Maybe so, but have they been because it's a "fan site" that is actually good for a show, or because it's reported things that have pissed off those sending the letters?
Obviously you've not heard of the Futurama site "The Leela Zone" which has survived at least 5 Cease and Decist letters from FOX to their ISP and are still going. No-one knows what content isn't allowed on the site still.
Although i use Windows, i have to say that Microsoft.com is the worst [professional] website to navigate i have ever tried to use. The site structure sucks, the search sucks and the layout sucks. It is almost impossible to find what you want and there are loads of pages that link back to each other, getting you going round and round in circles. I can never find information i may need or certain applications or tools i want, it's just a mess.
In London it will cost me about 8 to see a film, maybe 5-6 if i go somewhere a little less expensive. There are no real, cheap alternatives or cheaper prices according to times that i can go to. Food will easily cost me 5 as most cinemas won't let you take in your own.
The internet costs 24/month for 512 DSL. I can download way more then 4 films (Best i can get for 24 at the cinema) in that period, and use the internet for gaming, browsing the net, talking to friends etc. Popcorn will cost me pretty much nothing, food and drink will be a pound or two.
Which seems better value now?
(The doesn't work on Slashdot does it? All prices are GBP)
I tried to swap to Linux, and just got enfuriated when people say "Just use./configure" and then it doesn't bloody work! Trying to work out why it doesn't work just gets you into an endless circle and trying to do something when you have no idea what you're doing. I tried google, newsgroups and forums, it's just confusing to someone who knows nothing about Linux and is trying to start.
Funny, i never have to close anything either! I never close any windows using installers and never have problems using Windows XP.
However i agree they should change the wording, but i think they'll just wait till 1.0 for that. Maybe it's a similar reason to the 9.0RC version installer saying 0.8, just not worth changing the wording right now, not exactly their highest priority.
Hell, with automated toll tags in your car (EZPass, FastLane, etc.), they could already do that.
But this is in the UK, we don't use those systems as we [basically] don't have toll roads. Thus they can't do that here.
What about those that don't have the means to pay? I can't buy anything off the internet unless i use my parent's credit card. I don't think they'd be happy about putting their credit card info into yet another online database.
How many scammers do you think will set up fake email servers to rake in a few credit-card numbers? Would you trust Microsoft Hotmail with your credit card info?
Who gets this tax? If emails are global, how are they going to regulate this and split it up? I wouldn't want to be giving the US free money.
So we're going to have a system that is derailed by a few tears and fluttering eyelashes
I see we're leading the way in technology that's defective due to pathetic reasons. Just like the trains which suffer from the wrong type of rain, wrong type of snow, too low air-pressue and the classic, "leaves on the line".
Well, we know about CD-Rs degrading quickly, but what about DVD-Rs? Are they similar in degredation or different? How long can i expect my Bulkpaq DVD-Rs to last?
Out of a box full of Floppy disks i can hardly find one that works (Box must contain at least several hundred we've aquired). When you need a boot-floppy it's very annoying! They just keep skipping or giving read/write errors, damned media.
When it was announced on PEELified that Futurama was to be nominated for another award (2 years after cancellation now) we were surprised to see that it was in the same category as LOTR and 3 other films, "Best Script".
Does this not show the high-quality of the show, being able to be nominated in the same category as 4 other films? Of course, we weren't surprised when it was beaten by LOTR, but it was reassuring that, try as they might, FOX can't ruin the show's brilliance and reputation.
Won't all that old-style English they read from the Bible be even harder to understand once they convert it to chat speak?
"In da bginin Gd creatd da hvn n da erth. n da erth ws w/out frm, n void; n drknes [ws] upn da face of da deep. n da Spirt of Gd mvd upon da face of da wtrs. n Gd sd, Let der b lght: n der ws lght."
As far as i know, FOX owned the rights, but Matt didn't want Futurama to end up like The Simpsons, totally under FOX control and ending up like something he didn't want. He wouldn't let FOX interfeare with Futurama and wouldn't write in anything they wanted. Thus they decided to hate the show and bury it like trash.
Not true, unfortunately FOX own the rights and Matt can't take the show elsewhere. I'd love it to come back but there are too many obstacles: FOX own the rights The expense of production (CN can't afford it) The splitting-up of the production team
However, in it's favour, we do have the popularity, the DVD sales and the enthusiasm of Matt and Cohen to produce it again.
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Maybe so, but have they been because it's a "fan site" that is actually good for a show, or because it's reported things that have pissed off those sending the letters?
Obviously you've not heard of the Futurama site "The Leela Zone" which has survived at least 5 Cease and Decist letters from FOX to their ISP and are still going. No-one knows what content isn't allowed on the site still.
However the site doesn't want to work now!
And when you try to photocopy a 1000 page book, no-one gets suspicious do they?
