My legit version, has 3 options. Sonicstages odd compressed format, straight copy to MD or rip straight to wav. format on my hard-drive. And then i just lame encode them to mp3 from there.
Its never going to stop, RIAA should just give up. I suppose it doesn't help when labels themselves are giving away software to help rip copy protected CD's free with hardware. SonicStage with Sony's netMD's.
whats the odds on that. Just logging on to check on mail and news and/. and finding the first thing you read is about starbucks. While sitting in a starbucks, am i on mars atm. Its that early in the morning i'm not quite sure to be honest. Need more coffee i guess:)
Woo, this is actually good for me. Well will be in a few months, should it happen in all airports and air companies. Mainly because in a few months I will have been in my current job for over 2 years and be over 26 and same address for over 3 years. Which for credit scores increases my score alot. Then checkin/out people won't hopefully jump me on. Atm with all the concerns I fall into the worst category. I nearly always travel single, long distance, with nothing more than a hand luggage and dressed in casuals. So I'm first through passport control only to get stopped over and over by people. Who as soon as they check my records, say 'oh you are a regular carry on, this usually is just after they have unpacked my rucksack.
As sony said at the start of the PS1 and also on the PS2. They dont care about making a loss on the console itself. Games profit will make up it 10 fold for average owners.
This may seem a bad idea for intel to aim for this now. Especially with current market releases of other hardware in formats these technologys do "not support" (Nvidia/ATi gfx cards, 1 gig lan cards and also soundcards). But this news can be taken in two ways. Firstly its actually trying to force us forward to better hardware and not stick with current day limited technologys, which is a damn good thing. Or it can be viewed at trying to hurt AMD. Afterall if it got support from nvidia/ati/cisco/creative/3com etc to provide "futuretech" cards it would certainly force AMD to rethink the Athlon-64 supporting chipsets. As to be honest we need to have some kind of standard. As to cost of upgrading, it wouldn't really bother me. I spend $2000 a year anyhow. But then again i'm AMDcore really and not intel. One last thing to consider is that staying with a 4gig limit on ram, it means they are not intending to go 64bit either, so i wonder whats the point in doing a half job. I personally currently have 1.5gig of ram and i still want more (640k blah).
True, Middleman/Retail market does most probably take most of the money. Also i suppose that most top game programmers are probably on 100k UKP when they've had a decent title release (based on adverts in EDGE magazine for Rare of starting wages of 30-70k+benifits). And if the later reply suggests, they can get a cut of money from licencing the engine its not a bad living.
Just wondering/thought, how long will it before Game shops and even online retailers start to die due to the biggest games companies selling direct from download. Its probably still not 100% possible to do 'pay then download' systems, as broadband needs to be a little more common place than it is now (and then 1meg+ at home not 512k, due to size of games today). But a year or so more? This would also cut out alot of piracy if i think about it. By stopping the stealing of serial keys, by being embedded in the software. Which is alot easier if done live, rather than on discs.
Who knows.
Heh, while working i was posting the same story and its pending, oh well another rejected story.
But in the meantime i'll put my questions here.
With the massive profit margins of games these days. Do the designers see any of it. Or have the days of the Multimillionaire games designers gone like those of Adrian Carmack, John Carmack, Tom Hall, and John Romero from id software. If they don't see a share of the profit should they be paid like a movie star, after all there work is bringing in the same $'s at better profit margin.
CD ~10c? (with front label), Box+paperwork ~$1? Shipping ~$5 per 100? So what $1.15 for a game that sells for $50. Who gets what out of the other $48.85.
