... and learn the intricacies of this operating system, go to work for companies that actually do pay for their operating systems, and recommed and implement OSX on many computers.
as opposed to:
Fuck Apple. They wan't total control over computers that run their OS. Fine. I won't run it.
Unless of course this story is for real. If it is, I might actaully learn something.
And another thing. FUCK APPLE. You think just because you are a hit in the gay community you can force your users in to a rediculouse vendor lock in? Ha. Fags stick all kinds of shit up their ass al the time, reguardless of manufacturer. You can't change this so don't try. Fucking Steve Jobs wearing a black turtleneck. Shit....
Yeah yeah, blame the programmer for the boss' lousy buisness plan. Make some nonsensical jab at "dreamweaver 'programming'". And wave your 10 years in the industry dick around. It is all very impressive.
Here is a clue: In our project, like many web projects there was one web designer who used dreamweaver. I was not him. I was one of the 6-7 programmers who worked on the back end of the site pretty much only using Visual Studio and Enterprise Manager. In my own personal asp.net projects I use dreamweaver to design the site, but like anyone who knew anything about web development would tell you, You Do Not Program In Dreamweaver. Hell, even a 2nd year CS student would have figured that out by now just by reading this thread. I don't know what they pay you to do at your company but my guess is that it isn't to learn new things. Like has been stated by several users, in asp.net projects all of the real programming takes place in Visual Studio using c#.
Assuming I don't get tired of the smug assholes I'm pretty sure I'll still be programming away in 10 years time. There is probably no convincing you of this, but then again, you can't even grasp the fundamentals of web design and programming so it's probably not a big deal. Wherever I am be in ten years but if I am anything like you I hope someone puts a bullet in my head.
Looks like I have been modded down as AC a bit too much lately so I will have to post logged in.
Bottom line: Dreamweaver is a very useful tool for laying out and designing asp.net pages. You are such a smug son of a bitch that you can't even recognize this obvious fact. Let me lay it out for you:
You use Dreamweaver to make well formatted, attractive web sites. You (I) then use Visual Studio and c#/SQL for what you reffered to as real computer work. I did this for a (now defunct) startup and I'm not even out of College.
I guess you can go on telling me about how smart you are (salary != brains) and feel free to ignore everything I have said. If you can be simultaniously condecending and ignorant that will certainly be a plus.
These people are gonna kill someone on day, and yeah I will slow down in front of them, but I'm extremely careful about it, since I don't need any accidents myself. But you can't let them to force you to speed up and close the safe distance between you and the car in front of you.
I completely agree. I guess you weren't that jerk that cut in front of me while I was doing 90 in the passing lane between Houston and Dallas.
Got a couple beers and a little time on my hands. I think it may be time for a little line by line rebuttle.
I love people who call me self-rightous for wanting to defend myself from the idiots I have to share the highway with, considering I will put in about 25k miles per year highway driving, and their SUVs never leave pavement. and from an earlier post You'd better be able to drop that speed fast because YOU are at 100 are a clear and present threat to everyone around you, and I will drop to the limit in front of you.
You just threatened to inturrupt the flow of traffic in the left lane in a dangerous and irresponsible manner to change their driving habbits. If you do it, you are and asshat and a danger to those around your. If you don't then you are just another self rightous prick on slashdot threatening to do harm to others but never following through.
Polite behavior while driving is a good thing but still remember that if you are on a 3 lane highway and the right and center lanes are crowded the safest place for your vehicle is the unoccupied left lane.
In such a situation, wouldn't you be passing people in the other two lanes? Also, the left lane rule is most applicable to two lane road outside of the cities. Inside most cities there are too many clowns that just don't know the rules.
And if you want to insist that no one be there unless passing because it is against the law, then I insist that you also obey the law and not exceed the speed limit for the very same reason. Can't just pick what rules you want to obey.
I consider safety to be far above the law in terms of importance. It is unsafe to get in the left lane to piss off a speeder, no matter how lawful it is. Just don't do it.
You'd better be able to drop that speed fast because YOU are at 100 are a clear and present threat to everyone around you, and I will drop to the limit in front of you.
Did I read that right? Did you just threaten to get in front of someone going 100mph and drop to 70? If so, please don't do that, especially in Texas.
