Many people don't choose to buy Lexmark, they get them for free. More don't know they have a Lexmark, they are branded Dell or whatever. They don't understand each time they spend $26.99 on black 10ml of black they are spending USD $1,0217.35 a gal on ink. Say what you want about HP, but the 21ml 800p #96 cart is $30 or there and abouts of $5400/gal. The Canon Bci3eBK at $13.99 is 25ml, but claims only a 500p count, and squeeks in at $2118.42/gal.
The latest HP inkjet models with the HP 94/95/96/97 cartriges are just the latest example of this tactic.
I'm not up on current HPs. I know that the HP 94 black has a yield of 450p and will fit into printers that also accept the HP 96 with an 800p yield. What I don't know is if the lower priced printers that say the replacement ink is HP 94 will accept the 96 black.
Does HPs lock the lower end printers to the cart that has a higher cost per page?
How can that not stand up, but "some company" can attack on the grounds of DRM violation?
You can argue that to copy a disc that is protected always violates the copyright. I don't agree with personaly, but the arguement is stronger because we are talking about material that costs millions of dollars to produce. You don't need a Disney DVD player to buy DVDs.
Lexmark doesn't have a copyright on colored liquid, nor apparently do they have the right to force you to buy your colored liquid from them. And let's face it, DVDs are cheaper than cartridges.
Has anybody organized a boycott of Lexmark due to their use of these anti-competitive and anti-consumer policies?
It's hard to boycott Lexmark when their printers are sold under so many other names. And it's even harder to boycott something you didn't buy in the first place. Often times the Lexmark is the free printer you get with your PC. Other times, the computer would cost more without the printer.
It's harder for the consumer to know they are getting a bad deal with that free printer. After all the cost of the lexmark cartrige is about the same as HP, just a thimble full of ink.
Last time I checked, however, the cartridges that came with my printer held half or less what the regular cartridges did, making it cheapere to buy cartridges.
My Epson r200 came with a full set of ink. It's cost was $25 more than a full set of ink not on sale. With rebates which I didn't bother to get in this case, the cost would be a little bit more than the ink.
My Canon ip3000 came with a full set. After the rebate the cost is a tiny bit more than the ink. But the Epson was kauput and it's cost was cheaper than OEM ink for the Epson.
Every once and a while there are coupons and sales that make the printer cost less than ink cost. Rebates are generally one only per household, making it harder for one to just buy lots of printers.
It seems to me that everytime you buy 4 printer cartridges, you've already paid the price for a new printer (inkjets). So why not just build a printer with a really large cartridge size and then expect people to throw the entire printer away. Make the cartidge non-removable of course... but then again I am not in the printer business and last I heard HP is still chugging along...
I have thought from time to time about the idea of designing a printer that would take bulk ink. Make to either accept a new 30ml or 60ml bottle that can either be replaced as a whole or replenished. The problem is I couldn't do it for a reasonable price. What consumer would consider a $300 to $500 when you can presently buy one for $50 to $100.
The only people likely to consider such an option are those who want the print yield of a laser, yet the glossy quality of dye, and those lot for the most part are perfectly happy chucking out $100 to $500 for a new printer every 6 months or so.
And why mess with the current gravy train? If it costs $75 to refill your current printer, and a new model costs $100.00, in a years time the net cost to upgrade is only $25. Or wait till they are on sale when the net cost is 0. Plenty of Canon or Epson after market bulk ink kits while not pretty do the trick for either the frugal consumer that doesn't want to pay $3000/$5000/$10,000/gal or the control freak that has to use x ink on x paper.
McFact: 185 degrees is the proper temperature for coffee, not a problem to be solved.
McFact: McDonalds made it a choice to brew, store, and serve their coffee beyond the normal 185F. The manual in the 80s listed 195F. Rather than using thermometers they turned up the heat to boiling and turned it down a notch resulting in a pour temp of over 195F, into sealed styrofoam mugs.
McFact: 185F coffee does not cause 3rd degree burns. 2nd degree burns are possible. Surgery and skin grafts are not required for normal coffee spills.
McFact: They were aware of the problem but refused to turn down their pots just a notch.
McFact: A reasonable restaurant, whether big chain or small fry has insurance, and so long as you provide photographs will pay for reasonable damages and even offer a small amount of pain and suffering.
