Gecko Meets Godzilla
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That may work on Google Video, but not on places like YouTube...
225 years ago, we set an example for the rest of the world by creating a country where everyone could vote...
Well, except for women and black people, but we fixed that!
-Adam Duritz, of Counting Crows -
That may work on Google Video, but not on places like YouTube...
225 years ago, we set an example for the rest of the world by creating a country where everyone could vote...
Well, except for women and black people, but we fixed that!
-Adam Duritz, of Counting Crows -
That's a video short I'd wait in line to see. For those of you who don't understand the reference, Google for "Bambi Meets Godzilla" and you'll get the idea. Any of you who are assaulted with the commercials for insurance company Geico will doubtless have noticed that they've changed from the quirky, funny little spots to using a CGI gecko (complete with Aussie accent) doing a standup monologue routine. I can't hit the fast forward button on my DVR quick enough to suit me. I say it's time we put a bounty on his little orange head. Now the Taco Bell Chihuahua - there was an icon you could look up to. So to speak.
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Have you actually tried to do this (and verify that the subsequent avi file can be played) with the video in question? They appear to be doctoring the avi files so that they can't be viewed.
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
complete with Aussie accent)
I guess you don't know many Aussies, the accent is from London, as is the speech patterns and word choice.
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Well, the Aussies are an endangered species here in Atlanta, so you'd be guessing correctly. However, watching the gecko immediately made me think of my conversations with Chris (the resemblance is remarkable, you must admit), so I'm sure my assumptions were at least somewhat plausible. :-D
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
State Farm is awesome!
Only if you enjoy hiring lawyers. My wife has been hit twice by people running stop signs and both times we had to take them to court (and we had police witnesses).
"Yes I know the voices are not real. But they have some pretty good ideas."
When I was involved in a Hit and Run they cut me a check no questions asked - the deductible. Then wrote me a lost value check that I didn't even ask for in the sum of thousands.
A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." -- Stephen Crane
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Apparently not. Windows Media 9 complains about the .avi, "module not found". They appear to not want it downloaded in a useful form. This is the sort of thing that irritates me - I'd gladly pay for this video, but it's simply not for sale. I encountered similar frustration when trying to purchase the CD soundtrack for "National Treasure." It's already out of print and out of stock, shortly after the movie was released. I like the music, so I tried to give them my money, but I can't. However, if I went to a music site and downloaded it (a practice I generally oppose for work where the artist should be getting paid), RIAA would have 45 guys outside my door with rocket launchers. For a video such as Bambi, which I believe to be in the public domain at this point, these download games really test my patience.
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com
Hm. Interesting. I just downloaded it as an mp4 for the Video iPod and it works fine. Of course...I have a Video iPod and I use iTunes...so it's no big deal for me to do that. You could convert it from the mp4 format to an avi file if you want...
225 years ago, we set an example for the rest of the world by creating a country where everyone could vote...
Well, except for women and black people, but we fixed that!
-Adam Duritz, of Counting Crows -
I instantly associated Gecko with the rendering engine in Firefox rather than the actual animal. :rolleyes:
225 years ago, we set an example for the rest of the world by creating a country where everyone could vote...
Well, except for women and black people, but we fixed that!
-Adam Duritz, of Counting CrowsI didn't, but I would have felt better if I had. I hate those commericals.
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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Have you actually tried to do this (and verify that the subsequent avi file can be played) with the video in question? They appear to be doctoring the avi files so that they can't be viewed.
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com
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I thought it was Gordon Gecko - man I am so ninteen-eighties!
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:
I thought it was Gordon Gecko
Great Movie (Wallstreet) I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed -- for lack of a better word -- is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms -- greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge -- has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed -- you mark my words -- will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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When I was involved in a Hit and Run they cut me a check no questions asked - the deductible. Then wrote me a lost value check that I didn't even ask for in the sum of thousands.
A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." -- Stephen Crane
Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
When I was involved in a Hit and Run they cut me a check no questions asked - the deductible.
Ok, you as the policy holder they take care of. Me as the victim they fight tooth and nail to ignore and never honor their responsibility to cover the damages their client caused.
"Yes I know the voices are not real. But they have some pretty good ideas."
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Have you actually tried to do this (and verify that the subsequent avi file can be played) with the video in question? They appear to be doctoring the avi files so that they can't be viewed.
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com
Christopher Duncan wrote:
Have you actually tried to do this (and verify that the subsequent avi file can be played) with the video in question? They appear to be doctoring the avi files so that they can't be viewed.
I use ffmpeg to recompress the video. I've never found one that it couldn't handle.
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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I instantly associated Gecko with the rendering engine in Firefox rather than the actual animal. :rolleyes:
225 years ago, we set an example for the rest of the world by creating a country where everyone could vote...
Well, except for women and black people, but we fixed that!
-Adam Duritz, of Counting Crows -
Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
When I was involved in a Hit and Run they cut me a check no questions asked - the deductible.
Ok, you as the policy holder they take care of. Me as the victim they fight tooth and nail to ignore and never honor their responsibility to cover the damages their client caused.
"Yes I know the voices are not real. But they have some pretty good ideas."
Sorry it happened so bad to you.
A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." -- Stephen Crane