Uh, actually, the crap you buy at Wal-Mart isn't pro tape. The stuff that Quantegy made was. It had a thicker base and better magnetic particles stuck on it, and used better QA for less drop-out and longer lifespan.
Here is the FAQ dealing with archiving journals. I really don't think that having a CSV or XML file with the entries around is "not easy". One thing the FAQ seems to hint at is that you don't get the comments attached to the post. Unlike (apparently) a lot of other LJers, my LJ is by me, for me, and everyone else can choose to read it or not (that is to say, comments aren't why I keep a LJ). So in that respect, I'm like you - I don't care about traffic.
Point is: no you aren't screwed if they get bought out, and considering that LJ is Brad Fitz's baby, I think this is all romourware anyway.
I have an iRiver H340 and absolutely adore it. I'd like to point out that the features you point out are only models that are sold in the EU and Korea. The H300 series in the US has the USBOTG scrapped in favor of DRM compliance. The port's still there, it just does something different. The Korean and EU models can play videos (although it has to be an avi and reformatted to fit the screen). However, if you flash the bios on a US model, you get video playback, lose the DRM function and more or less kill the second data port on the device (in otherwords, no big loss to most here).
Love it. Would recommend it to anyone shopping around. This is my second iRiver product; the first was a multi-codec cd player and it still is fantastic for what it does (play cds or mp3s).
iRiver: for geeks by geeks. Come away from the shiny wheel...:)
Woo Mike Oldfield! I've been trying to get people to listen to him, but because he was so incredibly progressive and influential for the time people can't figure out why it's cool that a song from 1982 sounds like it was written in 1995.
I'm glad to know there are a few more people out there that still know and recognise.:)
And, for the record, Ommadawn (not Tubular Bells) was the thing that led me to him.
Yeah, but you presume that is 2005. I'm betting it's 2006, which is a little more inline with the release rumours for Xbox2. It makes more sense to me that they would release H3 as an X2 launch title than to keep real quiet and vague about a game they would release 4 months after the first sequel.
Think about it a second: Halo 3 Feb 2006 makes more sense than Halo 3 Feb 2005. If it were 2005, there would be more buzz than a flyfarm about it right now.
Since noticing over the last two weeks or so the growing outcry of "But what about the CHILDREN", I've started thinking about the ESRB rating systems and about the games I have that are M rated (I was actually shocked to figure out that Halo & Halo2 were both M, I presumed they were both T. Good thing I'm far past the point of needing or dispensing parental guidance.) and what possibly an AO game could be.
Note: Inclusion on the list below doesn't necc indicate I own the game. The Guy Game - M. BloodRayne & BR2 - M. MaxPayne & MP2 - M. The Suffering - M. Mafia - M. Leisure Suit Larry - M.
What does it take to get an AO? Rape? Actual spritesex? Perhaps everything on the "Naughty List"?
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Nah, just part of/.'s web-bot foiler. Take out the space in "20040519" and it works fine.
Why buy them when you could download them? I bought them because aside from the "pay the piper" principle, it looks better onscreen and typically sounds better as well (corrupted audio streams and video artifacts vs crystal clear picture and dolby digital).
One overlooked hot topic about the original HL was that for the time, it had amazingly adept older system compatibility. I mean, I ran it on a Cyrix 133 (which, IIRC, means it was really a 100), with a mere 32mb of ram. Naturally, I used software rendering, but the game still played great.
In other words, that backward compatibility you lament was a selling point for some folks.
Although I do have my irony detector on, and it is alarming loudly at your response, for those of you who missed it, I qualified the statement with "that I know".
Except - everyone I know who has a modded Xbox does it so they install a larger harddrive, then rent a game, rip it to said hard drive and be done with it. Total outlay for a game with a modded xbox is $4 (or less, if you use netflix or blockbuster's similar deal) instead of $40-50.
So - you could have a Live-only legit Xbox, but as far as I know, you'd be killing the reason why people mod them to begin with.
Additionally, I don't think it should come as a surprize to anyone that the forthcoming Xbox2 will not have a hard drive in it - if MS is really loosing money on each console, they must be expecting massive profits on the software side, which said modding is defeating.
I really enjoyed the first one, but I'll be honest: my biggest gripe with NOLF2 was the fact that it was either $39 or $49 (iirc), and felt like -- an expansion pack. Sure it was beautiful, and I too enjoyed the ninjas in the tornado and the customization points for the charector, and again I have to mention those stunning graphics... but compared to NOLF it ended way too short, leaving me wanting more. I mean heck, I only paid $20 for the GotYE of NOLF, and that lasted a darn long time...
