but a genuine Half Life 3 DVD I bought was about 300 pesos or £15, about half the price of here in the UK
I can understand why, you see, I suppose those Half Life 3 DVD's where made on US, so, one of the really fortunate things we have in Mexico is that we can get US technology quite cheap (or at the same price as in the US), unfortunately our Economy (in Mexico) is not strong enough to allow us to buy all the gadgets and DVD's etc.
I was referring specifically to some Audio CD's of European Music (about Finnish and German heavy metal).
Now, I do not know where did you buy that HL 3 DVD but, let me tell you that it is quite easy to find cheaper CD's DVD's Xboxes or other electronics going to the Mexico's markets, I can recommend you one called "Pericoapa" in Mexico City (DF) that is not "dangerous" [you may know what I mean] to go.
I have a Spanish ES-LA keyboard layout. I know I could just add the EN-UK layout and switch using ALT+SHIFT between them etc etc etc but, I really dont care, just for a/. post?? anyway I can just write GBP and, people will understand me
Man, there are Tons and Tons of really cheap DRM-FREE MP3 Players on Ebay, I recently bought one, I works with a AAA battery (rechargable one which I bought from Ebay also). I am really happy with my 512 mp3 player, for me 128Kbps for portable audio is great, I take it almost everywhere (Gym, Office, street, etc) and I really dont notice any wrong or bad palying at all, and if you make the maths it is like 128 ~ 140 songs, So every week I chose what I will listen (sometimes every 2 or 3 weeks). I am really happy with it.
I do not find why to buy an iPod, besides not having the New-better-and-it-is-Cooler-than-yours-because-Bon no-uses-it device and 900 GB?? shows pictures/video/3D/hollographics ???
Darn, I only want to play music, I even do not like when some players have Radio... (Radio music sucks).
And of course my mp3 palyer supports (guess what?) MP3 standard plain and unfnny MP3, I can rip my CD's, buy my music from allofmp3, (usually I download it as OGG) and convert it to mp3-128 when I am listenting to it (have you tried dbPowerAmp?? it is neat).
The various record companies own the rights to the music
Do you know what pisses me off?? With this new e-distribution of music, it is being treaated as "Software", you see, after you buy a software CD you realize that you only "own" a piece of plastic, but even, you do not own it at all, as you can not do whatever you want with it, you can not throw a Lasser beam and reflect it and get the corresponding reflected or not reflected Lasser readings and make another CD look like it.
Now, with the antique Tapes, you could do something similar, you could read the electromagnetic band and then record it in another place AS MUCH AS YOU LIKED, you could give it to WHOEVER YOU LIKED, the only thing you could not do, is sell the creation of others.
Now, with this DRM and electronic distribution you can not do almost anything like that...
They are trying to do the same approach than software... I guess in a near future each cd you buy will have a track 0: "By continuing listening to this CD you agree to the following terms and conditions...[45 mintues of EULA reading]... press the TRACK FORWARD button if you agree, otherwise press the STOP button" WTF????
Have you heard about Allofmp3, I find this place the best in balancing Quality/Price as you can have your CD in any format, I think you can download some Lossless format, even WAV and the price is proportional to the size (MB) of your download.
Having say that, some people find it offensive because of the good price, the legality is being questioned in U.S. but if you are outside I think it is alright.
Halleluya! But I think thats not 100%, I live in UK and before arriving here I thought I would find cheaper CD's than in my country (I am from Mexico), to my surprise, while in MX the CD's (European Metal) where like $15 USD each one, here in UK they are at GBP 15 (darn pund symbol =oP), and in Spain, France and other EU countries they are cheaper (13 Euros)... that really pisses me off!
But, I think that is because Britons do not care about the price of things, when I come from a country where a $1 peso (like $.1 USD) rebate, is always welcomed!,
Darn, I have even seen people leaving.40 GBP (pences) in the chocolate vending machines!! it seems they put the pound and they dont like the change. I make the conversion and think "oh my god, it is $8.0 MXP!!! I can buy a chocolate with that =oD)
While I do not agree with your position (I do use adblock) I respect it, but I think I would do it for my children, you see, I do not know how old is your kid but If I had a small kid (maybe between 8 and 12) I would take the time to install Adblock AND configure it so it could block those sites.
