"this artificial skin will also be used for car seats or gym carpets"
Car Seat: You seem to have put on a bit of weight mam. Driver: I have not, how dare you. Car Seat: And, if I feel correctly you... yup, oh yeah, over there, feel that... you've got some cellulite on your thighs too. Driver: My god! I never! Car Seat: I feel you are now tensing your buttocks madam...
Anyway... Damn straight... I am SICK of the industry trying to roll out the excuse that piracy is draining them of life and blood etc... and on the other hand saying what an amazing boon DVD is... suck it up people, you're making a packet from us.
"would you go ahead and impersonate them or steal their identity?" No, and neither is this guy... he has there, for all to see, the disclaimer that this is all 'MADE UP', that what is being said is not the truth.
It's almost as if the card was meant to be left there, what with exactly one year of photos on it... almost like it was an arts project.
Or not.
It is amusing though... and from what I've seen, there's nothing there to be really worried about if they were your photos. Plus, he's now got them on the net in a professional manner for his friends to see. (and it's not like he could get off his arse to do so himself if there was a year's worth of shots on there)
...The BMW runs like a dream, works without fault, didn't require any specialist knowledge to set up.
...The kit car, while resulting in a supurb vehicle when finished, took months to build, required a degree in engineering, an assumed knowledge of how to install and use the individual pre-requisite components, and an ongoing desire to tinker under the bonnet to keep it humming along smoothly.
I mean, really... have you looked at the documentation? And that's just about the PRE-REQUISITES!
Geeze!
I looked at that about a year ago.. balked, and looked for an easier option... which I found in MyHTPC... which was a free product (still is), but has been supersceded by the pay-for product called Meedio. Although you can still get your hands on MyHTPC here.
Let's see... what do you have to do there? * Boot Windows X (I haven't checked how far back it works, but 2000 and XP are fine) * Run Setup * Use the point and click configure
Um... you're done.
Gee, that was tough.
Again I say: It's all well and good for there to be these great things out there for Linux, and they're free and wonderfully Open Sourced etc... gotta love that... but as long as the instructions for just getting the thing running are many, many pages long, and expect you to have to run off and do all sorts of other dependancy installs etc... I'm sticking with Windows and free products that have a 'setup.exe' thanks.
I have all three at home, and love them, they are indeed widescreen... a little soft in sharpness I suppose, but still fantastic to watch and listen to. They will indeed tide me over until I'm sure George decides he can make lots of money releasing the originals as some 'archive edition' or similar.
Man, we here in Australia must be in some kind of utopia... becuase in most CD stores you can listen to the albums before you buy them... how about that.
No, wait... I've lived in America... and you can do it there too, so we're not the only ones.
So... maybe you should start at least giving a cursury listen to a cd before you buy it... otherwise it's really your own fault you bought a shit cd. I could have told you that just because it was by Kid Rock for f*cks sake.
I would say it's been marked insightful because there a lot of people sick to death of the bazillion (oh yeah, that's a number) articles and comments on Slashdot about how 'this year' is the year of Linux... how everone should switch to Linux, how Linux just pisses all over Windows...
I know Linux has it's place, I love that there's a free alternative to Microsoft (heck I've just installed Fedora on two boxes... which is kinda why I made the comment as man, some of the simple things just aren't simple), but Linux just isn't there yet.
I want it to be, I'd love it to be... but at some stage you're ALWAYS forced to revert to damn command lines, editing config files, downloading non-standard drivers etc. etc. It's just painful.
That's why it got marked the way it is, because there needs to be the reminder that Linux is not as easy to use as people are trying to suggest it's become.
ivtv: No mem on buf alloc! ivtv: Buffer alloc failed! ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 0 ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 32 ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 224 ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 24 ivtv: loaded "
Uh huh
"# cat/dev/video0 >/tmp/test.mpg" Of course, I should know that's how you record video...
