Yeah, but again, iTunes has those trailers too. If not iTunes, somewhere on the web. Normally more than one trailer, and normally some actual info about the movie other than a brief run by.
That'd be great, but I'm sure that's a $15 surcharge. I just go when it's not busy, get there 20 mins late and find yourself the only ones in the theater. =)
"2) If the movie claims to start at 7:00, start the upcoming feature trailers no later than 7:05 - if you want to show lots of other ads, do it before 7:00 with the lights still partially up."
Sorry, not my choice, if it says it starts at 7:00, start it at 7. I get my trailers on iTunes and the net, I'd rather not waste another 20 minutes watching some disney knockoff trailer for something not funny, or worse, hear others laugh at it.
If the feature starts at 7:15, tell me on the ticket, put trailers at 7! or something. I don't want ads, I don't want trailers(which are ads). I paid $10 to see a movie, not ads.
I know others like trailers, and that's cool, show them, but give me the actual time. I normally go to the theater about 20 minutes in these days and miss nothing, and it's still normally on a coca-cola ad. =(
Someone to clean the damn place, someone to watch for people on their phones, and someone to keep others from talking during the whole movie.
Theaters live in a happy-crappy-monopoly. Yeah, they're not a true monopoly, but they have a crappy level of quality they can hit and people still come!
When they can provide something worth doing, I'll go. Right now I only go when I want to see something badly enough, I probably saw 4 movies last year in theaters.
Agreed, no online tutorial did it for me, just made me look away. Then I read "Getting Real" from 37signals (look it up, a pdf book, cheap and worth it but I'm not their advertising co and it's easy enough to look up). That made me get Agile Dev w/ Rails after 3 bookstores to find it(It's not catalogued with Ruby books since it doesn't say Ruby in the title, so be careful!) and sat down and went through the first bunch of chapters pretty quick.
The thing I like especially is the unit testing, still getting my brain around it though.
Yes! Look that way! At China! Now THEY have it bad! Don't look here! No! You can still criticize us! Look over there!
Oh! Got a law passed. Haha, no you can't criticize us! Good job paying attention to China.
An old idiom goes, you don't have to be better than someone else to make it, you have to be the best. So no, what's going on in China is important, but you have to ALWAYS look and see what is going on here.
And there are far more civil liberties than "The right to free speech"
I think DDO is more of a mainstream game for the casual gamer, not for the die hard gamers. Sorry, WoW never interested me, if you didn't play daily you lost out on way too much and it was hard to either catch up with friends or find a new group. FFXI was too much crafting pointlessness and it felt like they were leading you on your path all the time.
DDO is just fine to pick up once a week, easy to use, quick to group, and the dungeons are a good hour or two and you can be done for the night.
People either love it or hate it, and most of the people who hate it are on other MMORPG's while the ones who love it have a nice mix of other MMO's and people who weren't playing anything before(like me).
"It's not for the casual gamer because it's impossible to play on your own. "
Huh? Click LFG in the social menu and in about 10 minutes normally(normally much less) you're grouped. What are you talking about?
Sorry, but tell me when WoW gets to this level of gameplay(not quality, not features, not content, just the quality of actually playing the game, I know WoW beats it on features and content, and quality is up for debate since it's still in it's rocky start, like WoW was).
Morrowind was great, huge, with lots of flexibility. I know others were good too(daggerfall), but Morrowind was just amazing. I've spent hundreds of hours playing it. I feel like oblivion will be cheating on Morrowind.
I have done everything I've wanted to do set in Morrowind. I've done the whole vampire thing, the werewolf thing, lots of mods, lots of mods not loaded at all, all different types of stuff, all the guilds, none of the guilds. Way too much, and it was great.
You'd be surprised though, the power of money motives Wall Street, and that's something Google has been good at making so far. It will be interesting to see how this plays out, if at all.
