*Sigh* I still use a 486... Packard Bell, although it's been heavily upgraded (500MB HD, 133MHz AMD "5x86", 64MB of FPM RAM). Runs Windows 95 great, Space Cadet Pinball can be laggy sometimes though. When I want to type a report for the boss, the IBM Pro Printer Dot Matrix just flies!!
I need some help upgrading, what is the most powerful ISA graphics card ever released?
Oh, if you have any trouble playing.OGM files with Windows Media Player even after downloading the Codecs, try renaming them to.AVI... Windows is a bit "slow"
I don't know how to play an OGM file, are you sure you want me to play it? Are you really sure, because I'm not. AAH! Its not an AVI!
A long time ago there were.avi movies before DivX or Xvid or any other specialized codec was released. DivX has little to do with real.avi movies other than the.avi at the end. It seems that.avi was used just to keep operating systems with down syndrome (Windows) from getting confused. So why aren't DivX movies called AVI's? Because its been taken! People say AVI when they are referring to old school, runs on a 100MHz Pentium AVI.
I saw the previews come with a couple of my other Interplay Star Trek Games, I was so excited about it. I wanted Vulcan's Fury like nothing else, always wondered what happened.
I am sad to see Interplay go, despite my best efforts. You see, I never pirated Interplay Software... I actually bought their games, more than from any other company.
I have originals of:
- Star Trek: Judgement Rights (3.5" disks) + the Movie & Sound Pack Expansion (3.5" disks)
- Star Trek: Judgement Rights Limited CD-ROM Collectors Edition
- Star Trek: StarFleet Academy (SNES)
- Star Trek: StarFleet Academy (PC CD-ROM)
- Star Trek: StarFleet Command
- Star Trek: New worlds
Unfortunately, I had always wanted to buy but never got around to buying:
- Star Trek: StarFleet Academy - Checkov's Lost Missions
- Star Trek: StarFleet Command 2
- Star Trek: StarFleet Command 3
- Star Trek: 25th Anniversary
Possibly some others too, alas. Perhaps I shall eventually get them, a load of crap it will do for Interplay though. Interplay gave us the best Star Trek games for more than just one era of video gaming history - from 100% IBM Compatibles with 2 megs of RAM to the Super Nintendo to Fire Breathing Monsters of a Souped up PC. Interplay... I'll miss ya!
Start with the basics... command line, runs on an 8088 with 64K RAM, BASIC.
BASIC is still a very powerful language and is also very easy to master. (Visual Basic seems to have little to do with BASIC)
Has ANYONE figured out how to compile the source code? As far as I can tell, the instructions are for Linux but the article says you need to run it from Windows!?!?
The ability to remove the DRM from songs downloaded at iTunes can only help AAC become more dominant (although may not help Apple sell iPods). Why?
1. More players can play non-DRM music than DRM music:
Customers who didn't want to trade in their older player for an iPod can now become iTunes customers.
2. Non-DRM music lasts longer:
You can only transfer DRM music to 3 different computers, so by the time you upgrade your computer 3 times (3 - 6 years for most of us), you no longer can listen to music you legally paid for on your computer. Customers are more likely to buy music if they get to KEEP it!
Why does the music industry treat its customers like Criminals? The record labels should be Praising God that you are getting the music legally instead of downloading it for free. Putting DRM on music does absolutely nothing but discourage consumers from purchasing it, if DRM were to disappear there would be a legal downloading heyday and the Record Executives would make billions extra per year... hell, the artists might get a few bucks too.
For every piece of blank media, we have to pay a tax that goes directly to the RIAA. That means whether or not you use blank media for pirating, you are being declared a pirate.
All "legal" downloading services for the RIAA use DRM Protection so that you can't pirate the music. So if you pay for the music, you are declared a pirate.
This means if you legally buy CD-R's and legally purchase music of iTunes or Napster, the RIAA still considers you a music pirate twice. Therefore if you legally burn your legally purchased music onto a CD-R, the RIAA considers you a super-pirate!!
Since the release of Halloween X... the SCO and Microsoft "development" has been increasingly sounding like a massive conspiracy that has been in the works for at least several years.
Did Mr. Anderers, Darl McBride and the other conspirators originally meet with Microsoft Agents while working at IKON when they hatched their plan?
Was Silicon Stemcell created merely as a front to allow the conspirators to plan and work in secret? If not, then why is all that can be found out about Silicon Stemcell is that "may have moved again or gone out of business"? Was Silicon Stemcell actually just cast aside when their secret plot was ready to launch?
