Not to be a humorless eggsucker like the parent, but I actually enjoyed the post. The writer managed to get me to read a review of something I already own, and something I don't want to own, and to enjoy doing so.
My worry has nothing to do with aimbots or cheats. It has to do with all those dirty motherfuckers who haven't showered yet today, because they were too busy playing games online.
Seriously... it wouldn't even be a game if a normal person tried to play online, especially if it becomes possible to earn a subsistance wage via deathmatch. We'll just end up with a whole bunch of dirty-ass mofos sitting at home, making cash by killing normal people who made the mistake of thinking it might be fun.
Well, anymore we seem to have a few types of graphics people. We have the web graphics people. Any high-end modern machine is absolutely fine for them. Then there are the print people, most of them are fine with a fairly new machine of any sort as long as it has plenty of RAM. Yes, if they're a year behind the times there are a few actions which may take a few seconds longer, but those aren't the common operations anyway, so it doesn't matter. The things designers spend most of their time doing are still fast enough that they can be done before the designer figures out what to do next.
The only challenge anymore is getting the horsepower for the video editor who just loves retarded effects, or who isn't willing to invest in proper video editing hardware, and tries instead to do it with Adobe Premiere. The pros are using expensive hardware that can do what they want in near-realtime, it's only the people making music videos of their baby spitting up fifty times, or people who work for shit companies that have a problem.
No, it means that slashdot is making a big deal out of absolutely nothing at all.
The entire theory that Adobe is now "preferring" the PC platform is based on the fact that there's a page called pcpreferred.html on Adobe's site. A page that simply says 'looks like some stuff is faster on this here PC'.
The fact of the matter is that for most applications, both PCs and Macs are so damned fast that it doesn't matter which is faster, it matters which OS allows you to work more efficiently. Adobe's Mac support has shown no signs of trouble whatsoever. They continue to pump out simultaneous or near-simultaneous releases of their apps for both Mac and Windows. They continue to provide patches for both versions nearly simultaneously.
This whole article simply shows how sensationalistic slashdot is willing to be in order to get some ad views. It's no different than any other editorial column really. You say something retarded, then watch everybody earn you money while they discuss whether or not you're a retard.
I'd like to thank the moderators for censoring my opinion on the Iraq situation.
I find it ironic that it is surely the same people who berate the government for their practical view about the Bill of Rights are the same ones who felt the need to censor my opinion, rather than moderating up an interesting opposing opinion, and thus encouraging discourse and debate.
Bush has my full support. I find it disappointing the way so many people deny that Saddam Hussein is responsible not only for direct attacks on America, but also for atrocities in his own country that make Milosevic look like an angel.
I know the war has some costs, and we may even lose a few American lives, but we will bring freedom to Iraq, and how can you put a price on that?
Can you imagine a world with a peaceful Middle East? Our President can.
If you want to do "research", do it the way honest people do it. Read music-related websites and mailing lists for the bands and types of music you know you enjoy, and see what new music you stumble into. Go to live concerts and watch the opener. Go to amazon.com and follow some related or other people bought links, then listen to the 30-second samples they provide. Listen to what your friends have in their homes and cars. Listen to college radio. Tune in to internet radio. Buy an XM or Sirius receiver, and listen to commercial radio that's a world apart from what you find on your FM dial.
Don't pretend that you're an upstanding and noble citizen when your stated actions indicate that you prefer to violate copyright law than to use any of the aforementioned research techniques, which when used together, yield more results than any person has time to play.
I think I just got called a thief in a public forum.
No, I opined that you enjoy stealing, based on the information in the parent post where you admit to engaging in copyright violations. I am still of the opinion that you simply enjoy stealing, and that you're a disingenuous asshole who either refuses to admit his true motivation or is deluded as to your true motivation.
If you wanted to sample, you could've listened to the legally available samples on many music retailer websites and in their retail locations. Instead, you chose to get unauthorized copies of full works over kazaa. I couldn't care less whether you want to obey the law or not, but don't pretend that you're not a lawbreaker, or that you're doing somebody a favor by obtaining illegal copies of their content so you can evaluate it without purchasing it.
Let's take three examples, some PPV porn, a PPV fight, and a CD.
According to my DirecTV, the cheapest porn available right now would be an hour of the Spice channel, which would cost $4.99. If the porn sucks, you've incurred a cost of $5 and you have absolutely nothing to show for it.
Next up, the PPV fight. The cheapest upcoming fight that I can find would be Chavez v. Paez, which is $24.95. If the fight sucks, you've spent $25 and you have absolutely nothing to show for it.
Lastly, the CD. The #1 selling CD on amazon.com right now is Come Away With Me, by Norah Jones, which sells for $16.47 shipped. If the CD sucks, you can give it to your wife/girlfriend in exchange for a blowjob. If she doesn't like the album that you purchased, you can give it to a friend for his wife/girlfriend, and most likely receive a beer at the bar in return for it. If the album you purchased is truly atrocious, you can sell it at a used CD store, or on eBay for $5 to $10.
