Disclaimer: I worked at Circuit City at the time of DIVX.
Overall, DIVX was not a bad idea, but it was handled incorrectly. First, Circuit City advertised it incorrectly droning on about building a library. They should have concentrated on get a bunch of movies and watch it when you want. Secondly, Circuit City got greedy. They should have either started it as an unrelated company or pretty much give Walmart and Best Buy free shares in the venture. By not doing either of these, you put your competition into shutting it down just to hurt you. Third, price point was too high for DIVX "rentals".
While I'm not a fan of DRM,etc. I felt DIVX as a rental (not to own) option had its advantages.
One last note is that they actually got smart enough in the end to include widescreen releases. Originally, they were only going to release full screen versions because "that's what the customers want". After listening to brain dead customers complain that part of the movie is covered up by black bars, you realize the average intelligence of customers.
You can't laminate social security cards. I don't know why since getting fakes or copies can't be too hard. I'm not sure if this would apply to other documents like birth certificates or not.
Definitely agree about the weed out courses. I remember taking a couple and thinking "This is supposed to be a level 100 class? WTF?" After a semester or two, I looked back on them differently. Other things I noticed is that he went against his aptitude and that he cruised through high school with good grades. You know what I learned by cruising through high school with good grades? I learned that I didn't have to study. When I hit some hard classes, I didn't have the built-in study skills. I still go a decent GPA and a CS degree, but I know I would have done a lot better and possibly learned more if I would have had better study skills/habits.
That's why they're 1. remaking foreign films 2. remaking old films 3. making films from comic books 4. making films from books 5. remaking old films made from books 6. making movies from TV
I'll let you provide examples. What happened to the good old days of Hollywood when they just took an idea (like ninjas) and made a ton of "original" movies based on ninjas./sarcasm
The idea there is some perpetual upgrade path we all must walk is a myth created by the IT industry to keep sales figures high, and sustained in part by bad software engineering.
So what you're saying is that I could have stayed with the good old terminal and not purchased a new pc to emulate a terminal? No, I'm making this up.
$5 table and only $30 after letting it run all night? $.50/$1 tables of Texas Hold'em generally have a pot average between $5 and $10 and cost $.75 for small blind/big blind. I'm more worried about collusion at a table and there's no way to stop this, whether they're using this bot, Teamspeak, or sitting next to each other. The bot does do the hardest thing for a real person to do which is to sit and not play. Fold junk hands for an hour, and you're willing to bet on anything that's playable.
Are terrorists sending emails saying that they're going to blow up a building? Don't they use codephrases that would be indistinguishable from normal emails?
"My birthday went fine. Thanks for the camera. I'll bring pictures over when I'm back from vacationing in London"
Excluding pirated versions, you either paid for it or are running ads. Opera should have a list of paying customers and an accurate log from their ad server. They should be able to publish some realistic numbers, not just downloads.
Don't compare it to Star Trek. I really don't want to watch Serenity 6: Shootout at the Sombrero Galaxy. Sad thing is I know I probably would watch it.
A good worker knows that it's easier to repair something that has common parts. You don't switch between screws with different heads, just because one works slighlty better in a given situation.
Down payment on space flight = $20K Final payment on space flight = $180K Realizing you spent $200K to have a fellow passenger throw up on you in Space = priceless
I've never had a problem with Microsoft bundling applications with its OS. I have problems with Microsoft actively trying to make other applications not work properly.
Not worried about accuracy, but it sounds boring and tedious. One guy could just start biking straight south while the other guy makes a back-n-forth pattern in a parking lot.
My real-life version involve big wheels or tricycles, an indoor basketball court, rolls of construction tape, and lot of toilet plungers for marking corners(new and unused, sorta sad that I have to state that)
Sure, you could do the same thing with tricycles, chalk and an outside basketball court, but avoiding walls wouldn't be as cool.
A zombie should have an mostly intact neurological system whether the zombification is due to voodoo, radiation, chemical or biological agent. Zombies are all about the recently deceased coming back to life. All the half-rotted corpses rising is just Hollywood BS, or magical or supernatural based. In that case, the shotgun to the legs would be as effective as anything else.
Shotgun to the legs is also an effective means to slow down a T-1000 that's chaing your car.
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Disclaimer: I worked at Circuit City at the time of DIVX.
Overall, DIVX was not a bad idea, but it was handled incorrectly. First, Circuit City advertised it incorrectly droning on about building a library. They should have concentrated on get a bunch of movies and watch it when you want. Secondly, Circuit City got greedy. They should have either started it as an unrelated company or pretty much give Walmart and Best Buy free shares in the venture. By not doing either of these, you put your competition into shutting it down just to hurt you. Third, price point was too high for DIVX "rentals".
