when i was a kid at the lawyer's office w/ my mom during my parent's divorce, the secretary was putting files on these tiny little hard plastic disks. I hadn't seen anything like that available for my C64 (I was around 8 at the time) and wound up begging my mom to get me one for Xmas.
Now I spend my day ranting about how floppies need to go. Seriously, if it's that freaking small, just EMAIL IT TO YOURSELF PEOPLE!
is that they'll never be happy, even if they DO become a complete, unchallenged monopoly. Too much is never enough in their eyes.
Its like this wannabe punk rocker from around my parts who showed up in a BMW whining about how his parents just wouldn't buy him the Jag.
Why do so many corporations have such a hostile view of peaceful cohabitation in the marketplace, even among direct competitors? I mean, if you're churning billions of dollars through your coporation ever year, and making your CEO and founder the richest man on the planet in the meantime, doesn't that signal that you're in a good place and you don't necessarily need to release the hounds on everybody who comes tiptoeing across your lawn?
Here's the problem: you watched it on Cartoon Network, all chopped up with commercials.
Rent or buy the DVDs - its worth it. i don't even really like anime all that much (i respect it as an art form, but most of it just doesn't impress me enough to keep watching), but I really dig on Cowboy Bebop.
And the Bebob dub is OK. Its better than most other dubs out there. I've seen the movie plenty on DVD, and I'd LOVE to get the chance to see it on the big screen.
now as soon as they get CB in the IMAX theatre, i'll be a real happy camper.
I'm embarassed to be human after seeing your own self importance.
And keep in mind, the entire MS-OpenGL thing isn't exactly over. Ya'll are acting like there's no way in the world that MS would EVER abuse IP to extort money from people. Jeez, I guess that is rather out of character for them... usually they're sneakier.
Knee-jerk reaction to something that isn't terribly important. I realize MS didn't claim ownership of OpenGL as a whole - that's why I said "parts of OpenGL"
And I don't knock everything MS does. I'm looking forward to seeing the new XP Media OS in action. So instead of jumping to conclusions about my personal feelings towards MS, how about u comment on the subject at hand?
No, they're offering Firewire at an extremely reasonable cost to support current and future development of the standard. This is different because JPEG is already set in stone, its not being developed further, so there really is no need to profit from the format itself because the format itself needs no additional development. Its bollocks.
How about JPEG 2000? Are they claiming any rights to this compression scheme? Because to be honest, JPEG 2000 is FAR superior, and it wouldn't take too much effort for companies to say "screw your royalty, we're producing JPEG 2000 cameras, etc. from now on."
But this doesn't surprise me. After MS claimed ownership of parts of OpenGL, that sorta opened the floodgates for really sad attempts to bilk more money out of an already financialy strapped populace/industry.
Apple is also making us pay for QuickTime Pro all over again as well. So, that's $130 for the OS, $100 (or 50) for.Mac, and 30 for QuickTime.
$260 bucks?!?!! Even 210 isn't that great of a bargain. C'mon Apple, how can you hit us up with all these charges AT ONCE?!?!
I mean, damn, do you really need 3rd and 4rd quarter revenues to be THAT GOOD?!
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Obviously, you don't understand that QuickTime isn't a codec, but an architecture with which to manipulate video and audio.
Maybe you're just an old-skool apple basher who is deserately clinging onto any outdated viewpoint you can in order to convince your friends that you made a good computer purchasing decision.
Actually, YES, some people DO still run OS 8. For instance, lots of early powermac owners (x100 series, 6300, etc.) who haven't bothered to upgrade their ram still run 8.1 because it is still a fully functional and stable OS for most day-to-day tasks that they need to accomplish. I still run 8 on my Quadra's (but only cuz 9 won't run on them anyway).
The first deployment of Mobile Nintendo Gaming Persons came to a sudden, terrifying halt today as they unloaded from their Suburban.
A gang of uppity mimes armed with make believe billy clubs and pretend guns violently pantomimed through the vicious, grisly murders of each and every one of the Nintendo employees.
Although no one was injured, the crystal-clear depiction of their own demise sent the Gaming crew into a deep, trance-like coma.
