Yeah, they had that and they had a cool fingerprinting class field trip to the county jailhouse.
I said no when i was like 7, was one of the only ones to do so.
I haven't been yet, and will not, and if the goverment has mine somewhere on the database its without my permission. I probably would have refused it and tell them they could have exported me all they wanted and talked to a customer service represenative of the airline.
Ads are extreeme annoyances, furthermore the ones that are embedded. that infect the programs that you do enjoy.
What pisses me off is if im in the car and on the radio on a Talk show, they talk about how their "Brand Name Car" helped them get to work and how its soo nice. Its one thing that they have ad's but to put them in the program pisses me off.
What I do to combat it is this. I keep a tally,
See a commercial for Arbys? don't eat there Hear a commecrial for jewerly? buy at a competitor when needed See a billboard for a radio station? beer? don't listen / don't drink that.
with that in mind.
I usually try to keep my business to local mom and pop shops when I can. Publically supported radio stations (which I try to help) not those clear channel radio stations
Now, I believe ad's have their places. If Im looking for something specefic? yellow pages, don't mind the ad's there cause I am LOOKING for it.
As for flash ad's? I don't use flash anymore. (saves me hassles).
I think it is a high possibility that it could be the Mark of the Beast, but it still has to come to pass one way or another, just that when I am "kindly" suggested to have one I probabbly won't. I have a hard enough time with junk mail that next time I move I will be trying to not have a change of address.
I take it that It bothers you that it might be influenced by Christian thought? What about banning them all together? I know quite a few Christians that are not happy with the current state of affairs, and that by even allowing people to voluntarily get implants would bother the Christian point of view. Maybe for once they are looking out for a specific group of people that might have a problem with it? Now, if they banned it all together, I could understand why people might be unhappy.
Yes, I make it a passion to not watch commercials, I use MythTv and Fast forward through them after, or have it auto turn them off. They aren't going to get rid of broadcasts I don't think, and you can still buy the hd-3000.
"I've vowed never to eat at a Burger King again."
I do not sit down and watch "live" tv anymore. I make it a personal mission to not buy anything that I see an add for. See a commercial for arbys? don't go there. See a commercial for local dealership? don't buy there. Hear a commercial on the radio? purposely don't buy there. I feel plagued by ad's I live in a city and the bilboards are like rats.
since I go out of my way NOT to see ad's or pay for them, or subject myself to them that when they do get through to me I make sure that I don't buy.
My girlfriend always reads magazines, and always talks about how good of a deal she got, and I said ok, flip through the first 20 pages count the number of ad's. More ad's than content, means that she pays for her "cheap magazine" Which people just don't understand.
I will never support or buy a product that forces me to watch or pay for commercials.
next step is for the next time I move to not change a single address block, get a local PO box, and have everything go there and not check the po box ever.
I will concurr with the other two on this.
It's much more difficult for me to install software that I will need as useful on windows.
need Office?
emerge openoffice-bin
apt-get install openoffice
need a new windows manager
emerge gnome
apt-get install gnome
Automates the process for you, while that is no different than what the previous two have said how about this.
Installing software for the hardware:
60% of the time its easier for me to do "more" with my hardware than windows
My tv tuner card has a loopback cable, but has the chipset to allow for direct recording of sound over the pci bus.
In windows, I have to use the loopback cable.
Linux, no cable needed, allowing me to have multiple tv tuner cards and only 1 sound card.
ya in KDW its really nice, really big, and really expensive. Then again they have things like specialized bass speakers that look like woobly planks of wood.
after that I just left and went to the KFC to feel more normal.
Wish I had a mod point, this is a very good assesment.
The downside is people with money have power, power to even extend patents they shouldn't be able to look at disney.
Then again on the other extreeme can look at Calvin and Hobbes.
5 years has the potential to give a wonderful life cycle.
- Ed
They currently allow RealPlayer, and windows media DRM. It is quite nice actually, I do not remember if the Downloaded movies (that you buy) have the same DRM.
