OK, so let's check all these things off: etards like you would be the first to log on from their imac down at the local starbucks, and start complaining about all the power black outs and how you can't afford your expreso enemas anymore because your power bill is $20000 a year. I don't own a mac, hate starbucks and know how to spell espresso. Also I love how you pulled a value like $20K out of your butt.
tidal power is limited by geography and solar is a JOKE when your talking about powering a country. Tidal may be limited by geography, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be used, you use ALL available energy collection means... which goes the same for solar, it's one of the tools to use. Oh, and I like how you've just ignored wind power... Also, you're not necessarily looking at solar in the right way at all... you're looking at it from the point of view that energy creation is still the job of large companies who make stupid amounts of money for doing so. What about if the government actually ponied up some money to subsidize solar panel installations (like, Australia does, although needs to go way further with this), so that each individual dwelling can have their own solar panels... and then also solar hot water (not using solar electricity, but rather heating water via piping on the roof, very efficient, used all over the place) to further reduce the reliance on electicity, and you're further reducing the load required on any large scale installations. SPREAD THE POWER GENERATION AROUND. If everyone has solar panels on their homes, if wind generators, tidal, etc are installed where viable, then the NEED for huge, monolithic power stations is GREATLY reduced.
and before you start calling me a right wing environmental hater, how many solar installations have you done? because i've done 3 large ones and i actually know how much solar costs. I'm not going to call you a right winger or anything of the sort, because, well, I'm not rude like you. However I will state that based on my last paragraph you are barking up the wrong tree and still seeing it in the old terms of there needing to be centralized power generation, rather than distributed.
our realistic options for power generation as things stand in the next 5 years are : - coal, nuclear. anything else is an expensive joke. Not if money was actually invested in it, not at all. It's the energy companies who want to keep things the way they are, as they want to keep reaping the huge rewards. It's also governments not wanting to spend a bit of money on shoring up the future. Trim just a tinsy, tiny bit off defense budgets and you could easily fund this sort of investment. To say it's expensive is just missing the point when it comes to matters like polluting the earth... if the budget on the defense force is allowed to increase by BILLIONS why the hell can't the environment get the same sort of investment... a MUCH GREATER payoff is waiting for those who do so.
All his points were completely valid, you're just subscribing to the theory of 'out of sight, out of mind'
'Clean coal' is an oxymoron. It doesn't work. It's been touted here (Australia) by the last government as a way of keeping our coal power stations running too, but that was by a right wing, environmental hating government. When anyone looks at it seriously, it's all bunk.
Rather than investing in technologies to actually make energy without the horrendous environmental cost (solar, window, tidal etc. etc.) WHY on earth would you prefer them to invest money in continuing to use the horror that is coal, but just shove the waste underground?
How does that at all sound like a good idea to you?
"you're saying that because there is a tiny, remote chance that Co2 might leak into the atmosphere, that we should just put it into the atmosphere first"
Is exactly the wrong way of thinking. The options are not pump it underground and hope it stays there, vs. pump it into the air. The options are create vast amounts of CO2 and worse, OR produce power in an ACTUAL CLEAN MANNER.
Good riddance to the plan, and it would be great if it were just stricken from the worldwide stage overall... stop building coal plants, you can make the energy in so many other ways.
Yeah, the plot was just entirely too deep. That's the way to defend a dull movie, say it was just over my head, good work there.
You know, I do enjoy good cinema, I am fully capable of working out subtle similes and metaphors, but that doesn't stop a boring film being boring, I don't care what it was alluding to, I don't care what the underlying concept was, because, well, it WAS BORING... no amount of waxing lyrical over the 'deep' storyline gets over that... and when you see the quote from the director "The story is very simple--I'm not sure you can call it a complete story even--It is about how people create ideas/stories/fictions/social realities and communicate them or impose them on others." it just highlights why this is as dull as it is.
Having said that you could have a very entertaining and interesting piece with such a simple story if you just ACTED it well and included INTERESTING things along the way.
