But will it play Unreal Tournament and kill all my enemies and capture flags automatically? And will it automatically scroll down when i'm done reading a page?
The entire reason that the RIAA doesn't want MP3's to succeed isn't the widespread piracy, oh NO! The amount of money "lost" is negligible and they may be making more money off mp3's from the same kind of advertising as radio.
The reason they are against MP3's is because once it becomes widespread and people start selling mp3's online, they can circumvent the recording industry and they don't have to recive 5% of the CD sales, if they sold it direct, they can get 95% royalties and the recording industry would get 0, unless they get a foothold on the internet (which is doubtful).
Oftentimes, you hear the RIAA and recording companies talk about how bad MP3's are, but they occasionally don't say ILLEGAL or PIRATED mp3s. Think about it, they have said they kinda accepted audio tape recordings, but don't accept MP3s..
REMEMBER: The RIAA is not the Recording Artists Association of America, they represent the Recording INDUSTRY's best interest, and they'll be SCREWED OVER if MP3's or any other internet medium succeeds.
I'm currently 14 and really into linux. Last summer, i learned linux, and i've been really into it since then. Summer vacation just started for me 2 days ago, and i want to finally learn some programming language this summer. I need some advice on what the learn too. VB is out of the question since i want to be about to program in linux and i don't want to fork over 200 bucks for some M$ compiler.
I'm considering to try to learn C, but C++ seems like a good idea too, i don't know what to learn first. It seems that books for other languages assume you know C, so i guess i'm going to learn that...
Anyone have any advice on what i should learn and/or what books I should get to learn?
Well, the paragraph doesn't even make sense. Makes me think it has to do with words in the sentance, eg ever 3 letters or whatnot and then rot13 it or some weird crap. It looks too damn hard to be able to break the code. This is when making a beowulf cluster WON'T work! doh! hehe. Or maybe the code has to do with the words in there, eg happy, sad, secure, etc. This is really a stumper...
1 simple gripe (yes i agreed to everything else you said) is that there were over 100 channels for this and each one had at least 12 so there were over 1000 people in there. You were in just one of the rooms, but nevertheless, it probably wasn't metallica answering the questions, but really the RIAA and was probably scripted or something;-P i've checked out first 20 rooms, most didn't have their questions answered, VERY SUSPICIOUS
George lucas announced today that there will actually be a DVD by the end of this year for The Phantom Menace. He attributed all the delays to those damn aliens who had a master plot to delay The Phantom Menace because of pink energizer bunnies that would take over the world and everyone is 'out to get him.'
Rumors have been spreading around because of a master plot by the energizer bunnies to delay the DVD because they wanted to put in a lot of subliminal messages in there. They have already taken over many 'repsectable' organizations like the RIAA, MPAA, DVD Consortium, Microsoft, MADD, the United States government and Al Gore. Only one of the subliminal messages in the movie have been found. In the 39574th frame there is in block times new roman 1 billion pt font, in big letters that says 'JAR JAR SUX.' Apparently children ranging from 3-7 years old were not affected.
George Lucas explains, "The pink bunnies raided my home and screwed around with the movie, they also told me to not release the DVD. I've found out their secret plan, their weakness is someone saying 'Jar Jar is the best' in their prescen..."
I am now writing this story Mwhahaha. You see... I had this DVD version all out, but they TOOK OUT all of JAR JAR in the DVD version. I'm nearly completing the DVD version with Jar Jar binks and all his glory. If i shipped it before, there wouldn't BE any Jar Jar in the movie and I know that that would disappoint the fans.
Also, the pink bunnies took some parts out of the movie and the DVD version will have ALL of it in there. For example, they took out much of Anakin saying 'Yippie.' In the DVD, there will be 90 scenes in the movie where Anakin says Yippe. There will also be a special section where Queen Amidala is naked and petrified pouring hot grits down her pants screaming "FIRST POST! FIRST POST!" All these things take time and seeing that the pink bunnies thwarted my plan on releasing it along with the VHS, i must sadly say that this will be released at the end of the year. The planned release date is 12/32/00.
Often i was seen on television saying that there would NOT be a DVD version, although that was not really me, but rather a pink bunny in disguise. In all the interviews where I have said that there would not be a DVD until 2005, you can clearly see the pointy ears and the fluffy tail. I think the pink bunny is a special kind of Borg...
Some people call me crazy and greedy. I don't see why!
