Right now there is so much govt fud that they not need use this as a tactic. On the other hand, lets all just say F&CK it and start on july 3rd, that way the won't have a clue, or better yet, lets start on july 12, just because it's even more of an oversight. You know, I don't know if I disagree with this post or agree, it seems to me like if it's not govt fud it's corp fud, this sh*t is just getting stupid. Maybe it's time for another civil war, you might say I'm f*cked up, but realy what do we have to lose anymore?????????
For those of you that say "Man that guy is nuts" maybe you're right, to those of you who say "Hey, maybe he has a point" good for you you're seeing past the media shit and to the real picture.
but can someone please write a good virus for once. I mean back in the day virii actually did stuff, now they just email over and over. Remember when your computer used to get "Stoned":P. So, instead of bitching about virii, I just ask, if you're gonna write one at least make it do something fun.
Did someone really have to go through all that trouble to prove to everyone that benchmarks were rigged? People just need to learn to use the hardware/software they like and not get up in a rage when other people don't.
here's another solution.... lets just do away with the whole election thing (as it seems to not be working), and instead we just pick random people every year for office:). and.... while we're at it, we give the normal person the right to kick them if they do anything deemed stupid by 3 or more people.
I don't think this is something that can be proven very easily. At best... you'd have to check SCOs backups of thier source from a while ago. I mean.... how hard is it to do a:
date --set="-3 years" vi whatever.cc date --set="+3 years"
#1... most have hit on by saying that it goes along with the problem solving type of hobbies.
#2... I think has to deal with (and I could be wrong) most of these "weird" "lost arts" also has a finished product... kinda like spending the night typing a bunch of lines of code to get a program. I think it's the fact of creating things and figuring things out. I know that's why I like most of these types of things.
Oh you just reminded me of something else that makes a good point. Because I was going to reply that Resident Evil was just an example, that he does play better games. One good example being, Final Fantasy (take your pick on what part), I've been getting him to play FF just because he's getting to the point where the little engine that could is a little boring on the learning to read perspective. So, at night I'll help him read a little book before bed, and durring the day when he wants to play PS2, he play's games that require reading, and I make him figure it out on his own (helping with the harder words of course). So once again, in my opinion, these games everyone hates can be a good thing, if the parents are in fact parents and not just people that give kids money and drive kids places.
#1, The government should have no say in what I buy for my children, this is just rediculous. #2, Most of the games I bought for my Playstation/Computer were bought with the mindset I want something I'll like just as much as my son will. So does this mean that me buying resident evil and such and then letting my son play make me a bad father?? I don't know how many of you have kids out there in/. land, but the ones who do I think will agree that kids now don't quite fit into the old catagories. I mean my son (age 6) already has better views on life, and understands a lot more than most people that are older than me. I don't think it's the fact that video games teach them anything, I think it's the fact that most parents buy kids video games to "keep kids out of thier hair". I mean you take the whole colombine shooting, these kids had all kinds of stuff in the basement (pipe bombs/whatever), so that just shows how much attention the parents were paying to them. I think the parents of these kids that go on shooting sprees just don't want to admit that they weren't doing thier job, or that maybe thier kids had some real issues. It's just easier to blame a game company, and not to mention that if you actually do win a case against a game company you get a pretty good payment. These people need to worry more about talking to thier kids and less time trying to take thier rights.
There is one really good reason not to be scared of any of the politics in the world, it's called free will. My points being this, the things I don't do I don't do because my morals play part, not because the law says I can't. Most of the time, just as long as what you do doesn't affect a mass of people, the law is so side tracked they don't know what's going on anyway. Yeah, this stuff that they're passing now is kinda scary, but, think about it, they are the government, they've been using loop holes for years to do things. They laws they pass just makes it legal for them to use the stuff in court that they normally can't. If you're really scared, just don't use the phone, use the net, and use a good encryption scheme:). Honestly, I think if those guys with the currly white wigs that started this country saw what was going on, they'd roll over in thier graves. Sorry about ranting here, just woke up, and haven't had enough caffine yet.
