OT Note: I am getting modded down for flaming a troll, LOL!
Ah oh well with the recent crapfloodings of page widening posts I guess I can't really blame the mods for not reading at -1, thus they cannot see the prick of a post that I responded too, LOL!
Seriously though, ASCII face and a flame towards a troll, whats not like?:)
Holy shnitz, I just now realized that I spent the last 40 minutes writting this.
Cruds, I have a final due in English too. . ..
Ah oh well; here it goes. It is rather long mind you. I am submitting this through the petition that www.beethoven.com has running.
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As a citizen who believes in the rights of independent artisans to create their own works, I am highly opposed to the ideas for regulation recently introduced by the CARP report.
Art is something that should be free to be spread to all should the artist be willing. While I do not support or condone illegal music broadcasts in any form or by any medium, I do believe that if an artist working under no other contract chooses to release his or her work to the public domain that those who seek to fulfill the artist's wishes and spread that work of art should be allowed to do so with no extra fines or fees levied upon them. Charging money for Web broadcasts of works in the public domain (let us ignore for the moment works that should not be distributed without proper royalties being paid) is the same as charging me money for putting up a painting in my living room and inviting my friends and family over to view it.
In fact it is even worse then that.
For in this case the painting is one that I was given freely by a friend, or even one that I may have painted myself.
An enactment of the regulations put forth by the CARP report or the enactment of any regulations similar to those, would be tantamount to charging an artist a fee just for painting.
Or charging a musician a fee just for playing their songs for free to anybody who is willing to listen. This is the equivalent to the long feared Thought Crimes. Except that this is a viewing crime, a listening crime. But instead of charging each individual listener, instead the creator or the distributor of the work is charged instead.
If a United States Citizen opened up his or her house as a museum and allowed artists to freely put up works of art within the house, and allowed other fellow citizens to visit his or her house viewing these works of art, no mention of fees would be involved. In fact it would be quite likely that the citizen who worked to hard to create such a wondrous endeavor for his or her fellow citizens would have their museum granted with not for profit status and be given support by the government at a variety of levels to continue in the wonderful task that he or she is accomplishing.
Indeed, if a citizen pays for with their own money and sets up a radio station to support local artists for no fee, then that individual would be heralded as being a good hardworking samaritan who is doing his or her best to support the arts. Indeed many of the various taxations and regulator fees that are applicable to commercial radio stations would be bypassed and declared unapplicable to this wondrous spreader of the arts.
But under these regulations, if the same citizen guided by the same motivations sets up an online Internet webcasting station and pays for all of the equipment and server fees him or her self, if this United States Citizen dedicates their time and energy to giving freely available public domain artwork out to all for their enjoyment and enrichment;
now this person would be charged potentially thousand of dollars a month in regulatory fees.
This is wrong. Plain and simply, it is wrong. Dedication, hard work, and sacrifice towards an ideal should never in the lands of a free country be grounds for doing no less then what amounts to punishing a person.
This, this, hopefully what I have said, shall help to convince you that charging fees for none commercial entities is wrong.
But what about commercial entities?
I have no problems with fees levied as a portion of an organizations income. And indeed if that Organization is making even a portion of their income off of works of which the rights to are owned by another organization or person, then the profiteering organization should indeed pay a portion of their income in both federal taxes and in royalty fees to those of whom's work they are making a profit of.
But never should a company or an organization be charged more in regulatory fees or taxes or royalties then that organization is bringing in.
Indeed we all know that it is foolishness to charge anybody at a 200% tax rate. Indeed this is detrimental to all. The government itself shall find itself of reduced income after the organization being taxed to such an exorbitant extent is put out of business. It is not good practice to raise chickens, wait for the first batch of eggs to come through, and then kill all of the chickens.
The competitors also lose. They lose money and potential future talent. For it is by the smaller organizations, from free none profit art museums to small for profit radio stations that new and upcoming talents are revealed. The market itself can be carefully gauged from the responses that these new and upcoming artists receive.
Indeed, if Seattle Washington had not had outlets for independent bands to play their music in and gain popularity at, then Universal Music Group (a subsidiary or Universal Studios) would itself have been shortened a few millions dollars a year in revenue for quite number of years by the band Nirvana alone. This is not even taking into account the numerous other musicians who started there way in local clubs and moved up to small independent labels until they were able to eventually make it big so to speak and infuse the U.S. economy with the money that their fans spent on their CDs, Concerts, and other merchandise.
Had those musicians had to pay out thousands of dollars a month just for the right for other people to listen to them, then we all would be a bit poorer.
