I do support their right to see edited movies. The TV networks already butcher the movies beyond belief. If they can find ANYTHING objectionable in, say, the network version of Titanic (one of the movies mentioned when this subject first came up a few weeks ago) I'd be amazed. If they DO find something offensive... Well perhaps they should sit down and read the Bible... Oh wait, that's full of sex and violence. (Read it sometime. I have. we're not even technically allowed wear wool.)
I'm all for freedoms, but NOT the right to take a knife to somebodies hard work. Directors spend upward of two years from conception, through production and post, and then some twat comes along and wants to hack your movie apart? Fuck you. Same cunts probably want it fullframe as well.
Nice to see you have the courage of your convictions AC pussy.
One question. What in the sweet name of fucking hell do any of my previous posts have in relation to some cunts WANTING THE RIGHT TO BUTCHER MOVIES?!
Everything I'm personally interested in has to do with freedoms, like watching out of region DVD's, or actually being able to play software I bought. I don't then expect to take said product and take a fucking knife to it you dozy cunt.
It's not about a choice, it's about butchering art. NOTHING I have EVER posted condones that.
If these idiots can make and distribute their own versions FOR PROFIT (which is the one of the issues here), then fine, it should be perfectly legal to go into a museum and start drawing beards on the artwork, smashing of chunks off statues etc...
This is moronic. Don't like the content of a movie? Take the movie the way it is or don't watch it. End of story. Those are the only two options you should have IMO. Just like TV has an off button (which a lot of these people don't seem to realise), they're not being "forced" to watch movies.
If you're offended, then go and watch Teletubbies... Oh wait, zealot Falwell decided the purple one was gay...
I rarely side with Hollywood in lawsuits, but in this case I do. Clean Flicks petitioning for the right to censor. Like the MPAA doesn't do enough of that already...
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Thanks for that. Really quick download, restart the browser... Excellent! Works too. Seeya Slashdot banners:) (So far. I think I can see myself adding quite a few custom sizes. I want to nuke those bastard UGO logos I see on other sites.)
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I would have to point out that that seems to be misleading. I've had more crashes with Netscape in one week than I have had in Mozilla in two months (and I use Mozilla MORE).
I've yet to find a bug in Mozilla (since the aforementioned fucky webpages above crash Netscape as well).
Actually, to be fair, there is one problem with Mozilla. When you go to the official Neverwinter Nights website, the pages render as a black screen. Since that's the ONLY site that does that, that would suggest to me it's bad web design rather than a bug.
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Given the reports on dwindling market share, WHAT brand name appeal?
Mozilla is the way to go if you want a NON IE browser, but don't want to use Opera. I've been using Mozilla 1.0 for a couple of months now on my HORRIBLY unstable Windows install, and it's crashed a total of 3 times. ALL occasions were linked to a webpage doing something fucky. (Since I could easily replicate the crash.)
And the feature that lets you only get popup's you actually request is probably the coolest browser feature ever. I now don't have to switch JS off and on all the time.
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If they track what you search for, so what? Unlike MS, Google don't expect you to get a stupid passport ID for every frickin' site on their network. MS can go "AH! Frank7689 checked his email, then went searching for nude pictures of Britney Spears, was quiet for several minutes, then went and played some online games."
With Google, "Oh look, a user searched for emacs, then "donkey porn" + "ass cock".
BIG DIFFERENCE. It's not hypocrisy. If Google decided we had to sign up for their service then yeah, big problem (but only if you told the truth when you signed up, and if you did, you're a moron).
Just because people bash MS doesn't mean they're mindless bashers. I personally don't give a hoot about MS, but I can see the difference between what Google are doing, and what MS would do.
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I don't either. It's not like they FORCE you too use it. Google is the only decent search engine anymore since Altavista went to shit.
I think the guys claims are probably bullshit, or at least gross exagerations. Google do seem to be one of the good guys, so it's inevitable that someone would come along and try and dig up stuff, real or imagined.
Makes you wonder who might be bankrolling the guy...
