I probably should check if it's up before posting the url, since it's down as much as it's up, but it has a pretty extensive collection of music ripped directly from SNES ROMs, and a few plugins to play them with different players. Zophar.net also has music archives from old video games.
It's pretty impressive the kind of sound quality some of the SNES and Genesis games managed to squeeze out of such meager hardware. My personal favorites are Tales of Phantasia and Chrono Trigger.
That's logic (Philosophy 103 and 201 in my college).
In economics, relation is assumed to mean causation: When a set demographic (in this case, people who download songs from the internet for free), compared to another one (in this case, people who buy all their music legally) engage in some activity (buying music legally) in a different rate (in this case, less often), it is assumed to be related to the defining difference between the two groups (in this case, the whole illegal file downloading thing).
I was just about to say that myself... (Mostly playing devil's advocate here. I hate the RIAA as much as the next guy)
The volume of downloaded files is pretty impressive. One CD per 5000 downloads stacks up when you have 2.5 million people on Kazaa at any given time - and it used to be closer to 5 million.
Kazaa has something like half a billion files available at a time even yet, and the majority are MP3/WMA/etc. Figure 500 million files, at 1 sale lost per 5000, and you have 100,000 CD sales lost there...
And that's a very conservative figure, since: A. Not all Kazaa users are on all the time, so there are more files than will show in the count. B. Most Kazaa users don't share their MP3s, and just download, so there are multiduinous collections that aren't counted. C. Kazaa used to have twice as many users at any given time. D. Kazaa's not the only game in town.
All that aside, this study DOES hurt the RIAA. They've been trying to push this claim that every mp3 downloaded means a sale lost (Considering how much they threaten to sue people, their actual claim is that each download means an entire CD collection amassed accross a lifetime fails to be sold), and this really sets them back if it gains recognition.
On the other hand, it also hurts the common anti-RIAA stance that filesharing doesn't hurt (or indeed helps) CD sales. I always smelled something fishy in that argument, myself. It looks like we'll need a new defense strategy. Personaly, I like the whole "litigious bastards suck" argument, but it doesn't have much legal merit.
I only have about 100 MP3s now (I'm long past the stage of having them just for the hell of it like I did back in high school - If I don't listen to them, I delete them), so I've only cost the RIAA 1/50th of a CD. So whopptiedoo. They sue me for 45 cents. They can have it, just check under the couch cusions. They'll probably get enough for a hamburger on top of it, and maybe they'll find the stylus from my Visor. I've been looking for that stylus for months.
I put a lot of thought into my car, and spend several weeks picking it out.
However, just looking up the options compatible with that model, there are over 74,000 different ways you can make a 1997 Chevy Lumina and not have it be called a Monte Carlo. In fact, the door hinges don't all have to be the same - the manufacture form shows that, in fact, there are three different types of door hinge on my car. Why? I don't know, it was made in Canada, ask them.
What's all these hinges? Damn if I know, they look the same, they don't squeak, and if they do, that's why the Good Lord gave us WD40 and Tylenol.
Actually, the best way is finding glitches in the physics engine. There's one where you can litterally do 500,000+ damage to his foot without him leaving the top step.
That's something I've always wondered. You can get a pretty good deal of choice out of Windows if you take a little bit of time and effort.
Linux has a lot more room for choice, obviously, because most things (like media players and web browsers) aren't tied inextricably to the operating system.
The problem is, with a few exceptions (which I've had bad luck getting to work anyway), Linux doesn't make the choices an option. It inundates you with choices.
The reason I personally stopped going to most Linux-related forums is that the users overwhelmingly seem to think that most users are on the same level as they are.
By this, I mean that they think that most users would be able to handle this level of choice as easily as they do.
The thing is, most users can't. I've litterally watched people freeze up with anxiety wondering if they should let a program install to its default directory, or picking between the "standard" "quick" and "full" Windows installations.
My professor in CSC 375 said something I took to heart on this matter: Options are good, but anything the program can do without the user's intervention, make the program do it without user intervention. Not so that the user can't do it, but so the user DOESN'T TRY, because the user is an idiot. Getting a good user is like catching that fish everybody talks about. If you get one, they'll flip your options all over the place and play with everything you give them. But that's pretty rare. Most of them will just bite the hook and start pulling, and you have to make the hook do the work for them.
Actually, when you go to the dealership, they DO make decisions for you. Like you said, there are thousands of cars, and about 500 variations of any given model - more on the expensive cars with lots of options.
