Yeah they left a bad taste, but if they've cleaned up their act, why continue to kick them? Where's the incentive to do the right thing here? Real listened to what we wanted, acted on it, and took extra steps to antagonize **AA members with their download features. Cut them some damn slack.
It's to be expected. 4.0 was strictly for developers, and 4.1 is a testing release, where everything can't be expected to work properly. 4.2 is the release for the end users.
oh and do you know what industry uses the most amount of ammonium nitrate? Hint it isn't demolitions. Heck with the right air mixture flour can be explosive. you know the stuff they make bread and cakes from.
oh and I would hardly call a field of weed gardening, farming is far more accurate.
what everyone who wants to legalise weed seem to forget in their weed induced stumblings is that it like alcohol affects everyone differently, and I don't want people driving drunk let alone so smoked out they forget which is the gas and which is the brake as they laugh and hit the car in front of them. Ever watch someone go chill man as they stumble across the floor while high on weed? now imagine someone driving that way. Alcohol should also be controlled tighter too, but controlling that is far harder than controlling weed.
If Time Warner were to start taking the advice of its customers, there would be a spike in NYC suicide rates that lasted for weeks. A wonderful, delightful spike, ultimately resulting in everyone in the city being nice to each other like at the end of GHOSTBUSTERS II.
We're too used to seeing 4k images from still cameras to get excited about blu-ray
Doesn't really account for the whole "moving pictures" thing. That's sort of an important difference between Blu-ray and a 4k digital still camera. Plus on my 1360x768 cheapo HD set, images from a digital still camera and a Blu-ray will both look exactly the same - and that means much better than the DVDs most folks are accustomed to.
the fact that every movie is now being printed on IMAX
You and I must have different definitions of "fact", as, by enormous margins, most films aren't blown up to IMAX. It isn't even close. Where can I get tickets to a IMAX print of WALL*E? Or IRON MAN? Or CJ7? Or THE WACKNESS? Or STEP BROTHERS? Or most other films?
Slashdot shouldn't post stories having anything to do with movies. It's like reading about tech news in People Magazine - excruciating.
How many people do you know that have changed travel plans to avoid the TSA harassment?
I know Amtrak's gotten a good about of my money on account of how we've fucked up our airports post 9/11. They're more unsafe than ever.
How 'bout this: let's create an bottleneck that everyone has to go through to get to the plane, staff it with incompetents, and make the whole process as slow and nerve-wracking as possible. Much like they "never thought of" flying planes into buildings, terrorists have probably never considered attacking a security checkpoint, either. Especially not security checkpoints as notoriously inept and inefficient as TSA's are.
This farcical airport security bullshit and the culture of fear and panic that it is an integral part of will backfire on us big-time, it's just a question of when and how badly.
And I know that this is about Verizon and not Time Warner. Verizon's doing it because it's easy, it makes it look like they give a shit about molested children (always a good image to project), and it doesn't behoove them to compete with their own FIOS TV services.
More so than usual, kiddie porn is merely the excuse for something largely unrelated: stemming the flow of MPAA/RIAA property via Usenet channels that make prosecuting downloaders very tricky - who can Time Warner sue for making a Usenet-posted copy of BATMAN BEGINS available for download? If I get my internet from Time Warner then they hosted the fucking thing in the first place! And that's why we must think of the children...
I really can't complain about Dell tech support on my Inspiron laptop. If I wanted to complain about lousy technical support, I'd go off on a obscenity-laced rant about the evils that lurk behind the Apple Genius Bar. Those bastards must go to some sort of master class in weaseling out of honoring their warranties.
What gives anybody the right to talk about anything they're not getting paid to do themselves? Ripping on Ain't It Cool reviews is like setting a quadruple amputee on fire - there's nothing remotely challenging or impressive about it, and it tends to stink up the room. If you're such an expert film critic*, why are you posting on/. instead of writing movie reviews for some reputable** film related website? All things considered it seems a fair, um, criticism.
