The point of Blu-Ray is High Definition. So your analog video and audio outputs are not going to get you HD. You are not going to plug your HDTV to your DVD player using analog if you want HiDef.
Since Blu-Ray will allow digital transfers of the movies across a network and copies to be made, that won't be an issue.
Without allowing that they would have lost some big players and ended up competing head-to-head with another format.
This is doable in movies, but a television studio recording is typically too expensive for taping/filming alternate scenes. And I think the advertisment of the alts would make people buy the DVDs even more, instead of watching the broadcast.
They don't film a whole show in one take. The huge amounts of blooper/deleted/cut scenes on DVD format of TV shows show this fact very well.
With the $400,000+ per 30 seconds of advertising that some shows get that will assuredly go to DVD and make money, the studios can easily get 2 good takes of each scene and not stress about it too much.
The loss of money isn't mostly the retakes, it's the massive amount of shows that don't bring in a lot of revenue that are the problem.
"they have planned"? Ok, it would make sense, but who says they've planned this?
I just now went to google and used the phrase "mexico company dvd product placement" and the first link includes the following:
"For clients without need for U.S. exposure, Publicidad En Cines is able to offer DVD product placement and cross promotion for the Mexican release of a film and DVD."
This has been worked on for quite a while. You'll find many more articles using google.
Unfortunately, it's not like they can edit that crap back out before the DVD release without affecting the show even more.
Sure they can. They don't just film one version of a scene.
What they have planned is that they will switch products depending on who will pay for it on the DVD and who the target audience is for a particular version of a DVD. For example, DVDs destined for Mexico will have different products shown vs what is seen in a North American DVD release.
Of course, the world will never see NBC Dateline truly questioning what is said on FOX News, nor will the New York Times truly question the reporting of the Washington Post.
Of course they won't. That's because they're all wildly inaccurate and the main reason they don't question each other very often is a) they are in direct competition unlike Register vs Wikipedia, b) they do the same thing and they'll accomplish nothing by challenging what is being said except bring people's attention to the fact that TV is usually inaccurate, and c) they're constantly 1984ish "rectifying" what they report each day by morphing the "facts".
If everyone took a few notes about stories and then watched reporting on the same issue again a few days later, far fewer people would believe ANYTHING that is said by TV News networks. They'd notice facts are constantly revised and the organizations absolutely will not ever have the scrolling text say (for example) "sorry, almost every single bit of crap we reported about Hurricane Katrina was wrong".
Instead, they'll just keep on reporting slightly changed new "facts" to replace yesterday's "facts".
Not to mention the level of maturity over at the Register.
FTA:"Now a picture of the body behind the "Hive Mind" of "collective intelligence" begins to take shape.
He's 14, he's got acne, he's got a lot of problems with authority... and he's got an encyclopedia on dar interweb.
Watch out!"
I'm not impressed at all. The article author has a serious personal axe to grind and can't control himself long enough to write 3 short pages without hurling childish insults.
For a couple of seconds I thought that I was reading Slashdot at -1.
From what I've read about Rag Doll Kung Fu it isn't actually based on the Source engine, but is in fact a standalone game. The only thing it has to do with Source is it being available through Steam.
"Rag Doll Kung Fu is the first wholly independently developed game to be distributed through Steam, using custom physics and graphics technology to give you a really fresh and unique games experience! It is not a 'Mod' and does not use Valve's Source or any other existing game engine.
I've seen dictionaries in public libraries where people have ripped out the pages those two words were found on, as well as "cunt". At least they can't do that with the online version.
Why were you looking up those two words in different public libraries? Was it some sort of research project?
Of course, since I had to send in original UPC codes etc, there's no way to restart the process.
That UPC "send it in" stuff really sucks. I've purchased a bunch of those routers and in the documentation it says that I must have the original UPC for the warrantee to be valid, but on the other hand, I need to give it away (and the warrantee) to get the Best Buy rebate.
It's completely unfair. My Best Buy receipt should be enough for a warrantee. After all, it's not like they can't look up in their database and notice that if I've tried to submit the same receipt for multiple routers.
I don't often purchase those routers from Best Buy. But, sometimes the situation arises where I can't avoid it without delay. And, in those cases, I'm worried about eating the cost of a router because I wanted to get the $10 rebate, so I don't send it in.
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That's quite subjective. I mean, if I took heroin once a week, you wouldn't exactly call me a "heavy drug user", would you?
I would only call you that if you were a "junk food junkie".
They know how to get people to buy newspapers - and that's to sensationalise, and write in big block capitals and short, punchy, easy-to-read sentences and paragraphs, using language suitable for the third-grade.
