Just a few 250k missles. Nothin much. Damn war is xpensive.
Yeah, but it's great for the military-industrial complex. War generates business. Those aren't dollar bills that are just lit on fire -- money goes to businesses.
As evidence, take their uniformly poor attitude towards security...and their applying features from games to other software (one can get obsessed about a game and learn all its controls, and if it crashes, one can just pick up from the last save;
Fortunately, gamers' standards are much higher than that. You're more likely to find a logic non-crashing bug in a game than a crashing one. Gamers after all have multiple good options to choose from -- if they don't like what the PC world has to offer, they have excellent selections for the Playstation and N64, two platforms whose games almost never crash.
Huh? Have you bought a CD in the last 5 years? There's only one or two good songs on each album these days, if you're lucky.
If this is your experience, then you need to stop listening to crappy bands. Crappy bands put out albums with bad songs with only a couple good ones as a hook. Good bands tend to have higher standards.
Ummm... not quite. You do own the car. Completely. Not the government. However, you agree to do certain things in order to drive on government (public) roads. You don't have to get a license or insurance if you're only driving it on private roads, but of course that's pretty useless since just about everyone's driveway empties onto a public road.
All right, then they should make an episo with Gay Planet VS Straight Planet:-)
They had that one already. Sortof. There was a Next Generation episode of a planet with essentially genderless people, where showing a gender identity (like heterosexuality) was a crime that was "corrected." Maybe a half-subtle jab at the community trying to "correct" homosexuality.
I'm pretty sure the DS9 music was written by someone like Dennis McCarthy, a composer they use for the background useless music during the episodes (he's writing the background music for the Enterprise series, too). Producers splurged a tad for Voyager, getting Oscar-winner Jerry Goldsmith to write the main theme (he did the theme for Star Trek, the Motion Picture, and the general "Next Gen" theme). I was hoping they'd get Goldsmith to write a nice theme for the new series. Instead, we got... crap. Well, it could have been a lot worse.
"Unwilling to sell their souls"? Are you kidding me? You must NOT be talking about Mac users. It's their very unwillingness to do so that makes them what they are. Linux users, too. Only windows users do that.
Come off it. Mac users have sold their souls as well, just to Apple, not Microsoft. Hell, Apple requires more soul-selling than MS does.
There was a time in the Fellowship at the beginning where Frodo asked Gandalf to take the ring, and Gandalf leaped back as if the hobbit was charging him with a knife. He specifically said not to tempt him, that he would have too much power with the ring, and the temptation to use its corrupting influence in mercy and pity would be maddening.
All of this was documented in one of those appendices at the end of the Return of the King. G, I think. Christopher Tolkien got drunk one night and mysteriously "found" the old manuscript of JRR's that explains all of this.
Holy shit, I wish I had points to mod the above up. "can we say 'flamebait'" fellow reminds me a little too much of the comic book guy from the Simpsons.
Allow downloads, instead of streaming-only distribution. Golf claps for doing this for the latest LoTR trailer, but big boos for messing the rest up.
I agree with this. It's very inefficient. If you want to play the trailer again, you have to request all the data again, and I don't believe many places proxy and cache streaming media requests.
The problem with this is -- control. The company doing the streaming wants control. They want to know exactly how many people are downloading the clip, how often they are watching, and the last thing they want is for people to be passing this stuff around on P2P networks where they have no control at all. Hell, if they had their way they'd likely abolish P2P networks completely! The above suggestions all make sense from a technical perspective, but there are social/business decisions that override the best technical solutions.
And usually for the Star Trek movies, the trailers contain FX, images from previous ST movies.
I recall they did some alternate FX scenes for Star Trek 6... it was the last movie with the old cast and there were lots of rumors flying around that Kirk was going to die in that movie. Paramount took advantage of that, and the trailer showed Kirk being by a phaser and disintegrating. The actual scene filmed in the movie showed Kirk and his shapeshifting duplicate standing side by side, while the phaser hits the duplicate instead.
Clearly the BBC didn't know what to trim, but I always thought the BBC version was overrated anyway. The Mind's Eye production was 4 hours long, well done, and no major scenes or characters were cut.
If they see a large percentage of their product coming right back at them as returns, they might get the message. Personally, if I ever find a CD I cannot play on my PC, I will return it, saying it's defective. Likely, the store clerk will give me another copy, which I will also return, ad infinitum, until I get my money back.
Except this won't last long. The clerk will play the CD back in the record player there and say "Sorry buddy, seems to work fine. Your CD player must be defective." If you keep it up, you'll find yourself banned from the store for being a troublemaker.
There is a difference between them saying what you can use their products for, and them saying what you can use their products for and having it be legally enforcable. You are still allowed to make an mp3 of a CD, even if the case explicitly says "you may not make mp3s from this CD." You are allowed to make a copy of a DVD even though it says you cannot. The problem with the latter is that there is no way to do that at the moment without circumventing access controls, which under the DMCA is illegal. So the irony is you are allowed t o make a copy of a DVD, watch it, whatever, but at the moment you need a "device" that bypasses the access control, and THAT is illegal to distribute. All the cases that the RIAA have won (important distinction) have pertained to distribution of copyrighted material, which has always been illegal.
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Yeah, but it's great for the military-industrial complex. War generates business. Those aren't dollar bills that are just lit on fire -- money goes to businesses.
Fortunately, gamers' standards are much higher than that. You're more likely to find a logic non-crashing bug in a game than a crashing one. Gamers after all have multiple good options to choose from -- if they don't like what the PC world has to offer, they have excellent selections for the Playstation and N64, two platforms whose games almost never crash.
If this is your experience, then you need to stop listening to crappy bands. Crappy bands put out albums with bad songs with only a couple good ones as a hook. Good bands tend to have higher standards.
Because if they don't, then we are free to go to other middlemen, and they want to be the only game in town.
They had that one already. Sortof. There was a Next Generation episode of a planet with essentially genderless people, where showing a gender identity (like heterosexuality) was a crime that was "corrected." Maybe a half-subtle jab at the community trying to "correct" homosexuality.
Oh man, I hope you aren't using Babylon 5 as an example of a series with good acting...
Come off it. Mac users have sold their souls as well, just to Apple, not Microsoft. Hell, Apple requires more soul-selling than MS does.
They did, sortof.. the Council of Elrond.
I agree with this. It's very inefficient. If you want to play the trailer again, you have to request all the data again, and I don't believe many places proxy and cache streaming media requests.
The problem with this is -- control. The company doing the streaming wants control. They want to know exactly how many people are downloading the clip, how often they are watching, and the last thing they want is for people to be passing this stuff around on P2P networks where they have no control at all. Hell, if they had their way they'd likely abolish P2P networks completely! The above suggestions all make sense from a technical perspective, but there are social/business decisions that override the best technical solutions.
I recall they did some alternate FX scenes for Star Trek 6... it was the last movie with the old cast and there were lots of rumors flying around that Kirk was going to die in that movie. Paramount took advantage of that, and the trailer showed Kirk being by a phaser and disintegrating. The actual scene filmed in the movie showed Kirk and his shapeshifting duplicate standing side by side, while the phaser hits the duplicate instead.
First of all, there will only be a few. Whether that's sad or not I'll leave up to you.
Really, treating your customers like troublemakers generally comes around to bite you in the ass after long enough.
Yeah, but usually not if the customers actually ARE troublemakers (repeatedly buying and returning products you know won't work)
Metallica is already way ahead of you!
Except this won't last long. The clerk will play the CD back in the record player there and say "Sorry buddy, seems to work fine. Your CD player must be defective." If you keep it up, you'll find yourself banned from the store for being a troublemaker.