SS is a seperate network developed by an ex-Napster programmer (you can see the similarities in the client app) which has managed to stay under the radar fairly nicely and i for one don't want to see shutdown, seeing as it has a nice community and song selection. yes it is centralised, currently it is two networks in fact, but your conspiracy theory is way off ok; these things are not connected, i'm 99% sure.
Flamebait probably but i'll bite, as the saying goes:
Longer? depends how far you are from the shops, and how fast your net connection is. N/m whether the store *has* what you want!
More expensive? haha.. one is free m8, or at least should be lower cost, if you're paying for the connection anyway or someone else is.
Lower quality? you're using the wrong networks, or don't know how to use them right, or are an audiophile who thinks he can hear differences but can't ABX them.
sorry to sound like an argumentative d*ck but the net *is* a better distribution method in general, for music.
oops, before they break out the lawyers and now the page has loaded: they credit PeerGuardian with the original story. Of course, whether that's the original original, who knows. hehe. the Net is wonderful in this way;)
wow people post to slashdot fast:o. a dozen posts probably covered those thoughts in the minute it took me to write that. ill just crawl back into my hole lol.
should have developed their own file system. so.. is that hard? are there any free file systems? what does linux use? does a specialist device need the full fuctionality (don't scoff, geeks) of something like FAT?
Even old films are made on film. Film has a very (very) high resolution. Hence HD-DVD (or whatever it's called) can benefit old movies:) As for the soundtrack, yes you probably have diminishing returns there - old movies tend to be mono/stereo and poorly (analogue) recorded and mixed.
yep i'm also in the UK and i've been maxing out my bandwidth for the last couple of days, browsing US sites and so forth with absolutely no reduction in service. This story came as quite a surprise! So the system must be more redundant than we're giving it credit for. Or i should thank my ISP. Or we got lucky:)
thanks for bringing this up, 'cos i was about to (OT or not?).
I get so much spam from (or through) T-Online i've had to block them. So my feelings for this company are negative, to put it politely. You've actually tried to contact them eh?
is this good advice, seriously? i have some nice expensive NiMH batteries and am tempted to try this, if it doesn't damage them. also wouldn't your fingers freeze to them when you get them out? sounds kind of a hassle. thanks for the interesting idea to this real problem though:)
this is a deltaV (greek delta, triangle, i can't type) charger (rate of change in voltage). the other type of intelligent charger is deltaT (temp.) dV work on the principle that when a battery is at full charge there is a 'blip' in the (voltage-time) graph which you can detect with some simple digital logic. not only can these chargers charge fast, they *have* to else this point is not as obvious and they're more likely to miss it (bad!) dT work by sensing the sharper rise in temperature after a battery is full.. not as clever imho but a good backup.
just thought someone might find that interesting, if not n/m:p
ah yes an issue close to my heart; thousands of miles from home with a portable player and home made cds that are dying:/
but i have learnt a few things!
- don't let cdrs touch each other ever. they *will* scratch each others data off. never put written cdrs on spindels or two to a slot in a case. i was too cheap to buy another case and immediately b*gg*r*d some of my discs stickin em two to a slot w/ a grain of sand in between!
- if you have to put a cd down not in a case, put it play side down. i've seen people put them label suide down thinking its 'protecting the disc' - worst thing you can do. a scratch on the plastic side ain't so serious, you could maybe polish it out in a pinch
- overprints are good, if you can get them. these are discs where the original label was printed wrong and has been.. overprinted. = cheaper AND tougher in my experience:)
- writing on a disc with soft tip permanent marker (you dont have to buy "cd markers", thats a joke) has never caused me a problem. i think labels are asking for trouble, but ive always been too cheap to try them:p don't use a hard tipped thing eh in case anyone is stupid to try a biro or sommat
- some cds are just sh*t and fall apart no matter what you do! if data is really vital i'd get two stacks of diff. makes of media and burn two sets (of course, im never sensible enough to do this)
- use the verify funtion of your cdr app if you're not in a hurry. then you know at least the disc started out alright.
there's probably loads more things i'll think of after posting this eh.
the biggest problem i have is with some cds developing mysterious "spots". there is a little speck with a discoloured ring around it, that can fall off, but even if it doesnt the disc is ruined. anyone have any idea what it might be that's touching my discs and doing this to them? i'd love to know, 'cos im stumped. id post a picture of one of these if i was somewhere with a scanner.
oh yeah, did i mention i was cheap!:p maybe buying more expensive blanks would help some of my problems, but i suspect you don't get what you pay for necessarily.
ok that was an attention grabbing header but hear me out.