That the independent labels existed and were fairly taxed according to their profits and nothing else was the sole criteria responsible for allowing many worthwhile artists to align themselves with the major publishers.
The independent artistry industries are ones that we all rely on, and I dare say that one that we all need to continue to survive. My very own art teacher has yet to become a successful world renowned painter, but the money that she makes by selling her works through independent channels has allowed for her to pursue a teaching carrier in which she has the possibility, the potential, to teach artistry to someone who may very well be the next Grand Master of painting.
We can never know if that shall happen or not, but the ever lasting hope that it can happen, that it will happen, the knowledge that it has happened before, that the next great Artists born unto this world shall be an American, is what encourages us to keep going a system which allows for free and open potential and possibility for all.
Over taxing that industry, removing even once source of that potential, is to let that dream, that hope, those aspirations of not just the many, but those aspirations of the all; die.
Please, vote to instead levy only fair and reasonable taxes upon Internet Music Broadcasters. Removing them from business is to remove so much more.
Basicaly the speech had not been sanitized for press dissemination yet.:D
Yes somebody did screw-up, but only in that they allowed for a line to be in the speech that could be taken HORRIBLY out of context and have Really Really Nasty Things done with it.
The ORIGINAL intent was that Microsoft makes good games but shoddy HW (arguable, but hey, it IS a press release. I actualy like some of Microsoft's HW better then I do their SW.:) ) and that Sony makes good hardware but is lacking in the games department (which is rather true, Sony itself has a horrid time making anything but the most base level of games. Everquest springs to mind. . . . run by a Sony subsidiary as I recall. It may be addictive, but it sure isn't epic, groundbreaking, or just plain cute.:) ).
A similar metaphor would be that "We wish to be neither David or Goliath". Unfortunately in relation to video games this would make no sense, but the idea is the same, do not be at either extreme, but instead but the shnot out of the opponent in both arenas.
*note* I started typing this message at around 6pm. Finished it at around 9pm. Dinner, Daily Show (7pm edition), Jeopardy, then Family Guy. ^_^
Weird, I just listened to a Song from MP3.com yesterday.
Oooh yah thats right,
THEY ARE STILL UP AND RUNNING.
Ok so they were bought out by Big Media (RIAA member no less as I recall!) and now pay artists a mere fraction of what they used to and a lot of artists have jumped ship to less... functional... services.
Their REAL mistake was using those 128kbit MP3 encodes to burn CDs with! OUCH!
I never bought another CD from MP3.com after I learned about that little tidbit.
What they SHOULD have done is had the authors upload the WAV files to their servers and then had a script go through and LAME encode the MP3 file using r3mix settings and then kept the original WAV file around to make CDs with.
That would have rocked.:) A lot.:)
Paying more attention to us Odd Ball fans WOULD *also* have helped.
*COUGH* Medieval genre *COUGH* (and no it isn't goth, or power metal, though a few bands to incorporate items from those styles into their songs. I like it for the Epic Fantasy works that come out of it myself.:) )
When taken ass end out of context that is indeed stupid.
When followed up by the appropriate "we want to be the middle man that provides good hardware AND good software" part of the speech is sounds damn convincing.
Oh you mean where they actualy PAID some real developers and coders to come in and make a real OS? (as opposed to buying one for pocket change.:D )
Hell, dude, that was a GOOD thing. MS got their heads out of their collective asses for a second and realized that they needed some Real Talent.
Oh and after they ditched the stolen Stacker code the issues with the built in compression on MS systems pretty much went away, LOL!
And hell, at least IE does not use the old Netscape HTML rendering engine, LOL! (would have been nice if in the earlier days IE was a tad wee bit more... complient though...)
The idea is that if a product you own uses Zlib and is compleatly opensource, that you can most likely just download the fixed zlib source and the source to the program and compile and have a version of the program that does not have the bug.
Which would mean that you get to avoid any vulnerability periods in your software during which the bug is widely known but there is no security fix for it.
THAT is what open source is all about, if something breaks, even if you cannot fix it, you can download the fixed modual and the original sourcecode and compile it all together with the handy included step by step instructions.:)
Imagine a maliable case of some sort (obviously the motherboard would have to be mounted by a different means, prehaps from a rack that hangs from the top of the case and not have the edges of the sides of the case maliable) that movies in time to your music. The old WinAmp ripple AV but on a much larger and life-like scale.
I am sure that if the technique was applied to other sources for movement and other materials that the ravers could get into it. Imagine entire dance hall walls that move and pulsate with the music!
