CT: Did you read the submission you put up?
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More Copy Protected CDs?
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For fuck's sake Taco, read the submission before you spout off...
Apparently only a few markets have the 'copy protected' CDs while the rest don't. Here is a list of some that are 'protected.' Does anyone know of other CDs with this problem?" I own at least one CD on that list and it ripped just fine, so perhaps that are different versions of the CDs on the market
It's right there...in the original post. There are different versions in different markets. You guys aren't that busy, pay attention.
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Of course. Well, tech journalists are usually going to write for tech periodicals, which sell advertising to tech firms. Predictably, that makes them about as impartial as Car and Driver magazine.
This is exactly the same thought I had. As with automobile "journalists," tech "journalists" are dependent on the companies they "report" on to send them the products to "report" on. If they want to get the next round of products to review, the "journalists" will give semi-favorable reviews to even the crappiest products. In the automobile industry, the only "journalists" who give truly bad reviews are the Car Talk guys who (rightfully) haven't given a good review to a GM product in 10+ years and haven't had a free GM vehicle to review in that time either.
Sure, tech and auto journalists can give you the basic numbers (benchmark tests/0-60 times) and a general impression of the reviewed item but to expect an impartial review from either type of "journalist" is a bit of a stretch.
People that bite the hand that feeds them don't get fed very often. How else can you explain the plethora of positive Microsoft press?!
Eric Lander (leader of the Whitehead Institute and one of the lead authors on the public genome paper) said at a talk in New York the week before the paper was published that although they were publishing the 31,000 gene number he didn't think that was all there was.
He also relayed a conversation he'd had with an older, much crankier genomicist (who sequenced the first Mycobacterium genome and whose name I forget at the moment) who was the source of the long-believed 100,000 genes in the human genome figure. He said that his prediction was right because it was within one order of magnitude and that was close enough for statisticians.
Finding real estate online in NYC can be both a blessing and a curse. Most of the major agencies (and some of the minor ones as well) have decent to excellent websites. They tend to have listings that mirror their actual listings (or at least what they put in the NY Times or have posted at their offices).
The bad side is that there's no true MLS in New York City so if you're interested in online RE searches in NYC, you need to hit all of the individual agents sites. What a pain in the ass. Some agents in Brooklyn and Queens kind of pretend to have an MLS and work together but for the most part it's an ugly and painstaking process.
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Although I didn't do a very good job of getting that point across, this is sort of why I submitted the story to/. in the first place. Most of the "reporting" we get on computer games is of the "it's turning our kids into psychopaths, it must be stopped" variety. This article, while it did delve into the strange parallels between the online and offline worlds, took a much broader approach and I thought it was worth taking a look at.
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And the worst part was that I had AT&T LD at the time and the company that slammed me was called AA&T! Since I'm lazy and just tend to glance at my phone bill before paying it, it wasn't until the 2nd bill (>$200 in LD when our normal total phone bill is usually ~$75) and a call from AT&T asking why I'd switched that I even realized we'd been slammed.
The good news is that I disputed the charges w/ B-A, claiming that it was their responsibility to make sure that we had agreed to have our LD service change. They removed the charge from my bill and had us switched back to AT&T.
Similar letters went to the BBB and the NY State AG's office so I assume that the company that slammed me (if they still existed at the end of the year) was fined.
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Of course. Well, tech journalists are usually going to write for tech periodicals, which sell advertising to tech firms. Predictably, that makes them about as impartial as Car and Driver magazine.
This is exactly the same thought I had. As with automobile "journalists," tech "journalists" are dependent on the companies they "report" on to send them the products to "report" on. If they want to get the next round of products to review, the "journalists" will give semi-favorable reviews to even the crappiest products. In the automobile industry, the only "journalists" who give truly bad reviews are the Car Talk guys who (rightfully) haven't given a good review to a GM product in 10+ years and haven't had a free GM vehicle to review in that time either.
Sure, tech and auto journalists can give you the basic numbers (benchmark tests/0-60 times) and a general impression of the reviewed item but to expect an impartial review from either type of "journalist" is a bit of a stretch.
People that bite the hand that feeds them don't get fed very often. How else can you explain the plethora of positive Microsoft press?!
Eric
Eric Lander (leader of the Whitehead Institute and one of the lead authors on the public genome paper) said at a talk in New York the week before the paper was published that although they were publishing the 31,000 gene number he didn't think that was all there was.
He also relayed a conversation he'd had with an older, much crankier genomicist (who sequenced the first Mycobacterium genome and whose name I forget at the moment) who was the source of the long-believed 100,000 genes in the human genome figure. He said that his prediction was right because it was within one order of magnitude and that was close enough for statisticians.
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Finding real estate online in NYC can be both a blessing and a curse. Most of the major agencies (and some of the minor ones as well) have decent to excellent websites. They tend to have listings that mirror their actual listings (or at least what they put in the NY Times or have posted at their offices).
The bad side is that there's no true MLS in New York City so if you're interested in online RE searches in NYC, you need to hit all of the individual agents sites. What a pain in the ass. Some agents in Brooklyn and Queens kind of pretend to have an MLS and work together but for the most part it's an ugly and painstaking process.
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Although I didn't do a very good job of getting that point across, this is sort of why I submitted the story to /. in the first place. Most of the "reporting" we get on computer games is of the "it's turning our kids into psychopaths, it must be stopped" variety. This article, while it did delve into the strange parallels between the online and offline worlds, took a much broader approach and I thought it was worth taking a look at.
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Now take a closer look.
ummm...it still looks like a 'G.'
And the worst part was that I had AT&T LD at the time and the company that slammed me was called AA&T! Since I'm lazy and just tend to glance at my phone bill before paying it, it wasn't until the 2nd bill (>$200 in LD when our normal total phone bill is usually ~$75) and a call from AT&T asking why I'd switched that I even realized we'd been slammed. The good news is that I disputed the charges w/ B-A, claiming that it was their responsibility to make sure that we had agreed to have our LD service change. They removed the charge from my bill and had us switched back to AT&T. Similar letters went to the BBB and the NY State AG's office so I assume that the company that slammed me (if they still existed at the end of the year) was fined. E