*Not that that applies to the majority of reviewers on Ain't It Cool **Not that that applies to Ain't It Cool
But when thinking more about it, the part I am actually not sure that I get anymore is that we are paying almost $800 a year for the privilege to watch advertising-sponsored shows. We actually are paying to have the chance to watch ads.... Increasingly, this part doesn't make much sense to me, as it was a business model that was clearly designed for over-the-air free viewing. Z. If only I had mod points - this is what I've been saying for a while now - I won't even consider paying extra for the privilege of WATCHING MORE COMMERCIALS. It's insane. They really know exactly how stupid their customers are. The lowest service tier of Time Warner in NYC actually blocks a lot of channels, both analog and digital channels, at the cable box level that you can easily tune in simply by connecting the cable to the TV directly. No special TV or descrambler required, it Just Works - though obviously you'd need an ATSC cable-ready TV to get the digital channels. That's the sort of contempt they have for you, the paying customer.
Interesting to note the differences in how this sort of thing affects certain people. That song became so irritatingly over-saturated through endless use in commercials that not only do I never want to hear the song again, I don't want anything to do with any product that uses it in their marketing campaign.
It's like movies with "Hey Now You're An All Star" in the trailers or on the soundtrack, or any version of the song "Kung Fu Fighting" in anything. You just lost my money with that shit.
Ads where I cannot understand the language spoken are far, far less annoying to me. Ads where I can't read any text on the screen: less annoying still. Fascinating to see how other cultures get brainwashed - sometimes it is quite different from the brainwashing we're accustomed to.
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How the hell are blue and green circles saying "This Image Hosted By Tripod" going to keep the Google Street Team off my land?
Yeah they left a bad taste, but if they've cleaned up their act, why continue to kick them? Where's the incentive to do the right thing here? Real listened to what we wanted, acted on it, and took extra steps to antagonize **AA members with their download features. Cut them some damn slack.
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It's to be expected. 4.0 was strictly for developers, and 4.1 is a testing release, where everything can't be expected to work properly. 4.2 is the release for the end users.
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oh and do you know what industry uses the most amount of ammonium nitrate? Hint it isn't demolitions. Heck with the right air mixture flour can be explosive. you know the stuff they make bread and cakes from.
oh and I would hardly call a field of weed gardening, farming is far more accurate.
what everyone who wants to legalise weed seem to forget in their weed induced stumblings is that it like alcohol affects everyone differently, and I don't want people driving drunk let alone so smoked out they forget which is the gas and which is the brake as they laugh and hit the car in front of them. Ever watch someone go chill man as they stumble across the floor while high on weed? now imagine someone driving that way. Alcohol should also be controlled tighter too, but controlling that is far harder than controlling weed.
Don't post high, dude.
If Time Warner were to start taking the advice of its customers, there would be a spike in NYC suicide rates that lasted for weeks. A wonderful, delightful spike, ultimately resulting in everyone in the city being nice to each other like at the end of GHOSTBUSTERS II.
We're too used to seeing 4k images from still cameras to get excited about blu-ray
Doesn't really account for the whole "moving pictures" thing. That's sort of an important difference between Blu-ray and a 4k digital still camera. Plus on my 1360x768 cheapo HD set, images from a digital still camera and a Blu-ray will both look exactly the same - and that means much better than the DVDs most folks are accustomed to.
the fact that every movie is now being printed on IMAX
You and I must have different definitions of "fact", as, by enormous margins, most films aren't blown up to IMAX. It isn't even close. Where can I get tickets to a IMAX print of WALL*E? Or IRON MAN? Or CJ7? Or THE WACKNESS? Or STEP BROTHERS? Or most other films?
Slashdot shouldn't post stories having anything to do with movies. It's like reading about tech news in People Magazine - excruciating.
I gave up my mods on this topic to say that Random Caller Identification is a brilliant use of Verizon Option 2.
As would I.
