I just spent several days ripping my cd collection to MP3 and throwing most of the discs away. I like music and having a sizeable collection just takes up too much space and is difficult to sort through. CD's also get scractched and for these reasons, I decided I do not want to have a lot of discs sitting around. However, there were a few that had special packaging, exceptional album art and photos, and carried certain sentimental value.. so i kept them. I will still go out every now and then and buy a CD if I REALLY want to have a physical copy, but for the most part I would rather just pay a reasonable price to download the music I want.
In the article it talked about webmasters having to wait months to get paid.
Not true, they still owe me over $30k and I think 18 million total is still owed to webmasters
Instead of gaining points and then suddenly getting better at everything once you reach a certain number. You will only get better at things you actually use.
So if you use your sword a lot, you will get better at it gradually over time. and so on with other skills.
I really like the idea and look forward to playing the game.
I don't have time to dedicate to MMO's so I prefer single player games:)
COPA is beyond a dumb law.
They say it is to protect children from porn, but the law will be useless because it only affects americans. The pornographers (I am one of them) will just move business elsewhere if the government gets too restrictive.
Keeping porn away from your kids needs to be done the way it was when I was a kid. Good parenting. Not silly laws that will not work.
I agree. I certainly don't wan't kids looking at my website but I am not willing to switch domains just because the government thinks I should. I've already spent a lot of time and money branding my.com domain, to be forced to change would not only be unfair, but also very ineffective considering that you can't make all porn sites in all countries move.
Why does every semi-cool MP3 player that comes out have to be a "ipod killer"? Yes, Ipod has taken a big share of pop culture and its pretty nice. but it wasn't the first mp3 player, nor will it be the last. There is plenty of room for competition, espeically as long as ipods remain overpriced.
I don't have a link, but there is another guy who has been driving around a hydrogen car for quite a while, and rather than try to produce the hydrogen on the car, he just makes the hydrogen in his garage. Fills up plenty of extra tanks so he always has enough fuel.
In the future, You shouldnt need to worry about even producing it yourself, it is just something spiffy you can do if you really want to. Most people will opt to get their hydrogen at a gas station. I already fill my propane tanks at the gas station, I wouldnt be hard for them to adapt to distributing hydrogen.
One more thing.. any time you run the free version of Edonkey it constantly tries to give you popups and insteall spy/adware on your computer. I've got it all blocked but it is still annoying. One nice thing about bittorrent is you do not have to worry about that.
Edonkey used to be my place of choice when i had a 45kb upload cap. But then i moved and had to switch to DSL which gave me 15kb.. sometimes it takes me months now to get anything on edonkey, I only go there to find anything i can not find on bittorrent.
I read an article a while back talking about some of the various holographic video technologies that exist. In some of them, you are required to render the video from all possible viewing angles, creating terrabytes upon terrabytes of data for just a short video clip. So, I am guessing that Three dimensional video will have no problems using up the bandwidth in the future.
Never underestimate what people can come up with to use available bandwidth, processing, and storage.
Since it is so small and basically will only do a few experiments, they should send some other small inexpensive probes along with it to do some other experiments. It is a long expensive trip, might as well make the most of it.
I am sick of all this crap microsoft is doing, when are they going to get their sh*t together and put out a REAL product, like some sort of breakfast cereal, with little marshmallow bill gates heads. yum
I like it so far, it *appears* I will be able to manage several projects at once
the screensaver is in 3d.. and kinda moves around
i think that is a bit annoying...
I look forward to seeing what other projects are launched using BOINC
I wouldnt blame microsoft unless it was found they were helping in a more direct way other than simply supplying software
I do really dislike china though and i wish people would stop supporting them untill they clean up their act more..
I put all my old parts, working or not on ebay
People are actually willing to buy them
In fact I read an article a while back that NASA has been trolling Ebay for old computers to power our space shuttle.. apparently upgrading isnt as easy an option as it is for the average computer user
Hmm i dunno marketing can be annoying but as long as we live in a society where people purchase or trade goods and services from each other.. there has to be marketing there is absolutely no other way except to live on a mountain and cut yourself off from all other people and only provide everything you need for yourself
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I just spent several days ripping my cd collection to MP3 and throwing most of the discs away. I like music and having a sizeable collection just takes up too much space and is difficult to sort through. CD's also get scractched and for these reasons, I decided I do not want to have a lot of discs sitting around. However, there were a few that had special packaging, exceptional album art and photos, and carried certain sentimental value.. so i kept them. I will still go out every now and then and buy a CD if I REALLY want to have a physical copy, but for the most part I would rather just pay a reasonable price to download the music I want.