"Obviously," said the police spokesman, "we are dealing with ninja mimes." ----
Why is anyone surprised about this? Didn't you see it coming a mile away? Win2K, although superior to XP, is 2 years old at this point. This is when most OS's start being phased out. What made you think Microsft would allow it to die a natural death in the marketplace rather than pull the plug prematurely to make money?
Just don't get all surprised and huffy when your new hardware won't even BOOT Win2K, as it will require Longhorn. After all these years, it still amazes me that people actually expect decent business practice from microsoft.
I'd have to agree. While OS 9 definitely has its shortcomings, it is by no means a "toy" OS. Its functionality and ease of use are legendary (its not like OS X came along and all of a sudden, Macs were easy to use), it is MUCH more stable than Windows (not as stable as Linux or Mac OS X or any other BSD/*nix system, granted)... and I am including Win2K as well. While Win2K won't have minor crashes as much, it is MUCH more prone to major reinstallation-to-fix type crashes. OS 9 is, in my mind, a very incredible accomplishment. An OS than spanned 2 completely different hardware architectures over a course of 16 years that incorporated every major advancement either thru the OS or 3rd party extensions, and, as has been mentioned, IS COMPLETELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE CONTENT YOU WEENIES WATCH, LISTEN TO, etc. So in 1984 they didn't build it for pre-emptive multitasking or protected memory. Big whoop - it got along fine without it for most users, and now that OS X is here, it has the best implementation of either available. People need to stop busting on Mac OS 9. If you look at the development and progression of the Mac OS from '84 to '00, you'd be VERY impressed with all the stuff they crammed in by the end. Was it perfect? No. Was it a toy? Absolutely not. Is was a very useful, very intuitive, very quick, very extensible operating system. For servers? No, but then, that's not what the original Mac OS was written to do. You don't use a screwdriver to stir your coffee, and you don't use a swizzle stick to pound a nail into wood. Judge the OS by its accomplishements in its own field, not by what completely different OS's achieved in completely different avenues of use.
I hate to be a negative nancy, but from personal experience as administrator of 12 Windows 2000 boxes, I have to say that Win2K is the best OS they ever released, but it is FAR from being as stable as Mac OS X or Linux. FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR. And don't get me started on XP. Its hard to crash XP when you can't get past the revenue-generating additions to actually do something that might crash the thing.
Lets combine a few recent stories for a second....
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We pay for a CD and rip it to our HDs.
We share it online while we're surfing.
User X decides to download "Puppy Cum" from my computer.
I am not personally breaking copyright, because I paid for that song. (well, actually, me and my friend Joe wrote it, but whatever) User X is using my bandwidth. Bandwidth that companies like AOL and Comcast are going to start charging me extra for. So not only am I NOT making a profit, I'm actually PAYING somewhat to let other people download my music. I can sure see how companies would think this is just as bad as buying a high-capacity burner setup and color copying the covers @ Kinko's and selling the bogus copies on the streets of any city in America for $5. This gets especially ludicrous for dial-up users. It can take HOURS to get ONE SONG... this entire initiative is overblown and a gross overreaction to the fact that our economy isn't doing so hot, people are tightening their belts, or buying more booze, who knows, but they're not buying the crap that the Big Five want to sell us. Welcome to the business world. The bigger you are, the harder you fall. Those companies have been price-fixing, getting taxes put on blank media so we're paying them there as well, and basically doing everything they can to suck the public and the artists dry. Eminem needs to bitchslap these people into submission. His latest was one of the MOST PIRATED ALBUMS EVER - yet when it came out, it was also NUMBER ONE, selling TWICE AS MANY COPIES as the #2 record that week, with LESS TIME ON THE MARKET TO SELL. Why? Because Eminem is WORTH IT. You'll never stop us from sharing MP3s. So if you want us to buy you music, make sure its GOOD. THAT might be a start.
God these rich-ass media-pushers piss me off.
whatever guy. yeah, he could sort through a bunch of google results trying to find useful info., or he could ask a crowd of folks that he trusts and whose opinions he respects to direct him towards quality outlets. so what's wrong with that? the only waste of space is your holier-than-thou vitrol that you felt was SO IMPORTANT that you had to post your "gee whiz is this guy stupid" post so that we could all marvel at your own ability to type "google" into the browser and hit "return." get over it.
oh, and as far as perpetuating the notion of a class-based social interaction, are you telling me that we AREN'T involved in a class war? KMA. Classicism is alive and well and IS part of human nature at this particular stage of our evolution, as sad as it may be. Get over that, too.
