If you want control of your content you need to lock it down in a vault and never show it to anyone. We gave up control of our content the day we started broadcasting. For years our most popular content have been available on BitTorrent and on sites like YouTube anyway. DRM doesnâ(TM)t work. The only way to control your content is to be the best provider of it. If people want it on YouTube then you should publish it on YouTube or in a system that give the same experience. If people want it on BitTorrent then you should provide that. If you do it right people will come to your official publish point and you'll end up with more control.
With any luck, bigger media players will watch what happens here and learn from it. Maybe somebody will even go the next step and figure out how to profit off of this distribution scheme.
(IANARS) There's simply no way that any space agency could prepare and launch a probe with less than three days notice, and likely no good way to pre-build one without knowing what size/speed asteroid we might be lucky enough to launch at.
I've got a Helio Ocean. It's battery life can vary greatly depending on what I'm doing, and where I'm doing it.
For example, my office happens to be partially underground and surrounded by a lot of concrete, so I get terrible signal at my desk. Using the phone's browser (to read sites blocked by my employer) a lot, or using the IM application, will drain the batter in 5-6 hours.
The same activities when sitting in my car waiting for my wife to leave work use MUCH less battery, because that happens to see me sitting within 100 yards of a cell tower. The phone also puts out signifigantly less heat. I imagine I could use data in this way for 8-10 hours.
Not using the phone much at all (it still checks for new email on it's own), making a couple quick calls/text messages, I can get 2-2.5 days worth of use before charging.
The optimist in me hopes that Sony's portable charger would let me get a full week of heavy use out of my phone.
[Adult Swim] will come up with the money to buy the rights to Futurama and Family Guy. They will then begin making new episodes of Shin Chan, continue with Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Venture Brothers, and Frisky Dingo.
They will then split from Cartoon Network, starting up their own channel (HD and SD), which will be on 24 hours a day.
I agree with you that the DVD releases have been of much lower quality than the original show. However, I'm hoping (and believe) that the movie-length format was simply wrong for the show, and they would do much better if they were allowed to return to a 20 minute format.
About two years ago, somebody got fired from my company. He happened to be in training for managment at the time, and was reading a book he'd bought for himself. Upon learning he was about to lose his job, he sent out an email containing the first chapter of the book, grabbed the home addresses of all the managers in the building, and shipped copies of the book to each.
The email also contained commentary on how the managment might benefit from a little reading.
Agreed. What's more annoying, a post on the front page that takes up 1/8th of a screen, or 50 posts complaining about it's existence?
There's some of us here that actually enjoy movies, and those of you who don't think that entertainers have a valid place in society are being either stubborn or naive. Yes, the scientists/authors/statesmen are all important as well, but I've always thought that one of the most important markers of civility is the quality and variety of entertainment options open to people.
We can't work all the time, entertainment is important and necessary. And sometimes, it's even nerdy. If you have to, justify this post to yourself by the fact that two comic book movies were up for awards last night.
Once the media is done being created, it becomes essentially free to distribute and reproduce. Drop the price by 75%, leave out DRM, and new markets open up for it.
There's 6.5 billion people on this planet. Only about half of them have internet so far, but we're quickly zoning in on a world where if you have electricity, you have internet. So make something good enough and cheap enough, and you'll make a tidy profit off the masses.
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And what's more, in my county at least, is that the libraries let me take home DVD's and music CD's!! Not only that, but they freely provide computers (and a free Wi-Fi connection) which would allow me to access and distribute copyrighted material!
Somebody alert the RIAA, the local governments need to be their next target.
In the (Swedish) criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: The police, who investigate crime, and the district attorneys (who are not elected officials), who prose... come to an agreement with the offenders. These are their stories.
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You forgot the secret ingedient, Chemical X.
And now we've come full-circle, and are back on topic.
RSS feed of their torrents: http://nl.nrk.no/torrent/deringenskulletru/deringenskulletru.rss
It certainly seems to be available for anybody who's interested.
If you want control of your content you need to lock it down in a vault and never show it to anyone. We gave up control of our content the day we started broadcasting. For years our most popular content have been available on BitTorrent and on sites like YouTube anyway. DRM doesnâ(TM)t work. The only way to control your content is to be the best provider of it. If people want it on YouTube then you should publish it on YouTube or in a system that give the same experience. If people want it on BitTorrent then you should provide that. If you do it right people will come to your official publish point and you'll end up with more control.
