"Ok, wait just a second, could this guy/girl be any more contradictory? Piracy isn't as bad as they make it out to be, but he can find a crack in half a second ?"
The rate of piracy cannot be measured by the speed of crack.
"Boo hoo, they don't have power outages in the heat of the day."
Yes we do, actually. I was in LA a couple of months ago and the heat caused people to run their ACs. Result? Power reserves went really low. When that happens, rolling blackouts have to occur. The only reason the death toll isn't so high is that they are well prepared for it.
Can't say I blame you for being this misinformed, though. After living here for the last 3 months, I'm findnig some of the Californian stereotypes quite amusing. For example, did you know that LA isn't covered in a dark brown haze that looks like the surface in the Matrix?
"My wife's best friend was killed by lightning in Houston in 2001."
Ugh. You know how they talk about how games desensitize people? I've been playing Unreal Tournament 04 way too much over the last week. One of the weapons that I've grown to love is the Lightning gun. It fires a bolt of lightning and *zaap*. I love sniping with it.
Despite really enjoying zapping people with this game, reading that somebody you know (or your wife knows...) died with it really made my heart sink.
I hope I'm not being disrespectful. That's not the intent... I just noticed... Ya know?
Just out of curiosity, did you read the rest of my post? Just wanted to make sure ya caught the apology bits.
"You know its because of thinking like that that causes my university network to slow to a crawl while everyone is sitting at home downloading movies and songs in their dorms."
That's not specifically MP3's fault. They could be downloading anything to cause that.
"Not to mention the security risks associated with p2p filesharing, and the potential qualtiy control problems, etc."
I sorta agree with you here, though it is hard to be exploited that way. That's one of the reasons I signed up for a pay service as soon as I heard of it.
"And I probably could rip an mp3 much quicker if for some reason I prefered an inferior format."
I'd prefer a format that's easier to play. But I should mention, I can't hear the difference. Guess I'm lucky.;)
"You are not mad at the RIAA because they won't let you download their songs for free, you are an incompetent fool who can't figure out how to rip a CD."
Um okay. Never mind that it'd be far faster and easier to just download the songs I've got. Seriously man, imagine ripping a single CD, then imagine just typing in a few search terms, highlighting them and saying "download". Then it's off on its own.
"Calm down kid. I was not making a claim about the opinions of every./er as that would be a long ass post. Nor was I making a claim about your personal opinions. "
You're right. I'm sorry. I'm still fuming about a post somebody made a couple of weeks ago that basically said "You are against the RIAA therefore you are a thief" and directed that right at me, even though I'm completely legit. He just assumed it. That really pisses me off.
"The world does not revolve around you, so stop taking every post personally."
Well.. yeah okay, you're right. Your post wasn't an appropriate one to jump on. At least you can understand, though, that it's frustrating when there are negative assumptions about you that aren't based on a solid understanding of what you believe, right? That's what made up most of my post.
"Can I listen to Internet radio in my car or on the bus?"
No. You'll be able to when hotspots become more wide spread, however. Heck, right now I can buy a 200kbit wirless service that works over most of the country. YMMV but we're headed that way before too long. In terms of "can it replace radio?" you are absolutely correct in saying "not yet". However, my comment was more to do with specifically internet radio, not in that context. (I do apologize for not being clear.) I listen to streaming radio during the day all day. Haven't even had problems with interruptions.
" Until I can, Internet radio will never take off."
Internet radio actually could easily take off without wireless net to run it. Don't forget that a lot of us spend our day at the office in front of a net connected computer. Heck, right now I'm paying $10 a month for a music service (Listen Rhapsody, if anybody's interested) where music and radio are sent down to me. (Well... they call it radio, it's more like streaming music. I'm not getting NPR or anything like that) I don't think the captive audience will 'not listen to anything but FCC licensed FM'. If the success of iPods tells us anything, it's that there's a market growing here.
"Only in the Microsoft world would server uptime of six months be considered "impressive."
It's impressive compared to some of the stories I've heard around here about Windows stability. Although I question the legitimacy of some of the stories I've heard.
I had a full-time PVR built out of an old PC running Win2k. (not server...) It ran about 3-4 months before needing a reboot. The stupid sound driver would die after that so the shows would record with no audio. Heh. Couldn't tell you if that's Windows or the company who made the sound card. A Linux one has the potential to last longer than that, but the effort to set one up is just too much. Look up the directions on the net.. figure out the right spelling and case of the commands... figure out how to make playback work... the time I spend trying to get all that info greatly exceeds the time I spend rebooting it. If somebody were to measure actual time interacting with either a Linux or a Windows box for a particular purpose, I bet you'd find that Linux isn't as far ahead as you'd imagine.
