not sure if someone else has posted this already, but: I wonder how long until the movies are in MS Media format in their entirety? I'm sure MS Sells this to the movie people types as "If you go with out closed source format, we guarantee that people will not be able to pirate your films."
what a lousy article. they manage to get an average 2 paragraphs in before I have to click onto another page. have to get that advertising dollar, don't you? I quit at page three.
and your solution to this is to eviscerate anyone in the cluster bombs 30M blast radius, including starving children, uneducated women, decrepit old men.
now THAT's American.
Your attitude is quite tragic, actually.
As for your statement concerning who's responsible for the Afhani government. Wise up, jackass. These civilians are at the working end of a gun. Afghanistan is NOT a democratic republic. They are NOT responsible for who is in charge.
Perhaps you could peel your face from your PS2 for an hour to read about the civil war which has been raging in the country for the last 10 years. You'd realize very quickly that the people have not chosen the Taliban.
I'm in my car for a maximum of 25-30 minutes per ride, two or three times a week.
I get 5-6 songs in, max.
3,000? Nuts. Nuts Nuts Nuts.
When I first got my player, it took me 5 minutes just to find the song I wanted to hear! (Song 150 out of 300~)
"But I can search by genre!"
Genre schmanra. When all 300 songs are techno, you had better have one fast way of getting from song 1 to song 280. Click-click-click-click-click [etc etc etc] Assuming you know what track number you're looking for, "Now, was Atom Bomb track 1,250 or was it track 3,218?!?!"
Anyone spending that much money on a player has a questionable level of intelligence.
My bet? He's driving around a 1994 Ford Aspire, as in Aspire to Driver something better(tm).
"Hoo-Hee! Lookut me! [snork snork] I've got 3000 songs on my player! I've got ALL of Emo's remixes and bootlegs on my car stereo! It's [snork snork] even got a bash prompt so I can write my own addons, like my Speed Sensitive Song Selector! 30mph and under Paul Anka, over 55-60mph (because my car won't go faster) and my script plays Orbital for me! Too bad though, that my alternator is fried every time my super-parametric-shizzum-shaftum-luft-gizmo equalizer kicks on."
Sadly, I cannot resist the crack-like addiction to having, holding and cherishing the latest greatest kernel release. It's been that way for me since 2.0.10
Even now, I have my box doing everything I need it to, and it does it well. So why do I tempt breakage by going to 2.4.8?
+++
Now for little Microsoft Rant.
You see, I can't wait to move to a newer Linux kernel release. How many MS OS users can honestly tell me they enjoy moving to a new release of MS system software?
With Linux, nobody is puting a gun to my head and forcing me to make this upgrade, nobody is telling me "Update your system software for More Security! More Configurability! More Stability!".
No, quite the opposite. The Linux kernel developers give me a gift every few months, "Here, lookut' we made. Give it a try if you want."
Microsoft takes such a different, unfortunate attitude towards their system software evolution
"Here, buy this new update or you will die. We cannot and will not be held responsible for any cancers, distended bowels, hypertension, or any other fate which might befall you if you do not upgrade"
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Such a pity that MS will never, ever, due to clauses in the EULA, face massive fines and class action lawsuits for the instability of their product (Specifically WIndows operatiting systems)
If Toyota released a new Car which caught fire at every 5th stoplight, it'd be recalled, and Toyota would in the least settle some out of court cases to familys of burnt owners.
MS has hundreds of these type of bugs. To think that the damage these faults cause is unlike the previous burning example, you're mistaken.
Yet nothing happens? No Gov't investigation? I just don't get it.
Illustrator has been around for, good grief, over a dozen years.
Illustrator is synonymous with vector-art creation, and KDE project took advantage of that name. I'm not saying in a dubious way, but they did use the Illustrator 'NAME', it's 'IMAGE' if you will.
Adobe has shown great restraint in this matter, and I for one am proud of them for it.
