Hehe.. if I had a million dollars in a plain old bank account, I probably wouldn't care because I'd have a lot more in other places.
I know what you're trying to say though.. it's a good point. But.. I think a slight fallacy does lie in the fact that people who have a lot of stuff to be stolen don't need it as much. If I stole a pop can from a homeless person who needed the 5 cents to buy a cup of coffee, would he care?
So in the case of Metallica, I think it's just crappy that they're doing this. Lars admits it's really of no concern to them and it's costing them more to fight it. If he's so worried about it then he should be helping the unsigned artists sell those other 550 CDs he mentions...
And of course, there's another argument there because unsigned artists need the distribution, but that's another issue entirely...
I'm just wondering what exactly you think all of this is going to accomplish. Do you realise the amount of alienation you've inspired among not only your fans but all Napster users? Is that something you wanted?
Ok did anybody else notice the liquid freezing when it exited the spacecraft? Forgive me if I am wrong, but my _elementary_ chemistry teacher taught me that with about zero pressure liquids boil at about absolute zero.. so wouldn't the liquid just boil off and evaporate as soon as it exited the spacecraft? Thus wouldn't the shot of the frozen sticks of fuel floating around be yet another inaccuracy? God damn, if this is a `realistic' sci-fi film, I'd hate to see what de Palma comes up with when he makes unrealistic ones. Man, (and I know this will be the subject of many flames at my expense) even Star Trek is better than this one. Sure, they've got funky stuff like photon torpedos which some how cause explosions from EM photons? But.. they never claim to be the most accurate, and in many ways the theories they use to describe space travel are decently sound (one could, conceivably, curve space to create a shorter route from point A to point B and thus travel faster than light in a global sense). So I know you'll all scream at me for saying this, and yes I am a slight Trekkie, but give be ST any day compared to this crap. Sure it's being glorified now with Pat Stewart and all them, but damn MtM sucked! Finally, I really don't know why Titan AE is supposed to be the greatest thing since sliced bread. Perhaps somebody could explain it to me, because from what I've heard so far we (humans) pile on to some huge-ass space ship and search fer a new planet because Earth is threatened. Gee.. no room for scientific errors there (like the transport of a _huge_ number of people across stellar distances). Hoh well.. somebody please explain for the benefit of myself and everybody else like me who has only seen a few trailers, why will Titan AE rock my world?
As for the Coppermine being faster than the Athlon, I'm keeping my mouth shut until benchmarks arrive.
Athlon has been shown to scale very well, and as you say Intel has chipset problems *and* heat problems.. AMD doesn't. The Athlon 700 is already out, and 750 will be coming right along...
I use grip, which comes with cdparanoia built in, for a clean install, and can work with pretty much any command-line mp3 encoder. I would suggest bladeenc because it can do a lot of bitrates. I think 192kbps sounds good and keeps the files pretty small... grip also does CDDB, which means you don't have to do your ID3 tags manually, as long as you have mp3info.
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Hehe.. if I had a million dollars in a plain old bank account, I probably wouldn't care because I'd have a lot more in other places.
I know what you're trying to say though.. it's a good point. But.. I think a slight fallacy does lie in the fact that people who have a lot of stuff to be stolen don't need it as much. If I stole a pop can from a homeless person who needed the 5 cents to buy a cup of coffee, would he care?
So in the case of Metallica, I think it's just crappy that they're doing this. Lars admits it's really of no concern to them and it's costing them more to fight it. If he's so worried about it then he should be helping the unsigned artists sell those other 550 CDs he mentions...
And of course, there's another argument there because unsigned artists need the distribution, but that's another issue entirely...
I'm just wondering what exactly you think all of this is going to accomplish. Do you realise the amount of alienation you've inspired among not only your fans but all Napster users? Is that something you wanted?
The temperature at which water boils is directly proportional to air pressure.
Uh.. that's inversely proportional.. but yeah.
Ok did anybody else notice the liquid freezing when it exited the spacecraft? Forgive me if I am wrong, but my _elementary_ chemistry teacher taught me that with about zero pressure liquids boil at about absolute zero.. so wouldn't the liquid just boil off and evaporate as soon as it exited the spacecraft? Thus wouldn't the shot of the frozen sticks of fuel floating around be yet another inaccuracy? God damn, if this is a `realistic' sci-fi film, I'd hate to see what de Palma comes up with when he makes unrealistic ones. Man, (and I know this will be the subject of many flames at my expense) even Star Trek is better than this one. Sure, they've got funky stuff like photon torpedos which some how cause explosions from EM photons? But.. they never claim to be the most accurate, and in many ways the theories they use to describe space travel are decently sound (one could, conceivably, curve space to create a shorter route from point A to point B and thus travel faster than light in a global sense). So I know you'll all scream at me for saying this, and yes I am a slight Trekkie, but give be ST any day compared to this crap. Sure it's being glorified now with Pat Stewart and all them, but damn MtM sucked! Finally, I really don't know why Titan AE is supposed to be the greatest thing since sliced bread. Perhaps somebody could explain it to me, because from what I've heard so far we (humans) pile on to some huge-ass space ship and search fer a new planet because Earth is threatened. Gee.. no room for scientific errors there (like the transport of a _huge_ number of people across stellar distances). Hoh well.. somebody please explain for the benefit of myself and everybody else like me who has only seen a few trailers, why will Titan AE rock my world?
As for the Coppermine being faster than the Athlon, I'm keeping my mouth shut until benchmarks arrive.
Athlon has been shown to scale very well, and as you say Intel has chipset problems *and* heat problems.. AMD doesn't. The Athlon 700 is already out, and 750 will be coming right along...
I use grip, which comes with cdparanoia built in, for a clean install, and can work with pretty much any command-line mp3 encoder. I would suggest bladeenc because it can do a lot of bitrates. I think 192kbps sounds good and keeps the files pretty small... grip also does CDDB, which means you don't have to do your ID3 tags manually, as long as you have mp3info.