I've been a DishNet sub for 8 yrs now. To say I'm unhappy with the quality of their products would be an understatement. I'm ready to jump ship to DTV as soon as the HD DirecTiVo ships.
You're so unhappy with Dish that you've paid for their service for eight years?
In fact, I used to practice just such a thing: shooting bottles out of the air with pistols. It's a bit harder to do now that I'm in the city, I understand the cops don't like that.
Those damn recycling laws get more strict every day.
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One of the main goals of science fiction as I see it is to prepare us for the future.
Funny, I thought it was to prepare us for the present.
I've seen plenty of poor Perl code, but I wouldn't call any of it unreadable--just bad. Writing truly unreadable code in Perl requires a much higher level of mastery than most people ever acquire.
I would've purchased FLCL at Japanese prices, one episode per disc. It's essentially a boutique product sold at a boutique price. If you want to measure quality by hours or gigs, LotR is there for you at WalMart's everyday low prices.
That's the cause of piracy right there: greed.
Indeed. People feel they deserve to own a product even if they can't/won't acquire it legally.
I don't care about speech recognition (in fact I would hate talking to my computer), but I wrote a little Perl app to play songs in winamp based on Infocom-style commands: "play all live rock by liz phair" or whatever. And at home I use a similar app to control my Audiotron.
The smart playlists in iTunes are okay but don't chain logical operations, which is a pain.
One is about a woman in her late twenties who taks the summer off to work on an organic saffron flower farm, where she falls in love.
Only Yesterday (Omohide Poro Poro). The literal translation is something like "memories falling like tears/raindrops/etc." This is directed by Isao Takahata, who made Grave of the Fireflies. I think Miyazaki served as producer. Only Yesterday is a bit of a nostalgia piece for older audiences. It's a quiet and beautiful film.
Another is a forty minute movie about a highschool boy, also falling in love, (with one of those pretty girls who trouble seems to gravitate to.)
Ocean Waves (Umi ga Kikoeru, aka I Can Hear the Sea). This is a made-for-TV work, the first Ghibli movie produced by a director other than Miyazaki or Takahata. Because of the lower budget, the animation quality suffers a bit, but it's still a decent movie.
Another is a long and quite brilliant series about a bunch of magical racoon-type creatures who are trying to save their woodland habitat from urban crawl.
Pom Poko (Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko). Another Takahata film. Number one reason why Disney will never, ever release this in American theaters: Inflatable Tanuki Testicles.
Cornpens have been around at least ten years. People like me who had a habit of chewing on pen caps found that the cornpen doesn't stand up to much such abuse before disintegrating.
Of course, I could just be a dumbass who didn't read the article or remember that Martin Minow translated I am Curious (Yellow) and I am Curious (Blue) to English.
In Jeff Noon's Vurt, Curious Yellow is a dangerous knowledge feather that lives inside the English Voodoo feather. That seems a more likely context for choosing a worm name than the film from which Noon himself took it.
I have enough flexibility with my $300 EOS to do regular snapshots with ASA200, HUGE enlargments with ASA25, fast action with ASA800, or night arial survelance with ASA1600/3200.
"Oh yeah, and everye on the planet hates RealJukebox."
Unfortunately, this turns out not to be the case. I've encountered a great number of people who use RealJukebox, WMP, MusicMatch, and even Kazaa as their player of choice. Of the non-geeks I know, very few use Winamp; many haven't even heard of it.
The Japanese DVD is published by Buena Vista Home Entertainment (ie, Disney). They own the worldwide home-video distribution rights, excluding the rest of Asia but including Japan.
was one of the most disappointing books I've ever read. Was it the only one elegible for the Hugo and Nebula in 1975? But on the bright side, it's much better than Forever Peace.
Christ, I can't believe I read that many words about DBZ. But that's a prime example of why everyone dreads FUNi's impending mangling of Fruits Basket.
A lot of the "audiophile whinging" turns out
to be surprisingly concrete when you actually
get a chance to hear it for yourself. It's just
that most of us don't get a chance to hear a good system set up right.
If most of us will never have the opportunity to hear the difference, then it hardly matters to most of us whether the quality is comparable. So it is only audiophile whining after all.
I don't mind piracy when people do it under the covers of IRC and underground programs like Gnutella. The underground nature of these programs gives the end user a reminder that they are doing something naughty.
That's fairly inane. "I don't mind child molesters as long as they do it in dark alleys instead of playgrounds."
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Be a racist (Unless your name is Throm Thurmond)
C'mon, by his 70th birthday Strom Thurmond had completely forgotten he was a racist.
