Are you talking about those things on the edges that flash every once in a while. Sorry haven't clicked on one before, at least not intentionally. I don't like active advertising in any form, so for the most part refuse to buy anything from them.
As far as the internet being free, that was a pipe-dream. Sooner or later it will be all subscription just like magazines and cable, at least for some sites. Most everything else will be free, but then most of the sites that will most likely stay free are garbage anyway, there are exceptions, but not many.
Actually it would only been a true trilogy if all three stories had been written before any of the movies had been created. In this case they made the first script and movie and then hastenly came up with the last two after the first one went big.
I grow tired of this method of making sequels. How about writing the complete story, work out ALL of the details for each chapter in the triligy, and then film the damn thing. If the first one bombs then don't make the second two. If it takes off then you have on your hands two more scripts that actually mesh well with the first one, and avoid the "sequel syndrom" that always seems to kill a good story.
Same here, time to dump symantec. Like actors they should stick to what they are good at and keep their big nose out of politics and other people's business.
I got tired a long time ago trying to keep up with when the damn programs are on. The TV stations are always shifting them around, that and I bounce from shift to shift so I gave up eight years ago of even trying. I didn't start watching TV again until a friend showed me the joy of P2P and then I could download all the episodes, and be able to go back and watch the entire series in order.
TV networks, you want to make money off of me? Make every episode of a shows downloadable, comercial free, on your website for a $1, and I'll be there. Maybe this way you can keep shows around that happen to be good, but don't necessarily get high ratings.
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Well frankly I live way the hell out in the middle of nowhere. The closest mall is 45-50 minutes away and with gas still hovering around $1.65 thats just under $10 plus my time to go buy a single item. For half that (shipping and handling) plus no sales tax (thank you california 8.25%!!!)I don't waist my time and gas driving and then having to fight the crowds and taking the chance they don't even have what I'm looking for.
Other than some kinds of clothes there is very little I haven't bought on the internet. Parts for my computer, photo gear, clothes, scuba gear, stuff for my dogs, presents, and yes even toilet paper. Other than perishable food items I buy every thing online that I can.
Mostly because of convience and savings, but at the same time it's on principle since I live in the People's Republic of California, the third largest communist country after China and the EU, where the politicians have a nasty way of pissing away our tax money like there is no tomorrow.
A good example is the fuel tax, at $.18 a gallon, they collect over $16 billion a year with this tax. You know how much of it they actually spend on roads? Less than 1/4 of it, California by the way has some of the worse roads in the country.
I make it a point not to buy from any company that charges CA sales tax, even if it mean it will take an extra few days to get it shipped in from New Jersey. Funny though, even with the extra shipping charge the prices still usually manage to come in under those based in CA.
I like them for the casual trade, but these days I usually don't fool with anything less than a few gigs of video or music at a time. I absolutely hate optical media, but it is a necessary evil until flash memory starts costing a dollar or two a gig. I do go pay hard cash for things I really like, but when it comes to the other crap that turns out to be so so, it doens't even stay on my harddrive long enough to take up much space.
There is a fee-based rental service that I have been using to get movie rentals that is getting closer to what the public wants. www.movielink.com Not the best sound quality, but the price is about the same as the local video store and it only takes an hour or so to download a fairly new movie.
They still have a way to go though. The final product that I desire is DVD or CD quality downloads of spanking brand new music and video with no rights management BS. In other words I don't want to wait for DVD (think opening night downloads) and I'm not going to pay $12-17 or an album with the one good song on it that they beat to death on the radio
They will still have to pay royalties on it, much in the way radio stations and web casters do. Remember the big fight last year over this? I'm sure they will try to argue that it is actually a webcast reguardless of the fact if it is analog or digital. Once they do that then they will have to pay per song played and that will stop it dead in it's tracks. If they do manage to convince the authorities it's more like on demand cable I'm sure their is or soon will be reg's that mandate royalties as well.
Private networks are the way to swap music, throw a lan party, set up a wireless, or even run cable down the hall. When all else fails get yourself a portable or a hand full of DVD-RW's/CD-RW's and walk it over to a friends house. There are plenty of ways of sharing data that RIAA can't track/stop.
We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill,shoot to kill...
We come in peace, shoot to kill, Scotty beam me up!
