I might be a bit more interested if their prices were a bit fairer. For iTunes, the cost per track:
$0.99 = £0.54 0.99 Euros = £0.66
What's the cost for iTunes UK? £0.79. At least they lowered it from £0.99, but it's still a rip off in comparison. Make if fairer and then i might consider using their services.
That level of government intrusion is, to an American, pretty goddamned objectionable. As are various Secrecy and Censorship acts that Britons and Canadians are way too comfortable with.
Really? I've not noticed censorship. We've had full coverage of the reports into the War on Iraq, the BBC has been attacked by the Government for saying [revealing] things that they didn't want, but they weren't stopped or censored. We got full coverage of everything. Even after complaints about it being "offensive to Christians" the BBC aired "Jerry Springer, The Opera" on TV. I also remember a live autopsy...
An example of US censorship? God, The Devil and Bob was stopped on US TV after 4 episodes, we aired the full 13.
There's a link at the bottom of all their pages to Newswatch. I've reported two things to them, one about an incorrect date (Year was wrong) and one about a thing they produced (The flash swingometer) crashing the browser. Both were fixed and they replied to me personally with details. Good on them.
There is a law that you need to own a TV licence to have a TV, that's how the BBC is funded. It's a criminal offence not to have one, but that doesn't mean it's government controlled. Of course you probably know all this and are just trolling.
The Government don't choose the programs, the news stories, etc. If it was so biased, why is it one of the most respected news agencies in the world?
Yeah, you know, I really wish the US government would take our money ($10 BILLION per year) against our will to fund an organization to tell us what to think.
Oh yes, that propaganda machine known as the BBC... Funny how all three political parties say that it's biased. Surely that means that it's as unbiased as you can possibly get in political terms?
I say that it's worth it, we get decent programming, they're actually not allowed to produce a Big-Brother equivalent, ad-free TV and a large array of other services. And the BBC is not run by the government, the BBC collects the licence fee itself.
"I'm here, i've got everything you'll ever need to cripple me financially, rob me now!"
I'll keep my black-and-white screened text message and voice-only phone thank you. I'm happy if a thief says "What a crap phone" and doesn't want to nick it.
Linux isn't a monopoly, anti-monopolistic rules don't apply.
That and this case wouldn't arise under Linux. You aren't "forced" to use XMMS, you're even given a selection to install when installing your distro. You can't remove WMP, you can't remove IE.
I've tried it, but i'm not ready for a switch. There's loads of annoying things like my Windows email archives, and things you get used to. I might set up a cheap Linux box at some point. I never did get BitTorrent working properly under Linux either.
Anyway, the people that are "Too stupid to install it" won't care if they're the latest files of versions. Doesn't matter to them, it'll work fine for anything they use. My point was that it's just as easy under both.
Sure you could install Gimp on WinXP, but you'd need to compile and install GTK+ and then compile and install Gimp. That's too much for most average users. On Linux it'll be installed without any action from you.
Wow, that took the downloading and running of a whole two exe or msi files. A double-click is far too much for me, i'd rather download the binaries, compile it under Linux and then try and fiddle with the dependancies... Of course you also have the check-box at install time, that's a few clicks less then Windows, oh no!
And btw it would be unfair to boost MS WinXP by showing open source programs on it. If you use open-source programs on Windows, why run windows at all? Oh sorry, i'll make sure i stop running Firefox, Thunderbird, The GIMP, Apache...
The problem is, whatever they implement with airplanes will later be implemented with trains and other forms of transportation.
When was the last time you walked through a metal detector on the tube? I've never put my bag through an X-Ray machine to get on the national rail network, not have i had to give a fingerprint scan to a bus driver. All of these have already been implemented on air travel, but what about other forms of transport? Too obstructive and time consuming to implement if anything.
Perhaps it's because i'm on Study Leave for my AS exams, although i've still got 2 weeks till my next exam?
I actually just opened the larger version of the keyboard in a new tab, and then wanted to see what the pressure-map was to see how they weighted the keys. Going between the two i noticed "Hang on a minute, where the hell is this key on the keyboard?".
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The annoying thing is that the Keyboard image doesn't line up with the key map that they provide.
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I've got 3 lying about in my room, and i'm going to swap one of them with the new one that came with my PC. Why didn't i do this before?
Well, I spoke to David X.Cohen because we did promos for a new Futurama compilation and he said that they did have talks with the top guys at FOX and they were extremely impressed with the sales of the Futurama DVDs. The idea was to make a Futurama movie right to DVD and then a 2nd and a 3rd. That's what's being discussed. Fox is trying to figure out a budget for the whole project, and it sounded like David X. was very jazzed!
I would love more than anything to do that show again. I thought it was best experience on every level... creatively, voice-wise, writing, animation and the laughs. The laughs. Writers and performers that respected each other.
It's got a bit more effect when you have a quote from a voice-actor talking with a producer.
This has been brought up as a reason for it not coming back, however the good thing is that the writers have always shown a personal interest in the show and an ambition to bring it back.
