>They can't be arrested, can they
The poster is probably referring to two british company directors (different firms) who have been arrested as soon as they stepped off the plane because they run Internet gambling firms, quiet legal in the UK but illegal in the US.
You can't buy pop videos so no loss of revenue there.
You can download the video from YouTube, think 'I like that' and go out and buy the CD. Money made there.
I can't think of any downside to free pop videos online unless someone wants to rip the mega low quality sound off the video stream but frankly you'd be pretty desperate to do that.
Sounds like record company is shooting itself in the foot to me.
>You know, the beauty of digital media (like LaserDisc)
The video on laserdiscs is analogue. Only the audio was digital and that was a retrofit as that too was originally analogue.
>Essentially these are two objects that emit extremely red-shifted light.
So it's very, very old and emits red light? Sounds like they've just spotted the first ever brothel.
We can opt out of both junkmail and cold calls. I've had 2 cold calls in 5 years and get maybe one item of junkmail every 2 weeks. Works well.
The two calls I did get were both from the same mobile phone company who were big and ugly enough to know better but were using offshore people to do their dirty work and when I told them I was on the telephone preference register and they were about to incur a 5K fine they were completely confused as to what I was talking about.
Why/how on Earth did the originals get trashed doing the special editions?
You can bet they'll turn up and in 2-3 years time we'll have another set of DVDs with the original in anamorphic and the special editions in normal widescreen on disk 2. I'm placing a bet on this one. Easy money.
Sarcasm maybe but if they showed a large number of users of a particular camera routinely applying a stop or so of correction, it would be a pointer to dodgy metering quality and a camera to avoid.
Why is it that slashdotters by and large are unable to spot jokes? Time and time again I see someone post something funny which then generates hoards of posts by people taking it seriously "oh no, I really think you do need oxygen tanks and scuba gear underwater, just chewing oxygum isn't enough".
>a state known for nothing so much as lightning and storms?
And oranges. It's a well kept secret that rocket fuel is actually distilled orange juice. What colour is the shuttle's fuel tank? Orange. To hide the leaks.
I've been so bored with computing and IT in recent years. It's all just more of the same, a bit bigger, a bit faster. P2P was cool and portable MP3 players too but apart from that, it's all incremental changes by and large.
I would therefor like to say thank you to Xerox for finally coming up with something truly new and radical.
On the downside, seeing as most paper comes from renewable resources i.e. managed tree farms, is it really an issue these days? What is the cost of paper production versus reusing as per this system? When you take in to account the cost of the printer/ink/paper, is it better for us overall? What about the chemicals involved, benign or nasty?
Trepanning is starting to be used again (with proper doctors, not the more traditional DIY efforts) and leeches are often used to cleanse wounds. The old weird stuff can come back too!
>My home machine goes months without a reboot - except when a patch demands it
You're not patching often enough then. The rebooty ones come out a lot more often than that!
I agree XP is pretty stable though. Almost all problems I've ever had have been drivers or el-cheapo hardware.
>How did you know they were illegal?
Maybe they looked a bit 'funny', smelled of spicy food or somesuch. I even saw one with a droopy moustache - he just *had* to be illegal.
(For the humour impaired, the above is a joke, just thought I'd point that out as some people here couldn't spot humour if it bit them on the ass)
and started creating its own gazornaplatting words that no-one but the program itself could middlybundy? It could eat up bibblys of disk space as all the new words chimmdudlied in a grawn.
Pretty much any company plugged into anything logs everything. How else do people magically produce emails 4 years old in court cases? The ISPs record everything, who you shop with records everything, search engines record everything. It's kept for x months/years as needed.
AFAIK Sony are coughing up for this one. I read that this plus the ongoing PS3 and Blue-ray issues are being cited as wrecking their attempts at a turnaround this year.
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>They can't be arrested, can they
The poster is probably referring to two british company directors (different firms) who have been arrested as soon as they stepped off the plane because they run Internet gambling firms, quiet legal in the UK but illegal in the US.
You can't buy pop videos so no loss of revenue there.
You can download the video from YouTube, think 'I like that' and go out and buy the CD. Money made there.
