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>This "war-ez" business (to rhyme with, i dunno, say, "bore fez")
But I wonder wether Juan, Walter and Wally Juarez would wench at what a wrinkle that puts in his business?
I mean, where would Juan or Wally Juarez go for when Juan or Wally want warez?
If Wally or Juan Juarez would want some warez they would want then from their brother's store: Walter Jaurez' Warez emporium in Juarez, Mexico of course!
So, where will you want your warez from today? Would you want them from Juan Jaurez who buys them from Wally Jaurez who bought them from Walter Juarez' Warez in Juarez, or would you willingly ask for them from Wally the Waffly eating WarezMaster himself?
> It's awful, but that is the status quo on all of the major filesharing networks.
Might I reccomend you check out usenet. Not that I would ever download anything but public domain music from it, of course.
Most stuff on there is of much higher quality than you'd get from the P2P networks (and I just don't use those anyways -- too much of a pain to get working properly with a satellite downlink!), and you'll need at least half a T3 to get it all (far more than what you'd ever get from P2P networks).
>As well, I still stand by my statement, if you want the music buy the damn cd, don't be pretentious and whine to us about your precious "entertainment dollar
I think I might attach to that "what's good for the goose is good for the gander".
"Pretentious: Claiming or demanding a position of distinction or merit, especially when unjustified"
Yup, saying MP3s on average suck because most of them on P2P networks are 128 kbits pretty much fits that definition.
>The original wav tracks on the cd ALWAYS sound better than anything that has been encoded. >I think many a studio engineer would be kicking themselves for trying to hard to give you a good sounding record that you are then going to listen to in a bastardized form.
For the good of the audio community, read this site thouroghly, please!
The fact (and I mean proven both by double blind test and waveform analysis) is that 256-320 kbit MP3 perfectly* reproduces the same audio you hear from a.wav file. If your encoder sucks (and one can assume the RIAA-et al. would have access to the world's best MP3 encoders) that's your fault, or the fault of the mp3's creator, not ours.
* [By perfect I mean so perfect that any imperfections in the mp3 are likely less than 100x that of which most audio equipment itself introduces into music!]
>Go buy the cds and dont whine to everyone about your entertainment dollar. It suited you fine before Napster came out.
What a luddite statement.
Why not just say:
"Go wash in a tin tub outside the fireplace. It suited your father perfectly fine when he was a kid."
>Besides that, the GPL says nothing about how quickly the source must be given.
Oh, but it does!
Here's the section called into question:
"3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.) "
Since they have given no written offer (or at least that interview mentions none, and with the attitude of Lindows, I expect there wasn't one), and they are a commercial distributor, section A applies directly to them.
Section A says that the code should have accompanied the binary. This implies immediate receipt of the code upon receipt of the binary. It seems the beta testers did not immediately receive it, and Lindows are delaying their release of the code. They have violated the license, clear and simple.
>Well, I disagree. If I get fined for going 56 in a 55 mph zone, I sure as hell am going to whine and complain.
Go ahead. The moment you admit you did 56 in the 55 zone without a reasonable excuse to the judge (and "its just 1 mile over -- how unreasonable to pull me over" is simply not good enough, "I had to go to the washroom" holds more weight) you've broken the law and will be penalized for it. The cop wouldn't even need to show up in court if you contested the ticket like that.
Now, I don't agree with that completely, but that's something you need to deal with at the election level, not the personal level.
Same with Lindows. If they want a modified GPL that allows them to hold back the source until full-release they need to contact either the FSF or the owners of the copyright and petition them. They have no right whatsoever to take this into their own hands and are (IMHO) performing copyright violation the very moment someone requests the binaries (which was probably yesterday). In America, as we've seen in the past, copyright is not something to be trifled with.
I do. Electrical requirements such as impedance matching and sheilding.
IDE cables alternate Data and Ground for the same reasons as SCSI. It helps ensure a clean signal across the length of the cable without reflections. If you want a round IDE cable it should use some form of twisted pair cable (or at least be separated into even amounts of wires).
>I am an audiophile. That's why I don't listen to music on computers.
That's funny. I always thought the definition of an audiophile was someone who listens to the equipment rather than the music.;-)
>If you really care about sound
You buy some decent headphones.
