You are (well, probably aren't, but you'll get the benefit of the doubt) aware that AAC isn't Apple Audio Codec, it is Advanced Audio Codec, part of MPEG-4? Outside of the world of LAME fanatics AAC blows MP3 away for quality at any given bitrate. Any decent device should be capable of playing AAC.
Also, iTunes can refer to both the program (which some people have a blind hatred of) and the storefront (which the same people who have a blind hatred of the program also hate). Some people don't need crappy third party skins or the latest stoner-ific visualizer and find iTunes the program and storefront serviceable.
I hear ya! Those iPods. I really wish they could play something other then iTunes DRM files. Every other MP3 player plays, well, MP3s, and we all know you can't put DRM on those! Or even if I could take a cd I own and put it into the iPod format so I could listen to it on the iPod and not have to buy it again from them. Mean ol' Steve making me buy the White album again. If only I'd have known that I'd have to buy everything I wanted to listen to from iTunes.
Maybe someday someone will figure out how to get other files onto a Kindle so you don't have to buy everything from Amazon...
It's just sad to see an otherwise rational person give in to something that has issues with finding the SUVs used to get rid of the glaciers that used to cover a good chunk of the continent. Though eventually I'm sure they'll find those big ol' evil caveman coal fired powerplants that brought us out of the last ice age.
I was with you through your point about pollution but why'd you have to go off the deep end with human-caused climate change?
That's like putting in a reference to a flat earth with the sun orbiting it within a 6,000 year old universe with dinosaur fossils and light from stars beyond 6,000 light-years away put in place to test the believers in an otherwise sane piece.
I'd wager it's to make it harder to get a quality rip of the cd.
Think of it as trying to use a floppy that was formatted in a very new drive in a very old drive. The new drive has smaller, more precise and sensitive heads. It can read the disks it formats without problems. The older drive has larger, less precise heads and has trouble reading the disk made by the newer drive. The disk may be within spec but not what was the practical standard of the time of the old drive.
J_Random cd player probably won't have problems as the read problems will be within (intentionally) its error correction. A computer drive trying to rip it is probably going to have a helluva time.
And lo, fertilizer was discovered, and the tree farmers did rejoice, for it was good.
Then mulch and compost descended from the heavens, and tree farmers burned incense and made sacrifices of environmentalists to give thanks.
A great prophet arose from the tree farmer people, and he spoke the word of Agriculture! The prophet of Agriculture foretold of things to come, crop rotation, companion planting and green manure, and the people did tremble!
Wait, you're making it sound like trees are a renewable resource that can be managed to provide a sustainable harvest! That can't be right! Once a tree is cut another one can never be regrown in the same spot! That's why we have to save trees... right?
Ahh, I see someone's had their "spawning induced stupidity" switch thrown. I wish people would stop trying to make Idiocracy into a documentary.
Of all the DS Lite owners I know personally, they've never had problems with the hinges. Of course they know well enough that it has a certain range of motion and that range shouldn't be exceeded. Their kids know that too. Your kids may think it's cool to try controlling it with their butt or by throwing it under a tire or lighting it on fire but I'm not going to blame Nintendo for their device not withstanding that sort of (ab)use.
My Lite has survived both home and travel use with my only concern being the inevitable speck of dust that always ends up under the screen protector no matter how cautiously you cleaned and applied it. When used and stored properly their construction is more than adequate. Not nearly as indestructible as a WiiMote but nowhere near poorly made.
If Chrome is really that good for everything else except has no add-ons, and if you really so sick of getting that noscript/adblock add-on, why not develop one yourself and contribute back to the project?
Am I missing something? The source code of Chromium is available freely under BSD right? I thought open source is all about the freedom to take any source code and modify until it suites you?
And people wonder why everyone doesn't embrace FOSS with open arms...
Ever thought of teaching the kids to take care of their things instead of whining about Nintendo not releasing an "ADD ADHC Ritalin Riddled Negative Five Second Attention Span Ultra Reinforced" edition?
Actually, Nintendo was asking countries to enforce their (the countries') laws on piracy, the kind where people are selling bootleg copies as a physical entity.
Flash carts could be good for business if people had some self control. But when people have the choice between paying for something or getting it for free, they tend to almost always go with the free option. It benefits the person but hurts the community.
