is if the RIAA would give students a choice in the matter, instead of forcing Napster down their throats(who knows, maybe someone up there really loves irony) ie you could give me:
a) a reduced Napster subscription price
b) a reduced price on iTunes songs or
c) a free "I
None of these would have to be paid for from univerisity funds(I'm from Penn State, I still wonder where our mysterious funding comes from), it would give the users a choice, and the RIAA could still make boatloads of money.
Gah, people who think they have some sort of inate right to music piss me off, but not nearly as much as the RIAA....
You can buy them from a 3rd party at amazon, but from what I have read from the user reviews, the 3rd party cables aren't exactly of the highest quality....
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Heh, well first off, Japanese religion is really a mish mash of Shintoism and Buddhism. It is not at all uncommon for someone to have a shinto wedding and buddhist funeral. But from my observations, the Japanese don't really take religion nearly as seriously as Americans do.
I could be wrong on this, but from my observations the Japanese are only religious when it comes to ceremony. IE they go through the motions(going to a temple, throwing the money, clapping your hands and ringing the bell) not because they have a deep faith in the motions, but more because it is tradition. Tradition holds very deep in Japan(as it does in America, Europe etc).
that very few people who buy consoles even use most of the features of their TV. In fact, only about 1% of gamecube users even use the digital output despite the fact that 90% of Nintendo made games and about 1/3 of 3rd party games support it.
against Intel now in the laptop market as well. AMD has steadily been gaining against Intel is the desktop market, but I really think that the laptop market is the place to be(in terms of cash of course) Also nice that they are attacking at both ends, the performance end and the budget end.
With the advent of wi-fi, I see a lot more people ditching desktops all together and using a laptop as their only machine. Why not? Laptops easily have enough power to check email, browse, use an office suit all at the same time. And you can take them anywhere. And with a low end laptop only a few hundred more than a lowend desktop, there really isn't the financial motivation to get a desktop anymore.
Desktops aren't dying, but the real growth(at least in terms of the mature world economies) will probably be in laptops in the coming years.
Heh, hopefully. Actually, the IST people already hae a G5 lab(I saw it last time I was over there) Those sun machines suck bad. Trying to read that crappy LCD does a real number on my eyes. They won't even put a modern browser on them. There is some ancient version of netscape on there. When the homepage is loaded the JRE generates a null pointer exception. To me, that just smacks of lazy, lazy admins. Fortunately I have a whopping 75 megs(that is a bargain $40 a megabyte) so I was able to download firefox, which at least makes using the machines bearable. Oh yeah, and, this was when the machine was new, I don't know if they fixed it now, but they have the internal speakers turned up pretty loud. I went to this website and it played, for the whole lab, "Verizon is a bad company", I'm fortunate that I didn't accidentally wonder into an interesting porn site....
Do you have any sort of content filter at all? I'm probably wrong, but I thought that in order to "protect the children" (note the sarcasm quotes) you have to have some sort of pr0n filter installed on public access machines...
because the Japanese game market was crapflooded a lot more than the US game market? If you ever have a chance to go to Japan(which I recommend, beautiful country) walk into any used game store. I was just stunned that even in the little Tokyo suburb I was living in, the huge number of games for dreamcast, and ps1, ps2, and hell, they even had a huge rack of famicom games.
There probably are a few gems in there, but my guess is that most of the games are probably total crap. Maybe this just turned a lot of people off of video games. Look at the US market, whenever the market got hot, it was usually followed by a crapflood of games(Atari ET anyone?) and then usually followed by a downturn.
Heh, I'm not exactly happy about the whole powerbook thing, considering I am paying for my own undergrad education and they slammed me with $3,000 woth of equipment surcharges, and all I have to show for it is I get to use those really crappy sun machines that don't even have a cd player, yet the grad students get a better laptop than I can afford...
I'm not sure, the things are just sitting locked in a wooden cabinent beneath the little kiosk. I doubt they are being used for grid computing, but I could be wrong. I'm not really sure what grids if any we actually use on campus.
Heh, well those g5s could have went to better use somewhere else. A science lab, or even a general computer lab where people may be doing more than just checking their email real quick.
Off-topic but check out the new kiosk machines in the hub, they replaced 3 perfectly functioni iMacs with 3 dual 2.0 GhZ G5s with 17" Apple monitors. Just another example of our school wasting money, that is $6k in excess of buying 3 eMacs easily.
In high school I lettered 3 times....in Academic Games. Our high school considered any club that was competive eligible to receive letters.
