oooh, cool... I hand't actually spent that much time looking through the options... that is sweet, and I now like Steam even more:)
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I think it's even worse as it was said: "We were looking at a beautiful white-tail buck and my friend said 'If you just had a gun for that.' A little light bulb went off in my head," he said.
For crying out loud, who the f*ck looks at something that's beautiful like that and all they want to do is shoot it.
Exactly, that's what I see it as, Valve trying to cut out the middle man, and damn it, I say good on them!
I was dubious about the whole Steam thing, but my brother had an ATI card with the free copy included. He doesn't have broadband, so I said I'd download it for him, and then we'd copy it over to his computer.
Now, if Valve had been intent on f*cking things up for the consumer they would have made this a damn painful experience. But it wasn't.
Downloaded HL2 et al (CS Source, Half Life 1 etc.) onto my machine... he brought his over, connected to my home network, simply copied the entire Steam folder over to his computer, deleted one config file (ClientRegistry.blob) and that was it!
Ran it on his machine, it configured itself for being on a new machine, asked for the password to the Steam account and it was ready to go.
And now... this is the bit I like. Once he's finished playing HL2, I can just fire up Steam on my computer and play it... cause I already have it installed... and Valve say that's legal and completely OK... How cool is that?
I'm sold on this idea.
I do agree that it'd be nice to be able to download some coverart for CDs, and even better have the ability to back up whatever games from Steam you want (it would split it over whatever size media you have)... but really, it's quite cool.
Ahhhh, but in Blade runner we're talking a different type of photography, it was 3D (while he tracks around, things move in the photo in a 3D fashion). If it was 3D one can imagine that it was also of very high resolution too (just go with me)... so I had no real issue with it there.
I have no idea what people have seen in Lilo and Stitch... to me it was extremely formulaic and had no real likeable characters... odd, as a lot of people seem to like it.
But then I really liked the Emperor's New Groove, and most didn't... so what do I know?
"Would the owner of car, license plate number 93 DT VR, please return to your car, you've left your lights on?"
Really... (ok, their lights aren't actually on) it is pretty cool to be able to see well enough to make out the license plates of all those cars in the car park way down there...
I mean, come on... whoever the owner of HS ZP 71 is, you should clean your parcel shelf. (why is it called that anyway, if you actually put parcels on it you'd block your rear view)
It may be boring, but you can pretend you're on an episode of almost any crime/thriller show or movie (think Alias or the like) and say... "Wait... I'll just zoom in there... look, there's their license plate, clear as day!
Sorry, but on loading it up, I am presented with a large, empty white box and the controls at top. On loading up my MP3 directory I'm presented with one long list of tracks.
That is butt ugly and painful to look at. No replacement there.
I had issues with 3, but loved the library, so didn't want to go back to 2, then 5 came out, it really was the best bits of 2 and 3, so it is now my standard music player, and I love it to bits...
This is very sad that Winamp has died, but it was becoming apparent that it was in a downward spiral, the number of people who were amazed I was still using it was staggering. "You're still using that old thing?"
Man, have they overstated what's really happening.
Yes, we've been in a drought, yes we've had water restrictions... but man, nothing quite as terrible as they said there. There are restrictions on how much you can water your garden, and you can't hose down your car etc... really common sense stuff. But has it really impacted my life? Well, the fountains in the city are all turned off (actually, they're coming back on as the drought has officially broken), but other than that... nope, was always pretty good with water anyway.
As a citizen of the olden days version of Mars, Australia, may I say "Thanks!", all them criminal types certainly made a damn nice country down here.:D
I used UltraVNC for a while, and I agree, it was supurb.. vast, showed all the windows that appear when you mouse over things (most don't, and especially not translucent ones)... BUT... and it was a big but (oooh, so many jokes)... it had the annoying habit of rebooting the machine it was running on when I had Shareaza running for any amount of time with a number of bit-torrents downloading.
Now... I have since worked out that Shareaza (at least version 2, haven't retried bitorrents with 2.1) has/had some issues with Bittorrents... but rebooting the machine, that's a bit much.
