It looks like they don't treat 2 disc sets as seperate rentals. For example the Disney Miyazaki releases are on two discs, on Netflix they treat the Bonus disc as a 2nd rental. Perhaps Walmart do too but their website seems to suggest otherwise.
Also something I noticed that's totally unscientific, but perhaps gives some indication as to the stock levels of Walmart compared to Netflix: Spirited Away on Netflix is shipping now, whereas for Walmart it's classed as "Very Long Wait". Can't read into that as it's the only movie I looked at though!
Unfortunately a couple of episodes won't do it for you. Try watching a whole season of Buffy and a whole season of Charmed and then come back and explain how you can't tell why one is good and one isn't. Buffy has a mythos and a running storyline in each season - you need to give it time. Everyone I know who had your opinion of Buffy has changed their opinion after watching it for a while.
Quite simply Buffy has been one of the best shows on TV, and some of the epidodes (e.g. Hush, The Body) rank amongst some of the best TV ever made. This is why people like it so much.
You shouldn't get VOD mixed up with Pay-per-view where you have to watch the show right then. The idea of VOD is that you can watch it when you want. Who's to say that the VOD that gets implemented doesn't allow you to watch it as many times as you like after you've paid for it? Or perhaps to watch as many number of movies when you want for a monthly fee. What I'm saying is that VOD doesn't have to be bad - if they offer a monthly fee to watch movies when you want how long will Netflix stay in business against that competition? I mean - Netflix relies on snailmail to give you the movie - how stone age is that? Imagine if you could just watch the movie on a whim from a selection as large as Netflix? That is the promise of VOD. VOD doesn't have to mean "watch-it-once-and-never-see-it-again", and hopefully market forces will mean that it isn't like this.
I was wondering when somebody was going to invent a kind of "Mobile Phone". Imagine being able to make calls from whereever you like? Its an amazing idea - I can throw away my 100 ft telephone extension cable now! I hope these "Mobile Phones" catch on!
Actually they dumped the IR port for the GBA, it's only on the GBC. Also it couldn't be used as a replacement for the GBC link cable - it was only available for use if programmed into specific games and was hardly ever used.
As for the original poster, I would take any information from a "EB manager" as nonesense as these guys have no real insider knowledge, although its nice speculation.
This helps explain how dreck like Kangaroo Jack makes it to theaters.
That said Kangaroo Jack made money. It grossed $65 million in the USA alone, which matches its budget. Add in foreign releases and DVD/VHS sales/rental and you have a profitable movie. So what was wrong with it again? Oh yes - it was crap - but you know hollywood is a business.
Why is the parent modded as funny? Those large images are provided to allow sufficient resolution for printing in newspapers and magazines, pretty standard for a press release.
If you can't tell the difference between Buffy and VIP then you clearly deserve all the crap TV that UPN will surely replace Buffy with.
Buffy has been responsible for some of the most imaginative and challenging episodes of TV in recent years. The fact that they can do this in a show that clearly has a ridiculous premise is just testimony to how good the show really is.
Why can't this same type of system be used to configure a desktop UI?
This is exactly what Eazel did with the original Nautilus, it had a menu with nice colour coded buttons for "Beginner", "Intermediate" and "Expert". Of course the Gnome folks in their infinite wisdom took this functionality out (as it seems to go agains the Gnome 2 "thing" of having a simple default mode with very minial configuration).
There's no doubt that KDE configuration control panel has too many options. It'd be nice if someone came up with a similar scheme, to fit all levels of expertise, without sacrificing the power user;s needs (as the Gnome 2 way seems to go - and no - even though I'm a Guru I don't want to mess around with the Windows Registery Editor-alike gconf-editor).
Well of course there are still places that aren't covered. I was just trying to counter the typical European response to the US coverage map being so poorly covered. It's a simple fact that most people from Europe don't quite get how empty the US really is.:-)
Agreed it looks bad on a map, given that it doesn't cover anything but a small % of the area. However you have to understand that there are large areas of the USA where there's no population and areas with not even roads running to them.
The coverage you see although it only covers a small percentage of the country, does cover most of the population and anywhere you're ever likely to go.
I've been waiting for this. Solaris for Intel gets too little love. I tell you what I like about it: On my (relatively cheap) PC at home, I can run it in a VMWare session and test out things that I will later use on the SPARC version. It should be great for OSS developers, who can compile and test their applications on their desktop, even though they don't have the SPARC hardware. It's source compatible, baby!
Yeah - I once thought this would be a great solution to getting all the sparc/solaris code we have here to work under Linux (as our Sparc machines were aging and breaking). Sadly I found out real quick the reason the code didn't work under Linux has nothing to do with the OS but the opposite Endian-ness of the Sparc vs x86.:-(
Well thankfully in the UK we haven't got this kind of thing yet.. though along with all the other taxes we pay, I shouldn't imagine it will be too long before it arrives on our shores.
