I just wish media companies would stop with this region-locked and country-based contracts nonsense and go with worldwide releases already. They don't need local distribution networks anymore.
While your outrage is justified, in many ways it is misplaced. Most media companies would like nothing more than to push their content to screens around the world. But the world is a complex place. Often there are local artists' societies, unions, actors'/writers/producers/directors/etc contracts, even national laws which prohibit this sort of thing.
If the big American media companies could do what you ask, it would save then tons of money. And if they can save a buck to add it their shrinking profits, don't you think they would have done it already?
I believe that Neilson has a branch or subsidiary or something that counts viewers in certain other countries, though on a more limited basis.
But in terms of funding a television show, it's the American market that counts most. The rest of the world is considered gravy.
Explaining why is beyond the scope of a simple Slashdot comment. People spend their lives learning this sort of thing. There are entire college courses and six-figure seminars that teach the intracacies of why this is. Google is a good start, though far from the end.
The new AppleTV and the old have the same potential for playing pirated content because they both have the ability to stream video from your computer to your TV. The new AppleTV just eliminates the often time-consuming "sync" option.
If PairNIC is as good as Pair's hosting, then you've made a wise choice. If I didn't already have most of my domains locked up in DirectNIC, or EDIS.at, I'd be a PairNIC guy. Pair's customer support and service is among the best in the business.
In the echo chamber of Microsoft love that is the greater Redmond/Bellevue/Issaquah/Seattle area, this makes perfect sense.
People talk about the Steve Jobs reality distortion field that affects people near him. The MS RDF engulfs the entire metro. It's really pathetic to witness.
I can't speak for every rental company, but Enterprise will let you rent with a debit card, but they put something like $500 on reserve until it's returned safely.
AppleTV isn't the only game in town. There are dozens of similar options, and many have composite, or even component out. Google is your friend. Or if you're even lazier than that, search on DealExtreme.
And FWIW, AppleTV has component out. The new AppleTV that comes out later this month is HDMI-only.
Makes sense. Back in the C=64 days, taking four months to write and publish a game was considered an eternity. These days some games take years to produce and cost millions of dollars.
And what happens every time a new computing platform comes out? People instantly try to find ways to run those old 1980's-era games on them.
The modern game industry doesn't understand that throwing money at a game doesn't make it fun.
But the Apple ones will have at least gone through some quality control process and will likely be suitable for the job. Meanwhile the Android bandages were made with parts scavenged by the side of the road and may or may not carry infection.
FWIW, I bought my eeePC 700 from Overstock.com for $129.
Runs Linux and fits in my coat pocket, but the battery life is pretty awful (2-3 hours max). Still, Firefox works pretty well. That's about all that works well, though.
And if you are trying to access any site I block we will hold the meeting to discuss this in the HR department where you will need explain why you need to access sites blocked by company approved blocking policy. After which, we will do an analysis of your hard drive.
Wow, you're a real arrogant dickbag, aren't you? The next time you see an article on the internet about crappy egotistical IT folk, take a minute to walk down to the bathroom and look at yourself in the mirror.
Happened to me. launched a site on Pair networks a few years back and had problems with my outgoing mail. Turned out the guy who had the IP address before me was blacklisted. Pair just pushed me over to a new address. No problem.
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I had a similar experience pre-9/11. I drove from Washington state into British Columbia. At the border the Canadian guard made a big deal about my Texas drivers license. She insisted that if I lived in Texas I must have guns in the car.
Coming back into the United States was smooth as silk.
The part I still don't understand about this guy's story is why he was confronted by U.S. boarder agents going INTO Canada. Granted it's been a couple of months since I made the crossing (and never at Detroit/Windsor), but every time I've gone into Canada it was Canadian guards who questioned me, not Americans. Going into Mexico there were no guards at all.
nothing on my network loads any of their analytics tools or other tracking devices.
If you think cookies are the only way that Google (or any other web site) can track you, then it's time to turn in your geek card.
