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Re: X-Men Make a Manic Last Stand
By Jason Silverman
From: Dave Baker
In your article you say, "Ratner's gravity-free moments suggest an X-universe where even the laws of nature are negotiable." That is actually the whole basis for comics. Most of the comic industry exists based on the idea that physics and nature are negotiable. Saying that is like saying Kitchenaid suggests cookware can even be made of metal!
It just seems silly when someone goes to see a movie, a form of fictional entertainment, and points out it requires a suspension of reality. Don't get me wrong, I can't wait to see the movie, and you gave a decent review I appreciate, but a lot of people these days point out in reviews that the movie just wasn't real enough or not believable. I am sorry, but isn't that the point of a movie? To remove you from reality? If reality is so great, come to my house and I'll let you sit on my living room couch for $9.50. Thanks for the review, honestly!
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Re: Music Phones Want to Be Free
By Eliot Van Buskirk
From: Michael Davis
I'm with you on your cell phone music article. It's just one more nail in the coffin of a miserable business model for all digital music that has me so upset, I stopped buying music again, unless I can get it used on cd.
Here's my list:
1. Non transferable formats.
2. No government intervention forcing the opposite of 1 above. (vive la France)
3. Some movies you buy cannot be played on your computer (Crash, for example) or iPod or other player. Must be played on a dvd player.
4. Some music cds you buy (dual sided discs put out by Geffen for example) cannot be played on your computer or iPod or other player, must be played on a cd player, like the one in your car.
5. DRM has mechanisms in it that degrade or scribble over the recording. Very irritating.
6. The industry (entertainment) has declared war on its customers.
7. The cell phone companies (except T-Mobile) are disgustingly greedy. Worse than the recording industry. I wouldn't proffer them any opportunity to expand, even with a gun pointed at my head.
8. Until all of the above items are fixed (I hate to say it, but an enlightened congress seems to be the only option and that will never happen), it is just more of the same. Kill the goose first seems to be their business model.
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Re: Making the IPod More Sensitive
By Leander Kahney
From: Adam
"As a cyclist, I'd love to wear an iPod that would crank the tunes according to the speed of my pedaling or the pace of the bike. San Francisco's hills demand some serious PowerSongs – but Apple would never endorse listening to music while cycling."
Sorry, wearing headphones while cycling is totally irresponsible.
As a cyclist I'd like to see wearing headphones by cyclists, joggers and skaters outlawed everywhere. I commute by bike as well as do longer rides on weekends and people wearing headphones, unaware of the environment around them are one of the top problems I face while cycling.
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Re: Making the IPod More Sensitive
By Leander Kahney
From: Johan Spakaas
"The trade literature talks of TV remote controls heading to market that adjust the volume by tilting the remote up or down, or flip through the channels by flicking the remote from side to side."
Nokia made such a remote some years ago. No success and subsequently scrapped. (Nowadays the whole tv division of Nokia/Luxor is nowhere to be seen. Pity that because they were quite good and my old -95 SR7185 is still up to standards with 512 p text memory and a very ergonomic remote, alas w/o motion sensor).
I tried the Nokia motion-remote and it felt weird flipping and swinging. Maybe people get used to this new interface someday. Voice controlled computers have yet to make the mass market on the other hand, so maybe not.
Now, if I could remember which year SJ announced ViaVoice for the Mac at MWSF. -98?
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