Because they're shallow and "don't know what real talent is" [as Weird Al would put it].
Personally what I look for in a movie is depth. Superficially weak dialog [re: 99% of TV shit] annoys the hell out of me, even if it's someone of super-star status like Keano, whoa.
So if you take some "no-name" talented actor and put them in a movie with some real depth to it [even if it's a comedy] then people should be able to enjoy the experience.
I mean, you can't honestly tell me you saw any of the Matrix movies for anything more than the special effects. The story is very weak about as a deep as a Crest toothpaste commercial.
First indication was the word [well acronym] "DRM". Just because it uses AES doesn't mean it's secure. It's very easy to use AES insecurely [hint: constant key in ECB mode...]
Likely another 17 yr old from some europe'like nation will break this and "deacss" tools will appear on the net.
Why don't the media producers focus on more talent and less "blockbuster stars".
Instead of paying one star 20 million for a picture why not pay 200 actors 100,000 for several movies? Duh cuz that would make sense...[well not for the self-centered power-tripping millionaire fake people].
You think Samsung wants to continue selling basic cheapy phones where they make slim profits? Why should I pay for their R&D when the "new bonus value added gourmet quality" additions are things I really don't want?
If I go to pick up a cell phone I should be able to pick up a "featureless" phone. I [the customer] should have a choice in the matter.
Sadly the choice now is "cell phone, no cell phone"
then you add on 6.25$ "license fee", 1$ 911 fee and tax... boom 37$/mo plan. They don't do cheaper then 20$/mo.
My week long trip to france cost me 520$ in fees and I used maybe three-four hours of talk time. At roughly 1.84$ a minute it was "well worth it". [Specially since it was a business trip and I ended up paying 420$ of it on my own...]
I've been on cramped regional aircraft and they let me carry my laptop + metal case [when I had it] PLUS an additional backpack [school bag I use for a day bag].
Why should I buy a case? The phone comes in a case already!!! It should take a 6ft fall [well more like 5ft...] just fine. I mean they're meant to be carried around.
I can see a laptop needing a case as they're not meant to be used while walking around and standing up on the bus. But a cell phone is.
Would it be really hard to use small screws in the case instead of using pressure cases? If the customer can't figure out a phillips screw driver they deserve to pay the clerk at the store to install their battery;-) [though the last cell I bought they had put the battery+sim in for me]
And how does he hook up a parallel GBA flasher? How does he hook the thing up to a TV?
That and the odder thing is the battery life. His is a celeron M and mine is an Athlon [barton class]. His at 175Mhz and mine at 530Mhz [lowest speeds they can do] use the EXACT SAME AMOUNT OF POWER...I'd rather have an Athlon [which is faster] in that case;-)
Also he bought his laptop Dec'04 and I bought my laptop in Oct'03 so there is a years difference in purchase time.
No but I guess you guys are right. 1/8th of a computer is a "good deal".
My next computer will only have R and G pixels no sense on using blue. I want to have the mostest uberest computer possible! Afterall incomplete products [re: multi-function cameras] are all the rage now!
So yeah, you could shell out 120$ to get a "years worth" [going by the OP] of service but the time expires often in under three months.
Cell phones are largely just a huge scam. Rogers [in ontario they're a big comms provider] reported around 700 million dollars in PROFIT linky linky.
That's because they rip you off seven ways from sunday.
You have the
- service plan - service fee - license fee - 911 access fee - roaming fee - text msg roaming fee - long distance call fee [isn't that roaming?] - data rate fee [of 0.15$ per KB...] -...
And they invent charges too. My replacement phone was file as a "technology upgrade" and they charged me 35$ for "activation" even though I already had an account with them.
The problem is like all other businesses they assume they should keep making profits even if they don't give the customer what they actually want [a simple phone service without frills].
I ranted about this before. Like the scam on quadband phones. The only quadband GSM my provider offers comes crammed with useless crap like java, cameras, mp3 playback, etc... So they get away with charging an arm and leg for it [though I'm sure motorola had a hand in limiting the selection].
I'm only talking retail off the shelf brand spanking new here [and Oct'03 prices too]
My brother routinely mocks me because he got the 2210 [or something, it has the same shell as mine] for 1200$... except his has no floppy, ieee, serial, parallel, svideo or ps2.
He says "those are useless ports" until he tried to plug his ps2 keyboard/mouse into it. hehehe;-)
I actually use the other ports [except ieee but it's nice to have]. I use the parallel to program flash carts and the serial to talk to embedded systems. I use the floppy occasionally for quick backups to somewhere else and I use the svideo to talk to tv's.
