I suspect it will be a stunning read, as in "How could they be so clueless?!?"
I agree, how long ago was it that napster appeared ? five years ?. What has the RIAA done to capitilise on the increased accessibility that the digital age has to offer ? absolutely nothing.
There problem is that they have had so much power for so long long, they have basically controlled the opportunities for people to listen to music (radio, mtv, albums). Now people's listening habits are changing, it is possible to have music with you any time you like thanks to digital technology, possible to have huge personal playlists. All of this is alien to the RIAA, the consumers are suddenly behaving differently to how they have behaved in the last three decades. Whats the solution, give them wat they want or sue them ?...
so when the orginal poster said that suing everyone was the "american way" he was talking about everyone on both american continents ?, including those countries in south america where most people are so poor they don't have a pot to piss in ?
I bet he could use all that fame to his advantage instead... I mean so many actors started from various forms of porn, so what could be more embarassing than that...?
Maling the same film 5 times in a row and then seriously thinking about coming back for a sixth ? (yes I am talking to you mr stallone).
Retribution for what? He jumped around like a retard, filmed himself and somebody uploaded that to the net. I would have done the same if I found such a hilarious video myself. Of course, suing everybody for damages is the new American Way.
Isn't this guy canadian ?, who's the retard now...
I know its not quite the same thing but I watched ep2 with the directors commentary the other day and apprently there is blink and you'll miss it shot during the coruscant chase sequence of an xwing being chased by three tie fighters. Course their is other stuff a bit like this, in ep1 there is some ET's in the senate, and wasn't mark hamhil's son in TPM as well ?.
Obviously this kid is not going to get a major role, but I don't see the harm in sticking him in the background somewhere just so long as he actually wants to do it...
which sci fi shows would you consider mainstream ?, remember in the heyday of star trek entire families went to the cinema and everyone enjoyed the film.
sci fi isn't main stream anymore. the 4th star trek movie made the most money out of any of the trek movies. Back then in the 80's sci fi wasn't seen as the preserve of the geeky as it is now, you had loads of good cool sci fi (blade runner, terminator, trek 2).
But sci fi these days has a very different image to the mainstream movie going audience. Who can blame them ?, who wants to be associated with some loser who covets fictional blueprints of the starship enterprise.
I kinda agree, I live in the uk but I really got into John Doe last season, it hasn't been shown here (not on terrestial anyway, maybe on sky) I was downloading over the internet.
Now don't get me wrong, JD isn't shakespeare, it is in fact a fairly silly concept for a show. However it was well acted and some of the writing was brilliant (considering the contraints of the show's story).
Anyway, one thing we are not used to in the uk is tv series ending it's run on a cliff hanger when there is little chance of it's return. Maybe it 's because we make 6 shows in a series as opposed to 20+. I can understand why the program makers would do this tho in the compettive entertainment industry of american television. I guess in the case of john doe they were obviously hoping that a cliffhanger would help persuade the network to recomission the show.
But for a viewer it is all just pointless, why did they bother making the show in the first place ?.
And most importantly....
What did digger have to do with the phoenix group ?
I have a muvo and have to agree with you it is a great little device.
I would like to make another point, obviously in general terms the more storage space the better. However a little does go a long way, my muvo is the 64 MB variety which can barely hold one album at 192 Kbs or above. But there are programs that can downsample an mp3 on the fly as you copy the songs over, the one I use is called DBC PowerAmp. If your listening on a cheap pair of headphones then it really is overkill to have a bitrate of 128 Kbs or more.
For me it has an added bonus, as I am deaf in one ear I prefer to listen to all my music in mono when using headphones (try listening to revolver by the beatles with one headphone to see why). Using mono you can effectively half the bitrate and get similar quality to stereo (not quite as good if the mp3 was in joint stereo). This means I can on average fit just over three albums on my little 64 mb player, add the fact that it is quite hard to find a cd based player that will play in mono then I will take my muvo any time.
Computers hate us to their very bones. My computer has only crashed when I've been doing something important, like writing a term paper or surfing for porn. They're out to get us, all right.
Remember, just case your paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
I think they were stung pretty bad after the release of XP which was worse than previous Microsoft OS's beta versions.
I know this is purely anecdotal but I never had any problems with xp. Why would I ?, xp is just 2000 with a colourful interface and few updates for the latest hardware. If you could come up with a source for your comment I would appreciate it.
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but it's safe, it seats six, and has a trunk big enough to easily fit three dead hookers.
Wow, that means I could reduce my saturday night outings to just two trips, I'll look into it.
Actually I believe it was 87 billion.
Still peanuts compared to the oil reserves of Iraq which are worth somewhere in the region of 4 trillion dollars.
If Cringely can do it, anyone can.
I thought that too...
I suspect it will be a stunning read, as in "How could they be so clueless?!?"
I agree, how long ago was it that napster appeared ? five years ?. What has the RIAA done to capitilise on the increased accessibility that the digital age has to offer ? absolutely nothing.
