or if 'b' and 'c' where licensed under the lgpl that would allow you to keep 'a' under a propitiatory license but let you link into 'b' and 'c' thus resulting in a compiled derivative work of 'abc'.
(at least from my limited knowledge of the LGPL, I could be entirely wrong, cause IANAL )
Star Trek: Enterprise was cancelled because it had only 2 million viewers.
Enterprise is on UPN which is available on 'Free' over-the-air TV. Battlestar Galactica is availble on Sci Fi, which is only available on pay-only cable. That is the reason for the discontinity between the two shows.
Now if only Sci Fi could get the rights to Star Trek, and then put it on their Friday night Stargate , Stargate Atlantis, and Battlestar Galactica lineup.
Too bad Paramount will NEVER let go of Star Trek...
This is why I love the Judicial Branch of government, well, the Federal Judicial Branch of government ( at least in the last few years, all bets are off after GWB leaves office, when he has appointed "the craziest motherfucker [he] can sneak past Congress.").
The Federal Judiciary is for the most part is separated from politics ( the only connection to politics is when they are appointed, after that they are free to express their ideals with out fear of being voted out of office)
I hope that this is challenged in the courts and over turned. Though the neo conservatives will just have more to complain about in terms of "Judicial Activism" and well then push even harder for stripping the court of their constitutional rights.
For all the backwardness that is Utah, do what they are doing in regards to a telecommunications system. Specificly look at Provo and their community fiber to the home network, iProvo.
What they are doing in Provo, (and subsequently with the UTOPIA project in other Utah cities) is have the city (or organization, in UTOPIA's case) build and maintain the infrastructure. The city / organization then leases out that infrastructure to small businesses across the state that provide the actual service to residents. The system is maintained by the fees charged to local ISP's that in turn provide Internet access to the populace.
It is amazingly simple, yet, Qwest and Comcast has fought tooth and nail to shut both projects down in the State Legislature. To date, they have failed, though as a casualty, Salt Lake City has unfortunately pulled out of UTOPIA (damn you Rocky Anderson) along with a few other cities.
I theorize that the reason most of the attempts have failed, at least outside of Salt Lake County, is because of a strong sense of community that comes from a communal belief in holding all things in common, refereed to as the United Order
If shit like this continues I might have to grin and bare Utah's backwardness if I don't want to surcome to corporate control of Internet Access.
Which is odd, his fellow Mormon's in the Senate are for embryonic steam cell research, to the dismay of fellow Republicans. Though it is not surprising, radical, fundamentalist Christianity says life starts at conception, but because of a Mormon belief in a pre mortal life, the jury is still out on when the should enters the body. This, therefore allows a greater latitude toward such things as stem cell research. A similar point of view also leads to a more liberal policy towards such things as abortion (main stream Christianity does not believe, for the most part, that there should be any allowances for abortion. With in Mormonism, abortion is except able in cases of rape, incest, or when the health of the mother is at risk.)
So now what do we do? Stand back and wait for the next "Great Patriotic War" when they get a huge stockpile built, or cut our losses and fight now?
That was retorical of course, because with Duybia in office, of course we are going to invade N. Korea, even if invading N. Korea means that they (N. Korea) launch Nuclear bombs at us.
N. Korea needs a seirious clue if they think they can intimidate us with just a couple of nukes. How many nukes does the US have? Above and beyond that, how many are THERMONUCLEAR? If N. Korea launched a nuke agiesnt S. Korea or our armed forces, there is NO DOUBT that we would cover the whole damned nation with nukes.
This really changes nothing, and only ensures that Duybia and the neo cons WILL invade N. Korea...
about the only mormon connection still left in the series is the basic, '12 Colonies' of men, the search, (up untill the end of the 1st season not a very active search) for the 13th being Earth, and a planet 'Kobol' where mean, and the 'gods' came from.
