I also hate DVDs that disable the "Subtitle" and "Audio" buttons on your remote, forcing you to go through the stupid menus instead. One particularly bad offender of this is the Futurama box set.
Just you wait. If they do this, you watch millions of people stop watching that channel, and the amount of people downloading episodes of their favourite series from the net, illegally, skyrocket.
The same way that we do it with e-mail? For example, 1234567@icq, or FredSmith@aol.
However, I'd be in favour of linking your "single unified instant messaging account", if that ever happens, to your e-mail address, because then e-mail programs could automatically display your IM status too.
Actually, for a long time, ICQ was the only instant messaging platform. AOL bought Mirabilis, the creators of ICQ, shortly after the development of AIM.
I'm sure there are some region free high-end DVD players out there... anyone want to point some out?
Techtronics (A UK company, but ship abroad) take DVD players, high-end or otherwise, chip them to be multi-region (and usually disable Macrovision too), and then resell them.
I've always wanted to hook up one of those big LED text scroller things that you sometimes see in shop windows to my PC, to display the time and things like "You have mail!"
My e-mail is currently hosted at SpamCop,
who do a pretty good job of filtering out spam before it even reaches my
mailbox. They shunt spam into a seperate folder using the excellent SpamCop
blacklist, and can also optionally use additional blacklists including SPEWS,
Osirusoft, ORDB, Spamhaus, Monkeys.com, etc. etc.
Combine that with POP3, IMAP, and web access, and also the ability to suck mail out of existing POP3 accounts and I think it's
excellent value.
No, they're not paying me to say all that, I'm just an extremely happy
customer.:)
Well that's the point isn't it? Everyone has their own personal favourite. IMDB take account of the opinions of a whole lot of people and, for the "Top X" lists, they only count the people who have voted for more than a few movies, and then apply a "secret" algorithm to guard against people voting unusually high or low just to change a movie's rank.
In that sense, I think it's the most accurate list out there.
EtherPEG is rather cool, downloaded onto my office Mac and saw various gifs floating past.:)
Pity there's no Windows version - it also suffers if you're behind a switch - can't see any traffic on network segments the other side of the switch. Bummer.
He doesn't appear to know a lot about what he's talking about. He calls a jpeg saved at 25% compression "25:1", where in fact the quality setting has direct relationship with file sizes.
Here are some tips I've found over the years of putting together web sites:
There's no difference between saving at 95% quality and 100% quality, other than file size. It's pointless to make jpegs at >95% quality.
75% quality is what I call "print quality", because it's the highest compression you can get away with on paper before people start saying "Eww, jpeg".
50% quality is usually the smallest you can make jpegs for viewing on the web before people start noticing.
Use 5% or 10% quality for ultra-ultra small files, although they will look pretty terrible. Anything less than 5% quality is pretty much unusable.
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I also hate DVDs that disable the "Subtitle" and "Audio" buttons on your remote, forcing you to go through the stupid menus instead. One particularly bad offender of this is the Futurama box set.
I'm glad I live in a country with advert-free TV.
Godwin's law strikes again.
However, I'd be in favour of linking your "single unified instant messaging account", if that ever happens, to your e-mail address, because then e-mail programs could automatically display your IM status too.
Actually, for a long time, ICQ was the only instant messaging platform. AOL bought Mirabilis, the creators of ICQ, shortly after the development of AIM.
Most LCD monitors are not multisync.
If I want their business, I will go to them. Spam me, and you will never, ever, get my money.
After seeing holes in OpenBSD and Apache recently, I guess it's Microsoft's turn again. ;)
I'm sure there are some region free high-end DVD players out there... anyone want to point some out?
Techtronics (A UK company, but ship abroad) take DVD players, high-end or otherwise, chip them to be multi-region (and usually disable Macrovision too), and then resell them.
Lovely.
"18", the new album, just isn't as good IMHO, and I'm sure that's the reason why it's selling less, and not due any music copying going on.
