This is such crap. Why doesn't the MPAA get a stern talking to over their crappy rating system?
Hostel 2 received an R rating, the same rating The Matrix received.
You can't tell me the levels of violence in those two movies are even close.
I'm tired of the members of Congress using video games to try to make parents believe they give a rats ass about their kids. If they did they need to be doing this crap on all industries, movies, music, books, etc... Stop doing this shit just to get press and do your damn jobs. Don't you have soldiers to get out of Iraq or SOMETHING better to do with your time?
Yeah, after you've raised them as your daughters o_0 they still don't have accelerated aging, or accelerated education;)
But if you educate them, they'll shoot you down. Just like the original.
Don't we have too many people roaming this planet as it is? Do we really need this technology? I mean seriously, does anyone want multiple copies of George W Bush wandering around? Or Michael Moore?
Or the worst case scenario.... an immortal Dick Cheney?
Yes it's true that most operating systems have some sort of verification process built into their copy/move process. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I'd rather take a little bit of extra time to do the copy and then delete the originals rather than letting the system automatically do the delete for me. I'm not saying I go through and open every file after the copy, but I usually try to make sure that all of them copied.
Perhaps this is no longer the case, but it was my understanding that the Move procedure in OS X essentially did some form of a 'mv original/file_name destination/file_name' and once it finished it did 'rm original/file_name'. Whereas the Copy procedure just did the mv command.
And again, it's a semantic debate as to whether or not you were backing up your files. My assertion is that until you are actually creating a second set of files, you are not backing them up. The scenario that you described where you were simply moving files, doesn't result in 2 copies of the file and is therefore not a backup.
In either case, it sucks that you lost files. I really do hope that you were able to recover them or at least able to recreate them from some source (CD, iPod, etc...). And hopefully Apple will fix the problem.
I don't mean to pick on you, but since you actually used the words "backing up", I feel I need to point something out. By default when you drag anything from one disk to another it doesn't move the data, it copies it. So you would have had to specifically told it to move the files instead of copying.
Now I only point this out because you said you were "backing up" your music. You specifically told the system to MOVE your music. MOVE does not equal backup. COPY does.
I know that it's an issue of semantics.
Now here's my question. Who does this? Do a lot of people move files from disk to disk instead of copying them? And why? Does it really save you that much time? Doesn't it make more sense to copy the files and then deleted them from the source if you don't want them anymore? That way you can verify the copy before deleting the originals.
"A communications disruption can only mean one thing. Invasion."
Seriously though, this would be an incredible tool for invasions. Knocking out all communication and other electronic devices in a city would make mounting any sort of resistance almost impossible.
Can someone explain to me how Chekov is going to be in this movie?
I was under the impression that Chekov was significantly younger than Kirk and the gang. I know that Koenig is really only a few years younger than Kirk, but if they were at at the Academy together that doesn't say much for Chekov's career in Star Fleet to be an ensign when one of his classmates is already captain the fleet's flagship. Even if Chekov was in his first year and Kirk in his last, I would think Chekov would have at least made lieutenant.
Fine. They can then opt to install Windows and acquire the Windows licence key from Microsoft. All they've lost is the maybe 10-20 minutes to install/image Windows onto the new PC's hard disk. In the grand scheme of things, when you incorporate the time needed to unpack the PC and cable it up, this isn't a big deal.
Okay, when was the last time this guy installed Windows? 10-20 minutes? Seems like a conservative estimate to me.
Says Jennifer Pariser, the head of litigation for Sony BMG: 'When an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song.
So if I make a copy of a song, then I'm stealing the song?
First, WTF?
Second, so that would be like if someone came into my house and stole the CD, right? But in this case that someone is me. So then I'm stealing from myself, right?
In that case, I've decided not to press charges. Case dismissed.
Uh.... "magical"? I think they are pretty much there already.
My phone has voice dialing now. Which I can activate with the touch of a button on my bluetooth headset.
So what you'd suggesting is that they just cram the whole phone into the bluetooth headset. Then make it a speaker phone so you can mount it on your shirt so that we can hear both sides of the conversation instead of just one.
Although if it were Apple shaped, I might consider it.:)
Whenever a report comes out that breaks down the cost of each can of Pepsi or a music CD or a new prescription drug, advertising is always the largest portion of the pie chart. If companies spent a little less on advertising, maybe product costs wouldn't be as high as they are.