There problem is that they have had so much power for so long long, they have basically controlled the opportunities for people to listen to music (radio, mtv, albums). Now people's listening habits are changing, it is possible to have music with you any time you like thanks to digital technology, possible to have huge personal playlists. All of this is alien to the RIAA, the consumers are suddenly behaving differently to how they have behaved in the last three decades. Whats the solution, give them wat they want or sue them ?...
Thank you captain sensible.
He was seriously going to put N'Sync in the last movie
I call bullshit, it was never comfirmed by lucas AFAIK. Just cause n'sync's pr person said it was true doesn't make it so.
I was using dogpile, and other engines that searched other engines.
so when the orginal poster said that suing everyone was the "american way" he was talking about everyone on both american continents ?, including those countries in south america where most people are so poor they don't have a pot to piss in ?
retard.
I bet he could use all that fame to his advantage instead... I mean so many actors started from various forms of porn, so what could be more embarassing than that...?
Maling the same film 5 times in a row and then seriously thinking about coming back for a sixth ? (yes I am talking to you mr stallone).
And if he can sue his own friends, a commercial corporation worth 100's of millions of dollars isn't going to want anything to do with him.
I've got a feeling that these people were probably never his friends...
Retribution for what? He jumped around like a retard, filmed himself and somebody uploaded that to the net. I would have done the same if I found such a hilarious video myself. Of course, suing everybody for damages is the new American Way.
Isn't this guy canadian ?, who's the retard now...
I know its not quite the same thing but I watched ep2 with the directors commentary the other day and apprently there is blink and you'll miss it shot during the coruscant chase sequence of an xwing being chased by three tie fighters. Course their is other stuff a bit like this, in ep1 there is some ET's in the senate, and wasn't mark hamhil's son in TPM as well ?.
Obviously this kid is not going to get a major role, but I don't see the harm in sticking him in the background somewhere just so long as he actually wants to do it...
which sci fi shows would you consider mainstream ?, remember in the heyday of star trek entire families went to the cinema and everyone enjoyed the film.
Why not let them roam freely around a building looking for insecure or unauthorized access points?
Cause they are worth more than a grand and you probably don't wan't them getting damaged or stolen.
"Clouds are big" article.
If you were stoned when reading it then that article will have made a lot more sense.
sci fi isn't main stream anymore. the 4th star trek movie made the most money out of any of the trek movies. Back then in the 80's sci fi wasn't seen as the preserve of the geeky as it is now, you had loads of good cool sci fi (blade runner, terminator, trek 2).
But sci fi these days has a very different image to the mainstream movie going audience. Who can blame them ?, who wants to be associated with some loser who covets fictional blueprints of the starship enterprise.
Trekkies ruined science fiction.
I kinda agree, I live in the uk but I really got into John Doe last season, it hasn't been shown here (not on terrestial anyway, maybe on sky) I was downloading over the internet.
Now don't get me wrong, JD isn't shakespeare, it is in fact a fairly silly concept for a show. However it was well acted and some of the writing was brilliant (considering the contraints of the show's story).
Anyway, one thing we are not used to in the uk is tv series ending it's run on a cliff hanger when there is little chance of it's return. Maybe it 's because we make 6 shows in a series as opposed to 20+. I can understand why the program makers would do this tho in the compettive entertainment industry of american television. I guess in the case of john doe they were obviously hoping that a cliffhanger would help persuade the network to recomission the show.
But for a viewer it is all just pointless, why did they bother making the show in the first place ?.
And most importantly....
What did digger have to do with the phoenix group ?
oh yeah, if anyone knows of any programs that can downsample a divx or xvid video file then I would much appreciate it.
I have a muvo and have to agree with you it is a great little device.
I would like to make another point, obviously in general terms the more storage space the better. However a little does go a long way, my muvo is the 64 MB variety which can barely hold one album at 192 Kbs or above. But there are programs that can downsample an mp3 on the fly as you copy the songs over, the one I use is called DBC PowerAmp. If your listening on a cheap pair of headphones then it really is overkill to have a bitrate of 128 Kbs or more.
For me it has an added bonus, as I am deaf in one ear I prefer to listen to all my music in mono when using headphones (try listening to revolver by the beatles with one headphone to see why). Using mono you can effectively half the bitrate and get similar quality to stereo (not quite as good if the mp3 was in joint stereo). This means I can on average fit just over three albums on my little 64 mb player, add the fact that it is quite hard to find a cd based player that will play in mono then I will take my muvo any time.
2004 release? Forgive me if I believe DNF will be available first.
That soon ?.
Cunningly facist, I like it.
Computers hate us to their very bones. My computer has only crashed when I've been doing something important, like writing a term paper or surfing for porn. They're out to get us, all right.
Remember, just case your paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
(God does not play dice)
yep god is much more sophisticated, it's all decided through russian roulette.
I think they were stung pretty bad after the release of XP which was worse than previous Microsoft OS's beta versions.
I know this is purely anecdotal but I never had any problems with xp. Why would I ?, xp is just 2000 with a colourful interface and few updates for the latest hardware. If you could come up with a source for your comment I would appreciate it.
The BBC news site has a story today about The Times news paper now distributing a CD along with the tree mass that comes with it's Sunday edition.
are cds more enviromentally friendly ?, aren't plastics created from oil ?. At least trees can grow back.