They used to be aimed at sixth-grade if you ignore tabloid journalism.
In a few years, we'll probably see newspaper sentences online written with using a Crayon[TM] Font.
Re:Mexican drug lord died a few years back - ???
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This could be urban legend, but a few years back some Mexican drug lord tried to get a face transplant and didn't survive long.
Here is a link to the Proof of Concept [computerterrorism.com] page, which will launch an instance of calc.exe if you're vulnerable. AVG Free caught the exploit in the cached page, but calc.exe ran anyway, even after I deleted the file.
Norton Internet Security blocks it and the log says:
Details: Attempted Intrusion "HTTP MSIE JavaScript OnLoad Rte CodeExec" against your machine was detected and blocked
And yet, for some reason, whenever the people speak, they keep electing those who want to take more of our rights away in the name of protecting the children, or protecting the environment, or protecting old people, or protecting stupid people, etc. Will the balance ever shift in the other direction?
How can it possibly shift? After all, anyone in a position to get elected already has quite a taste for power. They are all Predators. Those people will not willingly give up the power that they gain. If they don't do these "feel good" things or at least support them, their competition will gain an edge.
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of course it is a hoax -- the f-ing site says so
Incredibly perceptive.
I was replying to "You are of course labouring under the illusion that the whole thing isn't a hoax on the viewer."
Slow down on the POST COMMENT trigger there cowboy.
It's obvious that I was agreeing with the parent post.
Keri said the best thing about being in orbit had been, "Last night, seeing planet Earth, it was absolutely amazing."
Keri had been concerned to see debris falling from the earth. "I thought it was space junk but Drew said it was ice."
It has to be a hoax. I haven't heard anything about a "Global Dropping Of Ice Chunks" problem.
The point of Blu-Ray is High Definition. So your analog video and audio outputs are not going to get you HD. You are not going to plug your HDTV to your DVD player using analog if you want HiDef.
Since Blu-Ray will allow digital transfers of the movies across a network and copies to be made, that won't be an issue.
Without allowing that they would have lost some big players and ended up competing head-to-head with another format.
This is doable in movies, but a television studio recording is typically too expensive for taping/filming alternate scenes. And I think the advertisment of the alts would make people buy the DVDs even more, instead of watching the broadcast.
They don't film a whole show in one take. The huge amounts of blooper/deleted/cut scenes on DVD format of TV shows show this fact very well.
With the $400,000+ per 30 seconds of advertising that some shows get that will assuredly go to DVD and make money, the studios can easily get 2 good takes of each scene and not stress about it too much.
The loss of money isn't mostly the retakes, it's the massive amount of shows that don't bring in a lot of revenue that are the problem.
"they have planned"? Ok, it would make sense, but who says they've planned this?
I just now went to google and used the phrase "mexico company dvd product placement" and the first link includes the following:
"For clients without need for U.S. exposure, Publicidad En Cines is able to offer DVD product placement and cross promotion for the Mexican release of a film and DVD."
This has been worked on for quite a while. You'll find many more articles using google.
I'm used to product placement. I read Slashdot.
"Nothing makes web sites much more enjoyable and ad-free than Firefox with Extensional Goodness!".
Unfortunately, it's not like they can edit that crap back out before the DVD release without affecting the show even more.
Sure they can. They don't just film one version of a scene.
What they have planned is that they will switch products depending on who will pay for it on the DVD and who the target audience is for a particular version of a DVD. For example, DVDs destined for Mexico will have different products shown vs what is seen in a North American DVD release.
Of course, the world will never see NBC Dateline truly questioning what is said on FOX News, nor will the New York Times truly question the reporting of the Washington Post.
Of course they won't. That's because they're all wildly inaccurate and the main reason they don't question each other very often is a) they are in direct competition unlike Register vs Wikipedia, b) they do the same thing and they'll accomplish nothing by challenging what is being said except bring people's attention to the fact that TV is usually inaccurate, and c) they're constantly 1984ish "rectifying" what they report each day by morphing the "facts".
If everyone took a few notes about stories and then watched reporting on the same issue again a few days later, far fewer people would believe ANYTHING that is said by TV News networks. They'd notice facts are constantly revised and the organizations absolutely will not ever have the scrolling text say (for example) "sorry, almost every single bit of crap we reported about Hurricane Katrina was wrong".
Instead, they'll just keep on reporting slightly changed new "facts" to replace yesterday's "facts".
Not to mention the level of maturity over at the Register.
... and he's got an encyclopedia on dar interweb.
FTA:"Now a picture of the body behind the "Hive Mind" of "collective intelligence" begins to take shape.
