To preface, I'm a christian.. I follow the 10 commandments, and yes I go to church on saturday (the real sabbath, sunday was just made up by the catholic church lol, another weird thing that people somehow believe is that jesus changed the day..uhhh-huhhh, riggghhttttt you find it for me..lol)...but you know what you can find in the bible? "Though shalt not have sexual relations with your wife's sister while your wife is still living" (paraphrased but that's *exactly* what it says... seriously! and i'm not even taking that one outta context, there's a whole bunch of "sexual relations" verses in the bible, go search a concordance if you want more")
You can use quotes from the bible to prove ANYTHING... Just as a lot of people try to do to say sex before marriage is a sin. It says that NO WHERE in the bible.. NO WHERE!!! Also, there is NOTHING saying masturbation is a sin!......
everything people say there is out of context! The one text people try to use to say it's wrong is taken soooo out of context..god was angry because the guy didn't impregnate the woman, when god had specifically told him too..yeah, that might upset god. Masturbation isn't gonna upset god unless your looking at some 8 year old when your doing it or something. Why do you think god gave us sexual urges if he didn't want us to act on them. He put us here to enjoy life not to suffer. (please no flames if you dont believe in god or whatever, i'm just saying that alot of us are way off base sometimes when it comes to the bible)
As far as drugs/drinking etc, everyone tries to claim thats a huge sin. The reality is, it says no where in the bible that you cannot enjoy these thigns responsibly. It says not to be a drunkard (ie dont be an alcoholic or get wasted and puke all over yourself), and that you sholdn't have any other gods before you (addiction applies here 100%)...But tons of people in the bible drank responsibly, tons of god's followers...even jesus drank wine... And no i'm not saying this because I drink, haven't drank alchy since I was 15 lol...
What's really really great is you see all these people who preach that you can't have sex before marriage, masturbation is wrong, drugs are wrong, etc...GETTING DIVORCES.. Go read what the bible has to say about divorce someday (even what jesus had to say about it hahahaha, although he isn't so harsh on it as a lot of places in the bible!)... The bible is very very harsh on divorce. If ashcroft actually cared about doing right, he would not be worried about porn or drugs, he would be trying to establish marriage counseling centers accross the nation to help couples work through their differences and to prevent the high divorce rate from going up any further!)
People really have no idea what the bible actually says a lot of the time...
omg.... thats hilarious. The first thing I thought of was "i can play dope wars anywhere now!"... It's like the only game I ever play on my little ipaq.. Its perfect because you can make a few trades here and there between classes... At a stop light? The perfect time to make a few trades... Annoying chick your sitting by on the couch wont shut up while your "doing your homework"? Buy a little coke, buy a little weed! Dope wars is the shit. Anyone wanna buy a bigger trench coat for $216?
Not to make another reply right after my last one disagreeing with someone but...
I dont really think barrier of entry has anything to do with it...(and yeah i'm just ranting here dont mod me up its off topic)
Ease of installation...Windows being easier to install is a MYTH!!! IT'S NOT EASIER TO INSTALL WINDOWS!!! It's easier to install software on windows for the average user...(yes, i use debian, yes, apt-get is even easier, no, i dont think my mom would find it easier at this time. yes, once the synaptic gui improves more it'll blow windows away for desktop software installation by n00bs.) But I mean, SuSe, Mandrake, etc, are easier to install than windows.
So joe user brings home an old copy of 2k that he got to upgrade that old 98 that they have on their 1998 compaq. Joe has a cable modem. He pops the disc in, boots, installs, no problem. Right from the get-go he starts getting messenger spam! He's confused, he calls a friend who tells him how to turn the messenger off (why was it on by default?). Fortunately joe's video card was detected so it's not in 16 color mode! But there's another problem. Joe hears about a security update he needs to stop the blaster worm. Problem is the worm had already infected his computer. In order to get the patch, he needs to go to the windows update site, but he can't get there because his computer keeps shutting down. So he figures out that he can set the date back (common sense or a nerdy friend maybe)! But windows update still wont work, because RPC is crashed and windows update needed it to install the patch (to joe, his computer is just broken, he doesn't know what's going on). What the hell does he do. Our user is VERY confused.
