Kinda... except they tended to break after a few months... I have a heap of those old 720K disks that I drilled holes in that are now failed pieces of tech art... whereas the actual 1.44M disks are still working fine today.
And the previous point about cleaning a 5 1/4 inch disk is nothing like the HDD cases in hand, the disk was ALWAYS exposed to air, therefore it had a MUCH higher tolerance to dirt, dust and grime... of course you could always give it a go cleaning it by hand... and you were also very correct in getting the data off and throwing it away, it would have barfed...:)
And if you get the old 'referrer' error, then simply go to the trailer page and click on the link for the large trailer, then paste in the link from that page... you now have the correct referrer page!
OK, well that almost works except if you just click on that or copy it into your browser it'll complain about a referrer error and no permission... that's because it expects you to be comming from the page with that movie on it... so, first go to http://www.apple.com/trailers, click on the starwars EPII link, then click on the large link, then on the page that says it requires QT Pro, to download click here... now paste in the above link... bingo... the last page the browser saw was the correct one, and you'll be able to view the movie... and as a bonus you can then jump into your temporary internet folder and copy the.mov file to elsewhere... as I just did... man it's a lot better quality than the smaller one!:)
I'm now very excited about the second movie... it could be a winner... I hope.
No, that doesn't work anymore, not since QT5. If you hunt around your computer you'll find a file which you can tell is the movie due to the date created and the size, but it's not a simple case anymore to just copy it to whereever you want, as it's not just a renamed QT file.
Bastards... why don't they want us rewatching their ADS for god sake? Surely the more exposure the better for them?
Oh, top idea, arm everyone, give everyone a damn gun, fantastic, great, well done. Let there be shootouts on every flight, let the man who gets tired of not getting his whiskey fast enough shoot the stewardess.
Urgh... You don't want to have ANY weapons on the damn plane, NONE, NADA, ZILCH. Sure, you can fashion almost anything into a weapon, but it's far easier to defend against a knife than it is a gun.
What there needs to be is better ways for looking for weapons as people board planes, so we don't have these issues of knives on board.
Oh, and also, I just love the attitude I've heard from so many talkback radio listeners here in the US (I'm here on business), and commentators, which is "Flatten a few countries", "Wipe them out"...
Just beautiful, that's just so the attitude that'll stop the world decending into world war, well done all.
Oh, absolutely you could tell the difference! The really flashy games even had their loading picture change, or fill in, as the game loaded (Or others had a timer counting down)... so not only were you sitting there, listening to the sound and saying "Oooh, that'd be the music loading ther", "Right... that's a big picture...", "Oooh, I wonder what that bit is", but also you were getting more and more pent up as the timer ran down/the picture filled in/you could just hear the program coming to the end of its load...
It was so damn good.
And then if the game actually loaded you had the fun of things like:
Renegade
Avenger
Dustin
Manic Miner
Cookie
Rastan
oh, and just so many, many more...... aaaah
I think I might have to get an emulator to be able to play all those games I have without having to fire up the old girl and battle with the tapes. (oooh, and it'd be actually legal too as I own them... WOW!)
Aaaah... The Sinclair ZX Spectrum... with the rubber keys, each one of them performing around 4 functions depending on what other key you held while pressing it (not allowed to actually type LOAD, you had to use the correct key combo!)... and 48K of RAM... yeah, we had the big boy... shat all over the 16K model... and then the 128K came out... and we were sad, cause the tapes (Good old audio tapes) would have extra stuff on them for 128K machines...
And it's fantastic way of colouring a screen... not by pixel, but by blocks of pixels...
And those tapes... oh the joy... the listening to the screaching, the waiting for minutes on end as the game loaded... the screaming as you got to the end, only to find out it didn't actually load properly... the pleasure of getting out your tiny phillip head screwdriver and adjusting the head of the tape drive while listening to the tape until you heard that it sounded the best, then trying again to load...
People say they hate ads on the web.
People use all manner of software to stop ads appearing on their favourite sites.
The sites stop getting any revenue from the advertisers, as no-one is viewing their ads.
The site stops being able to afford to run its service.
The site either goes under, or starts trying to charge for access to its site. (And we've all seen how effective that is)
What are the alternatives?
Banner ads? (Which we all seem to accept, here they are on Slashdot...) Nope, they get sweet bugger all response, so cannot make the types of money sites need to survive.
No advertising... so then how does the site pay for hosting and employees? Then we're left with only commercial companies and those big, bad multinationals with enough money from offline ventures to pay for their websites. We start loosing any kind of unbiased editorial on the web then...