Clearly, i *can* say i liked part 2 of LOTR more than part 1 (which i didn't btw, despite what IMDB says about their relative rankings; i digress). Just as i can say i liked the beginning of a book more than the end.
There's no reason why the 2nd or 3rd parts of a trilogy can't be as or more exciting than the 1st - actually, from a dramatic point of view, the 2nd part *should* be the most exciting becuse you've got the scene set, characters defined and can go for it with the 'meat' of your story.. this is nicely demonstrated by for example Star Wars part2 - Empire Strikes Back, which i understand is often regarded as the best of the set.
The problem with the Matrix, IMHO, is that 1) the Wachowski brothers are not good storytellers, simple as that and 2) it wasn't originally meant to continue past the end of the 1st film... contrast again with LOTR, which of course *was* always meant to be in 3 and more importantly has been written with fantastic (excuse the pun) love for the material and respect for the audience.
I we could just say you like the Matrix and i like LOTR, and wave our willies around, lol. But the facts speak for themselves.. if people are saying Matrix pt3 was bad, they thought it was bad, and it was in fact, bad. No amount of justification gets around that.
I was just thinking this last night, what with the reviews of the new film being so bad an' all...
One day i know someone will get the spoof right - i want to see the dialogue properly sent up, not the special effects - which are easy to mimick without much wit.
Also what we need is a matrix spoof review site/centre with ratings to sort the wheat from the chaff, the funny from the sad and geeky.. anyone got one? want to make one?:p there's worse things on the net:p
yep these pics are up on billboards and buildings all over Auckland (capital of NZ, for the geography impaired). i think they're complaining about putting human genes into cows (or is it cow genes into humans?) Anyway, it's a clever and eye-catching bit of photoshoppage. probably caused a few accidents aswell as men check 'em out.
i was in the NZ anti-GM march BTW. not that i really care about GM, just wanted to go on a protest and see what it was like.
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SS is a seperate network developed by an ex-Napster programmer (you can see the similarities in the client app) which has managed to stay under the radar fairly nicely and i for one don't want to see shutdown, seeing as it has a nice community and song selection. yes it is centralised, currently it is two networks in fact, but your conspiracy theory is way off ok; these things are not connected, i'm 99% sure.
Longer? depends how far you are from the shops, and how fast your net connection is. N/m whether the store *has* what you want!
More expensive? haha.. one is free m8, or at least should be lower cost, if you're paying for the connection anyway or someone else is.
Lower quality? you're using the wrong networks, or don't know how to use them right, or are an audiophile who thinks he can hear differences but can't ABX them.
sorry to sound like an argumentative d*ck but the net *is* a better distribution method in general, for music.
oops, before they break out the lawyers and now the page has loaded: they credit PeerGuardian with the original story. Of course, whether that's the original original, who knows. hehe. the Net is wonderful in this way ;)
Zeropaid /.'ed. Alternative article. Probably the original anyway.. zeropaid has a habit of ahem 'stealing' news.
and it'll be a miracle if i'm 1st with that! :p
i'm not a linux user but doesn't that have horrible implications for dual boot setups? where two OSes have to access the same files...
wow people post to slashdot fast :o. a dozen posts probably covered those thoughts in the minute it took me to write that. ill just crawl back into my hole lol.
should have developed their own file system. so.. is that hard? are there any free file systems? what does linux use? does a specialist device need the full fuctionality (don't scoff, geeks) of something like FAT?
no offense, but i doubt the suits care - you represent such a very tiny % of the market for their products.
If it weren't for Jon... someone else would have done it. duh.
Even old films are made on film. Film has a very (very) high resolution. Hence HD-DVD (or whatever it's called) can benefit old movies :) As for the soundtrack, yes you probably have diminishing returns there - old movies tend to be mono/stereo and poorly (analogue) recorded and mixed.
yep i'm also in the UK and i've been maxing out my bandwidth for the last couple of days, browsing US sites and so forth with absolutely no reduction in service. This story came as quite a surprise! So the system must be more redundant than we're giving it credit for. Or i should thank my ISP. Or we got lucky :)
out of random pieces of old cable from buildings? no. i won't even ask what you want to do with that cable.
I get so much spam from (or through) T-Online i've had to block them. So my feelings for this company are negative, to put it politely. You've actually tried to contact them eh?
But if it's closed and you get a reasonable number, it could either be right, or it could be a believable but wrong number.
