Heh. I actually sold mine about a year and a half ago. It was just collecting dust, so I sold it to this guy who collects video game systems. I figured that he would get more use out of it then I was getting out of it.
Why? For the same reason that I bought a Sega Nomad back in the day. It's a portable system, but it plays all the old games that you already own. It has about the same utility as many portable systems out there. There's just something to be said for having an entire gaming system, screen and all, in the palm of your hand. This thing is just eminately(sp?) more portable then the PSOne and screen and controllers and...
I believe that both are appropriate for/. The WTC tragedy is most definitely "stuff that matters," where as Monty Python and Legos qualify as "News for Nerds."
Dr. Treister-Goren says that Hal will probably attain adult-level language skills in 10 years.
I know people I work with who still haven't achieved adult-level language skills...
You must live in the South.;-)
Don't worry. I do too.
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Subject: No first posts?
Actually, I want you to let me post my frickin' comment.
You're just jealous that you didn't get first post.;)
Seriously, it's no big deal. All the first posters simply get moderated down and we can ignore them. The ten minute rule that you propose is simply ludicrous. What if a non account holder wished to post a comment before that ten minute barrier.
Furthermore, just because the afore mentioned anonymous coward was attempting a first post, does not make him a jerk. It just marks him as childish and immature. However, you sir (or madam) are acting like a jerk. But, I probably am too.
Simply put, a ten minute wait is silly. Let the moderators mod down the off topic posts and the trolls. That is what they are there for.
Nice troll bub.
--Posting without karma bonus as this is both OT and a response to a troll. (Which I really shouldn't do.)
The books should cost LESS than normal books. Why? Because it does cost less to make an e-book - you are just shoving bits, instead of printing, binding and distributing. Additionally people need a REASON to switch to E-books, making them cheaper might be a good incentive.
I personally think that this is the biggest point on the list. I own a Rocket E-Book (now owned by RCA) and am constantly put off on how expensive eBooks are. Dammit! If an eBook is going to cost me the same price as the hard cover, why the hell shouldn't I buy the hard cover? Worse yet, if I'm going to have to pay that much for that book, I'll probably just go check it out of the library instead. Then the book publisher will get no money from me. Currently there really is no incentive for me to purchase eBooks instead of regular books.
I do feel that I should mention that not all eBooks are outrageously priced. However, the majority of the books that are reasonably priced are usually the classics, many of which are freely available from Project Guttenburg.
Yeah. I realize that the $750k is meant as an entry barrier, but the simple fact that they even feel the need for an entry barrier points to their greed. Not to mention that $750,000 seems rather high for an entry barrier. But, I'm not in the music industry, so maybe that is a normal sum for an "entry barrier payment."
Even worse: I work for the government!:) Now all I have to do is attempt to make some political contacts so that I might have a chance at helping to recitify the situation.
I'm rather surprised that it took the record companies this long to roll out a "legitimate Napster." However, I am afraid that MusicNet and pressplay will still bear the signs of the greedy corporate whores that are the members of the RIAA. Come on, they're asking for $750,000 just to enter negotitions for a liscense? That really is just pure, unadultured greed.
And I can already see the down side to this wave of legitimate file sharing services. They'll charge too much for digital songs that are of a lower quality than the actual CD. Because the rates are so high for music that is of an inferior quality, people won't pay it, and will keep downloading files from Aimster, Bearshare, Morpheous, etc.. Musicnet and pressplay will lose money and go out of business allowing the RIAA to say "See! These P2P services really are hurting our music sales! Stop them now." And then a whole new round of lawsuits will begin with the real victims being us the consumers. Sometimes I hate corporate America.
Pfft! I would love to have a few old 486s around my place. I've still got some old software around here that doesn't like to run on some of my newer equipment.
I don't see how this can infringe on any patents, unless google patented the method of ranking pages by external linkages (can they patent that?).
Would you really be all that surprised if they could patent that? In this day and age I could probably patent the cold and then charge people money every time they catch it. But this is rather OT and the patent sitution in the US has been discussed on/. at great length.
