I just got the DVD last week. First chance I've ever had to see Jurassic Park. It's a great DVD.
And it contains more silly lawyer crap: The video for SPY HARD is there without the credits, which make up a necessary part of the visuals. They weren't allowed to write Spy Hard on the screen. But Weird Al can sing that a hundred times in 3 minutes and it doesn't matter.
I don't think it's fair to blame Keith on this one, folks. I'll bet you anything the lawyers are responsible for this. You can probably trace it back to the recording industry if you try hard enough. Of course the download would make it easier on the server than a stream, but they don't have to have it up on the web site at all. For those of us who'd rather hammer a nail into our forehead than turn on the rampant cluelessness that is MTV, the stream is a decent alternative.
Sure, I'd rather have a downloadable version, but that's not my call. Talk to the lawyers.
Sounds like you might be interested in the Mozilla Directory, i.e. DMOZ.org -- it's an Open Source web directory, more or less. There's a feature on there for the editors which point out dead links and even sends an e-mail to the editors warning them about the dead link so it can be corrected.
Plus, as the tag line goes, "humans do it better."
I use Google for a search engine and DMOZ for a web directory. Either way, I tend to find what I need much more often than not.
-Augie, is an editor on DMOZ by way of full disclosure
Yes, they did air it early once on a late night in order to beat the deadline for Emmy contention. The show had to air before a specific date -- I'm guessing 01 June -- to be up for this year's Emmys. Newer shows have better chances of winning an Emmy than older shows. They're fresher in the voters' memories. Plus, they wouldn't get stuck in the "No, that show was nominated last year" trap. =)
I probably don't have much to add to what everyone else has said so far so let me just do this:
::STOMP STOMP STOMP:: DIVX
It was fun stomping on its grave. A more well-deserved death I haven't seen since Dahmer was killed. (OK, maybe that's going a bit far, but from a DVD fan's POV. ..)
-Augie, giddy
This will bring about higher ratings
on
Bootlegging Buffy
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Hi all,
First of all, this isn't censorship. This is just network stupidity. Censorship would be if the WB had aired the episode and then had the government pass a law to prevent us from talking about it somehow.
Secondly, the ironic thing about this is that when the WB finally does get the balls to air the show, they'll probably get record high ratings. The people who've seen a dupe of the tape or who've watched it streamed across the Internet or read a transcript will watch it for the better and bigger and clearer picture. People who have never watched the show before will watch it out of curiosity to see what everyone was talking about.
And WB will get a bunch of new viewers, renew the show for another season, and get potentially better ratings.
This whole thing could just be a ploy for bigger ratings. On the other hand, I'm not a Machiavellian Cynic. . .
First is that it's great to see a web site this good get this much money. Google is the best and fastest search engine I've ever used. The front page loads up fast, the graphics are minimal, and the results are most reliable.
On the other hand, money like this can only mean the coming of more useless graphics, plenty of annoying advertising, and more annoying and useless features. (And from a completely selfish point of view: More funding might lead to more people using it which means it might also slow down. But even that's a bit iffy right now.)
I wish only the best for Google, but I hope this isn't the first step to self-destruction.
OK, I just reran the test. The banners now seem to be coming in, in full. But are they supposed to be at the bottom of the page or down the middle column like that?
Here's a screenshot. I had to shrink it and decrease the colors to get the size down, so it won't look pretty, but it'll show you the outline of the page.
-Augie
P.S. Wait. Nevermind. I take it all back. I just looked again and the banners are at the bottom of the page now. Really weird. Maybe I just had to wait longer, but the throbber thingy had stopped throbbing, so I thought it was done. Maybe that's a bug? (Total time: 153.7 seconds at 36,000 bps. Might just be a clogged ISP pipeline, though.)
Thanks for the web page to look at. I've got it in all three web browsers right now, but have one slight problem. Mozilla (I'm using it with Win98) doesn't render the two banners properly, of all damn things! The boxes are there and in the right place and size, but the graphics inside of them are just messes. I can almost make out the feather in the Apache graphic, but the Slackware box just comes up gray with a thin grey line in the upper left quadrant.
IE renders it close to well, Netscape stinks, and Mozilla is _so_ close to perfect. . .
Katz's articles are written from a completely different point of view than other/. articles. This isn't an inherently bad thing. Broadening Slashdot's range of stories isn't automatically a terrible thing to do.
His articles are of a more personal nature and as such will include more personal pronouns. So what? It's a column; it's an opinion piece; it's not a news article. He's an editorialist and, on occasion, a free-thinker.
Uhm, no. Slashdot would only get a rather small percentage of the sale of the item. It's standard Amazon.com policy. Many many web sites have links to Amazon.com off their site. Click-throughs get them NOTHING. Only sales.
-Augie, has had the Amazon.com button on his site for three or four months now and is the only person who ever clicked through it!
While I would love to see it, I don't think any streaming video program is robust enough to do the short any justice, especially with CGI involved. Streaming audio is not terribly strong yet, and streaming video is a nightmare, even within a T1 connection. I can only imagine the horrors this will do to CGI animation.
