You're the reason, George, why there aren't more digital screens today. You demand 80% of the box for your movies and even a cut of the concessions! (which by the way is unheard of).
Theatre companies don't make as much money off of your movies as you think they do (especially since you take 80%). So where are these theatres supposed to get money from to buy these $100,000-$500,000 digital projectors? Most theatres have a hard enough time trying to pay employess, advertising, and performing maintnance on the theatres without you asking these theaters to do costly upgrades.
Besides, when would the theatres use the digital projectors? Once every 3 years when you release a movie?
Maybe Lucas should open his own Theatre Company and realize that money for upgrades is hard to come by.
I have found that online forums like MaximumPC's forum are very helpful. There are many users on there who answer questions just for the fun of it. Any person that posts a question on there usually gets 5-10 responses within half an hour.
I think that it's better than waiting on hold on the phone!
This type of model won't work. I have my own thoughts on the process. So lets say that we have decided to pay for GameSpot. Then we find that CNet has gone to subscriptions. Then New York Times. and on and on...
How many subscriptions are we going to pay for? It may only be a few here and there, but in the future (when more sites go the subscription route) its going to be tough to figure out which sites are worthy of subscribing to.
I'm seeing this debated on here a lot. The problem is that you're ASSUMING that the "bad guys" are on the other side of your network.
What some of you don't realize is that some of the worst offenders of "hacking" or "people being where they shouldn't" (sorry, couldn't think of a better way to say it) are INSIDE your network. There are a lot of users that might be "just looking around" on the network, but they can cause problems unintentionally.
This example might be harsh but everyone here remembers the TV commercial where the users say "I'm off to crash the server" or "I'm about to take user error to the next lever".
Ok. This is getting pathetic. I submitted this story back in FEBRUARY! (check the date) I can't even tell you how many times this has happened to me here.
So what now? Stories half to be "well-aged" before they are posted?
Maybe this site should be called: "Slashdot: news for procrastinators. Stuff that's ancient.
Seriously. What's the point of us hunting down stories to post if they're gonna do this? Go ahead and mod me down, but you know I'm right.
I'm not trying to be mean or nitpick here but your arguement has a major weakness.
If you were to buy a NEW Volvo car you get volvo parts. That's it. You can change out those parts after you buy it, but the car (when you bought it new) is ALL Volvo.
Windows: Remove Explorer / install Netscape Volvo: Remove factory CD player / install Sony CD player.
I think the difference between copying a DVD and an audio CD is there is nothing on a CD which was INTENDED to prevent it's copying, except for those new crippled ones.
There isn't anything on EITHER format that can stop you from copying the media. This is where the MPAA has lied to the courts! They alleged that DVD copying was impossible before DeCSS. Just because you are copying something doesn't mean that you have to decrypt as well.
What's wrong with John Grisham? Is it because he sells more books? makes 28 million a year? Guess what Jon, people read his books because they are worth reading.
Maybe your little stint about John Grisham in your article should have <penis envy> </penis envy> around it!
Bush has asked us all to voluteer our time more...
I wish I had some free time to volunteer! Seriously though, Americans work more hours a week than any other country. And we have to give up more time? I can't wait for retirement!!!
<P>How do you figure? The adult entertainment sites will keep their same name, but have a different TLD. It will also be MUCH easier to filter out adult sites based on domain names rather than actual content.
<P>I wrote to my representatives about a plan similar to this one (almost 3 years ago!). I don't see any downside to the plan.
<P>1. Creates a new domain (.prn or.adult) that ALL of the sites with pornography or other adult materials must move to.
<P>2. Creation of a new domain makes filtering web sites easier for parents.
<P>So where is free speech hurt in this process? Creating a special domain for porn is the same as any City making a law that says an adult entertainment business cannot operate next door to a school.
There is a lot of excitement around Lindows. Especially for people who use Windows, but are too afraid to start into Linux. Lindows has a very good chance of becoming popular and gaining some market share if it does everything it says it will.
So I propose that we let them tweak their software with these beta releases. Then when they release a final version we will see the source code. Why do we need to see it now? It almost sounds like a bunch of three-year-olds that can't wait to open presents.
