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YouTube Leanback offers effortless viewing
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按左右方向鍵 僅僅進入切換清單模式 但不會直接切掉節目嗎?
(就像已經用上下方向鍵進入切換清單模式 再按左右方向鍵一樣)
不然一不小心按到左右方向鍵 就會跳出目前節目了!!
no full screen?ReplyDelete
no mouse disapering..(its a chance i got 2 monitors) and for a keyborad only interface having the the mouse sitting there in the midle of your video is a pain..
usualy i brwose my favorites and subscriptions.. no way to do that..
I love the concept but I am not able to view queue as a playlist. Bummer! Please set this up.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 11, 2010 at 11:06 AM
VIDEO: YouTube Leanback being controlled by a Nintedo Wii Remote for a truly keyboard-free untethered experience:ReplyDelete
One stupid thing in leanback is that sound is always too loud ! Why i cannot use my every day preset that is 10% volume ?ReplyDelete
This is great for me, much like stumbleupon, but improved with a very nice full-browser effect and easy keyboard controls. The primary thing I miss is that it does not seem to be learning from the shows I watch - it either should do so, rather than using subscriptions, which are irrelevant for me as I did not get a youtube account until leanback was available, or it should allow me to favorite a video with a keypress from within leanback. If there is a way to do so, I don't see it at the moment.ReplyDelete
I tried the new www.youtube.com/leanback feature and I must admit I loved the easy access to all of my videosReplyDelete
and the fact you can watch the movies you rent in a play list very good job Youtube excellent bonus for youtubbers
I'm definitely interested to see how Youtube Leanback pans out. There are times in college when I would sit in my dorm room and miss television because it was good, on-going background noise without having to sit down and watch a movie. I talk more about it in my company's blog. Check it out below!ReplyDelete
make it possible in my android app!! lol, i think this is great, now bring your voice searching power to the whole thing and i can be really lazyReplyDelete
I'd very much like to be able to like, dislike, favorite and watch my subscriptions or a specific channel. Other than that, completely awesome.ReplyDelete
Looks good, but my computer is too slow to watch YouTube without buffering. Maybe next machine will be able to handle it.ReplyDelete
:-( Something is wrong... when I click on the leanback link, a white page appears and does nothing.ReplyDelete
I'm on Google Chrome. :_(
thats what i call lazy, is youtube trying to take over the world by making every one lazy and not attack back?ReplyDelete
I can't access LeanBack at all! All I get is a blank page. :(ReplyDelete
Does not work for me,running firefox on linux with flash 10.1.ReplyDelete
On Chrome 5.0.375.99, I get a blank page with empty source. On IE8, it asked me to log in, I did so, and now I get a 403.ReplyDelete
This was working, but I get an empty page as well now too. I tried Safari, Firefox, and Chrome on OS X as well as Chrome on Linux.ReplyDelete
Seems to be working again, I couldn't find full screen if it's there but just switch your browser to fullscreen (usually F11) in the mean time, works a treat.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2010 at 5:15 AM
Theres no option to choose the video quality. It takes to long to load in high def. I dont wanna sit there and watch it buffer.ReplyDelete
Fat Joe leaned back.. Too far.ReplyDelete
Works fine with Opera on XP.ReplyDelete
Doesn't this defeat the purpose of the community?ReplyDelete
People are supposed to comment, subscribe, interact. You can't do that if you treat it like "tv".
I guess it's a good function for finding new stuff, but I like browsing. I like commenting. I like the community.
Yay, it works again! Thx.ReplyDelete
dont do it guys!ReplyDelete
youll get lazier
This is stupid. When you press right arrow key it scrools to next video BUT DOESNT BRING IT UP! that means i have to listen through stupid videos and it only works the first time. id rathr use hand energy and have a good experience than sit back, and NOT RELAX!ReplyDelete
great look but many youtube videos are still suckish. put some real shows on there like avatar the last airbender.ReplyDelete
Works well on chrome. Just key F11 to go full-screen. Perhaps I should start watching more videos that suit me. You shall learn me, YouTube.ReplyDelete
im using nintendo wii internet channel and i get a black screen please make a youtube leanback channel for wiiReplyDelete
This seems like an interesting idea but I have noticed something. Shortly after leanback became available i have not been able to load videos from my subscriptions to my Watch Queue. It's been weeks now, is there a connection?ReplyDelete
This seems like an interesting feature just "Leanback" and play all your subscriptions. But, what if you don't want to watch all subcriptions one time or in a different order?ReplyDelete
In that case you would would add videos to your Watch Queue and enjoy. However, the watchqueue has been broken for weeks so I have to watch my videos one a time. Has anybody else had this issue? Is it a coincidence that Leanback has appeared at the same time?
- AnonymousJuly 24, 2010 at 12:45 PM
It's awesome but I think we should be able to select the video quality because my internet speed isn't that fast. :(ReplyDelete
I'm using Chrome. There's no volume control? I tried hitting + or - to see if that did anything -- nothing happened. You should add that control.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 24, 2010 at 3:31 PM
agree with Bill....ReplyDelete
The right arrow still doesn't work as a skip key
This is great! Although you should add playlists, favorites, watch queue, and subscriptions to the video groupings. You also should let the annotations appear in the videos along with comments like on regular youtube.ReplyDelete
Using arrow keys is OK but you really should be able to use mouse too. It's frustrating having to scroll through lots of things you should just be able to click on. Controls should appear when you move the mouse; you shouldn't have to click to see themReplyDelete
right now it's BETA there are going to be glitchesReplyDelete
Pretty cool idea, just gave it a go and I can see myself using it more.ReplyDelete
The only problem though is in my feed from my friends, it'll list the same video twice seeing as they "liked" it then favourited it.
Besides that, great idea.
youtube leanback innovations? fuck you. all you did is autoplayed the "recommended for you" box in fullscreen. asshole.ReplyDelete
YOUTUBE IS TRYING TO CONTROL US!!!!! THEY'LL CHARGE US TPB4LIFE!!!ReplyDelete
It's nice idea but I rather search for stuff myself , it works but I can't like /share/comment while I'm watching.ReplyDelete
theres no way for me to pause if i want to, which is kind of annoying.ReplyDelete
I love how it plays it in the highest quality avaliable, but channels aren't integrated, so on the videos there should be a "leanback button" where it will show that video in leanback. It should also look like the hd button that we had before any of this 360p,480p,720p,1080p selector crap.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 25, 2010 at 7:12 PM
Looks fantastic. Only suggestion for edits to the beta would be add something that filters repeat videos from different subs rating or favoriting the same thing, as well as a filter for when a user both rates and favorites, because that causes a double post of the same video. Maybe even something that searches the users videos that have been recommended for a part 1/2/3/4/etc. as alot of the videos now a days are more than one part. Hope you guys can figure something out. I know you can, you've done a fantastic job with the other features.ReplyDelete
The ultimate in lazy entertainment. Perfect.ReplyDelete
Does this mean your finally going to remove autoplay!? please do that!ReplyDelete
Seems like an attempt to take the user out of the YT experience.ReplyDelete
Don't bother rating or commenting, just sit back and consume.
Don't get involved whatever you do!
Hey Youtube! I expanded a video and want to make it to it's regular size. How do I do that?ReplyDelete
Continuous play is quite good but i am not satisfied with high definition full screen picture as you have claimed above.ReplyDelete
I'm sure folks with high-end systems and speedy internet will be happy. (They're the folks you want to please, anyhow - they have the MONEY!) WAY too much of a system killer for me.ReplyDelete
Nice but it will not replace a hand selected list for me, anything less is a compromise. Many will love it and I may try it again before you get the notion to start polluting the stream with ads.ReplyDelete
It's good, but when the search is put into focus, you have to go and click on it, which is annoying. Could you fix that?ReplyDelete
This would be great if we could rate how much we liked a video after watching it, sort of like Netflix. Right now Youtube doesn't really suggest anything I would want to watch. I don't want to use this if it only plays rickrolls thanks to a link I clicked a few months back.ReplyDelete
I agree with cdvr90, my connection is also slow so selecting video quality is crucial for us with low standard/budget.ReplyDelete
Volume control would be cool - videos vary so much in terms of volume.ReplyDelete
On my first visit just now I immediately got an obscene rant about the now defunct [sic] G W Bush, and my 3 year old isn't in bed yet. Not that the logic of the sentiment would escape a 3 year old, but the sudden swearing was a bit of a surprise.