Haha, haven't heard that song in ages, nice sig.
Sorry guys, as much as the liber (anti-gun) crowd likes to yap about ballistics evidence. A little work with a file or enough regular use and it's useless. It's only good for the last couple of shots, much like these little black boxes.
How hard would it be to disconnect them or damage them to keep them from ratting you out. Not hard at all.
If they really want to do something about speeders/reckless drivers then maybe the various local and state governments need to stop treating tickets and fines as a cash cow to reap tax revenue and start actually punishing people. Make evern MPH over the speed limit cost $100 plus a one month of having their license being suspended and their car being impounded and I bet you money people will stop.
I'm in the military and that's basically what they do to us. First offense is one day of walking for every MPH over, second offense is 3 days of walking for every MPH over plus a face to face in front of the commander. Break more than 10 over and it jumps straight to 3 days over. Go over 20mph and its an instant 1 year of walking and an article-15 punishement. Pull that stunt a second time and it's a court marshal (think $500-3000 fine depending on rank), permanent loss of driving privelages on base, and potentially loss of rank ($150-1000 a month depending on rank).
To give you a size of how big the base I work on is, I have a 50 minute commute to work with only 15 minutes of that being off base. Walking for a year, means loosing your off base housing option and moving back into the shoebox size dorms if you can't manage to find a ride for a year.
Needless to say most people do not press 10mph over because of this.
I see people arguing back and forth about separate networks and security holes, but how about the fact that they said 1/3 of the code was stolen. So do they mean it as in taken, gone, or deleted?
So where is the back-up to the code? Don't tell me these geniuses actually trusted their entire and only copy of the code that was worth millions of dollars, without a single DAILY back up somewhere separate.
The whole projetct could have been backed up on a daily basis on less than $2 worth of optical media and put in a safe.
Sounds kind of weird to me that they wouldn't do something like that.
I don't buy mail order just because it's cheaper, it's because of everything else I don't have to do. No crowds, selection, price, no driving (it's 45minutes to the mall each way), and no BS.
The no tax is a bonus. For some odd reason I don't like paying (8.25%) money to the Liberal Scum that run California like it was their own little private business. If they would do something other than squander it, I might be more inclined to pitch in. Even if they manage to start collecting taxes from stuff I buy out of state, I will still make it a point to avoid spending any money locally. Screw this state and screw the criminals (politians) that run it.
Being military helps out in that department. No state sales or fuel tax can be collected on base. The fuel tax is one of my biggest pet peaves. They collect four times ($16 billion) what they actually spend on the roads and then gripe about not having enough money to do upgrades or repairs. Let's not mention my $300 license plate renewal fee.
Arrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
I'm going to bed before I get myself worked up into a very long rant.
You've obviously never shopped locally in California. It'll still be worth paying the shipping on from the east coast then to pay the prices they want here. There is more than just taxes that drive up the prices in this State. All the mandator social BS is driving companies out of the area left and right with minimum wage hikes and outrageous workers comp/unemployment insurance requirements.
You've obviously never been to a major city such as LA or St Louis during heavy traffic. 1/2m is plenty good enough for highway travel, better than what most humman drivers can do.
Really people don't you read the articles. There was one not to long ago that stated, and accurately I might add that sending it by mail is alot faster than uploading/downloading by way of high speed interenet connections. Send that portable harddrive priority and you can "upload" 120gb of media in three days to just about anywhere in the US. Not only is it fast, it is the one place where the RIAA will never be able to go no matter how much above the law they think they are.
"Never under estimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon full of CDr's" Quote stolen and modified from said article.
That's fair, Firefly was either you love it or it was a big yawn. Personally I thought it was interesting. Turns out I'm a big fan of Cowboy Bepop too. Fairly similar in basic premise, also cut off too short.
I like the simple fact that it wasn't a typical sanitised for regular tv show. Plenty of violence, sex, rough language, and charcters that were shades of grey, instead of the typical good guy/bad guy. When the captain kicks a thug into his engine inlet to make a point to the rest, you had to be impressed just a little.
It's too bad that FOX had to be the ones to get their hands on it first. Better to have been on another cable channel to at least get a chance to finish the season.
Someone has been watching T3 too much. Really ppl. Everyone knows when a fuel cell blows up it goes...
