Also, the MZ-R500 is very simple, but it doesn't have to navigate through a huge music collection. (I know this, because I had an MZ-R700... until my brother broke it.)
But the difference was that MD was just "another music format". Not in high demand, and viewed with apprehention by the american public.
PS3 is, on the other hand, the successor to the highly-popular PS2. I already hear kids talking about how they can't wait for it, and you can be assured there will be midnight lineups for it. There won't be midnight lineups for a simple HD-DVD device.
The primary focus of the PS3 of course won't be movies, but since a few million of them will easily be sold fairly quickly, it provides great incentive for studios to re-release HD versions of movies for it. ("Hey, we already have it, so why not buy these new movies discs too?")
People won't re-buy their entire collection, but when picking up new titles I'm certain they'd rather get the better-quality disc.
TECHNICALLY it isn't a weblog, but the flamewars that get spurred in political threads can't be beat. Plenty of valid opinions, *and* ill-informed knee-jerk reactions.
What sets this film apart from others is that every scene was shot against a blue screen.
The trouble is: It looks very much like that.
Good use of blue screening results in the characters looking like they're "there". From the commercials I've seen of this movie, it reminds me of one of those old CD-ROM games where they mixed live actors and CG backgrounds.
This one just doesn't work for me. It feels so artificial.
You guys are the first to foam at the mouth with anger whenever Microsoft does anything to ignore standards, like all of their "innovative" IE additions.
Or am I just imagining all this noise calling for IE to comply to standards?
I used to hate Windows. Couldn't stand it. Made me sick. Well one day I decided to try it even though I didn't like it. Felt like I had wasted my time. Know what I did? I used more Windows. After about 5 Windows sessions I was startin' to dig it. Now I really like Windows. Sometimes you have just to grin and bare (sic) it until your body adjusts. Now maybe you have a serious medical condition and are literally allergic to this stuff. In which case, you can probably get some injections that will very slowly expose your body to it until you are used to it. But chances are you're not seriously allergic to this stuff, you're just a big cry baby. Have the damn Windows.
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Humour is lost on you, I guess.
I wish I could FIND dual-layer media...
Have yet to see any around here.
They're Finnish.
They don't need liquid nitrogen. Couldn't they have just put their PC outside?
I was talking about the Archos thing.
Also, the MZ-R500 is very simple, but it doesn't have to navigate through a huge music collection. (I know this, because I had an MZ-R700... until my brother broke it.)
Does it have an interface as simple and effective as the iPod's? I doubt it.
It's one thing to have fancy features, or a low price. It's another to be useful. I could operate my iPod in my sleep.
"Good riddance, linear access!" is what I say.
I never bought music until I had a CD player. I rarely bought movies until I had DVD.
Fast-forwarding and rewinding is maddening.
But the difference was that MD was just "another music format". Not in high demand, and viewed with apprehention by the american public.
PS3 is, on the other hand, the successor to the highly-popular PS2. I already hear kids talking about how they can't wait for it, and you can be assured there will be midnight lineups for it. There won't be midnight lineups for a simple HD-DVD device.
The primary focus of the PS3 of course won't be movies, but since a few million of them will easily be sold fairly quickly, it provides great incentive for studios to re-release HD versions of movies for it. ("Hey, we already have it, so why not buy these new movies discs too?")
People won't re-buy their entire collection, but when picking up new titles I'm certain they'd rather get the better-quality disc.
Personally, I see this as the action that will establish BD-ROM as the leader of the next-gen disc formats.
I don't know many people who will rush-out to buy a new DVD player to play HD movies, but EVERYONE is going to buy a PS3.
With that installed base, it will be fairly easy to translate into the market for movies being sold in that format.
Honestly, Fark.com is my favourite.
TECHNICALLY it isn't a weblog, but the flamewars that get spurred in political threads can't be beat. Plenty of valid opinions, *and* ill-informed knee-jerk reactions.
Only special subs can go down that far and possibly nucular subs can survive that depth without getting crushed.
You had me until you said "nucular".
Get outta here, George!
The arnus worm speaks to infected users.
For a second I thought that said "anus worm", which would be really gross if it were talking to its hosts.
All I said was that I didn't like the visual style.
That, itself, might be enough to distract me from enjoying the film.
What sets this film apart from others is that every scene was shot against a blue screen.
The trouble is: It looks very much like that.
Good use of blue screening results in the characters looking like they're "there". From the commercials I've seen of this movie, it reminds me of one of those old CD-ROM games where they mixed live actors and CG backgrounds.
This one just doesn't work for me. It feels so artificial.
"I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-R-T! I am so smart!" /Simpsons
497 millihertz?
Wow, that IS old...
Wow. The last thing you want on the descent to the moon is a BSOD...
You guys are the first to foam at the mouth with anger whenever Microsoft does anything to ignore standards, like all of their "innovative" IE additions.
Or am I just imagining all this noise calling for IE to comply to standards?
Standards stifling innovation?
Imagine if other industries simply laughed at the idea of standards...
"I'm sorry, but this DVD is incompatible with your Sony DVD player."
Anarchy never got anyone anywhere.
In the mainstream, kilo = 1000. So people think 1000.
I have no problem with kibi = 1024. It would make more sense if that were done TO BEGIN WITH, instead of mangling the definition of prefixes.
Or how many fucking clowns were in that stupid little car?
When I was a kid, I had a friend who had neo-hippie parents. The kind that gradually gets more and more insane.
When I first met him, they were fairly normal. They ate rice cakes and stuff, but that's fine.
Then he had to start sleeping on a glass bed, because hypoallergenic beds apparently weren't good enough.
Then they forced him to watch TV through a MIRROR, so the radiation couldn't get to him.
I haven't heard from him in ages, but I can imagine he ended up living in a bubble.
I used to hate Windows. Couldn't stand it. Made me sick. Well one day I decided to try it even though I didn't like it. Felt like I had wasted my time. Know what I did? I used more Windows. After about 5 Windows sessions I was startin' to dig it. Now I really like Windows. Sometimes you have just to grin and bare (sic) it until your body adjusts. Now maybe you have a serious medical condition and are literally allergic to this stuff. In which case, you can probably get some injections that will very slowly expose your body to it until you are used to it. But chances are you're not seriously allergic to this stuff, you're just a big cry baby. Have the damn Windows.
Recently I cleaned-out my keyboard, and there was nearly enough cat hair in there to make a new cat.
It gets EVERYWHERE.
I may be 25, but I turn into a 12 year old when someone says something like "stimulating your rods" in a scientific explaination.
Oh my god.
I got a free pass to a preview screening of Ecks vs Sever. It was so bad that I felt like I was owed some money back.