"Just because they won't let you download their songs for free..."
They're not letting me download songs for free even though I have the CDs. I have a CD burner, therefore I am a thief. THAT is the problem I in particular have with them.
This doesn't really interfere with your point, but I'm getting sick and tired of the assumption that being mad the RIAA automatically means wanting to download stuff for free. At least TRY to understand where people come from before jumping to conclusions about what their positions will be on any given story. It's needlessly insulting.
"Personally, I'd kinda like it if all the ads got replaced by songs."
After reading the article, oh hell no. They mentioned a song being played every 12 minutes. (I blanked out the rest of the details.) I heard one of Britney's songs 3 TIMES in a single 30 minute drive. I was so fricking sick of that song! Imagine turning off the radio, turn it on again 10 minutes later, only to turn it off another 4 minutes after that. Rinse. Repeat.
30 second clips of songs wouldn't be so bad, but oh please no, not the whole frigging song. That'd seriously drive me to commercial free satellite radio.
"I'm gonna go with Shigeru Miyamoto for having created Zelda, Mario, and Donkey Kong. Everything lept forward from there..."
Shigeru Miyamoto is definitely a well respected legend in the industry. But this title doesn't apply to him. Video games were going strong 10 years before he had anything to do with them.
Any of you that have followed my posts know that I'm not exactly anti-Microsoft. I've had good experiences with Windows both as a desktop and a server OS. (On top of that, my first Linux based server was rooted within 2 weeks of installing it. More secure my ass.) Despite that, I still go "yeah right" when the claim is made that Windows is better than Linux.
In the desktop world, the major problem with Windows is the need to reinstall it every few months or your computer gets sluggish. In the server world, though I've had impressive up times (>6 months, for example) you really have to set it up right the first time, then never mess with it again except to install those MUST INSTALL NOW patches.
Microsoft has come a long way. It's pretty darned cool that you can set up a web server or mail server with Microsoft without really needing to get a lot of outside information. (At least up to the point of where you secure it....) Every year, they lock it down a little more. It really is a pity that I can't get Microsoft's interface with linux's functionality/reliability. Or... would a Mac server do that? Does Apple make that sort of machine/OS?
Well I'm just rambling now. Figured some of you might be interested to hear from a not-so-disatisfied MS customer.
"I'd imagine that the loudest opposers of this loss of privacy are merely those that seek to hide from bad laws."
I more or less agree with your view on this topic, but this particular line isn't true. There are 'innocent people' (i.e. people who genuinely aren't against this because they want to avoid legal troubles) who are seriously concerned that the gov't will adopt this stuff too fast and make life rotten for all of us. Personally, I think their fears are a little too imaginative, but I really can't fault them for wanting checks and balances etc.
Anyhoo, the way you phrased it, I wouldn't refer to those people as cowards.
"Rediculous. The POINT of hyperthreading is to LOOK like 2 CPUs... be USED like 2 physical CPUs. The operating system SHOULD NOT even CARE whether its hyperthreaded single cpu or, in fact, 2 CPUs."
Wrong. HT is not as fast as having a dual, not by a long shot. It needs to have some smarts in there or you end up with a machine that is often slower with HT.
" I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Singer/Songwriter Ray Charles was found dead in his Maine home this morning."
Whaddya know, he really is.
(Note: No, I'm not belitting his death. Though I haven't seen it recently, it used to be a common troll to say somebody famous died. Almost that exact same warning.)
" Described as a cross between Star Trek's tricorder and Star Wars' lightsaber training droid, the PSA has 'sensors for measuring gases, temperature, and air pressure' "
So.. it can shoot at you, then detect that you soiled yourself. I want one of these for my cat!
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"Alternatively, what if 2-3 shots are fired simultaneously at different locations in an attempt to overload the electrical system?"
Then it takes 9 shots to take out 3 tanks, instead of one per tank. Meanwhile, the tesla-tank can return fire.
Don'tcha think you're trying a bit hard to find the gotcha in it?
"Polarize the hull plating!"
"It might even help people find prior art for some of the goofey patents we get these days."
Somehow I doubt anything horse or steam powered is gonna get MS's double click patent revoked.
A small handful of people REJOICE!!
"Ok, wait just a second, could this guy/girl be any more contradictory? Piracy isn't as bad as they make it out to be, but he can find a crack in half a second ?"
