I agree... why go to THAT store? That store did not make them and it is not like they are burning bootlegs and selling them, why did they choose that store out of all the others that were most likely selling it? It seems odd to me something else must be going on with this story that the store or newspaper doesn't know or the DHS won't share.
Michael must have something againts Viacom and its companies...
Stern is on Infinity, CBS and MTV for the Super Bowl (which was that dumbest fine so such a stupid act that no one could even tell what it was at first and was no big deal at all)... I also hope he out soon, but as Howard said, he probablly won't be (especially is Bush wins)...
I am not sure about his personal ties but is he tied to anyone at Universal or another rival company.
I am a bit biased since I work for a Viacom Company but even before I did (which was on this summer) I could still tell that the Super Bowl incident was a crock and stupid, especially the extent of the fines (I guess they had to fine someone, but they went WAY too far).
Well, it is not on his show on KROCK (or affiliate) so it can't be that bad... they are going to 100% censor it (if needed) because the Chariman is the guest...
what right do you have to turn off a TV in a private place becuase it is bothering you? Now we will have people who are watching a game at a bar and some jackass will turn it off and you will miss the play. If the TV bothers you so much go somewhere where there is no TV. Its a pratical joke item IMO, not something to help society and make peoples lives better.
Plus this idea is old news, remember those watches by Casio that would do but allow to change channels and stuff?
This just a smaller and easier item to use and is prob very cheap so will be more widespread than the watch...
People who want to help the cause will donate, I dont think most people care about their name in the paper, or that they will have a chance to see a hard-copy of the add.
I have never noticed a problem loaded/. on my machine at home with FF either, but I do sometimes have the issue where left tables over (text and images) on a few message boards I visit, but as mentioned a quick refresh fixes the problem.
I do also notice that forms do not always submit in FF, but I have the View in IE extensions, its easy to open the page in IE but it is a pain to enter the data again...
Exactly, if they create their own protocol, that would be bad news for the IM community and Jabber, if they use Jabber, then Jabber will gain even more steam (more than it currently is now after having an RFC.
I agree, and also I know Ogg and thing its great, but I don't even use it. MP3s are fine for me for songs on my computer. My live shows (I very actively trade live concerts - legal ones of course) are all in FLAC or SHN and stored on CD. For bringing them to my iPod, converting them to MP3 is fine with me...
I work in Times Square and take NJ Transity from the PABT everydau home. This week I saw someone riding this bike on 8th Ave while I was on 8th and 44th (they were going uptown) 2 times both around 6:15 pm. It looked cool and he was on it by himself both times and wasn't having a problem pedaling it. But, it was a pain being in the street, it took a whole up and is a lot harder to move around than a regular bike.
They make great bags (a little more money) but should stand up to lots of abuse and have plenty of room... and can def server as a good backpack when you get back...
I agree that plugs are stupiud, but this plug has an article written includes the C|Net article about the product. It wasn't just a link to the companies website. And does it really matter if he posted it (someone in the company) or me (someone outside). Its information worth knowing to the/. community. I think its a good post, and sounds like a good poduct too.
In that post I do see what you are saying, which are valid points.
I didn't get that message out of the original post hence why I replied, with my reply. But now that it is put that way I agree... I may not agree with Bush but I reason. And I do see your points about how people hate Bush becuase its the cool thing to do - I hate that. If you are going hate him, hate him for the many reason I see that you should.
And about my Dad, he actually does get in people's faces who disagree with them, my mother and I. He always tell us to vote his way and stuff... but of course its not atthe level you where talking about, but kind of funny to me since you made that comment and most likely did not think he would do that.
sorry for the repost, but i hit the HTML Format in the drop down list, so I am reposting so it looks better.
Meanwhile MTV has their bullshit voting campaigns where they brainwash millions of already-mindless american youths to vote a certain way...
Uh, I work for MTV Networks and that is not true. Their campaign along with other ones (like http://headcount.org/, http://www.rockthevote.com/home.php/, and many others are doing a good job of sending the message that young people's votes count and they do have a voice. I think its great.
And MTV is not biased in their coverage and at all. I think you are just making broad comments about the sterotypical people who are viewers of MTV.
Just because people don't dive into the records of the canidates doesn't mean they don't have the right to vote. My dad does not do that - he votes purely for the party. Hell the benefit of being in this country is that we have the right to vote for whoever we want for whatever reason. I can vote for Bush becuase I love Texas or I can vote for Kerry because I love Ketchup.
The point should be that people are actual voting it doesn't matter who they vote for.
But then again maybe my opinion doesn't count on this issue either becuase I must be a "already-mindless american youth" becuase I sometimes watch any of MTV's networks or worse I work for their IS&T department.
Meanwhile MTV has their bullshit voting campaigns where they brainwash millions of already-mindless american youths to vote a certain way...
