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I got my Wii in November and had to do a little searching.My wife went to the local Gamestop and chatted up the manager who told her to call on Tuesday mornings when they Get thier Nintendo shipments in and they would hold the Wii for 24 hours .
I called on the Tuseday morning they held one for me and was palying Wii the that afternoon . I Ended up buying a Wii Remote charger,Wii Play, a Nunchuck and got a Gamefly subscription .
So Be nice to your local gamestop employees make sure you order a few extras and games .
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Any one remember Buzz Lightyear and the Furbies?
Same shit every Christmas just with a different name. Kids want the same 'cool' toy, so mothers (and some times fathers, but usually mothers) turn up at Toys 'r' US at 3am every day waiting for the next shipment then end up in near fist fights over it. It's been going on for as many years as I can remember, the only difference is the cost of the wii is much greater than the cost of a Furby or Buzz Lightyear was.
But hey, I already have a Wii and want a 360 this year, so I'm quite happy to watch the same story over again, except this time it's on slashdot instead of the local news. The thing about the Wii is that its the Must Have Item 2 years in a Row
Bruce Schneier also points to one of the Chasers videos about regarding racial profiling and terrorsim on his blog .
"How Australian Authorities Respond to Potential Terrorists
Watch the video of how the Australian authorities react when someone -- dressed either as an American or Arab tourist -- films the Sydney Harbor Bridge and a nuclear reactor.
The synopsis: The Arab is intercepted within three minutes both times, while the U.S. tourist is given instructions on how to get inside the nuclear facility.
Moral for terrorists: dress like an American.
By the way, Lucas Heights is a research reactor. It produces medical isotopes and performs research, and doesn't produce power."
Hey NBC: I have chosen not to have cable, but want to pay you for Heroes. Guess what my only alternative will be if you pull it from iTunes?
Uh, watching it for free over-the-air? Try and get on NBCUs and News Corps http://www.hulu.com/ if you want to watch ad supported network shows online .
HULU is one of the biggest reasons NBC are dropping iTunes like a stone and they also don't want iIunes and Steve Jobs dominating the online video space .
Australia has Telstra the former national government owned incumbent telephone monopoly that still thinks its part of the government .
Because it was the national incumbent Testra still own most of the infrastructure and has control over the Australian backbone that is leases to ISPs at exorbitant rates ,
Most Australian broadband plans are either metered or capped .
Mark Pesce an American that Lives in Australia (although we call him an Aussie now since hes applied for Citizenship ) who was also one of the creators of VRML did a great piece in the Meblorne Age why Aussies hate Telstra
The Venice Project will be the competitor to iTV andas a Beta tester the UI is PVR like so you can see the direction is to get TVP on Set top boxes maybe with a remote and a wireless keybaord.
Peer Impact uses a p2p system similar to Bittorent but thier tracker "Traffic Cop" manages all the peers and data in the swarm , with Peer Impact you can watch the video in less than 2 minutes Peer Impact also give thier network members a system credit for contributing bandwidth and computer reasources to the network as an incetive .
And then theres the Venice project (Yes I'm in the beta) that offers instant on long form ad supported video using p2p streaming .
Intra Network bandwith is not that expensive for ISPs it when they start to share data with other networks it gets expansive .
The LX Systems techology in Peer Impact that is mentioned in the MIT article uses peer clustering techniques to keep as mach data in a ISPs domain as possible and they also use geo-location techniqies so the trafic doesnt travel long distances if it doesnt have to .
Bram and his VCs and Distribution Partners are kidding themselves that Bittorrent's paying customers will seed Hollywood's DRm infested content out the kindness of their hearts .
Any music with DRM including iTunes is still renting and the licence owner can take your right to listen to that music any time they feel like.Consider the music you pay 99c for for as a long term lease and be prepared to read the licence terms .
Wurld Media's Peer Impact has the bussiness model that you guys are asking for .
If you re-distribute content on the Peer impact network you recive a system credit for your contributed upload bandwidth.Peer Impact will soon have Movies and Video from NBC\Universal for rent and sale . Peer Impact sells games and music from the major lables and indies.They currently only support Windows but may in the future a web based client of thier service .
COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING THE DISTRIBUTION AND REVENUE STREAMS DERIVED FROM WORKS MADE AVAILABLE IN DIGITAL FORM
Abstract of WO2005038617 Methods and computer systems for increasing the revenue stream from a work made available in digital form are provided. The methods and systems of the invention are particularly useful for musical, video, interactive game files, and artistic or commercial works that can be digitally copied and transferred or distributed, such as via the Internet. Embodiments of the present invention advantageously can form part of a greater system that provides access to digital forms of numerous works or groups of works, such as those that are copyrighted, to thereby extend the revenue-producing capabilities for the copyright holder of digital or digitized works to bona fide purchasers of those works. In turn, bona fide purchasers of a work who later provide copies of that work or other authorized works, or provide transfer or distribution bandwidth with respect to that work or other authorized works may receive incentives. Advantageously, no central warehouse of digital content is necessary with the present methods, and users may introduce authorized content into the present system in a controlled manner, through peer-to-peer systems, while realizing economic incentives for doing so. The present systems and methods also provide a myriad of embodiments of incentive and apportioning payment schedules, configurations and properties. Data supplied from the esp@cenet database - Worldwide
Where I live in Vermont there is a proposal to place a industrial wind farm along the rigde line of the local mountain.The energy generated from the wind farm was going to be sold off to out of state energy producers for "Green Credits" so they could continue to to pollute while adhearing to regulatory reqirements by purchsing green energy from the wind farm project .
