After winning the Kotaku Bioshock 2 prize, I've now got the comment of the week at Gizmodo!
You know, I'm thinking I should start doing this whole writing thing full time... ;)
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Monday, 8 March 2010
Monday, 2 November 2009
Piracy and Advertising
I've been thinking about this a lot lately, as I'm downloading a lot of TV shows because Australian TV sucks. When they DO show new content that isn't "reality" shit, they'll fuck up the programming with too many adverts and worse, delay or cut the show due to sports or reality shows!
Now, I would quite happily watch HULU with all it's advertising and such, but it's blocked here. And I'd buy from iTunes if the shows were able to be viewed on my PS3. I'd pay for them on my PS3 or Xbox, but again, the service is blocked.
But one of the biggest arguments against downloading TV shows is the loss of advertising revenue networks face.
But hang on a second.
An average person in the US will see between 600-625 adverts (potential exposures as they call them) per day from all media sources including radio, billboards and the like, with about 400 coming from TV over the 4 hour TV watching average [src] . I'm fairly certain it's similar in Australia.
That means I've seen over 4 million adverts in my life time (assuming I watched an average of 4 hours of TV since I was allowed to watch TV at age 5).
Haven't I paid enough for this content already?
Isn't it enough when people ask me what I'd like to drink at a restaurant I say "coke" without thinking*? Or I know there's a glass and a half of full cream dairy milk in cadburys? Or that Beans Means Heinz?
*this is assuming it's a "dry" restaurant... otherwise it's "beer".
Now, I would quite happily watch HULU with all it's advertising and such, but it's blocked here. And I'd buy from iTunes if the shows were able to be viewed on my PS3. I'd pay for them on my PS3 or Xbox, but again, the service is blocked.
But one of the biggest arguments against downloading TV shows is the loss of advertising revenue networks face.
But hang on a second.
An average person in the US will see between 600-625 adverts (potential exposures as they call them) per day from all media sources including radio, billboards and the like, with about 400 coming from TV over the 4 hour TV watching average [src] . I'm fairly certain it's similar in Australia.
That means I've seen over 4 million adverts in my life time (assuming I watched an average of 4 hours of TV since I was allowed to watch TV at age 5).
Haven't I paid enough for this content already?
Isn't it enough when people ask me what I'd like to drink at a restaurant I say "coke" without thinking*? Or I know there's a glass and a half of full cream dairy milk in cadburys? Or that Beans Means Heinz?
*this is assuming it's a "dry" restaurant... otherwise it's "beer".
Wednesday, 19 December 2007
Spoilt little rich girl
Oh, poor Hilary Martin.
Went to Brisbane Girls Grammar School and leaves school and through mummy and daddy slipping a couple of bucks the editors way gets published in the Australian.
She sounds like a spoilt little brat to me.
I went to quite possibly the worse public school in South Australia in the late 80s / early 90s... And I wouldn't give up what I was taught there for all the world.
In my year 12, we had an English Teacher who was just stuffing around for the year, so at the halfway mark, when we still hadn't read any books, we took action.
We went to the head of English, and the head of the school, and got a new teacher.
But do you know WHY we felt we could take action?
Because, unlike miss silver spooner here, we were taught independent thought! We were underprivileged and were taught by the good teachers, the ones you would probably dismiss as "stupid lefties", to fight for what we believed in!
We were taught not to sit back and take crap. And we didn't.
I was told I would amount to nothing, and treated as such, just because of where I came from.
Yet I got through school with excellent results, got a degree and post grad diploma, I'm now doing something I absolutely love and am the envy of most of my peers.
If she didn't like her schooling she should have done something about it a long time ago.
Why is she whinging about her schooling now? Why criticise and moan like a little girl after the fact?
It can't help her now.
If she acted at the time, she might have helped not only herself, but all the other people in her school, like we did.
God, I hate people like this.
Went to Brisbane Girls Grammar School and leaves school and through mummy and daddy slipping a couple of bucks the editors way gets published in the Australian.
She sounds like a spoilt little brat to me.
I went to quite possibly the worse public school in South Australia in the late 80s / early 90s... And I wouldn't give up what I was taught there for all the world.
In my year 12, we had an English Teacher who was just stuffing around for the year, so at the halfway mark, when we still hadn't read any books, we took action.
We went to the head of English, and the head of the school, and got a new teacher.
But do you know WHY we felt we could take action?
Because, unlike miss silver spooner here, we were taught independent thought! We were underprivileged and were taught by the good teachers, the ones you would probably dismiss as "stupid lefties", to fight for what we believed in!
We were taught not to sit back and take crap. And we didn't.
I was told I would amount to nothing, and treated as such, just because of where I came from.
Yet I got through school with excellent results, got a degree and post grad diploma, I'm now doing something I absolutely love and am the envy of most of my peers.
If she didn't like her schooling she should have done something about it a long time ago.
Why is she whinging about her schooling now? Why criticise and moan like a little girl after the fact?
It can't help her now.
If she acted at the time, she might have helped not only herself, but all the other people in her school, like we did.
God, I hate people like this.
Monday, 17 December 2007
When did "Average" become "Bad"?
I went and saw Daft Punk the other night, and said online that it was pretty average.
I enjoyed their music, but thought the rest of the night was pretty average. There was a lot more they could have done with the set up to make it really outstanding, like having screens to show the Daft Punk guys pushing the buttons in the pyramid.
Now I've been flamed for saying this, and people have assumed I hated it.
I didn't hate it. I never said I hated it - in fact I'm glad I went... however, because I called it average there's all this hate being directed to me.
Its the same when I review computer games.
If I say a game is average, and give it a score of 6 or 7, people assume that means I am saying the game is bad.
It's not bad, it's just not great. In other words - Average.
So, when did "average" come to mean "bad" in most peoples mind?
I enjoyed their music, but thought the rest of the night was pretty average. There was a lot more they could have done with the set up to make it really outstanding, like having screens to show the Daft Punk guys pushing the buttons in the pyramid.
Now I've been flamed for saying this, and people have assumed I hated it.
I didn't hate it. I never said I hated it - in fact I'm glad I went... however, because I called it average there's all this hate being directed to me.
Its the same when I review computer games.
If I say a game is average, and give it a score of 6 or 7, people assume that means I am saying the game is bad.
It's not bad, it's just not great. In other words - Average.
So, when did "average" come to mean "bad" in most peoples mind?
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