Think about this for a second. People who were not computer savvy at all figured out about naspter. Bitorrent is popular enough to cause the federal government to get involved. audiogalaxy folders still exist in peoples shares on other file systems. A majority of people who have computer adeptness these days most likely gained that adeptness through their want/need to download music.
CURBING SOMEONE FROM GETTING THEIR MUSIC IS ONLY GOING TO LEAD THEM TO SIDESTEP YOUR POLICIES.
its been said a million times, i know, and there's nothing original about my response, but seriously. This stops no one from burning as many cds as they want, unless all they want is to burn the one cd.
note to self: never buy sony hardware that doesn't start with the word "play" and end with the world "station"
one of the things it seems no one has pointed out: who wants to have their friends come over and sit around their computer?
even if there was a soul caliber 2, or a mario kart double dash for the PC, i wouldnt want to have everyone crowded around my computer playing it. people hate that.
if you ever want to get girls to play fighting games, they have to be sitting on a couch. it also helps that their beer doesnt spill all over your computer desk. heh.
this same analogy could be made for a dvd player. you can watch all of your movies on your computer, but wtf kind of fun is that. 8 people don't seat comfortably in my room. they do in my living room, however.
plus i totally agree that the games for the consoles tend to be way better than the games for the computer. and you're guaranteed that it all runs at the same speed. back in 1994 when i was playing worlds of xeen, i didnt have a soundcard, and my 486 sx 25 didnt handle a lot of the screen changes very quickly. on a console, its all the same, across the board. i take comfort in that.
im pretty sure my bios doesnt have that option, but i will check it out. once you get to that point, what? you just boot up with a floppy and then what?
ugh. im not only frustrated witht he lack of support for this, but with the lack of information of how to upgrade my bios at ALL. emachines doesn't do a very hot job of documenting their stuff. oh well.
in my opinion, the soulseek donation "scheme" is a blessing. if i really care about what i want to download, 5 dollars a month is a small price to pay to get bumped tot he top of the queue. granted, it pisses a lot of users off when you queue up 3 albums and start downloading right away... i get banned a lot, but, whatever. usually you can sweettalk a guy (unless he only speaks spanish) and get back in his good graces. theres no necessity to pay for soulseek. its not a requirement. its just a way to get a better use out of the system (like livejournal).
ok this is somewhat on topic, and don't hate me if it's not. but i spent 3 separate nights trying to figure out how to get my bios to boot from USB (its phoenixBIOS 4.0 rev 6.0). from what i gathered, the USB functionality for the phoenixBIOS (this is on an eMachines motherboard, so i'm pretty sure its an Imperial GLVE, which has the shittiest documentation and the web has some pretty sour information about it) didn't get implemented until rev 6.1, so i'm pretty sure i'm SOL.
what i would like to see is a CLEARCUT explanation of what i would have to do to get my computer to boot from USB. because I bought one of those IDE->USB converters and i have all these hard drives that i can just plug right in, and id really like to take a smattering of OSes and plug them in at will.
how is it that soulseek stays off EVERYONES RADAR? in all my "research" of what the RIAA is busting this week, i have never once even heard soulseek get namedropped. it's almost like they don't even realize it exists. which, of course, makes me very very happy.
that's debatable. what if the song was "All" by the descendents? (clocking in at 1 second) even ripped at 320kbps, i bet your first computer could handle it.
oh, i'm well aware that no one cares outside the geek world. that's why apple can come out with the same computer 6 months later, only in different colors, and still sell a lot of them.
i'll take awesome functionality over "looking good on my desk" anyday.
you know, back in 2000 I bought a Personal Jukebox with 7 gigs of storage.
it always cracks me up when people talk about the technological advancements made by the two key players in the mp3 player industry, when items such as that existed over 5 years ago and smoked the hell out of anything that came out for the next 2 years.
i blame poor marketing on compaq's part... they could have also been a key player. good luck to sony. nowadays (especially in boston) it doesn't matter if the mp3 player had a friggin' time machine in it, if it's not an iPod, people don't want them. because they all want their friends to know that they are COOL and HIP and have enough money to frivolously blow on a "cute white mp3 player".
fuck the iPod. I hope sony can at least dent their market share.
i can't wait for some multimillionaire to get busted for this sort of thing, and have them be so riled byit that they refuse to settle out of court and make a case out of it. hopefully with good lawyers.
it seems to me that killing access to the windows device drivers might do the exact opposite, and INSPIRE people to learn how to write their own drivers instead of having to rely on the ones provided by the devil. am i right? if there's a need for it, people will usually come up with it on their own. just because we all like to plug-and-play existing solutions does NOT mean we wouldn't invent our own wheels in the absence of a freely available one.
throw your tv out the window. nothing like getting a little bit of this air while it's still fresh, huh? HUH?
i mean, the stuff that's on tv these days is mindless garbage. ok, that's not entirely true *cough adult swim cough*, but anything worth getting can be done so on DVD. this from a guy who used to watch "turbo teen" when it was hot (and he was 6)
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(which, imho, is not a bad movie at all but not hardly anything like the original PKD story)
i'd like to see the following:
seGazelles - avoid cheetahs and stuff
xbOxen - pull heavy loads, enter into county fairs
playstatioNarwhals - check out that horn!
or wait, better yet
uniXorns - friggin' unicorns, yo!
MS WindOWLS - hoo! hoo!
ok im retarded.
i dunno, maybe the one from the article, perhaps?
uh. clearly arnold should play MCBAIN, and ned's wife is dead. angelina jolie would make a good lookin' corpse, i guess.
Think about this for a second.
People who were not computer savvy at all figured out about naspter. Bitorrent is popular enough to cause the federal government to get involved. audiogalaxy folders still exist in peoples shares on other file systems. A majority of people who have computer adeptness these days most likely gained that adeptness through their want/need to download music.