And finally: "And finally, after several hours of turmoil and despair, we have installed and tested our Linux device. Its far from perfect - we cannot readily work with digital TV broadcasts, for example."
It's for exactly these reasons that people use Windows and Macs... this sort of thing is far above the average Joe's understanding I'm afraid, and it really shouldn't be stuff they have to know as it's not user friendly, confusing and assumes far too much prior knowledge.
Yeah, so if you copied your crap Beta version onto a DVD, there would be no problem. But saying you have the right to the new quality, extras etc. etc. of the DVD is just downright wrong. You are not entitled to a CD of a wax tube recording you may own, you are not entilted to the hard cover version of a book you own in paperback.
Stop trying to justify why you want the latest and the greatest but don't want to pay for it.
"if i buy a copy of a movie licensed for private home viewing on Betamax, why should I need to relicense because the storage medium du jour is DVD" Ok, now you've crossed over to the side that makes the argument completely false.
You can't make the argument that because you bought a movie in a format X years ago, that now that there is a new format that has improved sound/vision, extra features etc. etc. that you have a right to that as well.
That's like saying: "Well, darn it, I bought a Ford car in 1978... now I think I should get the equivalent model today, for free"
"Battle elephants maching to war with deadly tusks... Luke/Legolas climbing one and bringing it down single-handedly... Lucas' vision of the Hoth battle is *clearly* borrowed from Tolkien. " Ahhh, how incredibly small your world is... it's all movies and nothing else... and your sense of timelines is completely wrong: * During battles in Roman times (for one, I have no idea when else, but I'm sure there's other times) Elephants are used as troop carrying mobile siege units. * Fast forward a long, long time and we have LOTR in 20th century post war, and within its pages there are descriptions of the giant... oh, what are they called again... elefunts or something, it's like elephant, but not... anyway... Tolkien calls upon history to create creatures that are almost identical in use to what they were in history. * Move on a few decades and we have ESB, and look robotic troop carrying mobile siege units... a use of old history brought forward into a technological age in a supurb way, very imaginative really... most works of fiction borrow from reality in some ways, it's how you do it. And as mentioned by another poster... Legolas doin' his thing is NOT IN THE BOOKS... it's only in the movie, and you'd know this if you didn't have such a narrow field of knowledge.
"The Star Wars movies are teeming with such references. The more you are exposed to the classics the more you see where Lucas got his ideas." Which is odd coming from you who has obviously such little experience in the real classics rather than being a 'gee, I wonder if there is a movie of that book so I don't have to read it' crew.
"Face it, Lucas is *heavily* influenced by other work. Even Jedi is virtually a re-make of Star Wars;" I don't know whether anyone disbelieves that Lucas tries to emulate previous success by plagurising himself, but that's a different ballgame.
"I shook my head in disbelief when they ended up on Tatooine again in Phantom Menace -- come on George, there's a billion planets out there!" Um... yeah, but considering that's where the skywalkers are from... it... um... kinda makes sense... it's hardly a lack of imagination, that's a whole part of the story...
Basically... before you start trying to reference other works, it's probably a good idea to have a real working knowledge of more things than a few films of the last 20 years.
Peeing actually saved me from having to watch Neo and Trinity have sex in the second film... I needed to go, the orgy/dance party seemed to be going on for ever... and guess what? it did! I was able to leave the cinema, go to the toilet, and come back without missing anything.
...music like this and specifically these, of which, of course, the format is the SID:D
Although you'd need something like this to play them.
And, just because I thought it interesting, apparently, these are the best ever C64 game tunes:
* Monty on the Run
* R-type
* One Man and His Droid
* Spellbound
* Ocean Loader v3.0
* After the War
* Ghouls 'n' Ghosts
* Kinetix
* Auf Wiedersehen Monty
* Bionic Commando
My god you are right... that's just pathetic on the part of the poster, and he should be banned/suspended from Slashdot for posting this as if it were his work.
