Hi. The problem with your "perfectly clean tv recordings" is that if you have a cable feed, chances are that the cable co is doing quite a bit of their own compression. Usually it is quite noticible to the naked eye (blockiness, jaggies on round shapes, etc). This is why the DVD rips look better than HD caps.
Quit your bickering, you fools. I have already taken my delorean with flux capacitor into the future and let me assure you that McDonalds is not going to let a volcano blow up in McYellowstone McPark.
This case is also different because the person put them on YouTube BEFORE they aired, so this is a bit more serious than just uploading the video. Non-Story.
That is on Fox. They released it early themselves. The first four episodes were distributed to critics, et al months before they aired. One second after they were released to critics, Roger Ebert's rip group released a xvid onto an ftp topsite, and it cascaded down the p2p waterfall, ending up on bittorrent and of course, youtube. I blame society!
Going outside and looking? Ask at your local home center about 'windows', they'll know. Hint: not the operating system.
You must be new here. We all live in our parents' *windowless* basement and drink copious quantities of mountain dew while playing WOW for 4 days at a stretch.
What is the point of putting something that looks like 8mm film on HD, BluRay, or DVD for that matter?
PROFIT ! Everyone will be getting rid of their super 8 projectors, betamaxes, vcrs, and regular old dvd-players, and will need new copies of everything on the new format, of course. How many of you bought a CD of something that you previously owned on vinyl or tape? They need to keep people locked in to "devices", and "formats". etc. And that is how "THE MAN" keeps you down.
No more copyrighted music at weddings without a license. Well, Its funny you should say that......because technically if you are a mobile dj you are supposed to pay some kind of BMI or ASCAP dues to buy a license and cover this sort of thing. In lots of major cities, reps of both make rounds to any bar that plays recorded music and shake them down for dues. If you have a jukebox, you pay too. Hell, any "public performance" of copyrighted work is fair game actually. I don't know if that includes boomboxes in the park, but there it is.
You all are getting slow in your old age. Trim your beards and try to keep up. Its not we pwn teh space, or we ownerz teh space. its ALL YOUR SPACE ARE BELONG TO US. Know your./ history.
A friend of mine has the misfortune of sharing a name with a gay porn star. The irony is, he is one of the most traditional, conservative people I know, and currently in law school.
Toontown was recently released for the mac and both my 3 year old and 6 year old play it. Unlike the adult mmo's, gameplay is easy and light, cooperative and non competitive. You go fishing, play some simple games, and go through easy to accomplish missions. The closest equivalent to combat is you play jokes (squirt water, throw pies, etc) at robot Cogs, who are robotic businessmen that can't take a joke. It is an MMO game with training wheels. I can see a market for kids that are older than the target range of Toontown, but are too young for blood and guts and killing games. They thing is, people keep having more kids, which means more customers, and right now they are the only players in the game for wholesome, kid friendly MMO games. Pure genius.
You must be new here. All you have to do is submit a story, ANY story, that mentions Google and the Slashdot editors start salivating....
Yes, BUT, way before the.com boom and bust and the web 2.0, a common tech dream was to join a groundbreaking company in its infancy. These technology companies were well funded by venture capital, but usually in the beginning still gave developers, programmers, and any EARLY employee huge stock grants, thousands of shares for prices like.50 each. This is how companies lured talented people that had to work often insane hours to get something off of the ground. This happened with Oracle, Sybase, etc. etc. Everyone is dreaming of the IPO payoff. Frequently (especially in the.com bust) these dreams turned to penny stocks, though, and never reached the strike price.
why stop there ? I'd like a taser, switchblace knife and a bottle opener on mine, of course. also, some needlenose pliers couldn't hurt. I'm thinking iPhone leatherman edition....
Lets give it a name people can trust their data to! How about HARM ? Its an acronym for the actual technology itself, techies love that kind of stuff, like RAID and LOL... (6 months later, shot of warehouse, sound of crickets chirping.......
Little do you know that one of these kids has been chosen by by the matrix to be "The One", and the OLPC project is an elaborate plan to locate and train "The One" for his ultimate battle......
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Hi.
The problem with your "perfectly clean tv recordings"
is that if you have a cable feed, chances are that the cable co is doing
quite a bit of their own compression. Usually it is quite noticible
to the naked eye (blockiness, jaggies on round shapes, etc).
This is why the DVD rips look better than HD caps.
Leopard !
-pure hilarity !
Quit your bickering, you fools. I have already taken my delorean with flux capacitor into the future and let me assure you that McDonalds is not going to let a volcano blow up in McYellowstone McPark.
This case is also different because the person put them on YouTube BEFORE they aired, so this is a bit more serious than just uploading the video. Non-Story.
That is on Fox. They released it early themselves. The first four episodes were distributed to critics, et al months before they aired. One second after they were released to critics, Roger Ebert's rip group
released a xvid onto an ftp topsite, and it cascaded down the p2p waterfall, ending up on bittorrent and of course, youtube. I blame society!
