Seeing a 5-digit UID post this is a bit like watching one's respected grandfather get drunk at a town-hall meeting and puke all over the podium.
I have to admit, it was us all along. Where do you think the "naked petrified natalie portman dumping a bowl of hot grits down my pants" posts came from?
Remember, even that old respected grandfather was young once. Your 80 year old grandfather was 15 once, and he probably mooned people then too.
I remember being modded up on a "First Post", once.
You can't blame the guy for trying to relive his slashdot glory days.
Once they receive your cds instead of actually having to rip all 300 of them there is a good chance that 250 or so are already stored in their library resulting in a relatively cheap and fast service ($.79 per cd from Music Shifter).
What are the odds that they'll "Cache" all of the CDs that they don't have pre-ripped?
If they rip everything to WAV first and then encode later, how are they going to populate their ID3 tags? WAV does not store ID3 tags.
I use the filenames to carry the information that I will later use MP3Collector to make into ID3 tags.
Here's an example
Ice Cube-[AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted]-07-Turn Off The Radio.wav
All of the information that I use (artist, album, track index, song title) are all contained in the name of the file. It's easy to extract automatically.
I encode my music as 256kbps MP3s. Personally, I prefer Blade for encoding. Not lossless, but more than good enough for my purposes.
I'm all for bashing Ask Slashdot questions that should be Googled and "Do my homework plz" type questions but he really just a kid (look at his homepage).
Look at him, he may be a youngster, but he's no child.
I don't have all that many project trees to manage(40 or so), but here's how I do mine.
I have a folder on my hard drive that contains all of MY code, versus OSS code that others have written. I have it arranged into folders by programming language and then again by project name. So let's say that I need to get to the library that I wrote for driving my parallel port VFD in RealBasic, I'd look in c:\Code\$RB\VFD_Driver\stable.
I don't do or need CVS, I manually separate my code into stable and devel versions. When I'm satisfied that the devel version has had enough bugs worked out, I make it the stable and devel a new version.
I don't know what it is about the Apple faithful. When someone cracks the latest and greatest movie copy protection we all cheer and laugh at how those stupid executives think that they can close Pandora's Box. But when someone does something that Apple doesn't like, a bunch of morons circle the wagons to defend APPLE!
They're just a company, just like every other company they exist to make money. They're not trying to change the world. They're not going to save the world from anything. They are going to try to make a profit. They are not entitled to do so. When Hollywood cries about movie revenue being down, we tell them to buck up and put a product out that the people want. When Apple complains about revenue being down, you fucktards want Apple to give the public less.
STOP SUCKING APPLE'S DICK.
LK
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If game companies don't grok this, they'll be stuck with FPS that noone wants to play.
And if they see it your way WE'LL be stuck with a bunch of bullshit games about feeling, emotion and color coordination.
It's cool if you don't want to do it, but I actually DO watch DVDs on my computer. I have a sweet ass monitor and just as nice of a sound setup on my computer. Since I've spent more time and money on it, my PC's multimedia setup is better than many home theaters (well at least when I'm 2 feet away from my screen).
The fact of the matter is that I'm going to watch content on my computer. If I get locked out of HDCP, too bad for them. I'm still going to watch the content, if they remove my ability to pay to do so, I'll do it for free using whatever means I must.
3. Let them know why (in a nice fashion) you decided not to hire them, and (if possible) what they could do to make themselves more attractive to your company in the future.
Let's not forget letting them know the REAL reason why they didn't get the job.
The most ruthless pass-over I was ever subjected was when after a positive interview the interviewer told me that they'd had come candidates who had more experience than me. I can deal with that, but later I found out that the guy who got the job had spent less time out of high school than I had doing the type of job we interviewed for. When it's an outsider, that's not much of a problem but when it's an employee you run the risk of having that person report on illegal, unethical or amoral practices at the company.
I am always working on several personal projects. I've found that even in my limited uses some tasks are better suited to certain languages/environments.
If it's all about processing numbers and getting output C++ is the way to go for me. If I NEED to do limited data processing and I need a windows GUI, VB or RB are what I use. If I need to develop an app that works on multiple platforms, it's Java.
For the few thousand lines of code that my apps require it's obvious that not every task is suited to one language. I can only extend that logic to include apps with hundreds of thousands of lines of code.
Salmon Rushdie wrote a mediocre book that no one would have read if it wasn't for the bounty that was placed on his head.
And on another note just wait till Iran even tries to test a nuke.
Why shouldn't they be allowed to produce nuclear technology? It's hypocritical for all of these nations who have nuclear weapons in their arsenal to tell Iran that they can not.