Point is my "luggable" computer is actually a computer and not just a screen with a keyboard. So if I pay the price [in terms of an extra 3 lbs] than so be it.
That's also why I made the comment "bring it when you need it". How many times do you go to town [if you're like me and don't live in a major downtown area] to visit friends or get lunch and actually need your laptop?
If you don't bring shit you don't need everywhere you stand less chance of forgetting it some place and having it stolen don't you think?
Um we have lines in Canada too [not as bad though... San Diego at 6am is VERY busy surprisingly]...I guess I can "take" holding 8lbs... us tough cannucks;-)
I'm not saying 12" laptops are "bad" [well for me they would be]. Just trying to point out that you don't have to carry your laptop everywhere "just because you can".
And being smart about when you bring it [in my case I guess, being the only owner of the 2180CA series apparently] can save on having to carry it around [because after a 16 hour day lugging it through downtown to the bus depot isn't fun].
Yet another set of phones that amalgamates more crappy functionality and drives the cost up for the user who simply wants a phone...
3GB disk? Too small for most music collections. Let's not forget the crappy DSP most phones have anyways and 22Khz DAC...
Oh and yet another camera with mildly low resolution...
[blah blah blah]
Why doesn't samsung introduce a cell phone that lasts for 6 months on a charge [standby not talk] or that can take a 5 story fall off a balcony or something. Or at least a fall from 6 ft without splitting in half... of the three cell phones I've had the cheapest POS motorola v120c was the toughest. My 300$ flip phone and my current c256 phone both will split open upon the slighest drop...
Those are features people can actually use. Not flimsy cell phones with short battery lives [well that's not entirely the case] and a whole slew of semi-functional additions that are otherwise totally fucking useless.
If I want to carry tunes with me I'll bring my mp3cd player. It's easier to deal with, was a hell of a lot cheaper and has excellent sound quality. If I want to snap pictures I'll bring my PowerShot. It has a much higher [5MP] resolution and is more configurable for actually taking pictures [the average camera phone can't adjust things like exposure, white balance, etc...]
Yeah, because that's what I want to do, stand typing one handed on a 15$/hr wifi connection to chaps like you;-)
Even if my laptop was half the weight [like 3lbs or roughly 1.4Kg] I still wouldn't want to hold it like that for very long.
Though when I was in France [at the airport going home] I did crack open my "luggable huge laptop" and manage to check some email. I just did the amazing thing of
a) showing up to the airport early
b) Sitting down on one of the couchs that are all around.
Seriously though... this is a totally bad story for/. as most of the peeps here are closet windows users or diehard linux/bsd users.
IDC says Linux is legit? That's interesting as it's been my OS of choice for the last couple of years. It's the only thing I'll run on my amd64 too. So it's really just preaching to the choir at this point.
Um it's the Presario 2180CA. It's a bit heavy [7lbs] but is not a "luggable". I've seen huge laptops before and this is "mid-size" by comparison.
I mean, you can't say that the 2180CA is huge when you just have to look at the [iirc] 3210 series [both compaqs] to see what a huge laptop is.
But again, if I'm going to spend 1500$ on a laptop [which is the average price in Ottawa for retail] I want to have ports, I want to have media, and I want to be able to type on it without using toothpicks.
Yeah, did your "light laptop" come with a 4 hour battery [for an Athlon-XP-M 2400+], 15" screen, DVD/CDRW, floppy drive, 2 USB, parallel and serial ports, ieee1394, svideo, PS/2 and VGA ports?
[oh and a 60GB disk... though that adds little to the weight comparably].
Oh... and did it cost 1500$ CDN?
I'd rather carry around a "complete" computer only when I need it then carry around a "half complete" computer all the time.
I do similar stunts. My laptop is in a case though so if I have to use my hands I put the case between my legs [on the ground] tightly so I can feel if it's moving.
Though I've been lucky. I've caught people eyeing the case from time to time but nobody has ever reached for it or nothing.
People always misjudge that about Canada. We're polite [to your face] and generally non-violent. But the second you turn your back someone is there to steal all your belongings.... well it's not that bad but... hehehe oh never mind...
By that logic FSF has nothing todo with RMS but his mother and father. For that matter...
But to turn this around on you. If GCC today was the same quality as GCC was then no one would use it. Commercial entities would [and still do] use commercial compilers and hobbiest/students would use what they can find or pay 100$ for a watcom license.