They currently have d/l speeds at 1.7megs a second on my cable connection.
I can think of various ways of "riping" but even if it does get cracked soon, I can microsoft and real updating the drm quite quickly.
I am registered for 4 megs, I download consistantly at 7 megs, and have mostly have to thank my openbsd router for doing a beautiful job of serving.
I have comcast, ya my 4 meg connection is better than my 9600 baud that I started on. But with all of our monopolies in place where can we really get good service? look at other countries that have much better internet speeds, God bless america..
I am looking forward to optic in my home, will be a while before I can do it because I live in a historic building where you can't drill or anything, my cable service currently comes through a kawked window.
Ya that might have something to do with it, not too many people around me like movies, my girlfriend saw 2 movies before me.
And ya the theatres are going to the shitter. The irony is I used to work for Regal, in my home town they focused on the consumer and making them happy.
kids in the theatre make noise?
Manager says, I'm very sorry about that please take these tickets for any show at anytime for your inconvienence.
Kids in the theatre make noise?
they get kicked out and no refunded tickets, and aren't let back in.
That was just where I grew up, places around me now don't care at all except the iMax at a science museum. Where tickets are 10$ and popcorn and a drink are less than 5$
Just seems like today parents view the theatre as daycare for their teenagers.
I have a 3 CRT projector that can go higher resolutions than the highest resolution DVDs.
The pixels merge onto one point in space instead of others. I have extreeme clarity at size screen diagonal of 10 feet.
I have the optical 6.1 surround sound with specilized sub system with DTS ES.
2 couches 1 chair, and a real nice setup.
But to me going to a movie invokes sooo much more than the 4$ dvd or movie from movielink.
Its a whole experience, and that experience is deteriorating horribly. The movie is about 1/2 the reason I goto a certain theatre.
Yea, my movie setup is nice, but just something about going to the theatre brings back a lot of memories of going out as a family, and making an event out of it.
Going to have to START writing malware?
We all know that 90% of the annoying viruses that don't do damage are created via norton/symantec etc etc....
cmmon seriously you think people write viruses for any other purpose?
Not to start on a new topic but.
I used to work for a theatre, a good one in comparison to all of the ones I matriculate now.
Most of the money made for the employees and the theatre are from the concessions(sp?)
That being said, I used to sneak food into the theatre all the time when the only money I had was to buy the overpriced ticket.
Now I can afford the food (I still get the smallest sizes)
I enjoy movies in general because of entertainment. I enjoy theatres for the fullness of the effect of Going to the movie. Most people just want to be entertained, and thus dvd is nice.
Theatre to me is, getting out, doing something, having a scheduled time, comfortable place to sit, and drink a nice beer.
Unfortunately the places like that are no where near me (berlin has a nice theatre, in comparison)
I hope they start to release the DVD's sooner to allow for more money going to the bloated salaries of everyone that acts in the movie, so that the prices of the tickets go down and so that the annoyances that just want to be entertained just stay home and watch there dvd while I enjoy a nice small bag of popcorn and enjoy the experience.
Ya it is quite disturbing when you have this nice image of this girl char who is very nice in game
then you get in on a vent channel and they sound like a 70 yr old smoker, who you then later find out its a 60 year old...
damn retirement.
Ya the most annoying part of our blessed freedom is that 'they' have the freedom to make us pay more. It cost.02 euro per minute to call from germany to america, but then.60 dollars per minute.
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Yeah, they had that and they had a cool fingerprinting class field trip to the county jailhouse. I said no when i was like 7, was one of the only ones to do so.
I refuse to be fingerprinted.
I haven't been yet, and will not, and if the goverment has mine somewhere on the database its without my permission. I probably would have refused it and tell them they could have exported me all they wanted and talked to a customer service represenative of the airline.
Ads are extreeme annoyances, furthermore the ones that are embedded. that infect the programs that you do enjoy.
What pisses me off is if im in the car and on the radio on a Talk show, they talk about how
their "Brand Name Car" helped them get to work and how its soo nice.
