and the Ogg suport is only a temporary setback, once someone writes a plug -in for quicktime on the PC you will be able to bask in the same Ogg goodness the Mac users can
I saw the cap code too, I didnt think it was actually in the movie though cause our projectionist was a loser (he put the film in backwards which resulted in the entire theater throwing popcorn at him cause we saw the LOTR trailer backwards with no sound cause the sound bar was on the wrong side of the film... do you even KNOW what it sounds like when the actual film is picked up instead of the soundtrack, NOT a nice sound)
You know you have to wonder how long it will be till a bunch of people say thats enough and sue the shit out of the MPAA for crap like this. Its kinda like getting a lemon, you go to the movies paying to expect quality and get film that is damaged by the movie studios themselves.
Why on earth would anyone want to use Paypal???? I can understand the not wanting to use a credit card part, but if I didnt want to use a credit card, I wouldnt be looking to purchase anything online.
As it is its hard to pay with a personal check anywhere anyway other than paying your bills, so whats the point??? Just go to your local used CD store and buy them there
yeah I know a shock, who would have thunk it that the major motion pictures would keep indies from screening instead of maybe improving their own really horrable premise for a craptacular movie.
couldn't find the golden globes one but here is the other one I saw on CNN
from cnn.com
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has canceled its 2003 awards to protest an industry ban on sending special DVDs and videos to award voters.
The association voted Saturday not to hand out the awards, which can boost interest in a film and predict its Oscar chances. Members said they would consider resuming the awards if the studios again hand out videos and DVDs of new films.
The major studios and their trade group, the Motion Picture Association of America, agreed in September to stop sending "screener" copies to the 5,600 Academy Awards voters and other groups that hand out awards, including the Los Angeles Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics.
The studios hoped to prevent piracy, but the decision angered supporters of smaller movies who say voters may miss independent pictures if they have to see them at screenings in theaters. Opponents of the ban say screener distribution has led to several Academy Awards for smaller films, include best actress wins for Halle Berry in 2001's "Monster's Ball" and Hilary Swank in 1999's "Boys Don't Cry."
Ella Taylor, a critic for LA Weekly, suggested the cancellation and said she hoped other critics groups also would withhold awards. She said there were many films released toward the end of the year, and that voters may not be able to see them all without screeners.
"Unless they rescind the ban we just don't feel that we can really do our work properly," she said.
MPAA officials did not immediately return calls for comment Sunday.
well its a mixture, some are big wigs, but not all of them, you dont have to be a producer of a major studio film to join, just a producer of some noted films.
if you and me got together and produced "The Geek" we could join after paying our fees and such.
cnn its in entertainment, also aintitcoolnews at one time had a list of a buch that where banning it as well as Harry's rant about how stupid the MPAA was
well to each his own then, cant make you care, but if more serious steps are taken against us in the future by these assholes just know the entire geek community has the rights to say I told you so now.
well its isnt tech in it's self but you should worry about the implications it has.
already both the RIAA and MPAA have made it clear we are the new whipping- boy evil geek in the basment that they are going to use to both lie as to why thing that should cost 4 bucks or less are 20 bucks or more/ and why they are "losing money even at that."
one just has to see those FUCKING ads before the movie on how Im hurting the painter, or the brown dots on the screen to see that we need to take a stand and show the public that its not the tech geeks but the own greed of these organizations who are destroying movies and music.
The public can be easly swayed, and if we are not carefull very soon a lot more of our rights as consumers will be killed off than the ones the DMCA does already.
The digital age will be a VERY different place from today
seeing those dots every FUCKING TWO MINUTES ON THE SCREEN WHEN I JUST SPENT 20 FUCKING DOLLARS OF MY HARD EARNED MONEY FROM FIXING COMPUTERS THAT SOME SHITHEAD PRE -K'ER FUCKING STUCK GUM IN WHEN I COULD HAVE WAITED 6 MONTHS AND BOUGHT A MUCH NICER UNMOLESTED DVD.
as usual slashdot never tells you WHY this is tech, well he is the lowdown.
The reason they banned the DVD's was they said tech geeks where pirating the movies too much when they sent the DVD's out, so likewise to prevent it they wouldnt let anyone (major studios, or indie) release them out to the voters, making the voters go to the local movie theaters to see them.
The truth was they where putting the blame on us cause we where an easy target, the real reason they banned them was the only way most indie movies got screened and voted on WAS caused they released them on DVD to the voters. The majors pissed they have lost so many oscars to the indies decided what would be the best way to tip the scales and saw the fact that most theaters dont play indies or play them for a very limited time that it was a easy way to get more major films screened and voted on than minor ones.
SOOOOO all of the big wigs wispered in the ears of the MPAA to get the ban put in place, and the MPAA not caring about the 100 or so indie companies under their wings put the sweaping ban in place much to the horror to all of the critics/indies/directors/and actors who had both not a clue it was going to happen and no say when it did happen.
