Why bother even paying $2, though? The band sees precisely 0 cents of that money. I'd rather put the money towards buying more legit CDs, and get the odd track via dubious but free methods.
Allofmp3 and its siblings cost money, but don't solve any of the moral problems with illegal downloads; surely the worst of both worlds?
It's not just during the PSX era that there was a problem. Here in the UK I'm pretty resigned to the fact that I'll never see a legit release of Katamari Damacy or Psyvariar II on the PS2, for instance.
Probably not. The primary limitation of the scanning method is getting the detail out of the pit image. Since 78 rpm discs spin faster, the track you're following moves further in a given amount of time. Therefore the info is more spread out, and so a scan at any given resolution will yield more sound information than if you're scanning a 33rpm record.
1) It isn't Trusted Computing you need, but a proprietory BIOS and MacIntel drivers for the rest of the box. If TC were somehow involved, people with devkits wouldn't be triple-booting with OSX, XP and Linux right now.
2) There is more than one/. Groupthink Meme on the loose. The people who adore the way OSX works are quite possibly not the ones who foam at the mouth every time digital protection mechanisms get mentioned. For instance, the former are often quite happy to shop on iTMS.
It all depends on what you want the turntable for. Direct Drive is indeed vital if you want the "45rpm, right when I press the button" demands of a DJing deck, but belt drives (that admittedly need occasional recalibration as the belt wears out) usually offer less flutter than similarly specced direct ones.
If you're wanting an audiophile deck for just putting a record on and listening, then you probably don't want DD after all.
$60 CDN is actually less than £30 Sterling. With Nintendo games (since I haven't chipped my XBox or PS2 I can't do this with those two) I import from Canada, and still save myself about 25% on UK prices even after international shipping costs.
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If you're playing in tournaments, then I'd expect to be laughed out of the room for using anything other than one of Hori's arcade sticks anyway. Neither pad comes close to the precision and response of a stick and full-size face buttons. Not just because you can perform the more complex combos on a stick with greater ease, but having the four buttons under your hand without having to move means you're much faster. Blocking with your thumb alone turns your game up several notches.
That is probably because they're made by Tiny than anything to do with AMD however; I've never seen a machine from them that hasn't caused the owner headache. They've infamous here in the UK.
Re:The biggest problem might not have been the sex
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If you really, really want to carry that gag to the end, there actually is videotape involved.
When games are entered for rating to the ESRB, to speed the process up the developer has to summarise what the main points that could cause its rating to go up are, and supply video of them occurring. If the ESRB had to play through all 60+ hours of every RPG it rates just to make a decision, they'd never get through all the games they have to certify.
The whole operation relies on trusting that the developer has done what they say they've done, which is why the ESRB felt they had to punish Rockstar in the only way available to them - as a purely advisory board, fines and bans aren't really possible.
The AO rating isn't about whether or not the game really deserves it, but about Rockstar's alleged deceiving of the ESRB about the presence of the code in the game. As a non-governmental advisory ratings body, slapping an AO on the box is the only punishment open to them.
Of course, the fact that you can remove the blurring in EA's The Sims 2 and see what your Sims get up to in bed without clothes on, and you don't need to even download a mod from the net to do so, doesn't mean that the game's Teen rating deserves looking at, at all. No siree.
Re:This article and the last one.
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The Handheld War
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You know Lumines is great. I know Lumines is great. Someone should tell the rest of the world; it was dead last in total sales at launch.
The only other decent PSP puzzler is Mercury, and no-one gave Archer the budget to promote that one, either.
Of course Apple are going to do it. They'll have to if they want their shiny new hardware with BluRay/HDDVD drives to be allowed to actually show movies at anything over 720x480.
Microsoft (and everyone else that does it) are just implementing DRM that they have to.
Actually, it's 85% of people performing a comparison set up by the BluRay team thought that they made the BluRay image look nicer than the HD-DVD image.
Given I could make you a DVD that compares unfavorably to a long-play VHS tape without too much effort, what do you want to bet this wasn't a fair test?
Ultimately, the whole "Uranium from Niger" thing is a rather pointless thing to be using for evidence of Saddam's weapons program.
We know that he hadn't even used up the supply that he got back when he was 'one of ours', as while we were bombing the crap out of Baghdad Iraqi civilians found the remaining barrels. Then emptied them, and used the now 'clean' barrels to store drinking water, giving themselves a whole stack of nasty radiation and poisoning problems.
My interpretation of the bill is that it doesn't just include hyperlinks, but that the whole POINT of the bill is to specifically ban the act of hyperlinking to a copyrighted work, whether that be by an article doing it deliberately, or Google's automated picking it up.
Re:I realise I couldn't remember if I had a drive
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So you can't have flash sticks in the building, but you are allowed to take a stack of floppies around?
It's not even that. The robots.txt wasn't in place until the previous court case started.
What they're actually suing the Wayback Machine for is failing to see that there was now a robots.txt in place and so purge their entire archive history for the page.
