The RIAA is not a monopoly, it is a cartel. There is a difference. (Easier for a cartel to be legal, harder for it to get away with doing anything?)
And AFAIK, it isn't government-mandated, either. It's just big and powerful enough to get the government to do what it wants sometimes. As in, more often than you can.
There are still many, many legacy applications for the caps lock key out there. They are all boring and work-related. Just because it's useless for IRC and Halflife, doesn't mean it should be done away with.
Good fucking god, lets hope it's more Blade Runner than Running Man.
What pisses me off is that there is NO FUCKING WAY that "Running Man" would EVER be properly adapted now. I won't say anything more than "9/11," to avoid spoilers
"Over the past 15 years, such companies as Sega, NEC, SNK and most recently cell phone giant Nokia have launched nine competing portable game systems without much success."
What other systems are they counting here? Or are they just leaving out a few companies? In which case the the only US-released system I can think of, of any note, is the Tiger Game.Com. I suppose the Wonder Swan and Wonder Swan color (no US release, correct?) would bring it to 9, but if we're going to count those three, what about the GP32?
Thing is, I'm willing to pay even though I can get it for free (especially since I've still yet to see a p2p system which is anything more than hit or miss when it comes to less popular stuff...if a pay system can include more obscure types of music, I would DEFINITELY pay a premium for it)...I'm willing to pay MONEY. I'm willing to pay a LITTLE convenience. But I am NOT willing to pay either the ability to shop around for what I want (because NO ONE has it all), and I am NOT willing to pay the inconvenience it would take to install and set up accounts for every service I might otherwise be interested in.
Maybe that means I'm not willing to pay ENOUGH. I wish people would look more at what they're really paying for things, beyond the monetary price. Not even the costs that are passed off on others, but what they're personally, at the time of purchase, giving up.
whenever someone would ask me what they should put as their password when I set up an account for them, I would tell them "Use the name of a dead pet." If it's not a common name, or a dictionary word, it's perfect. It's easy to remember, and hard for any but a handful of people to guess.
I would have bought a Net MD if it would allow you to burn MP3s directly to it. (Even if you couldn't do digital transfers back the other way) I was about to buy one before I read that it requires you to convert it to their proprietary format, and that it can take about a minute per song. I had a MDLP recorder (it got stolen), and it was awesome, NetMD sounded better.
I had to read this information on the web, because nowhere in the little Sony store display, or on the package of one such recorder, did I see any mention of their proprietary format, or the time it would take to record.
Fucking....Bastards.
DRM, especially DRM that the company selling it is trying to control, seems to always becoming at the expense of convenience for the user.
All these services requiring their own software, or even their own devices...or at least strongly discouraging using anything else...
I'm sorry, but I can't help but say anything but "fuck you!" to all that.
If they can make their DRM work just fine with winamp, and not require me to have any special software to use their site, I might be able to deal with it.
You might try and compare it to online games, but most of those, you get the game and the rest is pretty much automatic. It's more like if Amazon and Barnes and Noble required you to use their own proprietary browsers to shop their web sites.
It might be MEANT to be a pain in the ass to make it harder to switch to a competitor...but the first site that can keep out of court and turn a profit while using nothing more than a web browser, will be the one who can REALLY take on Apple.
What does this limit translate to in frames-per-second?
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I'm sure this sort of class isn't WORTHLESS, especially for people who wouldn't learn anything from a more technical science class, or a physics student just looking for a few laughs. I just hope it doesn't satisfy the baccalaureate core requirements at that school.
Film students should be required to take classes like this. THAT would make it really meaningful.
Just digitally remaster it, then record it on the best analog you can find. You get most of the quality, and all the durability...all you lose is the convenience, really.
How about pricing CDs by the number of LISTENABLE songs? So say, any CD by KMFDM would be no more than 6 dollars because there are never more than 2 songs that could actually be called music on them. White Zombie's "La Sexorcisto" would be about 30 dollars, while "Astro Creep" would be about 9 bucks. And all rap would be free.
The simplest legislative solution would be to legalize the killing of spammers. I envision an eviscerated corpse, strangled with networking cable, with a can of spam kicked into it's mouth, the teeth smashed to shards.
Of course, the complication would come in proving that the victim was a spammer. But once that's covered, it should be justifyable homicide.
Not only do the professors pick books not having to pay for them, they also, when possible, will select books written by their friends. (this further fucks up the works, because they aren't even selecting a book because they think it's the best.)
