I haven't watched the show (except by accident), since the '95 season. And after watching the finale, I'm glad I didn't. Cuz I didn't miss a thing.
You poor fuckers that have been watching it all these years, pretending it's good, hoping for a payoff, got what you deserved.
Godo riddance.
I don't have a problem with commercials. I understand that they pay for everything.
However, this idea that the networks are getting that we are OBLIGATED to watch commercials is creepy.
That's only a step away from being required to buy the products being advertised. Fuck that.
Everything he writes is crap. He drags down Slashdot (maybe not too hard a feat sometimes...).
I realize I can turn off Katz articles, but they shouldn't be here in the first place.
Re:Television Looks Like Shit, Hi-Res Monitors Don
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Dumbass-
TVs look better for DVDs. The reason being, "pixels" on a TV are shaped differently than the pixels on your monitor. Since DVDs are made using the TV resolution, when you watch them on a monitor, the DVD player software has to resize the image to make it look right. This makes it fuzzy. There's no way around it.
Saying that IE killed Netscape is like saying Ford is killing Kenwood by including stereos in their cars.
Other software companies need to offer more value than Microsoft, and they don't.
If Microsoft can make a clone of your product that works almost as well, but is free, that's YOUR problem. Make it better. Make it so much better that people will pay for it. Repeat every time Microsoft catches up to you. And if you don't want to put that much effort into it, if you'd rather NOT have to continually improve your product to stay on top, if you'd rather rest on your laurels and rake in the bucks, well, then I guess you are not in the right business. In fact, you shouldn't be in business at all. You should be in politics.
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The problem is, these guys are talking about what it takes to creat (Spock voice) "Life As We Know It".
Who is to say there aren't all kinds of life, that can flourish under completely different conditions than what we have here on Earth, or in our solar system?
And I love the "Earth is exactly the way it needs to be to support life on Earth" bit. Well, duh!
IF...you could get any track you wanted. Imagine if the labels had giant servers that contained their entire catalogs in 192kbps MP3 format. No more hunting around for what you want. MP3s ripped by people that know what they're doing. Ahh;)
Of course it's good for consumers to get very good software packages included for free.
If I hear one more round of whining about how IE is anti-competitive because it's included as part of Windows, I'll puke.
The only reason IE is anti-competitive is because it's the BEST BROWSER. And it's free.
If you want to charge me for something I can get for free, it better be great. And so far, no one has come up with anything to compete with the software/utilities bundles with Windows, for any price. And by compete, I mean "does everything the Microsoft version can do, and way more".
I just have little patience for billion dollar companies whining all the time about how hard it is to compete with MS. When what they really mean is "Microsoft is ripping off the customers WE were gonna rip off! No fair!"
Don't get me wrong, I think MS has done some shitty things. And the court proved they did some illegal things, too. But the reason they are number one isn't because they are an all-powerful monopoly. It's because they are better at the software business than anyone else.
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I haven't watched the show (except by accident), since the '95 season. And after watching the finale, I'm glad I didn't. Cuz I didn't miss a thing. You poor fuckers that have been watching it all these years, pretending it's good, hoping for a payoff, got what you deserved. Godo riddance.
I don't have a problem with commercials. I understand that they pay for everything. However, this idea that the networks are getting that we are OBLIGATED to watch commercials is creepy. That's only a step away from being required to buy the products being advertised. Fuck that.
The Samurai Shodown games are still the best fighting games ever. Especially parts 1 & 2. Street Fighter,Virtua Fighter, and Tekken are for pussies.
Everything he writes is crap. He drags down Slashdot (maybe not too hard a feat sometimes...). I realize I can turn off Katz articles, but they shouldn't be here in the first place.
Dumbass-
TVs look better for DVDs. The reason being, "pixels" on a TV are shaped differently than the pixels on your monitor. Since DVDs are made using the TV resolution, when you watch them on a monitor, the DVD player software has to resize the image to make it look right. This makes it fuzzy. There's no way around it.
The right tool for the job and all that...
Saying that IE killed Netscape is like saying Ford is killing Kenwood by including stereos in their cars. Other software companies need to offer more value than Microsoft, and they don't. If Microsoft can make a clone of your product that works almost as well, but is free, that's YOUR problem. Make it better. Make it so much better that people will pay for it. Repeat every time Microsoft catches up to you. And if you don't want to put that much effort into it, if you'd rather NOT have to continually improve your product to stay on top, if you'd rather rest on your laurels and rake in the bucks, well, then I guess you are not in the right business. In fact, you shouldn't be in business at all. You should be in politics.
The problem is, these guys are talking about what it takes to creat (Spock voice) "Life As We Know It".
Who is to say there aren't all kinds of life, that can flourish under completely different conditions than what we have here on Earth, or in our solar system?
And I love the "Earth is exactly the way it needs to be to support life on Earth" bit. Well, duh!
I'd pay 25 cents a track. Lots of people would.
;)
IF...you could get any track you wanted. Imagine if the labels had giant servers that contained their entire catalogs in 192kbps MP3 format. No more hunting around for what you want. MP3s ripped by people that know what they're doing. Ahh
THAT would be worth 25 cents a track.
Of course it's good for consumers to get very good software packages included for free.
If I hear one more round of whining about how IE is anti-competitive because it's included as part of Windows, I'll puke.
The only reason IE is anti-competitive is because it's the BEST BROWSER. And it's free.
If you want to charge me for something I can get for free, it better be great. And so far, no one has come up with anything to compete with the software/utilities bundles with Windows, for any price. And by compete, I mean "does everything the Microsoft version can do, and way more".
I just have little patience for billion dollar companies whining all the time about how hard it is to compete with MS. When what they really mean is "Microsoft is ripping off the customers WE were gonna rip off! No fair!"
Don't get me wrong, I think MS has done some shitty things. And the court proved they did some illegal things, too. But the reason they are number one isn't because they are an all-powerful monopoly. It's because they are better at the software business than anyone else.