Tragically, search-engine advisory information files have yet to develop time travel. This is somehow Wayback's fault.
For a full Dual-Layer disc (and I really can't remember the last time I saw a retail movie come on a single layer) it's 9Gb, not 4, so the numbers are even worse.
Besides, basic broadband packages in the UK usually have monthly download limits in the ~3Gb range. So it's not the 24-hour wait for the download, it's the 30-day wait until your ISP will let you have the next one.
I'm not saying they have a lack of respect for the dead and injured. God, my wife would have been on that bus had it been a couple of weeks ago instead.
What I'm saying is that after the initial shock, we calmed down, made sure what could be done to help was - it's a sheer fluke that the British Medical Association headquaters was next door, so the place was swarming in doctors in seconds - we thought about the practicalities of getting home, not sat around feeling panicky about who might be next.
As I said, we've had the IRA blow the UK up before, and Omagh was almost as bad as today. Long ago we learned to be vigilant about the dangers, without living our lives under the duvet just in case.
That's the big difference, though. We make at least a pretence, and most of the time a hell of a lot more than a pretence, that when civilians get killed its a horrible accident. We're there to take out the leadership, and will oppose any visible threat. We even come down like a ton of bricks on members of our own armed forces if they're judged to have made an egregiously bad call about what constitutes a threat.
These guys are deliberately hitting the civilians because any attempt on the military would just involve them being smeared across the front of a Challenger II.
Having read the statement, I'd have to say there's a couple of problems.
1) "Secret Organisation al Qaeda in Europe"? That's a hastily made-up name if I ever saw one. It's against 'normal' Al Qaeda's modus operandi to go claiming responsibility so quickly, so why the new 'secret' version would be so forthcoming baffles me.
More seriously,
2) The actual statement talks about how Britain is trembling in fear 'to the North, South, East and West'. Well, having heard from people who have a bus in mangled bits RIGHT OUTSIDE THEIR FECKING WINDOW, they've failed in that one. Everyone is just pissed off they've got several miles to walk home, because there's no public transport.
We did terrorism for years, thanks to the IRA (funded by certain Americans, but we don't care as we can tell the difference between individuals and states, unlike Al "smash the Infidel by blowing up a bunch of random people" Qaeda). We got bored and went back to work before these little wankers even started.
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Why bother even paying $2, though? The band sees precisely 0 cents of that money. I'd rather put the money towards buying more legit CDs, and get the odd track via dubious but free methods.
Allofmp3 and its siblings cost money, but don't solve any of the moral problems with illegal downloads; surely the worst of both worlds?
It's not just during the PSX era that there was a problem. Here in the UK I'm pretty resigned to the fact that I'll never see a legit release of Katamari Damacy or Psyvariar II on the PS2, for instance.
Probably not. The primary limitation of the scanning method is getting the detail out of the pit image. Since 78 rpm discs spin faster, the track you're following moves further in a given amount of time. Therefore the info is more spread out, and so a scan at any given resolution will yield more sound information than if you're scanning a 33rpm record.
1) It isn't Trusted Computing you need, but a proprietory BIOS and MacIntel drivers for the rest of the box. If TC were somehow involved, people with devkits wouldn't be triple-booting with OSX, XP and Linux right now.
/. Groupthink Meme on the loose. The people who adore the way OSX works are quite possibly not the ones who foam at the mouth every time digital protection mechanisms get mentioned. For instance, the former are often quite happy to shop on iTMS.
2) There is more than one
It all depends on what you want the turntable for. Direct Drive is indeed vital if you want the "45rpm, right when I press the button" demands of a DJing deck, but belt drives (that admittedly need occasional recalibration as the belt wears out) usually offer less flutter than similarly specced direct ones.
If you're wanting an audiophile deck for just putting a record on and listening, then you probably don't want DD after all.
$60 CDN is actually less than £30 Sterling. With Nintendo games (since I haven't chipped my XBox or PS2 I can't do this with those two) I import from Canada, and still save myself about 25% on UK prices even after international shipping costs.
If you're playing in tournaments, then I'd expect to be laughed out of the room for using anything other than one of Hori's arcade sticks anyway. Neither pad comes close to the precision and response of a stick and full-size face buttons. Not just because you can perform the more complex combos on a stick with greater ease, but having the four buttons under your hand without having to move means you're much faster. Blocking with your thumb alone turns your game up several notches.
That is probably because they're made by Tiny than anything to do with AMD however; I've never seen a machine from them that hasn't caused the owner headache. They've infamous here in the UK.
If you really, really want to carry that gag to the end, there actually is videotape involved.
When games are entered for rating to the ESRB, to speed the process up the developer has to summarise what the main points that could cause its rating to go up are, and supply video of them occurring. If the ESRB had to play through all 60+ hours of every RPG it rates just to make a decision, they'd never get through all the games they have to certify.
The whole operation relies on trusting that the developer has done what they say they've done, which is why the ESRB felt they had to punish Rockstar in the only way available to them - as a purely advisory board, fines and bans aren't really possible.