What are you on about? In the UK everyone gets evenly charged 17.5% VAT instead of local state tax. It's not like you get a tax break if you order from a company in Sussex and live in Hampshire!:-)
The whole thing is that you can avoid sales tax in the US if you order from another state. It's basically tax evasion (I believe you are supposed to pay it at some point but nobody does). This is really closing a loophole, annoying as it is.
Max Headroom was great, however he was clearly from far in our future (the 20 minutes they suggested was obviously an gross underestimate). Current technology only allows creation of fake personalities with absolutely no charisma (has anyone seen Carson Daly's talk show?).
Hopefully with increased technology we will be able to create in the future a media personality with the charisma of Max Headroom.
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What puzzles me is that anyone cares whether SMS messages arrive or not. Most of us have voice mail on our phones? Why does anyone want to turn their cell phone into the electronic equivalent of a doggy leash?
This is a response that is typical amongst Americans. Apparently SMS is useless and why don't people just call instead? However this is ignoring the vast number of SMS being sent by private individuals in Europe where cell phone take-up is much higher than in the US. There must be some reason why it's so popular? It's not all spam (in fact I've never received a SMS spam). There's billions and billions of text messages being sent each year (according to this article 125 million SMS messages were sent on New Years eve in the UK alone), rivalling email in volume, and certainly overtaking it as an easy and quick messaging system for the masses. SMS is quick, simple and easy way to communicate with people. Much easier than phoning, I can SMS 15 friends at once with the simple message "Meet @ Dog & Hound @ 10pm".
So yes - there's many of us who find text messaging a excellent form of communication, much easier than pagers, email or even calling someone. It fills a niche and as such is an astoundingly popular. So it's pretty important that SMS messages arrive or not!
No more "what's the point of SMS" comments please, if you can't figure out what to use it for you're probably just too old to understand what these young-uns are doing with new fangled technology today.;-)
A keyboardless computer, that is running Lindows, that is designed by the people who brought us the e-machine. There are so many problems with that idea I don't know where to start.
Well at least you won't have to worry about the crappy handling of keyboard shortcuts in KDE/Gnome/whatever with this machine!
You can buy a Rover car cheaper in Denmark (by over a thousand pounds) than in a dealership in Longbridge, Birmingham (next to the Rover factory). Tax is Denmark is similar if not more on cars also.
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It looks like they don't treat 2 disc sets as seperate rentals. For example the Disney Miyazaki releases are on two discs, on Netflix they treat the Bonus disc as a 2nd rental. Perhaps Walmart do too but their website seems to suggest otherwise.
Also something I noticed that's totally unscientific, but perhaps gives some indication as to the stock levels of Walmart compared to Netflix: Spirited Away on Netflix is shipping now, whereas for Walmart it's classed as "Very Long Wait". Can't read into that as it's the only movie I looked at though!
You need to give it time? Screw that.
Ah, another member of the ADD generation I see.
Unfortunately a couple of episodes won't do it for you. Try watching a whole season of Buffy and a whole season of Charmed and then come back and explain how you can't tell why one is good and one isn't. Buffy has a mythos and a running storyline in each season - you need to give it time. Everyone I know who had your opinion of Buffy has changed their opinion after watching it for a while.
Quite simply Buffy has been one of the best shows on TV, and some of the epidodes (e.g. Hush, The Body) rank amongst some of the best TV ever made. This is why people like it so much.
Buh-bye Buffy
You shouldn't get VOD mixed up with Pay-per-view where you have to watch the show right then. The idea of VOD is that you can watch it when you want. Who's to say that the VOD that gets implemented doesn't allow you to watch it as many times as you like after you've paid for it? Or perhaps to watch as many number of movies when you want for a monthly fee. What I'm saying is that VOD doesn't have to be bad - if they offer a monthly fee to watch movies when you want how long will Netflix stay in business against that competition? I mean - Netflix relies on snailmail to give you the movie - how stone age is that? Imagine if you could just watch the movie on a whim from a selection as large as Netflix? That is the promise of VOD. VOD doesn't have to mean "watch-it-once-and-never-see-it-again", and hopefully market forces will mean that it isn't like this.
I was wondering when somebody was going to invent a kind of "Mobile Phone". Imagine being able to make calls from whereever you like? Its an amazing idea - I can throw away my 100 ft telephone extension cable now! I hope these "Mobile Phones" catch on!
Don't confuse audiophiles with people who are passionate about music.
This story comes from Weekly World News. So file it next to stories from National Enquirer and all the other fictional tabloids.
What next on Slashdot: "Bat boy h4xOr5 FCC!"
Actually they dumped the IR port for the GBA, it's only on the GBC. Also it couldn't be used as a replacement for the GBC link cable - it was only available for use if programmed into specific games and was hardly ever used.
As for the original poster, I would take any information from a "EB manager" as nonesense as these guys have no real insider knowledge, although its nice speculation.
This helps explain how dreck like Kangaroo Jack makes it to theaters.
That said Kangaroo Jack made money. It grossed $65 million in the USA alone, which matches its budget. Add in foreign releases and DVD/VHS sales/rental and you have a profitable movie. So what was wrong with it again? Oh yes - it was crap - but you know hollywood is a business.