Great idea though, nice and clean look is good too - lack of volume control (or volume control I couldn't find) being my only quibble.
Hit F11 for maximum leanback
Can you make an option so you can share your version of "lean back" with other users?ReplyDelete
I want to embed this feature into my blog/website/facebook so people can get a taste for the videos that I like. THAT'D BE SICK!
why not fullscreenReplyDelete
I would rather have the option to NOT have it if I don't want it. Which I really don't.ReplyDelete
Please put this in our settings?
Sucks! remove that damn hotbar with the always on auto play that i have to close every damn time from my screen when i watch a vid.ReplyDelete
The video says it plays it fullscreen. Which is true, but when playing to the next video, it drops out of fullscreen.ReplyDelete
Why is the autoplay always on now? What if i actually dont wanna lean back? What if i like reading the comments or maybe leaving one after a video? What if i want to go watch another video on the featured list?ReplyDelete
Why can't you just leave things alone - or at least stop auto-turning on features with no way to turn them off?
Wow new feature, now how do i turn it off? :/ReplyDelete
YouTube, PLEASE allow us to turn off autoplay with this new grey bar at the bottom of the screen. We went through a month of stupid autoplay when the new layout appeared and now it's back, and CANNOT BE TURNED OFF. PLEASE DO SOMETHING!!!ReplyDelete
How do I get rid of it. I hate it. I HATE IT!!!!!!ReplyDelete
this feature blows! the autoplay is annoying. i actually INTERACT with the ppls vids i watch. i comment rate and subscribe. i dont want to be forced to lean back. im not leaning back im passing thru and want to watch what i want to watch how and when i want to watch it. leave my settings alone!ReplyDelete
Oh boy! Another way to make people more lazy than they already are. God forbid someone have to click a button. Oh NO!!!!ReplyDelete
Why can't you just leave things alone - or at least stop auto-turning on features with no way to turn them off?ReplyDelete
why is this forced upon us. nothing wrong with the old youtube.ReplyDelete
no full screen, bummerReplyDelete
Ok, how do I turn this thing off?ReplyDelete
Seriously, add new features all you want, but give the option to disable them!
How do I turn this darn bar off?! What a pain! I hate it! Remove it! What is it with the freakin auto play? Seriously? Get rid of it!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2010 at 1:42 PM
Please give me the option not to use this feature,this is spoiling youtube for me.ReplyDelete
I don't like autoplay unless I'm playing a playlist, and I've been pestered with autoplay already for several weeks (if I have full screen, the next "recommended for you" automatically starts, and I don't like it). But beginning today, for the first time my "Recommended for you" no longer works. :( It doesn't recommend anything anymore. "Recommended for you" and playlists are the only features I ever use(d) here.ReplyDelete
Take it off!! It's so annoying, I already watch the videos in my subs and it keeps playing them I dont want to see them after Ive seen thousands of times. GET RID OF IT. You're making YouTube less fun now with all these changes. Stop trying to imporove it because what you're really doing is making it worse.ReplyDelete
I don't like this Auto Play. The best part about YouTube for me is that it is NOT like TV. I can comment, rate, or Sub to a vid. I could choose the order they play in. I like having the control. With the Auto Play, this control is taken away from me and defeats the purpose of why I use YouTube. At least have a setting where it can be turned off and not automatically assume we want it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2010 at 2:13 PM
How do you turn off the autoplay feature? I like to select the videos I watch and not have someone else make the selections for me. There should at least be a way to decide if you want to use or not use the autoplay feature. Please provide an "on/off" switch.ReplyDelete
HATE IT! Just leave things alone!ReplyDelete
And what about my partnership application???
So I suppose the big question is...ReplyDelete
How do you turn it off?
How do you turn that thing off? It really sucks.ReplyDelete
Please, REMOVE it.. When a vid is done, I like to see the screen with other vids of the person I was watching to, I don't always want to go directly go to the next one.ReplyDelete
And also when I press 'Off' On autoplay, it still goes automaticly to the next vid.
And also (again) When I place a comments at a user, when I try to click on Post, the stupid thingie is coming up again, So I'd still have to scroll down for it (And when I press it down, the next vid its up again)
You guys don't care about what i'm saying for sure, but it just irritates me ALLOT
An excellent addition to YouTube. A feature to build playlists based on just tags to stream from would be one way to improve it vastly though, ideally you'd be able to build a list of tags in "priority order" to generate a YouTube leanback stream, tags with a higher priority meaning a video with those tags would be more likely to play, and also be able to list which tags should disincline the video from addition to the stream.ReplyDelete
Please, oh please, give us the option to turn this off. I really am not fond of this.ReplyDelete
NOT enjoying it at all. I have to turn autoplay off for every video. Really messes with the experience. Is there some way it can be removed for those of us who don't like it?ReplyDelete
I am among the users who wants to be able to turn this off. For one, I HATE autoplay. I like to wait till my video finishes, then comment, rate, etc. I always open new videos in new tabs, and rarely have time to watch *everything* in my subscribe box at once. And I watch them in an order *I* choose. For another, I don't like the way the bar along the bottom of the screen looks. You spent all this time trying to make your look streamlined and unobtrusive, then you stick this big dark distracting thing at the bottom of the page that I can't x out to remove. If I could totally remove that frame (and it technically is a frame - it behaves like one, at least, and I never did like those things) then I'd be cool with it and move on, but we need that option.ReplyDelete
So... let us permanently shut off autoplay, and let us be able to remove the ugly bar if we don't want to activate leanback. Give it to us as part of the playback options in the account settings, then it'd be good. We could turn it on when we want it, and shut it off when we don't want to autoplay things. Win win.
I don't know if this is the same thing as the new bar at the bottom, but if so -- UNDO IT. Or at LEAST make it optional. It's really, REALLY annoying. I don't want, and have pretty much never wanted to autoplay my videos.ReplyDelete
I like reading and leaving comments. Isn't that one of the main points of YouTube -- interacting instead of just merely consuming??
And the way it pops up every time I go to a new video... just why??? Why would you make it do that? I really can't see why you made this bar or who would want it. In fact, I've yet to see a single even remotely positive comment about it. Please do something about it ASAP, as it's really affecting my ability to watch/use the site.
Don't like it at all. I don't like that it goes to full screen, the autoplay gets on my nerves and that lil bottom bar get's in the way. Youtube, why bother with all this? Since the new layout, you've continued to mess the website up. Stop trying to fix what isn't broken.ReplyDelete
Ok, nice. Now how do I turn it OFF?ReplyDelete
Add all the fancy crap features you want, just make them OPTIONAL!
Nah. Not for me. Make it optional.ReplyDelete
I hope they don't implement this as anything but a beta. The inability to do anything but watch the video and click on the next is aggrivating,not only that but that toolbar is becoming quite an annoyance.ReplyDelete
This bar is junk. If you want to force it on us fine, but then give those of us who HATE IT a way to TURN IT OFF!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
I agree with the previous commenter, Louis. I personally don't just sit down and watch YouTube for hours, and I really don't want or need to know what my friends are doing 24/7. Also, and this is just a personal thing, it really annoys me to have tool bars like that consistently at the bottom of the page that keep popping up whenever I scroll down.ReplyDelete
Maybe Leanback could be an optional feature that could be turned on and off on your account page? I definitely don't want it here full time.
Another day, another change made by Google to make YouTube worse. God, I hate you guys. I really do. YouTube needs some true competion to put it to rest.ReplyDelete
Get rid of this stupid ass toolbar!ReplyDelete
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!ReplyDelete
Let us be able to remove that horrible gray bar at the bottom of the screen, that shows up when you click on a video on your home screen(subscriptions, recommended to you, etc..).
It NEVER does what I want it to do. It NEVER saves the auto-play setting which I desperately want to turn off.
Don't let your leanback function interfere with the regular functionality that millions of users prefer.
To reiterate, after exploring leanback a little more, I like YouTube just fine the way it is now, just fine the same old way it has been for years, where you can read people's comments and the info about the video, where you can make it small screen if you're multi-tasking.ReplyDelete
If I wanted to watch TV I'd watch TV.
I'd much rather YouTube didn't change.
