Look people, corporations are greedy bitches that only care about making a profit. Because they are greedy, they think everyone else is out to rip them off. Why? Because they rip us off every chance they get. They except people to pay full physical book prices for ebooks, when it cost way less to make a copy of an ebook then it does to make a physical book. They know they are ripping us off, thus they want DRM so they can gouge the stupid people that actually pay them for the ebooks.
Me? I've been downloading ebooks since the 90's. Way before the publishers got on the bandwagon. Sure, I might get some spelling (OCR errors), but I don't care. It's free. So why should I go from paying nothing, to paying over $10 for an ebook? Seriously, explain that one to me. The corporations do NOT care about me, they only care about is how much profit they can make off of me. Well, fuck them.
Bring old ebooks to the $2-3 price, and I'd consider buying them. New ebooks $5, max. I'd never pay more then $5 for an ebook, ever. Why? Because I can't sell it used. A physical book, I can take to a use book store and sell for some dollars, or trade for credit. That is value. Ebooks? Don't have a value and I sure as fuck ain't paying the corporations to fuck me over.
Meeting all your requirements seems to be impossible (I googled) and I don't think the situation will change in the future.
If you can make compromises, it seems that the iPod Classic 160GB plays ALAC files and comes in at £199. Not sure what the dollar price is or whether ALAC is a suitable replacement for FLAC (I'm happy enough with 320kbps Spotify tunes so hardly the right person to ask).
However, the main problem is that we are at the point where the majority want converged devices and this means that, for most people, their phone doubles as a music player, a camera, and everything else.
The market for standalone music players definitely still exists, but don't expect to see much innovation there. In general, the market for these devices is one that wants to load up their MP3/AAC collection and take it with them while out exercising. People with your needs are a minority and in a saturated market, there is little point in companies developing such a device for marginal profit gains.
I have an Ipod Classic, I convert my 16bit/44khz flac to apple's lossless format and listen to the music that way. Love it! I'd just like the higher bit & sample rate for my vinyl rips. Ya, i'm probably in the minority, but I do think they could add the 24bit/96khz easier then they can add a camera to the music players.
How the fuck is my post a troll? I named the type of portable music player I'd like, something different then was is being offered? Offtopic maybe, but troll?
Robots should find an empty field somewhere and self-destruct after some period of time without receiving commands. We do not want to wind up with the same situation we have with land mines -- dangerous leftovers from wars that ended decades ago. Imagine an autonomous robot getting lost during a war, only to get uncovered 10 years after the war ends and going on a rampage (say, killing every armed police officer it finds)...
If it means we actually get batteries that can power a robot for 10 years, I'm sort of down for that battery tech. So we might have killer robots on the loose, worth it for those batteries, imo.
I mean, seriously, bitching about apps that get on other systems is stupid. If you want it so bad, program it yourself. If you can't program, hire someone who can. If you can't afford that, then do a kickstarter campaign for it.
Stop bitching about it, you sound like you think you are entitled to software like it, when you are not. It requires work, and if you aren't going to do the work, then move the fuck on.
Back in the early 80's, I remember the scene clearly. Math class, there was a computer (TRS-80 Model III) in the back of it one day. Teacher had each of us during class type out: 10 PRINT "OUR NAME"; 20 GOTO 10
Needless to say, i was hooked. Started teaching myself basic, and started hexediting. Didn't know what assembly was (wish I did), but I loved looking at programs with a hex editor. Which lead me to being able to copy copy protected samples my typing teacher would get later when I was in high school. She'd give me a disk and say, "Can you make a copy of this? The school won't buy me anymore" and generally it was something stupid like the format wouldn't copy 1 part of the disk, which I could just use a hexedit program to put in the correct value. =)
During early high school, my parents bought a C64, which I used to type in programs from Compute! and other sources. Wasn't till I was 20 before I got my own computer, and IBM PC, which I then taught myself C on.
I haven't bothered to learn anything other then C, I don't see the point. Granted I am sort of teaching myself assembly on an apple II.
Parents should be monitor their kids. I don't think it's facebooks fault, they really have no way of telling if people are using real names & real ages. Let alone verifying any of the info.
I'd like to see the video, because I'm wondering if it was really bad, or if she was suicidal and it was a good enough excuse. I do remember when I was 14 and it seemed like everything evolved around the world i was in, and everything seems like it mattered and was important. Then again, I guess if my less then memorial moments were captured on video, i don't know.
