system created in the 80 different ways to stop cannibalizing forces loyal viewers to piracy

television and all the media industry are caught in a fight rearguard madness to preserve a relic analog era: the delivery system windows. Designed to prevent destructive competition between the drive end media piracy frustrating as honest audience willing to pay.

one a few months ago, I bought the first season of the TV series

National

in the iTunes store.

I paid $ 32 for 12 episodes all landed safely on my iPad. I swallowed a few days and was left in a state of abstinence. Then on September 30, when the season began in February, had no choice but to download torrent files free, but illegal. Hundreds of thousands of people wanting to know the location of the renegade Marine haunted by the bi-polar CIA agent were in the same dilemma (in The Guardian blog dedicated for more information on the series).

In the process, the three losers are the following: . The production company Fox 21. This includes the risk of putting the show together (which costs about $ 36 million per season, $ 3 million per episode)

. Apple has its usual cut. (The net loss for both actually $ 64 since the program was signed for a third season on Showtime pay channel and I wonder if I'll have the patience to wait months before it is available on iTunes.)

. And for me, because I have to go through the arduous task of finding the torrent file right, with the hope that it is not wrong, corrupt, or worse, infected a virus.

Here, we highlight the stupidity of the delivery system windows, a relic of the era of VHS.

To make a long story short, the idea is to return to the 80s when the industry developed a system to prevent different media - at the time, cinema, television, and cable television video - including cannibalism. In the case of a film, the release mechanism called Windows for a period of four months before its release on DVD a few months for the release, pay television video on demand, and a couple of years before submitted traditional broadcast networks (where the film is edited, mixed with business, call, etc.).

The Western world has not been the only one to adopt the system of launch windows. In the last Forum d'Avignon theater a few weeks ago, Ernst & Young presented a study entitled
tempo Mastering: creating long-term value through a request to accelerate
(PDF here in English and in French here).

The graph below shows the mechanical condition of the windows in several countries:

United States, by comparison, despite the adoption of wide cable TV, Blue-Ray or VOD, and a penetration rate of 78% on the Internet (84% in the United United Kingdom and the highest in Northern Europe), the launch of Windows system shows little change: Again, according to the survey of E & R, which was 166 days in 2000 to 125 days in 2011

Does it make sense to maintain more or less comparable to that of India to the United States or Europe, where the rate of connected digital equipment is seven times higher?

moving images should probably give advance short in the release process. But should match the life of a theatrical production about three to four weeks. Better yet, adapting to life at the box office - if a film works so well that people are still flocking to theaters, DVD must wait. Conversely, if the bombs films, it should have the ability to resurrect online quickly, supported by a marketing campaign less but better targeted mainly driven by social networks.

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Higher education has always been fond of their acronyms and you do not get much more prolific than the current four cards do the trick. Since its launch in December 2012 MITX Stateside at the University of Edinburgh decision to join the platform Coursera, MOOCs (or massive open online courses) were barely out of the menu of the new education . Neither observer recently just ask "Online courses not mean the end of the traditional university?"

course, the provision of education beyond high school is not a recent phenomenon. The Open University has defended ODL since 1969 -. Their original correspondence courses and nocturnal emissions of the latest research and development conducted by the Institute of Educational Technology

By definition, learning is meeting the technology and pedagogy - and universities are still exploring the balance and relationship between the two. In its 2011 slideshare, Guillermo Ramirez describes "five biggest mistakes of virtual education" the widespread use of the term ("you do not have a class of 250, with 250 being one") with an excess risk technology takes the pleasure of the educational process.