In fact the series has more of a traditional orthadox relgious perspective in it. Damn, if only Glen A. Larsen was Executive Producing the new series instead of being a 'Consulting Producer'. That being said I still do like the new series, and I especially like the religious twist the series takes, even though it has strayed from its mormon orgins...
Longhorn interoperatable with XP, and 2000 let alone with the Windows 9x OS's? Everything that has been coming out about Longhorn has stated that it is going to break interoperability with the rest of the Window's OS family, (similar to the way 2000 and XP broke interoperability with the Window's 9x family, but to a greater extent).
To state the obvious, Microsoft is not interested in interoberability, they already have, in their eyes, a problem with people still running Windows 98, and Office 97. The lack of people upgrading is starting to hurt Microsoft's revenue stream, thus, if they are able to ensure that all the app's for the 9x and NT (XP and 2000) series kernel's break with Longhorn that will force an upgrade to the most recent OS and Office Suite...
Until Microsoft lobbies the US government to make Linux illegal because it circumvents Copy protection methods...
I agree though, what they are proposing only, of course, affects the Operating System with a 99% home user share. Other small, but alternative OS's well obviously be able to circumvent this technology, that is until more people start using them. This is just what happened with Napster, Kaaza, eDonkey, and bit torrent.
Of course what would really help Linux is if the EU, China and other countries outside the US start vigorously using Linux. So even if Linux is illegal in the US, it is still available outside the US for download inside the US (just make sure to use a proxy server outside the US to get it and use strong encryption back to your home computer in the US or you'll get thrown in a Federal "pound you in the ass" penitentiary.
Of course if they neo conservatives, radical Christian bigots have there way, the US will have there own "Great Firewall of China" set up, that will filter out "harmful" sites (such as Porn and illegal OS's like Linux) and when that happens, I'll I have to say is fuck the US, I am going to move else where, somewhere where the government is not for the corporations and by the corporations, but for actual people...
If I recall right another computer company did this back in the 80's and didn't fair as well as the software-only Micrsoft. What was there name pear, orange, grapfruit....
Would it be really that hard to reverse engineer an HDTV tuner, possibly enough to be able to flash the card with custom software that ignores the flag? I don't think so, and I would love to have an opportunity to attempt it, just for the mere educational value of doing so...
Of course doing that would be illegal in the US, so would have to be done subvertly inside the US, or outside the US (no purpose to do it outside the US;-))
*sigh* guess I need to makes plans to immigrate back to the land of my fore fathers IE Europe (though this was affirmed when the American majority showed how stupid they are by electing Bush for a second term, I dunno if I could stand being around the likes of idiots such as that...)
Well, with Ben Browder coming on as a regualer ( no not as John Crichton), Claudia Black coming back for 5 episodes, and with a new general (to replace Richard Dean Anderson) Beau Bridges. I actually think the next season of SG-1 looks promising.
If it wasn't for Ben and Claudia I would be on the side of the camp calling for and end to SG-1 while it is good, I don't think I can go through another downward slid that was the X Files (God DAMN was that show horrible once they moved the production to LA, damn you David Dacovney DAMN YOU!!!) But seeing that I like Ben and Claudia from Farscape, as long as MGM doesn't hire Farscape writers, the series should be kept from turing itn 'Fargate'...
According to this article we could possibly generate all the electricity we need, at least during the day time, in 10 years with Stirling engine's that generate electricity from solar power. That coupled with fuel cells should be able to dramatically reduce our dependence on oil, and as a result reduce green house gas emissions.
Now, the one problem with this scenario is the U.S. and its current leadership, which is deeply invested with in the oil market, and makes HUGE profits when the price of a barrel of oil goes up and up and up. I hope that with in 10 years the rest of the world will gain a back bone and stand up to the U.S. instead of be bullied around. It won't be too hard to do, seeing that the U.S. economy is already in the shitter now, and Asia and the EU are projected to make huge economic gains in the near future.
