I haven't used that one, but I did use MovieFone.com last year. Paid online, and when I got to the ticket window, I just showed them my credit card, and I was handed the tickets. Only extra cost, since I didn't officially join the site, was 50 cents per ticket. Not bad for an opening night showing of Fellowship of the Ring.
Red Dwarf is great, but I know some people, including relatives, that just don't get 'British Humor', and have no use for Red Dwarf, Monty Python, Black Adder, etc.
VOYAGER is high art in comparison? I find that statement shocking. I guess these are just opinions anyway, but I actually LIKE most of the Enterprise crew, which I can't say about, well, any of the Voyager crew, none of whom I'd have liked to have met in person.(well, perhaps the holographic doctor..) Both shows explore the unknown, but it seems more like it on Enterprise, where they're a little less sure of themselves and have a lot more diplomatic problems with people they just met(without degenerating into violence). Example: the people they mortally offended because they eat in public.
My God! I thought that site had gone down a long time ago, and deleted my bookmark. Back in the mid-90's, it was the first website I'd learned the address of, before I had web access at home.(pathetic, isn't it?) That was back when it was hyperion.com, instead of midwinter.com. (and the cruiser Hyperion in "A Voice in the Wilderness" was named after the site!)
It's true that Mac users would get more out of Terminal if Apple had provided any instructions on how to use it. I still remember how to use DOS, but I've zero previous experince with a UNIX CLI, and I've only picked up a few commands, like ls and cd. Not enough to do anything. And I don't have the funds for a book on the subject.
It's a simplistic game, but as Brain says when he flattens Pinky, "That was very therapeutic." Of course, the DoJ was useless! And of course, no matter how much you might, Bill wins in the end.
Oh, and nice Rammstein soundtrack! Some of the other interface elements reminded me of the classic Ambrosia game Maelstrom.(which was ported to UNIX and later back to OS X)
They're got sharing, hosting(for those who didn't pay for.mac), even private hosting for secret corporate schedules. Plus an iPod giveaway for those who share! I've got one already, but a second wouldn't hurt. I've already given them my schedule for the local MUG.
I could make the same argument about MacOS 9 not being dead, Steve Jobs proclamation aside. Unreal Tournament alone is a good reason to hang onto 9 in addition to X, plus Deus Ex, Total Annihilation, TIE Fighter, Myth I and II, etc.
Though to be fair, Jobs was talking to developers rather than end users.
I knew this link would be on Slashdot even before I looked; other sites were mentioning that the server was swamped. It's probably on Fark.com, too, and that's another type of DoS.
Hmm, perhaps I will give Chimera another look. I've had no luck there with OmniWeb(my default) or Mozilla in the past. But I did follow someone else's direct link this afternoon, so I've seen it.
I liked Star Trek movies 1-4 and 6. I've not even seen 9, and am undecided about this one.
I do like Enterprise, better than Voyager. DS9 was uneven, with some truly excellent episodes, and some embarrassing silly ones. Many of the best featured Bajoran internal politics and Sisko as The Emissary. And the worst, well, there was one featuring Quark pretending to be female that I refused to watch even once.
Babylon 5? Best series ever. Current series? I have been watching Firefly. It reminds me a bit of space trading games like Trade Wars or Escape Velocity, or perhaps the Terrans from Starcraft. Nasty central government, and a band of misfits trying to make a semi-honest living in a tough universe. I like it.
And speaking of TV executives dumbing down Science Fiction, I've still not forgiven TNT for canceling Babylon 5:Crusade. Most of the 11 episodes rocked, save for the ones TNT meddled with.
Better yet, try Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition. The original was a bit rushed, so they cut corners on a number of FX sequences. The Director's Edition is a lot easier to watch and follow the story, IMO.
As an OS X user, I've long found iFilm to be a useless site. I could only get it to work using IE, and only with WMP media. I want to avoid Microsoft, damn it!
Hmm, I'm pretty sure that the LC and IIsi were 16 bit color, or 15 bit. 32,000 colors. My father had the IIvx, a slightly later model, and that's as high as it went. Much nicer than the 256 color 286 I had at the time.
Liquid Audio? That's still around? I downloaded and tried it once, on a Mac IIvx with System 7.1. About seven years ago, I'd guess. Lousy program, it looked and ran like crap.
Another note: WMP for OS X is a POS that doesn't play at least two-thirds of the.asf files that I try it on. It just doesn't support all of MS's codices, particularly the audio ones.
I guess a more pragmatic comment would be "If the content is locked out of my Mac, there's no chance in hell of them getting a cent out of me."
I've said something similar in the past about game developers that wouldn't support the Mac, like Sierra, Valve, EA, Westwood, others. No support = no money from me. Not that I have much to spend these days.
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I haven't used that one, but I did use MovieFone.com last year. Paid online, and when I got to the ticket window, I just showed them my credit card, and I was handed the tickets. Only extra cost, since I didn't officially join the site, was 50 cents per ticket. Not bad for an opening night showing of Fellowship of the Ring.
Red Dwarf is great, but I know some people, including relatives, that just don't get 'British Humor', and have no use for Red Dwarf, Monty Python, Black Adder, etc.
