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Ah, but that capacitor is a defect not a proprietary function.

I'll be the first admit that I don't know the first thing about soldering.   But i watch alot of those "make your own" videos on youtube for making little gadgets.    Its a hobby I've been meaning to take up.    No real defects are plaguing me at the moment.   

You're absolutely right InCreator.   I should have tested the printer in the store.

"Excuse me sales person!  Pull up a computer and some cords!   We're going to scan pictures until this printer runs dry!"

InCreator, I suggest you tuck your top lip under your chin.   When you repeat a phrase to me that's condescending.  And you confuse the damn phrase... I'm going to call you on it.

I'm sure you're a great person.   I'm sure I rubbed you the wrong way with a consumer advocacy thread.   But digging at me because of an unseen defect with the product does not compare to a hole in an umbrella.     A comparable product would be an umbrella that looks like it has no holes in the store but then grows a hole in it only when its outside and raining.

This thread is about proprietary mechanisms in consumer products.   Not broken or faulty products.   You'll find that every printer manufacturer has these same mechanisms, like metering the amount of ink you've used in one cartridge and disabling its further use.   So sure let's boycott all printers and let's boycott this or that.    I am a consumer who sucks it up most of the time but by making this thread I've already learned great information from Vince, Darth, and Andail   whereas you clearly prefer to be a stick in the mud.

Grindhouse is a term for a kind of movie theather which showed exploitation movies in the 70's.    The movies were typically shown as double features.

So "Grindhouse" (released last year) was a 4 hour block of movies consisting of "Planet Terror" and "Death Proof."  When box office sales disappointed the studio - they stopped showing it as a double feature, splitting up the two films.   

I saw it as originally intended and many many people walked out of the theatre half way thru the 2nd movie.   This was 3 and a half hours into the show, so it's pretty understandable.   Grindhouse double features are not for everyone.

Somebody in this thread said there might be a sequel with just a bunch of trailers.  I think that's a misinterpretation of the fact they 're filming a feature length movie based on the fake trailer "Machete".   People saw the fake trailer during Grindhouse  & demanded to see a real movie based on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machete_(film)

I saw it!

Everyone related to this movie did a great job.  The actors were great, the directing was great, the production value was amazing.


BUT THE WRITING SUCKED. 

Spoiler

No one has mentioned this yet.    Steven Spielberg is known for all his alien movies but Indiana Jones is the one genre that was pure adventure and exotic eye candy within the mysteries of the human race.   As soon as you put an alien in IJ4, it just becomes another alien movie.    I was furious.

Also, returning to the warehouse where they store the Arc RUINS the ending of Raiders for future generations.     At the end of Raiders you say "Oh my God, they're just going to store this awesome artifact and no one even realizes its there."

When future viewers see the end of Raiders they'll think,  "Hey look!   Its the warehouse with the alien!" They won't see any significance to storing it away.   ( In a warehouse that's so much safer than anywhere else because they test nukes less than a mile away. Right....)

Eric:  How would aliens know about earth irrigation anyways?  You'd figure earth's gravity was a HUGE factor in its own irrigation and agriculture. 

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I still love Spielberg but Lucas has no business writing films.   He just mix and matches car chases with shitty dialogue and lets his name carry the story.   If an amature filmmaker wrote this stuff for his first screenplay he would be laughed at.

Planet Terror is a riot.

You've really got to be in a certain mood to see Death Proof.    It's chitty chat for like 40 minutes.   

I saw the original theater run of Girindhouse and halfway thru Death Proof I was ready to walk out.   Planet Terror was satisfying in itself.

I love the name.  I'm going for the demo as we speak.

Crayons are fun but I hate the nature of wax!    You'll try to saturate a spot with color but you'll just end up clearing off the wax that was already there!



Gimme colored pencils any day!

I still haven't seen IJ 4


Maybe I can watch it on the IMAX tonight! ----edit----- No Imax, damn.   No DLP either wtf?

Oh yeah!

Spoiler

I didn't want to feel left out without my own spoiler box! 

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Man vs. machine?

Dude.
Adopt.

Still,
Adopt.

Are you suggesting I adopt a boy or a girl?   To help beat the machine?   Or perhaps you mean adapt.

Perhaps you own a tech company yourself?  The point of the thread wasn't specifically to ask anyone to send me their mini-DV tapes, or to link me to a free converter.    But the fact that you say "Why do you need to anyways?" seems rather uncreative.    The point is that companies safeguard the use of their products from the consumers they are serving.    How can anyone really question this fact.    Should I adapt to not using my scanner?   ( I eventually put an ink cartridge into my printer but it was several days without access to my scanner.)    Consumers "adapting" to these proprietary scams is the equivalent to a sheep adapting to a wolf chewing on its leg.   

Vince: is $5,200   an actual figure?  You have to be kidding me!    It's a damn good thing car companies don't force you into buying a specific brand of gas, isn't it.   We'd be paying upwards of 6 dollars a gallon by default.  ---edit-- Gulp.... considering they charge 5200 a gallon for ink, perhaps gas would be 100K per!!