Its one thing that they have ad's but to put them in the program pisses me off.
What I do to combat it is this.
I keep a tally,
See a commercial for Arbys? don't eat there
Hear a commecrial for jewerly? buy at a competitor when needed
See a billboard for a radio station? beer? don't listen / don't drink that.
with that in mind.
I usually try to keep my business to local mom and pop shops when I can.
Publically supported radio stations (which I try to help) not those clear channel radio stations
Now, I believe ad's have their places. If Im looking for something specefic? yellow pages, don't mind the ad's there cause I am LOOKING for it.
As for flash ad's? I don't use flash anymore. (saves me hassles).
I think it is a high possibility that it could be the Mark of the Beast, but it still has to come to pass one way or another, just that when I am "kindly" suggested to have one I probabbly won't. I have a hard enough time with junk mail that next time I move I will be trying to not have a change of address.
I take it that It bothers you that it might be influenced by Christian thought? What about banning them all together? I know quite a few Christians that are not happy with the current state of affairs, and that by even allowing people to voluntarily get implants would bother the Christian point of view. Maybe for once they are looking out for a specific group of people that might have a problem with it? Now, if they banned it all together, I could understand why people might be unhappy.
I agree with you, however We weren't born with clothes, but to do most things its required to wear them.
Ya, they are fantabulicious, they help the economy!.... or thats what they tell us
Is that because women aren't constant?
Well I agree with you, but for me to have cable internet i MUST subscribe to cable
OR for me to have DSL I must have a phone line.
Anything short of me hopping on someone elses wifi and I have to "pay" for another service just to get the service I want.
This does not benefit the consumer at all, and I thought that was what is was supposed to be about. The consumer.
While it usually works for resturaunts, for me to not get "Comcast" I would have to move. that seams real fair.
- Firl
Yes, I make it a passion to not watch commercials, I use MythTv and Fast forward through them after, or have it auto turn them off. They aren't going to get rid of broadcasts I don't think, and you can still buy the hd-3000.
"I've vowed never to eat at a Burger King again."
I do not sit down and watch "live" tv anymore.
I make it a personal mission to not buy anything that I see an add for.
See a commercial for arbys? don't go there.
See a commercial for local dealership? don't buy there.
Hear a commercial on the radio? purposely don't buy there.
I feel plagued by ad's I live in a city and the bilboards are like rats.
since I go out of my way NOT to see ad's or pay for them, or subject myself to them that when they do get through to me I make sure that I don't buy.
My girlfriend always reads magazines, and always talks about how good of a deal she got, and I said ok, flip through the first 20 pages count the number of ad's.
More ad's than content, means that she pays for her "cheap magazine"
Which people just don't understand.
I will never support or buy a product that forces me to watch or pay for commercials.
next step is for the next time I move to not change a single address block, get a local PO box, and have everything go there and not check the po box ever.
- Firl
I will concurr with the other two on this. It's much more difficult for me to install software that I will need as useful on windows. need Office? emerge openoffice-bin apt-get install openoffice need a new windows manager emerge gnome apt-get install gnome Automates the process for you, while that is no different than what the previous two have said how about this. Installing software for the hardware: 60% of the time its easier for me to do "more" with my hardware than windows My tv tuner card has a loopback cable, but has the chipset to allow for direct recording of sound over the pci bus. In windows, I have to use the loopback cable. Linux, no cable needed, allowing me to have multiple tv tuner cards and only 1 sound card.
ya in KDW its really nice, really big, and really expensive. Then again they have things like specialized bass speakers that look like woobly planks of wood. after that I just left and went to the KFC to feel more normal.
hrmm, I would sooo do this if I was still in college, refuse to fund one.
Wish I had a mod point, this is a very good assesment. The downside is people with money have power, power to even extend patents they shouldn't be able to look at disney. Then again on the other extreeme can look at Calvin and Hobbes. 5 years has the potential to give a wonderful life cycle. - Ed
They currently allow RealPlayer, and windows media DRM. It is quite nice actually, I do not remember if the Downloaded movies (that you buy) have the same DRM. They currently have d/l speeds at 1.7megs a second on my cable connection. I can think of various ways of "riping" but even if it does get cracked soon, I can microsoft and real updating the drm quite quickly.
