To get rid of the separate search bar in Firefox, open up the toolbar customizer (right click on the toolbar and choose "customize.") Then just drag the search bar off the toolbar and back into the customize window. It works the same way as any other item on the toolbar as far as adding/removing goes.
I'm surprised no company has come out with a USB based IR receiver that can be taught so you can control all your apps with it.
Well, the guy who made TVTool (very useful if you have an nVidia-based card with TV out) made this USB IR receiver called Sconi. (Oh, crap - I think you have to follow the link from the news page (or maybe fake your referrer) or else you get a redirect page that doesn't work in Firefox.)
I don't have one and haven't used the software (although I'm a happy registered user of TVTool) but it looks pretty cool. Assign IR codes to various application functions (or to start or switch programs, etc.) The receiver also supports Girdir (or maybe it's the other way around), which widens your software options a bit. I have no idea about Linux support, though.
Hmm - may be true. His newest album (Beautiful Struggle) was pretty good. I hadn't liked him much before that. I don't even like Black Star much although I should probably give it another listen.
I didn't like his rhythm before Beautiful Struggle either - maybe the album was a fluke, or he's just no good live.
I listen to hip hop and I agree. But 90% of music I hear on the radio is garbage and that's probably where you're hearing your hip hop.
H-H is horrid imo - endless, short, electronic loops of intensely annoying sounds, weak and/or stupid lyrics, bad singing (if they even sing at all), it's overly produced, etc. etc.
If the hip hop you know is "endless, short electronic loops" then - in my opinion - you're not listening to hip hop. The definitions get nit-picky, but in my mind if the MC (the guy with the microphone) doesn't have a DJ backing him up doing the music, it's not hip hop. It could be called rap, though. (Hip hop as a genre, to me, would have to embody more than one of the aspects of hip hop culture - MCing, DJing, breakdancing, and graffiti.) So music with a DJ is what you're looking for. The music should be as good as the lyrics.
Now, beyond the instrumentals - if the music you know has weak and/or stupid lyrics, we have to find you new music. The reason I listen to hip hop is because of the lyrics, not in spite of. Because the lyrics are smart, because the rhymes are rhymes I've never heard, etc.
Without rambling on for days, let me list a few albums or artists you might like to check out. Jurassic 5 - any album. Blackalicious - any album, but check out the newest one Blazing Arrow. Lyrics Born - Later That Day. Maroons - Ambush. Zion I - any album. Dilated Peoples - any album. Mos Def. The Roots. Talib Kweli. All of these groups have smart, generally positive lyrics. If you find someone you like, visit www.allmusic.com and see who they've worked with on other songs, and check out those artists too.
If you're interested in turntablism (creating music with other records as the primary source) check out some of the great turntablists - The X-ecutioners, Rob Swift, Cut Chemist, DJ Z-Trip, DJ Shadow. (Rob Swift is in the X-ecutioners, but he has a few solo albums.)
It will be different music than what you're used to, probably, but it'll also be different than the overproduced "blazin' hip hop & R&B" trash they play on the radio. Give it a chance, and listen to the lyrics and pay attention to what the DJs are doing - maybe you'll find something you like.
I agree with you, and I wanted to say I think the author is underestimating the flaws he points out in the PSP.
The Game Boy has been around for a long time and (ignoring the Virtual Boy for a moment) Nintendo has basically made the only successful handheld machine. And if my memory serves me, it's essentially because of the two things the author pointed out as problems with the PSP: Battery life and price.
The TurboExpress, Game Gear, Nomad, Lynx, probably even the Neo-Geo Pocket Color, and maybe others, have all tried to unseat Nintendo by adding a nice, frequently lit, color screen. But each time this destroyed battery life and put the price through the roof.
I think battery life is critical, and price is 2nd most important. If you can't get more than a few hours out of a charge (even back in the Game Gear days) your system was useless.
When the battery issue and the price issue combine, it leads to few users, and few users translates (ultimately) to few games, and that's the end.
