"If you're hoping that some lonely hot chick will find you by searching your AIM profile, believe me, it ain't gonna happen"
Actually... back when i was in highschool, this did happen once. Wierd story. I was at a punk rock show one night, and met this cute goth girl (cute of coarse being a relative term), and we talked for a long time. Went home, didn't really think much of it, till the next night i was online (reading slashdot, of coarse:) ) and some girl randomly messaged me, she said she was searching people in her home town, and liked my "profile". We talked for a while, and it turned out that we had been to the same show the night before. She told this story about "some guy" who had been walking around doing stupid shit... hehehe... she was getting a good laugh out of it, till i told her that guy was me. Turns out she was the girl i had been talking to the night before.
Strange coincidence... kinda creepy, so i keep the "feature" turned off;)
I wonder if this sort of connection could eventually lead us to the "local nets" that Vinge describes in his new novella.
Start with 'net connection sharing, and eventually add local services, if it got big enough small buisnesses might even join in, and provide the small scale comercialization that might work on a local net (as well as help support it).
3.0.5 (cvs 20020327) is very stable, but right now the tabs suck, as there is _no_ widget to close them, you have to go through the window menu. I hope they decide to put the close widget on the ta itself (ala galleon) and not somewhere wierd (ala mozilla).
I don't know, i think Vernor Vinge has some very goos stuff. Everyone here should have at least heard of true names (which has *finally* been reprinted), and Fire Upon the Deep hit big a few years ago (its sequil/prequil wasn't nearly as good though, imho). The Tinkers from peace war, and few of his short stories set in the same world should have immidiate appeal to most people reading this. If you havn't read some Vinge, you should. I recomend the recent collection of _all_ of his short stories, excluding True Names.
the first season of beast wars was amazing, but it went downhill fast. they basically recycled the fist season plots, but added and removed charactors.
then beasymachines came along and ruined what was left of the series. i really couldn't stand cg in that one, and, while the plots were preaty good, i just couldn't stand watching them try and transform. it was horrable.
well. it was a boon for those of us not monetarily gifted enough to buy an athelon.
the choice was, for me at the time, a duron or an athelon at the same speed. the duron was $20 cheeper and incorperated some of the technology from the new athelons, while the Athelon was more expensive, and quite a bit older.
in the end i went with a celeron, because it, in turn, was 10 cheeper for the whole package (mobo+processor) than the duron at the same speed.
being a poor college kid, and spending loan money on a comp (left my old one at home for my mom, and sis) i had no choice but to go the inexpensive rout. so to you i say.. half a cach is better than no computer.
i thought it was the one who could see all paths. basically he could see the outcome of every possable choice for any situation. he leveraged this (and some myths planted by the bene jeserit) to become the leader of the revolution.
i loved the movie. not because it was any kind of good movie. like you said bad acting, bad story, but it is a great movie to watch with a binch of friends. the mindless display of (shiny...) wepons is a good way to relax with friends.
good movies, imho, should make you think, even while the entertain you.
I can feel the size difference in the network. I am getting 2-3 times the number of hits on a search for "Bad Religion" (great punk band, but not too popular out of its genre).
i also got a few thousand hits for sublime in under 10 secconds. a week ago i only got around 500 in about 10 minutes.
If i am going to pay for a subscription music service this is what it must provide:
1) Accurate file info
2) Good compresion rates
3) Compleat/accurate ID3 tags
4) Resume/Pause on dling songs
5) Good selection: many genras, and artists.
I am willing to only download a limited number of songs each month, and even to have them deactivated at the end of the month, as long as i can keep a certain number, in a format that i can keep forever, and even burn to cd.
The prices for this "music net" service seem very reasonable to me, but unless i can be assured that i am really downloading a song by Less Than Jake, and not some other band that has been mislabelled, i am not going to pay, why not? because i only have a certain number of downloads a month.
I also want to be assured that it is good quality, i don't want to pay for 62kbps, streaming audio sounds better than that. Minimum 128k preferably that would be an average on a VBR.
Those tings are what gave me the most headaches with the pirated music scene (which i gave up when napster closed, btw..), and i refuse to pay for a service with a limited number of songs when they are mislabeled, and bad quality.
