This has been nothing but headaches for arcade goers. I'm a college student and I can't tell how irritating it was to get carded at an arcade. The way most arcades were doing it (the ones who use cards not tokens) they'd put out two sets of cards, one programmed to play any game, and one that won't play the over-16 games. Alot of the time I'd just end up trading with some poor under-16 smchuck, take his card and go back up to the counter and complain that I was given a under-16 card. I liked to think of it as "freedom-fighting".:)
I have no idea why everyone sees fit to moan and whine about episode 1 every chance they get. Other than a few bits of dialog which seemed more geared towards the children in the audience (mostly from the mouth of JarJar Binks), the movie was pretty decent. The story was good, the directing was good, the acting was mostly good. I don't know what kind of astronomical expecations you guys must have had, but get over it already. Maybe some of you just realized how stupid it was to camp out all night for what would inevietably be (no matter how good) just another movie. . .
Well, the only problem with ogg files as I see it is that they aren't playable on most portable devices. At least they don't suffer from the copy protection scheme and offer the same low quality music as mp3. If I were to switch over to ogg, I would at least have gained something when i lost the flexibillity of mp3 (in terms of portable devices/established nature/etc). But what do I gain from.nap files? Nothing. I get a mp3 with a blanket of security wrapped around itl
It will fail for entirely different reasons. Primary amongst them is the fact that plain old mp3 files are all people really want. The hardware players people own play mp3s, the files they already have are mp3s, and and no one likes restrictions on copying their files.
Not that charging a monthly fee won't work against them, it will, but there are still a number of people who would gladly have paid a monthly fee for what napster WAS. What it has/will become is something no one wanted or asked for napster to make.
And the final problem is that by now a solid napster replacement in the form of Morpheus/Kazaa/grokster has come out. Napster waited way too long. They will always have a place in history, but they will never have a place in the future.
Its a shame manufacturers don't put a little more thought into such products. A few more refinements and I would be able to think of dozens of uses. However, as it stands, I can still think of few:
1) Put linux on it and hide it away as a server. Everyone loves a tiny server, espeically at lan parties when the less equipment you have to lug around too much equipment.
2)How about a Beowulf cluster of 100 systems. . . In your closet!
3) uhm....Other stuff I guess? Honestly with just a tiny screen and some sort of input method this could really be neat. I mean Palms/PocketPc's just don't have enough power in them. . . But since the manufacturers seem more inclined to make a neat gadeget (which admittedly is enough to make me sort of want one) than they are a useful product you'd have to do this bit of mod work yourself.
China tries to wall off the internet and keep it from "contaminating" the thoughts of its people, but too often they fail. An entire nation trying to firewall itself off from the rest of the internet while simulataneously trying to embrace it? It won't work. Sooner or later I think the current chinese government is going to end, we'll soon see.
I seriously hope this does not mean the end of my uncappe download speeds. If I get a cap like other ATT users, I'm gonna be pretty mad. Not that long ago, I had no upload cap, and I got 10 times the upload capacity has i have now (I could get 150k/s, thats 1.2 mbps). Seems like no matter what happens things never improve with time. . .
Like I said, you can still find them in those 500 dollar bundles, but even those bundles are getting hard to find. You might find one here or there in the retail market, but you won't find em in your local Walmart or your Best Buy unless you get lucky and come in right after a shipment. Amazon.com still has some left, but they've sold out of many of the bundles they carry, If you're willing to buy the ones with games no one wants, then you might find one for sale.
Well, lots of them were locked away into bundles which haven't sold nearly as well as individual units. I'm sure many of those first week shipment gamecubes are still kicking it out there available for sale to anyone willing ot shell out 500 dollars to get it and a few games at the same time (if only they HAD any worthwhile games to get).
How could either of them possibly outsell the PlayStation 2 when neither had shipped enough units to even compete. Both Gamecube and Xbox are sold out, they couldn't have possibly sold more than they did. To make it seem as if they lost some sort of non-existant competetion is rather silly. Remember the first month of the PS2? I bet lots of consoles outsold it that month. Playstation One, probably even the old N64. It's not becuase they were better or anything, it's simply that Sony shipped fewer PS2's that month than most consoles happen to sell in an average month.
