Hey dude you obviously slept through some serious portions of that movie... most notably, the part beside the river after being chased by orcs, where Frodo has to escape, and Aragorn ad-libs (in classic &$^#&@*#! American fashion)
"Let's go hunt some orc!!" and they all cheer like Rocky extras and take it seriously.
Tollkein rolled over in his grave at that moment, even if he overlooked the others. Un-F*CKING-believable!! If the Aug. DVD has some deletions I'll be more likely to purchase it than otherwise. Else it's the Divx rip as usual for me. I already paid 26 bucks to see the film in the theatre...
you mistake the gains that would result from stealing M$' market-share.. rather than attracting a good number of useful assets, the benefit is clearly in denying M$ the ability to dictate de facto standards. Obviously, if only 50% of the online community ran IE then IE extensions wouldn't be so prevalent in popular web pages. Maybe they'd be restricted to Hotmail or some other Microsoft properties instead of every fifth site I visit.
You sing it to the masses, my man, I've been crusading for this nomenclature for years! It persists, yes, but only because people are sheep.
We need to re-establish "Copy Protection" as something you wrap your dink in before you boink.
man i have no idea what you talkin.. i photocopied that sheet just fine. No tweaking of photocopier, it all came out legible (or at least as much as the original). Also I installed the crack when it came to Mike's BBS:) Remember hex-editing the game to crank up your money?
Yeah, LET'S! You fake nerd. Nobody in their right mind really wants to pay another 20 bucks to the MPAA and/or its members, much less a genuine geek. Save the 20 for something worthwhile. Like the books. Unless you really would rather have the Harry Potter movie. Certainly not just because "..it will be a very good argument against MAcrovision.." Jackass.
a crappy workaround that i'd like is the ability to blacklist users that post consistently bad results. gay porn, rotten mp3, etc. could be filtered this way. only problem is that it isn't scaleable and you'd hafta be burned at least once before knowing whether to block a user's results. also usernames can change frequently, as can IP addresses.
The victims are not necessarily criminals. In fact, I'm a frequent downloader of music and I'm certainly not a criminal. It is not a criminal activity to infringe on copyright, nor is it criminal to maintain a backup of purchased works. In many cases, the only way I can use the music I purchased is by downloading it from the 'net because CD's are too easily damaged.. so again, your allegations of criminality are misinformed.
Just out of curiosity, do you consider "freeloaders" to include commercial-skipping radio listeners and other average people? Are people who do such activities criminals?
This is actually really good news. It's a sign that the music labels are going to try to deal with the P2P phenomenon on its own terms, not in the courts.
That's funny. I missed the part where the *AA decided *not* to sue.. If you notice, they actually have decided to do a very naughty thing, which is to subvert your downloads as well as sue your ISP etc. in court. Hardly a good thing after all, yes?
When using Kazaa, you'll find that multi-sourced downloads are easy to check because usually at least one host will have the original filename and/or other categories of secondary information intact. That's why I always expand a particular (multisource) result I'm interested in, and check all tags for consistency. If more people would do that, and if Gnutella clients had any kind of similar file fingerprinting system, the whole process of infringement would be easier for us all.
You know all those mp3 that have funny hiccups in the middle? Why do ALL the hiccups sound the same? I doubt it's just a bad rip.. think those RIAA dinks have been screwing with the file-sharing process for years. Eh.
"As fast as IE" isn't good enough, sometimes. Sorry to poop on your party, but Opera is miles faster on all my machines (PIII600 and up) than IE. Mozilla?? Surely you jest! It takes five times as long to load and I haven't noticed a difference in rendering speed to offset the disadvantages.