Don't take it too seriously, the fans are a little annoying when I'm listening to MP3s so I have a separate room with another amp in it, but I've given up the term "audiophile" when I relised it put me in the same class as people who buy BOSE.:)
- Diamond Stealth II G460
- Leadtek WinFast TH
- Aureal card (the motherboard is PHYSICALLY INCOMPATIBLE with this entire line of chips because the designer didn't bother to test them at all. So pathetic it's not even funny!)
- GeForce 2 GTS or MX
- ATI Radeon DDR
- Voodoo 2
- ATI 3D Rage 128
- Matrox G400 or G200
- Diamond Viper 770
- Hercules 3D Prophet II PRO
- Asus V7700 AGP
- ATI 64 DDR
- Voodoo 4500
- Asus V3400
- Matrox G450
- Hercules Prophet 4500
- GeForce 3 ti200
- 1.4GHz Thunderbird (My favourite chip to stress test crappy mobos with)
- Soundblaster Live
- Soundblaster AWE32 ISA
- Yamaha DS2416
- Soundblaster AWE 64
- Diamond M80
- Terratec XFire 1024
- Soundblaster PCI128/PCI64
- Sonic Impact S90
- Sonic Fury
- Hercules GTXP
- Gamesurround Fortissimo II
- CMI8738-based soundcard
- Soundblaster Audigy
(granted, a lot of it is driver problems because a pile of driver versions are NOT compatible with this mobo, but physical incompatibilities are simply unacceptable)
Most of which are useless since IDE cables over 18" are out of spec and therefore generally unreliable. With cables that short it can become a nightmare fitting more than 5 or 6 drives in a system (I've tried and failed in my full tower case -- fortunately I had SCSI CD burners so I just moved the IDE stuff to the lower bays).
Not to mention that having 7 drive cables hanging about your system make it very unwieldly to work inside.
With SCSI you get cables long enough to stretch to the top of the tallest full tower case, and with 7 drives on one cable you don't end up with a rat's nest of cables.
Might try to at some point. I don't right now because I haven't the foggiest idea of how to do it correctly.
>Paint your house?
When I finally own one, hell yeah!
>Cook all your meals?
Not always. Sometimes though.
>Make your own clothes?
I don't have the skill needed for that.
>Oh, I see, you'd rather do something else with your time?
No, I wouldn't. I enjoy doing things. When you do things you learn. When I learn I'm happy. When I sit there and watch I'm bored. If I don't watch I'm really bored. When I get involved I not only get the job done, but I get it done my way.
Your time is only worthless when you don't do anything with it. Value is more than meets your eye.
If you tell someone you don't cook, clean, or do handywork you'll find they say "Sounds like the easy life" to you. 5 minutes later they forget you even exist. That's the other half of the definition of value -- your worth to society.
HAND, I'm off coding a personal project and learning Perl rather than paying someone else to enjoy getting the job done.
Re:I don't know what brand you've been using...
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ICON computers built into 80's had no mouse buttons, but did include a trackball and an extra inconveniently placed ACTION key on the keyboard...
>Library staff would probably notice if you were trying to copy an entire book anyway (ex. 400 page book, copy 2 pages at a time, total time 10 seconds per copy == 2000 seconds = 30-45 minutes of you doing nothing but rapid fire copy-swap-deposit dime-lather-rinse-repeat), and they WOULD stop you.
Yes, I know that from experience. I needed some old maps of the city for some research work from a book that probably only had one or two copies existing in the entire universe. The city had published these, using my tax dollars, and yet had the gall to copyright them in their name.
The librarian stopped me at about page 17 of 100.
It was at that point I was turned forever to a life of piracy (wherever possible and legal). Screw me once, shame on you. Screw me twice, shame on me.
>How can a networked computer be allowed to legally space-shift legitamit media without fear of the RIAA / SS?
Easy, if you know its illegal you shouldn't be doing it.:)
More importantly, though, if you want to keep the company out of hot water don't put the MP3s inside the company!
Someone at that company must have had broadband at home. Set up the server there and presto bingo! The likelyhood of it being the company's fault rather than your own just plummeted.
Not that you want to be sued for $1m, but most judges aren't so silly as to charge you an amount that ensures your bankruptcy and seals the deal so that you won't be paying it back.