Mildly annoying? Bloody scandalous IMO. ANY so called "protection" mechanism which prevents a legit owner from possibly using it is wrong IMO. Yeah, protect your stuff all you want, but DON'T stomp on consumers rights. Bioware (Neverwinter Nights) just learnt this the hard way with the SecuROM protection on the game. They've had to remove it entirely due to the huge number of people who couldn't play the game.
I hate Macrovision. You also get problems with those combo VCR/TV's if you try to play DVD's. Apex DVD players rule. It's quite simple to hack the region coding and macrovision out. Takes a simple rom flash to do it.
If you record to a Beta tape then back to the VHS, it doesn't work. The Beta copies it all intact.
Do you mean you're actually running the signal THROUGH the Beta, or playing the movie on the Beta? Just to see if we're on the same page here, I mean that basically you plugging the Beta in between two lengths of coaxial going from VHS1 to VHS2.
If that IS what you mean and you're getting the signal, I find that fascinating because technically it shouldn't happen. (Something to do with the automatic gain happening at a different time on the Beta to the VHS. Can't remember the technicalities.)
Back in the old days, to avoid licensing fees and such, the pirate radio stations actually transmitted from a ship in the ocean. it's too bad KPIG can't relocate outside of the RIAA's hand of evil grasp.
A computer can't possibly take into consideration all the myriad of influences on evolution. I'm sure it can postulate POSSIBLE evolutionary paths, but there is so much about evolution that is unpredictable that, to use a medium like a computer, something which is eminently predictable, just cannot consider every possible evolutionary change.
Back in the day, albums were released on casette and CD. Casette is MORE EXPENSIVE to produce, but was sold for about $5 less. That's the point I'm trying to make.
I think a lot of the decline is sales is the price of albums nowadays. It's ludicrous to pay $20 for something that costs less than $1 to produce. THAT'S probably what's killing consumer interest, but digital piracy makes a handy scapegoat. If piracy ended tomorrow, the sales would barely move I think.
Don't know about anyone else, but I've boycotted the recording industry for over 2 years now. Haven't bought an album since late 1999. There's albums I want, I'm a music junkie, and it's been like qutting heroin, but I flat out will NOT part with one single cent to the bastards anymore until they get a clue and stop publishing LIES.
For the record, no, I haven't pirated albums I would otherwise have bought. I've simply gone without, which given how much into music I've always been has bee REALLY hard at times, but I just can't, in good conscience, finance this insanity.
Interestingly GTA3 ran fine in my drive. TOo bad the game was a mess and unplayable on my ABOVE RECOMMENDED system. Returned it and got NWN.
Tried everything with NWN to get it working. Nothing works. Even slowed the drive right down using CDROMTool to see if that would work. No dice.
Royal fuckup. Last money Bio or Infogrames ever get from me. Bio claim it's Info that chose the protection, but if it's fucking over their customers, Bio should have the balls to say "NO." I mean due to this I won't ever buy a Bio product again.
I just hope they don't port over the fucking SecuROM protection as well. There's a LOT of us who haven't been able to play the game in Windows for over a month now due to Sony's evil protection scheme. (Which incidentally, protects nothing, since the ISO's are all over the net in the usual places.)
Word of warning to anyone buying this game. It may very well REFUSE to load in Windows for you, and Bioware and Infogrames are doing nothing to fix the issue, leaving poor bastards like me with some very expensive coasters.
Here's hoping the Linux client isn't the clusterfuck the Windows release has become, since the way it's going, playing in Linux is my only hope!
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Have you SEEN the Ellen one? The one they can't air because she was loaded when they shot it?
This will actually give us some rights back... I fully expect this to be crushed like a bug in that case...
I do support their right to see edited movies. The TV networks already butcher the movies beyond belief. If they can find ANYTHING objectionable in, say, the network version of Titanic (one of the movies mentioned when this subject first came up a few weeks ago) I'd be amazed. If they DO find something offensive... Well perhaps they should sit down and read the Bible... Oh wait, that's full of sex and violence. (Read it sometime. I have. we're not even technically allowed wear wool.)
I'm all for freedoms, but NOT the right to take a knife to somebodies hard work. Directors spend upward of two years from conception, through production and post, and then some twat comes along and wants to hack your movie apart? Fuck you. Same cunts probably want it fullframe as well.