So Joe installs a copy of linux instead because he heard it was "better" and his nerd friend gave it to him for free and its even LEGAL to get it for free..this AMAZES JOE! He puts the cd in the drive and powers his computer on...His distribution, right in the install, detects his cable modem and at the end before the install even finishes, connects him up and downloads the latest security stuff!!! Amazing! All he needed to do was type his name, what he wanted his computer's name to be, and what he wanted to do on his computer (joe wanted to do word processing, and graphics and games sounded interesting too...joe left the rest alone)...Setup tells joe to make his own account, he thinks this is neat. The install is done, he reboots. He types in his username (neat, he's loggin into his own computer, he's never seen anything actually secure before, win98 you could just press cancel!)... He sees a desktop, with icons for the web, and a word processor.
What has a higher barrier of entry there? Installation is something linux is better at than windows, it's NOT EVEN CLOSE...I'd compare installing linux to installing mac os 7 on an old machine. It just works. Unless you have some weird homebuilt setup with odd hardware (and Joe user WILL NOT HAVE ANY), you don't even need to install any drivers for anything. Compare that with Windows 2000 (maybe xp is better, I saw no reason to buy xp so I use 2k for my everquest needs, no, it does not run under winex): Windows installs. Unplug the net connection and install some security updates that I downloaded in linux. Plug network cable back in. Cry at 16 color desktop. Get nvidia drivers. Wonder why sound is messed up. Get new sound drivers. Not all the agp features are working..what! Get via 4-in-1's. (once set up, win2k is the best version of windows by far imho, i like it actually..just dont say installing it is easier than linux)...
To be fair, in debian (not known for being easy to install) my nvidia card was not configured for opengl. Course, to be fair to linux, the install was every bit as easy as installing the graphics drivers in windows. Download them off nvidia's site, run program...yay...
(Yes, i know nerd-centered distros like debian, gentoo, etc, are harder, and yes I run debian on my machine, and have experienced installing red hat, mandrake, and suse).
I just feel a need to correct this. Actually it has nothign to do with DRM. Basically my understanding of this is that if an area of memory is marked to store data, then code from it CANNOT be executed, even if some malicious code gets in there and tries to be ran (like that blaster worm or something)... please corect me if i'm wrong, and put it into simple terms so people that are n00bs like me etc can have a good grasp of how it works:)
I never even knew asparin was ever a brand name. You sure about this? I mean there's tons of companies that make products with the label of asparin, yet only one that actually can use the label of kleenex. So i'm not doubting you, i'm just curious as to how long ago asparin was a brand name and what happened so that everyone could use it on their products. I know that tylenol is a brand name and everyone else just labels it "APAP Pain Reliever" or whatever, same with naproxen sodium hehe.
(yes i know its kinda off topic, but i'm curious, posting w/o bonus)
Obviously, the time to distribute fixed and patches goes down as well. As does the ability to spread the word about things going around... I see the "always on" thing as more of a security risk than the higher speed, definately.
Heh mentioning sennheiser in the same sentence as bose is like a sin, the two aren't even remotely comparable... bose is just like re-branded cheap paper speakers with a nice looking package etc heh...
A good thing? LoL. All the article talks about is this making patents go through the system faster.
"the company has been frustrated by the long wait for several key patents that, if granted, could strengthen its intellectual-property position in its target digital audio, infrared and MP3 chip markets"
YAY!
Maybe congress was siphoning off funds because the patent office is worthless? Congress isn't usually as dumb as you think:) What it sounds like to me is tons of intellectual property companies lobied congress hard for this change, they just want their patents to fly through the system faster.
This is only gonna prevent some guy at home from making a funny counterfeit bill on his little inkjet to show off to his friends. I know, i've done it before. I'm like hey check out this...Then i tore it in two and they were like "WHY ARE YOU THROWING AWAY A PERFECTLY GOOD DOLLAR BILL?"...When i tossed the 2nd one, they went to grab it..then I told them to look closely. Oh by the way, that isn't illegal either! And neither is scanning a bill in and printing it out, then printing some propaganda on the other side, and leaving it places, so people will pick it up thinking its a real bill. Or making funny alterations (such as the sex dollar bill)...There's reasons to scan in money that don't involve counterfeiting. I know, I've scanned in money before for the above reasons. I would have been very annoyed if the software wouldn't let me scan it in. But know what, that wouldn't have stopped me, I woulda just scanned it into some crappy software then imported it into photoshop or psp.
