Who want's half of their drink as ice? You go to the movies and those bastards fill half the cup with it! Seems to me like a classic case of water down the product and rip off the consumer.
Is it just me or is this device is lacking in CPU horse power? Is anything under 2GHz going to cut it as far is encoding/decoding? It's in the right direction as far as capability although not in price.
I have it too. While it nice, it doesn't have nearly enough shows and episodes to select from. What I am talking about is a system that will allow you to watch any episode of your favorite show any time and OnDemand. OnDemand can do this but will require massive storage and probably fatter pipe.
Even better, make it open standard, mix copy righted and non-copyrighted material, and allow people to purchase copy righted stuff for a small fee. Really, who doesn't download their favorite show when they miss them these days? Hell, even my mother who's 3 thousand away is asking me how to download her favorite show. She would pay for it too.
If it isn't groundbreaking then it's tweaks and adaptation. There is nothing exciting about tweaks and adaptation. Admittedly, when I first read the article, I wrote it off because I've heard of something like this being done before. In fact there's was an animated movie produced in similar fashion. Maybe not the same exact method was used but it did convert a live action movie into animated movie. I think the movie was called Alive. Also, I believe Volkswagen has had commercials produced in similar fashion.
Not to be outdone, the Columbian Ministry of Agriculture announced a new project to map the genetic make up of the Coca Plant. The ministry wasn't specific but has indicated that it plans to create super “something.”
The current project I’m working on has set 120 columns as standard acceptable column width. This is of course the maximum characters you can print on an A4 paper in landscape layout.
We have 21" monitors and should and high resolution these days so I see no reason to stick with 80 columns.
What the heck are you talking about? Shares without voting power or dividends is useless. It's toilet paper. It wouldn't even qualify as an investment. Why would anyone buy such stocks? I highly doubt that the 5% owner is stupid enough to buy worthless shares with no prospect of any return.
If I hold 5 percent of Google like one investor does there is no way in hell I would accept a buy back at face value. The investor probably got 5 percent for pennies (relatively speaking of course) and now they want to buy them back for pennies? If I was that investor I'd scream a big "Fuck That."
If you're a two finger typist you're screwed. I should let it be known that I can't type worth shit on an ergonomic keyboard but on a classic keyboard I can type about 55 wpm.
The parents of the kid who committed murder really screwed up. They should be blaming themselves rather than the game.
I do think, however, a better system of not allowing minors to purchase these highly violent games in order. These games should be sold at the counter with photo id checks.
What is Google really worth? And will it be worth what it is worth today 5 years from now. Wall Street should be called Speculation Street. You win some, you lose some. Google is flying high now but no one can guarantee it will continue to.
This is the place I can think of to respond all your responses.
My take is really simple. The battle is big but the player is small. Lots of small players can win a big battle. My not watching their crap I am doing something about it. There is no denying, TV networks are crying. They are loosing viewers as evident by recent news about declining ratings. I'm not ignoring the problem like many suggested. I am doing my part by not watching their crap and encouraging all my family and friends not to watch it either. They are the ones ignoring mean and sooner or later they’ll realize they have a mutiny at their hands and we all know mutiny is not good for business.
I have already won. I don't watch TV at all! I don't look to CNN to get my news or any of those stupid networks. I have the Internet. They are encroaching the internet, but the Internet is too big and has too many choices.
I saw my CTO jamming to some Rap couple of months ago and he's in is late 40ies. I don't know what, but he was doing something with his hands too. Bobbing and weaving them all over the place. I think he was dancing with his hands.
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Who want's half of their drink as ice? You go to the movies and those bastards fill half the cup with it! Seems to me like a classic case of water down the product and rip off the consumer.
Can TIVo play dvix over the network? If the answer is no, Tivo is useless!!!!!!
If Alien 3 disappointed you than by god is AVP going to disappoint you even more.
Most of them are owned by American companies now. I'll leave it to you to decide whether that's a good thing or bad thing.
