That's all well and good except for one small problem. The keyboard. There is no interface that can come close to the functionality of a keyboard. Most consoles are used from the sofa or arm chair. Where do you put the keyboard?
Without a replacement for the keyboard it will forever be a nitch item. Any sort of desktop they provide will simply be a novelty.
But it irks me no end that this conclusion is drawn in the context of fighting "indecency" on the air.
You don't like the fact that they are offing consumers to self censor on a per customer basis? Would you prefer that they just ban anything they find indecent?
Those of us that think 95% of TV is utter drek and only want a handful of channels can what we want.
The only problem is that I don't think we're going to see this any time soon. The content providers, Viacom, ESPN, and such, don't want this and prohibit the cable companies from doing it. According to Viacom's contract with the local cable company they cannot sell you just MTV. If they want to provide MTV to a customer they have to provide all the Viacom channels. Turner does the same thing. ESPN had something similar but I think it involved % of the customer base that must have ESPN. This is why there are 3 ESPN channels in my market's 23 channel basic cable package.
The VP at the cable company told me that they want to offer ala cart pricing. They see it as a way to attract more customers. The problem is they can't right now.
Re:Criminal charges against Microsoft too.
on
Bad Day To Be Sony
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
The rootkit modifies Microsoft's product so that it no longer performs as they wrote it. Does the DMCA prevents them from changing their own product back to how they shipped it? That's seriously fucked up. This is a battle I'd love to see in court.
DRM implemented at the hardware level will do nothing. Some company will continue to manufacture the non DRM versions. They will make bank selling it. What about the legacy hardware? I still have a Pentium 75 sitting around as a jukebox. 1% of the population buys this hardware and seeds the content for the other 99%.
Also we're at least 10 years from hardware DRM, if it ever happens. What about the increase in microphone and speaker technology? Increases to the point where the old skool method of putting the tape player up to the radio acctually provides high quality.
People don't understand the information age. We can't understand it yet. It's a paradigm shift, in the true sense of the word not the corpspeak sense. Success will no longer be about selling information. Success will be about pointing people to the information. A subtle but important difference.
"The is no negative side effect to 5 or less cups of coffee a day." --Pharmacist I know. My dentist told me it was better than drinking soda. He convinced me to drop soda entirerly in favor of coffee. In laboratory rats caffine has been shown to reduce the negative side effects of radiation. http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0952-4746/22/1/306 http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/jul25/articles23.htm Many others available if you search for caffeine and radiation.
There is no database. That is a waste of resources.
The dots are not there to find you. The dots are there to convict you.
If you do something illegal with the printer and they catch you they will seize the printer. Then in court they will prove that it came from your printer by comparing the dots.
Re:What other pre-web services are out there?
on
IMDb Turns 15
·
· Score: 2, Informative
From a Charter VP I once had for a regular when I was bartending.
subscription (show, channel or all channels) Except that channel line up is controlled by the content providers in the contracts. Oh you don't have 80% penetration on ESPN. This is why ESPN comes will all cable packages. That's a million a day you owe us. Oh you want MTV? If you want MTV you also have to buy this shopping channel we own. You want MTV don't you. You want CNN only? Sorry you have to purchase all the Turner networks or none of them.
The cable companies just pass the cost along to the comsumer. They point the finger at the content providers in private. In public they tout how many channels they have as a reason for raising rates.
In other news they also thought they could charge what ever they wanted for PPV porn. It turns out they started loosing money at around $18 a movie so they had to drop the price back down a bit.
When asked about the possible ecological effects on marine life the military had no comment.
Here we have 2 nuclear subs launching high explosive torpedos at each other and someone is worrying about the noise coming out of a speaker? *shakes head*
You are wrong. That is a list of the ALAC, as indicated in the URL. The ALAC is the At-Large Advisory Council. What's that second A stand for? Advisory. To quote the URL you mention.
The following ALAC members appointed by the Board . ..
Also known as, "Look look we're international. See whe have shills from all over the world."
Could you explain these two sentences from your comment please?
Well, those people may or may not have bought the book on their own if it wasn't available for download - they may or may not buy the book because of the download. But, those 1,000 copies (and we're only talking about the electronic copies here), had they been distributed through legimate channels, would have generated royalties for the author, making it easier for me to buy food and keep a roof over my head, and making it easier for me to write my next book.
First you claim that you have no idea how many of those 1000 would sell. Then in the same paragraph claim that all 1000 would have sold if not downloaded.
