From TFA: "Format: NTSC, Region 0, Black & White (special features in color with sound)."
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Well, if you want a bit more about the movie (without spoilers): Whedon did his fans justice. It had all the trademarks of Firefly: wit, location, and compelling story/characterisation. The saddest part of the movie was seeing the plot play out in two hours when it could have conceivable run for another ten episodes... once you see it, you'll see characters and bits of plot that could encompass entire episodes. Sigh.
IMHO, Firefly/Serenity is the Star Wars of our generation; there's no question of this in my mind. All I can do is curse Fox one more time, and hope that Whedon keeps on with the franchise - another movie or a continuation of the series on TV would be absolutely wonderful. Way to go, Joss! Thanks for the fantastic film, and here's hoping you'll have plenty of opportunities to express your creative genius in the future!
Not to mention that *every single anti-CRIA article on Slashdot* has Michael Geist in the article! I'm not complaining about this; he's not only interesting to read but he's got some terrific points every once in a while, such as the fact that revenues from CD sales from 2000-2005 have declined by about 8%, while the average cost of a CD album has also dropped 8%. The CRIA want us to believe that this has to do with piracy, whereas the rest of us can put two and two together.
No idea why Hexus didn't review any Seasonics, especially given their reputation in the SPCR community. Yes, some people just care about pure wattage and 12v rails, but Seasonics have accurate wattage, high 12v rails (my S12-380 has 25a on the 12v rails) and are nearly *silent*. Yet nobody seems to have heard about the company because relatively few mainstream sites review their PSUs. Go figure.
I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and now that my SP has inch-long scratches from where my bloody cat landed on it, I've been thinking about getting a new GBA. This decision is complicated, of course, by the Gameboy Player for the Gamecube (which would be nice with my wavebird), which is *further* complicated by Revolution coming next year - why buy a $70 peripherial now only to not be able to use it with the Revolution later?
Sigh. Anyway, not all of us who might by the new GBA are doing so because we like the newest & shiniest toys.
Oh, and I forgot to mention the obvious in my original post - make the back of the screen reflective, and only switch on backlight when there's no natural light. You could even have tiny optical
wibers starting from different parts of the surface of the device to supply natural lighting to the screen irrelevant of device orientation.
Are those kinda like nuclear wessels? I'm not up on all the latest Russian technology, so I wouldn't know.
At the risk of getting off topic, why did there need to be a point to the technology? It seems to me like you're thinking of it in typical Hollywood terms, where a film needs to have a distinct beginning, middle, and end, and there needs to be a distinct conflict that gets resolved by the end. Primer had neither, but was more about the relationship between the two main characters. I find that too many films and books take a look at something like this from the perspective that there's this Powerful Evil Guy that will destroy the entire universe if Generic Good Guy doesn't stop him. I can't think of any time travel plots that don't involve this. By contrast, Primer was more about human motivation than solving the Big Problem.
You say that causality wasn't thought out that well, but I say that it took a completely different perspective on causality which was refreshing. It moved away from the (again) typical Hollywood plot; I'm no physicist or engineer, but I genuinely liked the film.
Having said that, can you recommend some good modern SF novels that deal with time travel (perhaps something not as didactic as The Time Machine)? It's a genre I'm interested in, but I've not yet had the motivation to compile a "best of" list. I'd appreciate it!
Primer cost $10,000 USD, and it was the best film I've seen all year. The point is that you don't need a million-dollar budget to produce a quality film, and with a lower budget comes lower ticket and DVD prices. Even so, I paid over $30 CAD for the DVD of Primer when I could find it (for comparison, most DVDs cost $20-25 CAD when they're released, and usually drop by $5 after six months). The moral of the story is that people are willing to pay for quality; I know I'll be buying The Constant Gardener for full-price when it's released to DVD, but won't pick up The Brothers Grimm even at $10.
Sounds like something I heard someone on TV last night say. There is a group of roomates that live in a rather large house. One guy and a girl really like each other. She's fallen for him completely and he "wants his cake and wants to eat it too." Explaination, he wants this girl as his backup in case he can't find another girl to bring home from the bars or whatever.
