The DVD spec demands Macrovision encoding on a DVD player's video outputs.
It should be noted that it's only required if the DVD has the Macrovision-enable bit on, or whatever. I have a number of DVDs that tape just fine -- for instance, the Prisoner DVDs.
His writing, whether for Star Trek (the first appearance of the Romulans)
I think you mean Klingons, in The Trouble With Tribbles; but that's not their first appearance either. It seems to be in Errand of Mercy based on a quick look at the list at epguides.com .
The mainstream Asimov universe is linked in, by implication, in TEOE itself:
SPOILER FOR END OF THE END OF ETERNITY:
In the last few pages, one character describes the universe that will result from the actions in the book. The universe as described there is very generally the one in which the rest of Asimov's books take place -- humans everywhere, as opposed to an alien-dominated galaxy.
*As far as I know* (and I could totally be wrong here), your Tivo computes suggestions on the box itself, not by consulting with some master Tivo database somewhere.
This was once true, but is no longer. It now does some collaborative filtering of the sort you allude to later in your comment. However, they say it's only part of the selection algorithm, and the categories are also still significant. This was added in the 2.5 version of software, which has been in use for about 6 months. (However, the choosing itself does happen in the box, not at home base.)
No...it solves some of the same problems as a VCR, but that doesn't make it the same thing at all, since it has almost none of the same internals except for the i/o from the box. That's like saying a computer is just a "digitized" typewriter, or a microwave is just a "really fast" oven.
The question was to tick what was the primary reason for buying a particular film over another and among the list was 'the studio'. I couldn't, and still can't, understand how someone would think "Oh, that film was made by Warner Bros, it must be good, I'll get it."
The analogy is off, because "studio" in the movie industry corresponds to "publisher" in games; there isn't always an equivalent in movies to a game developer studio. So although there are (or shouldn't be) Eidos fans or Electronic Arts fans, there were Looking Glass fans.
I find it funny that the Times article was written by Jennifer 8. Lee -- not l33tspeak and not a typo. It's a Chinese cultural thing that she's written about somewhere. I can't find a primary reference on Google, though.
unless they can think of another way to sucker me into buying my old faves for a fourth time, my purchasing habits will remain at a background level from now on.
Don't forget to buy all the Rolling Stones albums next week on SACD!
It would be, if only said article didn't link directly to the transcript of the show itself.
You can read almost exactly what was said on the show (except for the odd 'unintelligible' comment)
You're right, I missed that link in the Salon article.
The other poster (Gary Javed, posting as AC) did see the show, he says in his subsequent posting, so that's covered too; and given the existence of the transcript link, anyone who wants to complain can (and is obligated to) read that transcript. I was objecting to the apparent call for a flood of emails from people who hadn't seen the show they would be complaining about.
Isn't flooding a TV show's inbox with complaints about a show that you haven't seen, based only on someone's description, as dumb as complaining about a movie you haven't seen, or a game you haven't played?
The only individuals who get a lot of money are the lawyers, yes. But the point of a class action suit is to take action when a large number of people have been slightly harmed by a large company, so there's no injustice that your friend only got $12...but consider that the monitor company had to pay out all those $12 checks, plus the lawyers. It's more to punish the offending company than it is to enrich the plaintiffs.
Well, having followed more links, it looks like you're pretty much right, so I'll take my lumps. The 1997 numbers are here and I see JCPR's 13.3% overall, but their 24% is nowhere to be seen. It's possible they made an honest mistake and computed the rate for "women" by mistakenly going to the column for all black people and meticulously removing children under 18 to get the adult rate -- in the text I just pointed to I can imagine getting it messed up because the layout is wacky. The original pdf here is better laid out.
I managed to miss the, uh, ancestral poster's claim of the overall rate being 14% and the female rate being 25%, which, yeah, doesn't add up.
If it helps, just remember - 74% of statistics are completely made up.