If there were more Xbox's/Gamecubes to sell (enough to meet current demand; there are a few of each still availalbe, but only in those god-forsaken bundles, and almost only entirely through the internet), I'm sure they would have probably handily outsold the PS2.
By which I mean to say, do you believe they are guilty of that which the government has claimed they are? Or, conversely, do you feel that the government has over-stepped it's bounds and agressively pursued a company that was merely at the top of its industry because they were the best?
Hows this any different than a Tom Clancy novel wherein the same sort of scenario may take place? He's certainly not advocating anything with his post, he's speaking entirely within context, and it's not as if he's giving away national security secrets to terrorists. I've heard Rush Limbaugh say much more "threatening" things during the Clinton years. Clearly the only way they can get away with this kind of BS is because of the current national climate (a.k.a. scared out of our collective asses of anything that moves).
Do we really want a government that can trample our rights anytime they want to in the name of National Security? Where anyone who makes an off-color remark could be considered a terrorist? Benjamin Franklin once said that those who exchange liberty for security deserve neither.
I was under the impression radio waves WERE light? Ahh well, I'm not sure it would make sense for an alien race to see things in the same visual spectrum as humans. There's no logical reason why they might not see radio waves, or infrared, ultraviolet or any other segment of the light spectrum. So it seems a bit silly to set up optical equipment with a "human bias" on what qualifies as "optical".
I wonder if this move on intels part is more designed to deny AMD anymore alpha technology (which they have included in the athlon processors, particularly cache structure) rather than an attemp to gain new technology for themselves.
I downloaded tons of movies from alt.binaries.movies...and alt.binaries.movies.divx was only available on some servers, not mine (though I'd get to it on the others). I swear to god if they so much as touch alt.binaries.anime there is gonna be problems.
Just add a camera (how big would it have to be?) and you can start spying on china or whoever. I mean, its immune to radar right (its just gonna like like a bird if it shows up at all).
I agree with most of your points, but I think the police should really have focused their efforts on people who were actively participating and rioting not just people who stopped to gawk and thus were "hindering" the police's efforts to break the riot up. I immagine there are many people featured there who simply stopped to stare for a moment before walking on, unimpressed having seen better riots on FOX. Was it stupid? Yes. Criminal? I don't think so. There are quite a few people pictured who clearly deserve to have their pictures up there without a doubt, and maybe the rest of them do too (maybe they were really riotting also, it just sure doesn't look that way).
Now I'm forced to wonder if software that burns a cd bit for bit can be considered illegal under the DMCA as a form of copyright-protection circumvention. In this case the software came first, but the case for this seems as strong to me as the case they had against DeCSS.
We worry too much about the messages sent by things like violence, language and sex and no where near about things like Britney Spears. You heard me. Think about the kind of self-esteem crushing messages Britney spears is made of, and then ask yourself if you're kids would be bettter at a Britney Spears concert or a Marilyn Manson Concert. All one needs to do is to look at a class of third-graders and notice how the popular girls (who look as much like britney spears as possible down to make up/clothing) alienate the non-popular ones. That is what is the most dangerous, that kind of alienation is what created Columbine. Not the violence in any movies they say, or in the music in they heard, or games they played. Fake sex and Violence is just that. Fake. Children know it, we know it. But do they understand that Britney Spears or the Backstreet Boys or whoever it will be Next tuesday is fake?
I'm sure this will be moderated way down as flamebait or whatever but it isn't. I've noticed that if you look at the sun logo like its one of those magic eye pictures, it becomes a schwastica. I'm not kidding, I'm sure it wasn't intentional on sun's part, but its rather humerous. If you don't believe me try it, i swear its true.
I'm wondering, if they can put a hard drive in it, and they can get it to run linux. CAn't they put the tivo software on it since the software is open source? Sure you'd still have to pay tivo some dough or just use it as a digital recorder that only works if you know the exact time you want to record....but still...Perhaps a modified tivo software that gives better functionallity?