No other VNC client rebooted the machine, they would just end up refusing to connect with Shareaza running with mulitple bittorrents. So, while it was limited to the interaction of UltraVNC AND Shareaza, and is therefore not entirely UltraVNCs fault, it made me wary of it.
You probably already buy them. Have you bought: [snip]
Uh, no?
Including the 'etc. etc. etc.'? Man... do you buy anything?:D
That list was by no means exhaustive, and I would bet that if you regularly buy games (which if you don't, and just copy them, then the conversation is completely mute from a publishers point of view as it's not like they're loosing a sale to you), you've bought a game which has advertising or product placement in it. You may not have even noticed it (conciously), hence it hasn't bothered you in the past.
You probably already buy them. Have you bought:
True Crime: Streets of LA - Puma clothing and billboards
The Sims Online: McDonalds and Intel
Wipeout: Redbull logos
Need For Speed Series: Has the real cars and logos
A Lot of F1 games: Real billboards and sponsorship.
etc. etc. etc.
Don't get so high and mighty about it... this will be self regulating to a certain degree... if there's too much advertising, or out of place advertising within games, consumers will get pissed off and sales will fall. Suddenly they'll find that these few upstart games with no advertising in them get more sales, and so 'bingo', lets cut out advertising from our games to get the players back.
Of course there's also the other side where advertising helps sell the game... in racing/sports games it detracts from the believability when the bill boards are for 'Fizzy Cola' instead of 'Coca Cola' etc. It really helps if it's as close to reality as possible.
You're not going to see out of place billboards in the depths of a Mars colony within Doom 3, but you might see real life billboards in games like Grand Theft Auto, and I would prefer to see real billboards.
Now, you harping on about your processing power and bandwidth, oh PLEASE! How much f*cking bandwidth will a compressed static image take? And how much processing power will it take to insert? Please get over yourself on that front.
If it really impacts on the speed or playability of the game, then the developers will remove it, and if they don't they will loose sales because their game plays like crud on most computers.
The other way around it is to avoid online games. I've never been a fan of them myself, and when I'm playing single player games I'm not connected to the internet... so no drain on 'my' bandwidth or 'my' precious processing power.
If the adverts are well integrated, they can help sell the realism of the game, if they are not, they will stand out and the game will be marked down and sales hurt by it.
Plus, really, how long will it be until people crack this?
This was very evident with Fahrenheit 9/11. There were few middle-of-the road reactions to it... Never heard anything about the acting, the cinematography, etc, etc, it was always about the message. * While, yes, opinions were very much 'love' or 'hate', I certainly read and heard a lot of opinion on it as a film, how it was very entertaining, funny, much better than I thought it would be etc. etc. There wasn't anything about the acting, well, because there wasn't any! There was plenty about the editing... in fact almost too much in reviews about how Moore is a skilled editor.
Well this tells me that people aren't actually commenting on the movie itself, but the politics behind it. Those who's politics agree with the movie, love it because it agrees with them and people like being told they are right. Those who's politics disagree, hate it because they see it as being a wrong and a lie. * There was a lot of that I'm sure, but if you believe testiments and articles posted on Moore's site (which of course you have to take with a grain of salt, but hey, I like the guy and he does back it up with articles from the media), then there were also many, many who were turned. (Some positive press that he's collected is here)
I imagine this is similar. The grandparent is lying, or deciving himself that he set aside his politics. The move has some message, either stated or implied, real or fictitious, that he just hates and doesn't agree with. That ruins it for him. * Which is a little odd, as from the trailer I don't get any really strong political message either way, it just seems to be open slather.
Of course people don't usually want to admit to that, so it's gets caged in stuff like this. It's just like how most of the extreme liberals and conservatives I know declare themselves to be moderates. People don't like admitting their views are extreme. * Oh I do agree, and the lack of outcry over make gay marriages illegal both in the States and here in Aus recently shows that too many people are.
The ENTIRE point of the film is to use an old, antiquated technique to represent the latest style of blockbuster.
It's funny. If you can't see it as funny then fine, stay at home, but there are many of us who will go and enjoy this. (for me, whenever it finally appears in Australia)
As the attacks were supposedly 'in response' to 9/11, then considering most of the hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, and none from Iraq, then surely THAT's more the point here?