So, it would seem we have to have advertising (It pays for your Free to air TV)... so why not improve it and at least have it targeted? I think what pisses people off more than anything is adverts for stuff they have no interest in at all... but a well targeted offer, delivered when you're interested in such a product, can actually be a helpful thing...
Being in a cinema full of people watching 'The Mummy Returns', a very mass market film, when the trailer for FF came on there was a great deal of general enthusiasm from the audience on this one, a great number of who where from the older set and have no idea that this film is derived from a computer game.
This film WILL do well, guarenteed, it won't loose... mark my words... etc. etc.
The water is oily due to the exposure time. Even today, with our fast films, if you take a photo of fast flowing water, at anything bar the fastest exposure speeds, you get this 'blurry' or 'oily' look to running water due to it moving during the time the shutter is open.
No, he's right... it was played out wonderfully in our parliment... By cooking the chook, you have 'prepared' it... therefore you must charge GST on it. However if it's cooked and then cooled down... then the GST goes away I think... cause then the person buying the chicken isn't getting any benefit of any labour.
It's quite ridiculous... and the cost of living has gone up now thanks to the wonderous GST. You gotta love it. (Still, it's not as crap as in the US, where almost everything in shops is displayed with an ex tax price, so you have to work it out yourself whether it's taxed, and how much, and what the final price will be. Man, that's really crap!)
Simon O'Connor
------------------------
TCO
Sharinga Networks
www.sharinga.com
And further to that it's on a bunch of DVDs too. Which brings up the bigger problem of people legitimately wanting to hook their new DVD player up through their VCR video inputs into their tv (Fine and dandy, although icky image quality)... well the problem being is that on a large number of VCRs will take that signal and apply the Macrovision Gain control mucking around with to it.
This means that Joe Bloe who knows no better, and has hooked the thing up in a quite reasonable manner has ended up with a picture that wildy fluctuates in brightness to the point of being unwatchable... and all because the Movie houses don't care about the end user, just their precious product's earning potential...
grrr.
Simon O'Connor
------------------------
TCO
Sharinga Networks
www.sharinga.com
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Kinda... except they tended to break after a few months... I have a heap of those old 720K disks that I drilled holes in that are now failed pieces of tech art... whereas the actual 1.44M disks are still working fine today.
:)
And the previous point about cleaning a 5 1/4 inch disk is nothing like the HDD cases in hand, the disk was ALWAYS exposed to air, therefore it had a MUCH higher tolerance to dirt, dust and grime... of course you could always give it a go cleaning it by hand... and you were also very correct in getting the data off and throwing it away, it would have barfed...
And if you get the old 'referrer' error, then simply go to the trailer page and click on the link for the large trailer, then paste in the link from that page... you now have the correct referrer page!
OK, well that almost works except if you just click on that or copy it into your browser it'll complain about a referrer error and no permission... that's because it expects you to be comming from the page with that movie on it... so, first go to http://www.apple.com/trailers, click on the starwars EPII link, then click on the large link, then on the page that says it requires QT Pro, to download click here... now paste in the above link... bingo... the last page the browser saw was the correct one, and you'll be able to view the movie... and as a bonus you can then jump into your temporary internet folder and copy the .mov file to elsewhere... as I just did... man it's a lot better quality than the smaller one! :)
I'm now very excited about the second movie... it could be a winner... I hope.
No, that doesn't work anymore, not since QT5. If you hunt around your computer you'll find a file which you can tell is the movie due to the date created and the size, but it's not a simple case anymore to just copy it to whereever you want, as it's not just a renamed QT file.
Bastards... why don't they want us rewatching their ADS for god sake? Surely the more exposure the better for them?
Oh, top idea, arm everyone, give everyone a damn gun, fantastic, great, well done. Let there be shootouts on every flight, let the man who gets tired of not getting his whiskey fast enough shoot the stewardess.
Urgh... You don't want to have ANY weapons on the damn plane, NONE, NADA, ZILCH. Sure, you can fashion almost anything into a weapon, but it's far easier to defend against a knife than it is a gun.
What there needs to be is better ways for looking for weapons as people board planes, so we don't have these issues of knives on board.
Oh, and also, I just love the attitude I've heard from so many talkback radio listeners here in the US (I'm here on business), and commentators, which is "Flatten a few countries", "Wipe them out"...
Just beautiful, that's just so the attitude that'll stop the world decending into world war, well done all.
