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Making law is what judges do
interpreting existing laws and applying laws is what judges do.
They don't make them as far as I know, isn't that someone else's job -
yeah, definitely reeks of policy from mac.
avi files are good looking and small and universal, I'm hesitant to deal with any new mac only file they want to throw at us. mp4 etc. yawn. -
but I don't think that means QT is "crap".
let their game down for a while.
they may have fixed it now but in browsers and media players, you snooze, you lose users.
right when avi was the best delivery medium for download videos quicktime did a shit job on it and vlc plugged the gap politely and with no fuss. I don't see a reason to go back right now, and especially not when you have to pay for the bonus quicktime features.
I have free quicktime and flip for mac and when I think about opening a media file I never think do it in quicktime, purely because of the couple of years quicktime didn't deliver.
see how fickle the using public is?
Why doesnt quicktime have all the goodies built in?why add codecs. VLC doesn't ask you to add anything, it just plays. -
Nah, I'm gonna disagree. I use VLC for the odd job, but tooled-up QuickTime provides, I think, better performance and far more options for saving, exporting, etc.
quick time is crap for playing avi files, its codec this and codec that, where as vlc just plays them without discussion, and its free,
quicktime let itself down badly for a while there and there doesn't seem to be much point to go back to it as a viewer if its going to require all these additional bits to make it work with the variety of files that will get thrown at it in the course of the internet.
sure it has professional options but if you're jut playing something, why fork out the cash? -
or you could just download the best media player for mac and not worry with all that other carry on.
thank you LEDS for the present.
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you have to control click (or right button click) on the link and save the file to your hard drive richard, otherwise it opens the file in the browser, its not streaming it but its not saving it either.
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number of typos,
....but his 20 page essay...the picture painted and the actual events.
...It'd be great to have 15 versions.
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But as said, his detail is amazing at times.
almost spooky, which makes things like his pop mechanix article disappointing where he attempts to end the story on a high note in australia when in fact there were a good 4 extra years of interesting events in the bands history.
in his apparent effort to fill in the detail and make bands more than one note entries in history he's cherry picked his details in order to write a more interesting yet less factual version of history. a bit of a contradiction in itself, and disappointing because of it.Churton's writing is valid for his personal perspective as much as anyone else's but hi 20 page essay in mysterex on the gladstone was practically unreadable and bore little resemblance to the actual happening at the venue. loser nights with 10 people were painted as the happening events, and the actual big nights were forgotten. I guess everyone has a personal perspective on history.
tony mitchell wrote a paper called flat city sounds which was submitted as a university thesis giving it even more cred than it deserves. having lived through a number of these periods its sometimes hard to recognise the picture painted an the actual events. I'd be great to have 15 versions of history writing to choose from and then we could say this one is rubbish and that one really captures the time, but as I said we've got a couple, and its great that we have what we have cos otherwise it would be silence, but most of this is amateur work, as relevant as blogs are to serious journalism.
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dixies book is "a" view of music in nz and deals specifically with the 60s-early eighties.
the problem with nz is that we really are a small country and if one were to pick a definitive book that captured the detail and vibe of a music scene or any other scene in nz well you've not exactly got many to choose from so you end up with a few flawed personal slants rather than a wide choice from which to pick the best.
the post punk genre is particularly weirdly served with a couple of prolific independent scribes busily re writing history in the way they want to see it, gleefully omitting detail they don't favor and focusing on the minute and unimportant making, and the sad thing is that may well be the history we are let with because it is all that is written.
Wade Churton and Andrew Schmidt are 2 such guilty scribes. The Gladstone was never as boring as these guys wrote it, or maybe there is a parallel universe version which they inhabited.New Zealand is still a small enough country where you can easily re write history by simply being the one or 2 people to actually 'document' it in your own image. Its not like the competition is tough or anything.
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Fetus Productions at the Oriental 1985
was that the one where they had a drummer wearing a hood?
if so that tour was excellent. I second that, only for the chch shows. powerful, great sound too.