This is the problem with ridiculous copyright terms. They have a monopoly on the show, so there's no competition, no reason to ever lower the price. Well, if they were smart they'd lower the price and get more sales, to get more money.
The fact is, I'll never spend $60 for a DVD, ever. It's just too expensive. I've been known to spend $10 on a "bargain bin" DVD of an old movie that I liked, but according to the stack of DVDs on my desk, that's only happened twice. No way I'm spending $60 for something that I've already seen.
The problem is that the USA was founded by Calvinist Puritans. Puritans were violent motherfuckers (just read about the Salem witch trials) that also thought that sex was evil.
Obviously they didn't think that it was so evil as to not have lots of it.
It's way too late for television. Watching commercials leaves feeling insulted and manipulated, so I simply no longer watch TV. There are a handful of shows that I follow, I get them all online, ad-free. Sometimes I entertain the thought of buying DVDs of old seasons of TV shows that I've downloaded, but the DVDs haven't reached my price point yet -- and it doesn't look like they're going to. If I were to buy DVDs of every single TV show I've ever downloaded, it'd cost me upwards of $1,000. I can understand them charging $60(CDN) for the most recent season, since a season of television is sort of like a movie that's 15+ hours long, but the problem is that older seasons just aren't going down in price. They just sit at $60 forever and ever. I'd probably pay $10 or $20, but that's about it.
Same thing happened to me. I got mod points a couple of times, then suddenly I started metamodding and haven't gotten any mod points since. I was metamodding pretty much every time I visited (at least once a day). Finally got sick of it, and marked "not willing to moderate" in the prefs.
Firefox already has "quick search" bookmarklets to do this. I just type "gg foobar" into my location bar and it does a google search on that. I don't remember what the default searches are, but I made up a bunch that are useful to me ("deb" does a debian package search, "gg" for google, I've also got "dict" and a bunch of others I don't remember off the top of my head.
I'm not sure what Yubnub provides aside from basically being a way to share these bookmarklets.
Do you have any more details available on this "fully SVG enabled Gnome desktop" you mention? I ask because I am already happily using SVG icons in my gnome panel and in nautilus, they're quite pretty, and I'm not sure what you mean exactly.
Actually, according to the GPL, if the infringer took that code, made some improvements to it that were actually worthwhile, and then released it as closed source, then you have been hurt -- and your source code is worse off for it, because if they had complied with the GPL, then you'd have those improvements and your source code would be all the better for it.
(spoiler warning, don't read this before you've seen the finale;)
a) the doctor specifically says in that episode that he operates within certain parameters that will not upset the flow of time, whereas what rose did did affect it.
Except in the finale where Rose destroys the entire race of dalek's, and then revives a bunch of humans. What the hell kind of parameters is that? Where are the aliens to come eat all the humans? I still say the Father's Day episode was complete bunk.
i'm not sure why you're asking about the bad wolf thing. that is THE ENTIRE POINT - that all these things have happened and are all obviously linked, but the explaination has not been forthcoming yet.
Yeah. I was thinking that that woman that was controlling station 5 had sent all the "Bad Wolf" messages throughout time as a hint to the doctor that he'd be taken there or something. I was expecting the doctor to figure it out and explain it. And I was upset because it wasn't explained how that woman did all that.
I was wrong though, and it turns out it's Rose, using her magic powers from looking into the heart of the tardis. That's a much nicer explanation (but don't get me started about the doctor somehow being able to save Rose's life by kissing her).
Now don't complain about the spoilers, I warned you;)
We already have that, it's called stone tablets. You chisel them with, well, chisels. They went out of style some time in the 70s, with the introduction of the stone tablet-less office.
what you need is a watch with a velcroe/nylon strap. My watch wraps right around my wrist comfortably, nothing but nylon touching my skin. no pointy metal bits, just pure synthetic comfort;)
(the other advantage of velcroe is that it's an analogue-type "adjust it to exactly the point where it fits" type thing, as opposed to the digital "pick a notch that fits, though invariably one will be too loose and the next tightest is too tight").
He's referring to the init system. Debian and RedHat use sysvinit (this is where you get/etc/rc#.d for each runlevel containing symlinks to scripts in/etc/init.d essentially), slackware uses the "bsd style" init which is basically just a bunch of scripts that just run on boot as far as I can tell (I've never looked at it that closely).
Nah, he just tells them to install linux. Then they laugh at him like some kind of kook, and don't bother him anymore. I mean -- who uses linux? Puhleeease!!
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Relatively cheap, unskilled labor is not so hard to come by.
I know, it's a figure of speech, just found it funny that a discussion on the various visual appeals would be described as "bells and whistles".
