OK, I dont know about you guys, but I, for one, was kind of enjoying the recent increased unity and communication between the nations of the world.
But isn't this "tower to heaven" just the thing that caused God to come down and confuse the languages in the Bible?
I propose a 50 year moratorium on this technological advancement so that philosophers and theologians can thoroughly debate the ethical and moral implications of this undertaking.
:-P
True enough... I haven't used a watch in ~7 years. There is, however, one situation in which a watch is very convenient: Testing.
Admittedly, a watch might distract you a little during a test, but many is the time I have sorely desired the knowledge of whether I had time to erase what I had written, in order to correct a minor mistake.
Other than that, about all a watch does for you is give you a weird white spot on your arm (if you are lucky enough to get outside, that is:-)
Projekt, Cleopatra, and K-tel are all independant labels I think. I am positive that Projekt is, and it has some extremely talented artists.
Relapse records is another of my favorite labels. They put out Death/Black/Doom metal as well as experimental/ambient on their subsidiary Release.
hope this helps... of course if you are looking for BSB/Limp Bizkit sort of music, you probably won't be able to find any indy labels who carry their equivalent... Indy labels carry quality music that has not been dumbed down for the masses. ya.. ok, sorry.
At first, I thought you were being sarcastic about not ever searching for warez. However, you quickly verified your claim, with the revelation that you think the places to get warez are located on the www.
Just on the off chance that your hesitation to "try before you buy" is caused by infinite ad loops, rather than legal issues, allow me to point you to IRC. Undernet and Newnet both have many ratio free warez channels from which to download (of course, i never download... just lurk;)
who the fuck moderated this up so high?? how can this guy/ever/ judge timothy for "not reading the story" when he didn't even read the headline!!!!!!
Goddamn you karma-whore go back to fucking AOL where you belong. The headline reads, "Gateway says bug affects 1GHz Thunderbird Systems". SYSTEMS YOU SHIT BRAIN!!!!! FUCK! maybe you can't even handle AOL, seeing as you obviously can't read.
Go back to your little high school. That is the appropriate place for illiterate, pack following, crowd pleasers such as yourself.
I completely agree with you. Albert Einstein was nothing more than a "trained chimpanzee" and he would have benefited modern life/culture soooo much more if he would have written a few piddling songs or poems, rather than come up with his revolutionary theories.
But then, what do I know? I am just a chimpanzee in training.
Actually the engineers foresaw your little "h4x0r" schemes and completely bypass the creation of a temporary file. If my memory serves correctly, the file is decrypted at run time, immediately before being sent to the output hardware. Because of the low-level nature of the decryption software, there is (unless you are fluent in assembly) no way for one to intercept this decrypted data stream.
Exactly. That is precisely how I am introduced to new bands. And to address the argument that those who use napster never buy another cd,/that/ is FUD. I own a Rio500 and use Napster extensively. I, therefore, would certainly be one of the ones who wouldn't buy cds anymore right?
wrong.
The truth is, although my income has certainly not increased, the rate at which I purchase cds has. This is most certainly due to the fact that I have found so many totally cool indie bands who concern themselves with creating art, rather than making bucks.
Maybe this is what the RIAA is so worried about. They _must_ be aware of how poor quality their signed artists are. Could it be that their real fear is not piracy but, instead, indie labels and bands?
Well, for all you suckers out there, Metallica has once again demonstrated their naivety by posting live pics from their "chat".
Ok, so this isn't a very long post, but hey, is there really any commentary needed on this?
I don't know about you, but these pics and just the fact that they have been posted, is suspicious.
If they really wanted to prove to us they were live, they should have answered some real questions, and addressed the real issues, instead of wasting everyone's time with bs.
OK, so they have a "real newtonian physics model" in the game. Which is real impressive sounding until you realize that they conveniently set the game in zero gravity space where the most complicated motion calculation is moving the object straight ahead!
The trick is, with a realistic Newtonian engine, if you let the puck go it'll keep right on going until someone or something stops it.