Actually it is legal to tape songs off the radio for at least 2 reasons: one is that you have a copy of a song that was paid for via royalties paid to the RIAA; the other is you have an imperfect copy of a song, which if you keep generating copies from that copy you are sooner or later going to end up with a very very lackluster copy of that song. Contrast this with the fact that you can (more or less) get a perfect copy in the digital realm with little to no loss per generation, coupled with the fact that you didn't get the file from some royaly-paid source more likely than not.
Just being Devil's advocate here. I hate those alphabet bastards too.
Unfortunately, the cynic in me makes me wonder if this revival is not just an attempt to make more money off of something that is ~20 years old, but also to discredit the abandonware theory, and also to crimp the style (and sharpen the legal axe) of MAMErs...
Although I agree with your opinion of Alanis (I enjoy most of her stuff, to my surprize), don't you find it interesting she is on Mavrick Records -- Created and owned by Madonna?
wandering up to the original game in a dusty arcade when it was still new, and looking at those huge buttons and brusing my wrists on it.
Later, when SF2:tWW came out, I was relieved to find that they had replaced those huge pneumantic buttons, but I fed that machine so many quarters it was pathetic.
I held off on buying a SNES, then they came out with SF2 for it, and I am almost certain the first day I had that SNES and the game (which, if memory serves me, was actually 10 or 11 years ago today [I know this not because I'm a hyper-geek, but because today is my birthday and I got both of those as a present for myself back then]), I think within a week I played enough games to make up in quarters what I would have spent at the arcade.
I still am dissapointed when I buy a SF game without Chun-Li in it though -- I used to own when I played as her.
I've had my PS2 for about 6 weeks now and the only problem I had with it (aside from figuring out how to turn it off the first day I got it), was the loud click and "disc error" that only lasted as long as it took me to shut it down, look at the warrantee label, and then spary some canned air into the fan port. Not a single issue with playing DVDs though, and I've done that on many occasions.
At anyrate, aren't all the games themselves DVD discs too? I can understand people getting miffed over having to pay about half the price of a new unit in order to get something "fixed", but I still am completely baffled by this case...
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Don't see it there, either.
And if anyone is gonna see ads, it's me. I have WinXPPro & use MSIE 6 (patched and locked down, but still...)
Ran Ad-aware lately?
Er, did you bother to go look at her references?
It's quite clear (especially if you actually go look at the pages she cites) that she's been spywared.
Uh, actually, the crap you buy at Wal-Mart isn't pro tape. The stuff that Quantegy made was. It had a thicker base and better magnetic particles stuck on it, and used better QA for less drop-out and longer lifespan.
Here is the FAQ dealing with archiving journals. I really don't think that having a CSV or XML file with the entries around is "not easy". One thing the FAQ seems to hint at is that you don't get the comments attached to the post. Unlike (apparently) a lot of other LJers, my LJ is by me, for me, and everyone else can choose to read it or not (that is to say, comments aren't why I keep a LJ). So in that respect, I'm like you - I don't care about traffic.
Point is: no you aren't screwed if they get bought out, and considering that LJ is Brad Fitz's baby, I think this is all romourware anyway.
I have an iRiver H340 and absolutely adore it. I'd like to point out that the features you point out are only models that are sold in the EU and Korea. The H300 series in the US has the USBOTG scrapped in favor of DRM compliance. The port's still there, it just does something different. The Korean and EU models can play videos (although it has to be an avi and reformatted to fit the screen). However, if you flash the bios on a US model, you get video playback, lose the DRM function and more or less kill the second data port on the device (in otherwords, no big loss to most here).
:)
Love it. Would recommend it to anyone shopping around. This is my second iRiver product; the first was a multi-codec cd player and it still is fantastic for what it does (play cds or mp3s).
iRiver: for geeks by geeks. Come away from the shiny wheel...
Woo Mike Oldfield! I've been trying to get people to listen to him, but because he was so incredibly progressive and influential for the time people can't figure out why it's cool that a song from 1982 sounds like it was written in 1995.
:)
I'm glad to know there are a few more people out there that still know and recognise.
And, for the record, Ommadawn (not Tubular Bells) was the thing that led me to him.
Yeah, but you presume that is 2005. I'm betting it's 2006, which is a little more inline with the release rumours for Xbox2. It makes more sense to me that they would release H3 as an X2 launch title than to keep real quiet and vague about a game they would release 4 months after the first sequel.
Think about it a second: Halo 3 Feb 2006 makes more sense than Halo 3 Feb 2005. If it were 2005, there would be more buzz than a flyfarm about it right now.
And good luck trying to take it back to the shop. You face the restocking fee from hell, and sadly they don't give store credit or even exchanges.
Since noticing over the last two weeks or so the growing outcry of "But what about the CHILDREN", I've started thinking about the ESRB rating systems and about the games I have that are M rated (I was actually shocked to figure out that Halo & Halo2 were both M, I presumed they were both T. Good thing I'm far past the point of needing or dispensing parental guidance.) and what possibly an AO game could be.
