I don't care what people think about the latter series of RD, I loved them all but the first series is still my favourite. Looking forward to more of the Smegs In Space!
Wondeful, because there's no other crime that even comes close to music piracy.
Just imagine it, you get arrested and put in a cell with a dozen other people:
Cell occupant 1: "Hey pale skinny white guy, what you in here for?"
Cell occupant 2: "I bet he got caught jacking a 7-11"
Cell occupant 1: "That's what I'm in here for"
Cell occupant 3: "No shit, that's what I did last week, but I got caught today mugging someone"
Cell occupant 1: "So what is it boy?"
You: "I downloaded a Backstreet Boys album without paying for it.."
When will someone come up with a hardware or software RAID solution to enable several USB flash drives to appear as a single drive on Windows? with relatively reliable & fast (12MB/s write, 30MB/s read) 16GB flash drives as cheap as £16 each I'd love to cram as many as I could inside my Eee and have them appear as a single drive instead of many individual drives.
Downloaded the ASF and had a quick watch, wonderful video, will have to watch it again only on my 800x600 res LCD glasses to try and get a better 'immersive' effect. Have to agree to one of the other posters, someone get that man a very wide angle lens to do another tour.
I've seen a few rare instances of the 10 minute limit exemption, usually universities & individuals who create their own mini documentaries/documentation of procedures to build/demonstrate something, so why hasn't YouTube granted NASA the ability to upload videos longer than 10 minutes? or hasn't anyone at NASA thought to ask?
I've been keeping an eye on the search results for YouTube videos silenced by WMG from it's original report on an earlier slashdot discussion of 13,600 videos, right now the number is at 294,000 videos and a lot of them have now been removed.
Looks like WMG are losing out on a very BIG advertising revenue stream by removing almost 1/3 million videos, and the number will most likely grow (1/2 million? 1 million?). If they had any intelligence they'd have turned this debacle into a new revenue stream. A lot of the videos silenced/removed have had millions of views, I certainly wouldn't say no to that level of page views if I could make money from it.
I'm starting to see more & more DIY hardware articles on this site, articles that are perfectly at home on and more suited to Revision3's Systm, hackaday.com, hackedgadges.com & hacknmod.com - which incedentally is where I first saw this DIY LED array (hackedgadgets).
So is slashdot becomming yet another "Look At What You Can Build If You Have Teh Mad Hacking Skillz!!!11!!" site or what?
Ever since Google bought YouTube for a ridiculous amount of money people have been wondering how they'll be able to make their money back from it, there's a simple solution to this:
Use YouTube as a try-before-you-buy system.
Instead of muting the audio on copyrighted tracks & removing copyrighted video - reduce the audio/video quality a bit and include a BUY NOW link so that Google and the copyright owners can start to cash in on people's want to have the audio/video in CD/blu-ray/DVD quality instead of watching a 'postage stamp' sized video in half-CD quality mono.
...I only have the one which is permanently in my Eee 701, and occasionally loses all it's data for no apparent reason (yay for backups)
But USB memory sticks on the other hand, now you're talking! I wish they'd produce significantly increased capacity ones at very affordable prices so I could carry the same amount of data around in a single stick instead of spread across 2-4 sticks.
Damn straight! The Windows pop-up that pisses me off the most is when you click on a CD/DVD drive in Explorer and get "Insert disk" "Please insert a disk into drive D:." which happens mostly by accident when you're trying quickly trying to click on a different drive, or you just unplugged a USB drive you were looking at the files of so Explorer panics and tries to display the next/previous drive it sees, or you just put a disk in and the machine is still in the process of reading it.
Why the fuck can't it just passively display in the file window "No disk in drive. Please insert disk." ?
Matrix jokes aside, the people I know who use file preview in windows are those that can only type with their index fingers whilst looking at the keyboard.
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I don't care what people think about the latter series of RD, I loved them all but the first series is still my favourite. Looking forward to more of the Smegs In Space!
P.S. Would anyone like any toast?
"...go buy the CD."
Yeah cos everyone knows all the music you can download can be bought on CD...
Wondeful, because there's no other crime that even comes close to music piracy.
Just imagine it, you get arrested and put in a cell with a dozen other people:
Cell occupant 1: "Hey pale skinny white guy, what you in here for?"
Cell occupant 2: "I bet he got caught jacking a 7-11"
Cell occupant 1: "That's what I'm in here for"
Cell occupant 3: "No shit, that's what I did last week, but I got caught today mugging someone"
Cell occupant 1: "So what is it boy?"
You: "I downloaded a Backstreet Boys album without paying for it.."