But they didn't.
Hence it was dull and boring, and hence your ridiculous comment that it was 'too deep' for me was complete and utter dribble fired from someone who likes to think themselves above others.
I don't think they were a troll at all, it really was a boring film. I couldn't make it all the way through, and that's saying something considering the crud I'm quite prepared to watch.
I downloaded it some time ago in a high res version and so I've seen it in all its high res 'glory', and have to say I was very unimpressed.
Sure, they made a 'competent' stab at a 'film', but it is neither interesting in a story sense or particularly impressive in a technical way.
The fact that it was done purely via free means is the ONLY notable thing about it. And that's a sad thing. Had they made a short that was stand alone fantastic then the open source nature of it would have been a great add on... as it stands, you'll find that the majority of people with not a care in open source (so unbiased) think that it's a boring little film.
But two things were lacking on that front producing quality content for films.: It really wasn't quality at all, I didn't find anything impressive at all in regards to the animation or texture/overall look. So even disregarding the plot I found it substandard.
and secondly, if it had been a story that was actually INTERESTING then maybe they would have helped their cause so, so much more. ("Man, did you see that crazy [funny/sad/emotional] cg film on the net... that was awesome" "I did, and did you know it was completely done with FREE software! Crazy... crazy") By ignoring a plot and any semblance of making it at all engaging they by and large wasted their efforts. A little bit of pre planning/script writing would have gone a LOOOOONG way.
Argh! This "consumed a gig of memory just sitting there" is such a complete misconception.
Your operating system SHOULD be using up memory when NOTHING ELSE IS USING IT!
If nothing else is using the memory then the OS SHOULD be using it for caching and whatever else it feels like. As long as it RELEASES said memory when SOMETHING else wants it, what the HELL is the problem with the OS using it?
It's just such a friggen cop out to slam an OS for doing that. I GUARANTEE that if OSX did that people would be quick to point out that it's using it wisely and gives it up when you want it etc.
Just give it a friggen rest.
Pick on Vista for reasons it should be picked on.
I run it at home and these are my gripes: * DVD Maker, what could easily be a really nice, quick way of putting video compilations on very pretty DVDs, but RUINED by its complete lack of ability to generate anything like what it shows during ALL it's previews. Either it'll burn it in the wrong aspect ratio, or it'll just quit burning at 99% with no helpful error message. * Deleting things is sometimes PAINFULLY slow. I mean, how can deleting one shortcut from the desktop take around a minute before the message goes away? * Copying things can be horrendously slow. Unless you're copying from a local disk it seems to have some serious file management issues. * It took me a LONG, LONG time to stop the darn thing bringing itself out of standby, no matter how many places I told it not to.
Here is what I actually LIKE about it: * The games folder is very nice, nicely displayed, good info, very nice, look forward to increasing my games collection on it. * The photo gallery is GREAT, really easy importing and tagging of photos and great organisation * It does look pretty * All my hardware has just worked straight away with it (gamepad, scanner, printer, camera) * The start menu quick search feature is indeed cool, much quicker to find things that way. * Live thumbnails of the programs you have open on your taskbar, actually quite handy to see what's going on with other apps.
And what I couldn't care less about: * The sidebar... waste of resources, never have it on * The funky task rotating 3D task switcher, pretty, but completely pointless
If they'd just fix the darn bugs I'd be very happy with Vista, it's just a case of having one of them come up and thinking 'How in the hell did this pass quality control?'. It's amazing to think that a company with that many employees doesn't come across the bugs that so many of us actual users do.
I'm not saying it doesn't have import, what I was saying was, in reply to "what will Microsoft's response be??", I was saying... nada... the general populous won't hear about this, so Microsoft doesn't have to respond at all.
Oh bah! While GB2 was essentially a rehash of the story of one it was done with so many new gags and great stand alone bits that it is also a classic unto itself.
Lines from it come up all the time in my circle of friends (sad? maybe)
"I had part of a slinky once... but I straightened it"
Oh dear god... so, as long as all you nut-job Americans have guns, it's all ok.
