The writeup seems to indicate that Gaiman is actually announcing something or recently held an interview, yet the only links in the story are to the front page of his website and to his books.
We are still ignoring it (in the real sense) now. But our government is giving it lip service to get funding for all kinds of pork.
Exploiting terrorism to increase budgets for programs that do nothing to actually help prevent another attack is the lowest kind of low.
Terrorists are nothing to be afraid of, they are an annoyance at best and need to be treated accordingly. If you have a bug problem, you do some things that will help, check on their effectiveness occasionally, and forget it.
Oh man, the comments on digg are worse than the comments on Ain't it Cool News*. I read digg for random stories, slashdot for the comments on those stories.
* - I haven't read the comments on AICN in over two years, who knows how whiny they are now.
Exactly! When I pay for something I want to get more than I could get if it were free.
Sure I could just run to a drainage ditch and get "water" but I'd prefer to spend a little money get it from a bottle or a faucet.
From a torrent I can get a high quality rip from an HD broadcast of the show so we are used to watching the show in widescreen. This offering from iTunes was regular aspect ratio, had shoddy video quality, and took almost as long as a torrent to download. The sound wasn't really different from torrent to iTunes that I noticed and the commercials were stripped.
The only thing that iTunes offers is convenience. Bittorrent may be easy to configure for the average geek, but the average Joe doesn't know how to forward ports and the like.
But to pay for a show that have already paid to see by subscribing to cable (and that would be free if I watched it off the airwaves) I expect some more return.
TV is more movie-like nowadays. While I agree that CSI is CSI (traditional episodic bs), Battlestar Galactica and other intelligent new shows are small movies every week.
My wife and I watched 'Lost' from iTunes last night (rather than torrent the missed episode) on our television. Compared to the free torrents, the quality $2 iTunes download was extremely bad.
BTW the price for a full season is already adjusted (just as the price of an album isn't the sum of its $1 songs). You can buy the first season of 'Lost' from iTunes for $34.95.
If I had a video iPod I would be pretty interested. But for pumping to a tv this just doesn't cut it.
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...but for the average Joe who just watches movies and TV, with no physics background, it was probably something neat to see.
I am an average Joe who watches movies and tv and I find the Mythbusters to be inane, immature, and annoying as all get out. Watching smart people figure out real solutions as opposed to morons simply blowing stuff up randomly would be much more entertaining to me.
Swim out and start fires on an entire naval fleet? And you are trying to debunk a myth? What, did they carry along some waterproof matches or did they hold the burning torches aloft?
You totally cop out of your entire argument with your last sentence. "Oh, all I'm saying is that there is a tiny possibility that things happened the way I think they happened." Stick to your ideas.
Ok. Thanks directly to your post I have registered at digg and am having a blast. I had heard about digg before but had never really perused it. Awesome site. The fun story picking of kuro5hin without the snobby feel.
Which iTunes currently uses for music videos stored in iTunes and music video purchases. You can add any.mov file to iTunes, just drag it in. It's pretty cool having music videos for various artists listed with their music.
Tenth planet. Oooh, amazing. People have been predicting the existance of a 10th planet since the 1910s. Unfortunately all predictions call for a gigantic gas giant (which may be out there indeed) and we have found plutinos.
The idea is actually for both sides to fight as hard as possible for their respective clients. In some weird twisting of logic you can kind of see how some people would think that this leads to justice.
Same argument, 100 years ago: Which brings up the point, do you really WANT to live 50 years?
Then, as an average member of society? (critical for these type of time games, anyone would want to live 500 years as high powered ruler or whatever) Certainly not!
In the future 300 years might be plenty of time. In the present 100 years is plenty of time. In the past 50 years was plenty of time.
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I have a nice graph for you about pirates vs global warming: http://www.venganza.org/piratesarecool4.jpg
Clearly, we need to draft people into pirating and stop global warming before it gets even more out of hand!
The writeup seems to indicate that Gaiman is actually announcing something or recently held an interview, yet the only links in the story are to the front page of his website and to his books.
We are still ignoring it (in the real sense) now. But our government is giving it lip service to get funding for all kinds of pork.
Exploiting terrorism to increase budgets for programs that do nothing to actually help prevent another attack is the lowest kind of low.