Haha, i guess windows 98 crashed too many times for him and he wanted bitter revenge? Or maybe IE always takes itself as the default browser and he wants netscape damnit. Look out microsoft! We've got a disgruntled judge! hehehe
Nah, the best thing is to go and get some weird freemail account, check the directories at yahoo. Get one that ends with a country code, that's what i do, any site that decides to bitch about that i give them that e-mail. Usually companies will look for the popular ones (hotmail, yahoo, etc), but if you get something that ends with.no or.to or whatnot they probably haven't seen it. =)
I heard that Samsung is helping AMD make the chipset and that it'll be available 2nd quarter 2000, they're working on it right now, and judging by their other releases, it'll probably be realeased earlier than sceduled =)
Isn't 4x AGP overkill for a GeForce right now? How much data ARE you going to need to transfer in a second? Right now those speeds are not needed for getting better graphics, AGP 4x is overkill, the reason it's faster, is it has better access to the processor and other components. The data throughput isn't really needed for GeForce isn't it? Sure later we'll prolly find a use, but right now it's overkill =)
But Ebay DOES have profits. They're not in the red, but the black. Even though their P/E ratio is 1,795.39, they STILL have profit, which cannot be said about amazon.com. If amazon could not issue any more stock, they would go out of business in a quarter. Ebay is one of those VERY few companies that actually make money on the internet.
How silly, so you think that the ARTIST that MADE the music should get compensated? well me too! guess what, every CD you buy, a MINIMAL amount goes to them, sometimes they get screwed in their contract and they get BILLED money instead of getting paid for each CD sold. the music companies don't give a care about protecting the artists rights, they want to protect their cash cow.
The artists are getting peanuts compared to what the record companies get, sometimes they get screwed too.
Apparently some allow it, fuckingsucks.net is registered. hehe, i know the domain because you can plug-in anything under.really.fuckingsucks.net, eg. microsoft.really.fuckingsucks.net =). Did a whois on it... Whois Server Version 1.1 Domain names in the.com,.net, and.org domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. Domain Name: FUCKINGSUCKS.NET Registrar: CORE INTERNET COUNCIL OF REGISTRARS Whois Server: whois.corenic.net Referral URL: www.corenic.net Name Server: CURTIS.CURTISFONG.ORG Name Server: NS1.VMRDESIGNS.COM Name Server: NS2.VMRDESIGNS.COM Updated Date: 09-dec-1999 >>> Last update of whois database: Sun, 27 Feb 00 02:36:32 EST The Registry database contains ONLY.COM,.NET,.ORG,.EDU domains and Registrars.
odd... I have M13 and going back and forth doesn't go back to where I was on the page... Is there some kind of option that lets you do that? Am i overlooking something hideously obvious or something because it doesn't seem to work in either M13 or netscape 4.61 and 4.7 =(
I absolutely HATE netscape! Half the time on my computer i'm using windoze and when I do, i see myself using IE just like many other people. The little problems keep me from using netscape, and example is whenever I click on a link and go back to the page, i wasn't where I was before. In IE i am EXACTLY where I was before. It's a little thing, but it keeps me from using netscape. For example, when i'm reading/. (which is a huge page) and I click on the slashdot logo to go to the main page and i want to go back to the page I was in before, it goes to near the top of the page, which is a HUGE nuisance. It's things like this that keep me from using netscape.. the little stuff.
I was rather curious about the current DVD situation and would search using google for some dvd ripping, after it IS legal for me to copy my dvd's =).
I ran across a rather interesting site that tells you how to copy DVD's WITHOUT USING DECSS! Here's some nice stuff for the defense lawyers to use
Ripping dvd's using Dvdrip- http://www.fixup.net/alldvd.htm
Dvdrip- http://dvdpiracy.com/ (sure the site seems to be a piracy site, but hey, it's legal for me to copy the DVD's that _I_ bought, so it's fine... i think... IANAL..)
So technically, you don't need to use DeCSS to copy dvd's. Why don't the RIAA go after this site instead? Why just DeCSS? Why are they screwing over DeCSS when there is a true legitimate reason?
Didn't anyone notice that most of their idiocy and spreading of FUD started after Andy Grove resigned as CEO/President? The new intel CEO is probably another PHB, spreading FUD around and not knowing WTF is going on. Their slogan, "Don't get on the internet get into it" has to be the biggest BS ever. Processors don't have anything to do with the internet, and this slogan was decided AFTER Grove resigned? Intel is coming out with crap now (i820) and releasing products that aren't thurowly tested (CuMine).