Here is hoping that U.S. power is diminished in the next ~10 years, so we can avert this catastrophe.
I remember reading specifications for Cable Card's and while with Cable Card 1.0 you needed to buy multiple cards for muliple TV's with Cable Card 2.0 you could connect multiple TV's with just one Cable Card.
I can't remeber were I saw this though, has anyone else seen something like this?
The rest of the world, as in, the WTO, the EU and South East Asia (notably China). All are predicted, (most recently by the CIA's forecast) to become huge in terms of their economies. I would put money down that with in twenty years (if it even takes that long) the US will no longer be the lone super power (A super power). The US is just too reckless, doesn't give a damned about the long term consequences of its actions (I've heard it said that America is like a teenager who has just found daddies unlocked gun closet).
America is going to fall, and fall HARD. The rest of the world is going to start knocking on our door and demanding payment, and like the idiots we are, we are going to ignore their proverbial phone calls until the collection agencies come (the aforementioned organizations and nations) and strip the US of its super power status.
I can't help but wonder if BitTorrent is the application that finally pushes people towards Freenet.
I know for me at least, I will NOT use Freenet unless there is a way for me to make ABSOLUTLY SURE that there is NO KIDDIE PORN on my computer. I understand the philosphy that in a completly free socity, we should except stuff like that, however, we are NOT in a free socity, and if for some unknown reason that is found on my computer it will be ME who is thrown into the federal pound me in the ass prison, and it will be ME who will be required to regester as a child sex offender for the rest of my damn life.
Give me a way to limit what goes on and off my computer and I will do Freenet, but not untill I can do that...
There's nothing I enjoy more than paying money to rent a movie and sitting through 15 minutes of advertisements because the DVD won't allow the player to skip forward through that crap.
or build you own Media center and use DeCSS. Who cares if it is technically illegal? If you cover your tracks (READ: If you are geek enough) you can grab the source from a non-american server and as long as you don't broadcast to the rest of the world on you blog that that your doing this, no one will know.
They say the new specs for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray will allow for tougher encryption standerds. Sure, it may be tougher than the security nightmare CSS is, but eventually it WILL get cracked (sadly someone ouside the US will have to do it, and post it, and it will most likly come out of southeast asia. Mental note: Buy a shell account based in south east asia.) so you can do rinse and repeat the whole process with whatever format wins the Format war.
Actually there are a many Mormon's (myself included) who believe in evolution...It's those fundamentalist Christians who are insistent on a literal interpretation of the Bible that can be the problem , not the Mormons (excluding Orrin Hatch he can goto Hell;-) ).
if it meant you were still watching the commercials.
An excllent way to increase viewership would be to offer Torrent's of programs for free(torrents because this would save on bandwidth) WITH commericals. Yeah Commericals suck, but they pay for the programing. You could then download that episode of the West Wing if you missed it.
Of course this would never happen. The number one reason is that it would be way to easy to devise a program to parse through the show and delete out the commericals. That and the MPAA has shown they are impervious to the benifits of new tech coming out automaticly assuming it is going to aid piracy and decrease thier market share.
But if they could look pass that proverbial nose...
I know comcast is switching over all of the old ATTBI accounts to giganews at the beginning of the year, and the quota for existing giganews accounts (legacy comcast accounts) will be going up to 2 gig a month, with free headers. Err thats just annoying, 2 gigs is barley worth it for reading newsgroups let alone downloading from them:-(
I agree that it is not fair for the gov't to compete with private industry in that gov't provides services along with an infrastructure.
Infrastructure, however, much likes roads, water lines, and power grids, could, perhaps even SHOULD be provided by local governments, this in turn would be rented out to private businesses that would provide the actual service, thus paying for the infrastructure.