The ice core samples only show that amount of "green house" gases is going up. The ice cores tell us nothing zip zero ziltch about the temperatures of the past.
Please learn the difference and the implications there of.
The reseller charges you X for the DSL. They give Y to rent the line from the telco. Y must be less than X or the reseller goes out of business.
If the telco doesn't have to rent the line to the reseller then they have a monopoly. The telco can at that point charge X. X is more than Y so the telco is happy. They can't jack the price because people will jump ship to cable. So the only two changes are the telco makes more and the customer has to write the check to a different company.
X is more than Y. It's that simple.
I think this is all very short sighted. If I were the telco I'd try and get all of my DSL switched over to resellers. That simplifies everything. Layoff a chunk of my customer servervice, collections, and billing people and let the reseller deal with that problem. Collect my 1 check from the reseller every billing period.
Then work on getting the fiber classified as an information servervice and gouge for the fat pipes.
MMPOGs are significantly cheaper for me than single player games are.
At the peak I had 4 accounts spread across a variety of games. Some were $10 and some were $15. Worst case (4@$15) that was $60 a month. Before MMPOGs I would buy 2-3 single player games a month at $40-$50 each.
$60 $100
I've never gone back back to single player games. MMPOGs have more content and are cheaper.
There are no activation copies of Windows XP. Large companies said fuck off with this activation shit and Microsoft folded.
You just have to be large enough that Microsoft would actually bother to litigate you if you misused it to be eligable to get one.
It actually took me a year or so to realize that activation was part of XP and not longhorn since I've never had to activate a copy of XP I've used. My home copy is work provided so I can remote in.
Slashdot Mirror
What about the states in which you don't have to take the bar to practice law?
That's all well and good except for one small problem. The keyboard. There is no interface that can come close to the functionality of a keyboard. Most consoles are used from the sofa or arm chair. Where do you put the keyboard?
Without a replacement for the keyboard it will forever be a nitch item. Any sort of desktop they provide will simply be a novelty.
Is alteration of the logs also a criminal offense?
But it irks me no end that this conclusion is drawn in the context of fighting "indecency" on the air.
You don't like the fact that they are offing consumers to self censor on a per customer basis? Would you prefer that they just ban anything they find indecent?
Those of us that think 95% of TV is utter drek and only want a handful of channels can what we want.
The only problem is that I don't think we're going to see this any time soon. The content providers, Viacom, ESPN, and such, don't want this and prohibit the cable companies from doing it. According to Viacom's contract with the local cable company they cannot sell you just MTV. If they want to provide MTV to a customer they have to provide all the Viacom channels. Turner does the same thing. ESPN had something similar but I think it involved % of the customer base that must have ESPN. This is why there are 3 ESPN channels in my market's 23 channel basic cable package.
The VP at the cable company told me that they want to offer ala cart pricing. They see it as a way to attract more customers. The problem is they can't right now.
The rootkit modifies Microsoft's product so that it no longer performs as they wrote it. Does the DMCA prevents them from changing their own product back to how they shipped it? That's seriously fucked up. This is a battle I'd love to see in court.
DRM implemented at the hardware level will do nothing. Some company will continue to manufacture the non DRM versions. They will make bank selling it. What about the legacy hardware? I still have a Pentium 75 sitting around as a jukebox. 1% of the population buys this hardware and seeds the content for the other 99%.
Also we're at least 10 years from hardware DRM, if it ever happens. What about the increase in microphone and speaker technology? Increases to the point where the old skool method of putting the tape player up to the radio acctually provides high quality.
People don't understand the information age. We can't understand it yet. It's a paradigm shift, in the true sense of the word not the corpspeak sense. Success will no longer be about selling information. Success will be about pointing people to the information. A subtle but important difference.
Because it's not crap.
"The is no negative side effect to 5 or less cups of coffee a day." --Pharmacist I know.
My dentist told me it was better than drinking soda. He convinced me to drop soda entirerly in favor of coffee.
In laboratory rats caffine has been shown to reduce the negative side effects of radiation.
http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0952-4746/22/1/306
http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/jul25/articles23.htm
Many others available if you search for caffeine and radiation.
A Web browser will have very limited disk access and outgoing-only network access only over certain ports.
After you send the page request you're going to firewall the answer? That's a little rude.
IMO a web browser should never need disk access unless I'm explicitly saving a file to a location of my choosing.
There is no database. That is a waste of resources.