Face it, maybe.01% of all the counterfeiting going on is done on some little inkjet by some guy using photoshop. This isn't going to stop *anything important*. This is just some feel-good measure, and THATS ALL IT IS.
Now, the scary thing is, what do you wanna be that these "image recognition" techniques are being patented, marketed, and sold. Imagine not being able to scan in somethign from a magazine or book because it has a code on it marking it as copyrighted. After all, if you were going to scan it in, you were *obviously* going to do something bad, like make an illegal copy! That's where I see this going: sort of a drm thats built into scanners, printers, and image software!
Nice try, but we all know that humans aren't exactly very good at driving either. Every day there's many many people killed, many pedestrians hit, etc. Even if a computer driving wasn't perfect and still got into some wrecks, it wouldn't take *much* for it to be an improvement. And an improvement would SAVE LIVES. Plus, computer software is much easier to debug and fix to be safer than getting people to actually drive safer. That said, I never wanna give up driving because i find it *fun*:)
this wasn't flamebait (no one is gonna bother flaming the first part of his post lmao), however, it may have been a bit redundant as this question comes up EVERY TIME an article like this rolls around...now i'm not karma whoring here, BUT there is only one answer:
USE BOTH... Whichever one you like better (and you will, its never a toss up!) use!
actually it's because of the DXM (dextromethorphan) in it...DXM happens to be a mighty fine recreational drug:) especially when mixed with opiates.
people make meth from ephedrine products...like sudafed (which is actually pseudoephedrine but i digress)...stimulants are yucky... but all drugs should be legal.
" First you have to hunt down the link for the free player, similiar to what winamp's doing now"
Whatttt?? Winamp doesn't do this, check their web page. Right at first page there's a "download" button, in big graphics. Click it. On the next page, in exactly the same size, are two things, one that says free, and one that has a price...Just click the free one, and then you get a choice of which free version you want (the lite version that just plays music, or extra features included versions)...they dont hide it at all!
shit yeah, mr2's rock. I used to have a 1988 w/172k miles on the body, the engine was a new japanese crate engine with no miles on it:0 That thing was so much fun, but up here in alaska its TERRIBLE for the winters. I sold it for $2500, but silly me, went and bought another MR2, a 91' turbo that has 153k on it now. Runs great, still bad in winter...I need a bigger car pref something 4wd haha.
Who cares about this!!! COME ON!!! You know what we all really want to see a model made out of! Say it with me: Monorail! Monorail! *sorry please forgive me*
Well it sounds to me like your just trying to transmit voices not anything that demands real high quality audio. Of course, you don't wanna mis-interpret someone. And you state that "they're susceptible to dead batteries" but obviously any wireless solution is going to be susceptable to running out of juice.
It would certainly be POSSIBLE to hook up some old cheap computers, stick them in the stage area, the lighting area, etc, and hook up some wireless headsets to them. Then just run some voice software like speak-freely (available for windows or unix) or something...
But i've just gotta say... I think this sounds a little too complicated if all you need to do is talk in the same building. Why not invest in some GOOD but inexpensive radios. There are tons of options out there.
heh, please do not compare the RIAA to my banks...when I walk into one of my banks, I'm greated by friendly employees who are there to help me get the best deal, they aren't trying to rip me off. Do they make money off me? Sure, but they are providing a valuable service, and I was even able to get a loan from them (high interest, but not ridiculous, something like 10%) even though I DONT HAVE A JOB. At my other bank, I got a call from them one morning, saying I had over-drawn my account. They went ahead and PAID THE CHECK that i'd written, and no the money didn't come out of another account, it came out of the banks pocket, they told me I could come and pay them back as soon as I could, but they'd done this as a convenience for me because I'd been a member for a long time and it was just a mistake. If banks were like the RIAA then I'd hafta pay them for the convenience and safety of storing my money in an account, they would insist that all my money go into their bank account, and I would hafta have an "exclusive contract" to only bank with them I couldn't shop arround for someone who would have better rates, etc...
Oh, and can you imagine, if banks were as bad as the RIAA: Being only able to checks provided by your bank, which they would sell at a premium of course. OH! But you could buy blank checks (sorta like blank cd-audio discs) but you'd hafta pay a tax on them for the bank's lost revenue.
