>> (Also, the only "glib" I know of is the GNOME Foundation utilities
>> library...)
>
> See this is why you need the Sony eReader with built-in dictionary (been
> slowly reading the "Kindling" thread)

GLib apparently being unrelated to GLibC...

>> In other words, instead of having four or five quality channels, we
>> have 400 or 500 channels of filler. How sad.
>
> Yup - well 20 channels anyway not counting the ones trying to overtly
> sell you something. Discounting Sky (which I hear so many say "I just
> bought it for the football/movies and there's nothing else on") and
> consider the jump to Freeview from five channels to over twenty. With no
> increase in budget how can there not be a hit in quality?

Ah, shopping TV. That most hateful abomination. I suppose sport TV might 
be interesting if I was actually interested in sport. (Apart from darts 
and snooker, anyway.)

Can you tell that I basically just *don't watch* TV any more? Hell, when 
I do it's like taking a bad acid trip. What with the talking frogs and 
dancing babies and flying opera singers. Seriously, WTF are the 
advertising execs smoking?

>> I hate soaps too. And yet, we seem to be drowning in them today.
>
> I can't even argue them as cheap television. I guess it's the
> continuation factor; once you've got a subject hooked they'll
> specifically tune in to watch and you can charge higher advertising rates.

Well, yeah, that's it. Soaps do have the property that if you miss an 
episode, the rest just isn't going to make sense. So it sharply forces 
people to watch, which generates revenue.

Alternatively, "reality" TV almost always involves extremely expensive 
phone-ins, which also generates money.

Then we have the "talent contests" (which are of course *popularity* 
contents), which similarly generate money.

Suck to be you if you happen to have a brain...

>> Hell, Horizon used to be good stuff. Now it seems to be "hey, look at
>> this freak boy born without eyebrows, and watch the incredible reality
>> story of how doctors perform ground-breaking surgery to make him
>> normal again". To suffice, even Horizon is a reality TV show now.
>
> Couple of decent ones recently. Though sadly they have gone down the
> route of re-explaining things every five minutes. Either they expect
> people to tune in late or they consider their audience memory-deprived.

Oh God, I HATE THAT! >_< Why do TV programs have to repeat themselves 
every 25 seconds these days?! I can only imagine that either they think 
the people watching are absurdly stupid, or it makes the program cheaper 
if they just repeat the same shots over and over again.

> Dave Ja Vu :-P

That's one hell of a name choice, right there!

Post a reply to this message