I've already watched House Seasons 1-3 twice now, so I've saved money versus renting (I would have needed to rent it twice) (i.e. $2 per episode). Plus since I own the sets, when I eventually sell them on ebay, I can recoup a big chunk of money. You can't recover money with rentals.
Not true. Prior to VCRs you couldn't rent movies or tv shows either. You had to simply wait until one of your 4 local stations played the reruns - and if they never did you were out of luck.
As for season sets, they did exist prior to DVDs, but were rather expensive (over 200 dollars).
Facebook Corporation has turned microsoft... er, I mean... evil. Hopefully the 2-person teachbook partners will stand their ground, the judge will give the FB lawyer a very stern warning about patent trolling, and require said lawyer to repay all the teachers legal fees, or else be thrown in jail for violation of the SLAPP law.
The previous owner probably used the dish to get hundreds of free TV stations (via satellite). If it were me, I'd simply continue using his setup and therefore never need to subscribe to cable tv.
My former company banned both. When you inserted a floppy, the computer refused to read it. And when a USB was inserted, security showed up to scan your PC.
It was also impossible to install any software, unless it was a simple *.exe program that sat on your desktop. Anything as elaborate as firefox was impossible to install.
Agreed. Unless they eventually eliminate the option to buy (which many record companies and TV studios have been trying to do for years), and you have no option but a 99 cent rental. Remember DIVX discs? We're lucky it flopped but now they have a new opportunity to force us into rental-only model.
>>>RTFA. Or even the stub. "Modern computers go too fast"
Which makes no sense to me. Whether you're using a modern 3000 megahertz CPU or the old 1 megahertz 6502, makes no difference. Both run faster than the human mind can analyze.
>>>If you think the 'feel' is the same between a C64 and an Amiga, you never used them, or you have a REALLY bad memory.
Command Line Interface? Check. Music-quality sound? Check. Colorful graphics perfect for gaming? Check. Both less than 0.01 GHz in speed? Check.
Obviously the Amiga is more capable since it's 3 years more advanced (1985 versus 82), but they aren't that different as far as usage and purpose. Both were capable of doing something neither IBM PC or Apple Mac could do at the time: Multimedia. Owe and yes I've used Amiga..... I have three of them sitting behind me even now. (A1000, A500, and A2000)
>>>I won't watch TV for free, much less for.99/show
Why not? Don't you like a good drama like CSI? Or farout story like Fringe? Or medical show like House? ----- Not that it really matters: My point was not about liking these shows..... my point was that it's ridiculous how many Americans pay $80/month to see these shows when you can see them for free.
>>>They all asked for exactly 99 cents? Weird! It's almost like they all got together and colluded...
Or more likely, they simply did what I did: Looked to see what Apple's charging, and decided to match that price for my ebay sales. It isn't always collusion - sometimes it's just using your eyes.
Also:
A lot of these shows, even when owned by different studios, are negotiated by the same Actors Union. It's why actors will get a fixed price per airing of an episode, whether it's shown on Sci-Fi or FX or TNT or wherever.
>>>$1 an episode x 20 episodes = $20...About half or three-quarters of the normal price, right?
Unless you later sell the used DVD on ebay for $20 (~$40-20 == about $20 total cost of ownership), in which case there's no savings whatsoever to rent from Apple. Plus with a DVD set you can watch it now, then share it with friends at the next party, then watch it again next year or five or ten years from now.
>>>I don't think I've bought a non-clearance DVD of a TV season and averaged $.99 per ep.
As with anything it depends what you buy. I just got Hercules season set for $20 or about $1 per episode. Star Trek still costs around $50 or about 2 dollars per episode..... but even then it's still a good deal because you can watch it as many times as you want over the next 10-20 years time. If you watched it four times, you've effectively reduced the cost to 50 cents
And if you get sick of the show, you can sell it on ebay for about $25.... further reducing your episode cost. It's almost always cheaper to buy then rent.
>>>I think Apple is a company designed to take advantage of stupid consumers,
Quick! Apple fanboys: Mod him down! Mod him down!
/end sarcasm
Actually I agree with you but it isn't just Apple. Almost all megacorps are designed to take advantage of consumers. There are so many deals in the world that make no logical sense when you examine them under a microscope. Like paying ~$80 for cable television when you can get a lot of the channels (abc,cbs,nbc,fox,cw,ion,movie channel) for free. Or buy on DVD. Or trading in a car you paid $20,000 to buy and only get $5,000 used, thereby losing a huge chunk of money. Or..... well I could go on forever. Companies like to rip us off, and we make it so easy for them to do.