It worked once against anti-piracy measures in software (I saw more -2 week pirated software when it was protected than unprotected -- doesn't mean I downloaded it, though), it can work again against media companies.
The truth is that piracy is an effective control measure. In the case of price, as price goes up the incentive to pirate increases expoentially. So you have to charge a "reasonable" rate the market will bear or you go out of business because you can't sell product.
Just think about it, if each PS/2 game (for example) cost $5000 instead of $50, would you buy it? No. Would you pirate it?
You don't even have to answer that one, because either way (pirated or not) you've defeated the corps.
BTW: At $264 a day, that's $96,360 per year. Considering how unlikely it would be that you'd be caught for copyright infringement, you'd be better paying the $250k fine every three years than paying for any media at all.
>Blocking certain portions of a site's content because you don't personally want to see it is definitely immoral and arguably illegal.
Yes, when I read a book using a wood ruler (which blocks a portion of what I'm reading it in order to aid my reading of the actual content, just like a web site) or cover my book with brown paper to keep the cover decent (just like I keep my computer decent by not running scumware) I am definately breaking the law and deserve to be put in jail for the rest of my life, and perhaps tortured after I'm sent to camp X-Ray.
Why that didn't make it into the Patriot Act, we'll never know. Heck, it should already be part of the "Trading with the enemy act". Blocking out ads is tantamount to smoking a cuban cigar.
BTW: I expect you to stare at all the McDonald's and Camel billboards [not to mention the "xyz miles 'till you're South of the border" ads] while driving on all highways from now on. Not doing so (even if it would cause an accident) is promotion of communisim, and, might I say, it shows that you must hate America so much.
>You could always try KaZaA and search for an AV program for free too.
Or you could click the link in my post and enjoy a free (as in beer) A/V scanner that might run in DOSEMU, and certainly does run in a DOS box of all windows I've tried it on (3.1-9x-NT-XP), and is updated quite often. This is one of the last true shareware programs I've seen on the net that's actually receiving updates (sad really that shareware turned into adware turned into spyware has now turned into trojanware).
I'm soon going to go to this show (prices in $CDN). There's not a single price, other than memory, that's higher in that list.
What, are PC prices going to double overnight?
Not likely.
BTW: Just a note of history, even though computer prices are continually coming down, they are, right now, higher than they've been in the past. In the past you could buy a C64 (when they were popular) for $400 and the disk drive for $200, making a system price $600 (IIRC). That can be tough to find with a PC nowadays (not impossible, just tough).
Higher resolutions availiable on CRTs make up for this.
>much less eye strain and radiation
Eye strain is total BS unless you're dumb enough to buy an el-cheapo that runs at under 85 Hz. If flicker above 85 Hz hurts (haha, funny...) you need to see an optometrist. You should thank the CRT for reminding you.
Radiation? You aren't talking about that one line of B&W TVs made in the 50's that weighed about 500 lbs. and shot out hard X-Rays through the bottom of the set only, are you? Modern CRTS (and by modern I mean 3 decades old) do NOT allow X-Rays to escape (unless you lick the tube often, or use CRTs with cracked glass).
As far as EMI goes, all electronic devices with a clock source emit that, including LCDs.
>silent (yeah, crt monitors are noisy, especially when you switch them on. most of the people don't hear it but some)
Only at TV/CGA resolutions. You can calculate the frequency they emit like this:
scan rate = (horizontal lines per frame) * (frames per second)
since this equals 15.75 khz for NTSC video (for example) you _might_ be able to hear a TV run.
So, lets calculate the scanrate for a 17" monitor running at 1024x768 @ 85 Hz.
768 * 85 = 65.280 kHz.
If you can hear that, then you're a bat.
Now, if the monitor is broken, well, that's a totally different problem altogether.
The noise you get when you switch them on lasts for a few seconds. If you find that annoying, the fan on your CPU is probably sending you to the nuthouse!:-)
>stable picture (if you use dvi)
Stable picture on CRTs if you use a quality videocard.
>no ghosting with modern panels
Agreed, but this isn't really a pro, is it?
>phosphore and coil burnought - the older the monitor the blurrier becomes the picture.
These mainly affect the brightness of the picture. If the picture becomes blurry, your vacuum tube isn't a vacuum anymore (ie: Its broken).