I've never understood why geeks have to bash each other. even jocks pat each other on the ass to say "hey, nice game" or "dude, thanks for the nachos." but geeks are all like "you didn't go about doing something the way I do, so therefore you SUCK!" C'mon guys, its not like the rest of the world wants to talk to you. Open up, its OK, not everyone is a big bad bully.
the mind-altering effects of anime are only noticeable to a select few in society - no one can explain how or why, but only a certain section of our race responds to these subliminal information packets, and the results are astonishing. tests have concluded that those who are susceptible to these communication waves are in fact decsendants of the Great Geek God, and as such bear the responsibility of preaching to the masses.
man, i LOVE ren and stimpy. when i was younger, i couldn't believe that it actually made it to television! it was like this shining gold nugget in the middle of a gigantic pile of fetid wombat poo. i'm sure glad i taped all the original episodes when they were still in 1st and 2nd run! now that i'm older and have the hardware, i'm in the process of putting together VCDs. won't be as nice quality as a DVD box set, and I'll probably buy it if it does come about just to support John K., but hell, maknig the VCDs is a great excuse to watch them all over again. and its a cheap way to hook somebody after you find out they've never seen ren and stimpy!
What a waste of server space. I mean, 90% of EVERYTHING is crap. Food, music, art, people, governements, laws, clothes, fast food chains... why would software be any different? When the market is driven by quantity, not quality (as has been the case since the industrial revolution) most of what you see in ANY field is going to be garbage.
And I hate to belabor the point, but if you want to see a plethora of nice-looking, intuitive, and usefull apps... switch to a Mac, baby!
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when i was a kid at the lawyer's office w/ my mom during my parent's divorce, the secretary was putting files on these tiny little hard plastic disks. I hadn't seen anything like that available for my C64 (I was around 8 at the time) and wound up begging my mom to get me one for Xmas.
Now I spend my day ranting about how floppies need to go. Seriously, if it's that freaking small, just EMAIL IT TO YOURSELF PEOPLE!
is that they'll never be happy, even if they DO become a complete, unchallenged monopoly. Too much is never enough in their eyes.
Its like this wannabe punk rocker from around my parts who showed up in a BMW whining about how his parents just wouldn't buy him the Jag.
Why do so many corporations have such a hostile view of peaceful cohabitation in the marketplace, even among direct competitors? I mean, if you're churning billions of dollars through your coporation ever year, and making your CEO and founder the richest man on the planet in the meantime, doesn't that signal that you're in a good place and you don't necessarily need to release the hounds on everybody who comes tiptoeing across your lawn?
Here's the problem: you watched it on Cartoon Network, all chopped up with commercials.
Rent or buy the DVDs - its worth it. i don't even really like anime all that much (i respect it as an art form, but most of it just doesn't impress me enough to keep watching), but I really dig on Cowboy Bebop.
And the Bebob dub is OK. Its better than most other dubs out there. I've seen the movie plenty on DVD, and I'd LOVE to get the chance to see it on the big screen.
now as soon as they get CB in the IMAX theatre, i'll be a real happy camper.
The sad part is, this is entirely true. The DVD format was widely underutilized until the porn industry stepped in ...
I'm embarassed to be human after seeing your own self importance.
... usually they're sneakier.
And keep in mind, the entire MS-OpenGL thing isn't exactly over. Ya'll are acting like there's no way in the world that MS would EVER abuse IP to extort money from people. Jeez, I guess that is rather out of character for them
Anyone who would run this software on their computer deserves whatever they get.
Knee-jerk reaction to something that isn't terribly important. I realize MS didn't claim ownership of OpenGL as a whole - that's why I said "parts of OpenGL"
And I don't knock everything MS does. I'm looking forward to seeing the new XP Media OS in action. So instead of jumping to conclusions about my personal feelings towards MS, how about u comment on the subject at hand?
I didn't blame Microsoft. But that was the most recent, and large, example of a disturbing trend towards abusing so called Intellectual Property.