With all the talk that floats around, about every household electronic appliance having its own IP. And this also leading to companies adding everything as some kind of named host within in a home network i.e yourhomeaddress.personal.ps2.sony or yourhomeaddress.personal.microwave.bosh. What can root servers actually handle. I'd hate to see someone bring down a root server with a microwave oven, well without actually putting it in one:)
Personally i'd settle for some cash back on the 4 copies of XP i have, and the copy of office and 2k i have. I mean with with the small amounts off each one, like in the US. I'd be able to get a new mouse or something:)
Should anything actually happen. Which I whole-heartily agree that something should happen. Maybe even the bigger distributions and users could actually back up Linus and other writers (i.e. redhat, mandrake, debian, IBM, sgi etc). After all they have a vested interest in the continuing development of code to support marketed products, which can only decline if people feel ripped off and there enthusiasm declines. And then such companies i) have loss of profits, ii) have to put money back into the funding they have tryed to save on by using linux. The main reasoning here, is without decent backing you lose, just because you can't fund any action.
Okie, i reckon 90% of peoples bookmarks will be deep links. So that means bookmarks are illegal. If you want to take that to the next stage, you can look at a bookmark list as a Bibliography for a project or paper you are writing. As you are technically deep linking into journals, archives or librarys. So that would mean bibliographys are illegal (esp. As papers are more and more being handed in a pure digital format, with there bib's as hyperlinks). So why does every school/collage/uni insist on you writing illegal texts. When they jump on any illegal practice.
You only have to look back into the past winners and there in 1985 is:
Category of Information and Communications
"Outstanding achievement in the field of electronics and communications technologies"
Dr. John R. Pierce (U.S.A.)
Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. Born in 1910.
Dr. Pierce's achievements in the field of information and telecommunication engineering represent the highest scientific caliber in the United States.
His work has resulted in the theoretical development of the possibilities of communications satellites and of broad-band digital transmissions via pulse code modulations and multivalent signals.
Money can be a powerful inspiration, after all doing something you love is one thing, but you still have to pay the bills. And knowing, there is rewards out there, should you stumble on something great can only inspire you when your really looking into a dark dark tunnel with no light in sight.
The current game on the market is Dark Age of Camelot, and at this time (although this may change, but hopefully not) it costs half as much at 6 UKP per month, or 5 UKP if you pay for longer in one go. I have not experienced any abuse to date off players. Mainly because the GM's really do stamp on people and ban the accounts when sent evidence of such activities. Any of the above problems are also stamped on, like dragging monsters to other people etc. Players views are taken into account, they welcome logs of encounters for play balance etc. And hopefully they will continue to do so, and not fall into the problems that EQ did. And To be honest if a company wasn't there to make a profit it wouldn't be a company, but a organization.
Is this because people them erasing them as fast as they are put down, or is it because companies have become aware of the open-ness of there wi-fi networks and closed the security on them. Needless to say i've seen hardly any symbols around london or manchester (UK) in the past month or so. I personally just used them to grab email, as usually my cellphone would lose signal too often in the city to be worth trying to grab large amounts of mail.
I personally have always watched for oddities on the tube network. Ever since i saw the same platform when i was about 10 as we travelled about london. And asked my father what it was, he answered (being a bright man, and knowing where in london we were at the time), oh it must be something to do with the Queen, and it will give you something to look up later. Since those days, i've been many times and travelled up and down the same piece of track to get a better view of it. After much looking, staring and pondering, i got to see quite alot over time. I've seen trains in the platform, lights on and off, and the odd person down there as well. So it for sure is used to some extend. Which now i know why, after now working for a major rail operator for the past 2 years. If they didn't run a train up and down every week or so, the track for rust to the point it would seize the wheels on the first one that tryed. To reopen a section of unused rail is quite a long process, as it usually means laying new track. Also you have the problem of rats in the underground. And wires+rats dont mix:).
On other stations there is also a station at parliment as well, that is only for use in war situations, that i've seen from time to time. And when they refurbed Embankment i'm sure i notice a line that is not used today. But this seems the best time to find things, when they have to close stations for varying reasons. Take this year when flooding closed large areas of the network in early september. I got to use stairwells that obviously had not seen the human foot of the normal passenger in some time.