The Islamic mindset does not understand compassion; it understands fear and power.
This may be true of the islamists, but not of most muslims.
There are also many who feel they should be able to dictate what goes on in a first world democracy with respect to freedom of speech.
It's OLD World, NEW World and Third World.
Have you heard the way they refer to westerners, let alone Israelis?
Khafir (Unbelievers) and Munafiqun(Hypocrites) are the preferred terms.
Additionally since I'm an atheist I really don't care about a given religious symbol of any description.
Last, but certainly not least comes the crux of your argument. You can't understand how someone would die or kill for their faith.
People keep talking about how unreasonable Muslim protests over these political cartoons are.
Before violence erupted there were calls for boycotts (perfectly reasonable) to which the EU responded by threatening them if they dared to boycott a member state.
They tried peaceful means first. Violence only came later.
Second, these images of Muhammad are as offensive to muslims as it would be to christians to depict the Virgin Mary getting fucked by a pig with the caption "Technically, she's still a virgin."
Waiting for all the non-rich "Republicans" to realize Republican politicians just sweet talked them and told them lies about being good Christians so they could fuck them.
I guess it never occurred to you that non-rich people become republicans because the democrats have even less to offer them.
Each defendant was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, which carries a five-year maximum prison sentence. Fifteen also were charged with copyright infringement, which carries a three-year maximum.
WHAT THE FUCK? The penalty is greater for planning to break the law than for actually breaking it.
Terrorists might recieve money from software piracy. Low overhead, quick production, easy smuggling and good return on investment. Terrorists probably recieve money from drugs.
You need economic consequences for a boycott to work and American Indians simply aren't a large enough segment of the game buying public to make any difference whatsoever.
You don't understand the goal. The hope is that everyone who has been offended by a big company to join in. They want the black people who are still pissed at minstrel shows and blackface to join in. They want the Italians who get pissed off about mafia movies/games to join in. They want Jewish people who were pissed about Episode 1 to join in. They want the asian people who are still pissed off about Charlie Chan movies to join in.
The civil rights struggle would have failed if it were not for sympathetic whites.
If you gather enough minorities, you have a majority.
Morality varies from individual to individual, ethics are codified.
For example, when the PS2 launched people were selling "Playstation 2 box"es on Ebay and they knew that some buyers would assume that the PS2 actually came in the box. So a few peope paid $500+ dollars for empty playstation 2 boxes. They listed them accurately so according to Ebay's rules what they did was ethical, but I still say it was amoral.
Assuming you mean the vehicle, Nope. If you don't mean the vehicle, some of us don't need to pay for that.
Have you ever worked in a glass and steel tower where the elevators took you straight up to the top, where the cubie farm was not designed for mere mortals but even had a skylight?
Nope.
Have you had your name become almost a household word?
Nope.
Have you had a girl that looked so fine?
Yes. A couple of them, in fact.
It doesn't take millions of dollars to get an attractive woman, it only takes personality.
Personally I feel that id has landed just as many turds since Romero left. The reason it seemed to go unnoticed is because of the big stiffy game mags / teens have for OMGR33TGRFX!
id hasn't relied solely upon the sales of their games for income. id licenses game engines to others. Basically, look at Half-Life. A highly modified Quake 2 engine powered one of the most popular games of the past decade. Arguably the most popular shooter. id made a killing off of the game too because licensing income is pure profit.
Consoles will dominate everything else. The amount of fewer hours spent on development, testing, debugging, and support for a console where all hardware is static is dramatically less than a PC that could have a near unlimited combination of pieces.
Are you aware that this is the reason for SDKs like DirectX and SDL? Hardware abstraction so that it doesn't matter which hardware profile a user has. ATI or NVidia? It doesn't matter, your app will be talking to DirectX or SDL and not the hardware.
2005 set a record for console game sales while also being one of the worst years ever for PC's for a reason.
PC game sales are in the toilet because there is little innovation. I'd also venture that more PC gamers are adults who don't have as much free time as a college-age or younger console gamer so they don't chew through games as fast.
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Not bad for a n00b.
Want to make a bet on how long it'll be before one of those 4 digit bastards comes along and ruins my fun?
LK
Seeing a 5-digit UID post this is a bit like watching one's respected grandfather get drunk at a town-hall meeting and puke all over the podium.
I have to admit, it was us all along. Where do you think the "naked petrified natalie portman dumping a bowl of hot grits down my pants" posts came from?
Remember, even that old respected grandfather was young once. Your 80 year old grandfather was 15 once, and he probably mooned people then too.
I remember being modded up on a "First Post", once.
You can't blame the guy for trying to relive his slashdot glory days.