Perhaps this could still be down in Phily, the government provides the infrastructure for smaller business to provide the actually Wireless Internet service. This would make more sense for FTTH, where the government lays out the Fiber and once the network is in place private business hands out the internet service, (much like the all to frequently mentioned iProvo and UTOPIA projects). However for government to get directly involved leads to a whole nother mess of problems, (corruption being at the top of the list).
and the fact that telemarketers have been drooling at the prospect of a list that they can get for free. Notch one up for the telemarketers lobbest and one down for the public.
I've been wating for the price of Farscape DVD's to drop, they haven't. Meanwhile I've been able to buy nearly the entire seasons of Buffy and Angel for 40 bucks a season. If whoever puts out the Farscape DVD's (dunno if it is Henson or Sci Fi, I wouldn't doubt it if its Sci Fi) would drop the price to the $40-$50 range than they would sell TONS of DVD's, making up the drop in price from $112 to $50 in volume.
I've got to say, for all their quirkiness, (read dumbass-ness) Fox knows who to market and price there box sets, where as other companys don't know shit about how to price there box sets and try to maximize profits solely through raising the price on the product instead of relaying on making a profit through a volume of sales.
The Economy still is in the shitter, and with the re election of our dumb ass president, the Economy will only be getting better for millinare CEO's and shareholders, while Corperations continue to ass rape the American public (read, lower to middle class) at minimum to near minimum wage.
There are a good deal of TV Shows that you can buy for 40-50 dollars which I agree is a bargin and worth the money. On the other hand, there are other shows that retail and $150 new to $90 used this is WAY TOO MUCH MONEY.
If you want to get people to buy your DVD sets price them around the $50 range, if it much higher than that people are going to get them elsewhere.
As for the TV industry starting to sue us now, anybody know some good cheap (not neccessarly free) southeast asian proxy servers that I can get a shell account from. Looks like I am going to have to proxy all of my connections from there, encrypting them from the US of course;-)
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or if 'b' and 'c' where licensed under the lgpl that would allow you to keep 'a' under a propitiatory license but let you link into 'b' and 'c' thus resulting in a compiled derivative work of 'abc'.
(at least from my limited knowledge of the LGPL, I could be entirely wrong, cause IANAL )
Star Trek: Enterprise was cancelled because it had only 2 million viewers.
Enterprise is on UPN which is available on 'Free' over-the-air TV. Battlestar Galactica is availble on Sci Fi, which is only available on pay-only cable. That is the reason for the discontinity between the two shows.
Now if only Sci Fi could get the rights to Star Trek, and then put it on their Friday night Stargate , Stargate Atlantis, and Battlestar Galactica lineup.
Too bad Paramount will NEVER let go of Star Trek...
I also wonder how these laws are constitutional.
This is why I love the Judicial Branch of government, well, the Federal Judicial Branch of government ( at least in the last few years, all bets are off after GWB leaves office, when he has appointed "the craziest motherfucker [he] can sneak past Congress.").
The Federal Judiciary is for the most part is separated from politics ( the only connection to politics is when they are appointed, after that they are free to express their ideals with out fear of being voted out of office)
I hope that this is challenged in the courts and over turned. Though the neo conservatives will just have more to complain about in terms of "Judicial Activism" and well then push even harder for stripping the court of their constitutional rights.
But who sets the service price targets?
For all the backwardness that is Utah, do what they are doing in regards to a telecommunications system. Specificly look at Provo and their community fiber to the home network, iProvo.
What they are doing in Provo, (and subsequently with the UTOPIA project in other Utah cities) is have the city (or organization, in UTOPIA's case) build and maintain the infrastructure. The city / organization then leases out that infrastructure to small businesses across the state that provide the actual service to residents. The system is maintained by the fees charged to local ISP's that in turn provide Internet access to the populace.
It is amazingly simple, yet, Qwest and Comcast has fought tooth and nail to shut both projects down in the State Legislature. To date, they have failed, though as a casualty, Salt Lake City has unfortunately pulled out of UTOPIA (damn you Rocky Anderson) along with a few other cities.