my view on this.... is #1 we're 17 days into 2003.... why not just say that we're gonna be 8% down in 2006. #2 A whole lot of people I know are struggling to feed their families.... they aren't worried about buying a cd or whatever. and #3... even if it is because of p2p.... if they would put more than 1 or 2 good songs on a cd maybe people would buy the cd. I have a $5 a song rule... if a cd has 3 songs I like and costs $15 I'll buy it.... but if it's $15 and only has one song I like.... what's the point??? I have to agree with a lot of the older posts in related articles.... they just need a new way to market the stuff. anyway.... screw em.... they're mad because they lost a couple mill out of thier billion dollar industry..... the way jobs and such go now.... I damn near cry when I drop a quarter.... deal with it.
we don't really need a couple million to launch it...... did you every watch cartoons. Everyone knows all you need is a really big rubberband and a couple trees to tie it to:P.
I've asked myself if language is a requirement a couple of times, never with any real conclusion. I have a couple of memories from 1.5-2, all of which I verified with my mother. One I know I could understand what my mother was saying... because she put those pajamas with the footie things build in on me, and I hated those footie things.... so I started crying, and I remember her saying "I don't know what's wrong", and me not being able to tell her it was the footies (mainly cause I didn't know what to call them) upset me even more. So in that memory I did understand language, but I also have another memory of eating the dogs food (kibbles and bits, the squiggley string things were the best), but that memory involved no language, and is also verifiable through my mother. Oh, and I remember it was kibbles and bits because I remembered what the bag looked like, not what it said. Which also brings up another good question. Some people are saying that visual memories and language memories are seperate things, but if you think about it... images can be used as language. I think when people are reading the article they automatically translate language to speech.
To explain this takes explaining the year I've had. First, my wife and I seperated, then my wife started talking about not letting me see my daughter, my son's step father is trying to keep me from him, my grandmother had a heart attack and various other complications this past year, due to the fact my mother needed help watching my grandma I had to quit my job and move back to help out. So, how am I spending my holiday season, alone, depressed, and halfway down a bottle of rum. Out of all of my "friends" in the world, not a one even called or wrote. I'm just hoping next year is better. And hoping everyone else has a better time than I have.
ok... so this software intercepts the decoded movie and allows you to burn it to DVD or CD.... and this is "illegal" mainly because they say so. So what's the difference of me hooking up a VCR to a DVD Player and recording the stream?? This is coming from someone who doesn't own a DVD Player and if all this stuff keeps going on won't get one. I find it all quite idiotic myself, "we'll let them have backups of thier media, but we won't allow them to actually copy it" it all makes no sence. I think we should all file lawsuits against the MPAA for mental distress:P. You know, if we had duals instead of lawsuits.... there'd be a lot less stupid lawsuits.... or maybe just a lot more people with guns:P.
Actually, from a fathers standpoint with a 6 year old son..... he was actually quite bored with FOTR. I wanted to see TT and figured I'd let him see FOTR and see if he wanted to go see TT, but now he was so bored with FOTR I think I'm gonna be stuck taking him to the wild thorberry's movie instead:(. Life is so so cruel.
XP???:P... seems to me like they are doing the same thing as they have been. Release a "new" system based on a couple of mods done to old releases. Which yeah.... I know this is how software development works but, M$ just takes it a bit father by changing a maybe a total of 10 pages of code and 100 images, and then charges $100 for it. I mean did anyone really notice that when win98 was released the only "real" difference was that it had all the patches and maybe a couple mods to the UI of 95?? then 98SE came out.... just regular 98 with the patches for it:P. Though... I have to give them credit.... making themselves rich because the "public" thinks it's totally different and they can't live without it.
"SME's new Label Gate CD consists of two kinds of music data -- one is data for audio devices to replay and the other is encoded compressed data for PCs to replay."
and from that everyone will say but later on in the article it states that the regular audio is encrypted... here:
"The conventional music data on the CD used by audio devices is protected by SME's current anticopying technology that prevents the data from being replayed on a PC."
