Britain's movie industry needs a little more "support" than I can afford. All it consists of these days is Hugh Grant pictures and the odd piece of "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" dross. Well, that and Ardman Animation, and I love their stuff don't you worry;-) The British producer's attitude is that all money must be made in America. The local box office (and Europe / Far East etc.) is essentially ignored. Stupid and damaging.
The things I buy are mostly indy films - the US indy cinema scene has some great action going on - and Japanese anime as subtitled by American studios. Alright, alright, I have the odd thing from HBO too, but they are good. And as much region 2 BBC stuff as that anyway.
All in all - I want a Globalised media industry, or at least the right to legally and conveniently watch any disc in any player in any country with no need to piss about with DRM restrictions designed to deny me on grounds of region. But then I want a lot of stuff....
Yeah, I'm totally with you on that, living in Britain with a DVD collection that is at least 50% region 1.
But the reason Lost can't be bought outside of the US is because of the way the TV networks license their material for particular markets. Nothing to do with Apple... you'll find the same at any Online Video Download Store coming to a site near you. It's the same deal with the lame old DVD region codes. And it stinks.
I'm not afraid of Blu Ray regions though because, much like my region unlocked DVD software I use now, I'm sure the community will find a way around the measures - no matter how much work has been put into them - and I will gladly use that and keep on BUYING stuff I would rather not just RIP OFF and download.
But if they force me, I know what to do... *clicks Bit Torrent*
Although he's stirring up support by slamming the Blu Ray DRM, he's hardly arguing for a DRM free alternative.
Rather one which FORCES WINDOWS on every sucker... or MS selection of all licensed players at least. Which Apple can forget.
Yeah, thanks Bill. How about you just let Balmer handle the PR. His F**king Kill (tm) diatribes make for much stronger argument awareness. What with risks of chair inflicted injuries.
First played the original Civ. But Civ II beat it in my mind. Didn't like Alpha Centauri one bit. Civ III seems interesting but flawed.
My favourite Civ experience actually was reading the manual to the original version some months after I bought it and had learned the game basics through intuition. I was on a roadtrip as a kid and was bored senseless, but the manual was good! Learned what those mystic icons were finally meant to be!;-)
There was an episode of Horizon about a month ago covering the Flores debate. I'll sum up what they said:
- Modern native Flores islanders are themselves a pigmy / small stature population. - Elderly people there (with less genetic mixing with outsiders) are even smaller. - Microcephaly, abnormally small skull size, bears very well with the data of the finds. - The bones found are modern humans of abnormally small size, perhaps dwarf pigmies?
There was a bunch of skull comparison, brain volume and other scientific arguments on the show - which I mostly missed! (Bad timing) They managed to confuse one of the key supporters of the separate species argument when they showed him 3d models of two brain casts. One was from the Flores bones, and the other was a dwarf microcephalic brain. He was surprised how similar they were in detail.
Of course, they had to question just how an apparent *group* of such physically abnormal people could have lived on Flores. But questioned whether they were reproducing, or indeed there was ever more than a single handful of them.
Surprisingly many still do.
Have a look in the Details view in Azureus, or whatever equivalent you have. You can see them all there, things like ABC and BitComet included.
"The Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter use the VxWorks operating system running on a PowerPC platform. VxWorks is in use in several other spacecraft, and Boeing Commercial Airplanes intends to use the operating system in their new 787 airliner."
From TFA:
Controllers want to get the spacecraft out of safe mode as quickly as possible because it can use up to 10 times more fuel than it would during its normal operating mode.
Presumably thats for all the steering to track the Sun.
I agree the "safe mode" or rather "emergency recovery mode" is a good idea, pretty unavoidable in design in fact.
But the fact they seem to be fighting with their probe's interface shows up how old the thing is, and probably a bit senile from the cosmic rays and so on.
Damn just when the fancy picture sweep was about to happen too!
Even worse - you can tell it's win 95...
Mars Global Surveyor was launched in November 1996 on a mission to study the Red Planet's surface features, atmosphere and magnetic properties.
It could even have a little Chips&Technologies onboard graphics card...