Amusingly, Moby used to be an MP3 advocate, even appearing in an advert for the Apple iPod.
But I don't even if know if it's possible...
What's not true? I can't see anywhere where I contradicted anything you just said.
My e-mail is currently hosted at SpamCop, who do a pretty good job of filtering out spam before it even reaches my mailbox. They shunt spam into a seperate folder using the excellent SpamCop blacklist, and can also optionally use additional blacklists including SPEWS, Osirusoft, ORDB, Spamhaus, Monkeys.com, etc. etc.
Combine that with POP3, IMAP, and web access, and also the ability to suck mail out of existing POP3 accounts and I think it's excellent value.
No, they're not paying me to say all that, I'm just an extremely happy customer. :)
SuSE and Mandrake, however, come pretty darn close.
Funny, it lists scientology.org first when I click on your link.
It's changed since I wrote that comment. They must have seen it. I should have kept quiet. ;)
Google is currently listing Operation Clambake first.
You can already install Linux on an iPAQ, other hardware can't be too tricky.
I'm a bit confused, though. Isn't this what GPRS is supposed to accomplish?
"The Andromeda Strain" has a score of 7.0, and thus doesn't appear in the Top 50 sci-fi movies. Besides, the book is far better.
As a side note, the bottom 10 sci-fi movies is quite amusing:
10 Zaat (1972) 1.6/10 (266 votes)
9 Space Mutiny (1988) 1.6/10 (781 votes)
8 Uchu Kaisoku-sen (1961) 1.6/10 (214 votes)
7 Uomo puma, L' (1980) 1.6/10 (460 votes)
6 Hobgoblins (1987) 1.6/10 (1185 votes)
5 Track of the Moon Beast (1976) 1.6/10 (250 votes)
4 Eye Creatures, The (1965) 1.5/10 (246 votes)
3 Madmen of Mandoras (1963) 1.5/10 (74 votes)
2 Monster a-Go Go (1965) 1.5/10 (265 votes)
1 Beast of Yucca Flats, The (1961) 1.5/10 (221 votes)
In that sense, I think it's the most accurate list out there.
IMDB have a much better weighted ranking system based on user votes. Their top Sci-Fi movies are:
1 Star Wars (1977) 8.7/10 (77559 votes)
2 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 8.7/10 (31705 votes)
3 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) 8.6/10 (58919 votes)
4 Matrix, The (1999) 8.3/10 (69300 votes)
5 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 8.3/10 (36486 votes)
6 Metropolis (1927) 8.2/10 (5187 votes)
7 Donnie Darko (2001) 8.2/10 (3590 votes)
8 Alien (1979) 8.2/10 (32155 votes)
9 Clockwork Orange, A (1971) 8.2/10 (32662 votes)
10 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) 8.2/10 (11199 votes)
11 Blade Runner (1982) 8.1/10 (42768 votes)
12 Spider-Man (2002) 8.1/10 (10504 votes)
13 Aliens (1986) 8.1/10 (35399 votes)
14 Iron Giant, The (1999) 8.0/10 (6877 votes)
15 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) 8.0/10 (44823 votes)
16 Abre los ojos (1997) 7.9/10 (2873 votes)
17 Brazil (1985) 7.9/10 (17398 votes)
18 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 7.9/10 (39419 votes)
19 Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951) 7.9/10 (5131 votes)
20 Back to the Future (1985) 7.8/10 (34951 votes)
Pity there's no Windows version - it also suffers if you're behind a switch - can't see any traffic on network segments the other side of the switch. Bummer.
How on Earth do you control the mouse on that thing?
He doesn't appear to know a lot about what he's talking about. He calls a jpeg saved at 25% compression "25:1", where in fact the quality setting has direct relationship with file sizes.
Here are some tips I've found over the years of putting together web sites:
Mr. Smith is now office head.
:)
Mr. Smith is now off his head.
Spot the difference.