It says, "Episodes offered via online websites should display no interstitial advertising. Ads should only appear just prior to and just after an episode plays. Interstitial advertising will only drive people to piracy, which shows no interstitial ads." How dumb can one person be? First off nobody ever watches the ads at the end of an episode.
I watch the ads at the end of TED talks. I even spent an evening reading about metallurgy after watching an "how it's made" ad about watches. Learned a lot about exotic steel alloys. Fascinating stuff. If I ever feel like dropping a few grand on a watch, I know what brand I'll shop for first.
I saw the Supernatural Ghost Facers parody before I saw the 'real' show... I'd only seen teenager-ripoffs of it before and I thought that the Ghost Facers joke was that adults would do that concept seriously, and that this was a ridiculous notion. Boy... did I laugh even harder when I realized that it was a critical observation, not speculative fiction.
Fatal flaw only depending on your imagination. I had imagined manufacturing to become an almost completely automated process - product development would have halted, but the assembly line and raw material mining could occur autonomously, indefinitely. If the machine breaks down, it triggers....well..there are no AI repair robots in that universe I suppose. Because if they existed, then robot AI would be running more of the show. So maybe just better machinery that never broke down. We are talking about a considerable jump into the future.
See, you can't even rationalize it properly: Fatal flaw:) Things work too well for them to be so broken down; there needs to be an elite feeding off the domesticated herd, or else it makes no sense that the herd has a paddock.
The story it tells of an average man rising to the top of a pile of idiots is still a good story, and adding a shadowy society of cruel geniuses would hurt that story, but the science fiction background needs this balance.
from the let-the-flame-war-begin dept. science politics Scrameustache writes "Conservatives may owe their political outlook to their genetic make-up, according to new research from the University of California, San Diego, and Harvard University. Ideology is affected not just by social factors, but also by a dopamine receptor gene called DRD4. Lead researcher James H. Fowler and his colleagues hypothesized that people with the novelty-avoiding gene variant would be less interested in learning about other points of view."
"All of NBC Universal's properties should immediately begin offering full episodes in high definition on the web. These episodes should be available online at the same time they air on cable TV. Delaying the posting of these episodes to the website will only drive people to piracy."
This one has been happened for at least two years, by my count. It may not be high-definition, but most shows ARE put on the web the day after they air. Geographical boundaries are enforced, but
The kept doing music distribution wrong until Steve Jobs stepped in and made them do it right. Now they're doing video distribution wrong; google made them accept to profit from youtube clips instead of wasting money fighting them, but the media moguls still insist on doing it wrong with new content.
That movie's fatal flaw was that is had Eloi, but no Morlocks, and those idiots couldn't build those irrigation systems and monster trucks by themselves.
Cavil went off on his monologue about how humanity needed to be punished for what they did to his ancestors (the chrome cylons created in the colonies) but only a few episodes previously he had taken great delight in subjugating the Raiders and the new Centurions
Whatever worked for that episode was done for that episode, whatever didn't work anymore was retconned or "god works in mysterious ways". Anyway, Calvil was the only atheist on the show, and therefore he was evil incarnate, he hurt the chrome heads because he's mean, and the Cylon Plan was to be mean, simple as that.
I keep thinking of the line from the 'reimagined' BSG "The Cylons Have a Plan"... but the writers don't.
Hahaha, pretty much. I never got over the fact that the Cylon master Plan was... "one of them is mean", so he's being hurful because he's mean. That's all there is to all of the cylon armada's cryptic behavior, just wanting to be hurtful. Pathetic 'writing', that.
After the Battlestar Galactica finale proved that the writers had no plan except to pull a gigantic deus ex machina to resolve all their lose threads, I have lost interest in the franchise.
And the retconning... the horrible retconning... They fooled me once, I'm not giving them another chance.
allowing a group of individuals to pool their resources for political advertising does not put any limits, whatsoever, on what other individuals may do.
