And who, exactly, thought it was a good idea to give Microsoft those keys? This is the company known for leveraging their position to screw over any potential competition at every turn.
Why is any hardware manufacturer still taking these clowns seriously?
Forget Google - if even 1 percent of those 97 million documents actually needed to be printed out for this case then the entire freaking planet should sue Oracle and make them plant a new rainforest
Umm, yes you did fulfil the requirements of the OP. Clearly official DVDs of the show do exist. Well done. You were right and he was wrong*.
Now that we have that out of the way, as I stated before, these DVDs have had the music changed for copyright reasons (this reasoning was used to by the OP to explain why no DVDs existed - which may have been true at one time). In most TV shows this would not be such a problem, but in this particular show the music was at the forefront an in integral part of it. Therefore changing the music significantly changes the show. Which brings us back to piracy. The only way it seems to watch the original (unaltered) WKRP in Cincinnati is to obtain a copy of the original recordings.
Damn, I'm starting to sound like a Star Wars purist. You know, in the sense that the original unaltered Star Wars trilogies are no longer available.
* Assuming that his challenge was a claim that no such DVDs exist, and that you are the same AC who posted the link.
Perhaps the same thing that stops people using the HTML5 version of YouTube - they want to watch videos and not a jerky slideshow.
Honestly, are there still people who use the HTML5 version of YouTube and find it better than the Flash version? Where are they and what supercomputers are they running?
GRUB2 has a very nice feature set, but they have made a complete and total dogs breakfast of the configuration system. Now one needs to edit poorly-documented shell scripts and run an update script to 'compile' a new GRUB configuration file, or have it hosed at the next kernel update.
Of the three bootloaders I have spent significant time with, LILO, GRUB 1 (0.99 or whatever) and GRUB2, the latter is without doubt by far the worst to configure if you want anything other than the defaults.
Seriously, it's embarrassing to watch. The long, lingering shots of nudity are nothing short of soft porn and contribute utterly zero to the story. I got through one and a half episodes in the hope it would pick up, but it showed no such sign.
I know there's a lot of people here who like to watch that sort of thing, but there's an entire genre for that, on dedicated websites and in the little side-rooms in video stores. Can't we keep it there?
By competitiveness I assume you mean "crappier with every release", which seems to be the philosophy driving Windows, GNOME, Unity and KDE development. Apple are slowly heading that way too (did you get media with your OSX Lion? No? Okay, then how to install xcode? With iTunes? wtf?).
At present the usable desktops seem to be XFCE and LXDE with efforts from the likes of Cinnamon and MATE for as long as they're around.
Not the best example, but this one had a 2:30 ad, that was skippable after the first five seconds. The progress bar is yellow rather than red when the ad is playing.
I doubt adblock could do anything about this since the actual content stream isn't even loaded locally until the ad is finished.
Do you see one at all? I loaded it three times and had three different ads of varying lengths and with the same unskippable period. I have seen others with 30 second unskippable ads. This may just be trialled in my territory at present (New Zealand, guinea pig for many new invasive technologies it seems), so if you're not seeing it now you will soon.
Popups? I've never seen one of them on YouTube, but what I do see is unskippable advertisements embedded in the actual video stream. I haven't seen an ad-blocker that can do away with those.
Oh, I think I've heard of this. It's like YouTube if you could only choose one of 6 videos to watch, someone else decided when to hit "play" and they made you watch 3 minutes of ads for every 7 minutes of video.
Don't worry, YouTube are working on that last one.
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Firstly, Ubuntu aren't forcing Wayland on anyone as it is not the default - it's just there if you want it.
Secondly, Wayland could well become a decent display manager, just as soon as they incorporate network transparency. And not a minute before.
Just let me be the first to say:
Evil begets evil, Mr President.
And who, exactly, thought it was a good idea to give Microsoft those keys? This is the company known for leveraging their position to screw over any potential competition at every turn.
Why is any hardware manufacturer still taking these clowns seriously?
Forget Google - if even 1 percent of those 97 million documents actually needed to be printed out for this case then the entire freaking planet should sue Oracle and make them plant a new rainforest
Umm, yes you did fulfil the requirements of the OP. Clearly official DVDs of the show do exist. Well done. You were right and he was wrong*.
