The steps are a radical change for Nielsen, reflecting an overall paradigm shift that's shaking up the television world. The audience is taking control. And TV companies are scrambling to catch up.
This reflects a change in how Nielson's gathering statistics, nothing more, nothing less. What paradigm shift? What control over television companies does the audience have now that they didn't have before? It's always nice to give voice to wishful thinking, but, c'mon, at least let your excuse have some relevance to your fantasies.
Also, I hope they take into account that most people who have videos on their iPods will overwhelmingly be well-off white people. I'm sure they're a valuable population statistic, but please don't let their viewing habits have too much weight in the overall viewing summary. I don't want every network to be (more) stacked with Dharma and Greg clones...
That's really going to hurt when you can back up all your photos, videos and data onto one disc, and then lose it! At least if you back up to cd destroying or losing one disk isn't a disaster.
Now it's TOO convenient to back up data?
Let's switch back to backing up systems with floppy disks. That way, destroying or losing one disk won't be a disaster!
As they are, newspapers rely on two sources of revenue: direct sale and advertising sponsorship. With the advent of the Internet, information is free -- and newspapers, in order to remain relevant, must offer their articles for the same price or risk the certainty of readers going to a free competitor.
Unfortunately, doing so completely wipes out their subscription base. And I doubt advertising alone will be enough to sustain high-end staffs such as (despite an earlier criticism of the paper in this feedback) those on The New York Times. It'll be interesting to see if, or when, major papers shut down because they lose too much money investigating stories -- or if, more likely, they simply downgrade to the usual nonsense of hyping a murder trial or a missing white woman. Either way, however great a revolution the Internet may be for widespread communication and education, I mourn for what seems the eventual demise of professional journalism. Does anyone want a future of Fox News-caliber media?
Still, at least in my opinion, the good that is free and instant and widespread information weighs out the evil of such losses.
With the help of one on "Alfven waves" of based plasma propulsion the thrust of a rocket can be drastically reduced increased, at the same time the fuel consumption, so the idea.
I love Babelfish.
I wonder if there could be any more domestic uses? Japan already developed a train powered by magnetism, so the idea.
...but DAMN, it's true. When's a practical e-book reader coming out? The applications for college students alone would be STAGGERING -- can you imagine never needing to shell out $1000+/semester again (as I just did)?
Not that this would benefit consumers alone. There'd be, as you said, almost zero distribution overhead, and publishers could make absolutely insane profit by charging what they do now (or even a fraction of it would still skyrocket their profit margins). Brick-and-mortar bookstores would still have plenty of business -- paper books aren't going anywhere -- but it's so long since past time we switch from paper to silicon, at least for expensive books and textbooks. Or anything that weighs over three pounds, honestly.
Yet another reason why I should be in charge of running the world...
That's only half the story, however: I could achieve the same standard of living as a stone-age tribesman with very little work indeed.
Yeah, with modern technology it wouldn't be too difficult to live in a cave, eat hunted animals and foraged vegetables, survive cold winters, etceteras etceteras. But I'd love to see you chase down your prey with a crude spear and bare feet. Survive those winters without Gore-tex or synthetic blankets. Hell, try to get by with "very little work indeed" while you're tracking animals across the frozen tundra.
But, yeah, I'm sure life was cozy as hell before annoying technology came along and screwed it all up.
Similarly, the gender expectations that are so rigid in mainstream America are not as clearly defined in Japanese culture. Japanese gamers are less concerned with appearing "masculine," at least in the American sense of reveling in games that flex their graphical muscle. The comments of U. S. gamers, especially those participating in forums, are influenced by the need to protect a certain macho image, one in favor of "grownup" realism instead of "childish" stylization.
Come on. American gamers prefer realistic graphics to grotesquely caricatures, and she blames it on the male ego?
I grew up watching Batman: The Animated Series. It's not realistic -- if anything, Miller's film noir styles intentionally distorted dimensions and lighting -- but it's among the most brilliant cartoons I've ever had the privilege to watch. Pokemon, less so. It's not (just) the difference between the IQs each cartoon markets to, it's simply smoother, better graphics which look as though they took more than five minutes of effort and three years of age to create.
If you'd rather do an apples-to-apples comparison, try Pokemon vs. Yu-Gi-Oh. The richer colors and more talented voices of the latter interest me more than the choppy five-frames-per-show style of Pokemon. I prefer Batman to both, but that's simply because it's a far more intelligent and mature cartoon, just as this coming Twilight Princess may be superior to Wind Waker.
Also, it's not as though Americans are opposed to unrealistic games. Grim Fandango is quite possibly the best game I've ever played, and its main character is an Aztec-styled skeleton in a suit. Is my love for this game based on my comfort with my masculinity, or with the quality graphics LucasArts employed to make it a beautiful, brilliant, mature world?
I'm a feminist myself, but blaming taste and maturity on male insecurity is ridiculous.
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Also, I hope they take into account that most people who have videos on their iPods will overwhelmingly be well-off white people. I'm sure they're a valuable population statistic, but please don't let their viewing habits have too much weight in the overall viewing summary. I don't want every network to be (more) stacked with Dharma and Greg clones...
Let's switch back to backing up systems with floppy disks. That way, destroying or losing one disk won't be a disaster!
Trillian, also.
As they are, newspapers rely on two sources of revenue: direct sale and advertising sponsorship. With the advent of the Internet, information is free -- and newspapers, in order to remain relevant, must offer their articles for the same price or risk the certainty of readers going to a free competitor.
Unfortunately, doing so completely wipes out their subscription base. And I doubt advertising alone will be enough to sustain high-end staffs such as (despite an earlier criticism of the paper in this feedback) those on The New York Times. It'll be interesting to see if, or when, major papers shut down because they lose too much money investigating stories -- or if, more likely, they simply downgrade to the usual nonsense of hyping a murder trial or a missing white woman. Either way, however great a revolution the Internet may be for widespread communication and education, I mourn for what seems the eventual demise of professional journalism. Does anyone want a future of Fox News-caliber media?
Still, at least in my opinion, the good that is free and instant and widespread information weighs out the evil of such losses.
I love Babelfish.
I wonder if there could be any more domestic uses? Japan already developed a train powered by magnetism, so the idea.
If Blu-Ray doesn't match this, I think Toshiba just got a LOT more popular.
...but DAMN, it's true. When's a practical e-book reader coming out? The applications for college students alone would be STAGGERING -- can you imagine never needing to shell out $1000+/semester again (as I just did)?
Not that this would benefit consumers alone. There'd be, as you said, almost zero distribution overhead, and publishers could make absolutely insane profit by charging what they do now (or even a fraction of it would still skyrocket their profit margins). Brick-and-mortar bookstores would still have plenty of business -- paper books aren't going anywhere -- but it's so long since past time we switch from paper to silicon, at least for expensive books and textbooks. Or anything that weighs over three pounds, honestly.
Yet another reason why I should be in charge of running the world...
But, yeah, I'm sure life was cozy as hell before annoying technology came along and screwed it all up.
I'm really going to enjoy reading IGN blame homosexuals for Hot Coffee... Probably inspired by Dean's yell... Removed by Bush's fervent prayers...