One of the reasons that I'm able to keep track of my finances is that there's a Palm Pilot Quicken tool which allows me to track everything I do throughout the day, even when I'm nowhere near a computer to enter the transaction. Without this tool remembering every expense was getting extremely difficult and I was considering giving up on the project.
Now, before I even consider looking at this program, does it have a similar attachment?
Yuck. Ok, maybe I don't know how to control flash properly, but is it even possible to pause, or jump around, in a flash animation? If I'm going to be watching a half hour episode of a long series of animated featurettes, I want to be able to pause them when the phone rings. Or, missing that, I want to be able to quickly and easily jump around the animation with an easy to use slide bar (or some equivalent).
Expecting me to sit still for thirty minutes without these options is something that I'm not willing to tolerate for the sake of an anti-war cartoon series.
Now, short animations in flash are fine. Anything longer than five minutes really needs to make the transition out into another format. Give me mpeg, give me avi, give me divx, give me quicktime... give me ANYTHING that I can pause.
Does this bother anyone else? Am I missing an easy way to jump around in flash?
This is a pretty minor non-issue for the record companies I'd imagine. If radio stations are having a difficult time playing CDs with copy protection then one of two things will happen.
1. The record companies will simply send radio stations CDs without copy protection. It's not like it would be difficult for them to run two versions of the CD.
2. The radio stations will simply download the songs they want to play (probably after obtaining a copy of the physical CD to counter any potential piracy lawsuits down the road.
Either way, the radio stations are going to play the songs and the record companies aren't going to really care much. This isn't a major issue.
The AI game was brilliant. A masterpiece of understated, yet completely original and untested creativity. Nobody had every tried a game on the scale of the AI game before, and just the fact that it was so untested made everybody (including the eventually titled "Puppet Masters") invent every aspect of how the game was supposed to work as they went along.
It was an amazing experience and I wish everyone could have taken part in it. These new-fangled rip-offs can't compare.
Well, if you bought a computer with no CD drive, you could always download pirated movies, music, books and software. That doesn't require a CD drive and would indeed cost the big corporations money (assuming that if you had been unable to download them, you would have purchased them).
What's that link all about? It's not even a valid IP, is it?
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You mention Jerry Pournelle and don't mention his best work "Footfall"! How can you not mention a book about two trunked elephants from outer space who invade Kansas? It just doesn't get better.
I don't remember the episode name, but that episode marked when I stopped taping all Simpsons, hence putting a stop to my collection which I started during the 3rd season (though I had watched season's 1 and 2, it was only during the genius 3rd season that I realized that these things had to be recorded and rewatched repeatedly).
So why was said episode so terrible? I'm not sure, really, it just was too random for random's sake (cf. Family Guy) and is it me or was the Simpson's starting to get more raunchy and puerile in their humor? Then there was the business about "the Simpson's get a horse?" blah blah comic book guy comes out with Worst Episode Ever t-shirt on and that was funny but it would have been funnier if the saying on the t-shirt wasn't true. My theory: the writers realized that the episode was so terrible that they threw that in there so fans like me would look like idiots when they pointed out that it was indeed the worst episode ever. Good thinking on their part.
Three other terrible episodes off the top of my head: Maude's Death, Homer becomes a missionary, the family goes to florida (the dueling part was all right), any episode in the last 4 or 5 years featuring celebrities, any moment in the last 4 years where they make a self-referential joke about the Simpsons.
Renewed for another 2 years? I hate to sound like a pretentious jerk, but the more popular the Simspons have got among the mainstream, the worse the show has become (admittedly, it was popular in the early years but in an ignorant this-show-is-so-edgy sort of way - it was only when the mainstream realized that the show was such a cutting satire of american culture (and how it bugs me to hear this tripe now) that it became hip instead of normal to love the show).
I was sent a cease and desist order for selling 16mm (not even 35mm) movie trailers on Ebay. Selling them on Ebay wasn't the same as giving them away via P2P, but I've got a feeling they won't go much easier on you because of it... at least I wasn't giving away digital copies. They really hate that.
Does anyone else disbelieve every single story they read on Ananova? Just wondering. As far as I can tell they're one step up from the Weekly World News.
Who is it that always mods these posts up. Every time there's a story about television, someone chimes in early with a "I haven't watched TV for ten years and I'm better for it. Throw your TV away!" post. I'm vasilating between whether I think these posting are trolls, just idiots, but that's not relevant.
What is relevant, is the fact that someone, each and every time, decides that these posts are worth modding up.
They're not.
They're not interesting. They're not insightful. They're not funny. They're either off-topic or they're troll. Please start modding them down, or at least not modding them up.
Don't worry about the alarmist graphic. You'll note that they BBC online site uses that "giant asteroid destroying the Earth" image every second on third asteroid story they run. Here's a few recent favorites with the scary image:
So, yeah, basically you should ignore that image. It's not related to the story in any but the most basic level; it's a picture of an asteroid hitting the Earth... a stock one.
