haven't got a clue, I never get out of sync audio, what are your PC Specs? I found that I needed a good solid machine to run DivX reliably. No problems on my new machine.
Another US Sci-Fi show I really want to watch that will get to Canada in it's 5th season only to be cancelled.
Wait, Kazaa lite just grabbed farscape 3x06 "eat me"
Pretty much sums up what I think of canadian carriers that don't keep up with the US or UK. (can you believe it took 7 years to get only the first season of RedDwarf?)
Funny thing is, they call grabbing shows like these from P2P networks illegal. What's illegal is keeping people 3 years behind in programming.
Yup, but in the corporate world, Mozilla isn't compatible with internal developed apps.
I LOVED mozilla, but when push came to shove I couldn't use it at work where I spend most of my time on the PC.:(
-YG
"Sure... most people use the same password for everything so it's a moot point but it still bothers me"
I used to have 1 password for everything. But no longer. I started using a great FREE little app:
http://www.roboform.com/
No Spyware, No Adware, lets me create/use unique login/passes, fills in all my info on websites, and has a "single login" to unlock the program.
This, IMHO, is as close to a common login as we should get.
But it still has a single point of failure, namely the login to the app. But if you don't use the "launch on windows startup" she'll never know to lauch the app BEFORE surfing....Shit, now she does...uhhh honey? Asiababe is an old friend...really!
So many mac fans, I feel my pccentric slashdot has been slashdotted!
Anyway, to adress your question, Buy top of line when you're ready to pay. Break the time/money down into "time I would have waited vs money I paid per day" and see that for a buck or two a day, you really can have the top of line for a lot longer than if you would have waited.
Listen, not to get your hopes up, but here in Canada (Ontario Place specifically) they've been showing a variety of movies there for years.
The only thing that's BIG is the LETDOWN when you realize the a huge border around the movie doesn't get used. They just show the movie in the centre of the IMAX Screen and draw the curtains to make it look bigger.
Bah, watch out for marketing tricks. If it wasn't shot in IMAX or converted to IMAX, it'll be shown in regular size, just on a bigger screen.
I hope someone can confirm or deny that my experience stands with AOTC
It's a helpful thing to remember when the company pays for lots of additional days off, doesn't question sick days, and give you equipment to take home to work.
I routinely develop ideas (training materials for example) at home, in my spare time.
Does my company have a right to them? Hell yes, they pay me to perform my job, not on an hourly rate, but on a yearly salary.
Do I like it? Hell No, but I like the pay, so I find it an even trade. Now, material not job specific, that's outta bounds...
I am currently getting REALLY hooked on Farscape. Problem is, I can never catch it when it's on. I fireup KazaaLite and download each and every episode in order so that I can catch up on it.
So, while I'm helping the creators brand their show into my mind so that I can buy the video game and watch more episodes, I'm hurting them because I don't watch it through the distributed channels complete with commercials.
Sorry folks, I LIKE catching missed episodes cause I had to work late, I LIKE showing them to my brother so he can enjoy the show as well.
Illegal? Probably, but my mentality is the same as everyone else. It was aired, why can't I watch it on demand?
Family Guy realized this, and have their eposides downloadable off their website. BRAVO I say. Wait here's a money making opportunity, SELL the episodes for a couple of bucks each off your site, LET ME have the episodes I missed, but charge me a convenience fee. Like everything else, I'd pay a little a lot of times, rather than a lot once.
So wake up **AA, give us what we want, when we want, charge us a small amount for it and make a lot./end rant.
Hence the concept of slavery has evolved. Businesses that were told, NO MORE SLAVES founded sweatshops to leagally have slaves.
Coal mines had general stores.
To Compare the concept of the powerful enslaving the powerless is still just. Physical comparasion which I did point out is not the concept being discussed, is a different concept, I agree.
"And, of course, there was legalized slavery. I'd say, the US has come a long way toward putting into practice the virtues laid out in the constitution."
Ummm....ThomasMis? What do you think the RIAA and MPAA are doing? the US has come a long way only to allow itself to slip back to the days where people don't have choices because of the rich.....maybe that's the way it's always been. The only difference is we're now in the digital age.