The locals where railroaded and the proposed size of the project was increased and their where no concessions provided to rate payers by the town or state for taxpayers.The local utility did not offer any reduced energy rates to the local residents either and is one of the main reason Im opposed to the wind project and the fact the project is a scam for polluters to aviod their regulatory requirements .
Cinemanow owns and operates All Adult Entertainment the distributor of Vivid's Videos so Hollywood is already onto this and owns the technology to distribute burnable movies.They are using porn as their sacrificial lamb to see if the content ends up on Usenet or P2P networks in the next 3 months .
P2P distribution for content that can be digitized will be more prevalent in the next few years.P2P can deliver digital content more efficiently and faster than Walmart ever can to your directly to your home Home .
Movies,Music and Games are already being delivered by P2P and the range of content will continue this year.
Peer Impact a pay p2p network is launching version 3.0 of their client this month and will have video and movies from NBC\Universal for rent and sale. vThey currently sell Music from the 4 major labels and indies (indie music is Mp3) and Games from Try Media .
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I got my Wii in November and had to do a little searching .My wife went to the local Gamestop and chatted up the manager who told her to call on Tuesday mornings when they Get thier Nintendo shipments in and they would hold the Wii for 24 hours .
,Wii Play, a Nunchuck and got a Gamefly subscription .
I called on the Tuseday morning they held one for me and was palying Wii the that afternoon .
I Ended up buying a Wii Remote charger
So Be nice to your local gamestop employees make sure you order a few extras and games .
Same shit every Christmas just with a different name. Kids want the same 'cool' toy, so mothers (and some times fathers, but usually mothers) turn up at Toys 'r' US at 3am every day waiting for the next shipment then end up in near fist fights over it. It's been going on for as many years as I can remember, the only difference is the cost of the wii is much greater than the cost of a Furby or Buzz Lightyear was.
But hey, I already have a Wii and want a 360 this year, so I'm quite happy to watch the same story over again, except this time it's on slashdot instead of the local news. The thing about the Wii is that its the Must Have Item 2 years in a Row
Bruce Schneier also points to one of the Chasers videos about regarding racial profiling and terrorsim on his blog .
_ australian.html
"How Australian Authorities Respond to Potential Terrorists
Watch the video of how the Australian authorities react when someone -- dressed either as an American or Arab tourist -- films the Sydney Harbor Bridge and a nuclear reactor.
The synopsis: The Arab is intercepted within three minutes both times, while the U.S. tourist is given instructions on how to get inside the nuclear facility.
Moral for terrorists: dress like an American.
By the way, Lucas Heights is a research reactor. It produces medical isotopes and performs research, and doesn't produce power."
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/04/how
The video can be found here
http://youtube.com/watch?v=McB9tsabPn0
Uh, watching it for free over-the-air? Try and get on NBCUs and News Corps http://www.hulu.com/ if you want to watch ad supported network shows online .
HULU is one of the biggest reasons NBC are dropping iTunes like a stone and they also don't want iIunes and Steve Jobs dominating the online video space .
Australia has Telstra the former national government owned incumbent telephone monopoly that still thinks its part of the government .
- hate-telstra/2007/05/19/1179497337693.html?page=fu llpage
Because it was the national incumbent Testra still own most of the infrastructure and has control over the Australian backbone that is leases to ISPs at exorbitant rates ,
Most Australian broadband plans are either metered or capped .
Mark Pesce an American that Lives in Australia (although we call him an Aussie now since hes applied for Citizenship ) who was also one of the creators of VRML did a great piece in the Meblorne Age why Aussies hate Telstra
http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/why-we-all
Joost is based on Mozilla's XUL Runner framework .
Dirk-Willem van Gulik from Apache the Foundation is the CTO .
Some of the Open source tech used
Apache, Cocoon, Dojo, Jena, Mozilla, RDF, SVG, XML, XUL
http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/
http://ant.apache.org/
http://wicket.sourceforge.net/
http://lucene.apache.org/
My Kids got Moon Sand from Santa .
I suppose that Santa has more Contacts with the Man in the Moon than NASA does .
http://www.spinmaster.com/products/moonSand/
The Venice Project will be the competitor to iTV andas a Beta tester the UI is PVR like so you can see the direction is to get TVP on Set top boxes maybe with a remote and a wireless keybaord.