I think the selection is obvious, if they don't have what i want, or don't offer a good selectio of a genre, i don't want to pay. What would be nice would be a suggestions bar or something, HAve the _CLIENT_ (or even a guarenteed anonymous server) keep a record of the gene of the music you usually dl, then make suggestions based on that, i would really enjoy the service. I have seen many programs that try to do this, but they usually don't do very well. Maybe reduce the monthly rates if someone will "profile" songs based on certain criteria, then the client would collect info on what you dl, make a profile of what you like, and make suggestions based on that.
I would be more than willing to pay for a service like this. Remember the artists get _nothing_ if you pirate music, not even the microscopic cuts the RIAA usually gives them.
--
"the colors all the same through colorblind eyes, and if you think you're so different then you're wasting your time" -T
If i am going to pay for a subscription music service this is what it must provide:
1) Accurate file info
2) Good compresion rates
3) Compleat/accurate ID3 tags
4) Resume/Pause on dling songs
5) Good selection: many genras, and artists.
I am willing to only download a limited number of songs each month, and even to have them deactivated at the end of the month, as long as i can keep a certain number, in a format that i can keep forever, and even burn to cd.
The prices for this "music net" service seem very reasonable to me, but unless i can be assured that i am really downloading a song by Less Than Jake, and not some other band that has been mislabelled, i am not going to pay, why not? because i only have a certain number of downloads a month.
I also want to be assured that it is good quality, i don't want to pay for 62kbps, streaming audio sounds better than that. Minimum 128k preferably that would be an average on a VBR.
Those tings are what gave me the most headaches with the pirated music scene (which i gave up when napster closed, btw..), and i refuse to pay for a service with a limited number of songs when they are mislabeled, and bad quality.
I think the selection is obvious, if they don't have what i want, or don't offer a good selectio of a genre, i don't want to pay. What would be nice would be a suggestions bar or something, HAve the _CLIENT_ (or even a guarenteed anonymous server) keep a record of the gene of the music you usually dl, then make suggestions based on that, i would really enjoy the service. I have seen many programs that try to do this, but they usually don't do very well. Maybe reduce the monthly rates if someone will "profile" songs based on certain criteria, then the client would collect info on what you dl, make a profile of what you like, and make suggestions based on that.
I would be more than willing to pay for a service like this. Remember the artists get _nothing_ if you pirate music, not even the microscopic cuts the RIAA usually gives them.
you can do it through tweakui, if you dan't have that great utility yet, i really feel bad you. it also has a setting to increase menue speed, great if you have a fast machine, and dont want to be forced to wait 1 sec for the menues to pop up. do a google search for it
i thought copyright protection would mean something that protects a copyright.... and isn't that exactly what the system is trying to do, protect copyrights by not allowing the media to be copied.
yes, but guns have other uses than to kill people. The virus was designed to be malicious. It is very much the users fault for running the worm, but the uthors should still be held accountable for releasing it.
all i have to say to this is games. i could care less what console has a faster CPU, FPU, grfx accelerator, because game makers will write the software for that platform. i want thte system that has the games i want to play. right now its the PS2, just because i can play al of my old playstation games, and square is putting out its new stuff on it (i think they are writing for xbox as well, but when i can play FFIX on the xbox is the day i switch).
Games make the console, hardware doesn't, hell, i still love my old NES, Zelda and Willow rock.
Although i do agree that the petty squables are not very productive, they do create diversity between language syntax, which i think is a good thing. There is an amazing amount of overlap in functionality, and someitmes sytax is the only thing that really sets the languages apart. If i am more comfortable with algol descendant languages, why should i have to learn scheme syntax, when there are tools that will work for me in a style that i am comfotrable with. I know that it doesn't take too much time to aquire a cosmetic knowledge of a language (knowing what c functions aproximately map to what lisp functions, and such), but if i could use a tool that i am already comfortable with would mean NO learning curve. Colaboration is good, but not to the point if having only one or two languages left to use.
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I have never improved faster than when I recorded myself.
It is much easier to identify your mistakes when you can just listen to yourself play.
It is also fun to take a break and record some origonal song ideas.
I like this one myself:
Light a fire for a man and keep him warm for an hour
Light a man on fire, and keep him warm for the rest of his life.
