Not only that but when you DO encode those CDs you have all that extra room to go for Apple Lossless.
Top it off with backing up gigabytes of data off of your hard drive (my digital camera photo archive for one) and you've filled your hard drive faster then you can download your favorite song off of Kazaa.
Pair it with the Radioshark and a bunch of podcast streams and you'll be wishing you had the 60gb iPod photo!
I'm assuming these people ALSO had a Steam account and perhaps the steam client searched their hard drive ala Halo2 for pirated HL2 copy and blam, BANZORED! Either that or I read in the comments on StooFoo that it was possible to get playable HL2 off of Steam and play it without paying.
In either case, suddenly thousands of counterstrike players can no longer play counterstrike, even thought hey bought THAT legitimately. Can Valve take AWAY your legitimate game for pirating ANOTHER game?
Right and since/. has been keeping up with FTTP its kinda the latest chapter in the saga/etc.
Really though in alot of ways its the county's fault-- Verizon says the maps of the underground stuff are innaccurate/etc. Then again it should teach Verizon a lesson-- never trust the documentation when it comes to digging! Get that ground penetrating radar or other things that were mentioned in the comments and make your OWN map and THEN SELL IT BACK TO THE COUNTY.
You are right, backhoe outages and the like are nothing new.
But can you find me an example in your Google searches of something as interesting as the fiber to the premises technology deployment causing these problems and THEN the problems being SO BAD that they were covered by major media outlets and then the deployment was BLOCKED by a government agency? What about one involving moving minivans being swallowed by sinkholes and video of cars in other such sinkholes?
When I woke up this morning and saw the headline "County to Verizon: Stop deploying Fiber" or whatever I knew it was a Slashdot story, apparently the editors agree with me:)
But basically yes its a culmination of all the audio files, in order, and includes screenshots of webpages and other relevant stuff. I'm still DLing the DVD (on hour 25 now, but I've uploaded 3.5gb to the cause atleast).
Hope that webpage helps you on your decision to invest the time to dl this thing. Get it while its hot and seeded!
Indeed- Hams have already created a vast wireless network that will allow you to jump on the net wirelessly with better coverage then Verizon has to offer up...ok maybe not:)
I beleive there was recently an FCC ruling that said you could check your personal net email through digital modes or something like that.
Now, the bandwidth isn't so fat, but hams provide this service free if your licensed:) Of course, the equipment isn't free but thats another matter:)
Originally my submitted story began "Attention Neal Stephenson!" The link pointed to the/. interview where he mentions that he is a fan of I Love Bees.
I guess the editors actually DO edit story submissions, despite the volume of comments suggesting otherwise:) Cool stuff.
They didn't pay me anything and I am not affiliated with I Love Bees/etc:P
I was just surprised that this hadn't been posted to/. (another poster pointed out that its has been out for a few days and I acknowledged that with "recently announced") so I threw the story in to the submit queue after seeing it posted on Shacknews.
The bigger news is that this is, to my knowledge, the first time a mass produced DVD has been allowed to be distributed electronically in its entirety. The fact that the creators endorsed Bittorrent is yet another story in and of itself.
Instead of working on Duke Nu^H^H^H^H-- Good Ol' George B chimed in the yesterday regarding this article and said "There's a lot of truth in there, especially when talking about large scale, corporate game development, which is most of it these days."
Although the company is in negotiations for the license of another game, the trio said it is no secret that they want to develop the sequel to "Sam and Max" or something like it. An online petition in support of the canceled game incited the company's launch, they said.
"When we saw the petition and how upset people were, we knew we had to start Telltale Games," Bruner said.
LucasArts has a license for the game from the comic book's creator, Steve Purcell. That license expires in May, at which point Connors said he hopes to strike a deal with Purcell.
Purcell could not be reached for comment, nor could LucasArts spokeswoman Anne Marie Stein.
Seriously, I believe it would be trivial for some of the more hardcore engineers here to
1. Encode sound of JPEG being transmitted over a MODEM into MP3 2. Decode MP3 played back through iPod into a device the size of an iTrip that reencodes the MODEM sounds into NTSC signals for your TV 3. ???? 4. Profit!
On the surface your argument seems to make sense until you realize that the "big-name stars" are not the ones who get burned when you copy a DVD. The DVD gets burned, not them:P
No seriously, the MOVIE STUDIOS are the ones who are going ape shit on enforcement because they are the ones who stand to lose the most, whereas the stars are mostly paid BEFORE THE MOVIE EVER HITS THE THEATRE.