*all the other cell occupants slowly back away*
Not suprising really, after listening to some of the drivel that passes off as 'music' nowadays you do feel an urge to wash your ears out...
Let's turn it into a tv series instead, cos everyone knows tv spin-offs from films always work...
When will someone come up with a hardware or software RAID solution to enable several USB flash drives to appear as a single drive on Windows? with relatively reliable & fast (12MB/s write, 30MB/s read) 16GB flash drives as cheap as £16 each I'd love to cram as many as I could inside my Eee and have them appear as a single drive instead of many individual drives.
Downloaded the ASF and had a quick watch, wonderful video, will have to watch it again only on my 800x600 res LCD glasses to try and get a better 'immersive' effect. Have to agree to one of the other posters, someone get that man a very wide angle lens to do another tour.
Oh, and I've updated my sig.
I've seen a few rare instances of the 10 minute limit exemption, usually universities & individuals who create their own mini documentaries/documentation of procedures to build/demonstrate something, so why hasn't YouTube granted NASA the ability to upload videos longer than 10 minutes? or hasn't anyone at NASA thought to ask?
Here's a tip to let telemarketers know how you feel about them calling you when you're on a do-not-call list:
Keep a whistle next to your phone, so that whenever you get a telemarking call you know exactly what to do...
I've been keeping an eye on the search results for YouTube videos silenced by WMG from it's original report on an earlier slashdot discussion of 13,600 videos, right now the number is at 294,000 videos and a lot of them have now been removed.
Looks like WMG are losing out on a very BIG advertising revenue stream by removing almost 1/3 million videos, and the number will most likely grow (1/2 million? 1 million?). If they had any intelligence they'd have turned this debacle into a new revenue stream. A lot of the videos silenced/removed have had millions of views, I certainly wouldn't say no to that level of page views if I could make money from it.
I'm starting to see more & more DIY hardware articles on this site, articles that are perfectly at home on and more suited to Revision3's Systm, hackaday.com, hackedgadges.com & hacknmod.com - which incedentally is where I first saw this DIY LED array (hackedgadgets).
So is slashdot becomming yet another "Look At What You Can Build If You Have Teh Mad Hacking Skillz!!!11!!" site or what?
Use Netscape.
Your brother in law got wiped by a magnetic fish tank cleaner?
"transanally disemboweled"
Eww! Eww! Eww!
Eeeeewwwww!!
Ewwww!
Ever since Google bought YouTube for a ridiculous amount of money people have been wondering how they'll be able to make their money back from it, there's a simple solution to this:
Use YouTube as a try-before-you-buy system.
Instead of muting the audio on copyrighted tracks & removing copyrighted video - reduce the audio/video quality a bit and include a BUY NOW link so that Google and the copyright owners can start to cash in on people's want to have the audio/video in CD/blu-ray/DVD quality instead of watching a 'postage stamp' sized video in half-CD quality mono.
A looong time ago I had a notion of wanting to visit America one day.
Now my wish to never visit America has increased to magnitudes of that notion of wanting to visit.
"The appeal of the iPhone is that you can do anything with it... "
uh, MMS?
...I only have the one which is permanently in my Eee 701, and occasionally loses all it's data for no apparent reason (yay for backups)
But USB memory sticks on the other hand, now you're talking! I wish they'd produce significantly increased capacity ones at very affordable prices so I could carry the same amount of data around in a single stick instead of spread across 2-4 sticks.
Has anyone tested it on an Asus Eee or the like in comparison with performance of XP on the same machine?
I think that would be an important test what with vendors clinging onto selling XP with laptops/notebooks for as long as possible.
Just like have you ever wondered what the first person to discover you could get milk from a cow was doing at the time?
See sig.
Damn straight! The Windows pop-up that pisses me off the most is when you click on a CD/DVD drive in Explorer and get "Insert disk" "Please insert a disk into drive D:." which happens mostly by accident when you're trying quickly trying to click on a different drive, or you just unplugged a USB drive you were looking at the files of so Explorer panics and tries to display the next/previous drive it sees, or you just put a disk in and the machine is still in the process of reading it.
Why the fuck can't it just passively display in the file window "No disk in drive. Please insert disk." ?
Matrix jokes aside, the people I know who use file preview in windows are those that can only type with their index fingers whilst looking at the keyboard.
Surely this stuff should be on the idle section of slashdot!
If I want DIY servo controlled stuff I can go to http://www.hackaday.com/ or http://www.hackedgadgets.com/ or http://www.hacknmod.com/ or even http://www.instructables.com/
...it will only serve to piss off those that can't circumvent the firewall (or unskippable anti-piracy adverts in the case of legit DVDs)