Note: Inclusion on the list below doesn't necc indicate I own the game.
The Guy Game - M.
BloodRayne & BR2 - M.
MaxPayne & MP2 - M.
The Suffering - M.
Mafia - M.
Leisure Suit Larry - M.
What does it take to get an AO? Rape? Actual spritesex? Perhaps everything on the "Naughty List"?
Nah, just part of /.'s web-bot foiler. Take out the space in "20040519" and it works fine.
Why buy them when you could download them?
I bought them because aside from the "pay the piper" principle, it looks better onscreen and typically sounds better as well (corrupted audio streams and video artifacts vs crystal clear picture and dolby digital).
It's also acted as conscience salve as well.
1gb flash drives? Never heard of em.
God bless Google.
One overlooked hot topic about the original HL was that for the time, it had amazingly adept older system compatibility. I mean, I ran it on a Cyrix 133 (which, IIRC, means it was really a 100), with a mere 32mb of ram. Naturally, I used software rendering, but the game still played great.
In other words, that backward compatibility you lament was a selling point for some folks.
Although I do have my irony detector on, and it is alarming loudly at your response, for those of you who missed it, I qualified the statement with "that I know".
Except - everyone I know who has a modded Xbox does it so they install a larger harddrive, then rent a game, rip it to said hard drive and be done with it. Total outlay for a game with a modded xbox is $4 (or less, if you use netflix or blockbuster's similar deal) instead of $40-50.
So - you could have a Live-only legit Xbox, but as far as I know, you'd be killing the reason why people mod them to begin with.
Additionally, I don't think it should come as a surprize to anyone that the forthcoming Xbox2 will not have a hard drive in it - if MS is really loosing money on each console, they must be expecting massive profits on the software side, which said modding is defeating.
I really enjoyed the first one, but I'll be honest: my biggest gripe with NOLF2 was the fact that it was either $39 or $49 (iirc), and felt like -- an expansion pack. Sure it was beautiful, and I too enjoyed the ninjas in the tornado and the customization points for the charector, and again I have to mention those stunning graphics... but compared to NOLF it ended way too short, leaving me wanting more. I mean heck, I only paid $20 for the GotYE of NOLF, and that lasted a darn long time...
I've heard the ships are coming in a future expansion pack.
Wait man, I found the ladder...
Actually it is legal to tape songs off the radio for at least 2 reasons: one is that you have a copy of a song that was paid for via royalties paid to the RIAA; the other is you have an imperfect copy of a song, which if you keep generating copies from that copy you are sooner or later going to end up with a very very lackluster copy of that song. Contrast this with the fact that you can (more or less) get a perfect copy in the digital realm with little to no loss per generation, coupled with the fact that you didn't get the file from some royaly-paid source more likely than not.
Just being Devil's advocate here. I hate those alphabet bastards too.
Unfortunately, the cynic in me makes me wonder if this revival is not just an attempt to make more money off of something that is ~20 years old, but also to discredit the abandonware theory, and also to crimp the style (and sharpen the legal axe) of MAMErs...
For a good many visually impaired people, the whole point is that they can survive on their own as well as their visually active counterparts.
Although I agree with your opinion of Alanis (I enjoy most of her stuff, to my surprize), don't you find it interesting she is on Mavrick Records -- Created and owned by Madonna?
Then again, so was The Rentals...
wandering up to the original game in a dusty arcade when it was still new, and looking at those huge buttons and brusing my wrists on it.
Later, when SF2:tWW came out, I was relieved to find that they had replaced those huge pneumantic buttons, but I fed that machine so many quarters it was pathetic.
I held off on buying a SNES, then they came out with SF2 for it, and I am almost certain the first day I had that SNES and the game (which, if memory serves me, was actually 10 or 11 years ago today [I know this not because I'm a hyper-geek, but because today is my birthday and I got both of those as a present for myself back then]), I think within a week I played enough games to make up in quarters what I would have spent at the arcade.
I still am dissapointed when I buy a SF game without Chun-Li in it though -- I used to own when I played as her.
So _you're_ the type that buys all the Olsen Twin games. God bless your trolling heart!
I've had my PS2 for about 6 weeks now and the only problem I had with it (aside from figuring out how to turn it off the first day I got it), was the loud click and "disc error" that only lasted as long as it took me to shut it down, look at the warrantee label, and then spary some canned air into the fan port. Not a single issue with playing DVDs though, and I've done that on many occasions.
At anyrate, aren't all the games themselves DVD discs too? I can understand people getting miffed over having to pay about half the price of a new unit in order to get something "fixed", but I still am completely baffled by this case...