Plus it was a crap review anyway as it did what I HATE in reviews which is giving away some of the best bits. ie. "And the humour was supurb like when he turned into a chicken and ate all the guest's dinners"... that may not be in this film, but you get my drift, I was reading through the review, got to a spoiler of what would have been a great SUPRISE joke and stopped dead right there...
Geeze, how hard is it to write a review that doesn't reveal jokes or plot points? Why can't people stay more generic? X's acting was Good/bad/indifferent, the CG of Y was not so hot, or was during running but crap during swinging. Etc. etc. It's NOT THAT HARD.
The thought that you only get a short window in which to make your money off something that you as a company invested piles of money to create is bizarre to me.
I'm sure if someone here created something that had lasting value, they'd want to keep making money off it.
Geeeeze, could we have MORE news stories on Firefox/Mozilla? Please, I would like a news article about every single line of code they change in the damn thing...
How about waiting for some REAL changes in the program before posting a news article about it? That would be novel.
I use Mozilla, love it... (Still need IE due to some apps, but hey), but I don't need to know every time someone changes the theme to make the left arrow slightly more rounded than it was last month.
Yeah, but it's not the fault of the format, it's the fault of "Who the hell needs it?"
From the point of view of the general population, how does MP3 not fulfill their needs? They don't feel the need for anything more, so there's no need for OGG.
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"this artificial skin will also be used for car seats or gym carpets"
Car Seat: You seem to have put on a bit of weight mam.
Driver: I have not, how dare you.
Car Seat: And, if I feel correctly you... yup, oh yeah, over there, feel that... you've got some cellulite on your thighs too.
Driver: My god! I never!
Car Seat: I feel you are now tensing your buttocks madam...
Or is that hear hear?
Anyway... Damn straight... I am SICK of the industry trying to roll out the excuse that piracy is draining them of life and blood etc... and on the other hand saying what an amazing boon DVD is... suck it up people, you're making a packet from us.
"would you go ahead and impersonate them or steal their identity?"
No, and neither is this guy... he has there, for all to see, the disclaimer that this is all 'MADE UP', that what is being said is not the truth.
It's almost as if the card was meant to be left there, what with exactly one year of photos on it... almost like it was an arts project.
Or not.
It is amusing though... and from what I've seen, there's nothing there to be really worried about if they were your photos. Plus, he's now got them on the net in a professional manner for his friends to see. (and it's not like he could get off his arse to do so himself if there was a year's worth of shots on there)
the analogy of:
...The BMW runs like a dream, works without fault, didn't require any specialist knowledge to set up.
...The kit car, while resulting in a supurb vehicle when finished, took months to build, required a degree in engineering, an assumed knowledge of how to install and use the individual pre-requisite components, and an ongoing desire to tinker under the bonnet to keep it humming along smoothly.
I mean, really... have you looked at the documentation? And that's just about the PRE-REQUISITES!
Geeze!
I looked at that about a year ago.. balked, and looked for an easier option... which I found in MyHTPC... which was a free product (still is), but has been supersceded by the pay-for product called Meedio. Although you can still get your hands on MyHTPC here.
Let's see... what do you have to do there?
* Boot Windows X (I haven't checked how far back it works, but 2000 and XP are fine)
* Run Setup
* Use the point and click configure
Um... you're done.
Gee, that was tough.
Again I say: It's all well and good for there to be these great things out there for Linux, and they're free and wonderfully Open Sourced etc... gotta love that... but as long as the instructions for just getting the thing running are many, many pages long, and expect you to have to run off and do all sorts of other dependancy installs etc... I'm sticking with Windows and free products that have a 'setup.exe' thanks.
Last time I ran "ldd firefox-bin | grep libgdk_pixbuf". I was pretty worried that I had no frigging idea what the hell I was typing.
I have all three at home, and love them, they are indeed widescreen... a little soft in sharpness I suppose, but still fantastic to watch and listen to. They will indeed tide me over until I'm sure George decides he can make lots of money releasing the originals as some 'archive edition' or similar.