>damn much eye strain. i used to have good crts, switched to lcds then. my eyes are relaxing.
See an optometrist now!:-)
>picture quality sucks in comparison to a good lcd
Picture quality on a high-end trinitron is much better than a good LCD, and is very price competitive too.
I have a laptop with an average LCD, and a 7 year old "high end" CRT (Mitsubishi diamondscan 20h) that still works like the day I bought it. I know which one I prefer. The colour on the Mitsubishi is truer, and the monitor has been far more reliable than any LCD its age (its never required replaced components yet). No eyestrain either, even though I only run it at 75 Hz. Some noise, primarialy due to a vibrating deflection coil (broken but I don't care enough to fix it:-)
>Cool site, but I don't know if you will save money.
It may, it may not. It all depends on what kind of a deal you get on the parts. For me, I'm lucky to have a store that sells parts for about the same price as digikey nearby.
For me, that project cost about $20/CAN (a lot of parts were free leftovers from old projects, though).
I'd expect if you weren't as lucky as me, you'd spend a good $60 at Radio Shack.:-)
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>This "war-ez" business (to rhyme with, i dunno, say, "bore fez")
:-)
But I wonder wether Juan, Walter and Wally Juarez would wench at what a wrinkle that puts in his business?
I mean, where would Juan or Wally Juarez go for when Juan or Wally want warez?
If Wally or Juan Juarez would want some warez they would want then from their brother's store: Walter Jaurez' Warez emporium in Juarez, Mexico of course!
So, where will you want your warez from today? Would you want them from Juan Jaurez who buys them from Wally Jaurez who bought them from Walter Juarez' Warez in Juarez, or would you willingly ask for them from Wally the Waffly eating WarezMaster himself?
Yes, I am nothing but a dirty copycat, sosumi.
But really, what would one want when warez and juarez are called into question but a riveting discussion on the topic at hand?
Now tell me, was it Walter, Wally or Juan who stole the warez from the warehouse in Juarez?
> It's awful, but that is the status quo on all of the major filesharing networks.
Might I reccomend you check out usenet. Not that I would ever download anything but public domain music from it, of course.
Most stuff on there is of much higher quality than you'd get from the P2P networks (and I just don't use those anyways -- too much of a pain to get working properly with a satellite downlink!), and you'll need at least half a T3 to get it all (far more than what you'd ever get from P2P networks).
>As well, I still stand by my statement, if you want the music buy the damn cd, don't be pretentious and whine to us about your precious "entertainment dollar
I think I might attach to that "what's good for the goose is good for the gander".
"Pretentious: Claiming or demanding a position of distinction or merit, especially when unjustified"
Yup, saying MP3s on average suck because most of them on P2P networks are 128 kbits pretty much fits that definition.
>The original wav tracks on the cd ALWAYS sound better than anything that has been encoded.
.wav file. If your encoder sucks (and one can assume the RIAA-et al. would have access to the world's best MP3 encoders) that's your fault, or the fault of the mp3's creator, not ours.
>I think many a studio engineer would be kicking themselves for trying to hard to give you a good sounding record that you are then going to listen to in a bastardized form.
For the good of the audio community, read this site thouroghly, please!
The fact (and I mean proven both by double blind test and waveform analysis) is that 256-320 kbit MP3 perfectly* reproduces the same audio you hear from a
* [By perfect I mean so perfect that any imperfections in the mp3 are likely less than 100x that of which most audio equipment itself introduces into music!]
>Go buy the cds and dont whine to everyone about your entertainment dollar. It suited you fine before Napster came out.
What a luddite statement.
Why not just say:
"Go wash in a tin tub outside the fireplace. It suited your father perfectly fine when he was a kid."
>Huh? I don't understand your point.
Allow me to provide some more context to it then.
"I was willing to give him [lindows] the benefit of the doubt when I came across:
Kword repackaged as Wordpublisher
and other rebadged stuff"
[Lindows owner accused of renaming software and abusing the GPL to pretend the software is his to sell. ie: He plagarizes for profit]
"And yet, when he was giving away music he didn't own he was Slashdot's hero. Go figger..."
[Lindows owner accused of copyright violation without profit. (Giving away means free)]
"And I suppose he changed the artist's names and song titles for the mp3s as well then?"
