It stands to reason that such a talentless and disposable band would stoop to such dishonesty. Show the band how you support such underhanded tactics by making sure that you never buy any of their albums (not that you would anyhow).
I have been selling on ebay for 9 years now, since the beginning. Anyhow, what I see as the problem with ebay is this: eBay created, and then refused to truly govern this glut of "power sellers" who, more often than not, majorily illustrate exactly what is wrong with eBay.
Shoppers are tired of trying to buy, oh say a used or NOS laptop hard drive, only to be bludgeoned with auctions that consist of nothing but shipping overcharges after shipping overcharges after scams and more scams. Just trying to find a working computer or computer part sold by an average honest Joe at a decent price is nearly impossible. It's nothing but NYC camera store-style scam power sellers (now with used items too), if you know what I mean, and ebay turns the other cheek.
In fact, ebay continues to turn the other cheek even though they are losing money in these fee-circumventing, high-shipping auctions. It's strange. I guess they only care about insertion fees, and care little about maintaining happy buyers.
However, the system falls apart without the buyers, so therein lies the problem that I see.
It is interesting that there is no mention of the fact that a Youtube grey area exists already, where there are 1) a lot of copyright-violating videos on Youtube currently, and that 2) many of these videos--but oddly not all--were removed by Youtube in a mass cleansing a few months ago.
Why is it, Youtube has videos from many very popular and very lawsuit-happy bands (such as Kiss), but only *some* of their videos, and *not* always just the ones that are the arguably less copyright-infringing ones? In other words, often many of the videos that weren't intentionly taken down for legal reasons are the ones that are seemingly most illegal, ala the "legitimate MTV-style" videos.
I am a novice linux user who is currently struggling through converting my computers completely to Ubuntu.
It has really been a challenge for me, not so much due to anything wrong with Ubuntu, but because the "aftermarket" software just doesn't exist, or is really poor.
For example, can you believe that there are no good graphical FTP clients for linux? It's true. I have been using gFTP, which most people consider to be the best one, for about a week. It crashes almost daily, isn't very good option-wise, and it is soooo slow. I want something simple, say something like WSFTP for windows, and lo and behold it just doesn't exist. Seems remarkable that a good graphical FTP client doesn't even exist.
The same can be said for a Mavis-esque typing program, and a simple photo editor like the immensely popular Irfanview.
Indeed these are the stumbling blocks for me. Not the distribution, but rather the software inavailability.
This was previously discussed at another forum yesterday, and the general consensus was what a complete travesty it is that this animal was killed by a "trophy hunter."
Interestingly, the people who were most offended were other hunters. Not trophy hunters, but those who hunt legally as a means to control herd populations and to feed their families. In my experince, standard hunters aren't so inexperienced and quick to shoot at anything that moves than a normal hunter. I mean you've got to get somethingto show for your 45K right?
And now, because this "hunter" didn't know the value of this animal, it is dead before it could be studied further and / or protected.
Electronic Games magazine was the the one that the others looked up to. It was right there when it happened, and it had great articles covering the newest arcade and home games.
I used to ride my bike to the mall and anxiously await each new issue on the day it arrived. I can remember drooling over reviews of the Vectrex, a system that my parents never did buy for me, despite my begging. Perhaps if they had, the cool kids would have come over, and id'a been popular. Ok maybe not.
It's sad to realize that I'm not employed by Forbes to write, even though the writer of this piece (reference intended), Ed Lin, is cashing Forbes paychecks even though his writing is absolutely terrible.
Let's begin with the gaming controller statements the author makes. The author states that it is a fact that games with more buttons are not as fun as the simple games of yesteryear. While this is true sometimes, it certainly isn't always true.
The author then exhumes the tired, dead horse, Macintosh one-button mouse example, and states that it "was always easier to use" than the PC two-button mouse. Apparently this is a fact as well.
The author then states that "The best title ever made in the history of U.S. videogaming was DragonStomper." Was this determined through numerous studies?
What a joke.
