There is a direct traceable correlation between movies that get leaked on opening weekend and box office losses. Generally, if you don't see a movie in the first few weeks it is out, you have to watch for cable or DVD, so the people who leak and/or pirate movies later down the road aren't impacting box office results that much. But when you can see the big summer blockbuster for free the same weekend it is released in the theater, that does influence box office revenue to the tune of tens of millions of dollars.
Ummm? The reason Family Guy was brought back was because it got HIGH ratings on Comedy Central and TBS, as well as HIGH DVD sales. It was canceled because it was poorly marketed, and no one saw it before it was initially canceled.
And take a show like Firefly. They only aired like 6 episodes total, in different time-slots, out of order, and never advertised the show. They aired a whopping 4 episodes of Drive, which got good reviews from pretty much every critic on the planet, and it was canceled.
I'm not a big fan of TV, and I was never a Whedon fan. I really hated Buffy and Angel, but Firefly was a damned good show. It sold like man on DVD to the point where they made a movie. Initial ratings aren't always indicative of the quality of the show. Jerry Springer was the highest rated show on the entire planet for a while, and so was Baywatch. And sometimes really good shows how poor ratings because no one knows anything about them. Even though Firefly sold well on DVD and was critically acclaimed, most people still haven't heard about the show.
That is poor advertising on the part of the network.
Jericho is another fine example. The network canceled it because of "poor ratings" and it had a huge fan-base who spent money out of pocket to take out an ad in Variety, and ship tons of peanuts to the network demanding the show be brought back. How were the ratings so poor with so many fans?
The Neilsen ratings often don't pick up on people who record shows with their DVR, and they also don't account for the people who watch the show on CBS.com so the ratings really didn't accurately reflect how large of a fan base the show actually had. If the networks were "experts" as you put it, they wouldn't lose so much money every year developing all these new shows that bomb. They wouldn't have canceled shows like Futurama, Firefly, Family Guy or Jericho in the first place when market demand for these shows was so high that they made more money after cancellation than before.
I know a guy (we're not close friends, but we have spoke on a few occasions) who wrote Grosse Point Blank. (Great friggin' movie) and he kept getting approached by the networks to do some TV work. He had some great stories. No one wanted to touch anything new, because it wasn't established and they had no way to determine if it would be successful or not. However they kept asking him to make "The Next Friends" show, because Friends was huge at the time. Every week when the new movies came out, whatever was big in the box office, they'd tell him to clone that.
Just because someone has money, that doesn't make them an expert. Far from it. As Kevin Smith said, "Hollywood is the only place where you fail upwards."
If I hadn't already posted in the thread, I'd mod you informative.
There are already plenty of electric cars, but most don't go past 120 miles, and neither does this one. I have a small car with a small gas tank, and I have to refuel every 250 miles and I find it a hassle. Some electric cars can only go 70-80 miles before a recharge, and when you factor in having to drive home, that means driving 40 miles out and 40 miles home.
In a city like LA where people often live pretty far out from where they work, it just isn't feasible. Even a max of 112 miles (180km) is stretching it. A car isn't very useful to me if I can't really drive it much.
Dell was very aggressive in marketing on TV (like Gateway) and they both offered similiar products at the same prices. So why did Gateway fold while Dell succeeded?
Gateway didn't get the big business accounts, and Dell managed to steal much of the server/workstation business away from HP. The home desktop market was never really where the money is. Everyone was so competitive that there isn't much room for profit.
They have to fill the timeslot with something. My point is that if they are paying the cost to make the show in the first place, and animation is expensive, then why put it on Comedy Central?
Networks have more viewers than cable. They get more return on the investment if they air it on FOX as opposed to Comedy Central, not to mention now Fox suddenly saves themselves money since they don't have to pay for another show to fill that timeslot.
Either way, they can still sell the DVDs like they did with Family Guy. Their aired the episodes on Fox, and still sold the DVD of the "movie".
I don't know why I even bother responding to an AC troll, but 480i is standard definition. Standard definition is also 4:3 aspect ratio.
A DVD can put out a native widescreen 480p picture, which was the bare minimum for the original HD specs. Most high-def TV shows are broadcast in 720p, and the new high-def movie formats are 1080p, but most high-def TVs can't even support 1080p. There is no single resolution that defines HD content.
