as much as the next guy. I mean when someone uses bots to collect tons of e-mail addresses and send them porn ads 100 times a day, its just not right. However, I don't get spam. No, I don't use a filtering program. No, I don't sue everyone who spams me. I'm just not careless with my e-mail address. I have a yahoo address I never check which I use on suspicious websites. Otherwise I just doublecheck to make sure when I fill out a form that I have all the checkboxes set to "don't send me crap".
I'd be lying if I said I never got any spam. I got on piece of it a few weeks ago. Before that, I can't remember.
Spammers are bad, but if your mailbox is full of it its more likely your carelesness with your e-mail address than it is spammers out to get you.
anime matters becuase it is quickly becoming very popular. It is the second time that somethign geeky has become mainstream thus decreasing the nerdiness of nerd-dom. The first time was when "normal" people started using computers in their homes. One of the main reasons for animes increase in popularity is peer to peer file sharing and divx;-). Fansubbers are taking dvd rips of japanese shows, subtitling them before they are licensed and putting them up on the net for free download. They stop distribution when the show goes pro, and then everyone runs to media play to buy the anime on dvd. Not all computer geeks are anime geeks, and not all anime geeks are computer geeks. However, I go to RIT, the Rochester Institute of Technology. Our school consists of 60% IT/CS/Engineers, 40% Photo/Printing/Art, and NTID (National Technical Institute for the Deaf). The Anime club is one of the largest clubs on campus. The only club I can think of off hand that is larger is the F1 racing club. A lot of geeks like anime. Some like it too much, they are known as fanboys. If you want to know more about anime fandom, go to Otakon, if you dare. www.otakon.com
Ghost in the Shell was originally a Manga. You can buy the manga if you look around amazon or other books sellers. In the manga is pretty much the WHOLE story in detail. There is also Ghost in the Shell 2, which I'm not sure what happened to it. I can buy the action figures at Media Play for it, but I'm not sure if it was an anime or a manga. This series is pretty much the manga animated and not compressed into one hour, like the movie was. Remember most anime starts out as a manga. The manga usually has a lot more detail and a lot less plot holes, however it is also less shiny and requires you to read. It's also sometimes harder to get manga in English than it is to get anime in english. However, tokyopop (http://www.tokyopop.com) is helping solve this problem. Yay! ^_^
If we are to believe the apple switch campaign people who use Macs are smarter than people who use pcs. By that logic anyone who uses a mac is smart enough not to play everquest.
yeah, that would help me a lot. If I understood what that crazy command meant at all. Tell me how to do it in windows 2000, the os I use when not coding. Large crazy commands like that, which nobody understands are the reason that linux will never win the desktop. As far as I'm concerned, linux is good for coding, because it has all the good text editors and the free compilers and the nice terminal windows. I haven't seen anything else linux does better. Especially audio.
I've got a bigger problem. I download a lot of mp3s with filenames in foreign languages. They look all funky and I can't make sense of them at all. Is there a program that will take the gibberish filenames and turn them into something with english characters?
you are missing something. My friend runs a semi-large website and has had multiple hosts. On his website are very many images (not porn), mostly gif, jpg, etc. The rest is html and cgi. What happens is most visitors to the site come in and look at a few pictures, download a couple and leave. Very recently someone wrote a spider program that went through his entire website and downloaded every single image. He stopped it before they finished, but he had a very hard time finding a way to prevent it from happening again.
What apache needs is something where you can say someone who is visiting the site only gets x amoutn of bandwith. And if someone tries to use up too much by downloading too much, stop sending things to them.
I've used Debian a couple of times, and I must say it is one of the better linux distributions. However, I don't use it on any of my machines. The reason for this is the Debian Installer. It is a pain the butt to get the thing installed. And the benefits for doing so don't outweigh the horrors of getting it installed. If you took the Mandrake installer. Mandrakes up-to-dateness (stable debian isn't current enough), and mandrakes cool graphical tools and combine them with debians apt-get and overall os quality, I think you would arrive at somethign very close to the best linux distribution possible.
