... no. Bram Cohen and the MPAA may have made peace, but bittorrent is an untamable lion. Especially with the use of decentralised hashing tables to replace trackers.
uh, i meant "coincidence? probably." I didn't mean to suggest that our government purposely killed a policewoman. Although i wouldn't put it past them if they wanted something bad enough....
actually, i have nothing against christians or religion. my entire family are christians. But i do have something against over-zelousness. I find it funny how people's fervent beliefs make them unable to think objectively. In the same way that some Firefly fans were unable to watch Serenity objectively. It's got nothing to do with religion. It's about human nature, and me stiving to overcome it.
However, i honestly thought the film was badly made. I watched the film with my dad (who read the books to me when i was a kid) and even he thought it was a poor attempt at filmmaking.
I'm never going to win my battle against this film when most of the people who watch it actually like it. I just think they have bad taste.
First, the narrative is awkward and clunky. It doesn't flow, and this really kills the mood.
What kills the mood more is the terrible dialogue all throughout the film.
The cinematography is plain disasterous. Not once did i find myself thinking "wow, what a beautiful shot!" like i do in most films of this nature. The sets all look fake. At least, the ones in narnia do. The make-up is unconvincing and just adds to the "upmarket b-movie" feel emanating from the film. Some of the special effects are dire, others are great. It's a real pick 'n' mix.
overall, i just think it sucked. espcially when it had such a high budget.
But the film did give me hours of fun last night arguing with over zealous christians on the imdb.com message boards.
When you double click on the map, it "zooms" in. Problem is, they are using rasta* images at screen resolution, so this zoom looks shit and serves no purpose. What is especially crap is the fact that after the fake zoom in, it zooms you back out(this time without the silly animation) again for your new zoom level.
Sorry for excessive use of the word "zoom".
*When are we gonna get internet browsers that support popular vector file formats like.eps? Closest thing we have now is.swf which involves a 3rd party plugin.
Since when does SETI do anything apart from analyse the signals it gathers? And (correct me if i'm wrong) but those signals arn't even binary. they have to go through an analogue-digital conversion before we can even analyse them. which puts them into a completely safe(non-executable) format. right? right? Or am i the idiot?
cohen may have created bittorrent, but it's out in the open now. Everyone and their mother can create a torrnet search engine, or a large-scale database of torrent files. Whatever the MPAA gave him in return for taking his serach engine down, it was too much.
I've only been here for a couple of months and there's already been 2 murders (both of which happened while i was very, very closeby). I know to some americans, this figure might seem low... but goddamn, i'm scared.
In my experience, your point is valid for the effects of alcohol, but not cannabis.
i don't know if you've smoked much weed, but when i'm high, i know every way in which it's affecting me. I'm more aware of whats happening to me than somone in the same room is. the same isn't true of being drunk. You can be around completely sober people and just act really crazy without realising it or controlling yourself.
weed and alcohol are nothing alike. i rarely drink, and i've been drunk less than 10 times in my life. i try not to do it because of how it impairs my ability to think and function normally. weed impairs your ability to function normally, but pretty much everyone i know who smokes it agrees that it produces increased concentration skills. and the abnormal way in which it makes you function is nothing particularly dangerous.
i can drive perfectly well when i'm stoned. i just have to remember to concentrate on driving, because if you concentrate on something while stoned, that's the only thing you concentrate on. you forget about everything else. i think that's why it's possible to concentrate better than you can while sober. but while driving, if i start thinking about something random like... bathroom fixtures... it's possible that i might forget that i'm driving and drift off into another universe that consists solely of bathroom fixtures and things that relate to bathroom fixtures. i guess that could be kind of dangerous. But it's never really happened to me. i can focus on the road.
currently at university, i have a project where i have to draw 60 pages worth of stuff in 10 days. i find that being stoned, i can draw much, much better from my imagination. i can concentrate harder, and understand the medium a lot better than when i am sober. My drawings suck when i'm sober, but on weed, they are usually somewhat good.