I don't see it very useful...I like to stay and read comments and such. My recommended improvement: BRING BACK THE STAR RATINGSReplyDelete
It gets in my way sometimes. Annoying.ReplyDelete
You have messed up the YouTube site. A stupid toolbar pops up. It does this autoplay. Its too hard to watch or comment on videos.ReplyDelete
You have made the site extremely difficult to use if a person has any subscriptions.
Make it so that Auto-play can be permanently disabled, then I'll be content.ReplyDelete
It's annoying to be reading comments, then having the video switch.
Though I think this should be removed entirely, playlists do the same thing.
Is this going to be completely involuntary? I don't want or need a leanback feature. Frankly, I just find it annoying that yet another thing is popping up on my screen - as if there aren't enough websites that have something popping up, stealing your attention. Give me a kill switch in my account so I don't have to have it if I don't want to. Would have been nice if you'd thought of that BEFORE already sticking it onto videos, but too late for that. Otherwise, I'm going to seriously start to regret joining Youtube, and heading to another video site with my new content. Seriously, stop making our decisions for us. Some love it. Some hate it. Why the hell can't we choose if we want it these changes or not? Or, don't you give a damn about us wanting a say in it?ReplyDelete
Stop forcing crap on us. If you're going to give us new features MAKE THEM OPTIONAL AND MAKE THEM TURNED OFF BY DEFAULT. I had to download different FireFox add-on's just to get rid of the annoying auto-play that always turns itself back on no matter how many times I turn it off.ReplyDelete
Autoplay always angers people every time you try to force it down our throats, so why the hell do you keep doing it?
Make Leanback disabled by default. You should be able to choose if you want something, not have it shoved down your throat.ReplyDelete
Kill the autoplay thing. I'm sick of scrolling down to read the comments and all of a sudden I'm watching something in my subscriptions I don't want to watch yet. Then, since it's started, it doesn't pop up on my main page anymore. How about this- stop changing everything. What youtube was 2 years ago was MUCH better than it is now.ReplyDelete
Not everyone wants to "Sit back" and have "custom" videos played for them. Alot of the time their not something I'm interested in. Also I dislike the new autoplay bar thing at the bottom of my screen. I can click what I want to do next. At least give me to turn autoplay off and keep it off.ReplyDelete
I HATE THIS FEATURE!ReplyDelete
I like to comment on all the videos I watch and this discourages this from happening. I also may actually want to read a comment or two before going to the next video.
Set the darn thing to default as OFF and let us turn it on if we want it please.
OMG how can i remove the "quickbar" on the bottom?ReplyDelete
Why can't you just leave things alone this shit sucks how to you turn it off??????????ReplyDelete
How do you turn it off?ReplyDelete
a feature that supposedly saves me a few mouseclicks? How lazy do you think people are exactly? This is deplorable, as is that autoplay gargbage that keeps defaultng to 'on'. I can understand some people need to be herded constantly, but leave the feature optional for those of us with a brain and a smidgen of motivation left in their minds and bodies, for god's sake!ReplyDelete
Get rid of that detestable bar at the bottom of the screen! Just get the hell rid of it! Nobody wants those bloody things, and sites keep crapping them all over their pages like it's the latest style. What, you don't think we can find the links we're looking for on the actual bloody *pages*?ReplyDelete
You think we have all the vertical screen space in the world, right? Especially on a little widescreen netbook where a typical browser has a minimum of *5* horizontal bars occupying the vertical space -- Title bar, menu bar, address bar, tabs, and status bar at the bottom -- and that's a clean browser without all those useless 3rd party toolbars that companies keep bundling. And now the new plague of web design, these bloody Facebook-like toolbars at the bottom of the screen, with no way to turn them off. Whose idea was it to make it pop up when your cursor approaches anywhere near the entire lower quarter of the screen?
Get rid of it.
This is awful. You are ruining your site.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2010 at 6:59 AM
Worst addition to YouTube. Can't turn it off. It's really annoying. Please remove this "improvement." First I didn't like the fact that you couldn't go back to your home page like you used to. Now you have to guess how to do it. You have to hit the YouTube icon on the top of the page. What are you guys thinking. This is begging to be so terrible that I hope someone comes up with a replacement for YouTube.ReplyDelete
Youtube must be taking after the Obama administration and forcing things down our throats that we don't want.ReplyDelete
Please let the user deside if we want this stupid autoplay.
I've been trying to turn it off but am stuck with it.
I think it's a great idea that has a lot of great benefits, and I appreciate YouTube trying to improve the experience.ReplyDelete
But please make it an optional addition to the screen and turn off the autoplay. I like the way I currently browse, often going from one video at a time to another through the related videos or just going back to my subscription box. That's the habit I've built up for a long time. I may switch over to using a list for my favorite videos, since I notice that there are certain videos I go back to every once in a while, but I like my browsing pattern for the time being. -- I just went to check, and this feature only came up when I watched videos in a list, i.e., my subscriptions. But, again, I like the way I currently view my subscriptions.
I liked having the list box up above the related windows. Perhaps you could have a leanback option up there, and you could click that to turn on leanback?
It sux!ReplyDelete
Can we haave thi stupid thing disabled by default?
"Leanback" is terrible nonsense in the way junk.ReplyDelete
Can I not have this on my youtube? I have no interest in having my video watching decisions decided for me. Please add an Off feature in the settings.ReplyDelete
HOW DO YOU TURN THIS CRAP OFF?!?!?!?ReplyDelete
I don't watch youtube on a TV, and I can click my own subscriptions!
Everytime I try to add comments to a video, the auto play BS (which has to be manually switched off for EVERY video I watch) loads the next video erasing my commetns before I could finish typing them!!!!
let me make this clear, for the marketing idiots who thought that this was a good idea:
Making me jump through hoops just to watch a single video, make a comment, then choose my next video is complete SHIT!
let me opt out of this CRAP PLEASE!
Here's an idea: FIX your site so the suscriptions that I've already watched STOP repopulating my suscriptions box!!!!!
- AnonymousJuly 30, 2010 at 12:14 PM
I don't like that I can't turn autoplay off in my settings. I wanna watch the videos that I wanna watch in the order I wanna watch them not in the order that someone dictates. And I may not wanna watch ALL the videos in my "recommendations". My 2 cents worth is to make this "lean-back" feature an option and let those that enjoy it enjoy it and those of us that don't like it or don't wanna use it be able to turn it off in our settings.ReplyDelete
dislike. hate it.ReplyDelete
This bar is really annoying me. Everytime I want to pause or play a video... it pops up and gets in my way.ReplyDelete
Also...why do recommended videos autoplay by default? They are usually 99% off-base or redundant anyway. Im lucky if i see two videos in the list that look at all interesting. I want to disable this... forever.
I hate it, I hate it! It's like having your parents telling you what to watch, and the bloody pop-up bar keeps getting in the way.ReplyDelete
I am capable of pressing a few links all by myself, thank you!
Can't find the option to permanantly stop auto-play and "leanback".ReplyDelete
TLDR; I want to lean forward.
please, PLEASE, make it possible to disable all these new 'feats' in the account options !ReplyDelete
This auto sequence thing is KILLING me, NO MORE AUTO PLAY ! If i want to see another vid in sequence, let me have the CHOICE to !
I hate leanback! People upload videos 1 to whatever and this plays them in reverse order and then every time I select a video it turns autoplay back on! Wow! This totally blows! I'm really pissed off with this! This just made watching videos on youtube 10 times harder and frustrating! Way to effing go!ReplyDelete
Give us a way to TURN IT OFF PLEASE!!!!!!ReplyDelete
I HATE IT if your going to do something like that, you need to at least make it optional to turn off, it's seriously annoying!ReplyDelete
PLEASE let us turn it off! I like to comment on my videos that I watch but as soon as it finishes it starts playing the next one!!! I have never been more frustrated with a site!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2010 at 11:27 AM
This should be an OPTIONAL FEATURE. Do you have any idea how ANNOYING it is to be forced to some random video, regardless of whether or not I wanted to watch it? Do you know how ANNOYING it is to be trying to type a comment to one video, only to not be able to finish, and have to go back and start all over again, all because you were forced away from that page? You obviously don't care what the people who use this site think, considering the numbers of NEGATIVE COMMENTS on this threat, and yet this stupid auto play is still in affect and STILL FORCED. I'm going to go to a different video viewing site from now on. You're a bunch of jerks.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2010 at 1:52 PM
WE HATE THIS UPDATE. WHY DO YOU STILL CONTINUE TO PISS US OFF!!!ReplyDelete
Dear YoutubeReplyDelete
I do not want to watch the videos that you suggests. I want to watch the videos that I want to watch. So Leanback is useless, if I could play my queue or subscriptions it would not be.
