The greatest thing DVD did for home video was making letterbox/anamorphic widescreen mainstream.
and
1.) 16:9 widescreen displays are still not pervasive enough to warrant upgrades. (This will change in 2009 after analog broadcast is dead) (My 60 year old mom hates "those black bars" on the top and bottom of the 4:3 display - she's gonna freak when there are "those grey bars" on the sides!)
Agreed, but even when they are, the "other format(ting) war" still rages on, with the WS vs AnamorphicWS movies and then on tv's that are one or the other.
Gets frustrating, as I first saw the movie "Fearless" in the original Chinese(?) release and it was in 16:9...looked fantastic on my 16:9 TV and could not wait for the American release, when it arrived...frak...4:3. Fscking morons. Oddly enough, it was on HBO (in SD, sadly) and seemed to be in 16x9, or very close to it.
Of course, I'm still waiting for some of the other major chanels to go HD: Boston Legal in HD looks like the DVDs, but BSG looks 'meh' most of the time.
I remember the time when empty-V came on the scene and started confusing rap with rock and tried to fuck up rock and roll forever.
I was going to use my mod points on an insightful mod, but you're at +5 Funny.
I'll be dating myself...heck, maybe even carbon dating...when I say I remember when "Yo, MTV Raps" was a late nite hour long show and not and entire fscking format for the station.
Then the MTV2 was announced to get back to Rock and Roll, ya know, the 'original' format because of viewer apathy for MTV.
Whoopdie-doo, by then the MTV generation stopped caring (I know I did) and fired up our radios, then mp3 players and carried on with life.
Expect it to drop soon, as Sansa's are the iPod's best advertisements:
As the owner of a 1G sansa that suffered the "lockup of death". Think "click of death", all other Sansa's have a way to "reset" the device, except for the early products.
Bought an 8G e200v2, and one of the first things I went to do was put the device into MSC mode (work as thumb drive), as per the directions that came with it.
Guess what?
Not available with v2 device! Critical feature removed for no apparent reason.
Who's the fucking moron that decided that?
Top it off with some MP3's will lock the device, heck even first gen product (the 1G) would give you a text file (crude DB) and tell which ones were f'd up.
Returning it for an iPod is looking *very* tempting right now.
Can't use it as a thumb drive, MP3's cause lockups, support via email is the only option and 2weeks w/o a response...yeah, drive me to the competition...that's the way to go.
Give Adobe a little break, they've only owned Macromedia for a couple years. It's Macromedia's fault for producing what competent developers know is a shoddy tool.
I'm inclined to agree, especially from my web-monkey days, where I found Dreamweaver with or w/o Adobe influence to be the least "offensive".
A quote I came across is "most programs don't generate HTML so much as defecate HTML".
Hence DW being the least offensive, say compared to Indesign (IIRC) and $deity forbid that which spews from word processors (ugh, nightmares esp. with Word (shudder)).
Back in the day (and still true) IE/Frontpage perpetuated the lack of even fundamental coding skills. IE forgave shitty code, FP generated the shitty code, so that by the time older browsers (of the time) tried to render it, either it did so poorly or in some cases crashed the browser.
A/V products and techs are in a spot, because "it's just text, how can it harm my computer/OS" becomes hard to explain to those we support.
By the time it adds up with trojans, malware, bad code, integrated browsers, code injection, fake prompts, activeX and on and on, no wonder A/V can't keep up.
all I want to do is make a couple of damn folders.
Labels are nice and all, but for simplicity a *folder*...you know, I don't see the mail in my inbox...something simple and understandable?
Maybe actually "sortable".
Hotmail had it right, in that respect, but Hotmail's stupid, fucking, "you must login every month or less" bullshit is what made me drop them. Well, fed up and dropped them after a visit to my former box got "site maint, try later"...there was no later w/o "oh, sorry your mail is gone, but you can keep your email address". Stupid fucking assholes.
