Shenmue II was released on the Dreamcast in Europe. You can either import it and use a boot disk (freely available at a number of sites, www.dcemulation.com being one of them), or download a pre-cracked version (although 4 CDs will prolly take you a long time on a p2p network).
Makes you want to fireball their little loinclothed asses.
Which is EXACTLY what i did. And when i didn't have enough prayer power to reign death upon the weak, a few human sacrifices (children are best) and i was smiting the unworthy like never before.
Another thing is, i like to walk around when i talk on the phone. I don't want to sit so the little camera thingy can see me. Is there any real advantage to having video phones other than impressing geek friends?
How about this - you go find an record store that ISN'T part of a huge chain (my personal favorite is Schookid's Records: in Exile [located in the basement of the Bivoac outdoor sporting goods store in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for those who care]), that has people who actually know about the music they sell, and are willing to give you plenty of suggestions on good stuff. The people who work in the small stores do it because they love music. Hell, Schoolkid's had a DSL line installed so they could download music to play when they didn't have a sample in the machine at the moment.
Really guys, i have never had someone in an independent record store steer me wrong on a music purchase, and they typically have better prices than the big stores - $15 or less for a new CD - and vinyl you can't find anywhere else. Give the people who are in the music business because of something other than money a look.
There aren't any decent p2p networks that are as easy to use as Fasttrack. It's a pain in the ass to find anything on Gnutella, and even harder to actually download it. EDonkey is too small, as is Direct Connect.
The only possible alternative would be a newly created p2p network.
Of course, this is much less an idea for keeping p2p networks alive than a way for the RIAA to take advantage of the internet.
Why not use existing p2p networks?
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Why can't the RIAA and kazaa (for example) work together to bring in the cash? Imagine the following.
Kazaa implements credit card billing features so that whenever you download a song owned by the RIAA, a fee is charged to your account (and for this to succede it'd better be reasonable - around a dollar). Kazaa gets a cut of that dollar, and the rest goes to the RIAA.
This would not only be unbelievably easy for the consumer (any idiot can download a song), but would use an already well established network that, if done correctly, would use the people on the network for distribution. Of course the RIAA would be wise to put up it's own servers sharing the files, too.
The only downside i can see is if you get lamers sharing missnamed or incomplete songs that you end up paying for. Any ideas (checksums, etc?) for fixing that?
Zactly. Opera has a fairly extensive advertising preferences section where you can set exactly what type of ads you want shown. Because of this, I really don't mind the bannered version, although i'll probably pay for the bannerless just to support them.
About 4 or 5 years ago, Kenwood was king (or at least tried to be) of the CD-ROM market with their 7 (or was it 5?) laser CD-ROM. I think they had a 52x and a 72x model. Both ran silently. Too bad they had so many problems.
I hope you know about the "mhz myth" - higher clockspeeds don't always mean faster processing. The P4 was designed to clock very high in order to take advantage of the Joe Sixpacks who think that mhz is everything.
I'm going to patent masturbation! Sure there's prior "art", but who's going to admit it? I could even put a small tax on every male over the age of 12 because they MIGHT be masturbating without a liscense from me. I'll be rich!
... mp3 players that rely on moving parts. If you'll be using this for jogging, you won't get 5 minutes of music out of it (even with skip protection) before the music cuts out.
I have a RioVolt MP3/CD player that i really like, but when i take it mountain biking, i can't hit any really rough stuff for any length of time without it skipping, and it has 2 minutes of anti-skip goodness. Since jogging is alot more jarring than cycling, you'd be SOL if you went for one like that.
Personally, I'm looking at getting one of the tiny players that have a velcro strap. That way i'll get the use of flash memory, which means no skipping when i ride, and since it's so small, it'll be easy to conveniently attach to any appendage for use in the gym. I believe Nike, and a few other companies, sell mp3 players like this.
I wonder, though - is skipping a problem with HD-based players? I might consider an iPod if they're skip-proof.
I think that sites like anti-dmca.org are a step in the right direction, but (and i'm just gonna pick on anti-dmca.org right now) it's pretty difficult to figure out what is so bad about the DMCA. I think the home page needs a very clear message about HOW the DMCA is squashing innovation, and exactly what is BAD about it. Hell, i searched the site for half an hour and couldn't find a real reason for it! Sure, it's illegal to crack encryption (doesn't the DMCA allow for fair use, though? I'm no lawyer so anyone care to interpret the legalize for me?) and it's illegal to publicly report security holes. I don't see how that relates directly to innovation. Concerning the latter, there are free speech issues, and it just hurts security in general, but innovation? I don't see it.
If someone asks me why they should care about the DMCA, i want to be able to give them some basic facts, or point them in the right direction. But to someone with only a casual interest, activism sites that don't come out and say, in plain english, what's bad about the bill will just get overlooked.
