There's nothing interesting about it. It's harder to rip a DVD than it is to rip a cd. you could rip a cd into mp3 files in a few minutes using a single program. To rip a DVD, you have to decode it with one program, take up to 8GB of space off your hard drive, and spend a night compressing it to DivX or some other variant. That's a lot of work when it's easier to just pop the DVD in and watch it. Plus, I listen to music more on my computer than I watch movies on my computer, so there's little point for going through the effort in the first place. And that's not even talking about the bandwidth differences between the two. The little disclaimers in the beginning of the DVD have very little influence on how many DVD rips there are. I do agree on your point that the RIAA should be putting in pamphlets into the CDs, though.
Dare I suggest we try and find some new folks to put in office?
Sure, let's put some new people in office! So who should we vote for, John Jackson or Jack Johnson, or maybe the dissembodied head of former president Richard Nixon?
The high up guy in the FBI isn't twisting his mustache and hatching evil plans to take away our rights as citizens. He probably really believes that what he's doing is right and it's protecting the country. Even the villains operate according to their set of morals, and only history will decide if he was right or wrong.
Personally, I only protest in games instead of real life because I don't have to really walk around in games, just click a mouse, and I never walk when I don't really have to.
you, sir, are a jackass. How old are you? 12? 13? All the good actors are dead, huh? Like who? Hollywood has always been a corporate entity as evil (or good) as it is today, and the public has always fawned over pretty people on screen. Cary Grant, Grace Kelly? how about Marilyn Monroe and Elvis? Yeah, sticking musicians up on screen because of popularity isn't a new idea!
Who exactly are you talking about that is a better actor due to CGI? So far as I know, nobody dead has had an actual starring role in a movie, unless CGI was only used for little stunt double parts when an actor dies in the middle of production (a la Brandon Lee in the Crow).
There are tons of GOOD actors now, as much or more so now than in any other time. John Malkovich? Ed Norton? Billy Bob Thornton? Jack Nicholson? All of those actors are great.
You give nothing to back up your statements. There's nothing going on now that hasn't been going on for the past 65 years. CGI has done nothing but let the directors vision come through cheaper. And just because your favorite movies were done 30 or 40 years ago, doesn't mean there weren't just as many bad movies back then as there is today... it just means your a biased prick, and you're looking at the past through rose colored glasses.
My opinion is that movies are better today than they were 60 years ago. There are great movies from those times, Casablanca, Touch of Evil, etc, but there are movies coming out today done by true artists who love their craft and it comes through in their movies. My sig is a quote from O Brother Where Art Thou? Awesome movie. How about Punch Drunk Love and Royal Tennenbaums? Two more amazing films and they came out within the past 5 years.
You have no right to argue about movies. You never heard of Gigli? I doubt you even watch movies. I'm a self-proclaimed movie lover. I'm not biased against movies based on when they were made. I take their strengths and weaknesses taken into account the limitations of the times. Oh yeah, I'm also in the CGI field, so I think I have a say about it's use in film today. And yes, I'm flamebait, but only for you because jaded, biased assholes really piss me off. So what if I pay a price with my karma, it's a price I'd gladly pay. By the way, that reference was from a recent action movie called Equilibrium. It was a good one. And guess what? All of the great movies I listed above used little to no CGI in them, and if they did, it was to ENHANCE the directors vision.
Oh! You just TOLD THEM! They're gonna take you up on your dare now, because you know... we're all in grade school and all. I got an idea! How bout you shut the hell up? I double dare you.
How did this shit get modded as insightful? It's some jerk-ass preaching to the choir with insane ramblings and broad generalizations. Every movie has loud music and lots of special effects? Oh, like Gigli, right? Which sucked in it's own right. And every actor in hollywood is a retard drooler huh? Yeah, that's rich. How bout you fold up and go outside because nobody wants to hear your stupid ramblings anymore.
Now mod me as flamebait or whatever, but this guy is a jackass.
Ahhh, but the day will never, ever come where the laws of thermodynamics will stop, creating a way to not lose copius amounts of energy creating hydrogen.
And in this house, we follow the laws of thermodynamics.
Well I've got a different prediction. In 10 years, computers will be twice as powerful, ten thousand times larger and only the five richest kings in Europe will be able to afford them.
oh yeah, ob Simpsons quote or something... Glaven!
faster computers were made so that programmers wouldnt have to worry about those 128k or whatever limitations. Also, if you had a time machine, you would only be able to bring back computer scientists that were very dedicated at what they were doing since it wasn't as lucrative a field as it is today... now you have regular joes going into comp sci for the money (HA!) and then they go into the field and put out unoptomized code... Also, if Microsoft could get Office XP to run on my 486 processor, whats the damn point of me ever upgrading? The whole industry would collapse because no one would ever upgrade and all time would be spent optomizing code to run on antiquated machinery. The industry is heading exactly where it needs to head and everything is as it should be because we're living in the best of all possible worlds.
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that's a better review than the one posted. somebody delete the one posted and throw the parent up there!
dont be so proud of yourself that you figured out how to "hack" the technical equivalent of the safety pin that keeps a babies diaper in place.
Hey, I'd be pretty damn impressed if someone figured out how to install Linux on that safety pin. That's a hack someone could be proud of.