Although i use Windows, i have to say that Microsoft.com is the worst [professional] website to navigate i have ever tried to use. The site structure sucks, the search sucks and the layout sucks. It is almost impossible to find what you want and there are loads of pages that link back to each other, getting you going round and round in circles. I can never find information i may need or certain applications or tools i want, it's just a mess.
In London it will cost me about 8 to see a film, maybe 5-6 if i go somewhere a little less expensive. There are no real, cheap alternatives or cheaper prices according to times that i can go to. Food will easily cost me 5 as most cinemas won't let you take in your own.
The internet costs 24/month for 512 DSL. I can download way more then 4 films (Best i can get for 24 at the cinema) in that period, and use the internet for gaming, browsing the net, talking to friends etc. Popcorn will cost me pretty much nothing, food and drink will be a pound or two.
Which seems better value now?
(The doesn't work on Slashdot does it? All prices are GBP)
I tried to swap to Linux, and just got enfuriated when people say "Just use ./configure" and then it doesn't bloody work! Trying to work out why it doesn't work just gets you into an endless circle and trying to do something when you have no idea what you're doing. I tried google, newsgroups and forums, it's just confusing to someone who knows nothing about Linux and is trying to start.
Although i agree with you (The Linux names also mean nothing to me) that would just make people say "Oh look, Linux is copying Windows again!".
Will POP do?
Funny, i never have to close anything either! I never close any windows using installers and never have problems using Windows XP.
However i agree they should change the wording, but i think they'll just wait till 1.0 for that. Maybe it's a similar reason to the 9.0RC version installer saying 0.8, just not worth changing the wording right now, not exactly their highest priority.
Yes, the installer wasn't updated and still shows the 0.8 version number. This was brought up in the last Firefox discussion too.
Hell, with automated toll tags in your car (EZPass, FastLane, etc.), they could already do that. But this is in the UK, we don't use those systems as we [basically] don't have toll roads. Thus they can't do that here.
Hotmail Popper lets you use your favourite email program with hotmail, works fine with Thunderbird.
There's a lot of debate about that though as it'll give: ...
HOME
SWEET
HOME
SWEET
HOME
Should it read:
10 HOME
20 SWEET
30 HOME
40 GOTO 10
But that makes it less funny.
How about going to the Google Cache whilst you enjoy your alien-worm excrement!
True, but then you can bring everyone else down to your level and prevent use of your patent.
Now i wonder if the moves in the Karma Sutra are different enough to count as "Fair Use"?
What about those that don't have the means to pay? I can't buy anything off the internet unless i use my parent's credit card. I don't think they'd be happy about putting their credit card info into yet another online database.
How many scammers do you think will set up fake email servers to rake in a few credit-card numbers? Would you trust Microsoft Hotmail with your credit card info?
Who gets this tax? If emails are global, how are they going to regulate this and split it up? I wouldn't want to be giving the US free money.
How would you implement it?
So we're going to have a system that is derailed by a few tears and fluttering eyelashes
I see we're leading the way in technology that's defective due to pathetic reasons. Just like the trains which suffer from the wrong type of rain, wrong type of snow, too low air-pressue and the classic, "leaves on the line".
Well, we know about CD-Rs degrading quickly, but what about DVD-Rs? Are they similar in degredation or different? How long can i expect my Bulkpaq DVD-Rs to last?
Out of a box full of Floppy disks i can hardly find one that works (Box must contain at least several hundred we've aquired). When you need a boot-floppy it's very annoying! They just keep skipping or giving read/write errors, damned media.
When it was announced on PEELified that Futurama was to be nominated for another award (2 years after cancellation now) we were surprised to see that it was in the same category as LOTR and 3 other films, "Best Script".
Does this not show the high-quality of the show, being able to be nominated in the same category as 4 other films? Of course, we weren't surprised when it was beaten by LOTR, but it was reassuring that, try as they might, FOX can't ruin the show's brilliance and reputation.
Won't all that old-style English they read from the Bible be even harder to understand once they convert it to chat speak? "In da bginin Gd creatd da hvn n da erth. n da erth ws w/out frm, n void; n drknes [ws] upn da face of da deep. n da Spirt of Gd mvd upon da face of da wtrs. n Gd sd, Let der b lght: n der ws lght."
As far as i know, FOX owned the rights, but Matt didn't want Futurama to end up like The Simpsons, totally under FOX control and ending up like something he didn't want. He wouldn't let FOX interfeare with Futurama and wouldn't write in anything they wanted. Thus they decided to hate the show and bury it like trash.
Not true, unfortunately FOX own the rights and Matt can't take the show elsewhere. I'd love it to come back but there are too many obstacles:
FOX own the rights
The expense of production (CN can't afford it)
The splitting-up of the production team
However, in it's favour, we do have the popularity, the DVD sales and the enthusiasm of Matt and Cohen to produce it again.