Question is, when will events like this become real complace. I mean most of us that game online, have held our own little lan party's. Anywhere from 8 (your standard cheap ether-hub, and still okie on a 512k adsl modem) and 24, when you can manage a guild or clan meeting (which takes an age to organize). Games such as half-life and its many skins, probably wont be able to set them up. But with the likes of "Dark age of Camelot" Europe/ US . Seeing so many users now, and ever expanding, with more and more servers, it can only be a matter of time till events become common place. Esp, if they offer prizes for either code or storyline.
Definition of Robot:
noun:
1. A mechanical device that sometimes resembles a human being and is capable of performing a variety of often complex human tasks on command or by being programmed in advance.
2. A machine or device that operates automatically or by remote control.
3. A person who works mechanically without original thought, especially one who responds automatically to the commands of others.
ETYMOLOGY:
Czech., from robota, drudgery. Compulsory labors.
* The foundation of the term robot as it is used today can be found in a science fiction book and a play written by Karel Capek. The book is titled Valka s Mloky (War with the Newts) and the play is titled R.U.R (Rozuma Univerzalni Roboti) [rozum means wisdom] (Rozum's Universal Robots).
Technically anything that is compulsory labour is a robot, as long as it is artifical. So is a clone a robot? Anyhow, photocopies come under definition 2. Just though i'd drop the definition in:)
So how long do you think, before we actually see the first crime that goes along the lines of the Face Off film? Killed for there image, or forceably swapped image.
And how does this impact on driving licences or passports for example. I mean with having an image on those, to check its actually you. As you know now, it is hard to tell after 5 or so years on a passport if its actually your photo or not. Esp, at younger years of life. With the odd facelife etc, wont see much difference. But with a new X X and X who knows.
To be honest, to throw my 2 cents in, we are seeing more and more bad programming. 20 years ago, you might have expected a program to have bugs. But know we see some of the biggest software houses and programmers releasing half standard programs, just to get them released on time. With many bugs still with them. And for the most part these bugs are bareable only because, our massive increases in hardware does not notice the odd memory leak here for a long time. To be honest, how many things we have designed over the years, would run on a 286, with 4 meg of ram. Fair enough you can't ask it to hand some of the graphics side, but the bare bones should at least run, even if you would be waiting hours for it to say Yippie. All in all, we can get payed silly money for stuff we write, and the pressure of deadlines makes some awful things. But on the plus side, those that do side projects, do end up being the best things around. As you dont want to release a personal project unless its perfect.
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My legit version, has 3 options. Sonicstages odd compressed format, straight copy to MD or rip straight to wav. format on my hard-drive. And then i just lame encode them to mp3 from there.
Its never going to stop, RIAA should just give up. I suppose it doesn't help when labels themselves are giving away software to help rip copy protected CD's free with hardware. SonicStage with Sony's netMD's.
whats the odds on that. Just logging on to check on mail and news and /. and finding the first thing you read is about starbucks. While sitting in a starbucks, am i on mars atm. Its that early in the morning i'm not quite sure to be honest. Need more coffee i guess :)
Woo, this is actually good for me. Well will be in a few months, should it happen in all airports and air companies. Mainly because in a few months I will have been in my current job for over 2 years and be over 26 and same address for over 3 years. Which for credit scores increases my score alot. Then checkin/out people won't hopefully jump me on. Atm with all the concerns I fall into the worst category. I nearly always travel single, long distance, with nothing more than a hand luggage and dressed in casuals. So I'm first through passport control only to get stopped over and over by people. Who as soon as they check my records, say 'oh you are a regular carry on, this usually is just after they have unpacked my rucksack.
Hiya Tony, new mate
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
Visit Aunt Thatcher, for cookies
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
Then, we can take over the world.
Yours Best Mate George
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mutter: Shit, did i just send it to friends@hotmail.com
As sony said at the start of the PS1 and also on the PS2. They dont care about making a loss on the console itself. Games profit will make up it 10 fold for average owners.