Sounds like an unfortunate truth, but there's NO show out there in the history of TV that'll make me pay attention to the damned ads!
Hmmm, visualizing.. damn. Perhaps that would get me to tune in! ;-) She's got some damn fine genes, and I don't mean her character!
VOYAGER is high art in comparison? I find that statement shocking. I guess these are just opinions anyway, but I actually LIKE most of the Enterprise crew, which I can't say about, well, any of the Voyager crew, none of whom I'd have liked to have met in person.(well, perhaps the holographic doctor..) Both shows explore the unknown, but it seems more like it on Enterprise, where they're a little less sure of themselves and have a lot more diplomatic problems with people they just met(without degenerating into violence). Example: the people they mortally offended because they eat in public.
My God! I thought that site had gone down a long time ago, and deleted my bookmark. Back in the mid-90's, it was the first website I'd learned the address of, before I had web access at home.(pathetic, isn't it?) That was back when it was hyperion.com, instead of midwinter.com. (and the cruiser Hyperion in "A Voice in the Wilderness" was named after the site!)
It's true that Mac users would get more out of Terminal if Apple had provided any instructions on how to use it. I still remember how to use DOS, but I've zero previous experince with a UNIX CLI, and I've only picked up a few commands, like ls and cd. Not enough to do anything. And I don't have the funds for a book on the subject.
A trackpad? Level 15? Dude, I'm impressed! I hate using those things myself.
It's a simplistic game, but as Brain says when he flattens Pinky, "That was very therapeutic." Of course, the DoJ was useless! And of course, no matter how much you might, Bill wins in the end.
Oh, and nice Rammstein soundtrack! Some of the other interface elements reminded me of the classic Ambrosia game Maelstrom.(which was ported to UNIX and later back to OS X)
They're got sharing, hosting(for those who didn't pay for .mac), even private hosting for secret corporate schedules. Plus an iPod giveaway for those who share! I've got one already, but a second wouldn't hurt. I've already given them my schedule for the local MUG.
I could make the same argument about MacOS 9 not being dead, Steve Jobs proclamation aside. Unreal Tournament alone is a good reason to hang onto 9 in addition to X, plus Deus Ex, Total Annihilation, TIE Fighter, Myth I and II, etc.
Though to be fair, Jobs was talking to developers rather than end users.
Old? Natalie is 20. She's probably got a fake ID for bars. If she's old, I'm a senior citizen at 31.
I always suspected that there was something wrong with those joggers. Heck, the crack of dawn is when I usually fall asleep!
I knew this link would be on Slashdot even before I looked; other sites were mentioning that the server was swamped. It's probably on Fark.com, too, and that's another type of DoS.
Hmm, perhaps I will give Chimera another look. I've had no luck there with OmniWeb(my default) or Mozilla in the past. But I did follow someone else's direct link this afternoon, so I've seen it.
Thanks, I needed that. iFilm's site isn't very cross platform compatible.
I liked Star Trek movies 1-4 and 6. I've not even seen 9, and am undecided about this one.
I do like Enterprise, better than Voyager. DS9 was uneven, with some truly excellent episodes, and some embarrassing silly ones. Many of the best featured Bajoran internal politics and Sisko as The Emissary. And the worst, well, there was one featuring Quark pretending to be female that I refused to watch even once.
Babylon 5? Best series ever. Current series? I have been watching Firefly. It reminds me a bit of space trading games like Trade Wars or Escape Velocity, or perhaps the Terrans from Starcraft. Nasty central government, and a band of misfits trying to make a semi-honest living in a tough universe. I like it.
And speaking of TV executives dumbing down Science Fiction, I've still not forgiven TNT for canceling Babylon 5:Crusade. Most of the 11 episodes rocked, save for the ones TNT meddled with.
Better yet, try Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition. The original was a bit rushed, so they cut corners on a number of FX sequences. The Director's Edition is a lot easier to watch and follow the story, IMO.
As an OS X user, I've long found iFilm to be a useless site. I could only get it to work using IE, and only with WMP media. I want to avoid Microsoft, damn it!
Sounds good to me. Send it off to Paramount!
The picture of Playmate Kelly Monaco on my desktop right now would prove you wrong. I'd email it to you as proof, but of course you're an AC.
Hmm, I'm pretty sure that the LC and IIsi were 16 bit color, or 15 bit. 32,000 colors. My father had the IIvx, a slightly later model, and that's as high as it went. Much nicer than the 256 color 286 I had at the time.
Liquid Audio? That's still around? I downloaded and tried it once, on a Mac IIvx with System 7.1. About seven years ago, I'd guess. Lousy program, it looked and ran like crap.
Another note: WMP for OS X is a POS that doesn't play at least two-thirds of the .asf files that I try it on. It just doesn't support all of MS's codices, particularly the audio ones.
I guess a more pragmatic comment would be "If the content is locked out of my Mac, there's no chance in hell of them getting a cent out of me."
I've said something similar in the past about game developers that wouldn't support the Mac, like Sierra, Valve, EA, Westwood, others. No support = no money from me. Not that I have much to spend these days.