Oh, absolutely you could tell the difference! The really flashy games even had their loading picture change, or fill in, as the game loaded (Or others had a timer counting down)... so not only were you sitting there, listening to the sound and saying "Oooh, that'd be the music loading ther", "Right... that's a big picture...", "Oooh, I wonder what that bit is", but also you were getting more and more pent up as the timer ran down/the picture filled in/you could just hear the program coming to the end of its load...
It was so damn good.
And then if the game actually loaded you had the fun of things like:
Renegade
Avenger
Dustin
Manic Miner
Cookie
Rastan
oh, and just so many, many more...... aaaah
I think I might have to get an emulator to be able to play all those games I have without having to fire up the old girl and battle with the tapes. (oooh, and it'd be actually legal too as I own them... WOW!)
Aaaah... The Sinclair ZX Spectrum... with the rubber keys, each one of them performing around 4 functions depending on what other key you held while pressing it (not allowed to actually type LOAD, you had to use the correct key combo!)... and 48K of RAM... yeah, we had the big boy... shat all over the 16K model... and then the 128K came out... and we were sad, cause the tapes (Good old audio tapes) would have extra stuff on them for 128K machines...
And it's fantastic way of colouring a screen... not by pixel, but by blocks of pixels...
And those tapes... oh the joy... the listening to the screaching, the waiting for minutes on end as the game loaded... the screaming as you got to the end, only to find out it didn't actually load properly... the pleasure of getting out your tiny phillip head screwdriver and adjusting the head of the tape drive while listening to the tape until you heard that it sounded the best, then trying again to load...
Oh damn that was fun...
And the games...
And yes, we still have it.
And a 16K one
Mmmmmm... so many tapes... so many games!
People say they hate ads on the web.
People use all manner of software to stop ads appearing on their favourite sites.
The sites stop getting any revenue from the advertisers, as no-one is viewing their ads.
The site stops being able to afford to run its service.
The site either goes under, or starts trying to charge for access to its site. (And we've all seen how effective that is)
What are the alternatives?
Banner ads? (Which we all seem to accept, here they are on Slashdot...) Nope, they get sweet bugger all response, so cannot make the types of money sites need to survive.
No advertising... so then how does the site pay for hosting and employees? Then we're left with only commercial companies and those big, bad multinationals with enough money from offline ventures to pay for their websites. We start loosing any kind of unbiased editorial on the web then...
So, it would seem we have to have advertising (It pays for your Free to air TV)... so why not improve it and at least have it targeted? I think what pisses people off more than anything is adverts for stuff they have no interest in at all... but a well targeted offer, delivered when you're interested in such a product, can actually be a helpful thing...
Just food for thought. (Albeit low calarie)
And Apple copied their interface from Xerox... what's the point?
I prefer to think larger... the HOLODECK... mmmmm how very cool!
That's what he meant... currently you pay $44.95, would you rather save that and give up your privacy.... duh.
Being in a cinema full of people watching 'The Mummy Returns', a very mass market film, when the trailer for FF came on there was a great deal of general enthusiasm from the audience on this one, a great number of who where from the older set and have no idea that this film is derived from a computer game. This film WILL do well, guarenteed, it won't loose... mark my words... etc. etc.
The water is oily due to the exposure time. Even today, with our fast films, if you take a photo of fast flowing water, at anything bar the fastest exposure speeds, you get this 'blurry' or 'oily' look to running water due to it moving during the time the shutter is open.
No, he's right... it was played out wonderfully in our parliment... By cooking the chook, you have 'prepared' it... therefore you must charge GST on it. However if it's cooked and then cooled down... then the GST goes away I think... cause then the person buying the chicken isn't getting any benefit of any labour. It's quite ridiculous... and the cost of living has gone up now thanks to the wonderous GST. You gotta love it. (Still, it's not as crap as in the US, where almost everything in shops is displayed with an ex tax price, so you have to work it out yourself whether it's taxed, and how much, and what the final price will be. Man, that's really crap!)
Simon O'Connor
------------------------
TCO
Sharinga Networks
www.sharinga.com
And further to that it's on a bunch of DVDs too. Which brings up the bigger problem of people legitimately wanting to hook their new DVD player up through their VCR video inputs into their tv (Fine and dandy, although icky image quality)... well the problem being is that on a large number of VCRs will take that signal and apply the Macrovision Gain control mucking around with to it. This means that Joe Bloe who knows no better, and has hooked the thing up in a quite reasonable manner has ended up with a picture that wildy fluctuates in brightness to the point of being unwatchable... and all because the Movie houses don't care about the end user, just their precious product's earning potential... grrr.
Simon O'Connor
------------------------
TCO
Sharinga Networks
www.sharinga.com