Considering the limits of their source material, they're doing a pretty good job. But you have to ask yourself something: What's more important? Quality writing or varied animation? For me it's the writing that makes it funny.
1: P2P - 0.001% at best. Six out of 5,300 songs. 2: iTunes/eMusic/ -0.6%. Estimated 300 out of 5,300 songs. 3: Creative Commons - None that I know of. 4: Own CDs - 99%. Most of what I have. 5: Friends CDs - About 0.001%, Six or seven songs that I can remember.
I also have some custom mixes that were released for free by the person doing the mix.
How much money have you given Apple and the RIAA for songs you already bought on CD, tape or LP?
Let's see.... Um, about $5.00 US, for the five songs I liked from a tape I bought twelve years ago that got eaten by my tape player. Still feeling all smug and self-righteuos?
Why would I be buying songs from iTMS when I can ripp them to MP3 on my computer?
And yes, broradcast radio and TV are "free" for the consumer to listen to, only they are not. They are paid for by advertising dollars. And those ads are becomming ever more intrusive. Music on the radio almost always has crap piled on top of the openings and closings, be ity ads, other songs or DJ chitchat. And TV is being burried alive under the overlayed crap on almost every TV show out there. Sure, you can record all of this for free, but you are stuck with the advertising stuck in it. Every time you view or listen to that piece you are giving the advewrtising your eyes and ears.
Star Trek was been a moras of crap for way too long. Neither Voyager or Enterprise should have been made. And the movies should have stopped at 6. All of the newer ones have been tripe. (Yes, I know, 1,3, and 5 were tripe as well, but EVERYTHING past 6 has been utter crap.)
If you only like music the RIAA tells you is good, don't bother...
Pretty male attempt to preemtively deflect critisism of their meager offerings. Especially considering that most of their music is pretty mainstream RIAA- Aproved music. But what the hell does the RIAA have to do with whether music is good or not? Or are you one of those "I'm cool because I listen to music no one has heard of!" guys?
I had a subscription to EMusic for six months. I cancelled for three reasons:
I couldn't find any more music that I liked
They put in that limit to how many songs you could download per month
And I discovered that I had been downloading music I only liked a little bit just to get my money's worth out of my subscription fee
Maybe he means DRMed WMA files. It's not too hard to see why Apple doesn't let WMA files on the iPod. They don't want to give Microsoft any of the iPod business.
Space Quest 5 had ads for Sprint long-distance every time you used the ship-to-ship communicator. It pissed me off so much that I boycotted all Sierra games from that point on except for Half-Life.
I didn't pay $50.00 to have ads rammed into my face.
My work computer has a HOSTS file with several hundred sites on it that I absolutely do not want to visit at work. Somehow I misspelled slashdot.org and I can still get here.:(
Which is odd, since most of the people I know who play/played The Sims were men, including myself. MY wife hates the game. She thinks it's pointless. I liked it enough I ran The Wage of Sim website (now closed) for several years. Most of the people emailing me were male.
Freedom my hairy ass. This isn't about freedom. It;s about greed and selfishness. It's about wanting the world and not wanting to pay for it. It's about trying to get a free ride. It's about being a freeloading leech on the ass of society.
Please don't confuse "freedom" and "getting stuff for free". They are not the same.
None of this security matters. At all. Why? Because this isn't going to happen again. The 9/11 attacks only worked for two reasons:
It had never been done before.
In EVERY previous hijacking in the USA all you had to do to survive was sit down and shut up. The people on teh plane were hostages used as tools for getting money, transport to Cuba, prisoners released from jail, etc...
9/11 was teh first time in US history where the passangers were "collateral damage" and nothing more. We had all been correctly trained to just sit down and let teh hijackers do what they wanted in order to survive. Because until 9/11 they were only killing passangers who tried to get in their way.