And then there's the fact that, for subjects like Math, particularly, someone who knows the material backward and forward is a terrible judge of what is best for learning that subject.
Simmons calculus (big brown 90 dollar textbook) has a lot of interesting sidebars, but the main meat of the textbook jumps all over the place and is at times impossible to follow. 3 wasted semesters with that textbook. If i'd started my college calc classes a semester earlier, I'd have been using the same one I used in high school, Thomas & Finney...2/3 the size, 2/3 the price, and just BETTER.
But some math professors thought interesting bells and whistles were more important than readable instructions.
They did eventually ditch that book. But not before I sold it for 65 dollars. (so it wasn't such a bad deal after all)
People who ADMIT to drug use can still get clearances. (well, certain levels of drug use) I'm betting that "drug related offenses" here would be either committed under the influence of drugs (rather than mere drug use) or stuff that they found out about even though you didn't say anything.
On-base perhaps -- not in normal establishments. And that's not the point. How nice of them to allow me to drink after they draft me.
No, you cannot.
Some bars may allow you to, but I don't know of any state where that's actually legal, and I KNOW you cannot drink underage on a military post. (I am at a military post, surrounded by underage people, with a sign out in front of my unit's HQ stating how long it's been since the last DUI or Underage Drinking incident). The military comes down hard on people for drinking underage.
I suspect the only thing that could change that WOULD be reinstating the draft.
How many of these lawsuits are on patents which would have to be many years old (or just stupid patents with truckloads of prior art), and only come up once the company being sued for the alleged infringement is successful? These patent holders never intend to make anything, they just let someone else do the actual work and then try and shake some money out of them.
Assuming the patent wasn't bullshit to begin with.
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That kind of crap got you marked way down in my high school chem and physics classes.
If i were older than the guy I'd be saying something along the lines of "What are they teaching kids these days?"
What kind of a pervert do they hire for that job? They can't exactly go put an ad in the classifieds. "We're looking for a few good pedophiles."
The RIAA is not a monopoly, it is a cartel. There is a difference. (Easier for a cartel to be legal, harder for it to get away with doing anything?)
And AFAIK, it isn't government-mandated, either. It's just big and powerful enough to get the government to do what it wants sometimes. As in, more often than you can.
There are still many, many legacy applications for the caps lock key out there. They are all boring and work-related. Just because it's useless for IRC and Halflife, doesn't mean it should be done away with.
They are going about it ass-backwards...a lot of people are interested in the smart roadster...how many are clamoring for the regular smart car?
Yeah, and supercomputing facilties tend to have a lot of it.
a few years ago, a hijacked supercomputer could sendout those 3 million spams in way less time than an hour. Today, it would be even less still.
(I know about an incident...)
Good fucking god, lets hope it's more Blade Runner than Running Man.
What pisses me off is that there is NO FUCKING WAY that "Running Man" would EVER be properly adapted now. I won't say anything more than "9/11," to avoid spoilers
Kinda like "Rage" and Columbine.
Some university departments run on email. If you don't deliver reliably, you could create chaos in some classes.
"Over the past 15 years, such companies as Sega, NEC, SNK and most recently cell phone giant Nokia have launched nine competing portable game systems without much success."
Game Gear, Nomad; Turbo Express; Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color; NGage.
What other systems are they counting here? Or are they just leaving out a few companies? In which case the the only US-released system I can think of, of any note, is the Tiger Game.Com. I suppose the Wonder Swan and Wonder Swan color (no US release, correct?) would bring it to 9, but if we're going to count those three, what about the GP32?
Am I forgetting anything?
Running Mozilla makes *MY* box (just about) invincible...at least in this regard. Doesn't do jack for boxes that other people use.
PEBCAK.
Thing is, I'm willing to pay even though I can get it for free (especially since I've still yet to see a p2p system which is anything more than hit or miss when it comes to less popular stuff...if a pay system can include more obscure types of music, I would DEFINITELY pay a premium for it)...I'm willing to pay MONEY. I'm willing to pay a LITTLE convenience. But I am NOT willing to pay either the ability to shop around for what I want (because NO ONE has it all), and I am NOT willing to pay the inconvenience it would take to install and set up accounts for every service I might otherwise be interested in.
