me@my.net may be even worse. ive been using that one on web forms for years (along alot of other ppl probably). not to mention all the references it gets in examples of all sorts of things on the web.
...on a laptop of mine i just plugged into the hub for a few seconds to grab some files. Actually took me a few minutes to figure out WTF had occured, until i realized i'd never bothered to turn the messenger service off.
"...a small girl (probably about five) cried out, "Mommy, why is he doing that?" It almost would have been funny, except for the fact that you realized a young girl was being traumatized, and her parents didn't care."
I agree with you totally. When I was no more than 8 my Grandmother took me to see "The Shining" and forced me to sit through it 'cause she just had to see it. I was terrified and couldnt even sleep that night. I had that image of the river of blood flowing through the hall of the hotel etched in my mind for days. I still cant watch that movie without thinking about that.
I got an erection when I first glanced at this post! Then I actually saw what it is and...WTF CowboyNeal?!?!?!? Why'd you do that to me?!?!?!
Seriously though I've always been amazed Blizzard didnt milk the first Starcraft Game more than they did...I mean at least another expansion or two. I mean damn, that game is like 5 years old and I still know like a dozen people that play it everyday.
"Printer manufacturers have also claimed that using non-OEM inks would damage their printers, and that using non-OEM inks would void the warranty. However, the manufacturers were required to stop this tactic; under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act and general principles of the Federal Trade Commission Act, a manufacturer may not require the use of any brand of ink (or any other article) unless the manufacturer provides the item free of charge under the terms of the warranty. This hasn't prevented salesdroids and tech-support people from claiming that, but they'll fold if you press them."
I work for selling these types of products. At one point two years ago I was _ordered_ by management to tell customers exactly that if it came up. I knew it was a lie so I fought them on it. It took my sending e-mail to three different higher ups in the company to get the store management to change theyr policy on the issue.
...from standing in line to buy tickets for TPM. This was in Gainesville Fl and lines werent allowed to form until that morning, so this prolly isnt as extreme as most citys. I hung out with like 10 different ppl who were skipping out of work to be ther that day (one guy even got fired over the phone while he was waiting in line - dumbass).
We had it all...liquer, tent, pizza. Best fucking line ive ever been in.
No this is an issue absorbed by _all of us_. In the end every consumer in the country is affected by this. When those stolen numbers are used they create chargebacks for the retail/web chains they were used at. This is an expense to those stores. In turn prices are raised to cover them. Just like shoplifting, its a problem everyone pays for at some point.
"The translation of Cowboy Bebop wasn't horrible, aside from the standard censorship, but the voice acting was terrible. The guy who talks Spike just doesn't know how to get those subtle gradations of emotion in his voice that were in the original (we're not talking soap operas here, Spike is pretty stoic, but even stoics betray some emotion in their voices). Just compare the end of session 6, Sympathy for the Devil in the subtitled and dubbed versions to see exactly what I mean."
As far as the censorship issue only 1 scene was cut from the entire series when it aired on CN - nudity BTW...and a transexual at that...understandable.
And the dub...the dub in cowboy bebop is IMHO the best dub i have ever seen of _any_ anime series. You dont actually expect them to broadcast subed anime on CN do you? Now dont get me wrong i will watch it...but generally speaking i dont really like subbed anime.
Even worse what would happen if someone coded a trojan/virus that incorperated that used this keygen to register as many reg codes as possible. If it was widespread enough it would make quick work of the "virgin" codes and cause alot of problems for a great many microsoft customers.
Ive always agreed that this was a bad idea, but i never really though about how bad until today.
honestly it does not matter at this point. it has been said befor earlier today, but the US needs to lead the the worldwide war against terrorism. what i mean is this: if you commit terrorists acts we will destroy the very citys/nations/ideals you intend to defend. we will destroy anyone who stands in our way of that goal. in any event every act of terrorism will come with a price...this one cerainly will.
something else. as of today isreal has little or no political opposition to killing as many palistinians as it wishes. after the display (a party?) on the west bank today few american officials or citizens would shed a tear if the isrealies turned afganastan into dust tommorrow. in the comming weeks expect to see isreal launch major attacks against the afgan's.
I lived in Ybor City for about 2 years around '94, befor it was the mini Bourbon Street its become and when it was still a counter culture Mecha for ppl from all over Central Florida. I remember a time when one could walk down 7th ave on a Tuesday night around 8 o'clock throwing bricks through windows and no one would notice (much less care).
Now theyve got cameras that can recognize people. Who wouldve guessed.
