I'd add TVs to the list personaly. I haven't actually bought a TV in 9 years and I'm on my 2nd TV (and I just need one more service call for this one). I just pay for a new fat 5 year warranty and before the warranty is up I've had 4 service calls (of which they have to give me a new TV that cost the same as the old TV for where I shop at). Maybe one day they'll make a TV that actually lasts from being used mainly to just play games one day, but I doubt it. I still have my first TV from 20 years ago that still works like a champ. They just don't build em like they used to.
Adult Swim is actually a network inside of Cartoon Network. They just got onto the Nielson's Rateings because they are doing such a standup job. Cartoon Network has absolutely no fsking clue what they are doing when it comes to more "Adult" oriented toons and they admit it thankfully (before there was Toonami which sucked ass and still does, but it's mainly geared and at a timeslot aimed at little kiddies now anyways).
I'm honestly waiting for the William Street guys doing AS to start signing onto cable networks as thier own channel. However AS is not without thier fare share of fuckups though. Tom Goes to the Mayor and decision to being over the abismal Milk Chan. Otherwise they have been fairly spot on with the good material.
My experience with Thief on the Xbox with glitches mainly led to that puzzles had a tendancy to reset and yet still be complete thus getting you stuck with nowhere you can go. I keep trieing to plow through it, but it's such a gawd aful mess to run into that every level and be forced to start over.
It's what happens when you no longer have a line that seperates the ritch from the poor. Those people were buisy shooting, looting, and killing each other in thier own small poor spots of town, but once something like Katria comes along and displaces them and you put news cameras in the mix with ritch white people who will call the police because timmy next door put a baseball through thier window. *goes back to sleep*
DVD will win in the end. It's here, it works, and I could honestly give a shit about a new, even more heavily DRMed disk. At least with DVD I can redily decrypt, copy, transcode, sample, and burn all without a single piece of "approved" software by any DRM loving studio. HD-DVD seems stillborn at this point and Blur-Ray is just one more thing to make the PS3 more expensive and will likely be no more than a gimmick to tell devs to fill up.
I remeber when people were telling me VHS was dead and laserdisk was going to replace it. Guess what happened. The digital format change finaly happened years later when the market was ready and had decent TVs in place en mass. The market of the next few years is by no means ready for HD BS formats.
Actually the judge can help a defendant like that if the defendant does not have a lawyer at the time. The judge was doing the right thing. It's for those who are dumb enough to go it without a lawyer can have some sort of idea on what the hell is going on and don't get pummled too heavily, but is also if the defendant is incompitent (like the soccer mom).
I am all for releasing DVD & Theater on the same day. Two tickets set me back $18 and some shitty theater food will eaisily set you back at least half that. At that highway robbery rate I could have bought the DVD, invited a few friends over, and not have to deal with some fuckwad trailer trash behind me that snuck in that has thier 4 love children in tow and wont shut any of them up. Oh and lets not foget I can bypass shitty previews for movies I could give a damn about (buy yourself a hackable DVD player...if you don't it's your own fault).
And this is just one more reason why I stick to smaller shops and stay away from the mega marts. Employees at the mega marts could give two shits about the customer. At a smaller shops? Generaly I know the people there and they know me by name (hell I generaly get to know the manager). You know why? Both sides are far more apt to care and be knoledgeable about what they have. They care more about the buisness & the products and I care that a nice small buisness I like keeps going. I pay a small premium, but I far prefer that to dealing with a pimple-faced teen in the middle of puberty that is a "rebel" with asparations of getting an Asian character tatooed on thier arm to make them "uniqe" and stand out (but in the end just look like everyone else).
You can have your efficiency all you damn well please, but I'll take the social aspect any day. If I want efficiency and no human interaction I'll just buy stuff online. Oh...and not to mention once your stuck in a line with 30 others waiting for them to fix the RFID scaner, waiting for some twat to figure out how to put bills into the machine, or can't learn to swipe thier ATM card so you can buy your 12 pack of Mountain Dew I'll be at home since the smaller shops I go to have one...maybe two people in line and if worse comes to worse and power were to go out the owners can grab a calculator. I'm all for speeding things up. Hell I love ATM cards, but not everything can be done at an ATM machine nor would I want it to be. Thankfuly for now however this RFID tech is religated just to the warehouse. It's hard enough setting up RFID to cover a store. They have to start making shelves out of plastic to be practicle.
I kind of find it funny that I feel this way about RFID yet I help help research & deploy RFID & other tracking methods. Yet I sure as hell wont les anything past a simple personal GPS system into my life.