Slashdot is like reading Fark 8 hours earlier
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I keep seeing things taken from Fark.com on Slashdot more and more often. This was posted on Fark at 1:25 PM here: Zombies.
Is this site simply becomming a place where the more interesting Fark articles get a second printing?
"If they called it Windows Garbage, would people still buy it? Yeah, they'd buy it," said David Burd, [. ..] "They've got something like 90 percent penetration in the world of operating systems."
Uh, wouldn't "Windows Hegemony" have been a better choice?
I find it interesting that in this day and age of moving towards transmitting signals without wires, no one was ever able to safely transmit power wirelessly ala Tesla's ideas. Without power lines, to latch on to, perhaps see more efforts focused on long-distance wireless internet?
The actual statement directed at Linus was that he's got to "cool it now," and that he'd better "watch out" because he's "gonna lose control."
Furthermore, it wasn't Perens who said this. It was actually Bobby Brown. It was also at this point that Whitney Houston told Torvalds that she "believed the children were the future," and that a reversed engineered Bitkeeper would "teach them well and let them lead the way."
Apparently the event will be hosted by Geraldo (aka Rico Suave. Remember him?)
It's an all-Flash site. Sigh.
But, on a lighter note, it mentions the bar being tended by the Suicide Girls:)
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Why not look at the highest user-rated board games in existence, many or which are new, and then read the comments about the games in order to determine what sounds appealing to you? Board Game Geek.com has all of this information readily available right here:
game rankings
Yes, I believe that the quality is unfortunately gone.
Might I suggest that you get on ebay and pick up something like an IBM/Lexmark 4036 16. Built like tanks, are pretty cheap, and one of the Marathon toner cartrides will last years. My IBM 4039 currently has a page count of 149,000, and it is still going strong. All I ever replaces was a pickup wheel. Yes they are heavy and shipping may be pricey, but perhaps you can find one close by or do cheap FedEX groud shipping.
In my opinion, and this is in no way a troll or flame comment, Ubuntu's theme/mantra might actually turn people off to the product.
I found myself so distracted by the strange mesh of the African name, earthy color scheme, and "we are the world" esque startup screen that I immediately couldn't help but be turned off to the product.
To me, and maybe I am being incredibly anal (I dunno), computers and "tribal" go about as well together as shrimp and licorice. I simply don't like a product that--despite its sincere efforts to create unity--immediately conjures images of apartheid for me. I mean, how many Africans have the luxury of a personal computer?
Instead we have yet another product that borrows/copies/whatever the spirit of the poor and gives it to the masses, in order to eventually profit. Thanks, I'll pass.
-Wireless Operation -No Cumbersome Head Mounted Apparatus -Pixel Precise Pointing, CAD Ready -Operates in Conjunction With or Replaces Standard Desktop Mouse -USB Mouse Interface
The HeadMouse replaces a mouse for people who cannot use their hands. It sits on top of a computer monitor or laptop and measures the user's head movements.
Definately bone up on Presidents, Vice Presidents, and First Ladies. I would also be sure you know the important classical musical pieces as well as a lot of the literature canon and a concrete science understanding.
I have done the Firefox dance since the beginning--installing many builds and major releases and plugins, using these for awhile, growing frustrated, and then uninstalling and reverting back to Opera.
Consistently I find myself bewildered at the lack of a single browser (tab mode) in Firefox. And to add insult to injury, there is always this running battle in progress about the Tab Prowser extension. In fact, with 0.9 of Firefox, the Tab Browser extension wasn't even available from the extensions page, even though it worked fine for me. It just seemed like Firefox developers tried to censor the plugin. Very strange.
Why the Firefox developers refuse to make a functional, option-laden one-window tab-based option available without a plugin is beyond me. For now, I'll keep on using Opera.
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What arcades??? Every one around here closed down years ago.
It stands to reason that such a talentless and disposable band would stoop to such dishonesty. Show the band how you support such underhanded tactics by making sure that you never buy any of their albums (not that you would anyhow).
141922 is me.
This is so old I've actually seen television documentaries about it!