Ther is specualtion that the MPAA never even intended for CSS to be "copy protecton" in the first place. Only a means to region lock dvd's to a specific region. It make s since when you think about it. The industry big wigs must have known that cracking theyr coveted "copy protection" scheme would be the crown jewel of the pirates on the net....it was bound to happen....so why bother...or for that matter why use a weak encryption scheme? Its not about stamping out "copying"...its about fixing prices.
As im sure you know ther _is_ an open implementation of napsters services called opennap. While its not done with the companies blessings, ive found many opennap nets to work so well i dont even use napsters servers anymore. I mainly use Music City which i find to be a far better service. All the servers are linked, thers way more files and it by far faster.
From what ive heard thers stuff in the works that runs on top of existing irc servers (think i read it here actually). Although if someone makes this work really well, and its really easy to use it could be a poison pill. The last thing we want to see is the RIAA/MPAA/BSA shutting down entire irc nets when it gets too popular.
OK then: So what if I work in community theatre? If I give a really shitty audition i wont be "hired". If I perform badly during rehersals I will be "fired". I am told to work specific hours like "showtimes" and "rehersals" else I will be "fired". And I recieve perks like "pizza" and "beer".
Dont get me wrong, I hate AOL as much as the next guy, but this is absurd. People volunteer because they want to...not because they want to get free internet access.
"Of course this is actually the way that things have always been. "
"Certainly this has always been the case in print media, hence the saying that you can't believe everything that you read. "
In the print media we have had for some time a wide range of authors and journalists reporting on a givin subject. This gives us the chance to read many different takes on said subject and decide for ourselves whats real and what isnt. Even with the technology desribed in the artical, in this day and age we still have that same option. Cameras are everywhere...almost anyone can capture any givin moment on video...giving us a wide range of sources to make our decission from.
I would _gladly_ fork out as many as 25 hard earned dollars each month to use a Napster or a similar service. I would hope the cost wouldnt be that high, but If push came to shove and it was a quality service I would pay it. And Im sure Im not alone....I could see an all you can eat, flat rated music sharing service like this turning into the biggest cash cow the recording industry has ever seen.
Think about it: Napster (or whoever) could charge for the service...most of which would go to artists and lables for royalties (just like radio). On top of that Im sure a banner ad system would be implemented. They have your zip code...they know the bands you like...sounds like the perfect opprotunity to sell concert tickets to me- Ticketmaster would be jizzing their pants at such an arrangement. Not to mention all the other crap artists love to sell and we love to buy.
I would urge Napster to explore options like these...as they just might be able to turn this thing around for everyone involved.
Thers all kinds of ways to make money off something like this...even if your a record lable or an artist. Anyone who doesnt see that is just not looking hard enough.
"It's not the consumer that is paying the piper for the garbage that the music industry foists upon us. It's the music industry that is paying for their mistakes."
I agree. Ive been saying this for years: If the recording industry would have acted when the internet audio revolution was in its infancy they would probably now control it....but unfortunatly (for them) they never saw it coming. By the time they realized ther may be a problem the mp3 format had already reached critical mass...and ther was no stopping it.
So who really fucked up? Us for downloading all those mp3's? Napster for making them so accesable? No, it was the recording industry and their lack of vision.
"While its obvious that napster is aiding the piracy of music, it seems that most people JUST DON'T CARE."
Yup.
Case in point : My Mother who is now pushing 40 was rather critical of napster when she first heard of it. "The artists should get paid for their work" she proclaimed. "Nobody should have to work for free!".....that is until she started using it of course. Now she loves it. Uses it everyday.....and at this point is totally oblivious to any copyright issues. Note - my mother sells insurance and has never stolen so much as a nickle in her life.
Ive heard this same story from many of my friends when they showed theyr parents napster. I see it everyday at work too-at least one idiot a day will come in wanting to know how to burn those mp3 files he got from napster to a cd - most of them very straight business men or housewives.
It may be illegal...it may not be....but one things for sure: it doesnt matter either way 'cause its not going anywher. ppl just like it too damn much.
Its funny...but most ppl don't. I happen to work for Office Depot and have handed over countless MSN contracts to customers after explaining thier content. Id say 1 out of 50 actually read them. "Sign here, here and here mam'". Most just take my word that what I say is true - of course it is...but still it kinda makes you wonder....
"If you sit back a bit from the monitor there isn't really anything noticably bad with it. If you sit a bit closer though (as close as I usually sit from my monitor) you can pick out the compression artifacts. "
Even better is to use a video card with tv out. On a television set (from a few feet away) the artifacts are virtually un noticable. Looks much like VHS.