The only way to be sure that no web site is tracking you is to not use the internet. Every time you surf, you give up a little bit of privacy; just like when you leave your home and other people can see you on the street.
You know -- that's a great idea. Perhaps in a future version of Firefox when I Apple-Q, it would slide down a sheet with a list... "The following web sites have added cookies to your browser during this session. Delete or Keep?" with a list of domains and checkboxes next to each.
I like that. I could keep allowing Google or Slashdot or whatever to track me, while unchecking the boxes for things I don't know or recognize.
You are so right. I hope the anti-Apple trolls don't mod you down. When Apple released the iPhone, it was a game changer, and now everyone is playing catch-up.
Whether you like the iPhone or hate the iPhone, any objective thought on the matter leads to the conclusion that the iPhone was good for the whole mobile phone industry and its consumers.
Before, software and usability were afterthoughts at best. Now, it's job #2 or 3 at most mobile phone companies. That's a major improvement.
Except that this is not justification for slavery. It is simply teaching folks to do the best that they can in the circumstances that they find themselves. The writer understood that this is not a perfect world, but that as followers of Christ we are to be the best example we can be.
Shhh! Don't bother confusing the orthodox athiest Slashdotters with facts. They're all already experts on religion and politics because they watch Family Guy and The Daily Show.
I can tell you that you aren't going to do any usable web browsing in X in 28megs of ram. Those are lynx specs.
28 megs is Lynx specs? Ummm.... no. Your youth is showing. 128K is lynx specs. Heck, even the Commodore 64 has a version of Lynx. And a somewhat graphical web browser, too: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/cwi/hl/
WHY WOULD YOU EVER CONSIDER INSTALLING ANYTHING ON THIS HARDWARE?
Because he doesn't want to be wasteful? Because it's fun and interesting. Because he is of limited means? Because he enjoys a challenge? Because he lives in the third world? Because he's sending it to someone who's dirt poor or retarded or a charity? Put down the Wii and try to think.
Throw it out the window and visit the local flee-markets.
I guess they don't sell dictionaries at flee-markets. Coincidentally, there are software dictionaries that will work on his machine.
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While your outrage is justified, in many ways it is misplaced. Most media companies would like nothing more than to push their content to screens around the world. But the world is a complex place. Often there are local artists' societies, unions, actors'/writers/producers/directors/etc contracts, even national laws which prohibit this sort of thing.
If the big American media companies could do what you ask, it would save then tons of money. And if they can save a buck to add it their shrinking profits, don't you think they would have done it already?
I believe that Neilson has a branch or subsidiary or something that counts viewers in certain other countries, though on a more limited basis.
But in terms of funding a television show, it's the American market that counts most. The rest of the world is considered gravy.
Explaining why is beyond the scope of a simple Slashdot comment. People spend their lives learning this sort of thing. There are entire college courses and six-figure seminars that teach the intracacies of why this is. Google is a good start, though far from the end.
The new AppleTV and the old have the same potential for playing pirated content because they both have the ability to stream video from your computer to your TV. The new AppleTV just eliminates the often time-consuming "sync" option.
If PairNIC is as good as Pair's hosting, then you've made a wise choice. If I didn't already have most of my domains locked up in DirectNIC, or EDIS.at, I'd be a PairNIC guy. Pair's customer support and service is among the best in the business.
In the echo chamber of Microsoft love that is the greater Redmond/Bellevue/Issaquah/Seattle area, this makes perfect sense.
People talk about the Steve Jobs reality distortion field that affects people near him. The MS RDF engulfs the entire metro. It's really pathetic to witness.
I can't speak for every rental company, but Enterprise will let you rent with a debit card, but they put something like $500 on reserve until it's returned safely.
Why do you say this? Do you live someplace where the only number for emergency services is three-digits long? Try the phone book.
Here... have an Aspirin and a Kleenex. You'll feel better.