Well in protest a huge number of smaller awards shows decided to take the year off, along with the Golden Globes which shocked the MPAA into realizing it made a horrable mistake since not only was the excuse of it was the piraters fault not taken seriously but everyone was now gunning to take the MPAA down including its own members who outnumbered the small majority of major studio members who where in control.
and thus why we should care, cause while no one took them to be serious, we the Tech geeks where to blam with yet another of lifes problems that really isnt a problem.
ah yes but would you like to see legaly blonde win best movie!!! since the viewers couldnt see a good indie movie at the local Lowes so only went to the major motion pictures instead
you should, the reasoning behind why they banned them in the first place put the blame on us Technology geeks, cause we where illegaly trading DVD's with friends of the movies.
Now we all know the real reason was cause they where pissed off indies where winning on a regular basis cause major motion pictures have sucked balls in recent years, but to have the blame put on us cause we where the easiest target and couldn't fight back against the MPAA (the people who decided this) it became us as the bad guys who where the cause of indie movies not being able to be allowed to send out DVD's to the voters
It only figured I buy a new iBook 3 weeks ago and they release THIS now when everyone was pretty sure the g4 ones wouldnt be comming out till 2004.
Though I must say it now makes the G5 powerbooks look very much more likely since keeping the iBook at a g3 was the only thing I thought showed that they wheren't on the horizon within 6 months or so.
mapquest it NEVER giives me the best directions, how can you use a mapping solution in NJ that never uses the freaking parkway as the easiest route.
I needed direction to a school in newark I was student teaching at, it gave me these unbeleiveable direction through elzabeth and newark when all I had to do is take the parkway to bloomfield and drive down the road into newark.
It sucks plain and simple.
Its way overpriced for what it does, a cellphone that plays games AND is shaped like the old gameboy advanced., even freaking pda cellphones are cheeper than the 500 dollar pricetag my EB is selling it for, and you still have to pay for the service to use the phone.
Likewise no kids going to buy it too much money, nor is a parent going to buy it, more expensive than all 4 systems combined.
you still have to buy games
and while the graphics are supposedly better (i dont see it) you can just look at Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories for the Gameboy advance to see that developers for that system have yet to even use a tenth of its potential (the game has shown to be just slightly lower in quality than the PS2 original!!!!)
in closing Nokia thought they had a bombshell that would blow away the gameboy but in actuallity it was a little to much in cost, a little too few in features, a little too late.
they will be lucky if they can keep their head above water now.
but wait the state department wouldnt do this, so you need a bunch of MIT students to pull the greatest hack every, taking out the old targeting chip and put a newer "more accurate" targeting chip in to allow said victorian to be hit with said laser, and fry said super extra large container of jiffy pop
oh and the creator should be there in the control room to witness his house explode in buttery goodness for good measure
eh.hack/sign other than dropping the images (though still keeping the next week title in japanese?!?! whatever) has actually been uncut.
Trust me my girlfriend lives and breaths.Hack and actually cosplayed as Lady Subaru at the anime next festival. If you dont beleive me go to the.hack comunity on www.go-gaia.com (which actually has some of the guys working on the US distribution on it.)
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and the Ogg suport is only a temporary setback, once someone writes a plug -in for quicktime on the PC you will be able to bask in the same Ogg goodness the Mac users can
You know you have to wonder how long it will be till a bunch of people say thats enough and sue the shit out of the MPAA for crap like this. Its kinda like getting a lemon, you go to the movies paying to expect quality and get film that is damaged by the movie studios themselves.
As it is its hard to pay with a personal check anywhere anyway other than paying your bills, so whats the point??? Just go to your local used CD store and buy them there
yeah I know a shock, who would have thunk it that the major motion pictures would keep indies from screening instead of maybe improving their own really horrable premise for a craptacular movie.
from cnn.com
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The Los Angeles Film Critics Association has canceled its 2003 awards to protest an industry ban on sending special DVDs and videos to award voters.
The association voted Saturday not to hand out the awards, which can boost interest in a film and predict its Oscar chances. Members said they would consider resuming the awards if the studios again hand out videos and DVDs of new films.
The major studios and their trade group, the Motion Picture Association of America, agreed in September to stop sending "screener" copies to the 5,600 Academy Awards voters and other groups that hand out awards, including the Los Angeles Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics.
The studios hoped to prevent piracy, but the decision angered supporters of smaller movies who say voters may miss independent pictures if they have to see them at screenings in theaters. Opponents of the ban say screener distribution has led to several Academy Awards for smaller films, include best actress wins for Halle Berry in 2001's "Monster's Ball" and Hilary Swank in 1999's "Boys Don't Cry."
Ella Taylor, a critic for LA Weekly, suggested the cancellation and said she hoped other critics groups also would withhold awards. She said there were many films released toward the end of the year, and that voters may not be able to see them all without screeners.