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Try indietorrents
Its all super HQ and RIAA free music to boot.
me@my.net may be even worse. ive been using that one on web forms for years (along alot of other ppl probably). not to mention all the references it gets in examples of all sorts of things on the web.
see starz.com for details.
i was kinda wondering if it was any good. think i might do the trial today.
check out http://www.nu2.nu/corpmodboot/
quite a bit of work is involved with this but its worth it.
...on a laptop of mine i just plugged into the hub for a few seconds to grab some files. Actually took me a few minutes to figure out WTF had occured, until i realized i'd never bothered to turn the messenger service off.
"...a small girl (probably about five) cried out, "Mommy, why is he doing that?" It almost would have been funny, except for the fact that you realized a young girl was being traumatized, and her parents didn't care."
I agree with you totally. When I was no more than 8 my Grandmother took me to see "The Shining" and forced me to sit through it 'cause she just had to see it. I was terrified and couldnt even sleep that night. I had that image of the river of blood flowing through the hall of the hotel etched in my mind for days. I still cant watch that movie without thinking about that.
I got an erection when I first glanced at this post! Then I actually saw what it is and...WTF CowboyNeal?!?!?!? Why'd you do that to me?!?!?!
Seriously though I've always been amazed Blizzard didnt milk the first Starcraft Game more than they did...I mean at least another expansion or two. I mean damn, that game is like 5 years old and I still know like a dozen people that play it everyday.
"Printer manufacturers have also claimed that using non-OEM inks would damage their printers, and that using non-OEM inks would void the warranty. However, the manufacturers were required to stop this tactic; under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act and general principles of the Federal Trade Commission Act, a manufacturer may not require the use of any brand of ink (or any other article) unless the manufacturer provides the item free of charge under the terms of the warranty. This hasn't prevented salesdroids and tech-support people from claiming that, but they'll fold if you press them."
I work for selling these types of products. At one point two years ago I was _ordered_ by management to tell customers exactly that if it came up. I knew it was a lie so I fought them on it. It took my sending e-mail to three different higher ups in the company to get the store management to change theyr policy on the issue.
...from standing in line to buy tickets for TPM. This was in Gainesville Fl and lines werent allowed to form until that morning, so this prolly isnt as extreme as most citys. I hung out with like 10 different ppl who were skipping out of work to be ther that day (one guy even got fired over the phone while he was waiting in line - dumbass).
We had it all...liquer, tent, pizza. Best fucking line ive ever been in.
No this is an issue absorbed by _all of us_. In the end every consumer in the country is affected by this. When those stolen numbers are used they create chargebacks for the retail/web chains they were used at. This is an expense to those stores. In turn prices are raised to cover them. Just like shoplifting, its a problem everyone pays for at some point.
"The translation of Cowboy Bebop wasn't horrible, aside from the standard censorship, but the voice acting was terrible. The guy who talks Spike just doesn't know how to get those subtle gradations of emotion in his voice that were in the original (we're not talking soap operas here, Spike is pretty stoic, but even stoics betray some emotion in their voices). Just compare the end of session 6, Sympathy for the Devil in the subtitled and dubbed versions to see exactly what I mean."
As far as the censorship issue only 1 scene was cut from the entire series when it aired on CN - nudity BTW...and a transexual at that...understandable.
And the dub...the dub in cowboy bebop is IMHO the best dub i have ever seen of _any_ anime series. You dont actually expect them to broadcast subed anime on CN do you? Now dont get me wrong i will watch it...but generally speaking i dont really like subbed anime.
Even worse what would happen if someone coded a trojan/virus that incorperated that used this keygen to register as many reg codes as possible. If it was widespread enough it would make quick work of the "virgin" codes and cause alot of problems for a great many microsoft customers.
Ive always agreed that this was a bad idea, but i never really though about how bad until today.
Heh I dunno why. Virtualy every day is a TNG marathon on TNN!
honestly it does not matter at this point. it has been said befor earlier today, but the US needs to lead the the worldwide war against terrorism. what i mean is this: if you commit terrorists acts we will destroy the very citys/nations/ideals you intend to defend. we will destroy anyone who stands in our way of that goal. in any event every act of terrorism will come with a price...this one cerainly will.
something else. as of today isreal has little or no political opposition to killing as many palistinians as it wishes. after the display (a party?) on the west bank today few american officials or citizens would shed a tear if the isrealies turned afganastan into dust tommorrow. in the comming weeks expect to see isreal launch major attacks against the afgan's.
I lived in Ybor City for about 2 years around '94, befor it was the mini Bourbon Street its become and when it was still a counter culture Mecha for ppl from all over Central Florida. I remember a time when one could walk down 7th ave on a Tuesday night around 8 o'clock throwing bricks through windows and no one would notice (much less care).
Now theyve got cameras that can recognize people. Who wouldve guessed.