What a complete load of shite. Try looking at a whole lot of other countries without firearms being as stupendously prolific as they are in your beloved US of A... they're not all totalitarian regimes you know.
you're not safe because you all have guns, and if you think you can sit back and let things happen just because you're packing heat, my god you're so very, very wrong.
Exactly, it's the rose tinted glasses that look back at the past.
I sure as hell don't forget trying to drop the needle directly on the groove between tracks, or having only half an album before having to get up and flip the darn thing over. Digital is by far the better medium... I can have my collection easily on my work computer, on my home one, and available to any speaker setup in my house, easily searched through by artist, genre etc. etc... LPs just have SO MUCH against them it's not funny.
But there'll always be those that INSIST they sound better. Well, good luck to them, create a niche market of horrendously overpriced products, see if the general populous cares, it's NOT in ANY WAY going to become mainstream again.
[quote]I beg to differ. While I agree with the statement that it's a comment on postprocessing, it is a valid reason for superiority of vinyl over CDs. Don't get me wrong, I'm in no way, shape, or form a vinyl fanboi, but vinyl is a medium which prevents postprocessing compression. And it's these record producers that are making the bulk of CDs, which are giving the entire medium a bad name.[/quote]
Who says they can't do EXACTLY the same compression on the audio before mastering it to vinyl? Unless vinyl was used to master the audio in the first place and all subsequent copies were made off that, it's ridiculous to suggest that the same processing can't occur before you press the vinyl disc.
It's purely the vinyl 'purists' trying to invent a reason to suggest that vinyl is better.
It's not, end of story, no arguments can be entered into. Vinyl has nowhere near the sonic range, nowhere near the durability, nowhere near the error correction (read, none), it's just not as good.
If the author is trying to suggest that vinyl will replace anything due to any sort of sonic improvement, then why didn't SACD or DVD Audio take off? They both have higher sampling rates and even broader frequency response than CD, and yet they've pretty much disappeared. The masses don't give a shit about audio fidelity. Hence why MP3s are so popular and Home Theatre In A Box's sell in such huge numbers... the majority of people can't hear the difference, and are purely concerned about CONVENIENCE and vinyl is in NO WAY CONVENIENT... No way at all, they're huge, easy to break, wear out VERY quickly and you now need stupidly expensive turntables to get any sort of reasonable sound out of them.
Ahh, but that's different. You got people to use a system that YOU have set up and YOU maintain... get someone to setup and maintain their own Linux box and suddenly you'll come to a screeching halt the first time there's a need to jump to a command prompt. Sure you can solve the initial setup problem by having it well bundled, but the day to day running... there'll be problems, and Linux is still and unfriendly bitch when there are said issues.
I'm so glad you posted this clip. I LOVE this challenge from Top Gear... Even more so when watching the entire segment you get a real rush when you see the thing Actually take off, especially if you don't know if it will... sorry to ruin it for those who haven't seen it, but the above post already gave it away:P
It was brilliant, and is the sole reason I'm buying the Top Gear Challenges DVD... just for this challenge, brilliant
And also, any email from eBay also shows up in your 'My Messages' box on eBay itself... so unless you see it in there when you log in, it wasn't from them.
Yeah, see... we need a video of the entire thing to start being watched as much as the wonderfully 'cut down' and trimmed to make it look different to what it was...
Thanks for the account, the fact that police were already standing behind him did seem a little iffy.
A great response... I've been looking around trying to find out what happened BEFORE the videos I've seen, because, yeah, having a contingent of police standing behind him already spoke to there being more to this.
There is some great spin going on here, as is often the case with these youtube videos of 'the man doing me wrong'... They have a habit of not showing the extra info that would make the majority go "Oh, I see... he was being a dick".
Except that it's a Hardware fault and not even a hardware fault that's even related to software (like the CPU or some such), but the darn hinge... they should have NO REASON to touch the software installed on the machine... NONE... fix the hinge and give it back.
