Sam and Frodo both have English accents. (Sam has a rural southern english accent).
Merry and Pippin have irish ones (or at least is sounds like it to me)
I find that record stores still beat iTunes in choice by far (never tried Napster 2).
I can find very little of what I want on iTunes, less so than even KaZaA perhaps (the poorest selection of the major P2P clients), eMule still has the best albums I find.
I would thoroughly agree with the "awful to use" comment, WMP does have good playback IMO though, I have done some tests with Winamp 2.9, iTunes and WMP, and WMP came in top for quality to me (for most genres), but its interface is so damn horrible, I would never use it.
Winamp came second, and iTunes came last, but since I have changed the audio output from the quicktime control panel from DirectSound to wave out, and it's perhaps equal to winamp now, make sure you avoid the sound enhancer though, yuk.
*I had to turn off their stupid features on WMP, like 3D enhancement and the crazy bass boost to make it sound better than the others.
1) Windows XP can use the Windows 2000 look and style, so you should be using Windows XP by now, considering it *does* have the Win 2K interface.
2) I use the DOS emulation quite often to play older games. I dont see why "DOS support" is such a bad thing, as it is AFAIK done entirely in software. Any extra compatability with no downsides is of course welcomed.
As far as I know, the BSD in OS X is a subsystem, not the actual system itself, it uses the Mach microkernel, not a BSD one, the BSD is afaik pretty much exclusive to the userspace.
On Sep-03-03 at 14:00:39 PDT, seller added the following information:
I could have sworn I added this to the auction, but I will be donating all profits to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Happy Bidding!
Sucker, I bet he is kicking himself now the auction is at $15,000 and rising:)
How would you propose that someone determine a country via their ip address only? The top level domain is no way to determine it, nor is address information on a whois query.
Think of AOL users in Europe for instance, they will appear as ?.aol.com, and the whois entry will match a US address.
And I really don't see someone forging a connection to the iTunes music store, being that they have to work entirely blind (could you imagine sending your credit card number over the net a hundred times if you had to get the sequence numbers right?, not to mention the near impossibility of fooling a machine with some security built into the tcp/ip stack, such as OpenBSD, some installs of Linux, perhaps FreeBSD (and OSX by virtue of that fact).
A proxy of some sort would be more viable the option by far.:)
As someone else said, Apple would just check the credit card details, as they are attatched to a bank account, it should be no problem to determine the residency of the owner.
What I find amusing is that due to them removing "Kazaa Lite" from the google search, that suddenly most links are to K++ downloads, which is not only Kazaa Lite, but a program that "hacks" the client so people can get maximum participation level, unlimited search mores and removes the limitation on maximum simulataneous downloads locations for one file.
A more extensive range of features? Can gAIM even do file transfers over MSN? If so, it is a recent development...MSN is bloated with features, from remote help stuff to little games to weird little chalkboards.
Gaim is *very* stripped down in terms of features, does the job (except file transfers) nicely though, I suppose.
From my experience, MSN is far more popular than AIM, every person I know in "real life" is on MSN. The reason AIM has more "unique" users is probably due to spammers in the various AIM chat rooms, Ive seen people who have in excess of 100 accounts.
Actually though, it still seems strange, are you sure that the "AIM" info you recevied is legit, because afaik every hotmail account is an MSN messenger account as well, and windows XP whines at you if you dont have a passport!
Propaganda alert! Perhaps you should note that freedoms in Russia and China are not as bad as they have been. While you aren't free to sue your microwave manufacturer when you put a dog in the microwave, you can still do pretty much anything, especially online. Besides, this is not talking about limitation of freedom.
People in china have freedoms, especially online?
Seems you have never read about "The Great Firewall of China"
Link
Many, many sites are not allowed visits you live in China, including many western news sources ect, they even once blocked google.
Then I stand corrected, I suppose its pretty typical of "communist" nations to turn out the opposite that people intended, always seems that way, at least.
Looking at those previous statistics, I would certainly disagree.
China are not a capitalist nation, so the poor literacy should not be affected by their respective financial classes. This means that they are not split into those who can afford good education, and those that get little, which would suggest its just a very poor schooling sysem. This means an "overall" poor level of education, im sure theres plenty who have good education, but not all that many I bet.