You don't go in there knowing what all these options are. Most of them are shit you've never heard of. What the hell is Quadromechinational Steering and why the hell does it cost $5000? They tell you that stuff, and they help you make a decision on wether you want it, or want to take the normal power steering everybody else has.
They don't make the choice for you, and the above post doesn't suggest that. But you aren't just shown a list of the fifteen engines, four steering assemblies, seven or more fucking DOOR HINGES that any given car can have installed at the factory while the salesman sits there with a blank stare waiting for you to pick which ones you want.
Most of it you just get and don't worry about.
I don't care what kind of flanges are on my trunk door, just so it opens and closes, I'm happy. But I could picked from two different flanges on that hood. I don't even know what a flange is or does, let alone how one or the other is better, but they both cost the same thing, so I don't care.
After wrecking the car I've been talking about, I also learned that the 1997 Chevy Lumnia could have had one of four different engines, each of which has two different head assemblies. I don't know what all that shit is, and I don't want to pick one or the other.
I want that white car over there. You put the shit in it that makes it drive, I don't want to worry about flanges and fittings and what kind of clips hold the radiator hose in place. Fine, ok, I have seven different fan belt choices - I DON'T CARE, just make it DRIVE.
See? That's how people are with their computers. The coice is there, but they don't know what all this shit is. Yes, they use it, but they don't know one from the next, and that's why the vast majority of people still use Windows. You get the stuff, it's there, you don't have to think about it.
It took Mario 8 levels before he finds the right castle, hello?
He couldn't try other ones. Remember, Mario lives in a 2D world. He can't go around the castles, and he can't jump high enough to go over them, so he has to go through them.
In fact, here, you can't get the internet acces PERIOD unless you get Digital Cable AND sign Charter's 15 year double-termination-penalty contract. Thank god we at least have DSL - but then, you have to take a fairly expensive local plan and sign your long distance over to SBC (not a good idea in-and-of itself) to get that, so, damn.
They know they're screwing you, they just want to make sure it'll cost you more to back out than to lay back and take it.
My city has been taking it to the city council about our cable company for TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS. They were fighting Cox before I was born - hell, back when having cable was a social status symbol and most people around here didn't even know what the local cable company was, the city council was listening to people fighting the cable companies almost every week.
What's it gotten us? Not damn shit. Bresnan bought Cox, Charater bought Bresnan, and each one proceedes to screw us harder than the last one, and more people went to the city council to complain.
So, we ran a referrendum. It passed overwhelmingly, and we kicked Bresnan out in favor of Nova (who, at the time, offered 50 channels for $25 a month, compared to Bresnan's 30 channels for $35)
Guess what happened? Bresnan bought Nova, and we got fucked again - as did everybody up in Gladwin county who already had Nova for their cable. We got our 20 extra channels, but we also got another fifteen bucks a month on our bill instead of ten off.
Last year, Charter cut seven channels and increased the price by $8. This year, they're planning to cut two channels and add one that will soon be merging with a channel we already get anyway, and they've already tacked $5 on the bill, with $10 more comming this summer.
But I'm far too lazy to go back and dig through the Penny Arcade archives to find it. It was mostly about Reagan's economic policy, pork, oppressed working class, and the fruit, which apparantly symbolizes nothing.
I withdraw my earlier comments about Earthbound being like an acid trip. Obviously, this game is of a far more potent stuff.
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They'll fight it first, because there are too many potential ramifications for other Science vs. Religion fights.
90% of Christians will have no problem accepting life on Mars, but the other 10% are very vocal, and will fight it every step of the way. We're already two centuries into the Evolution debate. The 90% pretty much wrote it off in the late 1800's, but the other 10% show no signs of shutting up yet.
I played one recently on the SNES... Man, I wish I could remember the name of it. One of those generic shooters where you fly an F-16 with lasers against the Soviet army. Only, midway through the game, in the "dialog" (there were only three lines of it through the entire game, so it's a bit of a stretch to call it that), the Soviets turned out to be aliens.
I quit playing the game about the time the spires on the Kremlin launched themselves into the air and started shooting fireballs at me. Reminded me all to well of a dream I had once. Just no goats.
I mean, come on, both games are basically fifteen hour acid trips.
Super Mario RPG was a constant string of pop culture references that would have been hilarious had the game come out two years earlier. About the time the Axem Rangers showed up, I think we all gave up hope of a deep and compelling storyline.