What for? Back up your data (4 GB usbsticks are about $60 right now if you watch the sales), do a OEM fresh install, bring it in to whatever idiotshop there is locally and tell them that a fresh install of windows from the OEM disks didn't fix the cracks in the casing. *sarcastic grin*
If that fails, beat them over the head with it. Or just plain don't worry about it. (I have two laptops, both with various physical defects that don't detract from the usability. One of them is held together by Black Gorilla Duct Tape (800lb). It's probably sturdier than the other one, which doesn't have the duct tape. I use it to administer the headless cli ubuntu server VM from my main machine; it's perfect in the role, and I didn't have to throw away that 'old' pcmcia 802.b card.:) )
What, are they supposed to retain their resale value, or something? Oh come on...
You really are the "Lay down and take it" sort aren't you? Why should he:
* Go through the effort of backing up his data, reformatting, installing Windows, have them fix it and then restore it all back?
* Put up with a broken laptop. Just because you're happy to have your laptop look like crap with duct tape all over it, doesn't mean that most of us, when under warranty, would prefer for our hardware to be fixed to the condition it should be... and yes they do retain value, I sold my 5 year old laptop for a decent amount, nothing like what it was new, but certainly more than if it were covered in tape.
And what the hell was all the guff about your administering things via blah blah blah... trying to go for geek cred there?
Really... if you have nothing constructive to say, say nothing at all. He's WELL within his rights to be trying to get this fixed WITHOUT having to uninstall software that's on HIS machine. (And this coming from someone who runs Windows on all of mine)
"The user intended user experience could be orgasmic, but I'll be damned if I can get the thing stable given the state of drivers for my vista approved hardware."
What are you having issues with?
I mean really? I have NO stability issues at all with my machine. Now that's not to say there wasn't some (read one) really stupid teething problems... I could not for the life of me get the damn machine to stay asleep... it would just wake up whenever it wanted. This was with all BIOS settings to off for 'wake on' events, this was with all (and I mean ALL) settings on network adaptors and USB hubs switched to off for 'allow this devices to wake'... it would STILL wake up.
I finally found a setting within the network adaptor's long list of attributes which listed the types of packets it would wake on... when setting THAT to 'none' it stopped waking up... so there was some crappy code somewhere that ignored ALL my other settings and still listened to that shitty little setting deep in the driver for the LAN card.
So... yeah, that was crap, I should never have had to go through that crap... but that was it... one crappy bit of fault finding and nothing else... everything else works as expected.
The photo/video management stuff is fantastic, the ui is very, very nice, I can play my DirectX10 games... all in all I'm very happy with it.
There are a few rough edges here and there which I expected with a new OS, don't tell me the first iteration of OSX was perfect either... so yeah, give it a little while to mature and it'll be a stellar operating system, I really think this FUD about it being another Windows ME is a load of shite... really... give it a year or two and people will wonder how they made do with XP...
His point was that the ridiculous argument of being paid purely on time spent making the product, and nothing more makes no sense... the OP who was suggesting that once the product is made there should be no profit made from selling copies of it just makes no sense... You are saying the truth, if they make a great product then they'll sell many copies and make lots of money.
The point here is that the OP was trying to suggest that you should make money from selling copies of the game... Wha? So how does one make money then?
It's some bizaroworld logic that people invent to make themselves feel ok about copying things.
That's not to say that the copy protection on Bioshock doesn't sound pretty draconian, and that it's NOT the way to make people want to pay for software... but to suggest that people just should get the product for free is weird.
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OK, so let's check all these things off:
etards like you would be the first to log on from their imac down at the local starbucks, and start complaining about all the power black outs and how you can't afford your expreso enemas anymore because your power bill is $20000 a year.
I don't own a mac, hate starbucks and know how to spell espresso. Also I love how you pulled a value like $20K out of your butt.
tidal power is limited by geography and solar is a JOKE when your talking about powering a country.