No, they're offering Firewire at an extremely reasonable cost to support current and future development of the standard. This is different because JPEG is already set in stone, its not being developed further, so there really is no need to profit from the format itself because the format itself needs no additional development. Its bollocks.
How about JPEG 2000? Are they claiming any rights to this compression scheme? Because to be honest, JPEG 2000 is FAR superior, and it wouldn't take too much effort for companies to say "screw your royalty, we're producing JPEG 2000 cameras, etc. from now on."
But this doesn't surprise me. After MS claimed ownership of parts of OpenGL, that sorta opened the floodgates for really sad attempts to bilk more money out of an already financialy strapped populace/industry.
Apple is also making us pay for QuickTime Pro all over again as well. So, that's $130 for the OS, $100 (or 50) for .Mac, and 30 for QuickTime.
$260 bucks?!?!! Even 210 isn't that great of a bargain. C'mon Apple, how can you hit us up with all these charges AT ONCE?!?!
I mean, damn, do you really need 3rd and 4rd quarter revenues to be THAT GOOD?!
Obviously, you don't understand that QuickTime isn't a codec, but an architecture with which to manipulate video and audio.
Maybe you're just an old-skool apple basher who is deserately clinging onto any outdated viewpoint you can in order to convince your friends that you made a good computer purchasing decision.
Actually, YES, some people DO still run OS 8. For instance, lots of early powermac owners (x100 series, 6300, etc.) who haven't bothered to upgrade their ram still run 8.1 because it is still a fully functional and stable OS for most day-to-day tasks that they need to accomplish. I still run 8 on my Quadra's (but only cuz 9 won't run on them anyway).
Wel, if MS helped Apple "fix" OS X, then how come WinXP was such garbage? couldn't they "fix" their own software too?
This on the heels of MS claiming ownership of parts of OpenGL. Sheesh.
Is it me, or is Microsoft acting like an overlooked younger sibling?
Does anybody else think that it looks like a 9500 deep fried in a shiny silver shellack coating?
The first deployment of Mobile Nintendo Gaming Persons came to a sudden, terrifying halt today as they unloaded from their Suburban.
A gang of uppity mimes armed with make believe billy clubs and pretend guns violently pantomimed through the vicious, grisly murders of each and every one of the Nintendo employees.
Although no one was injured, the crystal-clear depiction of their own demise sent the Gaming crew into a deep, trance-like coma.
"Obviously," said the police spokesman, "we are dealing with ninja mimes."
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Why is anyone surprised about this? Didn't you see it coming a mile away? Win2K, although superior to XP, is 2 years old at this point. This is when most OS's start being phased out. What made you think Microsft would allow it to die a natural death in the marketplace rather than pull the plug prematurely to make money?
Just don't get all surprised and huffy when your new hardware won't even BOOT Win2K, as it will require Longhorn. After all these years, it still amazes me that people actually expect decent business practice from microsoft.
I'd have to agree. While OS 9 definitely has its shortcomings, it is by no means a "toy" OS. Its functionality and ease of use are legendary (its not like OS X came along and all of a sudden, Macs were easy to use), it is MUCH more stable than Windows (not as stable as Linux or Mac OS X or any other BSD/*nix system, granted) ... and I am including Win2K as well. While Win2K won't have minor crashes as much, it is MUCH more prone to major reinstallation-to-fix type crashes.
OS 9 is, in my mind, a very incredible accomplishment. An OS than spanned 2 completely different hardware architectures over a course of 16 years that incorporated every major advancement either thru the OS or 3rd party extensions, and, as has been mentioned, IS COMPLETELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE CONTENT YOU WEENIES WATCH, LISTEN TO, etc. So in 1984 they didn't build it for pre-emptive multitasking or protected memory. Big whoop - it got along fine without it for most users, and now that OS X is here, it has the best implementation of either available.
People need to stop busting on Mac OS 9. If you look at the development and progression of the Mac OS from '84 to '00, you'd be VERY impressed with all the stuff they crammed in by the end. Was it perfect? No. Was it a toy? Absolutely not. Is was a very useful, very intuitive, very quick, very extensible operating system. For servers? No, but then, that's not what the original Mac OS was written to do. You don't use a screwdriver to stir your coffee, and you don't use a swizzle stick to pound a nail into wood. Judge the OS by its accomplishements in its own field, not by what completely different OS's achieved in completely different avenues of use.