LK
Once they receive your cds instead of actually having to rip all 300 of them there is a good chance that 250 or so are already stored in their library resulting in a relatively cheap and fast service ($.79 per cd from Music Shifter).
What are the odds that they'll "Cache" all of the CDs that they don't have pre-ripped?
LK
I use the filenames to carry the information that I will later use MP3Collector to make into ID3 tags.
Here's an example
All of the information that I use (artist, album, track index, song title) are all contained in the name of the file. It's easy to extract automatically.
I encode my music as 256kbps MP3s. Personally, I prefer Blade for encoding. Not lossless, but more than good enough for my purposes.
LK
I'm all for bashing Ask Slashdot questions that should be Googled and "Do my homework plz" type questions but he really just a kid (look at his homepage).
Look at him, he may be a youngster, but he's no child.
LK
I don't have all that many project trees to manage(40 or so), but here's how I do mine.
I have a folder on my hard drive that contains all of MY code, versus OSS code that others have written. I have it arranged into folders by programming language and then again by project name. So let's say that I need to get to the library that I wrote for driving my parallel port VFD in RealBasic, I'd look in c:\Code\$RB\VFD_Driver\stable.
I don't do or need CVS, I manually separate my code into stable and devel versions. When I'm satisfied that the devel version has had enough bugs worked out, I make it the stable and devel a new version.
I won't be the next Linus, but it works for me.
LK
I don't know what it is about the Apple faithful. When someone cracks the latest and greatest movie copy protection we all cheer and laugh at how those stupid executives think that they can close Pandora's Box. But when someone does something that Apple doesn't like, a bunch of morons circle the wagons to defend APPLE!
They're just a company, just like every other company they exist to make money. They're not trying to change the world. They're not going to save the world from anything. They are going to try to make a profit. They are not entitled to do so. When Hollywood cries about movie revenue being down, we tell them to buck up and put a product out that the people want. When Apple complains about revenue being down, you fucktards want Apple to give the public less.
STOP SUCKING APPLE'S DICK.
LK
If game companies don't grok this, they'll be stuck with FPS that noone wants to play.
And if they see it your way WE'LL be stuck with a bunch of bullshit games about feeling, emotion and color coordination.
LK
It's cool if you don't want to do it, but I actually DO watch DVDs on my computer. I have a sweet ass monitor and just as nice of a sound setup on my computer. Since I've spent more time and money on it, my PC's multimedia setup is better than many home theaters (well at least when I'm 2 feet away from my screen).
The fact of the matter is that I'm going to watch content on my computer. If I get locked out of HDCP, too bad for them. I'm still going to watch the content, if they remove my ability to pay to do so, I'll do it for free using whatever means I must.
LK
3. Let them know why (in a nice fashion) you decided not to hire them, and (if possible) what they could do to make themselves more attractive to your company in the future.
Let's not forget letting them know the REAL reason why they didn't get the job.
The most ruthless pass-over I was ever subjected was when after a positive interview the interviewer told me that they'd had come candidates who had more experience than me. I can deal with that, but later I found out that the guy who got the job had spent less time out of high school than I had doing the type of job we interviewed for. When it's an outsider, that's not much of a problem but when it's an employee you run the risk of having that person report on illegal, unethical or amoral practices at the company.
LK
Everything starts to look like a nail.
I am always working on several personal projects. I've found that even in my limited uses some tasks are better suited to certain languages/environments.
If it's all about processing numbers and getting output C++ is the way to go for me. If I NEED to do limited data processing and I need a windows GUI, VB or RB are what I use. If I need to develop an app that works on multiple platforms, it's Java.
For the few thousand lines of code that my apps require it's obvious that not every task is suited to one language. I can only extend that logic to include apps with hundreds of thousands of lines of code.
LK
It's quite the paradox, in order to try to fight racism we actually perpetuate it.
What are we to do? Pretend that racism doesn't exist? It's a difficult question and a complex issue.
LK
Oh my gawd what an apologist pussy you are.
Who's hiding behind anonymity?
And don't even get me started on Salmon Rushdie.
Salmon Rushdie wrote a mediocre book that no one would have read if it wasn't for the bounty that was placed on his head.
And on another note just wait till Iran even tries to test a nuke.
Why shouldn't they be allowed to produce nuclear technology? It's hypocritical for all of these nations who have nuclear weapons in their arsenal to tell Iran that they can not.
The Islamic mindset does not understand compassion; it understands fear and power.
This may be true of the islamists, but not of most muslims.
There are also many who feel they should be able to dictate what goes on in a first world democracy with respect to freedom of speech.
It's OLD World, NEW World and Third World.
