I came in from the Apple ][ world where things were slightly different.
We had the 5.25" disks, we had near-instant boot, we had a very similar (also written by MS) BASIC in ROM, but our computer lacked the "ummph" of the C64 when it came to games. (That despite having twice the RAM... the Apple//e and//c were 128K as usually configured.)
And while we had autoboot (which you guys didn't), and we had 80-column text, and our drive was a little faster than the 1541 (lol) we had shit for sound, lame-ass 280x192x6 graphics, and half the time only a green screen.:/ I for one had C64 envy.
How about taking each one of them, laying them each in the middle of an intersection, chaining them each to four 4x4s pointed away from the intersection in different directions, and instructing the drivers of the 4x4s to peal off at top speed all at once?
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOWCH!!!!!
That would be the ultimate pwn4ge for D'ohl and company. Oh, yeah. And televise it.
Heh, we Linux users have it nice, I make H.264/AAC MP4s all the time with mencoder, faac and MP4Box, and play them with no trouble and can stream it over my friend's Feduhra box which runs Darw...
I've run an irc channel for two and a half years, which spun off from another channel that I'd been in since 2003. (And eventually swallowed the old channel up, SBC-style.) It's alive, well and thriving.
Yeah, it's very similar to something they eat in Hawaii to take a can of Treet and cut it into a couple packs of ramen noodles... I think they call it Saimin there.
Look hard enough and you use the bible to justify virtually anything.
Doesn't mean that it *does* justify it, and most of the time a closer reading will reveal otherwise. But a lot of people who thump the Bible don't really read it.
One of my programs, an emulator, was ported to a number of older computers and used as the core of a similar emulator on the DS.
I have also started the FreeDOS ODIN distribution which some people still find invaluable and which has been extended by the community and still fits on a single disk, the point of my compilation.
I also do a large amount of the work on one group's fansubs, for a show that nobody else wants to sub because it's "too childish."
Maybe fansubs don't mean shit, but my contributions to emulation (emu2 was one of the better Apple ][ emulators; sddapple seems to have gotten fairly popular in Amiga-land even though I've never touched an Amiga) aren't exactly what you'd call "leeching".
It's because I don't give a fuck that I run a tracker, it's because I want to preserve things that I have the "olddos" folder on my site. (Which has DOS versions all the way down to 1.00!)
The most I'll grant anyone respect for is 5-10 years for software and audiovisual media, 20-40 years for books.
And I'm blatantly violating copyright laws all the time with my BT tracker, but am I bothered? Do I look bothered? I don't see anything wrong with "blatantly ignoring" a law I don't believe is right. We need so many people to "blatantly ignore" it that they have no choice but to concede (like that'll ever happen).
It lies in the (and I am referring vaguely to the DEVO/Jocko Homo ref in your.sig btw) de-evolution of American society into a group of people obsessed with buying, buying, buying - whether they have the money is irrelevant, GOTTA HAVE IT, and gotta have it NOW.
When we realize we don't NEED this junk and especially when we know how to wait for things ("good things come to those who wait", ain't you heard?), how to save up for stuff (this is one of my vices, I spend money like sand going through my fingers), how NOT to get into debt, we will be much better off.
The closest I'll ever get to touching a credit card are those All Access Gift VISA prepaid debit cards I buy every month at Tops so I can buy stuff online.
Nah, that's been Prince's trademark since at least the early 80s. A lot of his song lyrics use kw3lspeak, e.g., "I wanna do it 2 night, baby, I wanna do it 2 U" is an actual line, with original spelling, from 777-9311 (which he wrote for The Time).
Hell, doesn't even have salt added. Now that's peanut butter.
And I suppose the type of jelly you use would matter. Would orange marmalade have a higher amount of vitamin C (you mentioned ascorbic acid as a potential lack) than, say, strawberry jelly or grape jelly?
The problem is, I think, that the pharmaceutical industry stands to lose a ton if someone finds a good cure for cancer and is trying to hold it back for purely financial reasons.
Well, fuck 'em. Some things are more important than money. Human life is priceless.
I live in a tower, I don't think a dish is an option here. Otherwise, there's no fucking way I'd pay $70 a month for TWC when I could get DTV for less than that.
But you said "TV-Japan", not "TV-Tokyo" - I mentioned TV-Tokyo and TV-Asahi intentionally, as those are the specific networks that carry practically anything I would watch.
You know, this brings up a point I said sometime earlier: The cable companies could make a killing offering a Japanese television package with TV-Tokyo and TV-Asahi. (E.G. I suggested it to Time Warner, my cable provider.)
Why?
TV-Tokyo has most of the popular anime, iirc.
TV-Asahi has Super Sentai and Kamen Rider.
Just about all the shit that gets torrented comes from these two stations, iirc.
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Not to mention RANDOMIZE TIMER only existed on the PC.
-uso.
Used so many varieties of BASIC on so many different machines it's unreal.
I came in from the Apple ][ world where things were slightly different.
//e and //c were 128K as usually configured.)
:/ I for one had C64 envy.
We had the 5.25" disks, we had near-instant boot, we had a very similar (also written by MS) BASIC in ROM, but our computer lacked the "ummph" of the C64 when it came to games. (That despite having twice the RAM... the Apple
And while we had autoboot (which you guys didn't), and we had 80-column text, and our drive was a little faster than the 1541 (lol) we had shit for sound, lame-ass 280x192x6 graphics, and half the time only a green screen.
-uso.