I don't need to see the source code to make any fixes. That what the Lindows programers get paid for. So let them do their jobs and when Lindows is released THEN we can poke at the code.
All cards working fine, thank you very much. It's not hard to do. If you can't fill 6 PCI slots and get the cards working correctly then I would wonder about your actual computer knowledge.
"The real problem is that Joe Sixpack doesn't understand the big deal. He gets Windows with his PC, and it comes with a web browser and an instant messager built in, and any great new killer apps to appear in the future will have a workalike clone also built into Windows so that he doesn't have to go figure out how to download and install it. He doesn't understand that he's paying for these 'freebies' in the cost of Windows, which is part of the cost of his PC."
The "freebies" part doesn't really matter. Even if Microsoft made a modular version of Windows they could still include the free programs.
Why would Microsoft lower the prices on the OS even if it didn't include the freebies? They have to go through and redesign Windows to make it modular so they could say "we've made it better (modular) and left the price the same!".
If the Music Industry doesn't have to lower prices on "copy protected" CDs then why would Microsoft lower the price of Windows when it will include all of the same (and possibly more) free programs?
I think Jon needs a bigger vocab. Although I'm still trying to get over the review he wrote for the movie Panic Room. Here are some of the buzz words in this article:
Corporatism Globalism Open Source Linux bugaboos skirts electricity tele phones United Nations Development Program technologically-primitive regimes knee-jerk political activists
I could go on and on....but I think you get the picture. Jon, instead of the word "skirts" try using "short dresses". Instead of "technologically-primitive regimes" try using "Amish people". You see? It isn't that tough!
<bitch> I submitted this story 3 days ago (on a slow day) and the editors thought it wasn't good enough. So what? Articles have to be "properly aged" before they get posted now?
This has happened to me way too much on here. Seriously though, what's the point of us surfing through the net to submit stories to/. if they're not going to post them?
</bitch>
you can mod me down all you want, but we both know it's the truth.
If it does then by the agreement that Sony signed with Phillips (to use the CDDA logo) the CD has to be able to play IN ANY DEVICE THAT HAS THE CDDA LOGO on it.
Yes, that's right people - in the United States nobody is responsible for their own actions.
If people can't take care of themselves then let the government do it. If someone dies (because he/she shouldn't have been doing it in the first place) then blame the manufacturer!
Like the case where a moron used his lawn mower to trim his bushes and lost some fingers or arms. He sued the maker of the lawn mower (and won) because the company didn't put a warning label on the mower telling him not to do that.
As the mother says in the article:
"Shawn was playing 12 hours a day, and he wasn't supposed to because he was epileptic, and the game would cause seizures," she said. "Probably the last eight times he had seizures were because of stints on the computer."
If he wasn't supposed to be playing then why did you let him play you stupid bitch? (man that frustrates me!) Who was going to make him stop playing the game? The police? FBI? Sony? Guess what, lady. YOU were the only one that knew about his condition. YOU were the one that let him keep playing (even after you knew that he was playing 12 and 36 hours in a row). YOU were the one who neglected to do anything about his game playing. The fault is yours, not Sony's.
At any time, while continuing to record, you could play back the last 20 minutes of whatever you've just heard: a co-worker's brilliant utterance, something you didn't quite catch on the car radio, or driving directions somebody rattled off too fast. (As on the real TiVo, it would continue recording even as it played back.)
How could this audio device keep recording while playing back? It won't work. Here's why:
On an actual Tivo the unit continues to record content from the cable/satelite/antenna while the viewer watches the show from the hard drive.
On this "TIVOCORDER" it won't work that way. (Assuming the mic and speaker are both on the pen) If the user replays the audio from the pen while it is still recording, the pen will only record what is coming out of the speaker (and other backround noises but the speaker will make most of the noise.)
So, there isn't anything to gain by having the unit continuely recording even while playing back messages.
I know that it's a minor detail, but it is a Friday night and I'm here on Slashdot.
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You're the reason, George, why there aren't more digital screens today. You demand 80% of the box for your movies and even a cut of the concessions! (which by the way is unheard of).
Theatre companies don't make as much money off of your movies as you think they do (especially since you take 80%). So where are these theatres supposed to get money from to buy these $100,000-$500,000 digital projectors? Most theatres have a hard enough time trying to pay employess, advertising, and performing maintnance on the theatres without you asking these theaters to do costly upgrades.
