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Comment Re:Death of Big TV Sci-Fi (Score 1) 204

by comradevik on Monday January 24, 2011 @02:37PM (#34984186) Attached to: The Fall of Traditional Entertainment Conglomerates

I'm not sure where you're downloading your TV torrents from, but the TV rips I get are never badly named or bad quality. The.Daily.Show.2011.01.20.Kambiz.Hosseini.and.Saman.Arbabi.HDTV.XviD-FQM and shows are always available within 1-2 hours of the time they aired in multiple formats. The only thing that would persuade me to pay for a TV show or accept an ad is if it somehow was available online before TV.

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 1) 1352

by comradevik on Thursday December 16, 2010 @07:23PM (#34581550) Attached to: Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed

Democracy Now? 1 hour a day for a full show, and about 10minutes if you just want to get a rundown of important events. The other 50 minutes are usually lengthy interviews with various people. (example Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky are frequent guests) NPR is decent as well.

Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed 1352

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 16, 2010 @01:58PM from the fair-balanced-and-simple dept.

A survey of American voters by World Public Opinion shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. One of the most interesting questions was about President Obama's birthplace. 63 percent of Fox viewers believe Obama was not born in the US (or that it is unclear). In 2003 a similar study about the Iraq war showed that Fox viewers were once again less knowledgeable on the subject than average. Let the flame war begin!

The Simpsons Worth More Per Viewer On Hulu Than On Fox 191

Posted by Soulskill on Friday June 26, 2009 @07:21PM from the ay-caramba dept.

N!NJA writes with this excerpt from PCWorld: "A tectonic shift has taken place for the digital age: ad rates for popular shows like The Simpsons and CSI are higher online than they are on prime-time TV. If a company wants to run ads alongside an episode of The Simpsons on Hulu or TV.com, it will cost the advertiser about $60 per thousand viewers, according to Bloomberg. On prime-time TV that same ad will cost somewhere between $20 and $40 per thousand viewers. Online viewers have to actively seek out the program they want to watch, so advertisers end up with a guaranteed audience for their commercial every time someone clicks play on Hulu or TV.com. Online programs also have an average of 37 seconds of commercials during an episode, while prime-time TV averages nine minutes of ads."

KDE 4.0 Beta 1 Released 249

Posted by Zonk on Thursday August 02, 2007 @05:06PM from the and-they-are-just-giving-it-away-this-time dept.

dbhost writes "Along with this morning's cup of coffee and log reviews, I discovered that the KDE team is moving forward with a long awaited beta release of KDE 4.0 beta release of KDE 4.0. The most interesting item I found in the notes is that the file manager in KDE is being separated from Konqueror into a component called Dolphin. Also, according to the announcement, konsole has been treated to a number of improvements such as split view, and history highlighting."

Comment heat (Score 1) 120

by comradevik on Friday June 01, 2007 @11:06PM (#19360525) Attached to: Scientists Identify How the Body Senses Cold

This could potentialy be useful. Imagine when they discover the gene for sensing heat. if we could genetically engineer humans to feel 35C to feel like 20. we could solve global warming =D or at least i wouldnt feel so hot right now.

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