It's so meaningless and marketroid I can't stand it. Vague reference to music ("Sonic"), hip, yet relaxing color ("Blue"). You know there was a focus group involved. Not to mention the mixed CAPSlowercase. It sounds like a DRM technology company like LiquidAudio or some dead dot-com.
Case in point. I irreparably scratched a DVD from Fox (The Phantom Menace). My only recourse is to buy replacement media and a second license to view the movie.
Hey, I irreparably scratched my copy of Episode One too! Wait-- buy a replacement? You mean you didn't scratch it on purpose?
You're assuming that making new windows is a valid thing that pages should be able to do for advertizing.
On the subject of opening new windows, I don't want a website ever opening new windows on my machine. Clicking a link should take you to a new page. It's SOP! If I want a new window, I'll Ctrl-Shift-click the link(Opera).
What really pisses me off is when I C-S-click a javascript link that would've opened in a new window and I get a broken blank one.
We all know about the many players that can be voodoo'd to remove the double curses of Region-coding and Macrovision. But have no players been modded to make the ffwd buttons work correctly? How hard could this be?
What I really like are the DVDs that don't even force you to deal with those godawful menus. When I rented the Godfather from my local, the movie started playing as soon as the disc was put in the player. All DVDs should work like that!
For the record, I own an Apex-1500, and I was very happy to discover region-coding could be removed-- I had actually ordered some Region 2 DVDs (Spaced, anyone?) and had no idea how I was going to watch them.
The software will not be available as a separate operating system. Instead, it will be packaged together with personal computers specially designed to deliver its key media features.
...This is a reference to DRM. Don't you agree? [...Shudder...] I hope WXPMC fails, but I think it has a fighting chance.
This movie is just a 70-minute seminar for children to teach them the "evils" of the White Man
If anything, this film is anti-black-- Eddie Murphy, the only black actor in the film(well, in the main cast-- as far as I know), plays a subservient talking ass!
I'm so glad to see that companies are still innovating re: timeshifting technologies. Recent stories about losing our fair use rights have been disheartening, but this sort of thing... should be in every house.
Which one is the better deal? Which one will users choose?
But let's not forget the important question:
"Which is easiest to use?"
Napster was a success because most people could use it right out of the box. I've never successfully downloaded a song with any of the Gnutella clients, and I consider myself more technically knowledgable than the average Napsterite. And MusicNet will most likely be easier to use than Napster.
C'mon guys. Work on basic functionality like increased key-search speeds and simplifying the key system for grandma to use before you start adding additional features.
Whoa. Notice that the project manager of Freenet is posting on slashdot that he thinks this is a bad idea. I think it's safe to assume that this isn't part of the Freenet project.
Hasn't this been going on for a while? I seem to recall a fan site for American Pie before it came out that was proven to be marketing. I also think I remember a DiVX(the watch-once DVDs, not the codec) fansite that was also faked.
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It's so meaningless and marketroid I can't stand it. Vague reference to music ("Sonic"), hip, yet relaxing color ("Blue"). You know there was a focus group involved. Not to mention the mixed CAPSlowercase. It sounds like a DRM technology company like LiquidAudio or some dead dot-com.
"Tivo" is much more cuddly.
It's not as wacky as it sounds. The Shaker (offshoot of Quaker) religion is a celibate one. They're more puritan than the Puritans!
I know you're going to get modded down as Off-Topic, but...
Hey, I irreparably scratched my copy of Episode One too! Wait-- buy a replacement? You mean you didn't scratch it on purpose?
Huh.
Why not smack on a few IF interpreters for playing some of the excellent (and free) text adventures out there? I particuarly recommend (Win)Frotz.
Also, MAME and ZSNES are excellent arcade and SNES emulators.
For eye candy, I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Xaos. Mmm. Fractal zooming. So pretty. Plus, a good introduction to the mathematics of fractals.
...or GoBe Productive, another GPL'd office suite. Right? Right?
Download it now! Just go to...
uh...
hmm. What happened to that plan, anyway?
(I know-- it's been said before)
On the subject of opening new windows, I don't want a website ever opening new windows on my machine. Clicking a link should take you to a new page. It's SOP! If I want a new window, I'll Ctrl-Shift-click the link(Opera).
What really pisses me off is when I C-S-click a javascript link that would've opened in a new window and I get a broken blank one.
javascript sucks so hard.
Or that Al Gore claimed to have invented the internet
What I really like are the DVDs that don't even force you to deal with those godawful menus. When I rented the Godfather from my local, the movie started playing as soon as the disc was put in the player. All DVDs should work like that!
For the record, I own an Apex-1500, and I was very happy to discover region-coding could be removed-- I had actually ordered some Region 2 DVDs (Spaced, anyone?) and had no idea how I was going to watch them.
Has anyone else noticed the mysterious blacked out sections on the SAP-DB history page? Creepy.
Oh. Wait. Are we not doing that anymore?
The software will not be available as a separate operating system. Instead, it will be packaged together with personal computers specially designed to deliver its key media features.
Wow, the exact same thing happened to me-- but the book was Virtual Mode.
There's a simple solution, if things don't go the way we want, we stop buying cd's.
Were a CD boycott performed, what, pray tell, do you think the response would be from the MPAA?
"Well, jeez, I guess we can't force people into buying CDs. I guess we should just relax on the whole file-sharing issue."
or,
"See!? This proves it! I said it would happen-- they're illegally Napstering instead of buying CDs! Let's shut 'em down."
No cure for cancer.
Does anyone else think this would be a great motto? I can see it on a T-shirt.
...try this link(http://www.discover.com/june_01/featsave.html )
This movie is just a 70-minute seminar for children to teach them the "evils" of the White Man
If anything, this film is anti-black-- Eddie Murphy, the only black actor in the film(well, in the main cast-- as far as I know), plays a subservient talking ass!
uh, MPAA. You know what I mean.
I'm so glad to see that companies are still innovating re: timeshifting technologies. Recent stories about losing our fair use rights have been disheartening, but this sort of thing... should be in every house.
Which one is the better deal? Which one will users choose?
But let's not forget the important question:
"Which is easiest to use?"
Napster was a success because most people could use it right out of the box. I've never successfully downloaded a song with any of the Gnutella clients, and I consider myself more technically knowledgable than the average Napsterite. And MusicNet will most likely be easier to use than Napster.
C'mon guys. Work on basic functionality like increased key-search speeds and simplifying the key system for grandma to use before you start adding additional features.
Whoa. Notice that the project manager of Freenet is posting on slashdot that he thinks this is a bad idea. I think it's safe to assume that this isn't part of the Freenet project.
However, in Britain we have a more socialist, left wing government, one that is not friendly to business or private interests.
Yikes. Don't you ever watch any Mark Thomas? Big business looks pretty cozy with the British government to me.
They are used by the police, who are famous around the world for fairness and correct, brotherly behaviour.
Now I think you must be trolling. Police do what their bosses tell them, whether its nice or not so nice.
I really like the fact that the "printer-formatted" link was given. Who wants to see all those ads? Wait, don't answer that.
Hasn't this been going on for a while? I seem to recall a fan site for American Pie before it came out that was proven to be marketing. I also think I remember a DiVX(the watch-once DVDs, not the codec) fansite that was also faked.