Well yah but could I get a ripple effect over the monitor when say showing a water scene or such though?
Hmm, aren't flexible transistors supposed to be coming out Sometime Soon Now?
That would royaly rock, LOL!
I am thinking of direct targeted sound waves to physically manipulate the display instead of some sort of expensive servo mechanism.
Imagine when you are hit with a Rocket your screen warping and bending all around you! Oh man talk about some nifty immersion technologies!
Or when your character leans forward the edges of your screen curving in towards you, or your screen bending back from you when you bend backwards to dodge a bullet!
The possibilities are almost endless!
This would completely blow away that IFeel technology stuff!
Even niftier would be outfitting a multi unit setup like this onto some type of highly rigid rubber but setting the sound waves to the right frequency to cause the rubber to become malleable and move in a coordinated fashion!
Imagine your mouse ACTUALLY becoming jiggly when you go to www.jello.com
Can you imagin the protest over zoning commerical then? Everybody could have these babies hooked up to their car hoods and the outside of their windows and everything else flat that they could find.
A virtual soundscape of an urbanized area could then be run though the system to demonstrate exact how bad things would be.
I have a Cocker Spaniel who has a reasonably flat head and she often times sits around in the same spot for hours on end.
Could I attach this to her and use her as a sort of mobile speaker unit or would the close proximity to her cranial unit and/or ear drums pose a significant threat to her over all health?
If your registery is loaded into your RAM then your computer crashing should still NOT have caused a problem.
It is likely something to do with how WinXP sets itself up under FAT32. It really is advisable to read a few tutorials and ask a few questions before you set up XP under FAT32.
(of course plan to get flamed a lot for even thinking of setting up an NT OS running on a FAT file system, LOL!)
I know that I have yanked out PCI cards with my NT box on (well. . . . you just kind of get USED to it being on and forget it is even there. ) without problems.
Tripped over power cords, had various wierd issues happen, and so forth.
I know that under Win9x that power failures and such almost never did much harm to anything.
I have only a few times ever seen CHKDSK find ANYTHING but a few lost clusters or some file sizes being misreported.
Big whoop, LOL!
There is actualy an option someplace in WindowsNT to setup how Windows handles caching your critical system files. But even so, the base hard copy of the file should still be there.
Unless you have Windows Indexing on and it was going around playing on your HD. That still should NOT have harmed your Registery though. Had you made any. . . . odd modifications to how Windows does Caching or such?
heya, quick fun fact, Windows Indexing actualy INCREASES the time it takes for you to search, and Microsoft has kept on promising to support a complete file database like system with their file system search engine but even though Windows 2000 has an assload of attributes and descriptors that you can assign to a file, good luck on using the Search tool to find anything!)
Another quick fact about the Windows file search.
With Indexing off, once Windows has gone through a directory once it remembers the contents of that directory and searching through it only takes a split second, but with file indexing ON it searchs through the entire directory every time.
It can take around two minutes just for Windows to search through my Cygwin directory.:(:(:(
(ah, the rest of my HD is then searched in another two minutes or less, usualy a lot less unless I have not cleaned out my Browser's Cache lately.:) One downside of Broadband, LOL!)
I actually used to be a Boolean Master until Google came along. Can you say 20 search terms with a royal assload of parans?
Heck I used to rate how compliant an engine was to True Boolean.
The ONE complaint that I have about Google (Ok so I have two complaints, LOL!) is that quotes do not always return exact phrases but also can act as a sort of quasi "are they close together or not?" type of a limiter at times.
In fact I have been returned pages that do not have entire words from my quoted statement in it at all, or the words are in some completely bizarre order, granted most of the time they are relatively close to each other, not always though. It seems that Google may resort to just checking for if the words are in the document at all if the quoted phrase does not turn up any results (though that cannot be true since there are many many quoted phrases that I could use which turn up absolutely no results but if I remove the quotes I get plenty of results.)
Anyways Google has some serious VooDoo going on, LOL!
I do not like Altavista just for the sake that there are a royal assload of searches on there that I have done which turn up NOTHING at all where as Google turns up a few hundred relivent results!
Hmm, as for the first part of your message, you are saying that it is a problem that Google only returns sites that link to yours? Is that REALLY an issue? I mean shouldn't you know what sites you link too? LOL!
If it is somebody elses site, uh, why not just browse it? No seriously, LOL! On the other hand, there are plenty of third party tools that will crawl a site for you and return a list of pages that the site links too. I see how it could be convenient for Google to do that too, but I have never even really thought about using a search engine for that, then again I have never actually needed to do that either!