Now that we have that out of the way, as I stated before, these DVDs have had the music changed for copyright reasons (this reasoning was used to by the OP to explain why no DVDs existed - which may have been true at one time). In most TV shows this would not be such a problem, but in this particular show the music was at the forefront an in integral part of it. Therefore changing the music significantly changes the show. Which brings us back to piracy. The only way it seems to watch the original (unaltered) WKRP in Cincinnati is to obtain a copy of the original recordings.
Damn, I'm starting to sound like a Star Wars purist. You know, in the sense that the original unaltered Star Wars trilogies are no longer available.
* Assuming that his challenge was a claim that no such DVDs exist, and that you are the same AC who posted the link.
Indeed there are DVD sets but, as the OP said, not with the original music.
That show was syndicated to NZ in the 80s.
Curses, now I have that jingle in my head.
Well, until the recommended system requirements for Windows 8 are published anyway.
This is yet another reason why I only buy AMD processors: they're less in bed with Microsoft than Intel.
Wait, Sendmail? Hell, no wonder you had trouble. You, sir, have my deepest sympathies.
(from a happy mail admin using Postfix)
Perhaps the same thing that stops people using the HTML5 version of YouTube - they want to watch videos and not a jerky slideshow.
Honestly, are there still people who use the HTML5 version of YouTube and find it better than the Flash version? Where are they and what supercomputers are they running?
GRUB2 has a very nice feature set, but they have made a complete and total dogs breakfast of the configuration system. Now one needs to edit poorly-documented shell scripts and run an update script to 'compile' a new GRUB configuration file, or have it hosed at the next kernel update.
Of the three bootloaders I have spent significant time with, LILO, GRUB 1 (0.99 or whatever) and GRUB2, the latter is without doubt by far the worst to configure if you want anything other than the defaults.
Let's just re-parse that sentence:
Bottom-feeding scum are the ultimate hackers.
Therefore, a good hacker should aspire to become bottom-feeding scum?
This sounds like an insult to hackers everywhere.
Seriously, it's embarrassing to watch. The long, lingering shots of nudity are nothing short of soft porn and contribute utterly zero to the story. I got through one and a half episodes in the hope it would pick up, but it showed no such sign.
I know there's a lot of people here who like to watch that sort of thing, but there's an entire genre for that, on dedicated websites and in the little side-rooms in video stores. Can't we keep it there?
Do they have TV programmes that help with typing?
I kid, I kid.
Just for the love of all things good don't ask him about his mother.
By competitiveness I assume you mean "crappier with every release", which seems to be the philosophy driving Windows, GNOME, Unity and KDE development. Apple are slowly heading that way too (did you get media with your OSX Lion? No? Okay, then how to install xcode? With iTunes? wtf?).
At present the usable desktops seem to be XFCE and LXDE with efforts from the likes of Cinnamon and MATE for as long as they're around.
Here's one randomly selected from the very front page of YouTube this morning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6dXK2mJK1c&feature=b-mv
Not the best example, but this one had a 2:30 ad, that was skippable after the first five seconds. The progress bar is yellow rather than red when the ad is playing.
I doubt adblock could do anything about this since the actual content stream isn't even loaded locally until the ad is finished.
Do you see one at all? I loaded it three times and had three different ads of varying lengths and with the same unskippable period. I have seen others with 30 second unskippable ads. This may just be trialled in my territory at present (New Zealand, guinea pig for many new invasive technologies it seems), so if you're not seeing it now you will soon.
Really? Adblock has a way of letting you view videos without the unskippable video advertisements? Please, do tell.
Popups? I've never seen one of them on YouTube, but what I do see is unskippable advertisements embedded in the actual video stream. I haven't seen an ad-blocker that can do away with those.
Oh, I think I've heard of this. It's like YouTube if you could only choose one of 6 videos to watch, someone else decided when to hit "play" and they made you watch 3 minutes of ads for every 7 minutes of video.
Don't worry, YouTube are working on that last one.
I don't know if you're correct or not, but your post does nothing to support your point, rather it makes you sound a lot like the Time Cube guy.
You mean, like we currently do whenever a kernel exploit is patched?
Was it perhaps developed by a Sony employee named...
Matt?
Thanks, I'll be here all week.