In fact IIRC there have been several big name stars and indeed directors who have come out AGAINST the current state of "copyright affairs" and the way the MPAA polices it. Now the MPAA has not been nearly as vicious as the RIAA, but the point is that MOST big name stars/artists are not all like Lars Ulrich.
Shi, even Lars Ulrich isn't like Lars Ulrich, check it
In other words, the President may not be able to *make* the changes himself, but he is able to SET THE DEBATE and this is a power in and of itself.
That and the whole commander in chief thing, appointing judges and other government officials, running foreign relations, etc makes it such that the President has the capability of really shaping and molding the federal government from top to bottom. Of course there is this whole bureaucratic thing that they have to get around.
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Here's to you, Mr. Obvious Joke Explainer. (Mr. Obvious Joke Explainer!)
Without you, the half-wits of the world just wouldn't understand the humor on/. (Wouldn't have a cluee-eeee!)
They'd spend hours searching the net for an explanation and might end up killing themselves in frustration. (One less moron in the worrrld!)
But thanks to you they can pretend to have gotten the joke from the beginning like the rest of us. (Wasn't that funnayyyyy!)
So crack open an ice-cold Bud Light, Mr. Obvious Joke Explainer-- You know that not everyone gets the obscure/. jokes and you know how to ruin the humor for the rest of us! (Mr. Obvious Joke Explainerrrrrr!)
Hah! I wonder how long Valve'll let one go or if they even care. I suppose they do since they have kept up the fight with CS, but this CS:S development is interesting.
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Not only that but when you DO encode those CDs you have all that extra room to go for Apple Lossless.
Top it off with backing up gigabytes of data off of your hard drive (my digital camera photo archive for one) and you've filled your hard drive faster then you can download your favorite song off of Kazaa.
Pair it with the Radioshark and a bunch of podcast streams and you'll be wishing you had the 60gb iPod photo!
Right?
Sorry to say but spyware on the mac has already reared its ugly head.
Its only a matter of time before they infect my iPod too!! AIEEEE
Damn really? I thought their router they provided did all the properitary work and then anything that could get an IP via DHCP was good to go!
Huh.
I'm assuming these people ALSO had a Steam account and perhaps the steam client searched their hard drive ala Halo2 for pirated HL2 copy and blam, BANZORED! Either that or I read in the comments on StooFoo that it was possible to get playable HL2 off of Steam and play it without paying.
In either case, suddenly thousands of counterstrike players can no longer play counterstrike, even thought hey bought THAT legitimately. Can Valve take AWAY your legitimate game for pirating ANOTHER game?
Hmmmm.
Why not 2 way satellite?
http://hns.getdway.com/ for example.
Or do they not meet the fabled "clear view of the southern sky" requirement?
Right and since /. has been keeping up with FTTP its kinda the latest chapter in the saga/etc.
Really though in alot of ways its the county's fault-- Verizon says the maps of the underground stuff are innaccurate/etc. Then again it should teach Verizon a lesson-- never trust the documentation when it comes to digging! Get that ground penetrating radar or other things that were mentioned in the comments and make your OWN map and THEN SELL IT BACK TO THE COUNTY.
am i rite?
You are right, backhoe outages and the like are nothing new.
:)
But can you find me an example in your Google searches of something as interesting as the fiber to the premises technology deployment causing these problems and THEN the problems being SO BAD that they were covered by major media outlets and then the deployment was BLOCKED by a government agency? What about one involving moving minivans being swallowed by sinkholes and video of cars in other such sinkholes?
When I woke up this morning and saw the headline "County to Verizon: Stop deploying Fiber" or whatever I knew it was a Slashdot story, apparently the editors agree with me
Hope this has cleared up your question sir.
Mad Magazine is notorious for this, but now that I thinl about it they were probably just parodying this style the whole time.
:)
It does make me laugh though whenever I see this type of stuff and so did your post
Here is what you seek- They go over all the items on the DVD in semi-detail.
But basically yes its a culmination of all the audio files, in order, and includes screenshots of webpages and other relevant stuff. I'm still DLing the DVD (on hour 25 now, but I've uploaded 3.5gb to the cause atleast).
Hope that webpage helps you on your decision to invest the time to dl this thing. Get it while its hot and seeded!
Indeed- Hams have already created a vast wireless network that will allow you to jump on the net wirelessly with better coverage then Verizon has to offer up...ok maybe not :)
:) Of course, the equipment isn't free but thats another matter :)
I beleive there was recently an FCC ruling that said you could check your personal net email through digital modes or something like that.