Either Andy Grove controlled a lot and made sure they don't release crap before he resigned or the new CEO is just another PHB.
Sure intel had a lot of suing before he resigned, but it seems to have escalated recently. Next computer i'm getting, i think i'll get a AMD.
What they're saying is so absurd. "We know it's going to be broken and we were surprised it wasn't sooner, but we're still going to sue the people" Why don't they just go and make better protection anyway? bah!
jeez! why don't they shoot themselves in the leg for losing potential customers. Honestly, who WOULD copy DVD's? they're like 30 bucks per blank and the writers are 400... they CAN claim that 'oh the pros that want to copy it can do it now.' Well i've got news for you buddy, it's not that hard to break through DVD's, just get the raw data and stick it on a stamp, whoop de doo. If they're going to make some kind of weird excuse that they need some data that can't be ripped, well we all know the pirate star wars DVD is out in asia, why can't they just swap the raw data file and instant dvd?
So basically the only reason that there would be a reason to sue is for the end user since it's already feasable to make pirate dvd's for the pros (and cheaply too). But the problem is the only way the end user is going to copy is using a DVD-RAM or keeping that huge file on your hard drive and you can only view it on your computer. If you just want it only to view on your computer, there are already DVD-RIPs of VCDs rampant on the internet (as many of people have said on/.) and a lot smaller (remember, image quality doesn't make much of a difference in 21" monitors).
What are they trying to do then? ARGH! I don't know, can someone explain? They're shooting themselves in the leg!
Note- You still can't vote, it's just to get the plug-ins to evaluate... at least u can make an informed desicion before you vote;-)
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If you press the 'about citifi' link on the bottom, you can access the rest of the page, and it looks FINE in netscape/w linux. Everything seems to be working in order, if you really need the side, just click on the 'about' button. This seems to be more of a oversight than an evil conspiracy, just send them a POLITE e-mail or call them to tell them!
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But will it play Unreal Tournament and kill all my enemies and capture flags automatically? And will it automatically scroll down when i'm done reading a page?
(yes i know it isn't THAT kind of mice...)
The entire reason that the RIAA doesn't want MP3's to succeed isn't the widespread piracy, oh NO! The amount of money "lost" is negligible and they may be making more money off mp3's from the same kind of advertising as radio.
The reason they are against MP3's is because once it becomes widespread and people start selling mp3's online, they can circumvent the recording industry and they don't have to recive 5% of the CD sales, if they sold it direct, they can get 95% royalties and the recording industry would get 0, unless they get a foothold on the internet (which is doubtful).
Oftentimes, you hear the RIAA and recording companies talk about how bad MP3's are, but they occasionally don't say ILLEGAL or PIRATED mp3s. Think about it, they have said they kinda accepted audio tape recordings, but don't accept MP3s..
REMEMBER: The RIAA is not the Recording Artists Association of America, they represent the Recording INDUSTRY's best interest, and they'll be SCREWED OVER if MP3's or any other internet medium succeeds.
Silly you! both cd's of mandrake 7.1 aren't done uploading yet at the time of this post!
I'm currently 14 and really into linux. Last summer, i learned linux, and i've been really into it since then. Summer vacation just started for me 2 days ago, and i want to finally learn some programming language this summer. I need some advice on what the learn too. VB is out of the question since i want to be about to program in linux and i don't want to fork over 200 bucks for some M$ compiler.
I'm considering to try to learn C, but C++ seems like a good idea too, i don't know what to learn first. It seems that books for other languages assume you know C, so i guess i'm going to learn that...
Anyone have any advice on what i should learn and/or what books I should get to learn?
Any advice would be appreciated.
http://p artners.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/05/biztech/art icles/26build.html
Well, the paragraph doesn't even make sense. Makes me think it has to do with words in the sentance, eg ever 3 letters or whatnot and then rot13 it or some weird crap. It looks too damn hard to be able to break the code. This is when making a beowulf cluster WON'T work! doh! hehe. Or maybe the code has to do with the words in there, eg happy, sad, secure, etc. This is really a stumper...
1 simple gripe (yes i agreed to everything else you said) is that there were over 100 channels for this and each one had at least 12 so there were over 1000 people in there. You were in just one of the rooms, but nevertheless, it probably wasn't metallica answering the questions, but really the RIAA and was probably scripted or something ;-P i've checked out first 20 rooms, most didn't have their questions answered, VERY SUSPICIOUS
AP Newswire
Written by: Steve Case
DVD in the near future?