T-Mobile has (finally) updated their MDA line with the MDA IV. It's awesome. It's pen based, keyboard based(like a sidekick mini), runs Windows Mobile 5, has transcriber support, touchscreen, everything. And it's a phone. =)
I think HP just doesn't like that their stuff isn't innovative anymore(neither is T-Mobile, it's just a rebranded HTC Wizard or Qtek 9100 or I-Mate something or other, I forget who the actual manufacturer is, but...) whereas HP has released the same old stuff for as long as I can remember. I looked at the iPaqs and they're the same as they ever were!
I'm enjoying the MDA but I know other, better ones will be coming out with other providers as well. There's always something out there, HP just can't get it right. They did it first, and did it best for awhile, but now it's over.
Then that must be you, I haven't heard a good song since Metallica came along and started the utter destruction of music that's lead to the downfall we're at now. I prefer movies over music, although there are very few movies a year, there are even less songs a year.
1) larger capacity - whether this mean more content or higher resolution.
Awesome, because Superbit looks better than regular already! I want my higher resolution.
In response to your opposition:
1) DVD Resolutions SUCKS! It's better than regular TV but not HD Cable TV. I'm sorry. DVDs SUCK! Any geek who has bought a DVD or a DVD player and says BluRay/HD is pointless is NOT A GEEK. Sorry, why upgrade to 3.2Ghz when your 66mhz 486 is just fine? Because 66mhz SUCKS, and because DVD SUCKS.
2) What control am I losing? Even if I copy a DVD it's less quality than before, so I'll buy it again if I lose the disc or the dog pees on it. I hate that, but it's what I've got to do. Suck it up, welcome to reality, it's called REAL LIFE. What other control do I lose? The ability to pirate it? There's always a way around that, even with whatever DRM they wanna pretend works.
3) Blu-Ray is the winner, with expected 8 layers and far higher capacities, support from sony. "Uncertanties" is like, if the light is red, does it mean go or stop?
4) Again, we're back to #1. DVDs SUCK. They have LOW QUALITY. SuperBit is a step in the right direction. And hell, having a season of family guy on a single disc sounds great too.
Is it really big news that Republicans are anti-democratic, anti-freedom, and anti-conservative? (Yes, if you voted for Bush, you are against conservatism in it's traditional sense that Bush Sr. stood for, and that the GOP stood for only several years ago, sorry, but that's how it is).
Damn straight. Although it doesn't try to emulate the pen and paper, it just borrows a lot of the rules.
Voila, you know what's going on. Want to see what you get next level? That's as easy as opening up the Players Handbook 3.5.
I played DDO on Fri when it came out, then D&D on Sat, DDO on Sun, and a few hours during lunch.
The rules are the same, it's easy to follow, and quite fun. Both have their advantages. Can you get your normal group together during lunch for a quick 45 minutes of play? Can you get your normal group together every night of the week for just an hour or two of play? Yeah, plausible, but probably not possible(excluding college students). Can you make it through a large dungeon in just a few hours?
Yeah, both have their advantages, and I'm not giving up on either. It's in Ebberon which is cool because I haven't played it. I wanna check out Kingdoms of Kalamar though.
#1 is easier? Then you're stuck, there's no future, and you've reached end line. #2 sounds much easier when you mention this project is going to last for more than a few years, and at some point #2 becomes the only option after years of code-rot.
"but we'd have it six or seven years ago."
And IE 7 would have already been out, code rot would have destroyed Netscape/Moz, and IE would have their current market share, and Netscape/Moz would have 0%, instead of the 10%+ (depend on which figures you look at, 10% is conservative, I've seeing 18% a lot).
Not to mention, as an Open Source project, people would be incredibly bored and tired with editing 15 files just to add a single button to all the operating systems. Mac would've been dropped, and there would be a split between a Windows branch and a Linux brand, where the Linux branch would have been completed, Windows would never have moved forward, and again, we're back to square one.
I think you're looking at the best case scenario, and you need to base those in reality. Sure, a company who is paying a bunch of people will sometimes work with editing 15+ files for a single change(well, then again, Netscape didn't succeed by doing that, did they?)
