Unless you are a woman making false accusations of rape to try and make a quick buck. Ask Kobe Bryant, whose name has been dragged through the mud while the accuser remains protected, even after the charge was dismissed.
On CD's, yes. On most DVD's, no, the top and bottom layers are of roughly equal thickness.
I saw most because I have one DVD of 'Shaolin Soccer'.. they 'forgot' to apply the top layer of plastic, so the disc is about half as thick as a normal CD. Its extremely light and flexible, almost like a piece of cardboard. Everyone (ie nerds, geeks) I show it to loves it, but I have to maintain a strict look but dont touch policy. I dont know how much you can bend it and I dont want someone to find out for me!
Anyway, where was I? Oh thats right, you were wrong. 8)
Errr.. you say you want the issue so you can give away a few copies of the CD. Why not just download it off the net as soon as its released then MAKE a few copies yourself. Its legal, which is the whole gimmick for what would otherwise be just another run of the mill CD release.
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>>And I have no respect whatsoever for little brats who think they're somehow morally justified in taking what I've produced simply because they can. If I write a book and you want a copy of that book, you can goddamn well pay for it. Don't want to pay for it? Then fuck off already; you have no 'right' to make a copy of that book to avoid the gate fee.
And you have no right to stop me from downloading it for free. Its my hardware and my bandwidth, and you can't tell me what to do with it.
>>Seriously, add an inexpensive docking station, and this would be the ultimate ultracompact laptop. You could use it as a normal PDA where ever you are, and at home or work you could plug it into the docking station and be on the network, use it for email and typing, and so on. For most people, this would make a practical second computer.
Dude, totally. If it had tv-out you could plug it in there and watch divx files too. I'd love to have something like that.
>> This is a disturbing trend i've seen lately - in everything from books, magazines, TV shows, to the Internet. Some people seems to be convinced it's better to ban everything questionable / politically incorrect instead of acknowgleding responsability as a parent and keeping your kids from seeing stuff you don't want them exposed to.
Another disturbing trend I've seen lately is sex everywhere, and I mean bloody well everywhere. In books, magazines, TV shows and especially the internet, people (including children) are being absolutely bombarded with sex. For me its not a matter of censorship as much as it is making this kind of content available to adults only. Remember those days, when explicit shows and other content were really Adults Only? More or less, anyway, we all found the odd porno stashed away in our uncles drawer or snuck out of bed at 2am to see a flash of tit, but at that time, the whole thing wasn't so In Your Face as it is now. Meanwhile, 12 year old girls are comparing their thongs while their 12 year old male counterparts simply type any one of hundreds of words into a search engine to get access to literally limitless hardcore porn!
Obviously the solution of this Australian right wing party is unworkable, but the current situation needs regulation of some sort, something like requiring a.xxx extention any the website address offering explicit material. That would go a long way in at least allowing easy management and oversight of what is being accessed on computers. Its just way too easy now, and any reasonably computer-savvy 10 year old often know a lot more about their computers than their parents, who basically use them to check their emails and cnn.com once every two days.
Society is oversexed enough as it is. Lets let the words 'restricted' and 'adults only' mean exactly that.
..could people please stop posting video files in the.ogm format? It reminds me a lot of.ogg. Maybe it is superior in some way, but you need a faster processor to run the files and you cant play it on a lot of 3rd party (ie non-pc) devices. Stick with divx or xvid encoded.avi files please.
>>Unlike Apple's iPod, on which DRM is an optional consequence, Microsoft requires that you re-encode all video using DRM-encumbered technology.
>That would be really interesting, if it were true. Jackass.
>I actually own one of these things, and I can say 100% that you don't HAVE to re-encode your music to a DRM enabled format. Indeed, it is not even the default setting-- by default, your music is not encoded. If you DO set it to re-encode for space purposes, it does NOT drm the content-- you're free to copy it as you like (unless it was already DRMed, of course.)
Uh.. he specifically states when you are required to 're-encode all video'.. then you start spouting off about 'you don't HAVE to re-encode your music' and 'by default, your music is not encoded'. He's talking about video, you're talking about audio... and you call him a jackass to boot. RTFP, Jackass.
How many male kindergarten teachers are there? How many female coal miners are there?