Well, if you're in the buisiness of making up statistics, you could consider every housewife below the poverty line since they have no direct 'income'.
Yeah, I suppose you could. There's absolutely no evidence of this on the pointed-to web page, of course; and if you're going to argue with the US Census Bureau, you certainly can, but now you are obliged do more than "make up statistics."
I also see nothing that looks like the grandparent post's claim that the pointed-to page says that "almost all poor people are female". I see a claim that 24% of American women live in poverty.
"Upcoming Episodes" does indeed list the show on all channels; nevertheless, the Season Pass only applies to one particular channel. Yes, it's horribly misleading.
Replay runs an embedded RTOS called QNX. Why would I want a multi-user, pre-emptive multi-tasking operating system on my PVR? It just needs to record what I want it to record, and play what I want it to play.
You need a multi-threaded OS so you can push a button on the remote and have it respond before it finishes recording or playing back your entire program, as well as for garbage collection and other background maintenance tasks.
In essence they (Disney again) are claiming that EVERYBODY that owns a ReplayTV device is using it for illegal activities. Guilty until proven innocent. This sounds like something that should require a search warrant.
No. They're claiming that they have the right to find out if Replay users are using it for illegal activities, given that sharing of programs under copywright is the expected use of the feature.
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The DVD spec demands Macrovision encoding on a DVD player's video outputs.
It should be noted that it's only required if the DVD has the Macrovision-enable bit on, or whatever. I have a number of DVDs that tape just fine -- for instance, the Prisoner DVDs.
His writing, whether for Star Trek (the first appearance of the Romulans)
I think you mean Klingons, in The Trouble With Tribbles; but that's not their first appearance either. It seems to be in Errand of Mercy based on a quick look at the list at epguides.com .
The mainstream Asimov universe is linked in, by implication, in TEOE itself:
SPOILER FOR END OF THE END OF ETERNITY:
In the last few pages, one character describes the universe that will result from the actions in the book. The universe as described there is very generally the one in which the rest of Asimov's books take place -- humans everywhere, as opposed to an alien-dominated galaxy.
END SPOILER
*As far as I know* (and I could totally be wrong here), your Tivo computes suggestions on the box itself, not by consulting with some master Tivo database somewhere.
This was once true, but is no longer. It now does some collaborative filtering of the sort you allude to later in your comment. However, they say it's only part of the selection algorithm, and the categories are also still significant. This was added in the 2.5 version of software, which has been in use for about 6 months. (However, the choosing itself does happen in the box, not at home base.)
Six disc box set
What's the problem?
For a start, I can't say it five times fast.
No...it solves some of the same problems as a VCR, but that doesn't make it the same thing at all, since it has almost none of the same internals except for the i/o from the box. That's like saying a computer is just a "digitized" typewriter, or a microwave is just a "really fast" oven.
The question was to tick what was the primary reason for buying a particular film over another and among the list was 'the studio'. I couldn't, and still can't, understand how someone would think "Oh, that film was made by Warner Bros, it must be good, I'll get it."
The analogy is off, because "studio" in the movie industry corresponds to "publisher" in games; there isn't always an equivalent in movies to a game developer studio. So although there are (or shouldn't be) Eidos fans or Electronic Arts fans, there were Looking Glass fans.
I find it funny that the Times article was written by Jennifer 8. Lee -- not l33tspeak and not a typo. It's a Chinese cultural thing that she's written about somewhere. I can't find a primary reference on Google, though.
unless they can think of another way to sucker me into buying my old faves for a fourth time, my purchasing habits will remain at a background level from now on.
Don't forget to buy all the Rolling Stones albums next week on SACD!
It would be, if only said article didn't link directly to the transcript of the show itself.
You can read almost exactly what was said on the show (except for the odd 'unintelligible' comment)
You're right, I missed that link in the Salon article.
