Is rental an unenforceable, and thus obsolete, business model? Or will companies simply accept the "shrinkage"?
Shrinkage? Have you ever rented the same movie from NetFlix twice? Me either. It is so rare that I want to see it again, what would be the loss to the company if I were to rip it?
The truth is if I rent something and I want to keep it, I go out and buy it. DVD extras slipcase and all.
However, I know some guys who get their movies on Friday night rip them while they are sleeping and ship them back on Sat morning. They don't Sell/Share/Distribute them. They watch them when they have the time, usually just once. But they move the Cue along for the rest of us. Where is the shrinkage?
Disclaimer: I don't even use a service like NetFlix. I wait for cable. A good one comes out that I don't want to wait for, I can always run out and pick it up.
Is rental an unenforceable, and thus obsolete, business model?
Unenforcable, maybe. Obsolete, not yet. Profitable, You bet your ass.
AOL reports that they are reviewing this report and that they are taking steps to address what's noted here. With regards to uninstallation, AOL says that a design flaw in the uninstaller mistakenly leaves executables running, even after a restart. The company says it is working on a fix, and in the meantime, that the executables do nothing even though they are running.
August 27th, 2006
Yeah thats it, Nothing at all... Wink... Just keep seeding those torrents..... Thats right, nothing more to see here, move along.
AOL Chief Technical Officer Maureen Govern has resigned from the company. Is this an appropriate penalty for releasing 20 million keyword search results, or is it too harsh, or not harsh enough?
Even without the search results, given the level of AOL technology its appropriate and not harsh enough.
Thank goodness they'll be able to get some visionary technical specialis....
AOL's former CTO, will take over on an interim basis, according to the memo obtained by Reuters on Monday.
Oh, okay they are still screwed.
On a side note, I thought the search queries public release was a brilliant idea executed the absolute worst way imaginable. Collect the queries, not the origins. The Data is fascinating to study, and incredibly usefull, just ask google, sorry I mean just ask Google. Advertise the fact that the data is collected and agregated to "serve you better", but you have to make it public. Automated wikipedia style.
I think the sad truth is, it is our data collectively, and we'd like to know what the rest of the world is looking for everyonce in a while.
Privacy hording, tin foil hat wearers, I know this seems foriegn and scary. But the knife cuts both ways. Maybe you wouldn't be so afraid if you "knew it all too".
I dunno man, I've seen trained dolphins, whales, seals, bears, dogs, some humans, but never a trained goldfish.
Must be in the back corner of Sea World.
Or
They are just way too smart to be servile like some dumbass dolphin.
That is the sickest most disgusting abuse of technology I've ever needed so much on my desk.
Thanks alot. Another 100 bucks. I hope you are happy.
Dammit, just this morning, I was blissfully unaware of the ability to fullfill every geek/mans fantasy of owning a chimp without all the liberal-enviromentalist guilt that it comes with. (Not to mention the feces-ducking required)
For the past few years, off and on, I've been porting the XFree/Xorg Intel 8xx graphics drivers to BeOS, so I have a fairly close relationship with that code, and unusually detailed knowledge of the chip series. Unless this represents a completely different codebase (which I doubt), it's really not that bad.
Dude, you are shattering my illusion. You mean this is the best we can get? No I don't believe it. Intel makes good hardware. right, right. I mean Intel chips cost more, they must be better, right, right.
Unless you're planning on turning it into a full kernel-mode driver, taking advantage of native interrupts and so forth, there's not a lot that could be improved.
Me, I'm planing on never using Intel Integrated Graphics unless forced by Court Order, or Another Emachine or Hp box showing up on another monday morning, I hate it when he does that.. Let alone hack the code for it. No I prefer AMD and Nvidia but I'll swith to AMD/AMD if they open up too. Unless Nvidia wants to go first and be second/ Come on guys, make every linux user/gamer happy.
BTW... I was talking about Driver performance/stability under windows. Actually running Linux, I usually have very little problems other than maybe.... the slowest fscking hardware opengl I've ever seen on a 3ghz Machine. (I know you are thinking, Who cares though, its a Workstation. Yeah a workstation forever without xgl, TODO:insert sad face icon.)
I think you mean old product. New Review. and if you want to make slashdot's front page try this recipe.
1 review of a robot. (any Era)
1 3 Slashdot Style Page Titles eg.. "Welcoming our new robot overlords", "I,robot", "Hacking the Robosapien V2"
1 be disapointed, but clever.
My boys each got a V1 that first Christmas, I wish i had waited for the review 9 months later.
They look awesome. Many functions, All basically useless. And did I mention you cannot control them individually. Makes great synchonized dancing for trade shows, but the worst $200 Robot fight I've ever financed.
$25 more of technology and It could have been useful. Mp3, voice recorder, Camera, Etc. New one is $250 and can throw a gutter ball. Ahh progress.
