Is it dangerous? I saw stats suggesting that people had less accidents, due apparantly to people overcompensating for loss of hearing by looking more and being more careful. Of course, this was a few years ago (and in the UK)..perhaps people are getting more careless and stupid nowadays (what do i mean `perhaps`....)
Yeah, but then you may as well just get a £40 diskman, if you are going to rip and copy a cd onto a HD. And if they`re your cds, why bother ripping them? I have a diskman and a cd carry case. If it gets lost/stolen its not as big a deal as if i lost a £400 device - even if i have to buy all 12 cds again! But you`re sort of right - my problem is with the audio artefacts of lossy compression rather than inherant problems with the iPod (other than the price).
"Are you saying that the intended audience for these tests are people that are not interested in the quality of the music they're listening to?"
but you hit the nail on the head. And the answer is `Yes`. I listen to loads of music, and I cant stand lossy compression systems. I can see the point, like Napster or whatever, but the idea of spending £400 or whatever on an iPod is laughable. Blank cds are 20p each, writers are £60 - why bother arsing around with wondering about 64Kbits vs 128 etc? Anyone listening to music at 64K is wasting their time. 128 still sounds like much of it was recorded underwater, especially the bass.
But obviously to some people its just about how much music they can hoard away.
...that can be used to start other programs. But it does not operate the same way as in other versions of Windows. It starts a program, but cannot be made to return control to the command line program as previous versions did.
Well, unless you add/W or/Wait (depending on OS) as a switch.
Hello, my name is MrFredBloggs and I didn't read the article...because the site was SlashDotted. So I went on the write up, and other posters comments, and the possibility that other people could quite easily end up in jail for similar offences.
Facts at my disposal.
Story called: "Chip a PS/2 , Go to Jail" Write up said: "A man in Ottawa was convicted of selling and installing mod chips out of his computer store."
And anyway, SlashDot is just a website - i really dont take it too seriously! Sorry!
Yeah, but I dont like the idea of putting a non-violent `criminal` in jail for copying a few computer games. Shouldnt jail be for keeping the public safe from violent idiots? I dont mind sharing a bus with someone who has a pirate copy of sonic the hedgehog...not even if he`s selling them. Whats wrong with a fine, confiscation of the stuff, perhaps community service, probation etc? Whats jail going to do? He`ll learn his lesson, right? Come out a changed man and all that? well, I guess that theory has to work for someone. It doesnt work for violent criminals, perhaps it`ll work for game-copiers?
In the case of a dispute about whether or not the `virgin` team got contaminated (laid?!), does the plaintiff have to prove they were, or does the defendant have to prove they werent? I imagine its the former, but thats got to be pretty hard.
someone will ever come up with a definition for Consciousness that will appeal to everyone? Or are we doomed to attempt to simulate something we`ve not yet defined forever?
Just think, if you were using Microsoft products - just about any of them - you`d just press F7 and they`d go `er...do you mean satellite?`. Doesnt Linux software have a spell checker?
No, he feeds them what they want. Emailed porn would be in the form of a graphic file. How many clicks do you think the user should have to perform to see it? More than one? Why?
"In the UK, you buy something. If there's something wrong with it, you can return it. The seller is not obliged to give you a refund, if he/she can provide a replacement. There endeth your rights"
Incorrect. In the UK, if you buy something and theres something wrong with it, you can get a refund immediately. The thing you have to look out for is if the store talks you into accepting a replacement, or fixes it for you. Once you`ve done that, you no longer have the right to get a refund.
Who says they`re after organized criminals? I always assumed these `anti terrorist` laws will be used to harass the general public, in the same way that drug laws have been (or the anti-terrorist laws in the UK, come to that, unless you can point me in the direction of some black IRA members).
>have at least some sympathy for the Chinese system, it can't be easy to manage a billion people.
Tough shit. Who cares. Their problem.
Anyway, whos going to teach everyone in the world Chinese? Who wants to learn Chinese? Clue: not me. I think they`ll be learning English. Anytime soon? No.
Most stuff isnt too important. I mean, if it is important, from a business or nostalgia point of view, you should be backing it up. No technology is going to help you if you forget to look after it. But this stuff about `in 50 years time...` - who cares? It`ll be important to them, but its not important to us, just like the year 2000 problem was deliberately left until 1999 to fix cos it just would have cost too much money to implement properly in the `50s, `60s etc.
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Have you tried /B ? Might do the trick?
Start is asynchronous. It starts stuff and doesnt wait. I use /W to make it wait. Am i doing something wrong?
Is it dangerous? I saw stats suggesting that people had less accidents, due apparantly to people overcompensating for loss of hearing by looking more and being more careful. Of course, this was a few years ago (and in the UK)..perhaps people are getting more careless and stupid nowadays (what do i mean `perhaps`....)
Yeah, but then you may as well just get a £40 diskman, if you are going to rip and copy a cd onto a HD. And if they`re your cds, why bother ripping them? I have a diskman and a cd carry case. If it gets lost/stolen its not as big a deal as if i lost a £400 device - even if i have to buy all 12 cds again!