[Lindows owner plagarizes material for personal gain, which is what the original thread is about]
Catch my drift?
>Besides that, the GPL says nothing about how quickly the source must be given.
Oh, but it does!
Here's the section called into question:
"3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
received the program in object code or executable form with such
an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.) "
Since they have given no written offer (or at least that interview mentions none, and with the attitude of Lindows, I expect there wasn't one), and they are a commercial distributor, section A applies directly to them.
Section A says that the code should have accompanied the binary. This implies immediate receipt of the code upon receipt of the binary. It seems the beta testers did not immediately receive it, and Lindows are delaying their release of the code. They have violated the license, clear and simple.
And I suppose he changed the artist's names and song titles for the mp3s as well then?
>Well, I disagree. If I get fined for going 56 in a 55 mph zone, I sure as hell am going to whine and complain.
Go ahead. The moment you admit you did 56 in the 55 zone without a reasonable excuse to the judge (and "its just 1 mile over -- how unreasonable to pull me over" is simply not good enough, "I had to go to the washroom" holds more weight) you've broken the law and will be penalized for it. The cop wouldn't even need to show up in court if you contested the ticket like that.
Now, I don't agree with that completely, but that's something you need to deal with at the election level, not the personal level.
Same with Lindows. If they want a modified GPL that allows them to hold back the source until full-release they need to contact either the FSF or the owners of the copyright and petition them. They have no right whatsoever to take this into their own hands and are (IMHO) performing copyright violation the very moment someone requests the binaries (which was probably yesterday). In America, as we've seen in the past, copyright is not something to be trifled with.
>I didn't know of a reason IDE cables are flat
I do. Electrical requirements such as impedance matching and sheilding.
IDE cables alternate Data and Ground for the same reasons as SCSI. It helps ensure a clean signal across the length of the cable without reflections. If you want a round IDE cable it should use some form of twisted pair cable (or at least be separated into even amounts of wires).
>I am an audiophile. That's why I don't listen to music on computers.
;-)
:)
That's funny. I always thought the definition of an audiophile was someone who listens to the equipment rather than the music.
>If you really care about sound
You buy some decent headphones.
Don't take it too seriously, the fans are a little annoying when I'm listening to MP3s so I have a separate room with another amp in it, but I've given up the term "audiophile" when I relised it put me in the same class as people who buy BOSE.
I suppose you don't own any of these then:
- Diamond Stealth II G460
- Leadtek WinFast TH
- Aureal card (the motherboard is PHYSICALLY INCOMPATIBLE with this entire line of chips because the designer didn't bother to test them at all. So pathetic it's not even funny!)
- GeForce 2 GTS or MX
- ATI Radeon DDR
- Voodoo 2
- ATI 3D Rage 128
- Matrox G400 or G200
- Diamond Viper 770
- Hercules 3D Prophet II PRO
- Asus V7700 AGP
- ATI 64 DDR
- Voodoo 4500
- Asus V3400
- Matrox G450
- Hercules Prophet 4500
- GeForce 3 ti200
- 1.4GHz Thunderbird (My favourite chip to stress test crappy mobos with)
- Soundblaster Live
- Soundblaster AWE32 ISA
- Yamaha DS2416
- Soundblaster AWE 64
- Diamond M80
- Terratec XFire 1024
- Soundblaster PCI128/PCI64
- Sonic Impact S90
- Sonic Fury
- Hercules GTXP
- Gamesurround Fortissimo II
- CMI8738-based soundcard
- Soundblaster Audigy
(granted, a lot of it is driver problems because a pile of driver versions are NOT compatible with this mobo, but physical incompatibilities are simply unacceptable)
It's all here: FAQ
>If you had ever tried to build your own little hobbyist PCB shop
:-)
Mmmmm, the smell of Ferric Chloride and photo-resist in the morning.
Can I puke now?
I never once actually had a PCB come out right... Maybe I just suck too badly at it.
Any tips?
>Hence the value of having multiple controllers
Most of which are useless since IDE cables over 18" are out of spec and therefore generally unreliable. With cables that short it can become a nightmare fitting more than 5 or 6 drives in a system (I've tried and failed in my full tower case -- fortunately I had SCSI CD burners so I just moved the IDE stuff to the lower bays).