I've been a DishNet sub for 8 yrs now. To say I'm unhappy with the quality of their products would be an understatement. I'm ready to jump ship to DTV as soon as the HD DirecTiVo ships.
You're so unhappy with Dish that you've paid for their service for eight years?
In fact, I used to practice just such a thing: shooting bottles out of the air with pistols. It's a bit harder to do now that I'm in the city, I understand the cops don't like that.
Those damn recycling laws get more strict every day.
One of the main goals of science fiction as I see it is to prepare us for the future.
Funny, I thought it was to prepare us for the present.
I've seen plenty of poor Perl code, but I wouldn't call any of it unreadable--just bad. Writing truly unreadable code in Perl requires a much higher level of mastery than most people ever acquire.
That's like saying I wouldn't beat the shit out of my wife every night if only raping the neigbor kid was legal.
No, it's more like saying, "I wouldn't fuck my wife if prostitution was legal."
A DJ is to a Music Author as a Photographer is to a Sculptor.
Only if the photographer takes pictures of statues.
By special equipment he means a stylus up your ass.
FLCL > 5 * ATHF
I would've purchased FLCL at Japanese prices, one episode per disc. It's essentially a boutique product sold at a boutique price. If you want to measure quality by hours or gigs, LotR is there for you at WalMart's everyday low prices.
That's the cause of piracy right there: greed.
Indeed. People feel they deserve to own a product even if they can't/won't acquire it legally.
I don't care about speech recognition (in fact I would hate talking to my computer), but I wrote a little Perl app to play songs in winamp based on Infocom-style commands: "play all live rock by liz phair" or whatever. And at home I use a similar app to control my Audiotron.
The smart playlists in iTunes are okay but don't chain logical operations, which is a pain.
One is about a woman in her late twenties who taks the summer off to work on an organic saffron flower farm, where she falls in love.
Only Yesterday (Omohide Poro Poro). The literal translation is something like "memories falling like tears/raindrops/etc." This is directed by Isao Takahata, who made Grave of the Fireflies. I think Miyazaki served as producer. Only Yesterday is a bit of a nostalgia piece for older audiences. It's a quiet and beautiful film.
Another is a forty minute movie about a highschool boy, also falling in love, (with one of those pretty girls who trouble seems to gravitate to.)
Ocean Waves (Umi ga Kikoeru, aka I Can Hear the Sea). This is a made-for-TV work, the first Ghibli movie produced by a director other than Miyazaki or Takahata. Because of the lower budget, the animation quality suffers a bit, but it's still a decent movie.
Another is a long and quite brilliant series about a bunch of magical racoon-type creatures who are trying to save their woodland habitat from urban crawl.
Pom Poko (Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko). Another Takahata film. Number one reason why Disney will never, ever release this in American theaters: Inflatable Tanuki Testicles.
Cornpens have been around at least ten years. People like me who had a habit of chewing on pen caps found that the cornpen doesn't stand up to much such abuse before disintegrating.
We will have an army of one.
Of course, I could just be a dumbass who didn't read the article or remember that Martin Minow translated I am Curious (Yellow) and I am Curious (Blue) to English.
In Jeff Noon's Vurt, Curious Yellow is a dangerous knowledge feather that lives inside the English Voodoo feather. That seems a more likely context for choosing a worm name than the film from which Noon himself took it.
btw--the film is pretty amusing.
You were hired by a jealous serif font, perhaps?
Unfortunately, this turns out not to be the case. I've encountered a great number of people who use RealJukebox, WMP, MusicMatch, and even Kazaa as their player of choice. Of the non-geeks I know, very few use Winamp; many haven't even heard of it.
The Japanese DVD is published by Buena Vista Home Entertainment (ie, Disney). They own the worldwide home-video distribution rights, excluding the rest of Asia but including Japan.
Just like in Philip K. Dick's Ubik.
was one of the most disappointing books I've ever read. Was it the only one elegible for the Hugo and Nebula in 1975? But on the bright side, it's much better than Forever Peace.
Christ, I can't believe I read that many words about DBZ. But that's a prime example of why everyone dreads FUNi's impending mangling of Fruits Basket.
If most of us will never have the opportunity to hear the difference, then it hardly matters to most of us whether the quality is comparable. So it is only audiophile whining after all.
Wait a minute...are you saying that Lisa Kudrow is better than Jar Jar? Or just that it's funnier to see Lisa Kudrow step in bantha poodoo?
So, everywhere but in the most popular and widely-used medium for digital image files, PNG is king? Rock on.
That's fairly inane. "I don't mind child molesters as long as they do it in dark alleys instead of playgrounds."