Also please stop the annoying autoplay on the pop-up bar it also plays things I don't want.
So stop it comprende.
If it's still in beta, why is it released to the public already? And why do I not have the choice to use it or not?ReplyDelete
I want to watch videos in whatever order I desire, not have them play in a specific order and definitely not automatically.
Wouldn't it be a good idea to ask the users what they think of a certain new feature before you go releasing it? Don't assume that everyone immediately likes it.
I think it's awesome! It started with a Top Gear video (fullscreen on Chrome) and then went to some Genesis live - how good is that?ReplyDelete
Leanback SUCKS! Please turn it off. I don't want to add an adblocker, but I will if this continues. If that begins to fail, well I guess I'll have to stop visiting youtube.ReplyDelete
Is this that bar that loads at the bottom and opens up whenever I watch anything from my subscriptions? If it is, it's the most annoying thing I have ever experienced on this site. I have to close it EVERY single time, or it takes up a considerable portion of my screen, and even then, the bar remains.ReplyDelete
I agree, make an off switch. Oh, and somewhere where we can easily find it.
how can i disable this leanback rubbish i don't like it and didn't ask for it....ReplyDelete
this new leanback is not giving me choice and its showing me stuff i don't want.....
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2010 at 3:18 PM
I really wish there was some way to disable it or to have autoplay permanently off. I don't really like it sending me to another video when I am not planning on it.ReplyDelete
I WANT TO TURN OFF THE BAR AT THE BOTTOM OF EVERY VIDEO! THAT SHOULD BE AN OPTION!ReplyDelete
This Sucks!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2010 at 11:36 PM
I agree! How do we turn the damn thing off?! I actually like being able to pick what plays next, not having some totally random video play that has almost nothing to do with what I just watched. :(ReplyDelete
I keep trying to turn it off and it zaps back on as quick as I try to rid myself of it. Sorry but I would rather control my viewing myself so I have time to comment on the videos I have watched. Just not for me. Please make it STOP!ReplyDelete
ITS CRAP NEEDS TO BE TURNED OFFReplyDelete
I agree with TheVTech please make an option to turn this crap off!ReplyDelete
Can I get a leanback link of my playlist to share with friend?ReplyDelete
How do you turn the stupid thing OFF?! It's annoying as hell.ReplyDelete
How unbelievably clueless are you people at YouTube? 1. We should have the option to turn off that totally annoying autoplay and that truly annoying autoplay bar! But on top of it all, the only area I would personally use the autoplay is in my playlists - and that is the one area it DOESN'T show up! Features like this are not features when they're not optional - we can't all be pigeon-holed that easily. Please give us options as to how and where we want to use these. And what fool thought that autoplay bar could be anything BUT annoying???ReplyDelete
I HATE this. It's annoying. I would much rahter browse through the videos casually, than be forced to watch each and every last one. I don't want to have to turn the autoplay off, every bloody time I log on to You Tube. This is a terrible way to watch You Tube.ReplyDelete
I don't want to autoplay my recomended/subscriptions/related videos, and I don't want to leanback.
Please, if your gonna go ahead with this anyways, I would love a way to turn it off, 'cuz i hate it. Alot. Like more than spam. Even more than I hate comments for videos.
EPIC FAIL.....-EPIC-.ReplyDelete
LISTEN UP people because I assure you- THERE IS A CURE!!! Go here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LyGyQme3Kw it is a simple browser add-on but not for IE cause IE can suck a dick! good luck everyone!
i like footballReplyDelete
stupid feedbar is always popping up while im trying to browse or comment the video!ReplyDelete
not only that but I start typing a comment and the stupid thing changes my video! I set to NOT auto.. but it changes after every refresh! and so does the stupid button to make it stay down...
I hate this crap
Why on EARTH did you remove the ability to play my playlists on random. Why?ReplyDelete
I won't be back to youtube until I get my random option back.
Can we have the ability please - TO SHUT IT OFFReplyDelete
I hate this autoplay. I only like about 20% of the "Recommended for you" and I have to prune and cull to find what I like. Now when I click on something, I have to quickly (1) pause it, (2) turn off auto play, (3) reduce the leanback strip, (4) turn off the sound (I only like sound in a few specific videos), and finally (5) resume play. It's exhausting.ReplyDelete
How about less pointless autoplay crap and more control over quality settings. I hate having to manually switch videos to 480p everytime. Whatever happened to the 'always play high quality video' option, huh?ReplyDelete
Seriously. I've had enough of this stupid thing. Please get rid of this "feature". Far more people can't stand it than not. It's extremely intrusive and always loads the next video when I'm in the middle of replying to a comment on the page I'm currently on. At least give us an option to turn it off.ReplyDelete
I liked the old system. Instead of forcing this crap on us, give a choice on our UI options. Not everyone likes the same thing, and from the look at most of the comments, hardly anyone even likes this.ReplyDelete
Maybe, instead of just putting stuff in regardless of our opinion, you could give a feedback option and a chance to test it out, atleast.
Good idea but:ReplyDelete
a) where are my subscriptions?
b) why can't I make my own queue?
3) I more often want to watch more videos with the same title as the current video rather than in the same category. Like if I watch a video about Starcraft 2 then I want more of the same not a Halo Reach video next...
4) Stop trying to pick videos for me you are awful at it! Which is surprising because you are Google...
YouTube has messed up so much crap with all these easier to use functions that I hate even using Ytube anymore. Give us a way to revert to the old style . Auto play is a pain in the assReplyDelete
Wow how hard is it to make leanback actually go to the next video in ORDER? You made something that doesn't even work how it's supposed to, how humiliating ROFL. And why is autoplay on by default with no way of turning it off by default? We already have to click enough crap off the screen before we can watch the video. Get with it, YouTube. Who's brilliant idea was this? FAILReplyDelete
It's annoying. I like to leave comments, I don't always watch what is recommended or subscibed to. Popping up blocks my view when I'm adding videos to my playlists. Please allow viewers the choice to not use it.ReplyDelete
Agreed. This is horribly put together. With my Chrome browser, and extensions, it completely nullifies my videos a very large amount of the time. It takes about 10 or 15 reloads just to get my video window loaded, instead of gone, let alone playing. It's gotten to the point where I directly edit the URL to completely get rid of the leanback function.ReplyDelete
I hate leanback! I click off autoplay and it clicks right back on again. I don't want to see the next little video YT has decided it wants me to watch. I'd rather make my own selection to view what I want, when I want. This is just maddening.ReplyDelete
This leanback thing makes people watch a lot less videos. Since it can't be turned off, I just delete a lot of videos because they might not be good. I don't want to be forced to watch ten videos just to see the one I want to see.ReplyDelete
This feature may mean the end of YouTube if you don't get rid of it.
this is shitty.. but atleast i can turn this shit off with greasemonkey scriptsReplyDelete
Just a minute ago the leanback autoplay feature disappeared as quick as it came. Thankyouthankyouthankyou!!! All's right with the world again!ReplyDelete
This sucks Big Time. This is A REAL PAIN. THANK YOU AGAIN for making an adjustment that causes real irritation. I watch only a few select videos out of my subscriptions. This is a waste of window space and time. Yes, I am subbed to Fox News channel, but I don't have the time, patience or concern to watch the vast majority of their videos. REMOVE THE FEATURE OR SET GLOBAL PREFERENCES TO AUTO PLAY OFF ..... PLEASE!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
Please turn off YouTube Leanback, please!!!ReplyDelete
Please let me turn off autoplay, give me an option in the menus to turn off auto play, I'm sick of having to exit full screen videos a second before they end so that the stupid autoplay won't kick in. Please make it a permeant option. It's really annoying.ReplyDelete
Please put in a way to turn this off.ReplyDelete
personally i prefer it the way it was. leanback doesn't give you time too like, comment and favourite if you choose too.ReplyDelete
so it's a thumbs down for me!!!
