With piracy resulting in only 4% loss, why are the studios making such a big deal?
Because 4% is still a billion dollars. If you could turn another billion in profit with a software install costing in the thousands, they'd erect an obelisk to you at any corporation in the world.;-)
Where they go wrong is assuming that I- er, that pirates will buy discs they can't copy. Heck, the only reason I- er, that someone I know copies is so they can keep the turnaround rate on the Netflix rentals high if they fall behind on watching stuff.
Martin: Ok Rob, thank you so much, and I apologize for taking so long to do this and I look forward to maybe doing it again. Ok?
Roblimo: I love it.
Martin: Ok, thanks. END
Roblimo: And... we're off.
Martin: I love you, too. Rob.
Roblimo: I know. I know, Martin.
Martin: Kiss me, you magnificent fool!
Roblimo: Yes! Yes! Place your hands upon my heaving bosom.
(Smoochy and slippery sounds)
Chorus: Oh, my! This can't be good.
Dr. Lector: At this point, I shall make my escape. Mr. Talyor's liver will have to await my culinary skills another day.
Indiana Jones: Not so fast, Lector. I've got you covered. Hey! My revolver turned into a walkie-talkie!
Jar-Jar: Meesa tinkin dis universe not so well thought out. Laws, yes! M-O-O-N, that spells thought.
Meanwhile, the Xaat Fleet Of The Dead, a vast cluster of fifty thousand ships shaped like heiroglyphs that can drive sentient beings insane, drifted in orbit above the unknowing Earth. The Lord Commander Of Time Apocalypses sat brooding in his command cocoon as, pondering the planet's fate...
Firefox 1.0 on Win20000. It's pretty much every time I click a link anywhere on the site. The maximized browser window moves about 40 pixels down and to the left.
If it's an English movie, the English subtitles seem to track the script pretty closely. I once turned them on at the start of "O Brother Where Art Thou" because I simply could not understand a guy at the beginning who was putting on this weird, thick southerny accent.
Real fun is watching the English dub of an anime and having the English subtitles on. It's like watching two different shows.:)
How about watching TV with the closed captions turned on? I think it's standard in every television now. Poke around the on-screen menus. Start with really easy kids shows and progress from there. I think with a lot of DVDs you can turn on English subtitles even with the English sound track. Maybe it'll help tie the written words to the spoken ones, and some sort of connection will result.
I'm going to start playing with Apple's Garageband and start releasing my own albums.
It'll be the most derivative crap ever created. but, hey, lots of people have become wealthy doing *that*.:)
Progressive jazz metal, maybe. Hmmm. Instrumentals only, because my singing kills cows at fifty paces. I'll sell *that* disc to the farming industry, although PETA might protest it as being more cruel than a pneumatic bolt to the skull.
The guy had what (Ray Charles) won three Grammys in a 50 plus year career?
Yeah, but one has to ask, so what? I can understand people's impatience with award shows that give out sympathy awards. Same thing for awards given for political reasons, although that tends to be the movie industry. Ray Charles had a enormously successful career. Everyone knows he was an amazing talent. People living on Peruvian mountaintops know who he was. He made fifty million billion dollars. What's a Grammy on top of that? And a posthumous one at that.:-\ Even if there is an afterlife, I doubt he cares anymore.
I dunno. I'm just rambling here. I sort of agree with Chris Rock's recent statement where he said, "Awards for art are f---ing idiotic." Maybe he was kidding and stirring up buzz for the upcoming Oscars, but I can see where a person might find them pointless. Art is so subjective, and there seems to be a lot of bandwagoning.
It's a very cool show. Made 30 years ago, it attacks topics which are even more relevant today, like privacy/secrecy and the eternal struggle between the individual and society. DVDs readily available for rental. The final episode got a lot of people pissed off, which is all I'll say.
You have to remember that "Oh, those Americans with their guns and SUVs" is as annoying (and inaccurate) to us as, say, how the French feel when someone quips, "Oh, the French are arrogantly surrendering again" or some such thing. It's tiresome, and it's going to push buttons even if the mention isn't intended to be derisive. There'a a lot of raw nerves these days.
Anyway, China adopted Euro 1 emission standards in 1999, so catalytic converters are manatory.
"You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? And that accent you've tried so desperately to shed? Pure West Virginia. What's your father, dear? Is he a coal miner? Does he stink of the lamp? You know how quickly the boys found you... all those tedious sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars... while you could only dream of getting out... getting anywhere... getting all the way to the FBI."
Then I can goof off all day claiming that I can't enter my pass phrase correctly.:)
The kid was out at 4am driving a stolen car, lead the police on a chase, and then rammed the stolen car repeatedly into the police car. Only then did the cops open fire. They didn't even know it was a kid at that moment, and the shooting was according to policy. the car was being used as a deadly weapon. Good riddance to the little brat, I say.
The activists are playing this up as they always do. The media appears to be trying to start a riot by painting a picture ow a sweet wittle baby who never did no wrong. Trust me on this. I live here. That brat was a little gang monster that the world is far better off without.
Today's lesson: if you steal a car, lead a police chase, and then start ramming one of the police cars with the stolen car, you can (and should) get shot.
I'm just full of brilliant solutions like this. Well, I'm full of something, anyway.
Some people are advising Buffalo grass. I've seen a Buffalo grass lawn. Eh...:-/ I suppose if I owned some Buffalo...
