You're right, navigating the site is just a little awkward. I thought when I selected the "punk" genre, I'd see all the punk albums, when it really must have just selected the most popular ones.
Hunting by label (epitaph) eventually shows me they have at least the whole NOFX discography, Rancid, Down by Law, Pennywise, just who you'd expect..
It's still a little awkward to find stuff. I can find SNFU by searching by name, but I can't find them searching by the Epitaph label, though half their albums are Epitaph.
This isn't cool: "ARTISTS: 0 result(s) for LAGWAGON as artist name". They have the Exploited though (my cousin's friend shot heroin with their former bass player! Way back before the straightedge movement turned the punk scene into a bunch of pussies. Wooo celebertiy)
All the same, it hits the spot better than iTunes. I wish them success, no doubt.
Now to use up my 50 free downloads to replace some discs that've been destroyed.
I only saw 5 pages of punk, and not a great selection.
I saw Rancid's "Out Come the Wolves" but nothing else by them. I saw one "Rich Kids on LSD" album, and that's it. I saw one Bad Religion record. I saw one Green Day record. I don't claim to be a fan of any of these bands in particular, it's just odd that they'd only have the one "hit" album from each band.
I mean, you can get "Out Come the Wolves" at Wal-Mart, I'd be looking here for some more esoteric, early Rancid or even UK Subs stuff.
Maybe I'm searching wrong? Why would they carry a couple albums, and not simply everything under the Epitaph label?
Screw iTunes, screw their DRM (I don't care how squishy and cuddly a name it has), screw their prices, and screw Apple and their collusion with the RIAA to make iTunes seem the only option.
Go eMusic and other truly *progressive* means of distribution.
Everyone in the OSS community needs to have either their own linux distro (gentoo forks), their own desktop environment (gnome forks), or their own scripting language.
In the real world, I would expect a professional programmer with a background in OO to be able to perform competently in any OO language with very little learning curve. The only thing that really changes from language to language is the syntax.
Big paradigm shifts have been few (Sequential to functional to object oriented). There are of course logical languages like ProLog but only massochists use them.
But thinking of big animated textures, not animated like 3 frames but animated as in the texture itself is a 2 gig video file, I dunno..
It's certainly possible. There are plenty of XBox and PS2 games that are > 4.5 gigs, just look around the PS2 warez scene and see the kiddies crying about what games require a little skill to copy.
Xenogears is on 2 dual layered DVDs, isn't it? Thats almost 20 gigs there.
I don't care if games are 50 gigs or not, I hope none are even that close. I hope I never have to swap discs in the middle of a game again.
What job, exactly, does a history major apply for, other than history teacher or museum curator?
I hardly ever have an experience at work where I'm working on a design document or expense report or something, and all of a sudden it's like "OH SHIT! I'm gonna miss the deadline! When did Hannibal cross the Alps!?"
Well, I don't need program listings, and why the hell should it require software upgrades? It's linux based, right?
I just want a box I can hit record on. I don't watch that much TV, I don't need it to recommmend shows to me.
Hell, I hardly need that. Everything on cable is repeated on a 4 hour loop. Miss tonights South Park? Don't worry, it'll be on again in another hour or so.
They're trying to sell me more than I need, and I'm not buying.
I just want a box that records video digitally, and allows me to archive it somehow, whether it's an ethernet port or DVD-R. And, I want to buy it for under 100 bucks with NO STRINGS ATTACHED.
I have yet to meet a Tivo user who isn't happy they bought a Tivo.
And I haven't met an iPod owner who doesn't think the scroll wheel is anything less than mankinds greatest technological achievement.
But I don't want or need an iPod either since a 20 dollar MP3 CD player does all I require.
I've never met a Harley Davidson owner who thinks that his bike is anything less than the greatest vehicle ever built. Fact is, from a purely technical/mechanical viewpoint, Harleys are tempermental piles of shit that are broken most of the time. But it's a status symbol.
iPod, TiVo, Harleys, Abercrombie and Fitch shirts. I don't need any of 'em.
It may have the same flaws, but it also has the same benefits. That is, magnetic heads are cheaper than laser optics.
The main unit itself should be cheaper than a TiVo or BluRay recorder. Just like a VCR is worth about half what a DVD player is today.