As for India, well, that literacy rate is just plain horrible, it may not be helped by their plethora of languages though.
Heres a report I found of the educational status in India, I found it using google. According to this, the average class size is 50, that is very very high. Heres a quote.
"The low priority given to education by this nation is apparent from the mean years of schooling, the average period spent in school by a citizen. Indians spend a little over two years in the classroom. The Chinese spend five, the Sri Lankans over seven and the South Koreans nine.".
None of them are particularly realistic anyway, ive tried every one I can find, and the closest I have ever came was a mix of yzDock, a very good windows xp theme (Icemans Jaguar) and Object dock (with a nice theme for it), a bit of a resource hog, and although it looks very nice when you have an empty desktop (I had mac os icons across the board too by using hacked system files) it looks pretty poor as soon as you load applications, the proper stippling effect can never be recreated and it looks pretty anemic overall, I had to get rid of it.
Liquid, although it isnt bad, is a mile away from OS X, and theres no dock or "bar" at the top (the KDE inbuilt ones are useless and dont work with gnome apps).
When I bought a mac, I had to pretty much laugh at all the attempts, its a shame you are pretty much stuck with aqua on OSX though, so although you get a beautiful environment, you have to stick it out, unless someone can recommend a tool for theming to me ( I never found one ).
Another good use for these themes ive found is on OS X itself, if you run UNIX (qt or gtk) applications, its better to have them looking somewhat unified (albeit poor) than having plain vanilla themes (which look horrible).
Ive always heard the opposite (from every mac source I have visited), that the UFS implementation on OS X is incredibly slow, although it certainly contains less quirks when it comes to the BSD subsystem.
HFS+ is known to be a lot faster.
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I've heard this varied with the version of the Xbox. Supposedly 1.0 had some noise problems, my 1.1 is very quiet though.
iTunes depends on Quicktime.
Sam and Frodo both have English accents. (Sam has a rural southern english accent). Merry and Pippin have irish ones (or at least is sounds like it to me)
I find that record stores still beat iTunes in choice by far (never tried Napster 2). I can find very little of what I want on iTunes, less so than even KaZaA perhaps (the poorest selection of the major P2P clients), eMule still has the best albums I find.
Please, make the iTunes stories stop, I beg of you!
$10? I'm under the impression most CD's contain 12 tracks, making it a few cents under $12.
I would thoroughly agree with the "awful to use" comment, WMP does have good playback IMO though, I have done some tests with Winamp 2.9, iTunes and WMP, and WMP came in top for quality to me (for most genres), but its interface is so damn horrible, I would never use it. Winamp came second, and iTunes came last, but since I have changed the audio output from the quicktime control panel from DirectSound to wave out, and it's perhaps equal to winamp now, make sure you avoid the sound enhancer though, yuk. *I had to turn off their stupid features on WMP, like 3D enhancement and the crazy bass boost to make it sound better than the others.
1) Windows XP can use the Windows 2000 look and style, so you should be using Windows XP by now, considering it *does* have the Win 2K interface.
2) I use the DOS emulation quite often to play older games. I dont see why "DOS support" is such a bad thing, as it is AFAIK done entirely in software. Any extra compatability with no downsides is of course welcomed.
As far as I know, the BSD in OS X is a subsystem, not the actual system itself, it uses the Mach microkernel, not a BSD one, the BSD is afaik pretty much exclusive to the userspace.
B doesn't have a sharp as such. A semitone up from B is C. So B# really translates to "C".
Its not entirely a celeron, it has much more cache for one.
Odd, I sold an MMORPG account (ultima online) via ebay, it even had its own category! So ebay surely approve of it!
Yeah, colours are what do it for me!
On Sep-03-03 at 14:00:39 PDT, seller added the following information: I could have sworn I added this to the auction, but I will be donating all profits to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Happy Bidding!
Sucker, I bet he is kicking himself now the auction is at $15,000 and rising :)
How would you propose that someone determine a country via their ip address only? The top level domain is no way to determine it, nor is address information on a whois query.