Not to mention that having 7 drive cables hanging about your system make it very unwieldly to work inside.
With SCSI you get cables long enough to stretch to the top of the tallest full tower case, and with 7 drives on one cable you don't end up with a rat's nest of cables.
>do you wash your car?
Yup.
>Change your car's oil?
Might try to at some point. I don't right now because I haven't the foggiest idea of how to do it correctly.
>Paint your house?
When I finally own one, hell yeah!
>Cook all your meals?
Not always. Sometimes though.
>Make your own clothes?
I don't have the skill needed for that.
>Oh, I see, you'd rather do something else with your time?
No, I wouldn't. I enjoy doing things. When you do things you learn. When I learn I'm happy. When I sit there and watch I'm bored. If I don't watch I'm really bored. When I get involved I not only get the job done, but I get it done my way.
Your time is only worthless when you don't do anything with it. Value is more than meets your eye.
If you tell someone you don't cook, clean, or do handywork you'll find they say "Sounds like the easy life" to you. 5 minutes later they forget you even exist. That's the other half of the definition of value -- your worth to society.
HAND, I'm off coding a personal project and learning Perl rather than paying someone else to enjoy getting the job done.
ICON computers built into 80's had no mouse buttons, but did include a trackball and an extra inconveniently placed ACTION key on the keyboard...
>Library staff would probably notice if you were trying to copy an entire book anyway (ex. 400 page book, copy 2 pages at a time, total time 10 seconds per copy == 2000 seconds = 30-45 minutes of you doing nothing but rapid fire copy-swap-deposit dime-lather-rinse-repeat), and they WOULD stop you.
Yes, I know that from experience. I needed some old maps of the city for some research work from a book that probably only had one or two copies existing in the entire universe. The city had published these, using my tax dollars, and yet had the gall to copyright them in their name.
The librarian stopped me at about page 17 of 100.
It was at that point I was turned forever to a life of piracy (wherever possible and legal). Screw me once, shame on you. Screw me twice, shame on me.
>How can a networked computer be allowed to legally space-shift legitamit media without fear of the RIAA / SS?
:)
Easy, if you know its illegal you shouldn't be doing it.
More importantly, though, if you want to keep the company out of hot water don't put the MP3s inside the company!
Someone at that company must have had broadband at home. Set up the server there and presto bingo! The likelyhood of it being the company's fault rather than your own just plummeted.
Not that you want to be sued for $1m, but most judges aren't so silly as to charge you an amount that ensures your bankruptcy and seals the deal so that you won't be paying it back.
>Think local diner with CD jukebox system.
They pay the American equivalent of SOCAN for the right to play the music in public.
The licenses are usually quite reasonable, really, all things considered.
It worked once against anti-piracy measures in software (I saw more -2 week pirated software when it was protected than unprotected -- doesn't mean I downloaded it, though), it can work again against media companies.
The truth is that piracy is an effective control measure. In the case of price, as price goes up the incentive to pirate increases expoentially. So you have to charge a "reasonable" rate the market will bear or you go out of business because you can't sell product.
Just think about it, if each PS/2 game (for example) cost $5000 instead of $50, would you buy it? No. Would you pirate it?
You don't even have to answer that one, because either way (pirated or not) you've defeated the corps.
BTW: At $264 a day, that's $96,360 per year. Considering how unlikely it would be that you'd be caught for copyright infringement, you'd be better paying the $250k fine every three years than paying for any media at all.
$999 for the combo, or separate $249 +
$149 = $398 and $602 in your pocket. I bet for $602 you can afford a pair of pants with room for both.
>Blocking certain portions of a site's content because you don't personally want to see it is definitely immoral and arguably illegal.
Yes, when I read a book using a wood ruler (which blocks a portion of what I'm reading it in order to aid my reading of the actual content, just like a web site) or cover my book with brown paper to keep the cover decent (just like I keep my computer decent by not running scumware) I am definately breaking the law and deserve to be put in jail for the rest of my life, and perhaps tortured after I'm sent to camp X-Ray.
Why that didn't make it into the Patriot Act, we'll never know. Heck, it should already be part of the "Trading with the enemy act". Blocking out ads is tantamount to smoking a cuban cigar.