Tidal may be limited by geography, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be used, you use ALL available energy collection means... which goes the same for solar, it's one of the tools to use. Oh, and I like how you've just ignored wind power... Also, you're not necessarily looking at solar in the right way at all... you're looking at it from the point of view that energy creation is still the job of large companies who make stupid amounts of money for doing so. What about if the government actually ponied up some money to subsidize solar panel installations (like, Australia does, although needs to go way further with this), so that each individual dwelling can have their own solar panels... and then also solar hot water (not using solar electricity, but rather heating water via piping on the roof, very efficient, used all over the place) to further reduce the reliance on electicity, and you're further reducing the load required on any large scale installations. SPREAD THE POWER GENERATION AROUND. If everyone has solar panels on their homes, if wind generators, tidal, etc are installed where viable, then the NEED for huge, monolithic power stations is GREATLY reduced.
and before you start calling me a right wing environmental hater, how many solar installations have you done? because i've done 3 large ones and i actually know how much solar costs.
I'm not going to call you a right winger or anything of the sort, because, well, I'm not rude like you. However I will state that based on my last paragraph you are barking up the wrong tree and still seeing it in the old terms of there needing to be centralized power generation, rather than distributed.
our realistic options for power generation as things stand in the next 5 years are : - coal, nuclear. anything else is an expensive joke.
Not if money was actually invested in it, not at all. It's the energy companies who want to keep things the way they are, as they want to keep reaping the huge rewards. It's also governments not wanting to spend a bit of money on shoring up the future. Trim just a tinsy, tiny bit off defense budgets and you could easily fund this sort of investment. To say it's expensive is just missing the point when it comes to matters like polluting the earth... if the budget on the defense force is allowed to increase by BILLIONS why the hell can't the environment get the same sort of investment... a MUCH GREATER payoff is waiting for those who do so.
All his points were completely valid, you're just subscribing to the theory of 'out of sight, out of mind'
'Clean coal' is an oxymoron. It doesn't work. It's been touted here (Australia) by the last government as a way of keeping our coal power stations running too, but that was by a right wing, environmental hating government. When anyone looks at it seriously, it's all bunk.
Rather than investing in technologies to actually make energy without the horrendous environmental cost (solar, window, tidal etc. etc.) WHY on earth would you prefer them to invest money in continuing to use the horror that is coal, but just shove the waste underground?
How does that at all sound like a good idea to you?
"you're saying that because there is a tiny, remote chance that Co2 might leak into the atmosphere, that we should just put it into the atmosphere first"
Is exactly the wrong way of thinking. The options are not pump it underground and hope it stays there, vs. pump it into the air. The options are create vast amounts of CO2 and worse, OR produce power in an ACTUAL CLEAN MANNER.
Good riddance to the plan, and it would be great if it were just stricken from the worldwide stage overall... stop building coal plants, you can make the energy in so many other ways.
Yeah, the plot was just entirely too deep. That's the way to defend a dull movie, say it was just over my head, good work there.
You know, I do enjoy good cinema, I am fully capable of working out subtle similes and metaphors, but that doesn't stop a boring film being boring, I don't care what it was alluding to, I don't care what the underlying concept was, because, well, it WAS BORING... no amount of waxing lyrical over the 'deep' storyline gets over that... and when you see the quote from the director "The story is very simple--I'm not sure you can call it a complete story even--It is about how people create ideas/stories/fictions/social realities and communicate them or impose them on others." it just highlights why this is as dull as it is.
Having said that you could have a very entertaining and interesting piece with such a simple story if you just ACTED it well and included INTERESTING things along the way.
But they didn't.
Hence it was dull and boring, and hence your ridiculous comment that it was 'too deep' for me was complete and utter dribble fired from someone who likes to think themselves above others.
Well done sir for being a bit of a dick.
I don't think they were a troll at all, it really was a boring film. I couldn't make it all the way through, and that's saying something considering the crud I'm quite prepared to watch.
I downloaded it some time ago in a high res version and so I've seen it in all its high res 'glory', and have to say I was very unimpressed.