When my laptop is not at home I generally don't get that far from it [unless I'm at a friends place or something]. Let's see, 1500$ laptop... 2 seconds to get stolen... hmmm...
Sure would be nice to live in a world where you don't have to lug things like that around but that's why you have to be smart. Don't take your laptop somewhere unless you actually need it. Duh
There is not taking away that GCC is a good tool. It is.
My point though is that GCC [as it is today, and by that I mean competent and competitive] has little if anything to do with RMS.
It's as if Linus gave up on the kernel in 1995. Would we still go "oh well if it weren't for Linus, who missed the 2.0, 2.2, 2.4 and 2.6 releases we wouldn't have the kernel we have today?"
People also seem to misunderstand my anger a bit. I'm happy that RMS started the FSF movement and got OSS/FS rolling. I think what he did was important and sticking to an unpopular idea shows character.
I'm just trying to dispel this floating myth that all the tools we use today are because of RMS. They're not.
And my point was if you want to hero worship for why Linux/BSD is the way it is today... it's not RMS you should look at. This is 2005. The software you are currently using was not written by RMS. It was written by 1000s and 1000s of other people.
Why is he the figurehead for OSS anyways? Most kids who are writing/working on OSS today [I'm talking teenagers to young adults] were barely alive in 1984.
I can seriously say that I wasn't motivated in the slighest by RMS political views [or his FSF movement]. I write OSS because *I* want to share. I don't use the GPL because I don't want to unduly restrict.
RMS may have kicked OSS into gear in the 80s but it's been sustained through the 90s and so far this decade by so many other people that it's largely moot.
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Um what?
I'd rather pay 100$ to see a busker for an hour than 10$ to see Keano for an hour.
These half-ass talentless freaks acting in pointless unoriginal rehash movies all to "make money"...
No, you MAKE a movie or play to tell a story. You SELL the story to make money.
Too many people forget that.
Tom
Because they're shallow and "don't know what real talent is" [as Weird Al would put it].
Personally what I look for in a movie is depth. Superficially weak dialog [re: 99% of TV shit] annoys the hell out of me, even if it's someone of super-star status like Keano, whoa.
So if you take some "no-name" talented actor and put them in a movie with some real depth to it [even if it's a comedy] then people should be able to enjoy the experience.
I mean, you can't honestly tell me you saw any of the Matrix movies for anything more than the special effects. The story is very weak about as a deep as a Crest toothpaste commercial.
Tom
sounds like?
First indication was the word [well acronym] "DRM". Just because it uses AES doesn't mean it's secure. It's very easy to use AES insecurely [hint: constant key in ECB mode...]
Likely another 17 yr old from some europe'like nation will break this and "deacss" tools will appear on the net.
Why don't the media producers focus on more talent and less "blockbuster stars".
Instead of paying one star 20 million for a picture why not pay 200 actors 100,000 for several movies? Duh cuz that would make sense...[well not for the self-centered power-tripping millionaire fake people].
Tom
The problem is the lack of choice.
You think Samsung wants to continue selling basic cheapy phones where they make slim profits? Why should I pay for their R&D when the "new bonus value added gourmet quality" additions are things I really don't want?
If I go to pick up a cell phone I should be able to pick up a "featureless" phone. I [the customer] should have a choice in the matter.
Sadly the choice now is "cell phone, no cell phone"
Tom
I have the 200 anytime minute 20$/mo plan...
then you add on 6.25$ "license fee", 1$ 911 fee and tax... boom 37$/mo plan. They don't do cheaper then 20$/mo.
My week long trip to france cost me 520$ in fees and I used maybe three-four hours of talk time. At roughly 1.84$ a minute it was "well worth it". [Specially since it was a business trip and I ended up paying 420$ of it on my own...]
Tom
Crappy airline is all.
I've been on cramped regional aircraft and they let me carry my laptop + metal case [when I had it] PLUS an additional backpack [school bag I use for a day bag].
Tom
Why should I buy a case? The phone comes in a case already!!! It should take a 6ft fall [well more like 5ft...] just fine. I mean they're meant to be carried around.
;-) [though the last cell I bought they had put the battery+sim in for me]
I can see a laptop needing a case as they're not meant to be used while walking around and standing up on the bus. But a cell phone is.
Would it be really hard to use small screws in the case instead of using pressure cases? If the customer can't figure out a phillips screw driver they deserve to pay the clerk at the store to install their battery
Tom
And how does he hook up a parallel GBA flasher? How does he hook the thing up to a TV?