Some people don't worry about degradation of the tapes, like me. I don't put in a copy of Fear and Loathing to play over and over. I watch a movie once, and then I've seen it.
BTW, this is different than VHS. It's stored digitally (well so is VHS) but with ECC style error correction, just like a DVD. So the tape can degrade quite a bit before it affects the contents.
There are a handful of HDTV cards out there, I saw ATI's HDTV-Wonder in action and it looked alright. I'm not recommending ATi, they make complete dogshit these days - so if their product seems to perform acceptably, the competition must really kick ass.
The problem with trying to build an HTPC with HDTV powers, as I see it, is getting component output to the TV, or finding a TV with RGBS input (VGA plugs like your monitor). Scan converters from VGAHDTV are expensive and the picutre looks like ass.
The only thing that could be tainted with this exploit are the early results given to the media. I personally feel the media shouldn't be allowed to disclose ANY results until the entire country has voted since EST results tend to disenfranchise PST folks.
AT ANY RATE, the actual counting is done by humans, and those humans are accountable for the results.
Paper ballots are counted in the end. The computers are just so that Fox's "Decision 2004" coverage can have something new to report every 20 minutes.
Now to convince the U.S. state governments, or the Feds (who should probably fund and sign off on it). Any representatives reading this?
Fund what? Who?
You want an OSS voting system, write one. Then lobby the government to use it. You've got it all backwards. The government does not fund software projects to reinvent the wheel (at least it shouldn't, not with my money).
DieBold already had a system when the government went looking, the OSS community didn't. Their choices were DieBold, a couple other vendors, or "fantasy vapor product that doesn't exist and even if they funded it's development there's no guarantee the thing will exist by election time".
I don't want my tax dollars bankrolling OSS dev efforts. If you wan't such a system, go ahead and create it. Put a paypal link on your sourceforge page, maybe someone will send you a buck.
It's no wonder LCD TV and Monitor sales havent taken off.
About the only thing LCD monitors or TVs have going for them is the footprint on your desk.
I hate the viewing angle problems, motion blur problems, the way "lower resolutions" look once they've been stretched.
I hate the way something really dark looks, like Doom 3 or watch Aliens or another dark movie. See all the bands of dark grey. Ick.
They still have all these problems, things have been improving, but still the picture on a quality CRT blows away any LCD I've ever seen.
They aren't even that much more energy efficient. The standalone TVs and monitors have backlights that are bright as hell to try and compensate for the viewing angle thing.
You don't need your real name on your mail or in the phone book, and there's no law against listing false ones that I'm aware of. Maybe providing false info to a govt agency (the PO), but that's a tangent. I can have my mail addressed to Occupant and have an unlisted phone number.
Obviously they have your phone number or address (PO Box), but then anyone who has your WHOIS has your IP address. There's only a certain amount of privacy you have to give up.
If you aren't committing an act of fraud then it's not illegal.
Unless you're comitting a crime you don't need to change anything.
Businesses need a legitimate contact address, but people dont. The WHOIS could say Peanut McGee at 123 Fake St, just like I'd tell Radio Shack or anyone else who asks me for my personal info that has no reason to know. The registrar only needs to know their getting paid.
Everyone should be allowed to (and is) publish their opinions anonymously, that's what America's about.
Laws already exist to cover all the fraud whatnot with internet crimes, but judges these days need it all spelled out for them.
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You're right, navigating the site is just a little awkward. I thought when I selected the "punk" genre, I'd see all the punk albums, when it really must have just selected the most popular ones.
Hunting by label (epitaph) eventually shows me they have at least the whole NOFX discography, Rancid, Down by Law, Pennywise, just who you'd expect..
It's still a little awkward to find stuff. I can find SNFU by searching by name, but I can't find them searching by the Epitaph label, though half their albums are Epitaph.
This isn't cool: "ARTISTS: 0 result(s) for LAGWAGON as artist name". They have the Exploited though (my cousin's friend shot heroin with their former bass player! Way back before the straightedge movement turned the punk scene into a bunch of pussies. Wooo celebertiy)
All the same, it hits the spot better than iTunes. I wish them success, no doubt.