And Earthbound? Three words for you: Alien Posessed Hippies. That and the psychadelic swirling color backgrounds, and who needs LSD?
Both parties have pretty much the same level of big-ticket donors behind them. For that matter, a lot of those big funders play both sides of the field, so that whoever wins, they still have the pull they'll need to, for example, pull enough fileswappers into court.
The private donors do tend to favor the Republicans, though, but it's generally attributed to the same reason the Republican's are often far more popular in elections than statistics say they should be: Their core voters are more loyal than the Democrats'. They donate more mone more often, and they make damn sure they get out and vote.
It's illegal beacuse personal beliefs are protected in general, not just in specification to religious personal beliefs. Hell, the way some people refuse to deviate from their favored party, and would probably vote for Satan himself if he ran under their platform, politics might as well be classified as a religion.
Nintendo still made profit selling the Famicom and Super Famicom in Japan until September 2003. Not much, but they didn't mass produce the console.
I didn't see anywhere where Sony said they'd sell the PS2 in the US six years from now, and Japanese gamers aren't as vain as US gamers. FDS games are still developed and sold there. Try selling an 8-bit game in the US and see how fast you get laughed out of the country.
Wixom Lake is a dam reservoir in Michigan, near Gladwin. It has dead trees in it, too (heck, I hulled my boat on one when the water levels were down about 15 feet a couple years ago). A few years ago, they dredged it out because sandbars were starting to choke off the main waterways.
They pulled up a lot of trees that had been submerged when the Wolverine dam was built, plus a bunch of boats, a couple ice shanties (no ice fishermen that I heard of) and something like fifteen cars that had broken through the ice at some point.
None of it was in good condition. The only good wood they pulled up was debris from docks that people left in through the winter (when the ice starts melting, it'll sometimes break them away from the seawall and out into the lake. When the ice melts, the dock gets dropped into the water. The concrete and metal ancorings usually make them sink), and that's all treated lumber. Trees aren't weather sealed or pressure treated.
It's not like we're slashing down an actual forest. We've already drowned this one, so even if we drain the reservoir, all we'll have is a bunch of rotten trunks standing in the middle of nowhere.
Speaking of which, dead wood that's been underwater that long is pretty likely to be heavily rotted. It would have very limited applications.
After a couple years using WordPerfect, it took me about an hour (during which I still managed to get things done) to get used to MS Works. It was maybe 15 minutes (during which I managed to get work done, again) to get used to MS Office. OO took me a couple hours (and again, I still typed up a term paper in that time).
Yes, people require retraining to use a word processor they aren't familiar with, but it's not like you have to send them off to boot camp for nine weeks.
I'm still using Office 97 on my Windows computer. It cost me about $70 when I got it, and it's functionally identical to the Office 2000 and Office XP that my university and workplace use. The additions in the last several iterations of Office have been of only niche usefullness, and you can usually get something to do that with 97 anyway.
At least with OO, I'm not asked to pay another $150 every year or two just to get a new font, or a new text overlay effect that I could do with the old one anyway.
Last I heard, they actually would download segments of several files from a person, and confirm that they were real (as opposed to all those morons who have fake or mislabled songs up for download).
It seems possible, and even likely, in this case, that our already advanced brains provided a large enough offset against the loss of powerful jaw muscles
Take a look at most simain brains. The jaw muscles of a chimp, gorrilla, or even an Australopithescene, attach at the very peak of the skull, and are very thick, comprising the bulk of the head.
There's just not room to expand the brain with ape-like jaw muscles. You're right on one thing, though: Weak jaws are a severe handicap without expanded brains.
There are three ways the two changes could have come: Brain, then jaw; jaw, then brain; both in parallel.
The brain can't expand against simian jaw muscles, so the first one's out.
Weak jaw and small brain are a severe handicap, and the remaining strong-jawed humans would have outcompeted their slackjawed relatives, and the weak-jawed strain would have been bred into extinction.
However, both simultaneously makes the transition profitable and possible, but you're ignoring something important: Related growth rates. Just the act of lowering the point of connection of the jaw muscles (in the case of apes, this is a ridge on the very top of the skull - in the case of humans, it's the top of the temples, just behind the eyebrows) makes the braincase of the skull larger.
