John

Member since: Apr 17th, 2007

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Retro Cinema: Halloween (Cinematical)

Oct 31st 2007 9:50PM The reason i loved this movie so much is the fact that it didn't have all the gore the knockoffs did.

The music was perfect to set the mood and dr. loomis was just scary in his description of Michael

The thing that makes this film brilliant was no gore. a great musical score that sets a really great tone and Jamie lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance.

The main thing was the music and Donald Pleasance that set the perfect eerie mood.

I liked Zombies version and will watch both on halloween every year. i just have to wait until zombies version comes out on DVD.

Carpenters Halloween is like a Christmas Carol for Halloween. it is not Halloween for me until i see Halloween!

Yahoo! Messenger 9 beta adds in-line video support (Download Squad)

Oct 30th 2007 9:21PM Yahoo has many problems with their released 8.1 version. too many bugs to mention on that one.

Maybe this new one will be a step up. I won't install it right now due to the fact, i already have major problems on 8.1 at the moment. some of my friends had to install the old 7.0 version.

Now they need to release the Vista version and fix the bots who not only bother you in chat rooms but bother you even when you only use the plain messenger.

Yahoo has a lot of problems currently. maybe the new version will fix a lot of them or maybe open up a whole new bunch of bugs.

The spam has really been horrible since they merged with MSN messenger.

Yahoo has always been my messenger of choice. it dose offer a great cam chat vs other cam chats i used. but recently a lot of disconnects even while your using a high speed connection. could be a server issue. but yahoo is a big company. if their servers can't handle the traffic? then maybe they are doing something wrong.

RIAA sues Usenet: Wait, you can do that? (Download Squad)

Oct 19th 2007 4:29PM It’ just an opinion. I don’t want to stir up anything!

I was pretty much being sarcastic. I guess I should of put it another way?

As i said before, When dose it stop? Who’s next? ISP’s? Bill gates and Steve jobs?

How about apple? For giving people the ability to store mp3’s on their Ipods?

How about Microsoft? For creating operating systems that people use to run apps to get mp3’s?

Hey I got it! Why not just go for the gusto and sue the guy who created DOS?

Let’s not just stop there. Let’s sue computer factory’s for creating machines that the DOS is used to run operating systems which can be used to access the internet to get MP3’s and movie files?

The question here is? When dose the madness stop?

At my job. In my department alone we have 8 people. including myself. Out of us 8. Only 3 people have computers. Now my big non sarcastic question is?

Where are those 5 people getting their tunes from?

From the radio of course! Very little people even buy CD’s anymore. The older the person the less likely you will see them buying any music. Why? The selection for older music listeners are perhaps very thin or nothing at all.

And who Dose the R.I.A.A go after? 12 yr olds, old men and women and college kids/ why? Easy targets. They can’t afford high paid lawyers to find all of the loop holes in the law.

I am sure before they decide to serve a person they do a background check on them to make sure they can’t afford a decent attorney. easy marks!

What we need are decent lawyers and judges who actually know something about the internet. If we did most of these cases would be thrown out before they are started.

Just having your lawyer ask these simple questions. The case should be dropped.

1) What did I download?
2) When did I download those items?
3) Can you show me proof that it was I that downloaded these items? Was I physically controlling my computer to download these files?

I have 7 people in my house. You better bet these are the questions I would ask if this happened to me!

RIAA sues Usenet: Wait, you can do that? (Download Squad)

Oct 17th 2007 10:05PM I don't listen to any radio stations anymore. I don't buy music in any form or do i even download it!

I know some of you may dislike the names i use. but i use them to make a point!

between 2000 and now?

Where are the new Michael Jackson’s?
Where are the new Elvis Presley's
Where is the new Led Zeppelins?

Every Decade had at least 1 singer or power group that stood out amongst everyone else?

The 50’s had Elvis!
The 60’s had Jimi Hendrix!
The 70’s had Led Zeppelin.
The 80’s had Michael Jackson
And so on…..

What dose the new millennium have?
Britney and Paris!

How sad is this comment on the music industry?

Even the oldies station can’t even get it right! It’s the same songs every hour!

Instead of blaming the internet for the loss of their ill gotten gains!

The should blame themselves.

Now let’s not rely on our favorite music artist to actually speak out! How many of you would buck up against your boss? Not many I am sure.

Madonna and N.I.N. can get away with breaking off their relationship with their labels. That can survive. But what about those bands that don’t even yet have the drawing power.

This is a war between the fans and the music industry. It’s the music fans who need to voice their opinions and complaints to the music industry.

And of course the media is going to be on the side of the Movie and Music Industry. most of them are their employees.

And forget about the news. Every time I see on the news about the R.I.A.A suing another file sharer. They make the file sharer sound like a low life back alley drug dealer who just shot a baby!

So what do people do? They come on the internet to complain. Instead of picketing record stores and label headquarters and drawing attention from the media.

How come no ones starting any charities to help the victims of the music industry? Like that 12 year old girl who was a victim a few years ago or that old man who got sued.
How come no one voices their opinions by e-mailing major news networks and local papers.

Because we live in a time where people blog their complaints to one another and no one see these complaints but the people who read the blog regularly. Sometimes we must take our battle to the streets.

There are a lot of people who are ignorant to the other side of the story. You never see CNN doing any news on the victims of the R.I.A.A do you? Maybe the best way to defend our internet way of life is to defend it offline?

It’ just an opinion. I don’t want to stir up anything!

RIAA sues Usenet: Wait, you can do that? (Download Squad)

Oct 17th 2007 5:23PM Correct me if I am wrong or please excuse my ignorance. I don’t’s know all that much about Usenet.

But it is from my understanding. That Usenet is just out there. No one really ones runs it or operates it. The information out there is like free air. It’s just there!

Now the greedy music industry is going after Usenet.com? My question is why and how?

If they succeed what is next? Why not sue Microsoft or Linux for providing and operating system that people use to run their news readers?

This is just silly!

What we need are lawyers and judges that actually know something about the internet. Then outrages lawsuits like this would be laughed out of court.

I guess they got tired of suing 12 yr old girls and senior citizens and financially strapped college kids!

I think we the people should all get together and sue the music biz for the air pollution they call music for the last 10 yrs!!!

Microsoft Works 9 to be free and advertising-supported (Download Squad)

Jul 30th 2007 10:02PM I have MS Works v8.5 and the only thing I use on it, is the word processor. I really don’t have much use for the rest of the stuff it has. I guess it would be great for novice computer users.

But as a Free software with ads? It may just work. But I doubt no one will pay $50.00 for something like this. It’s kind of useless. Well for me it is. But it came with my computer. So when in Rome?

I am sure there are better word processor’s out there. But it suits my needs well.

Acer president slams Windows Vista, says industry is "disappointed" (Download Squad)

Jul 25th 2007 11:24PM I have had Vista for almost 4 months now and i am beyond considering buying a OEM Version of windows xp pro.

I am getting pretty tired of waiting for the software companys to catch up.

The downside is i'll lose windows media player. makes a great VCR. i wouldnt use that for much of anything else though.

i could always use both but i heard there are problems with a dual OS when it comes to vista.