XulRunner is what FF2 and TB2 are going to be based on, you'll have 1 XulRunner app and will install FF and Tbird, so XulRunner is here to stay. XForms will also be an extension available later.
Drama queen, you make it sound like WWII. No one died, and Firefox has come about finally. Before it was a code nightmare, want to add a button? Edit 15 files in several repositories just to get it to work. We'd have Netscape 4.2(You can call it Netscape 5 but that means nada), not the greatest thing ever. The tides are waning from IE now, things are returning to normal, and people are developing Ajax and (ugh, hate to say it) Web2 apps that are cross compatible. Things are far better now than when they were before.
I've had a Symbian phone for over a year now(Nokia 9500) and it's worked great, but there's nothing to add. With Windows Mobile I'll get Skype, I can use Woize if I have to, but I'd rather have Xten's PPC Phone which I can directly connect to my Asterisk box. Not to mention I can get a free AIM for it(Symbian costs, was only $30 or around there but still).
Sorry, I love my Nokia, but I need my VoIP and I need features. Not to mention MiniMo will run on it too. =)
This is definately a good preview edition, we've been able to push through a release based off of this instead of using it as a firefox extension by using Advanced Installer which made MSIs easy for me. I'm sure any platform specific installer would be able to work as well, and we'll probably hang on to this for later MSI packaging once XulRunner has it's own installer(but once it does have it's own installer/upgrader we'll switch to that so we can run our stuff on Mac's again(and *nix, but that hasn't come up).
I don't know, after switching to iTunes I laugh at people who go to stores to buy music. My friend did the same. It's fast, convenient, and gratifying. No stop lights to wait at, no lines, just quick fast and efficient.
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Yeah, but again, iTunes has those trailers too. If not iTunes, somewhere on the web. Normally more than one trailer, and normally some actual info about the movie other than a brief run by.
That'd be great, but I'm sure that's a $15 surcharge. I just go when it's not busy, get there 20 mins late and find yourself the only ones in the theater. =)
"2) If the movie claims to start at 7:00, start the upcoming feature trailers no later than 7:05 - if you want to show lots of other ads, do it before 7:00 with the lights still partially up."
Sorry, not my choice, if it says it starts at 7:00, start it at 7. I get my trailers on iTunes and the net, I'd rather not waste another 20 minutes watching some disney knockoff trailer for something not funny, or worse, hear others laugh at it.
If the feature starts at 7:15, tell me on the ticket, put trailers at 7! or something. I don't want ads, I don't want trailers(which are ads). I paid $10 to see a movie, not ads.
I know others like trailers, and that's cool, show them, but give me the actual time. I normally go to the theater about 20 minutes in these days and miss nothing, and it's still normally on a coca-cola ad. =(
Someone to clean the damn place, someone to watch for people on their phones, and someone to keep others from talking during the whole movie.
Theaters live in a happy-crappy-monopoly. Yeah, they're not a true monopoly, but they have a crappy level of quality they can hit and people still come!
When they can provide something worth doing, I'll go. Right now I only go when I want to see something badly enough, I probably saw 4 movies last year in theaters.
Agreed, no online tutorial did it for me, just made me look away. Then I read "Getting Real" from 37signals (look it up, a pdf book, cheap and worth it but I'm not their advertising co and it's easy enough to look up). That made me get Agile Dev w/ Rails after 3 bookstores to find it(It's not catalogued with Ruby books since it doesn't say Ruby in the title, so be careful!) and sat down and went through the first bunch of chapters pretty quick.
The thing I like especially is the unit testing, still getting my brain around it though.
Yes! Look that way! At China! Now THEY have it bad! Don't look here! No! You can still criticize us! Look over there!
Oh! Got a law passed. Haha, no you can't criticize us! Good job paying attention to China.
An old idiom goes, you don't have to be better than someone else to make it, you have to be the best. So no, what's going on in China is important, but you have to ALWAYS look and see what is going on here.
