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Comment RE: All of it (Score 1) 187

By "Media" I'm assuming music/movies/tv shows.
If you use Netflix - that's movies and TV stored in the cloud. Same for Hulu and Amazon Prime.
If you listen to Pandora, Google or Apples streaming music services that's also in the cloud.
The real question is not how much data you store locally or in the cloud... it really should be a question of what YOU consider to be YOUR media. Thanks to DRM most of what I think of as being "mine" isn't really mine at all... it's licensed. I bought a compilation album from Amazon and used their "Cloud Player" to listen to it. One day I realized that it had been a long time since I heard one of the songs that was in the mix. Turns out the actual owner of the song decided that it shouldn't be a part of that compilation album anymore so... "my" song was taken from me.
Remember: It it's in the cloud... you own nothing!

Comment Re:Discs Of Tron? (Score 1) 283

You basically had to guess the exact moment you had to move the joystick or push a button to make Dirk the Daring perform the correct action at the right time. Often it was impossible to tell exactly what had to be done when. You'd feed the machine quarters until you finally got the action right. Then you would try to memorize the action + the timing of the action for the next time you encountered that scenario. Many of the levels were just repeats of previous levels with the action on screen reversed from left to right. Dragon's Lair eventually made it to the small screen as a kid's cartoon and translated better in that medium then it did as a game.

Comment Re: Anyone who believes (Score 1) 25

The point is that with Google News I can have google setup curated clipping services for all of the same keywords that military public affairs staff members used to aggregate sources to create the Early Bird. There is nothing in the Early Bird that can't be replicated using publicly available tools at a greatly reduced cost to DoD.

Comment Re: Whaaa? (Score 1) 225

The only way in the foreseeable future for you to have a pay-once watch-everywhere service would be DRM free. There are too many players trying to monopolize the digital content market space. You basically have to choose an ecosystem and be willing to stick with it... or repurchase your content.

Comment Re: Whaaa? (Score 1) 225

And what they get affects what we get.
The industry may be too 20th Century... but it uses a specific model of distribution that is designed to maximize profits:
1. Theatrical Release
2. Release to pay-per-view
3. Release on DVD followed by rentals.
Today, most films are released direct to bit-torrent as soon as they hit the theater (or sometimes even before the theatrical release.)
The "stupid, industry-imposed restrictions on how and more importantly when" people are allowed to consume content are necessary to make the system profitable. Without profit there won't be content. The key to making a profit is repeat purchases: People who see a film in the theater who later purchase the film on DVD/BluRay and who may go on to purchase the "special edition" or "director's cut" when that is released.
Even if the industry were to start providing DRM-free purchasable content available at retail or by download at the same time as a film hits the theaters (the only way to overcome the restrictions on how and when you view the content) most current illegal downloaders would still resort to bit-torrent with the excuse that the content is too expensive.

Comment Re: Whaaa? (Score 2) 225

In the meantime, while you are enjoying your "superior service" you can thank me for having the content available in the first place. It's people like us who consume content through legitimate outlets that make it possible for the shows to exist in the first place. If everyone resorts to piracy then producing valuable content becomes a loosing proposition. No dollars no new content.

Comment Re:Why all the shuttle stuff? (Score 1) 48

Replacing all of the Space Camp infrastructure is prohibitively expensive. Besides what would they replace the Shuttle with? The Constellation program was cancelled and there is always the chance that the next U.S. President will just cancel the current President's vision for a manned space program. You could replace all the Space Shuttle stuff with a simulation of the ISS but you'd probably hit the ISS's end of life (2020) before you could get all the Shuttle stuff replaced at Space Camp.

Remember; the shuttles have only been retired now for a little over two years. You can't expect NASA on it's shoestring budget to completely renovate a non-mission critical facility like Space Camp to reflect the reality that the USA's manned space program has an uncertain future in that short a period of time. All Space Camp can do right now is look to the past because whatever future there may be to look forward to is amorphous right now.

Comment Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid (Score 1) 319

If I weren't "perfectly fine" with knowing that Google reads my mail and potentially shares it with the government. If I weren't, then I wouldn't use their services. Anytime you use an online service you are granting the service provider access to all the data you share with their service. And if you think that the Government can't use its police power to access that info also then you really are naive.
If you continue to use online services while being discontent then that's on you.

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