Now... I don't know about you.... but if I remember right... there are people that have found a way around the "current" protection.... so what different does it make what they do to the other stuff on the disk... when thier currect protection that protects the regular audio doesn't work anyway? honestly.... I think sony is wasting thier time and money on this... give a geek something and tell them they can't use it with the stuff they have... and they'll find a way just to prove you wrong. Take for example the people that wire up thier microwaves and such into thier computers they do it just because other people say they can't (or just because of extreme boredom).
As long as the companies underestimate us... we win.
I have yet to see the movie (tomorrow maybe). Anyway I just had to say this is the funniest thread here.... the irony of it.... a monkey spankin his monkey...:P
Think about it... linux on PC... well you can get an old Pentium 2 system for well... a case of beer now adays... and linux is free. Where as Mac systems are still in the $1000's for something 4 years old.... yeah... I think I can see where the linux would take the lead... being as I only have 10 cents to my name right now.:)
Just a thought for those of you that still have that green stuff in your wallet:P.
I remember a time when a big corp put a serial number in an entire product line (Intel Pentium3). I also noticed at around the same time... a bunch of people bought AMD chips... now even if they make it so ALL computers/pdas/toasters/etc have this technology, I have to say, my dual P3 system will do until they get their heads our of their arses. And I would like to know who else feels this way.
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Right now there is so much govt fud that they not
need use this as a tactic. On the other hand, lets
all just say F&CK it and start on july 3rd, that
way the won't have a clue, or better yet, lets start
on july 12, just because it's even more of an
oversight. You know, I don't know if I disagree
with this post or agree, it seems to me like if
it's not govt fud it's corp fud, this sh*t is just
getting stupid. Maybe it's time for another civil
war, you might say I'm f*cked up, but realy what
do we have to lose anymore?????????
For those of you that say "Man that guy is nuts"
maybe you're right, to those of you who say "Hey,
maybe he has a point" good for you you're seeing
past the media shit and to the real picture.
later, (this kinda stuff bugs me)
scoobs
but can someone please write a good virus for once. :P. So, instead
I mean back in the day virii actually did stuff,
now they just email over and over. Remember when
your computer used to get "Stoned"
of bitching about virii, I just ask, if you're
gonna write one at least make it do something fun.
Did someone really have to go through all that
trouble to prove to everyone that benchmarks were
rigged? People just need to learn to use the
hardware/software they like and not get up in a
rage when other people don't.
here's another solution.... lets just do away with :). and .... while we're at
the whole election thing (as it seems to not be
working), and instead we just pick random people
every year for office
it, we give the normal person the right to kick them
if they do anything deemed stupid by 3 or more
people.
Good point, I always forget about touch :).
I don't think this is something that can be
proven very easily. At best... you'd have to
check SCOs backups of thier source from a while ago.
I mean.... how hard is it to do a:
date --set="-3 years"
vi whatever.cc
date --set="+3 years"
This whole thing just doesn't make any sence.
#1... most have hit on by saying that it goes along with the problem solving type of hobbies.
#2... I think has to deal with (and I could be wrong) most of these "weird" "lost arts" also has a finished product... kinda like spending the night typing a bunch of lines of code to get a program. I think it's the fact of creating things and figuring things out. I know that's why I like most of these types of things.
Uncle Sam is dead, and has been replaced with the :P Yeah, mod
child abusing drunk Uncle Herbert.
me down..... I'm bored.
just think of me as that guy from american pie 2....
back then I was a nerd and didn't know it. (though
I think in american pie it was a band geek)
Oh you just reminded me of something else that makes
a good point. Because I was going to reply that
Resident Evil was just an example, that he does play
better games. One good example being, Final Fantasy
(take your pick on what part), I've been getting him
to play FF just because he's getting to the point
where the little engine that could is a little
boring on the learning to read perspective. So,
at night I'll help him read a little book before bed,
and durring the day when he wants to play PS2, he
play's games that require reading, and I make him
figure it out on his own (helping with the harder
words of course). So once again, in my opinion,
these games everyone hates can be a good thing,
if the parents are in fact parents and not just
people that give kids money and drive kids places.
nah the america's army thing doesn't count....
cause as we all know if it's done by the government
it can't be all bad.
