I tried this with my roommate. He was interested in the tabbed browsing I oh-so-love, so we changed the shortcut to IE to Firebird on the 'net kiosk/file server' we setup in the living room. He tried it out and instantly hated Mozilla. I was shocked, I just didnt know what to say. Mozilla kicks ass, but he had the worst experience with it ever and now I'm afraid he'll never try it again.
First he tried to read his favorite site, WinDrivers.com, which renders horribly, then he headed over to winamp.com to download some Winamp 2.x skins (pre-amp5 days), and whenever he clicked download skin mozilla tried to render the contents of the skin file as a web page. We couldnt get it to open the extention in winamp and he officially gave up.
I really didnt have a point to prove, just sharing my experiences and saying my opinion is that taking what you dont own, be it phone service or a dvd rip off a p2p network, is wrong/bad/illegial/bad karma/etc.. call it stealing, pirating, theft of service, whatever, the bottom line is you shouldnt do it but since the risk of getting caught is so low and the difficulty involved in commiting said crime is so low its no wonder otherwise honest people will "take" what they dont "own".
I've only been on slashdot for a year or so, I dont think I'm at the level at which I can make a valid point yet.
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Now if theres one person I'd like to see a/. interview with this month, it would be the science guy.
and I fucking hate hearing it called the "mtv" generation. Keeps reminding me of the time I was in a board meeting with older people at work who presented a powerpoint on how to, "MTVift our training seminars to better reach the younger generation". they were like 55, I'm like 20. I dont think they get it either.
why am i bothering, this isnt even on the homepage anymore and there is no way someone is actually going to read this old thread that this threshold.
But Slashdot latches onto it and blows it out of proportion to somehow paint the RIAA as the evil bad guy, when all they are doing is EXACTLY WHAT YOU GUYS WANTED WHEN THEY SUED NAPSTER--going after individual downloaders.
Ok, so, I'm not the only one that still gets a kick outa this. Come on now, were the explorers of the new seas (internet) wanting to raip and plunder (just like any good pirate would, back in the old days of pirates and such, but as the world and sailing evolved, you dont see pirates anymore. The internet is still young. wait.)
Bottom line: We want our cake and eat it too. Just pray out IP doesnt come up. (169.146.247.23;)
thats what a lot of phreaks say when "stealing" phone service, and since it doesnt cost ma'bell a damn red cent its any less stealing. I'll admit that when I got into this scene in the mid 90's I was ignorant enough to believe this mentality and its partly due to the fact that I was so young and uninformed, but trust me, after explaining to your mother at the age of 13 why you were arrested for breaking into a telephone interface box on the side of a building, or decieving the operator into believing that those tones you played her were actually coins, you'll understand that taking what you dont own is stealing.
ps: I download the weekly simpsons episodes online, but since I've paid for cable I dont feel bad about it, but none the less, I'm stealing.
Like the other guy said, not everyone has a spiffy new 42" plasma, but anyway, my point...
Archive you DVD to hard disk, put it in the file server, if said DVD ever goes bad just burn a new one from the image.
As for watching your "backups, divx, xvid, codec-of-the-month" copy on your tv goes, there are many ways to do this. Personally I've had a "tv-box" for this reason for the past 5 years, and recently they idea has really taken off (see how MS stole my idea and packaged it as XP Media Center Edition). Or you could get one of these new set top boxes that can stream video over lan, or dvd players that play divx. i could go on and on but you get the idea.
just like at one time (mid 90'ish) playing MP3's on anything but your computer was a big ordeal, now you can find a mp3 player for your stereo, car, person, anywhere.
and yes, I too watch movies at my computer, thats because my 19" monitor at 2 feet away seems bigger than my 27" tv at 8 feet away. and yes, its comfortable. Only time I watch movies on the couch is when my g/f is over
Camp onawana, we hold you in our hearts,
and when I think about you, it makes me want to fart
But seriously, I'm in the same boat with you. Although I do get my Simpsons fix from BT (Thank god its not mainstream yet) just because I dont have a Tivo and I can watch the divx when I want. (I mean, what the hell, I'm paying for basic cable anyway, its not like I'm stealing the content if I already paid for it... Right?)