Every few months or so a "story" pops up that Fox is thinking about renewing Futurama or doing the straight to dvd thing. This is usually drummed up by some Futurama Fan site that is Jealous of Family Guy's success and thinks that because "crappy Family Guy" was renewed that Futurama should be renewed also. Discounting the fact that Family Guy is one of highest rated shows on Adult Swim and the second highest selling dvd-t.v. show of all time. Wrong: The Futurama community knows that it's basically dead, we accepted that about a year after it was cancelled. CGEF still posts all the relevant information, and has been posting all the info they get from the production team, although they always say "Don't get your hopes up", as we know it's basically dead.
Problem is, Fox does NOT OWN FUTURAMA, Matt Groining does. The main reason Fox let Futurama die in the firtt place is because of that very reason. Dvd sales of Futurama have not been a barn burner and given the very high cost of producing a Futurama episode I doubt even if Cartoon Network picked up some of the bill it would even be profitable. Half wrong: FOX own the rights for Futurama on television, whereas Groening retained the rights for other media, hence the comics are still going strong. Futurama does have a high production cost, however the DVD sales were massive and it reached #1 on Amazon repeatedly. However, FOX set out to kill it. Futurama was the most watched TV premier, and did well. But there's only so many years you can survive being pre-empted by sports and cancelled as they over-run.
Everyone seems to forget that Fox was contractually obligated to the four seasons that aired, and sneakily pre-empted Futurama so that there would be a backlog of episodes so they could tell M.G. "Sorry Matt, there is a backlog of episodes, so we don't need a fifth season," without upsetting the Goose that laid the Golden egg (Simpsons being that egg). I don't know about the contract for 4 seasons, but Groening was annoyed at Futurama's treatment from the word go, they weren't keeping him happy by keeping it on the air but not producing any more.
The industry would benefit more from having ONE SINGLE TRUE UNIFIED STANDARD as opposed to a couple of standards, which would confuse people.
The industry as a whole would benefit, we all know that. However, who should back out? The one that steps down loses everything and the other reigns supreme. In the DVD +/- war, neither + nor - won, and both formats are about. None of the producers stepped down, everyone "won" as opposed to one side losing.
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I might be a bit more interested if their prices were a bit fairer. For iTunes, the cost per track:
$0.99 = £0.54
0.99 Euros = £0.66
What's the cost for iTunes UK? £0.79. At least they lowered it from £0.99, but it's still a rip off in comparison. Make if fairer and then i might consider using their services.
It's known how those work though, and in the case of things like TVs, they're even used daily by everyone, surely they're not "faked".
However the point is you can't find out how the breathalizer works, they won't let you.
That level of government intrusion is, to an American, pretty goddamned objectionable. As are various Secrecy and Censorship acts that Britons and Canadians are way too comfortable with.
Really? I've not noticed censorship. We've had full coverage of the reports into the War on Iraq, the BBC has been attacked by the Government for saying [revealing] things that they didn't want, but they weren't stopped or censored. We got full coverage of everything. Even after complaints about it being "offensive to Christians" the BBC aired "Jerry Springer, The Opera" on TV. I also remember a live autopsy...
An example of US censorship? God, The Devil and Bob was stopped on US TV after 4 episodes, we aired the full 13.
There's a link at the bottom of all their pages to Newswatch. I've reported two things to them, one about an incorrect date (Year was wrong) and one about a thing they produced (The flash swingometer) crashing the browser. Both were fixed and they replied to me personally with details. Good on them.
There is a law that you need to own a TV licence to have a TV, that's how the BBC is funded. It's a criminal offence not to have one, but that doesn't mean it's government controlled. Of course you probably know all this and are just trolling.
The Government don't choose the programs, the news stories, etc. If it was so biased, why is it one of the most respected news agencies in the world?
Yeah, you know, I really wish the US government would take our money ($10 BILLION per year) against our will to fund an organization to tell us what to think.
Oh yes, that propaganda machine known as the BBC... Funny how all three political parties say that it's biased. Surely that means that it's as unbiased as you can possibly get in political terms?
I say that it's worth it, we get decent programming, they're actually not allowed to produce a Big-Brother equivalent, ad-free TV and a large array of other services. And the BBC is not run by the government, the BBC collects the licence fee itself.
"I'm here, i've got everything you'll ever need to cripple me financially, rob me now!"
I'll keep my black-and-white screened text message and voice-only phone thank you. I'm happy if a thief says "What a crap phone" and doesn't want to nick it.
Linux isn't a monopoly, anti-monopolistic rules don't apply.
That and this case wouldn't arise under Linux. You aren't "forced" to use XMMS, you're even given a selection to install when installing your distro. You can't remove WMP, you can't remove IE.
Funny, i got to see the picture...using the Coral Cache!
Oh wait, it doesn't work for you, so it doesn't work for anyone. Forgot.
But it is on the [working] Coral Cache
Fine, we'll disrespect the Spring Bank Holiday Monday instead.
I've tried it, but i'm not ready for a switch. There's loads of annoying things like my Windows email archives, and things you get used to. I might set up a cheap Linux box at some point. I never did get BitTorrent working properly under Linux either.
Anyway, the people that are "Too stupid to install it" won't care if they're the latest files of versions. Doesn't matter to them, it'll work fine for anything they use. My point was that it's just as easy under both.