I have been selling on ebay for 9 years now, since the beginning. Anyhow, what I see as the problem with ebay is this: eBay created, and then refused to truly govern this glut of "power sellers" who, more often than not, majorily illustrate exactly what is wrong with eBay.
Shoppers are tired of trying to buy, oh say a used or NOS laptop hard drive, only to be bludgeoned with auctions that consist of nothing but shipping overcharges after shipping overcharges after scams and more scams. Just trying to find a working computer or computer part sold by an average honest Joe at a decent price is nearly impossible. It's nothing but NYC camera store-style scam power sellers (now with used items too), if you know what I mean, and ebay turns the other cheek.
In fact, ebay continues to turn the other cheek even though they are losing money in these fee-circumventing, high-shipping auctions. It's strange. I guess they only care about insertion fees, and care little about maintaining happy buyers.
However, the system falls apart without the buyers, so therein lies the problem that I see.
It is interesting that there is no mention of the fact that a Youtube grey area exists already, where there are 1) a lot of copyright-violating videos on Youtube currently, and that 2) many of these videos--but oddly not all--were removed by Youtube in a mass cleansing a few months ago.
Why is it, Youtube has videos from many very popular and very lawsuit-happy bands (such as Kiss), but only *some* of their videos, and *not* always just the ones that are the arguably less copyright-infringing ones? In other words, often many of the videos that weren't intentionly taken down for legal reasons are the ones that are seemingly most illegal, ala the "legitimate MTV-style" videos.
It smells of payola and soforth. But who knows.
I am a novice linux user who is currently struggling through converting my computers completely to Ubuntu.
It has really been a challenge for me, not so much due to anything wrong with Ubuntu, but because the "aftermarket" software just doesn't exist, or is really poor.
For example, can you believe that there are no good graphical FTP clients for linux? It's true. I have been using gFTP, which most people consider to be the best one, for about a week. It crashes almost daily, isn't very good option-wise, and it is soooo slow. I want something simple, say something like WSFTP for windows, and lo and behold it just doesn't exist. Seems remarkable that a good graphical FTP client doesn't even exist.
The same can be said for a Mavis-esque typing program, and a simple photo editor like the immensely popular Irfanview.
Indeed these are the stumbling blocks for me. Not the distribution, but rather the software inavailability.
This was previously discussed at another forum yesterday, and the general consensus was what a complete travesty it is that this animal was killed by a "trophy hunter."
Interestingly, the people who were most offended were other hunters. Not trophy hunters, but those who hunt legally as a means to control herd populations and to feed their families. In my experince, standard hunters aren't so inexperienced and quick to shoot at anything that moves than a normal hunter. I mean you've got to get somethingto show for your 45K right?
And now, because this "hunter" didn't know the value of this animal, it is dead before it could be studied further and / or protected.
The Michael Johnson entry is fantastic. I really like it.
It seems that the Jason Porritt's entry is down already?
Electronic Games magazine was the the one that the others looked up to. It was right there when it happened, and it had great articles covering the newest arcade and home games.
I used to ride my bike to the mall and anxiously await each new issue on the day it arrived. I can remember drooling over reviews of the Vectrex, a system that my parents never did buy for me, despite my begging. Perhaps if they had, the cool kids would have come over, and id'a been popular. Ok maybe not.
It's sad to realize that I'm not employed by Forbes to write, even though the writer of this piece (reference intended), Ed Lin, is cashing Forbes paychecks even though his writing is absolutely terrible.
Let's begin with the gaming controller statements the author makes. The author states that it is a fact that games with more buttons are not as fun as the simple games of yesteryear. While this is true sometimes, it certainly isn't always true.
The author then exhumes the tired, dead horse, Macintosh one-button mouse example, and states that it "was always easier to use" than the PC two-button mouse. Apparently this is a fact as well.
The author then states that "The best title ever made in the history of U.S. videogaming was DragonStomper." Was this determined through numerous studies?
What a joke.
I keep seeing things taken from Fark.com on Slashdot more and more often. This was posted on Fark at 1:25 PM here: Zombies. Is this site simply becomming a place where the more interesting Fark articles get a second printing?