Dude, this includes Proccessor NIC and Video Card.
Hell, for a $50 case + PS combo (ok likely A LOT more expensive for a limited market like this product) and a $30 wirelss Keyboard Mouse combo from A4Tech I would be set.
Oooh yaaah.
Hehe, it already comes with TV out too.
INSANLY cool.
I am thinking Digital VCR here folks.:) Especialy if you outfit it with some sort of hot swappable IDE Hard Drive system, LOL!
Hehe, actualy with Flash Memory cards approuching (at as I recall) 1GigaByte now days, hmm, hehe! The MoBo has build in compatability with Flash Memory from what I can tell, LOL! Though some sort of internal mount USB unit could be used as well with a port for the Flash memory to fit into.
Hehe!!!!! Digital VCR! MPEG4 video, w00t w00t!:)
Man that would rock, though using Flash Memory would compleatly negate any sort of cost savings, LOL!
Still be pretty nice to have a 120GB or so drive installed in this baby and use it to go around with your movie collection sitting in something that you can almost carry in a small backpack, LOL!
Wait, you mean people actualy RUN error checking on FAT32 partitions?
I have yet to see Scandisk actualy ever FIND anything on a crashed Win9x machine, therefore after the first few years I just started bypassing it.
Oh, and I have had my NTFS paritition filled to 100% (as in 0 bytes remaining) and Win2K ran just fine. Bit of a slowdown if I had/too/ many applications open, but hey, that is to be expected.:) Everything was perfectly usable at full speed though. Rather nifty, I did not at first realize I had no Hard Drive space left, LOL!
(shutting down Windows can be an... issue... when your Hard Drive is compleatly full though, LOL!)
As long as you are not activly doing MAJOR work on the FAT32 parition under XP when your system crashs you should NOT have any problems what so ever.
In fact I have yanked cords out on FAT32 systems running on Win9x machines quite often and rebooted and bypassed Scandisk (popular opinion amongst most windows users is that Win9x scandisk is bullshit and that 2K defrag takes WAAAAY to log to run, that and it DEMANDS you have %20 of your disk space free or else it just pretty much shits itself and take 8-12 or even 24 hours to do it) without a single issue popping up.
hell I have been in the middle of major file copies and not had any issues when Shit Went Wrong.
Even copying from a NTFS partition to a FAT32 partition, no problems.
Hmm, I have actualy NEVER had HD problems except for once when I had a Hard Drive sitting in the corner for a few years occasionaly getting stepped on or knocked around. It had a few bad sectors when I next booted it up.
(yes it booted. LOL. I reformated it and installed an OS on it without any troubles)
Hmm, I must be really lucky when it comes to HDs.:)
ASF is an AVI file with some header information shoved at the front (codecs to use and such) and some other steaming information shoved in there.
You can actualy get AVI to ASF file converters that do not touch your image or sound data at all.
I also believe that ASF files CAN contain a URL or two also. But thats it.
WMV files can do a lot of... 'other' stuff that is mostly useless, but they can carry MS's newer MPEG4 derived codecs (ah, WMP8 and such) and have other 'interactive' features to them.
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Dude; sigs don't show by default anyways, so they are not archived.
For that matter Google does not appear to pay too much attention to things linked off of/. anyways.
It has archived over 100 of my comments on/. but has yet to bother to index my site.
Hmm, maybe it only pays so much attention to pages off of a single directory from a domain? That would explain how they can keep the crap link content down some what.:)
Bah, likely used by CIA agent when going deep undercover into AOL chatrooms, because we all know that 13 year old horny boys pretending to be 18yr old horny girls are the TRUE threat to our nation!
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OT Note: I am getting modded down for flaming a troll, LOL!
:)
Ah oh well with the recent crapfloodings of page widening posts I guess I can't really blame the mods for not reading at -1, thus they cannot see the prick of a post that I responded too, LOL!
Seriously though, ASCII face and a flame towards a troll, whats not like?
Holy shnitz, I just now realized that I spent the last 40 minutes writting this.
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Cruds, I have a final due in English too. . .
Ah oh well; here it goes. It is rather long mind you. I am submitting this through the petition that www.beethoven.com has running.
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As a citizen who believes in the rights of independent artisans to create their own works, I am highly opposed to the ideas for regulation recently introduced by the CARP report.
