OHHhhhh, that's right, you really believe that none of these people buy CDs. Nope - they all steal the music they listen to.
Incidently I know this guy who would physically steal used CDs from a local store all the time (their setup was bad). He had money too, it didn't make sense.
I have a friend who pirates stuff, both software and music, and I have debated with him many times why he shouldn't. His excuse it always that the stuff costs too much. So I always ask him, what if he goes into a 7-Eleven to buy a candy bar and in his opinion, it costs too much. So is he going to shoplift it? And he never gets it... "that's different" he says.
Yeah, that is different. Most pirates make copies of things they would never buy. And no teenager/college kid has the funds for an expansive media collection. Stealing something physical is a direct loss to the victim. Pirating is no loss when the individual would never buy in the first place.
Since I have income I buy all my music (unless I can't find it anywhere or am evaluating). But I understand the pirate philosophy--having recorded music off the radio as a child, making tapes, and so on.
BTW Music and software do cost too much, and the companies are not hurt by penniless kids (or adults) pirating their stuff. But that's more debating so I'll quit for now.
People who are serious about music listening have a stereo, generally a component stereo, and a discrete audio CD player.
Hmm... That's quite a generalization. Although I don't consider myself an "audiophile" I do like to pick apart music when I listen (I play a little guitar and bass). My car stereo is pretty serious with a single CD player and CD changer (only one player reads CD-R's). My home setup is a PC w/ a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz and an IDE CD drive connected using the digital connector. I've got three seperate amps: one for extreme lows (15" subwoofer), one full range, and one highs (its strange but sounds great).
Yet I refuse to buy a seperate component CD player because I don't feel I need one, though I do prefer CD sound over compressed formats and I buy CDs. Maybe that's just me..
And I simply won't buy CDs that don't work, none of this buy-and-return crap, that does no one any good, and I'm not that kind of jerk anyways (though I return stuff if it sucks or doesn't work for me).
how about: modify your CD/CD-R drive's firmware to allow it to get by the protection and rip the CD. there was supposedly ways to do this for making exact duplicates of PSX games (but that was for writing not reading, still should work in reverse).
I can download an album from Napster faster than I can rip it. And it's easier. Many of the MPSs I have correspond to CDs in my Sony disc changer - but I downloaded them off of OpenNap servers.
Yeah, but I find most mp3's ripped at 128kbit. I've actually started to buy CDs again after upgrading my listening equipment (nothing special, but I can tell the difference). Sucks that they throw this copy-protection crap at us, now I have to go back to file-sharing to get music since my only CD player is in my PC.
Imagine a generation of children growing up on Linux. I think that's what RedHat is envisioning, and I say "rock on." Children have an amazing ability to learn, through the good stuff at them early.
I wish someone had taken that DOS prompt away from me and replaced it with a UNIX prompt when I started out, though my beginning learning experience was good nonetheless. From ages 8-12 I went from DOS to BASIC to C to ASM (though ASM was a huge challenge for me, I could've learned better with the right guidance) and onwards... Good times.
Hmmm... Well I know that colleges love Linux and dislike Windows, especially the computer departments. At least mine did (Univ of Florida). I had professors ragging on Microsoft all the time, it was great. Microsoft donated a lab full of PCs with NT installed for OS-learning and they ended up installing Linux on them after wiping NT off, needless to say MSFT was pissed about that. You can't learn about operating systems on something closed like NT. Most NT machines were setup to dual boot to Linux. Of course I spent most of my time using Solaris for my projects. But that was college, K-12 is different. But Linux would have been welcome in my high school, no doubt about that, I did some adminning for them. We ran Win3.11 on all those machines (excluding the Mac's of course), and everyone hated it. Also take note that schools get donated a lot of crap hardware--we got a boat load of 486s (with old-ass NICs in 'em) when the Pentium 75 and 90's with Win95 were starting to saturate the school. A nice little FreeBSD or Linux lab could have been formed from that.
Pentium-120mhz? I just bought a P2-266mhz motherboard w/ integrated audio and video and 64mb PC100 mem for $25. Upgraded my Linux PC from a P1-166 to something of reasonable speed. But yeah, I know, upgrades tend to have hidden costs. Anything that can't boot from CD I don't want to use (no more @!$#ing floppy drives!)
An affordable 20-gig scsi would do me good. Enough to run the system off of and enough play space. And then I'd take all these IDE drives I have laying around and run a file server.
There are people who have been saying that for years. Yet there are plenty of people who will continue to buy SCSI rather than IDE, and will add to their existing SCSI systems. It's not dead yet.
It would trouble me either way. We don't need the airlines doing the terrorists' work for them. If it isn't a terrorist incident, people are going to blame the airlines industry for this -- "have they cut so many jobs and paid so much attention to security that they neglected mechanical safety?". If it is a terrorist incident, they have yet another area of concern. Either way, less people are going to fly.
I'm very surprised to see System of a Down/Toxicity on the list. I was planning to buy it after hearing some mp3s of it (which I found before the album was out). But if works, I'll still get it. This kind of copy-protection is just going to hurt sales and I'm wondering if the bands have any say in it.