Also, where did you drive in Texas? I have lived in Houston (growing up) and Dallas(now) and I can tell you that Dallas drivers are nothing like houston drivers. If you can make it through the insane Nascaresque race that is Houston's freeway system, it would be difficult for someone to even intentionally cause you to crash.
As for not following the flow of traffic and difference of speed etc, that was the whole point of my post. Do not cause cars in the left lane to slow down for you. If you are not passing, stay out of the left lane. If you are not in the same lane the speed difference is irrelivent. Obviously it is the responsibilty of everyone on the road to avoid collisions, but if you stay out of the left lane and avoid "Drop to 70 in front of you" shenanigans you can do your part to make the roads that much safer.
And yes, in Texas it is illegal to be passed in the left lane, so don't let it happen.
You know in Texas it is illegal to be passed in the left lane. Just one of the many things that makes me proud to be a Texan. Also, speed doesn't kill, collisions do. Please, for everyone's safety stay the hell out of the left lane while you are not passing other cars. Save your smug self-rightous attitude for slashdot.
If you seriously make decisions based on slashdot user comments you are crazy. Most of the comments reguarding outsourcing are so uninformed its hilararious. Of course on slashdot uninformed outsourcing comments get modded to +5 informative rather than -1 dead wrong. I think that this is becuase there is no "dead wrong" moderation option. Anyway, this site is a perfect example of the blind leading the blind.
Though frankly if your main concern in your career path is your salery I don't really care if you change majors. If you aren't really passionate about the field you may end up having a tough time getting a job. Put simply a degree won't cut it. You actually have to be good to get a job, and often the best people would do this even if the salaries weren't as great as they are.
I downloaded an episode of "Joey" off bit torrent on the off chance that it might actually be funny. I really should have known better but as I have more bandwith than common sense I decided to take a chance and get it anyway. I couldn't even believe the oddassity the writers had to even make the laughtrack laugh. Anyways, 35 seconds I will never get back.
Meanwhile "The Office" which is the best comedy that has been on NBC in many years was only picked up for 6 episodes. "Joey" gets a full season no questions asked while "The Office" gets six midseason episodes. Amazing. I told all my friends about "the office" and included a link to the torrent in my IMs. I know almost all of my friends watched it on tv when it aired after that. On the other hand I was so ashamed that I had even tried to watch "Joey" that I didn't even tell my friends I had downloaded it.
If bit torrent rusults in "Joey" being cancelled and "The Office" being picked up for another season then that in itself shows that it has legitimate applications.
I have actually seen this many times with windows. Windows 98 Second Edition improved performance on many computers. Also, IIRC Second Edition was free. Once you turn off all the stupid mac-wannabe super-animation settings Windows XP runs great on just about any system with a decent amount of ram.
I take it you haven't actually used Windows. You may not be able to fathom someone uttering the words "wow, that new version of Windows makes my P3 fly" but I have said it several times.
Of course this is/. so up for you, down for me. Up for proprietary Apple hardware, down for proprietary Microsoft software. I know the drill.
I think you might be right about that (I don't get the BSOD though). I just tried connecting my iPod to my computer, and once it worked but I didn't try to transfer the files I wanted. Then I tried connecting it again and it recognized it for less than a minute and then acted like it wasnt even connected, but the iPod still said "do not disconnect". Tried connecting it again and now the iPod thinks its just connected to a base charger. For the first time in my life I wish I had gotten the 'service plan'. sigh... I guess I'll need to replace my battery myself though the battery life isn't too bad as it is. On second thought, I can't even afford another battery. Apple is never getting another dime out of me.
I stopped upgrading when version 3 came out. Winamp 3 is the iTunes of winamp:-). I hear Winamp 5 is much better, but don't plan on trying it out. Why mess with a good thing? I use the 1001 skin, but I think winamp's default skin is intuitive and usable if a little on the ugly side.
As for simplicity and ease of use, I think doubleclicking on an mp3 to play it and right clicking->enqueue is about as simple and easy to use as is possible. Saving and loading playlists is as easy as saving and loading any other file.
One thing I don't understand, before using iTunes what exactly was hard about playing mp3s?
iTunes isn't just big on memory, it is big on screen size. Needlessly large infact. As for what I would replace iTunes with: I would replace it with nothing at all. I would replace it with being able to use windows explorer to copy and move files and playlists like on any other hard drive.