Nice to see you have the courage of your convictions AC pussy.
One question. What in the sweet name of fucking hell do any of my previous posts have in relation to some cunts WANTING THE RIGHT TO BUTCHER MOVIES?!
Everything I'm personally interested in has to do with freedoms, like watching out of region DVD's, or actually being able to play software I bought. I don't then expect to take said product and take a fucking knife to it you dozy cunt.
It's not about a choice, it's about butchering art. NOTHING I have EVER posted condones that.
Get a fucking clue.
That's garbage. Film is a legitimate artform.
If these idiots can make and distribute their own versions FOR PROFIT (which is the one of the issues here), then fine, it should be perfectly legal to go into a museum and start drawing beards on the artwork, smashing of chunks off statues etc...
This is moronic. Don't like the content of a movie? Take the movie the way it is or don't watch it. End of story. Those are the only two options you should have IMO. Just like TV has an off button (which a lot of these people don't seem to realise), they're not being "forced" to watch movies.
If you're offended, then go and watch Teletubbies... Oh wait, zealot Falwell decided the purple one was gay...
I rarely side with Hollywood in lawsuits, but in this case I do. Clean Flicks petitioning for the right to censor. Like the MPAA doesn't do enough of that already...
Thanks for that. Really quick download, restart the browser... Excellent! Works too. Seeya Slashdot banners:) (So far. I think I can see myself adding quite a few custom sizes. I want to nuke those bastard UGO logos I see on other sites.)
I would have to point out that that seems to be misleading. I've had more crashes with Netscape in one week than I have had in Mozilla in two months (and I use Mozilla MORE).
I've yet to find a bug in Mozilla (since the aforementioned fucky webpages above crash Netscape as well).
Actually, to be fair, there is one problem with Mozilla. When you go to the official Neverwinter Nights website, the pages render as a black screen. Since that's the ONLY site that does that, that would suggest to me it's bad web design rather than a bug.
Given the reports on dwindling market share, WHAT brand name appeal?
Mozilla is the way to go if you want a NON IE browser, but don't want to use Opera. I've been using Mozilla 1.0 for a couple of months now on my HORRIBLY unstable Windows install, and it's crashed a total of 3 times. ALL occasions were linked to a webpage doing something fucky. (Since I could easily replicate the crash.)
And the feature that lets you only get popup's you actually request is probably the coolest browser feature ever. I now don't have to switch JS off and on all the time.
If they track what you search for, so what? Unlike MS, Google don't expect you to get a stupid passport ID for every frickin' site on their network. MS can go "AH! Frank7689 checked his email, then went searching for nude pictures of Britney Spears, was quiet for several minutes, then went and played some online games."
With Google, "Oh look, a user searched for emacs, then "donkey porn" + "ass cock".
BIG DIFFERENCE. It's not hypocrisy. If Google decided we had to sign up for their service then yeah, big problem (but only if you told the truth when you signed up, and if you did, you're a moron).
Just because people bash MS doesn't mean they're mindless bashers. I personally don't give a hoot about MS, but I can see the difference between what Google are doing, and what MS would do.
I don't either. It's not like they FORCE you too use it. Google is the only decent search engine anymore since Altavista went to shit.
I think the guys claims are probably bullshit, or at least gross exagerations. Google do seem to be one of the good guys, so it's inevitable that someone would come along and try and dig up stuff, real or imagined.
Makes you wonder who might be bankrolling the guy...
God, Aerosmith will probably write a song for it now...
Mildly annoying? Bloody scandalous IMO. ANY so called "protection" mechanism which prevents a legit owner from possibly using it is wrong IMO. Yeah, protect your stuff all you want, but DON'T stomp on consumers rights. Bioware (Neverwinter Nights) just learnt this the hard way with the SecuROM protection on the game. They've had to remove it entirely due to the huge number of people who couldn't play the game.
I hate Macrovision. You also get problems with those combo VCR/TV's if you try to play DVD's. Apex DVD players rule. It's quite simple to hack the region coding and macrovision out. Takes a simple rom flash to do it.
