I thought the whole point of hacking and modding was making the hardware do something it wasn't designed to do.
And this is cool because lots of people have these machines and can recognise the hack.
It's all about penis envy, erm, I mean envy.. There'll still be tons of scope for direct competition of hacks, even if the machine is designed that way. Granted, it'll be harder to hack an XBox or GC, but maybe the impressive results you would get from your newly hacked XGameStation would surpass that.
If you don't moderate this joke funny, then 50000 other people will make the same joke further down the list of comments and be moderated funny, if you don't moderate this joke funny.
But luckily for the RIAA, educating the public about the quality of audio codecs is like teaching quantum physics to a monkey.. So I think it will be a long long time before we see Joe Average trading FLAC-encoded copies of the latest cds.
Maybe the fact that most songs on Kazaa are 128kbps mp3 is reason enough for some people to go out and buy cds, just for that extra bit of quality.
the nice thing is to be able to go home and just screw around with my decks for an hour or so to kill some time. Much more fun and interactive than putting a CD in the player and staring at the wall.
The "WinXP is worth $10." "Okay, then will you sell me 10 copies for $200, please?...
How on earth did you come up with that figure? If you want success in a case like this then you'll need to actually have better mathematical skills than the people who value WinXP at $10..
.. And I wonder what sophisticated monitoring techniques the FBI would use to filter out those individuals who grossly leech tons of files, and those who just happen to be sharing within their fair use rights among friends, and those who just happen to have a library of legally-obtained copyrighted files.
On your average web page, you have lots of tiny gif files used for trying to enforce the idea of a static design on the user by padding with them.
Quite so, but while we're talking about the future of image use in this context, nobody should really be using these nasty spacer images anyway. It's redundant in the face of CSS these days.
If you were now designing a website from scratch, you'd freely have the patent-free choice of GIFs or PNGs, and if you were intelligent you'd make a comparison to see which performed better (no surprise which one will win there). And you'd probably make a future-proof site if you were intelligent too. That would probably imply a good CSS-based layout that didn't involve lots of <table> formatting. It's incredibly useful to be able to turn off CSS for a site (I do that via a Mozilla plugin) and see the no-nonsense data.
Can you give me a good reason why anybody would include spacer images in a site design? (Backwards compatibility isn't really a strong answer - standards compliance is far more important, and today's common browsers are at least *reasonable* at it).
That being said, if anyone can compete, it's Microsoft.
As far as it goes at the moment, the only extent to which they compete at all is because MSN just happens to appear by default as the home page for those who don't even know that there are different search engines.
Us geeks like Google because of its clean no-nonsense interface, *useful* text-only advertising recommendations, and relevant results. Somehow, I can't see MSN coming up with anymore than the minority of those three points.
That's all very well, but for a large chunk of spam, identifying the spammer if difficult, and to it in a way that would hold up in court would be even harder..
And hence it would have to be a spammer very confident in his/her anonymity to risk it.
It might be difficult in court, but it sounds to me like this law would act majorly as a deterrent too.
We ought to use them to teach children those languages that are immensely powerful yet, judged by our standards, too inefficient to be practical. In particular, I'm referring to functional programming languages like Scheme and Haskell.
I do think functional languages such as Haskell are absolutely gorgeous, but they do tend to have an inherent confusability-factor that isn't so severe as with imperative languages.. Try to explain this to a young child and have them understand it:
Records are pressed from master pressings, metal discs that make the grooves on each bit of PVC they want to make into a vinyl.
The master pressing can be made from maybe a high quality tape (also analogue), or maybe a digital source with a very high sample rate / sample depth. So not necessarily made from a digital source.
I cant' get to the article, so I'm not sure what quite makes this utility so special..
I'm an avid vinyl fan, and the only music I ever buy seems to be on 12", so when I want to listen to the music on my PC, the ripping process for me often takes about 30 minutes for the entire vinyl.
I rip both the brand new records I get and the old ones, and with the proper tools to clean up the audio, there's very little degradation from crappy records (for anybody interested, I use CoolEdit 2000).
If they could make them out of a more robust material, I'd be first in line to buy.
Vinyls are in fact made from a more robust plastic than they used to be a few decades ago. They're reasonably durable (obviously nothing compared to that of a CD), but do indeed get bashed about in their lifetime.
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I find it incredibly funny that 3.5TB would take over 17 years to download over a 56k modem.
No, really I have:i d=01187
http://www.coolcasegallery.net/ccg/viewcase.php?c
That's a whole lotta pr0n..
Well at least they spelt 'fluoride' correctly.. And as for "with or without an Lindows" ... Oh God no! Not without an Lindows!
Here's another weird one.. Read the following and count how many times the letter F appears:
... 10 of them. Your brain often misses the letter F in the word 'of' because it is pronounced as a V.
"Fred Fillinger of farmborough frequently flies to the fine coast of spain and the fair island of rhodes."
I've spent plenty of money on Radiohead, ...
;-).
Well there's your first mistake
, in fact there is much evidence that quantum mechnics depends on randomness.
I'm interesting in reading about this.. do you have any good references or articles you could point me towards?
You have too much time to format text. Watch how I express Pi much more accurately than you in a fraction of the space:
..))
Pi = sqrt(6 * (1 + 1/4 + 1/9 + 1/16 +
Tada!
