no one seems to remember uharc these days. uharc is still a tighter compression than rar or bz2. it's hard to come by, though. personally i still use tar bz2, cuz no one can decompress uharcs, and its usually a little better than rars, atleast for source files. i think it was open source at some point, which solves the long-term dilemma faced with flash in the pan formats... if you could find the source.
epic megagames used to make the best games i'd ever played. titles like jill of the jungle and epic pinball will stay with me forever. not to mention the still-well-pirated jazz jackrabbit series.
one day they came out with unreal, and epic jsut stopped being so cool. shur, 3d fps games are all the rage, but unreal was just so... singular. and serious. the older epic games were friendly and fun, and had such variety even within the individual games. the only reason people really play unreal is because its the only half decent deathmatch style game for lans.
its government policy to simply give projects to the highest bidder (actually lowest bidder, the organization who say they can do it cheapest). no other aspects come under consideration. the only goal is to get the job done as cheap as possible.
most of the subscription services ive every applied for have been all show and no substance. the only reliable and consistant things i pay for come from large companies with virtually no competition, such as Puget Sound Energy, or Comcast (there is no reasonable alternative to their ISP services in my area). where there is competition, there is always a reduction in quality to decrease prices to remain competitive. and frankly, there isnt enough space to have a dozen or so companies compete over freeways.
the bolsheviks designed the st petersburg public transit system, and it works beautifully, you can get anywhere in the entire city in 6-10 minutes. in the city i live here in the US, the transit system is privatized, and it usually takes longer to ride the bus somewhere than to simply walk there. but thats just a neat fact, praising the glory of st petersburg, heh... actually, most of the things the bolsheviks did were really incredible.
but the railways used to belong to a whole bunch of campanies, didnt they? like, back when trains were the in thing? and not only were all the track incompatible with eachother, but the major companies had some huge insider trading scandal...
selling things to the highest bidder only means the guy with the most money will do all the work, and usually a guy has the most money because he knows which corners to cut.
haliburton is doing the repair in iraq, and they have a fairly well documented poor record for quality of craftsmanship.
space flight (1), the klashnikov series (2) and the beautiful masterpiece that is the st petersburg public transit system (3) are among many of the great advances to come out of communist russia.
i think the real boon lies in the incredible efficiency of fascism, which is the natural state within a bussiness environment (regardless of outside competitive practices) and is also most applicable to so-called soviet russia.
my original point was regarding the artistic aspect of games, that subtle design that engages and compells a player. you cant force that.
1 - russian space "stuff" has proven much more reliable than american, regardless of individual failures.
2 - the klashnikov represents a revolutionary step not only toward modern automatic rifles, but in general application of fuzzy logic, as its design is built to handle wear and misuse.
3 - what? thats not an invention! so? american public transit is sooooo bad compared to st petersburg... it should count...
as many people have pointed out, the great minds (eg rare, bungie) microsoft has recruited in the past have not actually produced any truely quality products since "joinging forces" with microsoft."
ill bet that many gnome users who complain about the present state of gnome and kde haven't even tried the slimmer flavors of x. as ive noticed in these comments, people have complained about "intrusive decorations" and "excessive highlighting (like on the over-sized buttons and stuff)" both of which can be essentially non-issues in xfce. and all the slim x environments use their own unique interface features, each innovative in their own, whilst people complain about gnome's inherent similarity to ms windows.
i'd mod you up, but you really are kinda flamebait, sorry.
The market for downloaded music is strong enough to take a price rise, according to the major music labels.
Several big labels are in talks with online music retailers to get them to increase prices,according to the FT. The labels are looking to increase the wholesale prices shops pay for tracks. Sites in the US typically sell tracks for 99 cents each. The wholesale price is currently 65 cents per track, according to the FT.
Universal and Sony BMG are less keen to put prices up. EMI and Time Warner refused to comment on the FT story. Some observers are concerned that increasing prices would push people back to peer-to-peer networks and dodgy copies of songs.