;-)
That and the odder thing is the battery life. His is a celeron M and mine is an Athlon [barton class]. His at 175Mhz and mine at 530Mhz [lowest speeds they can do] use the EXACT SAME AMOUNT OF POWER...I'd rather have an Athlon [which is faster] in that case
Also he bought his laptop Dec'04 and I bought my laptop in Oct'03 so there is a years difference in purchase time.
No but I guess you guys are right. 1/8th of a computer is a "good deal".
My next computer will only have R and G pixels no sense on using blue. I want to have the mostest uberest computer possible! Afterall incomplete products [re: multi-function cameras] are all the rage now!
Tom
except prepaid minutes expire.
...
So yeah, you could shell out 120$ to get a "years worth" [going by the OP] of service but the time expires often in under three months.
Cell phones are largely just a huge scam. Rogers [in ontario they're a big comms provider] reported around 700 million dollars in PROFIT linky linky.
That's because they rip you off seven ways from sunday.
You have the
- service plan
- service fee
- license fee
- 911 access fee
- roaming fee
- text msg roaming fee
- long distance call fee [isn't that roaming?]
- data rate fee [of 0.15$ per KB...]
-
And they invent charges too. My replacement phone was file as a "technology upgrade" and they charged me 35$ for "activation" even though I already had an account with them.
The problem is like all other businesses they assume they should keep making profits even if they don't give the customer what they actually want [a simple phone service without frills].
I ranted about this before. Like the scam on quadband phones. The only quadband GSM my provider offers comes crammed with useless crap like java, cameras, mp3 playback, etc... So they get away with charging an arm and leg for it [though I'm sure motorola had a hand in limiting the selection].
Tom
Send 1$ to "Happy Homer" 123 Evergreen terrace...
I'm only talking retail off the shelf brand spanking new here [and Oct'03 prices too]
... except his has no floppy, ieee, serial, parallel, svideo or ps2.
;-)
My brother routinely mocks me because he got the 2210 [or something, it has the same shell as mine] for 1200$
He says "those are useless ports" until he tried to plug his ps2 keyboard/mouse into it. hehehe
I actually use the other ports [except ieee but it's nice to have]. I use the parallel to program flash carts and the serial to talk to embedded systems. I use the floppy occasionally for quick backups to somewhere else and I use the svideo to talk to tv's.
Point is my "luggable" computer is actually a computer and not just a screen with a keyboard. So if I pay the price [in terms of an extra 3 lbs] than so be it.
That's also why I made the comment "bring it when you need it". How many times do you go to town [if you're like me and don't live in a major downtown area] to visit friends or get lunch and actually need your laptop?
If you don't bring shit you don't need everywhere you stand less chance of forgetting it some place and having it stolen don't you think?
Tom
Um we have lines in Canada too [not as bad though... San Diego at 6am is VERY busy surprisingly]...I guess I can "take" holding 8lbs... us tough cannucks ;-)
I'm not saying 12" laptops are "bad" [well for me they would be]. Just trying to point out that you don't have to carry your laptop everywhere "just because you can".
And being smart about when you bring it [in my case I guess, being the only owner of the 2180CA series apparently] can save on having to carry it around [because after a 16 hour day lugging it through downtown to the bus depot isn't fun].
Tom
Yet another set of phones that amalgamates more crappy functionality and drives the cost up for the user who simply wants a phone...
...
3GB disk? Too small for most music collections.
Let's not forget the crappy DSP most phones have anyways and 22Khz DAC
Oh and yet another camera with mildly low resolution...
[blah blah blah]
Why doesn't samsung introduce a cell phone that lasts for 6 months on a charge [standby not talk] or that can take a 5 story fall off a balcony or something. Or at least a fall from 6 ft without splitting in half... of the three cell phones I've had the cheapest POS motorola v120c was the toughest. My 300$ flip phone and my current c256 phone both will split open upon the slighest drop...
Those are features people can actually use. Not flimsy cell phones with short battery lives [well that's not entirely the case] and a whole slew of semi-functional additions that are otherwise totally fucking useless.
If I want to carry tunes with me I'll bring my mp3cd player. It's easier to deal with, was a hell of a lot cheaper and has excellent sound quality. If I want to snap pictures I'll bring my PowerShot. It has a much higher [5MP] resolution and is more configurable for actually taking pictures [the average camera phone can't adjust things like exposure, white balance, etc...]
Tom
units come after the scalar.
Or are you driving Mph100 and drank L1 water?
The dollar is a unit of currency. It should come after despite what the world thinks.