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I'd add TVs to the list personaly. I haven't actually bought a TV in 9 years and I'm on my 2nd TV (and I just need one more service call for this one). I just pay for a new fat 5 year warranty and before the warranty is up I've had 4 service calls (of which they have to give me a new TV that cost the same as the old TV for where I shop at). Maybe one day they'll make a TV that actually lasts from being used mainly to just play games one day, but I doubt it. I still have my first TV from 20 years ago that still works like a champ. They just don't build em like they used to.
Adult Swim is actually a network inside of Cartoon Network. They just got onto the Nielson's Rateings because they are doing such a standup job. Cartoon Network has absolutely no fsking clue what they are doing when it comes to more "Adult" oriented toons and they admit it thankfully (before there was Toonami which sucked ass and still does, but it's mainly geared and at a timeslot aimed at little kiddies now anyways).
I'm honestly waiting for the William Street guys doing AS to start signing onto cable networks as thier own channel. However AS is not without thier fare share of fuckups though. Tom Goes to the Mayor and decision to being over the abismal Milk Chan. Otherwise they have been fairly spot on with the good material.
My experience with Thief on the Xbox with glitches mainly led to that puzzles had a tendancy to reset and yet still be complete thus getting you stuck with nowhere you can go. I keep trieing to plow through it, but it's such a gawd aful mess to run into that every level and be forced to start over.
It's what happens when you no longer have a line that seperates the ritch from the poor. Those people were buisy shooting, looting, and killing each other in thier own small poor spots of town, but once something like Katria comes along and displaces them and you put news cameras in the mix with ritch white people who will call the police because timmy next door put a baseball through thier window. *goes back to sleep*
DVD will win in the end. It's here, it works, and I could honestly give a shit about a new, even more heavily DRMed disk. At least with DVD I can redily decrypt, copy, transcode, sample, and burn all without a single piece of "approved" software by any DRM loving studio. HD-DVD seems stillborn at this point and Blur-Ray is just one more thing to make the PS3 more expensive and will likely be no more than a gimmick to tell devs to fill up. I remeber when people were telling me VHS was dead and laserdisk was going to replace it. Guess what happened. The digital format change finaly happened years later when the market was ready and had decent TVs in place en mass. The market of the next few years is by no means ready for HD BS formats.
Actually the judge can help a defendant like that if the defendant does not have a lawyer at the time. The judge was doing the right thing. It's for those who are dumb enough to go it without a lawyer can have some sort of idea on what the hell is going on and don't get pummled too heavily, but is also if the defendant is incompitent (like the soccer mom).
I am all for releasing DVD & Theater on the same day. Two tickets set me back $18 and some shitty theater food will eaisily set you back at least half that. At that highway robbery rate I could have bought the DVD, invited a few friends over, and not have to deal with some fuckwad trailer trash behind me that snuck in that has thier 4 love children in tow and wont shut any of them up. Oh and lets not foget I can bypass shitty previews for movies I could give a damn about (buy yourself a hackable DVD player...if you don't it's your own fault).
And this is just one more reason why I stick to smaller shops and stay away from the mega marts. Employees at the mega marts could give two shits about the customer. At a smaller shops? Generaly I know the people there and they know me by name (hell I generaly get to know the manager). You know why? Both sides are far more apt to care and be knoledgeable about what they have. They care more about the buisness & the products and I care that a nice small buisness I like keeps going. I pay a small premium, but I far prefer that to dealing with a pimple-faced teen in the middle of puberty that is a "rebel" with asparations of getting an Asian character tatooed on thier arm to make them "uniqe" and stand out (but in the end just look like everyone else).
You can have your efficiency all you damn well please, but I'll take the social aspect any day. If I want efficiency and no human interaction I'll just buy stuff online. Oh...and not to mention once your stuck in a line with 30 others waiting for them to fix the RFID scaner, waiting for some twat to figure out how to put bills into the machine, or can't learn to swipe thier ATM card so you can buy your 12 pack of Mountain Dew I'll be at home since the smaller shops I go to have one...maybe two people in line and if worse comes to worse and power were to go out the owners can grab a calculator. I'm all for speeding things up. Hell I love ATM cards, but not everything can be done at an ATM machine nor would I want it to be. Thankfuly for now however this RFID tech is religated just to the warehouse. It's hard enough setting up RFID to cover a store. They have to start making shelves out of plastic to be practicle.
I kind of find it funny that I feel this way about RFID yet I help help research & deploy RFID & other tracking methods. Yet I sure as hell wont les anything past a simple personal GPS system into my life.