If you're into electronic dancemusic then Baygroove is the place for you. Freely available music that's perfectly legal to distribute in any way you might like.
As someone who actually lives in Sweden I've gotta say it's scary how the country is the record-industry/movie-industrys complete bitch.
There's no other word for it. APB (the corporations anti-piracy organisation) is bending (or outright breaking) all the laws in order to enforce their "rights" and all the government is doing is bending over and taking it up the poop-chute. The swedish lawsystem just isn't up to snuff to be able to enforce laws when you've got a lot of corporate power/greed to fuel slick lawyers.
It's silly when a corporate organisation manages to get the police to prioritize copyright infringement higher than, say murders or rape. The most outrageous thing is that APB is really putting out the attitude that "piracy" is a worse crime than the abovementioned ones.
Just speaking my mind. Now go ahead and mod me as troll or flamebait.
This is a good point. But I think the bottom-line is that features may become illegal (which could take them out of the project's trunk). You can also prevent firmware upgrades on PVRs you buy.
Boy, it sure is a sad world when it becomes illegal to ignore/skip commercials. Goodbye free will.
Yes, all that technology is nice, but ultimately worthless, if the movies coming out of it have no substance.
In other words, it's kinda like what the games industry has been reduced to. All flash and very little substance.
Just look at all the crap coming out about the Xbox360 and PS3 - everyone focuses on talking about the numbers (amount of teraflops and such) or how the graphics will be realtime-rendered with 7.1 Digital Audio.
Provided you're only paying material costs. If you should factor in the R&D used to develop him, then it's probably more along the scale of "costs more than 200 of your cars".
Firefly is a series created by Joss Whedon in 2002. It was aired on Fox, and canceled after just half a season (perhaps due to it's anti-authoritarian nature).
Or even more possibly, it was cancelled because it sucked. I watched it, and thought that overall it was kinda like watching a 13-year olds daydreams. Acting was subpar, and there was no muppets in it. SFX was barely acceptable, but the whole concept wasn't really imaginative enough to warrant a TV-series - much less a movie.
But hell, seeing as I've vented my opinions now, let's bring on the +5 troll shall we? That's what I'm expecting to be modded as since the dogma around here is that OMFG FIREFLY R0XX0RS MY B0XX0RS!
My father is running XP with sp2 on his (by modern standards) ancient Compaq-laptop. That sucker is a Pentium3-450 with 192 megs of RAM and some sub-5000rpm harddrive.
It's been running the same XP install för about a year now (since he "upgraded" to this computer from his old IBM Thinkpad/P2-300/64megs). I installed the XP, trimmed away some unnecessary services and he's happy as a clam.
The thing runs surprisingly fast, the only app that runs somewhat slower than what I'd like is Photoshop, but everything else zooms away, including Office 2k3.
On the other hand I've seen some seriously wicked systems (such as the dual Opteron with SLI'd graphics and 2 gigs of RAM that we do serious stuff on at work) running rather dogslow. Then again, that's a pretty much vanilla XP-install without any tweaks or twiddling applied. Hell, my old Athlon 2200+ at home feels snappier even though the Opteron totally crushes my computer in the benchmarks.
Anyhoo, for what it's worth that kinda sums up my experiences.
Actually it seems like a good idea to me. Macromedia makes decent software but they've always annoyed the crap out of me by constantly doing one thing:
They always re-design their interfaces from one version to another. The interface in their software is NEVER constant from one version to another. Every time you upgrade to a newer version, you have to re-learn the damn thing from scratch.
I used to be really good at Flash back when it was something like 1.0, then they redid the interface and all my know-how was gone. I had to learn how to ride a bicycle from scratch.
Now, I don't mean they just move some menus around and change buttons. They TOTALLY redesign it! Completely! Functions are different, layouts are different, buttons are COMPLETELY different. It's like a completely new program.
The required car-metaphor would be that you're a mechanic used to working on diesel-engines, and when Car Inc. releases the new models they've replaced the engine with UFO-parts.
So to summarize my ranting, maybe Adobe can mainatin the UI from one version to the next? I hope so.
Hell, everything I hear on the radio is just a rehash of everything I heard a year ago on the same station.
Which in turn was a rehash of the crap from the previous year, which in turn was a rehash of the crap from the previous year, which in turn was rehash from the previous year, and ad infinitum.
This post will likely be modded redundant, but I just need to shoot my mouth off for a bit.
I don't see why anyone buying a Mini would want to do this. It's completely insane to "fix" something that works fine by replacing it with stuff that almost works.
It's like buying a new car, running really smoothly, a great piece of equipment - and the first thing you do is replace the engine with one that works less well, and after that replacing the seats with banana crates.