Best example. I had deep fried oysters at Ivers... and broke a tooth on a pearl. I spit out the pearl and tooth fragments and filed an accident report. They agreed to pay the dental bill and offered a small amount for suffering. McDonalds refused to pay medical expences and got sued.
Okay, first of all if they are schizophrenic, they will slip deeper and deeper without treatment.
Actually I've found religion for example is a great vehicle for the mentally ill as it gives them something to hold on to. Keeps nutters happy and helps prevent them from being a threat to them selves and others.
Giving such people something to do is the best form of therapy.
Second, their actions are affecting the neighbors
Yes, it's an eye sore... how terrible! Others in this thread recommended high grade aluminum siding which would stop the affect this has on the neighbors. I remember as a child I got investigated by the city for the "tree house" I had built. The tree house was nothing more than a foam cushion I happened to bring up in a tree so my butt wouldn't get dirty and was 100% hidden from view from the street, and a small radio/tape deck. The people who complained sited numerous safety and building code violations for my tree house which were investigated over a period of 14 days most of it were electrical inspectors who were under the impression that new outlets were installed which required proper grounding that was totally absent... totally absent because there was no electricity in the tree. Eventually they gave up as there was no construction what so ever and decided that the people who were phoning them on a daily basis were 100% off their rocker.
And claiming that the radiation is causing these ill effects with no backing is a symptom of mental illness. So is the look in the eyes of the lady who lives there.
Breathing in and out and drinking water is also a symptom of mental illness. I'm not saying you are wrong... someone putting on the tin foil hat after 9/11 could very well be mentaly ill. But at the same time, as a people we considered anyone who thought high voltage powerlines with cancer nuts. So I welcome anyone who wishes to take the time and study any possible ill effects exposure to human produced radiation and any benifit of faraday cage. Given in the past 30 years our use of radio has increased exponentially it's something worth looking into.
I'm sure there will be plenty of Tinfoil Hat Jokes and other posts, but after reading the article I'd say they need lithium, not aluminum. That is to say, the "radio waves" deal is typical in schizophrenic patients.
If someone who is schizophrenic feels better about wearing a tinfoil hat or living in a tinfoil house I think it's great. Tinfoil is cheaper than a lithium prescription. For all I know, they might be hearing voices in the same way that some people with dental work can pickup AM radio stations in their mouth.
There's a difference between being unique and unusual, and having mental issues.
From TFA it's a health concern from radiation, not mind control. Given I can cook a chicken breast with a microwave the assumption that radio can cause health problems is very reasonable. I welcome anyone who wants to construct a faraday cage and document any impact on their health. If they are right they might do the world some good, if they are wrong no harm, and if they are just nuts they are at least busy doing something that isn't impacting you.
I never had a problem with aluminium foil
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I had one of those days where I ran out of newspaper, masking paper, and still needed to pain some trim. So I used aluminium foil. I never got as much as a dirty look from anyone, except a couple of friends who asked me if I had problems with voices in my head. The only saftey issue I could think was if the sun hit the foil just right and blinded someone, but as it was applied mostly to the north side I didn't see it being a problem.
Than Republican Storm Troopers? Well... I guess an army of Ronald Reagans, George Bushs, G.W. Bushs in white masks white armor and laser is very threating.
I think the issue is "selective memory loss" - Microsoft plays this card all the time in court. Emails from a relevant time period are "deleted" when convenient, while older or newer or even contemporaneous mail is saved... the judge in this case was simply smart enough to call shenanigans
If you've used Outlook and Exchange you'd know this is a feature, but this feature doesn't work if your client useing SMTP and POP.
Blade Runner (1982) I believe employed the use of either low orbit billboards, or just random hovering billboards. Hard to tell what the effect was intended to be.
With hard disks as cheap as they are, and the advanced archiving capabilities of todays' software, I wonder why they would delete these emails except for the purpose of destroying/frustrating investigations.
I'm sure I might have some e-mail from 1997 on some 5.25 inch ESDI hard disc somewhere. I might even have an ISA ESDI controller, and with enough luck, I might and I stress might be able to find a motherboard that will actually use the ESDI controller. And who knows, it might be the right controller that can read how the data is encoded, the drive might still be working and I might be able to remember whether I turned spare sector off or not. The software that reads the e-mail might even still be working, or better still it could be in ascii and readable. And who knows, I might be right about the fact that it was on an ESDI drive and not one of the random scsi drives I have in boxes.
