the comma in the sig is to indicate a pause in how it should be read. there doesn't have to be a comma if "you're new here aren't you" is a statement, not a question, like a rhetorical question. buzz off grammar nazi.
People who submit articles should proof-read them more carefully because the audience is far greater. If you leave the house with mis-matched socks, expect jokes to be made at your expense. Double check your appearance and writing and there won't be any problems.
Please don't limit these. Unlike Burgx3 I don't have $500 to spend on a HD-based mp3 player. If these iPod competitors are cheaper, and only a little bit bigger, not much uglier (which is subjective anyway),...how are you judging the interface? Have you used it or read any reviews, or are you just assuming it must suck because the screen is smaller? You must be troll or an idiot because if you RTFA you'd know the battery life is 12 hours vs. 10 for the iPod. STFU, thanks.
Where do you find DVD for $9? Fry's Electronics and Best Buy advertise a handful of shitty titles for $9.99 and that's as low as I see. Mediocre-good movies are in the newspaper for $14.99. Big releases range from $14.99-19.99. So at which store can I buy Tomcats for $9?
Not everyone has USB 2.0. Why ship it with a more expensive cable not everyone will be able to use? From a cost standpoint it makes more sense to buy the modules separately.
5. transferring a movie into the ajmm over usb 1 takes quite a while, I have still not got the usb 2.0 cable. and have not bothered chasing archos about it, yet.
Just because you didn't order the USB 2.0 cable when you bought it doesn't make it a valid step 5 complaint. You should have put it before step 1.
What do you mean by step 4? You set the resolution when you make the file. How can you foul this up? Do you mean filesize?
Have you actually heard a 20dB fan? Unless you're within 2 feet of it, you can't. Do you want the computer to be fanless because that's cool and it'll impress your geek friends? If you just want it silent as far as you can hear, replacing all the fans, including the power supply, with Papst, Antec, or Panaflo will do that for you. You can put them on the CPU and replace the chipset fan with a giant heatsink from Zalman. Using a fan in the front or rear of the case will ensure good airflow.
You are right, but going for a walk is free, unless you go to a park that requires a wilderness permit. Going to a concert for free when you should be paying is possibly depriving other commercial companies revenue, and its why copyright infringment is wrong, at least to me. Presumably going for a walk is less entertaining than the concert, so bang for the buck must be considered.
Seeing a concert without paying because there was never any intention of paying is the same excuse logic people who play emulated games without the original cartridge or disk use. The cost is instead of watching the concert, I could be working at my job, earning money, I could be SPENDING my money on something else to entertain myself. If I had no intention of spending money that night, perhaps I'd go home and play a video game. If I play that game for three hours, I'm three hours closer to getting tired of that game and possible buying a new game.
Think about the video game industry. If I can play for hundreds of hours on Final Fantasy II and Cybernator, those are hundreds of hours I'm not playing a new game I PAID for. This is why the copyright holders of old games don't like emulation. While I'm playing FF II, I'm potentially costing Square a sale. Arguing the potential is very low doesn't mean jack when you multiply a 1% potential times 100,000 people playing emulators. That's potentially 1000 copies of FFX Square lost.
Going to that concert for free potentially costs video game makers, newspapers, pay-per-view, music and movie compainies, authors, artists...etc, money. It even potentially costs the advertizers on TV money because you won't see their ads that you might have. This costs TV stations because they can't charge as much for advertizing.
You're exactly right, but you forget this kid could save the money and it could go with him to the grave. Now apply this situation to copying music and movies. Is it fair to the music and movie creators to deprive them of revenue just because the money might go to books instead? If this kid wants something, he should pay for it.
Thanks for replying. I'd like to refine my original comment to get some other thoughts of yours. My female friend likes gaming plenty, at Super Smash Bros. Melee she'll hand her boyfriend his head, but sometimes the competitiveness of guys turns her off to gaming. For many guys enough is never enough. They're determined to master games for their own sense of accomplishment, which is fine, but then they can also brag about it to their friends and others. Its a form of dick waving for many guys. When talking about games, instead of comraderie, its more of a competition. I'm do this plenty myself and obviously don't mind. She does sometimes, and I wonder if girls are the same or different than guys in these respects. Would girls play more if guys weren't always turning it into shows of bravado?