Now the rules have changed. We know that every hijacking could be people trying o turn the plane into a weapon. People won't be so willing to sit down and shut up in the future. And you can bet your ass that the Air Force won't be waiting for orders from above to put an F14 on teh tail of any hijacked plane in the future.
I live in Alaska, the 49th state of the USA. Every year hordes of ticks^H^H^H^H^H, er, tourists invade my city looking for some pre-packaged adventure. Every year I get comments from some of my fellow Americans after they've disembarked from their cruise ships like thus: (and I kid you not)
You all take American money?
You speak really good English!
At what alititude do deer turn into moose?
How high are we above sea-level (usually asked withing walking distance from the dock)?
etc... (I try to forget, they get painful.)
The simple sad fact is that most Americans are utter and complete morons. That said, I think any company that sells products into so many markets is going to piss off someone, no matter how much they try to take into account cultural differences. Remember that Japanese tire with the tread that happened to look a lot like a word in another language that offended said group? (I bareley remember anything about this.)
How many times does this need to be said: "I don't want the special editions! I want the versions I saw in the theatre as a kid and that is the only version I'm going to buy, ever!"
What about that do you not understand? He's not corecting minor errors, ie; the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs, he's altering the stories simply to alter them.
I'll tell you the ONLY changes I want to see are actually compensations for the transfer from film to video process: I want Dart Vader's eyes to be opaque again, and I want the matte boxes removed from around the space ships. And that's it.
Larry Niven correcting the backwards rotation of the Earth in "Ringworld" is fine. Larry Niven rewriting it so that Speaker To Animals is a vegitarian is wrong.
You might want to apply that to your future posts as well. That is if you want anyone to take anything you say seriously and not just pass you off as the immature jackass you display yourself to be in your post. But that's your call.
Of course. But Microsoft warned everyone that SP2 was more concerned with security than it was with compatibility. The fact that some custome written software breaks should not be a surprise to anyone.
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Considering the limits of their source material, they're doing a pretty good job. But you have to ask yourself something: What's more important? Quality writing or varied animation? For me it's the writing that makes it funny.
We'll know if we can make him woohoo with his wife in a changing booth at a clothing store.
1: P2P - 0.001% at best. Six out of 5,300 songs.
2: iTunes/eMusic/ -0.6%. Estimated 300 out of 5,300 songs.
3: Creative Commons - None that I know of.
4: Own CDs - 99%. Most of what I have.
5: Friends CDs - About 0.001%, Six or seven songs that I can remember.
I also have some custom mixes that were released for free by the person doing the mix.
Ballmer is an asshat.
Let's see.... Um, about $5.00 US, for the five songs I liked from a tape I bought twelve years ago that got eaten by my tape player. Still feeling all smug and self-righteuos?
Why would I be buying songs from iTMS when I can ripp them to MP3 on my computer?
And yes, broradcast radio and TV are "free" for the consumer to listen to, only they are not. They are paid for by advertising dollars. And those ads are becomming ever more intrusive. Music on the radio almost always has crap piled on top of the openings and closings, be ity ads, other songs or DJ chitchat. And TV is being burried alive under the overlayed crap on almost every TV show out there. Sure, you can record all of this for free, but you are stuck with the advertising stuck in it. Every time you view or listen to that piece you are giving the advewrtising your eyes and ears.
Star Trek was been a moras of crap for way too long. Neither Voyager or Enterprise should have been made. And the movies should have stopped at 6. All of the newer ones have been tripe. (Yes, I know, 1,3, and 5 were tripe as well, but EVERYTHING past 6 has been utter crap.)
I can't tell. It doesn't work in Firefox.
But it doesn't run on my Mac.
Pretty male attempt to preemtively deflect critisism of their meager offerings. Especially considering that most of their music is pretty mainstream RIAA- Aproved music. But what the hell does the RIAA have to do with whether music is good or not? Or are you one of those "I'm cool because I listen to music no one has heard of!" guys?