I agree that it makes watching videos on youtube harder and frustrating! I don't want to have to turn the autoplay off after every single video. If there is a way to keep it turned off then please tell me how!! Also don't like the pop-up bar popping up if you breathe on the blinking thing.ReplyDelete
This sucks!ReplyDelete
Turn it off!! For the love of video, TURN IT OFF!!!!ReplyDelete
Here's another thought - if the video is no longer available, then don't show it in the recommended block. Another trip to nowhere. And if it has already been seen, don't put it right back up in the block again.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2010 at 10:35 AM
Half the videos in my subscriptions I don't even watch. Please give us the option to turn it off... Or at least have auto-play STAY OFF. I miss that days when youtube was basic and not a clusterfuck of features you never use.ReplyDelete
i don't like it, can i turn it off, please?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2010 at 11:14 AM
I can't finish a video and respond before the next video starts.ReplyDelete
This is a FAIL.
make it able to be disabled in our channel settings.
totally hate it. and there is no X to close it. make it at least an option . plssssssReplyDelete
Please turn this so-called "feature" off!!!ReplyDelete
Lean back ..like it aint nuthinReplyDelete
Ridiculous. Please immediately implement a way to turn off autoplay on videos. By far the stupidest "innovation" youtube has ever come up with. A person above me said it right... stop implementing random features without an option of turning them off.ReplyDelete
i don't like this new leanback idea.ReplyDelete
It's a good idea - but mine will automatically appear if my mouse gets close - sometimes even when I just want to hit play on a video, it comes up and gets in my way -- VERY annoying. Please add something that allows us to "lock" it in place either down or up.ReplyDelete
PLEASE get rid of leanback,,it is very annoyingReplyDelete
every time I open a video to watch and have to adjust the volume,,this POPUP blocks my video and I have to drop it down and click off ,,but only till the next video ,,,then it starts all over again,,,NO THANK YOU
the bar is freaking annoying! i use a netbook and the video takes up most of the screen when its not even full screened. so the bar thing is a joke, i can't see any of it. and when i'm on my desktop its still freaking annoying. i don't get why it has to be on autoplay ALL THE TIME?! and now all the sudden i can't x out videos from my subscriptions section. agh, well thats my rant. interesting idea youtube but please get rid of it, its not helpful. also bring back the 5 star ratings, thanks hahaReplyDelete
Totally unimpressed. First video is some kid talking about her feet! You need to re-examine you demographics or is this just an attempt to control what we watch. Getting tired of all the "new" crap on you tube. Might be time for a change.ReplyDelete
Just so you know that leanback feature again wiped out my comment I was typing when it auto advanced and I forgot that I need to turn it off on EVERY video and delete the queue. This is not a well thought out concept. Give me an option to turn it off permanently so I can make my comments without it being a hassle to do it. Perhaps if we could chose what we want in what order might be exceptable if we can stop it from auto advancing.ReplyDelete
I DON'T LIKE THE AUTO PLAY OF YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS I MAY ONLY WANT TO SEE 1 AND ALL OF THEM ARE THERE READY TO PLAY AND YOU HAVE TO KEEP HITTING THE OFF BUTTON HOW DO YOU GET RID OF IT ALTOGETHERReplyDelete
Yes, let's just make people even lazier than they already are...ReplyDelete
Good God give us the option not to use it. This is more annoying than mouse over pop-up adds.ReplyDelete
I just want to say thank you I can leave a comment now without it auto advancing. I even played with putting a bunch of cooking vids together in a queue and watching them. Thank you for the option to stop the auto play.ReplyDelete
Disable it, it`s major balls!!!!ReplyDelete
I like the concept, but a few of the videos are definitely not something I'd be interested in; eg 'adult' stuff or violent clips. Is there any way to monitor these to make sure they don't get into Leanback? :PReplyDelete
I love this concept, but without the ability to edit the proposed playlist, I just won't be bothered to give a shit.ReplyDelete
If this has anything to do with the assinine autoplay plague that you have unleashed on your users then I vote NO THANKS.ReplyDelete
TURN IT OFF...What some little twerp thinks is cool is not a way to run a business.
I think the youtube developers have to lean back, or should I say,the company let them go. You dont have to fuck up the site every month with some "improvements". I almost cant keep up with stylish plugins in firefox to revert back youtube to usable state. Seriously, along with google fade, this makes me puke. Google ui employes just go somewhere you belong: maybe design a pigfarm.ReplyDelete
I have to agree with all dislikers.ReplyDelete
I really do NOT like this feature at all, it takes away a lot of my screen, it pops up almost everytime I want to switch tabs or browser windows, it looks absolutely horrible and gives me the impression you didn't know where to put it, this grey bar is like a foreign object. With all the advertising and the "new" youtube skin PLUS Leanback-bar, youtube looks way too overloaded.
What also really annoys me is the fact that I'm prevented from interacting with the community with auto-play turned on. Btw.: if I stop a video, because I want to reply to a comment and I scroll through the comments, this stupid bar also pops up).
I use youtube because of the community aspect. I love to interact with other people, I love to read through all the comments and I love to take my time to respond to other users. Communication is the reason I use the internet, but automating takes away all the interaction.
Pls give us an option to completely turn off this whole feature in general, I don't want to see this improvement for the worse anymore. I want to have the choice to watch my subscriptions in any order, when I want, for how long I want.
Making this thing obligatory would force me to quit using youtube.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give us an option to disable this!!!ReplyDelete
i Love it because we don't need the mouse plus people it in the beta stage it is not PERFECT!ReplyDelete


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Thursday, December 22, 2005
My holiday reading
In the meantime, here is my list of recommended blogs for holiday reading:
Environmental economics
Environmental economics blog – the best envionmental eco blog on the web – regular, informative, entertaining.
Urban and environmental economics – the full text of fascinating articles with an environmental economics angle.
Law and politics
Courting disaster – Diary of an international law PhD student at Cambridge.
Envirotalk – Australian environmental forum.
Fridaysixpm – pop culture and a smattering of politics.
Lynscreens – sporadic but spot-on film reviews and discussion.
Have a great holiday!
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Productivity Commission Inquiries: Waste and Water
In some ways that shouldn't be so surprising because, despite the misperception of green ideals as 'standing in the way of progress', most are actually about using our scarce resources efficiently. Woodchipping old growth forests in Tasmania is as much an economic outrage as an environmental one.
The Productivity Commission has conducted a number of often influential inquiries into environmental or environmentally-related issues. Its latest is an inquiry into Waste Generation and Resource Efficiency and a copy of the Issues Paper hit my desk yesterday.
Waste used to be the big environmental issue but it's gone a bit quiet lately, overshadowed by climate change, water and biodiversity in particular.
The Terms of Reference state the issue:
Non-optimal levels of waste represent lost value and opportunities, while imposing undesirable economic and environmental costs on society. The objective of this inquiry is to identify policies that will enable Australia to address market failures and externalities associated with the generation and disposal of waste, including opportunities for resource use efficiency and recovery throughout the product life-cycle.
Some of the environmental and market issues to be examined are:
- Institutional, regulatory and other factors which impede optimal resource efficiency, recovery and optimal waste management;
- The adequacy of current data on material flows;
- The impact of international trade and trade agreements on the level and disposal of waste in Australia;
- Strategies that could be adopted by government and industry to encourage resource efficiency and recovery;
- The effect of government and commercial procurement practices; and
- The impacts of government support to production and recovery industries.
Some of the issues identified in the issues paper are:
- Arguments for government intervention (market failure – externalities, natural monopolies, public goods and market power issues);
- Recycling markets and policies that affect them;
- Energy recovery from waste;
- Pricing measures;
- Producer responsibility for waste.
Public submissions are invited and due by 8 February 2006. The Commission will also undertake public hearings in February and release a draft report in May.
Rural Water Use and the Environment: The Role of Market Mechanisms
At the same time, the Federal Treasurer has commissioned the Productivity Commission to undertake a study to assist State governments in meeting their obligations under the National Water Initiative. The Terms of Reference were released last week. The study will assess the feasibility of establishing workable market mechanisms:
- to provide practical incentives for investment in rural water-use efficiency and water related farm management strategies; and
- for dealing with rural water-management related environmental externalities
The study will look at take into account relevant practical experiences in other areas, such as with establishing tradeable salinity and pollution credits.
The Commission will report on the study in June 2006.
Both should provide some interesting material for anyone interested in the practical application of environmental economic policy.
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Economists should stick to economics
A growing trend in economics is economists extending their analysis to social issues. I'd like to look at two quite different manifestations of this trend and suggest that economists should steer clear of using economic theory to look at non-economic issues.