Never thought I would see the day where iTunes apologists roamed slashdot. Wait - yes I did. I could see it from a mile away. iTunes sucks. It is an extra layer of complexity which is not necessary _at all_ for users who just want to transfer mp3s. All the "it just works" greatness of the iPod hits a wall of bloat and needless comlexity when it is plugged in to transfer files.
I don't know if it is this way for anyone else, but for me iTunes is extremely unreliable. It crashes half way through many attempted file transfers. iHate iTunes. Fortunately 3rd party apps have made the iPod usable for me.
iTunes is why I will never own a mac. It epitomizes Apple's lust for control over its customers more than mere trolling ever could. Proprietary DRM, intentionally shut out other companies music stores. Proprietary hardware, intentionally keep me from using commodity hardware in favor of apple's super expensive hardware.
While I'm bitching about Apple, does anyone else's iPod consistantly freeze up when it tries to play certain mp3's. Mine (generation before newest) has 6 or 7 songs which cause the iPod to just freeze and read the hard drive till eventually after tapping the next button for like 30 seconds it finally moves on to a different mp3. This is really annoying since every time it does this I lose 30 minutes to an hour of playing time out of the battery. Do the new generation ones do this? I dig the scroll wheel but there is no way I'm gunna buy another iPod if this bug remains.
Considering that the Catholic church supports "natural family planning" which is in essence timing sex to avoid pregnancy, their beef seems to be with condoms and other 'non-natural' forms of contraception. They apparently don't seem to mind sex done in a way to avoid procreation, though "natural family planning" seems damn inconvenient to me. In other words, it is the rubber that is evil.
I guess that is what happens when people who have taken a vow of celibacy make the rules on sex.
Kerry's plan also included big tax hikes which would have clobbered the economy and resulted in a reduction of tax revenues. So much for Kerry's balanced budget.
That is quite a bold statement for someone who has probably never studied economics. Did you copy it from somewhere? Possibly campaign liturature? hold on. Did you actually believe Bush? George "We know where the WMDs are" Bush?
Kerry wasn't perfect but believe it or not tax increses are necessary. Even after canceling all of Bush's corporate handouts and cutting education funding and other necessary social programs, we are still spending more than we take in. This can not continue indefinately. If you think raising taxes is hard on the economy, just wait until the US is unable to pay its debt.
I have a plan to balance the budget without increasing taxes (and I want your vote). Drastically reduce in size and scope the Military. Unfortunaly no mainstream candidates seem to be advocating this common sense solution but if something isn't done the military will destroy our beloved nation. Remember, the Soviet Union fell with a bank statement, not a napalm atack.
"Free iPod" sigs aren't really spam. Somewhere in your Slashdot preferences lies the option to turn signatures off giving you the ability to stop this data from even being downloaded to your PC in the first place.
Somewhere in my email client preferences is the option to not download email. I like reading most sigs. Alot of them point to interesting sites or have funny slogans. I see them as a valuble component of/. comments. I don't mind when someone chooses to use them to promote a site that they made, even if it is commercial. But when a significant number of them point to the same damn pyramid scheme and it's obvious that at least some comments are just there to increase the visibility of the affor mentioned spam sig I start getting a little irritated.
So no, I'm not going to turn on the "block sigs" option any more than I will stop checking my email, And I will continue to be irritated by spam in both.
It's not just the pyramid scheme operators spamming people who sign up. It's all the retards who spam slashdot and other forums day and night, injecting their worthless comments into every possible discussion, all so they can spam for the pyramid scheme they signed up for. Truly these people are a scourge on slashdot and on the internet. If they wish to sign up for this scam ("free" != $0) fine. In the unlikely occurence that they have friends they can even tell them in person for all I care. But stop spamming slashdot with your 'free' ipod sigs. -- I spammed slashdot for my almost free ipod and you can too!!
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... and learn the intricacies of this operating system, go to work for companies that actually do pay for their operating systems, and recommed and implement OSX on many computers.
as opposed to:
Fuck Apple. They wan't total control over computers that run their OS. Fine. I won't run it.
Unless of course this story is for real. If it is, I might actaully learn something.
