So I can go to their website, which will doubtless be full of paid banner ads, and sit through a show with other unskippable ads. If I call to complain, will they put me on hold where I can listen to a recording of more ads?
I've never used Google Video's paid service or iTunes, but unless I miss my guess the TV shows for sale there are commercial-free, with iTunes even letting you download it to your iPod.
Seems like ABC is straggling a bit when they should be playing catch-up. After all, the first legal song downloads would have been immediately laughed off the Internet had they stuck radio commercials in the middle of each track.
This will surely evolve into a complex holographic tabletop, which will project glowing 3D plans of maps and structures, allowing the players to figure out if it's a trap.
Cue yet another flood of FUD press on the evil "hackers who break into private and public systems, inserting viruses and exploit them to fulfill their own ends" while completely failing to mention the good guys on Bugtraq and such who have quietly been doing their thing for years.
Slashdot has an icon that expresses the problem vividly: a knife and fork with the words "patent pending" superimposed.
The scary thing is, this is the only icon they have for patent stories. Slashdot readers now take it for granted that a story about a patent will be about a bogus patent. That's how bad the problem has become.
No, that's how the whole "news" thing works. If we were to have a posting every time a benign patent got assigned, our scroll wheels would wear away.
And speaking of things wearing away, has anyone patented a cranial skin graft? I now lack skin on my forehead from all the *facepalm*-ing this article inspired.
Don't be unfair. Sure, the Church exiled Galileo, demanded he publicly recant his heretical theories, banned all his works, and made him live out his final years in house arrest, but at least they apologized for it. Sure, it was a slow apology taking about three centuries, but still.
I'm sure the government of Waterworld in 2350 or so will look back on us vaguely apologetically while recycling their own urine into drinking water.
If it weren't for my intense geek lifestyle, I might never have gotten rid of that parasite I found myself host to, a terrifying creature which constantly drained my health and resources day and night.. but thanks to my intense multitasking focus and nerd powers, she eventually left me and moved back in with her folks.
A friend of mine passed away after a battle with cancer, and her website was the last thing left of her to the public. Her site was something of a central repository for not only her personal things, but also some reference material that was quite useful to her church. I offered to archive and host her site indefinitely, but before I could do anything about it her domain name / hosting account happened to run out, and nobody who wasn't her could do anything to renew it. I believe the domain is still owned by a goddamn domain squatter these days, and the content vanished with her own computer, which had been reformatted and passed to someone else.
Ever since then I have my account info, passwords, and backups of major stuff written down and stashed away somewhere safe. I also warn people against letting domain name providers host the sites they're connected to, since having access to either the host or the name would have let us keep something rather than losing it all in one fell swoop.
I also find it somewhat amusing that the typical response to a for-profit business facing the same conundrum around here is "adapt or die!", but for NPR... the poor things!
Nowhere is it written that it's a matter of "oh, poor things." NPR has to adapt or die just like the commercial stations. The difference here is, NPR acknowledges that fact rather than ignoring it entriely or suing the world for not keeping its ancient business model going.
Just watching the commercials doesn't contribute anything, it's patronising the advertised sponsors which give them a return on their ad investment and make it profitable for them to pay NPR for ad time.
Sure you can! Just so long as you don't hang it too near near my masterpiece sculpture of "Thinking Guy," not to be confused with Rodin's "The Thinker, which has much shorter sideburns.
Cockroaches have regular staff meetings in order to create synergy, redefine their core competencies, implement new strategems, and satisfy shareholders.
Termites can do it too, but they hold theirs inside a plank of wood, hence the term "board meeting."
The cells were then placed onto a specially designed bladder-shaped scaffold and left to grow for seven to eight weeks.
How long until this hits the elective surgery market?
"Bored with your old bladder-shaped bladder? Take your pick from our line of bladders shaped like stars, moons, clovers, diamonds.. or profess your fandom with a licensed Mickey-Mouse-shaped excretory organ! (c)Disney
These days anyone with $50 in their pocket can get a domain name, host it somewhere with secure webmail access, and set it up with half an hour of clicking around a user-friendly Cpanel. It won't kill most slightly-able people to not have Yahoo.
Now whether you want to continue to give the IT staff at your job a good look at your personal mail, that's a whole other issue altogether.
Advent Children listing for those who want to click around and find out who these people are.
Personally, I think it looks like a more or less good cast, and have high hoppes. Despite what the MPAA usually has to say about such things, I'll definitely be picking up this DVD to replace my download.
There are also some adults who shouldn't be parenting kids.
That's the real issue, I think. In today's world, chances are sooner or later a young child will hear someone say "fuck," or surf something R-rated on cable, or click somethng online that will show them boobies, or play a violent game like GTA, or read a banned book... if not at their own house, then at someone else's. The idea should be to educate your kids on what is and isn't appropriate to do in real life from an early age, but what parent wants to actually take that sort of blame nowadays when they can easily find some big company to sue?
There are so many reasons this is Not a Good Thing, but I'm a bit surprised the industry didn't pick up on it and push it through sooner. In their eyes, it'd be harder for someone to make a torrent or othe P2P of a recording not stored on their own servers. Thing is, though, it would put them in a technical position not too far from the illegal file sharers, and that might blow holes in their standard anti-piracy arguments.
"You're breaking the law with your saving and redistributing that copyrighted content! Now excuse us while we save and redistribute this copyrighted content... and charge for it!"
Slashdot Mirror
So I can go to their website, which will doubtless be full of paid banner ads, and sit through a show with other unskippable ads. If I call to complain, will they put me on hold where I can listen to a recording of more ads?
