In other words, if my car can go 120 MPH, I should be able to drive 120 MPH, and fuck the law for telling me that I can't.
I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. And when you go flying out of control and careen into another car killing someone because you are irresponsible enough to drive 120 MPH, what then?
Are you one of those people who think you have the right to drive?
This might have something to do with the fact that it somehow (I haven't seen any technical details, so I'm not sure exactly what it does) interfaces with iTunes to play the music through Winamp.
I'd imagine that 60megs is Winamp + iTunes + Quicktime..
The difference is that streamripper and stationripper and friends (by using a combination of listening for silence and using the accompanying ID3 info) automatically slice up and name the songs coming out of the radio station.
And, there is no recompression -- it is saved as it comes down from the radio station.
Well, I can't seem to get it to work, printing on cardstock on my HP Deskjet 990C..
I found something else interesting, though. From the index.htm file:
<!-- <span class="title2">Modified version of VisualBoyAdvance with e-Reader scan support</span> <br> <span class="normal"><a href="../download/">VBA 1.7 + e-Reader scan support (version 1.1)</a></span> <br> <span class="normal"><a href="../download/mfc71.zip">MFC71.DLL</a></span> <br> <span class="normal"><a href="../download/msvcr71.zip">MSVCR71.DLL</a></sp an> <br><br> -->
Unfortunately, this server does not allow directory browsing. the mfc71.zip and msvcr71.zip files are there though.
I just wish this guy released information on what he did to convert the Bomberman game (an NES game, the e-reader has a simple NES emulator built-in) to e-Reader format..
Now, it only supports enough of the NES's features to work with anything but very simple or very old games, but this is exactly why they are able to distribute Excitebike, Balloon Fight, Donkey Kong, etc.
They are the NES games running under emulation.
Theoretically, I guess one could convert some of the older games by yourself to play on it.
This is an odd sort of question, but I've always wondered.. these implants with wires dangling out of them (like those experimental ones to make blind people see, for example).. what happpens if you snag them on something sharp?
Does it go "RIIIP!" and a chunk of your skin is torn off the side of your head?;)
This is really getting into a matter of semantics, but nothing broadcast on those channels is illegal in Canada. The problem is that they don't have the required percentage of Canadian programming. If each day was 31.2 hours long, and they only broadcasted for 24 hours, they could stick Canadian content in the other 7.2 hours. (I'm assuming 30% here)
To broadcast here, they need to sacrifice 7.2 hours of the programming that is on the American channel. In a lot of cases, this means that they run a bunch of cheap Canadian programming overnight (TechTV runs Dave Chalk virtually non-stop during the early afternoon and early morning), instead of repeating programming that was run during the day.
There is no particular bias as to what programming they must chop out.
We have a Canadian sci-fi channel called Space, which picks up a lot of Sci-fi's programming. I actually think it's a better chanel.. they broadcast ST:TOS, ST:TNG, ST:DS9 and ST:VOY.
They are NOT banned -- they just need to provide the required amount of Canadian programming if they want to broadcast in Canada.
Anyone broadcasting radio in Canada must provide 30% Canadian content (this is define as having at least one producer, musician, artist, etc.. it only has to be Canadian by a bit of a stretch). The rules are similar for television.
The government does not stop you from receiving signals broadcast over-the-air (VHF/UHF/AM/FM) from the States. Cable companies are allowed to rebroadcast these too. However they do stop you from receiving foreign satellite broadcasts, legally paid for or not (it seems this has a bit more to do with the Liberal government receiving a lot of money from Canadian satellite industry lobby groups, who stand to lose a lot from Canadians watching American TV. I'm not happy about this -- It makes my legally paid for C-band satellite system technically illegal.)
I don't like the Canadian content rules but I understand why they do it -- if they weren't there we would never see or hear any Canadian content, as generally the American stuff is better (with some exceptions).
Lots of American channels come to Canada.. CNN, Spike TV, A&E come to mind, and more recently MTV, TV Land and TechTV have become available (with 30% Canadian content added in). There are lots of others.
Maybe roads and school busses work differently in California, but this is how it works in Ontario, too. The only exception is on divided roads, where this law does not apply. (Children will never have to cross a divided road.)
The bus frequently stops on the opposite side of the road from children's houses. (do they not do this in California?) It makes perfect sense to me that traffic going the other way should stop so the kiddies do not have to play frogger trying to cross a busy road.
Well, it would be difficult for the other reasons mentioned and this: the thing is graphical adventures require many different types of talent, and generally can not be completed by one person. To put together a graphical adventure, you need a coder, artist, musician.. you get the idea.
Well, Microsoft says you are not allowed to develop GPL software with Visual Studio and its compilers (google around), so yes, I can imagine they would try this.
Are there actually that few full-serve gas stations in the US?
Here in Canada, (Ontario at least) I'd say there are about a 50/50 split of full-serve/self-serve gas stations. Generally, the full-serve stations are.2 to.7 cents per litre more expensive.