Sure, Mozilla has built-in popup blocking, and an ad server blacklist, but Opera has had the popup kill feature ever since I started using it (was it 5.x? long time ago, man) and the ad server blacklist isn't selective (eg, try to block the ads on/. using Mozilla's inbuilt function and you'll lose your stupid little pictures by each story too)
As far as it goes, I like the new Mozilla enough to give it a chance every month or so, but it hasn't met my expectations even once. Personal preference, mate, not a troll:P
Hey buddy guess what - every DVD I've got is from Chinatown, and they're ALL "pirated" which means that I pay about 8 bucks a piece. That includes Spiderman, Scorpion King, and everything else except Attack of the Clones (hardly worth the eight until Jarjar is gone). Who cares if the format is intended for China only?? It'll inevitably come to where I live, and I'll pay half-rate for both player and DVD (sorry, I meant EVD) Good show China! Bring on the Hollywood fat cats!
DC is great for huge files like movies, but Kazaa has the best network for smaller files - mp3, etc. and also the advantage that there are more than 1000 people to share with at any given time. DirectConnect and DC++ are Napster-style clients that connect to central Napster-style servers - albeit distributed, private servers. The average server is just somebody's home computer, and most cannot handle more than 400 users. Kazaa is orders of magnitude more scaleable. DC encourages sharing. I use them both, personally...
A call to Congress won't fix a thing. Pity the poor American soul, for Congress is the monster. While yer at it, why not wish away the DMCA? Or legislate real beer for once?
Hmm... nitpick here: I'd say that he got far better training at the gun club, but not far more training there.. still sad that somebody would connect CS with violence, yet (OT warning) there are kids in my neighborhood being beaten with coat-hangers and garden hose. In this case, alcohol is about 500 billion times more likely to be a contributing factor to violence than any computer game that these bums can't even afford.. (/OT)
Legislation is obviously not the answer here; props to the German gov't for figuring that out too. I'm sure it's a real breakthrough.
It's a heckuva lot more palatable when you cut out Jarjar binx dude. Look for "the Phantom Edit" and download it please. OTOH it still has a crap story, stupid kid Anakin, lame pseudo-villians and a half-hour pod race...
I'm a musician and I've yet to make or sell a single CD - that doesn't stop me making money from gigs. And you're wrong about the chicks...
in the old days, the studios would finance recording sessions and then artists would sell those albums, studios recoup the recording fees, and tours promoted sales; now, anybody can record and produce a decent album since the price of equipment (i'm not talking professional high-end shit here, but good stuff nonetheless) is low enough for the laity - but the problem is that everybody's got a CD now. Read the Led Zep biography, "Stairway to Heaven" for the real deal on touring.. I think you'll be surprised.
A dollar a month is more than I've ever paid for music. As a non-consumer of the trash pumped out by the general population of musicians out there, the proposed surcharge will buy me nothing of value and therefore is wrong. I say that the RIAA should be taxed and the proceeds given to artists (of which I am one) ---- this because the plan as I read it so far doesn't disallow taxing people who don't want to be taxed for a service that will not benefit them.
It's too bad that there are people out there willing to support the media moguls even when they do sh*t like this... making those damned Celine Dion discs oughtta be agin' tha law. Breaking iMacs is kinda bad too i guess.
The only way to kill this giant media hog is to starve it, and I'll bet the little artists won't even notice the difference. Heck, Dave Matthews and the Offspring seem to making quite a bit more since the p2p came into town..
The best reason for boycotting the 'legit' music stores is even better tho... remember when bands made fat stacks of cash for touring? You'd get more chances to see your favourite band if CD sales went down.
Fair use policy on this dictates that I can do whatever the hell I please with my books for my own personal enjoyment. Why would a publisher have a problem with that? Why should anybody have a say in my enjoyment of purchased material.
For that matter, the only really essential papers out there are the Bloom County and Outland collections, for which I'd get only $35 from the used book guy - but which are worth incalculably vast sums to me in terms of necessary mirth on demand. I'm putting the whole schmeer into PDF right now because it's totally 100% worth it to me. I don't care if it takes me 15 years to scan and all that, when I need my mirth I need it now. Dammit. And I don't want to search through 20 books to find it.
