tangent. My point was really that as households become equiped with broadband and network connectivity throughout the entire house, more of these devices are going to come to market. Just as people started buying TVs and telephones for other rooms in the house - because there was a jack installed. And unless some law is passed that criminalizes torrents or whatever equivalent there may be in the future, this is only going to increase.
Sorry, but Apple hasn't (so far, anyway) set the market rates. Other companies have. And they ALL seem to be able to match a lower price point. Everyone except Apple, that is.
Good grief, get off your fanboy soapbox.
The industry is NEVER as big as people think.
That said, I have a couple of squeezeboxes connected to a slimserver, and it does what it does nicely. No muss, no fuss.
Sorry, you lost any credibility right there. How can you possibly compare the two things? You can't, unless you're the MPAA, which only seems to understand fear-mongering. Wouldn't it be nice if logic were actually used instead of fear (and mesunderstanding, I might add)?
Obviously these things are subjective, but I LOVED the new series. And the season cliffhanger... I knew what was coming, but still flinched!
Good stuff, in my book.
Or maybe you just don't know their history.
In any case, I repeat: They're doing what they have to do to survive.
If they had their way, it'd be Solaris/Sparc all the way.
I go wee when I lean on a key too long :-)
Humor is lost on some people.
But COULD wee harm them? At least let us use them a bit.
Bunch a blowhards.
By extension, you could say that the quality has gone down because actors demand sky-high fees, which advertisers are unwilling to pay.
Stardom is ridiculously expensive, it would seem.
I consistently download 8 shows a week, ranging from Sci-Fi to comedy, to drama.
Then I stream them to my PrismIQ. I have plenty of entertainment throughout the week, but feel no need to woprk around anybody else's schedule but my own. And I don't see commercials, to boot.
It probably won't last, but it works for me now.
Communication doesn't have to be two way to be effective.
There's btefnet.com, but the shows I want seem to be in AC3 audio. No good to stream to my prismiq. And something I really never had to deal with from the other sites. Yet I seem to put up with the frustrations, partly because I'm learing something new, and partly because it's still free.
However, there's nothing saying that contract providers to the government can't run Linux (and have), such as, say, the Federal Reserve.
I suppose the etymology would be the same as with any other word. In the case of "barn", it comes from "barley house" - a contraction of two different words in old English. Yet we no longer keep barley in barns. Meanings change. That's the very essense of a living language. So is the interaction and corruption of different dialiects and other languages.
I suspect the crux of the matter is in the word offenders, but since I (nor you, I'm assuming) don't speak or read ancient Greek we can't be sure, can we?
SJPhone + Freeworld Dialup is a great combination. Every bit as free a Skype currently is.
I don't know that it will be Skype, but I really believe VoIP is set to be THE killer app the next couple of years.
I've actually tested in a corporate envorin... It's a bout 30k, not 5k. Can spike as high as 50k. They themselves claim that 5k is the bare minimum, and 25-30k is much more likely.
Do you think they do all this out of the goodness of their heart?" There's good reason they do the bidding and representation - they're compensated for it. It's just another cog in the music machine.
Pizza as it's known today gets its roots from Naples. When tomatoes were brought back from the new world - in the 16th century. It really wasn't perfected until the 17th century. Again in Naples. The only thing America had to do with pizza was that single ingredient.
Some of the best musicians I know are not in it for the money (or even do it full time, for that matter). All they care about is getting their music heard.