With any luck, bigger media players will watch what happens here and learn from it. Maybe somebody will even go the next step and figure out how to profit off of this distribution scheme.
We attempted to assasinate Murphy, but it all went horribly wrong.
I think that "nettab" has a better ring to it, but otherwise I'm right there with you.
(IANARS) There's simply no way that any space agency could prepare and launch a probe with less than three days notice, and likely no good way to pre-build one without knowing what size/speed asteroid we might be lucky enough to launch at.
Isn't that a little extreme? These people most likely have families to take care of!
Wait...what's that? Oooooh. They're just cutting off internet service.
Oh, I hope so. I truly, truly do...
I've got a Helio Ocean. It's battery life can vary greatly depending on what I'm doing, and where I'm doing it.
For example, my office happens to be partially underground and surrounded by a lot of concrete, so I get terrible signal at my desk. Using the phone's browser (to read sites blocked by my employer) a lot, or using the IM application, will drain the batter in 5-6 hours.
The same activities when sitting in my car waiting for my wife to leave work use MUCH less battery, because that happens to see me sitting within 100 yards of a cell tower. The phone also puts out signifigantly less heat. I imagine I could use data in this way for 8-10 hours.
Not using the phone much at all (it still checks for new email on it's own), making a couple quick calls/text messages, I can get 2-2.5 days worth of use before charging.
The optimist in me hopes that Sony's portable charger would let me get a full week of heavy use out of my phone.
[Adult Swim] will come up with the money to buy the rights to Futurama and Family Guy.
They will then begin making new episodes of Shin Chan, continue with Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Venture Brothers, and Frisky Dingo.
They will then split from Cartoon Network, starting up their own channel (HD and SD), which will be on 24 hours a day.
/fantasy time
I agree with you that the DVD releases have been of much lower quality than the original show. However, I'm hoping (and believe) that the movie-length format was simply wrong for the show, and they would do much better if they were allowed to return to a 20 minute format.
Sorry, didn't realize that I left that out. Yes, it was a book on Good Managment Practices, or something to that extent.
About two years ago, somebody got fired from my company. He happened to be in training for managment at the time, and was reading a book he'd bought for himself. Upon learning he was about to lose his job, he sent out an email containing the first chapter of the book, grabbed the home addresses of all the managers in the building, and shipped copies of the book to each.
The email also contained commentary on how the managment might benefit from a little reading.
Um...because enough people thought it was worthy of the front page, and modded it there?
Woosh!
Agreed. What's more annoying, a post on the front page that takes up 1/8th of a screen, or 50 posts complaining about it's existence?
There's some of us here that actually enjoy movies, and those of you who don't think that entertainers have a valid place in society are being either stubborn or naive. Yes, the scientists/authors/statesmen are all important as well, but I've always thought that one of the most important markers of civility is the quality and variety of entertainment options open to people.
We can't work all the time, entertainment is important and necessary. And sometimes, it's even nerdy. If you have to, justify this post to yourself by the fact that two comic book movies were up for awards last night.
Once the media is done being created, it becomes essentially free to distribute and reproduce. Drop the price by 75%, leave out DRM, and new markets open up for it. There's 6.5 billion people on this planet. Only about half of them have internet so far, but we're quickly zoning in on a world where if you have electricity, you have internet. So make something good enough and cheap enough, and you'll make a tidy profit off the masses.
^^ Comment of the month.
And what's more, in my county at least, is that the libraries let me take home DVD's and music CD's!! Not only that, but they freely provide computers (and a free Wi-Fi connection) which would allow me to access and distribute copyrighted material!
Somebody alert the RIAA, the local governments need to be their next target.
In the (Swedish) criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: The police, who investigate crime, and the district attorneys (who are not elected officials), who prose... come to an agreement with the offenders. These are their stories.
Please let there be a Sweedish Law & Order.
Hear that sound, like a far-off "woosh"-ing?
There is no such thing as a trained cat.
It's a law of nature that if you want a cat to do something, it will do anything else.
Somebody put tinfoil in the microwave.
Problem solved.
Some numbers to consider:
A380: Range: 14,800 km Capacity: 525 - 853 Speed: 900 km/h
747-400: Range: 13,450 km Capacity: 416 - 524 Speed: 913 km/h
Here's a more detailed comparison
It should also be noted that today's 747's aren't the same as the ones that flew in the 60s. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747#Improved_747_versions