This may seem a bad idea for intel to aim for this now. Especially with current market releases of other hardware in formats these technologys do "not support" (Nvidia/ATi gfx cards, 1 gig lan cards and also soundcards). But this news can be taken in two ways. Firstly its actually trying to force us forward to better hardware and not stick with current day limited technologys, which is a damn good thing. Or it can be viewed at trying to hurt AMD. Afterall if it got support from nvidia/ati/cisco/creative/3com etc to provide "futuretech" cards it would certainly force AMD to rethink the Athlon-64 supporting chipsets. As to be honest we need to have some kind of standard. As to cost of upgrading, it wouldn't really bother me. I spend $2000 a year anyhow. But then again i'm AMDcore really and not intel. One last thing to consider is that staying with a 4gig limit on ram, it means they are not intending to go 64bit either, so i wonder whats the point in doing a half job. I personally currently have 1.5gig of ram and i still want more (640k blah).
True, Middleman/Retail market does most probably take most of the money. Also i suppose that most top game programmers are probably on 100k UKP when they've had a decent title release (based on adverts in EDGE magazine for Rare of starting wages of 30-70k+benifits). And if the later reply suggests, they can get a cut of money from licencing the engine its not a bad living. Just wondering/thought, how long will it before Game shops and even online retailers start to die due to the biggest games companies selling direct from download. Its probably still not 100% possible to do 'pay then download' systems, as broadband needs to be a little more common place than it is now (and then 1meg+ at home not 512k, due to size of games today). But a year or so more? This would also cut out alot of piracy if i think about it. By stopping the stealing of serial keys, by being embedded in the software. Which is alot easier if done live, rather than on discs.
Who knows.
Heh, while working i was posting the same story and its pending, oh well another rejected story. But in the meantime i'll put my questions here. With the massive profit margins of games these days. Do the designers see any of it. Or have the days of the Multimillionaire games designers gone like those of Adrian Carmack, John Carmack, Tom Hall, and John Romero from id software. If they don't see a share of the profit should they be paid like a movie star, after all there work is bringing in the same $'s at better profit margin. CD ~10c? (with front label), Box+paperwork ~$1? Shipping ~$5 per 100? So what $1.15 for a game that sells for $50. Who gets what out of the other $48.85.
With all the talk that floats around, about every household electronic appliance having its own IP. And this also leading to companies adding everything as some kind of named host within in a home network i.e yourhomeaddress.personal.ps2.sony or yourhomeaddress.personal.microwave.bosh. What can root servers actually handle. I'd hate to see someone bring down a root server with a microwave oven, well without actually putting it in one :)
Personally i'd settle for some cash back on the 4 copies of XP i have, and the copy of office and 2k i have. I mean with with the small amounts off each one, like in the US. I'd be able to get a new mouse or something :)
Should anything actually happen. Which I whole-heartily agree that something should happen. Maybe even the bigger distributions and users could actually back up Linus and other writers (i.e. redhat, mandrake, debian, IBM, sgi etc). After all they have a vested interest in the continuing development of code to support marketed products, which can only decline if people feel ripped off and there enthusiasm declines. And then such companies i) have loss of profits, ii) have to put money back into the funding they have tryed to save on by using linux. The main reasoning here, is without decent backing you lose, just because you can't fund any action.
Okie, i reckon 90% of peoples bookmarks will be deep links. So that means bookmarks are illegal. If you want to take that to the next stage, you can look at a bookmark list as a Bibliography for a project or paper you are writing. As you are technically deep linking into journals, archives or librarys. So that would mean bibliographys are illegal (esp. As papers are more and more being handed in a pure digital format, with there bib's as hyperlinks). So why does every school /collage/uni insist on you writing illegal texts. When they jump on any illegal practice.
Category of Information and Communications "Outstanding achievement in the field of electronics and communications technologies"
Money can be a powerful inspiration, after all doing something you love is one thing, but you still have to pay the bills. And knowing, there is rewards out there, should you stumble on something great can only inspire you when your really looking into a dark dark tunnel with no light in sight.Dr. John R. Pierce (U.S.A.)
Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. Born in 1910.
Dr. Pierce's achievements in the field of information and telecommunication engineering represent the highest scientific caliber in the United States.
His work has resulted in the theoretical development of the possibilities of communications satellites and of broad-band digital transmissions via pulse code modulations and multivalent signals.
