This brings up an interesting point that I've been thinking about. I have around 150 CD's, and a LOT of them are scratched/damaged/broken, and a lot are lost (For instance, I had quite a few broken and lost due to a car accident recently).
If the RIAA is only concerned about "their intellectual property," then why must we pay twice for intellectual property we already "licensed" if our cd gets damaged? I guess the same would generally go for software as well, but I don't hear software manufacturers whining and suing their customers.
My main point here is that I think the record companies should allow us, if our cd was damaged, to bring it (or send it) somewhere, and have it replaced, maybe just for a shipping fee or the cost of the disc itself. If they would do this, I would definitely end my RIAA boycott.
The filter blocked probably around 80% of my files, and most of the ones it didn't block, I am surprised that it didn't.
It's no big deal that these pig-latin encoders and name-scramblers don't work or aren't available. If people just spend a bit of time and are creative, there are LOTS of filenames that will pass the filter!
For instance...I renamed this:
"Nirvana - In Utero - Rape Me.mp3"
to this:
"Nirvana - In Yootero - Have Your Way With Me.mp3"
another one would be this:
"Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon - Any Colour You Like.mp3"
to this:
"Pink Floyd - Daaark Side Of The Moooon - Any Color You Enjoy.mp3"
It's actually kinda fun...some of the filenames you can come up with can be pretty funny.
First of all, I want to say that not all schools are like this. I went through the CS program at MSU and can tell you that their program gives it's students quite a bit of opportunity to learn CE subjects. Now, I only went to one school, so I don't have much basis for comparison, but it seems like my education there was rather robust.
Second of all, if you're only a second-year CS student, then I think it's a bit premature for you to "attest to the fact that they train you t o be a code monkey." Of course they're gonna concentrate on teaching you how to code at first. Why? Because, first of all, you're busy taking the university-required liberal arts classes etc and are only taking like one CS course per semester anyway (instead of 2 or 3), and second of all because you can't write good code until you know how to write code.
Your post brings back some memories. I remember how happy I was that Christmas morning when I opened up my new Ultra Magnus. It was cool having a new pal for optimus. I also had Rodimus Prime at one point (I don't remember if he was ever in the show, but I think he was in the movie). I had the old Megatron and even Galvatron too. All of the above were obliterated by my brothers.:( Metroplex, otoh, I broke myself...though that was a very cool robot.
I'm still jealous over my brother's Omega Supreme...still in perfect condition. Man....I wish I still had all my old transformers....if this guy makes 10 grand selling his, I could have at least made 3 or 4.
Seriously...(sorry if people have posted about this a gillion times already). When I'm on my cell phone (nokia 6160) for over 5 minutes or so, my face and the whole arm I'm using to hold it start to hurt....a burning sensation I guess. And it lasts for awhile after I get off the phone, too. How about SKIN cancer? How come nobody ever mentions that??
And my eye on the side of my head where I hold the phone often starts hurting, too. *shudder*
This is great! My mice take so much abuse (due largely to the cheating lucky jerks who somehow always manage to kill me in quake 2 and half life)...I get so angry, and the mouse is the first thing I can think of to bash my fist on. I actually got in trouble at work for it.:)
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
I wish michigan were in a habitable zone. Water only exists as snow here.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
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I just bought it last week...it's actually a belated graduation present for myself too.
New parts for a new system. GHz Athlon...would you believe those things are in the $300 range already? Got one of those 32 meg DDR Radeons from ATI...bought it for $290, then realized I got ripped off, took it back and bought one for $200 elsewhere. SBLive Platinum 5.1....VERY nice. 21" monitor...man...I got lots of nice hardware in this machine.
Man...I need to cut work so I can go home and be with it...my baby...
What was the topic again?
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
So where's our disagreement? I think these station managers *are* complete morons in many cases. I have grown so disenchanted with radio lately (and I am not the only one), because I can drive the 30-minute drive home from work and not hear 2 full songs. That is no exaggeration. And quite frankly, I don't know anyone that listens to radio over the internet...besides for the people that do when they first find out about it until the novelty wears off.
Maybe I'm wrong though. I just know that any more and I'll not even bother. Sometimes I don't know why I do still bother.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
I'm talking about stations that are already webcasting. They're going to take not a net loss, but a relative one. They'll be netting less profit than they were before they had to pay this fee. Unless they transfer the difference directly to the people that advertise on their stations, then they're still gonna have a relative loss. So they can either eat it or sell more advertisements. So, maybe they're more likely to eat it? I don't know about that. I know that in the last 5 years I have heard a humongous increase in the number of commercials I hear. I remember back when usually 4 out of 6 stations would be playing music at any one time. Now I'm lucky if it's 2.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
Not for stations that have already been doing it though. They are not likely to increase their internet audience by paying this fee. So, the net difference between how they are now and how they'll be once they start paying the fee is that they're going to be paying more than they are now. So, they're not going to want to just take a loss on this, are they? Probably not. More ads.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
does that mean we'll have to listen to 50 minutes of beer commecrials every hour instead of 45, so they can afford the fees? Or will advertisements make up 99% or their websites load-time instead of 90%?
