Its just another way for the government to legally launder money. They dump tax dollars into big pointless funds and they simply shave the top into their own pockets.
- If they say that they have documented the mating habits of the australian fruit fly on the third wednesday of July in every other leap year would you go and check?
Selling these items has been going on for years. A while ago people created duping programs to duplicate and sell hundreds of replicas of the same item. Some of these replicas sold for upwards of 600$. Most of these sellers spend 15-17hrs a day playing these games. If they were instead working, they would be making much much much more money. The fine print in the liscence agreement is a little hazy on the issue, it leaves these people a loophole to sell these items.
I think it's just amazing that people will pay over 1000 dollars for a couple of bytes on a computer in California.
I've posted this before, but it was late and I think it was missed. Just incase I'm reposting it just to get my thoughts out on the media sharing community.
My journey through music sharing.
It started with borrowing your friend's cd and ripping the big files to your hard drive.. Or copying it to a 4$ CD-R.
Then came the MP3, and password ftp sites came along with the endless run of phony music WebPages.
Then Napster came, I know there were a few before it, but Napster- worked... It was finally the perfect alternative to searching for FTP passwords or waiting in endless IRC lines.
It was great at first, you could throw around your George Carlin, Doors, or the newest Grateful Dead Re-Release. We were rarely bothered by a Jessica Simpson. Then the 10-13 year old girls discovered this magical service, suddenly they could click their friendly AOL 6.0 shoutcuts, open a cute little kitten, and listen to their "boy bands" through their gateway speakers and the magical Napster audio player.
It spread like a plague, every day more and more 98 degrees fans joined, using cute little symbolized usernames and their hotmail e-mail addresses. It was madness thousands and thousands of songs and servers bloated with them. Here comes the bad part, they told their friends, who in turn told their friends and they kept coming. Eventually their parents found out and eventually the record companies realized that the parents of this 12 year old don't have to go spend 21.95 on the newest 11 track cd, when they could let them simply download the music. This pissed off the record companies.
Napster Died
Then came Scour, and CuteMx.. Also died, almost no profit, could not fight the endless supply of lawsuits.
A few services came to try and fill the napster void, Napigator, Bearshare etc, all failed..
Then came Kazaa, it was great at first. Geeks could trade the newest excerpt of Linux source code, or the latest Avery Brooks IBM commercial. But like I expected: - two weeks later every girl scout with a Barbie computer and a brain powerful enough to spell download.com strolled in, flooded the service with N'SHIT and told all their 11 year old purse carrying friends that "It was just like napster" Goodbye Kazaa. Almost every 13 year old girl would come home after school fire up Windows Me, clear through the endless adds that pop up with their computer from all the crap they have downloaded. Open their Icq, MSN, YahooChat, Hotmail Mailboxes, and now Kazaa.
Turn on Kazaa, type in any of a hundred key words, street, oops, love... And your screen will be flooded with the endless lip-syncing remixes.
It's not all bad, we still have IRC, they cannot dominate that, they lack the brainpower. Anything that takes actual interface with other users, or requires a distant thought is out of their league. How often have you seen a person jump into a warez channel and yell "SOMEONE DCC ME THE NEWEST TIMBERLAKE REMIX." It won't happen.
I know I'm ranting, and I may be wrong, they're just trying to get some free songs the same way that I am. Regardless of music tastes, they do not contribute, the second they accidentally find the "Disable Sharing With Other Users" and put the D section of the encyclopedia back on the shelf. They stop sharing. Freeloaders. I also understand I may be biased, but I think the majority of the problem is coming from them, feel free to argue with me, I don't mind.. They don't actually contribute to the community, they just take. How many of them do you think have ripped and encoded a cd. How many of them do you think have ever run a free FTP?
I could go on and on with different rants and the problems with these people, I think I've written enough to be heard. These are just my thoughts.
Kevin Franklin
Windsor Ontario.
I am not an Atheist I believe in Dog.
It started with borrowing your friend's cd and ripping the big files to your hard drive.. Or copying it to a 4$ CD-R.
Then came the MP3, and password ftp sites came along with the endless run of phony music WebPages.