It is 99% impossible to get software you wrote to run on the gamecube. The problem is that Nintendo, being smart to avoid piracy, always uses a proprietary media format to put games on. The Gamecube's OS doesn't do much but run games. It looks for discs and runs them. You CAN'T make a Gamecube disc without Nintendo's help. It's a small DVD that spins the opposite direction. Nothing you can buy can make one of those. The Gamecube will have a broadband adapter, but you can't make it boot from that. It also has no hard drive, so where are you going to store all the data? RAM? The best bet is to explore the possibilities of the GBA link. You can make a GBA game. And you can store some data in the GBA cartridge, but not much. If the Gamecube will run and begin playing from a linked GBA the BEST you could do is have 4 GBAS with 4 different cartridges be your hard drive/boot device. Then use the broadband adapter and your computer to control everything. All in all, even if you could make a gamecube disc, the cube isn't very useful for anything other than playing gamecube games. And codwarrior will eventually have a dev kit. So if all you want is to make games, I'm sure Nintendo will be happy to make discs if your game is extrememe high quality.
This is exactly what every piece of linux software needs. If I could install any piece of linux software with a friendly series of dialog boxes just like with install shiled in windows, I would use linux much more often. The number 1 reason I don't use linux as much is because I don't want to have to manage all of the different versions of software. Mozilla has a nice graphical installation, so do some other things. Not having to deal with rpms and all the other types of source and binary packages would be a great weight off my shoulders. You apt-get guys and you linux gurus might disagree. But I hope this is a trend that continues and becomes the standard for linux software.
there was an article about piracy I posted a highly moderated insightful comment. However, this time I will say the same thing only shorther:-)
First of all, the last line of the article was kind of lame, the rest of it was good though. The software company exec talked about burning houses down. Yes, a person is hurt if you burn their house down. That is not comparable to warez though. If I make a copy of photoshop, adobe hasn't lost photoshop, they still have it, it doesn't belong to me. All that happens is that I now have a copy of 500$ software that I can use, that I wouldn't have bought anyway, because I'm a poor college student with no money. NO, I didn't actually pirate photoshop, I bought PSP it's only 70$, when I bought it anyway.
Anyway the reason there is warez is because software companies charge too much for software. 9500 dollars for an engineering program? Nobody can afford that! If I'm an engineer who makes say 80 grand a year and I use that software at work. Now I want to use it at home, to get work done at home. To be completely legal I need to spend 1/8 of my yearly income! insanity! Of course I'm just going to copy the cd-roms at work and pirate it.
Warez will always exist as long as software is expensive. Software companies will keep increasing software prices as long as people keep pirating software. It's a vicious cycle of doom. Eventually software will become so expensive that nobody can afford it. The software companies are putting themselves out of business.
The only way I see out is to use WS_FTP style licensing. Home users, college students, and generally anyone who isn't a company can get WS_FTP for free legally. If you need the crazy advanced features that only a corporation would need, or even if you are a small business that needs only the light features, you have to pay. If all software was like that i guarantee a large decrease in piracy and increase in profits for software companies. Games are another story since they are only 50 bucks. But even though warcraft 3 is out for free, I still see over a million pre-orders. I guess that the piracy really isn't hurting them that much is it?
We probably will enter some sort of digital dark age eventually. I mean, there aren't an infinite number of hard drives in existance. And one day they may start manufacturing only hard drives with hardware DRM in them. Then, one day when the last of the non-DRM hard drives are crashing, we'll either have to not use hard disks (maybe there'll be something new), or get new DRM hard drives. This is actually my one doubt about serial ATA, which otherwise sounds awesome. Can anyone confirm whether or not serial ATA has DRM or not?
Why does everyone complain about spam? All you guys want is free money because some guy is making a living by sending you junk e-mail. If someone sends me junk snail mail I don't go clamoring the government to make it illegal, and I don't try to have a lawsuit to make me money. I just toss it in the trash. As for spam it is a little more annoying to toss in the trash, but you know what. I used to get spam, back in the day, but ever since I got to college, nothing. And its not the college protecting me from spam with a filter, because other people here get tons of spam. I created a yahoo e-mail address the other day, and its got more spam in it in an hour than I've seen, ever. You know why? I don't type my e-mail address into forms I don't trust. I opt-out of everything. I am *gasp* careful. I dont' even have a little program that filters spam out, I use lite Eudora with only the PGP plugin. Guess what? I've had 1, count 'em ONE spam e-mail in 2 YEARS. Don't ask the government to do something for you, if you can do it yourself.
