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+-   Poetry-> on Tuesday November 24, @01:41AM whiterose01

Submitted by whiterose01 on Tuesday November 24, @01:41AM
entertainment
whiterose01 writes "This website has a huge collection of all categories of poetry such as love, romantic, sad, dark poetry. you can easily copy poetry from this site and also add your own poetry on this website with your name and take part in the poetry contest."
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+-   Can Ubuntu reach over 16,000 anime lovers in April-> on Monday November 23, @07:56PM shadowmage13

Submitted by shadowmage13 on Monday November 23, @07:56PM
anime
shadowmage13 writes "After months of planning, i am happy to finally announce that the Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community Team will be preparing a booth at the upcoming 2010 Anime Boston convention. We need support from the community to secure a booth and print materials including copies of the Ubunchu! manga. I really believe the Anime fandom is a perfect match for Ubuntu, and they are by nature very much in line with open source and remix culture."
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Comments: 1 +-   Has sci-fi run out of steam?-> on Saturday November 21, @06:48AM Barence

Submitted by Barence on Saturday November 21, @06:48AM
scifi
Barence writes "Science fiction has long inspired real-world technology, but have the authors of sci-fi stories finally run out of steam? PC Pro has traced the history of sci-fi's influence on real-world technology, from Jules Verne to Snow Crash, but suggests that writers have run out of ideas when it comes to inspiring tomorrow's products. "Since Snow Crash, no novel has had quite the same impact on the computing world, and you might argue that sci-fi and hi-tech are drifting further apart," PC Pro claims. Author Charles Stross tells the magazine that he began writing a sci-fi novel in 2005 and "made some predictions, thinking that in ten years they’d either be laughable or they’d have come true. The weird bit? Most of them came true already, by 2009!”"
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+-   New TRON producer remembers 1982's cyberspace -> on Friday November 20, @06:24AM destinyland

Submitted by destinyland on Friday November 20, @06:24AM
scifi
destinyland writes "A new interview with the director of the original TRON (and co-producer of the new TRON: Legacy) offers some fascinating perspective on the history of cyberspace. "TRON was supposed to be our Mickey Mouse...It represented a new frontier — a chance to get to this place... cyberspace, first... Some of the old-timers at Disney came up to me and said, 'this is actually what it felt like in the old days, when Walt was around.'" Ironically, the movie's special effects weren't nominated for an Academy award "because they said we cheated when we used computers," but the film singlehandedly spawned the CGI business as well as the merging of movies and video games. ("I don't even think there's a line there, anymore...") 27 years later, the new TRON reflects more than a quarter century of change. "[I]t's a little like cyberspace is the same, but it's moved on from being a frontier to a place where civilization really exists.""
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+-   Moon director Duncan Jones interview-> on Friday November 20, @04:53AM brumgrunt

Submitted by brumgrunt on Friday November 20, @04:53AM
movies
brumgrunt writes "The director of the first hard science-fiction film in years, Moon, has been talking to Den Of Geek about making a sci-fi film to such a tight budget, the model work involved, the old-school influences and dropping hints as to the major franchise that he's been offered ("it would certainly fit within the same terminology of Moon .... it would have pointy teeth") ... http://denofgeek.com/movies/365829/duncan_jones_interview_the_man_who_made_moon.html"
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+-   Response to California BigTV Legislation-> on Thursday November 19, @10:48PM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19, @10:48PM
entertainment
An anonymous reader writes "It's great that unelected California legislators are clamoring to save energy, but when they target your big screen TVs for elimination, consumers and manufacturers are apt to declare war. While CEDIA and the CEA are up in arms over this, Audioholics has an interesting response that involves setting the TVs in "SCAM" mode to technically meet the energy criteria without having to add additional cost and increase costs to consumers.

In this mode, the display brightness/contrast settings would be set a few clicks to the right of zero, audio would be disabled and backlighting would be set to minimum. The power consumption should be measured in this mode much like an A/V receiver power consumption is measured with one channel driven at full rated power and the other channels at 1/8th power.

