So I can finally right click on a mac, huh? (I know there are third party mice available)
Can I force eject a disk without worrying about my OS freaking out because it can't find it?
Can I force-eject a disk without using a damned paperclip to press the button (there's a fucking button there, let us push it from the outside, dammit!)
These are "features" that (pardon my ignorance) if they haven't died yet, should have died a long time ago.
Tell someone there's a remake of King Kong coming out, they'll probably be like "eh...I might see that." Tell them Peter Jackson's directing it, they'll probably say "That name sounds familiar..." Tell them "Uh, you know, the guy who directed Lord of the Rings," and the should continue along the lines of "OH! Cool! I've got to see that!"
It reminds me of that "Fanimatrix" movie a while back. http://fanimatrix.net/what.html
It looks okay. Until the live action stuff starts moving, and you can see it's video (which still looks cheap, not because it's any worse, just because is always has been cheap), you can see how awkward the actors are, you can HEAR how awkward they are...
It's like some convention cos-play event taken too far.
I will give them credit for some impressive SFX, though. At least in the trailer they look as good as Lucas's. Which is to say, not the best in the world, but not bad at all.
Who would have thought we'd live to see the day that ILM WASN'T the best at special effects, BTW?
The Defense Language Institute has without any doubt the highest concentration of role players (including, disturbingly, LARPers) of any place I have ever even HEARD of barring a gaming convention.
These are people who, if pass, almost always get Top Secret clearances.
The good news is: LARPers seem to be really good at failure.
So in order to get a conviction, the prosecutors have to prove that the recipients of the emails DIDN'T do something? (Because they're looking for evidence they were unsolicited, and not for evidence that they weren't, so the spammer doesn't have to produce crap)
I think the law needs to be reworded. The only way a conviction will ever stand up if this this is the case is if someone has a verifiable record of attempts to get the emails to stop. And even then it might be hard to prove that future emails came from the same source.
"Does the RIAA lose as much as they say. Probably not. Has music-sharing cost them money? Yes, and I challenge anybody to argue that assertion. "
I don't know about everyone else, but I went YEARS without buying any music because I never heard anything I liked ANYWHERE. I started buying CDs after I started downloading music. Quite a few of them actually.
Without file sharing, that's hundreds of dollars the recording industry wouldn't have seen.
Most products you see as a consumer, if they were made in the USA (or any similarly expensive country) in 1980, aren't today. They're made in countries where labor is cheap, and made even cheaper by keeping the currency artificially cheap.
An awful lot of CDs, though, are still pressed in the USA.
I'm sure that doesn't account for it, but I just wanted to point out that there's a problem with that comparison.
He mentions it in the article. I think IBM would have faced stronger opposition than Microsoft EVER would. They'd have MUCH stronger control over a wider variety of aspects of computer markets due to having gained software dominance at a time when they were still dominant in hardware.
I dunno. When I'm actually looking for a product or service, I usually end up skipping everything on the first page altogether, because there are so many worthless purveyors of useless crap clamoring to get to the top of the search.
I lack any insight into these matters, because I ceaselessly underestimate the stupidity and sheepishness of my fellow consumers, however.
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The army does care about the costs. But they will eat this up because it is cheaper than some of the buildings they currently use.
Call it "Capsule Corp"!
So I can finally right click on a mac, huh? (I know there are third party mice available)
Can I force eject a disk without worrying about my OS freaking out because it can't find it?
Can I force-eject a disk without using a damned paperclip to press the button (there's a fucking button there, let us push it from the outside, dammit!)
These are "features" that (pardon my ignorance) if they haven't died yet, should have died a long time ago.
I don't know anyone who KNOWS about it.
Note: I am the biggest nerd I know.
Tell someone there's a remake of King Kong coming out, they'll probably be like "eh...I might see that." Tell them Peter Jackson's directing it, they'll probably say "That name sounds familiar..." Tell them "Uh, you know, the guy who directed Lord of the Rings," and the should continue along the lines of "OH! Cool! I've got to see that!"