Win2k isn't crap. After extensive use of win2k on comptuers large and small I have found that 99% of the win2k machines that fail are not due to faults in the operating system. If you are running win2k and it isn't absolutely phenomenal it is because of one of 3 reason. The first is that there is something wrong with your hardware. It's not very likely, but it happens. The second is that you have stupid software installed, If you install stuff like kazaa, gator, other other crappy programs or thigns that eat up lots of RAM, it's ruining you, not win2k. And the most common reason people think win2k sux, because it isn't configured properly. I run win2k and Mandrake, I use mandrake to code, that's it. Because I have 2k configured correctly it is absolutely beautiful. I don't think its crashed EVER. Mandrake also doesn't crash ever, but it can't do everything I need my os to do, and the only thing it does better than 2k is let me write and compile code easily.
It seems that in every single/. topic there is someone bashing windows as a crappy operating system. Now I'm not defending MS as a company, their business practices are horrible, they are evil, etc. But Windows 2000 is a damn good operating system. Hell, I'll say more than that. Windows 2000 is the BEST desktop or laptop operating system in existance right now.
Bash ms all you want, don't bash the technical merits of an os when you've got it configured improperly and all of the problems are your own fault.
This is what I don't get. Winamp exists. So does XMMS. Winamp 3 will have a linux version, eventually. You really can't get much better than winamp. Why are these guys wasting their time trying to make something that already exists and can't be improved upon? One of the big reasons I see a lot of open source projects failing is because they are trying to replace existing technologies with open source solutions that are not as good. You try to replace Photoshop with the Gimp, you try to replace AIM with 10 other things. I use Linux (mandrake), when I'm writing code. That's really all that its good for. I mean I'm a CS major, and writing code in windows is crap because there aren't any decent free compilers or text editors. While I'm writing code I can listen to mp3s with xmms, and aim people with the linux version of AIM, and browse the web with konqueror. They all work, but the only thing that I can do better in linux that in Win2k is code.
So, again, why are you guys re-inventing the wheel? I mean winamp exists, it is the BEST audio playing software, and its free. Open source should spend its time writing NEW things, you know software that doesn't currently exist. And you should make it so high quality that it is the best, like winamp is.
Oh yeah, if you are worried about winamp having a crappier decoder that decreases audio quality, or the possibility that it has DRM in it, go to http://www.oldversion.com and download an old winamp like 1.97
Open source wont succeed until it makes better software than what exists or until it makes software that doesn't exist yet.
You wasted a lot of time and effort finding a way to remap the keys on your keyboard to allow yourself to type faster. But you know what? Who needs to type faster? I mean, I know how to type on a QWERTY keyboard, and I can do it pretty well. The time it would take me to get used to a new layout would be greater than the time I would save by typing that little bit faster. Once you are typing fast enough, that's fast enough. Unless you plan on typing a copy of War and Peace.
While I believe you wasted a lot of time and typing faster is silly, I do think that we can apply your program to other things. For example I could log keypresses during games of counter-strike and possibly find a better key layout for myself based on my style of play. Pretty much anything we want to find the best of. Maybe we could possibly apply this to networking to map the network in the best possibly configuration for speed based on bandwith.
Good ideas that could be used to achieve better, useful, goals.
in Japan for quite awhile now. Why not in the US? Oh yeah, there was a slashdot article about that a few days ago. For the latest and greatest in cell phone technology go where I go. http://www.nokia.co.jp duh.
that serial ATA, while being very fast and much better than what I've got now, will have DRM built in. Is this true? Should I not get serial ATA in my next system because of it? Anyone got any links pertaining to this issue?
Don't hold your luck. It is quite possible to get a very lite version of linux running on a PS/2. Heck I bet it would even work on a PS/1 given enough RAM and Hard Drive space. I mean if an apple][gs can have a tcp/ip stack and play wolfenstein 3d with gs/os then a ps/2 can sure run linux.
I hope they try to sue me. I mean, my college will get me, because I'm technically breaking their rules by file sharing. But I really hope the RIAA sues me. It'll give me a chance to say all the crazy stuff I like to say in court. Also, if they order me to say, stop sharing, I'll do it anyway. It's really hard to win a fight against someone who brings companies to court. But as an individual I've got nothing to lose. I'll fight tooth and nail to the bitter end.