Dude, shut up about the comercials arguement, its not my fault the ripping group deprived me of those wonderful 6 minutes of comtent, its the industrys fault for not giving me an alternative with a form of ads
I'm with you man. I dont fucking get it. When VHS first came out did you see them selling tapes everywhere you turn, even fricken 7-11 sells "hot releases". I dont get why with the DVD player (ok, wow, biggest new home electronic adoption ever) came the "DVD Collection". I've got a friend whos parents have an entertainment center full of DVD's that they likely only watched once, if ever at all, and when asked why mom came home with yet another "gotta have" movie its because "it was cheap ($14.99) and was at the register. My god WTF happened to society. This is crazy. I'm not saying everyone go out and download divx rips instead, but this seems to me like a fad that will hopefully die out as soon as the masses realize that they're $15/week movie habbit is really costing them.
what we really need are online alternatives ala ITMS & Co, or mass adoption of movies on demand (with the analog RCA out lines running to the unDRMd TiVo in jack. well, at least me personally;)
PLEASE, for the love of God, someone tell me I'm not the only one that thinks this way.
I know how you feel. This has been the third Christmas I've had without my mom, and my second without my dad, and I'm only 20 years old.
For all you geeks out there taking your parents for granted, quit it. Its one thing to have processes without parents on your *nix box but completely different without real parents.
My mother left me with one thing in this life, the knowledge of ballroom dancing (she's a pro dance instructor, and no matter how queer it may sound, dude it gets chicks, no lie. The ability to put on some old music she used to play around the house and dance around the apartment is a depressing blessing all in one. I feel weave's pain, I've been there. I would do anything for one last dance with my mom but instead I'm left with an empty apartment i can just afford, a cat, and a girlfriend I can teach all the dance steps I want.
some days i feel like there isnt a light at the end of the tunnel, some days i try to emmerse myself with techie shit to keep from reality, but this christmas I've been able to face facts and though the family I once had is gone I'm happy knowing that shes in those steps.
ps; my dad kicked ass too.
Re:Screw weird, this is the *COOL* present thread!
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Weird Presents Anyone?
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My g/f got me one of the new slashdot t-shirts from thinkgeek.com and a plush tux. I got her a GBA-SP and games, and though I spent more I feel like I got the better end of the deal;-).
I wonder how many other slashdotters have closets full of computer parts. Sometimes I think to myself that this is ridiculous. I've got 3 closets in my apartment and I refer to them as "monitors closet", "case closet" and "parts closet"... Even invested in drawers for the parts closet so I can find what I need (IDE cable, PSU, mobo) quickly.
Why, oh God why do I keep 512KB SIMMs!! Someone just steal this stuff from me!
last time you moved your equipment from one room to another, when you booted up did you notice that a third of the wires you once had in your old setup were unused...
where do these buggers come from? its like they're breeding and no matter how hard i try to keep the female ends on the other side of the desk from the male ones it seems to happen every time.
And why is it that even though CAT5 cables are male-male they too seem to multiply!
Who do they belong to? Where do they connect? No one knows!
What I would like to know is, what are the wires that follow train tracks? Ancient telegraph lines perhaps? Who owns them? Are they still used? If not, why the hell are they still there?
I read the article (gasp) and then looked directly under my desk... doesnt look like I'm doing much better. So when is Power Over IP going to come out again?
Another interesting thing to ponder, last time you moved your equipment from one room to another, when you booted up did you notice that a third of the wires you once had in your old setup were unused... where do these buggers come from? its like they're breeding and no matter how hard i try to keep the female ends on the other side of the desk from the male ones it seems to happen every time.