Consider all the times you've had to hunt through 400 million pages of generic-looking documentation for one essential spec. Think how many times in the future you'll hunt through those 400 million pages (we'll use 275 million for the sake of argument because your data will tend towards the later-middle pages rather than the front or back - a pseudo-fact proven out, in my experience, time and time again) and assign a rough estimate - say, 1,350,000 more times in your entire existence if you're not far past 30 with a life expectancy of 80 years. Paging through those 275 million pages 1.35 million times leads to 371,250,000 pages perused in pursuit of tidbits. If you're super-duper-speedy man, you'll visually audit about four to five pages a second (unless you've not read the book - but we're dealing with a best-case scenario here so forget about that for the moment) until you derive that special nugget, and finally you'll have to put away all those books (unless you're like my sister, but we'll hope and pretend that you're not so ignore that also) which will take approximately 83 hours (assuming 3 seconds per book for 100,000 books at 4000 pages per book).
Now, I'm no math major here, but upon adding it all up, it would appear that one might easily spend 92,812,500 seconds directly searching plus 83 hours per instance of garbage collection (we'll use another thin-air variable, in this case with a value of 300,000 because chances are that you won't be so fastidious about cleaning up as I am) which adds up to 24,925,781.25 hours of your life wasted because you couldn't spare a weekend or three scanning those books.
I for one am entirely happy with the way this thing has panned out. My little Compaq Armada has been a tank, and I sure as heck don't want one of those HP Omnibooks (well, the low end cheapos) to replace the Armada line. I applaud HP's wise decision to maintain the better of the two lines, but at the same time hope that it won't become a curiously melded or designed-by-a-far-larger-committee exercise. I think the merger was the right choice, overall, and I look forward to a future of better products than either Compaq of HP could have offered separately. $0.02 for sale
That there is one swank piece of craftsmanship. I'll be sending some spare Strontium pronto:O) It is truly gratifying to see so much love lathered on a table.
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Hey dude you obviously slept through some serious portions of that movie... most notably, the part beside the river after being chased by orcs, where Frodo has to escape, and Aragorn ad-libs (in classic &$^#&@*#! American fashion)
"Let's go hunt some orc!!" and they all cheer like Rocky extras and take it seriously.
Tollkein rolled over in his grave at that moment, even if he overlooked the others. Un-F*CKING-believable!! If the Aug. DVD has some deletions I'll be more likely to purchase it than otherwise. Else it's the Divx rip as usual for me. I already paid 26 bucks to see the film in the theatre...
Umm.. how will this:
peruse the registry for the timestamp
save you any effort? Have you ever actually "perused [sic]the registry" and are you a complete twat?
you mistake the gains that would result from stealing M$' market-share.. rather than attracting a good number of useful assets, the benefit is clearly in denying M$ the ability to dictate de facto standards. Obviously, if only 50% of the online community ran IE then IE extensions wouldn't be so prevalent in popular web pages. Maybe they'd be restricted to Hotmail or some other Microsoft properties instead of every fifth site I visit.
i thnk people just lost interest. what's a bleem? or dreamcast? sure it runs linux but i don't actually know anybody who has one anymore.
You sing it to the masses, my man, I've been crusading for this nomenclature for years! It persists, yes, but only because people are sheep.
We need to re-establish "Copy Protection" as something you wrap your dink in before you boink.
man i have no idea what you talkin.. i photocopied that sheet just fine. No tweaking of photocopier, it all came out legible (or at least as much as the original). Also I installed the crack when it came to Mike's BBS :) Remember hex-editing the game to crank up your money?
Yeah, LET'S! You fake nerd. Nobody in their right mind really wants to pay another 20 bucks to the MPAA and/or its members, much less a genuine geek. Save the 20 for something worthwhile. Like the books. Unless you really would rather have the Harry Potter movie. Certainly not just because "..it will be a very good argument against MAcrovision.." Jackass.
a crappy workaround that i'd like is the ability to blacklist users that post consistently bad results. gay porn, rotten mp3, etc. could be filtered this way. only problem is that it isn't scaleable and you'd hafta be burned at least once before knowing whether to block a user's results. also usernames can change frequently, as can IP addresses.