I can't think of any downside to free pop videos online unless someone wants to rip the mega low quality sound off the video stream but frankly you'd be pretty desperate to do that.
Sounds like record company is shooting itself in the foot to me.
>Luke and Leah would end up sisters
That's one rerelease I must have missed.
>You know, the beauty of digital media (like LaserDisc) The video on laserdiscs is analogue. Only the audio was digital and that was a retrofit as that too was originally analogue.
>Essentially these are two objects that emit extremely red-shifted light.
So it's very, very old and emits red light? Sounds like they've just spotted the first ever brothel.
The IBM didn't have a Defender flashback and put in a smart-bomb button on these puppies.
We can opt out of both junkmail and cold calls. I've had 2 cold calls in 5 years and get maybe one item of junkmail every 2 weeks. Works well.
The two calls I did get were both from the same mobile phone company who were big and ugly enough to know better but were using offshore people to do their dirty work and when I told them I was on the telephone preference register and they were about to incur a 5K fine they were completely confused as to what I was talking about.
Why/how on Earth did the originals get trashed doing the special editions?
You can bet they'll turn up and in 2-3 years time we'll have another set of DVDs with the original in anamorphic and the special editions in normal widescreen on disk 2. I'm placing a bet on this one. Easy money.
Sarcasm maybe but if they showed a large number of users of a particular camera routinely applying a stop or so of correction, it would be a pointer to dodgy metering quality and a camera to avoid.
With names like the Kiss Digital or Digital Rebel on offer, thank $Diety I live in Europe and get a sensible name like 350D, well, 300D in my case.
No, it will be the Intel four-play and you just know what's going to happen next..
Why is it that slashdotters by and large are unable to spot jokes? Time and time again I see someone post something funny which then generates hoards of posts by people taking it seriously "oh no, I really think you do need oxygen tanks and scuba gear underwater, just chewing oxygum isn't enough".
>a state known for nothing so much as lightning and storms?
And oranges. It's a well kept secret that rocket fuel is actually distilled orange juice. What colour is the shuttle's fuel tank? Orange. To hide the leaks.
>It's not his fault his first and last names are both euphemisms for 'penis.'
You should worry, his middle name is Knobcheese.
I've been so bored with computing and IT in recent years. It's all just more of the same, a bit bigger, a bit faster. P2P was cool and portable MP3 players too but apart from that, it's all incremental changes by and large.
I would therefor like to say thank you to Xerox for finally coming up with something truly new and radical.
On the downside, seeing as most paper comes from renewable resources i.e. managed tree farms, is it really an issue these days? What is the cost of paper production versus reusing as per this system? When you take in to account the cost of the printer/ink/paper, is it better for us overall? What about the chemicals involved, benign or nasty?
Trepanning is starting to be used again (with proper doctors, not the more traditional DIY efforts) and leeches are often used to cleanse wounds. The old weird stuff can come back too!
>My home machine goes months without a reboot - except when a patch demands it
You're not patching often enough then. The rebooty ones come out a lot more often than that!
I agree XP is pretty stable though. Almost all problems I've ever had have been drivers or el-cheapo hardware.
>Step 5: ???
Step 5: No Profit!!!
>How did you know they were illegal?
Maybe they looked a bit 'funny', smelled of spicy food or somesuch. I even saw one with a droopy moustache - he just *had* to be illegal.
(For the humour impaired, the above is a joke, just thought I'd point that out as some people here couldn't spot humour if it bit them on the ass)
Alas I'm in London so I've never seen one. Do they make a noise? How long do they go for inbetween charges?
and started creating its own gazornaplatting words that no-one but the program itself could middlybundy? It could eat up bibblys of disk space as all the new words chimmdudlied in a grawn.
>DOS is literally the most popular OS in this space.
The OS/firmware in some (all?) Canon D-SLRs is a DOS variant.
Pretty much any company plugged into anything logs everything. How else do people magically produce emails 4 years old in court cases? The ISPs record everything, who you shop with records everything, search engines record everything. It's kept for x months/years as needed.
AFAIK Sony are coughing up for this one. I read that this plus the ongoing PS3 and Blue-ray issues are being cited as wrecking their attempts at a turnaround this year.
>Hopefully the trains will run on time.
But would you want to go where they're going?