The rate of piracy cannot be measured by the speed of crack.
"Boo hoo, they don't have power outages in the heat of the day."
Yes we do, actually. I was in LA a couple of months ago and the heat caused people to run their ACs. Result? Power reserves went really low. When that happens, rolling blackouts have to occur. The only reason the death toll isn't so high is that they are well prepared for it.
Can't say I blame you for being this misinformed, though. After living here for the last 3 months, I'm findnig some of the Californian stereotypes quite amusing. For example, did you know that LA isn't covered in a dark brown haze that looks like the surface in the Matrix?
"My wife's best friend was killed by lightning in Houston in 2001."
Ugh. You know how they talk about how games desensitize people? I've been playing Unreal Tournament 04 way too much over the last week. One of the weapons that I've grown to love is the Lightning gun. It fires a bolt of lightning and *zaap*. I love sniping with it.
Despite really enjoying zapping people with this game, reading that somebody you know (or your wife knows...) died with it really made my heart sink.
I hope I'm not being disrespectful. That's not the intent... I just noticed... Ya know?
Just out of curiosity, did you read the rest of my post? Just wanted to make sure ya caught the apology bits.
;)
"You know its because of thinking like that that causes my university network to slow to a crawl while everyone is sitting at home downloading movies and songs in their dorms."
That's not specifically MP3's fault. They could be downloading anything to cause that.
"Not to mention the security risks associated with p2p filesharing, and the potential qualtiy control problems, etc."
I sorta agree with you here, though it is hard to be exploited that way. That's one of the reasons I signed up for a pay service as soon as I heard of it.
"And I probably could rip an mp3 much quicker if for some reason I prefered an inferior format."
I'd prefer a format that's easier to play. But I should mention, I can't hear the difference. Guess I'm lucky.
"You are not mad at the RIAA because they won't let you download their songs for free, you are an incompetent fool who can't figure out how to rip a CD."
./er as that would be a long ass post. Nor was I making a claim about your personal opinions. "
Um okay. Never mind that it'd be far faster and easier to just download the songs I've got. Seriously man, imagine ripping a single CD, then imagine just typing in a few search terms, highlighting them and saying "download". Then it's off on its own.
"Calm down kid. I was not making a claim about the opinions of every
You're right. I'm sorry. I'm still fuming about a post somebody made a couple of weeks ago that basically said "You are against the RIAA therefore you are a thief" and directed that right at me, even though I'm completely legit. He just assumed it. That really pisses me off.
"The world does not revolve around you, so stop taking every post personally."
Well.. yeah okay, you're right. Your post wasn't an appropriate one to jump on. At least you can understand, though, that it's frustrating when there are negative assumptions about you that aren't based on a solid understanding of what you believe, right? That's what made up most of my post.
"Can I listen to Internet radio in my car or on the bus?"
No. You'll be able to when hotspots become more wide spread, however. Heck, right now I can buy a 200kbit wirless service that works over most of the country. YMMV but we're headed that way before too long. In terms of "can it replace radio?" you are absolutely correct in saying "not yet". However, my comment was more to do with specifically internet radio, not in that context. (I do apologize for not being clear.) I listen to streaming radio during the day all day. Haven't even had problems with interruptions.
" Until I can, Internet radio will never take off."
Internet radio actually could easily take off without wireless net to run it. Don't forget that a lot of us spend our day at the office in front of a net connected computer. Heck, right now I'm paying $10 a month for a music service (Listen Rhapsody, if anybody's interested) where music and radio are sent down to me. (Well... they call it radio, it's more like streaming music. I'm not getting NPR or anything like that) I don't think the captive audience will 'not listen to anything but FCC licensed FM'. If the success of iPods tells us anything, it's that there's a market growing here.
"Only in the Microsoft world would server uptime of six months be considered "impressive."
It's impressive compared to some of the stories I've heard around here about Windows stability. Although I question the legitimacy of some of the stories I've heard.
I had a full-time PVR built out of an old PC running Win2k. (not server...) It ran about 3-4 months before needing a reboot. The stupid sound driver would die after that so the shows would record with no audio. Heh. Couldn't tell you if that's Windows or the company who made the sound card. A Linux one has the potential to last longer than that, but the effort to set one up is just too much. Look up the directions on the net.. figure out the right spelling and case of the commands... figure out how to make playback work... the time I spend trying to get all that info greatly exceeds the time I spend rebooting it. If somebody were to measure actual time interacting with either a Linux or a Windows box for a particular purpose, I bet you'd find that Linux isn't as far ahead as you'd imagine.