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Apparantly, the site I just posted has been dead for a couple months. Zophar.net still works, though
I probably should check if it's up before posting the url, since it's down as much as it's up, but it has a pretty extensive collection of music ripped directly from SNES ROMs, and a few plugins to play them with different players. Zophar.net also has music archives from old video games.
It's pretty impressive the kind of sound quality some of the SNES and Genesis games managed to squeeze out of such meager hardware. My personal favorites are Tales of Phantasia and Chrono Trigger.
That's logic (Philosophy 103 and 201 in my college).
In economics, relation is assumed to mean causation: When a set demographic (in this case, people who download songs from the internet for free), compared to another one (in this case, people who buy all their music legally) engage in some activity (buying music legally) in a different rate (in this case, less often), it is assumed to be related to the defining difference between the two groups (in this case, the whole illegal file downloading thing).
I was just about to say that myself... (Mostly playing devil's advocate here. I hate the RIAA as much as the next guy)
The volume of downloaded files is pretty impressive. One CD per 5000 downloads stacks up when you have 2.5 million people on Kazaa at any given time - and it used to be closer to 5 million.
Kazaa has something like half a billion files available at a time even yet, and the majority are MP3/WMA/etc. Figure 500 million files, at 1 sale lost per 5000, and you have 100,000 CD sales lost there...
And that's a very conservative figure, since:
A. Not all Kazaa users are on all the time, so there are more files than will show in the count.
B. Most Kazaa users don't share their MP3s, and just download, so there are multiduinous collections that aren't counted.
C. Kazaa used to have twice as many users at any given time.
D. Kazaa's not the only game in town.
All that aside, this study DOES hurt the RIAA. They've been trying to push this claim that every mp3 downloaded means a sale lost (Considering how much they threaten to sue people, their actual claim is that each download means an entire CD collection amassed accross a lifetime fails to be sold), and this really sets them back if it gains recognition.
On the other hand, it also hurts the common anti-RIAA stance that filesharing doesn't hurt (or indeed helps) CD sales. I always smelled something fishy in that argument, myself. It looks like we'll need a new defense strategy. Personaly, I like the whole "litigious bastards suck" argument, but it doesn't have much legal merit.
I only have about 100 MP3s now (I'm long past the stage of having them just for the hell of it like I did back in high school - If I don't listen to them, I delete them), so I've only cost the RIAA 1/50th of a CD. So whopptiedoo. They sue me for 45 cents. They can have it, just check under the couch cusions. They'll probably get enough for a hamburger on top of it, and maybe they'll find the stylus from my Visor. I've been looking for that stylus for months.
I put a lot of thought into my car, and spend several weeks picking it out.
However, just looking up the options compatible with that model, there are over 74,000 different ways you can make a 1997 Chevy Lumina and not have it be called a Monte Carlo. In fact, the door hinges don't all have to be the same - the manufacture form shows that, in fact, there are three different types of door hinge on my car. Why? I don't know, it was made in Canada, ask them.
What's all these hinges? Damn if I know, they look the same, they don't squeak, and if they do, that's why the Good Lord gave us WD40 and Tylenol.
Actually, the best way is finding glitches in the physics engine. There's one where you can litterally do 500,000+ damage to his foot without him leaving the top step.
That's something I've always wondered. You can get a pretty good deal of choice out of Windows if you take a little bit of time and effort. Linux has a lot more room for choice, obviously, because most things (like media players and web browsers) aren't tied inextricably to the operating system. The problem is, with a few exceptions (which I've had bad luck getting to work anyway), Linux doesn't make the choices an option. It inundates you with choices. The reason I personally stopped going to most Linux-related forums is that the users overwhelmingly seem to think that most users are on the same level as they are. By this, I mean that they think that most users would be able to handle this level of choice as easily as they do. The thing is, most users can't. I've litterally watched people freeze up with anxiety wondering if they should let a program install to its default directory, or picking between the "standard" "quick" and "full" Windows installations. My professor in CSC 375 said something I took to heart on this matter: Options are good, but anything the program can do without the user's intervention, make the program do it without user intervention. Not so that the user can't do it, but so the user DOESN'T TRY, because the user is an idiot. Getting a good user is like catching that fish everybody talks about. If you get one, they'll flip your options all over the place and play with everything you give them. But that's pretty rare. Most of them will just bite the hook and start pulling, and you have to make the hook do the work for them.
Actually, when you go to the dealership, they DO make decisions for you. Like you said, there are thousands of cars, and about 500 variations of any given model - more on the expensive cars with lots of options.