Then Napster came, I know there were a few before it, but Napster- worked... It was finally the perfect alternative to searching for FTP passwords or waiting in endless IRC lines.
It was great at first, you could throw around your George Carlin, Doors, or the newest Grateful Dead Re-Release. We were rarely bothered by a Jessica Simpson. Then the 10-13 year old girls discovered this magical service, suddenly they could click their friendly AOL 6.0 shoutcuts, open a cute little kitten, and listen to their "boy bands" through their gateway speakers and the magical Napster audio player.
It spread like a plague, every day more and more 98 degrees fans joined, using cute little symbolized usernames and their hotmail e-mail addresses. It was madness thousands and thousands of songs and servers bloated with them. Here comes the bad part, they told their friends, who in turn told their friends and they kept coming. Eventually their parents found out and eventually the record companies realized that the parents of this 12 year old don't have to go spend 21.95 on the newest 11 track cd, when they could let them simply download the music. This pissed off the record companies.
Napster Died
Then came Scour, and CuteMx.. Also died, almost no profit, could not fight the endless supply of lawsuits.
A few services came to try and fill the napster void, Napigator, Bearshare etc, all failed..
Then came Kazaa, it was great at first. Geeks could trade the newest excerpt of Linux source code, or the latest Avery Brooks IBM commercial. But like I expected: - two weeks later every girl scout with a Barbie computer and a brain powerful enough to spell download.com strolled in, flooded the service with N'SHIT and told all their 11 year old purse carrying friends that "It was just like napster" Goodbye Kazaa. Almost every 13 year old girl would come home after school fire up Windows Me, clear through the endless adds that pop up with their computer from all the crap they have downloaded. Open their Icq, MSN, YahooChat, Hotmail Mailboxes, and now Kazaa.
Turn on Kazaa, type in any of a hundred key words, street, oops, love... And your screen will be flooded with the endless lip-syncing remixes.
It's not all bad, we still have IRC, they cannot dominate that, they lack the brainpower. Anything that takes actual interface with other users, or requires a distant thought is out of their league. How often have you seen a person jump into a warez channel and yell "SOMEONE DCC ME THE NEWEST TIMBERLAKE REMIX." It won't happen.
I know I'm ranting, and I may be wrong, they're just trying to get some free songs the same way that I am. Regardless of music tastes, they do not contribute, the second they accidentally find the "Disable Sharing With Other Users" and put the D section of the encyclopedia back on the shelf. They stop sharing. Freeloaders. I also understand I may be biased, but I think the majority of the problem is coming from them, feel free to argue with me, I don't mind.. They don't actually contribute to the community, they just take. How many of them do you think have ripped and encoded a cd. How many of them do you think have ever run a free FTP?
I could go on and on with different rants and the problems with these people, I think I've written enough to be heard. These are just my thoughts.
If you ever get into a situation where you are trying to get your money back from a third party (ebay, playpal, bank etc) I reccommend you be honest. Make sure you don't slip in a little lie to try to make it eaiser to get your money, or a little more money. The last thing the third party wants to do is pay you, because it will most likely come out of their pocket if they cannot find the guy. Be honest, it is the best way to get your money and not be screwed.
Microsoft has been making big movements in the gaming industry. They just bought Bungie, the makers of the awaited game Halo. I'm sure that Halo is going to be a new title on the X-Box. Microsoft is also releasing Crimson Skies, Mechwarrior 4 and a host of other games driven by Ed Fries.
There will now be Four systems competing. It seems that the public usually likes a 2 system race.
At the beginning I expect the systems to be bouncing around for the first and second place spot. They all have great capabilities but it seems that the dreamcast is trailing without DVD. The X-Box will be the most powerful but there are too many playstation lovers out there. I think that the main system will be the Playstation 2, followed by X-Box, Dolphin and finally dreamcast.
Even though there are the monitor borders it would still be pretty cool, even at 20 fps. if he sat back and put the keyboard and mouse on a different table he could be able to see fine, (his mouse and keyboard were wireless by the way) I do agree thought that the monitor borders would be a pain, there's no way around that, after about 9 hours of deathmatching (providing you don't get motion sickness) you'd probably get used to it.