"Just because they won't let you download their songs for free..."
They're not letting me download songs for free even though I have the CDs. I have a CD burner, therefore I am a thief. THAT is the problem I in particular have with them.
This doesn't really interfere with your point, but I'm getting sick and tired of the assumption that being mad the RIAA automatically means wanting to download stuff for free. At least TRY to understand where people come from before jumping to conclusions about what their positions will be on any given story. It's needlessly insulting.
"Personally, I'd kinda like it if all the ads got replaced by songs."
After reading the article, oh hell no. They mentioned a song being played every 12 minutes. (I blanked out the rest of the details.) I heard one of Britney's songs 3 TIMES in a single 30 minute drive. I was so fricking sick of that song! Imagine turning off the radio, turn it on again 10 minutes later, only to turn it off another 4 minutes after that. Rinse. Repeat.
30 second clips of songs wouldn't be so bad, but oh please no, not the whole frigging song. That'd seriously drive me to commercial free satellite radio.
" Right now internet radio quality is abysmal..."
It is? Have you been checking it out in the last 2 years?
"Dang. No good in math OR spelling?"
Is Slashdot taking applications?
"I'm gonna go with Shigeru Miyamoto for having created Zelda, Mario, and Donkey Kong. Everything lept forward from there..."
Shigeru Miyamoto is definitely a well respected legend in the industry. But this title doesn't apply to him. Video games were going strong 10 years before he had anything to do with them.
Any of you that have followed my posts know that I'm not exactly anti-Microsoft. I've had good experiences with Windows both as a desktop and a server OS. (On top of that, my first Linux based server was rooted within 2 weeks of installing it. More secure my ass.) Despite that, I still go "yeah right" when the claim is made that Windows is better than Linux.
In the desktop world, the major problem with Windows is the need to reinstall it every few months or your computer gets sluggish. In the server world, though I've had impressive up times (>6 months, for example) you really have to set it up right the first time, then never mess with it again except to install those MUST INSTALL NOW patches.
Microsoft has come a long way. It's pretty darned cool that you can set up a web server or mail server with Microsoft without really needing to get a lot of outside information. (At least up to the point of where you secure it....) Every year, they lock it down a little more. It really is a pity that I can't get Microsoft's interface with linux's functionality/reliability. Or... would a Mac server do that? Does Apple make that sort of machine/OS?
Well I'm just rambling now. Figured some of you might be interested to hear from a not-so-disatisfied MS customer.
"Everyone, rejoice! Together now!"
Show me the money.
"I'd imagine that the loudest opposers of this loss of privacy are merely those that seek to hide from bad laws."
I more or less agree with your view on this topic, but this particular line isn't true. There are 'innocent people' (i.e. people who genuinely aren't against this because they want to avoid legal troubles) who are seriously concerned that the gov't will adopt this stuff too fast and make life rotten for all of us. Personally, I think their fears are a little too imaginative, but I really can't fault them for wanting checks and balances etc.
Anyhoo, the way you phrased it, I wouldn't refer to those people as cowards.
"Can this be abused?"
I think the problem is that not having cameras there is being abused. Hence the need to add them.
"To be fair, you don't really have a reasonable expectation of privacy on the street in downtown Baltimore."
What's funny is that if somebody is gonna meet somebody they're not all that comfy with, they want to go meet them in public.
At any rate, I'm really curious what kind of abuse people are imagining.
"Rediculous. The POINT of hyperthreading is to LOOK like 2 CPUs... be USED like 2 physical CPUs. The operating system SHOULD NOT even CARE whether its hyperthreaded single cpu or, in fact, 2 CPUs."
Wrong. HT is not as fast as having a dual, not by a long shot. It needs to have some smarts in there or you end up with a machine that is often slower with HT.
"They use WMD daily in iraq and afghanistan and they used them extensively in the balkans"
Depleted Uranium shells are considered WMD?
" I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Singer/Songwriter Ray Charles was found dead in his Maine home this morning."
Whaddya know, he really is.
(Note: No, I'm not belitting his death. Though I haven't seen it recently, it used to be a common troll to say somebody famous died. Almost that exact same warning.)
" Described as a cross between Star Trek's tricorder and Star Wars' lightsaber training droid, the PSA has 'sensors for measuring gases, temperature, and air pressure' "
So.. it can shoot at you, then detect that you soiled yourself. I want one of these for my cat!