From: MercuryNews.com | 09/09/2004 | TiVo, ReplayTV agree to limits. How many people order pay-per-view, especially for movies? The last time I ordered PPV, I can barely remember. I think it was a friendly between the USA and Chile back in 1999… The new technology also will allow Hollywood movie studios and broadcasters to regulate […]
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One of the things I have found that irritates me needlessly are people who are impatient debuggers. Finding and fixing bugs is certainly one of the least enjoyable activities you have to put up with when writing code. It takes a certain amount of persistance for going through the code to make sure you’re understanding
Rumors that Tivo and Netflix might partner together to deliver DVD’s over broadband have me intrigued. The idea of getting movies delivered via broadband appeals to the lazy slob in me but the technophile who invested in an HD capable projector and progressive-scan DVD player wouldn’t want to watch any movie coming out of the
Thanks to BigSoccer, I found a co-ed soccer pickup game to play in this past Saturday. Staci and I headed to a field nearby in Reston where we had a fun time running around and kicking the ball around. I’ve tried to start running again so I wan’t as embarassingly out of breath as I
Congratulations again to Frank and Cindi Chacon who tied the knot this weekend in Va. Beach. We had a great time at their wedding reception drinking and dancing and after-partying with all my psuedo-cousins at the 22nd street Bar & Grille. I’m barely awake now after the drive up 95…
Some folks not so happy with the Republican National Convention in New York have organized together to, umm, welcome the GOP’s candidates. Bright blue tarps, painted with glaring yellow letters, are going up on dozens of rooftops in Brooklyn, under the flight paths into busy New York airports. Thousands of delegates and convention guests peering
If you’re like me and eventually want to find the time to try building a rich, XUL based application
From Lawrence Lessig: Global Warming on a report from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. Given the propensities of the Bush Administration to force scientific research to conform to their agenda, this is a welcome change. At last, high-level Administration acknowledgment that global warming is real, and that human activity (mainly the burning of fossil
HDTV, DVD, Hard Drives and the future – Blog Maverick – www.blogmaverick.com: Next on my reasons to love this approach to distribution is that it basically kills off the Piracy is going to kill us threats from the big movie companies. Hard Drive storage is expanding far more quickly than upload or download speeds to
Staci heard this morning, and it’s posted BigSoccer that this Friday’s Metro Connection at 1:00 will be about “The BUSINESS OF MLS” on one of our NPR affiliates WAMU 88.5 FM I’ll try to listen to it at work and post my thoughts on it.