I'm a total moron replying to myself, but I forgot to mention that IMHO I'm not an amateur. I'm NCNE and Mickey Mouse (MCSE) as well as working on my Solaris-cert. If the possibility to get Linux-certified in my area pops up then I'll go that way as well.
When a domestic appliance goes wrong, you can ring a repair man. When your car breaks down you can call the garage. But when your computer system goes wrong, who do you call?
People in my city would tell you to call me, since I make a pretty decent living off of going to peoples houses and cleaning up their computers.
This is essentially a hobby, but people appreciate it and sometimes pays me quite large sums of money (even though I don't really require more than maybe some food or a cold beverage in return).
I spent 50+ minutes trying to figure out why my dads webpage wasn't loading correctly. He was doing one of those "complete morons page to HTML" type things at the local education center, and for some reason the [start page] wasn't finding the images.
Well, turned out that he had named a shitload of pictures [filename].jpg.jpg.jpg as well as in the HTML code referencing to [picture] instead of [picture].jpg since he didn't see the extension and got confused.
After that I pointed out that start page.html isn't a kosher name for the entrypage, and due to the stupid "feature" he ended up renaming it to index.html.htm
Since this was over phone, I'm REALLY happy that I had my headset handy and didn't have to hug the freakin handset for close to an hour!
The new avalon themes look really hideous. I'm no graphic artist, but I know when something looks like shit, and this sure is a stinker.
But I have to say I kinda liked the black plex-theme (I think it was called plex), it looked kinda sober. Similiar to the XP Blue but without the gaudy colors.
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If you're into electronic dancemusic then Baygroove is the place for you. Freely available music that's perfectly legal to distribute in any way you might like.
As someone who actually lives in Sweden I've gotta say it's scary how the country is the record-industry/movie-industrys complete bitch.
There's no other word for it. APB (the corporations anti-piracy organisation) is bending (or outright breaking) all the laws in order to enforce their "rights" and all the government is doing is bending over and taking it up the poop-chute. The swedish lawsystem just isn't up to snuff to be able to enforce laws when you've got a lot of corporate power/greed to fuel slick lawyers.
It's silly when a corporate organisation manages to get the police to prioritize copyright infringement higher than, say murders or rape. The most outrageous thing is that APB is really putting out the attitude that "piracy" is a worse crime than the abovementioned ones.
Just speaking my mind. Now go ahead and mod me as troll or flamebait.
This is a good point. But I think the bottom-line is that features may become illegal (which could take them out of the project's trunk). You can also prevent firmware upgrades on PVRs you buy.
Boy, it sure is a sad world when it becomes illegal to ignore/skip commercials. Goodbye free will.
You have not experienced Dirk Gently until you have read it in the original Klingon.
Yes, all that technology is nice, but ultimately worthless, if the movies coming out of it have no substance.
In other words, it's kinda like what the games industry has been reduced to. All flash and very little substance.
Just look at all the crap coming out about the Xbox360 and PS3 - everyone focuses on talking about the numbers (amount of teraflops and such) or how the graphics will be realtime-rendered with 7.1 Digital Audio.
But everyone seems to be forgetting the gameplay.
where's the torrent for OSX Intel Edition?
He probably costs more then your car
Provided you're only paying material costs. If you should factor in the R&D used to develop him, then it's probably more along the scale of "costs more than 200 of your cars".
Firefly is a series created by Joss Whedon in 2002. It was aired on Fox, and canceled after just half a season (perhaps due to it's anti-authoritarian nature).
Or even more possibly, it was cancelled because it sucked. I watched it, and thought that overall it was kinda like watching a 13-year olds daydreams. Acting was subpar, and there was no muppets in it. SFX was barely acceptable, but the whole concept wasn't really imaginative enough to warrant a TV-series - much less a movie.
But hell, seeing as I've vented my opinions now, let's bring on the +5 troll shall we? That's what I'm expecting to be modded as since the dogma around here is that OMFG FIREFLY R0XX0RS MY B0XX0RS!
"We will fight them in the CAT5, on the routers, in the packets. We will never surrender"
:)
Or however he said it
... from bying it. There's always tons of spoiled teenagers out there in tweaktown who HAS TO HAVE TEH LATEST SH1T!
This is the real reason why ATI even does such a werd-ass thing.
-Mommy, my penis is shrinking!
-Well son, let's get you a new videocard then!
That's just my opinion and experience of dealing with teenage computer users these days.
My father is running XP with sp2 on his (by modern standards) ancient Compaq-laptop. That sucker is a Pentium3-450 with 192 megs of RAM and some sub-5000rpm harddrive.
It's been running the same XP install för about a year now (since he "upgraded" to this computer from his old IBM Thinkpad/P2-300/64megs). I installed the XP, trimmed away some unnecessary services and he's happy as a clam.