The only problem with smoking weed for this project, is i tend to just space out and do other stuff instead. so i'm quite a bit behind, but the stuff i've done while stoned is far more interesting than the crap i've done while sober.
i've also noticed that since i started smoking weed, i've gotten alot better at writing songs and playing guitar.
at first i was thinking, "awesome! now i can download Lost legally! that's all i ever wanted". but then i read TFA...
problem #1: the files are only for use on the new video ipod.
eventually someone will figure out how to bypass the DRM and play it on a computer, but the screen size will still be tiny.
problem #2: it's only available to US citizens.
surely their biggest market would be people who can't watch the same content for (effectively) free on their regular television.
in short: buy some other portable digital video player (probably for much less cash than the video ipod) and simply download what you want to watch from elsewhere. or turn you pc into a PVR if you want to keep it legal.
with netflix and blockbuster, you can have as many DVDs a month as you wish, but only 3 at a time, right?
amazon's service only allows 4 dvds a month. and you're only allowed 2 at home at any one time. at least, thats what they offer in the UK.
now, surely the people that are most likely to use a service like this are going to want alot more than that in return for their monthly fee. i watch alot more that one film a week, and i'm only an amateur film buff. so if i were to get one of these services (which i may do in the future) i'd be getting the one that allows me unlimited DVDs.
i did the math, and using the amazon service, you're not saving alot by getting the monthly fee. and if you only get 3 in one month, you lose money compared to renting(assuming renting is £2.50 like at my local rental place).
and if you live near a good library, its even cheaper and you can keep the DVDs for a week.
i'm usually a great supporter of all things amazon, but they really need to rethink their business model.
i agree. it gives your kids an excuse to get out into the countryside and live a little. also, having friends who play outside helps alot, but its much harder to control. i would never have gone out as a kid if i wasn't riding my bike around with my friends, building dirt jumps, climbing trees, playing soccer(which i never liked, but everyone else did it and i didn't want to be left out)...
but then, i spent alot of time playing sega mega drive games with my friends, but we managed to maintain a mix.
the, "if you've got nothing to hide, why worry?" argument will probably win this one.
but guys, c'mon. This descision will quash terrorism... don't you see...?
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I get STONED most evenings.
... no. Bram Cohen and the MPAA may have made peace, but bittorrent is an untamable lion. Especially with the use of decentralised hashing tables to replace trackers.
uh, i meant "coincidence? probably." I didn't mean to suggest that our government purposely killed a policewoman. Although i wouldn't put it past them if they wanted something bad enough....
Coincidence? Probably not. London and Bradford make perfect sense for the trial of this new technology.
London makes sense because it's the capital. It's the most likely place for a terrorist attack to occur.
Bradford makes sense because it's absolutely full of muslims.
actually, i have nothing against christians or religion. my entire family are christians. But i do have something against over-zelousness. I find it funny how people's fervent beliefs make them unable to think objectively. In the same way that some Firefly fans were unable to watch Serenity objectively. It's got nothing to do with religion. It's about human nature, and me stiving to overcome it.
However, i honestly thought the film was badly made. I watched the film with my dad (who read the books to me when i was a kid) and even he thought it was a poor attempt at filmmaking.
I'm never going to win my battle against this film when most of the people who watch it actually like it. I just think they have bad taste.
First, the narrative is awkward and clunky. It doesn't flow, and this really kills the mood. What kills the mood more is the terrible dialogue all throughout the film. The cinematography is plain disasterous. Not once did i find myself thinking "wow, what a beautiful shot!" like i do in most films of this nature. The sets all look fake. At least, the ones in narnia do. The make-up is unconvincing and just adds to the "upmarket b-movie" feel emanating from the film. Some of the special effects are dire, others are great. It's a real pick 'n' mix. overall, i just think it sucked. espcially when it had such a high budget. But the film did give me hours of fun last night arguing with over zealous christians on the imdb.com message boards.
When you double click on the map, it "zooms" in. Problem is, they are using rasta* images at screen resolution, so this zoom looks shit and serves no purpose. What is especially crap is the fact that after the fake zoom in, it zooms you back out(this time without the silly animation) again for your new zoom level.
.eps? Closest thing we have now is .swf which involves a 3rd party plugin.
Sorry for excessive use of the word "zoom".
*When are we gonna get internet browsers that support popular vector file formats like
/me files a patent application for a foodstuff that will turn into flying monkeys once it reaches the large intestine.
Even if it was the winter olympics being held in beijing in 2008, your post would still be retarded.
Since when does SETI do anything apart from analyse the signals it gathers? And (correct me if i'm wrong) but those signals arn't even binary. they have to go through an analogue-digital conversion before we can even analyse them. which puts them into a completely safe(non-executable) format. right? right? Or am i the idiot?
cohen may have created bittorrent, but it's out in the open now. Everyone and their mother can create a torrnet search engine, or a large-scale database of torrent files. Whatever the MPAA gave him in return for taking his serach engine down, it was too much.
me too. Thank god i didn't pay for it.
