Ken Seagall writes about DirectTV’s newest ads at Observarory, and I largely agree with him. You can view the ad he embed below:
You can ask my wife, but the first time I saw this commercial I was laughing the whole time. It is simply one of the best commercials I have seen in a while.
Leaving aside whether the claims from DirecTV are true or not, I just find the simple execution of the “worst case scenario” to be extremely funny.
I say “well done DirecTV, well done”.
Mozilla has announced the Firefox Extended Support Release. More information will be coming out soon, but what I can find basically states that instead of a rolling, 6-week release schedule of the mainline Firefox release, the ESR version will be once a year and then security and critical updates will come out during the whole of that year for that version.
Starting with Firefox 10 (which will be the first ESR release), every year there will be another ESR release that will follow the same version number as the Firefox that is being released then (for now, that would mean Firefox 17 in 2013 and Firefox 24 in 2014). Then x.0.x releases would come out during the whole of the year for security issues, mainly coinciding with rolling in the security fixes of each new Firefox release: Firefox ESR 10.0.1 would include the fixes from Firefox 11, Firefox ESR 10.0.2 from Firefox 12, 10.0.3 from 13 … you get the idea.
This will not be advertised through the Mozilla site but available through their Enterprise wiki page. You can read the draft of the proposal at their wiki as well.
This is great news and I think a good compromise for businesses and other organizations instead of needing to work around the rapid release of the mainline Firefox.
Warner Brothers Will Make Netflix, Redbox, Blockbuster Wait Longer for New Movies – Peter Kafka, All Things D
Go ahead and read the article. Basically, Warner Brothers is going to double the wait time for DVD rental distributors in order to try and increase lagging DVD sales.
Can I just go out on a limb here and predict that this isn’t going to work. Actually, it might just decrease DVD sales even more? I’m guessing that increasing the time from 28 days to 56 days might just increase piracy instead of DVD sales.
It baffles me how these companies can keep shooting themselves in the foot and not embrace technology. We’re not even talking about new technology here, we’re talking about DVD rentals!
Baffling.
2011 was a crazy year.
That’s just the stuff I can remember.
Laura and I have both said we are looking forward to a 2012 that is a little bit less crazy, and a little more settled than we have ever had. We’ve only lived in one other place for more than 9 months (I think that is the correct amount of time), and we will be celebrating one year in our house on Valentine’s Day. That’s an accomplishment for us. It is also comforting to know that this house is the only one Levi has known, and the one that Jamis has stayed in the longest as well.
Even Molly likes it (I think).
So onward to 2012! Here are some things I’m hoping to accomplish this coming year (the first batch comes from Resolutions over at We Are Martens):
I’m excited for what 2012 is going to bring. For the first time in a long while I feel like I have a better handle on my state of mind and am more settled and ready/able to take on new things.
Onward 2012!
Can I get a huge “FINALLY” from the choir!
I think this is a great thing for users and the web development community and will become even more so that farther in our rear-view mirror Windows XP becomes. There are two issues that remain, however:
A great step in the right direction, but we can still be held back by enterprise users. It might be a needed concession, but still a concession.