You don't go in there knowing what all these options are. Most of them are shit you've never heard of. What the hell is Quadromechinational Steering and why the hell does it cost $5000? They tell you that stuff, and they help you make a decision on wether you want it, or want to take the normal power steering everybody else has.
They don't make the choice for you, and the above post doesn't suggest that. But you aren't just shown a list of the fifteen engines, four steering assemblies, seven or more fucking DOOR HINGES that any given car can have installed at the factory while the salesman sits there with a blank stare waiting for you to pick which ones you want.
Most of it you just get and don't worry about.
I don't care what kind of flanges are on my trunk door, just so it opens and closes, I'm happy. But I could picked from two different flanges on that hood. I don't even know what a flange is or does, let alone how one or the other is better, but they both cost the same thing, so I don't care.
After wrecking the car I've been talking about, I also learned that the 1997 Chevy Lumnia could have had one of four different engines, each of which has two different head assemblies. I don't know what all that shit is, and I don't want to pick one or the other.
I want that white car over there. You put the shit in it that makes it drive, I don't want to worry about flanges and fittings and what kind of clips hold the radiator hose in place. Fine, ok, I have seven different fan belt choices - I DON'T CARE, just make it DRIVE.
See? That's how people are with their computers. The coice is there, but they don't know what all this shit is. Yes, they use it, but they don't know one from the next, and that's why the vast majority of people still use Windows. You get the stuff, it's there, you don't have to think about it.
It took Mario 8 levels before he finds the right castle, hello?
He couldn't try other ones. Remember, Mario lives in a 2D world. He can't go around the castles, and he can't jump high enough to go over them, so he has to go through them.
Dunno where you live, but here, you do.
In fact, here, you can't get the internet acces PERIOD unless you get Digital Cable AND sign Charter's 15 year double-termination-penalty contract. Thank god we at least have DSL - but then, you have to take a fairly expensive local plan and sign your long distance over to SBC (not a good idea in-and-of itself) to get that, so, damn.
They know they're screwing you, they just want to make sure it'll cost you more to back out than to lay back and take it.
My city has been taking it to the city council about our cable company for TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS. They were fighting Cox before I was born - hell, back when having cable was a social status symbol and most people around here didn't even know what the local cable company was, the city council was listening to people fighting the cable companies almost every week.
What's it gotten us? Not damn shit. Bresnan bought Cox, Charater bought Bresnan, and each one proceedes to screw us harder than the last one, and more people went to the city council to complain.
So, we ran a referrendum. It passed overwhelmingly, and we kicked Bresnan out in favor of Nova (who, at the time, offered 50 channels for $25 a month, compared to Bresnan's 30 channels for $35)
Guess what happened? Bresnan bought Nova, and we got fucked again - as did everybody up in Gladwin county who already had Nova for their cable. We got our 20 extra channels, but we also got another fifteen bucks a month on our bill instead of ten off.
Last year, Charter cut seven channels and increased the price by $8. This year, they're planning to cut two channels and add one that will soon be merging with a channel we already get anyway, and they've already tacked $5 on the bill, with $10 more comming this summer.
But I'm far too lazy to go back and dig through the Penny Arcade archives to find it. It was mostly about Reagan's economic policy, pork, oppressed working class, and the fruit, which apparantly symbolizes nothing.
I withdraw my earlier comments about Earthbound being like an acid trip. Obviously, this game is of a far more potent stuff.
They'll fight it first, because there are too many potential ramifications for other Science vs. Religion fights. 90% of Christians will have no problem accepting life on Mars, but the other 10% are very vocal, and will fight it every step of the way. We're already two centuries into the Evolution debate. The 90% pretty much wrote it off in the late 1800's, but the other 10% show no signs of shutting up yet.
I played one recently on the SNES... Man, I wish I could remember the name of it. One of those generic shooters where you fly an F-16 with lasers against the Soviet army. Only, midway through the game, in the "dialog" (there were only three lines of it through the entire game, so it's a bit of a stretch to call it that), the Soviets turned out to be aliens.
I quit playing the game about the time the spires on the Kremlin launched themselves into the air and started shooting fireballs at me. Reminded me all to well of a dream I had once. Just no goats.
I mean, come on, both games are basically fifteen hour acid trips.
Super Mario RPG was a constant string of pop culture references that would have been hilarious had the game come out two years earlier. About the time the Axem Rangers showed up, I think we all gave up hope of a deep and compelling storyline.