There's nothing interesting about it. It's harder to rip a DVD than it is to rip a cd. you could rip a cd into mp3 files in a few minutes using a single program. To rip a DVD, you have to decode it with one program, take up to 8GB of space off your hard drive, and spend a night compressing it to DivX or some other variant. That's a lot of work when it's easier to just pop the DVD in and watch it. Plus, I listen to music more on my computer than I watch movies on my computer, so there's little point for going through the effort in the first place. And that's not even talking about the bandwidth differences between the two. The little disclaimers in the beginning of the DVD have very little influence on how many DVD rips there are. I do agree on your point that the RIAA should be putting in pamphlets into the CDs, though.
but I used all my foil for my hat.
a trojan horse program can be used as a network administration tool, no?
no purchase necessary, just steal a can.
Dare I suggest we try and find some new folks to put in office?
Sure, let's put some new people in office! So who should we vote for, John Jackson or Jack Johnson, or maybe the dissembodied head of former president Richard Nixon?
The high up guy in the FBI isn't twisting his mustache and hatching evil plans to take away our rights as citizens. He probably really believes that what he's doing is right and it's protecting the country. Even the villains operate according to their set of morals, and only history will decide if he was right or wrong.
I'm sure the submitter read the story, he just wanted to add his own little element of flair to it so he threw in that bit about the magician.
Personally, I only protest in games instead of real life because I don't have to really walk around in games, just click a mouse, and I never walk when I don't really have to.
What airline to you fly?
I think he's the pilot.
"Linux" is not just another company out to rule the desktop.
You wouldn't know it from reading Slashdot posts, either.
notice that they also barred out the eyes... now I can't positively identify which of my waterstrider cousins is in the photo.
I for one welcome our new ocean sponge overlords!
I for one welcome our new chess playing overlords!
HAHA! God, that gets me every time!
you, sir, are a jackass. How old are you? 12? 13? All the good actors are dead, huh? Like who? Hollywood has always been a corporate entity as evil (or good) as it is today, and the public has always fawned over pretty people on screen. Cary Grant, Grace Kelly? how about Marilyn Monroe and Elvis? Yeah, sticking musicians up on screen because of popularity isn't a new idea!
Who exactly are you talking about that is a better actor due to CGI? So far as I know, nobody dead has had an actual starring role in a movie, unless CGI was only used for little stunt double parts when an actor dies in the middle of production (a la Brandon Lee in the Crow).
There are tons of GOOD actors now, as much or more so now than in any other time. John Malkovich? Ed Norton? Billy Bob Thornton? Jack Nicholson? All of those actors are great.
You give nothing to back up your statements. There's nothing going on now that hasn't been going on for the past 65 years. CGI has done nothing but let the directors vision come through cheaper. And just because your favorite movies were done 30 or 40 years ago, doesn't mean there weren't just as many bad movies back then as there is today... it just means your a biased prick, and you're looking at the past through rose colored glasses.
My opinion is that movies are better today than they were 60 years ago. There are great movies from those times, Casablanca, Touch of Evil, etc, but there are movies coming out today done by true artists who love their craft and it comes through in their movies. My sig is a quote from O Brother Where Art Thou? Awesome movie. How about Punch Drunk Love and Royal Tennenbaums? Two more amazing films and they came out within the past 5 years.
You have no right to argue about movies. You never heard of Gigli? I doubt you even watch movies. I'm a self-proclaimed movie lover. I'm not biased against movies based on when they were made. I take their strengths and weaknesses taken into account the limitations of the times. Oh yeah, I'm also in the CGI field, so I think I have a say about it's use in film today. And yes, I'm flamebait, but only for you because jaded, biased assholes really piss me off. So what if I pay a price with my karma, it's a price I'd gladly pay. By the way, that reference was from a recent action movie called Equilibrium. It was a good one. And guess what? All of the great movies I listed above used little to no CGI in them, and if they did, it was to ENHANCE the directors vision.
Oh! You just TOLD THEM! They're gonna take you up on your dare now, because you know... we're all in grade school and all. I got an idea! How bout you shut the hell up? I double dare you.
How did this shit get modded as insightful? It's some jerk-ass preaching to the choir with insane ramblings and broad generalizations. Every movie has loud music and lots of special effects? Oh, like Gigli, right? Which sucked in it's own right. And every actor in hollywood is a retard drooler huh? Yeah, that's rich. How bout you fold up and go outside because nobody wants to hear your stupid ramblings anymore.
Now mod me as flamebait or whatever, but this guy is a jackass.
Ahhh, but the day will never, ever come where the laws of thermodynamics will stop, creating a way to not lose copius amounts of energy creating hydrogen.
And in this house, we follow the laws of thermodynamics.
I think I see Barbra Streisand's house in the before picture, I hope she doesn't sue!
That doesn't make any sense! It's BRILLIANT!
Well I've got a different prediction. In 10 years, computers will be twice as powerful, ten thousand times larger and only the five richest kings in Europe will be able to afford them.
oh yeah, ob Simpsons quote or something... Glaven!
faster computers were made so that programmers wouldnt have to worry about those 128k or whatever limitations. Also, if you had a time machine, you would only be able to bring back computer scientists that were very dedicated at what they were doing since it wasn't as lucrative a field as it is today... now you have regular joes going into comp sci for the money (HA!) and then they go into the field and put out unoptomized code... Also, if Microsoft could get Office XP to run on my 486 processor, whats the damn point of me ever upgrading? The whole industry would collapse because no one would ever upgrade and all time would be spent optomizing code to run on antiquated machinery. The industry is heading exactly where it needs to head and everything is as it should be because we're living in the best of all possible worlds.
The US justice system is too free, maybe
Yeah, you're right... what the US needs is a good dictator.
I was really confused about this whole issue until you explained it like that. Thanks.
I don't know, we'll patent Ethical AI?!