George lucas announced today that there will actually be a DVD by the end of this year for The Phantom Menace. He attributed all the delays to those damn aliens who had a master plot to delay The Phantom Menace because of pink energizer bunnies that would take over the world and everyone is 'out to get him.'
Rumors have been spreading around because of a master plot by the energizer bunnies to delay the DVD because they wanted to put in a lot of subliminal messages in there. They have already taken over many 'repsectable' organizations like the RIAA, MPAA, DVD Consortium, Microsoft, MADD, the United States government and Al Gore. Only one of the subliminal messages in the movie have been found. In the 39574th frame there is in block times new roman 1 billion pt font, in big letters that says 'JAR JAR SUX.' Apparently children ranging from 3-7 years old were not affected.
George Lucas explains, "The pink bunnies raided my home and screwed around with the movie, they also told me to not release the DVD. I've found out their secret plan, their weakness is someone saying 'Jar Jar is the best' in their prescen..."
I am now writing this story Mwhahaha. You see... I had this DVD version all out, but they TOOK OUT all of JAR JAR in the DVD version. I'm nearly completing the DVD version with Jar Jar binks and all his glory. If i shipped it before, there wouldn't BE any Jar Jar in the movie and I know that that would disappoint the fans.
Also, the pink bunnies took some parts out of the movie and the DVD version will have ALL of it in there. For example, they took out much of Anakin saying 'Yippie.' In the DVD, there will be 90 scenes in the movie where Anakin says Yippe. There will also be a special section where Queen Amidala is naked and petrified pouring hot grits down her pants screaming "FIRST POST! FIRST POST!" All these things take time and seeing that the pink bunnies thwarted my plan on releasing it along with the VHS, i must sadly say that this will be released at the end of the year. The planned release date is 12/32/00.
Often i was seen on television saying that there would NOT be a DVD version, although that was not really me, but rather a pink bunny in disguise. In all the interviews where I have said that there would not be a DVD until 2005, you can clearly see the pointy ears and the fluffy tail. I think the pink bunny is a special kind of Borg...
Some people call me crazy and greedy. I don't see why!
George Lucas
Haha, i guess windows 98 crashed too many times for him and he wanted bitter revenge? Or maybe IE always takes itself as the default browser and he wants netscape damnit. Look out microsoft! We've got a disgruntled judge! hehehe
The link that was supplied i have a permission denied! Does anyone else have mirror sites?
Nah, the best thing is to go and get some weird freemail account, check the directories at yahoo. Get one that ends with a country code, that's what i do, any site that decides to bitch about that i give them that e-mail. Usually companies will look for the popular ones (hotmail, yahoo, etc), but if you get something that ends with .no or .to or whatnot they probably haven't seen it. =)
I heard that Samsung is helping AMD make the chipset and that it'll be available 2nd quarter 2000, they're working on it right now, and judging by their other releases, it'll probably be realeased earlier than sceduled =)
Isn't 4x AGP overkill for a GeForce right now? How much data ARE you going to need to transfer in a second? Right now those speeds are not needed for getting better graphics, AGP 4x is overkill, the reason it's faster, is it has better access to the processor and other components. The data throughput isn't really needed for GeForce isn't it? Sure later we'll prolly find a use, but right now it's overkill =)
But Ebay DOES have profits. They're not in the red, but the black. Even though their P/E ratio is 1,795.39, they STILL have profit, which cannot be said about amazon.com. If amazon could not issue any more stock, they would go out of business in a quarter. Ebay is one of those VERY few companies that actually make money on the internet.
How silly, so you think that the ARTIST that MADE the music should get compensated? well me too! guess what, every CD you buy, a MINIMAL amount goes to them, sometimes they get screwed in their contract and they get BILLED money instead of getting paid for each CD sold. the music companies don't give a care about protecting the artists rights, they want to protect their cash cow.
The artists are getting peanuts compared to what the record companies get, sometimes they get screwed too.
Is pirating the lesser of two evils?
I've had this problem when I was behind a proxy. Try connecting through a regular connect. I think it's some kind of security...
