Taping songs off of the radio *is* illegal. However, it was never enforced, or at least rarely enforced, because of two reasons. First, the songs are/were of low quality, being reduced by being broadcast over the radio first of all, and being reduced yet again by being transferred to tape. Secondly, taped songs off of the radio tends to have a low distribution... perhaps you, your siblings, and a couple of friends perhaps.
However, it's a whole new ballgame with digital music files. For one thing, the quality of the song is a whole lot better, and is either equal to, or almost equal to, the sound of the CD itself, (depending on what codec you use). Secondly, it is far far easier to distribute digital music files to thousands, if not millions, of your fellow human beings than it is to distribute a taped song from a radio station. Both of these gave the law and the RIAA incentive to actively enforce the law, where taping songs off of the radio didn't really give them that.
Sigh. Kids these days. You assumed incorrectly. It was a reference to the science-fiction cult classic film Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai in the Eighth Dimension."
It was a movie made in 1984, starring Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, and Clancy Brown. A television series based on the movie has been in development Hell for the past few years. Who knows if it'll actually see daylight. But the original movie remains a classic, and some semi-famous quotes, including "No matter where you go, there you are," came from the film.
Maybe Windows doesn't make a good operating system, but would it make a good spouse? I mean, my s/o refuses to go down, but Windows will do so happily and often. Maybe Windows is worth the $300 pricetag after all... $30,000 (after rings and cost of wedding ceremony) for a woman that won't go down, or $300 for an operating system that will... hrm...
So long as Superman gets up off his ass, we should be fine. According to the "Lois & Clark" documentary back in the mid '90s, he can live for several centuries, possibly even millenia. The only problem is ever since he single-handedly changed the Earth's planetary rotation twice in one day back in 1978, he's gotten very lazy. Lately, he looks more like Dan Goodman in underroos than Christopher Reeve. Good God, man! Stop eating all those twinkies and go hunt down Lex Luthor's evil toupee or something.
While men age 17-24 may not be interested in Barbie: Dress House II, I'm quite sure most would be interested in Britney Spears: Undress House II. That would be a game that didn't involve any violence, unless of course Justin Timberlake makes his way into the game as Britney's peeping-tom stalker or something.
Umm, err, that's what I was saying. Even *with* the Firebird.reg file with the entries as you listed, the same problem exists. The bug doesn't appear to have anything to do with the registry entries per se, more so some Mozilla Firebird code recently added, as I've changed the directory name, the file name, and the registry keys to reflect both, and it still has the same problem.
Please be aware that there is an extremely nasty Macromedia Flash-related bug in Mozilla Firebird 0.6. If you use Flash or Flash-oriented web sites as extensively as I do, this bug makes Mozilla Firebird 0.6 completely unuseable.
To get true Macromedia Flash support in Mozilla Firebird under Windows, you need to create a few registry keys. Normally, this worked fine until the releases starting a few days ago. However, now when you make the registry keys and install Macromedia Flash, it appears to work correctly, but as soon as you re-open Mozilla Firebird, it reverts to the old Netscape "Classic" theme, and adds a few new toolbars such as Help, and QA. Absolutely *nothing* works under this corrupted Mozilla Firebird, rendering Mozilla Firebird 0.6 completely useless.
For more information on this nasty bug, please see this Bugzilla entry.
Poison mushrooms grow and are ostensibly free as well. But the mushrooms I buy at my local supermarket are almost guaranteeable poison-free. And should I happen to eat one that is poisonous that I bought from my supermarket, should I happen to survive I can sue the pants off of the supermarket and the shipper-wrapper of the mushrooms. If I eat a poisonous mushroom that I just find growing in a field somewhere, I only have myself to blame in the end.
See, that's the difference between free and commercial. In the end, with free you don't know what the Hell you may be getting. But with commercial, you have a reasonable expectation of what you're getting, and if you don't get it there are recourses you can take.
There are no.iso mirrors. It is a commerical operating system. The current price is $40.
God, why is it the majority of Linux users are whining thieving babies who want everything for free? Wake up to the real world, where nothing is free. Not sex, not food, not clothing, and most certainly not operating systems. For operating systems, you either spend money, or your spend time, or in most cases a combination of both. But it *does* cost you.
I'm sure this will come across as a troll, but I'm just sick and tired of reading all these whiny little freeloader babies crying whenever something isn't free as in money, and just go steal it anyway.
Oh, please. Microsoft is not dead. Microsoft is one of the longest running software companies in the world, if not *the*. Plus, it intentionally hires the best software developers in the world, at least on the west side of it. They're very aggressive on hiring software coders and visionaries they know can and will deliver good work. Not only that, but there's the small fact that it is sitting on over $40 billion. That's nothing to sneeze at.
