This is bullshit. Techdirt has more.
Firstly, Zediva had the innovative genius to come up with such an idea because of the bullshit state copyright is in this country, no thanks to the amazing people at MPAA.
So why isn’t Blockbuster being sued?
Zediva will fight on.
“Zediva intends to appeal, and will keep fighting for consumers’ right to watch a DVD they’ve rented, whether that rental is at the corner store or by mail or over the Internet.”
Don’t say Engadget doesn’t have good content, because this is very very good.
My hatred of How Things Are in the world of broadband in the United States has only grown after reading this post and watching the video.
One of the many reasons why I think I really should move to a different country later in my life.
Come on, even Amsterdam’s boats have fiber.
1700s: Canals. 1800s: Trains. 1900s: Highways. 2000s: Effing TUBES.
More on unbundling here on Wikipedia.
So very excited. Now for it to come on Xbox 360. Oh, and probably not on the Apple TV.
Hulu, don’t let me down. I know Comcast-NBC is an evil ball of evil, but come on, stay semi-awesome.
Hulu needs to become a separate entity from the content dev (Primarily NBC Universal, Fox, ABC) and the pipes (Comcast) before I start loving it.
Maybe it was accidentally thinking that I deleted my entire music “collection. It’s probably more because of finding about how awesome Rdio is. Netflix only added to this desire of transitioning more and more into a cloud-centric lifestyle. (Heck, Hulu Plus might have pushed me into it, too, if the terms were just a little bit better.)
My Dropbox usage only grew with time. Recently, I’ve been using it heavily to share tabs for my band, adding and removing songs as we close in our Halloween (10.30.10) gig. (Yes, I know something else important happens that day, but you can take a flight here after it, right?) More or less, my entire reference library is on there, as with my important pdfs and docs.
// Which reminds me, I have to transfer all my Omni* files to a more open format. I wasn’t thinking in college when I started using OmniOutliner and OmniGraffle for things, and not exporting them to more durable formats like .txt or .pdf/.png.
Notational Velocity. Only after I used Simplenote on the iPad did I find this gem, and have never let go of it. For now, though, my MarsEdit drafts have been moved into NV, and will stay up in the Simplenote Cloud for the time being, while it’s also being backed up into the Dropbox Cloud just in case.
The “Mac Applications” category is going to start looking empty from now on, since my full-time job is heavily a Windows shop (with a healthy scoop of VMs running all over the place) I’m going to have to become even more one with the Clouds.
Dotfiles. So important. Github and Dropbox is where they will reside, until I can pull them down using Homesick. I haven’t gotten around to implementing this, but it will have to happen soon enough.
And I’m going to love it that way.
In some way or another, my stuff is backed up at least twice. And that makes me all the warm inside.
// Please read the title as a reference to Archer. I’m looking forward to the return of this awesome FX show.
From the Netfix press release.
I feel so happy. I don’t like that it’s still Day-After, but I guess it’ll have to do.
Looks like I’m going to go back to Netflix again, for the… fourth time?
I’m still waiting for that stream only plan, Netflix.
Indie developers, indie musicians, indie authors.
App Store, iTunes Store, Kindle Store. iPad, iPhone, Kindle.
I don’t really want to talk or read or think about this anymore. It seriously hurts my head.
All the while, nothing is getting done. I’m getting more knowledgeable on the issues, but man, it’s just a huge time vacuum.
I have a huge love for comedies, especially sketch comedies. Saturday Night Live (and MadTV, yes… I was a MadTV fan) has been a favorite of mine for as long as I can remember liking sketch comedies on television.
I don’t think I’m alone in saying this: Saturday Night Live has become less funny and relevant. The more talented and experienced cast members have moved on to other shows and movies, and the new members that have joined haven’t really proved themselves yet. I do enjoy the political sketches (which is why I watch The Daily Show religiously), but the rest of the show could just be replaced with Digital Shorts. But even the Digital Shorts are becoming hit-or-miss, with the majority of them being misses.
Even with these mixed feelings, I watch pretty regularly. On some weeks, I’ve seen them via an actual television (which let me see the f-bomb droppage in real time), but mostly I’ve caught them on Hulu.
As I’m writing this, I’m watching “SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas” which aired this past Thursday in place of NBC’s comedy lineup. Gilly, a recurring character played by the talented Kristen Wiig, serves as a transition between the some of the better holiday sketches put on by SNL. (I really don’t like this recurring character, by the way.)
One of the main reasons I keep watching is the hope that the show will actually get better… Maybe even return to the good ol’ days when the show was hilarious from start to end.
But maybe this wasn’t the case. I wasn’t alive when SNL started, when the cast members were called “Not Ready for Prime-Time Players.” Really, the great sketches that I’ve come to love and respect have been passed through many filters of producers and critics. Maybe if I actually saw them all I would feel differently about the good ol’ days.
Nostalgia is such a strong force. And actually, I feel it already with the early 20th season of SNL, when I got introduced to the show back in middle school. It was around the time when I finally felt comfortable with the English language, as well as started to dive deeper into the American experience.
Oh those days… so much to write on those days…
What if your entire social life came to you? Friends, family, work email, personal email, messages, updates, and feeds… everything, constantly updated and streamed together in one place, so you can keep track of whatever you want and focus on what matters most.
Disclaimer: NPH does not come included with the Motorola CLIQ with MOTOBLUR.
I hate you, Motorola, and your caps.
Talk about overpromising and underdelivering. Well, then again, I don’t know, maybe this is the god-device everyone needs. iHear the Droid is supposed to do things the iPhone doesn’t, or something. Eh.
We, the Internet users, have only begun to generate data. Currently, I feel like the filters don’t exist in the present to deal with that mountain of already existing data. When I sat down and thought about StatusFix (a possible solution to this mess) three years ago, I built it for me, someone who continues to this day drink straight from the data firehose.
But with this commercial, I realized that the day has come when any person with an Internet-enabled phone (WAP? What?) is going to have this issue of Filter Failure.
Clay Shirky has talked on Filter Failure before about a year ago, just in case you missed it.
I sure hope someone’s working on it.
Finally, someone put it into words.
via my ISP: $1 via SMS: $61,356,851.20
Lovely. So think twice before you send out that text. I’m happy I have a lovely 200 text cushion before I have to start paying anything, and I tend to refrain from using if at all possible.
This really isn’t a problem with the users: this is largely a case with the big companies. It shouldn’t have to be this way… I shouldn’t have to pay extra to get the same data, when it costs the phone companies exactly the same. Or at least, very little… I’m sure the actual traffic of text messages against phone calls are nothing, and yet, they’re probably making money hand over fist on texts.
I hate you, big companies that don’t look out for their customers. Jerks.
I guess through Time Warner Cable, it’s about the same price, so it’s not that bad. But that doesn’t mean this is all good with me, either. I expected this to be cheaper…
But maybe possibly the media is in HD? Pretty please?