Sure, they made a 'competent' stab at a 'film', but it is neither interesting in a story sense or particularly impressive in a technical way.
The fact that it was done purely via free means is the ONLY notable thing about it. And that's a sad thing. Had they made a short that was stand alone fantastic then the open source nature of it would have been a great add on... as it stands, you'll find that the majority of people with not a care in open source (so unbiased) think that it's a boring little film.
But two things were lacking on that front
producing quality content for films.: It really wasn't quality at all, I didn't find anything impressive at all in regards to the animation or texture/overall look. So even disregarding the plot I found it substandard.
and secondly, if it had been a story that was actually INTERESTING then maybe they would have helped their cause so, so much more. ("Man, did you see that crazy [funny/sad/emotional] cg film on the net... that was awesome" "I did, and did you know it was completely done with FREE software! Crazy... crazy") By ignoring a plot and any semblance of making it at all engaging they by and large wasted their efforts. A little bit of pre planning/script writing would have gone a LOOOOONG way.
And certainly not the successful creation of anything actually worth watching.
I couldn't make it through the whole thing when I last tried to watch it, quite, quite painful.
I applaud the concept of an Open Source creative work but the output was below par in many areas.
I hope future efforts put more thought into a script and voice talent.
Argh! This "consumed a gig of memory just sitting there" is such a complete misconception.
Your operating system SHOULD be using up memory when NOTHING ELSE IS USING IT!
If nothing else is using the memory then the OS SHOULD be using it for caching and whatever else it feels like. As long as it RELEASES said memory when SOMETHING else wants it, what the HELL is the problem with the OS using it?
It's just such a friggen cop out to slam an OS for doing that. I GUARANTEE that if OSX did that people would be quick to point out that it's using it wisely and gives it up when you want it etc.
Just give it a friggen rest.
Pick on Vista for reasons it should be picked on.
I run it at home and these are my gripes:
* DVD Maker, what could easily be a really nice, quick way of putting video compilations on very pretty DVDs, but RUINED by its complete lack of ability to generate anything like what it shows during ALL it's previews. Either it'll burn it in the wrong aspect ratio, or it'll just quit burning at 99% with no helpful error message.
* Deleting things is sometimes PAINFULLY slow. I mean, how can deleting one shortcut from the desktop take around a minute before the message goes away?
* Copying things can be horrendously slow. Unless you're copying from a local disk it seems to have some serious file management issues.
* It took me a LONG, LONG time to stop the darn thing bringing itself out of standby, no matter how many places I told it not to.
Here is what I actually LIKE about it:
* The games folder is very nice, nicely displayed, good info, very nice, look forward to increasing my games collection on it.
* The photo gallery is GREAT, really easy importing and tagging of photos and great organisation
* It does look pretty
* All my hardware has just worked straight away with it (gamepad, scanner, printer, camera)
* The start menu quick search feature is indeed cool, much quicker to find things that way.
* Live thumbnails of the programs you have open on your taskbar, actually quite handy to see what's going on with other apps.
And what I couldn't care less about:
* The sidebar... waste of resources, never have it on
* The funky task rotating 3D task switcher, pretty, but completely pointless
If they'd just fix the darn bugs I'd be very happy with Vista, it's just a case of having one of them come up and thinking 'How in the hell did this pass quality control?'. It's amazing to think that a company with that many employees doesn't come across the bugs that so many of us actual users do.
I'm not saying it doesn't have import, what I was saying was, in reply to "what will Microsoft's response be??", I was saying... nada... the general populous won't hear about this, so Microsoft doesn't have to respond at all.
Really, Microsoft really couldn't give a flying crap.
Ask anyone other than your core geek friends about this and they'll say "Wuh?"
No-one cares outside of geekdom, really they don't.
And it doesn't help that all the screenshots I'm seeing of this are of an interface that really does look pretty average.
You give this news far to much import compared to what it actually has.