Uh, I work for MTV Networks and that is not true. Their campaign along with other ones (like http://headcount.org>Headcount[headcount.org], http://www.rockthevote.com/home.php/[rockthevote.c om], and many others are doing a good job of sending the message that young people's votes count and they do have a voice. I think its great.
And MTV is not biased in their coverage and at all. I think you are just making broad comments about the sterotypical people who are viewers of MTV.
Just because people don't dive into the records of the canidates doesn't mean they don't have the right to vote. My dad does not do that - he votes purely for the party. Hell the benefit of being in this country is that we have the right to vote for whoever we want for whatever reason. I can vote for Bush becuase I love Texas or I can vote for Kerry because I love Ketchup. The point should be that people are actual voting it doesn't matter who they vote for.
But then again maybe my opinion doesn't count on this issue either becuase I must be a "already-mindless american youth" becuase I sometimes watch any of MTV's networks or worse I work for their IS&T department.
I would want 40 gig (i am prob going to get a 40 gig iPod but am waiting to see what they will be coming out with in a year or so (i can wait to buy the 40 gig one, ill just get another person to sign up under my freeipod.com account.
I would want as much space as possible. I dont have an enormous amount of CDs (about 128 that i listen too often) or mp3s, but I have many live recording of bands (all bands, well 99% are, of bands that support recording and trading of their shows) and I would live to have those shows on there to listen too)
true, I know that becuase I attend at ~ 20 or more concerts a year and many sporting events (esp Yankee playoff games). But bar codes on tickets is not the issue, the issue is that the barcodes will be on mobile phones, so there is no hard copy of the ticket, no paper involved...
and jdray what artists do you know that behave like that? I have never heard of that before mainly becuase pretty much all the shows I attend are of bands who are in the "Jam scene" and encourage taping of their show...
Yes, scalping is illegal, but good old ticket brokers are legal and going strong, so its pretty much the same thing. This proposes more problems. I have tickets to an event, sorry a bar code, and I have to work that night or can't make it, do I have to eat my ticket now? I didn't read the full article, but they should allow you to transger the ticket to another person (by adding there address, name, phone number and price paid) that way you can still get rid of extra tickets if needed but hopefully it will help reduce scalping.
But I would probablly never use this system, just like I will never use ticketfast system of Ticketbastered, I mean Ticketmaster. I enjoy having the actual ticket in my hand and being able to have a hard copy of the ticket (especially ones desgined by the band or team for special events sold through fan clubs, etc). Also I frame my stubs by themselves and with posters of the show they were for. That would be impossible with this system. I don't think its worth the trouble...
AP: After "Episode III," will you ever revisit "Star Wars"?
Lucas: Ultimately, I'm going to probably move it into television and let other people take it. I'm sort of preserving the feature film part for what has happened and never go there again, but I can go off into various offshoots and things. You know, I've got offshoot novels, I've got offshoot comics. So it's very easy to say, "Well, OK, that's that genre, and I'll find a really talented person to take it and create it." Just like the comic books and the novels are somebody else's way of doing it. I don't mind that. Some of it might turn out to be pretty good. If I get the right people involved, it could be interesting.
this is at least good news, maybe the final 3 will be saved by new people in charge of it...
AP: Why did you change your mind and decide to put the original three movies out on DVD now?
Lucas: Just because the market has shifted so dramatically. A lot of people are getting very worried about piracy. That has really eaten dramatically into the sales. It really just came down to, there may not be a market when I wanted to bring it out, which was like, three years from now. So rather than just sit by and watch the whole thing fall apart, better to bring it out early and get it over with.
To make more money... come on George, you know poeople would buy them still if they were another 3 years... he just did this so im 5 year he can sell them again as HD DVD or Blue Ray discs...
and he doesnt want to spend the money (millions, i dont think so) to release the original ones on DVd, why not? All we want is the original untouched trilogy on a disc instead of tape, so we can move to chapters and stuff, i dont want special features, hell i dont even need an in-depth menu...
That is true, but MSN and Yahoo have their "digital life empires" but I know no one that uses their services...
As for Google, someone said (and I agree) they have their own empire, but the main difference there is that people us Google's features and many of them. They actually have a great purpose and I like the no frills idea of them. People prob use the Yahoo and MSN features, but no one I do and prob not many techies out there...
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I agree... why go to THAT store? That store did not make them and it is not like they are burning bootlegs and selling them, why did they choose that store out of all the others that were most likely selling it? It seems odd to me something else must be going on with this story that the store or newspaper doesn't know or the DHS won't share.
I am glad Frodo died, I wanted him too - he was a baby and barely did his job in the books/movies...
Now if only Elijah Wood would die too, I can't stand him...
Michael must have something againts Viacom and its companies...