And another thing. FUCK APPLE. You think just because you are a hit in the gay community you can force your users in to a rediculouse vendor lock in? Ha. Fags stick all kinds of shit up their ass al the time, reguardless of manufacturer. You can't change this so don't try. Fucking Steve Jobs wearing a black turtleneck. Shit....
favorite quote from the wired article linked to in the story:
"I think iPod interface is going to be the new Linux," he said. "People are going to try and put an iPod interface on just about everything."
and then waddling his fat ass around the bases you have set the gold standard for arrogance in your field.
Yeah yeah, blame the programmer for the boss' lousy buisness plan. Make some nonsensical jab at "dreamweaver 'programming'". And wave your 10 years in the industry dick around. It is all very impressive.
Here is a clue: In our project, like many web projects there was one web designer who used dreamweaver. I was not him. I was one of the 6-7 programmers who worked on the back end of the site pretty much only using Visual Studio and Enterprise Manager. In my own personal asp.net projects I use dreamweaver to design the site, but like anyone who knew anything about web development would tell you, You Do Not Program In Dreamweaver. Hell, even a 2nd year CS student would have figured that out by now just by reading this thread. I don't know what they pay you to do at your company but my guess is that it isn't to learn new things. Like has been stated by several users, in asp.net projects all of the real programming takes place in Visual Studio using c#.
Assuming I don't get tired of the smug assholes I'm pretty sure I'll still be programming away in 10 years time. There is probably no convincing you of this, but then again, you can't even grasp the fundamentals of web design and programming so it's probably not a big deal. Wherever I am be in ten years but if I am anything like you I hope someone puts a bullet in my head.
Looks like I have been modded down as AC a bit too much lately so I will have to post logged in.
Bottom line: Dreamweaver is a very useful tool for laying out and designing asp.net pages. You are such a smug son of a bitch that you can't even recognize this obvious fact. Let me lay it out for you:
You use Dreamweaver to make well formatted, attractive web sites. You (I) then use Visual Studio and c#/SQL for what you reffered to as real computer work. I did this for a (now defunct) startup and I'm not even out of College.
I guess you can go on telling me about how smart you are (salary != brains) and feel free to ignore everything I have said. If you can be simultaniously condecending and ignorant that will certainly be a plus.
These people are gonna kill someone on day, and yeah I will slow down in front of them, but I'm extremely careful about it, since I don't need any accidents myself. But you can't let them to force you to speed up and close the safe distance between you and the car in front of you.
I completely agree. I guess you weren't that jerk that cut in front of me while I was doing 90 in the passing lane between Houston and Dallas.
Got a couple beers and a little time on my hands. I think it may be time for a little line by line rebuttle.
I love people who call me self-rightous for wanting to defend myself from the idiots I have to share the highway with, considering I will put in about 25k miles per year highway driving, and their SUVs never leave pavement.
and from an earlier post
You'd better be able to drop that speed fast because YOU are at 100 are a clear and present threat to everyone around you, and I will drop to the limit in front of you.
You just threatened to inturrupt the flow of traffic in the left lane in a dangerous and irresponsible manner to change their driving habbits. If you do it, you are and asshat and a danger to those around your. If you don't then you are just another self rightous prick on slashdot threatening to do harm to others but never following through.
Polite behavior while driving is a good thing but still remember that if you are on a 3 lane highway and the right and center lanes are crowded the safest place for your vehicle is the unoccupied left lane.
In such a situation, wouldn't you be passing people in the other two lanes? Also, the left lane rule is most applicable to two lane road outside of the cities. Inside most cities there are too many clowns that just don't know the rules.
And if you want to insist that no one be there unless passing because it is against the law, then I insist that you also obey the law and not exceed the speed limit for the very same reason. Can't just pick what rules you want to obey.
I consider safety to be far above the law in terms of importance. It is unsafe to get in the left lane to piss off a speeder, no matter how lawful it is. Just don't do it.
You'd better be able to drop that speed fast because YOU are at 100 are a clear and present threat to everyone around you, and I will drop to the limit in front of you.
Did I read that right? Did you just threaten to get in front of someone going 100mph and drop to 70? If so, please don't do that, especially in Texas.
Also, where did you drive in Texas? I have lived in Houston (growing up) and Dallas(now) and I can tell you that Dallas drivers are nothing like houston drivers. If you can make it through the insane Nascaresque race that is Houston's freeway system, it would be difficult for someone to even intentionally cause you to crash.
