This is just wonderful. I’m tired of all this DRM hubba-hubba by now. Today Bob Zitter, an exec. from HBO, came out to the public with this brilliant idea: DRM is getting so much bad press because of the name. “Digital Rights Management” is just too negative. Instead we should change the name to DCE: “Digital Consumer Enablement” That way everybody will accept it and piracy will stop forever! Yay!
Actually, no, I don’t think so. Continue reading ‘Sick of DRM’
I just had to share this with you guys, because Scott Ramsoomair is a genius.
Apparently there’s these strange billboards around New York with just these bits of text on them:
THE ALGORITHM CONSTANTLY FINDS JESUS
THE ALGORITHM KILLED JEEVES
THE ALGORITHM IS BANNED IN CHINA
THE ALGORITHM IS FROM JERSEY
Supposedly it is some kind of viral marketing campaign for a search engine, most likely Ask.com, but they seemed to not take into account the fact that it’s so cryptic, for anyone to figure out what it’s about, they would have to turn to the internet to find it. If you google any of them, the most things that come up are just other bloggers talking about it, so the ads really aren’t getting them anywhere. Instead a coalition of xkcd readers band together to blog the one-liners and link them to xkcd in an effort to drive it to the top of google results, because anyone curious enough to remember it, take it to a computer, and google any of these is probably the type to like xkcd anyway.
Or maybe xkcd could even end up with the credit for it in the end. Who knows?
Recently an ancient recording has resurfaced of Bill Gates speaking to the computer science club at the University of Waterloo in 1989. Someone found it, digitized it and put it online. It’s over an hour long, but this one part I found particularly interesting:
Sounds kind of like the talk surrounding the Nintendo Wii over the past 6 months, don’t you think?
