Today is also Nerd Pride Day, but that's probably not a coincidence.
Whichever hoopy frood thought of towel day should have been slapped with a Salmon of Doubt so that this never came to be!
Sounds like they don't want any hits anymore. Meanwhile, alternatives like the Piratebay, isohunt & torrentreator are likely beefing up their infrastructure to accomodate the increase in traffic.
There has been speculation on dutch tech sites that they only did this to appease the dutch copyright vigilantes, so they are making a half-assed effort to filter some stuff out. Let's face it, a torrent site without any "illegal" (under dutch law, downloading music & movies is LEGAL!) content is about as useful as a 3-legged, dead dog. With a nasty case of fleas.
What one person perceives as "slick" or "polished" another user will describe as unnecessary or cluttered.
Comparisons of relative slickness are therefor meaningless, especially if you don't provide any SCREENSHOTS, or you know...proof.
Tried it yesterday on my iBook. First impressions are that it looks and acts alot cleaner, but it will intermittently crash (when using about 3 tabs, with the session saver option on), and some sites (like slashdot & arstechnica) will take about 5 minutes to load. Same sites in opera, Safari all load up very quickly. Other sites will simply work immediately.
It's a shame too, since I had really hoped to replace Opera 9 on the iBook, because that didn't really live up to my expectations. Here's hoping to 2.0.1!
Does this come up in every discussion? You might as well download them via Torrent/ Usenet.
All allofmp3.com does is throwing up a smokescreen that "we're in full compliance with the russian law", which I seriously doubt. So in all likelihood you're just supporting unethical behaviour, since I'm sure the russian law doesn't say anything about exporting (which is what selling to American citizens is, for all intents & purposes).
Bottom line: Downloading from illegal sources is about as kosher as downloading from allofmp3.com, and no amount of reasoning will achieve much, apart from soothing your own conscience.
Disclaimer: I have never paid for music online, I just download everything.
Damn, it's almost as if they weren't even trying and just picked up some random games, and adding to their Indy cred with including that japanese only game.
And i gotta ask, Cruisin' USA? What kind of shit is that? Those games were worse than Hitler, and they haven't aged well, i can tell you. You'd be better off with a copy of atari 2600 ET, i swear to $DEITY.
You know this idea that people make judgements in the first 50ms before you can really gain a conscious impression of it (though probably something flashes in your subconcious) remind me of one of the entries in the "Dangerous Ideas" article in Edge Magazine in which Nobel Prize winning biochemist Eric R. Kandel argues that much of what we call "free will" is processed unconsciously without awareness:
I was listening to an episode of This Week in Tech the other day and Leo kept mentioning someone's theory that Google's true goal is to get AdSense everywhere.
People on Slashdot really like iTunes? That same software that is bloated, sneaks quicktime into unsuspecting installations, rips to vendor locked-in AAC, etc. etc?
I for one really hate iTunes for various reasons. I can manage my own mp3 collection in a sensible manner, and i don't want to have to navigate your braindead library. Call me old & grumpy again, but sheesh. Not to mention iTunes is an evil kludge gui-wise on both OSX and Windows.
I actually prefer playing with tiles instead of the old, wanky ASCII graphics. Not having found a compelling case to use ASCII, i use tiles. Unless ofcourse, i want to slack at work and have to use an ssh connection to my nethack shell.
Did anyone catch the quite obvious lip service they were giving to the Creative audio card? It got straight 6/6 across the board, as well as an ad at the bottom of the comparison, as well as advice on where to buy it (Buy it now for only ${AMOUNT})
You'd expect them to cover it up a bit more, sheesh!
Apple retailers get reamed right in the ass. I've seen lists of the costs of the various products a year ago when i used to work in the field, and they ain't pretty. Think of the Apple lineup from a year ago. An Apple reseller (excluding Apple stores, they don't have any in my country) stood to make a whopping 10 off of every eMac sold, up to about 50-80 off of an iMac (the lampshade version iirc). Margins were pretty much razor thin from a retailer perspective. Then again, Apple have been known to want to eradicate 3rd party dealers and go Apple Store only, but in a country with no Apple Stores? Why limit access to your stuff at all?
I could understand (evil as it may be) Apple wanting to control distribution if they were the top dog in the computer business, but as it stands i think Apple would do well to play friendly with everyone who wants to push Apple products to the masses (iPods excluded, they're all over the place).
Yeah, here you go: http://www.apple.com/powerbook . This should spawn a whole new version of those commercials where they drop someone's laptop computer on the ground. They might have to drop Steve Jobs' Laptop, and then the dude would say "That's not my notebook". Oh, the hilarity!
You might cringe, but at least it beats the free Opera dupe story that was originally here.
They seem to have taken a page out of the book of WordPerfect (back in the day, say 10-15 years ago): Let users use Opera for free at home/ work, then make money off of Support/ Embedded Opera in Portable devices.