Did Darl McBride position himself to become CEO of SCO merely to carry out the plot, planned years ahead of time? If not, then how is the connection between McBridge and Anderers at IKON explained?
Was S2 also created as a front, to allow Mr. Anderers and the other conspirators into the front door that McBride had opened? If S2 is a real company, why does their website consist of 1 page with no links and no information and have their domain registered under a falsified phone number? How, exactly, did SCO even contact S2 to form their "business relationship" unless you take into account McBride's previous "friendship" with Anderers.
Based on my group of "nerd friends", I believe that carrying a gun and hiring a body guard are pretty ridiculous things for Darl to be doing.... for Example: How effective will a gun and a body guard be at stopping a stone launched from a trebuchet?
Unfortunately, declaring bankruptcy has been made much more difficult. Entities that fear their victims claiming bankrupcty have successfully lobbied to change the Bankruptcy laws so that its almost impossible.
So instead of filing for bankruptcy, the RIAA garnishes your wages... essentially making you their slave.
The RIAA dosen't offer you a day in court either. They have so much financial resources that they can just force any case that goes to court to stretch out so long that you will simply go bankrupt and try to flee to Mexico. They know that there is hardly a Jury on earth that would side with a corrupt monopoly that sues 12 year olds, so they just force you to spend tens-of-thousands of dollars in the preliminaries before you even get to Jury selection.
We just have to pray that it makes it to a Jury (that the RIAA is unable to pay off). I don't think there are very many Jury's in the world that would side with the RIAA... regardless of the facts.
Assuming it actually does make it to a Jury, I think she has a better chance at winning than losing. I think more people hate the RIAA than most would realize. I just hope that the entire jury is made up of those who hate the RIAA.
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*Sigh* I still use a 486... Packard Bell, although it's been heavily upgraded (500MB HD, 133MHz AMD "5x86", 64MB of FPM RAM). Runs Windows 95 great, Space Cadet Pinball can be laggy sometimes though. When I want to type a report for the boss, the IBM Pro Printer Dot Matrix just flies!!
I need some help upgrading, what is the most powerful ISA graphics card ever released?
Oh, if you have any trouble playing .OGM files with Windows Media Player even after downloading the Codecs, try renaming them to .AVI ... Windows is a bit "slow"
I don't know how to play an OGM file, are you sure you want me to play it? Are you really sure, because I'm not. AAH! Its not an AVI!
A long time ago there were .avi movies before DivX or Xvid or any other specialized codec was released. DivX has little to do with real .avi movies other than the .avi at the end. It seems that .avi was used just to keep operating systems with down syndrome (Windows) from getting confused. So why aren't DivX movies called AVI's? Because its been taken! People say AVI when they are referring to old school, runs on a 100MHz Pentium AVI.
I saw the previews come with a couple of my other Interplay Star Trek Games, I was so excited about it. I wanted Vulcan's Fury like nothing else, always wondered what happened.
I am sad to see Interplay go, despite my best efforts. You see, I never pirated Interplay Software... I actually bought their games, more than from any other company.
I have originals of: - Star Trek: Judgement Rights (3.5" disks) + the Movie & Sound Pack Expansion (3.5" disks)
- Star Trek: Judgement Rights Limited CD-ROM Collectors Edition
- Star Trek: StarFleet Academy (SNES)
- Star Trek: StarFleet Academy (PC CD-ROM)
- Star Trek: StarFleet Command
- Star Trek: New worlds
Unfortunately, I had always wanted to buy but never got around to buying:
- Star Trek: StarFleet Academy - Checkov's Lost Missions
- Star Trek: StarFleet Command 2
- Star Trek: StarFleet Command 3
- Star Trek: 25th Anniversary
Possibly some others too, alas. Perhaps I shall eventually get them, a load of crap it will do for Interplay though. Interplay gave us the best Star Trek games for more than just one era of video gaming history - from 100% IBM Compatibles with 2 megs of RAM to the Super Nintendo to Fire Breathing Monsters of a Souped up PC. Interplay... I'll miss ya!
Start with the basics... command line, runs on an 8088 with 64K RAM, BASIC. BASIC is still a very powerful language and is also very easy to master. (Visual Basic seems to have little to do with BASIC)
Keep an eye out on the news for anything that sounds reminiscent of the end of "Office Space"
Has ANYONE figured out how to compile the source code? As far as I can tell, the instructions are for Linux but the article says you need to run it from Windows!?!?
About WMA becomming dominant over AAC, I do wish someone would come out with an identical program for WMA files, since I got 5 free from Napster :-P.