I think the author of the article made some pretty serious mistakes in his emphasis. The two problems he mentioned for the PSP are the two land-mines of portable systems, IMO. The problems he mentioned with the DS? The number of remakes, and the fact that the Gameboy Advance SP came out recently.
Those are problems, but not nearly as serious as the problems that the PSP has. The number of remakes will, I think, be straightened out by the market. If people don't want remakes, they won't buy them. I'm sure there will be plenty of new games for both systems, and there will probably be remakes available for the PSP since I believe one of the features is that it is easy to port PS2 games to it.
And the author ignored all the interesting innovations that the DS brings to the table. It's not just frontlit and smaller, like the SP - if the hype is to be believed wireless multiplayer will be the feature of the DS. He didn't even mention it!
Finally, why is he's complaining about Final Fantasy III? The only Final Fantasy that was never released in the US? That's not going to be considered a remake by most people - at least in the US. If anything it's going to make FF fans trip over each other to get the first DS out the door.
No, or at least, this FFIII wasn't a huge seller on any US system. From the article:
The only Final Fantasy title to never be remade and to never make it out of Japan, FFIII is considered to be one of the most intricate role-playing games ever designed for the Famicom.
The FFIII you know of in the US, for the SNES, is actually Final Fantasy VI in Japan. There's a nice table in this Wikipedia article listing the Final Fantasies and what systems and countries they came out on/in.
I'd love a remake of the US FFIII, but the prospect of a FF I've never played is enticing as well. I think some fans have patched/fansubbed the FFIII ROM if you want to try it. I wouldn't condone such a thing, though;)
A lot of people have posted links to duct tape wallets. They are pretty decent. It is a lot cheaper to make your own, though. this guy has a great tutorial to give you the concept, and after you build one (or mentally digest the tutorial) it's easy to modify it.
I made mine smaller than the tutorial version, with fewer pockets and made it slightly shorter to be closer to the size of a US dollar bill. But you can add more pockets or modify the design however you want. And when people say "Is that duct tape?" you can say "Yeah, I made it out of duct tape. It's solid duct tape," instead of saying "Yeah, I bought it online."
In fact, it'll cost you about $4 for a roll of duct tape, and I made two wallets (a test run and a final run) and still have 90% of the roll of duct tape left. So it probably cost like $0.20 and took about 30 minutes total.
And you can give it 2 card pockets, or make it tri-fold, or add a window for a driver's license, or whatever you want.
The PBS transcript (from a recent episode of NOW) says it was the debate between Michael Dukakis and George H.W. Bush that created the CPD. (Search for "So the two parties got together.")
That happened in 1988, and 1986 isn't mentioned in that interview. John Anderson is mentioned, but not at all related to Perot. Perot is mentioned, but not in 1986 or anywhere until the 90s as you would expect.
So I have no idea what she is talking about. It sounds to me like she might just be mixing up dates and stories.
This is a pretty old article and the DDRKC members were pretty upset by the article's focus on the bad choices of one person rather than the DDR subculture. It seems the author spent a lot of time with DDRKC members and they all felt the article would be about their group or DDR in general. In the end, the author chose to try to portray it as the "seedy side of a popular game" which upset a lot of the people who were interviewed.
I don't know if these things are exactly what you mean, but I read some things along this line before and did some searching to find them again.
There's the Mozilla ActiveX Control which sounded like the thing to run ActiveX in Mozilla, but it's really a thing to control Mozilla with ActiveX.
And there's this IEPatcher thing which seems to already be able to patch an IE-using program to use Mozilla. Proceed at your own risk, of course.
I agree that an official Mozilla open source drop-in DLL would be nice, but I just wanted to point out that it looks like some people are working towards what you suggest.
They have a bookmarklet right on their homepage. That's the only way I've ever used the site. If you come upon a reg-required site, you click the bookmarklet, which grabs the URL and opens a pop-up to display any registration info on file.
Slashdot won't let me link to the javascript, and pasting it in as code adds a bunch of spaces, so you should probably just visit their page, it's right on the homepage, the link "bookmarklet." Just drag it to your quicklaunch bar, or wherever you'd like.