Actually, if you believe piracy has no effect on their respective industries, I would contend you are very much wrong. I can't even begin to count the number of PC game development houses that either folded, or switched to console development solely and most cited piracy for the reason.
And we're not just talking theoretical. In real world situations, from everyone I know, piracy is not tied to quality. In fact people pirate they things they want. When the means to pirate material is easy, people do it more. When it is not worth the hassle, people do it less. People have always been able to swap software and such, or copy CDs, but the advent of P2P technology made it vastly easier to pirate, and it has become more widespread.
Yes the summer blockbusters were disappointing, but I'm not talking about total industry numbers being down, because while they are down, there are a variety of variables. However, in the specific instances when a movie has been leaked on opening weekend, there is a direct connection to the opening grosses that weekend. And in most cases, the first weekend is the highest a film will ever gross. It only goes down from there.
Movie piracy is also a different beast from music or software. If I download an album, and I like it, I am likely to buy the album, because I will listen to that music for years to come repeatedly. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've listened to my favorite albums over the years. Software programs? I could download a program to evaluate it, and purchase it later, because I will reuse the software continuously. But a movie?
Some movies you rewatch, but most movies I watch once. If I download the movie and watch it once, I'm done. I'm not going to buy the movie afterwards if I have no intention to see it again. Thusly there is a financial impact there. Sadly I know more people who download movies illegally than go to the theater with any regularity.
And while I railed against low-quality camcorder bootlegs, because I like seeing a high quality picture, I have recently seen some really impressive rips. A friend of mine just downloaded like 15 movies last week alone, with file sizes averaging around 700 megs for a full-length movie, and the quality was damn near DVD quality. Honestly, I'm not sure I would have known it was a download unless someone said something.
It defies all logic to say that piracy has NO EFFECT on the economics of each industry. The question is how big or small of an effect there is.
It is too bad he doesn't understand the internet, because the writing has been on the wall, or on the web rather. It has been speculated for a while they were coming after him. If he read/. he would have known to shred the evidence long before they raided his home.
Will the networks ever learn? They never marketed the show properly, and that is why it failed, just like why Family Guy failed the first time around.
Often they bail very early on a show that could be successful (like Drive this year, or Firefly) before they ever give the show a chance to succeed. If you don't market a show, people don't know it exists, and they aren't going to watch it. The weird thing is that there is quite a bit of start-up cost in getting an animated show running with an animation shop. 16 episodes is more than a half-season slate. I don't know why they don't just bring it back as a mid-season replacement on Fox, see how it goes, and hopefully just bring the show back for good?
Technically a 480p image is within the range of high-def, even if it barely qualifies. So a progressive scan DVD can be called high-def, even if it pales in the comparison of a 1080p BluRay image.
As someone who has played the HSX for years, there are always surprises, but with huge blockbusters, they aren't off huge amounts on predictions for opening weekend. Check boxofficemojo.com and you can see predictions each week, and the actual results. They are very accurate, and HSX.com is even more accurate.
When there is a discrepancies of 118 million dollars when a film leaks, those two events are not coincidences. There have been numerous examples, but The Hulk was the first one I remember reading about where there was a huge financial impact immediately apparent, to the point that the FBI made a bunch of arrests a week later. Again, if you cost someone tens of millions of dollars, expect to ruffle some feathers.
Who modded you informative for such obvious trolling? Telling someone to kill themselves over a post on the internet is just plain stupid. Enough with the hyperbole.
These are the facts. Experts were predicting a huge opening weekend for The Hulk, which is just one example because I remember the CNN piece on it. The film leaked opening weekend, and not only was that weekend much lower than expectations, but the next week the film dropped 70% all the way down to 18 million dollars. Instead of a huge profit, the movie actual netted a 5 million dollar less. They made 5 million less than what it cost to make. They weren't expecting Spiderman dollars (close to a billion per movie) but many experts were predicting 250 million easy for the movie. When it only made 132 million, that is a difference in 118 million dollars.
Industry experts were predicting a huge opening weekend for The Hulk, and it was far from a success. And after the leak, the movie dropped 70% between week 1 and 2, which is pretty big for Hollywood. In fact, a 70% drop is staggering. The movie had a 137 million dollar budget, and many experts thought the movie would pull in 250 million that summer. It brought in a total of 132 million, meaning the film actually lost money.