Man, we here in Australia must be in some kind of utopia... becuase in most CD stores you can listen to the albums before you buy them... how about that.
No, wait... I've lived in America... and you can do it there too, so we're not the only ones.
So... maybe you should start at least giving a cursury listen to a cd before you buy it... otherwise it's really your own fault you bought a shit cd. I could have told you that just because it was by Kid Rock for f*cks sake.
I would say it's been marked insightful because there a lot of people sick to death of the bazillion (oh yeah, that's a number) articles and comments on Slashdot about how 'this year' is the year of Linux... how everone should switch to Linux, how Linux just pisses all over Windows...
I know Linux has it's place, I love that there's a free alternative to Microsoft (heck I've just installed Fedora on two boxes... which is kinda why I made the comment as man, some of the simple things just aren't simple), but Linux just isn't there yet.
I want it to be, I'd love it to be... but at some stage you're ALWAYS forced to revert to damn command lines, editing config files, downloading non-standard drivers etc. etc. It's just painful.
That's why it got marked the way it is, because there needs to be the reminder that Linux is not as easy to use as people are trying to suggest it's become.
This article shows why linux is not mainstream yet:
/dev/video0 > /tmp/test.mpg" Of course, I should know that's how you record video...
"We can attempt to load the card right now using the commands below:
# modprobe i2c-core
# modprobe i2c-algo-bit
# modprobe tuner type=2
# modprobe msp3400
# modprobe videodev
# modprobe saa7115
# modprobe ivtv"
And
"dmesg also reports success:
# dmesg | tail
[] sys_init_module+0xeb/0x1e0
[] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x79
ivtv: No mem on buf alloc!
ivtv: Buffer alloc failed!
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 0
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 32
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 224
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 24
ivtv: loaded "
Uh huh
"# cat
And finally:
"And finally, after several hours of turmoil and despair, we have installed and tested our Linux device. Its far from perfect - we cannot readily work with digital TV broadcasts, for example."
It's for exactly these reasons that people use Windows and Macs... this sort of thing is far above the average Joe's understanding I'm afraid, and it really shouldn't be stuff they have to know as it's not user friendly, confusing and assumes far too much prior knowledge.
Yeah, so if you copied your crap Beta version onto a DVD, there would be no problem. But saying you have the right to the new quality, extras etc. etc. of the DVD is just downright wrong. You are not entitled to a CD of a wax tube recording you may own, you are not entilted to the hard cover version of a book you own in paperback.
Stop trying to justify why you want the latest and the greatest but don't want to pay for it.
Beautifully put.
"if i buy a copy of a movie licensed for private home viewing on Betamax, why should I need to relicense because the storage medium du jour is DVD"
Ok, now you've crossed over to the side that makes the argument completely false.
You can't make the argument that because you bought a movie in a format X years ago, that now that there is a new format that has improved sound/vision, extra features etc. etc. that you have a right to that as well.
That's like saying: "Well, darn it, I bought a Ford car in 1978... now I think I should get the equivalent model today, for free"
It makes no sense at all.
"Battle elephants maching to war with deadly tusks ... Luke/Legolas climbing one and bringing it down single-handedly ... Lucas' vision of the Hoth battle is *clearly* borrowed from Tolkien. "
Ahhh, how incredibly small your world is... it's all movies and nothing else... and your sense of timelines is completely wrong:
* During battles in Roman times (for one, I have no idea when else, but I'm sure there's other times) Elephants are used as troop carrying mobile siege units.
* Fast forward a long, long time and we have LOTR in 20th century post war, and within its pages there are descriptions of the giant... oh, what are they called again... elefunts or something, it's like elephant, but not... anyway... Tolkien calls upon history to create creatures that are almost identical in use to what they were in history.
