Hahaha no, I'm not going to use iTunes For The Greater Good(tm). I am going to use a method that suits MY needs best which currently happens to be downloading FLAC and rencoding for use on my portable, or downloading mp3 and if I like it enough, purchasing a CD which I can then rip for my portable.
I WISH there were legal FLAC downloads somewhere so I wouldn't have such a limited selection. With that said, it is sad that I can "steal" something with a higher quality than that of what I can "buy", and to be honest that is my sole reason for "stealing".
For me: DRM. If I'm going to be paying someone for music, I want it in basically the same flexibility that I would get off a CD. Lossless and with the ability to exercise my fair use. ITMS is completely useless to me if I can't transfer the songs to my portable. And no, there's no way I'm wasting my money on an ipod just so I can carry my DRM tunes around when I already have a perfectly functional portable that I can fill with ripped vorbis or downloaded MP3.
Liar! You can't do that, unless you have several addresses and credit cards... Either that or you didn't bother reading the terms and you're in for a big surprise.
Fuck that! If you want a PDA go buy A FUCKING PDA. Geeze, you'd be the stupidist looking executive walking into the board room with your PSP and fullsize keyboard with taped ends. It also defeats the purpose if you have to put one part of the PDA down so you can type on the other part.
Seriously, that's one of the stuipidist knee-jerk ideas I've seen come out of slashdot commenting in a while, and that's saying something!
I'll take you up on that. More likely an opensource window manager will do it first, then OSX, then windows; but in windows only through a third party shareware program that requires insane amounts of CPU/Memory.
While I do agree with you that realplayer is less than desireable, this situation could be much worse. Real does at least have a linux native player, which means that this deal potentially isn't as OS locked to windows as it could have been. Time Warner could have chosen some sort of Microsoft solution, which means there would never be a hope of getting a service on an alternative OS.
It'll be sooner than that. The next "date bug problem" will likely come at the end of the 32-bit length UNIX Epoch in 2038. As the wikipage mentions however, we should hopefully have shifted up to 64 bits by then, which will give us a quite a bit more time.
You're talking out your ass! From what I see, Japanese games suffer just as much from "play it again" syndrome as anyone else, perhaps even more. Console RPGs are almost entirely the same every time, as are side scrolling spaceship shooters, and there's also billions of those incredibly pointless slashers with no story that involves you mashing buttons for 20 hours straight until you beat the last boss.
American games on the other hand seem to focus on shooters more, and maybe racers, and sports games - which in my eyes also suffer from an incredible lack in originality.
So while it may be true that the Japanese market has different intrests than the American one, I think they also suffer from game innovation problems.
Surely you're not suggesting that every game made in Japan is incredibly original and thoughful, and brings us to a new plateu of gameplay? I would hope not. Some Japanese games do, as you've mentioned, but then again a handful of American games have also made some progress when it comes to thinking up something new instead of just falling into lockstep.
If you were a seagull, I think the massive roaring white thing with fire coming out its ass would be something that you would AVOID. And it isn't exactly a stealth jet either, you've got plenty of advance "notice".
Hahaha, you make it sound like that was some sort of amazing feat or something. PK3 and PK4 files are just plain old zips. And yes, they did that intentionally, so modders would have access to the base resources, and so that it would be far easier for modders to package their releases.
I've read somewhere else on slashdot that the Mac version of Office is actually quite better than the Windows version. Of course, I read it on slashdot......
You get a copy of the invite in your sentbox; you can just send them a copy of the link provided in the invite via some other means, like IM, forums, or even by phone.
As far as I know, that's the completely wrong way of doing it. You want to build a kernel module for it via/usr/src/linux/.config (i.e. make menuconfig) and then follow the instructions here for the 2.6 kernel. (The first part of the guide also goes over building the kernel module.) Good luck!:) Also, I'd like to make a shameless plug for Ubuntu, where most things Just Work;)
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Hahaha no, I'm not going to use iTunes For The Greater Good(tm). I am going to use a method that suits MY needs best which currently happens to be downloading FLAC and rencoding for use on my portable, or downloading mp3 and if I like it enough, purchasing a CD which I can then rip for my portable.