"Unless they rescind the ban we just don't feel that we can really do our work properly," she said. MPAA officials did not immediately return calls for comment Sunday.
if you and me got together and produced "The Geek" we could join after paying our fees and such.
cnn its in entertainment, also aintitcoolnews at one time had a list of a buch that where banning it as well as Harry's rant about how stupid the MPAA was
well to each his own then, cant make you care, but if more serious steps are taken against us in the future by these assholes just know the entire geek community has the rights to say I told you so now.
already both the RIAA and MPAA have made it clear we are the new whipping- boy evil geek in the basment that they are going to use to both lie as to why thing that should cost 4 bucks or less are 20 bucks or more/ and why they are "losing money even at that."
one just has to see those FUCKING ads before the movie on how Im hurting the painter, or the brown dots on the screen to see that we need to take a stand and show the public that its not the tech geeks but the own greed of these organizations who are destroying movies and music.
The public can be easly swayed, and if we are not carefull very soon a lot more of our rights as consumers will be killed off than the ones the DMCA does already.
The digital age will be a VERY different place from today
seeing those dots every FUCKING TWO MINUTES ON THE SCREEN WHEN I JUST SPENT 20 FUCKING DOLLARS OF MY HARD EARNED MONEY FROM FIXING COMPUTERS THAT SOME SHITHEAD PRE -K'ER FUCKING STUCK GUM IN WHEN I COULD HAVE WAITED 6 MONTHS AND BOUGHT A MUCH NICER UNMOLESTED DVD.
k done ranting
The reason they banned the DVD's was they said tech geeks where pirating the movies too much when they sent the DVD's out, so likewise to prevent it they wouldnt let anyone (major studios, or indie) release them out to the voters, making the voters go to the local movie theaters to see them.
The truth was they where putting the blame on us cause we where an easy target, the real reason they banned them was the only way most indie movies got screened and voted on WAS caused they released them on DVD to the voters. The majors pissed they have lost so many oscars to the indies decided what would be the best way to tip the scales and saw the fact that most theaters dont play indies or play them for a very limited time that it was a easy way to get more major films screened and voted on than minor ones.
SOOOOO all of the big wigs wispered in the ears of the MPAA to get the ban put in place, and the MPAA not caring about the 100 or so indie companies under their wings put the sweaping ban in place much to the horror to all of the critics/indies/directors/and actors who had both not a clue it was going to happen and no say when it did happen.
Well in protest a huge number of smaller awards shows decided to take the year off, along with the Golden Globes which shocked the MPAA into realizing it made a horrable mistake since not only was the excuse of it was the piraters fault not taken seriously but everyone was now gunning to take the MPAA down including its own members who outnumbered the small majority of major studio members who where in control.
and thus why we should care, cause while no one took them to be serious, we the Tech geeks where to blam with yet another of lifes problems that really isnt a problem.
ah yes but would you like to see legaly blonde win best movie!!! since the viewers couldnt see a good indie movie at the local Lowes so only went to the major motion pictures instead
Now we all know the real reason was cause they where pissed off indies where winning on a regular basis cause major motion pictures have sucked balls in recent years, but to have the blame put on us cause we where the easiest target and couldn't fight back against the MPAA (the people who decided this) it became us as the bad guys who where the cause of indie movies not being able to be allowed to send out DVD's to the voters
Though I must say it now makes the G5 powerbooks look very much more likely since keeping the iBook at a g3 was the only thing I thought showed that they wheren't on the horizon within 6 months or so.
I needed direction to a school in newark I was student teaching at, it gave me these unbeleiveable direction through elzabeth and newark when all I had to do is take the parkway to bloomfield and drive down the road into newark.
Likewise no kids going to buy it too much money, nor is a parent going to buy it, more expensive than all 4 systems combined.
you still have to buy games
and while the graphics are supposedly better (i dont see it) you can just look at Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories for the Gameboy advance to see that developers for that system have yet to even use a tenth of its potential (the game has shown to be just slightly lower in quality than the PS2 original!!!!)
in closing Nokia thought they had a bombshell that would blow away the gameboy but in actuallity it was a little to much in cost, a little too few in features, a little too late.
they will be lucky if they can keep their head above water now.
Apple did, but dumped it cause it cost too much even for them
yeah but it was really a mix of the two since MIT students would pull a hack that big
oh and the creator should be there in the control room to witness his house explode in buttery goodness for good measure
you can do that without buying a thing, which is what I have been doing, which is why instead of buying 4 songs i bought 3 albums and one song.
"Oh my god I cant beleive I need to buy another gamecube, hey honey want a gamecube?"
Goes to corner and wallows in geeky pitty
poseted earlier in the thread, is a way for Mac (pluggin for quicktime) not sure about windows
sure the klingons arnt going to get pissed they are using the name of one of their warships
Trust me my girlfriend lives and breaths .Hack and actually cosplayed as Lady Subaru at the anime next festival. If you dont beleive me go to the .hack comunity on www.go-gaia.com (which actually has some of the guys working on the US distribution on it.)