I will wager there are perhaps 50,000 others exactly like me, and 100,000 more who will pay $2 per episode.
Wager how much? It's easy to bet nothing, when you're not taking any risks. I doubt a hundred thousand people would pay $2 for an episode of an obscure sci-fi programme. Even then it's only 200k. Things like that cost millions to produce. Then take away the costs of using itunes (i.e. Apple's cut) and you need millions of people to download it.
Considering how few people watched it for FREE, I can't see that taking off.
Make 30 minute episodes. Who cares! I'll still pay $10 for them.
I think the sort of people who pay $10 for half an hour's light evening entertainment are really in the minority. Especially when other things can be watched for free.
How much money do programmes on itunes actually make? The only things on there at the minute seem to be massively popular, massively marketing things like Lost and Desperate Housewives. The market for Firefly is a mere fraction of that.
If the same critics had blasted Firefly, you'd be on here saying that they're all wrong. But when they're praising your favourite film you're using their opinions as gospel.
Wow, you're in the minority here.
Film critics are a minority. As are the people who listen to them. Most people see films based on adverts or word of mouth, or just pick something randomly from what 'looks cool' on the poster.
Making bad episodes just ruins the programmes reputation and dilutes the quality. At least you know now that if an episode of Futurama comes on, it's going to be good. You don't want it like the Simpsons where you've got a 50% chance of getting one that's embarassingly bad.
One of the main problems with American TV is that they never know when to call it a day.
Things don't get funnier the more you watch them. The original 3 series of Family Guy were funny the first time. The new ones aren't.
And what exactly is the point in American Dad? It's like Family Guy but with less interesting characters and no jokes. Even the voices and jokes are recycled from FG.
Exactly. They're catering to the majority, not the minority of hard-core geeks who play for 80 hours a week and put another 20 hours in whining on forums. It's played by people who want a GAME, not people who want something to dedicate their life to.
Fool. The issue at hand here is that these people are poor and vulnerable. Testing drugs on them is abusive. Maybe you failed to pick up the point that this is exploitation, and without the dehabilitating poverty, these Indians would never consider being part of the research program.
So you're saying there should be a minimum income level for drug testing? Or that it should only be done on people of certain nationalities?
You have two options: 1. Test drugs on animals. 2. Test drugs of humans.
Which is it? You can't whine about both, otherwise you get no drugs at all.
Gentoo is not hard to install. 1. make sure hardware modules loaded 2. fdisk 3. format 4. mount 5. unpack stage1 and snapshot [or just make/usr/portage 6. emerge sync 7. make make.conf [or copy from other boxes] 8. bootstrap 9. emerge -U system 10. install lilo, syslog-ng, dcron, hotplug, coldplug 11. download and unpack kernel 12. Configure, make and install 13. set root passwd 14. reboot 15. setup hostname, network, etc 16. install world packages [e.g. gnome, mozilla, gaim, cvs, tetex, whatever] 17. Clean up distfiles 18. tarball your filesystem 19. burn to DVD and call it "my stage 4 install" 20. enjoy. Wow, complicated.
I can't work out if that's sarcasm or not. Anywhere else, of course it would be, but on Slashdot there really are people who think like that.
After tweaking the video [to get 1280x800 working which took me all of two hours]
Giuliani didn't do anything outside of New York. Bin Laden's actions reverberated around the world, slightly more consequential in the large scheme of things.
I don't even know what Giuliani did in NY other than turn it into a police state.
You're qualified to offer an opinion regardless. Being a parent doesn't escalate you to some grandious level of wisdom or insight. It means you are capable of combining sperm and egg. Congratulations on doing something dogs and hamsters can do, too.
It means you have actual experience parenting. Which means your opinion counts more than some armchair expert Slashdotter who still hasn't really grown up and thinks restrictions on his 'rights' of any kind is 'sooooooo unfaaairrr'...
No, if they increase the prices, they make more money. Then when sales start to drop they can just drop the prices. The sharp drop in prices will jack up the sales again. All the while they're selling games.