Interesting. I use plain coax, I don't use RCA connectors, but it definitely filters it out. Weird. Maybe I just got lucky!
If you record to a Beta tape then back to the VHS, it doesn't work. The Beta copies it all intact.
Do you mean you're actually running the signal THROUGH the Beta, or playing the movie on the Beta? Just to see if we're on the same page here, I mean that basically you plugging the Beta in between two lengths of coaxial going from VHS1 to VHS2.
If that IS what you mean and you're getting the signal, I find that fascinating because technically it shouldn't happen. (Something to do with the automatic gain happening at a different time on the Beta to the VHS. Can't remember the technicalities.)
Since I ain't in the US, I mock your DMCA. (Of course, most sane thinking American's do too...)
LOL!
Hang on to those Beta VCR's folks. I have. Why? They make EXCEPTIONAL Macrovision filters. Run the signal through the Beta, voila, no Macrovision.
I know Betamax has been a dead format for ages, but don't a lot of news stations and stuff still use it?
Back in the old days, to avoid licensing fees and such, the pirate radio stations actually transmitted from a ship in the ocean. it's too bad KPIG can't relocate outside of the RIAA's hand of evil grasp.
A computer can't possibly take into consideration all the myriad of influences on evolution. I'm sure it can postulate POSSIBLE evolutionary paths, but there is so much about evolution that is unpredictable that, to use a medium like a computer, something which is eminently predictable, just cannot consider every possible evolutionary change.
Happy wife = Happy life (I speak from experience).
Last movie I saw on the big screen was Dogma. Last movie I actually PAID to see was Sliver in 93 or so. (Since then I've gotten free passes.)
Your argument has one flaw.
Back in the day, albums were released on casette and CD. Casette is MORE EXPENSIVE to produce, but was sold for about $5 less. That's the point I'm trying to make.
I think a lot of the decline is sales is the price of albums nowadays. It's ludicrous to pay $20 for something that costs less than $1 to produce. THAT'S probably what's killing consumer interest, but digital piracy makes a handy scapegoat. If piracy ended tomorrow, the sales would barely move I think.
Don't know about anyone else, but I've boycotted the recording industry for over 2 years now. Haven't bought an album since late 1999. There's albums I want, I'm a music junkie, and it's been like qutting heroin, but I flat out will NOT part with one single cent to the bastards anymore until they get a clue and stop publishing LIES.
For the record, no, I haven't pirated albums I would otherwise have bought. I've simply gone without, which given how much into music I've always been has bee REALLY hard at times, but I just can't, in good conscience, finance this insanity.
So we can spend more and more on special effects, and less and less on those useless "plots" and "storylines"...
That's independent film is for:)
Seriously, I'm all for hyper realistic effects, but I can't remember the last time I saw a good STORY on film.
Actually, yes I can, Memento.
Phlox is an interesting character, T'Pol is just a pair of tits with pointy ears:)
The guy who plays Phlox was also very cool in the extremely short lived show "The Others".
Interestingly GTA3 ran fine in my drive. TOo bad the game was a mess and unplayable on my ABOVE RECOMMENDED system. Returned it and got NWN.
Tried everything with NWN to get it working. Nothing works. Even slowed the drive right down using CDROMTool to see if that would work. No dice.
Royal fuckup. Last money Bio or Infogrames ever get from me. Bio claim it's Info that chose the protection, but if it's fucking over their customers, Bio should have the balls to say "NO." I mean due to this I won't ever buy a Bio product again.
I just hope they don't port over the fucking SecuROM protection as well. There's a LOT of us who haven't been able to play the game in Windows for over a month now due to Sony's evil protection scheme. (Which incidentally, protects nothing, since the ISO's are all over the net in the usual places.)
Word of warning to anyone buying this game. It may very well REFUSE to load in Windows for you, and Bioware and Infogrames are doing nothing to fix the issue, leaving poor bastards like me with some very expensive coasters.
Here's hoping the Linux client isn't the clusterfuck the Windows release has become, since the way it's going, playing in Linux is my only hope!