As for not following the flow of traffic and difference of speed etc, that was the whole point of my post. Do not cause cars in the left lane to slow down for you. If you are not passing, stay out of the left lane. If you are not in the same lane the speed difference is irrelivent. Obviously it is the responsibilty of everyone on the road to avoid collisions, but if you stay out of the left lane and avoid "Drop to 70 in front of you" shenanigans you can do your part to make the roads that much safer.
And yes, in Texas it is illegal to be passed in the left lane, so don't let it happen.
You know in Texas it is illegal to be passed in the left lane. Just one of the many things that makes me proud to be a Texan. Also, speed doesn't kill, collisions do. Please, for everyone's safety stay the hell out of the left lane while you are not passing other cars. Save your smug self-rightous attitude for slashdot.
If you seriously make decisions based on slashdot user comments you are crazy. Most of the comments reguarding outsourcing are so uninformed its hilararious. Of course on slashdot uninformed outsourcing comments get modded to +5 informative rather than -1 dead wrong. I think that this is becuase there is no "dead wrong" moderation option. Anyway, this site is a perfect example of the blind leading the blind.
Though frankly if your main concern in your career path is your salery I don't really care if you change majors. If you aren't really passionate about the field you may end up having a tough time getting a job. Put simply a degree won't cut it. You actually have to be good to get a job, and often the best people would do this even if the salaries weren't as great as they are.
and let the grown ups talk. This looks like one of those times that you have a lot more to learn than you have to teach.
I downloaded an episode of "Joey" off bit torrent on the off chance that it might actually be funny. I really should have known better but as I have more bandwith than common sense I decided to take a chance and get it anyway. I couldn't even believe the oddassity the writers had to even make the laughtrack laugh. Anyways, 35 seconds I will never get back.
Meanwhile "The Office" which is the best comedy that has been on NBC in many years was only picked up for 6 episodes. "Joey" gets a full season no questions asked while "The Office" gets six midseason episodes. Amazing. I told all my friends about "the office" and included a link to the torrent in my IMs. I know almost all of my friends watched it on tv when it aired after that. On the other hand I was so ashamed that I had even tried to watch "Joey" that I didn't even tell my friends I had downloaded it.
If bit torrent rusults in "Joey" being cancelled and "The Office" being picked up for another season then that in itself shows that it has legitimate applications.
I have actually seen this many times with windows. Windows 98 Second Edition improved performance on many computers. Also, IIRC Second Edition was free. Once you turn off all the stupid mac-wannabe super-animation settings Windows XP runs great on just about any system with a decent amount of ram.
/. so up for you, down for me. Up for proprietary Apple hardware, down for proprietary Microsoft software. I know the drill.
I take it you haven't actually used Windows. You may not be able to fathom someone uttering the words "wow, that new version of Windows makes my P3 fly" but I have said it several times.
Of course this is
c-span
The live feeds allow you to compare Real Video and Windows Media Player side by side. I have personally always preffered WMP.
He's saying that they DON'T test their product enough, and that they DO ship it broken and have the community test it,
Yes, but he is full of shit. Lots of people are missing the point around here today.
I think you might be right about that (I don't get the BSOD though). I just tried connecting my iPod to my computer, and once it worked but I didn't try to transfer the files I wanted. Then I tried connecting it again and it recognized it for less than a minute and then acted like it wasnt even connected, but the iPod still said "do not disconnect". Tried connecting it again and now the iPod thinks its just connected to a base charger. For the first time in my life I wish I had gotten the 'service plan'. sigh... I guess I'll need to replace my battery myself though the battery life isn't too bad as it is. On second thought, I can't even afford another battery. Apple is never getting another dime out of me.
I use Winamp version 2.91
:-). I hear Winamp 5 is much better, but don't plan on trying it out. Why mess with a good thing? I use the 1001 skin, but I think winamp's default skin is intuitive and usable if a little on the ugly side.
I stopped upgrading when version 3 came out. Winamp 3 is the iTunes of winamp
As for simplicity and ease of use, I think doubleclicking on an mp3 to play it and right clicking->enqueue is about as simple and easy to use as is possible. Saving and loading playlists is as easy as saving and loading any other file.