I theorize that the reason most of the attempts have failed, at least outside of Salt Lake County, is because of a strong sense of community that comes from a communal belief in holding all things in common, refereed to as the United Order
If shit like this continues I might have to grin and bare Utah's backwardness if I don't want to surcome to corporate control of Internet Access.
Which is odd, his fellow Mormon's in the Senate are for embryonic steam cell research, to the dismay of fellow Republicans. Though it is not surprising, radical, fundamentalist Christianity says life starts at conception, but because of a Mormon belief in a pre mortal life, the jury is still out on when the should enters the body. This, therefore allows a greater latitude toward such things as stem cell research. A similar point of view also leads to a more liberal policy towards such things as abortion (main stream Christianity does not believe, for the most part, that there should be any allowances for abortion. With in Mormonism, abortion is except able in cases of rape, incest, or when the health of the mother is at risk.)
Critical mass of U238 won't do a DAMNED THING. U235 is 'enriched, weaponized' Urainium, not U238...
So now what do we do? Stand back and wait for the next "Great Patriotic War" when they get a huge stockpile built, or cut our losses and fight now?
That was retorical of course, because with Duybia in office, of course we are going to invade N. Korea, even if invading N. Korea means that they (N. Korea) launch Nuclear bombs at us.
N. Korea needs a seirious clue if they think they can intimidate us with just a couple of nukes. How many nukes does the US have? Above and beyond that, how many are THERMONUCLEAR? If N. Korea launched a nuke agiesnt S. Korea or our armed forces, there is NO DOUBT that we would cover the whole damned nation with nukes.
This really changes nothing, and only ensures that Duybia and the neo cons WILL invade N. Korea...
Not to mention the mormon connection.
about the only mormon connection still left in the series is the basic, '12 Colonies' of men, the search, (up untill the end of the 1st season not a very active search) for the 13th being Earth, and a planet 'Kobol' where mean, and the 'gods' came from.
In fact the series has more of a traditional orthadox relgious perspective in it. Damn, if only Glen A. Larsen was Executive Producing the new series instead of being a 'Consulting Producer'. That being said I still do like the new series, and I especially like the religious twist the series takes, even though it has strayed from its mormon orgins...
Longhorn interoperatable with XP, and 2000 let alone with the Windows 9x OS's? Everything that has been coming out about Longhorn has stated that it is going to break interoperability with the rest of the Window's OS family, (similar to the way 2000 and XP broke interoperability with the Window's 9x family, but to a greater extent).
To state the obvious, Microsoft is not interested in interoberability, they already have, in their eyes, a problem with people still running Windows 98, and Office 97. The lack of people upgrading is starting to hurt Microsoft's revenue stream, thus, if they are able to ensure that all the app's for the 9x and NT (XP and 2000) series kernel's break with Longhorn that will force an upgrade to the most recent OS and Office Suite...
Until Microsoft lobbies the US government to make Linux illegal because it circumvents Copy protection methods...
I agree though, what they are proposing only, of course, affects the Operating System with a 99% home user share. Other small, but alternative OS's well obviously be able to circumvent this technology, that is until more people start using them. This is just what happened with Napster, Kaaza, eDonkey, and bit torrent.
Of course what would really help Linux is if the EU, China and other countries outside the US start vigorously using Linux. So even if Linux is illegal in the US, it is still available outside the US for download inside the US (just make sure to use a proxy server outside the US to get it and use strong encryption back to your home computer in the US or you'll get thrown in a Federal "pound you in the ass" penitentiary.
Of course if they neo conservatives, radical Christian bigots have there way, the US will have there own "Great Firewall of China" set up, that will filter out "harmful" sites (such as Porn and illegal OS's like Linux) and when that happens, I'll I have to say is fuck the US, I am going to move else where, somewhere where the government is not for the corporations and by the corporations, but for actual people...
making proprietary hardware for Windows.
