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I found this hilarious and absolutely true! So I wanted to share it with you all. The below image is a nice diagram explaining the difference between pirating a movie and paying for it. Keep in mind along with all the hassle you have to deal with if you pay for it, you are also out $20, so the pirated version looks very tempting. Ya, if you pay for it you also get all the extras, a case, physical media and all that stuff, but how often do you actually use the extras? And I don’t know about the rest of you, but I don’t have the room to store yet another DVD case because I wanted to watch the movie a few times. Click the image to view in full size.

[Kevin Marks via Lifehacker]

It has been a long road; the Browser Ballot screen that Opera fought so hard for is becoming a reality. Technically, Opera did not want the browser ballet but instead wanted IE to not be included in the operating system (which I personally believe to be ridiculous).

In response to the EU gladly accepting Opera’s request, and then Microsoft bending to the EU, Microsoft suggested that that a ballot screen be implemented. Seemed like a good idea at first and Opera opted for it. However then Opera decides that this is not enough, the ballot screen should show the browsers in random order so that that IE would not show first. Like a good little dog, Microsoft agrees to this as well.

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Over at the Old School New School Podcast site is an interesting article about the HBO Go service. It specifically covers the new HBO service but can relate to any Cable or Satellite service that wishes to offer an online TV option to it’s current subscribers only.

There is just one small problem that I’ve run into with your HBO Go service. I’d have to be a cable HBO subscriber to access it.

But this HBO Go service has me scratching my head as to who this service is really for, because if you’re trying to gain back any previous subscribers that have dropped your service and moved to the internet for their video consumption, I don’t think they are going to take the bait.

Read the full article over at the OSNS site: An Open Letter to HBO

[OSNS]

Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty

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[Amazon via Gizmodo]

Here is a hilarious video of the Muppet, Beaker’s experience with uploading a video to YouTube. Classic!

[YouTube via Digg]

The difference between today’s technology compared to even just five years ago is astounding. Here I am, sitting on a train going fifty miles per hour typing out a blog post on my phone that is no more than 3/4" thick (typing on the screen even). After I submit this post it will fly through the air, possibly to a few orbiting space junk, and then back down to earth where it will travel around the world and finally rests in a server somewhere. It then will get pulled from its slumber to travel once again across the globe to find its way to your screen. All of this will happen in less than a second. So shall we start these few bits of ones and zeros on their way? Here we go….

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