While a government can trample that ownership and turn you into a puppet for its control, it can only do so by force (weapons) and in violation of Natural Law and basic instincts. And in some cases those governments will be held accountable for that trampling (Nuremberg and Tokio Trials).
I can not speak for whatever Member State you live in, but in mine the State Constitution does not give the government authority to track citizens as they walk, ride horseback, travel by car, or otherwise. Such a power, if it exists, has been reserved to the People.
If my State Government desires that power, they will first have to amend our constitution with the consent of its citizens.
Where in the Constitution was the central EU government ever given permission to tracking the People's movements (whether walking, horseback riding, or in a car)? I can not find it. The US Court has made a poor decision, because they ignored Our Rights in amendments 9 and 10. If such a power exist, it has been reserved to the Member States (or the people).
Wait. Okay. NOW you have the basic setup for a just turned-on C64 (which defaults to MS-BASIC). Your students can peek and poke to their heart's delight. Or write basic "Hello World" programs like I did way back in 5th grade. Learn the basics.
That was # 2 not 3, and the example you cite is why I said the two movies needed to be trimmed. Or else merged into one single 2 to 2.5 hour movie.
Try rewatching these movies but fast-forward through the dance scene and other un-necessary crap. You'll find it plays just as good as the first movie.
>>>The first movie hinted at a philosophy that moved beyond the metaphor of a computer generated virtual reality feeding off human power.
No it didn't. Movie #1 was about real physical human beings having their minds trapped in the Matrix (a glorified Sims game), a few humans that had learned the truth and escaped from the game, plus one human that had the skill to rewrite the program at will (thereby giving him unlimited power in the game world). The end.
Anything else was something you pulled out of your own imagination, and not present in the actual story of movie 1. i.e. You can't cite anything facts displayed on screen to backup your wild conjecture.
The purpose of outlawing Federal funds for stem cell/embryo research is the same purpose of outlawing possession of child sex photos:
- To discourage the production.
And the court made the right decision, even if I disagree with it. Their job is to Enforce Congresses' laws, not to overrule Congress.
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True. Except: It's not stealing if you pay for it.
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They're MY standards and I can set them as low as I desire. When I first sat in front of Win95 I said outloud, "I feel like I'm using my Macintosh." Not an exact clone, no, but close enough to surprise me. There was almost-zero learning curve because there was no significant difference jumping from Mac to Win95.
In fact that's why I eventually abandoned Mac. I decided because there's no real difference in the desktop, I might as well go from my Quadra to a Windows 98 machine. .
>>>Do you have a similar reaction whenever you sit down in front of _every_ OS that has a shutdown procedure?
You say that and demonstrate you probably don't even remember 1995. TODAY it's commonplace, but prior to 1995 shutdown procedures were rare. Mac was the only OS I had ever encountered with a shutdown procedure. So it was surprise to see it suddenly appear somewhere other than a Mac, and with the exact same wording.
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Mac was copied by OS/2, and OS/2 was copied by IBM's partner Microsoft
QED Mac was copied by Microsoft. That's why when I first sat in front of Win95 I said outloud (literally), "I feel like I'm using my Macintosh." Not an exact clone, no, but close enough to surprise me. There was almost-zero learning curve because there was no significant difference.
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>>>The GDI handled all of the low level graphics and was a 16 bit subsystem and it was also not fully re-entrant. The GDI expected only cooperative multitasking
So Windows95 was NOT preemptive. It still had that cooperative tasking core which could bring down the whole system (not a crash - just non-responsive to the user). On Microsoft's site they claim it's preemptive for 32 bit and cooperative for 16 bit, but apparently they aren't telling the whole truth (no surprise).
The 32 bit tasks are still having to operate with the old 16 bit graphics drivers, and therefore they are forced to downgrade to cooperative tasking during screen updates.
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I've already watched House Seasons 1-3 twice now, so I've saved money versus renting (I would have needed to rent it twice) (i.e. $2 per episode). Plus since I own the sets, when I eventually sell them on ebay, I can recoup a big chunk of money. You can't recover money with rentals.