You've fallen into the 'well, we weren't really attacking Iraq in response to 9/11 anyways, just look at all the bad things Saddam has done in the past, we're allowed to bomb him now aren't we?'
*sigh* just like every other region in the world. so when something like 9/11 happens, don't be surprised if the us responds militarily. - Responds militarily against a country that had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11? Why didn't they go and bomb Saudi Arabia?
in what world do you live in where a military response from the us is not appropriate or just, to prevent something like 9/11 from ever happening ever again? - I can't speak for the parent poster, but I can say a couple of things to this:
- You keep glossing over the fact that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, you've been taken along on the Republican's little journey from the start where they said that there was a direct link between Asama and Saddam, through to where they gave up on that and just said 'Saddam bad, US good, we bomb'. How is bombing and occupying Iraq without good cause going to do ANYTHING but bring more 9/11 style attacks onto the US? What, you think the terrorists AREN'T going to think "Gee, look, we can bomb a civilian target in the heart of America and they go and attack a completely unrelated country while at the same time treating their own population like common criminals and taking away even the most basic of liberties. Yeah, let's NOT do that!"... uh huh.
- And asside from that, how is a military response the best response to this? How is it not a good idea to start doing a bit more good in the world, maybe start fixing some of the real wrongs that the US does in its name (Good that the oil fields are pumping again in Iraq, heaven forbid they dry up)? Surely THAT's a way to stop people wanting to bomb you, STOP doing what's pissing them off!
the mirror image of that is not intelligence, it's simply more stupidity: "rah rah rah! everything the us does is bad!" - And this is how you view ANY attack on what the US does is it? I would have to say that the majority of us just want to see the US using its immense might for good, rather than flexing its military might to protect oil reserves and government member contracts.
so many propagandized closed minded sheep in this world. - Indeed sir... when are you being shawn next?
i just wish some were more intellectually honest, and see it as it really is: complex. not simple one-dimensional card board cut outs. - Which is EXACTLY what you're NOT doing. You are glossing over all the complexities and choosing to focus on a very simple, and in this case incorrect premise that 'Bad man A attacks us, we attack Bad man A', except that it's really 'Bad man A attacked us, we attack completely unrelated not very nice at all man C for unrelated issues'
please be intellectually honest people: the us does good and bad in the world. i am so sorry if this intellectually honest and measured approach goes against the latest lowest common denominator fashionable propaganda and just isn't "cool" and counterculture. - Indeed it does, but at the moment, under the current government what it is doing wrong is FAR outweighing anything it might be doing right. So I'm sorry if your measured approach can't handle that the rest of the world really doesn't like the current US government and how it's affecting the rest of us (yes, I'm not an American), but that's the way it is at present.
pop culture is dumb. so is counterculture. the only thing that is intelligent is honesty, but it's just not trendy or cool for anyone, so we get lost in the haze of one-sided morons yelling at opposing one-sided morons, and no problems get solved at all. - Man, I can't see how anything you've said at all adds anything to either side, you've spent most of your post saying how dumb and ignorant everyong else is without demonstrating ANYTHING to show that you are anything but.
do you care about the problems in this world? do you honestly? or do only care about them as far as you can salve your conscience with them? and then it's "ooh! look what's on tv!".. -
OK... I'm constantly STUNNED that people vote for Bush, and not just vote, not just in the way of 'Gee, he's not great, but what are the alternatives', but more in the vein of 'Man, I really LOVE Bush! More BUSH, MORE BUSH!'
I'm just so baffled... but your cases do make a lot of sense, and help me work out where these amazingly narrow minded people are coming from. Well, that and the documentaries I've seen regarding Bush and the Church groups... *shudder*
While I'm glad I'm in Australia and not there: a) What happens in the US affects us all & b) Our current Liberal (who are very NOT liberal in that sense of the word) government is not that much better... we are over there in Iraq with you:(
"In the case of The Mona Lisa, there is a single authentic version -- static, unchanging, perfect in its original form. But Beethoven's symphonies have been performed by orchestras and ensembles around the world, and each performance is different -- both from each other, and likely from Ludwig's intent."