Believe it or not, we do know what that particular cliche means; the long-winded explanation using some TV program wasn't necessary. In fact, that particular proverb was recorded in 1546 by John Heywood.
You can tell that our culture is dying because historical phrases that everybody used to know are now seen as original and brilliant bits of television writing. Sigh.
I didn't ask you to critique the fucking music; I'm trying to point out the business model that Magnatune uses is actually fair for the artists. Would you buy more music if half of the money you spent on a CD went straight to the artist, you could choose how much you wanted to spend on the album, and you could get the music in a variety of formats (including uncompressed)?
(I also didn't realise that there were 201 billion music artists on the planet. That's quite a few, isn't it?)
So it's illegal to download MP3s from a p2p service? Can you point to the case law in which this was established as a precident? As I mentioned in another post, please cite the specific paragraph(s) where this is spelled out. Thanks.
But Metallica the group doesn't deserve 100% of the financial penalty, as there are many more steps in the process between a talented music group and a CD. A judge isn't going to dismiss a case because Motley Crue asks him politely. It's a good idea, but I'm not sure it'll work.
They've already got that - it's called Magnatune. And no, I don't work for them; I'm simply a satisfied customer who knows that fully half the money I spend on a Magnatune CD goes directly to the artist.
Can you please point out where in the "law" it says that downloading MP3s off of a p2p network is not allowed? The specific paragraph would be helpful. Thanks.
There was a story back on/. about Magnatune - in fact, I'm listening to it streamed right now. I've got a couple albums I'm going to buy, just want to get a few more to make it worth the shipping cost, but I'd encourage you to take a look at them. Some really fantastic indie music!
*sigh*... you can use your gamecube controller on the revolution, too, which works absolutely fine for games such as Metroid Zero or SMB3 (Gameboy Player).
Windows File Protection applies to DLLs, not applications. I've been doing this since XP came out several years ago, and I can guarantee that the trick I listed above kills Messenger and doesn't let it come back.
Hilarious. Besides the fact that the box itself says "Designed for Radeon-Series Video Cards," no nVidia cards are on the compatibility report, whereas other MSI motherboards (the Neo4 Platinum, for instance), *do* support nVidia cards.
But hey, I only struggled with the motherboard for several months and talked to several MSI techs who all confirmed this; it's not like I have any actual idea what I'm talking about, hmm?
I've used a modern Mac too, and I've had more kernel panics on it (powerbook) than BSODs on an XP machine (home built PC, even with the aforementioned problems). But that wasn't my point - my point was in regards to the grandparent, in that BSODs with windows aren't necessarily the result of Windows itself.
In May I bought an MSI RS480 motherboard and a Leadtek PX6600GT video card - computer wouldn't stop crashing for months. Turns out that the motherboard doesn't support nvidia video cards. Believe it or not, hardware incompatibility *is* a cause for instability in Windows [XP], even in this day and age.
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From TFA: "Format: NTSC, Region 0, Black & White (special features in color with sound)."
IMHO, Firefly/Serenity is the Star Wars of our generation; there's no question of this in my mind. All I can do is curse Fox one more time, and hope that Whedon keeps on with the franchise - another movie or a continuation of the series on TV would be absolutely wonderful. Way to go, Joss! Thanks for the fantastic film, and here's hoping you'll have plenty of opportunities to express your creative genius in the future!
Not to mention that *every single anti-CRIA article on Slashdot* has Michael Geist in the article! I'm not complaining about this; he's not only interesting to read but he's got some terrific points every once in a while, such as the fact that revenues from CD sales from 2000-2005 have declined by about 8%, while the average cost of a CD album has also dropped 8%. The CRIA want us to believe that this has to do with piracy, whereas the rest of us can put two and two together.
No idea why Hexus didn't review any Seasonics, especially given their reputation in the SPCR community. Yes, some people just care about pure wattage and 12v rails, but Seasonics have accurate wattage, high 12v rails (my S12-380 has 25a on the 12v rails) and are nearly *silent*. Yet nobody seems to have heard about the company because relatively few mainstream sites review their PSUs. Go figure.