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Its just another way for the government to legally launder money. They dump tax dollars into big pointless funds and they simply shave the top into their own pockets.
- If they say that they have documented the mating habits of the australian fruit fly on the third wednesday of July in every other leap year would you go and check?
I wonder if Columbia house will start a 12 Mp3's for a penny campaign.
Why won't my windows key work?
Heres the form in PDF for anyone who's interested.
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http://www.angelfire.com/falcon/nevek/IEEE_FORM
Selling these items has been going on for years. A while ago people created duping programs to duplicate and sell hundreds of replicas of the same item. Some of these replicas sold for upwards of 600$. Most of these sellers spend 15-17hrs a day playing these games. If they were instead working, they would be making much much much more money. The fine print in the liscence agreement is a little hazy on the issue, it leaves these people a loophole to sell these items.
I think it's just amazing that people will pay over 1000 dollars for a couple of bytes on a computer in California.
Why can't they trim the commercials?
I've posted this before, but it was late and I think it was missed. Just incase I'm reposting it just to get my thoughts out on the media sharing community.
My journey through music sharing.
It started with borrowing your friend's cd and ripping the big files to your hard drive.. Or copying it to a 4$ CD-R.
Then came the MP3, and password ftp sites came along with the endless run of phony music WebPages.
Then Napster came, I know there were a few before it, but Napster- worked... It was finally the perfect alternative to searching for FTP passwords or waiting in endless IRC lines.
It was great at first, you could throw around your George Carlin, Doors, or the newest Grateful Dead Re-Release. We were rarely bothered by a Jessica Simpson. Then the 10-13 year old girls discovered this magical service, suddenly they could click their friendly AOL 6.0 shoutcuts, open a cute little kitten, and listen to their "boy bands" through their gateway speakers and the magical Napster audio player.
It spread like a plague, every day more and more 98 degrees fans joined, using cute little symbolized usernames and their hotmail e-mail addresses. It was madness thousands and thousands of songs and servers bloated with them. Here comes the bad part, they told their friends, who in turn told their friends and they kept coming. Eventually their parents found out and eventually the record companies realized that the parents of this 12 year old don't have to go spend 21.95 on the newest 11 track cd, when they could let them simply download the music. This pissed off the record companies.
Napster Died
Then came Scour, and CuteMx.. Also died, almost no profit, could not fight the endless supply of lawsuits.
A few services came to try and fill the napster void, Napigator, Bearshare etc, all failed..
Then came Kazaa, it was great at first. Geeks could trade the newest excerpt of Linux source code, or the latest Avery Brooks IBM commercial. But like I expected: - two weeks later every girl scout with a Barbie computer and a brain powerful enough to spell download.com strolled in, flooded the service with N'SHIT and told all their 11 year old purse carrying friends that "It was just like napster" Goodbye Kazaa. Almost every 13 year old girl would come home after school fire up Windows Me, clear through the endless adds that pop up with their computer from all the crap they have downloaded. Open their Icq, MSN, YahooChat, Hotmail Mailboxes, and now Kazaa.
Turn on Kazaa, type in any of a hundred key words, street, oops, love... And your screen will be flooded with the endless lip-syncing remixes.
It's not all bad, we still have IRC, they cannot dominate that, they lack the brainpower. Anything that takes actual interface with other users, or requires a distant thought is out of their league. How often have you seen a person jump into a warez channel and yell "SOMEONE DCC ME THE NEWEST TIMBERLAKE REMIX." It won't happen.
I know I'm ranting, and I may be wrong, they're just trying to get some free songs the same way that I am. Regardless of music tastes, they do not contribute, the second they accidentally find the "Disable Sharing With Other Users" and put the D section of the encyclopedia back on the shelf. They stop sharing. Freeloaders. I also understand I may be biased, but I think the majority of the problem is coming from them, feel free to argue with me, I don't mind.. They don't actually contribute to the community, they just take. How many of them do you think have ripped and encoded a cd. How many of them do you think have ever run a free FTP?