It is a Catch-22 when people say they pirate because ticket prices are high, but that only drives ticket prices higher for those of us who actually pay to see the movie. Yet despite people complaining about high prices, the big AMC cineplex here still offers their $4 early shows. Lately, that is how I've been seeing all the big movies on opening day. I go early, beat the crowd, and save money at the same time.
I have never once witnessed a bag being searched going to a movie, and maybe the reason it is starting to happen in Canada is because of the number of camcorder pirates. Honestly, these guys irk me. I know plenty of people who stopped going to theaters because of how easy it is to download movies the week they open, free of charge on your computer. I think The Hulk was the first film they made a big deal about this, but there have been several cases where a film was either leaked during opening weekend, or before, and then the film makes considerably less money that weekend than was initially expected. When a company loses potentially tens of millions of dollars in a weekend because of a leak, people are going to get pissed, and at the moment it is hard to suggest that the whole thing is harmless.
People suggest the only people who would pirate are those who wouldn't buy it in the first place, and I know that just isn't true. For many people, pirating often comes down to how easy or difficult it is. Once a process is simpler, more people do it.
I have a hefty DVD collection, but I still enjoy the theater experience on the whole. It isn't the screen or audio (I like my TV and sound system) but rather being surrounded by an excited group who have been geeking out in anticipation of a movie. As fewer people are going to the movies, prices are going up to compensate. So while others are downloading movies, I get to pay for it.
Look, go catch a matinée, or wait until there is a cheap release of the DVD. My video store down the street usually has a 3 for 25$ deal going and I load up on those. I'm not advocating searches or harassment, and I hope theaters don't actually continue such tactics. But if people weren't bringing camcorders in the first place, no one would be pushing for searches.
I make plenty of online purchases. I'm not afraid of using my CC online. I was just put off that album art would require it.
I didn't experiment with playlists too much, because I seem to be unlike most people. I've created a variety of playlists in the past, but I'm generally pretty fickle. When I want to hear a particular album or song in a given moment, I don't feel that it is a bother to quickly queue it up, where I would rarely listen to the same rotation of songs in a playlist, unless I'm queueing up a genre and hitting shuffle or something.
For my money, Amarok is my favorite player. I wish it would fully support video, and apparently Amarok 2 will have basic video support, but it focuses on the most important aspects IMO.
1 - With previous media players, I spent ages organizing my media library and adding info. With Amarok, it automates this process far better than any other media player I've seen, even adding Last.fm recommendations, lyric search, wikipedia entries, etc. In certain ways it is the most powerful, feature rich player I've seen.
2 - Conversely, it doesn't get in its own way. Loading files into your playlist is quick and simple. There are multiple ways to find what you're looking for. I hate in WMP how the default behavior (though it can be changed with a registry entry) is to load a Media Guide of some advertised content. I don't care. I'm loading up my media player so I can play my media. I don't want to waste time jumping through menus, or dealing with BS. I want to load it quickly, get to my music quickly, minimize the player to my tray, and get on with my business.
I know I may be blasted for this, but by far my favorite text-editor is Notepad++ which sadly is Windows only. If it had the compare feature of UltraEdit, or even better support to merge like WinMerge, it would be perfect in my book.
Everyone keeps insisting iTunes is so great, so I keep trying it every few years to see how it evolved, and it hasn't. It looks and operates just like older versions did.
I had a bunch of.wma audio, from ripping my entire CD collection into Windows Media Player. iTunes won't play it even though every other player on the planet will. It demands that I re-encode my media collection (which I ended up doing regardless back to drm-free mp3's, but that was my perogative rather than a forced mandate from my media player).
Next, iTunes didn't detect all my album art, but if offered to pull down new album art from iTunes. This would no doubt require some fighting for certain albums just like with WMP and Amarok, but I was willing to mess with it anyway, until it told me that I needed to create an iTunes account and give them my credit card to display album art for my music.
The "library" that everyone brags about is basically one giant list with a search bar. Both WMP and Amarok can provide me the exact same thing, but they also provide a variety of means to organize and browse my music in a tree-like fashion if I so desire, including album, artist, genre, rating, most frequently played, etc.
To top it all off, the big feature of iTunes is the ability to buy music directly from a store, right? People keep bragging that is what separates iTunes from the rest. Well, those guys apparently haven't noticed that both WMP and Amarok do the same thing these days, except they give you a choice of where to buy your music from.