As someone who has done military training in leadership and motivation, let me tell you that I have found most traditional management "motivation" strategies to be quite flawed. Permit me to elaborate with suggestions for improvement:
You're saying management should threatent to shoot the workers for treason if they don't do as they're told? Or just shout and scream at them in a domineering and aggressive way in order to make themselves feel like big men to make up for their personal inadequacies? Oh wait corporate management already do that. Perhaps they should just bully their subordinates into suicide, as is standard in the military.
Are you saying that wikipedia's articles are padded out by irrelevent information? Personally I can't think of anything more useful than a paragraph at the bottom of the page telling me when something was mentioned in a Star Trek episode.
Seriously though, not all errors are equal. A decimal number out by 0.0001 is different than some vandal inserting a completely bogus fact just to trick people. I don't think that Britannia's errors are in any way as bad as the obscene vandalism that affects many wikipedia articles.
But if we know it's all fake anyway then how's it a hoax? Finding out that people we thought we real were really actors would be the weakest, most boring hoax in history.
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I will wager there are perhaps 50,000 others exactly like me, and 100,000 more who will pay $2 per episode.
Wager how much? It's easy to bet nothing, when you're not taking any risks. I doubt a hundred thousand people would pay $2 for an episode of an obscure sci-fi programme. Even then it's only 200k. Things like that cost millions to produce. Then take away the costs of using itunes (i.e. Apple's cut) and you need millions of people to download it.
Considering how few people watched it for FREE, I can't see that taking off.
Make 30 minute episodes. Who cares! I'll still pay $10 for them.
I think the sort of people who pay $10 for half an hour's light evening entertainment are really in the minority. Especially when other things can be watched for free.
How much money do programmes on itunes actually make? The only things on there at the minute seem to be massively popular, massively marketing things like Lost and Desperate Housewives. The market for Firefly is a mere fraction of that.
Who gives a shit what critics think?
If the same critics had blasted Firefly, you'd be on here saying that they're all wrong. But when they're praising your favourite film you're using their opinions as gospel.
Wow, you're in the minority here.
Film critics are a minority. As are the people who listen to them. Most people see films based on adverts or word of mouth, or just pick something randomly from what 'looks cool' on the poster.
Are adaptations of books, old movies and sequels all that Hollywood can produce now?
No, I think you'll find there are plenty of films out today that aren't adaptations of books or old films.
Similarly, there have always been book adaptations. Gone with the Wind came out in 1939.
What the hell are you talking about?
2, definitely.
Making bad episodes just ruins the programmes reputation and dilutes the quality. At least you know now that if an episode of Futurama comes on, it's going to be good. You don't want it like the Simpsons where you've got a 50% chance of getting one that's embarassingly bad.
One of the main problems with American TV is that they never know when to call it a day.
Yeah, but they've probably done everything they're going to do. The programme's got nowhere to go, it'll just be more of the same.
Even some of the later Futurama episodes went down in quality, too much sentiment for a start, which is one of Groening's main flaws.
Things don't get funnier the more you watch them. The original 3 series of Family Guy were funny the first time. The new ones aren't.
And what exactly is the point in American Dad? It's like Family Guy but with less interesting characters and no jokes. Even the voices and jokes are recycled from FG.
Exactly. They're catering to the majority, not the minority of hard-core geeks who play for 80 hours a week and put another 20 hours in whining on forums. It's played by people who want a GAME, not people who want something to dedicate their life to.
'Veteran fantasy gamers'...lol.
Family Guy has been awful since they restarted it. Be careful what you wish for.
Sometimes it's best when programmes are killed at their peak. Otherwise you end up with a slow, steady descent into medeocrity like the Simpsons.
Fool. The issue at hand here is that these people are poor and vulnerable. Testing drugs on them is abusive. Maybe you failed to pick up the point that this is exploitation, and without the dehabilitating poverty, these Indians would never consider being part of the research program.
So you're saying there should be a minimum income level for drug testing? Or that it should only be done on people of certain nationalities?
You have two options:
1. Test drugs on animals.
2. Test drugs of humans.
Which is it? You can't whine about both, otherwise you get no drugs at all.
Someone remind me why adverts are evil again?
I wonder when people start blocking these adverts, will the hypocritical fanboys start whining that they're hurting Google's revenue?