Now, the bandwidth isn't so fat, but hams provide this service free if your licensed
Originally my submitted story began "Attention Neal Stephenson!" The link pointed to the /. interview where he mentions that he is a fan of I Love Bees.
:) Cool stuff.
I guess the editors actually DO edit story submissions, despite the volume of comments suggesting otherwise
They didn't pay me anything and I am not affiliated with I Love Bees/etc :P
/. (another poster pointed out that its has been out for a few days and I acknowledged that with "recently announced") so I threw the story in to the submit queue after seeing it posted on Shacknews.
I was just surprised that this hadn't been posted to
The bigger news is that this is, to my knowledge, the first time a mass produced DVD has been allowed to be distributed electronically in its entirety. The fact that the creators endorsed Bittorrent is yet another story in and of itself.
Right?
Bahhaha!
:)
Not only that but I missed the "chimed in the yesterday" thing.
Oh well, I never thought of George Bush as George B before. George B will always be synonymous with 3DRealms for me
Instead of working on Duke Nu^H^H^H^H-- Good Ol' George B chimed in the yesterday regarding this article and said "There's a lot of truth in there, especially when talking about large scale, corporate game development, which is most of it these days."
:(
Interesting
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/10/01/news_6109
And here's where it gets exicting, from the unofficial sam and max homepage:
Nintendo DS launches November 21st.
Some people already got their hands on one.
Woot!
the iPod Photo can also even output video via its own headphone jack with a special 1/8" AV cable
:P
You mean this cable?
I wonder if with the new iPod updater, I can play back photos on my 4G non photo iPod through that cable?
If not then this could still work I guess
What do you think this is?
:P
It just uses iTunes as the interface between iPhoto and the iPod.
iAmright
Now is the time you release your top secret "photo player" for the iPod.. you know the one I've been talking about???
Seriously, I believe it would be trivial for some of the more hardcore engineers here to
1. Encode sound of JPEG being transmitted over a MODEM into MP3
2. Decode MP3 played back through iPod into a device the size of an iTrip that reencodes the MODEM sounds into NTSC signals for your TV
3. ????
4. Profit!
Seriously. Griffin where are you!?
The alterslash graph confirms. Kinda neat too http://alterslash.org/img/sg_New_Star_Wars_DVD_for _Trivia_Buffs.png?
On the surface your argument seems to make sense until you realize that the "big-name stars" are not the ones who get burned when you copy a DVD. The DVD gets burned, not them :P
No seriously, the MOVIE STUDIOS are the ones who are going ape shit on enforcement because they are the ones who stand to lose the most, whereas the stars are mostly paid BEFORE THE MOVIE EVER HITS THE THEATRE.
In fact IIRC there have been several big name stars and indeed directors who have come out AGAINST the current state of "copyright affairs" and the way the MPAA polices it. Now the MPAA has not been nearly as vicious as the RIAA, but the point is that MOST big name stars/artists are not all like Lars Ulrich.
Shi, even Lars Ulrich isn't like Lars Ulrich, check it
In other words, the President may not be able to *make* the changes himself, but he is able to SET THE DEBATE and this is a power in and of itself.
:)
That and the whole commander in chief thing, appointing judges and other government officials, running foreign relations, etc makes it such that the President has the capability of really shaping and molding the federal government from top to bottom. Of course there is this whole bureaucratic thing that they have to get around.
Wikipedia does a good job covering these and other subtleties of the President's power. A must read for every American voter and/or the curious or concerned foreign citizen
(real men of genius)
Here's to you, Mr. Obvious Joke Explainer.
(Mr. Obvious Joke Explainer!)
Without you, the half-wits of the world just wouldn't understand the humor on
(Wouldn't have a cluee-eeee!)
They'd spend hours searching the net for an explanation and might end up killing themselves in frustration.
(One less moron in the worrrld!)
But thanks to you they can pretend to have gotten the joke from the beginning like the rest of us.
(Wasn't that funnayyyyy!)
So crack open an ice-cold Bud Light, Mr. Obvious Joke Explainer-- You know that not everyone gets the obscure
(Mr. Obvious Joke Explainerrrrrr!)
Hah! I wonder how long Valve'll let one go or if they even care. I suppose they do since they have kept up the fight with CS, but this CS:S development is interesting.
Hmm.
You are right, its easy enough to play CS:Lan, but most people buy CS for online play.
:P
Also we shouldn't forget CS: Condition Zero