I'm not sure where this excellent design, spit-and-polish, and "it just works" exists in iTunes. When it won't display album art, and it won't play my files, and it sports about half the features of the other two media players I use the most, I just don't get it. Maybe one of these days someone will explain it to me, but frankly I've loathed iTunes every time I've fired it up.
The LZO encryption he was pushing for his file-system seems to have migrated into the kernel on its own, and actually now that Reiser isn't running things directly, I think there is a greater chance of inclusion into mainline. Andrew Morton still includes it in the -mm line, and the NameSys employees are still contributing new code. Andrew knows what it takes to get into mainline and he has in the past made several suggestions on how to get there, but Hans was reluctant to meet all of those requests. He contended there was a bias against him, real or imagined.
It may turn out that Hans Reiser is guilty. However, he is innocent until found guilty. And if he is guilty, that doesn't taint everything he ever did. That is like saying Germany should have recounted all the construction, development and wealth of the Hitler era. If you drive on any part of the autobahn constructed during his reign, then clearly you must be a nazi, right?
So, please drop the trolling and stop calling it MurdererFS. It is an insult to the many employees of NameSys who developed the code, and continue to do so today. Not to mention, it would certainly be an unfair accusation if Reiser is acquitted.
Actually yes it is a crime. If Pepsi owns Taco Bell, and they want to only sell Pepsi products, that is their prerogative.
However, if Pepsi went to a major grocery chain and said, "even though you've already given us money and purchased product from us, we're going to refuse to actually give you that Pepsi product unless you refuse to carry Coke products."
That is very much illegal. I'd advise you to brush up on antitrust laws.
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There is a direct traceable correlation between movies that get leaked on opening weekend and box office losses. Generally, if you don't see a movie in the first few weeks it is out, you have to watch for cable or DVD, so the people who leak and/or pirate movies later down the road aren't impacting box office results that much. But when you can see the big summer blockbuster for free the same weekend it is released in the theater, that does influence box office revenue to the tune of tens of millions of dollars.
Partially correct. These days a TV that can only produce 480p and not 720p is called EDTV.
However the ORIGINAL HD spec included 480p. That is why the original XBox says it supported high-def, when the games only went up to 480p.
Ummm? The reason Family Guy was brought back was because it got HIGH ratings on Comedy Central and TBS, as well as HIGH DVD sales. It was canceled because it was poorly marketed, and no one saw it before it was initially canceled.
And take a show like Firefly. They only aired like 6 episodes total, in different time-slots, out of order, and never advertised the show. They aired a whopping 4 episodes of Drive, which got good reviews from pretty much every critic on the planet, and it was canceled.
I'm not a big fan of TV, and I was never a Whedon fan. I really hated Buffy and Angel, but Firefly was a damned good show. It sold like man on DVD to the point where they made a movie. Initial ratings aren't always indicative of the quality of the show. Jerry Springer was the highest rated show on the entire planet for a while, and so was Baywatch. And sometimes really good shows how poor ratings because no one knows anything about them. Even though Firefly sold well on DVD and was critically acclaimed, most people still haven't heard about the show.
That is poor advertising on the part of the network.
Jericho is another fine example. The network canceled it because of "poor ratings" and it had a huge fan-base who spent money out of pocket to take out an ad in Variety, and ship tons of peanuts to the network demanding the show be brought back. How were the ratings so poor with so many fans?
The Neilsen ratings often don't pick up on people who record shows with their DVR, and they also don't account for the people who watch the show on CBS.com so the ratings really didn't accurately reflect how large of a fan base the show actually had. If the networks were "experts" as you put it, they wouldn't lose so much money every year developing all these new shows that bomb. They wouldn't have canceled shows like Futurama, Firefly, Family Guy or Jericho in the first place when market demand for these shows was so high that they made more money after cancellation than before.
I know a guy (we're not close friends, but we have spoke on a few occasions) who wrote Grosse Point Blank. (Great friggin' movie) and he kept getting approached by the networks to do some TV work. He had some great stories. No one wanted to touch anything new, because it wasn't established and they had no way to determine if it would be successful or not. However they kept asking him to make "The Next Friends" show, because Friends was huge at the time. Every week when the new movies came out, whatever was big in the box office, they'd tell him to clone that.
