Why is it so remarkable? There are over a million Slashdot users. That means there will be plenty of people who can hear the difference on here every day.
I'm getting sick of people claiming that someone is lying because they fall into a rare category and then acting like they're some sort of master detective.
Yep, you could do it with WireTap Pro on the Mac too. However I will say that bragging about getting a track for just $0.10 on THE INTERNET will probably just get comments that you paid ten cents too much and broke just as many laws as one of these pirates I've heard so much about.
It's not designed to run Vista, therefore it does not necessitate any reference to Vista, it probably wouldnt run Ubuntu very well either, or OSX... and it can't chew my food for me, so my food must suck too... Actually OSX runs on pretty old hardware (basically the same power as that which XP requires), so if it was designed to run on this particular hardware, I'm sure it would be fine.
If you can see it or hear it, you can record it. You could do it by holding a camera up and filming your monitor. You could do it with a clever contraption that acts like a monitor, but instead of playing the visuals it records them. Hell, you could use a VCR.
Games on the other hand, can't just be recorded. They are interactive and require interaction with the actual game, not just some recording of it.
You mean the US's total disregard for everyone's rights in the name of the "War on Terror(ism)" makes people wary of allowing them near themselves or their data?
And no one knows why cancer rates have increased so much in the last few years.
We know full well why more people are getting cancer. Improvements in medicine have reduced the mortality rates of other diseases hugely and improvements in vacinations have vastly reduced the number of people who even get potentially deadly diseases like mumps and measles, so more people survive to get cancer.
Put another way, if we shot everyone at the age of 40, I can guarantee that cancer rates would plummet. If we irradicated every other type of disease (including old age) then everyone would get cancer eventually.
I can testify about not wanting to be thrown from the bike. Near where I live, a milk float didn't see a biker overtaking and turned suddenly. The biker went in one side, through a lot of glass and out the other side. He was dead instantly.
Personally, I really want a motorbike, but I'm not sure I have the balls having heard that story!
No it's not. It's more the UN Food program offering the third world a choice between (popular) meat and (unpopular) vegan tofu, rather than just vegan tofu which rich vegans in the first world whink would be 'better for them'. No it's not. It's like offering the choice between a balanced diet and a Big Mac, except you have to pay an extra $7 to get the choice and if you don't pay that they force you to buy a $3 Big mac.
There's a large difference between moaning about the rubbish support for the product you paid a lot of money for and moaning that something someone put on the internet for free doesn't work.
As an Englishman, I also ought to point out that we seem to manage dividing by two when we see prices in dollars, so I don't see why Americans need to moan when the occasional thing is priced in Sterling.
How long before they start saying the word over a background of static, jungle noises and beeping so that even the best trained of ears require three or four listens to decipher it?
I agree. Not to sound too elitist, but computers are very complicated machines (possibly the most complicated machines ever created by mankind), yet people seem to get angry that they have to learn how to use them.
They are on the other hand, perfectly accepting of the need to learn how to drive a car, despite car technology having been around for the best part of a century.
I'm all for computers being easy to use for the novices out there, but complaining when every little thing isn't instantly obvious is really taking things too far, if you ask me.
This is something I've never understood. Google's best selling point is that it can take something that has been done before (search engines weren't new, NASA WorldWind existed before Google Earth, etc), yet it came along and made them usable, likeable and popular.
Now they seem to just buy something and put very little effort into improving it (Blogger, YouTube, etc). Maybe it's because the engineers at Google are isolated from those at the purchased site, but it doesn't help consumers.
With prices in Scotland shooting up to £1.30 per litre (that's $9.74 per US gallon) due to the strike we've got here in the UK, it might not be as bad as it sounds...
Plus, ethanol has other uses for which I also pay.:-)
I guess you're right. I mean no disrespect to people who are looking forward to it --- it just seems that GTA is going the way of FIFA, which worries me slightly.
Is it just me or are people getting way too excited about this game?
Now before everyone instantly mods me troll, I'll point out that I own GTA3, Vice City and San Andreas and loved two of those three games (I'll leave it to you to guess which ones), but I never saw them as deep or as art. I saw them as a fun way to pretend to be a gangster and run around causing mayhem.
Yet this GTA comes out and people are practically wetting themselves over what is going to be the same thing but shiny? Don't get me wrong - I'm sure it'll be a good game and win lots of GOTY awards, but does anyone honestly think they'll see a lot they're not expecting?
I would argue that it is a computer owner's moral responsibility to make sure it's not doing any harm to others.
If someone leaves their bag unattended at a train station, they should expect it to be destroyed in order to protect the public. If someone doesn't secure their PC and it becomes a hazard to others, shouldn't it be taken out too, by any means?
This has in fact happened before. When Ronnie Hazlehurst died, multiple newspapers here in the UK mentioned that he cowrote "Reach" by S Club 7. This information came from Wikipedia (and was the result of vandalism), but once a few papers had published it, everyone did, as it was clearly backed up by many reliable sources.
The article is still being edited to include this "fact" every now and again, often referring to one of the articles which made the error.
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Why is it so remarkable? There are over a million Slashdot users. That means there will be plenty of people who can hear the difference on here every day.