I've got a cycloDS cart and every rom that is on it, has been on it, and will ever be on it has come directly from a cart that I *own* and neither the ROM nor the original cart are in anyway distributed. I'd love for the convenience of the cycloDS to be built into a future DS but thanks to all the knuckleheads out there that will never happen in any sort of user friendly way.
Ya, Real Life is so cool! I'm just waiting for the raid timer to reset so we can go and run the Office Life raid again on Monday morning. I just know I'll get those TPS reports filled out correctly this time. Then maybe I'll get lucky and the Paycheck Bonus will drop this time. Then I'll be able to buy the mats to make something better than the Ramen and Dew I've been using for years. There might even be enough left to finally get my car out of 0/100 durability!
And if you think real life is free try moving out of your mom's basement. Really, just because you can't appreciate something doesn't mean that no one else can. Fricken RL elitists.
There's the whole "never needed to buy a game ever again" part you missed.
Sega isn't the only one missing out on his money. And with that sort of attitude I'd figure it is likely he doesn't buy the PSP games he plays either.
I use a cycloDS. Unlike most people that use a flash cart, the only roms that have ever been loaded are ones that I have personally copied from the actual game cart that I *own* and then the original goes into a safe place in my possession and is not passed off to someone else or sold. Now that doesn't help me much at all legally if Nintendo decided to drop the hammer but what it would show is that there are people who want the convenience that a flash cart provides AND THAT THEY ARE WILLING TO PAY FOR THINGS. The iDS might be a start but because of the yahoos who can't be bothered to pay for anything the iDS will probably being encumbered with annoying restrictions.
It'd be much easier to just use J_Random_ROM of some import only game I'm after. Much cheaper too. But that's not going to show there's a paying interest in that game over here. Just because you can acquire something for free doesn't mean you always should.
Unless of course you're actually playing from roms you had already legally purchased and for some reason have decided to not purchase anymore of them. But that's what everyone does, right?
People just need to admit to themselves that it is OK to want to make changes to make their environment better for themselves and their fellow members of the species. It's not some selfish, evil desire. You don't have to hide behind the banner of "SAVING THE PLANET!".
Controlling pollution could lead to a better standard of living and lower health care costs.
Slowing the hemorrhaging loss of money to foreign countries that don't have our best interests in mind is a good thing.
Understanding that renewable resources are actually *gasp* renewable allows for more efficient and economical use of those resources. Understanding that there really is no such thing as a free lunch will let us choose which resources to make use of in a more logical and economical manner.
Also that conservation and stewardship (something which most "environmentalists" don't really understand) do not mean locking an environment into a state of stasis. All those brush fires in California? Well, if you don't burn off or clear out the little stuff before it accumulates you're going to get the big fires that have enough fuel to burn hot and long enough that the system can't withstand it and it gets wiped out. Even though you were "protecting" by not allowing anything to change.
So what about the "Little Ice Age" that occurred a few hundred years ago?
Or the warm period around the 1000's that led to a major extension of the growing season and area in Europe which provided enough food for a rapid population increase?
Or that the Red River Valley used to be Lake Agassiz?
Or the fact a good chunk of the US used to be under glaciers?
The climate changes. Humanity's influence is what's up for debate. One eruption like Krakatoa and we'll be scrambling to trap heat in the atmosphere to prevent world wide crop failure.
Huh, the parent post was about revealing your location and being subject to unwanted return calls, how is suggesting using a payphone offtopic enough to get to -1?
It has its own location that is independent of who is using it and you don't have to worry about return calls. Not a high tech enough solution? Or doesn't it screw with enough people in the name of "protecting" a specific group at a cost to everyone else to sufficiently comfort your conscience?
Oh, you said elected and not selected. Well obviously the masses elect who they're told to. Can't have one of those crazy third party candidates who aren't all ready bought and paid for get into office.
Well, invisible asteroids could have an actual impact on the planet.
Saving the planet from global warming is rather silly. The planet will be fine. It's survived not having an atmosphere before and I bet it can do it again.
Global warming could change human life as we know it. Primitive humans made through an ice age (good thing they didn't have carbon and fuel taxes back then). I would expect modern man to be able to ride out the heat. Either way, the planet won't care.
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You are (well, probably aren't, but you'll get the benefit of the doubt) aware that AAC isn't Apple Audio Codec, it is Advanced Audio Codec, part of MPEG-4? Outside of the world of LAME fanatics AAC blows MP3 away for quality at any given bitrate. Any decent device should be capable of playing AAC.