I use myself as an average user and gauge whether or not things here on slashdot have their place in a common windows workplace.
So far so good, I'm enjoying the "non-windows" feel as a refreshing change.
Now before I submit my proposal to replace IE with 50-100 PC's of Mozilla, I'd have to get AI ROBOFORM to work with it. So many internal sites have common passwords that it makes navigation incredibly simple.
I know there's no autosave for mozilla yet, but it doesn't seem to work at all.
Riding along in my veggiemobile Runs on grease I have to steal For 2 gallons it gets 600 miles saving the environment and the wild crusin' and playin' the radio smelling like burgers and fries ya'know
Riding along in my veggiemobile so anxious to share the way I feel Beggin for grease so softly and sincere til the grease companies found me and boxed my ears Chased by 2 brutes who let me know they ran the grease and shovel raquet with a guy named Moe
Now's there's no particular place to go So I hid behind Krusty Burger avoiding my foe The grease was fresh like texan gold but they found me and took me for a stroll Can you image the way I felt When I got smacked around with a safety belt
Riding along in my Gasguzler all loose Killing our planet but avoiding the noose Even now I hold a grudge When money's to be made corporations don't budge They've made sure this innovation went the way of netradio Can't wait to see what they do when they make cars run on H2O.
goodbye jpg our trusted friend weve used you for years, maybe nine or ten you've made porn pics a breeze pics of doves and pretty trees pics of hearts and pics of knees
goodbye jpg its hard to try to find a patent free format that compresses without using pi now that greed is in the air licensing fees are everywhere Corporations killing us, they don't care
we had jpg we had gif we had multi-formats like tiff but the formats are now owned, our future's just on loan
goodbye JPG please still display for me I know you are now the black sheep of the format family you tried to be compliant not wrong but the lawyers are now licensing you for a song wonder how i'll get along
goodbye jpg, its hard to die when all the companies are using you on the fly now that suing's is in the air web users everywhere, will see your use go rare
we had jpg we had gif we had multi-formats like tiff but the formats are now owned, our future's just on loan
goodbye jpg my little one you showed my pics and helped me get my website done and every time people came around, you'd be linked with a funny sound, no better format I have found.
ggoodbye jpg its hard to try to find a patent free format that compresses without using pi now that greed is in the air licensing fees are everywhere Corporations killing us, they don't care
we had jpg we had gif we had multi-formats like tiff but the formats are now owned, patenting out our future's just on loan
we had jpg we had gif we had multi-formats like tiff but the formats are now owned, patenting out our future's just on loan
- Yo Grark
==Next they'll tell me the stuff I create on slashdot is really owned by the telco's for using their equipment==
Ok let's face it. You could bust into anyone's house and get them for pirating music, software, or even movies (vhs or digital). The bigger issue is that "kiddies" tend to have the shorter attention spans and need more variety in their computing to satisfy them.
Back when I was a lad (pre-net), Nintendo kept me entertained for hours on end. And I did buy Super Mario Brothers 2 for $89.00 CAD. Pretty stoopid, but I wasn't connected yet. The nintendo didn't need to be changed with every new release for the game.
I'm sorry but software pushes hardware and to keep up with your friends you have to pirate the varity of warez out there.
Take the flipside. I regularly buy software like Theme Park, Deux Ex, and FIFA2002 when they're in the bargin bin for under $20.00.
You can never stop piracy because of the same fundamental thinking that MP3's have gained. Music should be free, gamez should be free. I did have to spend $300 bucks on a video card just to play the damn game.
As my years roll on, I'm pirating less, because my attention span is increasing, and I'm spending more time and energy on single applications and gamez again.
Oh and my favorite concept is the little shop owner with his $9500.00 application. Excuse me, but what INDIVIDUAL would have bought that? Companies, surely. But if you're a company buying his software, your making money and must buy the software as a fact of doing business.
I first learned of trillian off of slashdot (the last time IM wars were being discussed). The application is absolutely fantastic. I have converted all my friends over the last year or so, no spyware, no adware, just an incredibly flexible application.
