Even though Apple points the finger at Nvidia the fact is that if you are running Vista with SATA drives and a RAID setup Quicktime from Apple is not going to be your best friend. In fact you might end up having to rebuild everything after installing and trying to run Quicktime. Apparently the newest version of the software (7.1.5 and 7.1.6) is a known bug to Apple but they insist the problem lies at the feet of Nvidia which as Long Zheng points out is bullshit because VLC has now problems playing the same files; and as a VLC user myself I can attest to that as well. not a smart move Apple to leave this unfixed. [via istartedsomething.com and I thieved his graphic as well - hope you don't mind Long]
The New York Times is reporting that the favorite webcam streaming service run by Stickam is apparently owned by a company that is also famous for another type of video streaming but not the type that could be consider family safe. Advanced Video communications which is owned by DTI Services that is owned by a Japanese businessman Wataru Takahashi is well known for the live sex shows available over the web. Sure there’s nothing wrong with a little bit of porn among adults but as TechCrunch points out there is a bit of a moral and ethical question raised when that same company also services a large user base many of whom are under 18. Would hate to see what would happen if wires ever got crossed in this case. [via TechCrunch ]
I really didn’t want to do another post about the newest pimple on the ass of the Internet but the idea of not passing along this breakdown of the horrors awaiting all you iPhone lovers was just to hard to resist. Apparently Doug Ross has taken some time and passed the iPhone’s terms of service under the microscope and the results further prove that there are going to be a lot of shocks coming the way of iPhone users. Like I am sure you’ll all appreciate being double billed, just as both you and the person you are calling are going to just love being charged for that call or how about the fact that you’ll be billed even if the call doesn’t go through. Ahyup … you enjoy that new toy - I’m just glad I won’t be getting that wonderful billing for the next two years. [via Doug Ross @ Journal]
Conversation Tags: Apple, Quicktime, Nvidia, VLC, SATA, RAID, istartedsomething.com, Stickam, TechCrunch, iPhone
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Wow, a technology company with ties to the adult entertainment industry…Let’s now boycott Holiday Inn, largest distributor of Porn in the United States (Ever hear of Spectra Vision?). And General Motors…Ever hear of Use Direct? If we bash every company that has a link to the Adult industry, we could have a lot more posts here. As for the assertion that there is a link/ between this company’s various websites. Let’s consider the source. A disgruntled employee, who “gets a conscious”, after four months and a failed attempt at a contract. As stated by his camp, “a disagreement over intellectual property ownership”. Interesting to see now that the first partnership announced by Mr. Becker’s new competing company is with Rauch Foxx, self-professed “Shock Jock”. It will be interesting to see what legitimate companies will want to do business with Mr. Becker’s company now that he has shown his desire to mediate his differences in the press…As for Mr. Stone’s assertion that this company had a responsibility to disclose its other holdings, I wonder what we might find if we started to dig into the New York Times ownership, The Ochs-Sulzberger family trust or the trust board members, Daniel H. Cohen, James M. Cohen, Lynn G. Dolnick, Susan W. Dryfoos, Michael Golden, Eric M. A. Lax, Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr. and Cathy J. Sulzberger. “People who live in glass houses…”
Stephen
You are oh so correct on this. I don’t think there is a single major corporation that doesn’t have some of these skeleton’s hiding in the stock portfolios
Yeah Im not sure what the big deal is. Its not like these companies will cause pornographic content to be distributed to underage viewers any more then if they were not in that market as well. In fact a corporation has a duty to its shareholders to make sure they are leveraging their assets as much as possible; serving different markets with the same technology is one way of doing just that.