Besides, when would the theatres use the digital projectors? Once every 3 years when you release a movie?
Maybe Lucas should open his own Theatre Company and realize that money for upgrades is hard to come by.
I have found that online forums like MaximumPC's forum are very helpful. There are many users on there who answer questions just for the fun of it. Any person that posts a question on there usually gets 5-10 responses within half an hour.
I think that it's better than waiting on hold on the phone!
This type of model won't work. I have my own thoughts on the process. So lets say that we have decided to pay for GameSpot. Then we find that CNet has gone to subscriptions. Then New York Times. and on and on...
How many subscriptions are we going to pay for? It may only be a few here and there, but in the future (when more sites go the subscription route) its going to be tough to figure out which sites are worthy of subscribing to.
Thank God that MaximumPC is only a buck a month!
I'm seeing this debated on here a lot. The problem is that you're ASSUMING that the "bad guys" are on the other side of your network.
What some of you don't realize is that some of the worst offenders of "hacking" or "people being where they shouldn't" (sorry, couldn't think of a better way to say it) are INSIDE your network. There are a lot of users that might be "just looking around" on the network, but they can cause problems unintentionally.
This example might be harsh but everyone here remembers the TV commercial where the users say "I'm off to crash the server" or "I'm about to take user error to the next lever".
Bad things can happen on the inside, too!
So what now? Stories half to be "well-aged" before they are posted?
Maybe this site should be called: "Slashdot: news for procrastinators. Stuff that's ancient.
Seriously. What's the point of us hunting down stories to post if they're gonna do this? Go ahead and mod me down, but you know I'm right.
I'm not trying to be mean or nitpick here but your arguement has a major weakness.
If you were to buy a NEW Volvo car you get volvo parts. That's it. You can change out those parts after you buy it, but the car (when you bought it new) is ALL Volvo.
Windows: Remove Explorer / install Netscape
Volvo: Remove factory CD player / install Sony CD player.
It's the same thing!
is that the schools will be charged by microsoft for the computers because they are capable of running windows.
Oh well.
There isn't anything on EITHER format that can stop you from copying the media. This is where the MPAA has lied to the courts! They alleged that DVD copying was impossible before DeCSS. Just because you are copying something doesn't mean that you have to decrypt as well.
What's wrong with John Grisham? Is it because he sells more books? makes 28 million a year? Guess what Jon, people read his books because they are worth reading.
Maybe your little stint about John Grisham in your article should have <penis envy> </penis envy> around it!
I wish I had some free time to volunteer! Seriously though, Americans work more hours a week than any other country. And we have to give up more time? I can't wait for retirement!!!
<I>the second clearly treads on free speech</I>
.adult) that ALL of the sites with pornography or other adult materials must move to.
<P>How do you figure? The adult entertainment sites will keep their same name, but have a different TLD. It will also be MUCH easier to filter out adult sites based on domain names rather than actual content.
<P>I wrote to my representatives about a plan similar to this one (almost 3 years ago!). I don't see any downside to the plan.
<P>1. Creates a new domain (.prn or
<P>2. Creation of a new domain makes filtering web sites easier for parents.
<P>So where is free speech hurt in this process? Creating a special domain for porn is the same as any City making a law that says an adult entertainment business cannot operate next door to a school.
Subject says it all.
There is a lot of excitement around Lindows. Especially for people who use Windows, but are too afraid to start into Linux. Lindows has a very good chance of becoming popular and gaining some market share if it does everything it says it will.
So I propose that we let them tweak their software with these beta releases. Then when they release a final version we will see the source code. Why do we need to see it now? It almost sounds like a bunch of three-year-olds that can't wait to open presents.
I don't need to see the source code to make any fixes. That what the Lindows programers get paid for. So let them do their jobs and when Lindows is released THEN we can poke at the code.
AGP = TNT2
PCI 1 - DVD decoder
PCI 2 - Sound Card
PCI 3 - Ultra ATA controller
PCI 4 - Capture card
PCI 5 - NIC
PCI 6 - Modem
All cards working fine, thank you very much. It's not hard to do. If you can't fill 6 PCI slots and get the cards working correctly then I would wonder about your actual computer knowledge.