Sony's adapter is $40, but can't you just use a USB network adapter? You can get those for about $8 (or less) on eBay pretty frequently.
I don't think there's any functional difference, except the USB one will hang off of the front of the PS2 in a stupid way, and the Sony one plugs into the back expansion port part. And doesn't the Sony one come with a (nearly useless) modem, too? Anyway, just some thoughts if you're going at this on the cheap.
Thanks, that sounds like the direction most of our Microsoft purchases have gone. I am going to continue to hold out for as many versions as possible. The newsgroup is great, I didn't think of looking there.
Do you have any comments about Microsoft's CRM software? My company is planning on moving to it eventually. Most likely, anyway. I've searched, but I didn't really find any opinions, mostly just sales & PR info.
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I thought he was talking about distributing BitTorrent links through RSS rather than sending each RSS news reader the full content of the page with graphics, etc.
So you send out a new torrent through RSS referencing your new page instead of the regular RSS content, and your viewers use BitTorrent to work together to get the content from you without putting all the strain on your server. A.torrent file would be a lot smaller than a full RSS feed with images like he was using in the example.
Of course the DJs you listen to don't scratch, you don't listen to hip hop DJs. You should sometime, it's a completely different mixing method and some of our DJs are really great at it. If you respect electronic DJs like Sasha or Oakenfold you should be able to appreciate some of the great turntablists.
Right now my favorite DJ is probably Babu from the Beat Junkies and Dilated Peoples. Also check out DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Rhettmatic, Shortkut, & the X-ecutioners.
If you want one song to hear, get the song Dilated Junkies, from the Dilated Peoples album Expansion Team. (You can even buy it through iTunes.) It's excellent, and a perfect example of the importance of DJs to hip hop music. And if you're familiar with electronic DJs you can see just how different the turntable styles are.
E-mail them and ask them if they'll ever support it.:) I can't see how it would be too hard to add to their software, compared to custom-coding volume/scroll stuff for various specific apps, for example... that's gotta be harder (says this non-programmer...)
My current plan is to just wait a long, long time and buy some insane thing from SlikStik and just get it all done at once... but that's more of a dream than anything else. For now I'm using a PlayStation 2 USB adapter for games like SmashTV, which works pretty well for low-budget dual stick controlling (if you already have the controller; even so, for $30 it's a great controller.)
Anyway, maybe if we get a few more e-mails over to them they'll consider it. I had the same reaction as you though: "What a bunch of morons! It's a USB spinner, without software to support it!" Aargh. It's beautiful, too. The whole situation gets me more upset than it should:)
Have you tried the PowerMate with a game like Tempest?
I e-mailed them (a while ago) to ask if their software supported mouse emulation, as in twisting left would scroll the mouse left and vice versa, and they said the PowerMate does not do that and they don't plan to ever add that feature. I even mentioned how much people spend on creating their own knob controllers and how this could be a new market for them if the added that one feature (which I can't see being very complicated, really) but they weren't interested. I sent links to arcade sites and all, to emphasize the size of the market (mostly, that I just wasn't making this up in case they hadn't ever heard of it.) Their software only lets you set it up to control software they already support, or software controllable by keyboard shortcuts. Seems insane that a knob like that would translate into keyboard commands, but...
Secretly, I'm hoping someone's written their own drivers or something for it. I'd buy a PowerMate just for this, if it did, but since they said it doesn't I haven't bothered. I've searched everywhere for alternate drivers or info. Anyone have any ideas?
If someone doesn't know what we're talking about, here's the web page... it's a universal knob with a USB plug, and looks killer, except for the lack of mouse support...
Possibly you could config it to use the keyboard and reconfig MAME to take keyboard input instead of mouse/trackball, but I doubt you'd be able to get the fine control you'd want from a setup like that... especially after shelling out for a killer knob, man it just kills me, it would be perfect!
If you write at 2x, the the pits are bigger and better formed.
Sadly it isn't that easy, the answer is "it depends." High speed drives with high speed media are designed to burn at high speeds... burning a 48x CD in a 48x drive at 2x is probably not going to give you good results - the sweet spot might be 40x, or 32x, or who knows what... probably not top speed, but probably not lowest speed either.