Gmail: no folders, 9 months to check mail, huge storage. If I can't remember to login in that time, well death, coma or whatever, I think remembering to check my mail is the least of my worries, eh?
Hotmail...err..Live mail: folders, pathetic, now "unlimited" (until they change/charge) and I'd imagine the 1 month limit and *boom* your inbox is gone despite it being their error.
Hummm...which one to pick? The roomy electronic prision, or the small cell with sadistic, uncaring guards (complete with windows logos/badges)?
If the NFL had it's way you wouldn't be able talk to your co-workers about the previous nights game.
True, and it does tend to Madden(c)(tm) one, doesn't it?
On a tangent type note, I think Mr. Vicks had the right idea, but instead of dogs he should have used lawyers. Likely far more entertaining, just as bloody and who cares what the result is...not like you'd get attached, eh?
I suppose they'll go after EA first...y'know to *coff*ahem*coff* "challenge everything".
From the feature list: unique weapon system that makes you "love" your weapons what the fuck does that mean?
Ahem....allow me to explain, as succinctly as possible:
"This is MY BOOM STICK!!"...and..."It's pump action for a reason, baby".
Actually, not a frigging clue, and don't wanna know because then someone would have to explain squibs and feed jams and using that wire brush (SHUDDER!)...no, not gonna go there.
Rockstar: Games with Violence and Sex, even with Lies that it is not in the game.
Sony: Screwing the consumer with some latent, even blatant incompatabilities (usually discovered too late)
and outright fucking up machines with their trojan and even lying about it.
Sex, Lies and Video games....yeah, match made in...humm...heaven?...hell? Dunno.
2005 or so, as I recall was an excercise in frustration it was almost funny.
Anyone who played NFS, just had the odd invisible wall to deal with, but you could mess with the AI/Players (rearend them, PITT, T-bone).
Try that in TD and it was like a nitemare: every car but yours ran on rails and every car but yours was made out of solid granite (a la Carmageddon). Time trials was fun, but got old fast. W/o Ai, boring, with AI frustrating.
Tbone another car, you go flying, try to PITT a car and you go flying, rearend a car and...you guessed it...you go flying.
Dunno if TD Unlimited fixes this, I'm afraid to try after the same crap across 3 to 5 versions that supposedly fixed these horrible gameplay flaws.
Besides, FlatOut kicked ass (IMO/E) and FO2 came close to the original (bungie AI sucks, why they used that cheap trick/cheat I'll never know. Wasn't in the first one).
Interesting topic, but games I've never heard of kind of loses a bit of meaning, but games I have heard of and maybe played (and almost pounded the kbd in frustration) makes for a more interesting topic.
I forsee the dark lord (MPAA) calling forth his Death Eaters (lawyers) and making up a new curse (law/DMCA) claiming movie infringement because now they can't make a movie based on the book...there already is one. (haha, bah-dum-ching)
Part of me laughs at this, but you know, honestly, I would NOT put it past them.
1981 - Apple Viruses 1, 2, and 3 are some of the first viruses "in the wild," or in the public domain. Found on the Apple II operating system, the viruses spread through Texas A&M via pirated computer games.
God, you must be old if you can recall a day when Apple had games...
(j/k, sorta. Quake3 on mac w/Logitec mouse at home, pc at work)
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Agreed, but even when they are, the "other format(ting) war" still rages on, with the WS vs AnamorphicWS movies and then on tv's that are one or the other.
Gets frustrating, as I first saw the movie "Fearless" in the original Chinese(?) release and it was in 16:9...looked fantastic on my 16:9 TV and could not wait for the American release, when it arrived...frak...4:3. Fscking morons.
Oddly enough, it was on HBO (in SD, sadly) and seemed to be in 16x9, or very close to it.
Of course, I'm still waiting for some of the other major chanels to go HD: Boston Legal in HD looks like the DVDs, but BSG looks 'meh' most of the time.
I was going to use my mod points on an insightful mod, but you're at +5 Funny.