That's just why you have to learn to move eratically. You just keep bobbing and weaving until you can get the rocket launcher and then kill them with the splash damage.
I think that they should do kind of an Ultimate Survivor kind of thing. They can take all the survivor candidates and lock them in a house with no food and massive ammounts of weapons. Then we can find out who the true "survivor" is. We also would get the added bonus of only having to deal with one self righteious prima dona trying to make something of his 15 minutes of fame.
Is this the Marilyn Manson(sp?) CD that has something like 15 tracks of music and 84 3 second tracks of silence? If so, then I doubt it is for copy protection purposes, especially in light of the fact that it is an OLD album. All you have to do is rip the first 15 tracks and you're set. In fact what is the purpose of all those empty tracks.
If it's not that album, then I don't know why it shows 99 tracks.
It's starting to get to the point where I am going to actively pirate material, just to piss all these music industry execs off. In fact, if I had the resources, I probably would start on this tonight. I would go home and start ripping every CD I own to mp3, and rip every DVD and VHS I have to video and distribute them on the internet.
Don't worry, RIAA/MPAA/whoever the fuck else. I won't be doing this. I don't have the resources. That is, unless you want to donate a file server with massive amounts of storage space and a high speed internet connection.:-P
This process of trying to exthort our public libraries just makes me sick. How greedy can these people be? Have these people no morals?
I'm all for capitalism, but it's practices like these that make me ashamed to call myself an American. It's things like this that sometimes makes me wonder if communism really wouldn't be a valid alternative. (Assuming that somebody could actually get communism to work.)
Oh yeah. Definitely. I guess it should have been something like End of story... For now. I don't expect Microsoft to maintain it's market dominance forever. That's just unrealistic. There are too many bright minds currently working on alternative operating systems. I think that it won't be that much longer (maybe 10 years or so at the most) before Microsoft looses its strangle-hold on the computer industry and people start to use other operating systems.
As for Linux's role in the downfall of Microsoft... Well, Linux has a long way to go before it can become a true consumer grade OS. Although I love Linux, I think that unless we start to teach kids on it when they are young it won't have much hope of replacing Windows. It's just too difficult for your average Joe Schmoe to set it up and be able to use it efficiently without some instruction. Linux is getting better in this regard, but it's also getting bigger and cruftier. Anyway, this isn't a comment on the relationship between code bloat and user friendliness... And besides all that, I think that Linux and the open source movement in general has played a big part in alerting the public to other alternatives. Linux has managed to generate enough publicity that the idea of a Microsoft alternative has already been implanted into the public's minds. Heck, even my grandmother once asked me if she should get Linux.
That's kind of my idea towards it. I'll probably enter the inudstry as soon as I graduate with my B.S. and then later,if I think it's necessary, I'll go back to school.
What do you think it will take for people to move from paper based to "ebook" type devices?
How about a cheaper cost for ebooks. I have a Rocket E-book (now owned by RCA) and the price of ebooks is still prohibitive. The vast majority of ebooks for sale are sold either at the same price of the print book, or just a little under that. Either way, if it's just $1 more for the print book, I'll go out and buy the frickin' paper edition. IMHO, it's much easier and much more fun to flip through the pages of an actual book, than it is to press a page down or page up button. About the only books that are really a considerable amount cheaper are the classics, and most of those can be downloaded from project Gutenburg for free.
Oh, bullshit. The USA produces plenty of bright minds. It's just that a lot of us are lazy.:)
Personally, I wouldn't mind going on to get my Ph.D. I know it's within my potential. However, since I don't currently have the money for it, I doubt it will happen. If I have to start working to pay for my school, that will likely be the death of my school days. I'm simply too lazy to work and go to school at the same time. =P
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Heh. I actually sold mine about a year and a half ago. It was just collecting dust, so I sold it to this guy who collects video game systems. I figured that he would get more use out of it then I was getting out of it.