The dots are not there to find you. The dots are there to convict you.
If you do something illegal with the printer and they catch you they will seize the printer. Then in court they will prove that it came from your printer by comparing the dots.
cdnow.com used to be accessed via telnet.
From a Charter VP I once had for a regular when I was bartending.
subscription (show, channel or all channels)
Except that channel line up is controlled by the content providers in the contracts. Oh you don't have 80% penetration on ESPN. This is why ESPN comes will all cable packages. That's a million a day you owe us. Oh you want MTV? If you want MTV you also have to buy this shopping channel we own. You want MTV don't you. You want CNN only? Sorry you have to purchase all the Turner networks or none of them.
The cable companies just pass the cost along to the comsumer. They point the finger at the content providers in private. In public they tout how many channels they have as a reason for raising rates.
In other news they also thought they could charge what ever they wanted for PPV porn. It turns out they started loosing money at around $18 a movie so they had to drop the price back down a bit.
When asked about the possible ecological effects on marine life the military had no comment.
Here we have 2 nuclear subs launching high explosive torpedos at each other and someone is worrying about the noise coming out of a speaker? *shakes head*
You are wrong. That is a list of the ALAC, as indicated in the URL. The ALAC is the At-Large Advisory Council. What's that second A stand for? Advisory. To quote the URL you mention.
.
The following ALAC members appointed by the Board . .
Also known as, "Look look we're international. See whe have shills from all over the world."
Could you explain these two sentences from your comment please?
Well, those people may or may not have bought the book on their own if it wasn't available for download - they may or may not buy the book because of the download.
But, those 1,000 copies (and we're only talking about the electronic copies here), had they been distributed through legimate channels, would have generated royalties for the author, making it easier for me to buy food and keep a roof over my head, and making it easier for me to write my next book.
First you claim that you have no idea how many of those 1000 would sell. Then in the same paragraph claim that all 1000 would have sold if not downloaded.
Again, the US doesn't "control" the internet. ICANN does. Check the first letter there: International
Just because something is named International doesn't mean it is.
Once they're made from electronic paper I guarantee they will have DRM.
Just a note on your point about macs being secure with a large market share:
When Firefox came out there were no exploits for it. As its market share increased so did the number of the exploits and payloads for those exploits.
I call Bullshit!
The ice core samples only show that amount of "green house" gases is going up. The ice cores tell us nothing zip zero ziltch about the temperatures of the past.
Please learn the difference and the implications there of.
Wow. 23 mpg by 2015.
We really need to set our goals higher. I get that in the city with a V6 already.
Follow the money.
The reseller charges you X for the DSL. They give Y to rent the line from the telco. Y must be less than X or the reseller goes out of business.
If the telco doesn't have to rent the line to the reseller then they have a monopoly. The telco can at that point charge X. X is more than Y so the telco is happy. They can't jack the price because people will jump ship to cable. So the only two changes are the telco makes more and the customer has to write the check to a different company.
X is more than Y. It's that simple.
I think this is all very short sighted. If I were the telco I'd try and get all of my DSL switched over to resellers. That simplifies everything. Layoff a chunk of my customer servervice, collections, and billing people and let the reseller deal with that problem. Collect my 1 check from the reseller every billing period.
Then work on getting the fiber classified as an information servervice and gouge for the fat pipes.
MMPOGs are significantly cheaper for me than single player games are.
At the peak I had 4 accounts spread across a variety of games. Some were $10 and some were $15. Worst case (4@$15) that was $60 a month. Before MMPOGs I would buy 2-3 single player games a month at $40-$50 each.
$60 $100
I've never gone back back to single player games. MMPOGs have more content and are cheaper.
There are no activation copies of Windows XP. Large companies said fuck off with this activation shit and Microsoft folded.
You just have to be large enough that Microsoft would actually bother to litigate you if you misused it to be eligable to get one.
It actually took me a year or so to realize that activation was part of XP and not longhorn since I've never had to activate a copy of XP I've used. My home copy is work provided so I can remote in.
The Drudge link just goes to the front page where there is a link to yahoo news. Save yourself the trouble and go to the news source of your choice.
If your tool is used to bypass copy protection then it is illegal according to the DMCA.
Plus I would bet 2-1 that their encryption scheme is patented. That means your also getting hit with 3x damages.
The only hope is for independent developers to create submarine patents and hit a few of the big guys with them.
Then some nice company will release a drive that doesn't have the hardware encryption.