Garbagemen (there are no 'garbagepersons') are 2.5 times more likely to be killed than police officers. Fire fighting, construction, heavy trucking , coal mining, in short nearly all of the back breaking low paying jobs are done by males. 94% of occupational deaths occur to men. Every workday hour a construction worker loses his life. Same horrible statistics when it comes to catastrophic injuries. Secretaries may be underpaid but they can rise on the social scale without fear of amputations.
Funny how women don't want equal opportunity 'equally', just in the safe, cozy industries.
I'm all for equal opportunity, but its a two-way street. A good read on the subject is The Myth of Male Power:
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I forgot to mention, men are also 4 times more likely to commit suicide than women. A crying woman elicts sympathy, a crying man is a pussy who should learn to be a real man.
Male rape in prisons is completely condoned and even accepted by judges, who sometimes use stories of male rape in prisons to deter juvenile offenders from choosing a life of crime. If there were any place women got raped regularly, expect an instant commission, inquiry, media hype etc etc. But males, and criminals to boot? Serves em right.
Men have no reproductive rights. Women can choose to have the baby, or an abortion, or put the baby up for adoption. The man has only one option if the woman chooses to have the child: pay child support. If a woman has the right to "opt out" of a pregnancy via abortion or adoption why shouldn't a man also have this right? Many are suggesting "paper abortions" as a means to give men a similar right.
Anyway, I'll stop ranting. But I just get peeved every time I see people perpetuating the 'women are still victims' myth.
Read 'The Myth of Male Power' (or even just the amazon summary), get yourself aware.
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A bit off-topic....
Hmm.. yes, sexism is a problem today. But seemingly only for women, who are still seen as the gender requiring protection. Just spend a few minutes thinking about the following:
1.Although women have financial independence, men are still expected to pay for everything when going out with them. Taxis, meals, tickets, and eventually a $3000 DeBeers diamond. If he doesn't, society will deem he doesnt love her anymore.
2. Watch some TV. Whether in ads, movie or sitcoms, men can be made to look like the fool. Their sexual capacity, or even size can be made fun of, they can be ridiculed for not understanding things inherent to women, and they can be kicked in the genitals, all in the name of comedy.
3. More men die of prostate cancer than women do of breast cancer, yet breast cancer receives 700% more funding. Just look at the public awareness of both to know how in which direction the gender is pushed.
4. Family courts rule in favour of women 95% of the time. Perjury is an accepted way of women to get what they want. 'He beat me' is an instant way to get access to the kids, whether true or not. And if it is proven that the woman lied, there is no punishment in practically all of the cases. FOR LYING IN COURT!! Lawyers tell women to use this to their advantage.
So, yes, sexism is a problem. As men, we must be strong, raise a family, be the breadwinner, or be seen as a loser.
Women have choices. Be a strong career woman or a caring housewife/mother. People respect both, which is a good thing. But men don't have a choice, they are still seen as expendable wage slaves.
Oh yeah, women still live 5 years longer than men. Could that have anything to do with the pressure of work and poorer gender-specific health care?
...is seen as funny by society at large. Why is this? Its because
a) they are criminals
b) they are men
If there was any place where women knowingly got raped there would be an outcry, investigation etc etc. But as it is, it is an accepted, and even condoned by society. After all, these are criminals, they should pay their debt.
Rape is rape, no matter who it happens to.
I'll have to agree there. I bought a BenQ 4x DVD+ burner, and I've had nothing but trouble with it from the get go. Even on brand name DVD+Rs, it often refuses to read what it burned just minutes ago. Other machines (even first-gen DVD-ROMs) can read them flawlessly. Add to that the fact that it totally stopped reading/writing CD's/CDR's after two months... nothing but headaches.
Next time I'll plonk out the few hundred extra yuan and get myself a decent device.
Codecs? Do a google search for 'mympc'.. stands for My Media Player Classic. Runs everything I've thrown at it. Quicktime, Realplayer, Divx, Xvid etc. Everything. All in one nice spyware, adware and bloatware free install.
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Unless you are a woman making false accusations of rape to try and make a quick buck. Ask Kobe Bryant, whose name has been dragged through the mud while the accuser remains protected, even after the charge was dismissed.
On CD's, yes. On most DVD's, no, the top and bottom layers are of roughly equal thickness.
