There are 2 things I hate, people who drive and talk at the same time, and the Dutch (with exploding phones). Now if a Finnish person's Nokia blew up, I think there would be a national scare.
Exactly how much music can a 12 year old rightfully steal online? Are we talking gigabytes, terabytes? This is ludicrous. I remember when I was 12 and I copied all those tapes of all my friends music so I could have my own copy, I think I had a whopping 20-30 90 min tapes.
What would be interesting now, is to see if this is a staged settlement, look back at the family in 1-5 years, see if they actually paid the fine, and if they did, see if by chance the RIAA, or some subsidiary of them refunded them their "alleged" $2000 fine. There is just something not right here. (insert wrong doers name here)
The question that I ask is why now? The background between the two movies are basicaly the same. It's not about the violence, it's about beleifs, perspectives, what have you. Will they ban sales and rentals of the original Matrix?
Well, I'd say that the fact that you can get InDesign for a fraction of the price of Quark XPress is a boon to Adobe. Now we can just wait for ID3 to come out and Quark will once again be behind.
On a side note, It's a boon for Apple that Quark has finally gotten their head out of their arse, but it's a day late and a dollar short...
I do wonder how much if the sharing leads to actual buying. I know there are a lot of people who would rather "Try it out" then actually buy the game to take full advantage of it, like online playing. Many don't have the know how on hacking the programs, they just want to get a taste.
Perhaps a test to see if their system will handle it, becasue you really don't want to drive out to CompUSA, find it, wait in line, buy it, wait in traffic, install it, trouble shoot it, trouble shoot it, re configure, pull out some hair, get back in traffic, and arrive at the store right when they close before a holiday...
Call it optimisim on my part, but people aren't that inherently evil... so they tell me...
Apple has marketed the "Gx" moniker for a while as a processor indicator, just as Intel has marketed "Pentium" the same way. Intel made the mistake of calling their less powerful chips Celleron which, IMHO, is synonymous with crap.
(Side note) Intel went with Pentium because they could not trademark "586" since it is just a number.
G5 is the next logical step, it falls within Apple's Simple naming scheme, and well sounds Applelike.
As far as I know, all G4's are made by Motorolla, and if memory serves me right current G3's are made by IBM, so there is no need to differenciate the Moto & IBM chips
I recon we are all criminals to some point. Yesterday I "rolled" through a stop sign. Sunday I thought naughty things in church. Yet, neither of thoes instances invoked the wrath of the police department nor God. True, the vast majority of people will not be affected by such copyright protection. But thoes with the means, but not the intentions are being treated unjustly, and therefore, it's the preminition by the artist or distributor that people are going to steal their music. The Register has an article on how to listen to such tracks. This is circumventing copyprotection, but if you are not going to copy the cd, then is it wrong?
The only game to scare the living hell out of me, was Marathon Evil (A mod of Marathon Infinity way back), when some beast thing jumped out of the darkness, and slashed me to death.
But most recently, after playing Ghost Recon, I've started dreaming in night vision... is that wrong?
In the past 5 years since I puschased a DVD player, I have watched a VCR tape on average 3 times a year. Mostly becasue corporate videos came to me that way, and of course Lucas.
In the past years since I purchased TiVo, I have never recorded a tape, unless I was lo-teching for an unfortunate friend.
I still think that CD-R's are a more reliable medium, and still, in most cases a faster medium. But if you get right to it, what happens when you recorded a video on a tape, over and over and over. Or watched the same tape over and over and over, the picture quality gets worse and worse.
Phillips is now selling a DVD-RW for such purposes, so It does look like the video tape has one more nail in it's coffin.
To make a TiVo clone would be cool, but to make one that will output to CD's, CDRW's, or DVD's would be great. (But still it's a waste of time to dupe a DVD if you can't get DTS ot Dolby Digital on it...)
Comparing AppleWorks to Office XP is like comparing Photoshop Elements to Photoshop Retail.
Hmmm... They didn't say anything about MS Works. About the same price point, about same features, except AppleWorks does.
There will be no time in the near future that a PC will replace the home theatre. First off Sound, you may have a nice DSP, but you will have **** for sound output. Unless of course, A.) You have a GIANT fan in your case, and a totally sound proof CPU unit or double case for it. 2.) You can fit a nice sounding 500 watt in a CPU.) D.) You have good Component video out with progressicde scan in 1 box. Otherwise, you have an over priced office machine that has no use for normal, or even abnormal computing. And BTW, SQL sounds the same in Mono, strero, and Dolby Digital.
The wireless system has been in beta test for the past few months in Anchorage, Alaska... and from what I understand the service works quite well. Now if they can only increase their cellular wirless system up here so the tourist don't take up all the digital slots with their damn roaming access...
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There are 2 things I hate, people who drive and talk at the same time, and the Dutch (with exploding phones). Now if a Finnish person's Nokia blew up, I think there would be a national scare.
