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[#] Thu Nov 12 2020 09:21:29 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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You know what really grinds my gears?

The cable "news" industry has decided that the moving text on the bottom of the screen is called a "chyron".

No it isn't. Chyron is the name of a company that manufactures on-screen graphics hardware for the broadcast industry. The moving text on the bottom of the screen is called a "crawl". It always has been, and everyone in the industry has always known that.

A pox upon the house that first conflated these terms.

[#] Thu Nov 12 2020 09:39:26 EST from zooer

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Well they use the term "film" when it is clearly video, language changes.

(old man mode) "back in the day if you confused film and video you would be laughed out of the industry." (/old man mode)

 



[#] Thu Nov 12 2020 12:40:22 EST from ParanoidDelusions

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Thu Nov 12 2020 09:39:26 EST from zooer

Well they use the term "film" when it is clearly video, language changes.

(old man mode) "back in the day if you confused film and video you would be laughed out of the industry." (/old man mode)

 



The thing you realize as you become an old men, 

They're almost always right. 



[#] Thu Nov 12 2020 19:37:07 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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I've given up on pedantry with respect to the word "film", mainly because unlike film and tape, there is no verb form of digital video recording, at least none that don't sound awkward. So I'm ok with speaking of someone "filming" onto an SD Card.

Contrariwise, referring to a crawl as a "chyron" has no justification, no linguistic convenience, and came into use because some of the worst people in the world (the broadcast propaganda industry) got it wrong and its use became widespread.

[#] Thu Nov 12 2020 19:46:28 EST from ParanoidDelusions

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Thu Nov 12 2020 19:37:07 EST from IGnatius T Foobar
I've given up on pedantry with respect to the word "film", mainly because unlike film and tape, there is no verb form of digital video recording, at least none that don't sound awkward. So I'm ok with speaking of someone "filming" onto an SD Card.

"Recording"? 

 



[#] Thu Nov 12 2020 19:52:40 EST from zooer

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Shooting video.

 

Chyron, Kleenex, Q-tips and so on.

Film is a chemical process, video is an electronic process.



[#] Thu Nov 12 2020 20:07:21 EST from ParanoidDelusions

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I believe "shooting a video" generally results in watching something filmed in portrait on a landscape playback display.



[#] Sat Nov 14 2020 18:55:18 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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Chyron, Kleenex, Q-tips and so on.

Film is a chemical process, video is an electronic process.

These two statements are funny to see one right after the other. Believe me, I was a staunch opponent of people using "The F Word" during the days of videotape, but I think that battle is long lost, exactly for the reason you mentioned about Chyron: enough usage makes a word generic.

The relevant definition of "film" (verb) in the Merriam-Webster dictionary is "to make a motion picture of or from". They conveniently exclude any mention of the technology used to create a motion picture.

It's made even worse by the fact that people who don't say "filming" will still say "taping" even though there is no videotape in any modern camera system. I've even heard (in the last 24 hours in fact) people use expressions like "filming a video". The battle is truly lost on this one, and in my opinion, not worth arguing about. And that's coming from me, someone who *adores* pedantry.

[#] Wed Sep 07 2022 19:38:53 EDT from Nurb432

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Lenovo is starting to piss me off.

I bought ONE thing from this spring ( that cheap 99 dollar Chromebook tablet thing ). Now i get upwards of 10 emails a day from them.  Yes i know, it gets tagged as spam and i can have it auto delete, but its the principle of the thing.



[#] Sat Jan 14 2023 14:11:24 EST from Nurb432

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Lol. this week "can you believe its been a year? Happy anniversary with us, we are having a sale"

Wed Sep 07 2022 07:38:53 PM EDT from Nurb432

Lenovo is starting to piss me off.

I bought ONE thing from this spring ( that cheap 99 dollar Chromebook tablet thing ). Now i get upwards of 10 emails a day from them.  Yes i know, it gets tagged as spam and i can have it auto delete, but its the principle of the thing.