But I think Italy needs to be talking to the parents, not facebook.
I mean, really. If you got shit you don't want anyone to get into, you do NOT put the fucking stuff on a computer that has internet access. How many stupid ass people/corporations/governments are going to keep getting hacked? Lots. Mainly if your a government, you are 100% a target.
PETA should be allowed to discover the identities of the posters for the purposes of suing them, if the statements are in fact defamatory. But the first bar PETA should have to clear is to demonstrate to the court that the statements are in fact defamatory. And they should be required to identify the allegedly-defamatory posts publicly, so the posters can retain counsel and contest the allegations without having their identity revealed. Only after they've prevailed on the "the statements are defamatory" part should they be allowed discovery as to the identities of the posters. And if they fail to follow through and file suit, sanctions should be imposed for abuse of process.
Being anonymous should not mean you can't be held accountable for what you say, but the first step should be showing that someone could be held legally accountable for saying what was said. If what was said isn't actionable, then it shouldn't matter who said it.
When I grew up we had a saying. "Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but names can never hurt me." I always took that to mean if a person attacks you with weapons, it will hurt, but if they attack you with words, ignore them. Mainly in this internet age. Getting butthurt isn't going to do anything but make you look foolish.
*blink* *blink* No... I'm pretty sure Sony and Microsoft are making lots of money off licensing, game sales, and content distribution. The point is that the hardware itself doesn't need to be profitable.
Well, the Wii made Nintendo a ton of money. Mainly since they didn't take a loss with the 99 million consoles they sold. As for MS & Sony, I don't care. They choose the path they took, and if it didn't pay off, good. Not my fault.
And how will this help the 10,000 children who die of starvation everyday through no fault of their own?
Well, if it's religious texts, then it can save their souls so they go to heaven. Small comfort when your starving to death, i know, but think of the children (in heaven)!!!!!
I mean really most people do not buy CD's anymore or use PC's to listen to music, Rootkits are no longer an issue for the vast majority of multimedia content users. No need to get your knickers in a twist.
What about new PC's? Cellphones? How about if they come prerooted from the store?
And for the record, I know a lot of people who listen to music on their PC's. Mainly if you want to listen to 24bit - 88+khz music...
I kind of agree. They could have saved up all those lawyer fees and just paid the guy off. I'd take Microsoft money any day.
They just filed a dispute, not like they are going to court.
And we have no idea if they tried to get a hold of the person, or if they couldn't, or if the person said, sure, for 1 Million pounds.
What I don't understand is why people treat domain squatting like it's a bad thing. Free market and all that? The website name is property, and as far as I know there isn't a law saying you have to use your property or someone else can have it.
If the domain owner had actually been using the name (rather than just to show a default launch page) then I might have some sympathy for them. But those people who speculatively register thousands of domains just to extort money from legitimate users deserve to be sued.
Nobody should ever reward the bad practices of those douchebags. They are the equivalent of patent trolls.
I don't agree. Sure, it sucks, but the name is property. People buy up property cheap all the time with the hopes that the area might become developed and the property will go up in price.
Just because MS wants it doesn't mean they should get it. Just because the person hasn't done anything with his website doesn't mean MS should get it. This is mostly just catering to the corporations.
MS should of bought all the Xbox* names they could of back when they released the original xbox. They didn't, tough shit, imo.
And why do you need a new website name for a new console? Why not just have Xbox.com show the new console? It's not like they are going to keep selling and advertising the Xbox 360 after the Xbox One is released.
What if we find a planet that is just like Earth; and has a thriving ecosystem; but has much more gravity than Earth? We would need exoskeleton suits to walk around until we got used to it. But I guess we will find Earth 2.0 eventually that is just right. But even a planet like Venus could have life in the upper atmosphere. And there are theories that even Neutron stars harbour life under the surface. Life will always find a way. Not all aliens are humanoid with funny things on their foreheads.
If we find a planet with life on it (ie. is habitable), our chances of getting there is slim to none. We don't need to worry about exoskeletons or genetic upgrades because we do NOT have the tech, not even close, to be able to travel to another solar system.
there were thousands of reliable documented UFO sightings covered up by the US government with such ridiculous explanations as 'moonlight reflecting off of swamp gas'
Put yourself in their shoes for a moment. You're testing supersonic spy planes in an era where our largest adversary had successfully stolen nuclear weapons research from us, and you're trying to stop the local yokels from asking too many questions about the unimaginably fast, jet-black craft that keep whooshing overhead. What do you tell them that will shut them up, without saying "we're testing top-secret spy planes that will overfly the Soviet Union"?