I'll be dating myself...heck, maybe even carbon dating...when I say I remember when "Yo, MTV
Raps" was a late nite hour long show and not and entire fscking format for the station.
Then the MTV2 was announced to get back to Rock and Roll, ya know, the 'original' format
because of viewer apathy for MTV.
Whoopdie-doo, by then the MTV generation stopped caring (I know I did) and fired up our
radios, then mp3 players and carried on with life.
Expect it to drop soon, as Sansa's are the iPod's best advertisements:
As the owner of a 1G sansa that suffered the "lockup of death".
Think "click of death", all other Sansa's have a way to "reset" the device, except for
the early products.
Bought an 8G e200v2, and one of the first things I went to do was put the device into
MSC mode (work as thumb drive), as per the directions that came with it.
Guess what?
Not available with v2 device! Critical feature removed for no apparent reason.
Who's the fucking moron that decided that?
Top it off with some MP3's will lock the device, heck even first gen product (the 1G) would
give you a text file (crude DB) and tell which ones were f'd up.
Returning it for an iPod is looking *very* tempting right now.
Can't use it as a thumb drive, MP3's cause lockups, support via email is the only option and
2weeks w/o a response...yeah, drive me to the competition...that's the way to go.
Hurmph.
I'm inclined to agree, especially from my web-monkey days, where I found Dreamweaver with or w/o
Adobe influence to be the least "offensive".
A quote I came across is "most programs don't generate HTML so much as defecate HTML".
Hence DW being the least offensive, say compared to Indesign (IIRC) and $deity forbid that which
spews from word processors (ugh, nightmares esp. with Word (shudder)).
Back in the day (and still true) IE/Frontpage perpetuated the lack of even fundamental coding
skills. IE forgave shitty code, FP generated the shitty code, so that by the time older browsers
(of the time) tried to render it, either it did so poorly or in some cases crashed the browser.
A/V products and techs are in a spot, because "it's just text, how can it harm my computer/OS"
becomes hard to explain to those we support.
By the time it adds up with trojans, malware, bad code, integrated browsers, code injection, fake prompts, activeX and on and on, no wonder A/V can't keep up.
a deep voice could be heard uttering a single word.
(Q3 announcer) Impressive! (/Q3 announcer)
Thou shalt not team kill.
Thou shalt not steal (your teams vehicles).
Thou shalt not bear false witness and cry cheater without evidence.
Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy, and the other team even hole-ier.
Thou shalt not make wrongful use of the name of thy God, dammit. And turn off that stupid robot voice, n00b.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's warthog.
Small changes, here and there.
No big deal.
Yeah, but when the levee breaks...
all I want to do is make a couple of damn folders.
Labels are nice and all, but for simplicity a *folder*...you know, I don't see the mail in
my inbox...something simple and understandable?
Maybe actually "sortable".
Hotmail had it right, in that respect, but Hotmail's stupid, fucking, "you must login every
month or less" bullshit is what made me drop them. Well, fed up and dropped them after a
visit to my former box got "site maint, try later"...there was no later w/o "oh, sorry
your mail is gone, but you can keep your email address". Stupid fucking assholes.
Gmail: no folders, 9 months to check mail, huge storage. If I can't remember to login in that
time, well death, coma or whatever, I think remembering to check my mail is the least of
my worries, eh?
Hotmail...err..Live mail: folders, pathetic, now "unlimited" (until they change/charge) and
I'd imagine the 1 month limit and *boom* your inbox is gone despite it being their error.
Hummm...which one to pick? The roomy electronic prision, or the small cell with sadistic,
uncaring guards (complete with windows logos/badges)?
Tough choice.
Brought to you by the letters M, B and A, right?
Oh, degrees, as in angles/measurement...sorry, I thought you meant the other one.
If the NFL had it's way you wouldn't be able talk to your co-workers about the previous nights game.
True, and it does tend to Madden(c)(tm) one, doesn't it?
On a tangent type note, I think Mr. Vicks had the right idea, but instead of dogs he should
have used lawyers. Likely far more entertaining, just as bloody and who cares what the
result is...not like you'd get attached, eh?