 



[#] Sat Feb 11 2023 12:36:03 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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Sometimes you just can't get away from them.  For me it's the cable company and it's paper mail.  They probably send me three physical mailings a week.



[#] Thu May 25 2023 06:27:24 EDT from x4th

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In the EU we have laws against this. If you unsubscribe they may not send you and unsolicited emails anymore. If they still do you can sue them but noone bothers, except lawyers that want to make a buck. For the most part everyone honors this but you do have the occasional company still sending you shit because their shit is broken.

[#] Thu May 25 2023 06:31:48 EDT from x4th

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What's currently annoying me is my mobile phone. If it were up to me I wouldn't even have one.
But it's needed for so many things... anyway its current issue is that it's unable to charge because the battery is too low. Yes you heard right. Plug it in -> turns on -> battery too low -> turns off. and the thing refuses to charge. I assume charging is software controlled....

[#] Sun May 28 2023 18:27:15 EDT from darknetuser

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2023-05-25 06:27 from x4th
In the EU we have laws against this. If you unsubscribe they may not

send you and unsolicited emails anymore. If they still do you can sue

them but noone bothers, except lawyers that want to make a buck. For

the most part everyone honors this but you do have the occasional

company still sending you shit because their shit is broken.


Oftentimes you don't need to sue. Just send a complaint to their infrastructure provider. If the firm is not that big, the provider often decides the money they get is not worth the trouble of hosting a spammer.

We once had a comapany send our staff spam email non stop at one of my jobs. They would send some of out employees multiple emails per day. I wrote some filters to block their domains, but they kept changing domains and they also ignored unsubscribe requests. Eventually I raised a ticket with their email provider and their webhost provider and they were taken down for weeks.

They would then start phoning us and asking us to tell their providers our complaint had been a misunderstanding. Misunderstanding my ass.

[#] Sun May 28 2023 18:54:16 EDT from Nurb432

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lol

Sun May 28 2023 06:27:15 PM EDT from darknetuser
They would then start phoning us and asking us to tell their providers our complaint had been a misunderstanding. Misunderstanding my ass.

 



[#] Tue May 30 2023 19:08:27 EDT from x4th

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Oftentimes you don't need to sue. Just send a complaint to their
infrastructure provider. If the firm is not that big, the provider
often decides the money they get is not worth the trouble of hosting a

spammer.

Good point. Now that you mention this, most if not all providers explicitly disallow such behavior in their TOS.

What type of spam was it? Did they tailor it towards your staff members?

[#] Fri Jun 02 2023 04:56:22 EDT from darknetuser

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Good point. Now that you mention this, most if not all providers
explicitly disallow such behavior in their TOS.

What type of spam was it? Did they tailor it towards your staff
members?

It was carpet bombing style spam.

"Ensure your firm is compliant with $law. Watch this video and let us show you how we will help you!"

[#] Sat Jun 03 2023 11:24:15 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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Oftentimes you don't need to sue. Just send a complaint to their
infrastructure provider. If the firm is not that big, the provider
often decides the money they get is not worth the trouble of hosting a

spammer.

Understood, but I was originally talking about snail mail.

The cable company in my area sends tons of it. When I look in my mailbox each day, more often than not there is a solicitation from the cable company in it. The volume of paper mail from them is breathtaking.

[#] Sat Jun 03 2023 11:25:42 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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Oftentimes you don't need to sue. Just send a complaint to their
infrastructure provider. If the firm is not that big, the provider

When I get spam from a bulk mail service, I add the entire service to my filter.

[#] Sat Jun 03 2023 21:40:15 EDT from darknetuser

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Understood, but I was originally talking about snail mail.

The cable company in my area sends tons of it. When I look in my
mailbox each day, more often than not there is a solicitation from the

cable company in it. The volume of paper mail from them is
breathtaking.



Then thank the cable company for offering you so much fuel for your fireplace.


You can't run a successful fireplace only on paper, but paper greatly helps getting a good fire started. I save all the snail mail spam to light the fire.

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