What grinds your gears?

[QueenBeeBeeMari]

Tried to watch a new show online today, cause I can't get ABC to come in at all. Well, it's on their brain-dead website- it pauses every 8 seconds to buffer! If you click away from it, you have to watch the whole commercial at the beginning again. There's no option for a low-quality picture, you're stuck with gorgeous "hi-def" or whatever that freezes every 8 seconds.

When you pause it, it goes back to the ad!

So...I tried to watch it on Youtube, where videos actually load and buffer and play consistently; lo and behold, ABC removed every copy of it from Youtube! Seems they're determined that NO ONE ever sees their show! This "grinds my gears"- the show is broadcast FOR FREE to millions of viewers, yet they wanna keep it a 'secret' on the web??? What sort of brain does this? It's like plastering the whole city with posters then complaining when people actually look at them!

This happened on ITunes or Netflix?You could try Hulu,but sometimes they only have clips.The only reason I can think of that they did that is because some people are good with computer and can hack into the system.Someone posted a video on YouTube and it showed you how to rewrite the code on Netflix so,you wouldn't have to wait for the movie and it would be yours to keep.

 

[Slaver123]

I don't use itunes, my computers have too many problems with it. We're driven to the "pirate" sites cause the "legit" ways to view something are always too problematic.

If the TV and movie industry want to keep their stuff proprietary they should only release it on FILM (16mm, Super-8mm etc) Same thing with the music industry; if they'd stuck with VINYL RECORDS there'd be no "Napster" etc... Sure you can copy something on magnetic tape, but the copy is never as good as the original, each time it's copied it degrades. This is what galls me; they forced us all to switch to CDs in the early 90s so they could make a quick buck, and now they complain because people are making perfect digital copies of the most easily-copied medium ever!

 

[melanie2]

What grinds my gears? Playing good samaritan to a yellow jacket that was inside the screened in back porch..trying to entice the little sucker unto a fly swatter so that i could calmly and gently walk the bee over to the door to allow it freedom..the damn thing dropped on my arm and stung me..humph..that's gratitude for you..only the second time i've been stung in my entire life...:31:

 

[maniactickler38]

What grinds my gears? Playing good samaritan to a yellow jacket that was inside the screened in back porch..trying to entice the little sucker unto a fly swatter so that i could calmly and gently walk the bee over to the door to allow it freedom..the damn thing dropped on my arm and stung me..humph..that's gratitude for you..only the second time i've been stung in my entire life...:31:

I would have sucked out the poison for you. :cool

 

[Journia]

When someone let's their ethnic obligations get in the way of their Human obligations.

 

[blackmagicjack1]

My own crankiness

 

[kopfhorer1]

I don't use itunes, my computers have too many problems with it. We're driven to the "pirate" sites cause the "legit" ways to view something are always too problematic.

That's why I'm forever resigned to getting my music the way I got it back in the day - pawing through a bin of used vinyls or CD's in a store!

... This is what galls me; they forced us all to switch to CDs in the early 90s so they could make a quick buck, and now they complain because people are making perfect digital copies of the most easily-copied medium ever!

I remember the legal footsie the record industry engaged in back in the late 1980s in order to kill digital audio tape (DAT), the then-logical successor to the audio cassette, as a viable consumer medium. A few years later, CD burners and blank media became affordable, and that was that!

Can you say "poetic justice"? 😀

 

[QueenBeeBeeMari]

I don't use itunes, my computers have too many problems with it. We're driven to the "pirate" sites cause the "legit" ways to view something are always too problematic.

If the TV and movie industry want to keep their stuff proprietary they should only release it on FILM (16mm, Super-8mm etc) Same thing with the music industry; if they'd stuck with VINYL RECORDS there'd be no "Napster" etc... Sure you can copy something on magnetic tape, but the copy is never as good as the original, each time it's copied it degrades. This is what galls me; they forced us all to switch to CDs in the early 90s so they could make a quick buck, and now they complain because people are making perfect digital copies of the most easily-copied medium ever!

Maybe my hearing needs to be checked,but I've never really heard any difference when I burned CDs from Napster.Then,I had to use ITunes to burn a CD for my tryout,I was able to sing along fairly well.My sore throat was really the only thing that got in the way.
If music is what you are looking for,you can try http://www.playlist.com/ or www.jango.com

Now with these you cannot burn anything to a CD.You would only be able to hear them on your computer.With Playlist.com you can hear pretty much whatever you want,whenever you want.With Jango.com you tell them which artists you like and you can tell them what your favorite song is,but you cannot choose what plays on your station or when.You can leave the song if you don't like it though.
I like that they came up with Napster and ITunes because you used to have to buy whole CDs even if you didn't most of the songs on them and be stuck with them,now you can buy particular songs and create your own ''mix'' CDs.

 

[Slaver123]

That's why I'm forever resigned to getting my music the way I got it back in the day - pawing through a bin of used vinyls or CD's in a store!


I remember the legal footsie the record industry engaged in back in the late 1980s in order to kill digital audio tape (DAT), the then-logical successor to the audio cassette, as a viable consumer medium. A few years later, CD burners and blank media became affordable, and that was that!

Can you say "poetic justice"? 😀

I don't remember DAt, was that mostly for pro recording? I agree that it's "Poetic Justice" on the record industry! All this mass-piracy is a direct result of their greed and stupidity, and I have no sympathy for them. (CAUTION: Long RANT ahead!)

Radiohead made a profit when they sold their album on an "honor system" a couple years ago- and remember when Napster was king? People were buying MORE albums, even ones they could download for free; it boosted the record industry but they murdered it anyway.

Nothing changes; this same brain-dead thinking has been killing music for decades. Same generic idiocy as the big-box syndicates who run most radio stations; they OVERPLAY everything to death; answer me this- who actually WANTS to hear 'Rhianna' every forty minutes?!?!?

(I've timed it- the younger people at work listen to this awful station that playes Rhianna's new song EVERY FORTY MINUTES on average. That means you hear it twelve times in an 8-hour day!)

Thanks to the local rock stations I've actually come to HATE great groups like Zeppelin, Floyd, AC/DC, and Alice In Chains- because they overplay them TO DEATH every day! I never want to hear "Man in the Box", "Back in Black" or anything from "Dark Side of the Moon" ever again! Thank you, "Clear Channel"!! :-(

The sheer awfulness of the record and radio industry has paved the way for the ipod explosion. I don't own an ipod, but I have 2 cheap mp3 players that work just fine (I don't like the 'Apple aesthetic') And most musicians I know don't even listen to radio anymore- I mostly listen to talk radio cause I can't stand to hear the same 5 songs over and over. (end of rant)

QueenBeeMari sez
"Maybe my hearing needs to be checked,but I've never really heard any difference when I burned CDs from Napster."

Some people say there's a difference; mp3's aren't always the best quality, and in a quiet room I can tell; but I listen to mp3s IN THE CAR where sound quality isn't really an issue... And there IS a big difference between analog and digital sound. (mini-rant) Sometimes digital "hurts", it can be too glassy; but mainly it "hurts" psychologically because it's been force-fed to us. It's commercial, and musicians like me react badly to anything commercial or "main-stream".

 

[Slaver123]

What grinds my gears????

Movie theaters who KEEP THEIR PRICES SECRET!

You can't find the price online or via phone without GREAT difficulty. And they wonder why the motion picture industry is suffering?



I shouldn't single out the movie theaters for this since nearly ALL companies follow this same brain-dead practice. The seller should roll out the red carpet for the customer, not put obstacles in his away!