Given the cost of tape, disc-r, and drives I would agree cost of the medium is not the issue. The issue is employing a method of archiving this data in a way that can be easily accessed. Letting it sit in your inbox doesn't count. A stack of 100 hard drives that may or may not be marked with a sharpy doesn't count.
The tried and true method of printing out e-mails and placing them in folders would count, and you are correct in this way they have no excuse. A system that processes incoming and outgoing e-mail, indexed based on from, to, and time would count. But since they don't have these in place they should resort to treating e-mails like they do their paper medium, put it on paper and use their existing storage techniques.
The ones that were made to look like old fims of their exhalted founder giving lectures on the importance of integrity and vision and crap like that.
As a rule of thumb, when you see commercials like are either either for financial planning or an imported snack. Mentos at least has the decency to make clear by showing the product at the end. Unless you know it's the Mentos jingle it's easy to confuse with a financial planning or funerial commercial.
And I thought only Windows users were dumb. How silly of me!
Apple's claim to fame was selling turn key technology the likes of which you just turn on and use without thinking about. In the mid 90s for example they had a good commercial where average Joe was trying to get his PC to use his CD-rom drive, quoting the manual "In autoexec dot bat mscdex/d driver where driver is defined in your config dot sys" gets fed up, phones his friend and asks if he can use his mac.
It's in good form to explain these details esp Apple who's target market are those who don't want to think about the technical aspect of technology.
I was worried at first when I loaded it into media player classic, because it said 34 minutes for the total time, but the movie played past the 34minute mark (there were some errors that cause the movie to jump back a couple seconds at the 34minute mark, before continuing on, it was kinda weird, happened at the 1hour and 2hour mark too).
Ummm... that is either a codec issue or more likely the length of the chapter. Look in the goto menu and see if it displays many chapters, and see if it allows you to jump to them. Media Player Classic isn't very full featured and it's not obvious if you are looking at a multi-chapter mpeg/vob video unless you look at the goto menu.
For example... if you rename the.vob file to.mpg and play in winamp some use of some codecs will display the length of the first chapter and winamp will display the time of the first chapter and just play beyond that not allowing you to use the seek bar beyond the length of the first chapter, or will show the time of the entire mpeg.
I saw it at 12:05am. The downloadable version is probably very crappy quality, especially the sound. See it in theaters - simply amazing! You don't get that kind of experience from a computer.
From what I'm told, there is a workprint edition floating around the net. It may or not be before special effects have been added, I'm unsure. But such an edition isn't going to be the crappy poor sound some guy with a cam corder edition. Judging from the file sizes I see floating about we are looking at DVD ep mode, which well franky isn't all that great. But on par with VCDs that are still popular.
RTFA. It's restricted to UK users, so no Yanks allowed (this is for the same reason that BBC America has adverts - the BBC is publicly funded by the TV license fee in the UK).
BBC-A is limited to cable and dish networks. On my cable it's part of the standard analog set, where most others cable providers put it on the digital which requires box rental. I've always wondered why they decided to go with a comercial station rather than a subscription. Hell if they wanted to they could just rebroadcast what the UK sees, time delayed 5 and/or 8hrs. If they could get away with charging the standard license fee... it would be cheap in contrast to other comercial free stations.
Smeg wasn't used as a swear word at all in England until Red Dwarf, and still isn't, really. The Grant/Naylor used it as an innoffensive word that could be a swear word but would get past any censors.
Point was because most Americans are circumcised the smeg or smegma isn't in common use... as an exclamation or otherwise. Funny thing about not having foreskins.
although everyone's gone estuary now:-(
Estuary? You mean the tap water is so bad they fetch it from the mouth of the river? I can see how that might affect how one talks.
Re:Apple is a 2.0 or 3.0 company most of the time.
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As the article says, the Lisa was a flop, but it led to the original Mac, which led to the real hit, the Mac II
Was the Mac II a real hit? IIRC that's the one that had something close to a full sized case and 6 or so nubus slots and 68020.
Don't get me wrong I bought one for my sister at some point on the used market. I thought it was a nice idea buying a mac that had so many nubus slots, but for the most part they were none too useful. The Macs of that generation always had SCSI on board which was useful for expantion. Mac has it's own networking standard... and even if you had to go ethernet there were scsi ethernet adapters for it. The onboard sound was acceptable so no real need to get a 3rd party sound card. In fact the only nubus upgrade I can think was common at all for the MAC was a graphics board. The only reason I can think of actually buying a Mac II was if you needed to have 4 monitors, but it was very rare a person would need more than two monitors let alone 4.