Have you heard the way they refer to westerners, let alone Israelis?
Khafir (Unbelievers) and Munafiqun(Hypocrites) are the preferred terms.
Additionally since I'm an atheist I really don't care about a given religious symbol of any description.
Last, but certainly not least comes the crux of your argument. You can't understand how someone would die or kill for their faith.
LK
People keep talking about how unreasonable Muslim protests over these political cartoons are.
Before violence erupted there were calls for boycotts (perfectly reasonable) to which the EU responded by threatening them if they dared to boycott a member state.
They tried peaceful means first. Violence only came later.
Second, these images of Muhammad are as offensive to muslims as it would be to christians to depict the Virgin Mary getting fucked by a pig with the caption "Technically, she's still a virgin."
Why? Do they really need that much emulated gender anatomy?
Because it's Kuwait you dumb ass. In some parts of the world, gender still plays a big part in what role you fill in society.
LK
In the middle east, this is not a recreational activity. It's a business. Children are exploited. They are undernourished and left uneducated.
In the US children ride horses on weekends for fun.
Somehow I doubt the kids were being tortured, although their parents might have been the soccer-mom equivalents of Kuwait.
The severe beatings that some of the children endure certainly do qualify as torture.
I don't know if you're a troll or just ignorant, but these children were being mistreated.
LK
Who didn't want to cry like a baby when Aeris died in FF7?
Those of us who didn't see it.
LK
Waiting for all the non-rich "Republicans" to realize Republican politicians just sweet talked them and told them lies about being good Christians so they could fuck them.
I guess it never occurred to you that non-rich people become republicans because the democrats have even less to offer them.
LK
Each defendant was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, which carries a five-year maximum prison sentence. Fifteen also were charged with copyright infringement, which carries a three-year maximum.
WHAT THE FUCK? The penalty is greater for planning to break the law than for actually breaking it.
LK
Terrorists might recieve money from software piracy. Low overhead, quick production, easy smuggling and good return on investment. Terrorists probably recieve money from drugs.
Terrorists DO recieve money from oil.
LK
You need economic consequences for a boycott to work and American Indians simply aren't a large enough segment of the game buying public to make any difference whatsoever.
You don't understand the goal. The hope is that everyone who has been offended by a big company to join in. They want the black people who are still pissed at minstrel shows and blackface to join in. They want the Italians who get pissed off about mafia movies/games to join in. They want Jewish people who were pissed about Episode 1 to join in. They want the asian people who are still pissed off about Charlie Chan movies to join in.
The civil rights struggle would have failed if it were not for sympathetic whites.
If you gather enough minorities, you have a majority.
LK
Morality varies from individual to individual, ethics are codified.
For example, when the PS2 launched people were selling "Playstation 2 box"es on Ebay and they knew that some buyers would assume that the PS2 actually came in the box. So a few peope paid $500+ dollars for empty playstation 2 boxes. They listed them accurately so according to Ebay's rules what they did was ethical, but I still say it was amoral.
LK
Have *YOU* made a game that let you buy a Hummer?
Assuming you mean the vehicle, Nope. If you don't mean the vehicle, some of us don't need to pay for that.
Have you ever worked in a glass and steel tower where the elevators took you straight up to the top, where the cubie farm was not designed for mere mortals but even had a skylight?
Nope.
Have you had your name become almost a household word?
Nope.
Have you had a girl that looked so fine?
Yes. A couple of them, in fact.
It doesn't take millions of dollars to get an attractive woman, it only takes personality.
LK
Personally I feel that id has landed just as many turds since Romero left. The reason it seemed to go unnoticed is because of the big stiffy game mags / teens have for OMGR33TGRFX!
id hasn't relied solely upon the sales of their games for income. id licenses game engines to others. Basically, look at Half-Life. A highly modified Quake 2 engine powered one of the most popular games of the past decade. Arguably the most popular shooter. id made a killing off of the game too because licensing income is pure profit.
LK
Consoles will dominate everything else. The amount of fewer hours spent on development, testing, debugging, and support for a console where all hardware is static is dramatically less than a PC that could have a near unlimited combination of pieces.
Are you aware that this is the reason for SDKs like DirectX and SDL? Hardware abstraction so that it doesn't matter which hardware profile a user has. ATI or NVidia? It doesn't matter, your app will be talking to DirectX or SDL and not the hardware.
2005 set a record for console game sales while also being one of the worst years ever for PC's for a reason.
PC game sales are in the toilet because there is little innovation. I'd also venture that more PC gamers are adults who don't have as much free time as a college-age or younger console gamer so they don't chew through games as fast.
LK