Then there's the fact that Microsoft has one keen advantage over OSS. That is the fact that it's centerally managed. In the end, one person has the final say over things, keeping things constant, consistent and flowing smoothly. While with the OSS, there is constant bickering and bantering going on with internal fighting, and code splitting. One recent example is the XFree86 incident. A lot of times reading about OSS development is like being brought back into high school with all the "he said, she said" bullshit.
Say what you will about Microsoft - good, bad, indifferent, but it's here to stay.
Damn, I wish I still had my moderation points from earlier this week because I'd be rating the parent post up in a heartbeat. You sir, are 110% correct. It's a shame more people don't see it.
I have tried listening to the one or two local college stations, but it was mostly alternative rock, heavy metal, and rap/hip-hop, none of which I enjoy. Oddly enough, I find the music (that which is there, which isn't much), on some local commercial stations more enjoyable than any of the music I've listened to on local college stations.
Concerning the readability of physical newspapers over reading them on-line, that's all preference. Some may find that true, but others not. Regardless, it is a fact that in general, the newspaper readers that remain are dying off, and are not being replaced. This fact is already well established by the Newspaper Association of America. For more information on the subject, see an article at Tim Porter's web site. The Retriever's number of readers is unique, and not representative of the general state of America's newspapers.
To be 100% honest, I don't see the big deal over the issue of media consolidation. Newspapers? Hah. Newspapers are a dead format. It's common knowledge that the current newspapers out there are not gaining any new subscribers to replace the ones that are dying off. Soon enough it won't be worth the printing costs for newspapers to be in the paper business without going completely digital.
Radio? Again, another dead format, save for talk radio. The only time I and others I know listen to the radio is to either catch the local news, traffic and weather while on the way to work and on the way home, and/or to listen to talk radio such as good 'ol Rush Limbaugh. Music stations just aren't worth listening to, both for the low variety of music (rap and hip-hop aren't my forte, but soundtracks are), and because of the low quality of the music they do play. I get better sounding music out of my computer than I do my radio.
Television? For the free airwaves, it's another dead format. The only future of television is in cable and satellite dishes. I remember reading an article a few years ago stating that no television will be free by 2010. Whether that's still the case, I don't know, but it's only a question of when, not "will it happen?" Honestly, who cares who owns two or three local stations when there are 200+ channels to watch? If I want to find out what's happening locally, I can either go to a local news-oriented website, or *gasp* - actually go outside and find out for myself.:)
At least the humanoid robots currently planned should be better looking in sports bras after a soccer game than some of the women currently playing professional soccer... *Shudder*.
Because recreating the sounds requires something resembling musical talent. And hip-hop "artists" and rappers, at least for the most part, just don't have that.
"Have you all seen Longhorn? It doesnt seem to have any improvements."
Typical FUD from an anti-MS zealot. Of course you haven't seen many improvements in Longhorn. (there are some already, depending on your point of view). It's a freaking beta, with two years left before becoming gold. There will be plenty changed before its 2005 ship date arrives. I would sincerely doubt the Longhorn betas now and whatever it is called in 2005 (we'll call it Windows 2005 for the sake of simplicity), will resemble each other except perhaps in minor ways.
Tell me, did the Linux 2.5.1 kernel closely resemble what is the latest 2.5.x kernel today?
If you have 40 gigabytes of music, either you're the RIAA poster boy or you're on one of their "Top Ten Most Wanted" list. I just can not conceivably see anyone having 40 gigabytes worth of lossy codec music. I ripped and encoded my entire CD collection that I've accumulated over the past nine years into Musepack quality 8, and my entire collection is less than 10 gigabytes. And some people claim that Musepack/MPC files are some of the largest in file size out of the lossy codec group.
Pfft. The single most evil piece of music is anything labeled under "Milli Vanilli." As much as John Williams might try, nothing comes close to the evilness that is Milli Vanilli's music.
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Taping songs off of the radio *is* illegal. However, it was never enforced, or at least rarely enforced, because of two reasons. First, the songs are/were of low quality, being reduced by being broadcast over the radio first of all, and being reduced yet again by being transferred to tape. Secondly, taped songs off of the radio tends to have a low distribution... perhaps you, your siblings, and a couple of friends perhaps.
However, it's a whole new ballgame with digital music files. For one thing, the quality of the song is a whole lot better, and is either equal to, or almost equal to, the sound of the CD itself, (depending on what codec you use). Secondly, it is far far easier to distribute digital music files to thousands, if not millions, of your fellow human beings than it is to distribute a taped song from a radio station. Both of these gave the law and the RIAA incentive to actively enforce the law, where taping songs off of the radio didn't really give them that.