Yeah, well, you can use a doublet word (derived from the same source) and get a more apropos vision of what they see you as...
HUMAN CATTLE
-uso.
How about taking each one of them, laying them each in the middle of an intersection, chaining them each to four 4x4s pointed away from the intersection in different directions, and instructing the drivers of the 4x4s to peal off at top speed all at once?
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOWCH!!!!!
That would be the ultimate pwn4ge for D'ohl and company. Oh, yeah. And televise it.
-uso.
Heh, we Linux users have it nice, I make H.264/AAC MP4s all the time with mencoder, faac and MP4Box, and play them with no trouble and can stream it over my friend's Feduhra box which runs Darw...
Frack. Can't avoid them lol
-uso.
The original poster, however, said there was no support outside of x86 *at all* for WMA, where libavcodec DOES support it.
DRM is a separate beast.
-uso.
...hasn't libavcodec supported wma for aeons, so long as it's not DRM'd?
-uso.
I've run an irc channel for two and a half years, which spun off from another channel that I'd been in since 2003. (And eventually swallowed the old channel up, SBC-style.) It's alive, well and thriving.
-uso.
-uso.
Yeah, it's very similar to something they eat in Hawaii to take a can of Treet and cut it into a couple packs of ramen noodles... I think they call it Saimin there.
-uso.
At least in Americans under the age of about 40, common sense is practically nonexistent...still surprised?
-uso.
Doesn't mean that it *does* justify it, and most of the time a closer reading will reveal otherwise. But a lot of people who thump the Bible don't really read it.
-uso.
They give people a hard time for being transgender in Niagara Falls. The nail that sticks up gets beaten down, as they say.
-uso.
Are leeches software developers?
One of my programs, an emulator, was ported to a number of older computers and used as the core of a similar emulator on the DS.
I have also started the FreeDOS ODIN distribution which some people still find invaluable and which has been extended by the community and still fits on a single disk, the point of my compilation.
I also do a large amount of the work on one group's fansubs, for a show that nobody else wants to sub because it's "too childish."
Maybe fansubs don't mean shit, but my contributions to emulation (emu2 was one of the better Apple ][ emulators; sddapple seems to have gotten fairly popular in Amiga-land even though I've never touched an Amiga) aren't exactly what you'd call "leeching".
-uso.
For me, it's some of column A, some of column B.
It's because I don't give a fuck that I run a tracker, it's because I want to preserve things that I have the "olddos" folder on my site. (Which has DOS versions all the way down to 1.00!)
-uso.
The most I'll grant anyone respect for is 5-10 years for software and audiovisual media, 20-40 years for books.
And I'm blatantly violating copyright laws all the time with my BT tracker, but am I bothered? Do I look bothered? I don't see anything wrong with "blatantly ignoring" a law I don't believe is right. We need so many people to "blatantly ignore" it that they have no choice but to concede (like that'll ever happen).
-uso.
It lies in the (and I am referring vaguely to the DEVO/Jocko Homo ref in your .sig btw) de-evolution of American society into a group of people obsessed with buying, buying, buying - whether they have the money is irrelevant, GOTTA HAVE IT, and gotta have it NOW.
When we realize we don't NEED this junk and especially when we know how to wait for things ("good things come to those who wait", ain't you heard?), how to save up for stuff (this is one of my vices, I spend money like sand going through my fingers), how NOT to get into debt, we will be much better off.
The closest I'll ever get to touching a credit card are those All Access Gift VISA prepaid debit cards I buy every month at Tops so I can buy stuff online.
-uso.
Nah, that's been Prince's trademark since at least the early 80s. A lot of his song lyrics use kw3lspeak, e.g., "I wanna do it 2 night, baby, I wanna do it 2 U" is an actual line, with original spelling, from 777-9311 (which he wrote for The Time).
He was doing it before there WAS SMS.
-uso.
All of the above talking. Any suggestions?
-uso.
Smuckers Natural ftw.
INGREDIENTS: PEANUTS
Hell, doesn't even have salt added. Now that's peanut butter.
And I suppose the type of jelly you use would matter. Would orange marmalade have a higher amount of vitamin C (you mentioned ascorbic acid as a potential lack) than, say, strawberry jelly or grape jelly?
-uso.
Haven't the bookmarks been stored in an HTM file since Netscape 2? Aren't they still stored in bookmarks.html?
It's not that hard to point your homepage there, if you really want it...though...why?
-uso.
The problem is, I think, that the pharmaceutical industry stands to lose a ton if someone finds a good cure for cancer and is trying to hold it back for purely financial reasons.
:@
Well, fuck 'em. Some things are more important than money. Human life is priceless.
-uso.
That's because unlike women, men are too proud to go see the doctor when something's wrong, until it's too late and they're already six feet under.
-uso.
I live in a tower, I don't think a dish is an option here. Otherwise, there's no fucking way I'd pay $70 a month for TWC when I could get DTV for less than that.
But you said "TV-Japan", not "TV-Tokyo" - I mentioned TV-Tokyo and TV-Asahi intentionally, as those are the specific networks that carry practically anything I would watch.
-uso.
You know, this brings up a point I said sometime earlier: The cable companies could make a killing offering a Japanese television package with TV-Tokyo and TV-Asahi. (E.G. I suggested it to Time Warner, my cable provider.)
Why?
TV-Tokyo has most of the popular anime, iirc.
TV-Asahi has Super Sentai and Kamen Rider.
Just about all the shit that gets torrented comes from these two stations, iirc.
-uso.