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This has been nothing but headaches for arcade goers. I'm a college student and I can't tell how irritating it was to get carded at an arcade. The way most arcades were doing it (the ones who use cards not tokens) they'd put out two sets of cards, one programmed to play any game, and one that won't play the over-16 games. Alot of the time I'd just end up trading with some poor under-16 smchuck, take his card and go back up to the counter and complain that I was given a under-16 card. I liked to think of it as "freedom-fighting". :)
I have no idea why everyone sees fit to moan and whine about episode 1 every chance they get. Other than a few bits of dialog which seemed more geared towards the children in the audience (mostly from the mouth of JarJar Binks), the movie was pretty decent. The story was good, the directing was good, the acting was mostly good. I don't know what kind of astronomical expecations you guys must have had, but get over it already. Maybe some of you just realized how stupid it was to camp out all night for what would inevietably be (no matter how good) just another movie. . .
Well, the only problem with ogg files as I see it is that they aren't playable on most portable devices. At least they don't suffer from the copy protection scheme and offer the same low quality music as mp3. If I were to switch over to ogg, I would at least have gained something when i lost the flexibillity of mp3 (in terms of portable devices/established nature/etc). But what do I gain from .nap files? Nothing. I get a mp3 with a blanket of security wrapped around itl
It will fail for entirely different reasons. Primary amongst them is the fact that plain old mp3 files are all people really want. The hardware players people own play mp3s, the files they already have are mp3s, and and no one likes restrictions on copying their files.
Not that charging a monthly fee won't work against them, it will, but there are still a number of people who would gladly have paid a monthly fee for what napster WAS. What it has/will become is something no one wanted or asked for napster to make.
And the final problem is that by now a solid napster replacement in the form of Morpheus/Kazaa/grokster has come out. Napster waited way too long. They will always have a place in history, but they will never have a place in the future.
Thats just an oem version of the afforementioned Saintsong cuppucino.
Its a shame manufacturers don't put a little more thought into such products. A few more refinements and I would be able to think of dozens of uses. However, as it stands, I can still think of few:
1) Put linux on it and hide it away as a server. Everyone loves a tiny server, espeically at lan parties when the less equipment you have to lug around too much equipment.
2)How about a Beowulf cluster of 100 systems. . . In your closet!
3) uhm....Other stuff I guess? Honestly with just a tiny screen and some sort of input method this could really be neat. I mean Palms/PocketPc's just don't have enough power in them. . . But since the manufacturers seem more inclined to make a neat gadeget (which admittedly is enough to make me sort of want one) than they are a useful product you'd have to do this bit of mod work yourself.
China tries to wall off the internet and keep it from "contaminating" the thoughts of its people, but too often they fail. An entire nation trying to firewall itself off from the rest of the internet while simulataneously trying to embrace it? It won't work. Sooner or later I think the current chinese government is going to end, we'll soon see.
I seriously hope this does not mean the end of my uncappe download speeds. If I get a cap like other ATT users, I'm gonna be pretty mad. Not that long ago, I had no upload cap, and I got 10 times the upload capacity has i have now (I could get 150k/s, thats 1.2 mbps). Seems like no matter what happens things never improve with time. . .
Like I said, you can still find them in those 500 dollar bundles, but even those bundles are getting hard to find. You might find one here or there in the retail market, but you won't find em in your local Walmart or your Best Buy unless you get lucky and come in right after a shipment. Amazon.com still has some left, but they've sold out of many of the bundles they carry, If you're willing to buy the ones with games no one wants, then you might find one for sale.
Well, lots of them were locked away into bundles which haven't sold nearly as well as individual units. I'm sure many of those first week shipment gamecubes are still kicking it out there available for sale to anyone willing ot shell out 500 dollars to get it and a few games at the same time (if only they HAD any worthwhile games to get).
How could either of them possibly outsell the PlayStation 2 when neither had shipped enough units to even compete. Both Gamecube and Xbox are sold out, they couldn't have possibly sold more than they did. To make it seem as if they lost some sort of non-existant competetion is rather silly. Remember the first month of the PS2? I bet lots of consoles outsold it that month. Playstation One, probably even the old N64. It's not becuase they were better or anything, it's simply that Sony shipped fewer PS2's that month than most consoles happen to sell in an average month.
