Entertainment Industry Stupidity
Fox joins Universal's war on Redbox DVD rental kiosks. Yeah, good idea. Screw an outlet where people are still willing to *pay* to see movies. Drive what's left of the market to free downloads. That sounds like a great business move.
What a job: making sure no brands appear in a movie. I always roll my eyes when I see those Diet Coke cans that just say "COLA" on them on TV shows.
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On demand in command; 51% of young 'Net users view TV online. While I watch the majority of the stuff right when it airs during the regular TV season, I do find myself resorting to the usage of the DVR or internet when I just want to watch something whenever. (For instance, I was too busy playing poker tonight and winning to stop and watch the summer finale of BURN NOTICE. I have a recording and I'll watch it at my convenience.)
Hacker attacks silence Twitter, slow Facebook. I guess some people have nothing better to do. I don't know if I mean the Twitter and Facebook users or the hackers. Really, it's a coin flip.
Are parents making Facebook uncool? All I can think of is that THE IT CROWD episode that parodied Facebook. "My mum is on Friendface. My mum! She says her current mood is 'sensual'." My mom's on there. She uses it way more than I do.
Windows 7 activation crackers undeterred by Microsoft's muscle-flexing. Why would they be? No matter what lame copy-protection scheme Microsoft comes up with, people who don't want to shell out $300 for Windows will find a way around it. Instead of making the product reasonably priced, which would decrease piracy immensely. I'd imagine that if Windows 7 was only $50-75 people would spend the same amount of money that they willingly drop, without even blinking, on an Xbox game rather than deal with the hassle of getting a cracked copy. Instead, Microsoft will spend as much (if not more) of the money they're "losing" to come up with new DRM schemes that fail within days or even hours after they've implemented them.
Indictment comes as feds consider legalizing, taxing online gambling. I don't understand how the US government can go after a citizen of another country (Canada) for doing something that isn't a crime in Canada? (Or even an actual crime, come to that.) The idiot UIGEA law hasn't stopped anybody from gambling online. (I guess I'm a criminal. I play poker online for real money.)
Entertainment
No Summer Vacation For Chuck? Season 3 could run more episodes than original ordered, and run into the summer months. That would be cool. At least there is a third season. If season 4 looks iffy I say try and ship CHUCK off to USA. I bet it would work great on that channel.
John Carpenter is working again. Right now. Hey, I'm willing to forgive him for GHOSTS OF MARS.
Fox joins Universal's war on Redbox DVD rental kiosks. Yeah, good idea. Screw an outlet where people are still willing to *pay* to see movies. Drive what's left of the market to free downloads. That sounds like a great business move.
What a job: making sure no brands appear in a movie. I always roll my eyes when I see those Diet Coke cans that just say "COLA" on them on TV shows.
Tech
On demand in command; 51% of young 'Net users view TV online. While I watch the majority of the stuff right when it airs during the regular TV season, I do find myself resorting to the usage of the DVR or internet when I just want to watch something whenever. (For instance, I was too busy playing poker tonight and winning to stop and watch the summer finale of BURN NOTICE. I have a recording and I'll watch it at my convenience.)
Hacker attacks silence Twitter, slow Facebook. I guess some people have nothing better to do. I don't know if I mean the Twitter and Facebook users or the hackers. Really, it's a coin flip.
Are parents making Facebook uncool? All I can think of is that THE IT CROWD episode that parodied Facebook. "My mum is on Friendface. My mum! She says her current mood is 'sensual'." My mom's on there. She uses it way more than I do.
Windows 7 activation crackers undeterred by Microsoft's muscle-flexing. Why would they be? No matter what lame copy-protection scheme Microsoft comes up with, people who don't want to shell out $300 for Windows will find a way around it. Instead of making the product reasonably priced, which would decrease piracy immensely. I'd imagine that if Windows 7 was only $50-75 people would spend the same amount of money that they willingly drop, without even blinking, on an Xbox game rather than deal with the hassle of getting a cracked copy. Instead, Microsoft will spend as much (if not more) of the money they're "losing" to come up with new DRM schemes that fail within days or even hours after they've implemented them.
Indictment comes as feds consider legalizing, taxing online gambling. I don't understand how the US government can go after a citizen of another country (Canada) for doing something that isn't a crime in Canada? (Or even an actual crime, come to that.) The idiot UIGEA law hasn't stopped anybody from gambling online. (I guess I'm a criminal. I play poker online for real money.)
Entertainment
No Summer Vacation For Chuck? Season 3 could run more episodes than original ordered, and run into the summer months. That would be cool. At least there is a third season. If season 4 looks iffy I say try and ship CHUCK off to USA. I bet it would work great on that channel.
John Carpenter is working again. Right now. Hey, I'm willing to forgive him for GHOSTS OF MARS.
GI JOE could only be better if it were acted out with action figures. I'm not sure if this is supposed to be a parody of the old cartoons and comics or not. About the only thing I'm looking forward to about the movie is Sienna Miller as the Baroness and Rachel Nichols as Scarlett. (Seriously, how do you screw up Cobra Commander. It's a guy in a hood. The original actually looked like a terrorist. The new movie one is an abomination.)
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Every time I see something about parents and the Internet I think, "But my mom doesn't even own a computer." Then I realize that it's ME they're talking about! You think I'd be more conscious of the fact that my next birthday cake will be sporting 50 candles. It seems like only yesterday that I was helping to build "teh Interwebz" and now suddenly I'm told almost daily that I'm one of the people that's spoiling it for the kids.
Instead of yelling "get off my lawn!" to kids, I always want to yell "get off my internet!".
Nice suggestion on the move of Chuck to USA that would be a lovely match.
CHUCK would probably be a hit on USA. Most of USA's scripted shows (like BURN NOTICE) get better ratings than NBC's.
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