So you agree with Paul McGuinness that ISPs make most of their money off of piracy? You agree with him that Apple makes most of it's money off of piracy?
it's true. every song you download is like a hundred dollars to comcast. that's why they are instituting usage caps, so you can download more and more music.
downloading a movie as like a hojillion kabillion dollars. it's a fact. broadband supports piracy.
We went from streaming how hollywood doesnt want to reach customers by allowing netflix to stream movies into their homes making it more convenient for them to spend their money on this hollywood bull crap to regulating banks how that its bad for the economy.
uhh streaming the regulations banks is netflix for the bad hollywood economy. it doesn't take a genius to figure that out. try to keep up.
Looking at how much money something like Modern Warfare made, even compared to Avatar, perhaps movies will become free promotional content for the games!
in general, video games based on a movie franchise tend to suck miserably. also, movies based on a game franchise doubly so.
i'm not saying that will always be, just that it's what always has been.
there are exceptions: butcher bay and arkham asylum were two movie based games that surprised much of the community by not sucking.
Also the "SETI at home" approach would allow an amateur group to crowdsource the computing required to render "Avatar" if they could marshal the public interest. After all the Microsoft search puppy probably consumes more computer power per day than all the supercomputers in the world put together....
Ellison's vision of a light client and heavy server failed when it did for lack of bandwidth...breakthrough game-changing technologies cost money and that no sane innovators undertake risk with no hope for reward.
i think you are missing the spirit of the age at that time.
the thinkNic (the NC) was in the runup to the dotcom bubble, where web portals were going to be the Next Big Thing and it seemed like everything was using oracle databases to deliver web applications.
the NC was basically a way to move more oracle software by cutting out the expense of windows and encouraging investment on the server side which was largely sun microsystems and oracle at that time.
this was also before MSSQL, mySQL, and other databases were popular in the enterprise landscape and when google was just another search engine. everything big seemed to run oracle at it's core.
this is why ellison was going to invest in it: to make oracle bigger. the NC didn't have to turn a profit on its own, it just needed to break even and create demand for web based application servers that ran oracle at their cores.
the late 90's were the golden age of yahoo as The Great Portal to the internet. free web based email, ecommerce, and ebay were all relatively new ideas. those were the web-apps of that time, all running on sun hardware and running oracle.
there were other failed network computers available at the time: the sunray (from sun: the network is the computer, remember that tagline?), the i-opener, webTV (from microsoft!), plus a ton of email only terminals like the audrey from 3com.
the NC booted from CD and ran entirely from memory. updates to it were going to be made by mailing out new updated CD's. the whole concept revolved around the conservation of bandwidth since pretty much everyone who wasn't at work was on dialup at the time.
the for it was based on the previous success of greenscreen terminals from the 80's (where everyone shared time on a single central machine via serial connections) and the success of emerging (at that time) server applications like citrix metaframe which also centralized applications on servers and focused largely on conserving bandwidth.
at $500 a seat, the NC was a steal compared to low end dell computers which were $1000. in time however, the price of computers fell (the emachine shocked the world when it hit for $499 with a 3 year subscription to aol or msn or something) and you could get a "real" pc for the same price as the lesser equipped NC with a real hard drive and a CD burner to store your stuff locally. i think this was what killed the NC.
the problem comes in when a "bot" is playing the game for you, YOU do not get to view all the wonderful ads that go along with how the game makes money.
so if the script randomly clicked ads as well, it would be ok?
It's about common sense, not some form of collecting obsession or elitism.
it's not hard to get ebooks (or mp3s) without DRM on them, for free. when you compare that to the MP3 of 12 years ago which was also free and without DRM, you get the same responses:
"i don't want to listen to read/listen on my computer"
"i like books/CDs better"
among my peers, cost and DRM are not a factor, since we don't deal much with either, it boils down to how you like to consume content: fast and purely digital, or in a higher quality physical medium.
at some point, either the ebook equivalent of itunes will emerge, or ebook sharing will become more widespread. either way, the cost+DRM problem will be handled, and the digital vs. physical debate will be all that remains.
At least with a new PC / Laptop you can move and keep your old (Books) and files. I'll stay with old school. The idea that someone wants a smaller screen or reading area is stupid.
right on grandpa!
you tell those kids to take their hula-hoops and their rock n' roll to get off your lawn!
I find people's opinions of ebooks interesting and often not grounded in reality.
ebooks are being received pretty much the way MP3's were in the mid to late 90's. the arguments are pretty much the same: poor quality, being tethered to your pc/player/whatever, etc. etc.
like the mp3, ebooks appeal to people who interested purely in the content and not necessarily in the package.
ebooks are great if you just want to read books, rather than collect and display them. bibliophiles, like their audiophile brethren, discount convenience, portability, and cost as useful features, if not salable commodities.
this is fine, and there will always be dead tree format books for the collectors of the world, just like there will always be vinyl or CD. the difference is that now there is a purely digital (and therefore hopefully cheaper) option for those of us who are only interested in the content.