Yet another thing to consider. I just came back from a 200 person LAN party this weekend. A buddy in my clan (read: geeks that LAN together, not CS \"noobs\"); was relieved that he brought his trusty Dell QuietKey keyboard rather than his wireless logitech. The clan sitting directly behind us all were using these devices are were having trouble with interference all the time. Probably could have fixed things with using different channels but by the looks of things (19" LCD, green Antec cases, blue LED casefans) these guys didnt know a CAT5 from a Hello Kitty Personal Vibrator
I got my xp 2500 about 6 months ago for about $100 (retail box too;), choose it over a 2600 because it was barton (333) and at the time the 2600 was not. anyway, with my MSI K7N2 nForce2 board I noticed that I was able to adjust the multiplier and fsb without having to do any pin shorting tricks. My room mate got the same chip from a different vendor and found that in his gigabyte nforce2 he cannot change the multiplier and if he ups the fsb by 1mhz the system will hang. mine on the other hand is stable up to 2.16ghz.
What gives? were the early xp2500's really unlocked? are they really underclocked 2800's?
someone help me clear this up. any links aprechiated. thanks.
I'm just waiting for someone to find a way to hack (yeah, crack, i know) XM radio. I'm sure its possible, probably something like what direct-tv does but i havent had any experience with these devices yet.
has anyone seen any or had anything experiences regarding this?
A buddy of mine in high school used to eat coricidin (sp?) like candy because it had a high content of Diphenhydramine. He couldnt pronounce the chemical but most people around school called it "dex" and he said the effects of taking 8 or 10 of these was like that of LSD. Of course this was freshman year and he kinda grew up by senior year but anyways thats my 2 cents.
Yes but with your PCI video card in the mix your 180' Quake 3 is going to run at 25 FPS... Did this with UT original, it was terribly slow even with a 2.5ghz setup with a dual head radeon 9500 and a PCI Radeon 7000.
if you truly mean that this works well send a linky link;)
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What I'd like is a monitor (under a bizillion dollars) that actually supports 2048x1536.
My new years resolution: 1152x864. 1024 too low, 1280 too high.
I tried this with my roommate. He was interested in the tabbed browsing I oh-so-love, so we changed the shortcut to IE to Firebird on the 'net kiosk/file server' we setup in the living room. He tried it out and instantly hated Mozilla. I was shocked, I just didnt know what to say. Mozilla kicks ass, but he had the worst experience with it ever and now I'm afraid he'll never try it again.
First he tried to read his favorite site, WinDrivers.com, which renders horribly, then he headed over to winamp.com to download some Winamp 2.x skins (pre-amp5 days), and whenever he clicked download skin mozilla tried to render the contents of the skin file as a web page. We couldnt get it to open the extention in winamp and he officially gave up.
What is one to do in this situation?
damn you and your bumpasorous
I really didnt have a point to prove, just sharing my experiences and saying my opinion is that taking what you dont own, be it phone service or a dvd rip off a p2p network, is wrong/bad/illegial/bad karma/etc.. call it stealing, pirating, theft of service, whatever, the bottom line is you shouldnt do it but since the risk of getting caught is so low and the difficulty involved in commiting said crime is so low its no wonder otherwise honest people will "take" what they dont "own".
I've only been on slashdot for a year or so, I dont think I'm at the level at which I can make a valid point yet.
Now if theres one person I'd like to see a /. interview with this month, it would be the science guy.
and I fucking hate hearing it called the "mtv" generation. Keeps reminding me of the time I was in a board meeting with older people at work who presented a powerpoint on how to, "MTVift our training seminars to better reach the younger generation". they were like 55, I'm like 20. I dont think they get it either.
why am i bothering, this isnt even on the homepage anymore and there is no way someone is actually going to read this old thread that this threshold.
But Slashdot latches onto it and blows it out of proportion to somehow paint the RIAA as the evil bad guy, when all they are doing is EXACTLY WHAT YOU GUYS WANTED WHEN THEY SUED NAPSTER--going after individual downloaders.
;)
Ok, so, I'm not the only one that still gets a kick outa this. Come on now, were the explorers of the new seas (internet) wanting to raip and plunder (just like any good pirate would, back in the old days of pirates and such, but as the world and sailing evolved, you dont see pirates anymore. The internet is still young. wait.)
