Just to continue this completely off topic thread..
I've used baling twine every time I've harvested the bales of hay. Nasty red stuff that frays very easily, but you can just cut it off with a knife.
I suppose there are some good points in it, but the fact that it's almost entirely fiction really puts me off.
I agree with some of the larger opinions Moore expresses, but the fact that he's a toss and the facts are very unreliable kills any credibility for me. The ending made me physically cringe.
Yes, I thought of that just as I posted:P
But still, the general point stands - MS might be responsible for a faulty product, but it is still ultimately the fault of whoever uses it for wrong.
In that case, watch Nosferatu. I haven't seen the 1920s original, but the 1970s German remake is absolutely tops. Fairly slow moving, but damn fine, and completely different from any other Dracula movie.
Let me not have to spend 3 weeks downloading an album from a billion different encodes.
Point taken, but if you want to download whole albums, you can't go past eDonkey, especially the eMule client, or lMule for Linux. Do a search for the album on Jigle, and there will ususally be a HQ version of it, all the files RAR'd together, usually with cover scans and playlists. (I found a good quality - 192 VBR - version of Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart, a pretty obscure album)
Everything I've got off there is very high quality
And, if I like it, I *will* buy the CD. Unless, of course, it's something like Hail to the Thief, where the CD is copy protected. I was *this* close to buying it, but thought better of it when I saw that damn sticker. I have every other Radiohead CD and a a few singles and so on legit, but I'm not buying this.
Not all - I've noticed some are coming down in price and unlimited. Dodo, despite the terrible ad campaign, has unlimited 256 DSL for AU$65 a month, which is a *lot* better than Telstra. No contract either, and I can get it here in Tassie. I'm on iPrimus dialup at the moment, which is fine (for dialup..) but I'm looking to change to Dodo. It's actually cheaper than dialup, cause I've got a second phone line and stay connected 24/7.
Not really. My handwriting isn't cursive (it's not block, either) and I do just fine in humanities exams where you have to write non-stop - and literally about twice as fast as everyone else. Most of the markers can read it as well, given they're trained teachers - I don't think my handwriting has hampered my academic performance at all.
Also, I *very* much doubt that computers are going to do away with handwriting - 'traditional' cursive, perhaps, but not the ability to handwrite legibly and fast enough.
Which reminds me.. *goes to limber up for Java exam in 2 hours..*
Yeah, the interview was void of any actual content. Apart from anything, I found her comment that Madonna should release her album in MP3 like Radiohead has.
Hail To The Thief, Radiohead's latest album, was leaked a couple of months ago. The band did not approve, and were quite shat.
is that many, if not most of the people in my first year CS degree has a clue. Of course, the uni has geared this so it doesn't matter - the first year is mind-numbingly simple Java assignments, with other units featuring such great topics as how to use Word. That kind of incredibly app-specific piffle pisses me right off. Almost as much as this first year is almost identical to college CS (this is in Aus, college is for 16-17yo between HS and Uni).
They used to teach C, but I think they changed for the boom. Now litereally anyone can get in, and for most dedicated students it's an exact rehash of last year.
Ah well, I think it'll get interesting in 2nd, 3rd and 4th years - the last year is dedicated to a team project working to spec from a client, which looks like it may have at least some relavence to the real world. Not that anyone will be able to get a job, there were a total of 2 computing jobs advertised in the national paper the other week:P
Rather bizarely, I think my humanities part of my double degree may
I meam, really. A fucking pendulum. Get a fucking life. Christ in a bottle. A [i]pendulum[/i]. Think about it. There's a fucking war on and you're worried about a penduleum. Sorry, but this says a lot.
While I definately don't approve of the RIAA/MPAA's actions, the basic fact is that I like my music on legit CD way too much to boycott it over a principal. Sure, I could get into unsigned bands etc, but I'm not going to give up buying records of bands I like even if they are with a largish record company. Likewise I could pirate all my muisc, but I prefer the higher quality of CD recordings and the packaging, not to mention the very vauge warm feeling I'm helping the artists in a tiny way;)
Movies I don't really care about, but I'm not going withiout my music.. To me (and, I suspect, a lot more people), that is worth more than making a stand against a Nasty Organisation.
I re-read Brave New World the other day, and I have to say this topic reminds me of the hypnopaedia-induced principal central to their society that encourages people to throw away, rather than repair consumer goods, and the good are made to last a suitably short time. In that, it was (I assume) used as a control mechanism, to keep people enslaved to the machine, working hard to buy the latest. Sometimes I think a similar thing is happening here, but I think it is more a case of companies looking out for their bottom line, and moving off-shore to sweat shops.
Incidentally, I have a very nice (but not terribly expensive) 1993 NAD CD player and 1970's solid-state NAD amp, and they are excellently made, they haven't failed me once. The amp is build like a brick shithouse, wood and metal faceplate.. Contrast that with my experiences with modern TVs and VCRs crapping out on a regular basis, and I think I can agree that the quality has declined. Mind you, NAD are a higher-quality brand than Sony or LG etc.
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Just to continue this completely off topic thread.. I've used baling twine every time I've harvested the bales of hay. Nasty red stuff that frays very easily, but you can just cut it off with a knife.
