Tom's Piracy Guide had some good stuff to say about the new ASUS "Skull & Crossbones" CRW-1610A, and the new kid on the block, the Lite-On "Prepare to be boarded, Billy!" LTR-24102B. With a little hacked firmware, you're in ready to load up the trunk of your car and head to China town.
The Plextor and the Phillips drives seem to be caught in the duldrums; pirates hate duldrums.
Although the thing seems like a good idea, the really brilliant part is the dual mirrors- not so you can see your hands, but to prevent stealth attacks during Nerf cubicle warfare.
The keyboard. The keyboard. The useless feeping keyboard. It's available in many different layouts, including QWERTY, QWERTY and QWERTY. This product is useless to me.
I type Dvorak as a preventative measure against RSI. I don't actually have RSI, and I like it that way. I can't even type QWERTY anymore. (Try installing Windows, and entering the CD key in this state; you'll feel like you've locked your keys in the car.)
They should really offer alternate keyboard layouts for nitpicking bastards like me, but more importantly, for those who have injuries that a Dvorak layout helps with.
It seems that everything on the internet is becoming a pay service. I miss the days when a simple banner ads could cover the bills.
If this progresses, I can see broadband sales suffer. The only reason I got broadband in the first place was because of bandwidth intesive sites (like Gamespot's streaming video, massive MP3 downloads). If all the big-bandwidth things go "pay" then there'll be little reason to pay thru the nose for a breadband connection.
I'm already paying enough for broadband service; I can't justify the expense of paying for content.
My provider's plan is to go independant. I subscribe via Rogers cable, in Toronto, ON. Knowing Rogers, everything with go straight to heck, at high speed.
I am what you would call an amateur music production enthusiast. I'm also a Canadian.
The tax we have here (aside from various compound sales taxes) is only on the CDR media specifically for audio. (read: the kind that works with those near-useless standalone CD copying whizmos).
I often make digital recordings of my friends' horrible bands, and my own decidedly mediocre tunage. These are burnt onto vanilla CDR's. People like to pass these recordings around. People need copies. I don't have the time to make all of these copies.
If someone who owned a stand-alone CD copying device wanted to make a copy of his own CD (of his own band!), he would be paying a tax designed to protect musicians from illegal copying. The technical term for this sort of obtuseness is, I believe, "Bullshit."
There is no tax on the vanilla CDRs because those have business uses. Don't stand in the way of progress.
There seems to be a heck of a lot talk here about avoiding defective/non-dupeable/non-red book/etc CDs; a boycott is clearly in order. But what, pray tell, do I avoid purchasing?
Where's the list? Has anyone started working on something like this?
All it would take is a pinch of elbow grease, some bandwidth, and a little publicity.
You can add name+extension@example.com to your address. That way, when I get mail to me+realplayer@example.com, I know that I gave that address out when I downloaded realplayer.
What I like to do, if the people I need to give my email address don't need to mail me back. I choose a blatantly fake address like admin@real.com.
And then I opt in to every stupid thing they offer. Just to be a dink.
You missed the point: 99% of the people who listen to mp3s won't be able to tell the difference between an analog rip and a digital one.
No, no, no, no and no.
The whole idea is to let your Aunt Mabel do a perfect rip, without having to worry about ANYTHING. Go ask your lovely, sweet auntie about impedance, noise, glitches, interpolation, capacitance, macrovision or even how to adjust the volume on her windows box. She won't know WTF you're talking about.
If the fabled Aunt Mabel can click a button marked "Grab To MP3", and not have to worry about ANY of the above, she can make a quality MP3.
Every time a signal goes through the DA/AD process, it looses detail and gains distortion.
Blah. For the ordinary cd-ripping geezer who just wants a bunch of MP3 files, the difference is not noticeable. Convering raw cd-audio into a 128 kbps (good enough for Joe Shmoe) MP3 reduces the sound quality alot more than a short DA-AD brigde.
A digital rip is the only way to preserve your digital music.
[CAD$5800] Which, in US Dollars, is about equal to a cup of coffee and a bagel.
Actually, those 5800 loonies are worth 3,804.18 greenbacks. A tidy sum.
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It's interesting to see pages that have been completely removed. However, I would personally be a little more interested in seeing pages as they were in the past.
What did Yahoo!, Microsoft, Slashdot, et al look like when they first opened up shop? What did they look like on, say, November 21, 1999? Isn't there some sort of project to archive all this? I think it would be a valuable historical tool- a setting in one's browser that let's you enter any date, sending you back in time.
I'd like to see trenchcoat.org (a gag perpetrated by the freaks at rotten.com
) before they switched to their "All Hate Mail" format.