The thing runs surprisingly fast, the only app that runs somewhat slower than what I'd like is Photoshop, but everything else zooms away, including Office 2k3.
On the other hand I've seen some seriously wicked systems (such as the dual Opteron with SLI'd graphics and 2 gigs of RAM that we do serious stuff on at work) running rather dogslow. Then again, that's a pretty much vanilla XP-install without any tweaks or twiddling applied. Hell, my old Athlon 2200+ at home feels snappier even though the Opteron totally crushes my computer in the benchmarks.
Anyhoo, for what it's worth that kinda sums up my experiences.
But to get caught up in "OS 1 is better than OS 2" debates is pure silliness, especially when you can run both easily.
Yes, but OS/2 might become open-source!
Actually it seems like a good idea to me. Macromedia makes decent software but they've always annoyed the crap out of me by constantly doing one thing:
They always re-design their interfaces from one version to another. The interface in their software is NEVER constant from one version to another. Every time you upgrade to a newer version, you have to re-learn the damn thing from scratch.
I used to be really good at Flash back when it was something like 1.0, then they redid the interface and all my know-how was gone. I had to learn how to ride a bicycle from scratch.
Now, I don't mean they just move some menus around and change buttons. They TOTALLY redesign it! Completely! Functions are different, layouts are different, buttons are COMPLETELY different. It's like a completely new program.
The required car-metaphor would be that you're a mechanic used to working on diesel-engines, and when Car Inc. releases the new models they've replaced the engine with UFO-parts.
So to summarize my ranting, maybe Adobe can mainatin the UI from one version to the next? I hope so.
Hell, everything I hear on the radio is just a rehash of everything I heard a year ago on the same station.
Which in turn was a rehash of the crap from the previous year, which in turn was a rehash of the crap from the previous year, which in turn was rehash from the previous year, and ad infinitum.
Why should the rest of us suffer for the lazy few who can't look after their computers?
In my experience it's usually the reverse. It's the lazy/clueless masses that makes life painful for the (relatively) few of us non-morons.
This post will likely be modded redundant, but I just need to shoot my mouth off for a bit.
I don't see why anyone buying a Mini would want to do this. It's completely insane to "fix" something that works fine by replacing it with stuff that almost works.
It's like buying a new car, running really smoothly, a great piece of equipment - and the first thing you do is replace the engine with one that works less well, and after that replacing the seats with banana crates.
incidentally, "driva" in Swedish is "pile"
So it would be a pile of tools.
I'm a total moron replying to myself, but I forgot to mention that IMHO I'm not an amateur. I'm NCNE and Mickey Mouse (MCSE) as well as working on my Solaris-cert. If the possibility to get Linux-certified in my area pops up then I'll go that way as well.
When a domestic appliance goes wrong, you can ring a repair man. When your car breaks down you can call the garage. But when your computer system goes wrong, who do you call?
People in my city would tell you to call me, since I make a pretty decent living off of going to peoples houses and cleaning up their computers.
This is essentially a hobby, but people appreciate it and sometimes pays me quite large sums of money (even though I don't really require more than maybe some food or a cold beverage in return).
Yeah, that "feature" is crap.
I spent 50+ minutes trying to figure out why my dads webpage wasn't loading correctly. He was doing one of those "complete morons page to HTML" type things at the local education center, and for some reason the [start page] wasn't finding the images.
Well, turned out that he had named a shitload of pictures [filename].jpg.jpg.jpg as well as in the HTML code referencing to [picture] instead of [picture].jpg since he didn't see the extension and got confused.
After that I pointed out that start page.html isn't a kosher name for the entrypage, and due to the stupid "feature" he ended up renaming it to index.html.htm
Since this was over phone, I'm REALLY happy that I had my headset handy and didn't have to hug the freakin handset for close to an hour!
The new avalon themes look really hideous. I'm no graphic artist, but I know when something looks like shit, and this sure is a stinker.
But I have to say I kinda liked the black plex-theme (I think it was called plex), it looked kinda sober. Similiar to the XP Blue but without the gaudy colors.
Windows XP doesn't crash one a day, either. I've only gotten a BSOD twice in my years of using it.
This is provided that your drivers/etc are stable.
I've got an experiment-box standing right next to me, running XP and it give me a BSOD at least 2 times a day at random intervals.
The cause? Bad drivers. All the BSOD's are IRQ_LESS_OR_EQUAL which IMHE pertains to shoddy vendor-drivers.
So how long before someone reckons that there will come a time when there will be a supercomputer in every home?
According to Apple that era was launched a long time ago.
I wish I had some modpoints, because that is quite insightful.
It's the whole lead-horse-to-water thing. Although, lead-user-to-update maybe is more appropriate?
Hmmpf, the header fooled me into thinking they were using Duke Nukem Forever as a benchmark!