The other poster (Gary Javed, posting as AC) did see the show, he says in his subsequent posting, so that's covered too; and given the existence of the transcript link, anyone who wants to complain can (and is obligated to) read that transcript. I was objecting to the apparent call for a flood of emails from people who hadn't seen the show they would be complaining about.
From the link:
Robert Moaby, 33, who sent death threats to staff, was also jailed for hoarding indecent pictures of children on his home computer.
Ah...he was jailed for hoarding them. Guess he should have shared.
Isn't flooding a TV show's inbox with complaints about a show that you haven't seen, based only on someone's description, as dumb as complaining about a movie you haven't seen, or a game you haven't played?
The only ones who make out are the lawyers.
The only individuals who get a lot of money are the lawyers, yes. But the point of a class action suit is to take action when a large number of people have been slightly harmed by a large company, so there's no injustice that your friend only got $12...but consider that the monitor company had to pay out all those $12 checks, plus the lawyers. It's more to punish the offending company than it is to enrich the plaintiffs.
This is their anchovies heel,
Please tell me this was deliberate.
The "an" vs "a" distinction always follows the sound as if the sentence was being read aloud, so it's "a (bitter) idiot".
Previous Poster (whose first language may not be English for all we know) would have done better to try
...his first try wasn't any kind of English I know.
I do not know to which studies you are referring.
Well, having followed more links, it looks like you're pretty much right, so I'll take my lumps. The 1997 numbers are here and I see JCPR's 13.3% overall, but their 24% is nowhere to be seen. It's possible they made an honest mistake and computed the rate for "women" by mistakenly going to the column for all black people and meticulously removing children under 18 to get the adult rate -- in the text I just pointed to I can imagine getting it messed up because the layout is wacky. The original pdf here is better laid out.
I managed to miss the, uh, ancestral poster's claim of the overall rate being 14% and the female rate being 25%, which, yeah, doesn't add up.
If it helps, just remember - 74% of statistics are completely made up.
Fortunately we still have the other 67% to go on.
Well, if you're in the buisiness of making up statistics, you could consider every housewife below the poverty line since they have no direct 'income'.
Yeah, I suppose you could. There's absolutely no evidence of this on the pointed-to web page, of course; and if you're going to argue with the US Census Bureau, you certainly can, but now you are obliged do more than "make up statistics."
I also see nothing that looks like the grandparent post's claim that the pointed-to page says that "almost all poor people are female". I see a claim that 24% of American women live in poverty.
I remember a web-site that covered the worst software UI's. I cant remember (or find) the site. It covered Quicktime, some IBM software and others.
The Interface Hall of Shame, most likely.
In English, Portuguese, and German (in that order on the sign):
"Germany is a great team and fully deserves to come in second."
(Paraphrased.)
To translate "Obrigado pelo carinho!" I'd suggest "Thank you for your support"; "...your cherish" won't do, because "cherish" is a verb.
"Upcoming Episodes" does indeed list the show on all channels; nevertheless, the Season Pass only applies to one particular channel. Yes, it's horribly misleading.
Two things about Lands End:
1) They sell only their own brand, so they have no price competition. Their stuff is by no means cheap, although it's good quality for the money.
2) They've just been bought by Sears, which I hope doesn't ruin it.
Replay runs an embedded RTOS called QNX. Why would I want a multi-user, pre-emptive multi-tasking operating system on my PVR? It just needs to record what I want it to record, and play what I want it to play.
You need a multi-threaded OS so you can push a button on the remote and have it respond before it finishes recording or playing back your entire program, as well as for garbage collection and other background maintenance tasks.
He was intending to kill the emperor but then the emperor did light him up like a christmas turkey too.
You strung lights on your turkey? Impressive.
In essence they (Disney again) are claiming that EVERYBODY that owns a ReplayTV device is using it for illegal activities. Guilty until proven innocent.
This sounds like something that should require a search warrant.
No. They're claiming that they have the right to find out if Replay users are using it for illegal activities, given that sharing of programs under copywright is the expected use of the feature.