Exactly how much music can a 12 year old rightfully steal online? Are we talking gigabytes, terabytes? This is ludicrous. I remember when I was 12 and I copied all those tapes of all my friends music so I could have my own copy, I think I had a whopping 20-30 90 min tapes.
What would be interesting now, is to see if this is a staged settlement, look back at the family in 1-5 years, see if they actually paid the fine, and if they did, see if by chance the RIAA, or some subsidiary of them refunded them their "alleged" $2000 fine. There is just something not right here. (insert wrong doers name here)
I'm going to buy some songs on iTMS.
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Why to people answer rhetorical questions?
The question that I ask is why now? The background between the two movies are basicaly the same. It's not about the violence, it's about beleifs, perspectives, what have you. Will they ban sales and rentals of the original Matrix?
Well, I'd say that the fact that you can get InDesign for a fraction of the price of Quark XPress is a boon to Adobe. Now we can just wait for ID3 to come out and Quark will once again be behind.
On a side note, It's a boon for Apple that Quark has finally gotten their head out of their arse, but it's a day late and a dollar short...
I do wonder how much if the sharing leads to actual buying. I know there are a lot of people who would rather "Try it out" then actually buy the game to take full advantage of it, like online playing. Many don't have the know how on hacking the programs, they just want to get a taste.
Perhaps a test to see if their system will handle it, becasue you really don't want to drive out to CompUSA, find it, wait in line, buy it, wait in traffic, install it, trouble shoot it, trouble shoot it, re configure, pull out some hair, get back in traffic, and arrive at the store right when they close before a holiday...
Call it optimisim on my part, but people aren't that inherently evil... so they tell me...
Apple has marketed the "Gx" moniker for a while as a processor indicator, just as Intel has marketed "Pentium" the same way. Intel made the mistake of calling their less powerful chips Celleron which, IMHO, is synonymous with crap.
(Side note) Intel went with Pentium because they could not trademark "586" since it is just a number.
G5 is the next logical step, it falls within Apple's Simple naming scheme, and well sounds Applelike.
As far as I know, all G4's are made by Motorolla, and if memory serves me right current G3's are made by IBM, so there is no need to differenciate the Moto & IBM chips
Using nubus expansion cards...
I recon we are all criminals to some point. Yesterday I "rolled" through a stop sign. Sunday I thought naughty things in church. Yet, neither of thoes instances invoked the wrath of the police department nor God. True, the vast majority of people will not be affected by such copyright protection. But thoes with the means, but not the intentions are being treated unjustly, and therefore, it's the preminition by the artist or distributor that people are going to steal their music.
The Register has an article on how to listen to such tracks.
This is circumventing copyprotection, but if you are not going to copy the cd, then is it wrong?
The only game to scare the living hell out of me, was Marathon Evil (A mod of Marathon Infinity way back), when some beast thing jumped out of the darkness, and slashed me to death.
But most recently, after playing Ghost Recon, I've started dreaming in night vision... is that wrong?
In the past 5 years since I puschased a DVD player, I have watched a VCR tape on average 3 times a year. Mostly becasue corporate videos came to me that way, and of course Lucas.
In the past years since I purchased TiVo, I have never recorded a tape, unless I was lo-teching for an unfortunate friend.
I still think that CD-R's are a more reliable medium, and still, in most cases a faster medium. But if you get right to it, what happens when you recorded a video on a tape, over and over and over. Or watched the same tape over and over and over, the picture quality gets worse and worse.
Phillips is now selling a DVD-RW for such purposes, so It does look like the video tape has one more nail in it's coffin.
To make a TiVo clone would be cool, but to make one that will output to CD's, CDRW's, or DVD's would be great. (But still it's a waste of time to dupe a DVD if you can't get DTS ot Dolby Digital on it...)
I once got an audible message on my computer.
"You've got mail"
I've since removed that buggy program
Comparing AppleWorks to Office XP is like comparing Photoshop Elements to Photoshop Retail.
Hmmm... They didn't say anything about MS Works. About the same price point, about same features, except AppleWorks does.
There will be no time in the near future that a PC will replace the home theatre. First off Sound, you may have a nice DSP, but you will have **** for sound output. Unless of course, A.) You have a GIANT fan in your case, and a totally sound proof CPU unit or double case for it.
2.) You can fit a nice sounding 500 watt in a CPU.)
D.) You have good Component video out with progressicde scan in 1 box.
Otherwise, you have an over priced office machine that has no use for normal, or even abnormal computing.
And BTW, SQL sounds the same in Mono, strero, and Dolby Digital.
The wireless system has been in beta test for the past few months in Anchorage, Alaska... and from what I understand the service works quite well. Now if they can only increase their cellular wirless system up here so the tourist don't take up all the digital slots with their damn roaming access...