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If there were an ethernet device I would mention booting an image off of the network (kinda like you can with Dreamcast). Looking at amateur software development methods is, of course, a nice, legitimate way of looking at whole console backup idea. Some of the free software written for the Dreamcast is pretty smooth.
I expect there to be a backup device for the GameCube just as there have been for most game machines. Take the N64, for example, there was the Z64, and the Doctor V64 which let you play N64 backups off of CDs. I imagine a backup unit for the GameCube to use the serial or parallel ports and probably use CD or DVD media, or maybe it would have hard drive or use a network file system.
In any case the internals of the GameCube look pretty smooth. The only hardware hack I can think up at this moment would be replace the cooling fan with a nice, loud ~50cfm fan:)
True, Jet Li has some skill, Fist of Legend is amazing. The preview of The One made the fighting look like something out of a video game to me. I'm still a sucker for that kind of camera work, though.
I think it would help in situations where you would normally have to TAB over and over again to use the keyboard to do what you want, when there aren't keyboard shortcuts to get where you want to (ie web browsing or programs that simply don't have keyboard functionality). But you're right for simple menu navigation keyboard controls are good enough, though I don't see this for web browsing (I use IE and Mozilla) and for a good number of other applications I use. Upon using the QPointer beta, I find it a little too buggy and not too configurable, but jumping around links and mouse-related objects using arrow keys is kinda cool. The index-tag (mapping mouse objects to keys) thing would be cool but I couldn't get it to work.
Check out QPointer
These guys are working on a system to efficiently use the keyboard in place of the mouse. Looks interesting. They have a Win2k beta out so far.
I think the fact that they offer the previous version for free should be enough to keep people from complaining.
The fact is, bandwidth cost money, especially the kind of volume involved in transfering CD images. Distributors take a big risk in creating distributions and providing them to the general public, especially when they are pouring money into such a project. I see them totally justified in asking for money in exchange for a service. If someone really wanted the software and didn't want to pay for it, they could acquire it by other means, and do so legally.
Comparing Microsoft to a Linux distributor (let us be reminded that Linux is not a single entity, but distributors may be considered such) holds very little ground. Microsoft could offer their operating systems for free to non-business individuals and they would probably profit even more. Linux isn't about market dominance or the market at all. I think these Linux distributors were in the situation where they realized "hey, if we don't have any income, we can't afford to exist."
I'd never spend $15 on coffee, though.. I don't touch the stuff.
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OHHhhhh, that's right, you really believe that none of these people buy CDs. Nope - they all steal the music they listen to.
Incidently I know this guy who would physically steal used CDs from a local store all the time (their setup was bad). He had money too, it didn't make sense.
I have a friend who pirates stuff, both software and music, and I have debated with him many times why he shouldn't. His excuse it always that the stuff costs too much. So I always ask him, what if he goes into a 7-Eleven to buy a candy bar and in his opinion, it costs too much. So is he going to shoplift it? And he never gets it... "that's different" he says.
Yeah, that is different. Most pirates make copies of things they would never buy. And no teenager/college kid has the funds for an expansive media collection. Stealing something physical is a direct loss to the victim. Pirating is no loss when the individual would never buy in the first place.
Since I have income I buy all my music (unless I can't find it anywhere or am evaluating). But I understand the pirate philosophy--having recorded music off the radio as a child, making tapes, and so on.
BTW Music and software do cost too much, and the companies are not hurt by penniless kids (or adults) pirating their stuff. But that's more debating so I'll quit for now.
People who are serious about music listening have a stereo, generally a component stereo, and a discrete audio CD player.
Hmm... That's quite a generalization. Although I don't consider myself an "audiophile" I do like to pick apart music when I listen (I play a little guitar and bass). My car stereo is pretty serious with a single CD player and CD changer (only one player reads CD-R's). My home setup is a PC w/ a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz and an IDE CD drive connected using the digital connector. I've got three seperate amps: one for extreme lows (15" subwoofer), one full range, and one highs (its strange but sounds great).
Yet I refuse to buy a seperate component CD player because I don't feel I need one, though I do prefer CD sound over compressed formats and I buy CDs. Maybe that's just me..
And I simply won't buy CDs that don't work, none of this buy-and-return crap, that does no one any good, and I'm not that kind of jerk anyways (though I return stuff if it sucks or doesn't work for me).
how about: modify your CD/CD-R drive's firmware to allow it to get by the protection and rip the CD. there was supposedly ways to do this for making exact duplicates of PSX games (but that was for writing not reading, still should work in reverse).
I can download an album from Napster faster than I can rip it. And it's easier. Many of the MPSs I have correspond to CDs in my Sony disc changer - but I downloaded them off of OpenNap servers.
Yeah, but I find most mp3's ripped at 128kbit. I've actually started to buy CDs again after upgrading my listening equipment (nothing special, but I can tell the difference). Sucks that they throw this copy-protection crap at us, now I have to go back to file-sharing to get music since my only CD player is in my PC.