He he... I was going to include that line too, I just couldn't remember what the object being taken away was :P
Oh bah! While GB2 was essentially a rehash of the story of one it was done with so many new gags and great stand alone bits that it is also a classic unto itself.
Lines from it come up all the time in my circle of friends (sad? maybe)
"I had part of a slinky once... but I straightened it"
I might have to rewatch it soon actually...
Oh dear god... so, as long as all you nut-job Americans have guns, it's all ok.
What a complete load of shite. Try looking at a whole lot of other countries without firearms being as stupendously prolific as they are in your beloved US of A... they're not all totalitarian regimes you know.
you're not safe because you all have guns, and if you think you can sit back and let things happen just because you're packing heat, my god you're so very, very wrong.
Exactly, it's the rose tinted glasses that look back at the past.
I sure as hell don't forget trying to drop the needle directly on the groove between tracks, or having only half an album before having to get up and flip the darn thing over. Digital is by far the better medium... I can have my collection easily on my work computer, on my home one, and available to any speaker setup in my house, easily searched through by artist, genre etc. etc... LPs just have SO MUCH against them it's not funny.
But there'll always be those that INSIST they sound better. Well, good luck to them, create a niche market of horrendously overpriced products, see if the general populous cares, it's NOT in ANY WAY going to become mainstream again.
[quote]I beg to differ. While I agree with the statement that it's a comment on postprocessing, it is a valid reason for superiority of vinyl over CDs. Don't get me wrong, I'm in no way, shape, or form a vinyl fanboi, but vinyl is a medium which prevents postprocessing compression. And it's these record producers that are making the bulk of CDs, which are giving the entire medium a bad name.[/quote]
Who says they can't do EXACTLY the same compression on the audio before mastering it to vinyl? Unless vinyl was used to master the audio in the first place and all subsequent copies were made off that, it's ridiculous to suggest that the same processing can't occur before you press the vinyl disc.
It's purely the vinyl 'purists' trying to invent a reason to suggest that vinyl is better.
It's not, end of story, no arguments can be entered into. Vinyl has nowhere near the sonic range, nowhere near the durability, nowhere near the error correction (read, none), it's just not as good.
If the author is trying to suggest that vinyl will replace anything due to any sort of sonic improvement, then why didn't SACD or DVD Audio take off? They both have higher sampling rates and even broader frequency response than CD, and yet they've pretty much disappeared. The masses don't give a shit about audio fidelity. Hence why MP3s are so popular and Home Theatre In A Box's sell in such huge numbers... the majority of people can't hear the difference, and are purely concerned about CONVENIENCE and vinyl is in NO WAY CONVENIENT... No way at all, they're huge, easy to break, wear out VERY quickly and you now need stupidly expensive turntables to get any sort of reasonable sound out of them.
This is a completely ridiculous article.
Ahh, but that's different. You got people to use a system that YOU have set up and YOU maintain... get someone to setup and maintain their own Linux box and suddenly you'll come to a screeching halt the first time there's a need to jump to a command prompt. Sure you can solve the initial setup problem by having it well bundled, but the day to day running... there'll be problems, and Linux is still and unfriendly bitch when there are said issues.
I'm so glad you posted this clip. I LOVE this challenge from Top Gear... Even more so when watching the entire segment you get a real rush when you see the thing Actually take off, especially if you don't know if it will... sorry to ruin it for those who haven't seen it, but the above post already gave it away :P
It was brilliant, and is the sole reason I'm buying the Top Gear Challenges DVD... just for this challenge, brilliant
Or... a windows one with the same feature enabled... it's available in more than just linux you know.
And also, any email from eBay also shows up in your 'My Messages' box on eBay itself... so unless you see it in there when you log in, it wasn't from them.
Yeah, see... we need a video of the entire thing to start being watched as much as the wonderfully 'cut down' and trimmed to make it look different to what it was...
Thanks for the account, the fact that police were already standing behind him did seem a little iffy.
A great response... I've been looking around trying to find out what happened BEFORE the videos I've seen, because, yeah, having a contingent of police standing behind him already spoke to there being more to this.