If there were more Xbox's/Gamecubes to sell (enough to meet current demand; there are a few of each still availalbe, but only in those god-forsaken bundles, and almost only entirely through the internet), I'm sure they would have probably handily outsold the PS2.
By which I mean to say, do you believe they are guilty of that which the government has claimed they are? Or, conversely, do you feel that the government has over-stepped it's bounds and agressively pursued a company that was merely at the top of its industry because they were the best?
Which are my two favorite uses for it. . .
Hows this any different than a Tom Clancy novel wherein the same sort of scenario may take place? He's certainly not advocating anything with his post, he's speaking entirely within context, and it's not as if he's giving away national security secrets to terrorists. I've heard Rush Limbaugh say much more "threatening" things during the Clinton years. Clearly the only way they can get away with this kind of BS is because of the current national climate (a.k.a. scared out of our collective asses of anything that moves).
Do we really want a government that can trample our rights anytime they want to in the name of National Security? Where anyone who makes an off-color remark could be considered a terrorist? Benjamin Franklin once said that those who exchange liberty for security deserve neither.
I was under the impression radio waves WERE light? Ahh well, I'm not sure it would make sense for an alien race to see things in the same visual spectrum as humans. There's no logical reason why they might not see radio waves, or infrared, ultraviolet or any other segment of the light spectrum. So it seems a bit silly to set up optical equipment with a "human bias" on what qualifies as "optical".
I wonder if this move on intels part is more designed to deny AMD anymore alpha technology (which they have included in the athlon processors, particularly cache structure) rather than an attemp to gain new technology for themselves.
I downloaded tons of movies from alt.binaries.movies...and alt.binaries.movies.divx was only available on some servers, not mine (though I'd get to it on the others). I swear to god if they so much as touch alt.binaries.anime there is gonna be problems.
Just add a camera (how big would it have to be?) and you can start spying on china or whoever. I mean, its immune to radar right (its just gonna like like a bird if it shows up at all).
I agree with most of your points, but I think the police should really have focused their efforts on people who were actively participating and rioting not just people who stopped to gawk and thus were "hindering" the police's efforts to break the riot up. I immagine there are many people featured there who simply stopped to stare for a moment before walking on, unimpressed having seen better riots on FOX. Was it stupid? Yes. Criminal? I don't think so. There are quite a few people pictured who clearly deserve to have their pictures up there without a doubt, and maybe the rest of them do too (maybe they were really riotting also, it just sure doesn't look that way).
Now I'm forced to wonder if software that burns a cd bit for bit can be considered illegal under the DMCA as a form of copyright-protection circumvention. In this case the software came first, but the case for this seems as strong to me as the case they had against DeCSS.
We worry too much about the messages sent by things like violence, language and sex and no where near about things like Britney Spears. You heard me. Think about the kind of self-esteem crushing messages Britney spears is made of, and then ask yourself if you're kids would be bettter at a Britney Spears concert or a Marilyn Manson Concert. All one needs to do is to look at a class of third-graders and notice how the popular girls (who look as much like britney spears as possible down to make up/clothing) alienate the non-popular ones. That is what is the most dangerous, that kind of alienation is what created Columbine. Not the violence in any movies they say, or in the music in they heard, or games they played. Fake sex and Violence is just that. Fake. Children know it, we know it. But do they understand that Britney Spears or the Backstreet Boys or whoever it will be Next tuesday is fake?
I'm sure this will be moderated way down as flamebait or whatever but it isn't. I've noticed that if you look at the sun logo like its one of those magic eye pictures, it becomes a schwastica. I'm not kidding, I'm sure it wasn't intentional on sun's part, but its rather humerous. If you don't believe me try it, i swear its true.
Its Funny how this wasn't newsworthy when *I* submitted the news.com article a week ago....oh well..
Makes me want to move to tokyo in may. I can't wait for 3g wireless.
I'm wondering, if they can put a hard drive in it, and they can get it to run linux. CAn't they put the tivo software on it since the software is open source? Sure you'd still have to pay tivo some dough or just use it as a digital recorder that only works if you know the exact time you want to record....but still...Perhaps a modified tivo software that gives better functionallity?