Didn't they learn their lesson from the DivX debacle?
What the hell are they thinking? Like I'm going to spend my hard-earned money on something that might self-destruct if they don't like the disc you're playing. Do they seriously think people are going to buy that?
The article indeed goes over the problems that IR clickers have, but notes that they're being replaced by RF clickers which work much, much more reliably.
Wish they'd had something like this back when I was in college.
...for allowing you to download the trailer right out front in the open, and not making you have to jump through various technical hoops to get a file you can watch again down the road without having to re-download it. So few movie-makers these days will let you do that.
I think that there's some sort of legal principle that requires officers to issue tickets to all parties involved in accidents, regardless of fault or not. I don't understand it exactly, but somehow failing to issue a ticket might leave the city open to some sort of legal action. Or at least that's what I've always heard.
If we're going to be in Daylight Savings Time 9 months out of the year, they should call Daylight Savings Time "Standard" time, instead, and change Standard Time to "Daylight Wasting Time" (DWT).
I subscribe to Greencine, and the little tear-off flier that you remove to convert the receiving mailer into the sending mailer has a little inset image of a DVD player with a "DivX Video" logo on it with the captions:
"IF YOU OWNED A DivX® Certified DVD PLAYER, YOU COULD HAVE WATCHED THIS MOVIE YESTERDAY!
"Download, burn, and enjoy GreenCine movies in hours with DivX VOD.
Reseller Ratings
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· Score: 4, Informative
Wherever you go to find the deal, go to Reseller Ratings to check the rep of the shop offering the deal. They've been around a long time, and for as long as I've been buying/building from parts they've been advising me on whether I'm likely to get what I paid for. (Come to think of it, they have a best-price-finder system now, too.)
I'd just like to note that I read Star Dragon and it was a damned good book. (I would still kind of like to know what they found when they returned to Earth, though.)
Seems to me like the best hard SF are stories where the science, while as theoretically correct as possible, takes a back seat to the character interaction. As it did in this one.
...as Shirley Bassey and the Propellerheads would put it.
It's funny how the more things change, the more things stay the same. As I wrote in my journal, this is just the latest iteration of a problem that's dogged the movies ever since TV first came into its own in the '50s or thereabouts.
Back then, the ready availability of content, including old movies, on their TV screens was inducing people to stay at home more. So Hollywood tried every new gimmick to come down the pipe to try to pull those damned TV-watchers out of their homes and back to the movies--everything from three different kinds of widescreen, to 3D, to Smell-o-Vision, to Sensurround. Of those gimmicks, the wider screen is the only one that's really stood the test of time.
And now it's deja vu all over again...and filmmaker/entrepreneurs like Lucas, Rodriguez, and Cuban are trying more gimmicks--digital projection, simultaneous release to cinema, cable, and video...and even dragging the hoary old ghost of 3D back out of the closet again.
The more things change, the more things stay the same.
I used to drive for QuikDine, an outfit in Springfield, Missouri that's been doing this for years for a number of local restaurants. (They fired me after I had about a million accidents in their car. Ah well.) They had warmer ovens and fridges in their cars powered off the batteries, and were always having problems with the cars' electrical systems.
A lot of Disney's animators are already big Miyazaki fans; you can see the influence of Miyazaki's films in movies like Lilo and Stitch and Atlantis. It's almost a cliche that whenever Miyazaki is mentioned to people who've never heard of him, someone will pipe up with how much Disney animators respect him. But the animators don't create in a vacuum.
I think you can lay more of the blame for Disney's failures on Disney's management. They need to get out of the way and let the creative elements create. Maybe with Michael Eisner's departure this year we'll see some changes for the better.
Re:reason for, reason not for
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I'm just thankful that I learned typing the right way--in a high school class under a martinet of a teacher on IBM selectric typewriters where I was not allowed to look at the keyboard. Now I type 100 wpm without having to think about where to put my fingers.
Every so often I marvel at the adaptivity of the human nervous system, the way that I can just think a word and it appears on the screen without my having to pay attention to where my individual fingers go. It's the next best thing to mental telepathy.
Because it's about your right to order wine over the Internet. One o' them new-fangled Internet thing-a-majigs that the evil nasty gummint doesn't understand.
...by sending people nastygrams for saying things they don't like in their blogs.
An entry of my essay journal, discussing the ads, had a bit where I half-jokingly encouraged people to click through.
We've found that you have language on your site that draws undue attention to the Google ads you're serving through AdSense. This language may encourage your users to click on the ads that you're serving through AdSense. However, if users click on ads without the intention of converting to customers, advertiser costs can be artificially inflated. Therefore, such activity is in violation of our program policies and we kindly ask that you remove the following language from your website[...]
So, I made the requested changes, turning it from this into this. For a couple of minor phrases in such an old entry, it wasn't worth kicking up a fuss.
Still, I'm thinking at some point soon it will be time to write a lengthy journal entry about how I do not encourage people to click on the ads, would not appreciate it if people click on multiple ads just to get me a bit of money, and do not appreciate the support. I could probably go on in that vein at quite some length.
Or perhaps I'll just remove the ads altogether. It's not like I'm ever going to see a penny of the revenue (I doubt I'll ever reach the $100 minimum) and it's annoying to give someone else a lien on what I'm allowed to say.
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Time cones? Is that like time cubes?
When I try to connect with the Trillian Pro Jabber plugin, I get...
[23:04] *** Creating connection "[ID redacted]@talk.google.com/Trillian"
[23:04] *** XMPP Error: iq error 405 from unspecified: unspecified
[23:04] *** Connect: Unknown account failure.
What am I doing wrong?
Didn't they learn their lesson from the DivX debacle?