And Earthbound? Three words for you: Alien Posessed Hippies. That and the psychadelic swirling color backgrounds, and who needs LSD?
You (and the parent) are both pretty much wrong.
Both parties have pretty much the same level of big-ticket donors behind them. For that matter, a lot of those big funders play both sides of the field, so that whoever wins, they still have the pull they'll need to, for example, pull enough fileswappers into court.
The private donors do tend to favor the Republicans, though, but it's generally attributed to the same reason the Republican's are often far more popular in elections than statistics say they should be: Their core voters are more loyal than the Democrats'. They donate more mone more often, and they make damn sure they get out and vote.
It's illegal beacuse personal beliefs are protected in general, not just in specification to religious personal beliefs. Hell, the way some people refuse to deviate from their favored party, and would probably vote for Satan himself if he ran under their platform, politics might as well be classified as a religion.
Sold? Heck, the still get made, too, you know.
Nintendo still made profit selling the Famicom and Super Famicom in Japan until September 2003. Not much, but they didn't mass produce the console.
I didn't see anywhere where Sony said they'd sell the PS2 in the US six years from now, and Japanese gamers aren't as vain as US gamers. FDS games are still developed and sold there. Try selling an 8-bit game in the US and see how fast you get laughed out of the country.
Wixom Lake is a dam reservoir in Michigan, near Gladwin. It has dead trees in it, too (heck, I hulled my boat on one when the water levels were down about 15 feet a couple years ago). A few years ago, they dredged it out because sandbars were starting to choke off the main waterways.
They pulled up a lot of trees that had been submerged when the Wolverine dam was built, plus a bunch of boats, a couple ice shanties (no ice fishermen that I heard of) and something like fifteen cars that had broken through the ice at some point.
None of it was in good condition. The only good wood they pulled up was debris from docks that people left in through the winter (when the ice starts melting, it'll sometimes break them away from the seawall and out into the lake. When the ice melts, the dock gets dropped into the water. The concrete and metal ancorings usually make them sink), and that's all treated lumber. Trees aren't weather sealed or pressure treated.
It's not like we're slashing down an actual forest. We've already drowned this one, so even if we drain the reservoir, all we'll have is a bunch of rotten trunks standing in the middle of nowhere.
Speaking of which, dead wood that's been underwater that long is pretty likely to be heavily rotted. It would have very limited applications.
After a couple years using WordPerfect, it took me about an hour (during which I still managed to get things done) to get used to MS Works. It was maybe 15 minutes (during which I managed to get work done, again) to get used to MS Office. OO took me a couple hours (and again, I still typed up a term paper in that time).
Yes, people require retraining to use a word processor they aren't familiar with, but it's not like you have to send them off to boot camp for nine weeks.
Too expensive, no useful additions in years.
I'm still using Office 97 on my Windows computer. It cost me about $70 when I got it, and it's functionally identical to the Office 2000 and Office XP that my university and workplace use. The additions in the last several iterations of Office have been of only niche usefullness, and you can usually get something to do that with 97 anyway.
At least with OO, I'm not asked to pay another $150 every year or two just to get a new font, or a new text overlay effect that I could do with the old one anyway.
Last I heard, they actually would download segments of several files from a person, and confirm that they were real (as opposed to all those morons who have fake or mislabled songs up for download).
It seems possible, and even likely, in this case, that our already advanced brains provided a large enough offset against the loss of powerful jaw muscles
Take a look at most simain brains. The jaw muscles of a chimp, gorrilla, or even an Australopithescene, attach at the very peak of the skull, and are very thick, comprising the bulk of the head.
There's just not room to expand the brain with ape-like jaw muscles. You're right on one thing, though: Weak jaws are a severe handicap without expanded brains.
There are three ways the two changes could have come: Brain, then jaw; jaw, then brain; both in parallel.
The brain can't expand against simian jaw muscles, so the first one's out.
Weak jaw and small brain are a severe handicap, and the remaining strong-jawed humans would have outcompeted their slackjawed relatives, and the weak-jawed strain would have been bred into extinction.
However, both simultaneously makes the transition profitable and possible, but you're ignoring something important: Related growth rates.
Just the act of lowering the point of connection of the jaw muscles (in the case of apes, this is a ridge on the very top of the skull - in the case of humans, it's the top of the temples, just behind the eyebrows) makes the braincase of the skull larger.