The victims are not necessarily criminals. In fact, I'm a frequent downloader of music and I'm certainly not a criminal. It is not a criminal activity to infringe on copyright, nor is it criminal to maintain a backup of purchased works. In many cases, the only way I can use the music I purchased is by downloading it from the 'net because CD's are too easily damaged.. so again, your allegations of criminality are misinformed.
Just out of curiosity, do you consider "freeloaders" to include commercial-skipping radio listeners and other average people? Are people who do such activities criminals?
This is actually really good news. It's a sign that the music labels are going to try to deal with the P2P phenomenon on its own terms, not in the courts.
That's funny. I missed the part where the *AA decided *not* to sue.. If you notice, they actually have decided to do a very naughty thing, which is to subvert your downloads as well as sue your ISP etc. in court. Hardly a good thing after all, yes?
When using Kazaa, you'll find that multi-sourced downloads are easy to check because usually at least one host will have the original filename and/or other categories of secondary information intact. That's why I always expand a particular (multisource) result I'm interested in, and check all tags for consistency. If more people would do that, and if Gnutella clients had any kind of similar file fingerprinting system, the whole process of infringement would be easier for us all.
You know all those mp3 that have funny hiccups in the middle? Why do ALL the hiccups sound the same? I doubt it's just a bad rip.. think those RIAA dinks have been screwing with the file-sharing process for years. Eh.
"As fast as IE" isn't good enough, sometimes. Sorry to poop on your party, but Opera is miles faster on all my machines (PIII600 and up) than IE. Mozilla?? Surely you jest! It takes five times as long to load and I haven't noticed a difference in rendering speed to offset the disadvantages.
/. using Mozilla's inbuilt function and you'll lose your stupid little pictures by each story too)
:P
Sure, Mozilla has built-in popup blocking, and an ad server blacklist, but Opera has had the popup kill feature ever since I started using it (was it 5.x? long time ago, man) and the ad server blacklist isn't selective (eg, try to block the ads on
As far as it goes, I like the new Mozilla enough to give it a chance every month or so, but it hasn't met my expectations even once. Personal preference, mate, not a troll
Hey buddy guess what - every DVD I've got is from Chinatown, and they're ALL "pirated" which means that I pay about 8 bucks a piece. That includes Spiderman, Scorpion King, and everything else except Attack of the Clones (hardly worth the eight until Jarjar is gone). Who cares if the format is intended for China only?? It'll inevitably come to where I live, and I'll pay half-rate for both player and DVD (sorry, I meant EVD)
Good show China! Bring on the Hollywood fat cats!
DC is great for huge files like movies, but Kazaa has the best network for smaller files - mp3, etc. and also the advantage that there are more than 1000 people to share with at any given time.
DirectConnect and DC++ are Napster-style clients that connect to central Napster-style servers - albeit distributed, private servers. The average server is just somebody's home computer, and most cannot handle more than 400 users.
Kazaa is orders of magnitude more scaleable.
DC encourages sharing.
I use them both, personally...
A call to Congress won't fix a thing. Pity the poor American soul, for Congress is the monster. While yer at it, why not wish away the DMCA? Or legislate real beer for once?
Hmm... nitpick here: I'd say that he got far better training at the gun club, but not far more training there.. still sad that somebody would connect CS with violence, yet (OT warning) there are kids in my neighborhood being beaten with coat-hangers and garden hose. In this case, alcohol is about 500 billion times more likely to be a contributing factor to violence than any computer game that these bums can't even afford.. (/OT)
Legislation is obviously not the answer here; props to the German gov't for figuring that out too. I'm sure it's a real breakthrough.
It's a heckuva lot more palatable when you cut out Jarjar binx dude. Look for "the Phantom Edit" and download it please. OTOH it still has a crap story, stupid kid Anakin, lame pseudo-villians and a half-hour pod race...