Just because someone has money, that doesn't make them an expert. Far from it. As Kevin Smith said, "Hollywood is the only place where you fail upwards."
If I hadn't already posted in the thread, I'd mod you informative.
There are already plenty of electric cars, but most don't go past 120 miles, and neither does this one. I have a small car with a small gas tank, and I have to refuel every 250 miles and I find it a hassle. Some electric cars can only go 70-80 miles before a recharge, and when you factor in having to drive home, that means driving 40 miles out and 40 miles home.
In a city like LA where people often live pretty far out from where they work, it just isn't feasible. Even a max of 112 miles (180km) is stretching it. A car isn't very useful to me if I can't really drive it much.
Dell was very aggressive in marketing on TV (like Gateway) and they both offered similiar products at the same prices. So why did Gateway fold while Dell succeeded?
Gateway didn't get the big business accounts, and Dell managed to steal much of the server/workstation business away from HP. The home desktop market was never really where the money is. Everyone was so competitive that there isn't much room for profit.
They have to fill the timeslot with something. My point is that if they are paying the cost to make the show in the first place, and animation is expensive, then why put it on Comedy Central?
Networks have more viewers than cable. They get more return on the investment if they air it on FOX as opposed to Comedy Central, not to mention now Fox suddenly saves themselves money since they don't have to pay for another show to fill that timeslot.
Either way, they can still sell the DVDs like they did with Family Guy. Their aired the episodes on Fox, and still sold the DVD of the "movie".
I don't know why I even bother responding to an AC troll, but 480i is standard definition. Standard definition is also 4:3 aspect ratio.
A DVD can put out a native widescreen 480p picture, which was the bare minimum for the original HD specs. Most high-def TV shows are broadcast in 720p, and the new high-def movie formats are 1080p, but most high-def TVs can't even support 1080p. There is no single resolution that defines HD content.
Actually, if you believe piracy has no effect on their respective industries, I would contend you are very much wrong. I can't even begin to count the number of PC game development houses that either folded, or switched to console development solely and most cited piracy for the reason.
And we're not just talking theoretical. In real world situations, from everyone I know, piracy is not tied to quality. In fact people pirate they things they want. When the means to pirate material is easy, people do it more. When it is not worth the hassle, people do it less. People have always been able to swap software and such, or copy CDs, but the advent of P2P technology made it vastly easier to pirate, and it has become more widespread.
Yes the summer blockbusters were disappointing, but I'm not talking about total industry numbers being down, because while they are down, there are a variety of variables. However, in the specific instances when a movie has been leaked on opening weekend, there is a direct connection to the opening grosses that weekend. And in most cases, the first weekend is the highest a film will ever gross. It only goes down from there.
Movie piracy is also a different beast from music or software. If I download an album, and I like it, I am likely to buy the album, because I will listen to that music for years to come repeatedly. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've listened to my favorite albums over the years. Software programs? I could download a program to evaluate it, and purchase it later, because I will reuse the software continuously. But a movie?
Some movies you rewatch, but most movies I watch once. If I download the movie and watch it once, I'm done. I'm not going to buy the movie afterwards if I have no intention to see it again. Thusly there is a financial impact there. Sadly I know more people who download movies illegally than go to the theater with any regularity.
And while I railed against low-quality camcorder bootlegs, because I like seeing a high quality picture, I have recently seen some really impressive rips. A friend of mine just downloaded like 15 movies last week alone, with file sizes averaging around 700 megs for a full-length movie, and the quality was damn near DVD quality. Honestly, I'm not sure I would have known it was a download unless someone said something.
It defies all logic to say that piracy has NO EFFECT on the economics of each industry. The question is how big or small of an effect there is.
It is too bad he doesn't understand the internet, because the writing has been on the wall, or on the web rather. It has been speculated for a while they were coming after him. If he read /. he would have known to shred the evidence long before they raided his home.
Will the networks ever learn? They never marketed the show properly, and that is why it failed, just like why Family Guy failed the first time around.
Often they bail very early on a show that could be successful (like Drive this year, or Firefly) before they ever give the show a chance to succeed. If you don't market a show, people don't know it exists, and they aren't going to watch it. The weird thing is that there is quite a bit of start-up cost in getting an animated show running with an animation shop. 16 episodes is more than a half-season slate. I don't know why they don't just bring it back as a mid-season replacement on Fox, see how it goes, and hopefully just bring the show back for good?