And there are far more civil liberties than "The right to free speech"
Good, because I have my heart set on a Crossfire system, not an SLI system(personal preference).
I think DDO is more of a mainstream game for the casual gamer, not for the die hard gamers. Sorry, WoW never interested me, if you didn't play daily you lost out on way too much and it was hard to either catch up with friends or find a new group. FFXI was too much crafting pointlessness and it felt like they were leading you on your path all the time.
DDO is just fine to pick up once a week, easy to use, quick to group, and the dungeons are a good hour or two and you can be done for the night.
People either love it or hate it, and most of the people who hate it are on other MMORPG's while the ones who love it have a nice mix of other MMO's and people who weren't playing anything before(like me).
"It's not for the casual gamer because it's impossible to play on your own. "
Huh? Click LFG in the social menu and in about 10 minutes normally(normally much less) you're grouped. What are you talking about?
Sorry, but tell me when WoW gets to this level of gameplay(not quality, not features, not content, just the quality of actually playing the game, I know WoW beats it on features and content, and quality is up for debate since it's still in it's rocky start, like WoW was).
Morrowind was great, huge, with lots of flexibility. I know others were good too(daggerfall), but Morrowind was just amazing. I've spent hundreds of hours playing it. I feel like oblivion will be cheating on Morrowind.
I have done everything I've wanted to do set in Morrowind. I've done the whole vampire thing, the werewolf thing, lots of mods, lots of mods not loaded at all, all different types of stuff, all the guilds, none of the guilds. Way too much, and it was great.
You'd be surprised though, the power of money motives Wall Street, and that's something Google has been good at making so far. It will be interesting to see how this plays out, if at all.
Haven't had any trouble so far, but haven't really been anywhere that I'd lose signal. Sorry.
I remember the good ol' days on slashdot, when Spam was new.
"If they only charged money, even a fraction of a cent, to send email it would stop the problem!"
T-Mobile has (finally) updated their MDA line with the MDA IV. It's awesome. It's pen based, keyboard based(like a sidekick mini), runs Windows Mobile 5, has transcriber support, touchscreen, everything. And it's a phone. =)
I think HP just doesn't like that their stuff isn't innovative anymore(neither is T-Mobile, it's just a rebranded HTC Wizard or Qtek 9100 or I-Mate something or other, I forget who the actual manufacturer is, but...) whereas HP has released the same old stuff for as long as I can remember. I looked at the iPaqs and they're the same as they ever were!
I'm enjoying the MDA but I know other, better ones will be coming out with other providers as well. There's always something out there, HP just can't get it right. They did it first, and did it best for awhile, but now it's over.
Doesn't anyone know their history? The Mayans said December. Estimates are normally 2011 or 2012, so this sounds about right.
Then that must be you, I haven't heard a good song since Metallica came along and started the utter destruction of music that's lead to the downfall we're at now. I prefer movies over music, although there are very few movies a year, there are even less songs a year.
1) larger capacity - whether this mean more content or higher resolution.
Awesome, because Superbit looks better than regular already! I want my higher resolution.
In response to your opposition:
1) DVD Resolutions SUCKS! It's better than regular TV but not HD Cable TV. I'm sorry. DVDs SUCK! Any geek who has bought a DVD or a DVD player and says BluRay/HD is pointless is NOT A GEEK. Sorry, why upgrade to 3.2Ghz when your 66mhz 486 is just fine? Because 66mhz SUCKS, and because DVD SUCKS.
2) What control am I losing? Even if I copy a DVD it's less quality than before, so I'll buy it again if I lose the disc or the dog pees on it. I hate that, but it's what I've got to do. Suck it up, welcome to reality, it's called REAL LIFE. What other control do I lose? The ability to pirate it? There's always a way around that, even with whatever DRM they wanna pretend works.
3) Blu-Ray is the winner, with expected 8 layers and far higher capacities, support from sony. "Uncertanties" is like, if the light is red, does it mean go or stop?