I made the effort to see Episode 2 at a digital theater and was very happy with it. I know a lot of people have complained about jagged edges, but I really didn't see any. To me the difference between watching film and watching digital was the difference between watching VHS and watching DVD. The screen didn't jitter up and down. There were no scratches and no dust. The colors were vivid and very clear... I thought it was great and worth the extra drive to get to the theater. Even the "Don't Talk, Throw Away Your Trash" opening sequence was much better.
Yes, they did choose that business model, and they're obligated to take responsibility when it fails. Don't get mad at them for continuing to use their business model. They're not the one choosing to watch television, YOU ARE. If you don't like their business model, stop watching it.
I don't have a Tivo, but I do have a little proxy that removes all the ads from the Internet for me. It's great. But here's the thing, I readily admit that if everyone used this tool, the free Internet would die. Right now it's all based on ad money, and if the advertisers recognize that nobody can even see their ad, they're simply going to stop paying for that style of ad.
Now, you've all been so gung-ho about Tivos, about how great it is that you don't see ads anymore (along with all the other totally unmissable features). That's great for you, but you have to recognize that as soon as advertizers sense that you're not watching the ads anymore, they're going to either pull the funding away from television, or make the ads more irritating.
Is anybody actually surprised that this is happening? You're pushing us towards a future where we can either pay for ad-free premium channels, or ad-ful cheapers channels. The Tivo removal of ads isn't a long term solution, you're only making the long term situation much more gloomy. Admit to yourselves that you're either killing the industry that you love, or you're creating a profit environment where they're forced to annoy you with more and more aggressive ads.
It's not their fault that the ads have to get more intrusive, it's yours. Stop whining about it.
For what it's worth I just download and installed a patch (I'll assume there's only one at the moment) for my WindowsME version of Media Player. I skimmed through the EULA that I had to sign off on, and did not see the alleged references to DRM. Maybe they changed it, or maybe it's not in the ME update. Don't know.
A book called The Trigger goes into a fairly in depth subplot about a man arranging his own death/arrest program. The book itself is a little bit weak, but kind of a fun read.
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One of the reasons that I'm able to keep track of my finances is that there's a Palm Pilot Quicken tool which allows me to track everything I do throughout the day, even when I'm nowhere near a computer to enter the transaction. Without this tool remembering every expense was getting extremely difficult and I was considering giving up on the project.
Now, before I even consider looking at this program, does it have a similar attachment?
Yuck. Ok, maybe I don't know how to control flash properly, but is it even possible to pause, or jump around, in a flash animation? If I'm going to be watching a half hour episode of a long series of animated featurettes, I want to be able to pause them when the phone rings. Or, missing that, I want to be able to quickly and easily jump around the animation with an easy to use slide bar (or some equivalent).
Expecting me to sit still for thirty minutes without these options is something that I'm not willing to tolerate for the sake of an anti-war cartoon series.
Now, short animations in flash are fine. Anything longer than five minutes really needs to make the transition out into another format. Give me mpeg, give me avi, give me divx, give me quicktime... give me ANYTHING that I can pause.
Does this bother anyone else? Am I missing an easy way to jump around in flash?
This is a pretty minor non-issue for the record companies I'd imagine. If radio stations are having a difficult time playing CDs with copy protection then one of two things will happen.
1. The record companies will simply send radio stations CDs without copy protection. It's not like it would be difficult for them to run two versions of the CD.
2. The radio stations will simply download the songs they want to play (probably after obtaining a copy of the physical CD to counter any potential piracy lawsuits down the road.
Either way, the radio stations are going to play the songs and the record companies aren't going to really care much. This isn't a major issue.
Yes, shot. That seems an appropriate level of punishment. Not at all exaggerated. Someone get the shotgun.
Yeah, that would discourage me.
The AI game was brilliant. A masterpiece of understated, yet completely original and untested creativity. Nobody had every tried a game on the scale of the AI game before, and just the fact that it was so untested made everybody (including the eventually titled "Puppet Masters") invent every aspect of how the game was supposed to work as they went along.
It was an amazing experience and I wish everyone could have taken part in it. These new-fangled rip-offs can't compare.
Well, if you bought a computer with no CD drive, you could always download pirated movies, music, books and software. That doesn't require a CD drive and would indeed cost the big corporations money (assuming that if you had been unable to download them, you would have purchased them).
So, yeah, your logic is kind of flawed there.
Jesus freaking Christ!
What's that link all about? It's not even a valid IP, is it?
You mention Jerry Pournelle and don't mention his best work "Footfall"! How can you not mention a book about two trunked elephants from outer space who invade Kansas? It just doesn't get better.
You're writing in a community of people who use an alternative to Microsoft for their OS. Where's the monopoly?
Even with 15 hours of streamed audio at 128Kbps, someone would only do about ~850megabytes.
Uh-huh. What if you want 24 hours in your home? What if you want a higher bitrate? What if you want video?