I am a fan of adobe software, have been for over 10 years.
Cheers to Adobe for not taking a Microsoft/AOL "Screw em' Till It Bleeds" attitude.
Changing the name of a program is nothing.
this post is for the information have-not's in the press...
gnutella is not going to be 'the new home of napster fans'... openNap will be.
I just fired up gnapster, and chose to 'browse OpenNap' servers, I have damned near 100 to choose from. All of these servers are indepenent, not related in any way to "napster" inc.
Sure, right now the song selection on these servers is pretty crappy, but following the mass exodus I'm sure some snappy hacker out there will write some sort of 'bridging' software to bring all these other servers together,
you poor media types just don't have a clue, do you?
Hardware manf's should be held accountable for releasing faulty, or severely outdated or proprietary/standards-lacking equipment.
I leave that last statement in because I despise win-modems:).. a little unfair, yes.
Just as hardware manf's should be accountable, as should Software manufacturers.
Inherently faulty software should be replaced with an alternative, 3rd party or in-house, or money refunded.
this would really prop up the reliability factor and quality control from our favorite software distributors.
I realize there are a barrel full of arguments against this idea. For example, (and tell me if this doesn't sound familiar) Microsoft releases a new version of Win OS and it will only run on Pentium 1Gz with > 128 meg'o'ram. If a customer buys this OS and puts on his P 60, he's sh** out of luck. However, if he puts it on his snappy new PVIII 1.5 Ghz box, it HAS to work. M$ said it would. If it doesn't work, M$ is responsible.
I have a 3 year old matrox in my mac, and it's drivers don't jive with OS9, so I get no hardware accel at all. In this case, tough titty for me. I'll just have to live with the old stuff. However, if I buy a NEW matrox, and NEW macOS, and they both are labeled "compatible", I should be able to reclaim my money (or damages) if the two don't work togther.
Man, looking through this guy's site really depresses me. It takes me back to my happiest days, spent plugging quarters into the old arcade, Gizmo's (long since turned into one shit-shop after another) in downtown Omaha.
Emulation really doesn't do it for me. Sure, I get the satisfaction of PLAYING the game, but I don't get the "Arcade" feeling. I like plugging quarters (1, not 4!), and playing a simple game like Galaga, or Gyruss, Missile Command, Super Zaxxon... I go to an arcade today, and get a headache from the lack of good "clean fun" type games, and the $1 or greater per-play price.
I really wish I had the money, time & patience to get into this hobby of collecting old Arcade consoles. If anyone has any pointers on how to get started in this hobby, post a reply. I'd really like to get my hands on a Good Condition Gyruss box for under $300:)
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not sure if someone else has posted this already, but: I wonder how long until the movies are in MS Media format in their entirety? I'm sure MS Sells this to the movie people types as "If you go with out closed source format, we guarantee that people will not be able to pirate your films."
Goodbye dvd on linux (perhaps).
perhaps /. should use geolocation to limit the visibility of stories like this one, at certain times, so the damned links don't get slashdotted...
Start in the east, and slowly move west...
what a lousy article. they manage to get an average 2 paragraphs in before I have to click onto another page. have to get that advertising dollar, don't you? I quit at page three.
reading the official website's description of available weapons, I notice that "grenades can be fetched by dogs" ...
I bet the people at PETA will just love bashing this game...
Official Weapons Page
according to all the pundits, linux is dead!
why bother?
give it up?
p-shaw.
Gives me a reason to buy a psII
well, that's exactly what's happening. Sprint is tearing down the installations and taking back the hardware.
ION was doomed from the start. "Too little, too late". It's demise carrys right along with the fallout of all the other broadband service providers.
and your solution to this is to eviscerate anyone in the cluster bombs 30M blast radius, including starving children, uneducated women, decrepit old men.
now THAT's American.
Your attitude is quite tragic, actually.