I am not telling that You should use it, only your child, anyway it is for his health. Of course you cuold also speak with him and tell him about those nasty sites etc etc etc, it all depends on you and how (if) you want to protect your children privacy.
Now, thinking it again, I guess the second option is better because, (from my own experience) after you had blocked the banners with FF or anything else, I am quite sure, your boy will find the way to unblock them...
[quote] I would think these webmasters would have the sense not to put that sort of material on sites that presumably only children would be interested in. [/quote]
I think you are wrong, yesterday I started to download an Emulator and ROMS from the NES (Nintendo ) to play with my girlfriend, I am 23 and the NES was THE console to play when I was a kid so today I am doing my PhD abroad and of course I do not have my NES with me (nor I plan to do it because of the time) but with the NES Emulators I can play with my girlfriend over the Internet some old time classic games.
What I want to show is that, like me (23 yr. old) I am sure there are other people who more or less are in my position and as you can see we are not so "young" and I guess at our age, we are quite interested in the topics of those "questionable banners".
As for me? I do not get ROMs from the WWW now, I use P2P software (like emule or bittorrent) to ge them.
Do you know what do I recommend you? Firefox + adblock, and then you can download an AdBlock fiter file son the banners will be gone and you dont have to worry about your child's privacy =o).
Nikon's move to encrypt the white balance information in NEF files is just about as unwelcome as Adobe's own decision to turn CS 3 into a portal for RF images.
Both ideas are antipathetic to photographers, obviously Nikon ones and equally, all those trying to make a living from RM stock or commissions.
I am very glad I made the switch to Canon years ago.
Adobe don't claim any rights on the settings you apply to images created with Photoshop. Whilst file formats are often proprietary, or are open to a limit expressed by API documentation (is.psd an open format ? Could Capture Read / Write.psd ? I think so...) here.NEF is replacing film. Did Nikon own your processed film ? Seems like commercial suicide to me - they're in danger of making their products extremely unattractive to advanced users.
This is not completely true, maybe some days in the GGP had a nice job that allowed him to buy lots of gadgets (and 6 TVs) but with the US jobs dropping and economy falling, he may be having a hard time
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For people to switch, they'll need a good reason, a major thing that IE can't do./quote
But, that will not be enough, also, there needs to be a web page that a lot of people use (Hallmark?, MSN? or any other) which has this "feature", but, any of those sites will implement a feature that does not work with the browser 89% of the people uses so, it is a vicious cycle.
At some point Microsoft will have to seriously consider giving away their visual studio product. It is my belief that they will use their "shared source" licence for it within the next 5 years.
I am pretty shure you are wrong, I think what Microsoft would do (if ever they let any kind of free-nes in VS) is to give away a free (as in beer) Version. They will never, EVER give the code (not even in their shared shit^W^W^Wource).
As for the plugins? I have used the Whole Tomato Visual Assist plugin, and I think that is the way MS will solve it, publishing an API for VS plugin development.
Yeah, it should be nice not to have to buy a $1500 computer in order to use that feature...
Of course I know there are already options in the market (never heard of Xdrive?) but I think one of the most important features about the Google technology is the ability to SEARCH so they surely would make a good technology, also as I stated before if they provided a good interface like the one in GMail, that would be another point.
Only now have companies like MS and Apple finally realised that searching though data is something important
MMmm, I think Google realized that some time ago, and there where other file searching applications before the indexing based search programs started to gain popularity
Personally, I think it is a good idea, I would really like to see Google Implementing some kind of "GDrive", where I can have all or most of my documents, I know there is an ap for doing it in Gmail but, I maybe a Google's service with web page and file browser interface (as cool as their Gmail interface) would be nice.
Of course, I would like it to be free (as all other Google's services), and I would not mind having the ads at the side if for example I have a document (.DOC,.ppt etc) talking about Scotland vacations, I get some ads about vacations.