I suppose there are some good points in it, but the fact that it's almost entirely fiction really puts me off.
I agree with some of the larger opinions Moore expresses, but the fact that he's a toss and the facts are very unreliable kills any credibility for me. The ending made me physically cringe.
Sorry, linked: Here.
Seems to be a dupe. http://slashdot.org/articles/03/05/04/2012257.shtm l
Yup, it is. We've got a assignment writing 6502 assembly in our first-year CS course here at Uni of Tasmania...
Yes, I thought of that just as I posted :P
But still, the general point stands - MS might be responsible for a faulty product, but it is still ultimately the fault of whoever uses it for wrong.
Carrying on with the 2nd discussion, if someone killed someone with a gun (or a knife, or a lead pipe) do you blame the manufacturer or the crim?
Invented in Australia..
Well, he's been charged for something...
In that case, watch Nosferatu. I haven't seen the 1920s original, but the 1970s German remake is absolutely tops. Fairly slow moving, but damn fine, and completely different from any other Dracula movie.
Point taken, but if you want to download whole albums, you can't go past eDonkey, especially the eMule client, or lMule for Linux.
Do a search for the album on Jigle, and there will ususally be a HQ version of it, all the files RAR'd together, usually with cover scans and playlists. (I found a good quality - 192 VBR - version of Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart, a pretty obscure album) Everything I've got off there is very high quality
And, if I like it, I *will* buy the CD. Unless, of course, it's something like Hail to the Thief, where the CD is copy protected. I was *this* close to buying it, but thought better of it when I saw that damn sticker. I have every other Radiohead CD and a a few singles and so on legit, but I'm not buying this.
Damn nice list, damn nice.
Not all - I've noticed some are coming down in price and unlimited. Dodo, despite the terrible ad campaign, has unlimited 256 DSL for AU$65 a month, which is a *lot* better than Telstra. No contract either, and I can get it here in Tassie. I'm on iPrimus dialup at the moment, which is fine (for dialup..) but I'm looking to change to Dodo. It's actually cheaper than dialup, cause I've got a second phone line and stay connected 24/7.
Not really. My handwriting isn't cursive (it's not block, either) and I do just fine in humanities exams where you have to write non-stop - and literally about twice as fast as everyone else. Most of the markers can read it as well, given they're trained teachers - I don't think my handwriting has hampered my academic performance at all. Also, I *very* much doubt that computers are going to do away with handwriting - 'traditional' cursive, perhaps, but not the ability to handwrite legibly and fast enough. Which reminds me.. *goes to limber up for Java exam in 2 hours..*
Yeah, the interview was void of any actual content. Apart from anything, I found her comment that Madonna should release her album in MP3 like Radiohead has. Hail To The Thief, Radiohead's latest album, was leaked a couple of months ago. The band did not approve, and were quite shat.
is that many, if not most of the people in my first year CS degree has a clue. Of course, the uni has geared this so it doesn't matter - the first year is mind-numbingly simple Java assignments, with other units featuring such great topics as how to use Word. That kind of incredibly app-specific piffle pisses me right off. Almost as much as this first year is almost identical to college CS (this is in Aus, college is for 16-17yo between HS and Uni). They used to teach C, but I think they changed for the boom. Now litereally anyone can get in, and for most dedicated students it's an exact rehash of last year. Ah well, I think it'll get interesting in 2nd, 3rd and 4th years - the last year is dedicated to a team project working to spec from a client, which looks like it may have at least some relavence to the real world. Not that anyone will be able to get a job, there were a total of 2 computing jobs advertised in the national paper the other week :P
Rather bizarely, I think my humanities part of my double degree may
I meam, really. A fucking pendulum. Get a fucking life. Christ in a bottle. A [i]pendulum[/i]. Think about it. There's a fucking war on and you're worried about a penduleum. Sorry, but this says a lot.
While I definately don't approve of the RIAA/MPAA's actions, the basic fact is that I like my music on legit CD way too much to boycott it over a principal. Sure, I could get into unsigned bands etc, but I'm not going to give up buying records of bands I like even if they are with a largish record company. Likewise I could pirate all my muisc, but I prefer the higher quality of CD recordings and the packaging, not to mention the very vauge warm feeling I'm helping the artists in a tiny way ;)
Movies I don't really care about, but I'm not going withiout my music.. To me (and, I suspect, a lot more people), that is worth more than making a stand against a Nasty Organisation.
I re-read Brave New World the other day, and I have to say this topic reminds me of the hypnopaedia-induced principal central to their society that encourages people to throw away, rather than repair consumer goods, and the good are made to last a suitably short time. In that, it was (I assume) used as a control mechanism, to keep people enslaved to the machine, working hard to buy the latest. Sometimes I think a similar thing is happening here, but I think it is more a case of companies looking out for their bottom line, and moving off-shore to sweat shops.
Incidentally, I have a very nice (but not terribly expensive) 1993 NAD CD player and 1970's solid-state NAD amp, and they are excellently made, they haven't failed me once. The amp is build like a brick shithouse, wood and metal faceplate.. Contrast that with my experiences with modern TVs and VCRs crapping out on a regular basis, and I think I can agree that the quality has declined. Mind you, NAD are a higher-quality brand than Sony or LG etc.