Yes, but you can still get copies of many, many versions of the performance, not just the last one. There's not a worldwide removal of all previous performances with a statement that only the most recent is the 'true' version.
I have absolutely no problem with directors doing this, it's just in THIS one case the director has decided that this is the ONLY version you're allowed to see anymore, and that's the problem.
That does sound like a horrible addition (another good reason for me to stick with my LD rips), but what troubles me about your post and many others is that you've been fine with all this change and fiddling with and alteration with no ability to purchase the originals... right up until there is one little thing that bugs you. THEN it becomes a problem. You only make a noise when it personally effects you, without seeing that it's been an important issue of movie preservation before then too.
Oh well, at least now you see why the new versions suck.
Um... nobody uses it... um... let's see... from suprnova
Known trackers: 161,699 seeded torrents (268,475 total), 2,446,717 seeds & 3,695,090 downloaders (6,141,807 peers), on 1,265 active trackers.
Yeah, because over 6Million uses active at the momeent is nobody. That's why you can download DVD size files in very short periods of time...
The rest of your points are correct, and it's useless for anything that's not currently 'popular' (which can include old stuff like the SW LD rips), that's what real P2P networks are for... but it's GREAT for getting down files FAST.
Huh, dunno what you're doing wrong, as I have *cough* downloaded *cough cough* the three *uh huummm* SW LD rips in a timely manner... What I have noticed is that if you try and download more than ONE bittorrent through it, then you get issues... but one bittorrent at a time plus however many other types of downloads works a treat...
Now a one bittorrent at a time limit is probably crap (I've never actually used another client), but I get my 4 and a half Gig downloads in short time, so I'm happy.
My all time favourite client for accessing eDonkey, Gnutella, Gnutella 2 and Bitorrents, all in one shiney app is Shareaza. This is one great client that I've had wonderful success with. I recommend it as easy to use and very powerful.
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oooh, cool... I hand't actually spent that much time looking through the options... that is sweet, and I now like Steam even more :)
I think it's even worse as it was said:
"We were looking at a beautiful white-tail buck and my friend said 'If you just had a gun for that.' A little light bulb went off in my head," he said.
For crying out loud, who the f*ck looks at something that's beautiful like that and all they want to do is shoot it.
That's just wrong.
Exactly, that's what I see it as, Valve trying to cut out the middle man, and damn it, I say good on them!
I was dubious about the whole Steam thing, but my brother had an ATI card with the free copy included. He doesn't have broadband, so I said I'd download it for him, and then we'd copy it over to his computer.
Now, if Valve had been intent on f*cking things up for the consumer they would have made this a damn painful experience. But it wasn't.
Downloaded HL2 et al (CS Source, Half Life 1 etc.) onto my machine... he brought his over, connected to my home network, simply copied the entire Steam folder over to his computer, deleted one config file (ClientRegistry.blob) and that was it!
Ran it on his machine, it configured itself for being on a new machine, asked for the password to the Steam account and it was ready to go.
And now... this is the bit I like. Once he's finished playing HL2, I can just fire up Steam on my computer and play it... cause I already have it installed... and Valve say that's legal and completely OK... How cool is that?
I'm sold on this idea.
I do agree that it'd be nice to be able to download some coverart for CDs, and even better have the ability to back up whatever games from Steam you want (it would split it over whatever size media you have)... but really, it's quite cool.
Ahhhh, but in Blade runner we're talking a different type of photography, it was 3D (while he tracks around, things move in the photo in a 3D fashion). If it was 3D one can imagine that it was also of very high resolution too (just go with me)... so I had no real issue with it there.
I have no idea what people have seen in Lilo and Stitch... to me it was extremely formulaic and had no real likeable characters... odd, as a lot of people seem to like it.
But then I really liked the Emperor's New Groove, and most didn't... so what do I know?
"Would the owner of car, license plate number 93 DT VR, please return to your car, you've left your lights on?"
Really... (ok, their lights aren't actually on) it is pretty cool to be able to see well enough to make out the license plates of all those cars in the car park way down there...
I mean, come on... whoever the owner of HS ZP 71 is, you should clean your parcel shelf. (why is it called that anyway, if you actually put parcels on it you'd block your rear view)
It may be boring, but you can pretend you're on an episode of almost any crime/thriller show or movie (think Alias or the like) and say... "Wait... I'll just zoom in there... look, there's their license plate, clear as day!