Technically a 480p image is within the range of high-def, even if it barely qualifies. So a progressive scan DVD can be called high-def, even if it pales in the comparison of a 1080p BluRay image.
As someone who has played the HSX for years, there are always surprises, but with huge blockbusters, they aren't off huge amounts on predictions for opening weekend. Check boxofficemojo.com and you can see predictions each week, and the actual results. They are very accurate, and HSX.com is even more accurate.
When there is a discrepancies of 118 million dollars when a film leaks, those two events are not coincidences. There have been numerous examples, but The Hulk was the first one I remember reading about where there was a huge financial impact immediately apparent, to the point that the FBI made a bunch of arrests a week later. Again, if you cost someone tens of millions of dollars, expect to ruffle some feathers.
"C) You should consider education or suicide."
He suggested as well that I cut my dick off.
And off-topic, but are you a member of the band Local H, or just a fan?
Who modded you informative for such obvious trolling? Telling someone to kill themselves over a post on the internet is just plain stupid. Enough with the hyperbole.
These are the facts. Experts were predicting a huge opening weekend for The Hulk, which is just one example because I remember the CNN piece on it. The film leaked opening weekend, and not only was that weekend much lower than expectations, but the next week the film dropped 70% all the way down to 18 million dollars. Instead of a huge profit, the movie actual netted a 5 million dollar less. They made 5 million less than what it cost to make. They weren't expecting Spiderman dollars (close to a billion per movie) but many experts were predicting 250 million easy for the movie. When it only made 132 million, that is a difference in 118 million dollars.
118 million = tens of millions.
I give you facts, you type in all caps and troll.
Industry experts were predicting a huge opening weekend for The Hulk, and it was far from a success. And after the leak, the movie dropped 70% between week 1 and 2, which is pretty big for Hollywood. In fact, a 70% drop is staggering. The movie had a 137 million dollar budget, and many experts thought the movie would pull in 250 million that summer. It brought in a total of 132 million, meaning the film actually lost money.
It is a Catch-22 when people say they pirate because ticket prices are high, but that only drives ticket prices higher for those of us who actually pay to see the movie. Yet despite people complaining about high prices, the big AMC cineplex here still offers their $4 early shows. Lately, that is how I've been seeing all the big movies on opening day. I go early, beat the crowd, and save money at the same time.
I have never once witnessed a bag being searched going to a movie, and maybe the reason it is starting to happen in Canada is because of the number of camcorder pirates. Honestly, these guys irk me. I know plenty of people who stopped going to theaters because of how easy it is to download movies the week they open, free of charge on your computer. I think The Hulk was the first film they made a big deal about this, but there have been several cases where a film was either leaked during opening weekend, or before, and then the film makes considerably less money that weekend than was initially expected. When a company loses potentially tens of millions of dollars in a weekend because of a leak, people are going to get pissed, and at the moment it is hard to suggest that the whole thing is harmless.
People suggest the only people who would pirate are those who wouldn't buy it in the first place, and I know that just isn't true. For many people, pirating often comes down to how easy or difficult it is. Once a process is simpler, more people do it.
I have a hefty DVD collection, but I still enjoy the theater experience on the whole. It isn't the screen or audio (I like my TV and sound system) but rather being surrounded by an excited group who have been geeking out in anticipation of a movie. As fewer people are going to the movies, prices are going up to compensate. So while others are downloading movies, I get to pay for it.
Look, go catch a matinée, or wait until there is a cheap release of the DVD. My video store down the street usually has a 3 for 25$ deal going and I load up on those. I'm not advocating searches or harassment, and I hope theaters don't actually continue such tactics. But if people weren't bringing camcorders in the first place, no one would be pushing for searches.
I make plenty of online purchases. I'm not afraid of using my CC online. I was just put off that album art would require it.
I didn't experiment with playlists too much, because I seem to be unlike most people. I've created a variety of playlists in the past, but I'm generally pretty fickle. When I want to hear a particular album or song in a given moment, I don't feel that it is a bother to quickly queue it up, where I would rarely listen to the same rotation of songs in a playlist, unless I'm queueing up a genre and hitting shuffle or something.
For my money, Amarok is my favorite player. I wish it would fully support video, and apparently Amarok 2 will have basic video support, but it focuses on the most important aspects IMO.