I'd actually be willing to pay out $5 to $10 to get a CD that once burned would stick around for a while.
You want something like a Medical CD-R, although they are a bit expensive, they are designed to last 100 years. $30 for 10...
If you don't want "medical grade" but just want "pretty good CD-Rs" you need to know who made the discs, not just who the box says (like Fuji). I have heard good things about Taiyo Yuden (TY) discs and have had good success with them in the past. That link is to the "high speed" comaprisons (48x & higher) - lower speed comparisons here and here is a FAQ from CDFreaks. Check out the FAQ for links to tools to test your discs for errors, or check who made your discs.
In the end you just have to test with your own drive to see what burns best for you, and if archiving is your goal you might want something like those medical CD-Rs.
Looks like CafePress is lame, and only carries white and grey shirts. Bah. Too bad... the only other place I know of, which is a bit different than what would be appropriate for this project, is pixeltees which also seems to only carry white shirts.
You'd think CafePress would hold off on the clock printing and tiles and whatnot and get a few colored shirts... oh well.
A suggestion, which you can take or leave. I like the shirt. But I hate white t-shirts. They are plain and boring, and I just can't bring myself to buy one because I'll never wear it.
Does CafePress let you use colored shirts? Or even a black shirt? Anything but white, really. If you choose a black shirt, you could modify the graphics - invert the back graphic (arr.) so the text is white, and put a thin white border around the flag for the front graphic. (technically it would be best if the front graphic was just a white outline with the white pirate in the middle, and no black printing on a black shirt.) This should be relatively easy to do using Photoshop (at least, bordering and inverting, etc.)
I think the shirt would look a lot better on any color but white - colors could even use the same graphic, but a white shirt is just boring. I have one or two white t-shirts that I never wear regardless of how much I like them because I just never grab white shirts, always colored ones...
This is of course all moot if CafePress limits you to white shirts... which would be lame.:)
I could also help you mess with the graphics, but I have a feeling if you made the ones you currently use that you can do that, too.
That is what nycfashiongirl is trying to claim, and that is truly shallow.
no, she's trying to claim that turning her IP address into her real name and address (when the RIAA requests this information from her ISP) without approval from a judge is an illegal search.
certainly her IP is not private, and you can figure out what her ISP is based on her IP, but you're still pretty far from peering directly into the ISP's records to figure out which subscriber was using that IP at that time. demanding that the ISP turn over that information without a warrant would be the illegal part. well, technically it is currently legal, but that would be what s/he is contesting. i hope.
It's not the IP address, it's the translation from IP address into Name, Phone Number & Physicial Address that is the problem. RIAA gets this by getting a form stamped by a clerk, rather than getting approval from a judge, using provisions of the DMCA, which has not been tested in court.
So the "illegal search" part happened when they skipped the "approval from a judge" part, which is what would be contested in court under 4th amendment grounds.
[grandparent] This is about challenging the DMCA, which offsets due process by allowing subpoenas to be ordered by copyright holders without the approval of a judge.
[parent] Therefore, the copyright holder still needs approval of a clerk of a FEDERAL judge in order to issue the subpoena.
no, original poster was correct, bold tags are mine for emphasis. "without the approval of a judge" is true, and that is where it violates due process. a clerk is not a judge, whether they are federal or not.
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To get rid of the separate search bar in Firefox, open up the toolbar customizer (right click on the toolbar and choose "customize.") Then just drag the search bar off the toolbar and back into the customize window. It works the same way as any other item on the toolbar as far as adding/removing goes.
Well, the guy who made TVTool (very useful if you have an nVidia-based card with TV out) made this USB IR receiver called Sconi. (Oh, crap - I think you have to follow the link from the news page (or maybe fake your referrer) or else you get a redirect page that doesn't work in Firefox.)
I don't have one and haven't used the software (although I'm a happy registered user of TVTool) but it looks pretty cool. Assign IR codes to various application functions (or to start or switch programs, etc.) The receiver also supports Girdir (or maybe it's the other way around), which widens your software options a bit. I have no idea about Linux support, though.