Am I the only one who is not impressed by this total bullshit? How hard is it to program an object to maintain a constant direction? When someone comes out with a game, based on earth, that can calculate sophisticated trajectories of variable mass objects, according to Newton's laws, I will be impressed. Until then, don't distract me with your misleading hype.
ok. I have no particular bone to pick with MS word. See, what I don't understand is why you go ahead and install the animated helper ( you could have deselected it during install ) and then complain about it taking up resources. Why install something you don't want? I know that you may have been joking, but I am addressing the general attitude that most people here carry towards MS. Word kicks WordPerfect out the wazoo in terms of ease of use and capabilities. this is not a flame or troll. I am just tired of people complaining about the presence of things which they are responsible for installing in the first place.
"Convince Steve Case to let America Online's engineers port AOL 5.0 to Linux. A Linux computer with these two pieces of software would be a great home system. " OK, so maybe I do not understand the situation, but my impression was that AOL 5.0 was a user screwer -- certainly not a piece of software that makes a "great home system". Furthermore I believe that when the "average" user plugs in his computer he would prefer assured security over a few added moments of ease. I do not understand how asking Steve Case to commandeer your computer's hard drive or, for that matter, attempting to imitate Microsoft's sloppy unintuitive programs, in any way helps the user in the long run. Granted, Linux can become complicated to newbies, but hasn't anyone heard of... who was it?.. oh yeah! REDHAT????? alright thats it. If this guy expects the linux community to take his suggestions seriously, maybe he should take us seriously and actually use the software he recomends before promoting it just so that he can sound like he's up-to-date on current technology.
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That was the funniest thing I've read in a long time!
Caused me to snort apple juice up my nose, it did.
OK, I dont know about you guys, but I, for one, was kind of enjoying the recent increased unity and communication between the nations of the world.
But isn't this "tower to heaven" just the thing that caused God to come down and confuse the languages in the Bible?
I propose a 50 year moratorium on this technological advancement so that philosophers and theologians can thoroughly debate the ethical and moral implications of this undertaking.
:-P
You put your real name in Word?
weird...
DAMN!!!! that was fucking awesome man! good job
True enough... I haven't used a watch in ~7 years. There is, however, one situation in which a watch is very convenient: Testing.
Admittedly, a watch might distract you a little during a test, but many is the time I have sorely desired the knowledge of whether I had time to erase what I had written, in order to correct a minor mistake.
Other than that, about all a watch does for you is give you a weird white spot on your arm (if you are lucky enough to get outside, that is :-)
Projekt, Cleopatra, and K-tel are all independant labels I think. I am positive that Projekt is, and it has some extremely talented artists.
Relapse records is another of my favorite labels. They put out Death/Black/Doom metal as well as experimental/ambient on their subsidiary Release.
hope this helps... of course if you are looking for BSB/Limp Bizkit sort of music, you probably won't be able to find any indy labels who carry their equivalent... Indy labels carry quality music that has not been dumbed down for the masses. ya.. ok, sorry.
At first, I thought you were being sarcastic about not ever searching for warez. However, you quickly verified your claim, with the revelation that you think the places to get warez are located on the www.
;)
Just on the off chance that your hesitation to "try before you buy" is caused by infinite ad loops, rather than legal issues, allow me to point you to IRC. Undernet and Newnet both have many ratio free warez channels from which to download (of course, i never download... just lurk
ehh... hahah... that was funny. :)
who the fuck moderated this up so high?? how can this guy /ever/ judge timothy for "not reading the story" when he didn't even read the headline!!!!!!
Goddamn you karma-whore go back to fucking AOL where you belong. The headline reads, "Gateway says bug affects 1GHz Thunderbird Systems". SYSTEMS YOU SHIT BRAIN!!!!! FUCK! maybe you can't even handle AOL, seeing as you obviously can't read.
Go back to your little high school. That is the appropriate place for illiterate, pack following, crowd pleasers such as yourself.
I completely agree with you. Albert Einstein was nothing more than a "trained chimpanzee" and he would have benefited modern life/culture soooo much more if he would have written a few piddling songs or poems, rather than come up with his revolutionary theories.
But then, what do I know? I am just a chimpanzee in training.