4) Again, we're back to #1. DVDs SUCK. They have LOW QUALITY. SuperBit is a step in the right direction. And hell, having a season of family guy on a single disc sounds great too.
5) Well, even YOU block out your #2 argument.
Is it really big news that Republicans are anti-democratic, anti-freedom, and anti-conservative? (Yes, if you voted for Bush, you are against conservatism in it's traditional sense that Bush Sr. stood for, and that the GOP stood for only several years ago, sorry, but that's how it is).
How is this "News for Nerds"?
Damn straight. Although it doesn't try to emulate the pen and paper, it just borrows a lot of the rules.
Voila, you know what's going on. Want to see what you get next level? That's as easy as opening up the Players Handbook 3.5.
I played DDO on Fri when it came out, then D&D on Sat, DDO on Sun, and a few hours during lunch.
The rules are the same, it's easy to follow, and quite fun. Both have their advantages. Can you get your normal group together during lunch for a quick 45 minutes of play? Can you get your normal group together every night of the week for just an hour or two of play? Yeah, plausible, but probably not possible(excluding college students). Can you make it through a large dungeon in just a few hours?
Yeah, both have their advantages, and I'm not giving up on either. It's in Ebberon which is cool because I haven't played it. I wanna check out Kingdoms of Kalamar though.
#1 is easier? Then you're stuck, there's no future, and you've reached end line. #2 sounds much easier when you mention this project is going to last for more than a few years, and at some point #2 becomes the only option after years of code-rot.
"but we'd have it six or seven years ago."
And IE 7 would have already been out, code rot would have destroyed Netscape/Moz, and IE would have their current market share, and Netscape/Moz would have 0%, instead of the 10%+ (depend on which figures you look at, 10% is conservative, I've seeing 18% a lot).
Not to mention, as an Open Source project, people would be incredibly bored and tired with editing 15 files just to add a single button to all the operating systems. Mac would've been dropped, and there would be a split between a Windows branch and a Linux brand, where the Linux branch would have been completed, Windows would never have moved forward, and again, we're back to square one.
I think you're looking at the best case scenario, and you need to base those in reality. Sure, a company who is paying a bunch of people will sometimes work with editing 15+ files for a single change(well, then again, Netscape didn't succeed by doing that, did they?)
XulRunner is what FF2 and TB2 are going to be based on, you'll have 1 XulRunner app and will install FF and Tbird, so XulRunner is here to stay. XForms will also be an extension available later.
Drama queen, you make it sound like WWII. No one died, and Firefox has come about finally. Before it was a code nightmare, want to add a button? Edit 15 files in several repositories just to get it to work. We'd have Netscape 4.2(You can call it Netscape 5 but that means nada), not the greatest thing ever. The tides are waning from IE now, things are returning to normal, and people are developing Ajax and (ugh, hate to say it) Web2 apps that are cross compatible. Things are far better now than when they were before.
I've had a Symbian phone for over a year now(Nokia 9500) and it's worked great, but there's nothing to add. With Windows Mobile I'll get Skype, I can use Woize if I have to, but I'd rather have Xten's PPC Phone which I can directly connect to my Asterisk box. Not to mention I can get a free AIM for it(Symbian costs, was only $30 or around there but still).
Sorry, I love my Nokia, but I need my VoIP and I need features. Not to mention MiniMo will run on it too. =)
This is definately a good preview edition, we've been able to push through a release based off of this instead of using it as a firefox extension by using Advanced Installer which made MSIs easy for me. I'm sure any platform specific installer would be able to work as well, and we'll probably hang on to this for later MSI packaging once XulRunner has it's own installer(but once it does have it's own installer/upgrader we'll switch to that so we can run our stuff on Mac's again(and *nix, but that hasn't come up).
Price of corporate loyalty. Sure, you've been somewhere for years, so what? You're still disposable.
I don't know, after switching to iTunes I laugh at people who go to stores to buy music. My friend did the same. It's fast, convenient, and gratifying. No stop lights to wait at, no lines, just quick fast and efficient.