Perhaps the marketing hypnosis also makes people feel good about being hypnotized. Then nobody would care.
I've only been here for a couple of months and there's already been 2 murders (both of which happened while i was very, very closeby). I know to some americans, this figure might seem low... but goddamn, i'm scared.
In my experience, your point is valid for the effects of alcohol, but not cannabis.
i don't know if you've smoked much weed, but when i'm high, i know every way in which it's affecting me. I'm more aware of whats happening to me than somone in the same room is. the same isn't true of being drunk. You can be around completely sober people and just act really crazy without realising it or controlling yourself.
weed and alcohol are nothing alike. i rarely drink, and i've been drunk less than 10 times in my life. i try not to do it because of how it impairs my ability to think and function normally. weed impairs your ability to function normally, but pretty much everyone i know who smokes it agrees that it produces increased concentration skills. and the abnormal way in which it makes you function is nothing particularly dangerous.
i can drive perfectly well when i'm stoned. i just have to remember to concentrate on driving, because if you concentrate on something while stoned, that's the only thing you concentrate on. you forget about everything else. i think that's why it's possible to concentrate better than you can while sober. but while driving, if i start thinking about something random like... bathroom fixtures... it's possible that i might forget that i'm driving and drift off into another universe that consists solely of bathroom fixtures and things that relate to bathroom fixtures. i guess that could be kind of dangerous. But it's never really happened to me. i can focus on the road.
currently at university, i have a project where i have to draw 60 pages worth of stuff in 10 days. i find that being stoned, i can draw much, much better from my imagination. i can concentrate harder, and understand the medium a lot better than when i am sober. My drawings suck when i'm sober, but on weed, they are usually somewhat good.
The only problem with smoking weed for this project, is i tend to just space out and do other stuff instead. so i'm quite a bit behind, but the stuff i've done while stoned is far more interesting than the crap i've done while sober.
i've also noticed that since i started smoking weed, i've gotten alot better at writing songs and playing guitar.
tis a good drug.
at first i was thinking, "awesome! now i can download Lost legally! that's all i ever wanted". but then i read TFA...
problem #1: the files are only for use on the new video ipod.
eventually someone will figure out how to bypass the DRM and play it on a computer, but the screen size will still be tiny.
problem #2: it's only available to US citizens.
surely their biggest market would be people who can't watch the same content for (effectively) free on their regular television.
in short: buy some other portable digital video player (probably for much less cash than the video ipod) and simply download what you want to watch from elsewhere. or turn you pc into a PVR if you want to keep it legal.
yeah that makes sense. d'oh.
to type inportant information into a popup they got whilst browsing some porn site or something.
with netflix and blockbuster, you can have as many DVDs a month as you wish, but only 3 at a time, right?
amazon's service only allows 4 dvds a month. and you're only allowed 2 at home at any one time. at least, thats what they offer in the UK.
now, surely the people that are most likely to use a service like this are going to want alot more than that in return for their monthly fee. i watch alot more that one film a week, and i'm only an amateur film buff. so if i were to get one of these services (which i may do in the future) i'd be getting the one that allows me unlimited DVDs.
i did the math, and using the amazon service, you're not saving alot by getting the monthly fee. and if you only get 3 in one month, you lose money compared to renting(assuming renting is £2.50 like at my local rental place).
and if you live near a good library, its even cheaper and you can keep the DVDs for a week.
i'm usually a great supporter of all things amazon, but they really need to rethink their business model.
i agree. it gives your kids an excuse to get out into the countryside and live a little. also, having friends who play outside helps alot, but its much harder to control. i would never have gone out as a kid if i wasn't riding my bike around with my friends, building dirt jumps, climbing trees, playing soccer(which i never liked, but everyone else did it and i didn't want to be left out)... but then, i spent alot of time playing sega mega drive games with my friends, but we managed to maintain a mix.
i patent the method of filing for a patent. I'm gonna be a bazillionaire!
if i was going to chose between a 22" LCD and a 22" CRT, i'd take the CRT and upgrade my RAM or buy a big mofo of a hard drive with the spare money.
but i guess it depends on how much space you have.
the, "if you've got nothing to hide, why worry?" argument will probably win this one. but guys, c'mon. This descision will quash terrorism... don't you see...?