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PC desktop and Mac laptop - both nVidia. And that's usually a bad thing! ;-)
Britain's movie industry needs a little more "support" than I can afford. All it consists of these days is Hugh Grant pictures and the odd piece of "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" dross. Well, that and Ardman Animation, and I love their stuff don't you worry ;-) The British producer's attitude is that all money must be made in America. The local box office (and Europe / Far East etc.) is essentially ignored. Stupid and damaging.
The things I buy are mostly indy films - the US indy cinema scene has some great action going on - and Japanese anime as subtitled by American studios. Alright, alright, I have the odd thing from HBO too, but they are good. And as much region 2 BBC stuff as that anyway.
All in all - I want a Globalised media industry, or at least the right to legally and conveniently watch any disc in any player in any country with no need to piss about with DRM restrictions designed to deny me on grounds of region. But then I want a lot of stuff....
Yeah, I'm totally with you on that, living in Britain with a DVD collection that is at least 50% region 1.
... you'll find the same at any Online Video Download Store coming to a site near you. It's the same deal with the lame old DVD region codes. And it stinks.
... *clicks Bit Torrent*
But the reason Lost can't be bought outside of the US is because of the way the TV networks license their material for particular markets. Nothing to do with Apple
I'm not afraid of Blu Ray regions though because, much like my region unlocked DVD software I use now, I'm sure the community will find a way around the measures - no matter how much work has been put into them - and I will gladly use that and keep on BUYING stuff I would rather not just RIP OFF and download.
But if they force me, I know what to do
Everyone knows what the W in WMV stands for.
... or MS selection of all licensed players at least. Which Apple can forget.
Although he's stirring up support by slamming the Blu Ray DRM, he's hardly arguing for a DRM free alternative.
Rather one which FORCES WINDOWS on every sucker
Yeah, thanks Bill. How about you just let Balmer handle the PR. His F**king Kill (tm) diatribes make for much stronger argument awareness. What with risks of chair inflicted injuries.
First played the original Civ.
;-)
But Civ II beat it in my mind.
Didn't like Alpha Centauri one bit.
Civ III seems interesting but flawed.
My favourite Civ experience actually was reading the manual to the original version some months after I bought it and had learned the game basics through intuition. I was on a roadtrip as a kid and was bored senseless, but the manual was good! Learned what those mystic icons were finally meant to be!
You've just about summed up all the things I find annoying about Civ, being a player since the original when it came to DOS.
There was an episode of Horizon about a month ago covering the Flores debate. I'll sum up what they said:
- Modern native Flores islanders are themselves a pigmy / small stature population.
- Elderly people there (with less genetic mixing with outsiders) are even smaller.
- Microcephaly, abnormally small skull size, bears very well with the data of the finds.
- The bones found are modern humans of abnormally small size, perhaps dwarf pigmies?
There was a bunch of skull comparison, brain volume and other scientific arguments on the show - which I mostly missed! (Bad timing) They managed to confuse one of the key supporters of the separate species argument when they showed him 3d models of two brain casts. One was from the Flores bones, and the other was a dwarf microcephalic brain. He was surprised how similar they were in detail.
Of course, they had to question just how an apparent *group* of such physically abnormal people could have lived on Flores. But questioned whether they were reproducing, or indeed there was ever more than a single handful of them.
Surprisingly many still do. Have a look in the Details view in Azureus, or whatever equivalent you have. You can see them all there, things like ABC and BitComet included.
"The Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter use the VxWorks operating system running on a PowerPC platform. VxWorks is in use in several other spacecraft, and Boeing Commercial Airplanes intends to use the operating system in their new 787 airliner."
From TFA: Controllers want to get the spacecraft out of safe mode as quickly as possible because it can use up to 10 times more fuel than it would during its normal operating mode. Presumably thats for all the steering to track the Sun. I agree the "safe mode" or rather "emergency recovery mode" is a good idea, pretty unavoidable in design in fact. But the fact they seem to be fighting with their probe's interface shows up how old the thing is, and probably a bit senile from the cosmic rays and so on. Damn just when the fancy picture sweep was about to happen too!
Any guesses what the download bandwidth is via space telescope at Mars? It might have taken this long for it to get SP2.
Even worse - you can tell it's win 95... Mars Global Surveyor was launched in November 1996 on a mission to study the Red Planet's surface features, atmosphere and magnetic properties. It could even have a little Chips&Technologies onboard graphics card...