I see a lot of those "work at home" signs in my town. They are posted on telephone poles, street lights and signs which is illegal in my town.
I've always wanted to turn them in, but I'm too lazy.
The "freebies" part doesn't really matter. Even if Microsoft made a modular version of Windows they could still include the free programs.
Why would Microsoft lower the prices on the OS even if it didn't include the freebies? They have to go through and redesign Windows to make it modular so they could say "we've made it better (modular) and left the price the same!".
If the Music Industry doesn't have to lower prices on "copy protected" CDs then why would Microsoft lower the price of Windows when it will include all of the same (and possibly more) free programs?
I think Jon needs a bigger vocab. Although I'm still trying to get over the review he wrote for the movie Panic Room. Here are some of the buzz words in this article:
e phones
Corporatism
Globalism
Open Source
Linux
bugaboos
skirts
electricity
tel
United Nations Development Program
technologically-primitive regimes
knee-jerk political activists
I could go on and on....but I think you get the picture. Jon, instead of the word "skirts" try using "short dresses". Instead of "technologically-primitive regimes" try using "Amish people". You see? It isn't that tough!
Actually I think the PS2 has 32MB of RDRAM for system memory. Does anyone else know for sure?
I believe that Jon K. just got his ass kicked up and down.
Seriously though, where do you get off writing about movies? Are you involved in any way with the movie business? Is your father Sisko or Ebert?
Maybe you should find some other subjects to cover, Jon. Like your ass.
Here I go.
/. if they're not going to post them?
<bitch>
I submitted this story 3 days ago (on a slow day) and the editors thought it wasn't good enough. So what? Articles have to be "properly aged" before they get posted now?
This has happened to me way too much on here. Seriously though, what's the point of us surfing through the net to submit stories to
</bitch>
you can mod me down all you want, but we both know it's the truth.
Doesn't the court appoint you a lawyer if you cannot afford one?
I could view it using Netscape 4.79. I didn't see anything telling me to use Internet Explorer.
Is there a PDA that ships with a HD that runs the OS? Maybe something like IBM's microdrives? Or is power consumption too much of a problem yet?
So does this CD have the CDDA logo on it?
If it does then by the agreement that Sony signed with Phillips (to use the CDDA logo) the CD has to be able to play IN ANY DEVICE THAT HAS THE CDDA LOGO on it.
right?
If people can't take care of themselves then let the government do it. If someone dies (because he/she shouldn't have been doing it in the first place) then blame the manufacturer!
Like the case where a moron used his lawn mower to trim his bushes and lost some fingers or arms. He sued the maker of the lawn mower (and won) because the company didn't put a warning label on the mower telling him not to do that.
As the mother says in the article: "Shawn was playing 12 hours a day, and he wasn't supposed to because he was epileptic, and the game would cause seizures," she said. "Probably the last eight times he had seizures were because of stints on the computer."
If he wasn't supposed to be playing then why did you let him play you stupid bitch? (man that frustrates me!) Who was going to make him stop playing the game? The police? FBI? Sony? Guess what, lady. YOU were the only one that knew about his condition. YOU were the one that let him keep playing (even after you knew that he was playing 12 and 36 hours in a row). YOU were the one who neglected to do anything about his game playing. The fault is yours, not Sony's.
Wake up and smell the fucking coffee!
At any time, while continuing to record, you could play back the last 20 minutes of whatever you've just heard: a co-worker's brilliant utterance, something you didn't quite catch on the car radio, or driving directions somebody rattled off too fast. (As on the real TiVo, it would continue recording even as it played back.)
How could this audio device keep recording while playing back? It won't work. Here's why:
On an actual Tivo the unit continues to record content from the cable/satelite/antenna while the viewer watches the show from the hard drive.
On this "TIVOCORDER" it won't work that way. (Assuming the mic and speaker are both on the pen) If the user replays the audio from the pen while it is still recording, the pen will only record what is coming out of the speaker (and other backround noises but the speaker will make most of the noise.)
So, there isn't anything to gain by having the unit continuely recording even while playing back messages.
I know that it's a minor detail, but it is a Friday night and I'm here on Slashdot.