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You are a fool to say that, just because normally maybe "1/3" of all errors should be contributed to hardware doesn't mean when you're out in 100 deg. weather or in a hazardous area that it will be. Hardening a PC against physical damages obviously has its uses otherwise there wouldn't be any suppliers. I see this just as an attempt to justify bashing M$... Typical/. reader base I suppose
too late.. 5 US soldiers are already dead, 1 marine was killed in combat and 4 died in a copter crash over kuwait, word is that 8 british have also died.
I think LCD's may be a more attractive option to PC bundlers and such as shipping heavy bulky CRT's around is much less coss efficient and nobody is really complaining about the LCD's so in some ways i think its doubling as a profit increasing and cost cutting measure.. LCD's that is.
"There is no income from the royalties, so artists in China record single songs for radio play instead of albums for consumers," said Lachie Rutherford, the president of Warner Music Asia-Pacific. "Stars need to look elsewhere to finance the rock-star lifestyle."
Keyword rockstar lifestyle. If you really think about it, it is probably about time the economy stoped rewarding stupidity, and start giving money to better things like technological development and not people who snort lines of ants and sing. Just my 2 cents.
Therein lies the problem. Technology and art/entertainment are 2 COMPLETELY seperate things. As i have stated before, technology is NOT art, and isnt really intended to be (except in the minds of a few 'geeks'), technology is a vehicle used to create time for people to enjoy the other things in life, such as music and other types of art. Something people tend to forget is we could live without a lot of the technology we have today (if it was never invented, im not suggesting people could exist without computers now that we have them, but if they never existed, we would continue about on our lives merrily oblivious to what never was).
This is where the distinction comes in, without art, a society as a whole becomes decultured, you may argue there is no culture in 'pop stars & divas', which i wholeheartedly agree, yet you forget... pop stars are american culture, until that 'fact' changes... dont expect them to be getting any poorer.
so what your trying to say is we would be a better off if our country was ran by a bunch of cyborgs?!?!? interesting... perhaps you trust technology more than politics because you 'know' technology, and politics is mostly foreign to you. s
SMTP is junk, no question about it.. there is almsot no way to effectively eliminate 100% of all spam without impeding others efforts to contact you, so i suggest that a new protocol be drafted up.. a common suggestion, all it would require is TRUE authentication of where the mail came from. Of course SMTP wouldnt go away, the 2 networks could operate simultaneously... i have a feeling SMTP would die out rather quickly though and become something nobody ever uses
people seem to think that everything but mega pop production records have like no time involved in the actual mixdowns and stuff?? wrong, except your most raw albums there is tons of production work done on the album before its released, and quite frankly, most bands dont have the competence to set up and manage their studio.. thus the audio engineer fits right in with the current pop/alternative market... the problem arises for these guys when it comes to electronic music, because recording and production is all done by the *SAME* person, thus cutting out all that time youd normally have to pay an audio engineer for, there are exceptions but not many. You would be amazed by the vastness of the electronic music market, because its *not* expensive at all to produce... contrast this by pop records.. no substance, but expensive as HELL to produce...
all of this 'technology' to prevent what? a series of beeps emiting from a device that apparently drive people 'crazy'? If you got a problem with some jackass and his cellphone make an example of him/her..
compression is for viewing/hearing.. the loss you experience from compressed data (especially data that gets new artifacts everytime you edit it) makes it very sloppy to use compressed format for professional applications, unless its losless. try encoding a file to mp3, editing it in something like soundforge (apply a couple simple filters too it) save it in mp3 format, load it up again, undo the last 2 filters you did to it (by reversing the operation, not undo) then encoding it again. it will sound like crap.
i cant recall the URL, but after a hard night of partying i was clearing the flyers off my car when a certain one caught my eye
it was about 4 inches tall and a foot long made out of thick gloss type posterboard, on one side it said in big 'arial' type font MIND FUCK except fuck was flipped (you could read it normal in a mirror). they had some really cool visuals on the other side and a website to buy their dvds of their 'trippy' visuals (which looked quite professional and well done).. i was interested but i lost the flyer shortly thereafter
the printer cant print itself.. the width of the printer would be wider than the width of the printing arm (for obvious reasons) i suppose you could rotate it on its side?
i cant find the/. article (nor did i bother to look) but i remember SONY owing nintendo significant amounts of money for every console sold under the 'playstation' name, and it seemed that sony would be foolish to continue naming them "playstation x"
you know as well as i when it becomes so inefficent as to the point your decoding *ANALOG* video streams to pirate something, nobody is going to waste there time doing it, who does it benefit? I mean who the hell wants a rip of a book where theres a good chance a word (paragraph.. whatever) is screwed up at any point... NOBODY???