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don't forget to "sudo apt-get upgrade" afterward :-)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg
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so what were they going to do with the email?
sounds like you should use a disposable account to send emails to strangers, especially when they are critical of 3 letter agencies.
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no. u.
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it's true. every song you download is like a hundred dollars to comcast. that's why they are instituting usage caps, so you can download more and more music.
downloading a movie as like a hojillion kabillion dollars. it's a fact. broadband supports piracy.
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you have 2 choices:
1) buy now, get burned, pirate later.
2) pirate now, never get burned.
you're a pirate either way, so why take the risk?
i suppose you could buy later, if acceptable options exist, but that remains to be seen in the ebook market.
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uhh streaming the regulations banks is netflix for the bad hollywood economy. it doesn't take a genius to figure that out. try to keep up.
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in general, video games based on a movie franchise tend to suck miserably. also, movies based on a game franchise doubly so.
i'm not saying that will always be, just that it's what always has been.
there are exceptions: butcher bay and arkham asylum were two movie based games that surprised much of the community by not sucking.
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one that is here and now is called the Big Ugly Rendering Project, and it uses BOINC as the framework:
http://burp.renderfarming.net/intro.php
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i think you are missing the spirit of the age at that time.
the thinkNic (the NC) was in the runup to the dotcom bubble, where web portals were going to be the Next Big Thing and it seemed like everything was using oracle databases to deliver web applications.
the NC was basically a way to move more oracle software by cutting out the expense of windows and encouraging investment on the server side which was largely sun microsystems and oracle at that time.
this was also before MSSQL, mySQL, and other databases were popular in the enterprise landscape and when google was just another search engine. everything big seemed to run oracle at it's core.
this is why ellison was going to invest in it: to make oracle bigger. the NC didn't have to turn a profit on its own, it just needed to break even and create demand for web based application servers that ran oracle at their cores.
the late 90's were the golden age of yahoo as The Great Portal to the internet. free web based email, ecommerce, and ebay were all relatively new ideas. those were the web-apps of that time, all running on sun hardware and running oracle.
there were other failed network computers available at the time: the sunray (from sun: the network is the computer, remember that tagline?), the i-opener, webTV (from microsoft!), plus a ton of email only terminals like the audrey from 3com.
the NC booted from CD and ran entirely from memory. updates to it were going to be made by mailing out new updated CD's. the whole concept revolved around the conservation of bandwidth since pretty much everyone who wasn't at work was on dialup at the time.
the for it was based on the previous success of greenscreen terminals from the 80's (where everyone shared time on a single central machine via serial connections) and the success of emerging (at that time) server applications like citrix metaframe which also centralized applications on servers and focused largely on conserving bandwidth.
at $500 a seat, the NC was a steal compared to low end dell computers which were $1000. in time however, the price of computers fell (the emachine shocked the world when it hit for $499 with a 3 year subscription to aol or msn or something) and you could get a "real" pc for the same price as the lesser equipped NC with a real hard drive and a CD burner to store your stuff locally. i think this was what killed the NC.
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Errr - then what will the cloud run on ?
the atmosphere stupid!
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I keep saying: the future of music is all pirate, all criminal, all the time.
if you having streaming problems i feel bad for you son. i got 99 problems, but gettin my hands on free content ain't one.
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so if the script randomly clicked ads as well, it would be ok?
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it's not hard to get ebooks (or mp3s) without DRM on them, for free. when you compare that to the MP3 of 12 years ago which was also free and without DRM, you get the same responses:
"i don't want to listen to read/listen on my computer"
"i like books/CDs better"
among my peers, cost and DRM are not a factor, since we don't deal much with either, it boils down to how you like to consume content: fast and purely digital, or in a higher quality physical medium.
at some point, either the ebook equivalent of itunes will emerge, or ebook sharing will become more widespread. either way, the cost+DRM problem will be handled, and the digital vs. physical debate will be all that remains.
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right on grandpa!
you tell those kids to take their hula-hoops and their rock n' roll to get off your lawn!
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and what about point #3?
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ebooks are being received pretty much the way MP3's were in the mid to late 90's. the arguments are pretty much the same: poor quality, being tethered to your pc/player/whatever, etc. etc.
like the mp3, ebooks appeal to people who interested purely in the content and not necessarily in the package.
ebooks are great if you just want to read books, rather than collect and display them. bibliophiles, like their audiophile brethren, discount convenience, portability, and cost as useful features, if not salable commodities.
this is fine, and there will always be dead tree format books for the collectors of the world, just like there will always be vinyl or CD. the difference is that now there is a purely digital (and therefore hopefully cheaper) option for those of us who are only interested in the content.
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