I definately agree there. I've been a subscriber now for awhile and really like their video reviews. They definately aren't afraid to use their bandwith.
I have found that they definately don't hype a game unless it's fairly deserving. And as far as reviews go, they're often a bit overly critical and harsh which I prefer to other sites that shall remain nameless that give certain games undeservingly high scores.
The X-Box does not play DVD's out of the box. For another $30 on top of the $300, you can purchase the Xbox DVD Kit, which includes a remote and dvd driver. This is *required* for dvd playback.
...Sony Aibo ripoff! I would love to have a lil pet to put together, with most of the same feature set of the original Aibo's. I would actually just like an Aibo that I can *afford now*, but that seems unlikely given their $1500 price for the dog, $170 for the Energy Station, $100 for the Lithium Ion Battery. This doesn't include the price on software for it or anything else. Check out Sony's pricelist for the Aibo at Aibo's Pricelist on Sony's site. Even if it were only half the price of the Aibo's, it would be a step in the right direction.
I'm not saying Napster's model is ideal for everyone, because it's not, just that there is a need for something other than the current method. I agree, in a perfect world it would definately be better it artist could have a *choice* to use Napsters services, or not, and that in it's current form, the rights of artist/copyright are being abused.
I'm just trying to say that the fact Napster exist, and has become as popular as it is, illustrates the that there is a need for affordable (current cd prices are *far higher* than what they should be), and easily distributable music, and that the RIAA should get their head out of their asses, and stop twiddling their thumbs and wake the hell up and *provide* a service to people *now* rather than try to work on a solution (SDMI) that is always going to be under extremely heavy pressure to be the next thing hacked, similar to how DECSS was.
Hopefully by Shawn speaking to Congress on this issue, people will realize that it's not Napster that's the *real* problem, but the recording companies/RIAA that have a stranglehold on the US music industry. Do you honestly believe that Napster would be as big a deal if the recording industry monopoly had priced CD's half-ass reasonably to begin with? Or instead of the industry going into a fuss over the use of mp3 technology, simply embraced it. They can't maintain their monopoly and cd price fixing forever.
Let's hope the team can make some real progress on FreeBSD and make something similar to that amazing RedHat daemon that autoupdates components automatically.
Seriously though, I like the direction FreeBSD is moving in and did my first FreeBSD install starting with v4.0 and thought it was quite good.
One would assume that web developers would develop for the most dominant browser. With AOL hopefully planning on incorporating Netscape 6 into their AOL software, that should be a fairly significant influence. How many subscribers does AOL have now? With Mozilla's more or less modular design, how easy is adding new features into Mozilla/Netscape to deal with whatever curves MS may throw on the browser scene?
My first machine was a kickass TI-99. I got this when I was about six and it was pretty sweet for it's day. I also got a Speech Synthesizer for it which was neat for it's time. I had a few games for it games like MunchMan, BurgerTime, Space Invaders, Hunt The Wumpus, and Alpine. Not Bad. Then I was given an Apple IIc with 128k RAM (standard, and quite a bit at the time). I loved that machine. It came with a Apple Composite Color monitor, and Imagewriter II. I eventually picked an unbelievably large 40Meg Chinook hard drive. IIc hard drives sucked...they were more spendy than what you could have gotten for the IIe at the same size. Anyhow...it was all good.
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It appears that all Canon camcorders are compatible with the Firestore FS-4.
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I'm guessing it'll suck so badly it'll be released straight to public tv. Oh, I'll make sure my Tivo gets it, don't worry.
I definately agree there. I've been a subscriber now for awhile and really like their video reviews. They definately aren't afraid to use their bandwith.
I have found that they definately don't hype a game unless it's fairly deserving. And as far as reviews go, they're often a bit overly critical and harsh which I prefer to other sites that shall remain nameless that give certain games undeservingly high scores.
The X-Box does not play DVD's out of the box. For another $30 on top of the $300, you can purchase the Xbox DVD Kit, which includes a remote and dvd driver. This is *required* for dvd playback.
...Sony Aibo ripoff! I would love to have a lil pet to put together, with most of the same feature set of the original Aibo's. I would actually just like an Aibo that I can *afford now*, but that seems unlikely given their $1500 price for the dog, $170 for the Energy Station, $100 for the Lithium Ion Battery. This doesn't include the price on software for it or anything else. Check out Sony's pricelist for the Aibo at Aibo's Pricelist on Sony's site. Even if it were only half the price of the Aibo's, it would be a step in the right direction.
I'm not saying Napster's model is ideal for everyone, because it's not, just that there is a need for something other than the current method. I agree, in a perfect world it would definately be better it artist could have a *choice* to use Napsters services, or not, and that in it's current form, the rights of artist/copyright are being abused. I'm just trying to say that the fact Napster exist, and has become as popular as it is, illustrates the that there is a need for affordable (current cd prices are *far higher* than what they should be), and easily distributable music, and that the RIAA should get their head out of their asses, and stop twiddling their thumbs and wake the hell up and *provide* a service to people *now* rather than try to work on a solution (SDMI) that is always going to be under extremely heavy pressure to be the next thing hacked, similar to how DECSS was.
Hopefully by Shawn speaking to Congress on this issue, people will realize that it's not Napster that's the *real* problem, but the recording companies/RIAA that have a stranglehold on the US music industry. Do you honestly believe that Napster would be as big a deal if the recording industry monopoly had priced CD's half-ass reasonably to begin with? Or instead of the industry going into a fuss over the use of mp3 technology, simply embraced it. They can't maintain their monopoly and cd price fixing forever.
For those of you who would like to see the Shuttle & ISS activities in Real Audio, the link on NASA's site points to: http://198.116.66.254:8080/ramge n/e ncoder/live.rm
Let's hope the team can make some real progress on FreeBSD and make something similar to that amazing RedHat daemon that autoupdates components automatically. Seriously though, I like the direction FreeBSD is moving in and did my first FreeBSD install starting with v4.0 and thought it was quite good.
One would assume that web developers would develop for the most dominant browser. With AOL hopefully planning on incorporating Netscape 6 into their AOL software, that should be a fairly significant influence. How many subscribers does AOL have now? With Mozilla's more or less modular design, how easy is adding new features into Mozilla/Netscape to deal with whatever curves MS may throw on the browser scene?
My first machine was a kickass TI-99. I got this when I was about six and it was pretty sweet for it's day. I also got a Speech Synthesizer for it which was neat for it's time. I had a few games for it games like MunchMan, BurgerTime, Space Invaders, Hunt The Wumpus, and Alpine. Not Bad. Then I was given an Apple IIc with 128k RAM (standard, and quite a bit at the time). I loved that machine. It came with a Apple Composite Color monitor, and Imagewriter II. I eventually picked an unbelievably large 40Meg Chinook hard drive. IIc hard drives sucked...they were more spendy than what you could have gotten for the IIe at the same size. Anyhow...it was all good.
I managed to get in just fine and tossed it here