Well, festival works under Linux and ReadPlease does exactly what you want under Windows, but the sound of a computer talking at you for hours on end is NOT pleasant..
I don't know how blind computer users can stand it..
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I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. And when you go flying out of control and careen into another car killing someone because you are irresponsible enough to drive 120 MPH, what then?
Are you one of those people who think you have the right to drive?
Pricenetwork.ca/a is my favourite -- they have a great price search and the forum is full of good deals without all the shit and deals that abuse pricing errors, like you find at Red Flag Deals...
Or Introducing Monday...
I'd imagine that 60megs is Winamp + iTunes + Quicktime..
Or it could just be leaking memory like a sieve..
You might find this plugin quite helpful. This thread has more info.
Some video stores rent them, actually.
And, there is no recompression -- it is saved as it comes down from the radio station.
Well, I can't seem to get it to work, printing on cardstock on my HP Deskjet 990C..
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I found something else interesting, though. From the index.htm file:
<!--
<span class="title2">Modified version of VisualBoyAdvance with e-Reader scan support</span>
<br>
<span class="normal"><a href="../download/">VBA 1.7 + e-Reader scan support (version 1.1)</a></span>
<br>
<span class="normal"><a href="../download/mfc71.zip">MFC71.DLL</a></span>
<br>
<span class="normal"><a href="../download/msvcr71.zip">MSVCR71.DLL</a></s
<br><br>
-->
Unfortunately, this server does not allow directory browsing. the mfc71.zip and msvcr71.zip files are there though.
I just wish this guy released information on what he did to convert the Bomberman game (an NES game, the e-reader has a simple NES emulator built-in) to e-Reader format..
Now, it only supports enough of the NES's features to work with anything but very simple or very old games, but this is exactly why they are able to distribute Excitebike, Balloon Fight, Donkey Kong, etc.
They are the NES games running under emulation.
Theoretically, I guess one could convert some of the older games by yourself to play on it.
Does it go "RIIIP!" and a chunk of your skin is torn off the side of your head? ;)
To broadcast here, they need to sacrifice 7.2 hours of the programming that is on the American channel. In a lot of cases, this means that they run a bunch of cheap Canadian programming overnight (TechTV runs Dave Chalk virtually non-stop during the early afternoon and early morning), instead of repeating programming that was run during the day.
There is no particular bias as to what programming they must chop out.
We have a Canadian sci-fi channel called Space, which picks up a lot of Sci-fi's programming. I actually think it's a better chanel.. they broadcast ST:TOS, ST:TNG, ST:DS9 and ST:VOY.
They are NOT banned -- they just need to provide the required amount of Canadian programming if they want to broadcast in Canada.
"Banned" is not the correct word.
Anyone broadcasting radio in Canada must provide 30% Canadian content (this is define as having at least one producer, musician, artist, etc.. it only has to be Canadian by a bit of a stretch). The rules are similar for television.
The government does not stop you from receiving signals broadcast over-the-air (VHF/UHF/AM/FM) from the States. Cable companies are allowed to rebroadcast these too. However they do stop you from receiving foreign satellite broadcasts, legally paid for or not (it seems this has a bit more to do with the Liberal government receiving a lot of money from Canadian satellite industry lobby groups, who stand to lose a lot from Canadians watching American TV. I'm not happy about this -- It makes my legally paid for C-band satellite system technically illegal.)
I don't like the Canadian content rules but I understand why they do it -- if they weren't there we would never see or hear any Canadian content, as generally the American stuff is better (with some exceptions).
Lots of American channels come to Canada.. CNN, Spike TV, A&E come to mind, and more recently MTV, TV Land and TechTV have become available (with 30% Canadian content added in). There are lots of others.
The bus frequently stops on the opposite side of the road from children's houses. (do they not do this in California?) It makes perfect sense to me that traffic going the other way should stop so the kiddies do not have to play frogger trying to cross a busy road.
What doesn't make sense about this?
Well, it would be difficult for the other reasons mentioned and this: the thing is graphical adventures require many different types of talent, and generally can not be completed by one person. To put together a graphical adventure, you need a coder, artist, musician.. you get the idea.
It works the same way as Finder in Mac OS (at least OS X).
Scary.
Well, Microsoft says you are not allowed to develop GPL software with Visual Studio and its compilers (google around), so yes, I can imagine they would try this.
Here in Canada, (Ontario at least) I'd say there are about a 50/50 split of full-serve/self-serve gas stations. Generally, the full-serve stations are .2 to .7 cents per litre more expensive.
I don't know how blind computer users can stand it..
So can you ask YAST to say, install grip and have it automagically download it and its dependancies off the internet like urpmi or apt-get?
you do it like this and it works on a lot of HP's older scanners..
Don't know if it does this on NT-based Win OSes, since I haven't used a floppy in a while, but I doubt it.
Just wondering if SuSE has anything like apt or urpmi built into it; does YOU do this?