There is some great spin going on here, as is often the case with these youtube videos of 'the man doing me wrong'... They have a habit of not showing the extra info that would make the majority go "Oh, I see... he was being a dick".
I shall have to hunt down that longer video.
Except that it's a Hardware fault and not even a hardware fault that's even related to software (like the CPU or some such), but the darn hinge... they should have NO REASON to touch the software installed on the machine... NONE... fix the hinge and give it back.
What for? Back up your data (4 GB usbsticks are about $60 right now if you watch the sales), do a OEM fresh install, bring it in to whatever idiotshop there is locally and tell them that a fresh install of windows from the OEM disks didn't fix the cracks in the casing. *sarcastic grin*
:) )
If that fails, beat them over the head with it. Or just plain don't worry about it. (I have two laptops, both with various physical defects that don't detract from the usability. One of them is held together by Black Gorilla Duct Tape (800lb). It's probably sturdier than the other one, which doesn't have the duct tape. I use it to administer the headless cli ubuntu server VM from my main machine; it's perfect in the role, and I didn't have to throw away that 'old' pcmcia 802.b card.
What, are they supposed to retain their resale value, or something? Oh come on...
You really are the "Lay down and take it" sort aren't you? Why should he:
* Go through the effort of backing up his data, reformatting, installing Windows, have them fix it and then restore it all back?
* Put up with a broken laptop. Just because you're happy to have your laptop look like crap with duct tape all over it, doesn't mean that most of us, when under warranty, would prefer for our hardware to be fixed to the condition it should be... and yes they do retain value, I sold my 5 year old laptop for a decent amount, nothing like what it was new, but certainly more than if it were covered in tape.
And what the hell was all the guff about your administering things via blah blah blah... trying to go for geek cred there?
Really... if you have nothing constructive to say, say nothing at all. He's WELL within his rights to be trying to get this fixed WITHOUT having to uninstall software that's on HIS machine. (And this coming from someone who runs Windows on all of mine)
Sir, that was amusing :)
"The user intended user experience could be orgasmic, but I'll be damned if I can get the thing stable given the state of drivers for my vista approved hardware."
What are you having issues with?
I mean really? I have NO stability issues at all with my machine. Now that's not to say there wasn't some (read one) really stupid teething problems... I could not for the life of me get the damn machine to stay asleep... it would just wake up whenever it wanted. This was with all BIOS settings to off for 'wake on' events, this was with all (and I mean ALL) settings on network adaptors and USB hubs switched to off for 'allow this devices to wake'... it would STILL wake up.
I finally found a setting within the network adaptor's long list of attributes which listed the types of packets it would wake on... when setting THAT to 'none' it stopped waking up... so there was some crappy code somewhere that ignored ALL my other settings and still listened to that shitty little setting deep in the driver for the LAN card.
So... yeah, that was crap, I should never have had to go through that crap... but that was it... one crappy bit of fault finding and nothing else... everything else works as expected.
The photo/video management stuff is fantastic, the ui is very, very nice, I can play my DirectX10 games... all in all I'm very happy with it.
There are a few rough edges here and there which I expected with a new OS, don't tell me the first iteration of OSX was perfect either... so yeah, give it a little while to mature and it'll be a stellar operating system, I really think this FUD about it being another Windows ME is a load of shite... really... give it a year or two and people will wonder how they made do with XP...
His point was that the ridiculous argument of being paid purely on time spent making the product, and nothing more makes no sense... the OP who was suggesting that once the product is made there should be no profit made from selling copies of it just makes no sense... You are saying the truth, if they make a great product then they'll sell many copies and make lots of money.
The point here is that the OP was trying to suggest that you should make money from selling copies of the game... Wha? So how does one make money then?
It's some bizaroworld logic that people invent to make themselves feel ok about copying things.
That's not to say that the copy protection on Bioshock doesn't sound pretty draconian, and that it's NOT the way to make people want to pay for software... but to suggest that people just should get the product for free is weird.