I had a subscription to EMusic for six months. I cancelled for three reasons:
Maybe he means DRMed WMA files. It's not too hard to see why Apple doesn't let WMA files on the iPod. They don't want to give Microsoft any of the iPod business.
Ginger is the kind of girl you take to a motel and never see again.
Mary Ann is the kind of girl you take home to meet mom and dad and stay with the rest of your life.
Well done, good sir!
*flings underpants at the stage*
And if those pesky neighbors get on your nerves you can give them a taste of the old Death From Above.
Space Quest 5 had ads for Sprint long-distance every time you used the ship-to-ship communicator. It pissed me off so much that I boycotted all Sierra games from that point on except for Half-Life.
I didn't pay $50.00 to have ads rammed into my face.
My work computer has a HOSTS file with several hundred sites on it that I absolutely do not want to visit at work. Somehow I misspelled slashdot.org and I can still get here. :(
Which is odd, since most of the people I know who play/played The Sims were men, including myself. MY wife hates the game. She thinks it's pointless. I liked it enough I ran The Wage of Sim website (now closed) for several years. Most of the people emailing me were male.
Oh, yeah. The "get free shit from someone else" button. How nice.
I'd mod you up if I had any mod points left.
Freedom my hairy ass. This isn't about freedom. It;s about greed and selfishness. It's about wanting the world and not wanting to pay for it. It's about trying to get a free ride. It's about being a freeloading leech on the ass of society.
Please don't confuse "freedom" and "getting stuff for free". They are not the same.
- It had never been done before.
- In EVERY previous hijacking in the USA all you had to do to survive was sit down and shut up. The people on teh plane were hostages used as tools for getting money, transport to Cuba, prisoners released from jail, etc...
9/11 was teh first time in US history where the passangers were "collateral damage" and nothing more. We had all been correctly trained to just sit down and let teh hijackers do what they wanted in order to survive. Because until 9/11 they were only killing passangers who tried to get in their way.Now the rules have changed. We know that every hijacking could be people trying o turn the plane into a weapon. People won't be so willing to sit down and shut up in the future. And you can bet your ass that the Air Force won't be waiting for orders from above to put an F14 on teh tail of any hijacked plane in the future.
This whole system is a waste of time and energy.
- You all take American money?
- You speak really good English!
- At what alititude do deer turn into moose?
- How high are we above sea-level (usually asked withing walking distance from the dock)?
- etc... (I try to forget, they get painful.)
The simple sad fact is that most Americans are utter and complete morons. That said, I think any company that sells products into so many markets is going to piss off someone, no matter how much they try to take into account cultural differences. Remember that Japanese tire with the tread that happened to look a lot like a word in another language that offended said group? (I bareley remember anything about this.)How many times does this need to be said: "I don't want the special editions! I want the versions I saw in the theatre as a kid and that is the only version I'm going to buy, ever!"
What about that do you not understand? He's not corecting minor errors, ie; the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs, he's altering the stories simply to alter them.
I'll tell you the ONLY changes I want to see are actually compensations for the transfer from film to video process: I want Dart Vader's eyes to be opaque again, and I want the matte boxes removed from around the space ships. And that's it.
Larry Niven correcting the backwards rotation of the Earth in "Ringworld" is fine. Larry Niven rewriting it so that Speaker To Animals is a vegitarian is wrong.
Well, Alyssa Milano's ass in those cute shorts. Otherwise, the movie was a turd.
Now a movie based on DOA Extreme Beach Volleyball might be interesting. In a "Girls Jumping On Trampolines" kind of way.
Insightful? That's downright +5 Funnay!
You might want to apply that to your future posts as well. That is if you want anyone to take anything you say seriously and not just pass you off as the immature jackass you display yourself to be in your post. But that's your call.
Of course. But Microsoft warned everyone that SP2 was more concerned with security than it was with compatibility. The fact that some custome written software breaks should not be a surprise to anyone.