Its kind of like how 7 11's only carry like 200 bucks in the cash register (or claim to do so) and offer huge rewards for catching the robbers.. sure you can do it, but dont expect a mass following. (hey guys, i just spent 40 hours stealing a book that any of us could have gone out and bought for 4.00 USD)..
And they'll be all over mIRC channels an hour later...seriously, this is going to make authors the new dying breed of employment, after musicians and actors...
/RANT on Puh-leeeze, for starters, DIGITAL theft, is not going to put *ANYBODY* out of business right now, its just insignificant at this point in time. ("first they ignore you..." we are a *bit* past that.. ghandi the wise;))
What is going to happen though, is the self-proclaimed armchair warrior "DIGITAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS" are going to create the very problem they are trying to prevent... you scream fair use, yet at the same time you pirate 1000's of mp3s you may or may not own (for now, how long before bandwidth and compression technologies allow 'exact' media copies? they already exist). What do you expect them to do? bend over and say *take me now*, of course not, DRM was inevitable from the getgo, because its in corporate interest, however, you are all taking away any *ray* of fair use we might attain, by simply acting like 'jackasses'...
Organizations like EFF and such are doing all the fighting and your.. well your busy looking up the next track to download or game to pirate. If the problem went untreated (and it is a problem.. just 'small' right now, smaller than anyone on the 'evil corporation side' is willing to admit) do you really think it would get better? I *doubt* it, unless human nature suddenly changed... its like.. cheap=good, free (with virtually no risk of punishment)=better.
Both sides are resisting the breeze of change, and neither will end up getting what they want. RIAA/MPAA want to keep their broken business model (which will force itself to reform eventually, the internet is not the last thing that will threaten the pathetically broken way they work, but may change it significantly), and "DIGITAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS" we will call them for a lack of a better term, want to keep their fair use (and free content). I can see several 'middle-of-the-road' solutions, but none of them will occur unless their is some sort of agreement (fat chance of that).
so go ahead, give the RIAA/MPAA/[book/publisher? association of america] the middle finger, but dont expect anything but the same back... /RANT off
well.. evolution makes life forms more efficient by weeding out the weak (physicaly)(although we actively go against this as humans) in nature, so it stands to reason that certain mutations that would not do anything useful for a creature would never end up as part of its 'genetic' sequence.
I cant honestly see what this will do. If a parent doesnt aprove of the game then just.. dont let them play it, the government shouldnt be playing the 'morale and ethical' development role in a childs life (but then again neither should vice city). government enforced age restrictions arent much of a deterrent for older kids either.. its just their values that keeps them from doing the 'bad stuff'...
unless your into some obscure type of music that cant be performed live, then just get out into the scene.. talk to people.. youd be surprised.. word of mouth is far better than anything you can do on the net..;)
weak and useless, thats an interesting assumption to make.. how do you judge ones worth? by how much money they make.. how high up the ladder they have gone? whos going to make your shoes for.35 cents an hour if there are no 'weak and useless' people in the world..
im sure you have made a ton of contributions to society...
I ask you this... what difference does it make if we are no longer the leader in 'technology' in the world, i guess we are missing out on all that 'stuff' that makes life so great. You know, like.. umm cell phones that wipe your ass, and umm??? toilet paper that wipes your ass, oh wait NVM.
i dont think im making my point (its early!) but all I am saying is its awfully short sighted to feel that if your country isnt 'the one' in the tech industry that something is wrong... is technology an indication of sophistication of culture, so lack thereof indicates savages? i say no.