Thus, the CD has significantly less risk, as there are numerous ways to fully or partially regain the value of the CD if you do not enjoy it, whereas with PPV, you have no recourse.
I hope that you'll soon realize that you simply enjoy stealing music more than you enjoy stealing other types of media. You can rationalize all you'd like, but that is the truth.
Your argument holds no water, at all. You simply enjoy stealing music.
Let's be honest, when you order pay per view porn, there's no way to know if the chicks will look good, or if they'll try to cram some sort of ill-fitting storyline into the movie, instead of admitting that the target market just wants to see people fucking. Same with the fight, sure you know who will be in the fight, but sometimes the fight sucks. Sometimes the dude gets knocked out in the first minute, while you were busy getting beers for your friends.
There's no guarantee placed on any content. Why do feel that you need to pretend that there's some sort of rational reason to steal music, but not cable? Either steal them both gleefully, or don't steal either of them at all.
The atrocious T68? How so? I currently have a T68i, and I'm extremely happy with it. It gets excellent reception, the battery life is extremely good, the bluetooth connectivity works wonderfully with my bluetooth earpiece, it syncs well, and was easy to set up as an internet gateway.
I agree that the P800 looks like a clunker, but I really have no idea why you're saying the T68 series sucks.
This especially true in cases where the advertiser can directly or indirectly control which frames are displayed during fast-forward. TiVo (and most other PVRs) only display P frames while fast-forwarding, so in the case of DirecTV, or digital-cable based PVRs, the content producers can make sure that the full frames will be ones with a few key images, and some large, easy to read corporate logos.
For the rest of the images, they can just subtly change the colors enough that it should force the mpeg encoder to encode a new P frame instead of another I frame. It wouldn't be noticeably visible to the viewer, but it would allow some amount of control as to which frames are seen by the PVR user.
I can't seem to google it, but there's been some interesting research into how to make ads effective for both regular-time viewing, and PVR fast-forward viewing.
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I added the book to my safari bookshelf to see what all the fuss is about. In fifteen minutes, I learned that I could do date-bounded searches, about using inurl instead of site, got some cool references to some bookmarklet sites, info on how to scrape google, info on how to program the google API and such.
I wouldn't call it a must-read, but it's certainly worth adding to your safari bookshelf for a month.
The fact remains that the library purchases the CD, then when you borrow it, nobody else can use it until you return it, and there are penalties incurred for not returning it on time. Additionally, you are not granted the right to copy the entirety of the work while it's out.
Libraries are for borrowing. Kazaa is for stealing.
why not make it so that script kiddies will think it's a commodore 64 and will try and exploit it as so?
because script kiddies don't bother with fingerprinting, most of the time. they just run an attack and see if it happens to work. for proof of this, look at your apache logs.
I could do this in seconds with no errors on a decent calculator, but not having one takes away time that could be used to test knowledge of the actual class material.
What I'm hearing is: I'm a whiny jackass who is too lazy and stupid to multiply or add without a calculator.
Nope, not from SC (thank god!). I wasn't referencing a particular station's segment at all. I figured that most readers would be understand the reference though, since every local news station in America seems to have a similar segment.
So ummm... how do we go about inputting books ourself? I mean, there are some decent books in the system that need rating and reviews, but none that I've read recently enough to write a decent review.
During the previous article I made a call for peace. I suggested that it was too early to condemn SCO for they had done nothing vicious, and we had no way to tell precisely what was planned.
Clearly I was a fucking retard. They're fucking evil. Ban them. Send them emails which politely, yet firmly state that they smell like a llama's anus. Sick the Channel 7 ProblemSolvers on them.
Seriously, there's just no excuse. As a nation, we must rise up against this evil, and destroy it once and for all.
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And I paid to read it.
Seriously... it wouldn't even be a game if a normal person tried to play online, especially if it becomes possible to earn a subsistance wage via deathmatch. We'll just end up with a whole bunch of dirty-ass mofos sitting at home, making cash by killing normal people who made the mistake of thinking it might be fun.
The only challenge anymore is getting the horsepower for the video editor who just loves retarded effects, or who isn't willing to invest in proper video editing hardware, and tries instead to do it with Adobe Premiere. The pros are using expensive hardware that can do what they want in near-realtime, it's only the people making music videos of their baby spitting up fifty times, or people who work for shit companies that have a problem.
Actually, you're not as right as you think you are. They fixed the graphic. The top graph used to be about 1/3rd the size of the second one.
and this graph shows that somebody is a fucking retard.
The entire theory that Adobe is now "preferring" the PC platform is based on the fact that there's a page called pcpreferred.html on Adobe's site. A page that simply says 'looks like some stuff is faster on this here PC'.