In short... why would anyone spend extra on a crap load of nubus slots they won't use?
From an English person's point of view, the accents are fairly standard mid-England/London accents. But then, having driven round rural Georgia, I know we are two countries divided by a common language
Don't judge America by Georgia. Being an American I find some New England accents harder to understand, the ones where the Rs are pronounced like Ws, and Rs are thrown in where they don't belong. But at the same time, I find the Liverpool accent easier to understand than New England or Arkansas.
As an English person I've always wanted to know which parts/characters Americans find hard to understand. Or is it just the slang terms used?
I've not seen the Office so I can't speak for it. But a lack of understanding is two fold.
Different vowel pronunciation. Take fuck for instance (fauk-fahk / fook). In yank speak it's far more harsh where in the UK, at least as far north as Liverpool seems to make people giggle (My dear, I would like to fook). What (waat / waut) is another good example.
Different word use.
Queue is not in all that common use in the states, we prefer to "wait in line". "On the pull" is something I never heard till watching BBC material, which I can only imagine would be on something like "The Office".
Knackered / Knackers yard is not common in the states. The only use of "Knackers yard" I heard was in reference to a ship yard.
Words not used in the States.
Smeg/Smegma - (blame Red Dwarf). Circumcision is very popular in the states... so there is no reason to think of smeg at all. Till my teen years, I thought Smegma was a very cheep brand of cigarettes, once which left an awful taste in your mouth (I like him and all but that smegma is awful, I can't stand the taste).
Habbits
Collecting lottery money at the work place (Doctor Who). I've never known a case where any place of employment has pooled together money to buy lottery tickets. Horse races yes, but this by many isn't considered to be acceptable.
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It's called free market, deal with it.
Many people don't choose to buy Lexmark, they get them for free. More don't know they have a Lexmark, they are branded Dell or whatever. They don't understand each time they spend $26.99 on black 10ml of black they are spending USD $1,0217.35 a gal on ink. Say what you want about HP, but the 21ml 800p #96 cart is $30 or there and abouts of $5400/gal. The Canon Bci3eBK at $13.99 is 25ml, but claims only a 500p count, and squeeks in at $2118.42/gal.
The problem is awareness.
The latest HP inkjet models with the HP 94/95/96/97 cartriges are just the latest example of this tactic.
I'm not up on current HPs. I know that the HP 94 black has a yield of 450p and will fit into printers that also accept the HP 96 with an 800p yield. What I don't know is if the lower priced printers that say the replacement ink is HP 94 will accept the 96 black.
Does HPs lock the lower end printers to the cart that has a higher cost per page?
How can that not stand up, but "some company" can attack on the grounds of DRM violation?
You can argue that to copy a disc that is protected always violates the copyright. I don't agree with personaly, but the arguement is stronger because we are talking about material that costs millions of dollars to produce. You don't need a Disney DVD player to buy DVDs.
Lexmark doesn't have a copyright on colored liquid, nor apparently do they have the right to force you to buy your colored liquid from them. And let's face it, DVDs are cheaper than cartridges.
Has anybody organized a boycott of Lexmark due to their use of these anti-competitive and anti-consumer policies?
It's hard to boycott Lexmark when their printers are sold under so many other names. And it's even harder to boycott something you didn't buy in the first place. Often times the Lexmark is the free printer you get with your PC. Other times, the computer would cost more without the printer.
It's harder for the consumer to know they are getting a bad deal with that free printer. After all the cost of the lexmark cartrige is about the same as HP, just a thimble full of ink.
Last time I checked, however, the cartridges that came with my printer held half or less what the regular cartridges did, making it cheapere to buy cartridges.
My Epson r200 came with a full set of ink. It's cost was $25 more than a full set of ink not on sale. With rebates which I didn't bother to get in this case, the cost would be a little bit more than the ink.
My Canon ip3000 came with a full set. After the rebate the cost is a tiny bit more than the ink. But the Epson was kauput and it's cost was cheaper than OEM ink for the Epson.