Not true. Prior to VCRs you couldn't rent movies or tv shows either. You had to simply wait until one of your 4 local stations played the reruns - and if they never did you were out of luck.
As for season sets, they did exist prior to DVDs, but were rather expensive (over 200 dollars).
Bottom Line:
Facebook Corporation has turned microsoft... er, I mean... evil. Hopefully the 2-person teachbook partners will stand their ground, the judge will give the FB lawyer a very stern warning about patent trolling, and require said lawyer to repay all the teachers legal fees, or else be thrown in jail for violation of the SLAPP law.
I don't know why it's necessary to mod anything.
The previous owner probably used the dish to get hundreds of free TV stations (via satellite). If it were me, I'd simply continue using his setup and therefore never need to subscribe to cable tv.
My former company banned both. When you inserted a floppy, the computer refused to read it. And when a USB was inserted, security showed up to scan your PC.
It was also impossible to install any software, unless it was a simple *.exe program that sat on your desktop. Anything as elaborate as firefox was impossible to install.
>>>Having choices is better.
Agreed. Unless they eventually eliminate the option to buy (which many record companies and TV studios have been trying to do for years), and you have no option but a 99 cent rental. Remember DIVX discs? We're lucky it flopped but now they have a new opportunity to force us into rental-only model.
>>>RTFA. Or even the stub. "Modern computers go too fast"
Which makes no sense to me. Whether you're using a modern 3000 megahertz CPU or the old 1 megahertz 6502, makes no difference. Both run faster than the human mind can analyze.
>>>If you think the 'feel' is the same between a C64 and an Amiga, you never used them, or you have a REALLY bad memory.
Command Line Interface? Check.
Music-quality sound? Check.
Colorful graphics perfect for gaming? Check.
Both less than 0.01 GHz in speed? Check.
Obviously the Amiga is more capable since it's 3 years more advanced (1985 versus 82), but they aren't that different as far as usage and purpose. Both were capable of doing something neither IBM PC or Apple Mac could do at the time: Multimedia. Owe and yes I've used Amiga..... I have three of them sitting behind me even now. (A1000, A500, and A2000)
Yes surely there's a better way to deal with trash. Couldn't I just feed it to the wildlife in the backyard?
Or maybe use it for heating this winter, instead of burning-up more electricity (coal).
>>>I won't watch TV for free, much less for .99/show
Why not? Don't you like a good drama like CSI? Or farout story like Fringe? Or medical show like House? ----- Not that it really matters: My point was not about liking these shows..... my point was that it's ridiculous how many Americans pay $80/month to see these shows when you can see them for free.
>>>They all asked for exactly 99 cents? Weird! It's almost like they all got together and colluded...
Or more likely, they simply did what I did: Looked to see what Apple's charging, and decided to match that price for my ebay sales. It isn't always collusion - sometimes it's just using your eyes.
Also:
A lot of these shows, even when owned by different studios, are negotiated by the same Actors Union. It's why actors will get a fixed price per airing of an episode, whether it's shown on Sci-Fi or FX or TNT or wherever.
>>>$1 an episode x 20 episodes = $20 ...About half or three-quarters of the normal price, right?
Unless you later sell the used DVD on ebay for $20 (~$40-20 == about $20 total cost of ownership), in which case there's no savings whatsoever to rent from Apple. Plus with a DVD set you can watch it now, then share it with friends at the next party, then watch it again next year or five or ten years from now.
Buying ends-up being cheaper than renting.
>>>I don't think I've bought a non-clearance DVD of a TV season and averaged $.99 per ep.
As with anything it depends what you buy. I just got Hercules season set for $20 or about $1 per episode. Star Trek still costs around $50 or about 2 dollars per episode..... but even then it's still a good deal because you can watch it as many times as you want over the next 10-20 years time. If you watched it four times, you've effectively reduced the cost to 50 cents
And if you get sick of the show, you can sell it on ebay for about $25.... further reducing your episode cost. It's almost always cheaper to buy then rent.
>>>I think Apple is a company designed to take advantage of stupid consumers,
Quick! Apple fanboys: Mod him down! Mod him down!