Now to use up my 50 free downloads to replace some discs that've been destroyed.
I only saw 5 pages of punk, and not a great selection.
I saw Rancid's "Out Come the Wolves" but nothing else by them. I saw one "Rich Kids on LSD" album, and that's it. I saw one Bad Religion record. I saw one Green Day record. I don't claim to be a fan of any of these bands in particular, it's just odd that they'd only have the one "hit" album from each band.
I mean, you can get "Out Come the Wolves" at Wal-Mart, I'd be looking here for some more esoteric, early Rancid or even UK Subs stuff.
Maybe I'm searching wrong? Why would they carry a couple albums, and not simply everything under the Epitaph label?
No strings, fair price.
Screw iTunes, screw their DRM (I don't care how squishy and cuddly a name it has), screw their prices, and screw Apple and their collusion with the RIAA to make iTunes seem the only option.
Go eMusic and other truly *progressive* means of distribution.
I got modded troll for noting the authors funny names.
UNFAIR!
Du Toit's first name is Steph-ANUS!
I've seen plenty of Stephans and Stephanies, but never a Steph-ANUS!
I've heard of Staph-Anus, you get that from yo momma.
Haha, what slashdotter has a "firm background" in anything more technical than "how to plug in an ethernet cable"?
Maybe 5 years ago, not now.
Everyone in the OSS community needs to have either their own linux distro (gentoo forks), their own desktop environment (gnome forks), or their own scripting language.
In the real world, I would expect a professional programmer with a background in OO to be able to perform competently in any OO language with very little learning curve. The only thing that really changes from language to language is the syntax.
Big paradigm shifts have been few (Sequential to functional to object oriented). There are of course logical languages like ProLog but only massochists use them.
hee hee
funny names
Who says the discs have to be filled anyways?
But thinking of big animated textures, not animated like 3 frames but animated as in the texture itself is a 2 gig video file, I dunno..
It's certainly possible. There are plenty of XBox and PS2 games that are > 4.5 gigs, just look around the PS2 warez scene and see the kiddies crying about what games require a little skill to copy.
Xenogears is on 2 dual layered DVDs, isn't it? Thats almost 20 gigs there.
I don't care if games are 50 gigs or not, I hope none are even that close. I hope I never have to swap discs in the middle of a game again.
Only if the HDTV recieving device chooses to actually honor the 'broadcast flag' though.
Forget cracking the encryption, just find a simple hardware mod to let the machine think there's no flag.
Ie; Who cares how cryptographically secure MS-Signed Xbox games are, we'll just replace the BIOS with one that runs unsigned code.
What job, exactly, does a history major apply for, other than history teacher or museum curator?
I hardly ever have an experience at work where I'm working on a design document or expense report or something, and all of a sudden it's like "OH SHIT! I'm gonna miss the deadline! When did Hannibal cross the Alps!?"
Not only are salaries going up, but /. actually changed the babyshit color scheme for the IT section!
Well, I don't need program listings, and why the hell should it require software upgrades? It's linux based, right?
I just want a box I can hit record on. I don't watch that much TV, I don't need it to recommmend shows to me.
Hell, I hardly need that. Everything on cable is repeated on a 4 hour loop. Miss tonights South Park? Don't worry, it'll be on again in another hour or so.
They're trying to sell me more than I need, and I'm not buying.
I just want a box that records video digitally, and allows me to archive it somehow, whether it's an ethernet port or DVD-R. And, I want to buy it for under 100 bucks with NO STRINGS ATTACHED.
I have yet to meet a Tivo user who isn't happy they bought a Tivo.
And I haven't met an iPod owner who doesn't think the scroll wheel is anything less than mankinds greatest technological achievement.
But I don't want or need an iPod either since a 20 dollar MP3 CD player does all I require.
I've never met a Harley Davidson owner who thinks that his bike is anything less than the greatest vehicle ever built. Fact is, from a purely technical/mechanical viewpoint, Harleys are tempermental piles of shit that are broken most of the time. But it's a status symbol.
iPod, TiVo, Harleys, Abercrombie and Fitch shirts. I don't need any of 'em.
It may have the same flaws, but it also has the same benefits. That is, magnetic heads are cheaper than laser optics.