What the hell are they thinking? Like I'm going to spend my hard-earned money on something that might self-destruct if they don't like the disc you're playing. Do they seriously think people are going to buy that?
RTFA.
The article indeed goes over the problems that IR clickers have, but notes that they're being replaced by RF clickers which work much, much more reliably.
Wish they'd had something like this back when I was in college.
Nice gesture, wrong trailer.
That file is trailer 1.
The one this story is about is trailer 2.
never mind...it's apparently something with my computer.
Am I the only one for whom the video runs about double-speed while the audio plays normally? Any suggestions on how to watch the trailer with sync?
...for allowing you to download the trailer right out front in the open, and not making you have to jump through various technical hoops to get a file you can watch again down the road without having to re-download it. So few movie-makers these days will let you do that.
I think that there's some sort of legal principle that requires officers to issue tickets to all parties involved in accidents, regardless of fault or not. I don't understand it exactly, but somehow failing to issue a ticket might leave the city open to some sort of legal action. Or at least that's what I've always heard.
If we're going to be in Daylight Savings Time 9 months out of the year, they should call Daylight Savings Time "Standard" time, instead, and change Standard Time to "Daylight Wasting Time" (DWT).
I subscribe to Greencine, and the little tear-off flier that you remove to convert the receiving mailer into the sending mailer has a little inset image of a DVD player with a "DivX Video" logo on it with the captions:
"IF YOU OWNED A DivX® Certified DVD PLAYER, YOU COULD HAVE WATCHED THIS MOVIE YESTERDAY!
"Download, burn, and enjoy GreenCine movies in hours with DivX VOD.
"FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT VOD.DIVX.COM/HOW"
Of course, when I try to go to that URL, it times out, so who knows?
Well, that's still better than getting turned into a pig...
Wherever you go to find the deal, go to Reseller Ratings to check the rep of the shop offering the deal. They've been around a long time, and for as long as I've been buying/building from parts they've been advising me on whether I'm likely to get what I paid for. (Come to think of it, they have a best-price-finder system now, too.)
I'd just like to note that I read Star Dragon and it was a damned good book. (I would still kind of like to know what they found when they returned to Earth, though.)
Seems to me like the best hard SF are stories where the science, while as theoretically correct as possible, takes a back seat to the character interaction. As it did in this one.
...us lucky people with broadband.
The Doctor Who episodes torrent just fine. Can't wait for Sunday when I get to see the season finale!
...as Shirley Bassey and the Propellerheads would put it.
It's funny how the more things change, the more things stay the same. As I wrote in my journal, this is just the latest iteration of a problem that's dogged the movies ever since TV first came into its own in the '50s or thereabouts.
Back then, the ready availability of content, including old movies, on their TV screens was inducing people to stay at home more. So Hollywood tried every new gimmick to come down the pipe to try to pull those damned TV-watchers out of their homes and back to the movies--everything from three different kinds of widescreen, to 3D, to Smell-o-Vision, to Sensurround. Of those gimmicks, the wider screen is the only one that's really stood the test of time.
And now it's deja vu all over again...and filmmaker/entrepreneurs like Lucas, Rodriguez, and Cuban are trying more gimmicks--digital projection, simultaneous release to cinema, cable, and video...and even dragging the hoary old ghost of 3D back out of the closet again.
The more things change, the more things stay the same.
I used to drive for QuikDine, an outfit in Springfield, Missouri that's been doing this for years for a number of local restaurants. (They fired me after I had about a million accidents in their car. Ah well.) They had warmer ovens and fridges in their cars powered off the batteries, and were always having problems with the cars' electrical systems.
A lot of Disney's animators are already big Miyazaki fans; you can see the influence of Miyazaki's films in movies like Lilo and Stitch and Atlantis. It's almost a cliche that whenever Miyazaki is mentioned to people who've never heard of him, someone will pipe up with how much Disney animators respect him. But the animators don't create in a vacuum.
I think you can lay more of the blame for Disney's failures on Disney's management. They need to get out of the way and let the creative elements create. Maybe with Michael Eisner's departure this year we'll see some changes for the better.
I wanna join this guy's fan club.
Unfortunately, unless everybody boycotts, the only effect such a boycott will have is to make the boycotters feel smugly morally superior.
Of course, if that's your goal, then hey, congratulations, you're doing a fine job!
The webcomic review & criticism blog Websnark.com has some interesting entries looking at Blank Label's creation, its choice of tagline, and the webcomic syndicate from which its members departed.
I'm just thankful that I learned typing the right way--in a high school class under a martinet of a teacher on IBM selectric typewriters where I was not allowed to look at the keyboard. Now I type 100 wpm without having to think about where to put my fingers.
Every so often I marvel at the adaptivity of the human nervous system, the way that I can just think a word and it appears on the screen without my having to pay attention to where my individual fingers go. It's the next best thing to mental telepathy.
Because it's about your right to order wine over the Internet. One o' them new-fangled Internet thing-a-majigs that the evil nasty gummint doesn't understand.
...they can design an unsinkable cruise liner.
Oh wait.
An entry of my essay journal, discussing the ads, had a bit where I half-jokingly encouraged people to click through.
So, I made the requested changes, turning it from this into this. For a couple of minor phrases in such an old entry, it wasn't worth kicking up a fuss.
Still, I'm thinking at some point soon it will be time to write a lengthy journal entry about how I do not encourage people to click on the ads, would not appreciate it if people click on multiple ads just to get me a bit of money, and do not appreciate the support. I could probably go on in that vein at quite some length.
Or perhaps I'll just remove the ads altogether. It's not like I'm ever going to see a penny of the revenue (I doubt I'll ever reach the $100 minimum) and it's annoying to give someone else a lien on what I'm allowed to say.