Let's all hope for some sort of download to be available. MPG would be best.
Don't forget, this is also the guy who once said that a leopard never changes its stripes. He's the environmental vice president who got lost hiking through the woods one time and needed two secret service guys to go in and bring him out.
etc. etc.
This guy is just as bad as Dan Quayle ever was, only the media never reports his goof-ups ad infinitum like they did in the Bush years.
The good news is that he's since dropped his tree routine in favor of a quite hilarious southern preacher impression. . . Really. Catch him at a rally on CSPAN if you ever get the chance. They broadcast out over the Internet.
Makes me want to redouble my effort to get Linux back up and running on my new Gateway. (Blasted Voodoo Banshee video card is a pain in the butt to get X-Windows to use, so I gave up.)
Yeah, from playable fun games to high-speed razzle dazzle which require a help book so you can have any hopes of beating the game. And, er, "beating the game"!?!? I just want to play a game. What's so wrong with that?
Give me my comfortable disc controller anyday. . .
This is just the week of death -- MST3K, Babylon 5's spin-off series CRUSADE, and now also the section of Sierra Games that was working on the upcoming B5 space simulator. Let's hope something playable can be salvaged from this.
Right now, there's NO chance of putting 3 or 4 episodes on a DVD. Can't handle that much. The DVD-18s will start coming out this year, but even with that, 4 episodes would be pushing it. MAYBE two on a disc on a single side with RSDL and a high compression rate, but then you're bound to lose some resolution. . .
Plus, getting the rights to release the videos is hard enough, imagine what torture they'd have to go through to get the DVD rights.
Slashdot Mirror
I hope that this thing takes the better part of the year to finish and when it's all done, it shows global warming for the farce that it is.
I wonder if that would cause them to brush the results under the table and forget them.
-Augie
I just got the DVD last week. First chance I've ever had to see Jurassic Park. It's a great DVD.
And it contains more silly lawyer crap: The video for SPY HARD is there without the credits, which make up a necessary part of the visuals. They weren't allowed to write Spy Hard on the screen. But Weird Al can sing that a hundred times in 3 minutes and it doesn't matter.
Go figure.
-Augie
I don't think it's fair to blame Keith on this one, folks. I'll bet you anything the lawyers are responsible for this. You can probably trace it back to the recording industry if you try hard enough. Of course the download would make it easier on the server than a stream, but they don't have to have it up on the web site at all. For those of us who'd rather hammer a nail into our forehead than turn on the rampant cluelessness that is MTV, the stream is a decent alternative.
Sure, I'd rather have a downloadable version, but that's not my call. Talk to the lawyers.
-Augie
The only fault in the story may be in not making it more obvious that it also works as a Transmeta story.
As one who used to hack around on a C=64 but dream of getting an Amiga with one of those neat hard drives in it, I'm interested in Amiga news.
But perhaps the most interesting thing about the article is the speculation about Transmeta contained therein.
-Augie
Sounds like you might be interested in the Mozilla Directory, i.e. DMOZ.org -- it's an Open Source web directory, more or less. There's a feature on there for the editors which point out dead links and even sends an e-mail to the editors warning them about the dead link so it can be corrected.
Plus, as the tag line goes, "humans do it better."
I use Google for a search engine and DMOZ for a web directory. Either way, I tend to find what I need much more often than not.
-Augie, is an editor on DMOZ by way of full disclosure
Yes, they did air it early once on a late night
in order to beat the deadline for Emmy contention.
The show had to air before a specific date -- I'm
guessing 01 June -- to be up for this year's
Emmys. Newer shows have better chances of winning
an Emmy than older shows. They're fresher in the
voters' memories. Plus, they wouldn't get stuck
in the "No, that show was nominated last year" trap. =)
-Augie
I probably don't have much to add to what everyone
.)
else has said so far so let me just do this:
::STOMP STOMP STOMP::
DIVX
It was fun stomping on its grave. A more well-deserved death I haven't seen since
Dahmer was killed. (OK, maybe that's going
a bit far, but from a DVD fan's POV. .
-Augie, giddy
Hi all,
First of all, this isn't censorship. This is just
network stupidity. Censorship would be if the WB
had aired the episode and then had the
government pass a law to prevent us from
talking about it somehow.
Secondly, the ironic thing about this is that
when the WB finally does get the balls to air
the show, they'll probably get record high
ratings. The people who've seen a dupe of the
tape or who've watched it streamed across the
Internet or read a transcript will watch it for
the better and bigger and clearer picture.
People who have never watched the show before will
watch it out of curiosity to see what everyone was
talking about.
And WB will get a bunch of new viewers, renew the
show for another season, and get potentially
better ratings.
This whole thing could just be a ploy for
bigger ratings. On the other hand, I'm not
a Machiavellian Cynic. . .
-Augie
I've got mixed feelings on this one.
First is that it's great to see a web site this
good get this much money. Google is the best and
fastest search engine I've ever used. The
front page loads up fast, the graphics are
minimal, and the results are most reliable.