"If you're hoping that some lonely hot chick will find you by searching your AIM profile, believe me, it ain't gonna happen"
Actually... back when i was in highschool, this did happen once. Wierd story. I was at a punk rock show one night, and met this cute goth girl (cute of coarse being a relative term), and we talked for a long time. Went home, didn't really think much of it, till the next night i was online (reading slashdot, of coarse:) ) and some girl randomly messaged me, she said she was searching people in her home town, and liked my "profile". We talked for a while, and it turned out that we had been to the same show the night before. She told this story about "some guy" who had been walking around doing stupid shit... hehehe... she was getting a good laugh out of it, till i told her that guy was me. Turns out she was the girl i had been talking to the night before.
Strange coincidence... kinda creepy, so i keep the "feature" turned off;)
Here is what Vernor Vinge has to say about the singularity. Watch out, its a bit fatalistic.
s ing.html
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-
It was in trying to imagine a world where this wouldn't happen that he created his "Zones of Thought" novels.
I wonder if this sort of connection could eventually lead us to the "local nets" that Vinge describes in his new novella.
Start with 'net connection sharing, and eventually add local services, if it got big enough small buisnesses might even join in, and provide the small scale comercialization that might work on a local net (as well as help support it).
3.0.5 (cvs 20020327) is very stable, but right now the tabs suck, as there is _no_ widget to close them, you have to go through the window menu. I hope they decide to put the close widget on the ta itself (ala galleon) and not somewhere wierd (ala mozilla).
I don't know, i think Vernor Vinge has some very goos stuff. Everyone here should have at least heard of true names (which has *finally* been reprinted), and Fire Upon the Deep hit big a few years ago (its sequil/prequil wasn't nearly as good though, imho). The Tinkers from peace war, and few of his short stories set in the same world should have immidiate appeal to most people reading this. If you havn't read some Vinge, you should. I recomend the recent collection of _all_ of his short stories, excluding True Names.
the first season of beast wars was amazing, but it went downhill fast. they basically recycled the fist season plots, but added and removed charactors.
then beasymachines came along and ruined what was left of the series. i really couldn't stand cg in that one, and, while the plots were preaty good, i just couldn't stand watching them try and transform. it was horrable.
OT, but what is the stye commonly taught with tae kwan do? ATA provides little to no information
well. it was a boon for those of us not monetarily gifted enough to buy an athelon.
the choice was, for me at the time, a duron or an athelon at the same speed. the duron was $20 cheeper and incorperated some of the technology from the new athelons, while the Athelon was more expensive, and quite a bit older.
in the end i went with a celeron, because it, in turn, was 10 cheeper for the whole package (mobo+processor) than the duron at the same speed.
being a poor college kid, and spending loan money on a comp (left my old one at home for my mom, and sis) i had no choice but to go the inexpensive rout. so to you i say.. half a cach is better than no computer.
i thought it was the one who could see all paths. basically he could see the outcome of every possable choice for any situation. he leveraged this (and some myths planted by the bene jeserit) to become the leader of the revolution.
i loved the movie. not because it was any kind of good movie. like you said bad acting, bad story, but it is a great movie to watch with a binch of friends. the mindless display of (shiny...) wepons is a good way to relax with friends.
good movies, imho, should make you think, even while the entertain you.
microsoft _is_ a monopoly. if it had fair competition then it would be cool.
yeah, unless the real story turnes out to be the no AC thing.
I can feel the size difference in the network. I am getting 2-3 times the number of hits on a search for "Bad Religion" (great punk band, but not too popular out of its genre).
i also got a few thousand hits for sublime in under 10 secconds. a week ago i only got around 500 in about 10 minutes.
If i am going to pay for a subscription music service this is what it must provide:
1) Accurate file info
2) Good compresion rates
3) Compleat/accurate ID3 tags
4) Resume/Pause on dling songs
5) Good selection: many genras, and artists.
I am willing to only download a limited number of songs each month, and even to have them deactivated at the end of the month, as long as i can keep a certain number, in a format that i can keep forever, and even burn to cd.
The prices for this "music net" service seem very reasonable to me, but unless i can be assured that i am really downloading a song by Less Than Jake, and not some other band that has been mislabelled, i am not going to pay, why not? because i only have a certain number of downloads a month.
I also want to be assured that it is good quality, i don't want to pay for 62kbps, streaming audio sounds better than that. Minimum 128k preferably that would be an average on a VBR.
Those tings are what gave me the most headaches with the pirated music scene (which i gave up when napster closed, btw..), and i refuse to pay for a service with a limited number of songs when they are mislabeled, and bad quality.