This is an example of an impending train wreck of unintended consequences and several groups are grabbing the popcorn and pulling up chairs to watch."
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+-   1977 Star Wars computer graphics-> on Wednesday November 18, @11:16AM Noryungi

Submitted by Noryungi on Wednesday November 18, @11:16AM
scifi
Noryungi writes "The interestingly named "Topless Robot" has a real trip down memory lane: how the computer graphics of the original Star Wars movie were made. The article points to thisYouTube video of a short documentary made by Larry Cuba, the original artist, explains how he did it. In 1977. Computer graphics and Star Wars: what could be better?"
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+-   Lossless Loses on Tuesday November 17, @07:41PM EddieSpinola

Submitted by EddieSpinola on Tuesday November 17, @07:41PM
music
EddieSpinola writes "Everyone knows that lossless codecs like FLAC produce better sounding music than lossy codecs like MP3. Well that's the theory anyway. The reality is that most of us can't tell the difference between MP3 and FLAC. In this quick and dirty test, a worrying amount of subjects rated the MP3 encodes higher than the FLAC files. Very interesting, if slightly disturbing reading! http://www.trustedreviews.com/mp3/review/2009/11/18/Sounds-Good-To-Me/p1"
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+-   Time To Ditch Cable For Internet TV?-> on Friday November 13, @03:48PM itwbennett

Submitted by itwbennett on Friday November 13, @03:48PM
entertainment
itwbennett writes "A flurry of announcements from YouTube, Boxee, Dell and Clicker on Thursday brought good news for anyone considering canceling their cable service in favor of internet TV. Blogger Peter Smith offers this rundown: First, YouTube announced that within the next few days it will start offering full 1080P HD streams; better than your cable company can offer. Next, Boxee announced a "Boxee Box" that promises to make it easier to get the content off your computer and onto your TV. Or you could hook up Dell's Inspiron Zino HD instead. 'This is an 8" x 8" PC running Windows 7 (with an option for Ubuntu) that you certainly could use as a desktop machine, but the form factor just screams 'Hook me up to your TV!' via its HDMI port,' says Smith. And, last but not least in this roundup of announcements is the launch of Clicker, a programming guide for internet TV that will help you find what you want, when you want it."
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Comments: 1 +-   What the record companies don't want you to see-> on Thursday November 12, @07:14PM whoever57

Submitted by whoever57 on Thursday November 12, @07:14PM
business
whoever57 writes "The UK Times newspaper's "online lab" has put together a graph showing how the various sources and distribution of music revenues have changed from 2004 to 2008. Summary: music publishers have lost out, while artists have gained. Overall revenues have increased, despite (or perhaps because of) the effects of P2P file sharing. The UK's Daily Telegraph also has an article about this"
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+-   MPAA shuts down town's muni WiFi for 1 download-> on Thursday November 12, @11:20AM nam37

Submitted by nam37 on Thursday November 12, @11:20AM
movies
nam37 writes "The MPAA has successfully shut down an entire town's municipal WiFi because a single user was found to be downloading a copyrighted movie. Rather than being embarrassed by this gross example of collective punishment (a practice outlawed in the Geneva conventions) against Coshocton, OH, the MPAA's spokeslizard took the opportunity to cry poor (even though the studios are bringing in record box-office and aftermarket receipts)."
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+-   Crazy Tech Support Stories-> on Monday November 09, @11:16AM snydeq

Submitted by snydeq on Monday November 09, @11:16AM
humor
snydeq writes "IT support specialist Kory Salsbury has a confession to make: 'I'm one of the people who answers your call or e-mail when you have a computer or software problem. I've been doing it for years at a range of organizations. And there's a reason that I sound like a 911 operator when you call, with that oddly dispassionate demeanor: Some of your calls and e-mails are real doozies, and if it weren't for the Mute button, I'd have gotten fired years ago for my laughter or exclamations in response to some of the stuff I hear.' Salsbury, like most IT support specialists, has heard it all from IT's weakest link, from come-ons to requests to help remove Sharpie ink from laptop screens. Here, he shares some of the best tech support calls he's fielded through he years."
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+-   Danish anti-piracy agency throw in the towel-> on Saturday November 07, @06:08AM ChristianVillum

Submitted by ChristianVillum on Saturday November 07, @06:08AM
movies
ChristianVillum writes "Just now it has been announced in the press by the official Danish Anti-Piracy agency, Antipiratgruppen, that they are throwing in the towel and will seize their operations completely; to find and prosecute music copyright offenders. Here is a translation of the article from todays Danish press."
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+-   Colleges Secretly Test Music-Industry Project-> on Wednesday November 04, @08:54AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 04, @08:54AM
music
An anonymous reader writes "The music industry is still pushing Choruss, a controversial blanket-licensing scheme, but it is far less innovative than first described. Six colleges are setting it up now, but they refuse to have their name released because the issue is a political landmine — and who wants to be associated with the recording industry?"
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+-   Terminator franchise up for sale-> on Monday November 02, @12:03PM Coldeagle

Submitted by Coldeagle on Monday November 02, @12:03PM
scifi
Coldeagle writes "For sale: One slightly-used Terminator. Still works, minor attitude problems, get it cheap now!"
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+-   "Slot Music" format seeks to replace Music CDs-> on Sunday November 01, @01:06PM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 01, @01:06PM
music
An anonymous reader writes "In the face of dwindling music-CD sales Sony BMG, Universal, Vivendi and Warner Music Group team up with SanDisk to create a new storage medium to be sold in stores.