I hate to be a negative nancy, but from personal experience as administrator of 12 Windows 2000 boxes, I have to say that Win2K is the best OS they ever released, but it is FAR from being as stable as Mac OS X or Linux. FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR. And don't get me started on XP. Its hard to crash XP when you can't get past the revenue-generating additions to actually do something that might crash the thing.
We pay for a CD and rip it to our HDs. We share it online while we're surfing. User X decides to download "Puppy Cum" from my computer. I am not personally breaking copyright, because I paid for that song. (well, actually, me and my friend Joe wrote it, but whatever)
User X is using my bandwidth. Bandwidth that companies like AOL and Comcast are going to start charging me extra for. So not only am I NOT making a profit, I'm actually PAYING somewhat to let other people download my music.
I can sure see how companies would think this is just as bad as buying a high-capacity burner setup and color copying the covers @ Kinko's and selling the bogus copies on the streets of any city in America for $5.
This gets especially ludicrous for dial-up users. It can take HOURS to get ONE SONG... this entire initiative is overblown and a gross overreaction to the fact that our economy isn't doing so hot, people are tightening their belts, or buying more booze, who knows, but they're not buying the crap that the Big Five want to sell us.
Welcome to the business world. The bigger you are, the harder you fall. Those companies have been price-fixing, getting taxes put on blank media so we're paying them there as well, and basically doing everything they can to suck the public and the artists dry.
Eminem needs to bitchslap these people into submission. His latest was one of the MOST PIRATED ALBUMS EVER - yet when it came out, it was also NUMBER ONE, selling TWICE AS MANY COPIES as the #2 record that week, with LESS TIME ON THE MARKET TO SELL. Why?
Because Eminem is WORTH IT. You'll never stop us from sharing MP3s. So if you want us to buy you music, make sure its GOOD. THAT might be a start. God these rich-ass media-pushers piss me off.
whatever guy. yeah, he could sort through a bunch of google results trying to find useful info., or he could ask a crowd of folks that he trusts and whose opinions he respects to direct him towards quality outlets. so what's wrong with that? the only waste of space is your holier-than-thou vitrol that you felt was SO IMPORTANT that you had to post your "gee whiz is this guy stupid" post so that we could all marvel at your own ability to type "google" into the browser and hit "return." get over it.
oh, and as far as perpetuating the notion of a class-based social interaction, are you telling me that we AREN'T involved in a class war? KMA. Classicism is alive and well and IS part of human nature at this particular stage of our evolution, as sad as it may be. Get over that, too.
I've never understood why geeks have to bash each other. even jocks pat each other on the ass to say "hey, nice game" or "dude, thanks for the nachos." but geeks are all like "you didn't go about doing something the way I do, so therefore you SUCK!" C'mon guys, its not like the rest of the world wants to talk to you. Open up, its OK, not everyone is a big bad bully.
the mind-altering effects of anime are only noticeable to a select few in society - no one can explain how or why, but only a certain section of our race responds to these subliminal information packets, and the results are astonishing. tests have concluded that those who are susceptible to these communication waves are in fact decsendants of the Great Geek God, and as such bear the responsibility of preaching to the masses.
hope that clears it up for you.
man, i LOVE ren and stimpy. when i was younger, i couldn't believe that it actually made it to television! it was like this shining gold nugget in the middle of a gigantic pile of fetid wombat poo. i'm sure glad i taped all the original episodes when they were still in 1st and 2nd run! now that i'm older and have the hardware, i'm in the process of putting together VCDs. won't be as nice quality as a DVD box set, and I'll probably buy it if it does come about just to support John K., but hell, maknig the VCDs is a great excuse to watch them all over again. and its a cheap way to hook somebody after you find out they've never seen ren and stimpy!
What a waste of server space. I mean, 90% of EVERYTHING is crap. Food, music, art, people, governements, laws, clothes, fast food chains ... why would software be any different? When the market is driven by quantity, not quality (as has been the case since the industrial revolution) most of what you see in ANY field is going to be garbage.
... switch to a Mac, baby!
And I hate to belabor the point, but if you want to see a plethora of nice-looking, intuitive, and usefull apps