I've had similar conversations twice.
It reminds me of that "Fanimatrix" movie a while back.
http://fanimatrix.net/what.html
It looks okay. Until the live action stuff starts moving, and you can see it's video (which still looks cheap, not because it's any worse, just because is always has been cheap), you can see how awkward the actors are, you can HEAR how awkward they are...
It's like some convention cos-play event taken too far.
I will give them credit for some impressive SFX, though. At least in the trailer they look as good as Lucas's. Which is to say, not the best in the world, but not bad at all.
Who would have thought we'd live to see the day that ILM WASN'T the best at special effects, BTW?
Yeah, just look at my 3.2 ghz Athlon 64 3200!
Wait, what?
Imagine my disappointment.
The Defense Language Institute has without any doubt the highest concentration of role players (including, disturbingly, LARPers) of any place I have ever even HEARD of barring a gaming convention.
These are people who, if pass, almost always get Top Secret clearances.
The good news is: LARPers seem to be really good at failure.
IANALIANALIANAL!!!
So in order to get a conviction, the prosecutors have to prove that the recipients of the emails DIDN'T do something? (Because they're looking for evidence they were unsolicited, and not for evidence that they weren't, so the spammer doesn't have to produce crap)
I think the law needs to be reworded. The only way a conviction will ever stand up if this this is the case is if someone has a verifiable record of attempts to get the emails to stop. And even then it might be hard to prove that future emails came from the same source.
I would buy one in a heartbeat if it allowed me to record all my phone conversations.
I don't care if it's illegal (or inadmissable in court, whichever whereever). I don't want anyone to have any room to weasel out of anything.
"What a horrible crime....who would want to kill the president of the RIAA?"
...
"Did he have any enemies?"
I use Solaris at work, and Windows XP at home (for games, and stupid bullshit)....
So which do I fell more productive in? XP, of course.
Learn to read.
I don't know if it's strengthened sales. And you don't know that it hasn't.
Because we can't separate losses from P2P from losses due to music FUCKING SUCKING.
10-12 dollars? First week of release? Where?
Hell, even at walmart I haven't seen that.
"Does the RIAA lose as much as they say. Probably not. Has music-sharing cost them money? Yes, and I challenge anybody to argue that assertion. "
I don't know about everyone else, but I went YEARS without buying any music because I never heard anything I liked ANYWHERE. I started buying CDs after I started downloading music. Quite a few of them actually.
Without file sharing, that's hundreds of dollars the recording industry wouldn't have seen.
the reality...that this show is already MASSIVELY downloaded. How many people in the US saw the UK airings before they came out in the US?
Hell, I ONLY saw it because I downloaded it (no sci fi channel at osan AFB).
Wake me when they've got a wearable PC with artificial-reality underwear.
In a world full of damn liars, a leader who displayed such honesty in ALL their dealings would have my complete, murderous loyalty.
They can't destroy the competition until they have some success in Japan.
If they don't, they just won't have the games to attract people who don't like sports games and don't care about Halo.
Most products you see as a consumer, if they were made in the USA (or any similarly expensive country) in 1980, aren't today. They're made in countries where labor is cheap, and made even cheaper by keeping the currency artificially cheap.
An awful lot of CDs, though, are still pressed in the USA.
I'm sure that doesn't account for it, but I just wanted to point out that there's a problem with that comparison.
He mentions it in the article. I think IBM would have faced stronger opposition than Microsoft EVER would. They'd have MUCH stronger control over a wider variety of aspects of computer markets due to having gained software dominance at a time when they were still dominant in hardware.
If I had mod points every one of you in this little line would get Redundant.
GOURANGA!
I dunno...how do things like gas guzzler taxes apply to people who build their own cars?
I dunno. When I'm actually looking for a product or service, I usually end up skipping everything on the first page altogether, because there are so many worthless purveyors of useless crap clamoring to get to the top of the search.
I lack any insight into these matters, because I ceaselessly underestimate the stupidity and sheepishness of my fellow consumers, however.