Actually someone could wreak major havok inside of a Starbucks here in NYC. A cursory glance inside of any coffee joint shows at least one or two Titanium notebooks on the wireless LAN.
I tend not to use my laptop in public spaces so I'm not affected by this.
I think that he was basically stating that some months he downloads nothing and other months he downloads lots. By average (assuming, BTW) he means over the lifespan of the account it works out to about 3 albums monthly.
I have two of them but one was cannibalized for parts after I broke it. I loved that mouse and there was also a version shipped by Dell for a few years as their 3-button mouse. I finally gave it up for the Dual-Optical one this year and I have to admit the responsiveness is nice. I did, though, love the Wingman...my hand felt good on it and the middle-button toggling for cut-n-paste was a breeze.
The rendering of the CGI-based(?) Agent Smiths was too much for the computer systems used for the scene and the characters appeared rubbery/fake.
LOTR pulled it off with many more characters but admittedly from further away (less detail). Instead of attempting to orchestrate each "Agent Smith" they should have programmed the system to fight and just let it go.
I myself am taking the praises with a grain of salt. When The Phantom Menace came out there was plenty of praise with insertions of "while not the best movie of the series..." or "Jar-Jar is annoying but...". Hell, even Taco had mostly positive things to say about TPM and only after Clones came out did he admit the first was lame. Lucas at the time said the negative publicity was due to a minority of people on the internet making the loudest noise (sqeaky-wheels).
Well, I saw TPM in the theaters and I felt ripped off. "It's a developing plot!", the Star Wars zealots claimed. "...just wait until the prequel trilogy is complete".
Well, I then saw Episode II and it was mediocre at best. So do I jump in SWG in the hopes that what is promised will be delivered?
I think not.
I am tired of putting money into George Lucas' pockets. I'll require a hefty majority of people I know telling me this is entertaining after 2-3 months pass to further enrich this milked franchise. I'll wait, thank you, rather than forking $80 dollars over the course of 3 months to find it's not as advertised.
Hell, at present they have already launched without things they said would be in so why believe the distributers that they'll deliver what they say they will? Transports going in shortly? I'll buy that if they back the statement with a guarantee (free month if we do not deliver).
Actually I hope I'm wrong and it gets polished and is a fabulous game; I like MMORPGs. My current stance is that I'll wait and see if I'm wrong.
Please provide evidence of spyware or DRM in eMusic services. Running lsof in conjunction with the Linux download manager shows nothing out of the ordinary when retrieving MP3s from eMusic's web site. By out of the ordinary I mean there are no attempts at accessing parts of the filesystem outside of the tmp designated download directories.
Also, please supply links to evidence of astro-turfing (sure you're not talking about Apple here?).
The.emp file you're referring to is a stub file (was XML format) that launches eMusic's proprietary downloader (Win, Mac, & Linux). They only allow downloading of tracks/albums via the downloader to prevent folks from scripting the retrieval of the catalog. The files download as VBR MP3s encoded with LAME 3.92.
Actually, I personally feel it'd be disastrous if Gentoo merged w/ Debian. There seems to be quite a bit of difference in their philosophies and I would see them clashing with one another.
Example: Gentoo concentrates on x86 architecture & optimization and they make no apologies about that. I do not think that such would sit well w/ Debian.
Are you nervous about alien ships approaching you from the future via a temporal vortex to sabotage your first flight? If so, what precautions are you taking to ensure the future happens as it's suppose to play out?
Do you plan on implmenting a deflector shield on your ship which can be used to get you out of just about any emergency scenario? What do you think Jesus would do?
I remembered he had a pretty positive review of SW:TPM but didn't try to look it up...thanks. We now have Taco saying that if you cut 1/3 of TPM out then "it's not great" but not that bad either. Doesn't make me too confident that this is an unclouded review.
I'm a small company and even though we only manage about 12 desktops we went with Dell. Over the past two years we've had one motherboard burn out and another had a bad video chip. Both were covered unde r warranty and it was easy to get it sent out and repaired. Also, it's easy for us to keep our insurance info together when all the hardware is purchased from one vendor. These are perks for pre-built systems and I think it's worth the extra money for the peace of mind.
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Maybe the Cylons heard from reliable sources that the colonists were trying to obtain "yellow cake" from Nigeria.
Actually someone could wreak major havok inside of a Starbucks here in NYC. A cursory glance inside of any coffee joint shows at least one or two Titanium notebooks on the wireless LAN.
I tend not to use my laptop in public spaces so I'm not affected by this.
I think that he was basically stating that some months he downloads nothing and other months he downloads lots. By average (assuming, BTW) he means over the lifespan of the account it works out to about 3 albums monthly.
I have two of them but one was cannibalized for parts after I broke it. I loved that mouse and there was also a version shipped by Dell for a few years as their 3-button mouse. I finally gave it up for the Dual-Optical one this year and I have to admit the responsiveness is nice. I did, though, love the Wingman...my hand felt good on it and the middle-button toggling for cut-n-paste was a breeze.
My explanation:
The rendering of the CGI-based(?) Agent Smiths was too much for the computer systems used for the scene and the characters appeared rubbery/fake.
LOTR pulled it off with many more characters but admittedly from further away (less detail). Instead of attempting to orchestrate each "Agent Smith" they should have programmed the system to fight and just let it go.
I myself am taking the praises with a grain of salt. When The Phantom Menace came out there was plenty of praise with insertions of "while not the best movie of the series..." or "Jar-Jar is annoying but...". Hell, even Taco had mostly positive things to say about TPM and only after Clones came out did he admit the first was lame. Lucas at the time said the negative publicity was due to a minority of people on the internet making the loudest noise (sqeaky-wheels).