Turning that amp up to 11 does not put any limits whatsoever on how loud people can scream. If people wish to be heard, they can stand next to the 70000watt sound system and shout as loud as they want.
the supposed unfairness surrounding the act of individuals joining together to pool their resources
It's not about individuals pooling resources together, it's about how some individuals have more resources by themselves than can be pooled by others. It's about the difference between a democracy and a plutocracy.
The part where you made it up. Watch the fucking video, she stops when asked to stop: That's not harassment.
Ah yes. That's why there's giant gaps in the footage. Because she just went away after that
You're speculating that the charming young woman went from being visibly hurt at being interrupted by a fascist while she was having a nice quiet conversation with another cop to some kind of strawman anarchist full of the same bile and hatred as you.
You're full of shit and you know it, stop trolling, STFU and go hide under a bridge, where you belong.
so you think police are justified in arresting people because they are doing something that the policeman disagrees with on a personal level? Really? that's your argument?
I'm sorry, what part of "harassment" did you not understand?
The part where you made it up. Watch the fucking video, she stops when asked to stop: That's not harassment.
Harassment is you trolling this thread with your redundant bullshit.
Slashdot Mirror
Did anybody read the article?
No, no I did not.
It says, "Episodes offered via online websites should display no interstitial advertising. Ads should only appear just prior to and just after an episode plays. Interstitial advertising will only drive people to piracy, which shows no interstitial ads." How dumb can one person be? First off nobody ever watches the ads at the end of an episode.
I watch the ads at the end of TED talks. I even spent an evening reading about metallurgy after watching an "how it's made" ad about watches. Learned a lot about exotic steel alloys. Fascinating stuff. If I ever feel like dropping a few grand on a watch, I know what brand I'll shop for first.
some idiotic ghost busters reality show
I saw the Supernatural Ghost Facers parody before I saw the 'real' show... I'd only seen teenager-ripoffs of it before and I thought that the Ghost Facers joke was that adults would do that concept seriously, and that this was a ridiculous notion. Boy... did I laugh even harder when I realized that it was a critical observation, not speculative fiction.
Some things, like the Matrix And Star Wars are better just to stop while you are ahead and not go on to ruin the concept with further movies.
Like the Highlander: There can only be one movie like that, good thing Hollywood didn't try to milk it dry!
Fatal flaw only depending on your imagination. I had imagined manufacturing to become an almost completely automated process - product development would have halted, but the assembly line and raw material mining could occur autonomously, indefinitely. If the machine breaks down, it triggers....well..there are no AI repair robots in that universe I suppose. Because if they existed, then robot AI would be running more of the show. So maybe just better machinery that never broke down. We are talking about a considerable jump into the future.
See, you can't even rationalize it properly: Fatal flaw :)
Things work too well for them to be so broken down; there needs to be an elite feeding off the domesticated herd, or else it makes no sense that the herd has a paddock.
The story it tells of an average man rising to the top of a pile of idiots is still a good story, and adding a shadowy society of cruel geniuses would hurt that story, but the science fiction background needs this balance.
from the let-the-flame-war-begin dept.
science
politics
Scrameustache writes "Conservatives may owe their political outlook to their genetic make-up, according to new research from the University of California, San Diego, and Harvard University. Ideology is affected not just by social factors, but also by a dopamine receptor gene called DRD4. Lead researcher James H. Fowler and his colleagues hypothesized that people with the novelty-avoiding gene variant would be less interested in learning about other points of view."
We watched it and although we didn't like it at first, we stuck with it
And now it is our preciousssss...
It's bad enough when someone delivers a cuss word
Oh my, yes! Oh, deary. It gives me the vapors, it does!
From the article:
"All of NBC Universal's properties should immediately begin offering full episodes in high definition on the web. These episodes should be available online at the same time they air on cable TV. Delaying the posting of these episodes to the website will only drive people to piracy."
This one has been happened for at least two years, by my count. It may not be high-definition, but most shows ARE put on the web the day after they air. Geographical boundaries are enforced, but
The kept doing music distribution wrong until Steve Jobs stepped in and made them do it right. Now they're doing video distribution wrong; google made them accept to profit from youtube clips instead of wasting money fighting them, but the media moguls still insist on doing it wrong with new content.