He's 14, he's got acne, he's got a lot of problems with authority
Watch out!"
I'm not impressed at all. The article author has a serious personal axe to grind and can't control himself long enough to write 3 short pages without hurling childish insults.
For a couple of seconds I thought that I was reading Slashdot at -1.
According to this they are banning 60% of bittorrent traffic... not a intelligent move IMHO.
Freeing up 60% of their bandwidth for the "compliant" pirates is not a good move?
That should improve transfer speeds by 200%+ for those who follow the "rules".
Then again, I'm an old school (1990+) USENET fan. There isn't anything that BT can offer that I can't get from USENET much, MUCH faster (so far).
Remember how back in the olden days FTP servers allowed w4r3z site admins to set minimum upload:download ratios for users?
Not to mention those 1200 baud BBS ratios.
That's old, old school.
Ya, 2000$ for an upskirt? What, you expect they'll give you the camera back after you toss it into the change room?
There are organizations that will pay much more than $2000 USD for a good nekkid picture of a celebrity.
From what I've read about Rag Doll Kung Fu it isn't actually based on the Source engine, but is in fact a standalone game. The only thing it has to do with Source is it being available through Steam.
Yes, in fact it's clearly stated on the rag doll kung fu home page.
"Rag Doll Kung Fu is the first wholly independently developed game to be distributed through Steam, using custom physics and graphics technology to give you a really fresh and unique games experience! It is not a 'Mod' and does not use Valve's Source or any other existing game engine.
I've seen dictionaries in public libraries where people have ripped out the pages those two words were found on, as well as "cunt". At least they can't do that with the online version.
Why were you looking up those two words in different public libraries? Was it some sort of research project?
Just curious.
Of course, since I had to send in original UPC codes etc, there's no way to restart the process.
That UPC "send it in" stuff really sucks. I've purchased a bunch of those routers and in the documentation it says that I must have the original UPC for the warrantee to be valid, but on the other hand, I need to give it away (and the warrantee) to get the Best Buy rebate.
It's completely unfair. My Best Buy receipt should be enough for a warrantee. After all, it's not like they can't look up in their database and notice that if I've tried to submit the same receipt for multiple routers.
I don't often purchase those routers from Best Buy. But, sometimes the situation arises where I can't avoid it without delay. And, in those cases, I'm worried about eating the cost of a router because I wanted to get the $10 rebate, so I don't send it in.
That's quite subjective. I mean, if I took heroin once a week, you wouldn't exactly call me a "heavy drug user", would you?
I would only call you that if you were a "junk food junkie".
Games can be created artistically or not, just like paint can be used to express truth and beauty or simply to cover a wall.
99 Rooms is a good example of an artistic game.
It is naive to say that there will always be newspapers. It is like saying there will always be record players.
That isn't a good comparison even though I do know what you mean from the context.
Actually, it would be like saying that there will always be books.
They know how to get people to buy newspapers - and that's to sensationalise, and write in big block capitals and short, punchy, easy-to-read sentences and paragraphs, using language suitable for the third-grade.
They used to be aimed at sixth-grade if you ignore tabloid journalism.
In a few years, we'll probably see newspaper sentences online written with using a Crayon[TM] Font.
This could be urban legend, but a few years back some Mexican drug lord tried to get a face transplant and didn't survive long.
Anyone else remember this?
I remember Once Upon A Time In Mexico (2003).
Urban Legends are often based on the content of popular movies.
And, vice versa of course.
I'd want to pull it off continually.
Better that than being so monstrous looking that little kids scream and run when you go out shopping.
I'd take the discomfort over the rare hamburger look.
Settle down, champ. They didn't say anything about a brain transplant.
Or, liposuction.
Details: Attempted Intrusion "HTTP MSIE JavaScript OnLoad Rte CodeExec" against your machine was detected and blocked
Here is a link to the Proof of Concept [computerterrorism.com] page, which will launch an instance of calc.exe if you're vulnerable. AVG Free caught the exploit in the cached page, but calc.exe ran anyway, even after I deleted the file.
Norton Internet Security blocks it and the log says:
Details: Attempted Intrusion "HTTP MSIE JavaScript OnLoad Rte CodeExec" against your machine was detected and blocked
And yet, for some reason, whenever the people speak, they keep electing those who want to take more of our rights away in the name of protecting the children, or protecting the environment, or protecting old people, or protecting stupid people, etc. Will the balance ever shift in the other direction?
How can it possibly shift? After all, anyone in a position to get elected already has quite a taste for power. They are all Predators. Those people will not willingly give up the power that they gain. If they don't do these "feel good" things or at least support them, their competition will gain an edge.