I could go on and on with different rants and the problems with these people, I think I've written enough to be heard. These are just my thoughts.
Kevin Franklin
Windsor Ontario.
I am not an Atheist I believe in Dog.
My journey through music sharing.
It started with borrowing your friend's cd and ripping the big files to your hard drive.. Or copying it to a 4$ CD-R.
Then came the MP3, and password ftp sites came along with the endless run of phony music WebPages.
Then Napster came, I know there were a few before it, but Napster- worked... It was finally the perfect alternative to searching for FTP passwords or waiting in endless IRC lines.
It was great at first, you could throw around your George Carlin, Doors, or the newest Grateful Dead Re-Release. We were rarely bothered by a Jessica Simpson. Then the 10-13 year old girls discovered this magical service, suddenly they could click their friendly AOL 6.0 shoutcuts, open a cute little kitten, and listen to their "boy bands" through their gateway speakers and the magical Napster audio player.
It spread like a plague, every day more and more 98 degrees fans joined, using cute little symbolized usernames and their hotmail e-mail addresses. It was madness thousands and thousands of songs and servers bloated with them. Here comes the bad part, they told their friends, who in turn told their friends and they kept coming. Eventually their parents found out and eventually the record companies realized that the parents of this 12 year old don't have to go spend 21.95 on the newest 11 track cd, when they could let them simply download the music. This pissed off the record companies.
Napster Died
Then came Scour, and CuteMx.. Also died, almost no profit, could not fight the endless supply of lawsuits.
A few services came to try and fill the napster void, Napigator, Bearshare etc, all failed..
Then came Kazaa, it was great at first. Geeks could trade the newest excerpt of Linux source code, or the latest Avery Brooks IBM commercial. But like I expected: - two weeks later every girl scout with a Barbie computer and a brain powerful enough to spell download.com strolled in, flooded the service with N'SHIT and told all their 11 year old purse carrying friends that "It was just like napster" Goodbye Kazaa. Almost every 13 year old girl would come home after school fire up Windows Me, clear through the endless adds that pop up with their computer from all the crap they have downloaded. Open their Icq, MSN, YahooChat, Hotmail Mailboxes, and now Kazaa.
Turn on Kazaa, type in any of a hundred key words, street, oops, love... And your screen will be flooded with the endless lip-syncing remixes.
It's not all bad, we still have IRC, they cannot dominate that, they lack the brainpower. Anything that takes actual interface with other users, or requires a distant thought is out of their league. How often have you seen a person jump into a warez channel and yell "SOMEONE DCC ME THE NEWEST TIMBERLAKE REMIX." It won't happen.
I know I'm ranting, and I may be wrong, they're just trying to get some free songs the same way that I am. Regardless of music tastes, they do not contribute, the second they accidentally find the "Disable Sharing With Other Users" and put the D section of the encyclopedia back on the shelf. They stop sharing. Freeloaders. I also understand I may be biased, but I think the majority of the problem is coming from them, feel free to argue with me, I don't mind.. They don't actually contribute to the community, they just take. How many of them do you think have ripped and encoded a cd. How many of them do you think have ever run a free FTP?
I could go on and on with different rants and the problems with these people, I think I've written enough to be heard. These are just my thoughts.
Kevin Franklin
Windsor Ontario.
If you ever get into a situation where you are trying to get your money back from a third party (ebay, playpal, bank etc) I reccommend you be honest. Make sure you don't slip in a little lie to try to make it eaiser to get your money, or a little more money. The last thing the third party wants to do is pay you, because it will most likely come out of their pocket if they cannot find the guy. Be honest, it is the best way to get your money and not be screwed.
Peter Molyneux Is A genius
I wonder if my sister's Arctic screensaver would finally work.
Even though there are the monitor borders it would still be pretty cool, even at 20 fps. if he sat back and put the keyboard and mouse on a different table he could be able to see fine, (his mouse and keyboard were wireless by the way) I do agree thought that the monitor borders would be a pain, there's no way around that, after about 9 hours of deathmatching (providing you don't get motion sickness) you'd probably get used to it.