I'm a musician and I've yet to make or sell a single CD - that doesn't stop me making money from gigs. And you're wrong about the chicks...
in the old days, the studios would finance recording sessions and then artists would sell those albums, studios recoup the recording fees, and tours promoted sales; now, anybody can record and produce a decent album since the price of equipment (i'm not talking professional high-end shit here, but good stuff nonetheless) is low enough for the laity - but the problem is that everybody's got a CD now. Read the Led Zep biography, "Stairway to Heaven" for the real deal on touring.. I think you'll be surprised.
A dollar a month is more than I've ever paid for music. As a non-consumer of the trash pumped out by the general population of musicians out there, the proposed surcharge will buy me nothing of value and therefore is wrong. I say that the RIAA should be taxed and the proceeds given to artists (of which I am one) ---- this because the plan as I read it so far doesn't disallow taxing people who don't want to be taxed for a service that will not benefit them.
My condolences.
... making those damned Celine Dion discs oughtta be agin' tha law.
It's too bad that there are people out there willing to support the media moguls even when they do sh*t like this
Breaking iMacs is kinda bad too i guess.
The lesson learned, as ever, is simply this:
..
do not buy music CD's, ever.
The only way to kill this giant media hog is to starve it, and I'll bet the little artists won't even notice the difference. Heck, Dave Matthews and the Offspring seem to making quite a bit more since the p2p came into town
The best reason for boycotting the 'legit' music stores is even better tho... remember when bands made fat stacks of cash for touring? You'd get more chances to see your favourite band if CD sales went down.
Fatal Fury series pokes a dick in Shodown any day. :P
Street Fighter is NOT for Pussies, and anyways Killer Instinct kicks ass on all of these with the finishing moves/combos.
Fair use policy on this dictates that I can do whatever the hell I please with my books for my own personal enjoyment. Why would a publisher have a problem with that? Why should anybody have a say in my enjoyment of purchased material.
For that matter, the only really essential papers out there are the Bloom County and Outland collections, for which I'd get only $35 from the used book guy - but which are worth incalculably vast sums to me in terms of necessary mirth on demand. I'm putting the whole schmeer into PDF right now because it's totally 100% worth it to me. I don't care if it takes me 15 years to scan and all that, when I need my mirth I need it now. Dammit. And I don't want to search through 20 books to find it.
Consider all the times you've had to hunt through 400 million pages of generic-looking documentation for one essential spec. Think how many times in the future you'll hunt through those 400 million pages (we'll use 275 million for the sake of argument because your data will tend towards the later-middle pages rather than the front or back - a pseudo-fact proven out, in my experience, time and time again) and assign a rough estimate - say, 1,350,000 more times in your entire existence if you're not far past 30 with a life expectancy of 80 years. Paging through those 275 million pages 1.35 million times leads to 371,250,000 pages perused in pursuit of tidbits. If you're super-duper-speedy man, you'll visually audit about four to five pages a second (unless you've not read the book - but we're dealing with a best-case scenario here so forget about that for the moment) until you derive that special nugget, and finally you'll have to put away all those books (unless you're like my sister, but we'll hope and pretend that you're not so ignore that also) which will take approximately 83 hours (assuming 3 seconds per book for 100,000 books at 4000 pages per book).
Now, I'm no math major here, but upon adding it all up, it would appear that one might easily spend 92,812,500 seconds directly searching plus 83 hours per instance of garbage collection (we'll use another thin-air variable, in this case with a value of 300,000 because chances are that you won't be so fastidious about cleaning up as I am) which adds up to 24,925,781.25 hours of your life wasted because you couldn't spare a weekend or three scanning those books.
Think about it.
I for one am entirely happy with the way this thing has panned out. My little Compaq Armada has been a tank, and I sure as heck don't want one of those HP Omnibooks (well, the low end cheapos) to replace the Armada line. I applaud HP's wise decision to maintain the better of the two lines, but at the same time hope that it won't become a curiously melded or designed-by-a-far-larger-committee exercise. I think the merger was the right choice, overall, and I look forward to a future of better products than either Compaq of HP could have offered separately.
$0.02 for sale
That there is one swank piece of craftsmanship. I'll be sending some spare Strontium pronto :O) It is truly gratifying to see so much love lathered on a table.