Is it just me or is this device is lacking in CPU horse power? Is anything under 2GHz going to cut it as far is encoding/decoding? It's in the right direction as far as capability although not in price.
I have it too. While it nice, it doesn't have nearly enough shows and episodes to select from. What I am talking about is a system that will allow you to watch any episode of your favorite show any time and OnDemand. OnDemand can do this but will require massive storage and probably fatter pipe.
Even better, make it open standard, mix copy righted and non-copyrighted material, and allow people to purchase copy righted stuff for a small fee. Really, who doesn't download their favorite show when they miss them these days? Hell, even my mother who's 3 thousand away is asking me how to download her favorite show. She would pay for it too.
If it isn't groundbreaking then it's tweaks and adaptation. There is nothing exciting about tweaks and adaptation. Admittedly, when I first read the article, I wrote it off because I've heard of something like this being done before. In fact there's was an animated movie produced in similar fashion. Maybe not the same exact method was used but it did convert a live action movie into animated movie. I think the movie was called Alive. Also, I believe Volkswagen has had commercials produced in similar fashion.
If this is what they offer, only god could help them. They better have something else to offer or it will be DOA.
Not to be outdone, the Columbian Ministry of Agriculture announced a new project to map the genetic make up of the Coca Plant. The ministry wasn't specific but has indicated that it plans to create super “something.”
Also, $4.99 is pretty hard to justify for mobile phone game. Some ot the "good" games cost even more.
Developers are getting paid for their work. Essentially they are contract workers for Novell.
It would be interesting to know what Kilgore Trout thinks about all of this.
The current project I’m working on has set 120 columns as standard acceptable column width. This is of course the maximum characters you can print on an A4 paper in landscape layout.
We have 21" monitors and should and high resolution these days so I see no reason to stick with 80 columns.
What the heck are you talking about? Shares without voting power or dividends is useless. It's toilet paper. It wouldn't even qualify as an investment. Why would anyone buy such stocks? I highly doubt that the 5% owner is stupid enough to buy worthless shares with no prospect of any return.
If I hold 5 percent of Google like one investor does there is no way in hell I would accept a buy back at face value. The investor probably got 5 percent for pennies (relatively speaking of course) and now they want to buy them back for pennies? If I was that investor I'd scream a big "Fuck That."
If you're a two finger typist you're screwed. I should let it be known that I can't type worth shit on an ergonomic keyboard but on a classic keyboard I can type about 55 wpm.
because kids are kids and they should know what their kid was doing. They were clueless in terms of what their kid was up to.
Put them in a treatment program. Don't just let them go back and their computer.
The parents of the kid who committed murder really screwed up. They should be blaming themselves rather than the game.
I do think, however, a better system of not allowing minors to purchase these highly violent games in order. These games should be sold at the counter with photo id checks.
What is Google really worth? And will it be worth what it is worth today 5 years from now. Wall Street should be called Speculation Street. You win some, you lose some. Google is flying high now but no one can guarantee it will continue to.
This is the place I can think of to respond all your responses.
My take is really simple. The battle is big but the player is small. Lots of small players can win a big battle. My not watching their crap I am doing something about it. There is no denying, TV networks are crying. They are loosing viewers as evident by recent news about declining ratings. I'm not ignoring the problem like many suggested. I am doing my part by not watching their crap and encouraging all my family and friends not to watch it either. They are the ones ignoring mean and sooner or later they’ll realize they have a mutiny at their hands and we all know mutiny is not good for business.
I have already won. I don't watch TV at all! I don't look to CNN to get my news or any of those stupid networks. I have the Internet. They are encroaching the internet, but the Internet is too big and has too many choices.
Half? You are too generous. I'd be surprised if it is more than 30 thousand MythTV users actually using it to record shows.
I saw my CTO jamming to some Rap couple of months ago and he's in is late 40ies. I don't know what, but he was doing something with his hands too. Bobbing and weaving them all over the place. I think he was dancing with his hands.