I think this is probably what gets people concerned?
is this good advice, seriously? i have some nice expensive NiMH batteries and am tempted to try this, if it doesn't damage them. also wouldn't your fingers freeze to them when you get them out? sounds kind of a hassle. thanks for the interesting idea to this real problem though :)
this is a deltaV (greek delta, triangle, i can't type) charger (rate of change in voltage). the other type of intelligent charger is deltaT (temp.) dV work on the principle that when a battery is at full charge there is a 'blip' in the (voltage-time) graph which you can detect with some simple digital logic. not only can these chargers charge fast, they *have* to else this point is not as obvious and they're more likely to miss it (bad!) dT work by sensing the sharper rise in temperature after a battery is full.. not as clever imho but a good backup. just thought someone might find that interesting, if not n/m :p
Doh!
a rewritten script. of course i wouldn't want to see that made necessarily :)
now i've heard everything :p
but seriously i would never have thought of doing that. u r big fweak d00d! ;)
but i have learnt a few things!
- don't let cdrs touch each other ever. they *will* scratch each others data off. never put written cdrs on spindels or two to a slot in a case. i was too cheap to buy another case and immediately b*gg*r*d some of my discs stickin em two to a slot w/ a grain of sand in between!
- if you have to put a cd down not in a case, put it play side down. i've seen people put them label suide down thinking its 'protecting the disc' - worst thing you can do. a scratch on the plastic side ain't so serious, you could maybe polish it out in a pinch
- overprints are good, if you can get them. these are discs where the original label was printed wrong and has been.. overprinted. = cheaper AND tougher in my experience :)
- writing on a disc with soft tip permanent marker (you dont have to buy "cd markers", thats a joke) has never caused me a problem. i think labels are asking for trouble, but ive always been too cheap to try them :p don't use a hard tipped thing eh in case anyone is stupid to try a biro or sommat
- some cds are just sh*t and fall apart no matter what you do! if data is really vital i'd get two stacks of diff. makes of media and burn two sets (of course, im never sensible enough to do this)
- use the verify funtion of your cdr app if you're not in a hurry. then you know at least the disc started out alright.
there's probably loads more things i'll think of after posting this eh.
the biggest problem i have is with some cds developing mysterious "spots". there is a little speck with a discoloured ring around it, that can fall off, but even if it doesnt the disc is ruined. anyone have any idea what it might be that's touching my discs and doing this to them? i'd love to know, 'cos im stumped. id post a picture of one of these if i was somewhere with a scanner.
oh yeah, did i mention i was cheap! :p maybe buying more expensive blanks would help some of my problems, but i suspect you don't get what you pay for necessarily.
Clearly, i *can* say i liked part 2 of LOTR more than part 1 (which i didn't btw, despite what IMDB says about their relative rankings; i digress). Just as i can say i liked the beginning of a book more than the end.
There's no reason why the 2nd or 3rd parts of a trilogy can't be as or more exciting than the 1st - actually, from a dramatic point of view, the 2nd part *should* be the most exciting becuse you've got the scene set, characters defined and can go for it with the 'meat' of your story.. this is nicely demonstrated by for example Star Wars part2 - Empire Strikes Back, which i understand is often regarded as the best of the set.
The problem with the Matrix, IMHO, is that 1) the Wachowski brothers are not good storytellers, simple as that and 2) it wasn't originally meant to continue past the end of the 1st film... contrast again with LOTR, which of course *was* always meant to be in 3 and more importantly has been written with fantastic (excuse the pun) love for the material and respect for the audience.
I we could just say you like the Matrix and i like LOTR, and wave our willies around, lol. But the facts speak for themselves.. if people are saying Matrix pt3 was bad, they thought it was bad, and it was in fact, bad. No amount of justification gets around that.
I was just thinking this last night, what with the reviews of the new film being so bad an' all... One day i know someone will get the spoof right - i want to see the dialogue properly sent up, not the special effects - which are easy to mimick without much wit. Also what we need is a matrix spoof review site/centre with ratings to sort the wheat from the chaff, the funny from the sad and geeky.. anyone got one? want to make one? :p there's worse things on the net :p
i'd give you a mod point if i had one. sorry no witty tales of me' own, we don't get these ads in the UK (yet, afaik).
yep these pics are up on billboards and buildings all over Auckland (capital of NZ, for the geography impaired). i think they're complaining about putting human genes into cows (or is it cow genes into humans?) Anyway, it's a clever and eye-catching bit of photoshoppage. probably caused a few accidents aswell as men check 'em out. i was in the NZ anti-GM march BTW. not that i really care about GM, just wanted to go on a protest and see what it was like.