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You are a fool to say that, just because normally maybe "1/3" of all errors should be contributed to hardware doesn't mean when you're out in 100 deg. weather or in a hazardous area that it will be. Hardening a PC against physical damages obviously has its uses otherwise there wouldn't be any suppliers. I see this just as an attempt to justify bashing M$... Typical /. reader base I suppose
too late.. 5 US soldiers are already dead, 1 marine was killed in combat and 4 died in a copter crash over kuwait, word is that 8 british have also died.
I think LCD's may be a more attractive option to PC bundlers and such as shipping heavy bulky CRT's around is much less coss efficient and nobody is really complaining about the LCD's so in some ways i think its doubling as a profit increasing and cost cutting measure.. LCD's that is.
big brother is watching you... *through* your underwear....!!!!
At least ill have an excuse to have big holes in my clothes now huh
Therein lies the problem. Technology and art/entertainment are 2 COMPLETELY seperate things. As i have stated before, technology is NOT art, and isnt really intended to be (except in the minds of a few 'geeks'), technology is a vehicle used to create time for people to enjoy the other things in life, such as music and other types of art. Something people tend to forget is we could live without a lot of the technology we have today (if it was never invented, im not suggesting people could exist without computers now that we have them, but if they never existed, we would continue about on our lives merrily oblivious to what never was).
This is where the distinction comes in, without art, a society as a whole becomes decultured, you may argue there is no culture in 'pop stars & divas', which i wholeheartedly agree, yet you forget... pop stars are american culture, until that 'fact' changes... dont expect them to be getting any poorer.
so what your trying to say is we would be a better off if our country was ran by a bunch of cyborgs?!?!? interesting... perhaps you trust technology more than politics because you 'know' technology, and politics is mostly foreign to you.
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26M? hah! i save that much every year pirating software and audio off the net.. puh-leez!
SMTP is junk, no question about it.. there is almsot no way to effectively eliminate 100% of all spam without impeding others efforts to contact you, so i suggest that a new protocol be drafted up.. a common suggestion, all it would require is TRUE authentication of where the mail came from. Of course SMTP wouldnt go away, the 2 networks could operate simultaneously... i have a feeling SMTP would die out rather quickly though and become something nobody ever uses
people seem to think that everything but mega pop production records have like no time involved in the actual mixdowns and stuff?? wrong, except your most raw albums there is tons of production work done on the album before its released, and quite frankly, most bands dont have the competence to set up and manage their studio.. thus the audio engineer fits right in with the current pop/alternative market... the problem arises for these guys when it comes to electronic music, because recording and production is all done by the *SAME* person, thus cutting out all that time youd normally have to pay an audio engineer for, there are exceptions but not many. You would be amazed by the vastness of the electronic music market, because its *not* expensive at all to produce... contrast this by pop records.. no substance, but expensive as HELL to produce...
does this mean i dont get anymore free donuts???
all of this 'technology' to prevent what? a series of beeps emiting from a device that apparently drive people 'crazy'? If you got a problem with some jackass and his cellphone make an example of him/her..
compression is for viewing/hearing.. the loss you experience from compressed data (especially data that gets new artifacts everytime you edit it) makes it very sloppy to use compressed format for professional applications, unless its losless. try encoding a file to mp3, editing it in something like soundforge (apply a couple simple filters too it) save it in mp3 format, load it up again, undo the last 2 filters you did to it (by reversing the operation, not undo) then encoding it again. it will sound like crap.
you actually can see up to 62.7ish redraws a second, but the real issue with frame rates is synchronization with your eyes.
i cant recall the URL, but after a hard night of partying i was clearing the flyers off my car when a certain one caught my eye it was about 4 inches tall and a foot long made out of thick gloss type posterboard, on one side it said in big 'arial' type font MIND FUCK except fuck was flipped (you could read it normal in a mirror). they had some really cool visuals on the other side and a website to buy their dvds of their 'trippy' visuals (which looked quite professional and well done).. i was interested but i lost the flyer shortly thereafter
the printer cant print itself.. the width of the printer would be wider than the width of the printing arm (for obvious reasons) i suppose you could rotate it on its side?
i always wanted a nice, cozy, warm, ALTIX brick house... i bet i wont even need a fireplace!
i cant find the /. article (nor did i bother to look) but i remember SONY owing nintendo significant amounts of money for every console sold under the 'playstation' name, and it seemed that sony would be foolish to continue naming them "playstation x"
you know as well as i when it becomes so inefficent as to the point your decoding *ANALOG* video streams to pirate something, nobody is going to waste there time doing it, who does it benefit? I mean who the hell wants a rip of a book where theres a good chance a word (paragraph.. whatever) is screwed up at any point... NOBODY???
