I bought Dario G's "Sunmachine" album over two years ago, which was the first copy-protected CD I'd ever seen. It has the concentric rings described in other posts, and I couldn't get it to rip digitally, though it did play fine in my cdrom.
I ended up doing an analog rip of the album, which was good quality except for an ICQ "Uh-oh!" popping up in one of the tracks.
I found the major problem with my CS program (I just finished, thankfully) was that the classes were nowhere near as useful as the reading or the assignments/projects. More often than not, the professor wasn't covering any material that couldn't be gotten from the textbooks, and generally in more detail. The project work I've done in my last year has certainly been the most in-depth and rewarding work I've done in my entire college career. It challenged me to work on problems I would never have faced on my own, and that's what made it so useful.
I guess my suggestion is this: if you want a real CS education, find a job. Or a project. Work with some friends or a professor. Coursework alone will never offer as great a learning experience as having a real project to sink your teeth into.
I'm not sure why they expect this technology to take off. Unless I read the spec sheet wrong, Dataplay media aren't rewritable. So why pay $10 for a proprietary media with only 500 megs of space when I could go down to the local microcenter and pick up a 100-pack of 80-minute CDS for $20?
the internet movie database has mistakes for tons of the movies they list. be sure to check out the goofs for "hackers". probably the funniest I've ever read.
deal with it. you don't like the internet? turn off your computer. we don't need censorship and filtering and all that mumbo jumbo. we need a fundamental shift in the human consciousness towards accepting that the world isn't perfect and trying to color it as such never works.
Personally I was getting tired of the up-again down-again yo-yoing of Mir.
Brilliant! Why bother with the continuous shuttle launches and such when we could just build a giant SPACE YO-YO! Have the transport spindle bounce up and down through the atmosphere, connected to some super-heavy duty cabling suspended from the moon! Might be a dizzying ride, though.
Why would a porn company start hosting on.xxx where it would be automatically filtered? Domain names and TLDs are essentially meaningless. I could just as easily put my home page up at www.porn-free.xxx with no pornographic content whatsoever and be filtered for no other reason than my TLD happens be.xxx
Filtering on something as trivial as that is just another step in the wrong direction.
Now that it's down to a dead heat, I've been poking at the last few states. At the current time:
Only 25% or so of the precincts in CA have reported, Bush has more votes there, CNN says Gore won it.
0% reporting from Alaska and Hawaii, yet Bush and Gore have taken each, respectively.
The California thing could ruin Gore if it does go to Bush. Otherwise, Alaska and Hawaii could just barely tip the election either way. This is sickening. We need election by popular vote.
If elected president, I will issue an Executive Order designating a federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the Office of Management and Budget. The federal CIO will be responsible for providing the leadership and coordination needed to realize the vision of a truly digital and citizen-centric government. The CIO will head agency cross-functional councils on information technology, facilitate collaboration with state CIOs, and lead development of standards, protocols, and privacy protections, among other things.
This is probably the most interesting idea I've heard from the Bush campaign. Maybe the President should have a secretary of technology in their cabinet as well?
What are they supposed to say? Though I'm an atheist, I still find myself wanting to say stuff like 'Thank God!' or 'Christ!' or 'Holy Fuck!' or something. What kind of exclamations would we have in the absence of these religious ones? I submit the following politically-themed suggestions:
Thank McReynolds!
Browne!
Al Fuck!
George W. Fucking Bush!
The problem is this: if you vote for a third-party candidate, the greater of the two evil big-party candidates could end up winning. I want to vote for Harry Browne (Libertarian), but I would also rather see Bush in the white house than Gore, even though I don't like either of them. What do I plan to do? Vote Libertarian anyways. I don't expect to see Harry Browne in the white house next year, nor do I expect to be happy with the next President.
The American voting system is flawed mostly because the American people generally do not take the time to research the candidates they're voting for. My proposal is this: require all voters to take a test to ensure that they know where candidates stand on key issues. If they can't produce enough correct answers, don't allow them to vote. It sounds harsh, but it would encourage the people to know who and what they're voting for before they can vote at all.
So they're a big corporation... who cares? I started using their digital cable service at the beginning of the summer, and I've been more than satisfied with it. Heck, my monthly bill actually went down by $3 in August.
The only gripe I have is with cable itself... why do I have to pay for 50+ channels if I never watch more than ten of them? I think a pick-and-choose cable service would be better (though I'd imagine it might put some channels out of business) for the consumer.
$250 a month? Maybe you just need to shop around more. I'm only a year older than you, gotten in a number of accidents, and I pay about half of what you do. Geico.com and progressive.com will both give you quotes online, though I haven't been impressed with the numbers they spit back. I've previously been with Hartford Insurance, but when their rates went up, I switched to Met Life.
A method of making a human commit complex rotational motions at the "knees" and "hips" to promote the alternate, forward or backward-moving actions of the "feet," whereby the human can update their position in an arbitrary real-world environment.
... as the tax-man? This feels to me like they're trying to impose an internet tax (at least on their networks). I guess they're trying to beat the government at their own game =)
Slashdot Mirror
I hope the engine engine is capable of rendering something other than the dark, boring environments seen in the screenshots on the site.
Game designers could really learn a thing or two by playing Serious Sam. Look at all those bright environments and colorful characters! Yowza!
That one had me worried for a while.
I bought Dario G's "Sunmachine" album over two years ago, which was the first copy-protected CD I'd ever seen. It has the concentric rings described in other posts, and I couldn't get it to rip digitally, though it did play fine in my cdrom.