I didn't like his rhythm before Beautiful Struggle either - maybe the album was a fluke, or he's just no good live.
I listen to hip hop and I agree. But 90% of music I hear on the radio is garbage and that's probably where you're hearing your hip hop.
H-H is horrid imo - endless, short, electronic loops of intensely annoying sounds, weak and/or stupid lyrics, bad singing (if they even sing at all), it's overly produced, etc. etc.
If the hip hop you know is "endless, short electronic loops" then - in my opinion - you're not listening to hip hop. The definitions get nit-picky, but in my mind if the MC (the guy with the microphone) doesn't have a DJ backing him up doing the music, it's not hip hop. It could be called rap, though. (Hip hop as a genre, to me, would have to embody more than one of the aspects of hip hop culture - MCing, DJing, breakdancing, and graffiti.) So music with a DJ is what you're looking for. The music should be as good as the lyrics.
Now, beyond the instrumentals - if the music you know has weak and/or stupid lyrics, we have to find you new music. The reason I listen to hip hop is because of the lyrics, not in spite of. Because the lyrics are smart, because the rhymes are rhymes I've never heard, etc.
Without rambling on for days, let me list a few albums or artists you might like to check out. Jurassic 5 - any album. Blackalicious - any album, but check out the newest one Blazing Arrow. Lyrics Born - Later That Day. Maroons - Ambush. Zion I - any album. Dilated Peoples - any album. Mos Def. The Roots. Talib Kweli. All of these groups have smart, generally positive lyrics. If you find someone you like, visit www.allmusic.com and see who they've worked with on other songs, and check out those artists too.
If you're interested in turntablism (creating music with other records as the primary source) check out some of the great turntablists - The X-ecutioners, Rob Swift, Cut Chemist, DJ Z-Trip, DJ Shadow. (Rob Swift is in the X-ecutioners, but he has a few solo albums.)
It will be different music than what you're used to, probably, but it'll also be different than the overproduced "blazin' hip hop & R&B" trash they play on the radio. Give it a chance, and listen to the lyrics and pay attention to what the DJs are doing - maybe you'll find something you like.
The Game Boy has been around for a long time and (ignoring the Virtual Boy for a moment) Nintendo has basically made the only successful handheld machine. And if my memory serves me, it's essentially because of the two things the author pointed out as problems with the PSP: Battery life and price.
The TurboExpress, Game Gear, Nomad, Lynx, probably even the Neo-Geo Pocket Color, and maybe others, have all tried to unseat Nintendo by adding a nice, frequently lit, color screen. But each time this destroyed battery life and put the price through the roof.
I think battery life is critical, and price is 2nd most important. If you can't get more than a few hours out of a charge (even back in the Game Gear days) your system was useless.
When the battery issue and the price issue combine, it leads to few users, and few users translates (ultimately) to few games, and that's the end.
I think the author of the article made some pretty serious mistakes in his emphasis. The two problems he mentioned for the PSP are the two land-mines of portable systems, IMO. The problems he mentioned with the DS? The number of remakes, and the fact that the Gameboy Advance SP came out recently.
Those are problems, but not nearly as serious as the problems that the PSP has. The number of remakes will, I think, be straightened out by the market. If people don't want remakes, they won't buy them. I'm sure there will be plenty of new games for both systems, and there will probably be remakes available for the PSP since I believe one of the features is that it is easy to port PS2 games to it.
And the author ignored all the interesting innovations that the DS brings to the table. It's not just frontlit and smaller, like the SP - if the hype is to be believed wireless multiplayer will be the feature of the DS. He didn't even mention it!
Finally, why is he's complaining about Final Fantasy III? The only Final Fantasy that was never released in the US? That's not going to be considered a remake by most people - at least in the US. If anything it's going to make FF fans trip over each other to get the first DS out the door.