Guess what, bought no new V2 last Christmas. This review just reinforces my non purchase.
Hey, Maybe, version 3 may get there. Note to Mark, Make the next one useful, even in some small way, Alarm Clock. something. My boys really wanted to like it so much, But the truth is, they liked it better in the box. Burping Droids, really for shame.
First, Brilliant move. They know, they just know AMD is going to blow open wide the company formerly known as Ati's drivers. They drop this announcement before the paperwork is even dry on the AMD/Ati deal. Bravo, kudos, well played... etc.
Second, Thank You Intel, so very much.... BECAUSE Even the laziest of our part-time hobbyist programmers will be able to improve your driver performance. All these years I just refused to believe Intel could develop and ship newer and newer Card/integrated Video chips that were lightyears behind in performance and features. I instead chose to think of them as a Hardware Company full of Hardware Engineers who look down on the few "soft ones". I can understand how that might develop there.
I believed, some day, they would come around, and hire some PC Software/Driver Engineers. Someday the driver would rescue their possibly brilliant designs.
Well this is even better. We get our open graphics card with every e-machine.
Except, Of course Intel doesn't pay for it and yet reaps the rewards, and naturally perpetuates the undervalued view of us software guys.
The mere fact that it is a PlayStation will have every male 18-35 lining up to buy.
As a male turning 34 this year, I for one, will not be lining up to buy a PS3 at launch, post launch, or even at PS4 Launch.
About the only thing I liked about the ps3 is Linux. If it costs more than a PC running Kubuntu than they can keep it. If we can use "the PS2 supports Linux" hype as an example of Sony's Support for Linux. Pass.
Shame, I liked sony equipment once long ago. (Wow that was before their first Vaio PCs)
Thanks for the escapist reminder.
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Once again a rather weak link to the escapist. (Sorry, I lost everything in Francis, VideoGames somehow didn't mean a whole lot. Besides we were able to salvage most of the Games, Had to buy a few PCs and a new GameCube.)
Once again, just when I'm about to complain the next story is actually interesting.
How come PDFs don't load properly? On some computers they load properly, not on mine. It crashes Firefox. Hard. PDFs great in IE though.
I'm sure you're aware that neither of these issues are anything that the Firefox team can do anything about. You should be addressing your complaints and bug reports to the developers of the plugins that implement those functions. That'd be Adobe, right?
Or he could be requesting native pdf support without adobe's plugin. via gs code or similar. I'd like to second that.
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Shrinkage? Have you ever rented the same movie from NetFlix twice? Me either. It is so rare that I want to see it again, what would be the loss to the company if I were to rip it?
The truth is if I rent something and I want to keep it, I go out and buy it. DVD extras slipcase and all. However, I know some guys who get their movies on Friday night rip them while they are sleeping and ship them back on Sat morning. They don't Sell/Share/Distribute them. They watch them when they have the time, usually just once. But they move the Cue along for the rest of us. Where is the shrinkage?
Disclaimer: I don't even use a service like NetFlix. I wait for cable. A good one comes out that I don't want to wait for, I can always run out and pick it up.
Is rental an unenforceable, and thus obsolete, business model?
Unenforcable, maybe. Obsolete, not yet. Profitable, You bet your ass.
AOL reports that they are reviewing this report and that they are taking steps to address what's noted here. With regards to uninstallation, AOL says that a design flaw in the uninstaller mistakenly leaves executables running, even after a restart. The company says it is working on a fix, and in the meantime, that the executables do nothing even though they are running.
August 27th, 2006
Yeah thats it, Nothing at all... Wink... Just keep seeding those torrents..... Thats right, nothing more to see here, move along.
Sorry Ajax is a registered trademark of Colgate. http://www.colgate.com/app/Colgate/US/HC/Products/ HouseholdCleaners/Ajax.cvsp
Free as in beer?
Even without the search results, given the level of AOL technology its appropriate and not harsh enough.
Thank goodness they'll be able to get some visionary technical specialis....
AOL's former CTO, will take over on an interim basis, according to the memo obtained by Reuters on Monday.
Oh, okay they are still screwed.
On a side note, I thought the search queries public release was a brilliant idea executed the absolute worst way imaginable. Collect the queries, not the origins. The Data is fascinating to study, and incredibly usefull, just ask google, sorry I mean just ask Google. Advertise the fact that the data is collected and agregated to "serve you better", but you have to make it public. Automated wikipedia style.
I think the sad truth is, it is our data collectively, and we'd like to know what the rest of the world is looking for everyonce in a while.
Privacy hording, tin foil hat wearers, I know this seems foriegn and scary. But the knife cuts both ways. Maybe you wouldn't be so afraid if you "knew it all too".
Just a thought
Or
They are just way too smart to be servile like some dumbass dolphin.