I know this is off topic, but the point is that the RIAA does things that if banks or grocery stores or hell, EVEN CAR LOTS tried, people would revolt.
yep, good ruling (blah blah blah)... but instead of just respecting the ruling the media conglomorates keep trying to work around it... I'm still waiting to see how all this HDTV stuff is going to pan out, but I imagine we wont know for a few years yet. Who knows, maybe we'll get another ruling saying that they can't give over the air stuff a "no copy" bit and that we should have the SAME RIGHTS with the new digital content as we do with the analog content (wishful thinking, I know)...
BUT I'M NOT SURE I CARE ANYMORE!!! My dad, my mom, they used to watch lots of TV. No more, now they spend their time on the internet same as me. My dad might watch an hour of TV a week (that's probably a stretch)... My mom maybe 4 hours a week (thats like half an hour a day lol).
As much as i dont wanna see big copy protections in the new HDTV stuff, I DONT CARE because there is NOTHING WORTH COPYING!!! I'd rather spend my time on the net (or gasp, outside or hanging with friends!) and reading things that I actually LEARN from while talking to my friends in other states on various chat protocols and listening to music that *i enjoy*...not to mention not spending 1/4-1/2 the time staring at adds (thanks firebird and setting ad servers to localhost!)
so in closing, great ruling... but to me and most of the people I know, TV is a thing of the past. If they care about staying in business they shouldn't worry about copy protection, they should worry about making content that i'd actually WATCH (babylon 5 anyone, but of course, a thing of the past!). (family guy? nope, gone but they might bring it back) (reality shows? I'd rather kill myself)
hehe...thats partially true. I was on a transatlantic flight and on the entire flight back there was this cute drunk french girl sitting on my lap talking to me and hitting on me. She was sick of the people of france and was going to go live in canada or the united states..so true there...BUT
As an american, I dont mind living here, but if given the chance, I would switch to living in Denmark or Norway in a heartbeat, no questions asked:)
Also, I know some people who moved to Canada from the U.S., and I don't think thats too uncommon.
It seems like a bit of a fad to bash america, and in areas like current politics, this is probably justified.
But saying america would sabotage an allies' space probe is just a little ridiculous, and one must consider that the beagle team had some help from nasa anyway
Installing linux is easy. Even installing a hard to install distro such as debian isn't hard. Installing SuSe or Mandrake is easy enough that my MOTHER could do it. It's easier than installing windows. Fuck man, just having to type in the cd-key in a win2k install (and having to retype it a few times b/c you made mistakes) makes installing windows harder. Plus, 99% of the time on a modern computer your gonna hafta go out and get drivers for your video card to get it to display more than 16 colors, get drivers for your sound card (although the chipset may be recognized, in windows sometimes that gives you some pretty bad sound lol, believe me i know). Installing SuSe on my machine was sooo incredibly easy. All my hardware worked (granted i did not have 3d support built in, but this was a long time ago)...
There's one thing linux needs to play catch up on: installing software after your system is set up. package management (yes, i know, itsn ot hard, but for n00bs its VERY CONFUSING) is a totallly COMPLETELY FOREIGN FRIGGIN CONCEPT to anyone in the windows and mac world...it makes installing software appear to be much harder than it needs to be!
before you mod me down read what I hafta say...one of my favorite drugs, dextromethorphan, known as DXM, an ingredient in cough syrups... has HUGE ANTI-ADDICTIVE PROPERTIES... whereas a normal dose to help coughs would be about 15mg, and a normal dose to "get high or trip" off off would be 300mg-1gram depending on what you were after...a Dose of 80mg-100mg or so (every 8 hours, as needed) can give a person of about 175-250lb a small boost (with no negative side effects) and trip some reactions in your brain that prevent addictiveness (yes, it works on alcohol and opiate addiction even)...1 bottle of robotussin max str cough contains 354mg, enough for about 4 doses for this purpose. If you have an addiction you just can NOT quit and need extra help, give DXM a try, and don't worry, its not addictive (although it can be in HIGH doses). No, I'm not a pharmacist, but yes, I do knwo what I'm talking about in this case!