BTW: I expect you to stare at all the McDonald's and Camel billboards [not to mention the "xyz miles 'till you're South of the border" ads] while driving on all highways from now on. Not doing so (even if it would cause an accident) is promotion of communisim, and, might I say, it shows that you must hate America so much .
>You could always try KaZaA and search for an AV program for free too.
Or you could click the link in my post and enjoy a free (as in beer) A/V scanner that might run in DOSEMU, and certainly does run in a DOS box of all windows I've tried it on (3.1-9x-NT-XP), and is updated quite often. This is one of the last true shareware programs I've seen on the net that's actually receiving updates (sad really that shareware turned into adware turned into spyware has now turned into trojanware).
I'm soon going to go to this show (prices in $CDN). There's not a single price, other than memory, that's higher in that list.
What, are PC prices going to double overnight?
Not likely.
BTW: Just a note of history, even though computer prices are continually coming down, they are, right now, higher than they've been in the past. In the past you could buy a C64 (when they were popular) for $400 and the disk drive for $200, making a system price $600 (IIRC). That can be tough to find with a PC nowadays (not impossible, just tough).
>sharper picture
:-)
:-)
:-)
At native resolution ONLY.
>subpixel rendering (sharper text)
Higher resolutions availiable on CRTs make up for this.
>much less eye strain and radiation
Eye strain is total BS unless you're dumb enough to buy an el-cheapo that runs at under 85 Hz. If flicker above 85 Hz hurts (haha, funny...) you need to see an optometrist. You should thank the CRT for reminding you.
Radiation? You aren't talking about that one line of B&W TVs made in the 50's that weighed about 500 lbs. and shot out hard X-Rays through the bottom of the set only, are you? Modern CRTS (and by modern I mean 3 decades old) do NOT allow X-Rays to escape (unless you lick the tube often, or use CRTs with cracked glass).
As far as EMI goes, all electronic devices with a clock source emit that, including LCDs.
>silent (yeah, crt monitors are noisy, especially when you switch them on. most of the people don't hear it but some)
Only at TV/CGA resolutions. You can calculate the frequency they emit like this:
scan rate = (horizontal lines per frame) * (frames per second)
since this equals 15.75 khz for NTSC video (for example) you _might_ be able to hear a TV run.
So, lets calculate the scanrate for a 17" monitor running at 1024x768 @ 85 Hz.
768 * 85 = 65.280 kHz.
If you can hear that, then you're a bat.
Now, if the monitor is broken, well, that's a totally different problem altogether.
The noise you get when you switch them on lasts for a few seconds. If you find that annoying, the fan on your CPU is probably sending you to the nuthouse!
>stable picture (if you use dvi)
Stable picture on CRTs if you use a quality videocard.
>no ghosting with modern panels
Agreed, but this isn't really a pro, is it?
>phosphore and coil burnought - the older the monitor the blurrier becomes the picture.
These mainly affect the brightness of the picture. If the picture becomes blurry, your vacuum tube isn't a vacuum anymore (ie: Its broken).
>damn much eye strain. i used to have good crts, switched to lcds then. my eyes are relaxing.
See an optometrist now!
>picture quality sucks in comparison to a good lcd
Picture quality on a high-end trinitron is much better than a good LCD, and is very price competitive too.
I have a laptop with an average LCD, and a 7 year old "high end" CRT (Mitsubishi diamondscan 20h) that still works like the day I bought it. I know which one I prefer. The colour on the Mitsubishi is truer, and the monitor has been far more reliable than any LCD its age (its never required replaced components yet). No eyestrain either, even though I only run it at 75 Hz. Some noise, primarialy due to a vibrating deflection coil (broken but I don't care enough to fix it
>The CD logo only means something if Philips enforces it, and they don't
As seen on slashdot, philips has decided to do something about it. I dunno if its all gas, but hey, one can always hope, right?
>Cool site, but I don't know if you will save money.
:-)
It may, it may not. It all depends on what kind of a deal you get on the parts. For me, I'm lucky to have a store that sells parts for about the same price as digikey nearby.
For me, that project cost about $20/CAN (a lot of parts were free leftovers from old projects, though).
I'd expect if you weren't as lucky as me, you'd spend a good $60 at Radio Shack.