The new format is simply a 1GB MicroSD card with mp3 music encoded with up to 320kbit/s. To my surprise the cards will come to you without any DRM protection whatsoever. The retail versions of the so-called "Slot Music" media also contain USB-adapters for easy use on PCs and Laptops. But with MicroSD slots absent from most media players including Apples Iphone and Ipod chances are this format will go the way of the HD-DVD"
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Comments: 1 +-   DVD Manufacturers May Block Rentals for One Month on Tuesday October 27, @01:31PM Ponca City, We love you

Submitted by Ponca City, We love you on Tuesday October 27, @01:31PM
movies
Ponca City, We love you writes "The LA Times reports that in an effort to push consumers toward buying more movies, some major film studios are considering a new policy that would block DVDs from being offered for rental until several weeks after going on sale. Under the plan, new DVD releases would be available on a purchase-only basis for a few weeks, after which time companies such as Blockbuster Inc. and Netflix Inc. would be allowed to rent the DVDs to their customers. "The studios are wrestling with declines in DVD sales while the DVD rental market has been modestly growing," says Reed Hastings chief executive of DVD-by-mail company Netflix. "If we can agree on low-enough pricing, delayed rental could potentially increase profits for everyone." 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. have already tried to impose a no-rental period of about a month on Redbox, the operator of kiosks that rent movies for $1 per night believing that Redbox's steeply discounted price undercuts DVD sales. Redbox has responded by suing the studios, seeking to force them to sell it DVDs simultaneously with competitors. Meanwhile, the company is stocking its kiosks with DVDs it can't otherwise obtain by buying them from retailers. "We must have a level playing field and the right to buy movies at the same time as any of our competitors," says a company spokesman for Redbox."
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+-   Rich Germans Demand Higher Taxes-> on Friday October 23, @05:31PM spun

Submitted by spun on Friday October 23, @05:31PM
humor
spun writes "A group of rich Germans has launched a petition calling for the government to make wealthy people pay higher taxes. talk about civic minded, here in America the rich expect to not pay any taxes, get huge bonuses, and get bailed out if they fail. As Adam Smith wrote in "Wealth of Nations" regarding taxes, "It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.""
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+-   Hulu to Start Charging for Content in 2010-> on Thursday October 22, @05:07PM suraj.sun

Submitted by suraj.sun on Thursday October 22, @05:07PM
tv
suraj.sun writes "News Corp. Deputy Chairman Chase Carey opened the B&C OnScreen summit to discuss where he sees the business going. “It’s time to start getting paid for broadcast content online,” he said.

“I think a free model is a very difficult way to capture the value of our content. I think what we need to do is deliver that content to consumers in a way where they will appreciate the value,” Carey said. “Hulu concurs with that, it needs to evolve to have a meaningful subscription model as part of its business.”

Carey says that while throwing up a pay-wall around all content is not the answer, it doesn’t mean there wont be fees for some specially-created content and TV previews. Mobile Hulu is another potential way of making money.

Broadcasting & Cable : http://www.broadcastingcable.com/blog/ADverse_Atkinson_on_Advertising/23941-Chase_Carey_Hulu_to_Charge_in_2010.php?nid=2228&source=title&rid=6454445"
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+-   Why Our Brains Will Never Live in the Matrix-> on Wednesday October 21, @05:10AM destinyland

Submitted by destinyland on Wednesday October 21, @05:10AM
matrix
destinyland writes "Professor Athena Andreadis answers the question, "Why Our Brains Will Never Live in the Matrix," contrasting "mind uploading" predictions with "the major stumbling block to personal immortality" — namely, that our biological software is inseparable from our hardware. There's practical problems. ("After electrochemical activity ceases in the brain, neuronal integrity deteriorates in a matter of seconds.") But she also argues that what we call "the mind" is also an artifact of a specific brain, and copying it "is an excellent way to leave a detailed memorial or a clone-like descendant, but not to become immortal.""
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