Every once and a while there are coupons and sales that make the printer cost less than ink cost. Rebates are generally one only per household, making it harder for one to just buy lots of printers.
It seems to me that everytime you buy 4 printer cartridges, you've already paid the price for a new printer (inkjets). So why not just build a printer with a really large cartridge size and then expect people to throw the entire printer away. Make the cartidge non-removable of course... but then again I am not in the printer business and last I heard HP is still chugging along...
I have thought from time to time about the idea of designing a printer that would take bulk ink. Make to either accept a new 30ml or 60ml bottle that can either be replaced as a whole or replenished. The problem is I couldn't do it for a reasonable price. What consumer would consider a $300 to $500 when you can presently buy one for $50 to $100.
The only people likely to consider such an option are those who want the print yield of a laser, yet the glossy quality of dye, and those lot for the most part are perfectly happy chucking out $100 to $500 for a new printer every 6 months or so.
And why mess with the current gravy train? If it costs $75 to refill your current printer, and a new model costs $100.00, in a years time the net cost to upgrade is only $25. Or wait till they are on sale when the net cost is 0. Plenty of Canon or Epson after market bulk ink kits while not pretty do the trick for either the frugal consumer that doesn't want to pay $3000/$5000/$10,000/gal or the control freak that has to use x ink on x paper.
McFact: 185 degrees is the proper temperature for coffee, not a problem to be solved.
McFact: McDonalds made it a choice to brew, store, and serve their coffee beyond the normal 185F. The manual in the 80s listed 195F. Rather than using thermometers they turned up the heat to boiling and turned it down a notch resulting in a pour temp of over 195F, into sealed styrofoam mugs.
McFact: 185F coffee does not cause 3rd degree burns. 2nd degree burns are possible. Surgery and skin grafts are not required for normal coffee spills.
McFact: They were aware of the problem but refused to turn down their pots just a notch.
McFact: A reasonable restaurant, whether big chain or small fry has insurance, and so long as you provide photographs will pay for reasonable damages and even offer a small amount of pain and suffering.
Best example. I had deep fried oysters at Ivers... and broke a tooth on a pearl. I spit out the pearl and tooth fragments and filed an accident report. They agreed to pay the dental bill and offered a small amount for suffering. McDonalds refused to pay medical expences and got sued.
I'm still trying to restore my hallway from all the water damage.
This is what happens when someone gets too sexualy frustrated.
Okay, first of all if they are schizophrenic, they will slip deeper and deeper without treatment.
Actually I've found religion for example is a great vehicle for the mentally ill as it gives them something to hold on to. Keeps nutters happy and helps prevent them from being a threat to them selves and others.
Giving such people something to do is the best form of therapy.
Second, their actions are affecting the neighbors
Yes, it's an eye sore... how terrible! Others in this thread recommended high grade aluminum siding which would stop the affect this has on the neighbors. I remember as a child I got investigated by the city for the "tree house" I had built. The tree house was nothing more than a foam cushion I happened to bring up in a tree so my butt wouldn't get dirty and was 100% hidden from view from the street, and a small radio/tape deck. The people who complained sited numerous safety and building code violations for my tree house which were investigated over a period of 14 days most of it were electrical inspectors who were under the impression that new outlets were installed which required proper grounding that was totally absent... totally absent because there was no electricity in the tree. Eventually they gave up as there was no construction what so ever and decided that the people who were phoning them on a daily basis were 100% off their rocker.
And claiming that the radiation is causing these ill effects with no backing is a symptom of mental illness. So is the look in the eyes of the lady who lives there.
Breathing in and out and drinking water is also a symptom of mental illness. I'm not saying you are wrong... someone putting on the tin foil hat after 9/11 could very well be mentaly ill. But at the same time, as a people we considered anyone who thought high voltage powerlines with cancer nuts. So I welcome anyone who wishes to take the time and study any possible ill effects exposure to human produced radiation and any benifit of faraday cage. Given in the past 30 years our use of radio has increased exponentially it's something worth looking into.
I'm sure there will be plenty of Tinfoil Hat Jokes and other posts, but after reading the article I'd say they need lithium, not aluminum. That is to say, the "radio waves" deal is typical in schizophrenic patients.
If someone who is schizophrenic feels better about wearing a tinfoil hat or living in a tinfoil house I think it's great. Tinfoil is cheaper than a lithium prescription. For all I know, they might be hearing voices in the same way that some people with dental work can pickup AM radio stations in their mouth.