Maybe instead of playing less songs to make room for more ads, they'll do less of the "xx.x fm...your ONLY new rock/alternative/whatever station"...or maybe they'll stop wasting the 15 minutes every hour they spend telling us about their commercial-free-14-song-blocks?
Cripes, I hate radio stations these days.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
Maybe this is getting a bit OT, but this post reminds me of active desktop on windows....what a piece of crap. I've known jillions of windows users, and never have I known anyone to use active desktop. Talk about a useless slow-down of everything. Some might say the same for windows itself.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
Just to clarify my above post: I realize that if you dial the area code for a local call, it doesn't charge you. My point is that with the new system you might think you're making a local call when it's actually toll.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
The system doesn't quite work like it used to, but the first 3 numbers is the exchange, which used to relate directly to a building somehwere nearby where all the physical phone lines for all the numbers with that exchange connected. So, each that's why many people in the same area will have similar numbers. They've changed it though (obviuosly), so this isn't the case everywhere.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
I'm not upset at having to remember my area code or dial the extra numbers. I just don't like that it will be harder to tell whether you're dialing a local, local toll, or long distance call. In my area, there are about 5 area codes within a half-hours driving distance of here, and many same-area-code calls are long distance, or local toll, or whatever. Well, I don't want to pay for long distance if I don't have to, right? So I try it without the area code first, and if it tells me to dial the area code, then I know it's a toll call. With the new system, unless I'm missing something, it wouldn't work that way.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
Ha...that's funny. *sigh*...I miss my college days (ended this past May)...100 Mbps ethernet was truly eggsellent. I remember transferring files between a computer lab and the computer in my dorm room via ftp I actually saw the data rate get up to 60 Mbps...the highest I ever saw.
Those were the days. Of course, my connection at work isn't so bad, so I can't complain.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
Is this supposed to be $1,000 a month for a home user? I don't know how many home users are going to fork out that much money. $12,000 a year...that's a lot. That's more than my rent and car payments combined. I hope they had more in mind than this when they set up their "fiber optic network across the US."
On the other hand, if this were available (and I were willing to pay), I wouldn't have to waste my time and money with a measley T1.
It's probably not an issue for me anyway...the Detroit area seems like it's always the last major metropolitan area to get anything like that. Yep, just checked...no detroit as usual.
I guess I can cope with my $40/month cable modem.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
Okay, it's late and I'm tired and not feeling well, so feel free to mod this down if you like, but the mere thought of LaTeX makes me want to hurl. Erk...use it instead of html? Bleah...*running to bathroom*
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
Well, I HATE to agree with this, but I kinda have to. At least to say IE's better than netscape anyway. Since the 4.0's have been out, ns has fallen way behind. Remember the days when we laughed when somebody mentioned IE? Now (as a devloper), I hate netscape. Just about everyone at my work feels the same way too. I had really high hopes for mozilla and ns6, but I've tried the new ns6 and I've been trying the mozilla builds, and I am pretty disappointed. IE actually does what I want it to. NS is just a pain.
I still like netscape in general, and I use it as my default browser. But from a development standpoint, I really wish it'd come around and at least try to do what IE can do.
I'm not in bed with m$ or anything...don't get me wrong. A lot of things about IE irritate me, as a user, not as a developer. This is why ns is still my default browser.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
AMD's stock seems to be at it's lowest in a long time....other than that, I would probably agree. Seems like every time I look at slashdot there's another story about intel having problems with something.
If I were into stock, I would probably buy some AMD right about now...it's got to get higher from here.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
Would these come with an anti-glare shield? I get headaches after staring at a monitor for a long time. I wouldn't want to get a headache just by looking at *anything*. Of course, rebooting every time I wanted to see more colors would be quite a headache, too.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
I had flextime at my last job at americrap, and it was great. All the other people were FORCED to show up at 6:45, but I could come in as late as 8:30. We could also take a long lunch, and go to lunch whenever we wanted! (The "normal" people had to take a half-hour lunch at 11:30.) I have flextime at my current job too, and I absolutely love it! I think it's great for employee morale (not having to worry if you get stuck in traffic, for instance). It's also good for the employee-boss relationship (not having to deal with the "I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU ONE MORE TIME AND YOUR FIRED!!!!" crap).
We have a window of about 2 and a half hours in which we can show up, and most people show up within a 1 hour window anyway, so it really *isn't* an inconvenience to the workplace.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
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This brings up an interesting point that I've been thinking about. I have around 150 CD's, and a LOT of them are scratched/damaged/broken, and a lot are lost (For instance, I had quite a few broken and lost due to a car accident recently).