MOOC cheerleaders point to its potential to broaden access to higher education. "I see openings where MOOCs could find a useful place in the ED," says Jeff Haywood, University of Edinburgh, "which allows access disadvantaged SE courses on subjects that can not take and ... to. teachers in universities of choice for new ideas on how to teach and learn online "Like Bonnie Stewart wrote in his blog network:." This is the element that allows open participatory experiences line ... to deliver value, even for those of us who are already studying in normal schools "

But while adoption is growing so dropped out of school. An article in the Atlantic city dropout rates of 80-95% MOOCs offered by Stanford, MIT and UC Berkeley, before thinking provocative in any case, "the low success rate is an example of effectiveness of the system. "And Patrick McGhee, director of the University of East London, check warning tone:" There is a danger that MOOCs intensify rather than end a system of two-tier education in the United States States, and finally, the United Kingdom United Kingdom, with on-campus learning in elite higher education and learning as a basic offering. "

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his sudden departure of Hewlett-Packard in May, the founder of the self-made few public appearances

Mike Lynch made few public appearances since his sudden departure of Hewlett-Packard in May this year. It became his bearings, got the message when he tried to get in touch in October, we made tentative plans to talk "within weeks"

At this time, the 47-year-old has featured in several industry events in Cambridge and London, as well as those who want to participate in the venture capital and mentoring new British companies. You now have an email Invoke Capital - the investment firm in the United Kingdom, according to its website called "managed to climb autonomy success story in the UK since the beginning of the high-tech British company greater with an acquisition value of $ 12 billion "

We missed our appointment in October - but perhaps he had other things on his mind since January 2007 has been a non-executive member of the Board of Directors BBC, which was quickly leaving members. Since June 2011, was also a member of the Council, David Cameron, science and technology, as well as being decorated by the award of the University of Cambridge and magazines will Entrepreneur of the Year voting.

a doctorate in mathematical calculation, the first company Lynch, born in Ireland in the 1980s made the audio sampling systems for the recording industry of music. His neighbor, Cambridge Neurodynamics, worked in fingerprint recognition, but it was autonomy, founded in 1996, which saw him shoot to stardom technology

The sale was completed in October 2011 for HP, Lynch was a multimillionaire, at least in theory - but with the amortization of the $ 8.8 billion acquisition, and angry accusations by Meg Whitman, HP president of "outright lies" last financial Autonomy (she stopped short, fair, calling it a "fraud"), followed by the collapse of share prices of HP, Lynch can not find its value tarnished and decreases while the investigation continues.

But British tech startups admire, and the fact that he has proven that a British company could compete on the world stage.

Whitman did not name any member of the previous administration autonomy, even if she had deliberately say that the complaints were filed after Lynch and other leaders had disappeared. Lynch in a statement on his behalf, flatly rejected the accusations, calling them false and said that the due diligence performed by HP: "It is sad to see how [autonomy] has been mismanaged since its acquisition by HP , "the statement said.

In his spare time, he enjoys breeding koi sets Lynch and construction of model railroading. But free time can be limited if the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Serious Fraud Office to decide the merits of the case for further investigation.

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A post on The Next Web reminds us that the CD was thirty years old this month. As the story explains, the work began in the 1970s, Philips and Sony both in optical recording medium of music, leading to a common standard published in 1982. The key attribute of the compact disc is not so much their size - even if it was the most obvious difference vinyl before - but the fact that the music stored in digital form, rather than analog.

At that time, it probably seemed like a technicality to most people, but had two important consequences. Firstly, began the transition from a world of analog musical recordings - LPs and cassettes - which was digital. And second, created the precondition for the emergence of file sharing in the 1990s after MP3 compression technology has been developed, and the internet was available for general users - especially the younger ones. Services such as Napster would not have been as popular if it was not convenient digital files on CD sitting there waiting to be ripped, downloaded and shared. And why it was so easy to do because the CD came without any protective mechanism against copying whatsoever.

So how the hell did Philips, Sony and music industry what should appear, in retrospect, a big mistake? Why not worry about people copying files from the CD New? The answer is very simple: because when the CD came out, there was nothing I could copy a CD.

A year after the appearance of the CD business, IBM launched its first PC version had an internal hard drive, the IBM PC XT. Your ability? A spacious 10 MB. The CD contains about 700 MB, which means that the songs uncompressed generally require about 50 MB of storage each. The cost of any hard drive can store even a single song became so great at that time, the idea that digital piracy is patently absurd, as it would have been much cheaper to buy another copy of the CD to a hard disk for storing successively.