Funny how Steve Jobs is sitting on the board of ABC News' parent company. Wait, that isn't funny.
How many people do you know that have changed travel plans to avoid the TSA harassment?
I know Amtrak's gotten a good about of my money on account of how we've fucked up our airports post 9/11. They're more unsafe than ever.
How 'bout this: let's create an bottleneck that everyone has to go through to get to the plane, staff it with incompetents, and make the whole process as slow and nerve-wracking as possible. Much like they "never thought of" flying planes into buildings, terrorists have probably never considered attacking a security checkpoint, either. Especially not security checkpoints as notoriously inept and inefficient as TSA's are.
This farcical airport security bullshit and the culture of fear and panic that it is an integral part of will backfire on us big-time, it's just a question of when and how badly.
Let them just try it. Why keep shooting yourself in the foot when you can blow the whole leg off?
God damn it, my mod points evaporated minutes before I saw this.
Illmatic is the correct answer to the question, FWIW.
You fucking win, sir. Now I'm off to return KING KONG LIVES.
There's no such thing as gratuitous Bush-bashing. Every little bit helps.
Sounds like a good idea. Cache is a very good concept, that has proved itself across and in different systems.
Cache rules everything around me.And I know that this is about Verizon and not Time Warner. Verizon's doing it because it's easy, it makes it look like they give a shit about molested children (always a good image to project), and it doesn't behoove them to compete with their own FIOS TV services.
More so than usual, kiddie porn is merely the excuse for something largely unrelated: stemming the flow of MPAA/RIAA property via Usenet channels that make prosecuting downloaders very tricky - who can Time Warner sue for making a Usenet-posted copy of BATMAN BEGINS available for download? If I get my internet from Time Warner then they hosted the fucking thing in the first place! And that's why we must think of the children...
I really can't complain about Dell tech support on my Inspiron laptop. If I wanted to complain about lousy technical support, I'd go off on a obscenity-laced rant about the evils that lurk behind the Apple Genius Bar. Those bastards must go to some sort of master class in weaseling out of honoring their warranties.
Windows 7 seems to be taking more of a "New Coke Ultra Cystal Lite Cola" approach, rather than a "Coke Classic" approach.
It's got bits of real cyst in it so you know it's good!
Depends on the situation, I suppose.
What gives anybody the right to talk about anything they're not getting paid to do themselves? Ripping on Ain't It Cool reviews is like setting a quadruple amputee on fire - there's nothing remotely challenging or impressive about it, and it tends to stink up the room. If you're such an expert film critic*, why are you posting on /. instead of writing movie reviews for some reputable** film related website? All things considered it seems a fair, um, criticism.
*Not that that applies to the majority of reviewers on Ain't It Cool
**Not that that applies to Ain't It Cool
Z. If only I had mod points - this is what I've been saying for a while now - I won't even consider paying extra for the privilege of WATCHING MORE COMMERCIALS. It's insane. They really know exactly how stupid their customers are. The lowest service tier of Time Warner in NYC actually blocks a lot of channels, both analog and digital channels, at the cable box level that you can easily tune in simply by connecting the cable to the TV directly. No special TV or descrambler required, it Just Works - though obviously you'd need an ATSC cable-ready TV to get the digital channels. That's the sort of contempt they have for you, the paying customer.
I need blowjobs.
Interesting to note the differences in how this sort of thing affects certain people. That song became so irritatingly over-saturated through endless use in commercials that not only do I never want to hear the song again, I don't want anything to do with any product that uses it in their marketing campaign.
It's like movies with "Hey Now You're An All Star" in the trailers or on the soundtrack, or any version of the song "Kung Fu Fighting" in anything. You just lost my money with that shit.
Ads where I cannot understand the language spoken are far, far less annoying to me. Ads where I can't read any text on the screen: less annoying still. Fascinating to see how other cultures get brainwashed - sometimes it is quite different from the brainwashing we're accustomed to.