Yes I realize that some products are new and need to be advertised. But companies selling products like Coke, Pepsi, Viagra, Budweiser, Miller, etc... They've been selling the same product for years. They are household names. People don't need to see 30 ads a day for your product. Cut back on the advertising and lower the product cost.
And for the love of god, pharmaceutical companies need to stop telling me to ask my doctor about their product. You know what? I don't want to be the one giving my doctor news of some new wonder drug. If I do, I'm sure as hell getting a new doctor. A doctor will either proscribe your product or its unadvertised generic that costs 1/10th what yours does. End of story.
Yes because I can't stand what network censors do to movies. Additionally how much content is normally cut from a movie to put in commercials and still keep the movie at 2 hours?
Then again, I do subscribe to DirecTV and drink the occasional bottle of water. However, I have decent radio stations in my area so I have no need of XM radio.
Yes, I'd rather rent the show via Netflix or download it via iTunes to avoid the commercials. It's the main reason I have a DVR.
I don't know about you but for me the $500 price tag is less of a deterrent than the Cingular network it has to use.
Cingular has horrid coverage in my area. I think the reason they have "the fewest dropped calls" is because they have the fewest connected calls.
I'd be more than willing to shell out $500 for an iPhone if I could use it with my Verizon Wireless account.
I think that's where Apple went wrong. Not only are they trying to enter a saturated market but they are also constraining themselves to a small corner of it. Look at the Motorola Razor. Available on many networks. I see them everywhere.
So until Apple wises up and gets rid of this contract with Cingular, I'll just have to wait and hope that the next version of iPod has some/most of the iPhones features.
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So does that make Dennis Miller the Macintosh of comedians?
I like to think of it as "Hot Galaxy On Galaxy Action"
This is such crap. Why doesn't the MPAA get a stern talking to over their crappy rating system?
Hostel 2 received an R rating, the same rating The Matrix received.
You can't tell me the levels of violence in those two movies are even close.
I'm tired of the members of Congress using video games to try to make parents believe they give a rats ass about their kids. If they did they need to be doing this crap on all industries, movies, music, books, etc... Stop doing this shit just to get press and do your damn jobs. Don't you have soldiers to get out of Iraq or SOMETHING better to do with your time?
This from the man who has put the KISS logo on every item he possibly can. And who has also brought you about 40 farewell tours.
So you are saying that every site like this should be sued by the IP owner?
The Harry Potter Lexicon is no different than Gateworld and every other site out there that is basically a well done fan site.
She should be happy that there is that much interest in her books and that the site isn't some half-assed, inaccurate piece of crap.
What's next, will she sue Wikipedia over their Harry Potter pages?
But if you educate them, they'll shoot you down. Just like the original.
Don't we have too many people roaming this planet as it is? Do we really need this technology? I mean seriously, does anyone want multiple copies of George W Bush wandering around? Or Michael Moore?
Or the worst case scenario.... an immortal Dick Cheney?
You are judging the possible behavior of aliens based on human behavior.
Just because the human race is a bunch of assholes, doesn't mean that a race from another planet would be the same.
Yes it's true that most operating systems have some sort of verification process built into their copy/move process. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but I'd rather take a little bit of extra time to do the copy and then delete the originals rather than letting the system automatically do the delete for me. I'm not saying I go through and open every file after the copy, but I usually try to make sure that all of them copied.
Perhaps this is no longer the case, but it was my understanding that the Move procedure in OS X essentially did some form of a 'mv original/file_name destination/file_name' and once it finished it did 'rm original/file_name'. Whereas the Copy procedure just did the mv command.
And again, it's a semantic debate as to whether or not you were backing up your files. My assertion is that until you are actually creating a second set of files, you are not backing them up. The scenario that you described where you were simply moving files, doesn't result in 2 copies of the file and is therefore not a backup.
In either case, it sucks that you lost files. I really do hope that you were able to recover them or at least able to recreate them from some source (CD, iPod, etc...). And hopefully Apple will fix the problem.
I don't mean to pick on you, but since you actually used the words "backing up", I feel I need to point something out. By default when you drag anything from one disk to another it doesn't move the data, it copies it. So you would have had to specifically told it to move the files instead of copying.
Now I only point this out because you said you were "backing up" your music. You specifically told the system to MOVE your music. MOVE does not equal backup. COPY does.
I know that it's an issue of semantics.
Now here's my question. Who does this? Do a lot of people move files from disk to disk instead of copying them? And why? Does it really save you that much time? Doesn't it make more sense to copy the files and then deleted them from the source if you don't want them anymore? That way you can verify the copy before deleting the originals.