So yeah, it's a sport.
I dunno, the secret identity of that LaBatt Blue bear on the television commercials is probably a pretty significant target. After all, the beer is Canada!
So... I was trying to figure it out but failed, how can you plug/hide a floppy in a iPod?:)
Empty out the insides of the iPod and put the shell back together so it looks whole. Then carefully pry apart the floppy disk, and discard the plastic shell. If you very carefully bend the little magnetic disc, you can probably fit it inside the iPod. However, you probably run the signficant chance that you just borked all the data on the disk!
is instead of a law blocking violent video games because they think they might cause violence, they really should make a law that bans video games that suck so bad that they incite violence.
How many times have you been hit with a flying jewel case/cartridge while hearing someone shout, "You mean I fucking paid 50 bucks for this piece of shit!"
Evidently Apple wasn't able to come up with a stable OS of it's own and had to find a way of finding a stable one.
Since you are such a brilliant programmer, maybe you are familiar with the phrase, "re-inventing the wheel", why bother spending a lot of time and money coming up with something that works when it has already been created?
This is coming from a recovering mac zealot who is switching back to pcs because Apple has such shitty customer service, but it's a point worth mentioning.
And Canada was also hit very hard by SARS.....esp. Toronto IIRC
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going to extradite him to the US, but they will not extradite a soldier by the name of Jenkins, who "disappeared" into North Korea while in the US military guarding the 38th parallel some 20 or so years ago. Jenkins married a kidnapped Japanese woman while in North Korea, and will be returning to Japan for a medical checkup soon. I actually don't think they should extradite either of them, but if you are going to do it, at least be consistent...
jebus, can't MS have ONE ORIGINAL THOUGHT? Apple partners with BMW/Voltswagon and now MS has to find a car manufacturer to partner with.
Not bashing for bashing's sake, but man, can't they just come up with SOMETHING on their own once in a while?
RTFA, they are leeching an idea, but it's not off Apple. Apple's partnership was to promote iPod music in the car. MS is leeching off GM's onstar this time...
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is if the RIAA would give students a choice in the matter, instead of forcing Napster down their throats(who knows, maybe someone up there really loves irony) ie you could give me:
a) a reduced Napster subscription price
b) a reduced price on iTunes songs or
c) a free "I None of these would have to be paid for from univerisity funds(I'm from Penn State, I still wonder where our mysterious funding comes from), it would give the users a choice, and the RIAA could still make boatloads of money.
Gah, people who think they have some sort of inate right to music piss me off, but not nearly as much as the RIAA....
You can buy them from a 3rd party at amazon, but from what I have read from the user reviews, the 3rd party cables aren't exactly of the highest quality....
Heh, well first off, Japanese religion is really a mish mash of Shintoism and Buddhism. It is not at all uncommon for someone to have a shinto wedding and buddhist funeral. But from my observations, the Japanese don't really take religion nearly as seriously as Americans do.
I could be wrong on this, but from my observations the Japanese are only religious when it comes to ceremony. IE they go through the motions(going to a temple, throwing the money, clapping your hands and ringing the bell) not because they have a deep faith in the motions, but more because it is tradition. Tradition holds very deep in Japan(as it does in America, Europe etc).
that very few people who buy consoles even use most of the features of their TV. In fact, only about 1% of gamecube users even use the digital output despite the fact that 90% of Nintendo made games and about 1/3 of 3rd party games support it.
against Intel now in the laptop market as well. AMD has steadily been gaining against Intel is the desktop market, but I really think that the laptop market is the place to be(in terms of cash of course) Also nice that they are attacking at both ends, the performance end and the budget end.
With the advent of wi-fi, I see a lot more people ditching desktops all together and using a laptop as their only machine. Why not? Laptops easily have enough power to check email, browse, use an office suit all at the same time. And you can take them anywhere. And with a low end laptop only a few hundred more than a lowend desktop, there really isn't the financial motivation to get a desktop anymore.
Desktops aren't dying, but the real growth(at least in terms of the mature world economies) will probably be in laptops in the coming years.
Heh, the litle icon is also wrong too, iPods I guess can be considered a PDA, but the iPod has it's own little icon, why not use it?