:)
Think of AOL users in Europe for instance, they will appear as ?.aol.com, and the whois entry will match a US address.
And I really don't see someone forging a connection to the iTunes music store, being that they have to work entirely blind (could you imagine sending your credit card number over the net a hundred times if you had to get the sequence numbers right?, not to mention the near impossibility of fooling a machine with some security built into the tcp/ip stack, such as OpenBSD, some installs of Linux, perhaps FreeBSD (and OSX by virtue of that fact).
A proxy of some sort would be more viable the option by far.
As someone else said, Apple would just check the credit card details, as they are attatched to a bank account, it should be no problem to determine the residency of the owner.
What I find amusing is that due to them removing "Kazaa Lite" from the google search, that suddenly most links are to K++ downloads, which is not only Kazaa Lite, but a program that "hacks" the client so people can get maximum participation level, unlimited search mores and removes the limitation on maximum simulataneous downloads locations for one file.
A more extensive range of features? Can gAIM even do file transfers over MSN? If so, it is a recent development...MSN is bloated with features, from remote help stuff to little games to weird little chalkboards. Gaim is *very* stripped down in terms of features, does the job (except file transfers) nicely though, I suppose.
From my experience, MSN is far more popular than AIM, every person I know in "real life" is on MSN. The reason AIM has more "unique" users is probably due to spammers in the various AIM chat rooms, Ive seen people who have in excess of 100 accounts. Actually though, it still seems strange, are you sure that the "AIM" info you recevied is legit, because afaik every hotmail account is an MSN messenger account as well, and windows XP whines at you if you dont have a passport!
I think he means memory bandwidth, not file size.
People in china have freedoms, especially online? Seems you have never read about "The Great Firewall of China" Link Many, many sites are not allowed visits you live in China, including many western news sources ect, they even once blocked google.
Then I stand corrected, I suppose its pretty typical of "communist" nations to turn out the opposite that people intended, always seems that way, at least.
Looking at those previous statistics, I would certainly disagree.
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China are not a capitalist nation, so the poor literacy should not be affected by their respective financial classes. This means that they are not split into those who can afford good education, and those that get little, which would suggest its just a very poor schooling sysem. This means an "overall" poor level of education, im sure theres plenty who have good education, but not all that many I bet.
As for India, well, that literacy rate is just plain horrible, it may not be helped by their plethora of languages though.
http://www.cs.fiu.edu/~asha-sef/general/EdnIndi
Heres a report I found of the educational status in India, I found it using google. According to this, the average class size is 50, that is very very high. Heres a quote.
"The low priority given to education by this nation is apparent from the mean years of schooling, the average period spent in school by a citizen. Indians spend a little over two years in the classroom. The Chinese spend five, the Sri Lankans over seven and the South Koreans nine.".
None of them are particularly realistic anyway, ive tried every one I can find, and the closest I have ever came was a mix of yzDock, a very good windows xp theme (Icemans Jaguar) and Object dock (with a nice theme for it), a bit of a resource hog, and although it looks very nice when you have an empty desktop (I had mac os icons across the board too by using hacked system files) it looks pretty poor as soon as you load applications, the proper stippling effect can never be recreated and it looks pretty anemic overall, I had to get rid of it.
Liquid, although it isnt bad, is a mile away from OS X, and theres no dock or "bar" at the top (the KDE inbuilt ones are useless and dont work with gnome apps).
When I bought a mac, I had to pretty much laugh at all the attempts, its a shame you are pretty much stuck with aqua on OSX though, so although you get a beautiful environment, you have to stick it out, unless someone can recommend a tool for theming to me ( I never found one ).
Another good use for these themes ive found is on OS X itself, if you run UNIX (qt or gtk) applications, its better to have them looking
somewhat unified (albeit poor) than having plain vanilla themes (which look horrible).
A microsoft.com server running linux at position 22! (a100.ms.a.microsoft.com)
Ive always heard the opposite (from every mac source I have visited), that the UFS implementation on OS X is incredibly slow, although it certainly contains less quirks when it comes to the BSD subsystem. HFS+ is known to be a lot faster.