CURBING SOMEONE FROM GETTING THEIR MUSIC IS ONLY GOING TO LEAD THEM TO SIDESTEP YOUR POLICIES.
its been said a million times, i know, and there's nothing original about my response, but seriously. This stops no one from burning as many cds as they want, unless all they want is to burn the one cd.
note to self: never buy sony hardware that doesn't start with the word "play" and end with the world "station"
one of the things it seems no one has pointed out: who wants to have their friends come over and sit around their computer?
even if there was a soul caliber 2, or a mario kart double dash for the PC, i wouldnt want to have everyone crowded around my computer playing it. people hate that.
if you ever want to get girls to play fighting games, they have to be sitting on a couch. it also helps that their beer doesnt spill all over your computer desk. heh.
this same analogy could be made for a dvd player. you can watch all of your movies on your computer, but wtf kind of fun is that. 8 people don't seat comfortably in my room. they do in my living room, however.
plus i totally agree that the games for the consoles tend to be way better than the games for the computer. and you're guaranteed that it all runs at the same speed. back in 1994 when i was playing worlds of xeen, i didnt have a soundcard, and my 486 sx 25 didnt handle a lot of the screen changes very quickly. on a console, its all the same, across the board. i take comfort in that.
Step 1: compute unique factors of 200 digit number ....
Step 2:
Step 3: PROFIT!
sorry, i'm a lamer.
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"eight year olds, dude" - walter sobchak
damn, guy, calm down.
im pretty sure my bios doesnt have that option, but i will check it out. once you get to that point, what? you just boot up with a floppy and then what?
ugh. im not only frustrated witht he lack of support for this, but with the lack of information of how to upgrade my bios at ALL. emachines doesn't do a very hot job of documenting their stuff. oh well.
in my opinion, the soulseek donation "scheme" is a blessing. if i really care about what i want to download, 5 dollars a month is a small price to pay to get bumped tot he top of the queue. granted, it pisses a lot of users off when you queue up 3 albums and start downloading right away... i get banned a lot, but, whatever. usually you can sweettalk a guy (unless he only speaks spanish) and get back in his good graces.
theres no necessity to pay for soulseek. its not a requirement. its just a way to get a better use out of the system (like livejournal).
so, then, if you can't boot from usb, it sounds like this slashdot article is pretty useless, huh?
ok this is somewhat on topic, and don't hate me if it's not. but i spent 3 separate nights trying to figure out how to get my bios to boot from USB (its phoenixBIOS 4.0 rev 6.0).
from what i gathered, the USB functionality for the phoenixBIOS (this is on an eMachines motherboard, so i'm pretty sure its an Imperial GLVE, which has the shittiest documentation and the web has some pretty sour information about it) didn't get implemented until rev 6.1, so i'm pretty sure i'm SOL.
what i would like to see is a CLEARCUT explanation of what i would have to do to get my computer to boot from USB. because I bought one of those IDE->USB converters and i have all these hard drives that i can just plug right in, and id really like to take a smattering of OSes and plug them in at will.
any help?
how is it that soulseek stays off EVERYONES RADAR? in all my "research" of what the RIAA is busting this week, i have never once even heard soulseek get namedropped. it's almost like they don't even realize it exists. which, of course, makes me very very happy.
but yeah, go soulseek. eff these other p2ps.
that's debatable. what if the song was "All" by the descendents? (clocking in at 1 second)
even ripped at 320kbps, i bet your first computer could handle it.
oh, i'm well aware that no one cares outside the geek world. that's why apple can come out with the same computer 6 months later, only in different colors, and still sell a lot of them.
i'll take awesome functionality over "looking good on my desk" anyday.
it always cracks me up when people talk about the technological advancements made by the two key players in the mp3 player industry, when items such as that existed over 5 years ago and smoked the hell out of anything that came out for the next 2 years.
i blame poor marketing on compaq's part... they could have also been a key player. good luck to sony. nowadays (especially in boston) it doesn't matter if the mp3 player had a friggin' time machine in it, if it's not an iPod, people don't want them. because they all want their friends to know that they are COOL and HIP and have enough money to frivolously blow on a "cute white mp3 player".
fuck the iPod. I hope sony can at least dent their market share.
Next, I propse someone make a full 3-D rendition of TRADE WARS and BARREN REALMS ELITE. Maybe even Solar Realms Elite. woot!
now that would be the bomb, huh?
i can't wait for some multimillionaire to get busted for this sort of thing, and have them be so riled byit that they refuse to settle out of court and make a case out of it. hopefully with good lawyers.
too bad they didn't say 'shut up and watch the stripperS', because that would be a different kind of double slit experiment.
OHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
2600 lbs, huh? sounds like a phreaking problem.
wow, maybe now i can finally understand the intricacies of that 'page curl' filter!!
it seems to me that killing access to the windows device drivers might do the exact opposite, and INSPIRE people to learn how to write their own drivers instead of having to rely on the ones provided by the devil.
am i right? if there's a need for it, people will usually come up with it on their own. just because we all like to plug-and-play existing solutions does NOT mean we wouldn't invent our own wheels in the absence of a freely available one.
just a thought.
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ask Aziz, he knows!
i'm prety sure 'rests' count as 'notes', don't they?
With all that Dark Matter, i bet all the inhabitants have Break Damage Limit equipped!
OH SNAP.
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somebody set up us the bomb.
here's a great way to prepare!
throw your tv out the window. nothing like getting a little bit of this air while it's still fresh, huh? HUH?
i mean, the stuff that's on tv these days is mindless garbage. ok, that's not entirely true *cough adult swim cough*, but anything worth getting can be done so on DVD.
this from a guy who used to watch "turbo teen" when it was hot (and he was 6)