The fact that you envy him because of the money is an example of why I called this sad.
It's not enough that lawyers are suing everyone and everything into oblivion, but now we have a segment of the ad business catering to them? that is sad.
Well we have debit cards in Iceland as well. Maestro (owned by Mastercard) and Visa Electron (owned by, suprise, Visa). Each purchase triggers a fee to MC/Visa. Debit cards are better than credit cards in that you are spending the money you own, rather than borrowing and paying a month later with interest. But debit cards are definatley not without fees.
Well the situation where I live (Iceland) is a bit different than in other non-english speaking countries. Movies are not dubbed here (with the exception of animated films). Subtitle creation is no a credible reason, I think. Sometimes premiers are close to US premiers, sometimes Europe. But DVD-wise we are region 2.
My point however was that player cracking and between-region purchasing make the region system moot.
The Samsung 709 and 909 are "crackable" via a special remote code. I would also suspect the Thomson 3600 which looks like a repackaged samsung 909.
What this shows (along with the PSX2) is that members of the DVD consortium aren't taking the (ridiculous) region code rules seriously.
Since anybody in the world can order Region 1 disks from amazon.com and others, and since nearly every player is modifiable (via menus, special remote codes or straight hardware fixes) this region code stuff is never going to be effective. I say just forget about it and start releasing films in theaters at the same time all over the world.
OK, so I haven't read all the replies (sp), but I think that those that are bitchin' about bad posts are doing so prematurely. I mean come on this place (slashdot) is just a slice of society and there are bastards here as there are elsewhere come on guys, you are seasoned enough to know who are trolls and who are not so lets stay serious. A very important man is lost but your mention/reply of the trolls are not good, so stay real!
Slashdot Mirror
The fact that you envy him because of the money is an example of why I called this sad.
It's not enough that lawyers are suing everyone and everything into oblivion, but now we have a segment of the ad business catering to them? that is sad.
What a sad state the US is in now.....
-haffi
You may have won 1,000,000 dollars.
sound familiar?
-haffi
In Firefox while veiwing one of those google print pages:
Tools-PageInfo-Media, select relevant image, click Save-As.
-haffi
To bad that:
"Virtual PC 2004 does not support universal serial bus (USB) connections. "
(From the online help for Virtual PC 2004)
Well we have debit cards in Iceland as well. Maestro (owned by Mastercard) and Visa Electron (owned by, suprise, Visa). Each purchase triggers a fee to MC/Visa. Debit cards are better than credit cards in that you are spending the money you own, rather than borrowing and paying a month later with interest. But debit cards are definatley not without fees.
My car has a defect that makes it cause accidents, is that my fault or the manufacturers?
You call yourself a pr0n collector? You bring shame to that title!
I comes with its own librarian.
FBI/DOD/CIA/SS contract but has yet to implement his promises...
If I'm driving down the highway randomly switching lanes, causing accidents and havoc I will probably be stopped by the cops with force.
If you don't play nice, then get the funk out of the playground and if you don't your mom will come to pick you up.
Saw a box/mb marked NLX once, VERY small, only room for 1 hard disk, and a laptop dvd/cdrom.
Onboard audio and ethernet, a really sweet box.
So they don't all go down in flames when one kicks the bucket.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't the first IBM compatible PC's the result of reverse engineering the IBM BIOS?
Most of them accept NTSC, at least mine does.
Sony 32FX20E, goes for about 1200 UK pounds,
got it for $1100 USD on sale!
-haffi
Well the situation where I live (Iceland) is a bit different than in other non-english speaking countries. Movies are not dubbed here (with the exception of animated films). Subtitle creation is no a credible reason, I think. Sometimes premiers are close to US premiers, sometimes Europe. But DVD-wise we are region 2.
My point however was that player cracking and between-region purchasing make the region system moot.
-haffi
The Samsung 709 and 909 are "crackable" via
a special remote code. I would also suspect the Thomson 3600 which looks like a repackaged samsung 909.
What this shows (along with the PSX2) is that members of the DVD consortium aren't taking the (ridiculous) region code rules seriously.
Since anybody in the world can order Region 1 disks from amazon.com and others, and since nearly every player is modifiable (via menus, special remote codes or straight hardware fixes) this region code stuff is never going to be effective. I say just forget about it and start releasing films in theaters at the same time all over the world.
-haffi
OK, so I haven't read all the replies (sp), but
I think that those that are bitchin' about bad
posts are doing so prematurely. I mean come on
this place (slashdot) is just a slice of society
and there are bastards here as there are elsewhere
come on guys, you are seasoned enough to know who are trolls and who are not so lets stay serious. A very important man is lost but your
mention/reply of the trolls are not good, so stay
real!
-haffi
What's a collectivist?
TIA
-haffi
>Why do people in general have to create sucks.com sites?
1. Greed
2. Ad Banners
As long as the reciever is paying for the
bandwidth he/she uses spam should be illegal.
Nobody should have to pay to recieve ads.