#1, The government should have no say in what I buy /. land,
for my children, this is just rediculous. #2, Most
of the games I bought for my Playstation/Computer
were bought with the mindset I want something I'll
like just as much as my son will. So does this
mean that me buying resident evil and such and then
letting my son play make me a bad father?? I don't
know how many of you have kids out there in
but the ones who do I think will agree that kids now
don't quite fit into the old catagories. I mean my
son (age 6) already has better views on life, and
understands a lot more than most people that are
older than me. I don't think it's the fact that
video games teach them anything, I think it's the
fact that most parents buy kids video games to
"keep kids out of thier hair". I mean you take
the whole colombine shooting, these kids had all
kinds of stuff in the basement (pipe bombs/whatever),
so that just shows how much attention the parents
were paying to them. I think the parents of these
kids that go on shooting sprees just don't want to
admit that they weren't doing thier job, or that
maybe thier kids had some real issues. It's just
easier to blame a game company, and not to mention
that if you actually do win a case against a game
company you get a pretty good payment. These
people need to worry more about talking to thier
kids and less time trying to take thier rights.
Just my opinion
Scoobywan
There is one really good reason not to be scared of any of the politics in the world, it's called free will. My points being this, the things I don't do I don't do because my morals play part, not because the law says I can't. Most of the time, just as long as what you do doesn't affect a mass of people, the law is so side tracked they don't know what's going on anyway. Yeah, this stuff that they're passing now is kinda scary, but, think about it, they are the government, they've been using loop holes for years to do things. They laws they pass just makes it legal for them to use the stuff in court that they normally can't. If you're really scared, just don't use the phone, use the net, and use a good encryption scheme :). Honestly, I think if those guys with the currly white wigs that started this country saw what was going on, they'd roll over in thier graves. Sorry about ranting here, just woke up, and haven't had enough caffine yet.
L8r,
Scoobywan
guess they were right about the whole history repeating it's self thing.
my view on this .... is #1 we're 17 days into 2003.... why not just say that we're gonna be 8% down in 2006. #2 A whole lot of people I know are struggling to feed their families.... they aren't worried about buying a cd or whatever. and #3... even if it is because of p2p.... if they would put more than 1 or 2 good songs on a cd maybe people would buy the cd. I have a $5 a song rule... if a cd has 3 songs I like and costs $15 I'll buy it.... but if it's $15 and only has one song I like.... what's the point??? I have to agree with a lot of the older posts in related articles.... they just need a new way to market the stuff. anyway.... screw em.... they're mad because they lost a couple mill out of thier billion dollar industry..... the way jobs and such go now.... I damn near cry when I drop a quarter.... deal with it.
we don't really need a couple million to launch it...... did you every watch cartoons. Everyone knows all you need is a really big rubberband and a couple trees to tie it to :P.
I've asked myself if language is a requirement a couple of times, never with any real conclusion. I have a couple of memories from 1.5-2, all of which I verified with my mother. One I know I could understand what my mother was saying... because she put those pajamas with the footie things build in on me, and I hated those footie things.... so I started crying, and I remember her saying "I don't know what's wrong", and me not being able to tell her it was the footies (mainly cause I didn't know what to call them) upset me even more. So in that memory I did understand language, but I also have another memory of eating the dogs food (kibbles and bits, the squiggley string things were the best), but that memory involved no language, and is also verifiable through my mother. Oh, and I remember it was kibbles and bits because I remembered what the bag looked like, not what it said. Which also brings up another good question. Some people are saying that visual memories and language memories are seperate things, but if you think about it... images can be used as language. I think when people are reading the article they automatically translate language to speech.