Yeah, it's late, mod me for stupidity or whatever you want. That's what karma's for, right?
That right there sounds like a job i'd want to do. Sure programming and security fascinate me, but consulting is much more satisfying. I have no qualms about spending 2 hours explaining my neighbors new computer to them, even if i don't get paid for it.
Although i simply hate being crammed in planes (shouldn't they be considered sardine cans now?), so i don't know if i could put up with that for long.:)
10,000 people bought the novel. I'd say that even one third of that would make for pretty good exposure for a local band.
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Freedom from the sardine cans coach passengers are subjected to on every other airline (except JetBlue, that is). This company might have a good idea - give people more than 8" worth of seat, and more than 3" of leg room, and something other than meals ready/refusing to exit, and they might actually fly your airline!
I think at least part of it is an oral fixation. I always need to have something in my mouth - be it a piece of gum, the end of a pencil, or my headphone cord. I also drink water constantly, and only half-consciously. I know it's good for me, that's why it's at my side 24/7, but alot of times i find myself downing a little bit of water when i'm not the least bit thirsty, just like i find myself grinding a pencil to pieces.
but i much prefer to read a paper book than an e-book. I find it less stressful on my eyes. I don't want to be squinting at my computer/Palm screen ALL the time. I'd rather carry my K&R C book to bed for some (not really) pleasure reading, than hotsynch it to my Palm and bring it up with me.
Escape Velocity. The original runs perfectly on a 3400, as does EV: Override. EV:Nova, the lattest version, is supposedly great. Really, no shareware game compares to these three gems from Ambrosia. They have a 30 day trial period with a popup at startup being the only real annoyance.
You stated my definition of a Joe User, although far better than i could have done it. I was wondering who the parent considered to be a Joe User. I'm certainly not a "l33t hacker", but computer security interests me to no end. Would he call me a Joe User?
About the sig, both my FreeBSD and Windows XP box get the requests. Maybe it's some bad voodoo.
Out of curiosity, define "Joe Computer User". Do you mean some Dell-buying Windows yuppie, or a 15 year old script kiddie, or someone who knows quite a bit about computers, linux, etc. but is not a true "hacker"?
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Shenmue II was released on the Dreamcast in Europe. You can either import it and use a boot disk (freely available at a number of sites, www.dcemulation.com being one of them), or download a pre-cracked version (although 4 CDs will prolly take you a long time on a p2p network).
Makes you want to fireball their little loinclothed asses.
Which is EXACTLY what i did. And when i didn't have enough prayer power to reign death upon the weak, a few human sacrifices (children are best) and i was smiting the unworthy like never before.
Another thing is, i like to walk around when i talk on the phone. I don't want to sit so the little camera thingy can see me. Is there any real advantage to having video phones other than impressing geek friends?
Ok, so you're an exception. Let's just dust you under the rug. :)
How about this - you go find an record store that ISN'T part of a huge chain (my personal favorite is Schookid's Records: in Exile [located in the basement of the Bivoac outdoor sporting goods store in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for those who care]), that has people who actually know about the music they sell, and are willing to give you plenty of suggestions on good stuff. The people who work in the small stores do it because they love music. Hell, Schoolkid's had a DSL line installed so they could download music to play when they didn't have a sample in the machine at the moment.
Really guys, i have never had someone in an independent record store steer me wrong on a music purchase, and they typically have better prices than the big stores - $15 or less for a new CD - and vinyl you can't find anywhere else. Give the people who are in the music business because of something other than money a look.
There aren't any decent p2p networks that are as easy to use as Fasttrack. It's a pain in the ass to find anything on Gnutella, and even harder to actually download it. EDonkey is too small, as is Direct Connect.
The only possible alternative would be a newly created p2p network.
Of course, this is much less an idea for keeping p2p networks alive than a way for the RIAA to take advantage of the internet.
Why can't the RIAA and kazaa (for example) work together to bring in the cash? Imagine the following.
Kazaa implements credit card billing features so that whenever you download a song owned by the RIAA, a fee is charged to your account (and for this to succede it'd better be reasonable - around a dollar). Kazaa gets a cut of that dollar, and the rest goes to the RIAA.
This would not only be unbelievably easy for the consumer (any idiot can download a song), but would use an already well established network that, if done correctly, would use the people on the network for distribution. Of course the RIAA would be wise to put up it's own servers sharing the files, too.
The only downside i can see is if you get lamers sharing missnamed or incomplete songs that you end up paying for. Any ideas (checksums, etc?) for fixing that?
You have no idea how stupid i feel having not been able to think of that on my own.
