But as I see it, even if the MPAA *did* blame it on piracy, the article is about Netflix *winning*, so right there is a built in counter-argument. That is to say, "If it's piracy, MPAA, then shouldn't Netflix be eating shit too??"
Where do you think the "pirates" get their movies? Netflix makes it cost efficient. Blockbuster does not.
The show was "made" figuratively and literally by Joel and Mike. Mike, as has been pointed out, was Head writer from Season 2 onward.
Two of My favorite episodes, The Amazing Collosal Man and the Amazing Colossal Beast, featured Joel and the Bots, and Mike as the Colossal Man in sketches.
We were all disappointed when Joel left, (I think to pursue standup), but saying the shows demise was due to that fact is revisionist history at best.
BTW, anyone see Joel on SNL in the good ole days, Funny, funny stuff.
I have the complete set, My kids and I watch em all the time.
I miss Joel, although I prefer the later bots.
Every thanksgiving, we re-enact Turkey day from the days of yore on the Comedy Channel. Remember, way back in the days when Penn Gillette was th voice of Comedy Central? 24Hr MST3K Marathon.
I just want to take this opportunity to say, Thanks for coming back Joel!
You also don't technically need video support in Impress
Yes I do, now take that back.
I didn't know it until right now, But you are right, I need to stick a video on every one of my slides.
Hmmm, Opened it up, tried avi, nope. Tried mov. Nope, Tried mpg, nope. Man thanks a lot for bumming me out.
Debian machine old version 2.0 lemme see here...............need to get 144Mgbytes......67Mbytes used after installation......Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Hang on a minute.........
......
More Like 12 Minutes..........
.......
48 actually,
2.2 lessee, hmmm nope.
I will try 2.3 on another machine, for now it is my mission. I will embed video in a presentation!
However, I will not purchase Microsoft Office to do so. See I usually use a video editor to make video slideshows. Kino, Lives, etc.. Seems to me to be simpler.
Honestly, I wouldn't buy Office for any reason. These tools should be free. They should be accessible to all. They should not fund the management at Microsoft. I say this as an IT professional and longtime MS user. Your contribution to the effort is noted. We'll be in touch after we implement the features you need. Um, no actually we won't look us up again when you need us.
Not to mention the slideshow can launch any file your system has a mimetype for including videos. You set it as in interaction, just in case someday you happen to be without your MS Office 67digit install key.
You can find hundreds of eBay and Paypal horror stories on people receiving empty boxes, boxes with other things inside, unable to cancel fradulent transactions without jumping through hoops, etc.
In the midst of a cross country drive last month, my brother and I were discussing a business idea. The conversation went like this:
ME:What about a mobile LAN setup. Could be rented for Birthday parties and Social events.
HIM: Or Churches. Definately churches.
ME: What,? Fragging for Jesus, Deathmatch for Christ Sake?
Him: Excellent Name
ME:Don;t you think churches would find that morally reprehensible?
Him: Nope
ME: You are on crack man.
Fast forward to 3 days ago,
ME: IM: bing, You see this? bing, NYTime URL
Him: LOL, you said I was on crack.
I would just like to take this opportunity to notify all of you the above name and business plan is Copyright and Trademarked and Patent Pending, all rights reserved.
Beautiful
Of course they were. They were set in New Zealand rather than Middle-earth. Nice place.
Middle earth not being available for filming, Jacksons choices for locations were perfect. See that is part of the directors job and I'm glad to see you agree he did at least that right.
I actually have nothing against Agent Smith's performance just that he is Agent Smith even after his performance.
Ralph Bakshi did better.
Yeah ok half, I mean One third done, partially Rotoscoped, musical suicide. I liked it, but better, come on man. Compare and contrast Apples and Cantelopes
Even if it the end result were superior to what Jackson might manage? That's a strange viewpoint.
How can I make that comparison? I would probably always want to make that comparison. IMHO, it would be better to give me the Jackson version and then years from now let some other Hack remake it.
You're comment about dialog, perhaps you would have preferred a few hours of lyrical prose from the book, but I think it was a compromise done well. At no time did I feel taken out of the experience.
Jackson on LOTR is like Sam Raimi on Spider-Man -- small-time cult directors hired to helm can't-miss big pictures. He's completely disposable.
Ever see a pre Raimi Spiderman movie?
In fact, I think Sam Raimi might have done better with LOTR...
You sir, are on crack. Did you see Spiderman 3. Trilogy vs Trilogy Raimi loses and would have tortured us all with his view of LoTR. Really, killing Harry but not Gwen. Puhlease
I use Vista on a daily basis and like it. What am I doing wrong?
Ignoring the alternatives. Hey, if its good enough for you thats great. If you wanna keep paying and dealing with being accused of being a criminal, good on you. Plus you have the added benefit of continuing to pay for your OS every 5 years or whenever they decide End of Life and turn off the Activation Servers.