Why is the parent modded as funny? Those large images are provided to allow sufficient resolution for printing in newspapers and magazines, pretty standard for a press release.
Hogwash
Why do so many folks watch it? The boobs?
If you can't tell the difference between Buffy and VIP then you clearly deserve all the crap TV that UPN will surely replace Buffy with.
Buffy has been responsible for some of the most imaginative and challenging episodes of TV in recent years. The fact that they can do this in a show that clearly has a ridiculous premise is just testimony to how good the show really is.
Why can't this same type of system be used to configure a desktop UI?
This is exactly what Eazel did with the original Nautilus, it had a menu with nice colour coded buttons for "Beginner", "Intermediate" and "Expert". Of course the Gnome folks in their infinite wisdom took this functionality out (as it seems to go agains the Gnome 2 "thing" of having a simple default mode with very minial configuration).
There's no doubt that KDE configuration control panel has too many options. It'd be nice if someone came up with a similar scheme, to fit all levels of expertise, without sacrificing the power user;s needs (as the Gnome 2 way seems to go - and no - even though I'm a Guru I don't want to mess around with the Windows Registery Editor-alike gconf-editor).
Well of course there are still places that aren't covered. I was just trying to counter the typical European response to the US coverage map being so poorly covered. It's a simple fact that most people from Europe don't quite get how empty the US really is. :-)
Agreed it looks bad on a map, given that it doesn't cover anything but a small % of the area. However you have to understand that there are large areas of the USA where there's no population and areas with not even roads running to them.
The coverage you see although it only covers a small percentage of the country, does cover most of the population and anywhere you're ever likely to go.
Buy some new Sparc machines then!!!
Which is exactly what I did.
I've been waiting for this. Solaris for Intel gets too little love. I tell you what I like about it: On my (relatively cheap) PC at home, I can run it in a VMWare session and test out things that I will later use on the SPARC version. It should be great for OSS developers, who can compile and test their applications on their desktop, even though they don't have the SPARC hardware. It's source compatible, baby!
:-(
Yeah - I once thought this would be a great solution to getting all the sparc/solaris code we have here to work under Linux (as our Sparc machines were aging and breaking). Sadly I found out real quick the reason the code didn't work under Linux has nothing to do with the OS but the opposite Endian-ness of the Sparc vs x86.
Well thankfully in the UK we haven't got this kind of thing yet.. though along with all the other taxes we pay, I shouldn't imagine it will be too long before it arrives on our shores.
:-)
What are you on about? In the UK everyone gets evenly charged 17.5% VAT instead of local state tax. It's not like you get a tax break if you order from a company in Sussex and live in Hampshire!
The whole thing is that you can avoid sales tax in the US if you order from another state. It's basically tax evasion (I believe you are supposed to pay it at some point but nobody does). This is really closing a loophole, annoying as it is.
Max Headroom was great, however he was clearly from far in our future (the 20 minutes they suggested was obviously an gross underestimate). Current technology only allows creation of fake personalities with absolutely no charisma (has anyone seen Carson Daly's talk show?).
Hopefully with increased technology we will be able to create in the future a media personality with the charisma of Max Headroom.
What puzzles me is that anyone cares whether SMS messages arrive or not. Most of us have voice mail on our phones? Why does anyone want to turn their cell phone into the electronic equivalent of a doggy leash?
;-)
This is a response that is typical amongst Americans. Apparently SMS is useless and why don't people just call instead? However this is ignoring the vast number of SMS being sent by private individuals in Europe where cell phone take-up is much higher than in the US. There must be some reason why it's so popular? It's not all spam (in fact I've never received a SMS spam). There's billions and billions of text messages being sent each year (according to this article 125 million SMS messages were sent on New Years eve in the UK alone), rivalling email in volume, and certainly overtaking it as an easy and quick messaging system for the masses. SMS is quick, simple and easy way to communicate with people. Much easier than phoning, I can SMS 15 friends at once with the simple message "Meet @ Dog & Hound @ 10pm".
So yes - there's many of us who find text messaging a excellent form of communication, much easier than pagers, email or even calling someone. It fills a niche and as such is an astoundingly popular. So it's pretty important that SMS messages arrive or not!
No more "what's the point of SMS" comments please, if you can't figure out what to use it for you're probably just too old to understand what these young-uns are doing with new fangled technology today.
And mostly because they don't want to lose their existing analog signal, so they are stalling.
What "spectrum"? This is a cable standard. Last time I looked cable TV was transmitted over cables - not radio waves!
And you've lost the "abolity" to spell. :-)
Would this be a trainer for the same Bradley who's development and general crapness was lampooned by this movie?
A keyboardless computer, that is running Lindows, that is designed by the people who brought us the e-machine. There are so many problems with that idea I don't know where to start.
Well at least you won't have to worry about the crappy handling of keyboard shortcuts in KDE/Gnome/whatever with this machine!
How about this for an example:
You can buy a Rover car cheaper in Denmark (by over a thousand pounds) than in a dealership in Longbridge, Birmingham (next to the Rover factory). Tax is Denmark is similar if not more on cars also.