Zactly. Opera has a fairly extensive advertising preferences section where you can set exactly what type of ads you want shown. Because of this, I really don't mind the bannered version, although i'll probably pay for the bannerless just to support them.
About 4 or 5 years ago, Kenwood was king (or at least tried to be) of the CD-ROM market with their 7 (or was it 5?) laser CD-ROM. I think they had a 52x and a 72x model. Both ran silently. Too bad they had so many problems.
I hope you know about the "mhz myth" - higher clockspeeds don't always mean faster processing. The P4 was designed to clock very high in order to take advantage of the Joe Sixpacks who think that mhz is everything.
I'm going to patent masturbation! Sure there's prior "art", but who's going to admit it? I could even put a small tax on every male over the age of 12 because they MIGHT be masturbating without a liscense from me. I'll be rich!
... mp3 players that rely on moving parts. If you'll be using this for jogging, you won't get 5 minutes of music out of it (even with skip protection) before the music cuts out.
I have a RioVolt MP3/CD player that i really like, but when i take it mountain biking, i can't hit any really rough stuff for any length of time without it skipping, and it has 2 minutes of anti-skip goodness. Since jogging is alot more jarring than cycling, you'd be SOL if you went for one like that.
Personally, I'm looking at getting one of the tiny players that have a velcro strap. That way i'll get the use of flash memory, which means no skipping when i ride, and since it's so small, it'll be easy to conveniently attach to any appendage for use in the gym. I believe Nike, and a few other companies, sell mp3 players like this.
I wonder, though - is skipping a problem with HD-based players? I might consider an iPod if they're skip-proof.
I think that sites like anti-dmca.org are a step in the right direction, but (and i'm just gonna pick on anti-dmca.org right now) it's pretty difficult to figure out what is so bad about the DMCA. I think the home page needs a very clear message about HOW the DMCA is squashing innovation, and exactly what is BAD about it. Hell, i searched the site for half an hour and couldn't find a real reason for it! Sure, it's illegal to crack encryption (doesn't the DMCA allow for fair use, though? I'm no lawyer so anyone care to interpret the legalize for me?) and it's illegal to publicly report security holes. I don't see how that relates directly to innovation. Concerning the latter, there are free speech issues, and it just hurts security in general, but innovation? I don't see it.
If someone asks me why they should care about the DMCA, i want to be able to give them some basic facts, or point them in the right direction. But to someone with only a casual interest, activism sites that don't come out and say, in plain english, what's bad about the bill will just get overlooked.
Yeah, it's late, mod me for stupidity or whatever you want. That's what karma's for, right?
That right there sounds like a job i'd want to do. Sure programming and security fascinate me, but consulting is much more satisfying. I have no qualms about spending 2 hours explaining my neighbors new computer to them, even if i don't get paid for it. Although i simply hate being crammed in planes (shouldn't they be considered sardine cans now?), so i don't know if i could put up with that for long. :)
10,000 people bought the novel. I'd say that even one third of that would make for pretty good exposure for a local band.
Freedom from the sardine cans coach passengers are subjected to on every other airline (except JetBlue, that is). This company might have a good idea - give people more than 8" worth of seat, and more than 3" of leg room, and something other than meals ready/refusing to exit, and they might actually fly your airline!
Well, technically it's about throwing yourself at the ground and missing. Forgetting that you're falling is merely a tactic for missing.
Well, except for the fact that Neoaudio is full of spyware...
I think at least part of it is an oral fixation. I always need to have something in my mouth - be it a piece of gum, the end of a pencil, or my headphone cord. I also drink water constantly, and only half-consciously. I know it's good for me, that's why it's at my side 24/7, but alot of times i find myself downing a little bit of water when i'm not the least bit thirsty, just like i find myself grinding a pencil to pieces.
but i much prefer to read a paper book than an e-book. I find it less stressful on my eyes. I don't want to be squinting at my computer/Palm screen ALL the time. I'd rather carry my K&R C book to bed for some (not really) pleasure reading, than hotsynch it to my Palm and bring it up with me.
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So that's like, what, 50 tons?
Escape Velocity. The original runs perfectly on a 3400, as does EV: Override. EV:Nova, the lattest version, is supposedly great. Really, no shareware game compares to these three gems from Ambrosia. They have a 30 day trial period with a popup at startup being the only real annoyance.
You stated my definition of a Joe User, although far better than i could have done it. I was wondering who the parent considered to be a Joe User. I'm certainly not a "l33t hacker", but computer security interests me to no end. Would he call me a Joe User? About the sig, both my FreeBSD and Windows XP box get the requests. Maybe it's some bad voodoo.
Out of curiosity, define "Joe Computer User". Do you mean some Dell-buying Windows yuppie, or a 15 year old script kiddie, or someone who knows quite a bit about computers, linux, etc. but is not a true "hacker"?