As for your statement concerning who's responsible for the Afhani government. Wise up, jackass. These civilians are at the working end of a gun. Afghanistan is NOT a democratic republic. They are NOT responsible for who is in charge.
Perhaps you could peel your face from your PS2 for an hour to read about the civil war which has been raging in the country for the last 10 years. You'd realize very quickly that the people have not chosen the Taliban.
Whatever, man.
Sure... I'll just type these few letters in while hurtling down the interstate at 80mph...
stuff that
My GOD.
It's a freaking Car stereo!
I'm in my car for a maximum of 25-30 minutes per ride, two or three times a week.
I get 5-6 songs in, max.
3,000? Nuts. Nuts Nuts Nuts.
When I first got my player, it took me 5 minutes just to find the song I wanted to hear! (Song 150 out of 300~)
"But I can search by genre!"
Genre schmanra. When all 300 songs are techno, you had better have one fast way of getting from song 1 to song 280. Click-click-click-click-click [etc etc etc] Assuming you know what track number you're looking for, "Now, was Atom Bomb track 1,250 or was it track 3,218?!?!"
Give me a break.
It's just a car stereo for Osama's sake.
No doubt, bro. No doubt.
Anyone spending that much money on a player has a questionable level of intelligence.
My bet? He's driving around a 1994 Ford Aspire, as in Aspire to Driver something better(tm).
"Hoo-Hee! Lookut me! [snork snork] I've got 3000 songs on my player! I've got ALL of Emo's remixes and bootlegs on my car stereo! It's [snork snork] even got a bash prompt so I can write my own addons, like my Speed Sensitive Song Selector! 30mph and under Paul Anka, over 55-60mph (because my car won't go faster) and my script plays Orbital for me! Too bad though, that my alternator is fried every time my super-parametric-shizzum-shaftum-luft-gizmo equalizer kicks on."
$999? Kiss my ASS.
I just bought Aiwa's $349 mp3 cd player (with AM/FM and Auxiliary input)
Reads cdr's, cdrw's, this thing , Rio player looks like a fsking Joke to me.
a built in HD? give me a break, kiddies.
I can stash 2-300 songs (at 128k and higher br) per cd which take me 5 minutes to burn.
Hell, when a friend likes one of the songs, I GIVE THEM THE CD.
Rio, go screw. Your product blows. Most 'advanced' mp3 player? Please. Not even an AM radio built in.
well, bush just lost my vote.
Bring on Gore.
Sadly, I cannot resist the crack-like addiction to having, holding and cherishing the latest greatest kernel release. It's been that way for me since 2.0.10
Even now, I have my box doing everything I need it to, and it does it well. So why do I tempt breakage by going to 2.4.8?
+++Now for little Microsoft Rant.
You see, I can't wait to move to a newer Linux kernel release. How many MS OS users can honestly tell me they enjoy moving to a new release of MS system software?
With Linux, nobody is puting a gun to my head and forcing me to make this upgrade, nobody is telling me "Update your system software for More Security! More Configurability! More Stability!".
No, quite the opposite. The Linux kernel developers give me a gift every few months, "Here, lookut' we made. Give it a try if you want."
Microsoft takes such a different, unfortunate attitude towards their system software evolution
+++
Such a pity that MS will never, ever, due to clauses in the EULA, face massive fines and class action lawsuits for the instability of their product (Specifically WIndows operatiting systems)
If Toyota released a new Car which caught fire at every 5th stoplight, it'd be recalled, and Toyota would in the least settle some out of court cases to familys of burnt owners.
MS has hundreds of these type of bugs. To think that the damage these faults cause is unlike the previous burning example, you're mistaken.
Yet nothing happens? No Gov't investigation? I just don't get it.
I disagree.
Illustrator has been around for, good grief, over a dozen years.
Illustrator is synonymous with vector-art creation, and KDE project took advantage of that name. I'm not saying in a dubious way, but they did use the Illustrator 'NAME', it's 'IMAGE' if you will.