Well, I saw TPM in the theaters and I felt ripped off. "It's a developing plot!", the Star Wars zealots claimed. "...just wait until the prequel trilogy is complete".
Well, I then saw Episode II and it was mediocre at best. So do I jump in SWG in the hopes that what is promised will be delivered?
I think not.
I am tired of putting money into George Lucas' pockets. I'll require a hefty majority of people I know telling me this is entertaining after 2-3 months pass to further enrich this milked franchise. I'll wait, thank you, rather than forking $80 dollars over the course of 3 months to find it's not as advertised.
Hell, at present they have already launched without things they said would be in so why believe the distributers that they'll deliver what they say they will? Transports going in shortly? I'll buy that if they back the statement with a guarantee (free month if we do not deliver).
Actually I hope I'm wrong and it gets polished and is a fabulous game; I like MMORPGs. My current stance is that I'll wait and see if I'm wrong.
Please provide evidence of spyware or DRM in eMusic services. Running lsof in conjunction with the Linux download manager shows nothing out of the ordinary when retrieving MP3s from eMusic's web site. By out of the ordinary I mean there are no attempts at accessing parts of the filesystem outside of the tmp designated download directories. Also, please supply links to evidence of astro-turfing (sure you're not talking about Apple here?).
See my post regarding emp files one thread up (that they are used to queue MP3 file downloads). Here is an edited .EMP file from my /tmp dir:
A EOL2KY.AgBcUQAAAAGAQa5g LRZutREtagivw--</TRACKID > ;/ 933/940/files/9339402.
A EKYHKsAQ4vYpj4CAFxRAAA ...etc...
<?xml version='1.0' encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<PACKAGE>
<TITLE>Classic Early Recordings, Volume 2 Disc A: Paris 1937</TITLE>
<ACTION>download</ACTION>
<TARGET>Classic Early Recordings, Volume 2 Disc A: Paris 1937</TARGET>
<EXP_DATE>10/20/2003 11:16</EXP_DATE>
<PROVIDER>
<AUTHOR>EMusic.com</AUTHOR>
<NAME>EMusic.com</NAME>
<URL>http://www.emusic.com</URL>
<COPYRIGHT>Portions Copyright (C) 2002 EMusic.com Inc; see http://www.emus
ic.com for more details</COPYRIGHT>
<CONTACT>support@emusic.com</CONTACT>
</PROVIDER>
<SERVER>
<NAME>EMusic.com</NAME>
<DESC>Emusic content server</DESC>
<NETNAME>downloads.mp3.com</NETNAME>
<LOCATION>/%fid/%f</LOCATION>
<KEY>Not used</KEY>
</SERVER>
<TRACKLIST>
<LISTID>0</LISTID>
<TRACK>
<TRACKID>AFqUBgAAR0f3ZipiHioAAF5sBAAAXWwEAABC2xyr
jbQPAA0JMVFMTAAAAY4EqLjjk
<TRACKNUM>1</TRACKNUM>
<TITLE>St. Louis Blues</TITLE>
<ALBUM>Classic Early Recordings, Volume 2 Disc A: Paris 1937</ALBUM>
<ARTIST>Django Reinhardt</ARTIST>
<GENRE>Jazz: Traditional</GENRE>
<FILENAME>St_Louis_Blues.mp3</FILENAME>
<FORMAT>.mp3</FORMAT>
<QUALITY>128000</QUALITY>
<CHANNELS>2</CHANNELS>
<DURATION>163</DURATION>
<ALBUMART>http://images.mp3.com/mp3s/89/resources
jpg</ALBUMART>
</TRACK>
<TRACK>
<TRACKID>AFqUBgAAR0f3ZipiHioAAF5sBAAAXWwEAABUAQAA
The .emp file you're referring to is a stub file (was XML format) that launches eMusic's proprietary downloader (Win, Mac, & Linux). They only allow downloading of tracks/albums via the downloader to prevent folks from scripting the retrieval of the catalog. The files download as VBR MP3s encoded with LAME 3.92.
Works just dandy
Actually, I personally feel it'd be disastrous if Gentoo merged w/ Debian. There seems to be quite a bit of difference in their philosophies and I would see them clashing with one another.
Example: Gentoo concentrates on x86 architecture & optimization and they make no apologies about that. I do not think that such would sit well w/ Debian.
How about, "What you talkin' bout, fool!".
Are you nervous about alien ships approaching you from the future via a temporal vortex to sabotage your first flight? If so, what precautions are you taking to ensure the future happens as it's suppose to play out?
Do you plan on implmenting a deflector shield on your ship which can be used to get you out of just about any emergency scenario? What do you think Jesus would do?
Thank you.
I remembered he had a pretty positive review of SW:TPM but didn't try to look it up...thanks. We now have Taco saying that if you cut 1/3 of TPM out then "it's not great" but not that bad either. Doesn't make me too confident that this is an unclouded review.
In the RealMedia "documentary" on the building of the Falcon the first guy says,
(Emphasis mine) The guy doesn't even know what he's building.
I'm a small company and even though we only manage about 12 desktops we went with Dell. Over the past two years we've had one motherboard burn out and another had a bad video chip. Both were covered unde r warranty and it was easy to get it sent out and repaired. Also, it's easy for us to keep our insurance info together when all the hardware is purchased from one vendor. These are perks for pre-built systems and I think it's worth the extra money for the peace of mind.