KaaBooooooooooooooooooooooooom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Man didnt you read the article?!
Burrying stuff in the road for auto-drive cars isn't going to happen as many other posters have pointed out, it will take forever and cost a rediculous amount of money to implement. Along comes GPS and it starts looking promissing. GPS has come along way from it's old 100' error rate. The current GPS system is down to 3 meters accuracy. WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System) when it comes online fully in 2005 will drop that down to 1-2 meters, and it's little brother LAAS (Local Area Augmentation System) down to almost 1/2 meter. Both systems will provide for a vastly improved navigation systems, but will finally have enough accuracy to let us kick back and take a nap on those long road trips. No concrete needs to be poured, just some extra on board equipment in each car and a string of LAAS towers every 5-10 miles or so down the highway.
Oh you're talking about that wet stuff that falls from the sky three four times a year for an hour or two. Man gotta love living in the desert.
Those GEMS are more fun than our EZgo's (think heavy duty industrial flat bed cart). They do make side panels for them. There's two or three that are in my neighboor hood, with one a little old lady bought having the sidepanels. Made much like a Jeep softtop and doors.
Yeh the smog still is pretty sucky. Everytime I fly into LAX the area has that perma-cover of browninh smog clouds.
Here is a little secret for you, not every Air Force Base has a runway, but almost all have a golf course.
Here at Edwards we can build any kind of aircraft (wanna Joint Strike Fighter) you want from scratch, but everyone knows only the Aliens at Area 51 can build Pro-drivers.
Currently I'm in the Air Force and we use these quite extensively. (If you've seen Armagedeon then you've seen some of the places on that base where I work.) Basically we used to have several option available to move people and equipment around. Duce 1/2 trucks, bread box vans, full sized and small and ultra-small pickups, golf carts, EZ-go's, or on foot with a wagon. At somepoint someone looking to save us money asked the obvious question, exactly how many large vehicles do we need? So they went nuts and took all but one or two of our trucks away. Well hiking 1/2 a mile with 200lbs of tools and equipment is not fun, eventually they got smart and started buying us the Chrystler GEMS. They'll do 25mph, 40 if you pull the governer:), and will carry pretty much everything a crew needs for work. At $4000 a piece for the 4 passenger or flat bed versions you can buy 4 of them for every small pickup you get rid of, and 8 for the larger trucks. Since we were already set up to handle the golf-carts and EZ-go's, all the charging stations we need are already in place. They also started replacing all the non-flightline personal's vehicles with these as well. Our top speed on most streets on base is 35-45mph, and many of the streets are 4 lane or 2 lane with parking on each side, so they are all wide enough to allow cars to pass.
They do not cause traffic congestion, since the areas they tend to be used the most in areas with stop every block or two. While military bases make for an ideal location to use these I have seen the same types GEMS on the streets in Los Vegas. You can rent one for a night on the town. They've all been done up with extra neon lighting so you can't miss them. Even loaded down with four large and usually very drunk males, they kept up with traffic just fine on the main strip.
The only bad thing is if you live in areas such as Calfornia, you are going to get raped on the cost of electricity.
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"Modern, working cars don't pollute enough to make a difference either."
Modern cars do pollute enough to make a difference, especially when you are talking about a couple of million of them opperating in the same area. Come out here to LA and drive down the 405 and try saying that again with a straight face.
Like I said NEV have their place, and hopefully cities being more friendly towards these vehicles will help stir up interest in EV's and maybe the end of the excuses that the technology is not ready coming form the auto manufactures.
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As far as the internet being free, that was a pipe-dream. Sooner or later it will be all subscription just like magazines and cable, at least for some sites. Most everything else will be free, but then most of the sites that will most likely stay free are garbage anyway, there are exceptions, but not many.
I grow tired of this method of making sequels. How about writing the complete story, work out ALL of the details for each chapter in the triligy, and then film the damn thing. If the first one bombs then don't make the second two. If it takes off then you have on your hands two more scripts that actually mesh well with the first one, and avoid the "sequel syndrom" that always seems to kill a good story.
Same here, time to dump symantec. Like actors they should stick to what they are good at and keep their big nose out of politics and other people's business.