Apparently some allow it, fuckingsucks.net is registered. hehe, i know the domain because you can plug-in anything under .really.fuckingsucks.net, eg. microsoft.really.fuckingsucks.net =). Did a whois on it... Whois Server Version 1.1 Domain names in the .com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. Domain Name: FUCKINGSUCKS.NET Registrar: CORE INTERNET COUNCIL OF REGISTRARS Whois Server: whois.corenic.net Referral URL: www.corenic.net Name Server: CURTIS.CURTISFONG.ORG Name Server: NS1.VMRDESIGNS.COM Name Server: NS2.VMRDESIGNS.COM Updated Date: 09-dec-1999 >>> Last update of whois database: Sun, 27 Feb 00 02:36:32 EST The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .ORG, .EDU domains and Registrars.
odd... I have M13 and going back and forth doesn't go back to where I was on the page... Is there some kind of option that lets you do that? Am i overlooking something hideously obvious or something because it doesn't seem to work in either M13 or netscape 4.61 and 4.7 =(
I absolutely HATE netscape! Half the time on my computer i'm using windoze and when I do, i see myself using IE just like many other people. The little problems keep me from using netscape, and example is whenever I click on a link and go back to the page, i wasn't where I was before. In IE i am EXACTLY where I was before. It's a little thing, but it keeps me from using netscape. For example, when i'm reading /. (which is a huge page) and I click on the slashdot logo to go to the main page and i want to go back to the page I was in before, it goes to near the top of the page, which is a HUGE nuisance. It's things like this that keep me from using netscape.. the little stuff.
I was rather curious about the current DVD situation and would search using google for some dvd ripping, after it IS legal for me to copy my dvd's =).
I ran across a rather interesting site that tells you how to copy DVD's WITHOUT USING DECSS! Here's some nice stuff for the defense lawyers to use
Ripping dvd's using Dvdrip-
http://www.fixup.net/alldvd.htm
Dvdrip-
http://dvdpiracy.com/ (sure the site seems to be a piracy site, but hey, it's legal for me to copy the DVD's that _I_ bought, so it's fine... i think... IANAL..)
So technically, you don't need to use DeCSS to copy dvd's. Why don't the RIAA go after this site instead? Why just DeCSS? Why are they screwing over DeCSS when there is a true legitimate reason?
--Sadfsdaf
Didn't anyone notice that most of their idiocy and spreading of FUD started after Andy Grove resigned as CEO/President? The new intel CEO is probably another PHB, spreading FUD around and not knowing WTF is going on. Their slogan, "Don't get on the internet get into it" has to be the biggest BS ever. Processors don't have anything to do with the internet, and this slogan was decided AFTER Grove resigned? Intel is coming out with crap now (i820) and releasing products that aren't thurowly tested (CuMine).
Either Andy Grove controlled a lot and made sure they don't release crap before he resigned or the new CEO is just another PHB.
Sure intel had a lot of suing before he resigned, but it seems to have escalated recently. Next computer i'm getting, i think i'll get a AMD.
I think the original post was sarcastic. hard to tell on the internet without facial expressions...
What they're saying is so absurd. "We know it's going to be broken and we were surprised it wasn't sooner, but we're still going to sue the people" Why don't they just go and make better protection anyway? bah!
/.) and a lot smaller (remember, image quality doesn't make much of a difference in 21" monitors).
jeez! why don't they shoot themselves in the leg for losing potential customers. Honestly, who WOULD copy DVD's? they're like 30 bucks per blank and the writers are 400... they CAN claim that 'oh the pros that want to copy it can do it now.' Well i've got news for you buddy, it's not that hard to break through DVD's, just get the raw data and stick it on a stamp, whoop de doo. If they're going to make some kind of weird excuse that they need some data that can't be ripped, well we all know the pirate star wars DVD is out in asia, why can't they just swap the raw data file and instant dvd?
So basically the only reason that there would be a reason to sue is for the end user since it's already feasable to make pirate dvd's for the pros (and cheaply too). But the problem is the only way the end user is going to copy is using a DVD-RAM or keeping that huge file on your hard drive and you can only view it on your computer. If you just want it only to view on your computer, there are already DVD-RIPs of VCDs rampant on the internet (as many of people have said on
What are they trying to do then? ARGH! I don't know, can someone explain? They're shooting themselves in the leg!
Here's a few mirrors of the sites.
;-)
Note- You still can't vote, it's just to get the plug-ins to evaluate... at least u can make an informed desicion before you vote
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If you press the 'about citifi' link on the bottom, you can access the rest of the page, and it looks FINE in netscape /w linux. Everything seems to be working in order, if you really need the side, just click on the 'about' button. This seems to be more of a oversight than an evil conspiracy, just send them a POLITE e-mail or call them to tell them!
Sadfsdaf
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