[OT] movie trailer - .Net vs Java

[Bill Sconce]

On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:50:33 -0400
"Michael ODonnell" <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote:

> 
> I'm not particularly a fan of Java but this is still funny:
>    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrfpnbGXL70


I take it that .NET doesn't come off too well, heh.

First time I've tried a YouTube video and gotten "please register".
Ouch. Didn't know they'd done that.

(I felt a twinge of surprise.  Why?  YouTube /is/ Google...)

Well, it's always been difficult to get Flash to work anyway, plus
creating a new home directory for a quarantined account each time,
etc...  doing it less often will leave more time for coding.

-Bill


P.S. The real issue is giving away your right to read something
without that fact being recorded.  (And shared with third parties.
Some of the YouTubes I've seen being watched at certain client
sites would be worth money to keep from getting back to
management. How long until some politician's career is ruined
by campaign ads broadcasting a YouTube history?  :)

Coincidentally, "free last year but just a few cents per view
next year" has just been in the news again:

  24 June 2010 
  http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2010/06/incipient-paywall-costing-newspaper-online-readers.ars

  "In the UK, The Times is rolling out its paywall and now demands
  that anyone intent on reading its content register an account. 
  According to research done by the traffic metrics firm Hitwise,
  simply demanding registration has already cut into traffic at
  The Times.

  "Right now, The Times isn't charging for content, although it plans
  on doing so in the near future. As of mid-June, however, the site
  started requiring that anyone who wished to view an actual article
  register an account. Ultimately, these accounts will be used to try
  to extract payment for viewing an article's content.

  But, according to Hitwise's numbers, simply adding the registration
  barrier has cut traffic to the site almost in half."