I saw my first episode of BG on Monday night and I was instantly hooked. It's everything I wanted Enterprise to be and more. Dirty, sexy, raw, emotive... just excellent.
How much could they sell the information for? How much would they lose in a lawsuit? Figure those things out and subtract the second from the first. If your answer is positive, they will probably sell the list.
What does Apple get out of it? The same thing they got out of creating the iPod and iTunes Music Store: control over an emerging market.
Imagine if you could get any TV show, from any TV channel, immediately on demand for, say, $1 per hour. The average American TV is on for about 7 hours per day. That's $7 per day from all 219 million televisions in the US, or $1.5 billion per day, every day, 365 days a year. And an Apple-branded device in every home. And you ask what's in it for Apple?
Now imagine if you could get the new episodes of your favorite TV shows available all at once every Sunday night. Imagine if you could download TV shows into your Video iPod or computer. H.264 is capable of doing this. Imagine if you could create your own DVD box sets. Imagine if you could stream HD-quality video from any television station in the entire United States or even the world. This is possible, because Apple (with Akamai's help) has a history of reliably delivering popular video files like movie trailers. Now imagine showing slideshows is as easy as pushing a few buttons on your remote, or controlling your music library from one box seamlessly. Or putting your DVDs on any TV in your house that has this box connected to it. Apple is smart enough to do this.
Apple buying TiVo could revolutionize content delivery. If there are rumors out there, Steve's got something big up his sleeve.
Companies make decisions that maximize profits. Period. If TiVo thought it could sell personal, identifiable information and get a profit from it, they'd do it in a hearbeat.
OS X already has a lot of those things built in. With a little know-how you can turn just about any OS X box into a personal server, complete with Apache, PHP and WebDAV.
I always hated the Ferenghi. Profit seeking bunch of idiots who'd step over their own mother for another bar of gold-pressed latinum. There's a reason they look like trolls, because that's what they are on the inside. Well, most of them anyway.
What does this have to do with these guys? Because they're little better than the Ferenghi, and probably twice as ugly.
1.9L Volkswagen TDI with stock injectors. The veggie was preheated with hot coolant to lower the viscosity, prefiltered before putting it in the tank, and routed through a 10 micron filter.
If you're interested, it was the 6.5 gallon kit from Greasel
No, the *waste* vegetable oil from a deep fryer, after filtering, still contains some VOCs that make your exhaust smell like whatever it was cooked in.
Believe me, I've smelled the exhaust of a veggie powered diesel car on two seperate occassions and it smelled different.
And I'm not talking about biodiesel, i'm talking about straight vegetable oil, filtered, heated, and pumped directly into a diesel engine.
I'd imagine waste vegetable oil would smell significantly better. Do you want your exhaust to smell like poo or like donuts?
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Now this is something I'd pay a subscription for. $10/month for the privelege + $1/hour prerecorded + $15 for a "season pass," with all new shows made available weekly (so subscribers get to see them early, a selling point), and live broadcasts available for $5/hour, and a "Channel Pass" for $10/month, where every show for that channel is available at any time.
And the best part? The live broadcasts would be of any channel in any part of the country. Moved away from your home town? Find the station's call letters and watch the local news live via video stream, or download it, or get a season pass.
Man, it would be as revolutionary as VoIP. TVoIP. Heh. Maybe they should think about a desktop package, too, like Vonage's SoftPhone. SoftTiVo.
"My MythTV box only took me 3 weeks to get working, and I will probably only have to mess with the guide data stream a few times a year, and the hardware only cost twice as much as a TiVo."
Sure, the hardware might cost twice as much as a TiVo box, but it costs less than the TiVo box + monthly or "lifetime" subscription, and if TiVo goes under I'm not left with a useless box.
MythTV boxes are about as expensive as a TiVo and the "lifetime" subscription, and then you own the equipment and can repurpose or expand it if you want to. And you don't have to buy seperate subscriptions for every X boxes, and you can have frontend and backend systems.
How do we expect to be taken seriously with pseudonyms like this?
If someone gives respect because of my name and not what I have to say, then I don't really care if they're not listening; they're not the type of person I want to associate with.
How many/.ers didn't even blink while reading the intro?
Well, no, but I could create a non-profit and take donations for settin up a a free wireless mesh network. People are already doing that sort of thing.
Of course, they spent that money to create the infrastructure. By laying fiber and determining rights-of-way and possibly incorporating pull-throughs they'll be able to extend their range and expand their aggregate bandwidth easily.
It's the difference between building an Interstate Highway System now versus building it fifty years ago. By getting it out of the way, we're able to expand capacity more easily.
