Hard News: What's on David Bain's iPod?
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I'm more interested to see when Bain gets hooked into online gaming. He likes computers and no one can judge you for your real life actions in a game! Sounds perfect!
Someone send him a World of Warcraft trial pack asap
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Television, drug of the nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiationMr Franti is indeed a master.
"Yell Fire" is a classic IMOSomeone send him a World of Warcraft trial pack asap
He's already playing the most extreme Second Life that there could be.
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I like TV - I just don't watch much of it in real time, what with torrents and MySky. Doctor Who and Heroes are our family bonding shows, and of course there's The Daily Show on series-link, downloaded BBC and PBS stuff, etc. You can watch lots of good TV if you put a little effort into it.
News? Increasingly I'm catching up on TV news items I'm interested in, and Close Up/Campbell Live stories, via the respective broadcasters' websites. Works for me.
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Che:
as i've mentioned before. abandoned tv 8 months ago.
haven't missed it.So that wasn't you asking to come round and watch Stargate: Atlantis?
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So that wasn't you asking to come round and watch Stargate: Atlantis?
That's so he'd continue to not miss it.
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I can't seem to get tvnz new articles to play back on my mac. do I need to down load something?
Yes. You need to get the free WMV components for QuickTime here:
http://www.flip4mac.com/download.htm
That makes Windows Media video (but not DRM-protected stuff) playable via QuickTime and it works very well.
It's also worth updating Flash, to make sure you can view TVNZ Ondemand clips.
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I don't have any clever song titles. However, I wonder if anyone asked Mr. Bain if he'd like a pretty new jersey that would make him look just like a popular fictional mass murderer.
Trent Reznor's rant about overpriced cds in Australasia bordered dangerously on interesting at times (at least when he was dissing Avril).
Watching television is the new dissing television.
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Watching television is the new dissing television.
As in Paying attention to Wishart is the new dissing Wishart?
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As in Paying attention to Wishart is the new dissing Wishart?
Oh God, let's not go crazy here.
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The Campbell piece last night reminded me of that brilliant Aussie current affairs satire, Frontline. In one episode, the Frontline team try every dirty, underhanded journo trick to get an exclusive interview with someone (the wife of a hostage, maybe? can't remember) without the competition finding out where she lives. But the media pack descends on the house before they have the chance to get the interview, so they do a "shame on the media pack" piece instead. Heh.
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im more interested to see when Bain gets hooked into online gaming
And heres me thinking prisons are stacked with ps2 and xbox stuffed full of grand theft auto. What WoW character he be? HuK
Selective Tv viewing is the answer, good archaic vcr.
And anyway as we all know atomisation and democratisation create a cultural lowest common denominator which can be exploited by core institutions like the mass media to increase revenue streams, its efficient business, who wouldnt? And at the same time this means i can learn from and admire paris hilton, depleted uranimum nuclear waste ammunitions being used on civillian populations and people wanting rights to tenderly smash their kids. Im so excited!
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Lambert:
Thanks for the reminder -like Yes, Minister, I can't understand why Frontline was so popular with the very people it was painting as venal half-wits with the manners of a guinea-pig and the morals of a gangster. (Virtual chocolate fish for the person who picks which venomous satire of the Filth Estate I lifted that line from - and probably mis-quoted.)
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Craig, it's because people love to laugh at themselves. The characters people find funniest are usually the ones that most resemble themselves or people they know. Hence the popularity of 'The Office'. It so brutally resembled things most people have experienced in office jobs.
It's the old role of court jester, the only person who could speak the truth sometimes. Comedy makes truth palatable.
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Damian... what settings do I need to have on my Final Cut Pro sequence so that I don't have to render the whole 21 minutes or so?
Ah, yeah, that'd be a technical question. I'll put you through now caller. Please hold.
(I don't know, maybe just leave it overnight to render or soemthing?)
As for current affairs programmes leading by the nose in terms of building on marginal audiences, there's definitely an argument there. But for commercial broadcasters (in which I include TVNZ as long as the Govt wants its dividend), where's the motivation? Why work trying to build on crappy ratings (assuming that there is a potentially viable audience for such worthy shows) when you can choose isntead to screen a show with an instant audience?
It's worth remembering that in a big TV company, the head of news isn't the one calling the shots about whether such shows continue, it's the programmers, in consultation with sales, news etc. And so even if news are saying "we need this programme", sales will be saying "we're losing money hand over fist"...
Of course I'm talking generically about big TV companies here, I couldn't possibly comment on what goes on at the one I work for.
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It really is about time Canterbury formed its own break-away republic.
What? And narrow our talent pool. lol
Re non DRM mp3s on iTunes.
Does this mean I will be able to download songs from iTunes and play them on my Creative Zen mp3 player?
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Damian, I'm coming in late, but if you want to render just a segment of a FCP sequence, highlight just the video/audio segments on the timeline you want rendered (selecting any clip at any given time renders everything on the timeline at that point on the sequence) and select sequence > render selection > both.
If you want to export this section to a standalone movie, set in and out points on the timeline and then export movie.
Hope some of this is tangentally related to what you're after...
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This has given me a great idea - prisoners need stuff to do that keeps them occupied and not causing trouble, yet they still have urges like any other human. So lets provide all prisoners with gaming computers and subscriptions to fantasy role playing games - and tie priviledges in with success in the game.
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Or even better---get everyone playing such a game the moment they are born, so no one really goes to prison any more because no one has time to really break the real law, really.
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Sorry, but because we talking about TV before and how crap/good it is.
Try this out: CavemenA trio of Neanderthals struggle to live in modern day America. Based on the characters featured in a series of television ads for Geico Insurance.
A TV show based on ads? And starring someone called Bill english? That'll be a winner.
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