This is the problem with ridiculous copyright terms. They have a monopoly on the show, so there's no competition, no reason to ever lower the price. Well, if they were smart they'd lower the price and get more sales, to get more money.
The fact is, I'll never spend $60 for a DVD, ever. It's just too expensive. I've been known to spend $10 on a "bargain bin" DVD of an old movie that I liked, but according to the stack of DVDs on my desk, that's only happened twice. No way I'm spending $60 for something that I've already seen.
The problem is that the USA was founded by Calvinist Puritans. Puritans were violent motherfuckers (just read about the Salem witch trials) that also thought that sex was evil.
Obviously they didn't think that it was so evil as to not have lots of it.
character map might be easier to use.
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Considering the impending Peak Oil crisis, I find the idea that humans survived due to "requiring less energy to function" comical at best ;)
Ironically, bells and whistles make *noise* and have little to do with visual appeal. ;)
Same thing happened to me. I got mod points a couple of times, then suddenly I started metamodding and haven't gotten any mod points since. I was metamodding pretty much every time I visited (at least once a day). Finally got sick of it, and marked "not willing to moderate" in the prefs.
Anyone who walks into it should know what sort of company she'll find.
Out of curiosity, what made you think there were women on slashdot?
Isn't it nice that we can still read Shakespeare's works 400 years after they were published?
Funny, I read some Shakespeare in highschool and couldn't understand a word of it.
Firefox already has "quick search" bookmarklets to do this. I just type "gg foobar" into my location bar and it does a google search on that. I don't remember what the default searches are, but I made up a bunch that are useful to me ("deb" does a debian package search, "gg" for google, I've also got "dict" and a bunch of others I don't remember off the top of my head.
I'm not sure what Yubnub provides aside from basically being a way to share these bookmarklets.
It seems logical that they would discontinue it if nobody is buying it. So yeah, I guess it isn't really newsworthy.
They can make transparent aluminum ... in Japan! No, wait, I mean ... in Space!
They make an ass of u and me.
gtk2 is plenty well capable of aesthetic. the "clearlooks" theme is a good start (default in FC4 and ubuntu).
Do you have any more details available on this "fully SVG enabled Gnome desktop" you mention? I ask because I am already happily using SVG icons in my gnome panel and in nautilus, they're quite pretty, and I'm not sure what you mean exactly.
Actually, according to the GPL, if the infringer took that code, made some improvements to it that were actually worthwhile, and then released it as closed source, then you have been hurt -- and your source code is worse off for it, because if they had complied with the GPL, then you'd have those improvements and your source code would be all the better for it.
Out of curiosity, would you classify Python's interactive mode as a shell in this sense?
(spoiler warning, don't read this before you've seen the finale ;)
;)
a) the doctor specifically says in that episode that he operates within certain parameters that will not upset the flow of time, whereas what rose did did affect it.
Except in the finale where Rose destroys the entire race of dalek's, and then revives a bunch of humans. What the hell kind of parameters is that? Where are the aliens to come eat all the humans? I still say the Father's Day episode was complete bunk.
i'm not sure why you're asking about the bad wolf thing. that is THE ENTIRE POINT - that all these things have happened and are all obviously linked, but the explaination has not been forthcoming yet.
Yeah. I was thinking that that woman that was controlling station 5 had sent all the "Bad Wolf" messages throughout time as a hint to the doctor that he'd be taken there or something. I was expecting the doctor to figure it out and explain it. And I was upset because it wasn't explained how that woman did all that.
I was wrong though, and it turns out it's Rose, using her magic powers from looking into the heart of the tardis. That's a much nicer explanation (but don't get me started about the doctor somehow being able to save Rose's life by kissing her).
Now don't complain about the spoilers, I warned you
Yep, just saw the finale, and it was explained to my satisfaction -- very good show ;)
We already have that, it's called stone tablets. You chisel them with, well, chisels. They went out of style some time in the 70s, with the introduction of the stone tablet-less office.
what you need is a watch with a velcroe/nylon strap. My watch wraps right around my wrist comfortably, nothing but nylon touching my skin. no pointy metal bits, just pure synthetic comfort ;)
(the other advantage of velcroe is that it's an analogue-type "adjust it to exactly the point where it fits" type thing, as opposed to the digital "pick a notch that fits, though invariably one will be too loose and the next tightest is too tight").
He's referring to the init system. Debian and RedHat use sysvinit (this is where you get /etc/rc#.d for each runlevel containing symlinks to scripts in /etc/init.d essentially), slackware uses the "bsd style" init which is basically just a bunch of scripts that just run on boot as far as I can tell (I've never looked at it that closely).
Although I agree it's a very poor explanation.
Nah, he just tells them to install linux. Then they laugh at him like some kind of kook, and don't bother him anymore. I mean -- who uses linux? Puhleeease!!