Stern is on Infinity, CBS and MTV for the Super Bowl (which was that dumbest fine so such a stupid act that no one could even tell what it was at first and was no big deal at all)... I also hope he out soon, but as Howard said, he probablly won't be (especially is Bush wins)...
I am not sure about his personal ties but is he tied to anyone at Universal or another rival company.
I am a bit biased since I work for a Viacom Company but even before I did (which was on this summer) I could still tell that the Super Bowl incident was a crock and stupid, especially the extent of the fines (I guess they had to fine someone, but they went WAY too far).
Well, it is not on his show on KROCK (or affiliate) so it can't be that bad... they are going to 100% censor it (if needed) because the Chariman is the guest...
this is why headphones are key...
Not to sound like a troll but this article is sort of dupe, not the exact article, but the mention of the technology:7 50251&tid=126&tid=4
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/21/1
the article from that story about this is here again:
http://www.seeingmachines.com/transport.htm/
what right do you have to turn off a TV in a private place becuase it is bothering you? Now we will have people who are watching a game at a bar and some jackass will turn it off and you will miss the play. If the TV bothers you so much go somewhere where there is no TV. Its a pratical joke item IMO, not something to help society and make peoples lives better.
Plus this idea is old news, remember those watches by Casio that would do but allow to change channels and stuff?
This just a smaller and easier item to use and is prob very cheap so will be more widespread than the watch...
People who want to help the cause will donate, I dont think most people care about their name in the paper, or that they will have a chance to see a hard-copy of the add.
I have never noticed a problem loaded /. on my machine at home with FF either, but I do sometimes have the issue where left tables over (text and images) on a few message boards I visit, but as mentioned a quick refresh fixes the problem.
I do also notice that forms do not always submit in FF, but I have the View in IE extensions, its easy to open the page in IE but it is a pain to enter the data again...
Exactly, if they create their own protocol, that would be bad news for the IM community and Jabber, if they use Jabber, then Jabber will gain even more steam (more than it currently is now after having an RFC.
I agree, and also I know Ogg and thing its great, but I don't even use it. MP3s are fine for me for songs on my computer. My live shows (I very actively trade live concerts - legal ones of course) are all in FLAC or SHN and stored on CD. For bringing them to my iPod, converting them to MP3 is fine with me...
I work in Times Square and take NJ Transity from the PABT everydau home. This week I saw someone riding this bike on 8th Ave while I was on 8th and 44th (they were going uptown) 2 times both around 6:15 pm. It looked cool and he was on it by himself both times and wasn't having a problem pedaling it. But, it was a pain being in the street, it took a whole up and is a lot harder to move around than a regular bike.
I agree... I only have one grandparent left and my parents do not need their SS since my dad has a very good 401K and pension...
I want to be exempt from paying SS....
Try looking at the North Face site...
I think they have a bag for laptops...
They make great bags (a little more money) but should stand up to lots of abuse and have plenty of room... and can def server as a good backpack when you get back...
this one looks like a good one:
I agree that plugs are stupiud, but this plug has an article written includes the C|Net article about the product. It wasn't just a link to the companies website. And does it really matter if he posted it (someone in the company) or me (someone outside). Its information worth knowing to the /. community. I think its a good post, and sounds like a good poduct too.
that on the ad on this story, there is the Google ad that states:
"Can your website make you even more money?"
Maybe they should take their own advice...
In that post I do see what you are saying, which are valid points.
I didn't get that message out of the original post hence why I replied, with my reply. But now that it is put that way I agree... I may not agree with Bush but I reason. And I do see your points about how people hate Bush becuase its the cool thing to do - I hate that. If you are going hate him, hate him for the many reason I see that you should.
And about my Dad, he actually does get in people's faces who disagree with them, my mother and I. He always tell us to vote his way and stuff... but of course its not atthe level you where talking about, but kind of funny to me since you made that comment and most likely did not think he would do that.
sorry for the repost, but i hit the HTML Format in the drop down list, so I am reposting so it looks better.
Meanwhile MTV has their bullshit voting campaigns where they brainwash millions of already-mindless american youths to vote a certain way...
Uh, I work for MTV Networks and that is not true. Their campaign along with other ones (like http://headcount.org/, http://www.rockthevote.com/home.php/, and many others are doing a good job of sending the message that young people's votes count and they do have a voice. I think its great.
And MTV is not biased in their coverage and at all. I think you are just making broad comments about the sterotypical people who are viewers of MTV.
Just because people don't dive into the records of the canidates doesn't mean they don't have the right to vote. My dad does not do that - he votes purely for the party. Hell the benefit of being in this country is that we have the right to vote for whoever we want for whatever reason. I can vote for Bush becuase I love Texas or I can vote for Kerry because I love Ketchup.
The point should be that people are actual voting it doesn't matter who they vote for.
But then again maybe my opinion doesn't count on this issue either becuase I must be a "already-mindless american youth" becuase I sometimes watch any of MTV's networks or worse I work for their IS&T department.