I personally prefer to FREELY use my computer. But to each his own.
Long ago I switch the companies email from (shuuder) Outlook (mixture of 2k and express) to thunderbird.
On my windows box at the office I aslo switched to tbird, but I found myself on Gmail more and more. I no longer keep an office at the company and I only use windows for testing win builds of my software. Now all my mail comes through Kmail. I find it easier to use more integrated and just plain better. If I was to do it all over again I'd suggest waiting for the KDE4 for windows versions of KOrganizer. I received complaint after complaint about calendaring, and Sunbird just didn't cut it. I see it has been updated recently but I'm beyond it now.
The blog about Tbird and Mozilla Corp sealed its fate for me.
Good luck to the next group that inherits it. Note to Google. There is screenspace available to serve your adds in the Tbird client. Maybe you should pick it up or fund the Mozilla guys to continue it with a Oficial Gmail extension. Like you guys would use that.
You shouldn't evaluate _any_ DX9 game on DX10. Why?
Because it was written for DX9. Due to new hardware features, DX9 games don't take advantage of these features.
The games used in these test were DX10.
BioShock is a shining example. Now if you are saying you can't evaluate the difference in perfomance for the exact same game under two different DirectX implementations, You perhaps should lay off the Kool-Aid.
The point of my comment is plain. The exact same game running DX9 offers much more performance than running it under DX10 on the same DX10 capable graphics Card and Hardware. Meanwhile the DX10 specific improvements are all but negligible. Oooh look at the fringes of the shadow, no really look close the edges are slightly fuzzy, Oh damn I was killed. Look at the shadow of my corpse, there, you see it don't you.
The only impressive feature I can see it HDR volumetric lighting and contrast. Looks slightly better, but I find it ridiculous for me to lose 83FPS to see it. Of course the same could be said for AntiAliasing in the 90s, And we all did say it nobody played games with 8xFSAA unless our hardware could handle it. This article clearly shows there is almost no hardware that can handle the "improvements" of DX10 without massive performance hits.
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Wiidiculous, totawii wiidiculous
Where do you think the "pirates" get their movies? Netflix makes it cost efficient. Blockbuster does not.
Get off my Lawn!
and here I thought Sony was only Folding@theMarketplace.
Shame on you. Should be using Impress at work AND at Home.
Worked for me. I was the MIS and was able to move the entire plant to OO.org just based on pdf export and unlimited file compatability.
Impress serves my needs fully. It also has the added benefit of not requiring an internet connection.
Sorry Google, I love ya, but I think your office products are underpowered and a bit ill conceived. GMail excluded.
Two of My favorite episodes, The Amazing Collosal Man and the Amazing Colossal Beast, featured Joel and the Bots, and Mike as the Colossal Man in sketches.
We were all disappointed when Joel left, (I think to pursue standup), but saying the shows demise was due to that fact is revisionist history at best.
BTW, anyone see Joel on SNL in the good ole days, Funny, funny stuff.
Damn, couldn't find it, but here is a standup clip from 8th Young Comedians Special.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EQI9xS2ltI
I miss Joel, although I prefer the later bots.
Every thanksgiving, we re-enact Turkey day from the days of yore on the Comedy Channel. Remember, way back in the days when Penn Gillette was th voice of Comedy Central? 24Hr MST3K Marathon.
I just want to take this opportunity to say, Thanks for coming back Joel!
Great Unboxing / Hands on review.
Can't wait for them to go on sale stateside.
Be advised the Foundation has Patents covering the areas of study and interest.
H. Seldon
Yes I do, now take that back.
I didn't know it until right now, But you are right, I need to stick a video on every one of my slides.
Hmmm, Opened it up, tried avi, nope. Tried mov. Nope, Tried mpg, nope. Man thanks a lot for bumming me out.
Debian machine old version 2.0 lemme see here...............need to get 144Mgbytes......67Mbytes used after installation ......Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Hang on a minute.........
More Like 12 Minutes..........
48 actually,
2.2 lessee, hmmm nope.
I will try 2.3 on another machine, for now it is my mission. I will embed video in a presentation!
However, I will not purchase Microsoft Office to do so. See I usually use a video editor to make video slideshows. Kino, Lives, etc.. Seems to me to be simpler.
Honestly, I wouldn't buy Office for any reason. These tools should be free. They should be accessible to all. They should not fund the management at Microsoft. I say this as an IT professional and longtime MS user. Your contribution to the effort is noted. We'll be in touch after we implement the features you need. Um, no actually we won't look us up again when you need us.
Not to mention the slideshow can launch any file your system has a mimetype for including videos. You set it as in interaction, just in case someday you happen to be without your MS Office 67digit install key.
Just Great now I'll have to use Pocket Ice Weasel.