I suppose they'll go after EA first...y'know to *coff*ahem*coff* "challenge everything".
Ok, I'm done with the digs/puns.
all these comments and nothing about Vista being ready for the Special Olympics.
/ducks and runs
FTA: Other signs of the not-dead-yet OS's...
I'm not dead yet.
Aw, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
No, really, I'm feeling much better.
Like a candle in the wind? (yes, I went there, and I'm still standing...heh, did it again)
Ahem....allow me to explain, as succinctly as possible:
"This is MY BOOM STICK!!"...and..."It's pump action for a reason, baby".
Actually, not a frigging clue, and don't wanna know because then someone would have to explain squibs and
feed jams and using that wire brush (SHUDDER!)...no, not gonna go there.
Rockstar: Games with Violence and Sex, even with Lies that it is not in the game.
Sony: Screwing the consumer with some latent, even blatant incompatabilities (usually discovered too late)
and outright fucking up machines with their trojan and even lying about it.
Sex, Lies and Video games....yeah, match made in...humm...heaven?...hell? Dunno.
and call it the "Cisco Linksys Integrated Technology Official Reorginazation Information System".
The upside is the name is informative of the changes to the brand.
(beat)
The downside is the acronym spells clitoris.
(Apologies/kudos to Red Dwarf for that line)
Don't remember the movie, but the scene was ice skaters formed a spinning + of about 8 per side.
The formation broke to form smaller +'s (or X's) when Crow said "Aaaand cellular mitosis begins..."
I've never laughed so hard in my life. Tears streaming, sides hurting and could not breath kind of laughter.
Giggles for 3 or more days after that. (before computers, loved sciences...except for chemistry)
Will this delay Duke Nukem Forever, too?
(not that there would be YAEC {yet another engine change}, no that'd be silly)
(very tounge in cheek, BTW)
(/user looks up from bubble wrap section)
I (pop) haven't either (pop) but, honestly, (pop!pop!) have no interest in the (pop!pop!pop!pop!) subject.
Now, clad in bubblewrap (pop), and the eventual popping (pop!pop!) is another subject (pop!pop!).
I guess we do if we lose first story before the second one is loosed upon us.
I guess
Now, where is that link to "annoying internet terms"?
2005 or so, as I recall was an excercise in frustration it was almost funny.
Anyone who played NFS, just had the odd invisible wall to deal with, but you could mess
with the AI/Players (rearend them, PITT, T-bone).
Try that in TD and it was like a nitemare: every car but yours ran on rails and every
car but yours was made out of solid granite (a la Carmageddon).
Time trials was fun, but got old fast. W/o Ai, boring, with AI frustrating.
Tbone another car, you go flying, try to PITT a car and you go flying, rearend a car
and...you guessed it...you go flying.
Dunno if TD Unlimited fixes this, I'm afraid to try after the same crap across 3 to 5
versions that supposedly fixed these horrible gameplay flaws.
Besides, FlatOut kicked ass (IMO/E) and FO2 came close to the original (bungie AI sucks,
why they used that cheap trick/cheat I'll never know. Wasn't in the first one).
Interesting topic, but games I've never heard of kind of loses a bit of meaning, but
games I have heard of and maybe played (and almost pounded the kbd in frustration)
makes for a more interesting topic.
Yes, yes it would. Deeply disturbing either way.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to drill my temple and let the demons out.
I forsee the dark lord (MPAA) calling forth his Death Eaters (lawyers) and making
up a new curse (law/DMCA) claiming movie infringement because now they can't make
a movie based on the book...there already is one. (haha, bah-dum-ching)
Part of me laughs at this, but you know, honestly, I would NOT put it past them.
Or Empornium...
ummm...so I've heard from, uh, 3rd party sources.
God, you must be old if you can recall a day when Apple had games...
(j/k, sorta. Quake3 on mac w/Logitec mouse at home, pc at work)