Bottom line: We want our cake and eat it too. Just pray out IP doesnt come up. (169.146.247.23
thats what a lot of phreaks say when "stealing" phone service, and since it doesnt cost ma'bell a damn red cent its any less stealing. I'll admit that when I got into this scene in the mid 90's I was ignorant enough to believe this mentality and its partly due to the fact that I was so young and uninformed, but trust me, after explaining to your mother at the age of 13 why you were arrested for breaking into a telephone interface box on the side of a building, or decieving the operator into believing that those tones you played her were actually coins, you'll understand that taking what you dont own is stealing.
ps: I download the weekly simpsons episodes online, but since I've paid for cable I dont feel bad about it, but none the less, I'm stealing.
sue me: 127.0.0.1
Like the other guy said, not everyone has a spiffy new 42" plasma, but anyway, my point...
Archive you DVD to hard disk, put it in the file server, if said DVD ever goes bad just burn a new one from the image.
As for watching your "backups, divx, xvid, codec-of-the-month" copy on your tv goes, there are many ways to do this. Personally I've had a "tv-box" for this reason for the past 5 years, and recently they idea has really taken off (see how MS stole my idea and packaged it as XP Media Center Edition). Or you could get one of these new set top boxes that can stream video over lan, or dvd players that play divx. i could go on and on but you get the idea.
just like at one time (mid 90'ish) playing MP3's on anything but your computer was a big ordeal, now you can find a mp3 player for your stereo, car, person, anywhere.
and yes, I too watch movies at my computer, thats because my 19" monitor at 2 feet away seems bigger than my 27" tv at 8 feet away. and yes, its comfortable. Only time I watch movies on the couch is when my g/f is over
Camp onawana, we hold you in our hearts,
and when I think about you, it makes me want to fart
But seriously, I'm in the same boat with you. Although I do get my Simpsons fix from BT (Thank god its not mainstream yet) just because I dont have a Tivo and I can watch the divx when I want. (I mean, what the hell, I'm paying for basic cable anyway, its not like I'm stealing the content if I already paid for it... Right?)
Dude, shut up about the comercials arguement, its not my fault the ripping group deprived me of those wonderful 6 minutes of comtent, its the industrys fault for not giving me an alternative with a form of ads
people just like buying things.
;)
I'm with you man. I dont fucking get it. When VHS first came out did you see them selling tapes everywhere you turn, even fricken 7-11 sells "hot releases". I dont get why with the DVD player (ok, wow, biggest new home electronic adoption ever) came the "DVD Collection". I've got a friend whos parents have an entertainment center full of DVD's that they likely only watched once, if ever at all, and when asked why mom came home with yet another "gotta have" movie its because "it was cheap ($14.99) and was at the register. My god WTF happened to society. This is crazy. I'm not saying everyone go out and download divx rips instead, but this seems to me like a fad that will hopefully die out as soon as the masses realize that they're $15/week movie habbit is really costing them.
what we really need are online alternatives ala ITMS & Co, or mass adoption of movies on demand (with the analog RCA out lines running to the unDRMd TiVo in jack. well, at least me personally
PLEASE, for the love of God, someone tell me I'm not the only one that thinks this way.
Linky linky?
no, really, show me the money
driving the wrong way down a 1 way street no less
I know how you feel. This has been the third Christmas I've had without my mom, and my second without my dad, and I'm only 20 years old.
For all you geeks out there taking your parents for granted, quit it. Its one thing to have processes without parents on your *nix box but completely different without real parents.
My mother left me with one thing in this life, the knowledge of ballroom dancing (she's a pro dance instructor, and no matter how queer it may sound, dude it gets chicks, no lie. The ability to put on some old music she used to play around the house and dance around the apartment is a depressing blessing all in one. I feel weave's pain, I've been there. I would do anything for one last dance with my mom but instead I'm left with an empty apartment i can just afford, a cat, and a girlfriend I can teach all the dance steps I want.
some days i feel like there isnt a light at the end of the tunnel, some days i try to emmerse myself with techie shit to keep from reality, but this christmas I've been able to face facts and though the family I once had is gone I'm happy knowing that shes in those steps.
ps; my dad kicked ass too.