There's a difference between being anal retentive and being obsessed with the latest and greatest ;)
Sigh. Anyway, not all of us who might by the new GBA are doing so because we like the newest & shiniest toys.
Are those kinda like nuclear wessels? I'm not up on all the latest Russian technology, so I wouldn't know.
You say that causality wasn't thought out that well, but I say that it took a completely different perspective on causality which was refreshing. It moved away from the (again) typical Hollywood plot; I'm no physicist or engineer, but I genuinely liked the film.
Having said that, can you recommend some good modern SF novels that deal with time travel (perhaps something not as didactic as The Time Machine)? It's a genre I'm interested in, but I've not yet had the motivation to compile a "best of" list. I'd appreciate it!
Primer cost $10,000 USD, and it was the best film I've seen all year. The point is that you don't need a million-dollar budget to produce a quality film, and with a lower budget comes lower ticket and DVD prices. Even so, I paid over $30 CAD for the DVD of Primer when I could find it (for comparison, most DVDs cost $20-25 CAD when they're released, and usually drop by $5 after six months). The moral of the story is that people are willing to pay for quality; I know I'll be buying The Constant Gardener for full-price when it's released to DVD, but won't pick up The Brothers Grimm even at $10.
Believe it or not, we do know what that particular cliche means; the long-winded explanation using some TV program wasn't necessary. In fact, that particular proverb was recorded in 1546 by John Heywood.
You can tell that our culture is dying because historical phrases that everybody used to know are now seen as original and brilliant bits of television writing. Sigh.
LOL! Well, if you've got that many "artists" under your control, maybe you could start your *own* label ;)
(I also didn't realise that there were 201 billion music artists on the planet. That's quite a few, isn't it?)
So it's illegal to download MP3s from a p2p service? Can you point to the case law in which this was established as a precident? As I mentioned in another post, please cite the specific paragraph(s) where this is spelled out. Thanks.
But Metallica the group doesn't deserve 100% of the financial penalty, as there are many more steps in the process between a talented music group and a CD. A judge isn't going to dismiss a case because Motley Crue asks him politely. It's a good idea, but I'm not sure it'll work.
They've already got that - it's called Magnatune. And no, I don't work for them; I'm simply a satisfied customer who knows that fully half the money I spend on a Magnatune CD goes directly to the artist.
Can you please point out where in the "law" it says that downloading MP3s off of a p2p network is not allowed? The specific paragraph would be helpful. Thanks.
There was a story back on /. about Magnatune - in fact, I'm listening to it streamed right now. I've got a couple albums I'm going to buy, just want to get a few more to make it worth the shipping cost, but I'd encourage you to take a look at them. Some really fantastic indie music!
*sigh*... you can use your gamecube controller on the revolution, too, which works absolutely fine for games such as Metroid Zero or SMB3 (Gameboy Player).
Windows File Protection applies to DLLs, not applications. I've been doing this since XP came out several years ago, and I can guarantee that the trick I listed above kills Messenger and doesn't let it come back.
Hard to kill? You right click and exit out of it in the taskbar, then rename C:\progra~1\Messenger to C:\progra~1\M. There, dead.
Bill Gates never said that.
But hey, I only struggled with the motherboard for several months and talked to several MSI techs who all confirmed this; it's not like I have any actual idea what I'm talking about, hmm?
I've used a modern Mac too, and I've had more kernel panics on it (powerbook) than BSODs on an XP machine (home built PC, even with the aforementioned problems). But that wasn't my point - my point was in regards to the grandparent, in that BSODs with windows aren't necessarily the result of Windows itself.
In May I bought an MSI RS480 motherboard and a Leadtek PX6600GT video card - computer wouldn't stop crashing for months. Turns out that the motherboard doesn't support nvidia video cards. Believe it or not, hardware incompatibility *is* a cause for instability in Windows [XP], even in this day and age.
I'm sure that, if Granny can figure out how to use msconfig, she'll be able to use Google (first link returned from a search of "tfswctrl.exe").