Seriously, anybody watching from the boardroom? It is almost like they are starting to collapse under their own weight.
How much ammo do we have left?
Who?
No, It means you have to rename it the iPud.
I agree with your wife judging from this post. Sorry no mod points today else +1 Informative
YouTube, XTube, PornoTube...
The internet really is a series of tubes.
You're Welcome
Else W will come down like thunder.
Thanks alot. Another 100 bucks. I hope you are happy.
Dammit, just this morning, I was blissfully unaware of the ability to fullfill every geek/mans fantasy of owning a chimp without all the liberal-enviromentalist guilt that it comes with. (Not to mention the feces-ducking required)
And now this http://www.sharperimage.com/us/en/search1/searchre sults.jhtml?_DARGS=/us/en/include/standardheader1. jhtml.13 Just staring at me, whispering Click Me.
Again Thanks.
Dude, you are shattering my illusion. You mean this is the best we can get? No I don't believe it. Intel makes good hardware. right, right. I mean Intel chips cost more, they must be better, right, right.
Unless you're planning on turning it into a full kernel-mode driver, taking advantage of native interrupts and so forth, there's not a lot that could be improved.
Me, I'm planing on never using Intel Integrated Graphics unless forced by Court Order, or Another Emachine or Hp box showing up on another monday morning, I hate it when he does that.. Let alone hack the code for it. No I prefer AMD and Nvidia but I'll swith to AMD/AMD if they open up too. Unless Nvidia wants to go first and be second/ Come on guys, make every linux user/gamer happy.
BTW... I was talking about Driver performance/stability under windows. Actually running Linux, I usually have very little problems other than maybe .... the slowest fscking hardware opengl I've ever seen on a 3ghz Machine. (I know you are thinking, Who cares though, its a Workstation. Yeah a workstation forever without xgl, TODO:insert sad face icon.)
1 3 Slashdot Style Page Titles eg.. "Welcoming our new robot overlords", "I,robot", "Hacking the Robosapien V2"
1 be disapointed, but clever.
My boys each got a V1 that first Christmas, I wish i had waited for the review 9 months later.
They look awesome. Many functions, All basically useless. And did I mention you cannot control them individually. Makes great synchonized dancing for trade shows, but the worst $200 Robot fight I've ever financed.
$25 more of technology and It could have been useful. Mp3, voice recorder, Camera, Etc. New one is $250 and can throw a gutter ball. Ahh progress.
Guess what, bought no new V2 last Christmas. This review just reinforces my non purchase.
Hey, Maybe, version 3 may get there. Note to Mark, Make the next one useful, even in some small way, Alarm Clock. something. My boys really wanted to like it so much, But the truth is, they liked it better in the box. Burping Droids, really for shame.
Second, Thank You Intel, so very much.... BECAUSE Even the laziest of our part-time hobbyist programmers will be able to improve your driver performance.
All these years I just refused to believe Intel could develop and ship newer and newer Card/integrated Video chips that were lightyears behind in performance and features. I instead chose to think of them as a Hardware Company full of Hardware Engineers who look down on the few "soft ones". I can understand how that might develop there.
I believed, some day, they would come around, and hire some PC Software/Driver Engineers. Someday the driver would rescue their possibly brilliant designs.
Well this is even better. We get our open graphics card with every e-machine.
Except, Of course Intel doesn't pay for it and yet reaps the rewards, and naturally perpetuates the undervalued view of us software guys.
Vicous cycle.
As a male turning 34 this year, I for one, will not be lining up to buy a PS3 at launch, post launch, or even at PS4 Launch.
About the only thing I liked about the ps3 is Linux. If it costs more than a PC running Kubuntu than they can keep it. If we can use "the PS2 supports Linux" hype as an example of Sony's Support for Linux. Pass.
Shame, I liked sony equipment once long ago. (Wow that was before their first Vaio PCs)
Once again, just when I'm about to complain the next story is actually interesting.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/57/16 Cry Havok, much better article, on Havok Engine and Immersion.
So thank you again for my Escapist reminder. I do commend you on linking to the print version though.
Can you believe these freakin robots Tony?
I dunno Frankie, Robot that big, must have huge balls.
I'm sure you're aware that neither of these issues are anything that the Firefox team can do anything about. You should be addressing your complaints and bug reports to the developers of the plugins that implement those functions. That'd be Adobe, right?
Or he could be requesting native pdf support without adobe's plugin. via gs code or similar. I'd like to second that.
He also might try making Adobe open outside of Firefox for Pdf files. Also http://www.snapfiles.com/get/pdfspeedup.html check this app out.
To make tasks appear simple usually requires a very complex but well thought out plan, implemented with some elegant code.
So I submit maybe we still aren't complex enough. I like the way my brain hurts at the end of every day, makes me feel alive.