Here is the flash view of it
Oh, and the really tinsy tiny car that fits into the motorcycle spot is call too.
Sorry, but on loading it up, I am presented with a large, empty white box and the controls at top. On loading up my MP3 directory I'm presented with one long list of tracks.
That is butt ugly and painful to look at. No replacement there.
I had issues with 3, but loved the library, so didn't want to go back to 2, then 5 came out, it really was the best bits of 2 and 3, so it is now my standard music player, and I love it to bits...
This is very sad that Winamp has died, but it was becoming apparent that it was in a downward spiral, the number of people who were amazed I was still using it was staggering. "You're still using that old thing?"
Man, have they overstated what's really happening.
:P
Yes, we've been in a drought, yes we've had water restrictions... but man, nothing quite as terrible as they said there. There are restrictions on how much you can water your garden, and you can't hose down your car etc... really common sense stuff. But has it really impacted my life? Well, the fountains in the city are all turned off (actually, they're coming back on as the drought has officially broken), but other than that... nope, was always pretty good with water anyway.
Damn Brits!
As a citizen of the olden days version of Mars, Australia, may I say "Thanks!", all them criminal types certainly made a damn nice country down here. :D
I used UltraVNC for a while, and I agree, it was supurb.. vast, showed all the windows that appear when you mouse over things (most don't, and especially not translucent ones)... BUT... and it was a big but (oooh, so many jokes)... it had the annoying habit of rebooting the machine it was running on when I had Shareaza running for any amount of time with a number of bit-torrents downloading.
Now... I have since worked out that Shareaza (at least version 2, haven't retried bitorrents with 2.1) has/had some issues with Bittorrents... but rebooting the machine, that's a bit much.
No other VNC client rebooted the machine, they would just end up refusing to connect with Shareaza running with mulitple bittorrents. So, while it was limited to the interaction of UltraVNC AND Shareaza, and is therefore not entirely UltraVNCs fault, it made me wary of it.
I should give it another try though, it was fast.
You probably already buy them. Have you bought:
:D
[snip]
Uh, no?
Including the 'etc. etc. etc.'? Man... do you buy anything?
That list was by no means exhaustive, and I would bet that if you regularly buy games (which if you don't, and just copy them, then the conversation is completely mute from a publishers point of view as it's not like they're loosing a sale to you), you've bought a game which has advertising or product placement in it. You may not have even noticed it (conciously), hence it hasn't bothered you in the past.
Ahhh, angry, yet deluded.
You probably already buy them. Have you bought:
True Crime: Streets of LA - Puma clothing and billboards
The Sims Online: McDonalds and Intel
Wipeout: Redbull logos
Need For Speed Series: Has the real cars and logos
A Lot of F1 games: Real billboards and sponsorship.
etc. etc. etc.
Don't get so high and mighty about it... this will be self regulating to a certain degree... if there's too much advertising, or out of place advertising within games, consumers will get pissed off and sales will fall. Suddenly they'll find that these few upstart games with no advertising in them get more sales, and so 'bingo', lets cut out advertising from our games to get the players back.
Of course there's also the other side where advertising helps sell the game... in racing/sports games it detracts from the believability when the bill boards are for 'Fizzy Cola' instead of 'Coca Cola' etc. It really helps if it's as close to reality as possible.
You're not going to see out of place billboards in the depths of a Mars colony within Doom 3, but you might see real life billboards in games like Grand Theft Auto, and I would prefer to see real billboards.
Now, you harping on about your processing power and bandwidth, oh PLEASE! How much f*cking bandwidth will a compressed static image take? And how much processing power will it take to insert? Please get over yourself on that front.
If it really impacts on the speed or playability of the game, then the developers will remove it, and if they don't they will loose sales because their game plays like crud on most computers.
The other way around it is to avoid online games. I've never been a fan of them myself, and when I'm playing single player games I'm not connected to the internet... so no drain on 'my' bandwidth or 'my' precious processing power.