Meanwhile MTV has their bullshit voting campaigns where they brainwash millions of already-mindless american youths to vote a certain way... Uh, I work for MTV Networks and that is not true. Their campaign along with other ones (like http://headcount.org>Headcount[headcount.org], http://www.rockthevote.com/home.php/[rockthevote.c om], and many others are doing a good job of sending the message that young people's votes count and they do have a voice. I think its great.
And MTV is not biased in their coverage and at all. I think you are just making broad comments about the sterotypical people who are viewers of MTV.
Just because people don't dive into the records of the canidates doesn't mean they don't have the right to vote. My dad does not do that - he votes purely for the party. Hell the benefit of being in this country is that we have the right to vote for whoever we want for whatever reason. I can vote for Bush becuase I love Texas or I can vote for Kerry because I love Ketchup. The point should be that people are actual voting it doesn't matter who they vote for.
But then again maybe my opinion doesn't count on this issue either becuase I must be a "already-mindless american youth" becuase I sometimes watch any of MTV's networks or worse I work for their IS&T department.
There is not GD on there becuase last I head GD was doing a deal with Mac to have their whol cat. on iTunes (all studio, Dick's Picks, vault, etc)
I also heard that they may put almost all of their live collection as well (besides the live release they have made)
I would love to buy a 20 minute Dark Star for $0.99....
but I agree, the collection at this site is small (I dont even want pop crap of today, just some classic rock and stuff)
I would want 40 gig (i am prob going to get a 40 gig iPod but am waiting to see what they will be coming out with in a year or so (i can wait to buy the 40 gig one, ill just get another person to sign up under my freeipod.com account.
I would want as much space as possible. I dont have an enormous amount of CDs (about 128 that i listen too often) or mp3s, but I have many live recording of bands (all bands, well 99% are, of bands that support recording and trading of their shows) and I would live to have those shows on there to listen too)
true, I know that becuase I attend at ~ 20 or more concerts a year and many sporting events (esp Yankee playoff games). But bar codes on tickets is not the issue, the issue is that the barcodes will be on mobile phones, so there is no hard copy of the ticket, no paper involved...
and jdray what artists do you know that behave like that? I have never heard of that before mainly becuase pretty much all the shows I attend are of bands who are in the "Jam scene" and encourage taping of their show...
Yes, scalping is illegal, but good old ticket brokers are legal and going strong, so its pretty much the same thing. This proposes more problems. I have tickets to an event, sorry a bar code, and I have to work that night or can't make it, do I have to eat my ticket now? I didn't read the full article, but they should allow you to transger the ticket to another person (by adding there address, name, phone number and price paid) that way you can still get rid of extra tickets if needed but hopefully it will help reduce scalping.
But I would probablly never use this system, just like I will never use ticketfast system of Ticketbastered, I mean Ticketmaster. I enjoy having the actual ticket in my hand and being able to have a hard copy of the ticket (especially ones desgined by the band or team for special events sold through fan clubs, etc). Also I frame my stubs by themselves and with posters of the show they were for. That would be impossible with this system. I don't think its worth the trouble...
AP: After "Episode III," will you ever revisit "Star Wars"?
Lucas: Ultimately, I'm going to probably move it into television and let other people take it. I'm sort of preserving the feature film part for what has happened and never go there again, but I can go off into various offshoots and things. You know, I've got offshoot novels, I've got offshoot comics. So it's very easy to say, "Well, OK, that's that genre, and I'll find a really talented person to take it and create it." Just like the comic books and the novels are somebody else's way of doing it. I don't mind that. Some of it might turn out to be pretty good. If I get the right people involved, it could be interesting.
this is at least good news, maybe the final 3 will be saved by new people in charge of it...
AP: Why did you change your mind and decide to put the original three movies out on DVD now?
Lucas: Just because the market has shifted so dramatically. A lot of people are getting very worried about piracy. That has really eaten dramatically into the sales. It really just came down to, there may not be a market when I wanted to bring it out, which was like, three years from now. So rather than just sit by and watch the whole thing fall apart, better to bring it out early and get it over with.
To make more money... come on George, you know poeople would buy them still if they were another 3 years... he just did this so im 5 year he can sell them again as HD DVD or Blue Ray discs...
and he doesnt want to spend the money (millions, i dont think so) to release the original ones on DVd, why not?
All we want is the original untouched trilogy on a disc instead of tape, so we can move to chapters and stuff, i dont want special features, hell i dont even need an in-depth menu...
That is true, but MSN and Yahoo have their "digital life empires" but I know no one that uses their services...
As for Google, someone said (and I agree) they have their own empire, but the main difference there is that people us Google's features and many of them. They actually have a great purpose and I like the no frills idea of them. People prob use the Yahoo and MSN features, but no one I do and prob not many techies out there...