I'm getting sick of people claiming that someone is lying because they fall into a rare category and then acting like they're some sort of master detective.
Yep, you could do it with WireTap Pro on the Mac too. However I will say that bragging about getting a track for just $0.10 on THE INTERNET will probably just get comments that you paid ten cents too much and broke just as many laws as one of these pirates I've heard so much about.
You sir are why the rest of the world hates your country.
If you can see it or hear it, you can record it. You could do it by holding a camera up and filming your monitor. You could do it with a clever contraption that acts like a monitor, but instead of playing the visuals it records them. Hell, you could use a VCR.
Games on the other hand, can't just be recorded. They are interactive and require interaction with the actual game, not just some recording of it.
You mean the US's total disregard for everyone's rights in the name of the "War on Terror(ism)" makes people wary of allowing them near themselves or their data?
I'd never have guessed...
We know full well why more people are getting cancer. Improvements in medicine have reduced the mortality rates of other diseases hugely and improvements in vacinations have vastly reduced the number of people who even get potentially deadly diseases like mumps and measles, so more people survive to get cancer.
Put another way, if we shot everyone at the age of 40, I can guarantee that cancer rates would plummet. If we irradicated every other type of disease (including old age) then everyone would get cancer eventually.
I can testify about not wanting to be thrown from the bike. Near where I live, a milk float didn't see a biker overtaking and turned suddenly. The biker went in one side, through a lot of glass and out the other side. He was dead instantly.
Personally, I really want a motorbike, but I'm not sure I have the balls having heard that story!
You're not Austrian by any chance are you?
Because wealth creation is the only important thing in the world right? I guess that's why people love Bill Gates and hate that stupid Mother Teresa.
I'm no expert on robotics, but surely building a house is surely far harder than crossing the Atlantic for a robot?
Building a house requires all sorts of considerations about the land beneath it and requires a number of different skills.
Crossing the Atlantic requires going in a straight line for as long as possible.
There's a large difference between moaning about the rubbish support for the product you paid a lot of money for and moaning that something someone put on the internet for free doesn't work.
Gah, ignore that --- didn't see that someone else had already posted a more informative post!
It's png, which is the best format for screenshots. If I see another screenshot in jpeg, I might just flip.
If you really, really wanted to change it, the program Cocktail allows you to (and presumably there's a command line way of doing it too).
Who modded the parent informative?
As of one minute ago, 600GBP = 1173.03USD.
As an Englishman, I also ought to point out that we seem to manage dividing by two when we see prices in dollars, so I don't see why Americans need to moan when the occasional thing is priced in Sterling.
How long before they start saying the word over a background of static, jungle noises and beeping so that even the best trained of ears require three or four listens to decipher it?
I agree. Not to sound too elitist, but computers are very complicated machines (possibly the most complicated machines ever created by mankind), yet people seem to get angry that they have to learn how to use them.
They are on the other hand, perfectly accepting of the need to learn how to drive a car, despite car technology having been around for the best part of a century.
I'm all for computers being easy to use for the novices out there, but complaining when every little thing isn't instantly obvious is really taking things too far, if you ask me.
This is something I've never understood. Google's best selling point is that it can take something that has been done before (search engines weren't new, NASA WorldWind existed before Google Earth, etc), yet it came along and made them usable, likeable and popular.
Now they seem to just buy something and put very little effort into improving it (Blogger, YouTube, etc). Maybe it's because the engineers at Google are isolated from those at the purchased site, but it doesn't help consumers.
With prices in Scotland shooting up to £1.30 per litre (that's $9.74 per US gallon) due to the strike we've got here in the UK, it might not be as bad as it sounds...
Plus, ethanol has other uses for which I also pay. :-)
I guess you're right. I mean no disrespect to people who are looking forward to it --- it just seems that GTA is going the way of FIFA, which worries me slightly.
Is it just me or are people getting way too excited about this game?
Now before everyone instantly mods me troll, I'll point out that I own GTA3, Vice City and San Andreas and loved two of those three games (I'll leave it to you to guess which ones), but I never saw them as deep or as art. I saw them as a fun way to pretend to be a gangster and run around causing mayhem.
Yet this GTA comes out and people are practically wetting themselves over what is going to be the same thing but shiny? Don't get me wrong - I'm sure it'll be a good game and win lots of GOTY awards, but does anyone honestly think they'll see a lot they're not expecting?
I would argue that it is a computer owner's moral responsibility to make sure it's not doing any harm to others.
If someone leaves their bag unattended at a train station, they should expect it to be destroyed in order to protect the public. If someone doesn't secure their PC and it becomes a hazard to others, shouldn't it be taken out too, by any means?
This has in fact happened before. When Ronnie Hazlehurst died, multiple newspapers here in the UK mentioned that he cowrote "Reach" by S Club 7. This information came from Wikipedia (and was the result of vandalism), but once a few papers had published it, everyone did, as it was clearly backed up by many reliable sources.
The article is still being edited to include this "fact" every now and again, often referring to one of the articles which made the error.
Perhaps the calculations were done by the same person who worked out the re-entry trajectory?