Sigh. Kids these days. You assumed incorrectly. It was a reference to the science-fiction cult classic film Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai in the Eighth Dimension." It was a movie made in 1984, starring Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, and Clancy Brown. A television series based on the movie has been in development Hell for the past few years. Who knows if it'll actually see daylight. But the original movie remains a classic, and some semi-famous quotes, including "No matter where you go, there you are," came from the film.
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Bonzi doesn't have to pay any money? I guess Perfect Tommy and the rest of the Hong Kong Cavaliers managed to save the day after all!
:)
Bad joke, I know but it had to be said, err... written.
Maybe Windows doesn't make a good operating system, but would it make a good spouse? I mean, my s/o refuses to go down, but Windows will do so happily and often. Maybe Windows is worth the $300 pricetag after all... $30,000 (after rings and cost of wedding ceremony) for a woman that won't go down, or $300 for an operating system that will... hrm...
So long as Superman gets up off his ass, we should be fine. According to the "Lois & Clark" documentary back in the mid '90s, he can live for several centuries, possibly even millenia. The only problem is ever since he single-handedly changed the Earth's planetary rotation twice in one day back in 1978, he's gotten very lazy. Lately, he looks more like Dan Goodman in underroos than Christopher Reeve. Good God, man! Stop eating all those twinkies and go hunt down Lex Luthor's evil toupee or something.
While men age 17-24 may not be interested in Barbie: Dress House II, I'm quite sure most would be interested in Britney Spears: Undress House II. That would be a game that didn't involve any violence, unless of course Justin Timberlake makes his way into the game as Britney's peeping-tom stalker or something.
You mean the Unix-style copy-paste that often doesn't allow you to copy & paste information between various Linux applications, unlike Windows?
Concerning Halo being XBox's only "must-have" title, that's not true. Toe Jam & Earl III: Mission to Earth is also a XBox "must-have" title.
Umm, err, that's what I was saying. Even *with* the Firebird.reg file with the entries as you listed, the same problem exists. The bug doesn't appear to have anything to do with the registry entries per se, more so some Mozilla Firebird code recently added, as I've changed the directory name, the file name, and the registry keys to reflect both, and it still has the same problem.
Please be aware that there is an extremely nasty Macromedia Flash-related bug in Mozilla Firebird 0.6. If you use Flash or Flash-oriented web sites as extensively as I do, this bug makes Mozilla Firebird 0.6 completely unuseable. To get true Macromedia Flash support in Mozilla Firebird under Windows, you need to create a few registry keys. Normally, this worked fine until the releases starting a few days ago. However, now when you make the registry keys and install Macromedia Flash, it appears to work correctly, but as soon as you re-open Mozilla Firebird, it reverts to the old Netscape "Classic" theme, and adds a few new toolbars such as Help, and QA. Absolutely *nothing* works under this corrupted Mozilla Firebird, rendering Mozilla Firebird 0.6 completely useless. For more information on this nasty bug, please see this Bugzilla entry.
Poison mushrooms grow and are ostensibly free as well. But the mushrooms I buy at my local supermarket are almost guaranteeable poison-free. And should I happen to eat one that is poisonous that I bought from my supermarket, should I happen to survive I can sue the pants off of the supermarket and the shipper-wrapper of the mushrooms. If I eat a poisonous mushroom that I just find growing in a field somewhere, I only have myself to blame in the end.
See, that's the difference between free and commercial. In the end, with free you don't know what the Hell you may be getting. But with commercial, you have a reasonable expectation of what you're getting, and if you don't get it there are recourses you can take.
There are no .iso mirrors. It is a commerical operating system. The current price is $40.
God, why is it the majority of Linux users are whining thieving babies who want everything for free? Wake up to the real world, where nothing is free. Not sex, not food, not clothing, and most certainly not operating systems. For operating systems, you either spend money, or your spend time, or in most cases a combination of both. But it *does* cost you.
I'm sure this will come across as a troll, but I'm just sick and tired of reading all these whiny little freeloader babies crying whenever something isn't free as in money, and just go steal it anyway.
Is it time to start chanting "Linux is dying!" yet?
Oh, please. Microsoft is not dead. Microsoft is one of the longest running software companies in the world, if not *the*. Plus, it intentionally hires the best software developers in the world, at least on the west side of it. They're very aggressive on hiring software coders and visionaries they know can and will deliver good work. Not only that, but there's the small fact that it is sitting on over $40 billion. That's nothing to sneeze at.