No doubt there are mechanisms to remotely enable GPS tracking, but I doubt that there is anything an end user can do to disable it.
May I smarmily suggest a Sledgehammer ?
Going outside and looking? Ask at your local home center about 'windows', they'll know. Hint: not the operating system.
You must be new here. We all live in our parents' *windowless* basement and drink copious quantities of mountain dew
while playing WOW for 4 days at a stretch.
What is the point of putting something that looks like 8mm film on HD, BluRay, or DVD for that matter?
PROFIT !
Everyone will be getting rid of their super 8 projectors, betamaxes, vcrs, and regular old dvd-players, and will
need new copies of everything on the new format, of course. How many of you bought a CD of something
that you previously owned on vinyl or tape?
They need to keep people locked in to "devices", and "formats". etc.
And that is how "THE MAN" keeps you down.
the watchmen
nobody I hope, considering the terrible mess Hollywood made out of V for Vendetta and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen....
No more copyrighted music at weddings without a license. ...because technically if you are a mobile dj you are supposed to pay some kind of BMI or ASCAP dues
Well,
Its funny you should say that...
to buy a license and cover this sort of thing. In lots of major cities, reps of both make rounds to any bar that
plays recorded music and shake them down for dues. If you have a jukebox, you pay too.
Hell, any "public performance" of copyrighted work is fair game actually. I don't know if that
includes boomboxes in the park, but there it is.
Ascap tells you about it
Niiiiice. I'm pretty sure that is NOT how you spell nice! ;)
they have service in like 3 1/2 states. no thanks.
I don't want a carrier with worse reception than
my current one (tmobile).
Duh, kinda like saying that the birdshot I fire at your butt for saying something dumb is your valuable scrap metal.
If I had a butt-load of valuable scrap metal for every time I said something dumb, I'd be rich by now.....
the test created orbital hasards for everyone else.
One government's orbital hazard is another's target practice.
You all are getting slow in your old age. ./ history.
Trim your beards and try to keep up.
Its not we pwn teh space, or we ownerz teh space.
its
ALL YOUR SPACE ARE BELONG TO US.
Know your
I second that. Let the nerd jokes roll, but from the photo it looks
like a pretty sweet setup! From another non Trek fan....
A friend of mine has the misfortune of sharing a name with a gay porn star. The irony is, he is one of the most traditional, conservative people I know, and currently in law school.
Biggus Dickus, Attorney at Law
?!?
Toontown was recently released for the mac and both my 3 year old and 6 year old play it. Unlike the adult mmo's,
gameplay is easy and light, cooperative and non competitive. You go fishing, play some simple games, and go through
easy to accomplish missions. The closest equivalent to combat is you play jokes (squirt water, throw pies, etc) at robot
Cogs, who are robotic businessmen that can't take a joke. It is an MMO game with training wheels. I can see a market for kids that are older
than the target range of Toontown, but are too young for blood and guts and killing games.
They thing is, people keep having more kids, which means more customers, and right now they are the only
players in the game for wholesome, kid friendly MMO games. Pure genius.
1) If this stuff is still hot, doesn't it mean there's still energy there we could use?
nuclear waste
2) This stuff came from the ground, why can't we put it back there?
Geological Disposal
Sincerely,
Teh Wikipedia whore
How is this news?
.com boom and bust and the web 2.0, a common tech dream was to join a groundbreaking company in its infancy. .50 each. This is how companies lured talented people that had to work often insane hours to get something off of the ground. This .com bust) these dreams turned
You must be new here. All you have to do is submit a story, ANY story, that mentions Google and the Slashdot editors start salivating....
Yes, BUT, way before the
These technology companies were well funded by venture capital, but usually in the beginning still gave developers, programmers, and any EARLY employee
huge stock grants, thousands of shares for prices like
happened with Oracle, Sybase, etc. etc. Everyone is dreaming of the IPO payoff. Frequently (especially in the
to penny stocks, though, and never reached the strike price.
why stop there ? I'd like a taser, switchblace knife and a bottle opener on mine, of course.
also, some needlenose pliers couldn't hurt. I'm thinking iPhone leatherman edition....
Lets give it a name people can trust their data to!
How about HARM ? Its an acronym for the actual technology itself, techies love that kind of stuff, like RAID and LOL...
(6 months later, shot of warehouse, sound of crickets chirping.......
Little do you know that one of these kids has been chosen by by the matrix to be "The One",
and the OLPC project is an elaborate plan to locate and train "The One" for his ultimate battle......
Wheres that
"You're too stupid to understand the Timecube, dumbass" guy when you need him ?
another hilarious name.
check out his supervillians video !
supervillians
He stole his name from Petey Pablo. Optimus Rhyme was one of Petey's earlier monikers.
Bad start for a rapper , where originality is everything.
On the other hand, GREAT FUCKING NAME !
I learned all of this from TV, behind the music or some documercial.