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To preface, I'm a christian.. I follow the 10 commandments, and yes I go to church on saturday (the real sabbath, sunday was just made up by the catholic church lol, another weird thing that people somehow believe is that jesus changed the day..uhhh-huhhh, riggghhttttt you find it for me..lol) ...but you know what you can find in the bible? "Though shalt not have sexual relations with your wife's sister while your wife is still living" (paraphrased but that's *exactly* what it says... seriously! and i'm not even taking that one outta context, there's a whole bunch of "sexual relations" verses in the bible, go search a concordance if you want more")
You can use quotes from the bible to prove ANYTHING... Just as a lot of people try to do to say sex before marriage is a sin. It says that NO WHERE in the bible.. NO WHERE!!! Also, there is NOTHING saying masturbation is a sin!......
everything people say there is out of context! The one text people try to use to say it's wrong is taken soooo out of context..god was angry because the guy didn't impregnate the woman, when god had specifically told him too..yeah, that might upset god. Masturbation isn't gonna upset god unless your looking at some 8 year old when your doing it or something. Why do you think god gave us sexual urges if he didn't want us to act on them. He put us here to enjoy life not to suffer. (please no flames if you dont believe in god or whatever, i'm just saying that alot of us are way off base sometimes when it comes to the bible)
As far as drugs/drinking etc, everyone tries to claim thats a huge sin. The reality is, it says no where in the bible that you cannot enjoy these thigns responsibly. It says not to be a drunkard (ie dont be an alcoholic or get wasted and puke all over yourself), and that you sholdn't have any other gods before you (addiction applies here 100%)...But tons of people in the bible drank responsibly, tons of god's followers...even jesus drank wine... And no i'm not saying this because I drink, haven't drank alchy since I was 15 lol...
What's really really great is you see all these people who preach that you can't have sex before marriage, masturbation is wrong, drugs are wrong, etc...GETTING DIVORCES.. Go read what the bible has to say about divorce someday (even what jesus had to say about it hahahaha, although he isn't so harsh on it as a lot of places in the bible!)... The bible is very very harsh on divorce. If ashcroft actually cared about doing right, he would not be worried about porn or drugs, he would be trying to establish marriage counseling centers accross the nation to help couples work through their differences and to prevent the high divorce rate from going up any further!)
People really have no idea what the bible actually says a lot of the time...
omg.... thats hilarious. The first thing I thought of was "i can play dope wars anywhere now!"... It's like the only game I ever play on my little ipaq.. Its perfect because you can make a few trades here and there between classes... At a stop light? The perfect time to make a few trades... Annoying chick your sitting by on the couch wont shut up while your "doing your homework"? Buy a little coke, buy a little weed! Dope wars is the shit. Anyone wanna buy a bigger trench coat for $216?
Not to make another reply right after my last one disagreeing with someone but... I dont really think barrier of entry has anything to do with it...(and yeah i'm just ranting here dont mod me up its off topic) Ease of installation...Windows being easier to install is a MYTH!!! IT'S NOT EASIER TO INSTALL WINDOWS!!! It's easier to install software on windows for the average user...(yes, i use debian, yes, apt-get is even easier, no, i dont think my mom would find it easier at this time. yes, once the synaptic gui improves more it'll blow windows away for desktop software installation by n00bs.) But I mean, SuSe, Mandrake, etc, are easier to install than windows. So joe user brings home an old copy of 2k that he got to upgrade that old 98 that they have on their 1998 compaq. Joe has a cable modem. He pops the disc in, boots, installs, no problem. Right from the get-go he starts getting messenger spam! He's confused, he calls a friend who tells him how to turn the messenger off (why was it on by default?). Fortunately joe's video card was detected so it's not in 16 color mode! But there's another problem. Joe hears about a security update he needs to stop the blaster worm. Problem is the worm had already infected his computer. In order to get the patch, he needs to go to the windows update site, but he can't get there because his computer keeps shutting down. So he figures out that he can set the date back (common sense or a nerdy friend maybe)! But windows update still wont work, because RPC is crashed and windows update needed it to install the patch (to joe, his computer is just broken, he doesn't know what's going on). What the hell does he do. Our user is VERY confused. So Joe installs a copy of linux instead because he heard it was "better" and his nerd friend gave it to him for free and its even LEGAL to get it for free..this AMAZES JOE! He puts the cd in the drive and powers his computer on...His distribution, right in the install, detects his cable modem and at the end before the install even finishes, connects him up and downloads the latest security stuff!!! Amazing! All he needed to do was type his name, what he wanted his computer's name to be, and what he wanted to do on his computer (joe wanted to do word processing, and graphics and games sounded interesting too...joe left the rest alone)...Setup tells joe to make his own account, he thinks this is neat. The install is done, he reboots. He types in his username (neat, he's loggin into his own computer, he's never seen anything actually secure before, win98 you could just press cancel!)