TV networks, you want to make money off of me? Make every episode of a shows downloadable, comercial free, on your website for a $1, and I'll be there. Maybe this way you can keep shows around that happen to be good, but don't necessarily get high ratings.
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Other than some kinds of clothes there is very little I haven't bought on the internet. Parts for my computer, photo gear, clothes, scuba gear, stuff for my dogs, presents, and yes even toilet paper. Other than perishable food items I buy every thing online that I can.
Mostly because of convience and savings, but at the same time it's on principle since I live in the People's Republic of California, the third largest communist country after China and the EU, where the politicians have a nasty way of pissing away our tax money like there is no tomorrow.
A good example is the fuel tax, at $.18 a gallon, they collect over $16 billion a year with this tax. You know how much of it they actually spend on roads? Less than 1/4 of it, California by the way has some of the worse roads in the country.
I make it a point not to buy from any company that charges CA sales tax, even if it mean it will take an extra few days to get it shipped in from New Jersey. Funny though, even with the extra shipping charge the prices still usually manage to come in under those based in CA.
There is a fee-based rental service that I have been using to get movie rentals that is getting closer to what the public wants. www.movielink.com Not the best sound quality, but the price is about the same as the local video store and it only takes an hour or so to download a fairly new movie.
They still have a way to go though. The final product that I desire is DVD or CD quality downloads of spanking brand new music and video with no rights management BS. In other words I don't want to wait for DVD (think opening night downloads) and I'm not going to pay $12-17 or an album with the one good song on it that they beat to death on the radio
They will still have to pay royalties on it, much in the way radio stations and web casters do. Remember the big fight last year over this? I'm sure they will try to argue that it is actually a webcast reguardless of the fact if it is analog or digital. Once they do that then they will have to pay per song played and that will stop it dead in it's tracks. If they do manage to convince the authorities it's more like on demand cable I'm sure their is or soon will be reg's that mandate royalties as well. Private networks are the way to swap music, throw a lan party, set up a wireless, or even run cable down the hall. When all else fails get yourself a portable or a hand full of DVD-RW's/CD-RW's and walk it over to a friends house. There are plenty of ways of sharing data that RIAA can't track/stop.
We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill,shoot to kill... We come in peace, shoot to kill, Scotty beam me up! Haha, haven't heard that song in ages, nice sig.
Sorry guys, as much as the liber (anti-gun) crowd likes to yap about ballistics evidence. A little work with a file or enough regular use and it's useless. It's only good for the last couple of shots, much like these little black boxes. How hard would it be to disconnect them or damage them to keep them from ratting you out. Not hard at all. If they really want to do something about speeders/reckless drivers then maybe the various local and state governments need to stop treating tickets and fines as a cash cow to reap tax revenue and start actually punishing people. Make evern MPH over the speed limit cost $100 plus a one month of having their license being suspended and their car being impounded and I bet you money people will stop. I'm in the military and that's basically what they do to us. First offense is one day of walking for every MPH over, second offense is 3 days of walking for every MPH over plus a face to face in front of the commander. Break more than 10 over and it jumps straight to 3 days over. Go over 20mph and its an instant 1 year of walking and an article-15 punishement. Pull that stunt a second time and it's a court marshal (think $500-3000 fine depending on rank), permanent loss of driving privelages on base, and potentially loss of rank ($150-1000 a month depending on rank). To give you a size of how big the base I work on is, I have a 50 minute commute to work with only 15 minutes of that being off base. Walking for a year, means loosing your off base housing option and moving back into the shoebox size dorms if you can't manage to find a ride for a year. Needless to say most people do not press 10mph over because of this.
I repeat this is stupid.
Hehe, guess I should read at least 100 posts deep before I throw a dumb reply out there, oh well. I can see why they postponed now.
I see people arguing back and forth about separate networks and security holes, but how about the fact that they said 1/3 of the code was stolen. So do they mean it as in taken, gone, or deleted? So where is the back-up to the code? Don't tell me these geniuses actually trusted their entire and only copy of the code that was worth millions of dollars, without a single DAILY back up somewhere separate. The whole projetct could have been backed up on a daily basis on less than $2 worth of optical media and put in a safe. Sounds kind of weird to me that they wouldn't do something like that.