Just a general question, how much does one of these cost? today. Can anyone give me a website of a reseller that tells you how much for the machine?
The current game on the market is Dark Age of Camelot, and at this time (although this may change, but hopefully not) it costs half as much at 6 UKP per month, or 5 UKP if you pay for longer in one go. I have not experienced any abuse to date off players. Mainly because the GM's really do stamp on people and ban the accounts when sent evidence of such activities. Any of the above problems are also stamped on, like dragging monsters to other people etc. Players views are taken into account, they welcome logs of encounters for play balance etc. And hopefully they will continue to do so, and not fall into the problems that EQ did. And To be honest if a company wasn't there to make a profit it wouldn't be a company, but a organization.
Used Warchalk symbols
Is this because people them erasing them as fast as they are put down, or is it because companies have become aware of the open-ness of there wi-fi networks and closed the security on them. Needless to say i've seen hardly any symbols around london or manchester (UK) in the past month or so. I personally just used them to grab email, as usually my cellphone would lose signal too often in the city to be worth trying to grab large amounts of mail.
On other stations there is also a station at parliment as well, that is only for use in war situations, that i've seen from time to time. And when they refurbed Embankment i'm sure i notice a line that is not used today. But this seems the best time to find things, when they have to close stations for varying reasons. Take this year when flooding closed large areas of the network in early september. I got to use stairwells that obviously had not seen the human foot of the normal passenger in some time.
Question is, when will events like this become real complace. I mean most of us that game online, have held our own little lan party's. Anywhere from 8 (your standard cheap ether-hub, and still okie on a 512k adsl modem) and 24, when you can manage a guild or clan meeting (which takes an age to organize). Games such as half-life and its many skins, probably wont be able to set them up. But with the likes of "Dark age of Camelot" Europe / US . Seeing so many users now, and ever expanding, with more and more servers, it can only be a matter of time till events become common place. Esp, if they offer prizes for either code or storyline.
Definition of Robot: noun: 1. A mechanical device that sometimes resembles a human being and is capable of performing a variety of often complex human tasks on command or by being programmed in advance. 2. A machine or device that operates automatically or by remote control. 3. A person who works mechanically without original thought, especially one who responds automatically to the commands of others. ETYMOLOGY: Czech., from robota, drudgery. Compulsory labors. * The foundation of the term robot as it is used today can be found in a science fiction book and a play written by Karel Capek. The book is titled Valka s Mloky (War with the Newts) and the play is titled R.U.R (Rozuma Univerzalni Roboti) [rozum means wisdom] (Rozum's Universal Robots).
:)
Technically anything that is compulsory labour is a robot, as long as it is artifical. So is a clone a robot? Anyhow, photocopies come under definition 2. Just though i'd drop the definition in
So how long do you think, before we actually see the first crime that goes along the lines of the Face Off film? Killed for there image, or forceably swapped image. And how does this impact on driving licences or passports for example. I mean with having an image on those, to check its actually you. As you know now, it is hard to tell after 5 or so years on a passport if its actually your photo or not. Esp, at younger years of life. With the odd facelife etc, wont see much difference. But with a new X X and X who knows.
To be honest, to throw my 2 cents in, we are seeing more and more bad programming. 20 years ago, you might have expected a program to have bugs. But know we see some of the biggest software houses and programmers releasing half standard programs, just to get them released on time. With many bugs still with them. And for the most part these bugs are bareable only because, our massive increases in hardware does not notice the odd memory leak here for a long time. To be honest, how many things we have designed over the years, would run on a 286, with 4 meg of ram. Fair enough you can't ask it to hand some of the graphics side, but the bare bones should at least run, even if you would be waiting hours for it to say Yippie. All in all, we can get payed silly money for stuff we write, and the pressure of deadlines makes some awful things. But on the plus side, those that do side projects, do end up being the best things around. As you dont want to release a personal project unless its perfect.
Seems to remind me of the simpsons episode, with the woods and the xfiles and glowing Mr Burns.