;-)
If I recall right another computer company did this back in the 80's and didn't fair as well as the software-only Micrsoft. What was there name pear, orange, grapfruit....
Would it be really that hard to reverse engineer an HDTV tuner, possibly enough to be able to flash the card with custom software that ignores the flag? I don't think so, and I would love to have an opportunity to attempt it, just for the mere educational value of doing so...
;-))
Of course doing that would be illegal in the US, so would have to be done subvertly inside the US, or outside the US (no purpose to do it outside the US
*sigh* guess I need to makes plans to immigrate back to the land of my fore fathers IE Europe (though this was affirmed when the American majority showed how stupid they are by electing Bush for a second term, I dunno if I could stand being around the likes of idiots such as that...)
Well, with Ben Browder coming on as a regualer ( no not as John Crichton), Claudia Black coming back for 5 episodes, and with a new general (to replace Richard Dean Anderson) Beau Bridges. I actually think the next season of SG-1 looks promising.
If it wasn't for Ben and Claudia I would be on the side of the camp calling for and end to SG-1 while it is good, I don't think I can go through another downward slid that was the X Files (God DAMN was that show horrible once they moved the production to LA, damn you David Dacovney DAMN YOU!!!) But seeing that I like Ben and Claudia from Farscape, as long as MGM doesn't hire Farscape writers, the series should be kept from turing itn 'Fargate'...
According to this article we could possibly generate all the electricity we need, at least during the day time, in 10 years with Stirling engine's that generate electricity from solar power. That coupled with fuel cells should be able to dramatically reduce our dependence on oil, and as a result reduce green house gas emissions.
Now, the one problem with this scenario is the U.S. and its current leadership, which is deeply invested with in the oil market, and makes HUGE profits when the price of a barrel of oil goes up and up and up. I hope that with in 10 years the rest of the world will gain a back bone and stand up to the U.S. instead of be bullied around. It won't be too hard to do, seeing that the U.S. economy is already in the shitter now, and Asia and the EU are projected to make huge economic gains in the near future.
Here is hoping that U.S. power is diminished in the next ~10 years, so we can avert this catastrophe.
I remember reading specifications for Cable Card's and while with Cable Card 1.0 you needed to buy multiple cards for muliple TV's with Cable Card 2.0 you could connect multiple TV's with just one Cable Card.
I can't remeber were I saw this though, has anyone else seen something like this?
Question:
...but who is going to force the government...?
Answer:
The rest of the world, as in, the WTO, the EU and South East Asia (notably China). All are predicted, (most recently by the CIA's forecast) to become huge in terms of their economies. I would put money down that with in twenty years (if it even takes that long) the US will no longer be the lone super power (A super power). The US is just too reckless, doesn't give a damned about the long term consequences of its actions (I've heard it said that America is like a teenager who has just found daddies unlocked gun closet).
America is going to fall, and fall HARD. The rest of the world is going to start knocking on our door and demanding payment, and like the idiots we are, we are going to ignore their proverbial phone calls until the collection agencies come (the aforementioned organizations and nations) and strip the US of its super power status.
I can't help but wonder if BitTorrent is the application that finally pushes people towards Freenet.
I know for me at least, I will NOT use Freenet unless there is a way for me to make ABSOLUTLY SURE that there is NO KIDDIE PORN on my computer. I understand the philosphy that in a completly free socity, we should except stuff like that, however, we are NOT in a free socity, and if for some unknown reason that is found on my computer it will be ME who is thrown into the federal pound me in the ass prison, and it will be ME who will be required to regester as a child sex offender for the rest of my damn life.
Give me a way to limit what goes on and off my computer and I will do Freenet, but not untill I can do that...
There's nothing I enjoy more than paying money to rent a movie and sitting through 15 minutes of advertisements because the DVD won't allow the player to skip forward through that crap.
or build you own Media center and use DeCSS. Who cares if it is technically illegal? If you cover your tracks (READ: If you are geek enough) you can grab the source from a non-american server and as long as you don't broadcast to the rest of the world on you blog that that your doing this, no one will know.