1. Applying economic methods
The first manifestation of this trend is applying statistical methods developed in economics to examine social trends. An example of this is examining empirically whether the death penalty might contribute to lower murder rates in an area.
This isn't really economic analysis in any sense – it's just taking statistical methods that happen to have been developed for economic analysis and using them in sociological analysis. And this is an area in which economists can make a positive contribution – more and reliable data always helps us make more informed decisions.
(A caveat is that you should be very wary in listening to economists discuss the moral implications of their findings. For example, in the death penalty article above, the authors reckon that each execution for a murder leads to about 18 fewer murders and therefore suggest we are morally required to execute murderers. We should think very carefully before taking that conclusion at face value, even if we could believe the data (which are suspect)).
2. Applying economic theory
Much more problematic for me is when economists start applying economic theory or models of economic behaviour to social situations.
A classic example is the economics of marriage, surprisingly well-trodden ground which tends to produce studies that are dazzling both for the sophistication of their mathematical models and the simplistic stupidity of the assumptions about human behaviour on which they're based.
You can pick up the flavour from this one, about marriage causing the gender wage gap:
Women are assumed to control the bargaining and hence:
Although economic considerations are not always deciding factors when men and women fall in love, they do play an important role in the decision to marry, according to Elul and Volij, assistant professor of economics.
Men… begin saving their earnings in hopes of attracting a wife. "If the men do not save enough they will not have much to offer," said Volij.
In the model, if a woman is proposed to by a suitable man living in the same city, she will certainly accept the proposal. But if a woman is proposed to by a man living in a different city that is not as advantageous to her earning potential as the one in which she lives, she faces a dilemma: She could marry, move and earn less, or she could reject the offer. "Her choice will depend on the terms of the husband's offer (that is, his savings) as well as other factors like wages and interest rates," the authors wrote. In most cases, the model shows that women will accept the offer of marriage if the savings of the men are significant. As a result, women often sacrifice their earnings by following their husbands, leading to a gender wage gap.
In the paper, individuals are utility maximizers, choosing to marry when it is in their self-interest.
they are going to be able to extract more benefits of marriage for themselves. As a result, the women feel less pressure to work. In fact, they are able to work for lesser pay and yet extract better benefits since they are in control of the bargaining...
So this model brilliantly explains the gender gap – as long as you assume a myriad of things that are unproven and go against everything common sense tells you to be the case: women choose husbands according to their savings and the general level of wages and interest rates, everyone enters marriage to extract an economic benefit (economists generally and rather old-fashionedly assume this to be the man's income for women and the woman's labour for men).
The problem with all these sort of analyses is that they take as their starting point standard assumptions which are necessary for basic supply and demand models to work – most notably that everyone acts in their own self-interest. These assumptions are pretty reasonable when you're looking at consumer behaviour in supermarkets or how firms price goods or choose suppliers or make investment decisions. They're completely wrong when you're looking at social behaviour.
Amazingly enough, most husbands don't want to spend all their money enjoying the good life so they can leave their widows destitute. In fact, any empirical economic study shows that many wealthy older people live relatively frugally so they can leave money to their families. Husbands and wives in functional relationships don't try to extract the maximum economic benefit from the other: their relationship is about providing love and support to the other.
Economists first assumption is that people are rational. Yet they abandon this assumption as soon as they look at social behaviour. Entering relationships solely from the point of view of what you can get out of them would leave you a miserable and lonely person. And that's just not rational.
Monday, December 12, 2005
Sydney's proposed desalination plant
Probably the major environmental issue in Sydney right now is the proposed desalination plant. Sydney's catchment has been in drought for some time and Sydney's water supply is at relatively low levels. Various solutions for a secure water supply have been proposed but the big ticket item is a desalination plant.
Some of the issues are:
- It's a very expensive way to produce clean water;
- It's a very energy intensive way to produce clean water and that also means lots of greenhouse gas emissions;
- The proposed site (and its surrounds) is environmentally sensitive and contains a number of unique and endangered ecological communities;
- The political environment is interesting as the government has been criticised for its handling of other recent large infrastructure projects, in particular effectively granting a large degree of control over public services to private entities.
I'll look at some of the issues surrounding the desal plant over the next few weeks but, if you're interested, the environmental impact statement and other documents are on Sydney Water's website. You can comment on the proposal until 3 February 2006 and I'd encourage you to do so.
Friday, December 02, 2005
Unintended consequences
Economics makes a useful contribution to policy in demonstrating that when you start interfering in markets (if they're working), you can not only get nasty side effects, you also often get the opposite of what you were intending to do. For example, putting price caps on products makes investing in producing those products unprofitable, cutting off the innovation that could bring down the prices of the products in the long run.
However, as we saw in the previous post (below), that is only the case if markets are working (and they often don't). So – for example - economists say that we should remove the minimum wage, which would encourage firms to hire people, bringing down unemployment, boosting productivity, increasing profits and making products cheaper for everyone. Yay! In theory that might work, but because there's so many other gremlins in the labour market, it's unlikely to work that way in practice. One example: because of the way the tax and welfare systems are structured (essentially the working poor pay more tax than they should), if you reduce the minimum wage in Australia any further, people will earn less – after tax – than they would on the dole. So cutting the minimum wage would only make these people poorer and discourage people from working. So the real outcome is likely to be more poverty, more unemployment and more stress on the public purse.
A nasty example of this in an environmental context was reported in the last issue of New Scientist and it concerns using 'biofuels', renewable fuels made from such things as sugar (ethanol), palm oil or soybean (oil) that can replace diesel. According to the article:
THE drive for "green energy" in the developed world is having the perverse effect of encouraging the destruction of tropical rainforests. From the orang-utan reserves of Borneo to the Brazilian Amazon, virgin forest is being razed to grow palm oil and soybeans to fuel cars and power stations in Europe and North America. And surging prices are likely to accelerate the destruction.
The rush to make energy from vegetable oils is being driven in part by European Union laws requiring conventional fuels to be blended with biofuels, and by subsidies equivalent to 20 pence a litre. Last week, the British government announced a target for biofuels to make up 5 per cent of transport fuels by 2010. The aim is to help meet Kyoto protocol targets for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.
Rising demand for green energy has led to a surge in the international price of palm oil, with potentially damaging consequences. "The expansion of palm oil production is one of the leading causes of rainforest destruction in south-east Asia. It is one of the most environmentally damaging commodities on the planet," says Simon Counsell, director of the UK-based Rainforest Foundation. "Once again it appears we are trying to solve our environmental problems by dumping them in developing countries, where they have devastating effects on local people."
Pretty depressing, considering the good intentions behind these laws. I guess the message is that in a world with globalised markets, you need to be even more careful when you use economic measures to help solve environmental problems. Economic measures can be powerful things.
Thursday, December 01, 2005
Making things even worse
What it says is that in an economic system that's pervaded by inefficiencies, fixing one source of inefficiency may actually make the system as a whole even more inefficient. In other words, in the real world - where the simplifying assumptions of economists don't necessarily hold – taking the standard advice of Treasury boffins and other economic policy-makers and instituting microeconomic reform in one industry can actually make everything worse. I think the "second best" comes from the idea that it's not a perfect world – and a second best world may require second best solutions.
An example is water trading. A big problem with rural water entitlements, say economists, is that traditionally they haven't been able to be traded. Once you allow trading, the entitlements have a value, because you can sell them. This gives you an incentive to conserve as much water as you can, because you can sell any you don't use. It also ensures that the water goes to its most highly valued use. The very profitable vineyard or, say, cotton farm that didn't have enough water to expand can now buy that water from, say, the sheep farmer who was using it to grow grass in a very unprofitable paddock. The vineyard makes more money with its new water, the farmer makes more money because it's more profitable to sell his water than use it for sheep, and we conserve more water overall. Hey presto, we're all better off.
The trouble is, there's all sorts of wacky goings on in the real world that complicate things. The most notable in this context is that there's a whole lot of water entitlements that were given out years ago that farmers don't use – because they don't need them or because, for example, it's more expensive to pump the water up from the river than it's worth to the farm. These dormant entitlements are often called 'sleeper licences'.
If you allow trading and there's lots of sleeper licences around (which, in Australia, there are), what happens? Well, these licences suddenly have a value, and they're not being used, so the farmers sell them. Others buy them and use them. Suddenly, a whole lot more water is being extracted from the rivers than before. Creeks dry up, the water doesn't get to downstream users at all, salinity problems increase, the environment loses. Hey presto, we're all worse off.