NOT. If you've got e-mail how often do you send letters in the real mail. I guess a business would send more than a home user. If this discout applied to packages and international mailings that would be better. Even better than that "my e-mail address is joeshmoe@hotmail.com, send me spam and give me a discount". Sounds like a good deal to me. I do nothing, you spam some crappy e-mail box, and I get cheaper mail, when I use it once a month to pay my two bills.
Okay, here's a hypothetical situation. There is a company selling televisions (computers). And they like certaint television stations (operating systems). If I made a great television that had all kinds of fancy features, but it was biased towards certaint television stations in some way. or it did not function when VCRs of another brand were attatched to it. And this information was in the fine print and not made obvious when I purchased the television. Is that not illegal in some way?
Now if they make an operating system that is very secure, and has all kinds of fancy features. But it will not function properly depending on what I want to do with it, or it will not allow me to do what I want with it, even though it's mine. Isn't that equally illegal?
Kinokuniya Bookstore is a Japanese Bookstore that has the largest selection of manga/anime goods, there is one in New Jersey and one in New York city. Another good bet is to go to a Media Play or a Suncoast that is near a college or University. Here at RIT we have a huge anime club, possibly the largest on the east coast, as far as we know. The Media Play next to our school has just as much anime as it does Action Movies, on DVD. It also special orders graphic novels and magazines like Animerica and Animerica Extra. They also get other stuff like posters, novelties, action figures, that are anime related. I've been to other media plays, and they don't have the selection that ours does. Another good bet is to buy online *gasp*. I mean for DVDs just check www.animeondvd.com to see what's coming out, then go to www.mediaplay.com to buy it.
Don't think I'm a Media Play salesman or something, it's just the store I go to.
Oh yeah, another good way to get lots of anime is to go to anime conventions. Anime Expo is this weekend, and Otakon is at the end of July. Expo is in CA, but Otakon is in Baltimore, MD. Cons are great places to buy all kinds of anime stuff you can't get anywhere else. They're also a great place to meet freaky freaky people and laugh at or with them. And they're also where my roomate hunts catgirls ^_^ You also might want to ask the forums at www.dubthis.net. There are a lot of anime fans there.
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as much as the next guy. I mean when someone uses bots to collect tons of e-mail addresses and send them porn ads 100 times a day, its just not right. However, I don't get spam. No, I don't use a filtering program. No, I don't sue everyone who spams me. I'm just not careless with my e-mail address. I have a yahoo address I never check which I use on suspicious websites. Otherwise I just doublecheck to make sure when I fill out a form that I have all the checkboxes set to "don't send me crap".
I'd be lying if I said I never got any spam. I got on piece of it a few weeks ago. Before that, I can't remember.
Spammers are bad, but if your mailbox is full of it its more likely your carelesness with your e-mail address than it is spammers out to get you.
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anime matters becuase it is quickly becoming very popular. It is the second time that somethign geeky has become mainstream thus decreasing the nerdiness of nerd-dom. The first time was when "normal" people started using computers in their homes. One of the main reasons for animes increase in popularity is peer to peer file sharing and divx ;-). Fansubbers are taking dvd rips of japanese shows, subtitling them before they are licensed and putting them up on the net for free download. They stop distribution when the show goes pro, and then everyone runs to media play to buy the anime on dvd. Not all computer geeks are anime geeks, and not all anime geeks are computer geeks. However, I go to RIT, the Rochester Institute of Technology. Our school consists of 60% IT/CS/Engineers, 40% Photo/Printing/Art, and NTID (National Technical Institute for the Deaf). The Anime club is one of the largest clubs on campus. The only club I can think of off hand that is larger is the F1 racing club.
A lot of geeks like anime. Some like it too much, they are known as fanboys. If you want to know more about anime fandom, go to Otakon, if you dare. www.otakon.com
Ghost in the Shell was originally a Manga. You can buy the manga if you look around amazon or other books sellers. In the manga is pretty much the WHOLE story in detail. There is also Ghost in the Shell 2, which I'm not sure what happened to it. I can buy the action figures at Media Play for it, but I'm not sure if it was an anime or a manga. This series is pretty much the manga animated and not compressed into one hour, like the movie was. Remember most anime starts out as a manga. The manga usually has a lot more detail and a lot less plot holes, however it is also less shiny and requires you to read. It's also sometimes harder to get manga in English than it is to get anime in english. However, tokyopop (http://www.tokyopop.com) is helping solve this problem. Yay! ^_^
If we are to believe the apple switch campaign people who use Macs are smarter than people who use pcs. By that logic anyone who uses a mac is smart enough not to play everquest.
yeah, that would help me a lot. If I understood what that crazy command meant at all. Tell me how to do it in windows 2000, the os I use when not coding. Large crazy commands like that, which nobody understands are the reason that linux will never win the desktop. As far as I'm concerned, linux is good for coding, because it has all the good text editors and the free compilers and the nice terminal windows. I haven't seen anything else linux does better. Especially audio.