I saw most because I have one DVD of 'Shaolin Soccer'.. they 'forgot' to apply the top layer of plastic, so the disc is about half as thick as a normal CD. Its extremely light and flexible, almost like a piece of cardboard. Everyone (ie nerds, geeks) I show it to loves it, but I have to maintain a strict look but dont touch policy. I dont know how much you can bend it and I dont want someone to find out for me!
Anyway, where was I? Oh thats right, you were wrong. 8)
Errr.. you say you want the issue so you can give away a few copies of the CD. Why not just download it off the net as soon as its released then MAKE a few copies yourself. Its legal, which is the whole gimmick for what would otherwise be just another run of the mill CD release.
My old PC had this, it was called a turbo button.
>>And I have no respect whatsoever for little brats who think they're somehow morally justified in taking what I've produced simply because they can. If I write a book and you want a copy of that book, you can goddamn well pay for it. Don't want to pay for it? Then fuck off already; you have no 'right' to make a copy of that book to avoid the gate fee.
And you have no right to stop me from downloading it for free. Its my hardware and my bandwidth, and you can't tell me what to do with it.
Whats it been doing for the past two decades, taking a half-assed approach? Its about time it showed some dedication.
>>Seriously, add an inexpensive docking station, and this would be the ultimate ultracompact laptop. You could use it as a normal PDA where ever you are, and at home or work you could plug it into the docking station and be on the network, use it for email and typing, and so on. For most people, this would make a practical second computer.
Dude, totally. If it had tv-out you could plug it in there and watch divx files too. I'd love to have something like that.
I'm a spotty teenager, you insensitive clod!
>> This is a disturbing trend i've seen lately - in everything from books, magazines, TV shows, to the Internet. Some people seems to be convinced it's better to ban everything questionable / politically incorrect instead of acknowgleding responsability as a parent and keeping your kids from seeing stuff you don't want them exposed to.
.xxx extention any the website address offering explicit material. That would go a long way in at least allowing easy management and oversight of what is being accessed on computers. Its just way too easy now, and any reasonably computer-savvy 10 year old often know a lot more about their computers than their parents, who basically use them to check their emails and cnn.com once every two days.
Another disturbing trend I've seen lately is sex everywhere, and I mean bloody well everywhere. In books, magazines, TV shows and especially the internet, people (including children) are being absolutely bombarded with sex. For me its not a matter of censorship as much as it is making this kind of content available to adults only. Remember those days, when explicit shows and other content were really Adults Only? More or less, anyway, we all found the odd porno stashed away in our uncles drawer or snuck out of bed at 2am to see a flash of tit, but at that time, the whole thing wasn't so In Your Face as it is now. Meanwhile, 12 year old girls are comparing their thongs while their 12 year old male counterparts simply type any one of hundreds of words into a search engine to get access to literally limitless hardcore porn!
Obviously the solution of this Australian right wing party is unworkable, but the current situation needs regulation of some sort, something like requiring a
Society is oversexed enough as it is. Lets let the words 'restricted' and 'adults only' mean exactly that.
..could people please stop posting video files in the .ogm format? It reminds me a lot of .ogg. Maybe it is superior in some way, but you need a faster processor to run the files and you cant play it on a lot of 3rd party (ie non-pc) devices. Stick with divx or xvid encoded .avi files please.
>>Unlike Apple's iPod, on which DRM is an optional consequence, Microsoft requires that you re-encode all video using DRM-encumbered technology.
>That would be really interesting, if it were true. Jackass.
>I actually own one of these things, and I can say 100% that you don't HAVE to re-encode your music to a DRM enabled format. Indeed, it is not even the default setting-- by default, your music is not encoded. If you DO set it to re-encode for space purposes, it does NOT drm the content-- you're free to copy it as you like (unless it was already DRMed, of course.)
Uh.. he specifically states when you are required to 're-encode all video'.. then you start spouting off about 'you don't HAVE to re-encode your music' and 'by default, your music is not encoded'. He's talking about video, you're talking about audio... and you call him a jackass to boot. RTFP, Jackass.
Who the hell modded this guy up?
How many male kindergarten teachers are there?
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How many female coal miners are there?
Garbagemen (there are no 'garbagepersons') are 2.5 times more likely to be killed than police officers. Fire fighting, construction, heavy trucking , coal mining, in short nearly all of the back breaking low paying jobs are done by males. 94% of occupational deaths occur to men. Every workday hour a construction worker loses his life. Same horrible statistics when it comes to catastrophic injuries. Secretaries may be underpaid but they can rise on the social scale without fear of amputations.