Hell, it even has IRC (which is a fantastic bonus). Anyone who uses more than 1 of the following should try it.
MSN ICQ IRC AIM Yahoo
Yo Grark
*remember, not all IM's are created equal, but with Trillian, they sure look equal!
I would say that because a website broadcasts into a public medium (the internet or times square) that gator would not be doing anything illegal.
BUT if I pay for a web service (or paid to do a market survey let's say), that contract between the service and I is binding, and Gator's activities would be illegal.
When wearable computers become commonplace, there will be eyeglasses that block out advertising i norder to regain "personal views" of the world. Will they be illegal?
Slashdot Mirror
haven't got a clue, I never get out of sync audio, what are your PC Specs? I found that I needed a good solid machine to run DivX reliably. No problems on my new machine.
-YG
Another US Sci-Fi show I really want to watch that will get to Canada in it's 5th season only to be cancelled.
Wait, Kazaa lite just grabbed farscape 3x06 "eat me"
Pretty much sums up what I think of canadian carriers that don't keep up with the US or UK. (can you believe it took 7 years to get only the first season of RedDwarf?)
Funny thing is, they call grabbing shows like these from P2P networks illegal. What's illegal is keeping people 3 years behind in programming.
{Rant off}{Apologize}
-Yo Grark
Yup, but in the corporate world, Mozilla isn't compatible with internal developed apps. I LOVED mozilla, but when push came to shove I couldn't use it at work where I spend most of my time on the PC. :(
-YG
"Sure... most people use the same password for everything so it's a moot point but it still bothers me"
I used to have 1 password for everything. But no longer. I started using a great FREE little app:
http://www.roboform.com/
No Spyware, No Adware, lets me create/use unique login/passes, fills in all my info on websites, and has a "single login" to unlock the program.
This, IMHO, is as close to a common login as we should get.
But it still has a single point of failure, namely the login to the app. But if you don't use the "launch on windows startup" she'll never know to lauch the app BEFORE surfing....Shit, now she does...uhhh honey? Asiababe is an old friend...really!
- Yo Grark
Candian Bred with American Buttering
Nope, the top says Slashdot....
So many mac fans, I feel my pccentric slashdot has been slashdotted!
Anyway, to adress your question, Buy top of line when you're ready to pay. Break the time/money down into "time I would have waited vs money I paid per day" and see that for a buck or two a day, you really can have the top of line for a lot longer than if you would have waited.
- Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering
Listen, not to get your hopes up, but here in Canada (Ontario Place specifically) they've been showing a variety of movies there for years.
The only thing that's BIG is the LETDOWN when you realize the a huge border around the movie doesn't get used. They just show the movie in the centre of the IMAX Screen and draw the curtains to make it look bigger.
Bah, watch out for marketing tricks. If it wasn't shot in IMAX or converted to IMAX, it'll be shown in regular size, just on a bigger screen.
I hope someone can confirm or deny that my experience stands with AOTC
- Yo Grark
Canadian Bred, with American Buttering
but the mutiple windows open up along the bottom, that's a pain in the ass.
-YG
Except for the fact that the software company I work for refuses to support netscape , Mozilla or even Java 1.4 for our internal applications :(
I hate switching back and forth. Now that Wine supports Quicken, I'm moving to linux full time when I can afford a new PC at home.
-YG
"Canadian Bred with American Buttering"
I really must point out that I have also discovered tabbed browsing recently.
I find it absolutely handy. Why? Because I can open multiple links without the focus shifting to those new links.
Then I just tab through them when I want to view the next page, which, has already loaded.
Handy for busy sites that take forever to load as well. (slashdotted sites for example)
Just my $.02, to each their own.
- Yo Grark
Your pay is for 40 hours a week? Should be interesting reading if you are. Do you have a contract handy?
No matter, you're one out of thousands who pays attention to paperwork they sign.
Have your little sympathy for spineless (read ignorant) people. I'll be here to restore the balance.
-YG
It's a helpful thing to remember when the company pays for lots of additional days off, doesn't question sick days, and give you equipment to take home to work.
I routinely develop ideas (training materials for example) at home, in my spare time.