... He sees a desktop, with icons for the web, and a word processor. What has a higher barrier of entry there? Installation is something linux is better at than windows, it's NOT EVEN CLOSE...I'd compare installing linux to installing mac os 7 on an old machine. It just works. Unless you have some weird homebuilt setup with odd hardware (and Joe user WILL NOT HAVE ANY), you don't even need to install any drivers for anything. Compare that with Windows 2000 (maybe xp is better, I saw no reason to buy xp so I use 2k for my everquest needs, no, it does not run under winex): Windows installs. Unplug the net connection and install some security updates that I downloaded in linux. Plug network cable back in. Cry at 16 color desktop. Get nvidia drivers. Wonder why sound is messed up. Get new sound drivers. Not all the agp features are working..what! Get via 4-in-1's. (once set up, win2k is the best version of windows by far imho, i like it actually..just dont say installing it is easier than linux)... To be fair, in debian (not known for being easy to install) my nvidia card was not configured for opengl. Course, to be fair to linux, the install was every bit as easy as installing the graphics drivers in windows. Download them off nvidia's site, run program...yay... (Yes, i know nerd-centered distros like debian, gentoo, etc, are harder, and yes I run debian on my machine, and have experienced installing red hat, mandrake, and suse).
I just feel a need to correct this. Actually it has nothign to do with DRM. Basically my understanding of this is that if an area of memory is marked to store data, then code from it CANNOT be executed, even if some malicious code gets in there and tries to be ran (like that blaster worm or something)... please corect me if i'm wrong, and put it into simple terms so people that are n00bs like me etc can have a good grasp of how it works :)
I never even knew asparin was ever a brand name. You sure about this? I mean there's tons of companies that make products with the label of asparin, yet only one that actually can use the label of kleenex. So i'm not doubting you, i'm just curious as to how long ago asparin was a brand name and what happened so that everyone could use it on their products. I know that tylenol is a brand name and everyone else just labels it "APAP Pain Reliever" or whatever, same with naproxen sodium hehe.
(yes i know its kinda off topic, but i'm curious, posting w/o bonus)
Obviously, the time to distribute fixed and patches goes down as well. As does the ability to spread the word about things going around... I see the "always on" thing as more of a security risk than the higher speed, definately.
Heh mentioning sennheiser in the same sentence as bose is like a sin, the two aren't even remotely comparable... bose is just like re-branded cheap paper speakers with a nice looking package etc heh...
A good thing? LoL. All the article talks about is this making patents go through the system faster. "the company has been frustrated by the long wait for several key patents that, if granted, could strengthen its intellectual-property position in its target digital audio, infrared and MP3 chip markets" YAY! Maybe congress was siphoning off funds because the patent office is worthless? Congress isn't usually as dumb as you think :) What it sounds like to me is tons of intellectual property companies lobied congress hard for this change, they just want their patents to fly through the system faster.
maybe i'm just really stoned and sick right now, but this guy's handle being of the name "major dick"... it's just all to hilarious
This is only gonna prevent some guy at home from making a funny counterfeit bill on his little inkjet to show off to his friends. I know, i've done it before. I'm like hey check out this...Then i tore it in two and they were like "WHY ARE YOU THROWING AWAY A PERFECTLY GOOD DOLLAR BILL?"...When i tossed the 2nd one, they went to grab it..then I told them to look closely. Oh by the way, that isn't illegal either! And neither is scanning a bill in and printing it out, then printing some propaganda on the other side, and leaving it places, so people will pick it up thinking its a real bill. Or making funny alterations (such as the sex dollar bill)...There's reasons to scan in money that don't involve counterfeiting. I know, I've scanned in money before for the above reasons. I would have been very annoyed if the software wouldn't let me scan it in. But know what, that wouldn't have stopped me, I woulda just scanned it into some crappy software then imported it into photoshop or psp.
