They'd do the experiment with two eyed needles and a camel sent through, a few molecules at a time, and state "hey, Jesus didn't specify the camel had to stay alive..."
I only subscribe to the cable internet service, but I wouldn't mind having access to downloadable TV content.
The only reason I don't watch TV is the amount of chaff vs the number of shows that would interest me...
Plus the fact that the current system does not allow anyone to watch much TV from overseas.
Everytime my cable ISP calls me to ask me if I'm interested in their new TV cable deal, I ask "do you have any channels from Japan?" The guy always says no, so I tell him "call me back when you offer access to *all* tv channels on this planet. You have the technology, but until you make it happen, count me as not-interested."
I wonder if the doctors get to use their favourite game controller for the surgeries...
I'm so used to the PS2 controller, that I suck at any game played with the Xbox controller(s).
I can't even play GTA3 and VC on the PC because I'm so used to playing it on the PS2.
And I tried those adapters to plug a Ps2 controller in a PC, but GTAVC for PC doesnt allow some controls (including some helicopter commands) to be remapped...
In Quebec, church-issued certificates of baptism have been useless for a few years now... if you need proof of birth, you have to request it from the Registrar of Civil Status.
And they're a pain in the butt to deal with. I moved to Ottawa from Toronto a few years ago, and due to a shortage of vacant apartments, I had to move to nearby Hull, in Quebec.
That meant changing my drivers' licence and my medical card over to the other provincial authorities.
I had a plastified "birth certificate" issued by Quebec, and I had to hand it in with my medical card request, and I was assured I'd get it back in the mail.
A few weeks later I get my medical card, but not my birth certificate. I call up the provincial medical insurance department to ask about it, and their records show I never submitted proof of birth, but that I did get my card. The civil servant was totally discombobulated. He agreed not to revoke my medical card, thank god, but I had to get a new certificate from Civil Status...
I call these people up, and order the "pocket size" version, and they send me an 8.5"x11" sheet of normal thin paper, with a detachable business card sized certificate, with the mention "void if plastified".
Turns out they don't issue plastic cards anymore. Just these fragile paper versions.
Though I heard recently that they were considering plastic cards again.
But I'd still like to know what percentage of downloaders would actually spend money on legit movies if those movies weren't available online.
The MPAA keeps saying they're losing X amount of money due to downloads, but I'm not sure that if they were to eliminate all downloading, those figures would transfer into real world sales.
"The studios claim they lose $35 billion worldwide in annual revenues from sales of illegally copied movies on video and DVD formats in street bazaars and black markets."
and later...but these new suits were against end users, or people who actually downloaded the films.
And we all know those are the same people. Sheesh.
I chuckled thinking that Marketing Department meetings would sound like an episode of Beavis and Butthead.
Marketer 1: "And then we'll put a floater on the main page to circumvent FireFox..." Marketer 2: "uhuh hhuhhuuhh uhhuhuhh he said floater! uuhuhuhhuhuh" Marketer 3: "uhuhhuh yea! and then he said FIRE!!! YEA FIRE!!!"
Why should I give money to software/music/movie pirates? If I like someone's product after I downloaded it, I buy it to reward good work.
AFAIAC, pirates can cry me a river over their bandwidth cost, and I laugh in their face. Especially those torrent pirates that threaten to cut you off if you don't keep a good ratio. Right. Like they're the only possible source of download.
Slashdot Mirror
with an anti-gravity gun (Half-Life 2)
but what about the crowbar?
on the plus side, we should be able to ferret out those pesky spammers, for some hot, throbbing vigilante justice...
just disappeared completely.
/. category)
(I mean your actual rights, not the
Well that's not what I *read* in Paranoia Magazine...
You might want to check your sources of information there, buddy.
They'd do the experiment with two eyed needles and a camel sent through, a few molecules at a time, and state "hey, Jesus didn't specify the camel had to stay alive..."
the World Taekwondo Federation?
WTH?
I only subscribe to the cable internet service, but I wouldn't mind having access to downloadable TV content.
The only reason I don't watch TV is the amount of chaff vs the number of shows that would interest me...
Plus the fact that the current system does not allow anyone to watch much TV from overseas.