Actually it is called Vixta. http://www.vixta.org/
http://www.xkcd.com/325/
ME:What about a mobile LAN setup. Could be rented for Birthday parties and Social events.
HIM: Or Churches. Definately churches.
ME: What,? Fragging for Jesus, Deathmatch for Christ Sake?
Him: Excellent Name
ME:Don;t you think churches would find that morally reprehensible?
Him: Nope
ME: You are on crack man.
Fast forward to 3 days ago,
ME: IM: bing, You see this? bing, NYTime URL
Him: LOL, you said I was on crack.
I would just like to take this opportunity to notify all of you the above name and business plan is Copyright and Trademarked and Patent Pending, all rights reserved.
Middle earth not being available for filming, Jacksons choices for locations were perfect. See that is part of the directors job and I'm glad to see you agree he did at least that right.
I actually have nothing against Agent Smith's performance just that he is Agent Smith even after his performance.
Ralph Bakshi did better.
Yeah ok half, I mean One third done, partially Rotoscoped, musical suicide. I liked it, but better, come on man. Compare and contrast Apples and Cantelopes
Even if it the end result were superior to what Jackson might manage? That's a strange viewpoint.
How can I make that comparison? I would probably always want to make that comparison. IMHO, it would be better to give me the Jackson version and then years from now let some other Hack remake it.
You're comment about dialog, perhaps you would have preferred a few hours of lyrical prose from the book, but I think it was a compromise done well. At no time did I feel taken out of the experience.
Jackson on LOTR is like Sam Raimi on Spider-Man -- small-time cult directors hired to helm can't-miss big pictures. He's completely disposable.
Ever see a pre Raimi Spiderman movie?
In fact, I think Sam Raimi might have done better with LOTR...
You sir, are on crack. Did you see Spiderman 3. Trilogy vs Trilogy Raimi loses and would have tortured us all with his view of LoTR. Really, killing Harry but not Gwen. Puhlease
Ignoring the alternatives. Hey, if its good enough for you thats great. If you wanna keep paying and dealing with being accused of being a criminal, good on you. Plus you have the added benefit of continuing to pay for your OS every 5 years or whenever they decide End of Life and turn off the Activation Servers.
I personally prefer to FREELY use my computer. But to each his own.
I found the films, beautiful, well written, well acted (Agent Smith aside), and thoroughly satisfying.
I cannot imagine any other director doing better. As a matter of fact I couldn't even believe he pulled it off.
Immediately after watching the first, I was a fan of Jacksons, and even the massively long ending of the third one wasn't enough to change it.
Kudos to Mr. Jackson, I wouldn't even consider watching the Hobbit done by anyone else. Jackson owns the Tolkien franchise in my eyes.
On my windows box at the office I aslo switched to tbird, but I found myself on Gmail more and more. I no longer keep an office at the company and I only use windows for testing win builds of my software. Now all my mail comes through Kmail. I find it easier to use more integrated and just plain better. If I was to do it all over again I'd suggest waiting for the KDE4 for windows versions of KOrganizer. I received complaint after complaint about calendaring, and Sunbird just didn't cut it. I see it has been updated recently but I'm beyond it now.
The blog about Tbird and Mozilla Corp sealed its fate for me.
Good luck to the next group that inherits it. Note to Google. There is screenspace available to serve your adds in the Tbird client. Maybe you should pick it up or fund the Mozilla guys to continue it with a Oficial Gmail extension. Like you guys would use that.
Enjoyed this adaptation as well. Wouldn't exactly call it animated but loved it anyway.
Umm, Right.
The games used in these test were DX10.
BioShock is a shining example. Now if you are saying you can't evaluate the difference in perfomance for the exact same game under two different DirectX implementations, You perhaps should lay off the Kool-Aid.
The point of my comment is plain. The exact same game running DX9 offers much more performance than running it under DX10 on the same DX10 capable graphics Card and Hardware. Meanwhile the DX10 specific improvements are all but negligible. Oooh look at the fringes of the shadow, no really look close the edges are slightly fuzzy, Oh damn I was killed. Look at the shadow of my corpse, there, you see it don't you.
The only impressive feature I can see it HDR volumetric lighting and contrast. Looks slightly better, but I find it ridiculous for me to lose 83FPS to see it. Of course the same could be said for AntiAliasing in the 90s, And we all did say it nobody played games with 8xFSAA unless our hardware could handle it. This article clearly shows there is almost no hardware that can handle the "improvements" of DX10 without massive performance hits.
http://www.hothardware.com/articles/The_State_of_DirectX_10__Image_Quality__Performance/?page=8
Seriously, why do people continue to put up with this abuse? Newer/More Expensive should be better in the computing world, no?
Frankly, I'm glad I use Linux and need not worry about this crap anymore.