Posted by Migo on Apr 25th, 2008
In this episode Devin and I talk about:
InnerGeek: Know What I Mean?
Virgin Media CEO: Net Neutrality “Bollocks”
An Analysis of Comic Strip Humor - The Need for a New Funny
Blu-ray wins…or does it?
Ubuntu 8.04 Released
Podsafe Music*
L33t Str33t Boys - Yuri The Only One
*We got written consent from the creator of this song to use it in our podcast, I can’t say without a doubt that it’s podsafe. So please, be warned.
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Devin de Gruyl
April 26, 2008 at 7:12 pm
I should probably apologize for any audio problems on my end; I couldn’t locate my usual headset in time to record the show, so this was done using a microphone of somewhat questionable quality, only because it was all I had. This probably won’t happen again.
Shawn M.
April 26, 2008 at 7:39 pm
It’s okay, Dev. I just pretended you were recording your part of the show from space.
Shelly
April 28, 2008 at 12:27 am
Just a late comment to the Bluray vs digital distribution, based on your comments, Kid.
Though it may never actually happen for video, I adore Steam because of their method to controlling piracy. One logs in and authenticates. It’s possible to setup off-line play once the updates are applied, so it’s not required to be connected to the Internet to play.
The winning part, though, is the fact that, since you login to buy and play the games, if you need to reinstall your OS, you just grab steam, login, and click “install” on the games you purched, and they’re downloaded again.
That’s what I want for music and video. Go online, buy what I want, and download it when I want to watch/listen/send it to a device/burn a CD.
I loose CDs and DVDs, after all >_>
Another way would be to have “clouds” that companies, such as Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, provide for customers. Then, I go onto iTunes and buy some music, but I don’t download it to my Mac or PC, I send it to my cloud. Then I copy it from there to my iPod or burn it to a CD.
Again, if I need to format — no problem! My data’s really out on the Internet somewhere. Always backed up.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
That would be one good way to make it happen; this way, you’re not having to repurchase the download every time should something happen to it. I wouldn’t be adverse to such a setup, provided the cost was reasonable and there were certain… assurances that my downloads wouldn’t just “disappear” off my cloud on the whims of whoever was providing it.