I've never used Google Video's paid service or iTunes, but unless I miss my guess the TV shows for sale there are commercial-free, with iTunes even letting you download it to your iPod.
Seems like ABC is straggling a bit when they should be playing catch-up. After all, the first legal song downloads would have been immediately laughed off the Internet had they stuck radio commercials in the middle of each track.
This will surely evolve into a complex holographic tabletop, which will project glowing 3D plans of maps and structures, allowing the players to figure out if it's a trap.
Cue yet another flood of FUD press on the evil "hackers who break into private and public systems, inserting viruses and exploit them to fulfill their own ends" while completely failing to mention the good guys on Bugtraq and such who have quietly been doing their thing for years.
And speaking of things wearing away, has anyone patented a cranial skin graft? I now lack skin on my forehead from all the *facepalm*-ing this article inspired.
Might this mean a return of the good old Moebius Fax? (scroll down a bit)
They write them in pen, on loose-leaf.
(Yaaaay.)
Don't be unfair. Sure, the Church exiled Galileo, demanded he publicly recant his heretical theories, banned all his works, and made him live out his final years in house arrest, but at least they apologized for it. Sure, it was a slow apology taking about three centuries, but still.
I'm sure the government of Waterworld in 2350 or so will look back on us vaguely apologetically while recycling their own urine into drinking water.
"March of the Penguins II: Rise of the Machines."
In other news, a deck of playing cards is still a dollar and change.
If it weren't for my intense geek lifestyle, I might never have gotten rid of that parasite I found myself host to, a terrifying creature which constantly drained my health and resources day and night.. but thanks to my intense multitasking focus and nerd powers, she eventually left me and moved back in with her folks.
In this in-depth report Jason Kraft and Chris Kwak from Susquehanna Financial Group
SUSQUEHANNA HAT COMPANY!!!
*tears off hat, stomps on it*
A friend of mine passed away after a battle with cancer, and her website was the last thing left of her to the public. Her site was something of a central repository for not only her personal things, but also some reference material that was quite useful to her church. I offered to archive and host her site indefinitely, but before I could do anything about it her domain name / hosting account happened to run out, and nobody who wasn't her could do anything to renew it. I believe the domain is still owned by a goddamn domain squatter these days, and the content vanished with her own computer, which had been reformatted and passed to someone else. Ever since then I have my account info, passwords, and backups of major stuff written down and stashed away somewhere safe. I also warn people against letting domain name providers host the sites they're connected to, since having access to either the host or the name would have let us keep something rather than losing it all in one fell swoop.
I also find it somewhat amusing that the typical response to a for-profit business facing the same conundrum around here is "adapt or die!", but for NPR... the poor things!
Nowhere is it written that it's a matter of "oh, poor things." NPR has to adapt or die just like the commercial stations. The difference here is, NPR acknowledges that fact rather than ignoring it entriely or suing the world for not keeping its ancient business model going.
Just watching the commercials doesn't contribute anything, it's patronising the advertised sponsors which give them a return on their ad investment and make it profitable for them to pay NPR for ad time.
Sure you can! Just so long as you don't hang it too near near my masterpiece sculpture of "Thinking Guy," not to be confused with Rodin's "The Thinker, which has much shorter sideburns.
Cockroaches have regular staff meetings in order to create synergy, redefine their core competencies, implement new strategems, and satisfy shareholders.
Termites can do it too, but they hold theirs inside a plank of wood, hence the term "board meeting."
The cells were then placed onto a specially designed bladder-shaped scaffold and left to grow for seven to eight weeks.
How long until this hits the elective surgery market?
"Bored with your old bladder-shaped bladder? Take your pick from our line of bladders shaped like stars, moons, clovers, diamonds.. or profess your fandom with a licensed Mickey-Mouse-shaped excretory organ! (c)Disney
For the paltry sum of only $1000US, I'll send you a genuine Certificate of Ethical Hacking, Keytar Playing, and Being Good To Your Mom.
I'll even load my ink-jet printer with the impressive expensive paper.
These days anyone with $50 in their pocket can get a domain name, host it somewhere with secure webmail access, and set it up with half an hour of clicking around a user-friendly Cpanel. It won't kill most slightly-able people to not have Yahoo. Now whether you want to continue to give the IT staff at your job a good look at your personal mail, that's a whole other issue altogether.
Advent Children listing for those who want to click around and find out who these people are. Personally, I think it looks like a more or less good cast, and have high hoppes. Despite what the MPAA usually has to say about such things, I'll definitely be picking up this DVD to replace my download.
There are also some adults who shouldn't be parenting kids. That's the real issue, I think. In today's world, chances are sooner or later a young child will hear someone say "fuck," or surf something R-rated on cable, or click somethng online that will show them boobies, or play a violent game like GTA, or read a banned book... if not at their own house, then at someone else's. The idea should be to educate your kids on what is and isn't appropriate to do in real life from an early age, but what parent wants to actually take that sort of blame nowadays when they can easily find some big company to sue?
There are so many reasons this is Not a Good Thing, but I'm a bit surprised the industry didn't pick up on it and push it through sooner. In their eyes, it'd be harder for someone to make a torrent or othe P2P of a recording not stored on their own servers. Thing is, though, it would put them in a technical position not too far from the illegal file sharers, and that might blow holes in their standard anti-piracy arguments.
"You're breaking the law with your saving and redistributing that copyrighted content! Now excuse us while we save and redistribute this copyrighted content... and charge for it!"
The BBC would like to apologise for the following programme.
I've told you a million times, don't exaggerate!