Sure you could install Gimp on WinXP, but you'd need to compile and install GTK+ and then compile and install Gimp. That's too much for most average users. On Linux it'll be installed without any action from you.
Wow, that took the downloading and running of a whole two exe or msi files. A double-click is far too much for me, i'd rather download the binaries, compile it under Linux and then try and fiddle with the dependancies... Of course you also have the check-box at install time, that's a few clicks less then Windows, oh no!
And btw it would be unfair to boost MS WinXP by showing open source programs on it. If you use open-source programs on Windows, why run windows at all?
Oh sorry, i'll make sure i stop running Firefox, Thunderbird, The GIMP, Apache...
The problem is, whatever they implement with airplanes will later be implemented with trains and other forms of transportation.
When was the last time you walked through a metal detector on the tube? I've never put my bag through an X-Ray machine to get on the national rail network, not have i had to give a fingerprint scan to a bus driver. All of these have already been implemented on air travel, but what about other forms of transport? Too obstructive and time consuming to implement if anything.
Perhaps it's because i'm on Study Leave for my AS exams, although i've still got 2 weeks till my next exam?
I actually just opened the larger version of the keyboard in a new tab, and then wanted to see what the pressure-map was to see how they weighted the keys. Going between the two i noticed "Hang on a minute, where the hell is this key on the keyboard?".
The annoying thing is that the Keyboard image doesn't line up with the key map that they provide.
I've got 3 lying about in my room, and i'm going to swap one of them with the new one that came with my PC. Why didn't i do this before?
Quoted from Billy West's Message Board:
Well, I spoke to David X.Cohen because we did promos for a new Futurama compilation and he said that they did have talks with the top guys at FOX and they were extremely impressed with the sales of the Futurama DVDs. The idea was to make a Futurama movie right to DVD and then a 2nd and a 3rd. That's what's being discussed. Fox is trying to figure out a budget for the whole project, and it sounded like David X. was very jazzed!
I would love more than anything to do that show again. I thought it was best experience on every level... creatively, voice-wise, writing, animation and the laughs. The laughs. Writers and performers that respected each other.
It's got a bit more effect when you have a quote from a voice-actor talking with a producer.
This has been brought up as a reason for it not coming back, however the good thing is that the writers have always shown a personal interest in the show and an ambition to bring it back.
Every few months or so a "story" pops up that Fox is thinking about renewing Futurama or doing the straight to dvd thing. This is usually drummed up by some Futurama Fan site that is Jealous of Family Guy's success and thinks that because "crappy Family Guy" was renewed that Futurama should be renewed also. Discounting the fact that Family Guy is one of highest rated shows on Adult Swim and the second highest selling dvd-t.v. show of all time.
Wrong: The Futurama community knows that it's basically dead, we accepted that about a year after it was cancelled. CGEF still posts all the relevant information, and has been posting all the info they get from the production team, although they always say "Don't get your hopes up", as we know it's basically dead.
Problem is, Fox does NOT OWN FUTURAMA, Matt Groining does. The main reason Fox let Futurama die in the firtt place is because of that very reason. Dvd sales of Futurama have not been a barn burner and given the very high cost of producing a Futurama episode I doubt even if Cartoon Network picked up some of the bill it would even be profitable.
Half wrong: FOX own the rights for Futurama on television, whereas Groening retained the rights for other media, hence the comics are still going strong. Futurama does have a high production cost, however the DVD sales were massive and it reached #1 on Amazon repeatedly. However, FOX set out to kill it. Futurama was the most watched TV premier, and did well. But there's only so many years you can survive being pre-empted by sports and cancelled as they over-run.
Everyone seems to forget that Fox was contractually obligated to the four seasons that aired, and sneakily pre-empted Futurama so that there would be a backlog of episodes so they could tell M.G. "Sorry Matt, there is a backlog of episodes, so we don't need a fifth season," without upsetting the Goose that laid the Golden egg (Simpsons being that egg).
I don't know about the contract for 4 seasons, but Groening was annoyed at Futurama's treatment from the word go, they weren't keeping him happy by keeping it on the air but not producing any more.
This is why i should use preview. The first two are one quote, the second two are another.
Fry: You got that off the internet? In my day we only used the internet for pornography.
Professor: Oh, that's still true.
Hermes: Behold the internet!
Fry: My God! It's full of ads!
The sad thing about that is that the new gold is so fantastically radioactive. And when it stops being radioactive?
Actually, the real downer is the fact that it costs more to make the gold then it is worth.
And our school currently serves:
Chips with Turkey Twizzlers (Yes, those): £1.05
One sandwich: £1.10
What's better value to you? Oh, the sandwich (If, say, it's ham) is two slices of bread, thin spread of butter and one or two slices of ham.
The industry would benefit more from having ONE SINGLE TRUE UNIFIED STANDARD as opposed to a couple of standards, which would confuse people.
The industry as a whole would benefit, we all know that. However, who should back out? The one that steps down loses everything and the other reigns supreme. In the DVD +/- war, neither + nor - won, and both formats are about. None of the producers stepped down, everyone "won" as opposed to one side losing.