I ended up doing an analog rip of the album, which was good quality except for an ICQ "Uh-oh!" popping up in one of the tracks.
I found the major problem with my CS program (I just finished, thankfully) was that the classes were nowhere near as useful as the reading or the assignments/projects. More often than not, the professor wasn't covering any material that couldn't be gotten from the textbooks, and generally in more detail. The project work I've done in my last year has certainly been the most in-depth and rewarding work I've done in my entire college career. It challenged me to work on problems I would never have faced on my own, and that's what made it so useful.
I guess my suggestion is this: if you want a real CS education, find a job. Or a project. Work with some friends or a professor. Coursework alone will never offer as great a learning experience as having a real project to sink your teeth into.
I'm not sure why they expect this technology to take off. Unless I read the spec sheet wrong, Dataplay media aren't rewritable. So why pay $10 for a proprietary media with only 500 megs of space when I could go down to the local microcenter and pick up a 100-pack of 80-minute CDS for $20?
the internet movie database has mistakes for tons of the movies they list. be sure to check out the goofs for "hackers". probably the funniest I've ever read.
deal with it. you don't like the internet? turn off your computer. we don't need censorship and filtering and all that mumbo jumbo. we need a fundamental shift in the human consciousness towards accepting that the world isn't perfect and trying to color it as such never works.
Personally I was getting tired of the up-again down-again yo-yoing of Mir.
Brilliant! Why bother with the continuous shuttle launches and such when we could just build a giant SPACE YO-YO! Have the transport spindle bounce up and down through the atmosphere, connected to some super-heavy duty cabling suspended from the moon! Might be a dizzying ride, though.
It would make filtering SO easy, SO universal.
.xxx where it would be automatically filtered? Domain names and TLDs are essentially meaningless. I could just as easily put my home page up at www.porn-free.xxx with no pornographic content whatsoever and be filtered for no other reason than my TLD happens be .xxx
Why would a porn company start hosting on
Filtering on something as trivial as that is just another step in the wrong direction.
By Chuthulu, you're mean. Somebody had to state the obvious!
Now that it's down to a dead heat, I've been poking at the last few states. At the current time:
Only 25% or so of the precincts in CA have reported, Bush has more votes there, CNN says Gore won it.
0% reporting from Alaska and Hawaii, yet Bush and Gore have taken each, respectively.
The California thing could ruin Gore if it does go to Bush. Otherwise, Alaska and Hawaii could just barely tip the election either way. This is sickening. We need election by popular vote.
... we ever have to pay for information on the web.
As a selfish site junkie, I hope this only means NYT-style registration, not WSJ-type subscribers-only service.
The Wall Street Journal has to generate revenue somehow.
If elected president, I will issue an Executive Order designating a federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the Office of Management and Budget. The federal CIO will be responsible for providing the leadership and coordination needed to realize the vision of a truly digital and citizen-centric government. The CIO will head agency cross-functional councils on information technology, facilitate collaboration with state CIOs, and lead development of standards, protocols, and privacy protections, among other things.
This is probably the most interesting idea I've heard from the Bush campaign. Maybe the President should have a secretary of technology in their cabinet as well?
Then they'll cdr bomb the rest of it.
My version of telecommuting is similar with a few key differences:
2 more words: Boxer Shorts
I'll wear the same boxers for a couple days.
Lunch = I can do Laundry
Constant snacking / laundry ever couple months.
Bed Head and I don't care
I like to take bubble baths a couple times a day.
I dont have to see anyone from sales and marketing!
I don't know any of my neighbors and I've been living here for almost half a year.
Whatever.
What are they supposed to say? Though I'm an atheist, I still find myself wanting to say stuff like 'Thank God!' or 'Christ!' or 'Holy Fuck!' or something. What kind of exclamations would we have in the absence of these religious ones? I submit the following politically-themed suggestions:
Thank McReynolds!
Browne!
Al Fuck!
George W. Fucking Bush!
The problem is this: if you vote for a third-party candidate, the greater of the two evil big-party candidates could end up winning. I want to vote for Harry Browne (Libertarian), but I would also rather see Bush in the white house than Gore, even though I don't like either of them. What do I plan to do? Vote Libertarian anyways. I don't expect to see Harry Browne in the white house next year, nor do I expect to be happy with the next President.
The American voting system is flawed mostly because the American people generally do not take the time to research the candidates they're voting for. My proposal is this: require all voters to take a test to ensure that they know where candidates stand on key issues. If they can't produce enough correct answers, don't allow them to vote. It sounds harsh, but it would encourage the people to know who and what they're voting for before they can vote at all.
Just a thought. Flame away.
Do you see humanity ever leaving Earth, and if so, when, where, how and why?
So they're a big corporation
The only gripe I have is with cable itself
$250 a month? Maybe you just need to shop around more. I'm only a year older than you, gotten in a number of accidents, and I pay about half of what you do. Geico.com and progressive.com will both give you quotes online, though I haven't been impressed with the numbers they spit back. I've previously been with Hartford Insurance, but when their rates went up, I switched to Met Life.
I liked Red Mars the most of the three. Green Mars started to get boring halfway through and I never really got in to Blue Mars.
"Red Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson. Science fiction, yes, but very scientific in how the author describes the terraforming of Mars. A good read.
Here WE go, rather. Doh.
Here wo go:
... as the tax-man? This feels to me like they're trying to impose an internet tax (at least on their networks). I guess they're trying to beat the government at their own game =)