Comments on: Artifact: ITC 500T

By: WD

WD — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:07:02 +0000

Jumping on late here, but I once had a similar obsession:

By: Romer!can

Romer!can — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:42:34 +0000

And let’s be honest in saying that Windows Media Player is neither nice nor pretty, anyway. I find the interface incredibly kludgy. Yuck.

I’ve been a long advocate for VLC for all the same reasons you mention mplayer. To boot, they’re also very worried about the nonsensical corporate push for software patents in Europe because that will impact free development (and people’s wallets, too).

I couldn’t agree more that it would be an incredibly ironic turn of events if people in the US and EU have to turn to communist China for any refuge of the very freedoms made illegal by their western governments. Oh, what a web we weave…

By: cristi

cristi — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:17:25 +0000

I like to think that there's always be an underdog like mplayer that will redefine the standards of what is possible. It need not be nice, it need not be pretty, just play the darn thing. The thing that worries me is that with every country joining the EU folks like the original mplayer author (Aarpi) won't be shielded anymore from stupid lawsuits like the one against DVD Jon. With the US already crippled by the DMCA legislature and software patents and EU most likely following in their footsteps, I think it's the chinese that will have to write the tools protecting us all from the greed of the big companies.

By: Romer!can

Romer!can — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:11:58 +0000

I, too, love the computer as a viewing option. You can do so much more than TV (but also including TV) on your computer, provided your computer allows you to.

People seem to be completely and abjectly unaware that 95% of what’s new in Windows Vista are restrictions, built-in the system to make media companies happy, which will actively prevent you from doing all the things you’ve been doing up until now.

DRM has been an annoyance and concern, to this point. With Vista, make no mistake, it will be clear and definite shackles which the average person will feel the pain of.

By: mon ami

mon ami — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:12:13 +0000

btw, there should be a Romanian site equivalent to Ebay!

By: mon ami

mon ami — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:10:03 +0000

I love my computer more than any tv in the world because I can choose the entertainment that I want without somebody else choosing my news, movies, entertainment, music or information!

By: Romer!can

Romer!can — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:37:03 +0000

I am completely buried under a large ToDo list, but I am still here in Brasov, Rizzle! Shoot me an email er sumpin!

By: deviya

deviya — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:53:17 +0000

where are you ????

By: Romer!can

Romer!can — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:30:48 +0000

Pretty cool blog. Thanks for the link! I’ve found a way to incorporate it into this post, now.

By: C. Ovidiu

C. Ovidiu — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:23:14 +0000

Check out this site: latrecut. They have a pretty big collection of pictures featuring artifacts from the communist era or the early 1990s. I don't know how meaningful those pictures will be to you, but they do bring lots of memories to me. Those things used to be ubiquitous. You never gave them a second thought. And they all suddenly disappeared.