The main unit itself should be cheaper than a TiVo or BluRay recorder. Just like a VCR is worth about half what a DVD player is today.
Some people don't worry about degradation of the tapes, like me. I don't put in a copy of Fear and Loathing to play over and over. I watch a movie once, and then I've seen it.
BTW, this is different than VHS. It's stored digitally (well so is VHS) but with ECC style error correction, just like a DVD. So the tape can degrade quite a bit before it affects the contents.
There are a handful of HDTV cards out there, I saw ATI's HDTV-Wonder in action and it looked alright. I'm not recommending ATi, they make complete dogshit these days - so if their product seems to perform acceptably, the competition must really kick ass.
The problem with trying to build an HTPC with HDTV powers, as I see it, is getting component output to the TV, or finding a TV with RGBS input (VGA plugs like your monitor). Scan converters from VGAHDTV are expensive and the picutre looks like ass.
I take back everything bad I've ever said about TiVo!
I for one can't wait to start paying a monthly fee for TV listings and have a device phone home for me nightly!
The only thing that could be tainted with this exploit are the early results given to the media. I personally feel the media shouldn't be allowed to disclose ANY results until the entire country has voted since EST results tend to disenfranchise PST folks.
AT ANY RATE, the actual counting is done by humans, and those humans are accountable for the results.
Paper ballots are counted in the end. The computers are just so that Fox's "Decision 2004" coverage can have something new to report every 20 minutes.
Now to convince the U.S. state governments, or the Feds (who should probably fund and sign off on it). Any representatives reading this?
Fund what? Who?
You want an OSS voting system, write one. Then lobby the government to use it. You've got it all backwards. The government does not fund software projects to reinvent the wheel (at least it shouldn't, not with my money).
DieBold already had a system when the government went looking, the OSS community didn't. Their choices were DieBold, a couple other vendors, or "fantasy vapor product that doesn't exist and even if they funded it's development there's no guarantee the thing will exist by election time".
I don't want my tax dollars bankrolling OSS dev efforts. If you wan't such a system, go ahead and create it. Put a paypal link on your sourceforge page, maybe someone will send you a buck.
Assent isn't a word.
And noone expressed "consent" to have their machine hijacked by an IE exploit.
It's not legal, and the only reason it's online is because it's on some shady Taiwanese host.
There's nothing legal about this.
It's not specifically illegal under the CAN-SPAM act, but it's just as illegal as any other exploit, trojan or worm.
It's no wonder LCD TV and Monitor sales havent taken off.
About the only thing LCD monitors or TVs have going for them is the footprint on your desk.
I hate the viewing angle problems, motion blur problems, the way "lower resolutions" look once they've been stretched.
I hate the way something really dark looks, like Doom 3 or watch Aliens or another dark movie. See all the bands of dark grey. Ick.
They still have all these problems, things have been improving, but still the picture on a quality CRT blows away any LCD I've ever seen.
They aren't even that much more energy efficient. The standalone TVs and monitors have backlights that are bright as hell to try and compensate for the viewing angle thing.
You don't need your real name on your mail or in the phone book, and there's no law against listing false ones that I'm aware of. Maybe providing false info to a govt agency (the PO), but that's a tangent. I can have my mail addressed to Occupant and have an unlisted phone number.
Obviously they have your phone number or address (PO Box), but then anyone who has your WHOIS has your IP address. There's only a certain amount of privacy you have to give up.
If you aren't committing an act of fraud then it's not illegal.
Where does it say that writing a program like daemon tools would get you 5 years?
Unless you're comitting a crime you don't need to change anything.
Businesses need a legitimate contact address, but people dont. The WHOIS could say Peanut McGee at 123 Fake St, just like I'd tell Radio Shack or anyone else who asks me for my personal info that has no reason to know. The registrar only needs to know their getting paid.
Everyone should be allowed to (and is) publish their opinions anonymously, that's what America's about.
Laws already exist to cover all the fraud whatnot with internet crimes, but judges these days need it all spelled out for them.
A reverse proxy or http accelerator with IPv6 on one side and IPv4 on the other.
That is mightily impressive and you certainly are a genious of our time.
You won't do it.
You're too afraid of the FACTS within.