Submission + - A&E Network: Disabling Video On Demand Fast-Forward Is Good
Apparently, the Video On Demand viewers enjoy watching commercials, and do not mind the removal of the ability to fast forward past those commercials.
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It's the end of the world, how will you save your data?
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Will a CD-ROM survive at 400 degrees Fahrenheit? Punch cards and rocks will.
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It is the same reason that Hollywood always touts dollar amount of ticket sales and not the number of tickets sold. With the ever increasing ticket prices, ticket sales will always increase, even if the number of ticket sales remains the same. If you take into account inflation, Gone With The Wind (1939) is the largest grossing movie.
IPOs are subject to a similar inflationary hype. This is the same Wall Street that crashed the world economy a few years back. They want to make it appear as if everyone is farting sunshine and rainbows so Main Street will start sending money to Wall Street once again.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
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Don't fight it. Look at it as growing in a different direction.
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Or to phrase it differently, it appears that U2 and Apple are proposing to make music more prominent in video games.
...monolithic and practical...
Of course, that depends upon one's opinion of "practical".
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Some think that "practical" means a complex, overly interconnected maze of software.
"I think many of the 'original ideals' of UNIX are these days more of a mindset issue than necessarily reflecting reality of the situation. There's still value in understanding the traditional UNIX "do one thing and do it well" model where many workflows can be done as a pipeline of simple tools each adding their own value, but let's face it, it's not how complex systems really work, and it's not how major applications have been working or been designed for a long time. It's a useful simplification, and it's still true at some level, but I think it's also clear that it doesn't really describe most of reality."
That sure sounds like an opinion to me. I suspect he stated he didn't have an opinion just so he would start a war among his fanbois.
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting. -- T.H. White