Does my company have a right to them? Hell yes, they pay me to perform my job, not on an hourly rate, but on a yearly salary.
Do I like it? Hell No, but I like the pay, so I find it an even trade. Now, material not job specific, that's outta bounds...
Yo Grark
The Sum of all idiots is one genius shy.
I am currently getting REALLY hooked on Farscape. Problem is, I can never catch it when it's on. I fireup KazaaLite and download each and every episode in order so that I can catch up on it.
/end rant.
So, while I'm helping the creators brand their show into my mind so that I can buy the video game and watch more episodes, I'm hurting them because I don't watch it through the distributed channels complete with commercials.
Sorry folks, I LIKE catching missed episodes cause I had to work late, I LIKE showing them to my brother so he can enjoy the show as well.
Illegal? Probably, but my mentality is the same as everyone else. It was aired, why can't I watch it on demand?
Family Guy realized this, and have their eposides downloadable off their website. BRAVO I say. Wait here's a money making opportunity, SELL the episodes for a couple of bucks each off your site, LET ME have the episodes I missed, but charge me a convenience fee. Like everything else, I'd pay a little a lot of times, rather than a lot once.
So wake up **AA, give us what we want, when we want, charge us a small amount for it and make a lot.
- Yo Grark
Canadian Bred with American Buttering.
Hence the concept of slavery has evolved. Businesses that were told, NO MORE SLAVES founded sweatshops to leagally have slaves.
Coal mines had general stores.
To Compare the concept of the powerful enslaving the powerless is still just. Physical comparasion which I did point out is not the concept being discussed, is a different concept, I agree.
- Yo Grark
"And, of course, there was legalized slavery. I'd say, the US has come a long way toward putting into practice the virtues laid out in the constitution."
Ummm....ThomasMis? What do you think the RIAA and MPAA are doing? the US has come a long way only to allow itself to slip back to the days where people don't have choices because of the rich.....maybe that's the way it's always been. The only difference is we're now in the digital age.
-Yo Grark
Vive le Canada!....wait we're not much better.
I use myself as an average user and gauge whether or not things here on slashdot have their place in a common windows workplace.
So far so good, I'm enjoying the "non-windows" feel as a refreshing change.
Now before I submit my proposal to replace IE with 50-100 PC's of Mozilla, I'd have to get AI ROBOFORM to work with it. So many internal sites have common passwords that it makes navigation incredibly simple.
I know there's no autosave for mozilla yet, but it doesn't seem to work at all.
Standard NT4.0 128 meg ram, 1ghz processor.
Maybe some Slashdotters can give me a hand?
And yes I've installed the adapter.
Thank you
Yo Grark
Riding along in my veggiemobile
Runs on grease I have to steal
For 2 gallons it gets 600 miles
saving the environment and the wild
crusin' and playin' the radio
smelling like burgers and fries ya'know
Riding along in my veggiemobile
so anxious to share the way I feel
Beggin for grease so softly and sincere
til the grease companies found me and boxed my ears
Chased by 2 brutes who let me know
they ran the grease and shovel raquet with a guy named Moe
Now's there's no particular place to go
So I hid behind Krusty Burger avoiding my foe
The grease was fresh like texan gold
but they found me and took me for a stroll
Can you image the way I felt
When I got smacked around with a safety belt
Riding along in my Gasguzler all loose
Killing our planet but avoiding the noose
Even now I hold a grudge
When money's to be made corporations don't budge
They've made sure this innovation went the way of netradio
Can't wait to see what they do when they make cars run on H2O.