Art is something that should be free to be spread to all should the artist be willing. While I do not support or condone illegal music broadcasts in any form or by any medium, I do believe that if an artist working under no other contract chooses to release his or her work to the public domain that those who seek to fulfill the artist's wishes and spread that work of art should be allowed to do so with no extra fines or fees levied upon them.
Charging money for Web broadcasts of works in the public domain (let us ignore for the moment works that should not be distributed without proper royalties being paid) is the same as charging me money for putting up a painting in my living room and inviting my friends and family over to view it.
In fact it is even worse then that.
For in this case the painting is one that I was given freely by a friend, or even one that I may have painted myself.
An enactment of the regulations put forth by the CARP report or the enactment of any regulations similar to those, would be tantamount to charging an artist a fee just for painting.
Or charging a musician a fee just for playing their songs for free to anybody who is willing to listen.
This is the equivalent to the long feared Thought Crimes. Except that this is a viewing crime, a listening crime. But instead of charging each individual listener, instead the creator or the distributor of the work is charged instead.
If a United States Citizen opened up his or her house as a museum and allowed artists to freely put up works of art within the house, and allowed other fellow citizens to visit his or her house viewing these works of art, no mention of fees would be involved. In fact it would be quite likely that the citizen who worked to hard to create such a wondrous endeavor for his or her fellow citizens would have their museum granted with not for profit status and be given support by the government at a variety of levels to continue in the wonderful task that he or she is accomplishing.
Indeed, if a citizen pays for with their own money and sets up a radio station to support local artists for no fee, then that individual would be heralded as being a good hardworking samaritan who is doing his or her best to support the arts. Indeed many of the various taxations and regulator fees that are applicable to commercial radio stations would be bypassed and declared unapplicable to this wondrous spreader of the arts.
But under these regulations, if the same citizen guided by the same motivations sets up an online Internet webcasting station and pays for all of the equipment and server fees him or her self, if this United States Citizen dedicates their time and energy to giving freely available public domain artwork out to all for their enjoyment and enrichment;
now this person would be charged potentially thousand of dollars a month in regulatory fees.
This is wrong. Plain and simply, it is wrong. Dedication, hard work, and sacrifice towards an ideal should never in the lands of a free country be grounds for doing no less then what amounts to punishing a person.
This, this, hopefully what I have said, shall help to convince you that charging fees for none commercial entities is wrong.
But what about commercial entities?
I have no problems with fees levied as a portion of an organizations income. And indeed if that Organization is making even a portion of their income off of works of which the rights to are owned by another organization or person, then the profiteering organization should indeed pay a portion of their income in both federal taxes and in royalty fees to those of whom's work they are making a profit of.
But never should a company or an organization be charged more in regulatory fees or taxes or royalties then that organization is bringing in.
Indeed we all know that it is foolishness to charge anybody at a 200% tax rate. Indeed this is detrimental to all. The government itself shall find itself of reduced income after the organization being taxed to such an exorbitant extent is put out of business. It is not good practice to raise chickens, wait for the first batch of eggs to come through, and then kill all of the chickens.
The competitors also lose. They lose money and potential future talent. For it is by the smaller organizations, from free none profit art museums to small for profit radio stations that new and upcoming talents are revealed. The market itself can be carefully gauged from the responses that these new and upcoming artists receive.
Indeed, if Seattle Washington had not had outlets for independent bands to play their music in and gain popularity at, then Universal Music Group (a subsidiary or Universal Studios) would itself have been shortened a few millions dollars a year in revenue for quite number of years by the band Nirvana alone. This is not even taking into account the numerous other musicians who started there way in local clubs and moved up to small independent labels until they were able to eventually make it big so to speak and infuse the U.S. economy with the money that their fans spent on their CDs, Concerts, and other merchandise.
Had those musicians had to pay out thousands of dollars a month just for the right for other people to listen to them, then we all would be a bit poorer.
That the independent labels existed and were fairly taxed according to their profits and nothing else was the sole criteria responsible for allowing many worthwhile artists to align themselves with the major publishers.
The independent artistry industries are ones that we all rely on, and I dare say that one that we all need to continue to survive. My very own art teacher has yet to become a successful world renowned painter, but the money that she makes by selling her works through independent channels has allowed for her to pursue a teaching carrier in which she has the possibility, the potential, to teach artistry to someone who may very well be the next Grand Master of painting.
We can never know if that shall happen or not, but the ever lasting hope that it can happen, that it will happen, the knowledge that it has happened before, that the next great Artists born unto this world shall be an American, is what encourages us to keep going a system which allows for free and open potential and possibility for all.