If extraterrestrials really did visit Earth as often (and for as long) as you claim, btw, there would be actual hard evidence. There is none. The simplest explanation is that a) people freak out when confronted with rapid technological change, and b) the human brain is a superb pattern-finding machine - so good that it often finds patterns where none exist. And if we're going to treat ancient Hindu scrolls as reliable documentary evidence, why not just take the Book of Genesis at face value too, and have the government stop funding evolution research? (Or medical research, for that matter - clearly divine intervention can cure disease more effectively than modern medicine.)
Only problem is, that when stuff crash from the sky, usually the Government is there to collect it. Then we never know. Now I'm not saying UFO's are real, it's just if they are, and the government knows, they have been cleaning up after them.
As for your taking Genesis & the Hindu scrolls at face value, no, that would be stupid, but it doesn't mean that there isn't some truth in those. I haven't read the Hindu scrolls (would like to though), so I am not that familiar with what they say, but based on Ancient Aliens, they claim they describe modern type of weapons pretty good.
But lets be real here. I can accept aliens a lot easier then I can accept any religion. At least aliens make sense. Unless you believe we are the only life in the universe, there most likely is other life out there. The question is, are they able to figure out ways of traveling the vast distances between solar systems?
Are they're looking for life on planets not warmed by a star? Or just hoping to find an alien Moonbase Alpha?
They just mentioned those no star planets as an example of how cool it is out in space, but they will be looking for earth like planets in the habitable zone, which means a planet that orbits a star/sun.
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Look people, corporations are greedy bitches that only care about making a profit. Because they are greedy, they think everyone else is out to rip them off. Why? Because they rip us off every chance they get. They except people to pay full physical book prices for ebooks, when it cost way less to make a copy of an ebook then it does to make a physical book. They know they are ripping us off, thus they want DRM so they can gouge the stupid people that actually pay them for the ebooks.
Me? I've been downloading ebooks since the 90's. Way before the publishers got on the bandwagon. Sure, I might get some spelling (OCR errors), but I don't care. It's free. So why should I go from paying nothing, to paying over $10 for an ebook? Seriously, explain that one to me. The corporations do NOT care about me, they only care about is how much profit they can make off of me. Well, fuck them.
Bring old ebooks to the $2-3 price, and I'd consider buying them. New ebooks $5, max. I'd never pay more then $5 for an ebook, ever. Why? Because I can't sell it used. A physical book, I can take to a use book store and sell for some dollars, or trade for credit. That is value. Ebooks? Don't have a value and I sure as fuck ain't paying the corporations to fuck me over.
Meeting all your requirements seems to be impossible (I googled) and I don't think the situation will change in the future.
If you can make compromises, it seems that the iPod Classic 160GB plays ALAC files and comes in at £199. Not sure what the dollar price is or whether ALAC is a suitable replacement for FLAC (I'm happy enough with 320kbps Spotify tunes so hardly the right person to ask).
However, the main problem is that we are at the point where the majority want converged devices and this means that, for most people, their phone doubles as a music player, a camera, and everything else.
The market for standalone music players definitely still exists, but don't expect to see much innovation there. In general, the market for these devices is one that wants to load up their MP3/AAC collection and take it with them while out exercising. People with your needs are a minority and in a saturated market, there is little point in companies developing such a device for marginal profit gains.
I have an Ipod Classic, I convert my 16bit/44khz flac to apple's lossless format and listen to the music that way. Love it! I'd just like the higher bit & sample rate for my vinyl rips. Ya, i'm probably in the minority, but I do think they could add the 24bit/96khz easier then they can add a camera to the music players.
How the fuck is my post a troll? I named the type of portable music player I'd like, something different then was is being offered? Offtopic maybe, but troll?
Seriously?
I think you do not know what a troll is.
Robots should find an empty field somewhere and self-destruct after some period of time without receiving commands. We do not want to wind up with the same situation we have with land mines -- dangerous leftovers from wars that ended decades ago. Imagine an autonomous robot getting lost during a war, only to get uncovered 10 years after the war ends and going on a rampage (say, killing every armed police officer it finds)...
If it means we actually get batteries that can power a robot for 10 years, I'm sort of down for that battery tech. So we might have killer robots on the loose, worth it for those batteries, imo.