But you`re sort of right - my problem is with the audio artefacts of lossy compression rather than inherant problems with the iPod (other than the price).
"Are you saying that the intended audience for these tests are people that are not interested in the quality of the music they're listening to?"
but you hit the nail on the head. And the answer is `Yes`.
I listen to loads of music, and I cant stand lossy compression systems. I can see the point, like Napster or whatever, but the idea of spending £400 or whatever on an iPod is laughable. Blank cds are 20p each, writers are £60 - why bother arsing around with wondering about 64Kbits vs 128 etc? Anyone listening to music at 64K is wasting their time. 128 still sounds like much of it was recorded underwater, especially the bass.
But obviously to some people its just about how much music they can hoard away.
...that can be used to start other programs. But it does not operate the same way as in other versions of Windows. It starts a program, but cannot be made to return control to the command line program as previous versions did.
/W or /Wait (depending on OS) as a switch.
Well, unless you add
Dont mind if I do! Have a nice weekend :)
"our enemies will just have to learn to close their eyes whenever they see/hear a US warplane"
What do you mean "just"? Thats all you need! I think, though i`m no expert, that thats about as good a cover as guys on the ground could dream of!
I have a cellphone, like most* people in Europe. If i dont want to be disturbed, guess what i do...
*(yeah,most - more than half)
Hello, my name is MrFredBloggs and I didn't read the article...because the site was SlashDotted. So I went on the write up, and other posters comments, and the possibility that other people could quite easily end up in jail for similar offences.
Facts at my disposal.
Story called: "Chip a PS/2 , Go to Jail"
Write up said: "A man in Ottawa was convicted of selling and installing mod chips out of his computer store."
And anyway, SlashDot is just a website - i really dont take it too seriously! Sorry!
Yeah, but I dont like the idea of putting a non-violent `criminal` in jail for copying a few computer games. Shouldnt jail be for keeping the public safe from violent idiots? I dont mind sharing a bus with someone who has a pirate copy of sonic the hedgehog...not even if he`s selling them.
Whats wrong with a fine, confiscation of the stuff, perhaps community service, probation etc? Whats jail going to do? He`ll learn his lesson, right? Come out a changed man and all that? well, I guess that theory has to work for someone. It doesnt work for violent criminals, perhaps it`ll work for game-copiers?
In the case of a dispute about whether or not the `virgin` team got contaminated (laid?!), does the plaintiff have to prove they were, or does the defendant have to prove they werent? I imagine its the former, but thats got to be pretty hard.
someone will ever come up with a definition for Consciousness that will appeal to everyone? Or are we doomed to attempt to simulate something we`ve not yet defined forever?
Its probably easier to make the cd stationary and spin the head/laser around.
Just think, if you were using Microsoft products - just about any of them - you`d just press F7 and they`d go `er...do you mean satellite?`.
Doesnt Linux software have a spell checker?
"they accept whatever Mr Gates feeds them"
No, he feeds them what they want. Emailed porn would be in the form of a graphic file. How many clicks do you think the user should have to perform to see it? More than one? Why?
"In the UK, you buy something. If there's something wrong with it, you can return it. The seller is not obliged to give you a refund, if he/she can provide a replacement. There endeth your rights"
Incorrect. In the UK, if you buy something and theres something wrong with it, you can get a refund immediately. The thing you have to look out for is if the store talks you into accepting a replacement, or fixes it for you. Once you`ve done that, you no longer have the right to get a refund.
Are you saying that the UK doesnt have those rights, or just that you dont value them?
>Organized crime and terrorists don't use crypto
Who says they`re after organized criminals? I always assumed these `anti terrorist` laws will be used to harass the general public, in the same way that drug laws have been (or the anti-terrorist laws in the UK, come to that, unless you can point me in the direction of some black IRA members).
>have at least some sympathy for the Chinese system, it can't be easy to manage a billion people.
Tough shit. Who cares. Their problem.
Anyway, whos going to teach everyone in the world Chinese? Who wants to learn Chinese? Clue: not me.
I think they`ll be learning English. Anytime soon? No.
Next.
"better chance of seeing Osama eating bacon cheeseburgers at McDonalds, listening to Britney Spears, wearing an I LOVE NY tee shirt"
l
Make it a Gooners shirt and you`re there:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_446671.htm
"When companies like Yahoo! look across the Pacific at a large group of people fed bullshit & held under the thumb of an oppressive dictatorship"
they`ll wish they were in China! Anything to get away from that idiot Bush and his evil henchmen.
"There's a myth that if we legalise a substance it would somehow take the illegality out of it."
- Keith Hellawell
Slashdot - old non-news - stuff that didnt matter.
"They are scared of him ***but*** he's funny, wise and brilliant."
Not sure thats the best word in that context!
Most stuff isnt too important. I mean, if it is important, from a business or nostalgia point of view, you should be backing it up. No technology is going to help you if you forget to look after it.
But this stuff about `in 50 years time...` - who cares? It`ll be important to them, but its not important to us, just like the year 2000 problem was deliberately left until 1999 to fix cos it just would have cost too much money to implement properly in the `50s, `60s etc.