And if the future economy is based on creativity, and communication is digital, it's just as easy to send work to South Korea as it is to send it to Kansas. Since South Korea has a better infrastrucutre, they'll be more able to handle the load, just like we're better off to handle the shipment of goods than some other countries, since our transportation infrastructure is more mature.
The trouble isn't city-to-city fiber. There's oodles of that stuff sitting dark. The problem is the last mile. I remember hearing a story about a guy who had four OC-12s running through his backyard, but had to use 28.8 dialup for internet access.
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Sci Fi is turning into quite the network.
How much could they sell the information for? How much would they lose in a lawsuit? Figure those things out and subtract the second from the first. If your answer is positive, they will probably sell the list.
Imagine if you could get any TV show, from any TV channel, immediately on demand for, say, $1 per hour. The average American TV is on for about 7 hours per day. That's $7 per day from all 219 million televisions in the US, or $1.5 billion per day, every day, 365 days a year. And an Apple-branded device in every home. And you ask what's in it for Apple?
Now imagine if you could get the new episodes of your favorite TV shows available all at once every Sunday night. Imagine if you could download TV shows into your Video iPod or computer. H.264 is capable of doing this. Imagine if you could create your own DVD box sets. Imagine if you could stream HD-quality video from any television station in the entire United States or even the world. This is possible, because Apple (with Akamai's help) has a history of reliably delivering popular video files like movie trailers. Now imagine showing slideshows is as easy as pushing a few buttons on your remote, or controlling your music library from one box seamlessly. Or putting your DVDs on any TV in your house that has this box connected to it. Apple is smart enough to do this.
Apple buying TiVo could revolutionize content delivery. If there are rumors out there, Steve's got something big up his sleeve.
Companies make decisions that maximize profits. Period. If TiVo thought it could sell personal, identifiable information and get a profit from it, they'd do it in a hearbeat.
I got nothin.
OS X: It's a Unix system. You know this.
And, as someone who has a huge family and just recently got married, the ability to bring a couple thousand photos along with you is a good thing.
Address Book, iPhoto and iCal synchronization.
So this is nothing like Vonage? That is, I can't make a box, plug in a phone, and call my parents?
And can any of these systems let me make POTS phone calls for the price of setting one up and a broadband connection?
What does this have to do with these guys? Because they're little better than the Ferenghi, and probably twice as ugly.
If you're interested, it was the 6.5 gallon kit from Greasel
Yes, because voting worked so well for us last November...
Believe me, I've smelled the exhaust of a veggie powered diesel car on two seperate occassions and it smelled different.
And I'm not talking about biodiesel, i'm talking about straight vegetable oil, filtered, heated, and pumped directly into a diesel engine.
And voting doesn't work either. That was proven this past November.
The real solution? Vote with your feet: Leave the fucking country. Boycotts are the only thing corporate fatcats understand.
I'd imagine waste vegetable oil would smell significantly better. Do you want your exhaust to smell like poo or like donuts?
And the best part? The live broadcasts would be of any channel in any part of the country. Moved away from your home town? Find the station's call letters and watch the local news live via video stream, or download it, or get a season pass.
Man, it would be as revolutionary as VoIP. TVoIP. Heh. Maybe they should think about a desktop package, too, like Vonage's SoftPhone. SoftTiVo.
Don't worry, I'm sure you can get MythTV running on it, and then you've got a virtually limitless supply of reliable, expandable front-end systems.
Sure, the hardware might cost twice as much as a TiVo box, but it costs less than the TiVo box + monthly or "lifetime" subscription, and if TiVo goes under I'm not left with a useless box.
Seems like a better deal to me.
If someone gives respect because of my name and not what I have to say, then I don't really care if they're not listening; they're not the type of person I want to associate with.
How many /.ers didn't even blink while reading the intro?
At least this one.
Well, no, but I could create a non-profit and take donations for settin up a a free wireless mesh network. People are already doing that sort of thing.
It's the difference between building an Interstate Highway System now versus building it fifty years ago. By getting it out of the way, we're able to expand capacity more easily.
And if the future economy is based on creativity, and communication is digital, it's just as easy to send work to South Korea as it is to send it to Kansas. Since South Korea has a better infrastrucutre, they'll be more able to handle the load, just like we're better off to handle the shipment of goods than some other countries, since our transportation infrastructure is more mature.
The trouble isn't city-to-city fiber. There's oodles of that stuff sitting dark. The problem is the last mile. I remember hearing a story about a guy who had four OC-12s running through his backyard, but had to use 28.8 dialup for internet access.
/me waits for 5200 baud fogies with double digit UIDs to crawl from the woodwork