If the RIAA is only concerned about "their intellectual property," then why must we pay twice for intellectual property we already "licensed" if our cd gets damaged? I guess the same would generally go for software as well, but I don't hear software manufacturers whining and suing their customers.
My main point here is that I think the record companies should allow us, if our cd was damaged, to bring it (or send it) somewhere, and have it replaced, maybe just for a shipping fee or the cost of the disc itself. If they would do this, I would definitely end my RIAA boycott.
Time is fun when you're having flies.
The filter blocked probably around 80% of my files, and most of the ones it didn't block, I am surprised that it didn't.
It's no big deal that these pig-latin encoders and name-scramblers don't work or aren't available. If people just spend a bit of time and are creative, there are LOTS of filenames that will pass the filter!
For instance...I renamed this:
"Nirvana - In Utero - Rape Me.mp3"
to this:
"Nirvana - In Yootero - Have Your Way With Me.mp3"
another one would be this:
"Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon - Any Colour You Like.mp3"
to this:
"Pink Floyd - Daaark Side Of The Moooon - Any Color You Enjoy.mp3"
It's actually kinda fun...some of the filenames you can come up with can be pretty funny.
Time is fun when you're having flies.
First of all, I want to say that not all schools are like this. I went through the CS program at MSU and can tell you that their program gives it's students quite a bit of opportunity to learn CE subjects. Now, I only went to one school, so I don't have much basis for comparison, but it seems like my education there was rather robust.
Second of all, if you're only a second-year CS student, then I think it's a bit premature for you to "attest to the fact that they train you t o be a code monkey." Of course they're gonna concentrate on teaching you how to code at first. Why? Because, first of all, you're busy taking the university-required liberal arts classes etc and are only taking like one CS course per semester anyway (instead of 2 or 3), and second of all because you can't write good code until you know how to write code.
Time is fun when you're having flies.
Your post brings back some memories. I remember how happy I was that Christmas morning when I opened up my new Ultra Magnus. It was cool having a new pal for optimus. I also had Rodimus Prime at one point (I don't remember if he was ever in the show, but I think he was in the movie). I had the old Megatron and even Galvatron too. All of the above were obliterated by my brothers. :( Metroplex, otoh, I broke myself...though that was a very cool robot.
I'm still jealous over my brother's Omega Supreme...still in perfect condition. Man....I wish I still had all my old transformers....if this guy makes 10 grand selling his, I could have at least made 3 or 4.
Seriously...(sorry if people have posted about this a gillion times already). When I'm on my cell phone (nokia 6160) for over 5 minutes or so, my face and the whole arm I'm using to hold it start to hurt....a burning sensation I guess. And it lasts for awhile after I get off the phone, too. How about SKIN cancer? How come nobody ever mentions that??
And my eye on the side of my head where I hold the phone often starts hurting, too. *shudder*
I saw a picture the other day in some story that showed this woman letting her dog piss on it. Would that enhance the dog's iq?
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This is great! My mice take so much abuse (due largely to the cheating lucky jerks who somehow always manage to kill me in quake 2 and half life)...I get so angry, and the mouse is the first thing I can think of to bash my fist on. I actually got in trouble at work for it. :)
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
I wish michigan were in a habitable zone. Water only exists as snow here.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
I just bought it last week...it's actually a belated graduation present for myself too.
New parts for a new system. GHz Athlon...would you believe those things are in the $300 range already? Got one of those 32 meg DDR Radeons from ATI...bought it for $290, then realized I got ripped off, took it back and bought one for $200 elsewhere. SBLive Platinum 5.1....VERY nice. 21" monitor...man...I got lots of nice hardware in this machine.
Man...I need to cut work so I can go home and be with it...my baby...
What was the topic again?
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
So where's our disagreement? I think these station managers *are* complete morons in many cases. I have grown so disenchanted with radio lately (and I am not the only one), because I can drive the 30-minute drive home from work and not hear 2 full songs. That is no exaggeration. And quite frankly, I don't know anyone that listens to radio over the internet...besides for the people that do when they first find out about it until the novelty wears off.
Maybe I'm wrong though. I just know that any more and I'll not even bother. Sometimes I don't know why I do still bother.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
I'm talking about stations that are already webcasting. They're going to take not a net loss, but a relative one. They'll be netting less profit than they were before they had to pay this fee. Unless they transfer the difference directly to the people that advertise on their stations, then they're still gonna have a relative loss. So they can either eat it or sell more advertisements. So, maybe they're more likely to eat it? I don't know about that. I know that in the last 5 years I have heard a humongous increase in the number of commercials I hear. I remember back when usually 4 out of 6 stations would be playing music at any one time. Now I'm lucky if it's 2.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
Not for stations that have already been doing it though. They are not likely to increase their internet audience by paying this fee. So, the net difference between how they are now and how they'll be once they start paying the fee is that they're going to be paying more than they are now. So, they're not going to want to just take a loss on this, are they? Probably not. More ads.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
does that mean we'll have to listen to 50 minutes of beer commecrials every hour instead of 45, so they can afford the fees? Or will advertisements make up 99% or their websites load-time instead of 90%?