You crashed my computer... You took the informational fun out of my lunch break. I hate you. You suck.:P
But, seriously, that sig is pure evil! I got a Blue Screen of Death! (That's Windows lingo for a rather severe crash) I had to sit around and wait for scandisk to scrape my drive back together; I could have been happily reading posts.
Sure there is: Market Research. It's an essential tool in any marketing campaign, and quite effective. In fact all advertising campaigns are both preceded, and followed by a thorough research study. (unless it's for Bargain Bob's Used Car Lot)
Tracking banner ad clicks doesn't add up to a hill o' beans when compared to a traditional research study.
Slashdot Mirror
The Plextor and the Phillips drives seem to be caught in the duldrums; pirates hate duldrums.
Although the thing seems like a good idea, the really brilliant part is the dual mirrors- not so you can see your hands, but to prevent stealth attacks during Nerf cubicle warfare.
I type Dvorak as a preventative measure against RSI. I don't actually have RSI, and I like it that way. I can't even type QWERTY anymore. (Try installing Windows, and entering the CD key in this state; you'll feel like you've locked your keys in the car.)
They should really offer alternate keyboard layouts for nitpicking bastards like me, but more importantly, for those who have injuries that a Dvorak layout helps with.
If this progresses, I can see broadband sales suffer. The only reason I got broadband in the first place was because of bandwidth intesive sites (like Gamespot's streaming video, massive MP3 downloads). If all the big-bandwidth things go "pay" then there'll be little reason to pay thru the nose for a breadband connection.
I'm already paying enough for broadband service; I can't justify the expense of paying for content.
WRONG! Try Descent.
I didn't see any. Can someone toss up a link to an actual ad? (I can't believe what I just asked for)
Since when did Canada and Asia become "parts of Europe"? I'm always the last to know this stuff. *sigh*
Market research is a benign, legitimate business practice that is used by the company you work for.
It originated at Z Magazine, but they appear to be having trouble.
The tax we have here (aside from various compound sales taxes) is only on the CDR media specifically for audio. (read: the kind that works with those near-useless standalone CD copying whizmos).
I often make digital recordings of my friends' horrible bands, and my own decidedly mediocre tunage. These are burnt onto vanilla CDR's. People like to pass these recordings around. People need copies. I don't have the time to make all of these copies.
If someone who owned a stand-alone CD copying device wanted to make a copy of his own CD (of his own band!), he would be paying a tax designed to protect musicians from illegal copying. The technical term for this sort of obtuseness is, I believe, "Bullshit."
There is no tax on the vanilla CDRs because those have business uses. Don't stand in the way of progress.
Where's the list? Has anyone started working on something like this?
All it would take is a pinch of elbow grease, some bandwidth, and a little publicity.
A GeoCites guestbook would do for now!
What I like to do, if the people I need to give my email address don't need to mail me back. I choose a blatantly fake address like admin@real.com.
And then I opt in to every stupid thing they offer. Just to be a dink.
No, no, no, no and no.
The whole idea is to let your Aunt Mabel do a perfect rip, without having to worry about ANYTHING. Go ask your lovely, sweet auntie about impedance, noise, glitches, interpolation, capacitance, macrovision or even how to adjust the volume on her windows box. She won't know WTF you're talking about.
If the fabled Aunt Mabel can click a button marked "Grab To MP3", and not have to worry about ANY of the above, she can make a quality MP3.
What did Yahoo!, Microsoft, Slashdot, et al look like when they first opened up shop? What did they look like on, say, November 21, 1999? Isn't there some sort of project to archive all this? I think it would be a valuable historical tool- a setting in one's browser that let's you enter any date, sending you back in time.
I'd like to see trenchcoat.org (a gag perpetrated by the freaks at rotten.com ) before they switched to their "All Hate Mail" format.
- The electron microscope
- The Canadarm
- instant potato flakes (and we appologise)
- The telephone, fer crying out loud.
- Pablum
- The pacemaker
- IMAX
- Insulin!
- Java
Their are more.Don't you mean R.E.M.?
But, seriously, that sig is pure evil! I got a Blue Screen of Death! (That's Windows lingo for a rather severe crash) I had to sit around and wait for scandisk to scrape my drive back together; I could have been happily reading posts.
You clicked on a banner ad?? YOU MORON!! That's only going to encourage them!
Tracking banner ad clicks doesn't add up to a hill o' beans when compared to a traditional research study.
There is only reason to apologize if was an accident. When one does something on purpose, one is not "sorry".
BTW, who the hell is "we"
BTW(2), prepare for a second fake cold war!
This link to the "article" pointed to a PDF. WTF?