If the adverts are well integrated, they can help sell the realism of the game, if they are not, they will stand out and the game will be marked down and sales hurt by it.
Plus, really, how long will it be until people crack this?
This was very evident with Fahrenheit 9/11. There were few middle-of-the road reactions to it... Never heard anything about the acting, the cinematography, etc, etc, it was always about the message.
* While, yes, opinions were very much 'love' or 'hate', I certainly read and heard a lot of opinion on it as a film, how it was very entertaining, funny, much better than I thought it would be etc. etc. There wasn't anything about the acting, well, because there wasn't any! There was plenty about the editing... in fact almost too much in reviews about how Moore is a skilled editor.
Well this tells me that people aren't actually commenting on the movie itself, but the politics behind it. Those who's politics agree with the movie, love it because it agrees with them and people like being told they are right. Those who's politics disagree, hate it because they see it as being a wrong and a lie.
* There was a lot of that I'm sure, but if you believe testiments and articles posted on Moore's site (which of course you have to take with a grain of salt, but hey, I like the guy and he does back it up with articles from the media), then there were also many, many who were turned. (Some positive press that he's collected is here)
I imagine this is similar. The grandparent is lying, or deciving himself that he set aside his politics. The move has some message, either stated or implied, real or fictitious, that he just hates and doesn't agree with. That ruins it for him.
* Which is a little odd, as from the trailer I don't get any really strong political message either way, it just seems to be open slather.
Of course people don't usually want to admit to that, so it's gets caged in stuff like this. It's just like how most of the extreme liberals and conservatives I know declare themselves to be moderates. People don't like admitting their views are extreme.
* Oh I do agree, and the lack of outcry over make gay marriages illegal both in the States and here in Aus recently shows that too many people are.
This has to be a troll, or flamebait...
The ENTIRE point of the film is to use an old, antiquated technique to represent the latest style of blockbuster.
It's funny. If you can't see it as funny then fine, stay at home, but there are many of us who will go and enjoy this. (for me, whenever it finally appears in Australia)
As the attacks were supposedly 'in response' to 9/11, then considering most of the hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, and none from Iraq, then surely THAT's more the point here?
You've fallen into the 'well, we weren't really attacking Iraq in response to 9/11 anyways, just look at all the bad things Saddam has done in the past, we're allowed to bomb him now aren't we?'
Bah.
*sigh*
..
just like every other region in the world. so when something like 9/11 happens, don't be surprised if the us responds militarily.
- Responds militarily against a country that had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11? Why didn't they go and bomb Saudi Arabia?
in what world do you live in where a military response from the us is not appropriate or just, to prevent something like 9/11 from ever happening ever again?
- I can't speak for the parent poster, but I can say a couple of things to this:
- You keep glossing over the fact that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, you've been taken along on the Republican's little journey from the start where they said that there was a direct link between Asama and Saddam, through to where they gave up on that and just said 'Saddam bad, US good, we bomb'. How is bombing and occupying Iraq without good cause going to do ANYTHING but bring more 9/11 style attacks onto the US? What, you think the terrorists AREN'T going to think "Gee, look, we can bomb a civilian target in the heart of America and they go and attack a completely unrelated country while at the same time treating their own population like common criminals and taking away even the most basic of liberties. Yeah, let's NOT do that!"... uh huh.
- And asside from that, how is a military response the best response to this? How is it not a good idea to start doing a bit more good in the world, maybe start fixing some of the real wrongs that the US does in its name (Good that the oil fields are pumping again in Iraq, heaven forbid they dry up)? Surely THAT's a way to stop people wanting to bomb you, STOP doing what's pissing them off!
the mirror image of that is not intelligence, it's simply more stupidity: "rah rah rah! everything the us does is bad!"
- And this is how you view ANY attack on what the US does is it? I would have to say that the majority of us just want to see the US using its immense might for good, rather than flexing its military might to protect oil reserves and government member contracts.
so many propagandized closed minded sheep in this world.
- Indeed sir... when are you being shawn next?
i just wish some were more intellectually honest, and see it as it really is: complex. not simple one-dimensional card board cut outs.