There's a difference between being unique and unusual, and having mental issues.
From TFA it's a health concern from radiation, not mind control. Given I can cook a chicken breast with a microwave the assumption that radio can cause health problems is very reasonable. I welcome anyone who wants to construct a faraday cage and document any impact on their health. If they are right they might do the world some good, if they are wrong no harm, and if they are just nuts they are at least busy doing something that isn't impacting you.
I had one of those days where I ran out of newspaper, masking paper, and still needed to pain some trim. So I used aluminium foil. I never got as much as a dirty look from anyone, except a couple of friends who asked me if I had problems with voices in my head. The only saftey issue I could think was if the sun hit the foil just right and blinded someone, but as it was applied mostly to the north side I didn't see it being a problem.
Clone troopers sounds less threatening.
Than Republican Storm Troopers? Well... I guess an army of Ronald Reagans, George Bushs, G.W. Bushs in white masks white armor and laser is very threating.
What's the point of going to see starwars at 12:05 AM is you don't get to see/make fun of people dressed as imperial stormtroopers?
Would that not be Republican Storm Troopers? As of Episode II the Republic was still intact.
I think the issue is "selective memory loss" - Microsoft plays this card all the time in court. Emails from a relevant time period are "deleted" when convenient, while older or newer or even contemporaneous mail is saved... the judge in this case was simply smart enough to call shenanigans
If you've used Outlook and Exchange you'd know this is a feature, but this feature doesn't work if your client useing SMTP and POP.
Blade Runner (1982) I believe employed the use of either low orbit billboards, or just random hovering billboards. Hard to tell what the effect was intended to be.
With hard disks as cheap as they are, and the advanced archiving capabilities of todays' software, I wonder why they would delete these emails except for the purpose of destroying/frustrating investigations.
I'm sure I might have some e-mail from 1997 on some 5.25 inch ESDI hard disc somewhere. I might even have an ISA ESDI controller, and with enough luck, I might and I stress might be able to find a motherboard that will actually use the ESDI controller. And who knows, it might be the right controller that can read how the data is encoded, the drive might still be working and I might be able to remember whether I turned spare sector off or not. The software that reads the e-mail might even still be working, or better still it could be in ascii and readable. And who knows, I might be right about the fact that it was on an ESDI drive and not one of the random scsi drives I have in boxes.
Given the cost of tape, disc-r, and drives I would agree cost of the medium is not the issue. The issue is employing a method of archiving this data in a way that can be easily accessed. Letting it sit in your inbox doesn't count. A stack of 100 hard drives that may or may not be marked with a sharpy doesn't count.
The tried and true method of printing out e-mails and placing them in folders would count, and you are correct in this way they have no excuse. A system that processes incoming and outgoing e-mail, indexed based on from, to, and time would count. But since they don't have these in place they should resort to treating e-mails like they do their paper medium, put it on paper and use their existing storage techniques.
The ones that were made to look like old fims of their exhalted founder giving lectures on the importance of integrity and vision and crap like that.
As a rule of thumb, when you see commercials like are either either for financial planning or an imported snack. Mentos at least has the decency to make clear by showing the product at the end. Unless you know it's the Mentos jingle it's easy to confuse with a financial planning or funerial commercial.
And I thought only Windows users were dumb. How silly of me!
/d driver where driver is defined in your config dot sys" gets fed up, phones his friend and asks if he can use his mac.
Apple's claim to fame was selling turn key technology the likes of which you just turn on and use without thinking about. In the mid 90s for example they had a good commercial where average Joe was trying to get his PC to use his CD-rom drive, quoting the manual "In autoexec dot bat mscdex
It's in good form to explain these details esp Apple who's target market are those who don't want to think about the technical aspect of technology.
I was worried at first when I loaded it into media player classic, because it said 34 minutes for the total time, but the movie played past the 34minute mark (there were some errors that cause the movie to jump back a couple seconds at the 34minute mark, before continuing on, it was kinda weird, happened at the 1hour and 2hour mark too).
.vob file to .mpg and play in winamp some use of some codecs will display the length of the first chapter and winamp will display the time of the first chapter and just play beyond that not allowing you to use the seek bar beyond the length of the first chapter, or will show the time of the entire mpeg.