Actually I agree with you but it isn't just Apple. Almost all megacorps are designed to take advantage of consumers. There are so many deals in the world that make no logical sense when you examine them under a microscope. Like paying ~$80 for cable television when you can get a lot of the channels (abc,cbs,nbc,fox,cw,ion,movie channel) for free. Or buy on DVD. Or trading in a car you paid $20,000 to buy and only get $5,000 used, thereby losing a huge chunk of money. Or..... well I could go on forever. Companies like to rip us off, and we make it so easy for them to do.
Rights come from ownership of self.
While a government can trample that ownership and turn you into a puppet for its control, it can only do so by force (weapons) and in violation of Natural Law and basic instincts. And in some cases those governments will be held accountable for that trampling (Nuremberg and Tokio Trials).
>>>legal for State/Local Police forces to do it
I can not speak for whatever Member State you live in, but in mine the State Constitution does not give the government authority to track citizens as they walk, ride horseback, travel by car, or otherwise. Such a power, if it exists, has been reserved to the People.
If my State Government desires that power, they will first have to amend our constitution with the consent of its citizens.
Time for a Constitutional Amendment.....
No. I take that back.
Where in the Constitution was the central EU government ever given permission to tracking the People's movements (whether walking, horseback riding, or in a car)? I can not find it. The US Court has made a poor decision, because they ignored Our Rights in amendments 9 and 10. If such a power exist, it has been reserved to the Member States (or the people).
>>>But DOS doesn't have all the neat tools.
a:\ msbasic.exe
Wait. Okay. NOW you have the basic setup for a just turned-on C64 (which defaults to MS-BASIC). Your students can peek and poke to their heart's delight. Or write basic "Hello World" programs like I did way back in 5th grade. Learn the basics.
That was # 2 not 3, and the example you cite is why I said the two movies needed to be trimmed. Or else merged into one single 2 to 2.5 hour movie.
Try rewatching these movies but fast-forward through the dance scene and other un-necessary crap. You'll find it plays just as good as the first movie.
>>>The first movie hinted at a philosophy that moved beyond the metaphor of a computer generated virtual reality feeding off human power.
No it didn't. Movie #1 was about real physical human beings having their minds trapped in the Matrix (a glorified Sims game), a few humans that had learned the truth and escaped from the game, plus one human that had the skill to rewrite the program at will (thereby giving him unlimited power in the game world). The end.
Anything else was something you pulled out of your own imagination, and not present in the actual story of movie 1. i.e. You can't cite anything facts displayed on screen to backup your wild conjecture.
The purpose of outlawing Federal funds for stem cell/embryo research is the same purpose of outlawing possession of child sex photos:
- To discourage the production.
And the court made the right decision, even if I disagree with it. Their job is to Enforce Congresses' laws, not to overrule Congress.
True. Except: It's not stealing if you pay for it.
They're MY standards and I can set them as low as I desire. When I first sat in front of Win95 I said outloud, "I feel like I'm using my Macintosh." Not an exact clone, no, but close enough to surprise me. There was almost-zero learning curve because there was no significant difference jumping from Mac to Win95.
In fact that's why I eventually abandoned Mac. I decided because there's no real difference in the desktop, I might as well go from my Quadra to a Windows 98 machine.
.
>>>Do you have a similar reaction whenever you sit down in front of _every_ OS that has a shutdown procedure?
You say that and demonstrate you probably don't even remember 1995. TODAY it's commonplace, but prior to 1995 shutdown procedures were rare. Mac was the only OS I had ever encountered with a shutdown procedure. So it was surprise to see it suddenly appear somewhere other than a Mac, and with the exact same wording.
So:
Mac was copied by OS/2, and OS/2 was copied by IBM's partner Microsoft
QED Mac was copied by Microsoft. That's why when I first sat in front of Win95 I said outloud (literally), "I feel like I'm using my Macintosh." Not an exact clone, no, but close enough to surprise me. There was almost-zero learning curve because there was no significant difference.
>>>The GDI handled all of the low level graphics and was a 16 bit subsystem and it was also not fully re-entrant. The GDI expected only cooperative multitasking
So Windows95 was NOT preemptive. It still had that cooperative tasking core which could bring down the whole system (not a crash - just non-responsive to the user). On Microsoft's site they claim it's preemptive for 32 bit and cooperative for 16 bit, but apparently they aren't telling the whole truth (no surprise).
The 32 bit tasks are still having to operate with the old 16 bit graphics drivers, and therefore they are forced to downgrade to cooperative tasking during screen updates.