P.S Does anyone know how to adblock the text adverts?
Fact of the matter is: women over the age of 25, are desperate for intelligent, nice, financially stable men.
Over 25? Can you say 'mutton'?
Anyway, what makes you think we're intelligent, nice or financially stable? I'm unintelligent, unpleasant and broke.
A dustman is just an example. There aren't many women factory workers, miners, bricklayers etc. but no-one complains about that.
It seems it's only unfair if women can't get clean, high-paying jobs.
Gentoo is not hard to install. /usr/portage 6. emerge sync 7. make make.conf [or copy from other boxes] 8. bootstrap
1. make sure hardware modules loaded 2. fdisk 3. format 4. mount 5. unpack stage1 and snapshot [or just make
9. emerge -U system 10. install lilo, syslog-ng, dcron, hotplug, coldplug 11. download and unpack kernel 12. Configure, make and install 13. set root passwd
14. reboot 15. setup hostname, network, etc 16. install world packages [e.g. gnome, mozilla, gaim, cvs, tetex, whatever] 17. Clean up distfiles 18. tarball your filesystem 19. burn to DVD and call it "my stage 4 install" 20. enjoy.
Wow, complicated.
I can't work out if that's sarcasm or not. Anywhere else, of course it would be, but on Slashdot there really are people who think like that.
After tweaking the video [to get 1280x800 working which took me all of two hours]
OK, this has to be a piss-take.
Giuliani didn't do anything outside of New York. Bin Laden's actions reverberated around the world, slightly more consequential in the large scheme of things.
I don't even know what Giuliani did in NY other than turn it into a police state.
Well, maybe the Army would be better protected if they didn't randomly invade countries they have no business with?
I'd rather the police be protected whilst stopping crime, that's more of a concern to most people than killing those evil Iraqis with their WMDs...
You're qualified to offer an opinion regardless. Being a parent doesn't escalate you to some grandious level of wisdom or insight. It means you are capable of combining sperm and egg. Congratulations on doing something dogs and hamsters can do, too.
It means you have actual experience parenting. Which means your opinion counts more than some armchair expert Slashdotter who still hasn't really grown up and thinks restrictions on his 'rights' of any kind is 'sooooooo unfaaairrr'...
You're joking right? Most people have never heard of the rootkit, let alone care about it.
People buy CDs based on what musicians made it, they probably don't even look at what record label made it.
Causing more damage than the Germans in WWI? Jesus what planet are you from?
How would you feel if you paid $700 for an Xbox in November and then the schmuck down the street picks it up for $300 2 months later?
Would it matter how you felt? Either way, you have an Xbox and are buying games for it, and at $700 Microsoft are making money on it.
People aren't going to say 'Damn it, Microsoft have ripped me off, I'm throwing my Xbox in the bin.'
No, if they increase the prices, they make more money. Then when sales start to drop they can just drop the prices. The sharp drop in prices will jack up the sales again. All the while they're selling games.
As someone who has done military training in leadership and motivation, let me tell you that I have found most traditional management "motivation" strategies to be quite flawed. Permit me to elaborate with suggestions for improvement:
You're saying management should threatent to shoot the workers for treason if they don't do as they're told? Or just shout and scream at them in a domineering and aggressive way in order to make themselves feel like big men to make up for their personal inadequacies? Oh wait corporate management already do that. Perhaps they should just bully their subordinates into suicide, as is standard in the military.
If you have to put the correct facts in yourself, what is the point in the site even existing? You may as well just write it down for yourself.
Are you saying that wikipedia's articles are padded out by irrelevent information? Personally I can't think of anything more useful than a paragraph at the bottom of the page telling me when something was mentioned in a Star Trek episode.
Seriously though, not all errors are equal. A decimal number out by 0.0001 is different than some vandal inserting a completely bogus fact just to trick people. I don't think that Britannia's errors are in any way as bad as the obscene vandalism that affects many wikipedia articles.
Putting someone attractive on an advert is ignoring the fans? Maybe Opera users are ugly or something.
But if we know it's all fake anyway then how's it a hoax? Finding out that people we thought we real were really actors would be the weakest, most boring hoax in history.