One thing I don't understand, before using iTunes what exactly was hard about playing mp3s?
iTunes isn't just big on memory, it is big on screen size. Needlessly large infact. As for what I would replace iTunes with: I would replace it with nothing at all. I would replace it with being able to use windows explorer to copy and move files and playlists like on any other hard drive.
Never thought I would see the day where iTunes apologists roamed slashdot. Wait - yes I did. I could see it from a mile away. iTunes sucks. It is an extra layer of complexity which is not necessary _at all_ for users who just want to transfer mp3s. All the "it just works" greatness of the iPod hits a wall of bloat and needless comlexity when it is plugged in to transfer files.
I don't know if it is this way for anyone else, but for me iTunes is extremely unreliable. It crashes half way through many attempted file transfers. iHate iTunes. Fortunately 3rd party apps have made the iPod usable for me.
iTunes is why I will never own a mac. It epitomizes Apple's lust for control over its customers more than mere trolling ever could. Proprietary DRM, intentionally shut out other companies music stores. Proprietary hardware, intentionally keep me from using commodity hardware in favor of apple's super expensive hardware.
While I'm bitching about Apple, does anyone else's iPod consistantly freeze up when it tries to play certain mp3's. Mine (generation before newest) has 6 or 7 songs which cause the iPod to just freeze and read the hard drive till eventually after tapping the next button for like 30 seconds it finally moves on to a different mp3. This is really annoying since every time it does this I lose 30 minutes to an hour of playing time out of the battery. Do the new generation ones do this? I dig the scroll wheel but there is no way I'm gunna buy another iPod if this bug remains.
Considering that the Catholic church supports "natural family planning" which is in essence timing sex to avoid pregnancy, their beef seems to be with condoms and other 'non-natural' forms of contraception. They apparently don't seem to mind sex done in a way to avoid procreation, though "natural family planning" seems damn inconvenient to me. In other words, it is the rubber that is evil.
I guess that is what happens when people who have taken a vow of celibacy make the rules on sex.
The military is only a small percentage of the total federal budget.
Please Consult this pie chart before speaking out of your ass.
Kerry's plan also included big tax hikes which would have clobbered the economy and resulted in a reduction of tax revenues. So much for Kerry's balanced budget.
That is quite a bold statement for someone who has probably never studied economics. Did you copy it from somewhere? Possibly campaign liturature? hold on. Did you actually believe Bush? George "We know where the WMDs are" Bush?
Kerry wasn't perfect but believe it or not tax increses are necessary. Even after canceling all of Bush's corporate handouts and cutting education funding and other necessary social programs, we are still spending more than we take in. This can not continue indefinately. If you think raising taxes is hard on the economy, just wait until the US is unable to pay its debt.
I have a plan to balance the budget without increasing taxes (and I want your vote). Drastically reduce in size and scope the Military. Unfortunaly no mainstream candidates seem to be advocating this common sense solution but if something isn't done the military will destroy our beloved nation. Remember, the Soviet Union fell with a bank statement, not a napalm atack.
will there be a large prize for writing a Longhorn virus?
"Free iPod" sigs aren't really spam. Somewhere in your Slashdot preferences lies the option to turn signatures off giving you the ability to stop this data from even being downloaded to your PC in the first place.
/. comments. I don't mind when someone chooses to use them to promote a site that they made, even if it is commercial. But when a significant number of them point to the same damn pyramid scheme and it's obvious that at least some comments are just there to increase the visibility of the affor mentioned spam sig I start getting a little irritated.
Somewhere in my email client preferences is the option to not download email. I like reading most sigs. Alot of them point to interesting sites or have funny slogans. I see them as a valuble component of
So no, I'm not going to turn on the "block sigs" option any more than I will stop checking my email, And I will continue to be irritated by spam in both.
It's not just the pyramid scheme operators spamming people who sign up. It's all the retards who spam slashdot and other forums day and night, injecting their worthless comments into every possible discussion, all so they can spam for the pyramid scheme they signed up for. Truly these people are a scourge on slashdot and on the internet. If they wish to sign up for this scam ("free" != $0) fine. In the unlikely occurence that they have friends they can even tell them in person for all I care. But stop spamming slashdot with your 'free' ipod sigs.
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I spammed slashdot for my almost free ipod and you can too!!
http://www.torrentspy.com/
No logins. No bs. Just lots of torrents.