Over taxing that industry, removing even once source of that potential, is to let that dream, that hope, those aspirations of not just the many, but those aspirations of the all; die.
Please, vote to instead levy only fair and reasonable taxes upon Internet Music Broadcasters. Removing them from business is to remove so much more.
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There it is, how do you like it?
Well yah! I mean how dare he risk permanite loss of his vision in order to futher science!
I mean just look at the guy's history! Even back as far as Highschool he was scrapping up spare change to do research with!
Why, how DARE he go and take historical archive photos or run free public service information sites, why, the oddasity of it all!
Golly, next thing you know things might have degenerated to the point of people actualy PUBLISHING their research findings! The Horror!
They said that AFTER the original statement.
:D
:) ) and that Sony makes good hardware but is lacking in the games department (which is rather true, Sony itself has a horrid time making anything but the most base level of games. Everquest springs to mind. . . . run by a Sony subsidiary as I recall. It may be addictive, but it sure isn't epic, groundbreaking, or just plain cute. :) ).
Basicaly the speech had not been sanitized for press dissemination yet.
Yes somebody did screw-up, but only in that they allowed for a line to be in the speech that could be taken HORRIBLY out of context and have Really Really Nasty Things done with it.
The ORIGINAL intent was that Microsoft makes good games but shoddy HW (arguable, but hey, it IS a press release. I actualy like some of Microsoft's HW better then I do their SW.
A similar metaphor would be that "We wish to be neither David or Goliath". Unfortunately in relation to video games this would make no sense, but the idea is the same, do not be at either extreme, but instead but the shnot out of the opponent in both arenas.
*note* I started typing this message at around 6pm. Finished it at around 9pm. Dinner, Daily Show (7pm edition), Jeopardy, then Family Guy. ^_^
Weird, I just listened to a Song from MP3.com yesterday.
... functional ... services.
:) A lot. :)
:) )
Oooh yah thats right,
THEY ARE STILL UP AND RUNNING.
Ok so they were bought out by Big Media (RIAA member no less as I recall!) and now pay artists a mere fraction of what they used to and a lot of artists have jumped ship to less
Their REAL mistake was using those 128kbit MP3 encodes to burn CDs with! OUCH!
I never bought another CD from MP3.com after I learned about that little tidbit.
What they SHOULD have done is had the authors upload the WAV files to their servers and then had a script go through and LAME encode the MP3 file using r3mix settings and then kept the original WAV file around to make CDs with.
That would have rocked.
Paying more attention to us Odd Ball fans WOULD *also* have helped.
*COUGH* Medieval genre *COUGH* (and no it isn't goth, or power metal, though a few bands to incorporate items from those styles into their songs. I like it for the Epic Fantasy works that come out of it myself.
When taken ass end out of context that is indeed stupid.
When followed up by the appropriate "we want to be the middle man that provides good hardware AND good software" part of the speech is sounds damn convincing.
WindowsNT?
:D )
... complient though...)
Oh you mean where they actualy PAID some real developers and coders to come in and make a real OS? (as opposed to buying one for pocket change.
Hell, dude, that was a GOOD thing. MS got their heads out of their collective asses for a second and realized that they needed some Real Talent.
Oh and after they ditched the stolen Stacker code the issues with the built in compression on MS systems pretty much went away, LOL!
And hell, at least IE does not use the old Netscape HTML rendering engine, LOL! (would have been nice if in the earlier days IE was a tad wee bit more
The idea is that if a product you own uses Zlib and is compleatly opensource, that you can most likely just download the fixed zlib source and the source to the program and compile and have a version of the program that does not have the bug.
:)
Which would mean that you get to avoid any vulnerability periods in your software during which the bug is widely known but there is no security fix for it.
THAT is what open source is all about, if something breaks, even if you cannot fix it, you can download the fixed modual and the original sourcecode and compile it all together with the handy included step by step instructions.
"do you geeks even know what day it is?"
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Of course we do, who the hell do you think INVENTED the calander system in the first place?
Uh duh, ancient geeks.
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Dude you are thinking SO small.
Imagine a maliable case of some sort (obviously the motherboard would have to be mounted by a different means, prehaps from a rack that hangs from the top of the case and not have the edges of the sides of the case maliable) that movies in time to your music. The old WinAmp ripple AV but on a much larger and life-like scale.
I am sure that if the technique was applied to other sources for movement and other materials that the ravers could get into it. Imagine entire dance hall walls that move and pulsate with the music!