Maybe that means I'm not willing to pay ENOUGH. I wish people would look more at what they're really paying for things, beyond the monetary price. Not even the costs that are passed off on others, but what they're personally, at the time of purchase, giving up.
whenever someone would ask me what they should put as their password when I set up an account for them, I would tell them "Use the name of a dead pet." If it's not a common name, or a dictionary word, it's perfect. It's easy to remember, and hard for any but a handful of people to guess.
I would have bought a Net MD if it would allow you to burn MP3s directly to it. (Even if you couldn't do digital transfers back the other way) I was about to buy one before I read that it requires you to convert it to their proprietary format, and that it can take about a minute per song. I had a MDLP recorder (it got stolen), and it was awesome, NetMD sounded better.
I had to read this information on the web, because nowhere in the little Sony store display, or on the package of one such recorder, did I see any mention of their proprietary format, or the time it would take to record.
Fucking....Bastards.
DRM, especially DRM that the company selling it is trying to control, seems to always becoming at the expense of convenience for the user.
All these services requiring their own software, or even their own devices...or at least strongly discouraging using anything else...
I'm sorry, but I can't help but say anything but "fuck you!" to all that.
If they can make their DRM work just fine with winamp, and not require me to have any special software to use their site, I might be able to deal with it.
You might try and compare it to online games, but most of those, you get the game and the rest is pretty much automatic. It's more like if Amazon and Barnes and Noble required you to use their own proprietary browsers to shop their web sites.
It might be MEANT to be a pain in the ass to make it harder to switch to a competitor...but the first site that can keep out of court and turn a profit while using nothing more than a web browser, will be the one who can REALLY take on Apple.
What does this limit translate to in frames-per-second?
I'm sure this sort of class isn't WORTHLESS, especially for people who wouldn't learn anything from a more technical science class, or a physics student just looking for a few laughs. I just hope it doesn't satisfy the baccalaureate core requirements at that school.
Film students should be required to take classes like this. THAT would make it really meaningful.
Just digitally remaster it, then record it on the best analog you can find. You get most of the quality, and all the durability...all you lose is the convenience, really.
How about pricing CDs by the number of LISTENABLE songs? So say, any CD by KMFDM would be no more than 6 dollars because there are never more than 2 songs that could actually be called music on them. White Zombie's "La Sexorcisto" would be about 30 dollars, while "Astro Creep" would be about 9 bucks. And all rap would be free.
Why would that not be fun? Where's the fun if there's no struggle? I'll bet you always cheat when you play computer games, huh?
The simplest legislative solution would be to legalize the killing of spammers. I envision an eviscerated corpse, strangled with networking cable, with a can of spam kicked into it's mouth, the teeth smashed to shards.
Of course, the complication would come in proving that the victim was a spammer. But once that's covered, it should be justifyable homicide.
Not only do the professors pick books not having to pay for them, they also, when possible, will select books written by their friends. (this further fucks up the works, because they aren't even selecting a book because they think it's the best.)
And then there's the fact that, for subjects like Math, particularly, someone who knows the material backward and forward is a terrible judge of what is best for learning that subject.
Simmons calculus (big brown 90 dollar textbook) has a lot of interesting sidebars, but the main meat of the textbook jumps all over the place and is at times impossible to follow. 3 wasted semesters with that textbook. If i'd started my college calc classes a semester earlier, I'd have been using the same one I used in high school, Thomas & Finney...2/3 the size, 2/3 the price, and just BETTER.
But some math professors thought interesting bells and whistles were more important than readable instructions.
They did eventually ditch that book. But not before I sold it for 65 dollars. (so it wasn't such a bad deal after all)
People who ADMIT to drug use can still get clearances. (well, certain levels of drug use) I'm betting that "drug related offenses" here would be either committed under the influence of drugs (rather than mere drug use) or stuff that they found out about even though you didn't say anything.
On-base perhaps -- not in normal establishments. And that's not the point. How nice of them to allow me to drink after they draft me.
No, you cannot.
Some bars may allow you to, but I don't know of any state where that's actually legal, and I KNOW you cannot drink underage on a military post. (I am at a military post, surrounded by underage people, with a sign out in front of my unit's HQ stating how long it's been since the last DUI or Underage Drinking incident). The military comes down hard on people for drinking underage.
I suspect the only thing that could change that WOULD be reinstating the draft.
How many of these lawsuits are on patents which would have to be many years old (or just stupid patents with truckloads of prior art), and only come up once the company being sued for the alleged infringement is successful? These patent holders never intend to make anything, they just let someone else do the actual work and then try and shake some money out of them.
Assuming the patent wasn't bullshit to begin with.