I agree with everyone here that says "It's hard to make a half hour program into an hour and a half program etc.."
But let us not forget, that it's hard to keep a show going for this long without repeating yourself.
I think what would be cool, is extending out some things... for instance you could stretch out the couch gag into a 15 minute romp through [insert crazy something here].
The key for making this movie great, in my opinion, will be to slow things down, not to pack more in or fluff it up.
That they have been thinking about a movie for some time now, would make me think that they probably have been storing ideas away for it just as long. Imagine the comedy gold that is buiried away in that mine.
I'll certainly be looking forward to it.
In response, I don't beleive it's silly at all to think that a judge has no idea what's going on. When I think back to the MSIE anti-trust cases, and how mis-informed the judges were about that. Sure MS included a web browser with their software, but nothing excluded you from getting a browser of your choice. The way it was presented to the judge was that "you have to use MSIE and nothing else." (this is just an example, I'm not making any claims about any browser). So what would lead us to beleive that these old men still sitting on the bench today are better informed now about tech issues, since "in their day" tech school was mostly about fixing cars and building cabinets. Furthermore, since you are more informed about this than I, exactly what other laws are there that currently restrict them from allowing suits against "Jimmy James' Viagra Distributors Inc" because an agent they are paying sent me unsolicited (and perhaps immoral depending on your views) e-mail.
You're right. I'm not a lawyer, but I know I have seen cases where so many people went after a company for something, that a judge decided to group them all into one class action suit to protect the company and mitigate the possible damages. But in any event, you are right that I don't know much about it. It was merely a suggestion as a way to help stop the problem.
I agree with you wholheartedly. In my opinion, the e-mail system isn't what needs adjustment. It's fine the way it is. What should be changed is how we deal with these people. Since finding the actual source of the spam is near impossible, we should start targeting the companies that do the advertising. Once they start losing money to lawsuit after lawsuit and eventually go out of business, other companies will start to take note. Altho none of this will be possible untill we have tort reform and technology advocates that can properly inform judges exactly what is going on and why it's important to allow people that are being spammed to sue individually and not in a class action.
for example: one million individual lawsuits against one company, would a)tie up their funds b)drain them financially since they would have to pay their lawyers c) these companies wouldn't have the money to pay the spammers d)the spammers would start seeing that they aren't going to get paid and hopefully move on to something more worthwhile with their lives.
Unfortunately this would tie up an already overburdened court system, but I think that would lead to better, more thought out, realistic, and enforcable anti spam law (not laws, since we would only need one).
I'm a coke drinker, and have no desire to drink pepsi just to download music. However I have friends that drink pepsi, and aren't connected to the internet, or at the very least don't have, use, or want to use iTunes. I've got these people saving caps for me, and collecting caps from their friends for me.
On a slightly off topic note, iTunes has a very small (don't laugh) selection of hawaiian music. I ran a search there once, and all that came up was some soundtrack from an old show. Pretty sad really, when there is plenty of awesome hawaiian music out there. My emails to apple have gone unheeded so maybe the slashdot crowd could help out and send off an email politely asking itunes to stock some hawaiian artists. Pretty please? Hawaiian music is hard to find, check your local music store and see how many titles you find. Some great listening to be had.
(I am not a hawaiian musician nor do I have any affiliation with any hawaiian music labels, artists, or distributors. Just a fan of the music, living in Indiana with no real way to pick it up.)
Aloha:)
According to this article from Wired, "We're not going to be supporting WMA for now," said Muffi Ghadiali, product marketing manager for HP's digital entertainment products group.
but can't all these players play mp3's? I've got an iPod and other than the slowness of using iTunes I've had no problem putting MP3's on it. Isn't that a free choice that I have, or are they trying to push people into using WMA or AAC only, in portable music players?
And (as the article suggests) if they are working on playing wma on iPods, is there even a problem here?
I totally agree with you on this. My girlfriend laughs at me and my love for my 40gig iPod (I've gone on record as saying "I would marry this thing if it had the proper inputs and it were legal to do") My first thoght after seeing these new ones is "I need to get my woman one" since it would suit her perfectly, with it's small size and pretty shiny(sp?) colors. Perhaps once she has one that she can relate to as a non nerd music lover, she'll understand the love.:)
but has anyone considered that maybe the pressure indiactor is faulty? How many are there, and if multiple, are they independantly controlled? How is the system calibrated, and is it possible to re-calibrate it?
I'm just curious, since no one has brought it up in anything I've read so far.
there's something kinda like this now, called an iTrip. It's an FM transmitter for the iPod. According to what i've read about it, you can even select the frequency that it uses.
my guess is that the parent was referring to the iPods battery problems, since in my experience this thing goes dead pretty quickly when communicating with the computer.
I used chatting in my example, but browsing, research et al. should be mentioned too. You can learn alot just by unplugging and chatting with the people at the lunch bar too.
I understand hotspots in places like Airports and other such places where people need to do business on the go, but it seems like too much we are too hard to "disconnect" and look up. Leave the computer at home when you go out to lunch or to starbucks for coffee. We're all in favor of jumping into a chat room to talk to people hundreds of miles away, but we don't show the same enthusiasm for chatting with people around us.
Don't get me wrong, having net access is fun, but meeting the people around you and checking out the real world is even more fun.
Just my two cents.
Funny enough, I use bluetooth everyday. To connect my palm to my cellphone, and in a couple of days when my BT usb adaptor arrives, using BT to surf the web mobile from my laptop. It's the easiest thing I've ever used to connect to anything.