They say the new specs for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray will allow for tougher encryption standerds. Sure, it may be tougher than the security nightmare CSS is, but eventually it WILL get cracked (sadly someone ouside the US will have to do it, and post it, and it will most likly come out of southeast asia. Mental note: Buy a shell account based in south east asia.) so you can do rinse and repeat the whole process with whatever format wins the Format war.
Actually there are a many Mormon's (myself included) who believe in evolution...It's those fundamentalist Christians who are insistent on a literal interpretation of the Bible that can be the problem , not the Mormons (excluding Orrin Hatch he can goto Hell ;-) ).
if it meant you were still watching the commercials.
An excllent way to increase viewership would be to offer Torrent's of programs for free(torrents because this would save on bandwidth) WITH commericals. Yeah Commericals suck, but they pay for the programing. You could then download that episode of the West Wing if you missed it.
Of course this would never happen. The number one reason is that it would be way to easy to devise a program to parse through the show and delete out the commericals. That and the MPAA has shown they are impervious to the benifits of new tech coming out automaticly assuming it is going to aid piracy and decrease thier market share.
But if they could look pass that proverbial nose...
I know comcast is switching over all of the old ATTBI accounts to giganews at the beginning of the year, and the quota for existing giganews accounts (legacy comcast accounts) will be going up to 2 gig a month, with free headers. Err thats just annoying, 2 gigs is barley worth it for reading newsgroups let alone downloading from them :-(
I agree that it is not fair for the gov't to compete with private industry in that gov't provides services along with an infrastructure.
Infrastructure, however, much likes roads, water lines, and power grids, could, perhaps even SHOULD be provided by local governments, this in turn would be rented out to private businesses that would provide the actual service, thus paying for the infrastructure.
Perhaps this could still be down in Phily, the government provides the infrastructure for smaller business to provide the actually Wireless Internet service. This would make more sense for FTTH, where the government lays out the Fiber and once the network is in place private business hands out the internet service, (much like the all to frequently mentioned iProvo and UTOPIA projects). However for government to get directly involved leads to a whole nother mess of problems, (corruption being at the top of the list).
and the fact that telemarketers have been drooling at the prospect of a list that they can get for free. Notch one up for the telemarketers lobbest and one down for the public.
Wait for the price to drop ...
I've been wating for the price of Farscape DVD's to drop, they haven't. Meanwhile I've been able to buy nearly the entire seasons of Buffy and Angel for 40 bucks a season. If whoever puts out the Farscape DVD's (dunno if it is Henson or Sci Fi, I wouldn't doubt it if its Sci Fi) would drop the price to the $40-$50 range than they would sell TONS of DVD's, making up the drop in price from $112 to $50 in volume.
I've got to say, for all their quirkiness, (read dumbass-ness) Fox knows who to market and price there box sets, where as other companys don't know shit about how to price there box sets and try to maximize profits solely through raising the price on the product instead of relaying on making a profit through a volume of sales.
The Economy still is in the shitter, and with the re election of our dumb ass president, the Economy will only be getting better for millinare CEO's and shareholders, while Corperations continue to ass rape the American public (read, lower to middle class) at minimum to near minimum wage.
There are a good deal of TV Shows that you can buy for 40-50 dollars which I agree is a bargin and worth the money. On the other hand, there are other shows that retail and $150 new to $90 used this is WAY TOO MUCH MONEY.
;-)
If you want to get people to buy your DVD sets price them around the $50 range, if it much higher than that people are going to get them elsewhere.
As for the TV industry starting to sue us now, anybody know some good cheap (not neccessarly free) southeast asian proxy servers that I can get a shell account from. Looks like I am going to have to proxy all of my connections from there, encrypting them from the US of course