The AO rating isn't about whether or not the game really deserves it, but about Rockstar's alleged deceiving of the ESRB about the presence of the code in the game. As a non-governmental advisory ratings body, slapping an AO on the box is the only punishment open to them.
Of course, the fact that you can remove the blurring in EA's The Sims 2 and see what your Sims get up to in bed without clothes on, and you don't need to even download a mod from the net to do so, doesn't mean that the game's Teen rating deserves looking at, at all. No siree.
You know Lumines is great. I know Lumines is great. Someone should tell the rest of the world; it was dead last in total sales at launch.
The only other decent PSP puzzler is Mercury, and no-one gave Archer the budget to promote that one, either.
I'd award Trevor Horn the title of 'artist' yes. At least, Art Of Noise were great.
Sure, those kids are rubbish, but there's talent behind the scenes.
Of course Apple are going to do it. They'll have to if they want their shiny new hardware with BluRay/HDDVD drives to be allowed to actually show movies at anything over 720x480.
Microsoft (and everyone else that does it) are just implementing DRM that they have to.
Actually, it's 85% of people performing a comparison set up by the BluRay team thought that they made the BluRay image look nicer than the HD-DVD image.
Given I could make you a DVD that compares unfavorably to a long-play VHS tape without too much effort, what do you want to bet this wasn't a fair test?
Ultimately, the whole "Uranium from Niger" thing is a rather pointless thing to be using for evidence of Saddam's weapons program.
We know that he hadn't even used up the supply that he got back when he was 'one of ours', as while we were bombing the crap out of Baghdad Iraqi civilians found the remaining barrels. Then emptied them, and used the now 'clean' barrels to store drinking water, giving themselves a whole stack of nasty radiation and poisoning problems.
Ah, I missed that, thanks.
So the question is (a) why they didn't do that, assuming (b) the page had even been scanned again to find said file.
My interpretation of the bill is that it doesn't just include hyperlinks, but that the whole POINT of the bill is to specifically ban the act of hyperlinking to a copyrighted work, whether that be by an article doing it deliberately, or Google's automated picking it up.
So you can't have flash sticks in the building, but you are allowed to take a stack of floppies around?
You're right, that _is_ insane network security.
It's not even that. The robots.txt wasn't in place until the previous court case started.
What they're actually suing the Wayback Machine for is failing to see that there was now a robots.txt in place and so purge their entire archive history for the page.
Tragically, search-engine advisory information files have yet to develop time travel. This is somehow Wayback's fault.
For a full Dual-Layer disc (and I really can't remember the last time I saw a retail movie come on a single layer) it's 9Gb, not 4, so the numbers are even worse.
Besides, basic broadband packages in the UK usually have monthly download limits in the ~3Gb range. So it's not the 24-hour wait for the download, it's the 30-day wait until your ISP will let you have the next one.
Personally, I'd start with the _actual_ prime meridian point in Greenwich. Then just notify the Americans that their system needed updating.
I'm not saying they have a lack of respect for the dead and injured. God, my wife would have been on that bus had it been a couple of weeks ago instead.
What I'm saying is that after the initial shock, we calmed down, made sure what could be done to help was - it's a sheer fluke that the British Medical Association headquaters was next door, so the place was swarming in doctors in seconds - we thought about the practicalities of getting home, not sat around feeling panicky about who might be next.
As I said, we've had the IRA blow the UK up before, and Omagh was almost as bad as today. Long ago we learned to be vigilant about the dangers, without living our lives under the duvet just in case.
That's the big difference, though. We make at least a pretence, and most of the time a hell of a lot more than a pretence, that when civilians get killed its a horrible accident. We're there to take out the leadership, and will oppose any visible threat. We even come down like a ton of bricks on members of our own armed forces if they're judged to have made an egregiously bad call about what constitutes a threat.
These guys are deliberately hitting the civilians because any attempt on the military would just involve them being smeared across the front of a Challenger II.
Now, you see that's exactly the political digression I was hoping to avoid.
Still, on the bright side, both armies were generally going for military targets.
Having read the statement, I'd have to say there's a couple of problems.
1) "Secret Organisation al Qaeda in Europe"? That's a hastily made-up name if I ever saw one. It's against 'normal' Al Qaeda's modus operandi to go claiming responsibility so quickly, so why the new 'secret' version would be so forthcoming baffles me.
More seriously,
2) The actual statement talks about how Britain is trembling in fear 'to the North, South, East and West'. Well, having heard from people who have a bus in mangled bits RIGHT OUTSIDE THEIR FECKING WINDOW, they've failed in that one. Everyone is just pissed off they've got several miles to walk home, because there's no public transport.
We did terrorism for years, thanks to the IRA (funded by certain Americans, but we don't care as we can tell the difference between individuals and states, unlike Al "smash the Infidel by blowing up a bunch of random people" Qaeda). We got bored and went back to work before these little wankers even started.