Why? For the same reason that I bought a Sega Nomad back in the day. It's a portable system, but it plays all the old games that you already own. It has about the same utility as many portable systems out there. There's just something to be said for having an entire gaming system, screen and all, in the palm of your hand. This thing is just eminately(sp?) more portable then the PSOne and screen and controllers and...
News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
I believe that both are appropriate for /. The WTC tragedy is most definitely "stuff that matters," where as Monty Python and Legos qualify as "News for Nerds."
Dr. Treister-Goren says that Hal will probably attain adult-level language skills in 10 years.
I know people I work with who still haven't achieved adult-level language skills...
You must live in the South. ;-)
Don't worry. I do too.
Whoa! What's with the comment numbers? No more first posts? What are all the /. trolls going to do now? /. will end up losing half it's readership because of this oversight. Bad choice, Mr. Taco.
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Subject: No first posts?
Actually, I want you to let me post my frickin' comment.
Yeah, I'll bet that the Atari Jaguar with it's dual Motorola 68k based processors really helped keep the PowerPC crank along.
You're just jealous that you didn't get first post. ;)
Seriously, it's no big deal. All the first posters simply get moderated down and we can ignore them. The ten minute rule that you propose is simply ludicrous. What if a non account holder wished to post a comment before that ten minute barrier.
Furthermore, just because the afore mentioned anonymous coward was attempting a first post, does not make him a jerk. It just marks him as childish and immature. However, you sir (or madam) are acting like a jerk. But, I probably am too.
Simply put, a ten minute wait is silly. Let the moderators mod down the off topic posts and the trolls. That is what they are there for.
Nice troll bub.
--Posting without karma bonus as this is both OT and a response to a troll. (Which I really shouldn't do.)
You mean the Spud Server wasn't real!?
Next you're going to tell me that computers can't really date and that it really isn't this easy to hack a computer!
Now I'm beginning to wonder if even Project E.U.N.U.C.H. is true.
The books should cost LESS than normal books. Why? Because it does cost less to make an e-book - you are just shoving bits, instead of printing, binding and distributing. Additionally people need a REASON to switch to E-books, making them cheaper might be a good incentive.
I personally think that this is the biggest point on the list. I own a Rocket E-Book (now owned by RCA) and am constantly put off on how expensive eBooks are. Dammit! If an eBook is going to cost me the same price as the hard cover, why the hell shouldn't I buy the hard cover? Worse yet, if I'm going to have to pay that much for that book, I'll probably just go check it out of the library instead. Then the book publisher will get no money from me. Currently there really is no incentive for me to purchase eBooks instead of regular books.
I do feel that I should mention that not all eBooks are outrageously priced. However, the majority of the books that are reasonably priced are usually the classics, many of which are freely available from Project Guttenburg.
I don't see how M$ could make things worse .
Yeah. I realize that the $750k is meant as an entry barrier, but the simple fact that they even feel the need for an entry barrier points to their greed. Not to mention that $750,000 seems rather high for an entry barrier. But, I'm not in the music industry, so maybe that is a normal sum for an "entry barrier payment."
Even worse: I work for the government! :) Now all I have to do is attempt to make some political contacts so that I might have a chance at helping to recitify the situation.
I'm rather surprised that it took the record companies this long to roll out a "legitimate Napster." However, I am afraid that MusicNet and pressplay will still bear the signs of the greedy corporate whores that are the members of the RIAA. Come on, they're asking for $750,000 just to enter negotitions for a liscense? That really is just pure, unadultured greed.
And I can already see the down side to this wave of legitimate file sharing services. They'll charge too much for digital songs that are of a lower quality than the actual CD. Because the rates are so high for music that is of an inferior quality, people won't pay it, and will keep downloading files from Aimster, Bearshare, Morpheous, etc.. Musicnet and pressplay will lose money and go out of business allowing the RIAA to say "See! These P2P services really are hurting our music sales! Stop them now." And then a whole new round of lawsuits will begin with the real victims being us the consumers. Sometimes I hate corporate America.