The fact of the matter is that for most applications, both PCs and Macs are so damned fast that it doesn't matter which is faster, it matters which OS allows you to work more efficiently. Adobe's Mac support has shown no signs of trouble whatsoever. They continue to pump out simultaneous or near-simultaneous releases of their apps for both Mac and Windows. They continue to provide patches for both versions nearly simultaneously.
This whole article simply shows how sensationalistic slashdot is willing to be in order to get some ad views. It's no different than any other editorial column really. You say something retarded, then watch everybody earn you money while they discuss whether or not you're a retard.
I find it ironic that it is surely the same people who berate the government for their practical view about the Bill of Rights are the same ones who felt the need to censor my opinion, rather than moderating up an interesting opposing opinion, and thus encouraging discourse and debate.
I know the war has some costs, and we may even lose a few American lives, but we will bring freedom to Iraq, and how can you put a price on that?
Can you imagine a world with a peaceful Middle East? Our President can.
I use Bluetooth and 802.11b/g on top of each other without issue.
Don't pretend that you're an upstanding and noble citizen when your stated actions indicate that you prefer to violate copyright law than to use any of the aforementioned research techniques, which when used together, yield more results than any person has time to play.
No, I opined that you enjoy stealing, based on the information in the parent post where you admit to engaging in copyright violations. I am still of the opinion that you simply enjoy stealing, and that you're a disingenuous asshole who either refuses to admit his true motivation or is deluded as to your true motivation.If you wanted to sample, you could've listened to the legally available samples on many music retailer websites and in their retail locations. Instead, you chose to get unauthorized copies of full works over kazaa. I couldn't care less whether you want to obey the law or not, but don't pretend that you're not a lawbreaker, or that you're doing somebody a favor by obtaining illegal copies of their content so you can evaluate it without purchasing it.
According to my DirecTV, the cheapest porn available right now would be an hour of the Spice channel, which would cost $4.99. If the porn sucks, you've incurred a cost of $5 and you have absolutely nothing to show for it.
Next up, the PPV fight. The cheapest upcoming fight that I can find would be Chavez v. Paez, which is $24.95. If the fight sucks, you've spent $25 and you have absolutely nothing to show for it.
Lastly, the CD. The #1 selling CD on amazon.com right now is Come Away With Me, by Norah Jones, which sells for $16.47 shipped. If the CD sucks, you can give it to your wife/girlfriend in exchange for a blowjob. If she doesn't like the album that you purchased, you can give it to a friend for his wife/girlfriend, and most likely receive a beer at the bar in return for it. If the album you purchased is truly atrocious, you can sell it at a used CD store, or on eBay for $5 to $10.
Thus, the CD has significantly less risk, as there are numerous ways to fully or partially regain the value of the CD if you do not enjoy it, whereas with PPV, you have no recourse.
I hope that you'll soon realize that you simply enjoy stealing music more than you enjoy stealing other types of media. You can rationalize all you'd like, but that is the truth.
Let's be honest, when you order pay per view porn, there's no way to know if the chicks will look good, or if they'll try to cram some sort of ill-fitting storyline into the movie, instead of admitting that the target market just wants to see people fucking. Same with the fight, sure you know who will be in the fight, but sometimes the fight sucks. Sometimes the dude gets knocked out in the first minute, while you were busy getting beers for your friends.
There's no guarantee placed on any content. Why do feel that you need to pretend that there's some sort of rational reason to steal music, but not cable? Either steal them both gleefully, or don't steal either of them at all.
I agree that the P800 looks like a clunker, but I really have no idea why you're saying the T68 series sucks.
I meant I frame, not P frame. Sorry.
For the rest of the images, they can just subtly change the colors enough that it should force the mpeg encoder to encode a new P frame instead of another I frame. It wouldn't be noticeably visible to the viewer, but it would allow some amount of control as to which frames are seen by the PVR user.
I can't seem to google it, but there's been some interesting research into how to make ads effective for both regular-time viewing, and PVR fast-forward viewing.
I wouldn't call it a must-read, but it's certainly worth adding to your safari bookshelf for a month.
The fact remains that the library purchases the CD, then when you borrow it, nobody else can use it until you return it, and there are penalties incurred for not returning it on time. Additionally, you are not granted the right to copy the entirety of the work while it's out.
Libraries are for borrowing. Kazaa is for stealing.
The question we should be asking ourselves is why do we deny that we just enjoy stealing our music?
Nope, not from SC (thank god!). I wasn't referencing a particular station's segment at all. I figured that most readers would be understand the reference though, since every local news station in America seems to have a similar segment.
So ummm... how do we go about inputting books ourself? I mean, there are some decent books in the system that need rating and reviews, but none that I've read recently enough to write a decent review.
Clearly I was a fucking retard. They're fucking evil. Ban them. Send them emails which politely, yet firmly state that they smell like a llama's anus. Sick the Channel 7 ProblemSolvers on them.
Seriously, there's just no excuse. As a nation, we must rise up against this evil, and destroy it once and for all.
More importantly, how many valid emails were wrongly discarded as spam?
And he seemed like such a nice man....