No, or at least, this FFIII wasn't a huge seller on any US system. From the article:
The FFIII you know of in the US, for the SNES, is actually Final Fantasy VI in Japan. There's a nice table in this Wikipedia article listing the Final Fantasies and what systems and countries they came out on/in.I'd love a remake of the US FFIII, but the prospect of a FF I've never played is enticing as well. I think some fans have patched/fansubbed the FFIII ROM if you want to try it. I wouldn't condone such a thing, though ;)
I made mine smaller than the tutorial version, with fewer pockets and made it slightly shorter to be closer to the size of a US dollar bill. But you can add more pockets or modify the design however you want. And when people say "Is that duct tape?" you can say "Yeah, I made it out of duct tape. It's solid duct tape," instead of saying "Yeah, I bought it online."
In fact, it'll cost you about $4 for a roll of duct tape, and I made two wallets (a test run and a final run) and still have 90% of the roll of duct tape left. So it probably cost like $0.20 and took about 30 minutes total.
And you can give it 2 card pockets, or make it tri-fold, or add a window for a driver's license, or whatever you want.
That happened in 1988, and 1986 isn't mentioned in that interview. John Anderson is mentioned, but not at all related to Perot. Perot is mentioned, but not in 1986 or anywhere until the 90s as you would expect.
So I have no idea what she is talking about. It sounds to me like she might just be mixing up dates and stories.
You can read their comments at the DDRKC forum. Remember this article came out in March, so this thread is probably long since dead.
There's the Mozilla ActiveX Control which sounded like the thing to run ActiveX in Mozilla, but it's really a thing to control Mozilla with ActiveX.
And there's this IEPatcher thing which seems to already be able to patch an IE-using program to use Mozilla. Proceed at your own risk, of course.
I agree that an official Mozilla open source drop-in DLL would be nice, but I just wanted to point out that it looks like some people are working towards what you suggest.
Slashdot won't let me link to the javascript, and pasting it in as code adds a bunch of spaces, so you should probably just visit their page, it's right on the homepage, the link "bookmarklet." Just drag it to your quicklaunch bar, or wherever you'd like.
Sony's adapter is $40, but can't you just use a USB network adapter? You can get those for about $8 (or less) on eBay pretty frequently.
I don't think there's any functional difference, except the USB one will hang off of the front of the PS2 in a stupid way, and the Sony one plugs into the back expansion port part. And doesn't the Sony one come with a (nearly useless) modem, too? Anyway, just some thoughts if you're going at this on the cheap.
Thanks, that sounds like the direction most of our Microsoft purchases have gone. I am going to continue to hold out for as many versions as possible. The newsgroup is great, I didn't think of looking there.
Do you have any comments about Microsoft's CRM software? My company is planning on moving to it eventually. Most likely, anyway. I've searched, but I didn't really find any opinions, mostly just sales & PR info.
So you send out a new torrent through RSS referencing your new page instead of the regular RSS content, and your viewers use BitTorrent to work together to get the content from you without putting all the strain on your server. A .torrent file would be a lot smaller than a full RSS feed with images like he was using in the example.
Makes more sense that way.
Right now my favorite DJ is probably Babu from the Beat Junkies and Dilated Peoples. Also check out DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Rhettmatic, Shortkut, & the X-ecutioners.
If you want one song to hear, get the song Dilated Junkies, from the Dilated Peoples album Expansion Team. (You can even buy it through iTunes.) It's excellent, and a perfect example of the importance of DJs to hip hop music. And if you're familiar with electronic DJs you can see just how different the turntable styles are.
My current plan is to just wait a long, long time and buy some insane thing from SlikStik and just get it all done at once... but that's more of a dream than anything else. For now I'm using a PlayStation 2 USB adapter for games like SmashTV, which works pretty well for low-budget dual stick controlling (if you already have the controller; even so, for $30 it's a great controller.)