I've got a bigger problem. I download a lot of mp3s with filenames in foreign languages. They look all funky and I can't make sense of them at all. Is there a program that will take the gibberish filenames and turn them into something with english characters?
you are missing something. My friend runs a semi-large website and has had multiple hosts. On his website are very many images (not porn), mostly gif, jpg, etc. The rest is html and cgi. What happens is most visitors to the site come in and look at a few pictures, download a couple and leave. Very recently someone wrote a spider program that went through his entire website and downloaded every single image. He stopped it before they finished, but he had a very hard time finding a way to prevent it from happening again.
What apache needs is something where you can say
someone who is visiting the site only gets x amoutn of bandwith. And if someone tries to use up too much by downloading too much, stop sending things to them.
I've used Debian a couple of times, and I must say it is one of the better linux distributions. However, I don't use it on any of my machines. The reason for this is the Debian Installer. It is a pain the butt to get the thing installed. And the benefits for doing so don't outweigh the horrors of getting it installed.
If you took the Mandrake installer. Mandrakes up-to-dateness (stable debian isn't current enough), and mandrakes cool graphical tools and combine them with debians apt-get and overall os quality, I think you would arrive at somethign very close to the best linux distribution possible.
It is 99% impossible to get software you wrote to run on the gamecube. The problem is that Nintendo, being smart to avoid piracy, always uses a proprietary media format to put games on. The Gamecube's OS doesn't do much but run games. It looks for discs and runs them.
You CAN'T make a Gamecube disc without Nintendo's help. It's a small DVD that spins the opposite direction. Nothing you can buy can make one of those.
The Gamecube will have a broadband adapter, but you can't make it boot from that. It also has no hard drive, so where are you going to store all the data? RAM?
The best bet is to explore the possibilities of the GBA link. You can make a GBA game. And you can store some data in the GBA cartridge, but not much. If the Gamecube will run and begin playing from a linked GBA the BEST you could do is have 4 GBAS with 4 different cartridges be your hard drive/boot device. Then use the broadband adapter and your computer to control everything.
All in all, even if you could make a gamecube disc, the cube isn't very useful for anything other than playing gamecube games. And codwarrior will eventually have a dev kit. So if all you want is to make games, I'm sure Nintendo will be happy to make discs if your game is extrememe high quality.
This is exactly what every piece of linux software needs. If I could install any piece of linux software with a friendly series of dialog boxes just like with install shiled in windows, I would use linux much more often. The number 1 reason I don't use linux as much is because I don't want to have to manage all of the different versions of software. Mozilla has a nice graphical installation, so do some other things. Not having to deal with rpms and all the other types of source and binary packages would be a great weight off my shoulders. You apt-get guys and you linux gurus might disagree. But I hope this is a trend that continues and becomes the standard for linux software.
there was an article about piracy I posted a highly moderated insightful comment. However, this time I will say the same thing only shorther :-)
First of all, the last line of the article was kind of lame, the rest of it was good though. The software company exec talked about burning houses down. Yes, a person is hurt if you burn their house down. That is not comparable to warez though. If I make a copy of photoshop, adobe hasn't lost photoshop, they still have it, it doesn't belong to me. All that happens is that I now have a copy of 500$ software that I can use, that I wouldn't have bought anyway, because I'm a poor college student with no money. NO, I didn't actually pirate photoshop, I bought PSP it's only 70$, when I bought it anyway.
Anyway the reason there is warez is because software companies charge too much for software. 9500 dollars for an engineering program? Nobody can afford that! If I'm an engineer who makes say 80 grand a year and I use that software at work. Now I want to use it at home, to get work done at home. To be completely legal I need to spend 1/8 of my yearly income! insanity! Of course I'm just going to copy the cd-roms at work and pirate it.