The ability to remove the DRM from songs downloaded at iTunes can only help AAC become more dominant (although may not help Apple sell iPods). Why?
1. More players can play non-DRM music than DRM music: Customers who didn't want to trade in their older player for an iPod can now become iTunes customers.
2. Non-DRM music lasts longer: You can only transfer DRM music to 3 different computers, so by the time you upgrade your computer 3 times (3 - 6 years for most of us), you no longer can listen to music you legally paid for on your computer. Customers are more likely to buy music if they get to KEEP it!
Why does the music industry treat its customers like Criminals? The record labels should be Praising God that you are getting the music legally instead of downloading it for free. Putting DRM on music does absolutely nothing but discourage consumers from purchasing it, if DRM were to disappear there would be a legal downloading heyday and the Record Executives would make billions extra per year... hell, the artists might get a few bucks too.
Its a conpiracy against Linux!
Magnatunes.com lets you download music in 128kbit MP3 and VBR MP3 ("virtually" lossless quality). Not exactly mainstream music though.
For every piece of blank media, we have to pay a tax that goes directly to the RIAA. That means whether or not you use blank media for pirating, you are being declared a pirate.
All "legal" downloading services for the RIAA use DRM Protection so that you can't pirate the music. So if you pay for the music, you are declared a pirate.
This means if you legally buy CD-R's and legally purchase music of iTunes or Napster, the RIAA still considers you a music pirate twice. Therefore if you legally burn your legally purchased music onto a CD-R, the RIAA considers you a super-pirate!!
AAAAH!!!! The website points to www.fbi.gov!!!!
I discovered a real conspiracy and now they're going to kill me! AHHHH!!
Didn't you read the article? The address you listed is no longer there "They may have moved or gone out of business".
Morons!
All of you!
I'm a TROLL!
I've never used Dish!
All right, I'm not the best photo-manipulator... but here.
One of the channels being pulled is Comedy Central, I just canceled my Dish Membership today because of that.
You think the Cable Company would be falling over themselves to get me back, but they're making me wait 5 days to get Cable!!!
Since the release of Halloween X... the SCO and Microsoft "development" has been increasingly sounding like a massive conspiracy that has been in the works for at least several years.
Did Mr. Anderers, Darl McBride and the other conspirators originally meet with Microsoft Agents while working at IKON when they hatched their plan?
Was Silicon Stemcell created merely as a front to allow the conspirators to plan and work in secret? If not, then why is all that can be found out about Silicon Stemcell is that "may have moved again or gone out of business"? Was Silicon Stemcell actually just cast aside when their secret plot was ready to launch?
Did Darl McBride position himself to become CEO of SCO merely to carry out the plot, planned years ahead of time? If not, then how is the connection between McBridge and Anderers at IKON explained?
Was S2 also created as a front, to allow Mr. Anderers and the other conspirators into the front door that McBride had opened? If S2 is a real company, why does their website consist of 1 page with no links and no information and have their domain registered under a falsified phone number? How, exactly, did SCO even contact S2 to form their "business relationship" unless you take into account McBride's previous "friendship" with Anderers.
YOU BE THE JUDGE!
Hey, you might actually have a use for WindowsXP, via VirtualPC in MOL in Linux.
Based on my group of "nerd friends", I believe that carrying a gun and hiring a body guard are pretty ridiculous things for Darl to be doing.... for Example: How effective will a gun and a body guard be at stopping a stone launched from a trebuchet?
Unfortunately, declaring bankruptcy has been made much more difficult. Entities that fear their victims claiming bankrupcty have successfully lobbied to change the Bankruptcy laws so that its almost impossible.
So instead of filing for bankruptcy, the RIAA garnishes your wages... essentially making you their slave.
The RIAA dosen't offer you a day in court either. They have so much financial resources that they can just force any case that goes to court to stretch out so long that you will simply go bankrupt and try to flee to Mexico. They know that there is hardly a Jury on earth that would side with a corrupt monopoly that sues 12 year olds, so they just force you to spend tens-of-thousands of dollars in the preliminaries before you even get to Jury selection.
We just have to pray that it makes it to a Jury (that the RIAA is unable to pay off). I don't think there are very many Jury's in the world that would side with the RIAA... regardless of the facts.
Assuming it actually does make it to a Jury, I think she has a better chance at winning than losing. I think more people hate the RIAA than most would realize. I just hope that the entire jury is made up of those who hate the RIAA.
Good for her! Its about time someone took on the illegal monopoly that is the RIAA. Take 'em down! I'll join!