All pretty obvious, but just another reason why we need to be careful before we adopt economists' magical market solutions. And this isn't to defame economists too much either – they realise this stuff too and that's why when water trading has been established recently in several Australian states, it's been complicated and it's been done slowly and carefully. It still hasn't always worked.
Next post: A particularly horrific example of the theory of second best: European efforts to stop global warming devastate forests in developing countries.


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The company in charge of building the 3.3-mile streetcar line on Detroit's Woodward Avenue is seeking bidders for 45 packages of work that account for an estimated $75 million of the $137 million project.Alameda, Calif.-based civil construction firm Stacy and Witbeck Inc., hired last summer by nonprofit organizer M1 Rail as the streetcar line's construction manager and general contractor, has the bids online at stacywitbeck.app.box.com/m1rail.Bids are due next month, and the goal is to have them awarded by March, said M1 COO Paul Childs. Construction is expected to begin in the spring, with the system in operation by 2016. Utility relocation work is underway. Among the jobs are bids for construction supplies, landscaping, paving, utility work and signage. Thirty bids are online now, with 15 more to be added soon. Childs said M1 and Stacy and Witbeck worked with the local construction community to ensure there is interest from Detroit businesses in working on the project. Some work has been broken into multiple bids so smaller companies can get some of it. "Everybody's got a shot," Childs said. "This is a community project, and we want the community to benefit during construction as well as during operation." Separate bids will be awarded for six streetcars, maintenance facilities and system operator. Child said he hopes to have the contract for the six streetcars awarded and announced within the next 30 days, but emphasized that such a timeline is fluid because of the complexities of federal bid requirements. The streetcars will serve 11 stops and travel at an average 35 mph, mixed with traffic largely in the curbside lanes of Woodward between Grand and Larned. M1, which also remains in the process of securing its licenses to operate the system, is using a blend of public and private funding to finance the rail line. Bill Shea: (313) 446-1626, [email protected]. Twitter: @bill_shea19
Editor's note: An earlier version of this story had incorrect details in the timeline for construction of the M1 Rail. This version of the story is correct.


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Here is a lesson that I think a lot of you have been waiting for. It's on another character from the Zelda series. Up next, we will learn "how to draw Skull Kid", step by step. Skull Kids are figures that play a strong role in three of the Zelda games; Ocarina of Time, Twilight Princess, and Majora's Mask. A Skull Kid is the end result of what happens to children when they get lost in the woods. They resemble scarecrows because of their spooky, wooden design. They also have that limp characteristic like scarecrows do and they also move about like a scarecrow would. Skull Kids are often seen playing flutes and dancing about. One thing is certain, you will definitely have fun drawing Skull Kid so get to it folks.
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Space Launch: Along for the Ride
Science, Technology Documentary published by National Geographic in 2006 - English narration
Nestled in the remote and desolate steppes of southern Kazakhstan, the Russian run Baikonur Cosmodrome is the oldest and largest space facility in the world. With 20 to 30 rocket launches annually, the stage is set for an unusual mission. American entrepreneur Greg Olsen has spent 20 million dollars to live out every stargazer's dream. He will become the third private citizen on the planet to hop aboard the Soyuz rocket, and journey to outer space. After completing 500 hours of intensive cosmonaut training, including zero G exercises, crisis drills, and launch simulators, Olsen joins two veteran astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station. Olsen turns his personal handy-cam on himself and records a daily diary while in orbit some 400 kilometers above the Earth. Throughout the training, launch, and re-entry procedures, cameras provide a rare peek inside a Russian space mission, gaining unprecedented access to the floor of mission control as well as the highly secure launch pad in Baikonur. Inside takes viewers out of this world and back again.
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* Space Tourists
* Space Station and Beyond
* International Space Station
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* Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets
* Cosmos
* The Universe
* The Cosmos - A Beginner's Guide
* Passport to Pluto
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Giuseppe Verdi
Rezension in englischer Sprache verfügbarGiuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, the two men who dominated and occupied opposite poles in the development of opera in Europe from the 1840s to the 1890s, were both born in the same year. Wagner was seen as the man of the future, Verdi as a reactionary, yet Verdi also advanced the form of opera into a more seamless kind of continuous drama, rather than a succession of set pieces broken up by recitatives. Verdi's timing was excellent. His operas began to appear in 1840, not too long after the retirement of Rossini and the death of Bellini, and his fame began to peak at about the time Donizetti's health began to fade, all of which left a vacuum of genius-level Italian opera composers. Furthermore, even his name was well-timed. Much of Italy was dominated by Austria. After Verdi's name began to be known (and his hymn of captive Hebrews in Nabucco was correctly perceived as a disguised plea for Italian independence), Italian patriots would write "VERDI" as a graffito on a wall. If caught, they would insist they were fans of the new composer, but every Italian knew the letters were also an acronym of the Italian words for "Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy" and thus a plea for a unified, independent Italian state under the rule of the King of Naples. Although Verdi liked to promote the idea that he sprang from impoverished, peasant beginnings, his families on both sides were small landowners and tradesmen. Even though he wrote "they put a miserable spinet under my hands, and some time later I began to write notes; that is all," the truth is that his talent was so early recognized that he began studies with the local organist at the age of three. And while there was a spinet, it must have been a pretty good one, because he kept it all of his life. When he was only eight, a local piano technician repaired and refurbished it for free, inscribing the inner lid with a memorial of this gift made in view of Verdi's eagerness to play it. He was well trained, but in 1832 was rejected as an applicant to the Milan Conservatory in part because of his lack of skill and training in counterpoint (other reasons were the institution's overcrowding and his age of four years over the usual entrance age of 14). Verdi underwent private studies involving intensive study of contrapuntal techniques of canon and fugue. He gained some minor municipal music posts in the 1830s, and in 1838 published a set of songs, followed soon by a modestly successful first opera, Oberto. Verdi then turned to comedy. The opera, Un Giorno di Regno, was a flop, which Verdi immediately withdrew after the first performance. He was so depressed at his failure that he vowed to write no more. Fortunately, some friends prevailed upon him to read a new libretto, Nabucononosor, a title which was soon shortened to Nabucco. (Both are Italian versions of the name of the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar.) The libretto's biblical background and its yearning for freedom were irresistible to Verdi. He created a triumph; its 57 performances in the autumn season at La Scala alone is a record for that illustrious house that has never been equaled. Verdi's fame and fortune continued to grow throughout the 1840s. Mostly, his operatic production shows a consistent increase in dramatic values, musical aptness, and all those intangibles of technique and inspiration that we call "genius," although there are a few stumbles such as Aroldo and Stifellio. By around 1847 what musicologists consider the "apprentice" phase of his career ended; Macbeth is generally considered the transitional work to his next phase, in which his personal style emerges fully. From this point, Verdi also begins to break away from the formal techniques that had sufficed for Rossini or Donizetti. At this point, operas were successions of arias, duets, and other ensembles, and choruses, all separated by recitatives (semi-spoken passages, often with simple chordal accompaniment in the strings) where most of the plot is advanced. Through this so-called second period, Verdi begins merging the parts of the opera into one another, so that there are fewer full stops of the music. (At the same time, Wagner was pursuing the same ideal of making the music more continuous, using a more revolutionary technique he sometimes called "endless melody.") This phase of Verdi's career lasts until around 1855; although the dividing line after which the period of "full maturity" begins is a matter of opinion, it is reasonable to place the line somewhere between Traviata and Un Ballo in Maschera (i.e., 1855-1857). This period lasts until 1871 when, after the composition of Aida, Verdi announced his retirement. For 16 years the small number of works he produced were in other forms, such as the unique String Quartet in F minor (1973) and the great Requiem of 1874. After the Requiem, Verdi's pen was still for a dozen years, aside from one choral piece, Pater Noster. But around 1880 Verdi read a proposed libretto by Arrigo Boito -- himself a pretty fair operatic composer -- adapting Shakespeare's tragedy Othello. He was immediately attracted to it, yet did not commit himself to actually compose such an opera until 1885, but then worked fast. The handful of works he now produced are generally considered to belong to a fourth creative period, the "late" period. ~ Joe Stevenson WORKS OF VERDI COMPLETE OPERAS: Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio (1839) Un Giorno di Regno (1840) Nabucco (1842) I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata (1843) Ernani (1844) I Due Foscari (1844) Giovanna d'Arco (1845) Alzira (1845) Atilla (1846) Macbeth (1847; revised 1865) I Masnadieri (1847) Jerusalem (revision of I Lombardi) (1847) I Corsaro (1848) La Battaglia di Legnano (1849) Luisa Miller (1849) Stifellio (1850) Rigoletto (1851) Il Trovatore (1853) La Traviata (1853) Les Vepres Siciliennes (1855) Simon Boccanegra (1857; rev. 1881) Aroldo (1857) Un Ballo in Maschera (1859) La Forza del Destino (1862; rev. 1869) Don Carlos (1867, rev 1884) Aida (1871) Otello (1887) Falstaff (1893) OTHER WORKS OF VERDI, SELECTED: Requiem Mass (1874) Quattro Pezzi Sacri (1889-1898) String Quartet (1873)
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The former general manager of now-defunct Weekend Warrior Trailers Inc. intends to create a line of private-label travel trailers designed by former Weekend Warrior President Mark Warmoth.