I totally agree, after I started my PhD, they assigned me a computer in my department, then they asked me to go for linux or windows 2000... darn... I chose Wi2K, but then, I use a program called JabRef (see SF.net) to handle my bibliography, and I save the bib file in a network drive (it is my home directory for Linux machines or mydocuments for Win machines, it is done that way so I can log into any computer on the network).
Well, going to the point, the thing is, when I write an article (I use Latex) I have to add the bibliography in the same directory where I have the tex file, so, I thought, ok in linux I would make a symlink to my original bib file (produced in JabRef) so, if I add some other reference I dont have to add it in the file I am using (of course after finishg the paper I extract only the references I need and make a smaller file). but nooooo, In windows I only have this shortcuts shit, and of course if I try to open it with the Tex compiler it will see just gibberish... I looked on the net for a hardlink or something, and although I know there is a way to make that (in some obscure sort of way) it is not recommended and... anyway it does not works for network drives (doh!)...
Well... in fact I am thinking in telling this people to install RH linux in my pc... and get rid of Lose2K
from one of TFAs: But that's not what Tridge did... He didn't create something new and impressive. He just tore down something new (and impressive) because he could, and rather than helping others, he screwed people over. And you expect me to respect that kind of behaviour?" wrote Torvalds
Come on!, so what if someone makes a program that implements a cool funcionality from another?? I see it in every game that has been developed in the last 20 years!, thats why whe have genres!, also, that would mean that OpenOffice is bad! or what about the same Linux (Unix clone??) or all the BSD's.
I think Linus went to far with that, so also to do SAMBA was a "non respectable behaviour" to him? wtf without SAMBA I bet they would be a really, REALLY big amount of people (and companies) not using Linux these days.
If he does not want to use it, then do not do it, but do not flame the author for doing it, and tell that is not a respectable behaviour! it seems that the most notable figure of Open Source has acquired a Not-So-Open State of Mind.
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No, I was not aware of that, £ thing. Thanks! mmm
but a genuine Half Life 3 DVD I bought was about 300 pesos or £15, about half the price of here in the UK
I can understand why, you see, I suppose those Half Life 3 DVD's where made on US, so, one of the really fortunate things we have in Mexico is that we can get US technology quite cheap (or at the same price as in the US), unfortunately our Economy (in Mexico) is not strong enough to allow us to buy all the gadgets and DVD's etc. I was referring specifically to some Audio CD's of European Music (about Finnish and German heavy metal). Now, I do not know where did you buy that HL 3 DVD but, let me tell you that it is quite easy to find cheaper CD's DVD's Xboxes or other electronics going to the Mexico's markets, I can recommend you one called "Pericoapa" in Mexico City (DF) that is not "dangerous" [you may know what I mean] to go.
I have a Spanish ES-LA keyboard layout. I know I could just add the EN-UK layout and switch using ALT+SHIFT between them etc etc etc but, I really dont care, just for a /. post?? anyway I can just write GBP and, people will understand me
lol you cal laugh at that, but, I'll just copy the symbol from your post and paste it in my text-start-menu file, so I can have it when I need it =o)
Cheers!
Man, there are Tons and Tons of really cheap DRM-FREE MP3 Players on Ebay, I recently bought one, I works with a AAA battery (rechargable one which I bought from Ebay also). I am really happy with my 512 mp3 player, for me 128Kbps for portable audio is great, I take it almost everywhere (Gym, Office, street, etc) and I really dont notice any wrong or bad palying at all, and if you make the maths it is like 128 ~ 140 songs, So every week I chose what I will listen (sometimes every 2 or 3 weeks). I am really happy with it.
n no-uses-it
I do not find why to buy an iPod, besides not having the New-better-and-it-is-Cooler-than-yours-because-Bo
device and 900 GB?? shows pictures/video/3D/hollographics ???
Darn, I only want to play music, I even do not like when some players have Radio... (Radio music sucks).
And of course my mp3 palyer supports (guess what?) MP3 standard plain and unfnny MP3, I can rip my CD's, buy my music from allofmp3, (usually I download it as OGG) and convert it to mp3-128 when I am listenting to it (have you tried dbPowerAmp?? it is neat).