- Yo Grark
==50% of all taglines either are, or are not==
goodbye jpg our trusted friend
weve used you for years, maybe nine or ten
you've made porn pics a breeze
pics of doves and pretty trees
pics of hearts and pics of knees
goodbye jpg its hard to try
to find a patent free format that compresses without using pi
now that greed is in the air
licensing fees are everywhere
Corporations killing us, they don't care
we had jpg we had gif we had multi-formats like tiff
but the formats are now owned, our future's just on loan
goodbye JPG please still display for me
I know you are now the black sheep of the format family
you tried to be compliant not wrong
but the lawyers are now licensing you for a song
wonder how i'll get along
goodbye jpg, its hard to die
when all the companies are using you on the fly
now that suing's is in the air
web users everywhere, will see your use go rare
we had jpg we had gif we had multi-formats like tiff
but the formats are now owned, our future's just on loan
goodbye jpg my little one
you showed my pics and helped me get my website done
and every time people came around, you'd be linked with a funny sound,
no better format I have found.
ggoodbye jpg its hard to try
to find a patent free format that compresses without using pi
now that greed is in the air
licensing fees are everywhere
Corporations killing us, they don't care
we had jpg we had gif we had multi-formats like tiff
but the formats are now owned, patenting out our future's just on loan
we had jpg we had gif we had multi-formats like tiff
but the formats are now owned, patenting out our future's just on loan
- Yo Grark
==Next they'll tell me the stuff I create on slashdot is really owned by the telco's for using their equipment==
Trust me, Canadians are NOT American, North American, or even part of the America's.
That's why you Europe folk love us so much!
-YoGrark-
"Canadian Flag on the backpack, means kindness within"
Ok let's face it. You could bust into anyone's house and get them for pirating music, software, or even movies (vhs or digital). The bigger issue is that "kiddies" tend to have the shorter attention spans and need more variety in their computing to satisfy them.
Back when I was a lad (pre-net), Nintendo kept me entertained for hours on end. And I did buy Super Mario Brothers 2 for $89.00 CAD. Pretty stoopid, but I wasn't connected yet. The nintendo didn't need to be changed with every new release for the game.
I'm sorry but software pushes hardware and to keep up with your friends you have to pirate the varity of warez out there.
Take the flipside. I regularly buy software like Theme Park, Deux Ex, and FIFA2002 when they're in the bargin bin for under $20.00.
You can never stop piracy because of the same fundamental thinking that MP3's have gained. Music should be free, gamez should be free. I did have to spend $300 bucks on a video card just to play the damn game.
As my years roll on, I'm pirating less, because my attention span is increasing, and I'm spending more time and energy on single applications and gamez again.
Oh and my favorite concept is the little shop owner with his $9500.00 application. Excuse me, but what INDIVIDUAL would have bought that? Companies, surely. But if you're a company buying his software, your making money and must buy the software as a fact of doing business.
Yo Grark
Spammers, please email me haha@nono.net
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/
I first learned of trillian off of slashdot (the last time IM wars were being discussed). The application is absolutely fantastic. I have converted all my friends over the last year or so, no spyware, no adware, just an incredibly flexible application.
Hell, it even has IRC (which is a fantastic bonus). Anyone who uses more than 1 of the following should try it.
MSN
ICQ
IRC
AIM
Yahoo
Yo Grark
*remember, not all IM's are created equal, but with Trillian, they sure look equal!
I don't think there's a geek alive that wouldn't register with Google, as long as we could autologin securely that is....
Yo Grark
I stole this sig back
I would say that because a website broadcasts into a public medium (the internet or times square) that gator would not be doing anything illegal.
BUT if I pay for a web service (or paid to do a market survey let's say), that contract between the service and I is binding, and Gator's activities would be illegal.
When wearable computers become commonplace, there will be eyeglasses that block out advertising i norder to regain "personal views" of the world. Will they be illegal?
YoGrark
Taglines like these contribute nothing
Yes, my puke would look MUCH CLEARER on the floor in digital.
-YoGrark
"yeah I got sick at BWP, I was front row and drunk"
Epson, lovely Epson....who instead of a half full cartridge, gave me a half the size cartridge when I bought my printer.
Was that any better?
-YG
The ending of a sentence must be
You're missing the point.
They're not ripping off customers, they're Saving costs / increasing profits.
Ever wonder why a printer doesn't come with a cable?
Was this ever disputed as "ripping off the customer"?
Don't think so, even though the price of printers didn't drop, the contents did.
They're making more money, but at the same time don't advertise a FULL CARTRIDGE.
And I agree it sucks, but I can understand it. Money makes the world go round.
Yo Grark
"At a Linux convention, never start with the sentence, Now Microsoft on the hand"