Then there's the fact that Microsoft has one keen advantage over OSS. That is the fact that it's centerally managed. In the end, one person has the final say over things, keeping things constant, consistent and flowing smoothly. While with the OSS, there is constant bickering and bantering going on with internal fighting, and code splitting. One recent example is the XFree86 incident. A lot of times reading about OSS development is like being brought back into high school with all the "he said, she said" bullshit.
Say what you will about Microsoft - good, bad, indifferent, but it's here to stay.
Damn, I wish I still had my moderation points from earlier this week because I'd be rating the parent post up in a heartbeat. You sir, are 110% correct. It's a shame more people don't see it.
I have tried listening to the one or two local college stations, but it was mostly alternative rock, heavy metal, and rap/hip-hop, none of which I enjoy. Oddly enough, I find the music (that which is there, which isn't much), on some local commercial stations more enjoyable than any of the music I've listened to on local college stations. Concerning the readability of physical newspapers over reading them on-line, that's all preference. Some may find that true, but others not. Regardless, it is a fact that in general, the newspaper readers that remain are dying off, and are not being replaced. This fact is already well established by the Newspaper Association of America. For more information on the subject, see an article at Tim Porter's web site. The Retriever's number of readers is unique, and not representative of the general state of America's newspapers.
To be 100% honest, I don't see the big deal over the issue of media consolidation. Newspapers? Hah. Newspapers are a dead format. It's common knowledge that the current newspapers out there are not gaining any new subscribers to replace the ones that are dying off. Soon enough it won't be worth the printing costs for newspapers to be in the paper business without going completely digital.
:)
Radio? Again, another dead format, save for talk radio. The only time I and others I know listen to the radio is to either catch the local news, traffic and weather while on the way to work and on the way home, and/or to listen to talk radio such as good 'ol Rush Limbaugh. Music stations just aren't worth listening to, both for the low variety of music (rap and hip-hop aren't my forte, but soundtracks are), and because of the low quality of the music they do play. I get better sounding music out of my computer than I do my radio.
Television? For the free airwaves, it's another dead format. The only future of television is in cable and satellite dishes. I remember reading an article a few years ago stating that no television will be free by 2010. Whether that's still the case, I don't know, but it's only a question of when, not "will it happen?" Honestly, who cares who owns two or three local stations when there are 200+ channels to watch? If I want to find out what's happening locally, I can either go to a local news-oriented website, or *gasp* - actually go outside and find out for myself.
At least the humanoid robots currently planned should be better looking in sports bras after a soccer game than some of the women currently playing professional soccer... *Shudder*.
Because recreating the sounds requires something resembling musical talent. And hip-hop "artists" and rappers, at least for the most part, just don't have that.
"Have you all seen Longhorn? It doesnt seem to have any improvements."
Typical FUD from an anti-MS zealot. Of course you haven't seen many improvements in Longhorn. (there are some already, depending on your point of view). It's a freaking beta, with two years left before becoming gold. There will be plenty changed before its 2005 ship date arrives. I would sincerely doubt the Longhorn betas now and whatever it is called in 2005 (we'll call it Windows 2005 for the sake of simplicity), will resemble each other except perhaps in minor ways.
Tell me, did the Linux 2.5.1 kernel closely resemble what is the latest 2.5.x kernel today?
If you have 40 gigabytes of music, either you're the RIAA poster boy or you're on one of their "Top Ten Most Wanted" list. I just can not conceivably see anyone having 40 gigabytes worth of lossy codec music. I ripped and encoded my entire CD collection that I've accumulated over the past nine years into Musepack quality 8, and my entire collection is less than 10 gigabytes. And some people claim that Musepack/MPC files are some of the largest in file size out of the lossy codec group.
Pfft. The single most evil piece of music is anything labeled under "Milli Vanilli." As much as John Williams might try, nothing comes close to the evilness that is Milli Vanilli's music.
You mean Paris is good for something else other than the production of white flags and anti-American sentiments?! Who knew?!
MP3 this, OGG that, AAC somewhere in the middle... Sorry, I don't use any of the above. I encode all of my music into Musepack. At high bitrates, it's the best lossy audio codec, period. For more information on Musepack, see Case's Musepack Page</a>, or <a href="http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?act=S T&f=11&t=1927&">List of Recommended Musepack Settings</a>.
Musepack encoders and decoders are available for both Windows and Linux, with Winamp plugins available. The only real downside to Musepack is there is currently no hardware support. But having tried each of the codecs mentioned in this article as well as Musepack at the Quality 8 setting, Musepack is music to my ears each time.