"A communications disruption can only mean one thing. Invasion."
Seriously though, this would be an incredible tool for invasions. Knocking out all communication and other electronic devices in a city would make mounting any sort of resistance almost impossible.
Maybe he was going there to help out that nice man with the $24 million USD that keeps emailing me?
Can someone explain to me how Chekov is going to be in this movie?
I was under the impression that Chekov was significantly younger than Kirk and the gang. I know that Koenig is really only a few years younger than Kirk, but if they were at at the Academy together that doesn't say much for Chekov's career in Star Fleet to be an ensign when one of his classmates is already captain the fleet's flagship. Even if Chekov was in his first year and Kirk in his last, I would think Chekov would have at least made lieutenant.
Am I the only one who thinks this is odd?
Okay, when was the last time this guy installed Windows? 10-20 minutes? Seems like a conservative estimate to me.
So if I make a copy of a song, then I'm stealing the song?
First, WTF?
Second, so that would be like if someone came into my house and stole the CD, right? But in this case that someone is me. So then I'm stealing from myself, right?
In that case, I've decided not to press charges. Case dismissed.
*begin sarcasm* No doubt UMG would prefer to make the former cheaper, while maintaining the current pricing for the latter. *end sarcasm*
There you go, that should help explain the original story by Bemopolis to you.
Could it be that their is a giant space amoeba at the center?
Come on, I can't be the only person who had that as their first thought.
I for one welcome our new dark space dwelling, single-celled overlords.
Uh.... "magical"? I think they are pretty much there already.
:)
My phone has voice dialing now. Which I can activate with the touch of a button on my bluetooth headset.
So what you'd suggesting is that they just cram the whole phone into the bluetooth headset. Then make it a speaker phone so you can mount it on your shirt so that we can hear both sides of the conversation instead of just one.
Although if it were Apple shaped, I might consider it.
Well yes and no. I guess I don't consider tag browsing the same as full image browsing. It's more of a guided search.
Oddly enough, "Forever" is also the length of time you will be required to continue waiting.
Has anyone considered this factor of the debate?
Whenever a report comes out that breaks down the cost of each can of Pepsi or a music CD or a new prescription drug, advertising is always the largest portion of the pie chart. If companies spent a little less on advertising, maybe product costs wouldn't be as high as they are.
Yes I realize that some products are new and need to be advertised. But companies selling products like Coke, Pepsi, Viagra, Budweiser, Miller, etc... They've been selling the same product for years. They are household names. People don't need to see 30 ads a day for your product. Cut back on the advertising and lower the product cost.
And for the love of god, pharmaceutical companies need to stop telling me to ask my doctor about their product. You know what? I don't want to be the one giving my doctor news of some new wonder drug. If I do, I'm sure as hell getting a new doctor. A doctor will either proscribe your product or its unadvertised generic that costs 1/10th what yours does. End of story.
Yes because I can't stand what network censors do to movies. Additionally how much content is normally cut from a movie to put in commercials and still keep the movie at 2 hours?
Then again, I do subscribe to DirecTV and drink the occasional bottle of water. However, I have decent radio stations in my area so I have no need of XM radio.
Yes, I'd rather rent the show via Netflix or download it via iTunes to avoid the commercials. It's the main reason I have a DVR.
Exactly. That's why people buy seasons of TV shows on DVD. No ads.
That's why I have DVR. Skip the ads. Even if I'm home I will let the DVR record the program and then I watch it so I can skip the ads.
The people that did this study apparently only took into account what the industry wants to force upon us, not what consumers want to see.
I don't know about you but for me the $500 price tag is less of a deterrent than the Cingular network it has to use.
Cingular has horrid coverage in my area. I think the reason they have "the fewest dropped calls" is because they have the fewest connected calls.
I'd be more than willing to shell out $500 for an iPhone if I could use it with my Verizon Wireless account.
I think that's where Apple went wrong. Not only are they trying to enter a saturated market but they are also constraining themselves to a small corner of it. Look at the Motorola Razor. Available on many networks. I see them everywhere.
So until Apple wises up and gets rid of this contract with Cingular, I'll just have to wait and hope that the next version of iPod has some/most of the iPhones features.
Can't you see the millions of angry hippies turning blue as they don't breathe in protest of the capturing of air?
No. Not unless they make it available on other networks.
I know I will never own one as long as my only option is Cingular.