Its kind of like how 7 11's only carry like 200 bucks in the cash register (or claim to do so) and offer huge rewards for catching the robbers.. sure you can do it, but dont expect a mass following. (hey guys, i just spent 40 hours stealing a book that any of us could have gone out and bought for 4.00 USD)..
And they'll be all over mIRC channels an hour later...seriously, this is going to make authors the new dying breed of employment, after musicians and actors...
;))
/RANT off
/RANT on
Puh-leeeze, for starters, DIGITAL theft, is not going to put *ANYBODY* out of business right now, its just insignificant at this point in time. ("first they ignore you..." we are a *bit* past that.. ghandi the wise
What is going to happen though, is the self-proclaimed armchair warrior "DIGITAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS" are going to create the very problem they are trying to prevent... you scream fair use, yet at the same time you pirate 1000's of mp3s you may or may not own (for now, how long before bandwidth and compression technologies allow 'exact' media copies? they already exist). What do you expect them to do? bend over and say *take me now*, of course not, DRM was inevitable from the getgo, because its in corporate interest, however, you are all taking away any *ray* of fair use we might attain, by simply acting like 'jackasses'...
Organizations like EFF and such are doing all the fighting and your.. well your busy looking up the next track to download or game to pirate. If the problem went untreated (and it is a problem.. just 'small' right now, smaller than anyone on the 'evil corporation side' is willing to admit) do you really think it would get better? I *doubt* it, unless human nature suddenly changed... its like.. cheap=good, free (with virtually no risk of punishment)=better.
Both sides are resisting the breeze of change, and neither will end up getting what they want. RIAA/MPAA want to keep their broken business model (which will force itself to reform eventually, the internet is not the last thing that will threaten the pathetically broken way they work, but may change it significantly), and "DIGITAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS" we will call them for a lack of a better term, want to keep their fair use (and free content). I can see several 'middle-of-the-road' solutions, but none of them will occur unless their is some sort of agreement (fat chance of that).
so go ahead, give the RIAA/MPAA/[book/publisher? association of america] the middle finger, but dont expect anything but the same back...
i have a vision.. michael jackson's plastic surgeons and the rebuilding of mount rushmore... nuff said!
well.. evolution makes life forms more efficient by weeding out the weak (physicaly)(although we actively go against this as humans) in nature, so it stands to reason that certain mutations that would not do anything useful for a creature would never end up as part of its 'genetic' sequence.
I cant honestly see what this will do. If a parent doesnt aprove of the game then just.. dont let them play it, the government shouldnt be playing the 'morale and ethical' development role in a childs life (but then again neither should vice city). government enforced age restrictions arent much of a deterrent for older kids either.. its just their values that keeps them from doing the 'bad stuff'...
unless your into some obscure type of music that cant be performed live, then just get out into the scene.. talk to people.. youd be surprised.. word of mouth is far better than anything you can do on the net.. ;)
weak and useless, thats an interesting assumption to make.. how do you judge ones worth? by how much money they make.. how high up the ladder they have gone? whos going to make your shoes for .35 cents an hour if there are no 'weak and useless' people in the world..
im sure you have made a ton of contributions to society...
I ask you this... what difference does it make if we are no longer the leader in 'technology' in the world, i guess we are missing out on all that 'stuff' that makes life so great. You know, like.. umm cell phones that wipe your ass, and umm??? toilet paper that wipes your ass, oh wait NVM.
i dont think im making my point (its early!) but all I am saying is its awfully short sighted to feel that if your country isnt 'the one' in the tech industry that something is wrong... is technology an indication of sophistication of culture, so lack thereof indicates savages? i say no.