Heh, hopefully. Actually, the IST people already hae a G5 lab(I saw it last time I was over there) Those sun machines suck bad. Trying to read that crappy LCD does a real number on my eyes. They won't even put a modern browser on them. There is some ancient version of netscape on there. When the homepage is loaded the JRE generates a null pointer exception. To me, that just smacks of lazy, lazy admins. Fortunately I have a whopping 75 megs(that is a bargain $40 a megabyte) so I was able to download firefox, which at least makes using the machines bearable. Oh yeah, and, this was when the machine was new, I don't know if they fixed it now, but they have the internal speakers turned up pretty loud. I went to this website and it played, for the whole lab, "Verizon is a bad company", I'm fortunate that I didn't accidentally wonder into an interesting porn site....
Do you have any sort of content filter at all? I'm probably wrong, but I thought that in order to "protect the children" (note the sarcasm quotes) you have to have some sort of pr0n filter installed on public access machines...
because the Japanese game market was crapflooded a lot more than the US game market? If you ever have a chance to go to Japan(which I recommend, beautiful country) walk into any used game store. I was just stunned that even in the little Tokyo suburb I was living in, the huge number of games for dreamcast, and ps1, ps2, and hell, they even had a huge rack of famicom games.
There probably are a few gems in there, but my guess is that most of the games are probably total crap. Maybe this just turned a lot of people off of video games. Look at the US market, whenever the market got hot, it was usually followed by a crapflood of games(Atari ET anyone?) and then usually followed by a downturn.
Heh, I'm not exactly happy about the whole powerbook thing, considering I am paying for my own undergrad education and they slammed me with $3,000 woth of equipment surcharges, and all I have to show for it is I get to use those really crappy sun machines that don't even have a cd player, yet the grad students get a better laptop than I can afford...
I'm not sure, the things are just sitting locked in a wooden cabinent beneath the little kiosk. I doubt they are being used for grid computing, but I could be wrong. I'm not really sure what grids if any we actually use on campus.
Heh, well those g5s could have went to better use somewhere else. A science lab, or even a general computer lab where people may be doing more than just checking their email real quick.
Off-topic but check out the new kiosk machines in the hub, they replaced 3 perfectly functioni iMacs with 3 dual 2.0 GhZ G5s with 17" Apple monitors. Just another example of our school wasting money, that is $6k in excess of buying 3 eMacs easily.
In high school I lettered 3 times....in Academic Games. Our high school considered any club that was competive eligible to receive letters.
So yeah, it's a sport.
I dunno, the secret identity of that LaBatt Blue bear on the television commercials is probably a pretty significant target. After all, the beer is Canada!
So... I was trying to figure it out but failed, how can you plug/hide a floppy in a iPod? :)
Empty out the insides of the iPod and put the shell back together so it looks whole. Then carefully pry apart the floppy disk, and discard the plastic shell. If you very carefully bend the little magnetic disc, you can probably fit it inside the iPod. However, you probably run the signficant chance that you just borked all the data on the disk!
They never go "Magic the Gathering: Street"
That could get real ugly...
So, what do you do when evil is fighting evil?
Didn't they do a He-Man episode about that very same topic?
is instead of a law blocking violent video games because they think they might cause violence, they really should make a law that bans video games that suck so bad that they incite violence.
How many times have you been hit with a flying jewel case/cartridge while hearing someone shout, "You mean I fucking paid 50 bucks for this piece of shit!"
that the much promised "Willenium" is finally upon us?
Evidently Apple wasn't able to come up with a stable OS of it's own and had to find a way of finding a stable one.
Since you are such a brilliant programmer, maybe you are familiar with the phrase, "re-inventing the wheel", why bother spending a lot of time and money coming up with something that works when it has already been created?
This is coming from a recovering mac zealot who is switching back to pcs because Apple has such shitty customer service, but it's a point worth mentioning.
And Canada was also hit very hard by SARS.....esp. Toronto IIRC
going to extradite him to the US, but they will not extradite a soldier by the name of Jenkins, who "disappeared" into North Korea while in the US military guarding the 38th parallel some 20 or so years ago. Jenkins married a kidnapped Japanese woman while in North Korea, and will be returning to Japan for a medical checkup soon. I actually don't think they should extradite either of them, but if you are going to do it, at least be consistent...
Though do you really want google to be digging through your pron? They might find that steakknife pr0n I have been keeping..
Oh god I have said too much!
jebus, can't MS have ONE ORIGINAL THOUGHT? Apple partners with BMW/Voltswagon and now MS has to find a car manufacturer to partner with. Not bashing for bashing's sake, but man, can't they just come up with SOMETHING on their own once in a while?
RTFA, they are leeching an idea, but it's not off Apple. Apple's partnership was to promote iPod music in the car. MS is leeching off GM's onstar this time...