.01% of all the counterfeiting going on is done on some little inkjet by some guy using photoshop. This isn't going to stop *anything important*. This is just some feel-good measure, and THATS ALL IT IS.
Face it, maybe
Now, the scary thing is, what do you wanna be that these "image recognition" techniques are being patented, marketed, and sold. Imagine not being able to scan in somethign from a magazine or book because it has a code on it marking it as copyrighted. After all, if you were going to scan it in, you were *obviously* going to do something bad, like make an illegal copy! That's where I see this going: sort of a drm thats built into scanners, printers, and image software!
Nice try, but we all know that humans aren't exactly very good at driving either. Every day there's many many people killed, many pedestrians hit, etc. Even if a computer driving wasn't perfect and still got into some wrecks, it wouldn't take *much* for it to be an improvement. And an improvement would SAVE LIVES. Plus, computer software is much easier to debug and fix to be safer than getting people to actually drive safer. That said, I never wanna give up driving because i find it *fun* :)
this wasn't flamebait (no one is gonna bother flaming the first part of his post lmao), however, it may have been a bit redundant as this question comes up EVERY TIME an article like this rolls around...now i'm not karma whoring here, BUT there is only one answer:
USE BOTH... Whichever one you like better (and you will, its never a toss up!) use!
actually it's because of the DXM (dextromethorphan) in it...DXM happens to be a mighty fine recreational drug :) especially when mixed with opiates.
people make meth from ephedrine products...like sudafed (which is actually pseudoephedrine but i digress)...stimulants are yucky... but all drugs should be legal.
" First you have to hunt down the link for the free player, similiar to what winamp's doing now"
Whatttt?? Winamp doesn't do this, check their web page. Right at first page there's a "download" button, in big graphics. Click it. On the next page, in exactly the same size, are two things, one that says free, and one that has a price...Just click the free one, and then you get a choice of which free version you want (the lite version that just plays music, or extra features included versions)...they dont hide it at all!
shit yeah, mr2's rock. I used to have a 1988 w/172k miles on the body, the engine was a new japanese crate engine with no miles on it :0 That thing was so much fun, but up here in alaska its TERRIBLE for the winters. I sold it for $2500, but silly me, went and bought another MR2, a 91' turbo that has 153k on it now. Runs great, still bad in winter...I need a bigger car pref something 4wd haha.
Who cares about this!!! COME ON!!! You know what we all really want to see a model made out of! Say it with me: Monorail! Monorail! *sorry please forgive me*
Well it sounds to me like your just trying to transmit voices not anything that demands real high quality audio. Of course, you don't wanna mis-interpret someone. And you state that "they're susceptible to dead batteries" but obviously any wireless solution is going to be susceptable to running out of juice.
It would certainly be POSSIBLE to hook up some old cheap computers, stick them in the stage area, the lighting area, etc, and hook up some wireless headsets to them. Then just run some voice software like speak-freely (available for windows or unix) or something...
But i've just gotta say... I think this sounds a little too complicated if all you need to do is talk in the same building. Why not invest in some GOOD but inexpensive radios. There are tons of options out there.
heh, please do not compare the RIAA to my banks...when I walk into one of my banks, I'm greated by friendly employees who are there to help me get the best deal, they aren't trying to rip me off. Do they make money off me? Sure, but they are providing a valuable service, and I was even able to get a loan from them (high interest, but not ridiculous, something like 10%) even though I DONT HAVE A JOB. At my other bank, I got a call from them one morning, saying I had over-drawn my account. They went ahead and PAID THE CHECK that i'd written, and no the money didn't come out of another account, it came out of the banks pocket, they told me I could come and pay them back as soon as I could, but they'd done this as a convenience for me because I'd been a member for a long time and it was just a mistake. If banks were like the RIAA then I'd hafta pay them for the convenience and safety of storing my money in an account, they would insist that all my money go into their bank account, and I would hafta have an "exclusive contract" to only bank with them I couldn't shop arround for someone who would have better rates, etc...
Oh, and can you imagine, if banks were as bad as the RIAA: Being only able to checks provided by your bank, which they would sell at a premium of course. OH! But you could buy blank checks (sorta like blank cd-audio discs) but you'd hafta pay a tax on them for the bank's lost revenue.