While I'm not a fan of DRM,etc. I felt DIVX as a rental (not to own) option had its advantages.
One last note is that they actually got smart enough in the end to include widescreen releases. Originally, they were only going to release full screen versions because "that's what the customers want". After listening to brain dead customers complain that part of the movie is covered up by black bars, you realize the average intelligence of customers.
You can't laminate social security cards. I don't know why since getting fakes or copies can't be too hard. I'm not sure if this would apply to other documents like birth certificates or not.
Waterproof bags would be your best bet.
Definitely agree about the weed out courses. I remember taking a couple and thinking "This is supposed to be a level 100 class? WTF?" After a semester or two, I looked back on them differently.
Other things I noticed is that he went against his aptitude and that he cruised through high school with good grades. You know what I learned by cruising through high school with good grades? I learned that I didn't have to study. When I hit some hard classes, I didn't have the built-in study skills. I still go a decent GPA and a CS degree, but I know I would have done a lot better and possibly learned more if I would have had better study skills/habits.
Cockpit has only one door which goes to the outside. No access from the passenger area at all. I believe there are already planes like this.
Not stop playing on your big brother's computer before he finds out.
Honestly, I'd have given you a real answer if you had included a real budget.
That's why they're
/sarcasm
1. remaking foreign films
2. remaking old films
3. making films from comic books
4. making films from books
5. remaking old films made from books
6. making movies from TV
I'll let you provide examples. What happened to the good old days of Hollywood when they just took an idea (like ninjas) and made a ton of "original" movies based on ninjas.
The idea there is some perpetual upgrade path we all must walk is a myth created by the IT industry to keep sales figures high, and sustained in part by bad software engineering.
So what you're saying is that I could have stayed with the good old terminal and not purchased a new pc to emulate a terminal? No, I'm making this up.
$5 table and only $30 after letting it run all night? $.50/$1 tables of Texas Hold'em generally have a pot average between $5 and $10 and cost $.75 for small blind/big blind.
I'm more worried about collusion at a table and there's no way to stop this, whether they're using this bot, Teamspeak, or sitting next to each other.
The bot does do the hardest thing for a real person to do which is to sit and not play. Fold junk hands for an hour, and you're willing to bet on anything that's playable.
Hopefully not!
If you'd check out my blog, you could read about the blogs I've read today thus saving yourself a lot of time.
It didn't end all life on Earth, and it probably wouldn't if it happened again.
Are terrorists sending emails saying that they're going to blow up a building?
Don't they use codephrases that would be indistinguishable from normal emails?
"My birthday went fine. Thanks for the camera. I'll bring pictures over when I'm back from vacationing in London"
Excluding pirated versions, you either paid for it or are running ads. Opera should have a list of paying customers and an accurate log from their ad server. They should be able to publish some realistic numbers, not just downloads.
Yes, this post is a dupe
I'm sure I could get you're going to jail on Slashdot.........twice! (rimshot)
Don't compare it to Star Trek. I really don't want to watch Serenity 6: Shootout at the Sombrero Galaxy.
Sad thing is I know I probably would watch it.
A good worker knows that it's easier to repair something that has common parts. You don't switch between screws with different heads, just because one works slighlty better in a given situation.
Down payment on space flight = $20K
Final payment on space flight = $180K
Realizing you spent $200K to have a fellow passenger throw up on you in Space = priceless
I've never had a problem with Microsoft bundling applications with its OS. I have problems with Microsoft actively trying to make other applications not work properly.
Noticed after clicking submit that you can buy Linspire 5.0 OEM version for $21.95 at Newegg
Still not my cup of tea, but...
Why not buy the OEM version and a piece of hardware for $60-90 total?
and this was a "victory" riot http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/10/22/fan.death/index.h tml
Deal with it, suckers!
Not worried about accuracy, but it sounds boring and tedious. One guy could just start biking straight south while the other guy makes a back-n-forth pattern in a parking lot.
My real-life version involve big wheels or tricycles, an indoor basketball court, rolls of construction tape, and lot of toilet plungers for marking corners(new and unused, sorta sad that I have to state that)
Sure, you could do the same thing with tricycles, chalk and an outside basketball court, but avoiding walls wouldn't be as cool.
I wouldn't call getting in a car a "clever hack" to this game.
A zombie should have an mostly intact neurological system whether the zombification is due to voodoo, radiation, chemical or biological agent. Zombies are all about the recently deceased coming back to life. All the half-rotted corpses rising is just Hollywood BS, or magical or supernatural based. In that case, the shotgun to the legs would be as effective as anything else.
Shotgun to the legs is also an effective means to slow down a T-1000 that's chaing your car.