Everytime my cable ISP calls me to ask me if I'm interested in their new TV cable deal, I ask "do you have any channels from Japan?" The guy always says no, so I tell him "call me back when you offer access to *all* tv channels on this planet. You have the technology, but until you make it happen, count me as not-interested."
you mean there are websites on the Internet that don't try to get any money from anyone?
I hope someone TiVos and Torrents it, in case of slashdotting...
Point high gain direction antenna into space, crank watts up to 100
but do they make one that you can crank up to 111?
But if you're a Canadian, you might have to renounce your citizenship to get peerage from the UK...
from your link:
The entrepreneur will be presented with the Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire at a "mutually convenient" date
I guess today's slashdot story is about the mutually convenient date.
to replicate the "Philadelphia Experiment"?
I want a wing on back of my lunar rover!
Oh wait, no atmosphere...
I guess a Type R sticker will have to do.
I wonder if the doctors get to use their favourite game controller for the surgeries...
I'm so used to the PS2 controller, that I suck at any game played with the Xbox controller(s).
I can't even play GTA3 and VC on the PC because I'm so used to playing it on the PS2.
And I tried those adapters to plug a Ps2 controller in a PC, but GTAVC for PC doesnt allow some controls (including some helicopter commands) to be remapped...
In Quebec, church-issued certificates of baptism have been useless for a few years now... if you need proof of birth, you have to request it from the Registrar of Civil Status.
And they're a pain in the butt to deal with. I moved to Ottawa from Toronto a few years ago, and due to a shortage of vacant apartments, I had to move to nearby Hull, in Quebec.
That meant changing my drivers' licence and my medical card over to the other provincial authorities.
I had a plastified "birth certificate" issued by Quebec, and I had to hand it in with my medical card request, and I was assured I'd get it back in the mail.
A few weeks later I get my medical card, but not my birth certificate. I call up the provincial medical insurance department to ask about it, and their records show I never submitted proof of birth, but that I did get my card. The civil servant was totally discombobulated. He agreed not to revoke my medical card, thank god, but I had to get a new certificate from Civil Status...
I call these people up, and order the "pocket size" version, and they send me an 8.5"x11" sheet of normal thin paper, with a detachable business card sized certificate, with the mention "void if plastified".
Turns out they don't issue plastic cards anymore. Just these fragile paper versions.
Though I heard recently that they were considering plastic cards again.
Tax dollars at work, people.
c'mon people...
we need a 20 year break from teh Trek.
although I suppose that definition gets a trifle fuzzy when we start talking about measurements like picograms
Picograms are important when you mesure LSD doses.
I'm going back to pounds and stones.
Granted.
But I'd still like to know what percentage of downloaders would actually spend money on legit movies if those movies weren't available online.
The MPAA keeps saying they're losing X amount of money due to downloads, but I'm not sure that if they were to eliminate all downloading, those figures would transfer into real world sales.
"The studios claim they lose $35 billion worldwide in annual revenues from sales of illegally copied movies on video and DVD formats in street bazaars and black markets."
...but these new suits were against end users, or people who actually downloaded the films.
and later
And we all know those are the same people. Sheesh.
I chuckled thinking that Marketing Department meetings would sound like an episode of Beavis and Butthead.
Marketer 1: "And then we'll put a floater on the main page to circumvent FireFox..."
Marketer 2: "uhuh hhuhhuuhh uhhuhuhh he said floater! uuhuhuhhuhuh"
Marketer 3: "uhuhhuh yea! and then he said FIRE!!! YEA FIRE!!!"
Well I always try to be on-topic...
Why should I give money to software/music/movie pirates? If I like someone's product after I downloaded it, I buy it to reward good work.
AFAIAC, pirates can cry me a river over their bandwidth cost, and I laugh in their face. Especially those torrent pirates that threaten to cut you off if you don't keep a good ratio. Right. Like they're the only possible source of download.
Never donate, never tip, never regret.
Since all the networks seem to care about is the nielson ratings, these shows die because you aren't being counted as a watcher of the show
So basically, all we have to do is hac^H^H find a technical solution that will boost the Nielson ratings of our favourite shows!