I know this is off topic, but the point is that the RIAA does things that if banks or grocery stores or hell, EVEN CAR LOTS tried, people would revolt.
yep, good ruling (blah blah blah)... but instead of just respecting the ruling the media conglomorates keep trying to work around it... I'm still waiting to see how all this HDTV stuff is going to pan out, but I imagine we wont know for a few years yet. Who knows, maybe we'll get another ruling saying that they can't give over the air stuff a "no copy" bit and that we should have the SAME RIGHTS with the new digital content as we do with the analog content (wishful thinking, I know)...
BUT I'M NOT SURE I CARE ANYMORE!!! My dad, my mom, they used to watch lots of TV. No more, now they spend their time on the internet same as me. My dad might watch an hour of TV a week (that's probably a stretch)... My mom maybe 4 hours a week (thats like half an hour a day lol).
As much as i dont wanna see big copy protections in the new HDTV stuff, I DONT CARE because there is NOTHING WORTH COPYING!!! I'd rather spend my time on the net (or gasp, outside or hanging with friends!) and reading things that I actually LEARN from while talking to my friends in other states on various chat protocols and listening to music that *i enjoy*...not to mention not spending 1/4-1/2 the time staring at adds (thanks firebird and setting ad servers to localhost!)
so in closing, great ruling... but to me and most of the people I know, TV is a thing of the past. If they care about staying in business they shouldn't worry about copy protection, they should worry about making content that i'd actually WATCH (babylon 5 anyone, but of course, a thing of the past!). (family guy? nope, gone but they might bring it back) (reality shows? I'd rather kill myself)
sorry, the review site is slashdotted (i did try!)
Just as the subject says, has anyone tried running this in VMWARE? If so, any luck?
hehe...thats partially true. I was on a transatlantic flight and on the entire flight back there was this cute drunk french girl sitting on my lap talking to me and hitting on me. She was sick of the people of france and was going to go live in canada or the united states..so true there...BUT
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As an american, I dont mind living here, but if given the chance, I would switch to living in Denmark or Norway in a heartbeat, no questions asked
Also, I know some people who moved to Canada from the U.S., and I don't think thats too uncommon.
It seems like a bit of a fad to bash america, and in areas like current politics, this is probably justified.
But saying america would sabotage an allies' space probe is just a little ridiculous, and one must consider that the beagle team had some help from nasa anyway
Installing linux is easy. Even installing a hard to install distro such as debian isn't hard. Installing SuSe or Mandrake is easy enough that my MOTHER could do it. It's easier than installing windows. Fuck man, just having to type in the cd-key in a win2k install (and having to retype it a few times b/c you made mistakes) makes installing windows harder. Plus, 99% of the time on a modern computer your gonna hafta go out and get drivers for your video card to get it to display more than 16 colors, get drivers for your sound card (although the chipset may be recognized, in windows sometimes that gives you some pretty bad sound lol, believe me i know).
Installing SuSe on my machine was sooo incredibly easy. All my hardware worked (granted i did not have 3d support built in, but this was a long time ago)...
There's one thing linux needs to play catch up on: installing software after your system is set up. package management (yes, i know, itsn ot hard, but for n00bs its VERY CONFUSING) is a totallly COMPLETELY FOREIGN FRIGGIN CONCEPT to anyone in the windows and mac world...it makes installing software appear to be much harder than it needs to be!
before you mod me down read what I hafta say...one of my favorite drugs, dextromethorphan, known as DXM, an ingredient in cough syrups... has HUGE ANTI-ADDICTIVE PROPERTIES... whereas a normal dose to help coughs would be about 15mg, and a normal dose to "get high or trip" off off would be 300mg-1gram depending on what you were after...a Dose of 80mg-100mg or so (every 8 hours, as needed) can give a person of about 175-250lb a small boost (with no negative side effects) and trip some reactions in your brain that prevent addictiveness (yes, it works on alcohol and opiate addiction even)...1 bottle of robotussin max str cough contains 354mg, enough for about 4 doses for this purpose. If you have an addiction you just can NOT quit and need extra help, give DXM a try, and don't worry, its not addictive (although it can be in HIGH doses). No, I'm not a pharmacist, but yes, I do knwo what I'm talking about in this case!