But what has been overlooked and dramatic reduction of the constant price per MB of hard disk space that will be held in the coming decades. Today, we have reached a point where you can buy a 1 TB hard drive for about $ 80, which means that the cost to store the contents of an entire CD in MP3 format is about $ 0,005 - and continues to decline.
The CD is a wonderful symbol of the failure of the music industry to see deeper, underlying trends in technology, and where it would lead. At the time, this meant that no one was worried about the idea that people copy and digital files from CD because they forgot that technology would make possible tomorrow what seems impossible today. This now means that the copyright industries are still trying to preserve unsustainable business models of the twentieth century rather than planning technologies have incredible than 10 times 20 or even 30 years. Just look at the history of CD and digital piracy to see how far it can go - and how wrong our assumptions may be present.

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could be an era of information, while Victoria was on the throne? We need to know if the scan engine works Babbage

In 1837, the British mathematician Charles Babbage was the first description of a computer. He called the scanning engine and spent the rest of his life refining, but never finished it. Last year I started a charity, Plan 28, dedicated to complete Babbage computer in time for the 150th anniversary of his death in 2021.

To understand why it is useful to build a team mechanic for nearly 200 years, you must first understand what a computer. Although Babbage's analytical machine is completely mechanical, has the same essence as a modern computer. This computer is an essence of the important consequences of the work of another British computer pioneer, a century after Babbage. Exactly 99 years after Babbage invented the computer, Alan Turing wrote his now famous paper describing the universal Turing machine. An important idea that emerges mathematician Turing paper and other American mathematician Alonzo Church is that each team has the same capabilities, no matter how they are constructed. Because the Church-Turing thesis, as it is called, we know Babbage Analytical Engine (with levers and gears), theoretical Turing machine and the latest tablet all have the same fundamental limitations. Of course, Babbage's machine by modern standards were extremely slow.

But Babbage's machine was something that nobody else has: its magnitude. It is the size of a small steam engine, which means that people will appreciate the work and the internal architecture of a computer to view operation. The analysis engine has a central processor (now "chip") and expandable memory is programmed with punched cards, and even have a printer. And Babbage had not forgotten the human operator: a bell is included to help in case of problems

is known to have built a simple machine Babbage, The Difference Engine No. 2, which was not a dreamer crazy. Their machines were well designed, reliable and could have been built with the tools and methods of their age. The big question is analytical machine "would work?" This is a vital question because of something like 40,000 pieces, the analysis engine is twice as complex as the last Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 jet. If the scanner is proven to work, then an interesting history can be asked: "Is there was a time on the computer while Queen Victoria was on the throne"

Plan now 28 - the name of a set of plans Babbage - brought together leading technical experts in the design and fundraising just begun. The first stage of the project is the study of thousands of pages of handwritten notes that Babbage left behind, to determine exactly what needs to be built.

Once the study is completed, we will build a 3D computer simulation of physical analysis engine to verify that the design is possible. Getting to this stage is likely to cost around £ 250,000. It is only once the feasibility of the construction of the machine is set to the fundraising effort more necessary to begin actual construction. But what we hope to do is to create a working monument to the man who designed the computer, and inspire scientists and engineers today to dream of a century in the future.

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offering a selection of novels and comics authors like Neil Gaiman and Cory Doctorow is a great success

experience great authors such as Neil Gaiman and Cory Doctorow, which allows readers to pay the price of your choice for a collection of electronic books, broke all expectations, racking up sales of more than U.S. $ 1.1 million (£ 700,000) in less than two weeks.

Humble ebook package - an extension of ebooks experience in the Humble Bundle prices, which has already been applied to music and games - was launched on 9 October - offers customers a selection of novels and comics for award-winning science fiction and fantasy authors like Gaiman, Doctorow, Lauren Beukes, Paolo Bacigalupi, John Scalzi and Kelly Link. The package is "DRM", which means that readers are not limited to the number of times to download or copy the ebooks.

Although they are sold separately, the collection of books would cost $ 157, readers can choose the price you want to pay for the package. You can also choose how to allocate the payment: between authors, a selection of works of charity and Humble Bundle own organizer

So far, 80,625 packets of books were sold at an average price of $ 14.18 (if readers pay more than the average, you unlock additional content). The promotion ends today, and from this morning had been shot in $ 1,143,151.85, with a user pays a whopping $ 1238 for 13 pounds.