My g/f got me one of the new slashdot t-shirts from thinkgeek.com and a plush tux. I got her a GBA-SP and games, and though I spent more I feel like I got the better end of the deal ;-).
I'll be the one posting "who's the girl? She's hot ;) " to every /. article from now on.
I wonder how many other slashdotters have closets full of computer parts. Sometimes I think to myself that this is ridiculous. I've got 3 closets in my apartment and I refer to them as "monitors closet", "case closet" and "parts closet"... Even invested in drawers for the parts closet so I can find what I need (IDE cable, PSU, mobo) quickly.
Why, oh God why do I keep 512KB SIMMs!! Someone just steal this stuff from me!
last time you moved your equipment from one room to another, when you booted up did you notice that a third of the wires you once had in your old setup were unused...
where do these buggers come from? its like they're breeding and no matter how hard i try to keep the female ends on the other side of the desk from the male ones it seems to happen every time.
And why is it that even though CAT5 cables are male-male they too seem to multiply!
Who do they belong to? Where do they connect? No one knows!
What I would like to know is, what are the wires that follow train tracks? Ancient telegraph lines perhaps? Who owns them? Are they still used? If not, why the hell are they still there?
I read the article (gasp) and then looked directly under my desk... doesnt look like I'm doing much better. So when is Power Over IP going to come out again?
Another interesting thing to ponder, last time you moved your equipment from one room to another, when you booted up did you notice that a third of the wires you once had in your old setup were unused... where do these buggers come from? its like they're breeding and no matter how hard i try to keep the female ends on the other side of the desk from the male ones it seems to happen every time.
Yet another thing to consider. I just came back from a 200 person LAN party this weekend. A buddy in my clan (read: geeks that LAN together, not CS \"noobs\"); was relieved that he brought his trusty Dell QuietKey keyboard rather than his wireless logitech. The clan sitting directly behind us all were using these devices are were having trouble with interference all the time. Probably could have fixed things with using different channels but by the looks of things (19" LCD, green Antec cases, blue LED casefans) these guys didnt know a CAT5 from a Hello Kitty Personal Vibrator
I got my xp 2500 about 6 months ago for about $100 (retail box too ;), choose it over a 2600 because it was barton (333) and at the time the 2600 was not. anyway, with my MSI K7N2 nForce2 board I noticed that I was able to adjust the multiplier and fsb without having to do any pin shorting tricks. My room mate got the same chip from a different vendor and found that in his gigabyte nforce2 he cannot change the multiplier and if he ups the fsb by 1mhz the system will hang. mine on the other hand is stable up to 2.16ghz.
What gives? were the early xp2500's really unlocked? are they really underclocked 2800's?
someone help me clear this up. any links aprechiated. thanks.
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I'm just waiting for someone to find a way to hack (yeah, crack, i know) XM radio. I'm sure its possible, probably something like what direct-tv does but i havent had any experience with these devices yet.
has anyone seen any or had anything experiences regarding this?
A buddy of mine in high school used to eat coricidin (sp?) like candy because it had a high content of Diphenhydramine. He couldnt pronounce the chemical but most people around school called it "dex" and he said the effects of taking 8 or 10 of these was like that of LSD. Of course this was freshman year and he kinda grew up by senior year but anyways thats my 2 cents.
anyone else ever heard of this?
You mean like Win NY, as mentioned by slashdot here.
Now if only it was in english.
Yes but with your PCI video card in the mix your 180' Quake 3 is going to run at 25 FPS... Did this with UT original, it was terribly slow even with a 2.5ghz setup with a dual head radeon 9500 and a PCI Radeon 7000.
;)
if you truly mean that this works well send a linky link
5. Red Phone... afterall, who doesn't want one? You're batman right?
Of course, then you can say stuff like "Get the Pentagon on the horn!" while smoking a stogie