The ability to play 24bit/96khz flac recordings.
Don't need video, don't need a fucking camera.
How about a e-ink display that doesn't drink the power from the batteries?
with about 200gb of space.
Try to keep it under $200 please.
I mean, seriously, bitching about apps that get on other systems is stupid. If you want it so bad, program it yourself. If you can't program, hire someone who can. If you can't afford that, then do a kickstarter campaign for it.
Stop bitching about it, you sound like you think you are entitled to software like it, when you are not. It requires work, and if you aren't going to do the work, then move the fuck on.
I love this idea of Nukes in space, after all, no shuttle has every blown up on it's way to space.
"But he points out that later on, during the time of the pharaohs, the gods were believed to have bones made of iron."
Just like Wolverine!
Please turn in your geek card.
Back in the early 80's, I remember the scene clearly. Math class, there was a computer (TRS-80 Model III) in the back of it one day. Teacher had each of us during class type out:
10 PRINT "OUR NAME";
20 GOTO 10
Needless to say, i was hooked. Started teaching myself basic, and started hexediting. Didn't know what assembly was (wish I did), but I loved looking at programs with a hex editor. Which lead me to being able to copy copy protected samples my typing teacher would get later when I was in high school. She'd give me a disk and say, "Can you make a copy of this? The school won't buy me anymore" and generally it was something stupid like the format wouldn't copy 1 part of the disk, which I could just use a hexedit program to put in the correct value. =)
During early high school, my parents bought a C64, which I used to type in programs from Compute! and other sources. Wasn't till I was 20 before I got my own computer, and IBM PC, which I then taught myself C on.
I haven't bothered to learn anything other then C, I don't see the point. Granted I am sort of teaching myself assembly on an apple II.
Parents should be monitor their kids. I don't think it's facebooks fault, they really have no way of telling if people are using real names & real ages. Let alone verifying any of the info.
I'd like to see the video, because I'm wondering if it was really bad, or if she was suicidal and it was a good enough excuse. I do remember when I was 14 and it seemed like everything evolved around the world i was in, and everything seems like it mattered and was important. Then again, I guess if my less then memorial moments were captured on video, i don't know.
But I think Italy needs to be talking to the parents, not facebook.
If the glacier didn't melt some, I'm sure they'd never have found those plants.
Now the Chinese government too can sink untold amounts of money on ultra-expensive gear? :P
Nope, Chinese are better known for making cheap knock offs.
I mean, really. If you got shit you don't want anyone to get into, you do NOT put the fucking stuff on a computer that has internet access. How many stupid ass people/corporations/governments are going to keep getting hacked? Lots. Mainly if your a government, you are 100% a target.
PETA should be allowed to discover the identities of the posters for the purposes of suing them, if the statements are in fact defamatory. But the first bar PETA should have to clear is to demonstrate to the court that the statements are in fact defamatory. And they should be required to identify the allegedly-defamatory posts publicly, so the posters can retain counsel and contest the allegations without having their identity revealed. Only after they've prevailed on the "the statements are defamatory" part should they be allowed discovery as to the identities of the posters. And if they fail to follow through and file suit, sanctions should be imposed for abuse of process.
Being anonymous should not mean you can't be held accountable for what you say, but the first step should be showing that someone could be held legally accountable for saying what was said. If what was said isn't actionable, then it shouldn't matter who said it.
When I grew up we had a saying. "Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but names can never hurt me." I always took that to mean if a person attacks you with weapons, it will hurt, but if they attack you with words, ignore them. Mainly in this internet age. Getting butthurt isn't going to do anything but make you look foolish.
Pics or it didn't happen?
http://www.electrojams.com/forum/thread-7569.html
*blink* *blink* No... I'm pretty sure Sony and Microsoft are making lots of money off licensing, game sales, and content distribution. The point is that the hardware itself doesn't need to be profitable.
Well, the Wii made Nintendo a ton of money. Mainly since they didn't take a loss with the 99 million consoles they sold. As for MS & Sony, I don't care. They choose the path they took, and if it didn't pay off, good. Not my fault.
And how will this help the 10,000 children who die of starvation everyday through no fault of their own?
Well, if it's religious texts, then it can save their souls so they go to heaven. Small comfort when your starving to death, i know, but think of the children (in heaven)!!!!!
I can't wait until MS decides that the servers running my favorite game aren't profitable anymore, so I am incapable of playing it anymore.