Well yah but could I get a ripple effect over the monitor when say showing a water scene or such though?
Hmm, aren't flexible transistors supposed to be coming out Sometime Soon Now?
That would royaly rock, LOL!
I am thinking of direct targeted sound waves to physically manipulate the display instead of some sort of expensive servo mechanism.
Imagine when you are hit with a Rocket your screen warping and bending all around you! Oh man talk about some nifty immersion technologies!
Or when your character leans forward the edges of your screen curving in towards you, or your screen bending back from you when you bend backwards to dodge a bullet!
The possibilities are almost endless!
This would completely blow away that IFeel technology stuff!
Even niftier would be outfitting a multi unit setup like this onto some type of highly rigid rubber but setting the sound waves to the right frequency to cause the rubber to become malleable and move in a coordinated fashion!
Imagine your mouse ACTUALLY becoming jiggly when you go to www.jello.com
Hell, how about all of a suburban neighborhood?
Can you imagin the protest over zoning commerical then? Everybody could have these babies hooked up to their car hoods and the outside of their windows and everything else flat that they could find.
A virtual soundscape of an urbanized area could then be run though the system to demonstrate exact how bad things would be.
I want mine to give of screaming moans of agony and pain should burgerlers ever break into my house when I am gone.
:)
Oooh yaaaah.
::scenes from AD&D instantly pop into Com2Kid's head::
sweet.
I have a Cocker Spaniel who has a reasonably flat head and she often times sits around in the same spot for hours on end.
Could I attach this to her and use her as a sort of mobile speaker unit or would the close proximity to her cranial unit and/or ear drums pose a significant threat to her over all health?
::notices sharp pain in cheek::
If your registery is loaded into your RAM then your computer crashing should still NOT have caused a problem.
:( :( :(
:) One downside of Broadband, LOL!)
It is likely something to do with how WinXP sets itself up under FAT32. It really is advisable to read a few tutorials and ask a few questions before you set up XP under FAT32.
(of course plan to get flamed a lot for even thinking of setting up an NT OS running on a FAT file system, LOL!)
I know that I have yanked out PCI cards with my NT box on (well. . . . you just kind of get USED to it being on and forget it is even there. ) without problems.
Tripped over power cords, had various wierd issues happen, and so forth.
I know that under Win9x that power failures and such almost never did much harm to anything.
I have only a few times ever seen CHKDSK find ANYTHING but a few lost clusters or some file sizes being misreported.
Big whoop, LOL!
There is actualy an option someplace in WindowsNT to setup how Windows handles caching your critical system files. But even so, the base hard copy of the file should still be there.
Unless you have Windows Indexing on and it was going around playing on your HD. That still should NOT have harmed your Registery though. Had you made any. . . . odd modifications to how Windows does Caching or such?
heya, quick fun fact, Windows Indexing actualy INCREASES the time it takes for you to search, and Microsoft has kept on promising to support a complete file database like system with their file system search engine but even though Windows 2000 has an assload of attributes and descriptors that you can assign to a file, good luck on using the Search tool to find anything!)
Another quick fact about the Windows file search.
With Indexing off, once Windows has gone through a directory once it remembers the contents of that directory and searching through it only takes a split second, but with file indexing ON it searchs through the entire directory every time.
It can take around two minutes just for Windows to search through my Cygwin directory.
(ah, the rest of my HD is then searched in another two minutes or less, usualy a lot less unless I have not cleaned out my Browser's Cache lately.
It has a ten term limit?
Wow I never knew that, LOL!
I actually used to be a Boolean Master until Google came along. Can you say 20 search terms with a royal assload of parans?
Heck I used to rate how compliant an engine was to True Boolean.
The ONE complaint that I have about Google (Ok so I have two complaints, LOL!) is that quotes do not always return exact phrases but also can act as a sort of quasi "are they close together or not?" type of a limiter at times.
In fact I have been returned pages that do not have entire words from my quoted statement in it at all, or the words are in some completely bizarre order, granted most of the time they are relatively close to each other, not always though. It seems that Google may resort to just checking for if the words are in the document at all if the quoted phrase does not turn up any results (though that cannot be true since there are many many quoted phrases that I could use which turn up absolutely no results but if I remove the quotes I get plenty of results.)
Anyways Google has some serious VooDoo going on, LOL!
I do not like Altavista just for the sake that there are a royal assload of searches on there that I have done which turn up NOTHING at all where as Google turns up a few hundred relivent results!