Star Trek -TNG was great, but not seasons 1, 6 and 7 which were worse than the diarrhea from a rabid gorilla.
It was season 2 that sucked the most, and you KNOW it was because of the writer's strike!
It's just a fantasy show. Who cares?
Waiiiit a minute... You're not one of us! GTFO of /.!
Idiocracy
That movie's fatal flaw was that is had Eloi, but no Morlocks, and those idiots couldn't build those irrigation systems and monster trucks by themselves.
Cavil went off on his monologue about how humanity needed to be punished for what they did to his ancestors (the chrome cylons created in the colonies) but only a few episodes previously he had taken great delight in subjugating the Raiders and the new Centurions
Whatever worked for that episode was done for that episode, whatever didn't work anymore was retconned or "god works in mysterious ways". Anyway, Calvil was the only atheist on the show, and therefore he was evil incarnate, he hurt the chrome heads because he's mean, and the Cylon Plan was to be mean, simple as that.
I keep thinking of the line from the 'reimagined' BSG "The Cylons Have a Plan" ... but the writers don't.
Hahaha, pretty much. I never got over the fact that the Cylon master Plan was... "one of them is mean", so he's being hurful because he's mean. That's all there is to all of the cylon armada's cryptic behavior, just wanting to be hurtful. Pathetic 'writing', that.
After the Battlestar Galactica finale proved that the writers had no plan except to pull a gigantic deus ex machina to resolve all their lose threads, I have lost interest in the franchise.
And the retconning... the horrible retconning... They fooled me once, I'm not giving them another chance.
allowing a group of individuals to pool their resources for political advertising does not put any limits, whatsoever, on what other individuals may do.
Turning that amp up to 11 does not put any limits whatsoever on how loud people can scream. If people wish to be heard, they can stand next to the 70000watt sound system and shout as loud as they want.
I see, so you think it's OK to limit someone's freedoms because they have more wealth than you?
No, I don't think it's OK to limit someone's freedoms because they have less wealth than you.
Let me guess: "free world" equals the United States?
AND their lackeys! :D
Hmmm, second-hand freedom... delicious!
the supposed unfairness surrounding the act of individuals joining together to pool their resources
It's not about individuals pooling resources together, it's about how some individuals have more resources by themselves than can be pooled by others. It's about the difference between a democracy and a plutocracy.
I fail to understand how SCOTUS could be so short-sighted.
This is a decision about letting money talk. It's blindingly obvious that money talked to them first.
Even with the very best balloon design, the very best tethers and the very best launch protocol...
...and the very best gorilla at the payload release handle.
None of those "lowland" gorillas: Mountain or better.
Seems to be
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/widgetbrowser/
Note to install "If you don't have Adobe AIR installed, you’ll need to download and install Adobe AIR."
Then on to ?
http://anathem.wikia.com/wiki/Bulshytt
That Big Foot
I'm pretty sure that the sasquatch isn't a mangy anything.
This video shows the broader context of the "Officer Bubbles" confrontation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVwXOKZh4Os&feature=channel
The part where you made it up. Watch the fucking video, she stops when asked to stop: That's not harassment.
Ah yes. That's why there's giant gaps in the footage. Because she just went away after that
You're speculating that the charming young woman went from being visibly hurt at being interrupted by a fascist while she was having a nice quiet conversation with another cop to some kind of strawman anarchist full of the same bile and hatred as you.
You're full of shit and you know it, stop trolling, STFU and go hide under a bridge, where you belong.
so you think police are justified in arresting people because they are doing something that the policeman disagrees with on a personal level? Really? that's your argument?
I'm sorry, what part of "harassment" did you not understand?
The part where you made it up. Watch the fucking video, she stops when asked to stop: That's not harassment.
Harassment is you trolling this thread with your redundant bullshit.
Found 'em:
http://www.youtube.com/user/MisterOfficerBubbles
It's an hilarious parody of that news clip! http://www.youtube.com/user/MisterOfficerBubbles#p/a/u/1/CvqEazn9dG8