I'd rather take a more John Campbellian approach of man versus the universe and get this damn bluegrass to thrive here in the post-apocalyptic desert wastes of Sothern California.
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I wondered if anyone would get that. :) My funny mod is starting to lean offtopic. :(
Because 4% is still a billion dollars. If you could turn another billion in profit with a software install costing in the thousands, they'd erect an obelisk to you at any corporation in the world. ;-)
Where they go wrong is assuming that I- er, that pirates will buy discs they can't copy. Heck, the only reason I- er, that someone I know copies is so they can keep the turnaround rate on the Netflix rentals high if they fall behind on watching stuff.
Hey, **I** would do better without knowing the depths of my insanity!
Martin: Ok Rob, thank you so much, and I apologize for taking so long to do this and I look forward to maybe doing it again. Ok?
Roblimo: I love it.
Martin: Ok, thanks. END
Roblimo: And... we're off.
Martin: I love you, too. Rob.
Roblimo: I know. I know, Martin.
Martin: Kiss me, you magnificent fool!
Roblimo: Yes! Yes! Place your hands upon my heaving bosom.
(Smoochy and slippery sounds)
Chorus: Oh, my! This can't be good.
Dr. Lector: At this point, I shall make my escape. Mr. Talyor's liver will have to await my culinary skills another day.
Indiana Jones: Not so fast, Lector. I've got you covered. Hey! My revolver turned into a walkie-talkie!
Jar-Jar: Meesa tinkin dis universe not so well thought out. Laws, yes! M-O-O-N, that spells thought.
Meanwhile, the Xaat Fleet Of The Dead, a vast cluster of fifty thousand ships shaped like heiroglyphs that can drive sentient beings insane, drifted in orbit above the unknowing Earth. The Lord Commander Of Time Apocalypses sat brooding in his command cocoon as, pondering the planet's fate...
Firefox 1.0 on Win20000. It's pretty much every time I click a link anywhere on the site. The maximized browser window moves about 40 pixels down and to the left.
Real fun is watching the English dub of an anime and having the English subtitles on. It's like watching two different shows. :)
President Of The United States.
Thank you. (QD bows, a large tomato misses him by millimeters.)
Yeah, yeah, I went for the easy one. :-P
What's the scale?
How about watching TV with the closed captions turned on? I think it's standard in every television now. Poke around the on-screen menus. Start with really easy kids shows and progress from there. I think with a lot of DVDs you can turn on English subtitles even with the English sound track. Maybe it'll help tie the written words to the spoken ones, and some sort of connection will result.
Oh, good! MAKE me feel old, why don't you! :-P
It'll be the most derivative crap ever created. but, hey, lots of people have become wealthy doing *that*. :)
Progressive jazz metal, maybe. Hmmm. Instrumentals only, because my singing kills cows at fifty paces. I'll sell *that* disc to the farming industry, although PETA might protest it as being more cruel than a pneumatic bolt to the skull.
Yeah, but one has to ask, so what? I can understand people's impatience with award shows that give out sympathy awards. Same thing for awards given for political reasons, although that tends to be the movie industry. Ray Charles had a enormously successful career. Everyone knows he was an amazing talent. People living on Peruvian mountaintops know who he was. He made fifty million billion dollars. What's a Grammy on top of that? And a posthumous one at that. :-\ Even if there is an afterlife, I doubt he cares anymore.
I dunno. I'm just rambling here. I sort of agree with Chris Rock's recent statement where he said, "Awards for art are f---ing idiotic." Maybe he was kidding and stirring up buzz for the upcoming Oscars, but I can see where a person might find them pointless. Art is so subjective, and there seems to be a lot of bandwagoning.
There's a Micahel Jackson joke lurking in there somewhere.
Wind River's web site makes a maximized Firefox browser window shift a little to the left and down with every link click.
It's a very cool show. Made 30 years ago, it attacks topics which are even more relevant today, like privacy/secrecy and the eternal struggle between the individual and society. DVDs readily available for rental. The final episode got a lot of people pissed off, which is all I'll say.
Well, with the caveat that it wouldn't be the *same* dog. ;-)
Dogs?
Hey, I put a smiley which makes it Officially Not A Troll. :)
Can watch when they try to get it past the X-ray machines at the airport? :)
Actually, that would probably solve more problems than it caused. ;-)
Anyway, China adopted Euro 1 emission standards in 1999, so catalytic converters are manatory.
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"You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? And that accent you've tried so desperately to shed? Pure West Virginia. What's your father, dear? Is he a coal miner? Does he stink of the lamp? You know how quickly the boys found you... all those tedious sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars... while you could only dream of getting out... getting anywhere... getting all the way to the FBI."
Then I can goof off all day claiming that I can't enter my pass phrase correctly. :)
Can't we just shoot the crackers?
The activists are playing this up as they always do. The media appears to be trying to start a riot by painting a picture ow a sweet wittle baby who never did no wrong. Trust me on this. I live here. That brat was a little gang monster that the world is far better off without.
Today's lesson: if you steal a car, lead a police chase, and then start ramming one of the police cars with the stolen car, you can (and should) get shot.
You design a tree that barks up itself.
I'm just full of brilliant solutions like this. Well, I'm full of something, anyway.
Some people are advising Buffalo grass. I've seen a Buffalo grass lawn. Eh... :-/ I suppose if I owned some Buffalo...
I'd rather take a more John Campbellian approach of man versus the universe and get this damn bluegrass to thrive here in the post-apocalyptic desert wastes of Sothern California.