With MS throwing the hat in on stuff that doesn't make them a profit, i figure a year at the most for most games.
I mean really most people do not buy CD's anymore or use PC's to listen to music, Rootkits are no longer an issue for the vast majority of multimedia content users. No need to get your knickers in a twist.
What about new PC's? Cellphones? How about if they come prerooted from the store?
And for the record, I know a lot of people who listen to music on their PC's. Mainly if you want to listen to 24bit - 88+khz music...
I kind of agree. They could have saved up all those lawyer fees and just paid the guy off. I'd take Microsoft money any day.
They just filed a dispute, not like they are going to court.
And we have no idea if they tried to get a hold of the person, or if they couldn't, or if the person said, sure, for 1 Million pounds.
What I don't understand is why people treat domain squatting like it's a bad thing. Free market and all that? The website name is property, and as far as I know there isn't a law saying you have to use your property or someone else can have it.
If the domain owner had actually been using the name (rather than just to show a default launch page) then I might have some sympathy for them. But those people who speculatively register thousands of domains just to extort money from legitimate users deserve to be sued.
Nobody should ever reward the bad practices of those douchebags. They are the equivalent of patent trolls.
I don't agree. Sure, it sucks, but the name is property. People buy up property cheap all the time with the hopes that the area might become developed and the property will go up in price.
Just because MS wants it doesn't mean they should get it. Just because the person hasn't done anything with his website doesn't mean MS should get it. This is mostly just catering to the corporations.
MS should of bought all the Xbox* names they could of back when they released the original xbox. They didn't, tough shit, imo.
And why do you need a new website name for a new console? Why not just have Xbox.com show the new console? It's not like they are going to keep selling and advertising the Xbox 360 after the Xbox One is released.
whoosh!
Well, since I meant that as a joke, perhaps I should be replying in kind. :-)
Then I guess the "whoosh" is for me. =)
What if we find a planet that is just like Earth; and has a thriving ecosystem; but has much more gravity than Earth? We would need exoskeleton suits to walk around until we got used to it. But I guess we will find Earth 2.0 eventually that is just right. But even a planet like Venus could have life in the upper atmosphere. And there are theories that even Neutron stars harbour life under the surface. Life will always find a way. Not all aliens are humanoid with funny things on their foreheads.
If we find a planet with life on it (ie. is habitable), our chances of getting there is slim to none. We don't need to worry about exoskeletons or genetic upgrades because we do NOT have the tech, not even close, to be able to travel to another solar system.
there were thousands of reliable documented UFO sightings covered up by the US government with such ridiculous explanations as 'moonlight reflecting off of swamp gas'
Put yourself in their shoes for a moment. You're testing supersonic spy planes in an era where our largest adversary had successfully stolen nuclear weapons research from us, and you're trying to stop the local yokels from asking too many questions about the unimaginably fast, jet-black craft that keep whooshing overhead. What do you tell them that will shut them up, without saying "we're testing top-secret spy planes that will overfly the Soviet Union"?
If extraterrestrials really did visit Earth as often (and for as long) as you claim, btw, there would be actual hard evidence. There is none. The simplest explanation is that a) people freak out when confronted with rapid technological change, and b) the human brain is a superb pattern-finding machine - so good that it often finds patterns where none exist. And if we're going to treat ancient Hindu scrolls as reliable documentary evidence, why not just take the Book of Genesis at face value too, and have the government stop funding evolution research? (Or medical research, for that matter - clearly divine intervention can cure disease more effectively than modern medicine.)
Only problem is, that when stuff crash from the sky, usually the Government is there to collect it. Then we never know. Now I'm not saying UFO's are real, it's just if they are, and the government knows, they have been cleaning up after them.
As for your taking Genesis & the Hindu scrolls at face value, no, that would be stupid, but it doesn't mean that there isn't some truth in those. I haven't read the Hindu scrolls (would like to though), so I am not that familiar with what they say, but based on Ancient Aliens, they claim they describe modern type of weapons pretty good.
But lets be real here. I can accept aliens a lot easier then I can accept any religion. At least aliens make sense. Unless you believe we are the only life in the universe, there most likely is other life out there. The question is, are they able to figure out ways of traveling the vast distances between solar systems?
Are they're looking for life on planets not warmed by a star?
Or just hoping to find an alien Moonbase Alpha?
They just mentioned those no star planets as an example of how cool it is out in space, but they will be looking for earth like planets in the habitable zone, which means a planet that orbits a star/sun.