Technically yes, but the job they did does not deserve it.
I am registered for 4 megs, I download consistantly at 7 megs, and have mostly have to thank my openbsd router for doing a beautiful job of serving.
..
I have comcast, ya my 4 meg connection is better than my 9600 baud that I started on. But with all of our monopolies in place where can we really get good service? look at other countries that have much better internet speeds, God bless america
I am looking forward to optic in my home, will be a while before I can do it because I live in a historic building where you can't drill or anything, my cable service currently comes through a kawked window.
- Firl
Yes I know what you mean, I had to have a friend bring me her Ipod because she lost her computer copy, but she paid for it all / owned it legally.
3 bash / 1 perl script/ and 10 hours later (all automated I did it while at work)
I had all of the ipod music moved into folders based upon artist / album
and converted it out of the DRM format.
DRM, and the RIAA, only hurts the ones that they are trying to protect.
It didn't hurt me because I am able to get around it, and use 3rd party tools.
But damn, cmmon give the users what they want.
Ya that might have something to do with it, not too many people around me like movies, my girlfriend saw 2 movies before me. And ya the theatres are going to the shitter. The irony is I used to work for Regal, in my home town they focused on the consumer and making them happy. kids in the theatre make noise? Manager says, I'm very sorry about that please take these tickets for any show at anytime for your inconvienence. Kids in the theatre make noise? they get kicked out and no refunded tickets, and aren't let back in. That was just where I grew up, places around me now don't care at all except the iMax at a science museum. Where tickets are 10$ and popcorn and a drink are less than 5$ Just seems like today parents view the theatre as daycare for their teenagers.
I have a 3 CRT projector that can go higher resolutions than the highest resolution DVDs. The pixels merge onto one point in space instead of others. I have extreeme clarity at size screen diagonal of 10 feet. I have the optical 6.1 surround sound with specilized sub system with DTS ES. 2 couches 1 chair, and a real nice setup. But to me going to a movie invokes sooo much more than the 4$ dvd or movie from movielink. Its a whole experience, and that experience is deteriorating horribly. The movie is about 1/2 the reason I goto a certain theatre. Yea, my movie setup is nice, but just something about going to the theatre brings back a lot of memories of going out as a family, and making an event out of it.
Going to have to START writing malware? We all know that 90% of the annoying viruses that don't do damage are created via norton/symantec etc etc.... cmmon seriously you think people write viruses for any other purpose?
Not to start on a new topic but. I used to work for a theatre, a good one in comparison to all of the ones I matriculate now. Most of the money made for the employees and the theatre are from the concessions(sp?) That being said, I used to sneak food into the theatre all the time when the only money I had was to buy the overpriced ticket. Now I can afford the food (I still get the smallest sizes) I enjoy movies in general because of entertainment. I enjoy theatres for the fullness of the effect of Going to the movie. Most people just want to be entertained, and thus dvd is nice. Theatre to me is, getting out, doing something, having a scheduled time, comfortable place to sit, and drink a nice beer. Unfortunately the places like that are no where near me (berlin has a nice theatre, in comparison) I hope they start to release the DVD's sooner to allow for more money going to the bloated salaries of everyone that acts in the movie, so that the prices of the tickets go down and so that the annoyances that just want to be entertained just stay home and watch there dvd while I enjoy a nice small bag of popcorn and enjoy the experience.
When are we going to actually see the revolution though? before the ps3 or before the xbox 720?
Ya it is quite disturbing when you have this nice image of this girl char who is very nice in game then you get in on a vent channel and they sound like a 70 yr old smoker, who you then later find out its a 60 year old... damn retirement.
Ya the most annoying part of our blessed freedom is that 'they' have the freedom to make us pay more. .02 euro per minute to call from germany to america, but then .60 dollars per minute.
It cost
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