Anyway, maybe if we get a few more e-mails over to them they'll consider it. I had the same reaction as you though: "What a bunch of morons! It's a USB spinner, without software to support it!" Aargh. It's beautiful, too. The whole situation gets me more upset than it should :)
I e-mailed them (a while ago) to ask if their software supported mouse emulation, as in twisting left would scroll the mouse left and vice versa, and they said the PowerMate does not do that and they don't plan to ever add that feature. I even mentioned how much people spend on creating their own knob controllers and how this could be a new market for them if the added that one feature (which I can't see being very complicated, really) but they weren't interested. I sent links to arcade sites and all, to emphasize the size of the market (mostly, that I just wasn't making this up in case they hadn't ever heard of it.) Their software only lets you set it up to control software they already support, or software controllable by keyboard shortcuts. Seems insane that a knob like that would translate into keyboard commands, but...
Secretly, I'm hoping someone's written their own drivers or something for it. I'd buy a PowerMate just for this, if it did, but since they said it doesn't I haven't bothered. I've searched everywhere for alternate drivers or info. Anyone have any ideas?
If someone doesn't know what we're talking about, here's the web page ... it's a universal knob with a USB plug, and looks killer, except for the lack of mouse support...
Possibly you could config it to use the keyboard and reconfig MAME to take keyboard input instead of mouse/trackball, but I doubt you'd be able to get the fine control you'd want from a setup like that... especially after shelling out for a killer knob, man it just kills me, it would be perfect!
Sadly it isn't that easy, the answer is "it depends." High speed drives with high speed media are designed to burn at high speeds... burning a 48x CD in a 48x drive at 2x is probably not going to give you good results - the sweet spot might be 40x, or 32x, or who knows what... probably not top speed, but probably not lowest speed either.
You can see some tests here.
You want something like a Medical CD-R, although they are a bit expensive, they are designed to last 100 years. $30 for 10...
If you don't want "medical grade" but just want "pretty good CD-Rs" you need to know who made the discs, not just who the box says (like Fuji). I have heard good things about Taiyo Yuden (TY) discs and have had good success with them in the past. That link is to the "high speed" comaprisons (48x & higher) - lower speed comparisons here and here is a FAQ from CDFreaks. Check out the FAQ for links to tools to test your discs for errors, or check who made your discs.
In the end you just have to test with your own drive to see what burns best for you, and if archiving is your goal you might want something like those medical CD-Rs.
Looks like CafePress is lame, and only carries white and grey shirts. Bah. Too bad... the only other place I know of, which is a bit different than what would be appropriate for this project, is pixeltees which also seems to only carry white shirts.
You'd think CafePress would hold off on the clock printing and tiles and whatnot and get a few colored shirts... oh well.
Does CafePress let you use colored shirts? Or even a black shirt? Anything but white, really. If you choose a black shirt, you could modify the graphics - invert the back graphic (arr.) so the text is white, and put a thin white border around the flag for the front graphic. (technically it would be best if the front graphic was just a white outline with the white pirate in the middle, and no black printing on a black shirt.) This should be relatively easy to do using Photoshop (at least, bordering and inverting, etc.)
I think the shirt would look a lot better on any color but white - colors could even use the same graphic, but a white shirt is just boring. I have one or two white t-shirts that I never wear regardless of how much I like them because I just never grab white shirts, always colored ones...
This is of course all moot if CafePress limits you to white shirts... which would be lame. :)
I could also help you mess with the graphics, but I have a feeling if you made the ones you currently use that you can do that, too.
Just some thoughts - take them or leave them...
no, she's trying to claim that turning her IP address into her real name and address (when the RIAA requests this information from her ISP) without approval from a judge is an illegal search.
certainly her IP is not private, and you can figure out what her ISP is based on her IP, but you're still pretty far from peering directly into the ISP's records to figure out which subscriber was using that IP at that time. demanding that the ISP turn over that information without a warrant would be the illegal part. well, technically it is currently legal, but that would be what s/he is contesting. i hope.
So the "illegal search" part happened when they skipped the "approval from a judge" part, which is what would be contested in court under 4th amendment grounds.
[parent] Therefore, the copyright holder still needs approval of a clerk of a FEDERAL judge in order to issue the subpoena.
no, original poster was correct, bold tags are mine for emphasis. "without the approval of a judge" is true, and that is where it violates due process. a clerk is not a judge, whether they are federal or not.