Hmm, as for the first part of your message, you are saying that it is a problem that Google only returns sites that link to yours? Is that REALLY an issue? I mean shouldn't you know what sites you link too? LOL!
If it is somebody elses site, uh, why not just browse it? No seriously, LOL! On the other hand, there are plenty of third party tools that will crawl a site for you and return a list of pages that the site links too. I see how it could be convenient for Google to do that too, but I have never even really thought about using a search engine for that, then again I have never actually needed to do that either!
Am I the _ONLY_ one who liked the Live Action SF movie?
:( :( :( :(
Guess so.
Dude, this includes Proccessor NIC and Video Card.
:) Especialy if you outfit it with some sort of hot swappable IDE Hard Drive system, LOL!
:)
Hell, for a $50 case + PS combo (ok likely A LOT more expensive for a limited market like this product) and a $30 wirelss Keyboard Mouse combo from A4Tech I would be set.
Oooh yaaah.
Hehe, it already comes with TV out too.
INSANLY cool.
I am thinking Digital VCR here folks.
Hehe, actualy with Flash Memory cards approuching (at as I recall) 1GigaByte now days, hmm, hehe! The MoBo has build in compatability with Flash Memory from what I can tell, LOL! Though some sort of internal mount USB unit could be used as well with a port for the Flash memory to fit into.
Hehe!!!!! Digital VCR! MPEG4 video, w00t w00t!
Man that would rock, though using Flash Memory would compleatly negate any sort of cost savings, LOL!
Still be pretty nice to have a 120GB or so drive installed in this baby and use it to go around with your movie collection sitting in something that you can almost carry in a small backpack, LOL!
Wait, you mean people actualy RUN error checking on FAT32 partitions?
/too/ many applications open, but hey, that is to be expected. :) Everything was perfectly usable at full speed though. Rather nifty, I did not at first realize I had no Hard Drive space left, LOL!
... issue ... when your Hard Drive is compleatly full though, LOL!)
I have yet to see Scandisk actualy ever FIND anything on a crashed Win9x machine, therefore after the first few years I just started bypassing it.
Oh, and I have had my NTFS paritition filled to 100% (as in 0 bytes remaining) and Win2K ran just fine. Bit of a slowdown if I had
(shutting down Windows can be an
As long as you are not activly doing MAJOR work on the FAT32 parition under XP when your system crashs you should NOT have any problems what so ever.
:)
In fact I have yanked cords out on FAT32 systems running on Win9x machines quite often and rebooted and bypassed Scandisk (popular opinion amongst most windows users is that Win9x scandisk is bullshit and that 2K defrag takes WAAAAY to log to run, that and it DEMANDS you have %20 of your disk space free or else it just pretty much shits itself and take 8-12 or even 24 hours to do it) without a single issue popping up.
hell I have been in the middle of major file copies and not had any issues when Shit Went Wrong.
Even copying from a NTFS partition to a FAT32 partition, no problems.
Hmm, I have actualy NEVER had HD problems except for once when I had a Hard Drive sitting in the corner for a few years occasionaly getting stepped on or knocked around. It had a few bad sectors when I next booted it up.
(yes it booted. LOL. I reformated it and installed an OS on it without any troubles)
Hmm, I must be really lucky when it comes to HDs.
Run all shared data files on a FAT32 partition, run your main applications and other windows only data files from a primary NTFS partition.
:) )
(HDs being so cheap I just bought another one, heh, damn I love pricewatch.
Sorry, you have it ass backwords.
... 'other' stuff that is mostly useless, but they can carry MS's newer MPEG4 derived codecs (ah, WMP8 and such) and have other 'interactive' features to them.
ASF is an AVI file with some header information shoved at the front (codecs to use and such) and some other steaming information shoved in there.
You can actualy get AVI to ASF file converters that do not touch your image or sound data at all.
I also believe that ASF files CAN contain a URL or two also. But thats it.
WMV files can do a lot of
Dude; sigs don't show by default anyways, so they are not archived.
/. anyways.
/. but has yet to bother to index my site.
:)
For that matter Google does not appear to pay too much attention to things linked off of
It has archived over 100 of my comments on
Hmm, maybe it only pays so much attention to pages off of a single directory from a domain? That would explain how they can keep the crap link content down some what.
Bah, likely used by CIA agent when going deep undercover into AOL chatrooms, because we all know that 13 year old horny boys pretending to be 18yr old horny girls are the TRUE threat to our nation!
Lots of nice and offical server names.
Oh yah.
Except for puff.
Nice to know that even somebody in Big Brother has a sense of humor, LOL!