I think the selection is obvious, if they don't have what i want, or don't offer a good selectio of a genre, i don't want to pay. What would be nice would be a suggestions bar or something, HAve the _CLIENT_ (or even a guarenteed anonymous server) keep a record of the gene of the music you usually dl, then make suggestions based on that, i would really enjoy the service. I have seen many programs that try to do this, but they usually don't do very well. Maybe reduce the monthly rates if someone will "profile" songs based on certain criteria, then the client would collect info on what you dl, make a profile of what you like, and make suggestions based on that.
I would be more than willing to pay for a service like this. Remember the artists get _nothing_ if you pirate music, not even the microscopic cuts the RIAA usually gives them.
--
"the colors all the same through colorblind eyes, and if you think you're so different then you're wasting your time" -T
wtf.. i posted this in teh other tread?? mod down as necesary
If i am going to pay for a subscription music service this is what it must provide:
1) Accurate file info
2) Good compresion rates
3) Compleat/accurate ID3 tags
4) Resume/Pause on dling songs
5) Good selection: many genras, and artists.
I am willing to only download a limited number of songs each month, and even to have them deactivated at the end of the month, as long as i can keep a certain number, in a format that i can keep forever, and even burn to cd.
The prices for this "music net" service seem very reasonable to me, but unless i can be assured that i am really downloading a song by Less Than Jake, and not some other band that has been mislabelled, i am not going to pay, why not? because i only have a certain number of downloads a month.
I also want to be assured that it is good quality, i don't want to pay for 62kbps, streaming audio sounds better than that. Minimum 128k preferably that would be an average on a VBR.
Those tings are what gave me the most headaches with the pirated music scene (which i gave up when napster closed, btw..), and i refuse to pay for a service with a limited number of songs when they are mislabeled, and bad quality.
I think the selection is obvious, if they don't have what i want, or don't offer a good selectio of a genre, i don't want to pay. What would be nice would be a suggestions bar or something, HAve the _CLIENT_ (or even a guarenteed anonymous server) keep a record of the gene of the music you usually dl, then make suggestions based on that, i would really enjoy the service. I have seen many programs that try to do this, but they usually don't do very well. Maybe reduce the monthly rates if someone will "profile" songs based on certain criteria, then the client would collect info on what you dl, make a profile of what you like, and make suggestions based on that.
I would be more than willing to pay for a service like this. Remember the artists get _nothing_ if you pirate music, not even the microscopic cuts the RIAA usually gives them.
there is a setting for each of the apps that sets its default save format, one click and your all microsoft compatable (ist aht a good thing??)
you can do it through tweakui, if you dan't have that great utility yet, i really feel bad you. it also has a setting to increase menue speed, great if you have a fast machine, and dont want to be forced to wait 1 sec for the menues to pop up. do a google search for it
i thought copyright protection would mean something that protects a copyright.... and isn't that exactly what the system is trying to do, protect copyrights by not allowing the media to be copied.
yes, but guns have other uses than to kill people. The virus was designed to be malicious. It is very much the users fault for running the worm, but the uthors should still be held accountable for releasing it.
wouldn't be too hard to do, have a ittle piece of spyware replace the logo.sys file every once in a while... i'm surprised it hasn't ben done yet
all i have to say to this is games. i could care less what console has a faster CPU, FPU, grfx accelerator, because game makers will write the software for that platform. i want thte system that has the games i want to play. right now its the PS2, just because i can play al of my old playstation games, and square is putting out its new stuff on it (i think they are writing for xbox as well, but when i can play FFIX on the xbox is the day i switch).
Games make the console, hardware doesn't, hell, i still love my old NES, Zelda and Willow rock.
Although i do agree that the petty squables are not very productive, they do create diversity between language syntax, which i think is a good thing. There is an amazing amount of overlap in functionality, and someitmes sytax is the only thing that really sets the languages apart. If i am more comfortable with algol descendant languages, why should i have to learn scheme syntax, when there are tools that will work for me in a style that i am comfotrable with. I know that it doesn't take too much time to aquire a cosmetic knowledge of a language (knowing what c functions aproximately map to what lisp functions, and such), but if i could use a tool that i am already comfortable with would mean NO learning curve. Colaboration is good, but not to the point if having only one or two languages left to use.