You have a valid point about Garfield, but much of the reasons for the popularity of Garfield are precisely the reasons you have given - the well engineered mediocrity and conformity hard coded into the Garfield universe. Read this slate piece about it:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2102299/
One of my major issues with having an IRC client or mail client or (in the future) a BT client is that inadvertently I end up closing the browser window and lose all the transfers that were going on. There are settings that disable this kind of inadvertent closing but my zombie like mind ends up putting the tick in the "don't ask me this again" box too. yecchhhh! I hope they fix this.
Mark Cuban recently blogged about buying movies as prints. Sure, they're 700 bucks a pop but the concept is interesting.
http://www.blogmaverick.com/entry/1234000710024187/
Quoting from his post:
"Picking on Hollywood some more... There is always a reason why their transition to new technologies has been slow. One of the repetitive themes is that there is a big risk in having a digital copy of a program or movie available because the quality is nearly as good as the original. That fear brought us the stupidity of the Broadcast Flag. It brought threats not to offer programming in High Def. Not that long ago, it was a threat not to offer programming and movies on DVD! All for fear of near original quality hitting the masses.
So imagine my suprise when I go to the newstand and pick up a magazine that I won't name, and I see ads for pristine 35mm prints of newer movies that have yet to be released on DVD.
I have been buying this same publication for the past 6 years. I started buying it not because I'm a movie collector, but because during the broadcast.com days, it was a great source of public domain movies and programs that we would host for streaming."
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You have a valid point about Garfield, but much of the reasons for the popularity of Garfield are precisely the reasons you have given - the well engineered mediocrity and conformity hard coded into the Garfield universe. Read this slate piece about it: http://slate.msn.com/id/2102299/
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This is where you need to use some proactive piracy buddy. Download the full package via torrent. http://isohunt.com/download.php?mode=bt&id=3879079
and buy it if you think it's cool.
One of my major issues with having an IRC client or mail client or (in the future) a BT client is that inadvertently I end up closing the browser window and lose all the transfers that were going on. There are settings that disable this kind of inadvertent closing but my zombie like mind ends up putting the tick in the "don't ask me this again" box too. yecchhhh! I hope they fix this.
"The best books are the ones that tell you what you already know."
'Cause nobody can actually look down on MS Bob anymore because Gates himself married the MS BOB Team Chief.
Mark Cuban recently blogged about buying movies as prints. Sure, they're 700 bucks a pop but the concept is interesting. http://www.blogmaverick.com/entry/1234000710024187 /
Quoting from his post:
"Picking on Hollywood some more... There is always a reason why their transition to new technologies has been slow. One of the repetitive themes is that there is a big risk in having a digital copy of a program or movie available because the quality is nearly as good as the original. That fear brought us the stupidity of the Broadcast Flag. It brought threats not to offer programming in High Def. Not that long ago, it was a threat not to offer programming and movies on DVD! All for fear of near original quality hitting the masses.
So imagine my suprise when I go to the newstand and pick up a magazine that I won't name, and I see ads for pristine 35mm prints of newer movies that have yet to be released on DVD.
I have been buying this same publication for the past 6 years. I started buying it not because I'm a movie collector, but because during the broadcast.com days, it was a great source of public domain movies and programs that we would host for streaming."
Since when did Business start having anything to do with Ethics? MBA = How to make money. End of Story.
Windows tough ain't enough!