Also, that way when you're moderated down, it's only 0.
So not only do the dumb moderators lose points, but they aren't very effective (Many people keep their threshold at 0).
Force them to use points on more productive things and force the little girls who can't handle a "FIRST POST" to have to read them, anyway. It won't kill them and it'll teach them more about the real world's difficulties on their virgin ears and eyes.
From what the submitter said and what people have said, here are some corrections and opinions:
1) Napster is no longer in beta. Version 2.0 is now out. www.napster.com. Was released a few adys ago.
2) Napster is being sued, I believe, for contributing to the distribution of pirated copyrighted meterial. This may have been posted on Slashdot already - I haven't been around.
3) Search engines are definitely not the way to go, imo. Anyone who says that probably never tried Napster.:P I favor clicking "Search," typing in my request and finding a ton of different people to download from on high speed connections without having to wait for an upload, connect to an FTP or anything over having to hit "Next 100" a ton of times and checking a million servers only to find them down or busy. You can find anything, any time (sometimes rare things you'll have to wait until there's a ton of people on to find) with no annoyance, difficulty or clients besides Napster whatsoever. How could you POSSIBLY prefer Fservers or FTP over this?:)
4) It's not buggy at all, in my experience. Especially not now that the final 2.0 is out.
5) The interface is easy to use for me. Unless you're in 640x480 or 800x600 . . . Then it could be difficult.
They should have left the comments and write-ins enabled. Obviously, certain people need a place to spam and joke around at. Segfault was that place, and I saw nothing wrong with it.
But unfortunately, now that Segfault doesn't allow that (which, btw, means I won't be visiting Segfault anymore), they run here.
Er, if there is life, you people need to realize that the chances of them:
a) caring about coming here b) planning on coming here c) being ABLE to come here or d) ever coming here
are all very, very, very low. especially c:) And I doubt that we, or any other race, will ever travel "Star Trek style." Warp 10 wouldn't get us to "there" fast enough, even. Need some sort of wormwhole, I think, which I know very little about, but enough to know that it's the most likely method of... space travel.
If we find aliens, it'll simply be... "We found aliens. They're out there. Yeppers. Can't get to 'em, though. They can't get to us, either. wh00p."
Anyone watch Farscape? That's kinda how I think it'd happen (travel-wise, not alien-wise, though the translator microbes sound likely for something *we* might do eventually).
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Also, that way when you're moderated down, it's only 0.
So not only do the dumb moderators lose points, but they aren't very effective (Many people keep their threshold at 0).
Force them to use points on more productive things and force the little girls who can't handle a "FIRST POST" to have to read them, anyway. It won't kill them and it'll teach them more about the real world's difficulties on their virgin ears and eyes.
-cow
FIRST POSTERS AROUND THE WORLD: I HAVE A REQUEST.
REGISTER YOUR OWN ACCOUNT AND POST NORMALLY.
Karma is useless.
Anonymous Cowards suck.
-cow
No problem.
I don't care about karma.
-cow
Just learned that it was knocked back to Beta 4.
Regardless, it's still bug-free enough to not cause you any trouble.
:)
From what the submitter said and what people have said, here are some corrections and opinions:
:P I favor clicking "Search," typing in my request and finding a ton of different people to download from on high speed connections without having to wait for an upload, connect to an FTP or anything over having to hit "Next 100" a ton of times and checking a million servers only to find them down or busy. You can find anything, any time (sometimes rare things you'll have to wait until there's a ton of people on to find) with no annoyance, difficulty or clients besides Napster whatsoever. How could you POSSIBLY prefer Fservers or FTP over this? :)
1) Napster is no longer in beta. Version 2.0 is now out. www.napster.com. Was released a few adys ago.
2) Napster is being sued, I believe, for contributing to the distribution of pirated copyrighted meterial. This may have been posted on Slashdot already - I haven't been around.
3) Search engines are definitely not the way to go, imo. Anyone who says that probably never tried Napster.
4) It's not buggy at all, in my experience. Especially not now that the final 2.0 is out.
5) The interface is easy to use for me. Unless you're in 640x480 or 800x600 . . . Then it could be difficult.
6) It's been out a while.
7) There is a Linux version.
Looks like we got the Segfault.org folks now.
They should have left the comments and write-ins enabled. Obviously, certain people need a place to spam and joke around at. Segfault was that place, and I saw nothing wrong with it.
But unfortunately, now that Segfault doesn't allow that (which, btw, means I won't be visiting Segfault anymore), they run here.
Er, if there is life, you people need to realize that the chances of them:
:) ... space travel.
a) caring about coming here
b) planning on coming here
c) being ABLE to come here
or
d) ever coming here
are all very, very, very low. especially c
And I doubt that we, or any other race, will ever travel "Star Trek style." Warp 10 wouldn't get us to "there" fast enough, even. Need some sort of wormwhole, I think, which I know very little about, but enough to know that it's the most likely method of
If we find aliens, it'll simply be...
"We found aliens. They're out there. Yeppers. Can't get to 'em, though. They can't get to us, either. wh00p."
Anyone watch Farscape? That's kinda how I think it'd happen (travel-wise, not alien-wise, though the translator microbes sound likely for something *we* might do eventually).
-Velox