Funny how women don't want equal opportunity 'equally', just in the safe, cozy industries.
I'm all for equal opportunity, but its a two-way street. A good read on the subject is The Myth of Male Power:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-revie
I forgot to mention, men are also 4 times more likely to commit suicide than women. A crying woman elicts sympathy, a crying man is a pussy who should learn to be a real man.
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Male rape in prisons is completely condoned and even accepted by judges, who sometimes use stories of male rape in prisons to deter juvenile offenders from choosing a life of crime. If there were any place women got raped regularly, expect an instant commission, inquiry, media hype etc etc. But males, and criminals to boot? Serves em right.
Men have no reproductive rights. Women can choose to have the baby, or an abortion, or put the baby up for adoption. The man has only one option if the woman chooses to have the child: pay child support. If a woman has the right to "opt out" of a pregnancy via abortion or adoption why shouldn't a man also have this right? Many are suggesting "paper abortions" as a means to give men a similar right.
Anyway, I'll stop ranting. But I just get peeved every time I see people perpetuating the 'women are still victims' myth.
Read 'The Myth of Male Power' (or even just the amazon summary), get yourself aware.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0
A bit off-topic....
Hmm.. yes, sexism is a problem today. But seemingly only for women, who are still seen as the gender requiring protection. Just spend a few minutes thinking about the following:
1.Although women have financial independence, men are still expected to pay for everything when going out with them. Taxis, meals, tickets, and eventually a $3000 DeBeers diamond. If he doesn't, society will deem he doesnt love her anymore.
2. Watch some TV. Whether in ads, movie or sitcoms, men can be made to look like the fool. Their sexual capacity, or even size can be made fun of, they can be ridiculed for not understanding things inherent to women, and they can be kicked in the genitals, all in the name of comedy.
3. More men die of prostate cancer than women do of breast cancer, yet breast cancer receives 700% more funding. Just look at the public awareness of both to know how in which direction the gender is pushed.
4. Family courts rule in favour of women 95% of the time. Perjury is an accepted way of women to get what they want. 'He beat me' is an instant way to get access to the kids, whether true or not. And if it is proven that the woman lied, there is no punishment in practically all of the cases. FOR LYING IN COURT!! Lawyers tell women to use this to their advantage.
So, yes, sexism is a problem. As men, we must be strong, raise a family, be the breadwinner, or be seen as a loser.
Women have choices. Be a strong career woman or a caring housewife/mother. People respect both, which is a good thing. But men don't have a choice, they are still seen as expendable wage slaves.
Oh yeah, women still live 5 years longer than men. Could that have anything to do with the pressure of work and poorer gender-specific health care?
...is seen as funny by society at large. Why is this? Its because a) they are criminals b) they are men If there was any place where women knowingly got raped there would be an outcry, investigation etc etc. But as it is, it is an accepted, and even condoned by society. After all, these are criminals, they should pay their debt. Rape is rape, no matter who it happens to.
Its gonna be a lot of fun watching him try to figure this one out!
When using an ATM machine, always keep your PIN number a secret.
with Spinal Tap.
I'll have to agree there. I bought a BenQ 4x DVD+ burner, and I've had nothing but trouble with it from the get go. Even on brand name DVD+Rs, it often refuses to read what it burned just minutes ago. Other machines (even first-gen DVD-ROMs) can read them flawlessly. Add to that the fact that it totally stopped reading/writing CD's/CDR's after two months... nothing but headaches.
Next time I'll plonk out the few hundred extra yuan and get myself a decent device.
Codecs? Do a google search for 'mympc'.. stands for My Media Player Classic. Runs everything I've thrown at it. Quicktime, Realplayer, Divx, Xvid etc. Everything. All in one nice spyware, adware and bloatware free install.
Brilliant.
Get the WiFi cyclist to park his bike and shout him a few beers.
who would've guessed Gimli from LOTR fame listens to CD's? See the pic in the article.
...thats equal to 244 cd bur^D^D^D pirating devices.
As a true blue slashdotter, I have a bit of an acne problem. Can I get one without the mirror?
..does it play Ogg Vorbis?