I don't buy mail order just because it's cheaper, it's because of everything else I don't have to do. No crowds, selection, price, no driving (it's 45minutes to the mall each way), and no BS. The no tax is a bonus. For some odd reason I don't like paying (8.25%) money to the Liberal Scum that run California like it was their own little private business. If they would do something other than squander it, I might be more inclined to pitch in. Even if they manage to start collecting taxes from stuff I buy out of state, I will still make it a point to avoid spending any money locally. Screw this state and screw the criminals (politians) that run it. Being military helps out in that department. No state sales or fuel tax can be collected on base. The fuel tax is one of my biggest pet peaves. They collect four times ($16 billion) what they actually spend on the roads and then gripe about not having enough money to do upgrades or repairs. Let's not mention my $300 license plate renewal fee. Arrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! I'm going to bed before I get myself worked up into a very long rant.
You've obviously never shopped locally in California. It'll still be worth paying the shipping on from the east coast then to pay the prices they want here. There is more than just taxes that drive up the prices in this State. All the mandator social BS is driving companies out of the area left and right with minimum wage hikes and outrageous workers comp/unemployment insurance requirements.
You've obviously never been to a major city such as LA or St Louis during heavy traffic. 1/2m is plenty good enough for highway travel, better than what most humman drivers can do.
Tank u meester spel chek
"Never under estimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon full of CDr's" Quote stolen and modified from said article.
That's fair, Firefly was either you love it or it was a big yawn. Personally I thought it was interesting. Turns out I'm a big fan of Cowboy Bepop too. Fairly similar in basic premise, also cut off too short. I like the simple fact that it wasn't a typical sanitised for regular tv show. Plenty of violence, sex, rough language, and charcters that were shades of grey, instead of the typical good guy/bad guy. When the captain kicks a thug into his engine inlet to make a point to the rest, you had to be impressed just a little. It's too bad that FOX had to be the ones to get their hands on it first. Better to have been on another cable channel to at least get a chance to finish the season.
Someone has been watching T3 too much. Really ppl. Everyone knows when a fuel cell blows up it goes... KaaBooooooooooooooooooooooooom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Man didnt you read the article?!
Burrying stuff in the road for auto-drive cars isn't going to happen as many other posters have pointed out, it will take forever and cost a rediculous amount of money to implement. Along comes GPS and it starts looking promissing. GPS has come along way from it's old 100' error rate. The current GPS system is down to 3 meters accuracy. WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System) when it comes online fully in 2005 will drop that down to 1-2 meters, and it's little brother LAAS (Local Area Augmentation System) down to almost 1/2 meter. Both systems will provide for a vastly improved navigation systems, but will finally have enough accuracy to let us kick back and take a nap on those long road trips. No concrete needs to be poured, just some extra on board equipment in each car and a string of LAAS towers every 5-10 miles or so down the highway.
My hotmail account is only getting 5 or so pieces of mail and all of it is subscription based. Very little in the way of unrequested junkmail.
Those GEMS are more fun than our EZgo's (think heavy duty industrial flat bed cart). They do make side panels for them. There's two or three that are in my neighboor hood, with one a little old lady bought having the sidepanels. Made much like a Jeep softtop and doors.
Yeh the smog still is pretty sucky. Everytime I fly into LAX the area has that perma-cover of browninh smog clouds.
Here at Edwards we can build any kind of aircraft (wanna Joint Strike Fighter) you want from scratch, but everyone knows only the Aliens at Area 51 can build Pro-drivers.
They do not cause traffic congestion, since the areas they tend to be used the most in areas with stop every block or two. While military bases make for an ideal location to use these I have seen the same types GEMS on the streets in Los Vegas. You can rent one for a night on the town. They've all been done up with extra neon lighting so you can't miss them. Even loaded down with four large and usually very drunk males, they kept up with traffic just fine on the main strip.
The only bad thing is if you live in areas such as Calfornia, you are going to get raped on the cost of electricity.
Quote form Unregistered: "Modern, working cars don't pollute enough to make a difference either."
Modern cars do pollute enough to make a difference, especially when you are talking about a couple of million of them opperating in the same area. Come out here to LA and drive down the 405 and try saying that again with a straight face.
Like I said NEV have their place, and hopefully cities being more friendly towards these vehicles will help stir up interest in EV's and maybe the end of the excuses that the technology is not ready coming form the auto manufactures.