I recently just downloaded and bought some songs from iTunes that I wanted for a picture slide show I was putting together.
However as I found out, I can't use the iTunes format in MS Photo Story. So then I had to download another program to hack the songs out of iTunes. In the end it would have been much easier to illegally download them. At least then I've got it in a format I can actually use for something.
Just another case of DRM hurting legitimate users.
What does this imply about internet advertising? Do paid subscribers also get ads along with the online content? This seems like another indication that on-line ads may not pay out.
First of all, you don't know the content until you watch it or buy it. Since Hollywood rates their own movies, the ratings are almost useless. As far as I can tell it's difficult to distinguish a PG-13 movie from an R rating these days.
I've seen plenty of movies in which 99% of the movie is fine, but they throw in some graphic content that has absolutely nothing to do with the plot.
To simply say "don't watch it or buy it" is a naive statement. You obviously don't have any children. It's nearly impossible to screen every movie before the kids watch them. Having the ability to cut out content goes a long way with parents. Sure, they'll see it elsewhere, but at least you can cut the crap out of your own home.
If you didn't have people with actual morals pressing the film industry, there would be nothing but pr0n on TV and in the movies, but I'm sure you wouldn't mind.
If you also look at Title II of the bill it also has an "Exemption from Infringement for Skipping Audio and Video Content In Motion Pictures" This will allow manufacturers to legally create players to skip over crappy content and effectively lower the moving rating.
Back when DVDs first came out, this was supposedly one of the big "features" that the industry was touting: the ability to select a G, PG, PG-13 or R rating for the movie. So far, Hollywood has never delivered on that. Then, when a companies (like clearplay) enter the market to fill the gap, they get sued. This bill protects that right to skip the content you don't want to see. There are a lot of good movies out there that would be a lot better if they would just leave out some unnecessary obscene material
I have had similar problems with GoDaddy hosting. As far as a registrar, they seem to be fine in my experience. However, they somehow seem to mess up their hosting sever configurations, and when you bring it to their attention, instead of fixing it, they write it off as an "unsupported" feature.
Take, for example, using mod_rewrite. I discovered that on their servers you cannot rewrite anything with a.php extension. (You can go to a php extension but not from) When I contacted tech support, they claim that "we do not support mod_rewrite with php files."
This also screws up 404 pages. If you request a non-existant php file, instead of the 404 page you should get, you recieve a nice "No input file specified" error. This comes from the php parser when you execute it without a filename. After bringing that to their attention, they came back with "It's not our problem, fix your script so it doesn't reference a non-existant file" However, my scripts are fine, and that is completely missing the point. If someone bookmarks a file and later you move it. The user should be able to hit that bookmark and get a 404 page for your site, redirecting them. Of course after responding with that, they ignored my message and I have not gotten a reply.
Anyway, stay away from godaddy unless you want to just serve static html files. I wish they would spend less time writing blogs producing "radio shows" and just focus on getting their core business to work properly. I recently just switched to 1and1.com and they seem to be much better so far. After using 1and1's admin interface, it completely blows away the meager interface godaddy has.
Since Gmail is already scanning my messages, why doesn't it pick tracking numbers out of my e-mail? Then it could do something useful and give me a link to the shipper.
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I recently just downloaded and bought some songs from iTunes that I wanted for a picture slide show I was putting together.
However as I found out, I can't use the iTunes format in MS Photo Story. So then I had to download another program to hack the songs out of iTunes. In the end it would have been much easier to illegally download them. At least then I've got it in a format I can actually use for something.
Just another case of DRM hurting legitimate users.
The "free" Wifi project in Oakland county may come to an end before it even starts. http://www.detnews.com/2005/technology/0506/14/B04 -214447.htm
What does this imply about internet advertising? Do paid subscribers also get ads along with the online content? This seems like another indication that on-line ads may not pay out.
First of all, you don't know the content until you watch it or buy it. Since Hollywood rates their own movies, the ratings are almost useless. As far as I can tell it's difficult to distinguish a PG-13 movie from an R rating these days.
I've seen plenty of movies in which 99% of the movie is fine, but they throw in some graphic content that has absolutely nothing to do with the plot.
To simply say "don't watch it or buy it" is a naive statement. You obviously don't have any children. It's nearly impossible to screen every movie before the kids watch them. Having the ability to cut out content goes a long way with parents. Sure, they'll see it elsewhere, but at least you can cut the crap out of your own home.
If you didn't have people with actual morals pressing the film industry, there would be nothing but pr0n on TV and in the movies, but I'm sure you wouldn't mind.
If you also look at Title II of the bill it also has an "Exemption from Infringement for Skipping Audio and Video Content In Motion Pictures" This will allow manufacturers to legally create players to skip over crappy content and effectively lower the moving rating.
Back when DVDs first came out, this was supposedly one of the big "features" that the industry was touting: the ability to select a G, PG, PG-13 or R rating for the movie. So far, Hollywood has never delivered on that. Then, when a companies (like clearplay) enter the market to fill the gap, they get sued. This bill protects that right to skip the content you don't want to see. There are a lot of good movies out there that would be a lot better if they would just leave out some unnecessary obscene material
I have had similar problems with GoDaddy hosting. As far as a registrar, they seem to be fine in my experience. However, they somehow seem to mess up their hosting sever configurations, and when you bring it to their attention, instead of fixing it, they write it off as an "unsupported" feature.
.php extension. (You can go to a php extension but not from) When I contacted tech support, they claim that "we do not support mod_rewrite with php files."
Take, for example, using mod_rewrite. I discovered that on their servers you cannot rewrite anything with a
This also screws up 404 pages. If you request a non-existant php file, instead of the 404 page you should get, you recieve a nice "No input file specified" error. This comes from the php parser when you execute it without a filename. After bringing that to their attention, they came back with "It's not our problem, fix your script so it doesn't reference a non-existant file" However, my scripts are fine, and that is completely missing the point. If someone bookmarks a file and later you move it. The user should be able to hit that bookmark and get a 404 page for your site, redirecting them. Of course after responding with that, they ignored my message and I have not gotten a reply.
Anyway, stay away from godaddy unless you want to just serve static html files. I wish they would spend less time writing blogs producing "radio shows" and just focus on getting their core business to work properly. I recently just switched to 1and1.com and they seem to be much better so far. After using 1and1's admin interface, it completely blows away the meager interface godaddy has.
Don't forget about MinDisc...
Since Gmail is already scanning my messages, why doesn't it pick tracking numbers out of my e-mail? Then it could do something useful and give me a link to the shipper.