To explain this takes explaining the year I've had. First, my wife and I seperated, then my wife started talking about not letting me see my daughter, my son's step father is trying to keep me from him, my grandmother had a heart attack and various other complications this past year, due to the fact my mother needed help watching my grandma I had to quit my job and move back to help out. So, how am I spending my holiday season, alone, depressed, and halfway down a bottle of rum. Out of all of my "friends" in the world, not a one even called or wrote. I'm just hoping next year is better. And hoping everyone else has a better time than I have.
Happy Holidays everyone
ok ... so this software intercepts the decoded movie and allows you to burn it to DVD or CD.... and this is "illegal" mainly because they say so. So what's the difference of me hooking up a VCR to a DVD Player and recording the stream?? This is coming from someone who doesn't own a DVD Player and if all this stuff keeps going on won't get one. I find it all quite idiotic myself, "we'll let them have backups of thier media, but we won't allow them to actually copy it" it all makes no sence. I think we should all file lawsuits against the MPAA for mental distress :P. You know, if we had duals instead of lawsuits .... there'd be a lot less stupid lawsuits.... or maybe just a lot more people with guns :P.
L8r
---- This concludes my 3:30AM rant -------
Actually, from a fathers standpoint with a 6 year old son..... he was actually quite bored with FOTR. I wanted to see TT and figured I'd let him see FOTR and see if he wanted to go see TT, but now he was so bored with FOTR I think I'm gonna be stuck taking him to the wild thorberry's movie instead :(. Life is so so cruel.
XP??? :P ... seems to me like they are doing the same thing as they have been. Release a "new" system based on a couple of mods done to old releases. Which yeah.... I know this is how software development works but, M$ just takes it a bit father by changing a maybe a total of 10 pages of code and 100 images, and then charges $100 for it. I mean did anyone really notice that when win98 was released the only "real" difference was that it had all the patches and maybe a couple mods to the UI of 95?? then 98SE came out.... just regular 98 with the patches for it :P. Though... I have to give them credit .... making themselves rich because the "public" thinks it's totally different and they can't live without it.
Ok.... here goes :) .... #1 quote from the article:
... here:
... I don't know about you.... but if I remember right... there are people that have found a way around the "current" protection.... so what different does it make what they do to the other stuff on the disk... when thier currect protection that protects the regular audio doesn't work anyway? honestly.... I think sony is wasting thier time and money on this... give a geek something and tell them they can't use it with the stuff they have... and they'll find a way just to prove you wrong. Take for example the people that wire up thier microwaves and such into thier computers they do it just because other people say they can't (or just because of extreme boredom).
"SME's new Label Gate CD consists of two kinds of music data -- one is data for audio devices to replay and the other is encoded compressed data for PCs to replay."
and from that everyone will say but later on in the article it states that the regular audio is encrypted
"The conventional music data on the CD used by audio devices is protected by SME's current anticopying technology that prevents the data from being replayed on a PC."
Now
As long as the companies underestimate us... we win.
I have yet to see the movie (tomorrow maybe). Anyway I just had to say this is the funniest thread here .... the irony of it.... a monkey spankin his monkey... :P
Think about it... linux on PC ... well you can get an old Pentium 2 system for well... a case :)
:P.
of beer now adays... and linux is free. Where
as Mac systems are still in the $1000's for
something 4 years old.... yeah... I think I can
see where the linux would take the lead... being
as I only have 10 cents to my name right now.
Just a thought for those of you that still have
that green stuff in your wallet
I remember a time when a big corp put a serial
number in an entire product line (Intel Pentium3).
I also noticed at around the same time... a bunch
of people bought AMD chips... now even if they
make it so ALL computers/pdas/toasters/etc have
this technology, I have to say, my dual P3 system
will do until they get their heads our of their
arses. And I would like to know who else feels
this way.
L8rs