What if the 12 year-old has upper middle class parents who can afford the software? What if the the 12 year old is 16 and has a job and can save up for JASC's software instead, or he can use GIMP. He can buy the College edition of Photoshop for $200 instead of $500. When he reaches college he'll be spending $110 on a Math textbook. If the textbook came on CD I assume you'd think its okay that he pirate that too, huh? I have college loans, and most of my friends doo too. If this kid seriously has to have the best paint program around, then some sacrifice is in order. Being unwilling to pay the price or settle for less doesn't let businesses off the hook, and it shouldn't for this kid either. Just because this kid might end up using PS at work doesn't make life any easier for JASC, they lost a potential customer and market share.
Except piracy deprives the copyright owners of money. That makes them the victim. You might spend the money you saved at the grocery store, but nevertheless someone is a victim.
no it means you have to wait until the DVD rips come out, which often takes less than a year. You'll have to wait a bit longer than a year for the movies released about the 9-12 month mark, though.
You made a common newbie mistake. To many of us it appears you made a weak attempt at karma whoring. You posted a very weak and lame joke which may seem funny to you, but you haven't seen 1000 variations of it for as long as the rest of us have. To make matters worse you still haven't explained how the hell you hit "P" instead of "A". I will admit that Wakko perhaps unfairly singled you out, but I think he's seen enough crap on/. that it just got to him and he needed to vent. You got hazed more brutally than you deserved. Pick yourself up, learn from example, and come back to/..
A girl-friend of mine and I were talking while a group of guys in the room started yacking about Star Craft and Heroes of Might and Magic IV. After they'd been going on for five minutes and I had joined in, she noted that guys are too competitive. Even when talking about video games they have to brag or try to impress the others. Women aren't as competitive and it affects how they view videogames and what they'll play. Its not that women don't like a challenge, but there are very few women who are going to pump in $40 a week just to kick everybodys ass at Soul Calibur 2 at the arcade.
There's no way to currently prove this, but suppose a protected game sells an additional 10,000 copies because those 10,000 people can't make a copy for their band of friends but they all want to do multiplayer. If it only costs the company the profit on 5000 copies to pay for protecting all of them, the company comes out ahead. I'm guessing it costs very little to protect a game, and enough people, perhaps 5% are buying the game instead of copying it from someone else.
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I think you're overdoing the criticism. He didn't say creative naming was a part of his major. All three are sciences, not arts. He's just wants a description that is accurate, sounds good, and will get him good jobs. Since/. has many smart, creative people, he's asking us before deciding. You're blowing this out of proportion.
No thanks for that utterly uninsightful post about GSM. Did you actually read the article? Would you care to explain how GSM and its TDMA layer can compete with CDMA when it comes to the most users getting the most voice and data over the same bandwidth? Since CDMA is more efficient and bandwidth is limited, CDMA allows the same number of people to send more voice or data. Thats what the article says anyway, now tell why its wrong.
The age of consent in Japan is 16. I'd say 16 year-olds are still children, but to say in Japan its okay to show child-porn is misleading. Calling it child-porn gets the public thinking about 8 year-old children being victimized. The 16 year-olds are doing so of their own volition, as much as any porn star actually wants to do that for a living. Granted the 16 year-old could be coming to porn from the disgusting pressures and coersion that leads many into prostitution.
I wouldn't call the atmospheric pressure at 5000 feet anything near thin. Sure if you fill a 2liter with air at that pressure and drive to the sea the bottle dents noticeably, but its nothing like 10,000 feet which I've backpacked through.
Planes are pressurized by the engines forcing air into the cabin. Its not like there are tanks of O2 in the cargo area that have to last the entire flight. I'm not referring to the oxygen masks. I don't know how those work.
Suppose a deer jumps into the road and had you been going 60 you could have breaked in time or it would have made it across? A better argument is: how do you know the road conditions won't change suddenly, endangering your car and the people inside it? Current safety features make surviving a crash at 60(mph) quite possible. Surviving a crash at 100mph is far less likely. Even if you take this road every single day, the cop who pulls you over won't know this.
Is it fair to make compaines offer a voice-to-text telephone service when the deaf call a service center? This device would have to be at the company's building since software isn't good enough to transcribe unfamiliar voices.
I think the blind should use telphones and the deaf use the web for commerce.
The western nations spent as much money on weapons as they thought was neccessary, combined with personal greed and kickbacks. Western Nations feared being conquered by the USSR and communism. Ask an oversimplified questiong, get an oversimplified answer.