Also, iTunes can refer to both the program (which some people have a blind hatred of) and the storefront (which the same people who have a blind hatred of the program also hate). Some people don't need crappy third party skins or the latest stoner-ific visualizer and find iTunes the program and storefront serviceable.
I hear ya! Those iPods. I really wish they could play something other then iTunes DRM files. Every other MP3 player plays, well, MP3s, and we all know you can't put DRM on those! Or even if I could take a cd I own and put it into the iPod format so I could listen to it on the iPod and not have to buy it again from them. Mean ol' Steve making me buy the White album again. If only I'd have known that I'd have to buy everything I wanted to listen to from iTunes.
Maybe someday someone will figure out how to get other files onto a Kindle so you don't have to buy everything from Amazon...
I'll take it you haven't read Diamond Age.
It's just sad to see an otherwise rational person give in to something that has issues with finding the SUVs used to get rid of the glaciers that used to cover a good chunk of the continent. Though eventually I'm sure they'll find those big ol' evil caveman coal fired powerplants that brought us out of the last ice age.
I was with you through your point about pollution but why'd you have to go off the deep end with human-caused climate change?
That's like putting in a reference to a flat earth with the sun orbiting it within a 6,000 year old universe with dinosaur fossils and light from stars beyond 6,000 light-years away put in place to test the believers in an otherwise sane piece.
I'd love to see how a public school could afford the milling machines, metal lathes and presses for all the metal shop students to use at home.
The teachers will cry out: Fix this bug! And I'll whisper: Code it yourself.
I'd wager it's to make it harder to get a quality rip of the cd.
Think of it as trying to use a floppy that was formatted in a very new drive in a very old drive. The new drive has smaller, more precise and sensitive heads. It can read the disks it formats without problems. The older drive has larger, less precise heads and has trouble reading the disk made by the newer drive. The disk may be within spec but not what was the practical standard of the time of the old drive.
J_Random cd player probably won't have problems as the read problems will be within (intentionally) its error correction. A computer drive trying to rip it is probably going to have a helluva time.
And lo, fertilizer was discovered, and the tree farmers did rejoice, for it was good.
Then mulch and compost descended from the heavens, and tree farmers burned incense and made sacrifices of environmentalists to give thanks.
A great prophet arose from the tree farmer people, and he spoke the word of Agriculture! The prophet of Agriculture foretold of things to come, crop rotation, companion planting and green manure, and the people did tremble!
Libraries of Congress are made of trees you insensitive clod!
That should cover my meme usage for awhile.
Wait, you're making it sound like trees are a renewable resource that can be managed to provide a sustainable harvest! That can't be right! Once a tree is cut another one can never be regrown in the same spot! That's why we have to save trees... right?
Ahh, I see someone's had their "spawning induced stupidity" switch thrown. I wish people would stop trying to make Idiocracy into a documentary.
Of all the DS Lite owners I know personally, they've never had problems with the hinges. Of course they know well enough that it has a certain range of motion and that range shouldn't be exceeded. Their kids know that too. Your kids may think it's cool to try controlling it with their butt or by throwing it under a tire or lighting it on fire but I'm not going to blame Nintendo for their device not withstanding that sort of (ab)use.
My Lite has survived both home and travel use with my only concern being the inevitable speck of dust that always ends up under the screen protector no matter how cautiously you cleaned and applied it. When used and stored properly their construction is more than adequate. Not nearly as indestructible as a WiiMote but nowhere near poorly made.
If Chrome is really that good for everything else except has no add-ons, and if you really so sick of getting that noscript/adblock add-on, why not develop one yourself and contribute back to the project?
Am I missing something? The source code of Chromium is available freely under BSD right? I thought open source is all about the freedom to take any source code and modify until it suites you?
And people wonder why everyone doesn't embrace FOSS with open arms...
Ever thought of teaching the kids to take care of their things instead of whining about Nintendo not releasing an "ADD ADHC Ritalin Riddled Negative Five Second Attention Span Ultra Reinforced" edition?
Actually, Nintendo was asking countries to enforce their (the countries') laws on piracy, the kind where people are selling bootleg copies as a physical entity.
Flash carts could be good for business if people had some self control. But when people have the choice between paying for something or getting it for free, they tend to almost always go with the free option. It benefits the person but hurts the community.