The music industry is apparently unhappy with Apple's increasing share of the market - the firm sells about 65 per cent of songs sold online. The arrival of cheaper iPods is likely to give the firm an even larger share of the market. Apple refused to comment on the FT's story but Steve Jobs is reportedly deeply unhappy with the attempted price hike.
One suggestion is that labels want to introduce variable pricing - so they can charge more for top selling tracks.
Meanwhile it was confirmed on Friday that the European Commission is investigating allegations that British consumers are being ripped off by Apple's iTunes service because it charges more for downloads from the UK site and does not allow punters to buy tracks from other country's iTunes sites. ®
i've always been exceedingly happy that firewalls did not block the rar extension, and whenever i needed to transfer a "blocked" file through such a firewall i would change the extension to rar (not actually compress it, just change the extension) to bypass the stupid filter. with the dumb corporations finally catching up to the level of pubescent insight, their useless filters and scanners might actually destroy productivity all together.
i used windows 98 for 4 or 5 years (on irc and broadband no less) without a virus checker or firewall, and whenever i went to a lan party my friends would always make me install one (or two once) and scan before connecting, and i was always clean. preventive software measures don't solve jack.
they should have educational videos for idiot users, like sex ed. "parite.b, the silent doesnt-actually-do-anything-harmful."
i did a "search discussion" and it seems no one has mentioned the sexual repression and severe censorship of all media, or the opressive caste system that even today most indians are actually legally bound into. i wouldn't bet on either china or india to become powerful at anything until they become a free society.
almost everyone i know smokes pot or does some other illegal drug. people have been doing said drugs for well over twenty years, and they're still illegal. popular opinion seems to hold little sway in our so-called democracy.
i am reminded of not-too-recent elections in sweden to join the european union. they failed twice. when the people finally gave in to joining the eu, they stopped holding elections. there have yet to be elections in sweden to leave the eu.
once the laws are the way that rich people and the government want them, they're going to stay that way. thats the basic premise of a society based on the concept of property, and not democracy. rousseau all up in that shit, yo.
im a gamer, as are most computer users these days. i use a linux machine for gaming, with windows emulation, and i find i can often get notably higher framerates and game quality (with a few exceptions for poorly made games). the only thing i can think of to cause this problem is the way windows manages processes, and all the uses, cycle-wasting user friendly crap that makes windows run like shit. will windows longhorn edition fix this disparity? will you be releasing a more gamer-oriented version of windows without the useless "features?"
ive had my 4l for just about the same amount of time, and ive had no problems at all! and the print quality is always great! ive maybe had one or two paper jams in it's entire 10 year lifespan!
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no one seems to remember uharc these days. uharc is still a tighter compression than rar or bz2. it's hard to come by, though. personally i still use tar bz2, cuz no one can decompress uharcs, and its usually a little better than rars, atleast for source files. i think it was open source at some point, which solves the long-term dilemma faced with flash in the pan formats... if you could find the source.
one day they came out with unreal, and epic jsut stopped being so cool. shur, 3d fps games are all the rage, but unreal was just so... singular. and serious. the older epic games were friendly and fun, and had such variety even within the individual games. the only reason people really play unreal is because its the only half decent deathmatch style game for lans.
i miss the old epic games. they were epic.
robot caretakers reading stories to kids? ha! everyone knows robbie couldn't talk!
have you ever tried to watch a quicktime file on a linux system? the best you can do for sound most of the time is lip read. this is incredible!
theres no torrent link?
most of the subscription services ive every applied for have been all show and no substance. the only reliable and consistant things i pay for come from large companies with virtually no competition, such as Puget Sound Energy, or Comcast (there is no reasonable alternative to their ISP services in my area). where there is competition, there is always a reduction in quality to decrease prices to remain competitive. and frankly, there isnt enough space to have a dozen or so companies compete over freeways.
unless you disregard that pesky lorax.
but the railways used to belong to a whole bunch of campanies, didnt they? like, back when trains were the in thing? and not only were all the track incompatible with eachother, but the major companies had some huge insider trading scandal...
selling things to the highest bidder only means the guy with the most money will do all the work, and usually a guy has the most money because he knows which corners to cut.
haliburton is doing the repair in iraq, and they have a fairly well documented poor record for quality of craftsmanship.
i think the real boon lies in the incredible efficiency of fascism, which is the natural state within a bussiness environment (regardless of outside competitive practices) and is also most applicable to so-called soviet russia.
my original point was regarding the artistic aspect of games, that subtle design that engages and compells a player. you cant force that.