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the comma in the sig is to indicate a pause in how it should be read. there doesn't have to be a comma if "you're new here aren't you" is a statement, not a question, like a rhetorical question. buzz off grammar nazi.
People who submit articles should proof-read them more carefully because the audience is far greater. If you leave the house with mis-matched socks, expect jokes to be made at your expense. Double check your appearance and writing and there won't be any problems.
Please don't limit these. Unlike Burgx3 I don't have $500 to spend on a HD-based mp3 player. If these iPod competitors are cheaper, and only a little bit bigger, not much uglier (which is subjective anyway), ...how are you judging the interface? Have you used it or read any reviews, or are you just assuming it must suck because the screen is smaller? You must be troll or an idiot because if you RTFA you'd know the battery life is 12 hours vs. 10 for the iPod. STFU, thanks.
Where do you find DVD for $9? Fry's Electronics and Best Buy advertise a handful of shitty titles for $9.99 and that's as low as I see. Mediocre-good movies are in the newspaper for $14.99. Big releases range from $14.99-19.99. So at which store can I buy Tomcats for $9?
Not everyone has USB 2.0. Why ship it with a more expensive cable not everyone will be able to use? From a cost standpoint it makes more sense to buy the modules separately.
5. transferring a movie into the ajmm over usb 1 takes quite a while, I have still not got the usb 2.0 cable. and have not bothered chasing archos about it, yet.
Just because you didn't order the USB 2.0 cable when you bought it doesn't make it a valid step 5 complaint. You should have put it before step 1.
What do you mean by step 4? You set the resolution when you make the file. How can you foul this up? Do you mean filesize?
Have you actually heard a 20dB fan? Unless you're within 2 feet of it, you can't. Do you want the computer to be fanless because that's cool and it'll impress your geek friends? If you just want it silent as far as you can hear, replacing all the fans, including the power supply, with Papst, Antec, or Panaflo will do that for you. You can put them on the CPU and replace the chipset fan with a giant heatsink from Zalman. Using a fan in the front or rear of the case will ensure good airflow.
You are right, but going for a walk is free, unless you go to a park that requires a wilderness permit. Going to a concert for free when you should be paying is possibly depriving other commercial companies revenue, and its why copyright infringment is wrong, at least to me. Presumably going for a walk is less entertaining than the concert, so bang for the buck must be considered.
Seeing a concert without paying because there was never any intention of paying is the same excuse logic people who play emulated games without the original cartridge or disk use. The cost is instead of watching the concert, I could be working at my job, earning money, I could be SPENDING my money on something else to entertain myself. If I had no intention of spending money that night, perhaps I'd go home and play a video game. If I play that game for three hours, I'm three hours closer to getting tired of that game and possible buying a new game.
Think about the video game industry. If I can play for hundreds of hours on Final Fantasy II and Cybernator, those are hundreds of hours I'm not playing a new game I PAID for. This is why the copyright holders of old games don't like emulation. While I'm playing FF II, I'm potentially costing Square a sale. Arguing the potential is very low doesn't mean jack when you multiply a 1% potential times 100,000 people playing emulators. That's potentially 1000 copies of FFX Square lost.
Going to that concert for free potentially costs video game makers, newspapers, pay-per-view, music and movie compainies, authors, artists...etc, money. It even potentially costs the advertizers on TV money because you won't see their ads that you might have. This costs TV stations because they can't charge as much for advertizing.
You're exactly right, but you forget this kid could save the money and it could go with him to the grave. Now apply this situation to copying music and movies. Is it fair to the music and movie creators to deprive them of revenue just because the money might go to books instead? If this kid wants something, he should pay for it.
Thanks for replying. I'd like to refine my original comment to get some other thoughts of yours. My female friend likes gaming plenty, at Super Smash Bros. Melee she'll hand her boyfriend his head, but sometimes the competitiveness of guys turns her off to gaming. For many guys enough is never enough. They're determined to master games for their own sense of accomplishment, which is fine, but then they can also brag about it to their friends and others. Its a form of dick waving for many guys. When talking about games, instead of comraderie, its more of a competition. I'm do this plenty myself and obviously don't mind. She does sometimes, and I wonder if girls are the same or different than guys in these respects. Would girls play more if guys weren't always turning it into shows of bravado?
