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Amazing — I actually got some…
Amazing — I actually got something useful from a Twitter post today. I’m shocked!
It depends on Yahoo!’s definition of ‘unlimited’…
Do you remember that scene for Jurassic Park where they are wandering through the jungle and find dinosour eggs? “How did they do that, we’ve made them all females?” one of the party asks incredulously… “Nature always finds a way.” answers the sage Dr. Grant.
Such is the case with DRM (Digital Rights Management) systems.
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The decline of deep-thought
I’ve been struggling with a growing problem lately; an inability to concentrate on a task. It’s particularly frustrating for me as I have spent a large portion of my career ‘noodling’ through large, complex problems and creating the systems to bring organization to chaos, efficiency to randomness and value where none existed.
I initially thought that it was due to my work environment. I am the only technology-centric person on my company and therefore receive a constant stream of ‘My computer is doing something wierd…’ interruptions in my day. That, coupled with numerous development projects active a given time have split my time into increasingly smaller increments of focus. So much so in fact that I’ve restructured my work scheduled to spend 3 days a week working from home to remove the ‘interruptions’.
It’s not working.
Granted, this is only my second week of the new schedule but I still find myself flitting between projects, email, IM, phone calls, not to mention household chores that are now only 3 steps away from being done. This post is a good example. During the course of writing these few paragraphs I have checked email twice, responded to an IM and attended to iTunes a few times to adjust my music.
I had thought it was an overabundance of input, too many interesting courses for my mind to pursue. My interests span a wide spectrum and I have the desire to explore them all. I felt that I lacked the discipline to focus on any given one for an extended length of time.
Turns out, I may be able to blame the Internet:
The Atlantic Online | July/August 2008 | Is Google Making Us Stupid? | Nicholas Carr
The idea that our minds should operate as high-speed data-processing machines is not only built into the workings of the Internet, it is the network’s reigning business model as well. The faster we surf across the Web—the more links we click and pages we view—the more opportunities Google and other companies gain to collect information about us and to feed us advertisements.
Twitter: STILL trying to figure out…
Twitter: STILL trying to figure out what all the hub bub is about here — it’s a great big ‘neh’.
iTunes to offer movies on DVD release date
The movie studios have traditionally spread out the release dates for PPV, cable, DVDs and download in an effort to maximize the dollars they are able to extract from customers. Apple have announced that they have agreements in place to allow them to offer movie downloads via iTunes coincident with the DVD release.
I believe that this is the first step towards the compression of this timeline. The endgame being only one or two release dates for movies; theatrical and all others. As the entire movie industry moves to digital techniques from camera to screen there is little impediment to a ‘big bang’ release methodology. Mark Cuban has been advocating this for some time.
http://gizmodo.com/386026/apple-to-sell-movies-on-dvd-release-day-confirmed
UPDATE: Here is a piece from Variety with a bit more background. I especially like the quote at the end from a Fox exec.; ‘What we do want is pay-per-view to replace rental.’… Interesting…