* Move on a few decades and we have ESB, and look robotic troop carrying mobile siege units... a use of old history brought forward into a technological age in a supurb way, very imaginative really... most works of fiction borrow from reality in some ways, it's how you do it. And as mentioned by another poster... Legolas doin' his thing is NOT IN THE BOOKS... it's only in the movie, and you'd know this if you didn't have such a narrow field of knowledge.
"The Star Wars movies are teeming with such references. The more you are exposed to the classics the more you see where Lucas got his ideas."
Which is odd coming from you who has obviously such little experience in the real classics rather than being a 'gee, I wonder if there is a movie of that book so I don't have to read it' crew.
"Face it, Lucas is *heavily* influenced by other work. Even Jedi is virtually a re-make of Star Wars;"
I don't know whether anyone disbelieves that Lucas tries to emulate previous success by plagurising himself, but that's a different ballgame.
"I shook my head in disbelief when they ended up on Tatooine again in Phantom Menace -- come on George, there's a billion planets out there!"
Um... yeah, but considering that's where the skywalkers are from... it... um... kinda makes sense... it's hardly a lack of imagination, that's a whole part of the story...
Basically... before you start trying to reference other works, it's probably a good idea to have a real working knowledge of more things than a few films of the last 20 years.
Oh yes they are... Bittorrent is your friend... the quality is not up to par with a new DVD, but DANG they look nice, and they are AS I REMEMBER THEM.
:D
Love them
Yes, because more expensive things are always better.
Yeash.
Peeing actually saved me from having to watch Neo and Trinity have sex in the second film... I needed to go, the orgy/dance party seemed to be going on for ever... and guess what? it did! I was able to leave the cinema, go to the toilet, and come back without missing anything.
It wasn't my list, just from one of the pages I was looking through.
Incidently, I never had a C64 (did use one at school though)... no, I was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum boy myself, all 48K of goodness that it entailed.
...music like this and specifically these, of which, of course, the format is the SID :D
Although you'd need something like this to play them.
And, just because I thought it interesting, apparently, these are the best ever C64 game tunes:
* Monty on the Run
* R-type
* One Man and His Droid
* Spellbound
* Ocean Loader v3.0
* After the War
* Ghouls 'n' Ghosts
* Kinetix
* Auf Wiedersehen Monty
* Bionic Commando
My god you are right... that's just pathetic on the part of the poster, and he should be banned/suspended from Slashdot for posting this as if it were his work.
Plus it was a crap review anyway as it did what I HATE in reviews which is giving away some of the best bits. ie. "And the humour was supurb like when he turned into a chicken and ate all the guest's dinners"... that may not be in this film, but you get my drift, I was reading through the review, got to a spoiler of what would have been a great SUPRISE joke and stopped dead right there...
Geeze, how hard is it to write a review that doesn't reveal jokes or plot points? Why can't people stay more generic? X's acting was Good/bad/indifferent, the CG of Y was not so hot, or was during running but crap during swinging. Etc. etc. It's NOT THAT HARD.
The thought that you only get a short window in which to make your money off something that you as a company invested piles of money to create is bizarre to me.
I'm sure if someone here created something that had lasting value, they'd want to keep making money off it.
A+ for reply! :D
Geeeeze, could we have MORE news stories on Firefox/Mozilla? Please, I would like a news article about every single line of code they change in the damn thing...
How about waiting for some REAL changes in the program before posting a news article about it? That would be novel.
I use Mozilla, love it... (Still need IE due to some apps, but hey), but I don't need to know every time someone changes the theme to make the left arrow slightly more rounded than it was last month.
Urgh.
Actually, AutoGK is what I use... silly me... yeah, it's a brilliant rippack... love it.
Yeah, but it's not the fault of the format, it's the fault of "Who the hell needs it?"
From the point of view of the general population, how does MP3 not fulfill their needs? They don't feel the need for anything more, so there's no need for OGG.
Yeah, cause outside of places like here AAC is a really well known format.