Adobe has shown great restraint in this matter, and I for one am proud of them for it.
I am a fan of adobe software, have been for over 10 years. Cheers to Adobe for not taking a Microsoft/AOL "Screw em' Till It Bleeds" attitude. Changing the name of a program is nothing.
i was wondering if anyone would pick up on that.
you bad-ass you. does your groin get aroused when you share your Glory?
putz.
what I mean to say is, I don't like seeing a company, any company, use the court system as it's muscle...
if they were to offer the fella a fair price for the typo-domain, great. other than that, the fsking users should learn how to spell...
these co's have enough laywers to sue some 22 year old smart ass who thinks he can turn a quick buck...
why don't they offer to buy this 22 year old out, as opposed to spending 10x the cash in legal fees???
the corporate mind makes no sense to me...
whereas, if the kid (and I'm just assuming it's a kid,) thinks he can buck altavista? demand more money than is logical? I say, Lettem sue.
I hope science can build some bug detecting retinal implants for the netscape developmnet team.
Man. That's just wrong.
Did gideon have Campbells Chunky Beef Stew before that keg-o-milwaukee's best?
this post is for the information have-not's in the press... gnutella is not going to be 'the new home of napster fans' ... openNap will be.
I just fired up gnapster, and chose to 'browse OpenNap' servers, I have damned near 100 to choose from. All of these servers are indepenent, not related in any way to "napster" inc.
Sure, right now the song selection on these servers is pretty crappy, but following the mass exodus I'm sure some snappy hacker out there will write some sort of 'bridging' software to bring all these other servers together,
you poor media types just don't have a clue, do you?
I think this is a great idea.
:) .. a little unfair, yes.
Hardware manf's should be held accountable for releasing faulty, or severely outdated or proprietary/standards-lacking equipment.
I leave that last statement in because I despise win-modems
Just as hardware manf's should be accountable, as should Software manufacturers.
Inherently faulty software should be replaced with an alternative, 3rd party or in-house, or money refunded.
this would really prop up the reliability factor and quality control from our favorite software distributors.
I realize there are a barrel full of arguments against this idea. For example, (and tell me if this doesn't sound familiar) Microsoft releases a new version of Win OS and it will only run on Pentium 1Gz with > 128 meg'o'ram. If a customer buys this OS and puts on his P 60, he's sh** out of luck. However, if he puts it on his snappy new PVIII 1.5 Ghz box, it HAS to work. M$ said it would. If it doesn't work, M$ is responsible.
I have a 3 year old matrox in my mac, and it's drivers don't jive with OS9, so I get no hardware accel at all. In this case, tough titty for me. I'll just have to live with the old stuff. However, if I buy a NEW matrox, and NEW macOS, and they both are labeled "compatible", I should be able to reclaim my money (or damages) if the two don't work togther.
... just some ideas...
Man, looking through this guy's site really depresses me. It takes me back to my happiest days, spent plugging quarters into the old arcade, Gizmo's (long since turned into one shit-shop after another) in downtown Omaha.
:)
Emulation really doesn't do it for me. Sure, I get the satisfaction of PLAYING the game, but I don't get the "Arcade" feeling. I like plugging quarters (1, not 4!), and playing a simple game like Galaga, or Gyruss, Missile Command, Super Zaxxon... I go to an arcade today, and get a headache from the lack of good "clean fun" type games, and the $1 or greater per-play price.
I really wish I had the money, time & patience to get into this hobby of collecting old Arcade consoles. If anyone has any pointers on how to get started in this hobby, post a reply. I'd really like to get my hands on a Good Condition Gyruss box for under $300
i've been using debian/gnu for 3 years.
every time i pop that rescue.bin in and get that friendly boot message, i can't help but get 9 inches of pure USDA Homegrown Woodrow.
and just what the hell does see shy joe mean, anyway??!!