Andail:   I bought a refiller pack for my ink.   I took great time and effort to fill up the ink cartridge with a syringe but not before staining my hands a dozen times only to find the ink draining from the cartridge.  This product was rather frustrating... and started my long love/hate relationship with the device.

Darth:    Proprietary phone adapters are the worst.   What I did was just buy an AC/DC adapter for my car.   Or rather a DC/AC adapter because my phone only came with the cigarette plug.   It cost a third of the price and worked with alot of devices so I was happy.

Haven't seen it.   But I don't have my hopes too high.


George Lucas isn't the best writer.  He benefits from collaborating with someone talented.    This time he collaborated with the guy who wrote Stir of Echoes, Snake Eyes, and Secret Window.   Those are his original works.  All of them kinda suck in their own way.

The stories this guy has adapted have been all right: Jurassic Park, SpiderMan, Mission Impossible.    But original stories?  Bleh!

Despite my best efforts at a witty title, I befuddled the root word "proprietary."  As in "Sony is a bunch of proprietary bastards."   Undeniably there was a day long ago when inventors worried about the competition stealing their own design.   So they built in otherwise redundant features as a sort of safety lock.     As a form of authorship protection.    But today proprietary honestly means "Make the consumer think its broken so he keeps buying more stuff."

These days I find myself buying loads and loads of crap because when a tiny spring breaks - I'm supposed to believe the ENTIRE machine is broken.   There are too many times in my life when I find myself MAN VS. MACHINE.   And I slump away disgusted with myself because the hulking beast that is technology beats me over the head with my own chair.     Most instances are not mechanical failure.   I wish that was the case.  Most cases I am defeated by proprietary concepts.

Case in point:   I own a 3 in 1 printer/fax/scanner made by Canon.    I bought this device as a method of convenience.  Instead of storing a scanner and a printer side by side... I've got them both in one unit.   Sounds logical by anyone's estimation....  Yesterday I wanted to scan an image so I booted up the old machine.    I had forgotten that I had thrown out an empty ink cartridge weeks ago... but who cares?   I'm not printing anything based on this scan anyways.    So I boot the damn machine and it's blinking red.    "Check Ink Cartridge".

Surely, it will let me scan.   This has nothing to do with ink.   "Check Ink Cartridge" it repeats.   "Ah fuck you, I'll just go around you in photoshop and override your controls!"    "Check Ink Cartridge" it repeats.

It's the modern day version of "The Raven".     This printer will not let me use ANY of its functions if it has an empty ink slot.   Sort of like a hungry baby... until you put food in its mouth don't expect it to listen to you.    And this seems to happen with all modern day appliances. Sony MiniDV cameras MUST have Sony tapes I'm told because every other tape is not properly lubricated and will break the camera.     I can't vent my frustration enough.  Making DVDs would be easy but changing the file format from MPG to AVI costs an arm and a leg..... and about 17 useless trial programs that stick their own watermark on the movie.

As for the printer it's enough that companies make 800 exclusive types of ink cartridges WITHIN their own brand.   So I couldn't buy an HP cartridge let alone any old Canon cartridge.   I'm pigeon holed into buying one specific product anyways BUT YOU MAKE IT WORSE with this buffoonery!

And....and....and..... every time these atrocities happen I seem to never have anyone to talk to.   To tell my anger.   To just let it go up in steam.    Let this be that place.

I'm just curious how it works when a country wants to change its url.

What if Italy changed its mind and wanted to be .itl  instead of .it ?


Or what if a new country formed & wanted to be .aids?  Who is the governing body that says yay or nay on that one?

Most of the punnier ones are taken alreds.

Right.  Sure.   But without RE paving the way those games would never exist.


Yes they had scarier moments with crackling radios and fog and things off camera.    I will say they were most terrifiying.  But even then I have to nod to RE for being OG.

Yeah I doubt SSH's post is a *fact*

Might need a tad more research there.  My friend Zach was born premature.   He's got cerebral palsey which means he lacks motor skills for his legs and some of the dexterity in his hands.   I dunno, this sounds more like word of mouth rubbish to me.  Wouldn't bring this up in actual conversation unless I got the facts straight.

yesithoughtitwouldbeclevertomakemydomainapun.info

Hugo's House of Horrors!    hahahaha,   seriously timed puzzles ARE scary.


I'd have to say Resident Evil for the win.   Silent Hill and other games have made good attempts but they simply follow in the footsteps.


Then there was that D game.

Probably a typo. However there are even more misspellings in the real world.

I remember talking to the owner of a Chinese/Vietnamese Restaurant called Hoa Hoa.   The owner told me that it's really supposed to be "Hao Hao" but after it was misspelled they just went with the flow.

Hmm,  I browsed a few pages.    Not too familiar with them.     Welcome to AGS.


You might find some peeps who enjoy that genre, but you'll typically find alot of us are nostalgics for the old school Sierra/Lucas Arts days.     I would have to download one of these "novels" to see what they're about.     Part of me expects japanese manga.