I've got a cycloDS cart and every rom that is on it, has been on it, and will ever be on it has come directly from a cart that I *own* and neither the ROM nor the original cart are in anyway distributed. I'd love for the convenience of the cycloDS to be built into a future DS but thanks to all the knuckleheads out there that will never happen in any sort of user friendly way.
When you close your real life account, you have nothing.
Ya, Real Life is so cool! I'm just waiting for the raid timer to reset so we can go and run the Office Life raid again on Monday morning. I just know I'll get those TPS reports filled out correctly this time. Then maybe I'll get lucky and the Paycheck Bonus will drop this time. Then I'll be able to buy the mats to make something better than the Ramen and Dew I've been using for years. There might even be enough left to finally get my car out of 0/100 durability!
And if you think real life is free try moving out of your mom's basement. Really, just because you can't appreciate something doesn't mean that no one else can. Fricken RL elitists.
There's the whole "never needed to buy a game ever again" part you missed.
Sega isn't the only one missing out on his money. And with that sort of attitude I'd figure it is likely he doesn't buy the PSP games he plays either.
I use a cycloDS. Unlike most people that use a flash cart, the only roms that have ever been loaded are ones that I have personally copied from the actual game cart that I *own* and then the original goes into a safe place in my possession and is not passed off to someone else or sold. Now that doesn't help me much at all legally if Nintendo decided to drop the hammer but what it would show is that there are people who want the convenience that a flash cart provides AND THAT THEY ARE WILLING TO PAY FOR THINGS. The iDS might be a start but because of the yahoos who can't be bothered to pay for anything the iDS will probably being encumbered with annoying restrictions.
It'd be much easier to just use J_Random_ROM of some import only game I'm after. Much cheaper too. But that's not going to show there's a paying interest in that game over here. Just because you can acquire something for free doesn't mean you always should.
Thanks for being part of the problem.
Unless of course you're actually playing from roms you had already legally purchased and for some reason have decided to not purchase anymore of them. But that's what everyone does, right?
My karma for some mod points.
People just need to admit to themselves that it is OK to want to make changes to make their environment better for themselves and their fellow members of the species. It's not some selfish, evil desire. You don't have to hide behind the banner of "SAVING THE PLANET!".
Controlling pollution could lead to a better standard of living and lower health care costs.
Slowing the hemorrhaging loss of money to foreign countries that don't have our best interests in mind is a good thing.
Understanding that renewable resources are actually *gasp* renewable allows for more efficient and economical use of those resources. Understanding that there really is no such thing as a free lunch will let us choose which resources to make use of in a more logical and economical manner.
Also that conservation and stewardship (something which most "environmentalists" don't really understand) do not mean locking an environment into a state of stasis. All those brush fires in California? Well, if you don't burn off or clear out the little stuff before it accumulates you're going to get the big fires that have enough fuel to burn hot and long enough that the system can't withstand it and it gets wiped out. Even though you were "protecting" by not allowing anything to change.
So what about the "Little Ice Age" that occurred a few hundred years ago?
Or the warm period around the 1000's that led to a major extension of the growing season and area in Europe which provided enough food for a rapid population increase?
Or that the Red River Valley used to be Lake Agassiz?
Or the fact a good chunk of the US used to be under glaciers?
The climate changes. Humanity's influence is what's up for debate. One eruption like Krakatoa and we'll be scrambling to trap heat in the atmosphere to prevent world wide crop failure.
Huh, the parent post was about revealing your location and being subject to unwanted return calls, how is suggesting using a payphone offtopic enough to get to -1?
It has its own location that is independent of who is using it and you don't have to worry about return calls. Not a high tech enough solution? Or doesn't it screw with enough people in the name of "protecting" a specific group at a cost to everyone else to sufficiently comfort your conscience?
Payphone?
Large, well funded and powerful interest groups.
Oh, you said elected and not selected. Well obviously the masses elect who they're told to. Can't have one of those crazy third party candidates who aren't all ready bought and paid for get into office.
Well, invisible asteroids could have an actual impact on the planet.
Saving the planet from global warming is rather silly. The planet will be fine. It's survived not having an atmosphere before and I bet it can do it again.
Global warming could change human life as we know it. Primitive humans made through an ice age (good thing they didn't have carbon and fuel taxes back then). I would expect modern man to be able to ride out the heat. Either way, the planet won't care.