"If they called it Windows Garbage, would people still buy it? Yeah, they'd buy it," said David Burd, [. . .] "They've got something like 90 percent penetration in the world of operating systems."
Uh, wouldn't "Windows Hegemony" have been a better choice?
I find it interesting that in this day and age of moving towards transmitting signals without wires, no one was ever able to safely transmit power wirelessly ala Tesla's ideas. Without power lines, to latch on to, perhaps see more efforts focused on long-distance wireless internet?
Loomis
The actual statement directed at Linus was that he's got to "cool it now," and that he'd better "watch out" because he's "gonna lose control."
Furthermore, it wasn't Perens who said this. It was actually Bobby Brown. It was also at this point that Whitney Houston told Torvalds that she "believed the children were the future," and that a reversed engineered Bitkeeper would "teach them well and let them lead the way."
Apparently the event will be hosted by Geraldo (aka Rico Suave. Remember him?)
:)
It's an all-Flash site. Sigh.
But, on a lighter note, it mentions the bar being tended by the Suicide Girls
Why not look at the highest user-rated board games in existence, many or which are new, and then read the comments about the games in order to determine what sounds appealing to you? Board Game Geek.com has all of this information readily available right here: game rankings
Yes, I believe that the quality is unfortunately gone.
Might I suggest that you get on ebay and pick up something like an IBM/Lexmark 4036 16. Built like tanks, are pretty cheap, and one of the Marathon toner cartrides will last years. My IBM 4039 currently has a page count of 149,000, and it is still going strong. All I ever replaces was a pickup wheel. Yes they are heavy and shipping may be pricey, but perhaps you can find one close by or do cheap FedEX groud shipping.
In my opinion, and this is in no way a troll or flame comment, Ubuntu's theme/mantra might actually turn people off to the product.
I found myself so distracted by the strange mesh of the African name, earthy color scheme, and "we are the world" esque startup screen that I immediately couldn't help but be turned off to the product.
To me, and maybe I am being incredibly anal (I dunno), computers and "tribal" go about as well together as shrimp and licorice. I simply don't like a product that--despite its sincere efforts to create unity--immediately conjures images of apartheid for me. I mean, how many Africans have the luxury of a personal computer?
Instead we have yet another product that borrows/copies/whatever the spirit of the poor and gives it to the masses, in order to eventually profit. Thanks, I'll pass.
EXTRA: Slashdot now caches webpages and links to cached versions instead of linking directly.
I found a review:
a il.asp?ID=14
http://www.ace-centre.org.uk/headpointers/headdet
Unfortunately I think this unit is pricey. The review does mention other alternatives by name, so that might be helpful as well.
Loomis
http://orin.com/access/headmouse/index.htm
-Wireless Operation
-No Cumbersome Head Mounted Apparatus
-Pixel Precise Pointing, CAD Ready
-Operates in Conjunction With or Replaces Standard Desktop Mouse
-USB Mouse Interface
The HeadMouse replaces a mouse for people who cannot use their hands. It sits on top of a computer monitor or laptop and measures the user's head movements.
Unfortunately I can't find pricing anywhere.
Loomis
What if I use Damn Small Linux? Does that make me very tiny?
Definately bone up on Presidents, Vice Presidents, and First Ladies. I would also be sure you know the important classical musical pieces as well as a lot of the literature canon and a concrete science understanding.
I have done the Firefox dance since the beginning--installing many builds and major releases and plugins, using these for awhile, growing frustrated, and then uninstalling and reverting back to Opera.
Consistently I find myself bewildered at the lack of a single browser (tab mode) in Firefox. And to add insult to injury, there is always this running battle in progress about the Tab Prowser extension. In fact, with 0.9 of Firefox, the Tab Browser extension wasn't even available from the extensions page, even though it worked fine for me. It just seemed like Firefox developers tried to censor the plugin. Very strange.
Why the Firefox developers refuse to make a functional, option-laden one-window tab-based option available without a plugin is beyond me. For now, I'll keep on using Opera.
Loomis