I've dealt with Cox before.. and I have to say they live up to their name.
Imagine a generation of children growing up on Linux. I think that's what RedHat is envisioning, and I say "rock on." Children have an amazing ability to learn, through the good stuff at them early.
I wish someone had taken that DOS prompt away from me and replaced it with a UNIX prompt when I started out, though my beginning learning experience was good nonetheless. From ages 8-12 I went from DOS to BASIC to C to ASM (though ASM was a huge challenge for me, I could've learned better with the right guidance) and onwards... Good times.
Hmmm... Well I know that colleges love Linux and dislike Windows, especially the computer departments. At least mine did (Univ of Florida). I had professors ragging on Microsoft all the time, it was great. Microsoft donated a lab full of PCs with NT installed for OS-learning and they ended up installing Linux on them after wiping NT off, needless to say MSFT was pissed about that. You can't learn about operating systems on something closed like NT. Most NT machines were setup to dual boot to Linux. Of course I spent most of my time using Solaris for my projects. But that was college, K-12 is different. But Linux would have been welcome in my high school, no doubt about that, I did some adminning for them. We ran Win3.11 on all those machines (excluding the Mac's of course), and everyone hated it. Also take note that schools get donated a lot of crap hardware--we got a boat load of 486s (with old-ass NICs in 'em) when the Pentium 75 and 90's with Win95 were starting to saturate the school. A nice little FreeBSD or Linux lab could have been formed from that.
Pentium-120mhz? I just bought a P2-266mhz motherboard w/ integrated audio and video and 64mb PC100 mem for $25. Upgraded my Linux PC from a P1-166 to something of reasonable speed. But yeah, I know, upgrades tend to have hidden costs. Anything that can't boot from CD I don't want to use (no more @!$#ing floppy drives!)
An affordable 20-gig scsi would do me good. Enough to run the system off of and enough play space. And then I'd take all these IDE drives I have laying around and run a file server.
SCSI is dead
There are people who have been saying that for years. Yet there are plenty of people who will continue to buy SCSI rather than IDE, and will add to their existing SCSI systems. It's not dead yet.
It would trouble me either way. We don't need the airlines doing the terrorists' work for them. If it isn't a terrorist incident, people are going to blame the airlines industry for this -- "have they cut so many jobs and paid so much attention to security that they neglected mechanical safety?". If it is a terrorist incident, they have yet another area of concern. Either way, less people are going to fly.
I'm very surprised to see System of a Down/Toxicity on the list. I was planning to buy it after hearing some mp3s of it (which I found before the album was out). But if works, I'll still get it. This kind of copy-protection is just going to hurt sales and I'm wondering if the bands have any say in it.
If there were an ethernet device I would mention booting an image off of the network (kinda like you can with Dreamcast). Looking at amateur software development methods is, of course, a nice, legitimate way of looking at whole console backup idea. Some of the free software written for the Dreamcast is pretty smooth.
:)
I expect there to be a backup device for the GameCube just as there have been for most game machines. Take the N64, for example, there was the Z64, and the Doctor V64 which let you play N64 backups off of CDs. I imagine a backup unit for the GameCube to use the serial or parallel ports and probably use CD or DVD media, or maybe it would have hard drive or use a network file system.
In any case the internals of the GameCube look pretty smooth. The only hardware hack I can think up at this moment would be replace the cooling fan with a nice, loud ~50cfm fan
True, Jet Li has some skill, Fist of Legend is amazing. The preview of The One made the fighting look like something out of a video game to me. I'm still a sucker for that kind of camera work, though.
I think it would help in situations where you would normally have to TAB over and over again to use the keyboard to do what you want, when there aren't keyboard shortcuts to get where you want to (ie web browsing or programs that simply don't have keyboard functionality). But you're right for simple menu navigation keyboard controls are good enough, though I don't see this for web browsing (I use IE and Mozilla) and for a good number of other applications I use. Upon using the QPointer beta, I find it a little too buggy and not too configurable, but jumping around links and mouse-related objects using arrow keys is kinda cool. The index-tag (mapping mouse objects to keys) thing would be cool but I couldn't get it to work.
Check out QPointer
These guys are working on a system to efficiently use the keyboard in place of the mouse. Looks interesting. They have a Win2k beta out so far.
I think the fact that they offer the previous version for free should be enough to keep people from complaining. The fact is, bandwidth cost money, especially the kind of volume involved in transfering CD images. Distributors take a big risk in creating distributions and providing them to the general public, especially when they are pouring money into such a project. I see them totally justified in asking for money in exchange for a service. If someone really wanted the software and didn't want to pay for it, they could acquire it by other means, and do so legally. Comparing Microsoft to a Linux distributor (let us be reminded that Linux is not a single entity, but distributors may be considered such) holds very little ground. Microsoft could offer their operating systems for free to non-business individuals and they would probably profit even more. Linux isn't about market dominance or the market at all. I think these Linux distributors were in the situation where they realized "hey, if we don't have any income, we can't afford to exist." I'd never spend $15 on coffee, though.. I don't touch the stuff. Nilesh