AppleTV isn't the only game in town. There are dozens of similar options, and many have composite, or even component out. Google is your friend. Or if you're even lazier than that, search on DealExtreme.
And FWIW, AppleTV has component out. The new AppleTV that comes out later this month is HDMI-only.
Makes sense. Back in the C=64 days, taking four months to write and publish a game was considered an eternity. These days some games take years to produce and cost millions of dollars.
And what happens every time a new computing platform comes out? People instantly try to find ways to run those old 1980's-era games on them.
The modern game industry doesn't understand that throwing money at a game doesn't make it fun.
So does Intel.
But the Apple ones will have at least gone through some quality control process and will likely be suitable for the job. Meanwhile the Android bandages were made with parts scavenged by the side of the road and may or may not carry infection.
FWIW, I bought my eeePC 700 from Overstock.com for $129.
Runs Linux and fits in my coat pocket, but the battery life is pretty awful (2-3 hours max). Still, Firefox works pretty well. That's about all that works well, though.
Wow, you're a real arrogant dickbag, aren't you? The next time you see an article on the internet about crappy egotistical IT folk, take a minute to walk down to the bathroom and look at yourself in the mirror.
Happened to me. launched a site on Pair networks a few years back and had problems with my outgoing mail. Turned out the guy who had the IP address before me was blacklisted. Pair just pushed me over to a new address. No problem.
I wonder how many of the 100,000 are dupes.
I had a similar experience pre-9/11. I drove from Washington state into British Columbia. At the border the Canadian guard made a big deal about my Texas drivers license. She insisted that if I lived in Texas I must have guns in the car.
Coming back into the United States was smooth as silk.
The part I still don't understand about this guy's story is why he was confronted by U.S. boarder agents going INTO Canada. Granted it's been a couple of months since I made the crossing (and never at Detroit/Windsor), but every time I've gone into Canada it was Canadian guards who questioned me, not Americans. Going into Mexico there were no guards at all.
If you think cookies are the only way that Google (or any other web site) can track you, then it's time to turn in your geek card.
The only way to be sure that no web site is tracking you is to not use the internet. Every time you surf, you give up a little bit of privacy; just like when you leave your home and other people can see you on the street.
You know -- that's a great idea. Perhaps in a future version of Firefox when I Apple-Q, it would slide down a sheet with a list... "The following web sites have added cookies to your browser during this session. Delete or Keep?" with a list of domains and checkboxes next to each.
I like that. I could keep allowing Google or Slashdot or whatever to track me, while unchecking the boxes for things I don't know or recognize.
You are so right. I hope the anti-Apple trolls don't mod you down. When Apple released the iPhone, it was a game changer, and now everyone is playing catch-up.
Whether you like the iPhone or hate the iPhone, any objective thought on the matter leads to the conclusion that the iPhone was good for the whole mobile phone industry and its consumers.
Before, software and usability were afterthoughts at best. Now, it's job #2 or 3 at most mobile phone companies. That's a major improvement.
I think you're thinking of sailors. People from Canukistan end their sentences with "Eh?"
Shhh! Don't bother confusing the orthodox athiest Slashdotters with facts. They're all already experts on religion and politics because they watch Family Guy and The Daily Show.
28 megs is Lynx specs? Ummm.... no. Your youth is showing. 128K is lynx specs. Heck, even the Commodore 64 has a version of Lynx. And a somewhat graphical web browser, too: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/cwi/hl/
Because he doesn't want to be wasteful? Because it's fun and interesting. Because he is of limited means? Because he enjoys a challenge? Because he lives in the third world? Because he's sending it to someone who's dirt poor or retarded or a charity? Put down the Wii and try to think.
I guess they don't sell dictionaries at flee-markets.
Coincidentally, there are software dictionaries that will work on his machine.
Please turn in your geek card on your way out the door.
If you don't understand why he would want to make use of existing hardware, then Slashdot really isn't the web site for you.