Actually the engineers foresaw your little "h4x0r" schemes and completely bypass the creation of a temporary file. If my memory serves correctly, the file is decrypted at run time, immediately before being sent to the output hardware. Because of the low-level nature of the decryption software, there is (unless you are fluent in assembly) no way for one to intercept this decrypted data stream.
take that you script kiddies!
I thought the fastest cd-roms could only go about 50x. Wow, technology is incredible!
hehe, you are probably the hoodlum who ran up and assaulted that RIAA executive*.
*the term "RIAA executive" includes all assaulted persons within a five mile radius of an actual RIAA representative.
actually, if the benefit/difficulty ratio is high, then it would be very easy to solve and we would be rewarded greatly by the solution
hey, what's the name of that? Sounds interesting and I wouldn't mind reading it.
thanks
Exactly. That is precisely how I am introduced to new bands. /that/ is FUD. I own a Rio500 and use Napster extensively. I, therefore, would certainly be one of the ones who wouldn't buy cds anymore right?
And to address the argument that those who use napster never buy another cd,
wrong.
The truth is, although my income has certainly not increased, the rate at which I purchase cds has. This is most certainly due to the fact that I have found so many totally cool indie bands who concern themselves with creating art, rather than making bucks.
Maybe this is what the RIAA is so worried about. They _must_ be aware of how poor quality their signed artists are. Could it be that their real fear is not piracy but, instead, indie labels and bands?
food for thought anyway
wow, I'm sorry man. That must really suck... losing karma points, and worst of all, you didn't even make first post...
why not slashdot.org vs. slashdot.com
I'm thinking you must be talking about 'pr0n'
Well, for all you suckers out there, Metallica has once again demonstrated their naivety by posting live pics from their "chat".
Ok, so this isn't a very long post, but hey, is there really any commentary needed on this?
I don't know about you, but these pics and just the fact that they have been posted, is suspicious.
If they really wanted to prove to us they were live, they should have answered some real questions, and addressed the real issues, instead of wasting everyone's time with bs.
After all, we wouldn't want to ban an honest user, now would we? ;)
OK, so they have a "real newtonian physics model" in the game. Which is real impressive sounding until you realize that they conveniently set the game in zero gravity space where the most complicated motion calculation is moving the object straight ahead!
The trick is, with a realistic Newtonian engine, if you let the puck go it'll keep right on going until someone or something stops it.
Am I the only one who is not impressed by this total bullshit? How hard is it to program an object to maintain a constant direction? When someone comes out with a game, based on earth, that can calculate sophisticated trajectories of variable mass objects, according to Newton's laws, I will be impressed. Until then, don't distract me with your misleading hype.
"The man who would sacrifice his freedom, for security, deserves neither."
-Thomas Jefferson
ok. I have no particular bone to pick with MS word. See, what I don't understand is why you go ahead and install the animated helper ( you could have deselected it during install ) and then complain about it taking up resources. Why install something you don't want?
I know that you may have been joking, but I am addressing the general attitude that most people here carry towards MS. Word kicks WordPerfect out the wazoo in terms of ease of use and capabilities. this is not a flame or troll. I am just tired of people complaining about the presence of things which they are responsible for installing in the first place.
"Convince Steve Case to let America Online's engineers port AOL 5.0 to Linux. A Linux computer with these two pieces of software would be a great home system. " OK, so maybe I do not understand the situation, but my impression was that AOL 5.0 was a user screwer -- certainly not a piece of software that makes a "great home system". Furthermore I believe that when the "average" user plugs in his computer he would prefer assured security over a few added moments of ease. I do not understand how asking Steve Case to commandeer your computer's hard drive or, for that matter, attempting to imitate Microsoft's sloppy unintuitive programs, in any way helps the user in the long run. Granted, Linux can become complicated to newbies, but hasn't anyone heard of... who was it?.. oh yeah! REDHAT????? alright thats it. If this guy expects the linux community to take his suggestions seriously, maybe he should take us seriously and actually use the software he recomends before promoting it just so that he can sound like he's up-to-date on current technology.