A Hilarious letter from the comuter industry to the entertainment industry: We lied to you Look at us: every year, we churn out more computer games than your entire industry is worth. You know how we do it? We like our customers. We don’t treat them like potential criminals, and try to make our products […]
I’m not a fan of hockey. Nor am I secretly hoping for this labor dispute to kill the NHL and thereby make room in the crowded American sports landscape for MLS/Soccer. I did come across an excellent FAQ to get up to speed: CBC Sports Online: Faceoff 2004. MLS Owners and League Brass must look
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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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
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
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It’s not everyday I recognize something from the Human Factors courses I slept through: mezzoblue § Fitts’ Law. Now, if only we can make use of Therbligs to analyze motions during user interaction… A larger clickable area means less precise mouse movement is required to focus on the link. Without impacting the design in any
With TiVo offering huge rebates on new TiVo2 recorders, why put up with the aggravation of a second-rate box that is useless? Mark Frauenfelder described his recent experiences with the Scientific Atlanta DVR that his cable company provides, including the claim that it was a real TiVo device: Five days later a service technician came