Terrorists are nothing to be afraid of, they are an annoyance at best and need to be treated accordingly. If you have a bug problem, you do some things that will help, check on their effectiveness occasionally, and forget it.
Your superficial arugment has convinced me of something alright.
Explain why you think that the legal download should be of lesser quality than the "illegal" download.
Oh man, the comments on digg are worse than the comments on Ain't it Cool News*. I read digg for random stories, slashdot for the comments on those stories.
* - I haven't read the comments on AICN in over two years, who knows how whiny they are now.
Exactly! When I pay for something I want to get more than I could get if it were free.
Sure I could just run to a drainage ditch and get "water" but I'd prefer to spend a little money get it from a bottle or a faucet.
From a torrent I can get a high quality rip from an HD broadcast of the show so we are used to watching the show in widescreen. This offering from iTunes was regular aspect ratio, had shoddy video quality, and took almost as long as a torrent to download. The sound wasn't really different from torrent to iTunes that I noticed and the commercials were stripped.
The only thing that iTunes offers is convenience. Bittorrent may be easy to configure for the average geek, but the average Joe doesn't know how to forward ports and the like.
But to pay for a show that have already paid to see by subscribing to cable (and that would be free if I watched it off the airwaves) I expect some more return.
Compared to regular broadcast it is still subpar. Although it is stripped of commercials so that's a plus.
Yeah, I didn't think it would be the resolution. The audio on the download was fine. But the filesize (I'm at work so iirc) is about 150 megabytes.
TV is more movie-like nowadays. While I agree that CSI is CSI (traditional episodic bs), Battlestar Galactica and other intelligent new shows are small movies every week.
My wife and I watched 'Lost' from iTunes last night (rather than torrent the missed episode) on our television. Compared to the free torrents, the quality $2 iTunes download was extremely bad.
BTW the price for a full season is already adjusted (just as the price of an album isn't the sum of its $1 songs). You can buy the first season of 'Lost' from iTunes for $34.95.
If I had a video iPod I would be pretty interested. But for pumping to a tv this just doesn't cut it.
...but for the average Joe who just watches movies and TV, with no physics background, it was probably something neat to see.
I am an average Joe who watches movies and tv and I find the Mythbusters to be inane, immature, and annoying as all get out. Watching smart people figure out real solutions as opposed to morons simply blowing stuff up randomly would be much more entertaining to me.
Swim out and start fires on an entire naval fleet? And you are trying to debunk a myth? What, did they carry along some waterproof matches or did they hold the burning torches aloft?
You totally cop out of your entire argument with your last sentence. "Oh, all I'm saying is that there is a tiny possibility that things happened the way I think they happened." Stick to your ideas.
They are claws made of bone (see Origins). His bones (including his bone claws) were covered in adamantium along with the rest of his skeleton.
Nah, the site went down a few hours ago when the story first appeared on digg.
Ok. Thanks directly to your post I have registered at digg and am having a blast. I had heard about digg before but had never really perused it. Awesome site. The fun story picking of kuro5hin without the snobby feel.
Which iTunes currently uses for music videos stored in iTunes and music video purchases. You can add any .mov file to iTunes, just drag it in. It's pretty cool having music videos for various artists listed with their music.
Don't forget Stephen Baxter.
Tenth planet. Oooh, amazing. People have been predicting the existance of a 10th planet since the 1910s. Unfortunately all predictions call for a gigantic gas giant (which may be out there indeed) and we have found plutinos.
The grandparent doesn't mean hacked in the legal sense.
Failed to read basic precept of post. Fundamental deficencies in reading ability. F+
Key phrase:
As an average member of society.
The idea is actually for both sides to fight as hard as possible for their respective clients. In some weird twisting of logic you can kind of see how some people would think that this leads to justice.
Somewhere with less time travelling necessitated by evil, sentient, armed (as in, having arms) purple tentacles.
Same argument, 100 years ago:
Which brings up the point, do you really WANT to live 50 years?
Then, as an average member of society? (critical for these type of time games, anyone would want to live 500 years as high powered ruler or whatever) Certainly not!
In the future 300 years might be plenty of time. In the present 100 years is plenty of time. In the past 50 years was plenty of time.
I have already displeased our Spaghetti Lord by teaching his concepts while NOT wearing full pirate regalia.