Pfft! I would love to have a few old 486s around my place. I've still got some old software around here that doesn't like to run on some of my newer equipment.
You're a moderator with 4 points (expire after 2001-07-20).
Sweet! One of those "cool surprises" must be a time machine!
I don't see how this can infringe on any patents, unless google patented the method of ranking pages by external linkages (can they patent that?).
Would you really be all that surprised if they could patent that? In this day and age I could probably patent the cold and then charge people money every time they catch it. But this is rather OT and the patent sitution in the US has been discussed on /. at great length.
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I think that they should do kind of an Ultimate Survivor kind of thing. They can take all the survivor candidates and lock them in a house with no food and massive ammounts of weapons. Then we can find out who the true "survivor" is. We also would get the added bonus of only having to deal with one self righteious prima dona trying to make something of his 15 minutes of fame.
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Is this the Marilyn Manson(sp?) CD that has something like 15 tracks of music and 84 3 second tracks of silence? If so, then I doubt it is for copy protection purposes, especially in light of the fact that it is an OLD album. All you have to do is rip the first 15 tracks and you're set. In fact what is the purpose of all those empty tracks.
If it's not that album, then I don't know why it shows 99 tracks.
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Somebody else here said it once before, but...
It's starting to get to the point where I am going to actively pirate material, just to piss all these music industry execs off. In fact, if I had the resources, I probably would start on this tonight. I would go home and start ripping every CD I own to mp3, and rip every DVD and VHS I have to video and distribute them on the internet.
Don't worry, RIAA/MPAA/whoever the fuck else. I won't be doing this. I don't have the resources. That is, unless you want to donate a file server with massive amounts of storage space and a high speed internet connection. :-P
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This process of trying to exthort our public libraries just makes me sick. How greedy can these people be? Have these people no morals?
I'm all for capitalism, but it's practices like these that make me ashamed to call myself an American. It's things like this that sometimes makes me wonder if communism really wouldn't be a valid alternative. (Assuming that somebody could actually get communism to work.)
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Oh yeah. Definitely. I guess it should have been something like End of story... For now. I don't expect Microsoft to maintain it's market dominance forever. That's just unrealistic. There are too many bright minds currently working on alternative operating systems. I think that it won't be that much longer (maybe 10 years or so at the most) before Microsoft looses its strangle-hold on the computer industry and people start to use other operating systems.
As for Linux's role in the downfall of Microsoft... Well, Linux has a long way to go before it can become a true consumer grade OS. Although I love Linux, I think that unless we start to teach kids on it when they are young it won't have much hope of replacing Windows. It's just too difficult for your average Joe Schmoe to set it up and be able to use it efficiently without some instruction. Linux is getting better in this regard, but it's also getting bigger and cruftier. Anyway, this isn't a comment on the relationship between code bloat and user friendliness... And besides all that, I think that Linux and the open source movement in general has played a big part in alerting the public to other alternatives. Linux has managed to generate enough publicity that the idea of a Microsoft alternative has already been implanted into the public's minds. Heck, even my grandmother once asked me if she should get Linux.
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How about a cheaper cost for ebooks. I have a Rocket E-book (now owned by RCA) and the price of ebooks is still prohibitive. The vast majority of ebooks for sale are sold either at the same price of the print book, or just a little under that. Either way, if it's just $1 more for the print book, I'll go out and buy the frickin' paper edition. IMHO, it's much easier and much more fun to flip through the pages of an actual book, than it is to press a page down or page up button. About the only books that are really a considerable amount cheaper are the classics, and most of those can be downloaded from project Gutenburg for free.
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Oh, bullshit. The USA produces plenty of bright minds. It's just that a lot of us are lazy. :)
Personally, I wouldn't mind going on to get my Ph.D. I know it's within my potential. However, since I don't currently have the money for it, I doubt it will happen. If I have to start working to pay for my school, that will likely be the death of my school days. I'm simply too lazy to work and go to school at the same time. =P
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