Tom
Yeah, because that's what I want to do, stand typing one handed on a 15$/hr wifi connection to chaps like you ;-)
Even if my laptop was half the weight [like 3lbs or roughly 1.4Kg] I still wouldn't want to hold it like that for very long.
Though when I was in France [at the airport going home] I did crack open my "luggable huge laptop" and manage to check some email. I just did the amazing thing of
a) showing up to the airport early
b) Sitting down on one of the couchs that are all around.
I guess I'm SMRT smart...
Tom
That's your opinion. If you think a "computer" worthy of 1500$ should have a 7" monitor, 4GB disk, 128MB of ram and no external ports...
... Oh wait I did.
Well then I guess I don't know what a decent computer is...
If I wanted a micro computer I would have bought a GBA.
Tom
Freedos?
/. as most of the peeps here are closet windows users or diehard linux/bsd users.
Seriously though... this is a totally bad story for
IDC says Linux is legit? That's interesting as it's been my OS of choice for the last couple of years. It's the only thing I'll run on my amd64 too. So it's really just preaching to the choir at this point.
Tom
Um it's the Presario 2180CA. It's a bit heavy [7lbs] but is not a "luggable". I've seen huge laptops before and this is "mid-size" by comparison.
I mean, you can't say that the 2180CA is huge when you just have to look at the [iirc] 3210 series [both compaqs] to see what a huge laptop is.
But again, if I'm going to spend 1500$ on a laptop [which is the average price in Ottawa for retail] I want to have ports, I want to have media, and I want to be able to type on it without using toothpicks.
Tom
Hehehe, not any more, the handle broke off it [no, no homicides to report].
My new case is softer and less weapon like...
[Got it for 40$ at futureshop btw...]
Tom
Yeah, did your "light laptop" come with a 4 hour battery [for an Athlon-XP-M 2400+], 15" screen, DVD/CDRW, floppy drive, 2 USB, parallel and serial ports, ieee1394, svideo, PS/2 and VGA ports?
[oh and a 60GB disk... though that adds little to the weight comparably].
Oh... and did it cost 1500$ CDN?
I'd rather carry around a "complete" computer only when I need it then carry around a "half complete" computer all the time.
Tom
I do similar stunts. My laptop is in a case though so if I have to use my hands I put the case between my legs [on the ground] tightly so I can feel if it's moving.
... well it's not that bad but ... hehehe oh never mind...
Though I've been lucky. I've caught people eyeing the case from time to time but nobody has ever reached for it or nothing.
People always misjudge that about Canada. We're polite [to your face] and generally non-violent. But the second you turn your back someone is there to steal all your belongings.
By that logic FSF has nothing todo with RMS but his mother and father. For that matter...
But to turn this around on you. If GCC today was the same quality as GCC was then no one would use it. Commercial entities would [and still do] use commercial compilers and hobbiest/students would use what they can find or pay 100$ for a watcom license.
Tom
Wrong question.
Why leave your laptop at all?
When my laptop is not at home I generally don't get that far from it [unless I'm at a friends place or something]. Let's see, 1500$ laptop... 2 seconds to get stolen... hmmm...
Sure would be nice to live in a world where you don't have to lug things like that around but that's why you have to be smart. Don't take your laptop somewhere unless you actually need it. Duh
Tom
There is not taking away that GCC is a good tool. It is.
My point though is that GCC [as it is today, and by that I mean competent and competitive] has little if anything to do with RMS.
It's as if Linus gave up on the kernel in 1995. Would we still go "oh well if it weren't for Linus, who missed the 2.0, 2.2, 2.4 and 2.6 releases we wouldn't have the kernel we have today?"
People also seem to misunderstand my anger a bit. I'm happy that RMS started the FSF movement and got OSS/FS rolling. I think what he did was important and sticking to an unpopular idea shows character.
I'm just trying to dispel this floating myth that all the tools we use today are because of RMS. They're not.
Tom
And my point was if you want to hero worship for why Linux/BSD is the way it is today... it's not RMS you should look at. This is 2005. The software you are currently using was not written by RMS. It was written by 1000s and 1000s of other people.
Why is he the figurehead for OSS anyways? Most kids who are writing/working on OSS today [I'm talking teenagers to young adults] were barely alive in 1984.
I can seriously say that I wasn't motivated in the slighest by RMS political views [or his FSF movement]. I write OSS because *I* want to share. I don't use the GPL because I don't want to unduly restrict.
RMS may have kicked OSS into gear in the 80s but it's been sustained through the 90s and so far this decade by so many other people that it's largely moot.
Tom