Maybe instead of playing less songs to make room for more ads, they'll do less of the "xx.x fm...your ONLY new rock/alternative/whatever station"...or maybe they'll stop wasting the 15 minutes every hour they spend telling us about their commercial-free-14-song-blocks?
Cripes, I hate radio stations these days.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
Maybe this is getting a bit OT, but this post reminds me of active desktop on windows....what a piece of crap. I've known jillions of windows users, and never have I known anyone to use active desktop. Talk about a useless slow-down of everything. Some might say the same for windows itself.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
Just to clarify my above post: I realize that if you dial the area code for a local call, it doesn't charge you. My point is that with the new system you might think you're making a local call when it's actually toll.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
The system doesn't quite work like it used to, but the first 3 numbers is the exchange, which used to relate directly to a building somehwere nearby where all the physical phone lines for all the numbers with that exchange connected. So, each that's why many people in the same area will have similar numbers. They've changed it though (obviuosly), so this isn't the case everywhere.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
I'm not upset at having to remember my area code or dial the extra numbers. I just don't like that it will be harder to tell whether you're dialing a local, local toll, or long distance call. In my area, there are about 5 area codes within a half-hours driving distance of here, and many same-area-code calls are long distance, or local toll, or whatever. Well, I don't want to pay for long distance if I don't have to, right? So I try it without the area code first, and if it tells me to dial the area code, then I know it's a toll call. With the new system, unless I'm missing something, it wouldn't work that way.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
nope, not an nt server. war ftpd on windows 98
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
Ha...that's funny. *sigh*...I miss my college days (ended this past May)...100 Mbps ethernet was truly eggsellent. I remember transferring files between a computer lab and the computer in my dorm room via ftp I actually saw the data rate get up to 60 Mbps...the highest I ever saw.
Those were the days. Of course, my connection at work isn't so bad, so I can't complain.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
Is this supposed to be $1,000 a month for a home user? I don't know how many home users are going to fork out that much money. $12,000 a year...that's a lot. That's more than my rent and car payments combined. I hope they had more in mind than this when they set up their "fiber optic network across the US."
On the other hand, if this were available (and I were willing to pay), I wouldn't have to waste my time and money with a measley T1.
It's probably not an issue for me anyway...the Detroit area seems like it's always the last major metropolitan area to get anything like that. Yep, just checked...no detroit as usual.
I guess I can cope with my $40/month cable modem.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
Okay, it's late and I'm tired and not feeling well, so feel free to mod this down if you like, but the mere thought of LaTeX makes me want to hurl. Erk...use it instead of html? Bleah...*running to bathroom*
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
Well, I HATE to agree with this, but I kinda have to. At least to say IE's better than netscape anyway. Since the 4.0's have been out, ns has fallen way behind. Remember the days when we laughed when somebody mentioned IE? Now (as a devloper), I hate netscape. Just about everyone at my work feels the same way too. I had really high hopes for mozilla and ns6, but I've tried the new ns6 and I've been trying the mozilla builds, and I am pretty disappointed. IE actually does what I want it to. NS is just a pain.
I still like netscape in general, and I use it as my default browser. But from a development standpoint, I really wish it'd come around and at least try to do what IE can do.
I'm not in bed with m$ or anything...don't get me wrong. A lot of things about IE irritate me, as a user, not as a developer. This is why ns is still my default browser.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
AMD's stock seems to be at it's lowest in a long time....other than that, I would probably agree. Seems like every time I look at slashdot there's another story about intel having problems with something.
If I were into stock, I would probably buy some AMD right about now...it's got to get higher from here.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
Would these come with an anti-glare shield? I get headaches after staring at a monitor for a long time. I wouldn't want to get a headache just by looking at *anything*. Of course, rebooting every time I wanted to see more colors would be quite a headache, too.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."
I had flextime at my last job at americrap, and it was great. All the other people were FORCED to show up at 6:45, but I could come in as late as 8:30. We could also take a long lunch, and go to lunch whenever we wanted! (The "normal" people had to take a half-hour lunch at 11:30.) I have flextime at my current job too, and I absolutely love it! I think it's great for employee morale (not having to worry if you get stuck in traffic, for instance). It's also good for the employee-boss relationship (not having to deal with the "I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU ONE MORE TIME AND YOUR FIRED!!!!" crap).
We have a window of about 2 and a half hours in which we can show up, and most people show up within a 1 hour window anyway, so it really *isn't* an inconvenience to the workplace.
"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."