1 - With previous media players, I spent ages organizing my media library and adding info. With Amarok, it automates this process far better than any other media player I've seen, even adding Last.fm recommendations, lyric search, wikipedia entries, etc. In certain ways it is the most powerful, feature rich player I've seen.
2 - Conversely, it doesn't get in its own way. Loading files into your playlist is quick and simple. There are multiple ways to find what you're looking for. I hate in WMP how the default behavior (though it can be changed with a registry entry) is to load a Media Guide of some advertised content. I don't care. I'm loading up my media player so I can play my media. I don't want to waste time jumping through menus, or dealing with BS. I want to load it quickly, get to my music quickly, minimize the player to my tray, and get on with my business.
Thanks. I will Google all those right now.
I know I may be blasted for this, but by far my favorite text-editor is Notepad++ which sadly is Windows only. If it had the compare feature of UltraEdit, or even better support to merge like WinMerge, it would be perfect in my book.
Other than Final Cut Pro (for which I can use Premiere on a PC instead) are there really any must-have Mac exclusives that don't run on Windows?
The Adobe Creative Suite can be run via Wine currently as far as I know.
Everyone keeps insisting iTunes is so great, so I keep trying it every few years to see how it evolved, and it hasn't. It looks and operates just like older versions did.
.wma audio, from ripping my entire CD collection into Windows Media Player. iTunes won't play it even though every other player on the planet will. It demands that I re-encode my media collection (which I ended up doing regardless back to drm-free mp3's, but that was my perogative rather than a forced mandate from my media player).
I had a bunch of
Next, iTunes didn't detect all my album art, but if offered to pull down new album art from iTunes. This would no doubt require some fighting for certain albums just like with WMP and Amarok, but I was willing to mess with it anyway, until it told me that I needed to create an iTunes account and give them my credit card to display album art for my music.
The "library" that everyone brags about is basically one giant list with a search bar. Both WMP and Amarok can provide me the exact same thing, but they also provide a variety of means to organize and browse my music in a tree-like fashion if I so desire, including album, artist, genre, rating, most frequently played, etc.
To top it all off, the big feature of iTunes is the ability to buy music directly from a store, right? People keep bragging that is what separates iTunes from the rest. Well, those guys apparently haven't noticed that both WMP and Amarok do the same thing these days, except they give you a choice of where to buy your music from.
I'm not sure where this excellent design, spit-and-polish, and "it just works" exists in iTunes. When it won't display album art, and it won't play my files, and it sports about half the features of the other two media players I use the most, I just don't get it. Maybe one of these days someone will explain it to me, but frankly I've loathed iTunes every time I've fired it up.
He also said that as far as he knew, only part of ZFS was being opened via GPLv3, so it may not be worthwhile.
Sun is moving towards GPLv3 and hoping that Linux does the same so they can suddenly grab all the Linux device drivers.
The LZO encryption he was pushing for his file-system seems to have migrated into the kernel on its own, and actually now that Reiser isn't running things directly, I think there is a greater chance of inclusion into mainline. Andrew Morton still includes it in the -mm line, and the NameSys employees are still contributing new code. Andrew knows what it takes to get into mainline and he has in the past made several suggestions on how to get there, but Hans was reluctant to meet all of those requests. He contended there was a bias against him, real or imagined.
The ntfs-3g website says you can boot from it, and run Linux of it, so apparently you can. Will there be any issues? Quite possibly.
It may turn out that Hans Reiser is guilty. However, he is innocent until found guilty. And if he is guilty, that doesn't taint everything he ever did. That is like saying Germany should have recounted all the construction, development and wealth of the Hitler era. If you drive on any part of the autobahn constructed during his reign, then clearly you must be a nazi, right?
So, please drop the trolling and stop calling it MurdererFS. It is an insult to the many employees of NameSys who developed the code, and continue to do so today. Not to mention, it would certainly be an unfair accusation if Reiser is acquitted.
Actually yes it is a crime. If Pepsi owns Taco Bell, and they want to only sell Pepsi products, that is their prerogative.
However, if Pepsi went to a major grocery chain and said, "even though you've already given us money and purchased product from us, we're going to refuse to actually give you that Pepsi product unless you refuse to carry Coke products."
That is very much illegal. I'd advise you to brush up on antitrust laws.