- Which is EXACTLY what you're NOT doing. You are glossing over all the complexities and choosing to focus on a very simple, and in this case incorrect premise that 'Bad man A attacks us, we attack Bad man A', except that it's really 'Bad man A attacked us, we attack completely unrelated not very nice at all man C for unrelated issues'
please be intellectually honest people: the us does good and bad in the world. i am so sorry if this intellectually honest and measured approach goes against the latest lowest common denominator fashionable propaganda and just isn't "cool" and counterculture.
- Indeed it does, but at the moment, under the current government what it is doing wrong is FAR outweighing anything it might be doing right. So I'm sorry if your measured approach can't handle that the rest of the world really doesn't like the current US government and how it's affecting the rest of us (yes, I'm not an American), but that's the way it is at present.
pop culture is dumb. so is counterculture. the only thing that is intelligent is honesty, but it's just not trendy or cool for anyone, so we get lost in the haze of one-sided morons yelling at opposing one-sided morons, and no problems get solved at all.
- Man, I can't see how anything you've said at all adds anything to either side, you've spent most of your post saying how dumb and ignorant everyong else is without demonstrating ANYTHING to show that you are anything but.
do you care about the problems in this world? do you honestly? or do only care about them as far as you can salve your conscience with them? and then it's "ooh! look what's on tv!"
-
OK... I'm constantly STUNNED that people vote for Bush, and not just vote, not just in the way of 'Gee, he's not great, but what are the alternatives', but more in the vein of 'Man, I really LOVE Bush! More BUSH, MORE BUSH!'
:(
I'm just so baffled... but your cases do make a lot of sense, and help me work out where these amazingly narrow minded people are coming from. Well, that and the documentaries I've seen regarding Bush and the Church groups... *shudder*
While I'm glad I'm in Australia and not there:
a) What happens in the US affects us all
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b) Our current Liberal (who are very NOT liberal in that sense of the word) government is not that much better... we are over there in Iraq with you
"In the case of The Mona Lisa, there is a single authentic version -- static, unchanging, perfect in its original form. But Beethoven's symphonies have been performed by orchestras and ensembles around the world, and each performance is different -- both from each other, and likely from Ludwig's intent."
Yes, but you can still get copies of many, many versions of the performance, not just the last one. There's not a worldwide removal of all previous performances with a statement that only the most recent is the 'true' version.
I have absolutely no problem with directors doing this, it's just in THIS one case the director has decided that this is the ONLY version you're allowed to see anymore, and that's the problem.
ie: What about IMDB's rating: 5.6/10 (8,939 votes)
That does sound like a horrible addition (another good reason for me to stick with my LD rips), but what troubles me about your post and many others is that you've been fine with all this change and fiddling with and alteration with no ability to purchase the originals... right up until there is one little thing that bugs you. THEN it becomes a problem. You only make a noise when it personally effects you, without seeing that it's been an important issue of movie preservation before then too.
Oh well, at least now you see why the new versions suck.
"That's why nobody uses it!"
Um... nobody uses it... um... let's see... from suprnova
Known trackers: 161,699 seeded torrents (268,475 total), 2,446,717 seeds & 3,695,090 downloaders (6,141,807 peers), on 1,265 active trackers.
Yeah, because over 6Million uses active at the momeent is nobody. That's why you can download DVD size files in very short periods of time...
The rest of your points are correct, and it's useless for anything that's not currently 'popular' (which can include old stuff like the SW LD rips), that's what real P2P networks are for... but it's GREAT for getting down files FAST.
I shalst try that with my next Bittorrent download, see how it goes. :D It is awfully nice having it incorporated into the rest of the app though.
Huh, dunno what you're doing wrong, as I have *cough* downloaded *cough cough* the three *uh huummm* SW LD rips in a timely manner... What I have noticed is that if you try and download more than ONE bittorrent through it, then you get issues... but one bittorrent at a time plus however many other types of downloads works a treat...
Now a one bittorrent at a time limit is probably crap (I've never actually used another client), but I get my 4 and a half Gig downloads in short time, so I'm happy.
My all time favourite client for accessing eDonkey, Gnutella, Gnutella 2 and Bitorrents, all in one shiney app is Shareaza. This is one great client that I've had wonderful success with. I recommend it as easy to use and very powerful.