What if the 12 year-old has upper middle class parents who can afford the software? What if the the 12 year old is 16 and has a job and can save up for JASC's software instead, or he can use GIMP. He can buy the College edition of Photoshop for $200 instead of $500. When he reaches college he'll be spending $110 on a Math textbook. If the textbook came on CD I assume you'd think its okay that he pirate that too, huh? I have college loans, and most of my friends doo too. If this kid seriously has to have the best paint program around, then some sacrifice is in order. Being unwilling to pay the price or settle for less doesn't let businesses off the hook, and it shouldn't for this kid either. Just because this kid might end up using PS at work doesn't make life any easier for JASC, they lost a potential customer and market share.
You can get rid of the noise potentially, but you'll never get the detail back the noise was covering.
Except piracy deprives the copyright owners of money. That makes them the victim. You might spend the money you saved at the grocery store, but nevertheless someone is a victim.
no it means you have to wait until the DVD rips come out, which often takes less than a year. You'll have to wait a bit longer than a year for the movies released about the 9-12 month mark, though.
You made a common newbie mistake. To many of us it appears you made a weak attempt at karma whoring. You posted a very weak and lame joke which may seem funny to you, but you haven't seen 1000 variations of it for as long as the rest of us have. To make matters worse you still haven't explained how the hell you hit "P" instead of "A". I will admit that /. that it just got to him and he needed to vent. You got hazed more brutally than you deserved. Pick yourself up, learn from example, and come back to /..
Wakko perhaps unfairly singled you out, but I think he's seen enough crap on
A girl-friend of mine and I were talking while a group of guys in the room started yacking about Star Craft and Heroes of Might and Magic IV. After they'd been going on for five minutes and I had joined in, she noted that guys are too competitive. Even when talking about video games they have to brag or try to impress the others. Women aren't as competitive and it affects how they view videogames and what they'll play. Its not that women don't like a challenge, but there are very few women who are going to pump in $40 a week just to kick everybodys ass at Soul Calibur 2 at the arcade.
There's no way to currently prove this, but suppose a protected game sells an additional 10,000 copies because those 10,000 people can't make a copy for their band of friends but they all want to do multiplayer. If it only costs the company the profit on 5000 copies to pay for protecting all of them, the company comes out ahead. I'm guessing it costs very little to protect a game, and enough people, perhaps 5% are buying the game instead of copying it from someone else.
I think you're overdoing the criticism. He didn't say creative naming was a part of his major. All three are sciences, not arts. He's just wants a description that is accurate, sounds good, and will get him good jobs. Since /. has many smart, creative people, he's asking us before deciding. You're blowing this out of proportion.
No thanks for that utterly uninsightful post about GSM. Did you actually read the article? Would you care to explain how GSM and its TDMA layer can compete with CDMA when it comes to the most users getting the most voice and data over the same bandwidth? Since CDMA is more efficient and bandwidth is limited, CDMA allows the same number of people to send more voice or data. Thats what the article says anyway, now tell why its wrong.
The age of consent in Japan is 16. I'd say 16 year-olds are still children, but to say in Japan its okay to show child-porn is misleading. Calling it child-porn gets the public thinking about 8 year-old children being victimized. The 16 year-olds are doing so of their own volition, as much as any porn star actually wants to do that for a living. Granted the 16 year-old could be coming to porn from the disgusting pressures and coersion that leads many into prostitution.
I wouldn't call the atmospheric pressure at 5000 feet anything near thin. Sure if you fill a 2liter with air at that pressure and drive to the sea the bottle dents noticeably, but its nothing like 10,000 feet which I've backpacked through.
Planes are pressurized by the engines forcing air into the cabin. Its not like there are tanks of O2 in the cargo area that have to last the entire flight. I'm not referring to the oxygen masks. I don't know how those work.
Suppose a deer jumps into the road and had you been going 60 you could have breaked in time or it would have made it across? A better argument is: how do you know the road conditions won't change suddenly, endangering your car and the people inside it? Current safety features make surviving a crash at 60(mph) quite possible. Surviving a crash at 100mph is far less likely. Even if you take this road every single day, the cop who pulls you over won't know this.
Is it fair to make compaines offer a voice-to-text telephone service when the deaf call a service center? This device would have to be at the company's building since software isn't good enough to transcribe unfamiliar voices.
I think the blind should use telphones and the deaf use the web for commerce.
The western nations spent as much money on weapons as they thought was neccessary, combined with personal greed and kickbacks. Western Nations feared being conquered by the USSR and communism. Ask an oversimplified questiong, get an oversimplified answer.