Warez will always exist as long as software is expensive. Software companies will keep increasing software prices as long as people keep pirating software. It's a vicious cycle of doom. Eventually software will become so expensive that nobody can afford it. The software companies are putting themselves out of business.
The only way I see out is to use WS_FTP style licensing. Home users, college students, and generally anyone who isn't a company can get WS_FTP for free legally. If you need the crazy advanced features that only a corporation would need, or even if you are a small business that needs only the light features, you have to pay. If all software was like that i guarantee a large decrease in piracy and increase in profits for software companies.
Games are another story since they are only 50 bucks. But even though warcraft 3 is out for free, I still see over a million pre-orders. I guess that the piracy really isn't hurting them that much is it?
We probably will enter some sort of digital dark age eventually. I mean, there aren't an infinite number of hard drives in existance. And one day they may start manufacturing only hard drives with hardware DRM in them. Then, one day when the last of the non-DRM hard drives are crashing, we'll either have to not use hard disks (maybe there'll be something new), or get new DRM hard drives. This is actually my one doubt about serial ATA, which otherwise sounds awesome. Can anyone confirm whether or not serial ATA has DRM or not?
Why does everyone complain about spam? All you guys want is free money because some guy is making a living by sending you junk e-mail. If someone sends me junk snail mail I don't go clamoring the government to make it illegal, and I don't try to have a lawsuit to make me money. I just toss it in the trash. As for spam it is a little more annoying to toss in the trash, but you know what. I used to get spam, back in the day, but ever since I got to college, nothing. And its not the college protecting me from spam with a filter, because other people here get tons of spam. I created a yahoo e-mail address the other day, and its got more spam in it in an hour than I've seen, ever. You know why? I don't type my e-mail address into forms I don't trust. I opt-out of everything. I am *gasp* careful. I dont' even have a little program that filters spam out, I use lite Eudora with only the PGP plugin. Guess what? I've had 1, count 'em ONE spam e-mail in 2 YEARS. Don't ask the government to do something for you, if you can do it yourself.
Win2k isn't crap. After extensive use of win2k on comptuers large and small I have found that 99% of the win2k machines that fail are not due to faults in the operating system. If you are running win2k and it isn't absolutely phenomenal it is because of one of 3 reason. The first is that there is something wrong with your hardware. It's not very likely, but it happens. The second is that you have stupid software installed, If you install stuff like kazaa, gator, other other crappy programs or thigns that eat up lots of RAM, it's ruining you, not win2k. And the most common reason people think win2k sux, because it isn't configured properly. I run win2k and Mandrake, I use mandrake to code, that's it. Because I have 2k configured correctly it is absolutely beautiful. I don't think its crashed EVER. Mandrake also doesn't crash ever, but it can't do everything I need my os to do, and the only thing it does better than 2k is let me write and compile code easily.
/. topic there is someone bashing windows as a crappy operating system. Now I'm not defending MS as a company, their business practices are horrible, they are evil, etc. But Windows 2000 is a damn good operating system. Hell, I'll say more than that. Windows 2000 is the BEST desktop or laptop operating system in existance right now.
It seems that in every single
Bash ms all you want, don't bash the technical merits of an os when you've got it configured improperly and all of the problems are your own fault.
You really can't get more geeky than the Macintosh 512K fish tank. I forget the site for it though.
This is what I don't get. Winamp exists. So does XMMS. Winamp 3 will have a linux version, eventually. You really can't get much better than winamp. Why are these guys wasting their time trying to make something that already exists and can't be improved upon? One of the big reasons I see a lot of open source projects failing is because they are trying to replace existing technologies with open source solutions that are not as good. You try to replace Photoshop with the Gimp, you try to replace AIM with 10 other things.
I use Linux (mandrake), when I'm writing code. That's really all that its good for. I mean I'm a CS major, and writing code in windows is crap because there aren't any decent free compilers or text editors. While I'm writing code I can listen to mp3s with xmms, and aim people with the linux version of AIM, and browse the web with konqueror. They all work, but the only thing that I can do better in linux that in Win2k is code.
So, again, why are you guys re-inventing the wheel? I mean winamp exists, it is the BEST audio playing software, and its free. Open source should spend its time writing NEW things, you know software that doesn't currently exist. And you should make it so high quality that it is the best, like winamp is.