1 - russian space "stuff" has proven much more reliable than american, regardless of individual failures.
2 - the klashnikov represents a revolutionary step not only toward modern automatic rifles, but in general application of fuzzy logic, as its design is built to handle wear and misuse.
3 - what? thats not an invention! so? american public transit is sooooo bad compared to st petersburg... it should count...
as many people have pointed out, the great minds (eg rare, bungie) microsoft has recruited in the past have not actually produced any truely quality products since "joinging forces" with microsoft."
actually, you should probably publish a torrent, just in case.
i'd mod you up, but you really are kinda flamebait, sorry.
i programmed the millenial fair theme from chrono trigger into mine.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/28/downloads_ price_rises/
and text:
Music download prices to rise
By John Oates
Published Monday 28th February 2005 10:24 GMT
The market for downloaded music is strong enough to take a price rise, according to the major music labels.
Several big labels are in talks with online music retailers to get them to increase prices,according to the FT. The labels are looking to increase the wholesale prices shops pay for tracks. Sites in the US typically sell tracks for 99 cents each. The wholesale price is currently 65 cents per track, according to the FT.
Universal and Sony BMG are less keen to put prices up. EMI and Time Warner refused to comment on the FT story. Some observers are concerned that increasing prices would push people back to peer-to-peer networks and dodgy copies of songs.
The music industry is apparently unhappy with Apple's increasing share of the market - the firm sells about 65 per cent of songs sold online. The arrival of cheaper iPods is likely to give the firm an even larger share of the market. Apple refused to comment on the FT's story but Steve Jobs is reportedly deeply unhappy with the attempted price hike.
One suggestion is that labels want to introduce variable pricing - so they can charge more for top selling tracks.
Meanwhile it was confirmed on Friday that the European Commission is investigating allegations that British consumers are being ripped off by Apple's iTunes service because it charges more for downloads from the UK site and does not allow punters to buy tracks from other country's iTunes sites. ®
dude, as a college freshman, i can whole heartedly say that that job would kick ass, and i'd do it fer just about minimum wage!
i used windows 98 for 4 or 5 years (on irc and broadband no less) without a virus checker or firewall, and whenever i went to a lan party my friends would always make me install one (or two once) and scan before connecting, and i was always clean. preventive software measures don't solve jack.
they should have educational videos for idiot users, like sex ed. "parite.b, the silent doesnt-actually-do-anything-harmful."
i heard somewhere that porn was illegal in india, is it just rated "a?"
in short: gandhi failed, the poor bastard
maybe ms antispyware technology can only be used on non-pirated versions of windows, and thus is, in effect, spying on those who use it.
my computer is my only home entertainment system... its got movies and tv shows, and no commercials... intel is full of shit.
i am reminded of not-too-recent elections in sweden to join the european union. they failed twice. when the people finally gave in to joining the eu, they stopped holding elections. there have yet to be elections in sweden to leave the eu.
once the laws are the way that rich people and the government want them, they're going to stay that way. thats the basic premise of a society based on the concept of property, and not democracy. rousseau all up in that shit, yo.
arch, as it is designed to run uber-fast and be supar-slim!
im a gamer, as are most computer users these days. i use a linux machine for gaming, with windows emulation, and i find i can often get notably higher framerates and game quality (with a few exceptions for poorly made games). the only thing i can think of to cause this problem is the way windows manages processes, and all the uses, cycle-wasting user friendly crap that makes windows run like shit. will windows longhorn edition fix this disparity? will you be releasing a more gamer-oriented version of windows without the useless "features?"
ive had my 4l for just about the same amount of time, and ive had no problems at all! and the print quality is always great! ive maybe had one or two paper jams in it's entire 10 year lifespan!
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