Go tell Comcast,Verizon,Time Warner and British Telecom that
Peer Impact uses a p2p system similar to Bittorent but thier tracker "Traffic Cop" manages all the peers and data in the swarm , with Peer Impact you can watch the video in less than 2 minutes Peer Impact also give thier network members a system credit for contributing bandwidth and computer reasources to the network as an incetive .
And then theres the Venice project (Yes I'm in the beta) that offers instant on long form ad supported video using p2p streaming .
Intra Network bandwith is not that expensive for ISPs it when they start to share data with other networks it gets expansive .
The LX Systems techology in Peer Impact that is mentioned in the MIT article uses peer clustering techniques to keep as mach data in a ISPs domain as possible and they also use geo-location techniqies so the trafic doesnt travel long distances if it doesnt have to .
Peer Impact who's technology has been around before Bittorent with FurtherNet offers a incentive for uploading
http://www.peeimpact.com/
Bram and his VCs and Distribution Partners are kidding themselves that Bittorrent's paying customers will seed Hollywood's DRm infested content out the kindness of their hearts .
Good on you
You just described Peer Impact
http://www.peerimpact.com/
fyi FAIrUse4DRM 1.1 supported WMV DRM inluding rental DRM ;).
Peer Impact did'nt have any trouble getting Fox signed up to offer Movies or TV shows on thier p2p platform .
,Peer Impacts owners .
But Rupurt Murdock gets along with the executives at Wurld Media
http://www.peerimpact.com/
Any music with DRM including iTunes is still renting and the licence owner can take your right to listen to that music any time they feel like .Consider the music you pay 99c for for as a long term lease and be prepared to read the licence terms .
In New Zealand SUV's get crap Mileage .Boom Boom
Wurld Media's Peer Impact has the bussiness model that you guys are asking for .
.Peer Impact will soon have Movies and Video from NBC\Universal for rent and sale . Peer Impact sells games and music from the major lables and indies .They currently only support Windows but may in the future a web based client of thier service .
If you re-distribute content on the Peer impact network you recive a system credit for your contributed upload bandwidth
http://www.peerimpact.com/
Peer Impact's patent on Incentives for p2p
0 05038617&F=0
Here's the Patent
COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING THE DISTRIBUTION AND REVENUE STREAMS DERIVED FROM WORKS MADE AVAILABLE IN DIGITAL FORM
Abstract of WO2005038617
Methods and computer systems for increasing the revenue stream from a work made available in digital form are provided. The methods and systems of the invention are particularly useful for musical, video, interactive game files, and artistic or commercial works that can be digitally copied and transferred or distributed, such as via the Internet. Embodiments of the present invention advantageously can form part of a greater system that provides access to digital forms of numerous works or groups of works, such as those that are copyrighted, to thereby extend the revenue-producing capabilities for the copyright holder of digital or digitized works to bona fide purchasers of those works. In turn, bona fide purchasers of a work who later provide copies of that work or other authorized works, or provide transfer or distribution bandwidth with respect to that work or other authorized works may receive incentives. Advantageously, no central warehouse of digital content is necessary with the present methods, and users may introduce authorized content into the present system in a controlled manner, through peer-to-peer systems, while realizing economic incentives for doing so. The present systems and methods also provide a myriad of embodiments of incentive and apportioning payment schedules, configurations and properties.
Data supplied from the esp@cenet database - Worldwide
http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=WO2
The RIAA and MPPA sell content on a p2p network
www.peerimpact.com
who needs a $300 iPod to watch video or a $600 Mac Mini
When you can get the D-Link 520 for $210 and stream video over your home network to your TV.
http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=438&sec=1
Where I live in Vermont there is a proposal to place a industrial wind farm along the rigde line of the local mountain .The energy generated from the wind farm was going to be sold off to out of state energy producers for "Green Credits" so they could continue to to pollute while adhearing to regulatory reqirements by purchsing green energy from the wind farm project .
.The local utility did not offer any reduced energy rates to the local residents either and is one of the main reason Im opposed to the wind project and the fact the project is a scam for polluters to aviod their regulatory requirements .
The locals where railroaded and the proposed size of the project was increased and their where no concessions provided to rate payers by the town or state for taxpayers
More Info here http://www.glebemountaingroup.org/
Sony and Loinsgate have huge investments in Cinemanow and Movielink .
Cinemanow owns and operates All Adult Entertainment the distributor of Vivid's Videos so Hollywood is already onto this and owns the technology to distribute burnable movies .They are using porn as their sacrificial lamb to see if the content ends up on Usenet or P2P networks in the next 3 months .
Cinemanow is a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment .
P2P distribution for content that can be digitized will be more prevalent in the next few years .P2P can deliver digital content more efficiently and faster than Walmart ever can to your directly to your home Home .
,Music and Games are already being delivered by P2P and the range of content will continue this year.
Movies
Peer Impact a pay p2p network is launching version 3.0 of their client this month and will have video and movies from NBC\Universal for rent and sale. vThey currently sell Music from the 4 major labels and indies (indie music is Mp3) and Games from Try Media .
http://www.peerimpact.com/