Ther is specualtion that the MPAA never even intended for CSS to be "copy protecton" in the first place. Only a means to region lock dvd's to a specific region. It make s since when you think about it. The industry big wigs must have known that cracking theyr coveted "copy protection" scheme would be the crown jewel of the pirates on the net....it was bound to happen....so why bother...or for that matter why use a weak encryption scheme? Its not about stamping out "copying"...its about fixing prices.
As im sure you know ther _is_ an open implementation of napsters services called opennap. While its not done with the companies blessings, ive found many opennap nets to work so well i dont even use napsters servers anymore. I mainly use Music City which i find to be a far better service. All the servers are linked, thers way more files and it by far faster.
See Internet Relay Chat.
From what ive heard thers stuff in the works that runs on top of existing irc servers (think i read it here actually). Although if someone makes this work really well, and its really easy to use it could be a poison pill. The last thing we want to see is the RIAA/MPAA/BSA shutting down entire irc nets when it gets too popular.
OK then: So what if I work in community theatre? If I give a really shitty audition i wont be "hired". If I perform badly during rehersals I will be "fired". I am told to work specific hours like "showtimes" and "rehersals" else I will be "fired". And I recieve perks like "pizza" and "beer".
Dont get me wrong, I hate AOL as much as the next guy, but this is absurd. People volunteer because they want to...not because they want to get free internet access.
"Of course this is actually the way that things have always been. "
"Certainly this has always been the case in print media, hence the saying that you can't believe everything that you read. "
In the print media we have had for some time a wide range of authors and journalists reporting on a givin subject. This gives us the chance to read many different takes on said subject and decide for ourselves whats real and what isnt. Even with the technology desribed in the artical, in this day and age we still have that same option. Cameras are everywhere...almost anyone can capture any givin moment on video...giving us a wide range of sources to make our decission from.
I would _gladly_ fork out as many as 25 hard earned dollars each month to use a Napster or a similar service. I would hope the cost wouldnt be that high, but If push came to shove and it was a quality service I would pay it. And Im sure Im not alone....I could see an all you can eat, flat rated music sharing service like this turning into the biggest cash cow the recording industry has ever seen.
Think about it: Napster (or whoever) could charge for the service...most of which would go to artists and lables for royalties (just like radio). On top of that Im sure a banner ad system would be implemented. They have your zip code...they know the bands you like...sounds like the perfect opprotunity to sell concert tickets to me- Ticketmaster would be jizzing their pants at such an arrangement. Not to mention all the other crap artists love to sell and we love to buy.
I would urge Napster to explore options like these...as they just might be able to turn this thing around for everyone involved.
Thers all kinds of ways to make money off something like this...even if your a record lable or an artist. Anyone who doesnt see that is just not looking hard enough.
"It's not the consumer that is paying the piper for the garbage that the music industry foists upon us. It's the music industry that is paying for their mistakes."
I agree. Ive been saying this for years: If the recording industry would have acted when the internet audio revolution was in its infancy they would probably now control it....but unfortunatly (for them) they never saw it coming. By the time they realized ther may be a problem the mp3 format had already reached critical mass...and ther was no stopping it.
So who really fucked up? Us for downloading all those mp3's? Napster for making them so accesable? No, it was the recording industry and their lack of vision.
"While its obvious that napster is aiding the piracy of music, it seems that most people JUST DON'T CARE."
Yup.
Case in point : My Mother who is now pushing 40 was rather critical of napster when she first heard of it. "The artists should get paid for their work" she proclaimed. "Nobody should have to work for free!".....that is until she started using it of course. Now she loves it. Uses it everyday.....and at this point is totally oblivious to any copyright issues. Note - my mother sells insurance and has never stolen so much as a nickle in her life.
Ive heard this same story from many of my friends when they showed theyr parents napster. I see it everyday at work too-at least one idiot a day will come in wanting to know how to burn those mp3 files he got from napster to a cd - most of them very straight business men or housewives.
It may be illegal...it may not be....but one things for sure: it doesnt matter either way 'cause its not going anywher. ppl just like it too damn much.
Its funny...but most ppl don't. I happen to work for Office Depot and have handed over countless MSN contracts to customers after explaining thier content. Id say 1 out of 50 actually read them. "Sign here, here and here mam'". Most just take my word that what I say is true - of course it is...but still it kinda makes you wonder....
"If you sit back a bit from the monitor there isn't really anything noticably bad with it. If you sit a bit closer though (as close as I usually sit from my monitor) you can pick out the compression artifacts. "
Even better is to use a video card with tv out. On a television set (from a few feet away) the artifacts are virtually un noticable. Looks much like VHS.