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I agree with everyone here that says "It's hard to make a half hour program into an hour and a half program etc.." But let us not forget, that it's hard to keep a show going for this long without repeating yourself. I think what would be cool, is extending out some things... for instance you could stretch out the couch gag into a 15 minute romp through [insert crazy something here]. The key for making this movie great, in my opinion, will be to slow things down, not to pack more in or fluff it up. That they have been thinking about a movie for some time now, would make me think that they probably have been storing ideas away for it just as long. Imagine the comedy gold that is buiried away in that mine. I'll certainly be looking forward to it.
In response, I don't beleive it's silly at all to think that a judge has no idea what's going on. When I think back to the MSIE anti-trust cases, and how mis-informed the judges were about that. Sure MS included a web browser with their software, but nothing excluded you from getting a browser of your choice. The way it was presented to the judge was that "you have to use MSIE and nothing else." (this is just an example, I'm not making any claims about any browser). So what would lead us to beleive that these old men still sitting on the bench today are better informed now about tech issues, since "in their day" tech school was mostly about fixing cars and building cabinets.
Furthermore, since you are more informed about this than I, exactly what other laws are there that currently restrict them from allowing suits against "Jimmy James' Viagra Distributors Inc" because an agent they are paying sent me unsolicited (and perhaps immoral depending on your views) e-mail.
You're right. I'm not a lawyer, but I know I have seen cases where so many people went after a company for something, that a judge decided to group them all into one class action suit to protect the company and mitigate the possible damages. But in any event, you are right that I don't know much about it. It was merely a suggestion as a way to help stop the problem.
I agree with you wholheartedly. In my opinion, the e-mail system isn't what needs adjustment. It's fine the way it is. What should be changed is how we deal with these people. Since finding the actual source of the spam is near impossible, we should start targeting the companies that do the advertising. Once they start losing money to lawsuit after lawsuit and eventually go out of business, other companies will start to take note. Altho none of this will be possible untill we have tort reform and technology advocates that can properly inform judges exactly what is going on and why it's important to allow people that are being spammed to sue individually and not in a class action.
for example: one million individual lawsuits against one company, would a)tie up their funds b)drain them financially since they would have to pay their lawyers c) these companies wouldn't have the money to pay the spammers d)the spammers would start seeing that they aren't going to get paid and hopefully move on to something more worthwhile with their lives.
Unfortunately this would tie up an already overburdened court system, but I think that would lead to better, more thought out, realistic, and enforcable anti spam law (not laws, since we would only need one).
I'm a coke drinker, and have no desire to drink pepsi just to download music. However I have friends that drink pepsi, and aren't connected to the internet, or at the very least don't have, use, or want to use iTunes. I've got these people saving caps for me, and collecting caps from their friends for me. On a slightly off topic note, iTunes has a very small (don't laugh) selection of hawaiian music. I ran a search there once, and all that came up was some soundtrack from an old show. Pretty sad really, when there is plenty of awesome hawaiian music out there. My emails to apple have gone unheeded so maybe the slashdot crowd could help out and send off an email politely asking itunes to stock some hawaiian artists. Pretty please? Hawaiian music is hard to find, check your local music store and see how many titles you find. Some great listening to be had. (I am not a hawaiian musician nor do I have any affiliation with any hawaiian music labels, artists, or distributors. Just a fan of the music, living in Indiana with no real way to pick it up.) Aloha :)
According to this article from Wired, "We're not going to be supporting WMA for now," said Muffi Ghadiali, product marketing manager for HP's digital entertainment products group.
but can't all these players play mp3's? I've got an iPod and other than the slowness of using iTunes I've had no problem putting MP3's on it. Isn't that a free choice that I have, or are they trying to push people into using WMA or AAC only, in portable music players? And (as the article suggests) if they are working on playing wma on iPods, is there even a problem here?
I totally agree with you on this. My girlfriend laughs at me and my love for my 40gig iPod (I've gone on record as saying "I would marry this thing if it had the proper inputs and it were legal to do") My first thoght after seeing these new ones is "I need to get my woman one" since it would suit her perfectly, with it's small size and pretty shiny(sp?) colors. Perhaps once she has one that she can relate to as a non nerd music lover, she'll understand the love. :)
but has anyone considered that maybe the pressure indiactor is faulty? How many are there, and if multiple, are they independantly controlled? How is the system calibrated, and is it possible to re-calibrate it? I'm just curious, since no one has brought it up in anything I've read so far.
there's something kinda like this now, called an iTrip. It's an FM transmitter for the iPod. According to what i've read about it, you can even select the frequency that it uses.
my guess is that the parent was referring to the iPods battery problems, since in my experience this thing goes dead pretty quickly when communicating with the computer.
picked a better band tha Blur to write a song for them? I mean....
I used chatting in my example, but browsing, research et al. should be mentioned too. You can learn alot just by unplugging and chatting with the people at the lunch bar too.
I understand hotspots in places like Airports and other such places where people need to do business on the go, but it seems like too much we are too hard to "disconnect" and look up. Leave the computer at home when you go out to lunch or to starbucks for coffee. We're all in favor of jumping into a chat room to talk to people hundreds of miles away, but we don't show the same enthusiasm for chatting with people around us. Don't get me wrong, having net access is fun, but meeting the people around you and checking out the real world is even more fun. Just my two cents.
pooped in the toilet. I make more data than that sleeping. call me when it's over half a terrabyte per person...
hey all. here's a link to another mirror of the book, as well as pages offering the memos mirror
enjoy.
Funny enough, I use bluetooth everyday. To connect my palm to my cellphone, and in a couple of days when my BT usb adaptor arrives, using BT to surf the web mobile from my laptop. It's the easiest thing I've ever used to connect to anything.