I fail to see how this relates to eyeball juices.
I don't know about you, but I can see the resemblance quite vitreously..
replace all occurances of "bathroom" with "lavatory".
Politeness always pays, so I would advise you to refer to it as a "bog".
I thought the whole point of hacking and modding was making the hardware do something it wasn't designed to do.
And this is cool because lots of people have these machines and can recognise the hack.
It's all about penis envy, erm, I mean envy.. There'll still be tons of scope for direct competition of hacks, even if the machine is designed that way. Granted, it'll be harder to hack an XBox or GC, but maybe the impressive results you would get from your newly hacked XGameStation would surpass that.
If you don't moderate this joke funny, then 50000 other people will make the same joke further down the list of comments and be moderated funny, if you don't moderate this joke funny.
But luckily for the RIAA, educating the public about the quality of audio codecs is like teaching quantum physics to a monkey.. So I think it will be a long long time before we see Joe Average trading FLAC-encoded copies of the latest cds.
Maybe the fact that most songs on Kazaa are 128kbps mp3 is reason enough for some people to go out and buy cds, just for that extra bit of quality.
Believe me, what would you think if you heard SCO say, "we are very.. disappointed.. in you".
Waiting for the armies of lawyers with frickin' laser beams...
the nice thing is to be able to go home and just screw around with my decks for an hour or so to kill some time. Much more fun and interactive than putting a CD in the player and staring at the wall.
Alternatively, take out a loan and buy some Pioneer CDJ-1000s.
The "WinXP is worth $10." "Okay, then will you sell me 10 copies for $200, please? ...
How on earth did you come up with that figure? If you want success in a case like this then you'll need to actually have better mathematical skills than the people who value WinXP at $10..
As they can get at the source, they can build new functions onto it.
Nice, but I'm sure he's teach an English class rather than computer programming..
.. And I wonder what sophisticated monitoring techniques the FBI would use to filter out those individuals who grossly leech tons of files, and those who just happen to be sharing within their fair use rights among friends, and those who just happen to have a library of legally-obtained copyrighted files.
Oh wait, that's not on their checklist now is it?
On your average web page, you have lots of tiny gif files used for trying to enforce the idea of a static design on the user by padding with them.
Quite so, but while we're talking about the future of image use in this context, nobody should really be using these nasty spacer images anyway. It's redundant in the face of CSS these days.
If you were now designing a website from scratch, you'd freely have the patent-free choice of GIFs or PNGs, and if you were intelligent you'd make a comparison to see which performed better (no surprise which one will win there). And you'd probably make a future-proof site if you were intelligent too. That would probably imply a good CSS-based layout that didn't involve lots of <table> formatting. It's incredibly useful to be able to turn off CSS for a site (I do that via a Mozilla plugin) and see the no-nonsense data.
Can you give me a good reason why anybody would include spacer images in a site design? (Backwards compatibility isn't really a strong answer - standards compliance is far more important, and today's common browsers are at least *reasonable* at it).
That being said, if anyone can compete, it's Microsoft.
As far as it goes at the moment, the only extent to which they compete at all is because MSN just happens to appear by default as the home page for those who don't even know that there are different search engines.
Us geeks like Google because of its clean no-nonsense interface, *useful* text-only advertising recommendations, and relevant results. Somehow, I can't see MSN coming up with anymore than the minority of those three points.
until these other Mac products get the axe: Media Player, MSN Messenger, Office, Outlook, and Virtual PC.
Goodbye, oh treasured MS applications.. We will all sorely miss you once we have Mac boxes running numerous better alternatives..
Ahh
That's all very well, but for a large chunk of spam, identifying the spammer if difficult, and to it in a way that would hold up in court would be even harder..
And hence it would have to be a spammer very confident in his/her anonymity to risk it.
It might be difficult in court, but it sounds to me like this law would act majorly as a deterrent too.
I do think functional languages such as Haskell are absolutely gorgeous, but they do tend to have an inherent confusability-factor that isn't so severe as with imperative languages.. Try to explain this to a young child and have them understand it:
Don't get me wrong, I think it would be a fantastic thing to teach, but maybe it should be restricted to nearer the GCSE level.
Records are pressed from master pressings, metal discs that make the grooves on each bit of PVC they want to make into a vinyl.
The master pressing can be made from maybe a high quality tape (also analogue), or maybe a digital source with a very high sample rate / sample depth. So not necessarily made from a digital source.
I cant' get to the article, so I'm not sure what quite makes this utility so special..
I'm an avid vinyl fan, and the only music I ever buy seems to be on 12", so when I want to listen to the music on my PC, the ripping process for me often takes about 30 minutes for the entire vinyl.
I rip both the brand new records I get and the old ones, and with the proper tools to clean up the audio, there's very little degradation from crappy records (for anybody interested, I use CoolEdit 2000).
If they could make them out of a more robust material, I'd be first in line to buy.
Vinyls are in fact made from a more robust plastic than they used to be a few decades ago. They're reasonably durable (obviously nothing compared to that of a CD), but do indeed get bashed about in their lifetime.
Wouldn't that be good enough? ;->
And for portable devices such as laptops?
Maybe we would have to assign some IPv6 addresses to 'static' computers, and some to portable. But that becomes a bit too confusing..