Ummm... that is either a codec issue or more likely the length of the chapter. Look in the goto menu and see if it displays many chapters, and see if it allows you to jump to them. Media Player Classic isn't very full featured and it's not obvious if you are looking at a multi-chapter mpeg/vob video unless you look at the goto menu.
For example... if you rename the
You forget, my friend, the reason these people would need such a service is because they don't want to pay.
Then supernews/giganews subscriptions are a figments of my imagination.
I saw it at 12:05am. The downloadable version is probably very crappy quality, especially the sound. See it in theaters - simply amazing! You don't get that kind of experience from a computer.
From what I'm told, there is a workprint edition floating around the net. It may or not be before special effects have been added, I'm unsure. But such an edition isn't going to be the crappy poor sound some guy with a cam corder edition. Judging from the file sizes I see floating about we are looking at DVD ep mode, which well franky isn't all that great. But on par with VCDs that are still popular.
RTFA. It's restricted to UK users, so no Yanks allowed (this is for the same reason that BBC America has adverts - the BBC is publicly funded by the TV license fee in the UK).
BBC-A is limited to cable and dish networks. On my cable it's part of the standard analog set, where most others cable providers put it on the digital which requires box rental. I've always wondered why they decided to go with a comercial station rather than a subscription. Hell if they wanted to they could just rebroadcast what the UK sees, time delayed 5 and/or 8hrs. If they could get away with charging the standard license fee... it would be cheap in contrast to other comercial free stations.
Smeg wasn't used as a swear word at all in England until Red Dwarf, and still isn't, really. The Grant/Naylor used it as an innoffensive word that could be a swear word but would get past any censors.
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Point was because most Americans are circumcised the smeg or smegma isn't in common use... as an exclamation or otherwise. Funny thing about not having foreskins.
although everyone's gone estuary now
Estuary? You mean the tap water is so bad they fetch it from the mouth of the river? I can see how that might affect how one talks.
As the article says, the Lisa was a flop, but it led to the original Mac, which led to the real hit, the Mac II
Was the Mac II a real hit? IIRC that's the one that had something close to a full sized case and 6 or so nubus slots and 68020.
Don't get me wrong I bought one for my sister at some point on the used market. I thought it was a nice idea buying a mac that had so many nubus slots, but for the most part they were none too useful. The Macs of that generation always had SCSI on board which was useful for expantion. Mac has it's own networking standard... and even if you had to go ethernet there were scsi ethernet adapters for it. The onboard sound was acceptable so no real need to get a 3rd party sound card. In fact the only nubus upgrade I can think was common at all for the MAC was a graphics board. The only reason I can think of actually buying a Mac II was if you needed to have 4 monitors, but it was very rare a person would need more than two monitors let alone 4.
In short... why would anyone spend extra on a crap load of nubus slots they won't use?
From an English person's point of view, the accents are fairly standard mid-England/London accents. But then, having driven round rural Georgia, I know we are two countries divided by a common language
Don't judge America by Georgia. Being an American I find some New England accents harder to understand, the ones where the Rs are pronounced like Ws, and Rs are thrown in where they don't belong. But at the same time, I find the Liverpool accent easier to understand than New England or Arkansas.
As an English person I've always wanted to know which parts/characters Americans find hard to understand. Or is it just the slang terms used?
I've not seen the Office so I can't speak for it. But a lack of understanding is two fold.
Different vowel pronunciation. Take fuck for instance (fauk-fahk / fook). In yank speak it's far more harsh where in the UK, at least as far north as Liverpool seems to make people giggle (My dear, I would like to fook). What (waat / waut) is another good example.
Different word use.
Queue is not in all that common use in the states, we prefer to "wait in line". "On the pull" is something I never heard till watching BBC material, which I can only imagine would be on something like "The Office".
Knackered / Knackers yard is not common in the states. The only use of "Knackers yard" I heard was in reference to a ship yard.
Words not used in the States.
Smeg/Smegma - (blame Red Dwarf). Circumcision is very popular in the states... so there is no reason to think of smeg at all. Till my teen years, I thought Smegma was a very cheep brand of cigarettes, once which left an awful taste in your mouth (I like him and all but that smegma is awful, I can't stand the taste).
Habbits
Collecting lottery money at the work place (Doctor Who). I've never known a case where any place of employment has pooled together money to buy lottery tickets. Horse races yes, but this by many isn't considered to be acceptable.