Good move, I love Opera. It beats the roll-your-own-browser Firefox by about 10 miles, for me at least. If only it could do flashblock.
If you can convince your local copyright assocation of this, you can apply for exemption to the levy. You'd have to burn through alot of data, home movies and other stuff for it to be worthwhile though. Myself, i copy movies like they're going out of style, and refuse to pay the levy by buying abroad. Fuck these leeches.
Disclaimer: Exemption is possible in my country, and may not be applicable in your country/ jurisdiction.
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1979 is an amazing song, not sure why Bill(y) is talking about computers now.... Wait a second, Gates who?
Today is also Nerd Pride Day, but that's probably not a coincidence. Whichever hoopy frood thought of towel day should have been slapped with a Salmon of Doubt so that this never came to be!
Sounds like they don't want any hits anymore. Meanwhile, alternatives like the Piratebay, isohunt & torrentreator are likely beefing up their infrastructure to accomodate the increase in traffic. There has been speculation on dutch tech sites that they only did this to appease the dutch copyright vigilantes, so they are making a half-assed effort to filter some stuff out. Let's face it, a torrent site without any "illegal" (under dutch law, downloading music & movies is LEGAL!) content is about as useful as a 3-legged, dead dog. With a nasty case of fleas.
everything simply being where it should be in the user interface.
I think this sentence describes exactly my problem with this kind of "reporting". Not all users are created equal.
What one person perceives as "slick" or "polished" another user will describe as unnecessary or cluttered. Comparisons of relative slickness are therefor meaningless, especially if you don't provide any SCREENSHOTS, or you know...proof.
Every single one of those made me shiver like a leaf...imagine the lost porn on each of those drives and I think you'll shiver along with me.
It's a shame too, since I had really hoped to replace Opera 9 on the iBook, because that didn't really live up to my expectations. Here's hoping to 2.0.1!
Never mind 3/8/6, I'm still baked from celebrating 4/2/0 !
All allofmp3.com does is throwing up a smokescreen that "we're in full compliance with the russian law", which I seriously doubt. So in all likelihood you're just supporting unethical behaviour, since I'm sure the russian law doesn't say anything about exporting (which is what selling to American citizens is, for all intents & purposes).
Bottom line: Downloading from illegal sources is about as kosher as downloading from allofmp3.com, and no amount of reasoning will achieve much, apart from soothing your own conscience.
Disclaimer: I have never paid for music online, I just download everything.
And i gotta ask, Cruisin' USA? What kind of shit is that? Those games were worse than Hitler, and they haven't aged well, i can tell you. You'd be better off with a copy of atari 2600 ET, i swear to $DEITY.
You know this idea that people make judgements in the first 50ms before you can really gain a conscious impression of it (though probably something flashes in your subconcious) remind me of one of the entries in the "Dangerous Ideas" article in Edge Magazine in which Nobel Prize winning biochemist Eric R. Kandel argues that much of what we call "free will" is processed unconsciously without awareness:
http://www.edge.org/q2006/q06_5.html
Interesting read for sure.
Oh Belgium, your clever cunning ways have uncovered me! CURSES!
This move just seems to back up that claim.
I for one really hate iTunes for various reasons. I can manage my own mp3 collection in a sensible manner, and i don't want to have to navigate your braindead library. Call me old & grumpy again, but sheesh. Not to mention iTunes is an evil kludge gui-wise on both OSX and Windows.
I actually prefer playing with tiles instead of the old, wanky ASCII graphics. Not having found a compelling case to use ASCII, i use tiles. Unless ofcourse, i want to slack at work and have to use an ssh connection to my nethack shell.
You'd expect them to cover it up a bit more, sheesh!
That's 10 euros (roughly equivalent to 10 dollars, at least in the computing world), NOT 10 percent.
I could understand (evil as it may be) Apple wanting to control distribution if they were the top dog in the computer business, but as it stands i think Apple would do well to play friendly with everyone who wants to push Apple products to the masses (iPods excluded, they're all over the place).
You might cringe, but at least it beats the free Opera dupe story that was originally here.
That's funny, i seem to recall Wordperfect being bought by Novell first, then Corel, where it's still being sold as the WordPerfect suite.
Good move, I love Opera. It beats the roll-your-own-browser Firefox by about 10 miles, for me at least. If only it could do flashblock.
1,5M Yen and it still can't climb stairs. Sure is cheaper than a Dalek though, and (hopefully) with less genocidal tendencies.
I'd prefer "RIAA licks a bulldog's nasty asshole" ,myself.
Oh yeah, down with the RIAA!! How dare they profit from something illegal! Rock on Chicago, Rock on London, Rock over RIAA.
Disclaimer: Exemption is possible in my country, and may not be applicable in your country/ jurisdiction.