In the article it talked about webmasters having to wait months to get paid.
Not true, they still owe me over $30k and I think 18 million total is still owed to webmasters
The single player RPG Oblivion is sorta doing away with levels and experience points. http://www.elderscrolls.com/games/oblivion_overvie w.htm
:)
Instead of gaining points and then suddenly getting better at everything once you reach a certain number. You will only get better at things you actually use.
So if you use your sword a lot, you will get better at it gradually over time. and so on with other skills.
I really like the idea and look forward to playing the game.
I don't have time to dedicate to MMO's so I prefer single player games
COPA is beyond a dumb law. They say it is to protect children from porn, but the law will be useless because it only affects americans. The pornographers (I am one of them) will just move business elsewhere if the government gets too restrictive. Keeping porn away from your kids needs to be done the way it was when I was a kid. Good parenting. Not silly laws that will not work.
I agree. I certainly don't wan't kids looking at my website but I am not willing to switch domains just because the government thinks I should. I've already spent a lot of time and money branding my .com domain, to be forced to change would not only be unfair, but also very ineffective considering that you can't make all porn sites in all countries move.
I don't think we pay enough taxes... we need to pay more taxes on everything!
This asteroid isn't big enough to wipe out the earth or even cause as much chaos as you hope for.
Why does every semi-cool MP3 player that comes out have to be a "ipod killer"?
Yes, Ipod has taken a big share of pop culture and its pretty nice. but it wasn't the first mp3 player, nor will it be the last. There is plenty of room for competition, espeically as long as ipods remain overpriced.
In the future, You shouldnt need to worry about even producing it yourself, it is just something spiffy you can do if you really want to. Most people will opt to get their hydrogen at a gas station. I already fill my propane tanks at the gas station, I wouldnt be hard for them to adapt to distributing hydrogen.
One more thing.. any time you run the free version of Edonkey it constantly tries to give you popups and insteall spy/adware on your computer. I've got it all blocked but it is still annoying. One nice thing about bittorrent is you do not have to worry about that.
Edonkey used to be my place of choice when i had a 45kb upload cap. But then i moved and had to switch to DSL which gave me 15kb.. sometimes it takes me months now to get anything on edonkey, I only go there to find anything i can not find on bittorrent.
In some of them, you are required to render the video from all possible viewing angles, creating terrabytes upon terrabytes of data for just a short video clip.
So, I am guessing that Three dimensional video will have no problems using up the bandwidth in the future.
Never underestimate what people can come up with to use available bandwidth, processing, and storage.
Oooh.. let's see just how much bandwidth the north koreans have.
Since it is so small and basically will only do a few experiments, they should send some other small inexpensive probes along with it to do some other experiments. It is a long expensive trip, might as well make the most of it.
I am sick of all this crap microsoft is doing, when are they going to get their sh*t together and put out a REAL product, like some sort of breakfast cereal, with little marshmallow bill gates heads. yum
They should use this lake to test ideas for drilling into the ice of Europa.
I like it so far, it *appears* I will be able to manage several projects at once the screensaver is in 3d.. and kinda moves around i think that is a bit annoying... I look forward to seeing what other projects are launched using BOINC
I think I would support this if the government would back down from obcenity prosecution.
I wouldnt blame microsoft unless it was found they were helping in a more direct way other than simply supplying software I do really dislike china though and i wish people would stop supporting them untill they clean up their act more..
With 15k DSL upload speed its pretty much impossible to use an abnormal amount of bandwidth
I put all my old parts, working or not on ebay People are actually willing to buy them In fact I read an article a while back that NASA has been trolling Ebay for old computers to power our space shuttle.. apparently upgrading isnt as easy an option as it is for the average computer user
Hmm i dunno
marketing can be annoying
but as long as we live in a society where people purchase or trade goods and services from each other.. there has to be marketing there is absolutely no other way except to live on a mountain and cut yourself off from all other people and only provide everything you need for yourself