I don't remember the episode name, but that episode marked when I stopped taping all Simpsons, hence putting a stop to my collection which I started during the 3rd season (though I had watched season's 1 and 2, it was only during the genius 3rd season that I realized that these things had to be recorded and rewatched repeatedly).
So why was said episode so terrible? I'm not sure, really, it just was too random for random's sake (cf. Family Guy) and is it me or was the Simpson's starting to get more raunchy and puerile in their humor? Then there was the business about "the Simpson's get a horse?" blah blah comic book guy comes out with Worst Episode Ever t-shirt on and that was funny but it would have been funnier if the saying on the t-shirt wasn't true. My theory: the writers realized that the episode was so terrible that they threw that in there so fans like me would look like idiots when they pointed out that it was indeed the worst episode ever. Good thinking on their part.
Three other terrible episodes off the top of my head: Maude's Death, Homer becomes a missionary, the family goes to florida (the dueling part was all right), any episode in the last 4 or 5 years featuring celebrities, any moment in the last 4 years where they make a self-referential joke about the Simpsons.
Renewed for another 2 years? I hate to sound like a pretentious jerk, but the more popular the Simspons have got among the mainstream, the worse the show has become (admittedly, it was popular in the early years but in an ignorant this-show-is-so-edgy sort of way - it was only when the mainstream realized that the show was such a cutting satire of american culture (and how it bugs me to hear this tripe now) that it became hip instead of normal to love the show).
movie trailers
I was sent a cease and desist order for selling 16mm (not even 35mm) movie trailers on Ebay. Selling them on Ebay wasn't the same as giving them away via P2P, but I've got a feeling they won't go much easier on you because of it... at least I wasn't giving away digital copies. They really hate that.
Does anyone else disbelieve every single story they read on Ananova? Just wondering. As far as I can tell they're one step up from the Weekly World News.
Ha. Petty funny.
Who is it that always mods these posts up. Every time there's a story about television, someone chimes in early with a "I haven't watched TV for ten years and I'm better for it. Throw your TV away!" post. I'm vasilating between whether I think these posting are trolls, just idiots, but that's not relevant.
What is relevant, is the fact that someone, each and every time, decides that these posts are worth modding up.
They're not.
They're not interesting. They're not insightful. They're not funny. They're either off-topic or they're troll. Please start modding them down, or at least not modding them up.
No real comment, this just seems like a plug moreso than a story.
Don't worry about the alarmist graphic. You'll note that they BBC online site uses that "giant asteroid destroying the Earth" image every second on third asteroid story they run. Here's a few recent favorites with the scary image:
Asteroid Impact Centre Site Selected
Earth at Lower Risk of Impact
UK Centre to Study Asteroid Threat
So, yeah, basically you should ignore that image. It's not related to the story in any but the most basic level; it's a picture of an asteroid hitting the Earth... a stock one.
I made the effort to see Episode 2 at a digital theater and was very happy with it. I know a lot of people have complained about jagged edges, but I really didn't see any. To me the difference between watching film and watching digital was the difference between watching VHS and watching DVD. The screen didn't jitter up and down. There were no scratches and no dust. The colors were vivid and very clear... I thought it was great and worth the extra drive to get to the theater. Even the "Don't Talk, Throw Away Your Trash" opening sequence was much better.
Yes, they did choose that business model, and they're obligated to take responsibility when it fails. Don't get mad at them for continuing to use their business model. They're not the one choosing to watch television, YOU ARE. If you don't like their business model, stop watching it.
I don't have a Tivo, but I do have a little proxy that removes all the ads from the Internet for me. It's great. But here's the thing, I readily admit that if everyone used this tool, the free Internet would die. Right now it's all based on ad money, and if the advertisers recognize that nobody can even see their ad, they're simply going to stop paying for that style of ad.
Now, you've all been so gung-ho about Tivos, about how great it is that you don't see ads anymore (along with all the other totally unmissable features). That's great for you, but you have to recognize that as soon as advertizers sense that you're not watching the ads anymore, they're going to either pull the funding away from television, or make the ads more irritating.
Is anybody actually surprised that this is happening? You're pushing us towards a future where we can either pay for ad-free premium channels, or ad-ful cheapers channels. The Tivo removal of ads isn't a long term solution, you're only making the long term situation much more gloomy. Admit to yourselves that you're either killing the industry that you love, or you're creating a profit environment where they're forced to annoy you with more and more aggressive ads.
It's not their fault that the ads have to get more intrusive, it's yours. Stop whining about it.
What? Like the Japanese companies are doing it to lose money?
For what it's worth I just download and installed a patch (I'll assume there's only one at the moment) for my WindowsME version of Media Player. I skimmed through the EULA that I had to sign off on, and did not see the alleged references to DRM. Maybe they changed it, or maybe it's not in the ME update. Don't know.
A book called The Trigger goes into a fairly in depth subplot about a man arranging his own death/arrest program. The book itself is a little bit weak, but kind of a fun read.