Oh yeah, if you are worried about winamp having a crappier decoder that decreases audio quality, or the possibility that it has DRM in it, go to http://www.oldversion.com and download an old winamp like 1.97
Open source wont succeed until it makes better software than what exists or until it makes software that doesn't exist yet.
You wasted a lot of time and effort finding a way to remap the keys on your keyboard to allow yourself to type faster. But you know what? Who needs to type faster? I mean, I know how to type on a QWERTY keyboard, and I can do it pretty well. The time it would take me to get used to a new layout would be greater than the time I would save by typing that little bit faster. Once you are typing fast enough, that's fast enough. Unless you plan on typing a copy of War and Peace.
While I believe you wasted a lot of time and typing faster is silly, I do think that we can apply your program to other things. For example I could log keypresses during games of counter-strike and possibly find a better key layout for myself based on my style of play. Pretty much anything we want to find the best of. Maybe we could possibly apply this to networking to map the network in the best possibly configuration for speed based on bandwith.
Good ideas that could be used to achieve better, useful, goals.
in Japan for quite awhile now. Why not in the US? Oh yeah, there was a slashdot article about that a few days ago. For the latest and greatest in cell phone technology go where I go. http://www.nokia.co.jp
duh.
that serial ATA, while being very fast and much better than what I've got now, will have DRM built in. Is this true? Should I not get serial ATA in my next system because of it? Anyone got any links pertaining to this issue?
Don't hold your luck. It is quite possible to get a very lite version of linux running on a PS/2. Heck I bet it would even work on a PS/1 given enough RAM and Hard Drive space. I mean if an apple][gs can have a tcp/ip stack and play wolfenstein 3d with gs/os then a ps/2 can sure run linux.
I hope they try to sue me. I mean, my college will get me, because I'm technically breaking their rules by file sharing. But I really hope the RIAA sues me. It'll give me a chance to say all the crazy stuff I like to say in court. Also, if they order me to say, stop sharing, I'll do it anyway. It's really hard to win a fight against someone who brings companies to court. But as an individual I've got nothing to lose. I'll fight tooth and nail to the bitter end.
NOT. If you've got e-mail how often do you send letters in the real mail. I guess a business would send more than a home user. If this discout applied to packages and international mailings that would be better. Even better than that "my e-mail address is joeshmoe@hotmail.com, send me spam and give me a discount". Sounds like a good deal to me. I do nothing, you spam some crappy e-mail box, and I get cheaper mail, when I use it once a month to pay my two bills.
Okay, here's a hypothetical situation. There is a company selling televisions (computers). And they like certaint television stations (operating systems). If I made a great television that had all kinds of fancy features, but it was biased towards certaint television stations in some way. or it did not function when VCRs of another brand were attatched to it. And this information was in the fine print and not made obvious when I purchased the television. Is that not illegal in some way?
Now if they make an operating system that is very secure, and has all kinds of fancy features. But it will not function properly depending on what I want to do with it, or it will not allow me to do what I want with it, even though it's mine. Isn't that equally illegal?
If it's not, it should be.
Kinokuniya Bookstore is a Japanese Bookstore that has the largest selection of manga/anime goods, there is one in New Jersey and one in New York city. Another good bet is to go to a Media Play or a Suncoast that is near a college or University. Here at RIT we have a huge anime club, possibly the largest on the east coast, as far as we know. The Media Play next to our school has just as much anime as it does Action Movies, on DVD. It also special orders graphic novels and magazines like Animerica and Animerica Extra. They also get other stuff like posters, novelties, action figures, that are anime related. I've been to other media plays, and they don't have the selection that ours does. Another good bet is to buy online *gasp*. I mean for DVDs just check www.animeondvd.com to see what's coming out, then go to www.mediaplay.com to buy it.
Don't think I'm a Media Play salesman or something, it's just the store I go to.
Oh yeah, another good way to get lots of anime is to go to anime conventions. Anime Expo is this weekend, and Otakon is at the end of July. Expo is in CA, but Otakon is in Baltimore, MD. Cons are great places to buy all kinds of anime stuff you can't get anywhere else. They're also a great place to meet freaky freaky people and laugh at or with them. And they're also where my roomate hunts catgirls ^_^ You also might want to ask the forums at www.dubthis.net. There are a lot of anime fans there.