Comment It had some funny bits (Score 3, Interesting) 288
But not enough to justify a pair of full-price tickets. I will give it this; it was better than any Adam Sandler or Jim Carrey movie I've seen.
But not enough to justify a pair of full-price tickets. I will give it this; it was better than any Adam Sandler or Jim Carrey movie I've seen.
The Rankin & Bass animated Hobbit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... is truer to the source material than this bloated mess.
Peter Jackson ripped the soul out of Lord of the Rings when he neglected to film The Scouring of the Shire. No one who loves Tolkien expected anything better this go-around.
Obligatory http://xkcd.com/538/
Sony produced a picture "The Interview" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt27... where two tmz-like "journalists" score an interview with fan Kim Jong-un, but the CIA wants them to asassinate him instead. DPRK is supposedly way pissed, asked Sony to dump the picture, sony says hell no, and here we are.
-- As far as i'm concerned they can all goto hell.
There's got to be a better way!
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD02xx/EWD215.html
To remove accidental moderation.
The initial stories of the purchase made sure to note that this was a "personal purchase" by Bezos. If WP is going to embed ads, is a digital subscription going to become part of Amazon Prime?
This is crazy. We've allowed our kids to be overloaded with homework; now we're letting the education lobby steal summer vacation. Once the state is able to jack the retirement age up to 85 or so we'll have the perfect hive society.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/...
There's no doubt in my mind that if the Sony case were being heard today, the VCR would be ruled an infringing device.
The Nook Simple Touch (E-Ink) reader hardware is excellent and IMO way better than the E Ink Kindle. The firmware handles sideloaded epub books with ease and there's also a slot for an sdcard, something sadly lacking on the Kindle.
yes, mess for sure.
no usb port. no way to play truly local content. and you have to transcode, it seems, to meet the player's profiles. the player should play EVERY format, but this one does not. in this day and age, to release a player that has limits seems pretty braindead to me.
Luckily, none of that's true.
Plex is working w/o transcoding, XBMC is working with minor glitches, The USB port works with a keyboard and mouse, and with 3rd-party wired controllers (no USB storage yet), and all video formats seem to work. Pretty good start for a couple of days after release!
XBMC's Gotham release already runs on this device and XDA members are sideloading apps already. It's early days for the FireTV, but it looks promising.
Sutter's not a no-value-added middleman. He's the showrunner for SoA. Creator, primary writer,etc. I agree he's wrong-headed regarding IP, and a clown.
If the whole thing is as good as the first ten minutes, I'm in. The actors for fine (Scotty is excellent) and it's leagues better than the crap JJ Abrams is putting out.
You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred. -- Superchicken