On the other hand, money like this can only
mean the coming of more useless graphics,
plenty of annoying advertising, and more
annoying and useless features. (And from
a completely selfish point of view: More
funding might lead to more people using it
which means it might also slow down. But even
that's a bit iffy right now.)
I wish only the best for Google, but I hope this
isn't the first step to self-destruction.
-Augie
OK, I just reran the test. The banners now seem to be coming in, in full. But are they supposed to be at the bottom of the page or down the middle column like that?
Here's a screenshot. I had to shrink it and decrease the colors to get the size down, so it won't look pretty, but it'll show you the outline of the page.
-Augie
P.S. Wait. Nevermind. I take it all back. I just looked again and the banners are at the bottom of the page now. Really weird. Maybe I just had to wait longer, but the throbber thingy had stopped throbbing, so I thought it was done. Maybe that's a bug? (Total time: 153.7 seconds at 36,000 bps. Might just be a clogged ISP pipeline, though.)
Thanks for the web page to look at. I've got it in all three web browsers right now, but have one slight problem. Mozilla (I'm using it with Win98) doesn't render the two banners properly, of all damn things! The boxes are there and in the right place and size, but the graphics inside of them are just messes. I can almost make out the feather in the Apache graphic, but the Slackware box just comes up gray with a thin grey line in the upper left quadrant.
IE renders it close to well, Netscape stinks, and Mozilla is _so_ close to perfect. . .
-Augie
Pardon my BSD ignorance, but:
I assume MSIE won't work on BSD, right?
AOL owns Netscape now. Would this be a potential
opportunity for Mozilla to show up in a big way
when it's finished?
-Augie
But this is the first time they've linked all the new information to the front page at Google. Where were they hiding it before?
-Augie
I'm sure they'll push the publication date back
at least once or twice more. This is an ORA book,
right?!?
Or maybe I'm just bitter that the MySQL book
isn't out yet. How can I play with Slash without
it? =)
-Augie
I don't know. I think a lot of people go to
eBay looking for a great deal.
I don't think paying 16 engineers $187,500
each, on average, sight unseen, is a bargain.
And since the bidding only lasts 7 days, I
don't think they have a chance.
-Augie
Amen and hallelujah! Not only that, but
it's good and interesting news!
Go, Mozilla, Go!
-Augie, sick of April Fool's Day
Katz's articles are written from a completely /. articles.
different point of view than other
This isn't an inherently bad thing. Broadening
Slashdot's range of stories isn't automatically
a terrible thing to do.
His articles are of a more personal nature
and as such will include more personal pronouns.
So what? It's a column; it's an opinion piece;
it's not a news article. He's an editorialist
and, on occasion, a free-thinker.
-Augie
Uhm, no. Slashdot would only get a rather small percentage of the sale of the item. It's standard Amazon.com policy. Many many web sites have links to Amazon.com off their site. Click-throughs get them NOTHING. Only sales.
-Augie, has had the Amazon.com button on his site for three or four months now and is the only person who ever clicked through it!
While I would love to see it, I don't think any streaming video program is robust enough to do the short any justice, especially with CGI involved. Streaming audio is not terribly strong yet, and streaming video is a nightmare, even within a T1 connection. I can only imagine the horrors this will do to CGI animation.
Let's all hope for some sort of download to be available. MPG would be best.
-Augie
Don't forget, this is also the guy who once said that a leopard never changes its stripes. He's the environmental vice president who got lost hiking through the woods one time and needed two secret service guys to go in and bring him out.
etc. etc.
This guy is just as bad as Dan Quayle ever was, only the media never reports his goof-ups ad infinitum like they did in the Bush years.
The good news is that he's since dropped his tree routine in favor of a quite hilarious southern preacher impression. . . Really. Catch him at a rally on CSPAN if you ever get the chance. They broadcast out over the Internet.
-Augie
I like it. Very nifty looking stuff in there.
Makes me want to redouble my effort to get Linux back up and running on my new Gateway. (Blasted Voodoo Banshee video card is a pain in the butt to get X-Windows to use, so I gave up.)
-Augie
P.S. NOT FIRST!
Because.
-Augie
Yeah, from playable fun games to high-speed razzle dazzle which require a help book so you can have any hopes of beating the game. And, er, "beating the game"!?!? I just want to play a game. What's so wrong with that?
Give me my comfortable disc controller anyday. . .
-Augie, cranky at 22 yrs. 364 days
This is just the week of death -- MST3K, Babylon 5's spin-off series CRUSADE, and now also the section of Sierra Games that was working on the upcoming B5 space simulator. Let's hope something playable can be salvaged from this.
UGH
-Augie
Right now, there's NO chance of putting 3 or 4 episodes on a DVD. Can't handle that much. The DVD-18s will start coming out this year, but even with that, 4 episodes would be pushing it. MAYBE two on a disc on a single side with RSDL and a high compression rate, but then you're bound to lose some resolution. . .
Plus, getting the rights to release the videos is hard enough, imagine what torture they'd have to go through to get the DVD rights.
-Augie