The various record companies own the rights to the music
...[45 mintues of EULA reading]... press the TRACK FORWARD button if you agree, otherwise press the STOP button" WTF????
Do you know what pisses me off?? With this new e-distribution of music, it is being treaated as "Software", you see, after you buy a software CD you realize that you only "own" a piece of plastic, but even, you do not own it at all, as you can not do whatever you want with it, you can not throw a Lasser beam and reflect it and get the corresponding reflected or not reflected Lasser readings and make another CD look like it.
Now, with the antique Tapes, you could do something similar, you could read the electromagnetic band and then record it in another place AS MUCH AS YOU LIKED, you could give it to WHOEVER YOU LIKED, the only thing you could not do, is sell the creation of others.
Now, with this DRM and electronic distribution you can not do almost anything like that...
They are trying to do the same approach than software... I guess in a near future each cd you buy will have a track 0: "By continuing listening to this CD you agree to the following terms and conditions
Have you heard about Allofmp3, I find this place the best in balancing Quality/Price as you can have your CD in any format, I think you can download some Lossless format, even WAV and the price is proportional to the size (MB) of your download.
Having say that, some people find it offensive because of the good price, the legality is being questioned in U.S. but if you are outside I think it is alright.
Halleluya! But I think thats not 100%, I live in UK and before arriving here I thought I would find cheaper CD's than in my country (I am from Mexico), to my surprise, while in MX the CD's (European Metal) where like $15 USD each one, here in UK they are at GBP 15 (darn pund symbol =oP), and in Spain, France and other EU countries they are cheaper (13 Euros)... that really pisses me off!
.40 GBP (pences) in the chocolate vending machines!! it seems they put the pound and they dont like the change. I make the conversion and think "oh my god, it is $8.0 MXP!!! I can buy a chocolate with that =oD)
But, I think that is because Britons do not care about the price of things, when I come from a country where a $1 peso (like $.1 USD) rebate, is always welcomed!,
Darn, I have even seen people leaving
From some those pictures I wonder where TH will the joypads will be connected???? maybe it will have cordless controls?
While I do not agree with your position (I do use adblock) I respect it, but I think I would do it for my children, you see, I do not know how old is your kid but If I had a small kid (maybe between 8 and 12) I would take the time to install Adblock AND configure it so it could block those sites.
I am not telling that You should use it, only your child, anyway it is for his health. Of course you cuold also speak with him and tell him about those nasty sites etc etc etc, it all depends on you and how (if) you want to protect your children privacy.
Now, thinking it again, I guess the second option is better because, (from my own experience) after you had blocked the banners with FF or anything else, I am quite sure, your boy will find the way to unblock them...
[quote]
I would think these webmasters would have the sense not to put that sort of material on sites that presumably only children would be interested in.
[/quote]
I think you are wrong, yesterday I started to download an Emulator and ROMS from the NES (Nintendo ) to play with my girlfriend, I am 23 and the NES was THE console to play when I was a kid so today I am doing my PhD abroad and of course I do not have my NES with me (nor I plan to do it because of the time) but with the NES Emulators I can play with my girlfriend over the Internet some old time classic games.
What I want to show is that, like me (23 yr. old) I am sure there are other people who more or less are in my position and as you can see we are not so "young" and I guess at our age, we are quite interested in the topics of those "questionable banners".
As for me? I do not get ROMs from the WWW now, I use P2P software (like emule or bittorrent) to ge them.
Do you know what do I recommend you? Firefox + adblock, and then you can download an AdBlock fiter file son the banners will be gone and you dont have to worry about your child's privacy =o).
Nikon's move to encrypt the white balance information in NEF files is just about as unwelcome as Adobe's own decision to turn CS 3 into a portal for RF images.
Both ideas are antipathetic to photographers, obviously Nikon ones and equally, all those trying to make a living from RM stock or commissions.
I am very glad I made the switch to Canon years ago.
Adobe don't claim any rights on the settings you apply to images created with Photoshop. Whilst file formats are often proprietary, or are open to a limit expressed by API documentation (is .psd an open format ? Could Capture Read / Write .psd ? I think so...) here .NEF is replacing film. Did Nikon own your processed film ? Seems like commercial suicide to me - they're in danger of making their products extremely unattractive to advanced users.