Beukes, whose novel by Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Zoo City was part of the package, said he saw the first concept as "a crazy experience that I can put the book some news readers."

nebula winner Paolo Bacigalupi, whose story collection Six Stories pump and the other was in the Humble Bundle, okay. "For me, Humble Bundle appears to be an interesting experiment to see how low-risk individuals may value ebooks and how they behave with a variable pricing model. I had a positive experience in the past one of my editors just given DRM free ebooks for io9 book club - and our sales have increased with exposure to traditional advertising Humble Bundle looked like it could have this capability, but with the additional advantage that it introduces a system of actual sales and revenue opportunities, and of course, I had no idea .. it would be as successful as it was, "he said.

Humble Bundle are planning future e-book packages. Your business development manager Robert Martinez said the last two weeks had experience had an impact on ebooks scene "that can not be ignored."

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. Rio Ferdinand tweets Aa

"Do not believe everything you read or '

. PFA, Gordon Taylor opposes any new union

. Keith Vaz MP

FA calls for strengthening the fight against racism position

Rio Ferdinand hastened to minimize reports that it works on the formation of a new union players. "- Private, but not exclusively of black players" Do not believe everything u read " advised its nearly three and a half million followers on Twitter, before returning to the questions most frequently raised in their diet - this time, methods and shaving products

According to the Daily Mail, the Federation of black players would be financed by all professionals who choose to join and reflects the growing disillusionment with the approach of the Football Association, Professional Footballers Association Kick It Out campaign and to solve the problems of racism. Questions peaked after John Terry was found guilty by the Football Association for racial abuse, because although its language was considered more offensive than that used by Luis Suarez to Patrice Evra last season, the suspension was given Terry half that received by Suarez, whose repeated offense was considered an aggravating factor.

But this argument was not accepted by many in the football community, black players prominent among them. As a result, Rio Ferdinand and his brother Anton, the England international Shaun Wright-Phillips, Micah Richards and Joleon Lescott and Djibril Cissé, Kenwyne Jones and Jason Roberts, chose not to Kick It Out T before the weekend games last.

Taylor also opposes the formation of a second union. "If they want their own special selection group feel they can influence the world that all PFA union as a whole, I would say they are seriously mistaken. If we're not careful, it cost us years. Decline not only in the game, it would be a setback for the anti-racist initiative. encourage the extremists. "

Taylor has an ally in Wales and Aberdeen goalkeeper Jason Brown - but only in principle. "We do not want to rebel and break," he told Sky Sports News, "but if they are not enough, we are driving this route. I know that four to five players who met Kick It Out, the PFA and gave them suggestions, but it seems to have been lost because they did nothing. "

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customers of Orange and T-Mobile will pay between £ 36 and £ 56 for a two-year contract, according to the usage data

Orange and T-Mobile wishing to use the new ultra-fast 4G mobile service will pay up to £ 56 per month for the privilege.

4G, which will be released in the UK on October 30th, Orange and the parent company of T-Mobile USA, offers speeds up to five times faster than 3G. Consumers can download and play music and videos easily on the go with a standard definition movie takes only 10-15 minutes to download.

already published their pricing plans for 4G services, revealing that two-year intervals contracts from £ 36 to £ 56 per month, depending on the amount of data you use. Unlimited calls, texts and data allowance of 500 MB will cost £ 36, rising to £ 41 for 1GB, £ 46 for 3GB, 5GB for £ 51 and £ 56 for 8 GB.

The cost is about £ 5 per month more than the current rate of Orange and T-Mobile 3G.

EA Sim

also released money only to those who already have a 4G phone, with plans with 500 MB of data per month at a cost of 21 pounds, 1 GB costs £ 26, 3GB for $ 31 and 5 GB costs £ 36.

Olaf Swantee, EA CEO, said that the price was competitive. "We will give consumers and businesses across the country the next generation of services and a high level of support to our new plans have been developed to provide our customers with everything they asked for - .. high-performance, choice and value "

Ernest Doku

, telecommunications expert uSwitch.com, said Orange ins as two movie tickets can also be very attractive for smartphone users.

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