"From a distance, we always had that in mind," said Larry Broyles, president of Poker Clothing Inc., dba Warrior Lifestyles, Perris, Calif.
Warrior Lifestyles' new Legend travel trailers will debut Aug. 7-9 at the "Dune Tour" in the Oceana Dunes near Pismo Beach, Calif., an event that should draw tens of thousands of outdoor recreationists to 5 1/2-miles of ocean-front dunes.
"We aren't doing any RV shows," Broyles said. "We are going right to the consumers. We are going to give something to a new generation of RVers and campers."
To advertise the new trailers, Warrior Lifestyles will distribute 60,000 trash bags to people attending the event.
Warrior Lifestyles was founded in September 2008 two months after Warmoth shut down Weekend Warrior's operation in Perris and returned its inventory of finished trailers and parts and components to its creditors. The company retails accessories and provides parts and service for Weekend Warrior — once a popular West Coast brand — Rage'n and Extreme travel trailers in stores in Perris and Lake Havasu City, Ariz.
Warrior Lifestyles currently stocks about 20 new Weekend Warrior SURVs at the two locations that were acquired from the bank.
"I helped liquidate the company so it was an opportunity to buy stuff during a distress sale," Broyles said. "Right now, you can buy them back from the bank cheaper than you can build them, unfortunately."
Warrior Lifestyles also acquired most of Weekend Warrior's parts inventory and mailing lists. The company employs about 40 people at the two locations, about half of whom perform service on travel trailers.
Weekend Warrior, founded in 1988 and credited with starting the towable sport utility (SURV) trend, at one time employed about 2,000 people in four plants totalling more than 215,000 square feet in Perris.
The new line of trailers will be built in a factory that once housed Weekend Warrior subsidiary Extreme Warrior Manufacturing LLC in Caldwell, Idaho, under the direction of former Extreme President Don Day.
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Louis Armstrong
Rich in talent, skill and personality.
It is rare that you find technical excellence, superb artistry and irresistible charisma in one performer. Louis Armstrong had all those qualities. As an architect of jazz and a vocal trendsetter, Louis Armstrong left an indelible mark on music as an art form.
One of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, Louis Armstrong was responsible for innovations that filtered down through popular music to rock and roll.
Armstrong himself put it like this: "If it hadn't been for jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll." If it hadn't been for Armstrong, popular music of all kinds—from jazz and blues to rock and roll—would be considerably poorer. As a trumpet player, Armstrong was a pioneering soloist and one of the first true virtuosos in jazz.
As a singer, he was one of the originators of scat singing, and his warm, ebullient vocal style had a big impact on the way all pop music was sung. As an entertainer, his charismatic presence allowed him to break through race barriers to become one of the first black superstars—a figure who would eventually become known as America's Jazz Ambassador.
Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans on August 4, 1901. While still a teenager, he and three friends formed a vocal quartet. "I used to sing tenor," he recalled. "Had a real light voice, and played a little slide whistle, like a trombone." On New Year's Eve 1912, he was arrested after he fired some shots from his stepfather's gun. He was sent to the Colored Waifs' Home. There he began playing cornet in a brass band. Five years later, he was playing honky-tonks. Another cornetist, Joe "King" Oliver, took a liking to him, and in 1922 he brought Armstrong to Chicago.
Armstrong joined Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, which enabled him to make a sufficient salary, so he would no longer need to supplement his music income with day labor jobs. Oliver's band was the best and most influential hot jazz band in Chicago at the time. Armstrong lived like a king, in his own apartment with its own private bath. Armstrong made his first recordings on the Gennett and Okeh labels (jazz records were starting to boom across the country), including taking some solos and breaks, while playing second cornet in Oliver's band in 1923. At this time, he met Hoagy Carmichael (with whom he would collaborate later), who was introduced by friend Bix Beiderbecke, who now had his own Chicago band.
Armstrong enjoyed working with Oliver, but his second wife, pianist Lil Hardin Armstrong, urged him to seek more prominent billing and develop his newer style away from the influence of Oliver. Armstrong took the advice of his wife and left Oliver's band. For a year Armstrong played in Fletcher Henderson's band in New York on many recordings. After playing in New York, Armstrong returned to Chicago, where he played in large orchestras.
He then began recording under his own name for Okeh with his famous Hot Five and Hot Seven groups, producing such hits as "Potato Head Blues," "Muggles" (a reference to marijuana, for which Armstrong had a lifelong fondness) and "West End Blues," the music of which set the standard and the agenda for jazz for many years to come.
Armstrong was truly a superb musician, but he was also an entertainer of great wit and immense charisma—something that became evident in the late Twenties and early Thirties, when he emerged as a vocalist. Widely imitated, he defined the art of jazz singing, and he had a profound effect on the likes of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. "He put real fun into singing," said blues singer and songwriter Alberta Hunter. "He really showed us all how to take a song and go with it—you know, improvise on it. And don't forget scat singing, which Louis invented."
Armstrong continued to play jazz brilliantly into the Fifties. He also made a successful crossover to pop with such songs as "Blueberry Hill" and "C'est Si Bon." In the late Fifties and early Sixties, he had even more pop success with "Mack the Knife" and "Hello, Dolly!" The latter song managed to unseat the Beatles from the top of the charts in 1964. That feat made him the oldest musician in Billboard history to have a Number One song.
Louis Armstrong died of a heart attack in his sleep on July 6, 1971, a month before his seventieth birthday. The honorary pallbearers at his funeral include Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Ed Sullivan, Johnny Carson and David Frost. Louis Armstrong was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.
Inductee: Louis Armstrong (trumpet, vocals; born August 4, 1901, died July 6, 1971)


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If you're not familiar with craft beer it can be a little intimidating when you decide that you want to try it. You may think that it's only for beer snobs or just for small dinner gatherings, but there's a lot more to craft beer than meets the eye and plenty of reasons to pick some up and try it.
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It has a higher alcohol content.
This is not just a few numbers off, either. Craft beers can have up to 40% alcohol by volume. Most range around 5-10%, but that's still a lot higher than the major beer brewers. Higher alcohol content means you need to buy and drink fewer, saving you money. Who knew?
There are a ton of choices available.
Craft beer brewers are popping up all over the country. If you've only ever tried the major regular beer brewers you might not know how delicious beer can really be. With so many choices available you can find one that you like and then branch out from there. Who knows, you may even end up being the person who can pair beer to go with meals. Now you're getting fancy!
They're end up consuming fewer calorie than regular beer.
Remember how they have a higher alcohol content than regular beer? That's super helpful for beer drinkers who also want to watch their figures. By consuming few craft beers than regular ones you'll get the same end result but with fewer calories. Win-win.
You can tour the brewery and meet the people working there.
This is a really fun activity for beer lovers. Getting to go behind the scenes and meet the people who are brewing your beer is a lot of fun. You'll get insider information and probably be able to sample a lot of different kinds that they brew. It's hard to do this with some of the larger, regular beer companies, but small craft brewers love to show people around.
So next time the opportunity presents itself for you to try some craft beer, don't hesitate. The benefits of craft beer are numerous and with all the different kinds available you should be able to easily find one that you like. If you are having trouble though, remember that the breweries can talk to you and figure out what you like. Their recommendations are sure to be something that you like. Craft beer is here to stay, so you might as well enjoy it!