I WISH there were legal FLAC downloads somewhere so I wouldn't have such a limited selection. With that said, it is sad that I can "steal" something with a higher quality than that of what I can "buy", and to be honest that is my sole reason for "stealing".
But it is still mp4.
I wish I hadn't already commented in this story because I would have modded you up.
For me: DRM. If I'm going to be paying someone for music, I want it in basically the same flexibility that I would get off a CD. Lossless and with the ability to exercise my fair use. ITMS is completely useless to me if I can't transfer the songs to my portable. And no, there's no way I'm wasting my money on an ipod just so I can carry my DRM tunes around when I already have a perfectly functional portable that I can fill with ripped vorbis or downloaded MP3.
Liar! You can't do that, unless you have several addresses and credit cards... Either that or you didn't bother reading the terms and you're in for a big surprise.
Slashdot uses sensationalist headlines for EVERYTHING. They're just trying to be fair...
Do you happen to know how to do this?
Fuck that! If you want a PDA go buy A FUCKING PDA. Geeze, you'd be the stupidist looking executive walking into the board room with your PSP and fullsize keyboard with taped ends. It also defeats the purpose if you have to put one part of the PDA down so you can type on the other part.
Seriously, that's one of the stuipidist knee-jerk ideas I've seen come out of slashdot commenting in a while, and that's saying something!
I'll take you up on that. More likely an opensource window manager will do it first, then OSX, then windows; but in windows only through a third party shareware program that requires insane amounts of CPU/Memory.
I for one thought that was a pretty good joke. I have a distinct lack of mod points though. :(
Meh. Soon, he won't have any coworkers...
How is that different from ANY (standard) method?
While I do agree with you that realplayer is less than desireable, this situation could be much worse. Real does at least have a linux native player, which means that this deal potentially isn't as OS locked to windows as it could have been. Time Warner could have chosen some sort of Microsoft solution, which means there would never be a hope of getting a service on an alternative OS.
It'll be sooner than that. The next "date bug problem" will likely come at the end of the 32-bit length UNIX Epoch in 2038. As the wikipage mentions however, we should hopefully have shifted up to 64 bits by then, which will give us a quite a bit more time.
You're talking out your ass! From what I see, Japanese games suffer just as much from "play it again" syndrome as anyone else, perhaps even more. Console RPGs are almost entirely the same every time, as are side scrolling spaceship shooters, and there's also billions of those incredibly pointless slashers with no story that involves you mashing buttons for 20 hours straight until you beat the last boss.
American games on the other hand seem to focus on shooters more, and maybe racers, and sports games - which in my eyes also suffer from an incredible lack in originality.
So while it may be true that the Japanese market has different intrests than the American one, I think they also suffer from game innovation problems.
Surely you're not suggesting that every game made in Japan is incredibly original and thoughful, and brings us to a new plateu of gameplay? I would hope not. Some Japanese games do, as you've mentioned, but then again a handful of American games have also made some progress when it comes to thinking up something new instead of just falling into lockstep.
If you were a seagull, I think the massive roaring white thing with fire coming out its ass would be something that you would AVOID. And it isn't exactly a stealth jet either, you've got plenty of advance "notice".
Gee... uh, just plugging into a RJ-45 port?
Hahaha, you make it sound like that was some sort of amazing feat or something. PK3 and PK4 files are just plain old zips. And yes, they did that intentionally, so modders would have access to the base resources, and so that it would be far easier for modders to package their releases.
Can't RTFA even if you wanted to on this story. After you click through the advertising, there's no article!
I've read somewhere else on slashdot that the Mac version of Office is actually quite better than the Windows version. Of course, I read it on slashdot... ...
You get a copy of the invite in your sentbox; you can just send them a copy of the link provided in the invite via some other means, like IM, forums, or even by phone.
What the fuck guy, you're drawing your *own* damn conclusions! He never said that bush was evil in his post.
His loss. Maybe you should remind him that emails are sent in plaintext?
No, it isn't. I do it all the time.
As far as I know, that's the completely wrong way of doing it. You want to build a kernel module for it via /usr/src/linux/.config (i.e. make menuconfig) and then follow the instructions here for the 2.6 kernel. (The first part of the guide also goes over building the kernel module.) Good luck! :) Also, I'd like to make a shameless plug for Ubuntu, where most things Just Work ;)