This is not completely true, maybe some days in the GGP had a nice job that allowed him to buy lots of gadgets (and 6 TVs) but with the US jobs dropping and economy falling, he may be having a hard time
Completely wrong.
Its like when Windows started using "Workgroups" or "Network" or "Internet" gosh, that was going on for some years...
Quote /quote
For people to switch, they'll need a good reason, a major thing that IE can't do.
But, that will not be enough, also, there needs to be a web page that a lot of people use (Hallmark?, MSN? or any other) which has this "feature", but, any of those sites will implement a feature that does not work with the browser 89% of the people uses so, it is a vicious cycle.
At some point Microsoft will have to seriously consider giving away their visual studio product. It is my belief that they will use their "shared source" licence for it within the next 5 years.
I am pretty shure you are wrong, I think what Microsoft would do (if ever they let any kind of free-nes in VS) is to give away a free (as in beer) Version. They will never, EVER give the code (not even in their shared shit^W^W^Wource).
As for the plugins? I have used the Whole Tomato Visual Assist plugin, and I think that is the way MS will solve it, publishing an API for VS plugin development.
Yeah, it should be nice not to have to buy a $1500 computer in order to use that feature...
Of course I know there are already options in the market (never heard of Xdrive?) but I think one of the most important features about the Google technology is the ability to SEARCH so they surely would make a good technology, also as I stated before if they provided a good interface like the one in GMail, that would be another point.
Oh man, I would give you all my mod points... if I had some, this service is reallly cool!!
I can not stop to saying you Thanks! Thanks! Thanks!
Only now have companies like MS and Apple finally realised that searching though data is something important
MMmm, I think Google realized that some time ago, and there where other file searching applications before the indexing based search programs started to gain popularity
Personally, I think it is a good idea, I would really like to see Google Implementing some kind of "GDrive", where I can have all or most of my documents, I know there is an ap for doing it in Gmail but, I maybe a Google's service with web page and file browser interface (as cool as their Gmail interface) would be nice.
.ppt etc) talking about Scotland vacations, I get some ads about vacations.
Of course, I would like it to be free (as all other Google's services), and I would not mind having the ads at the side if for example I have a document (.DOC,
I totally agree, after I started my PhD, they assigned me a computer in my department, then they asked me to go for linux or windows 2000... darn... I chose Wi2K, but then, I use a program called JabRef (see SF.net) to handle my bibliography, and I save the bib file in a network drive (it is my home directory for Linux machines or mydocuments for Win machines, it is done that way so I can log into any computer on the network).
Well, going to the point, the thing is, when I write an article (I use Latex) I have to add the bibliography in the same directory where I have the tex file, so, I thought, ok in linux I would make a symlink to my original bib file (produced in JabRef) so, if I add some other reference I dont have to add it in the file I am using (of course after finishg the paper I extract only the references I need and make a smaller file). but nooooo, In windows I only have this shortcuts shit, and of course if I try to open it with the Tex compiler it will see just gibberish... I looked on the net for a hardlink or something, and although I know there is a way to make that (in some obscure sort of way) it is not recommended and... anyway it does not works for network drives (doh!)...
Well... in fact I am thinking in telling this people to install RH linux in my pc... and get rid of Lose2K
Correction, it is You KNOW. it seems SpellCheck can not fix stupidity... for now
Man, you now what is the correct answer to that poll....
Breast!
from one of TFAs:
But that's not what Tridge did... He didn't create something new and impressive. He just tore down something new (and impressive) because he could, and rather than helping others, he screwed people over. And you expect me to respect that kind of behaviour?" wrote Torvalds
Come on!, so what if someone makes a program that implements a cool funcionality from another?? I see it in every game that has been developed in the last 20 years!, thats why whe have genres!, also, that would mean that OpenOffice is bad! or what about the same Linux (Unix clone??) or all the BSD's.
I think Linus went to far with that, so also to do SAMBA was a "non respectable behaviour" to him? wtf without SAMBA I bet they would be a really, REALLY big amount of people (and companies) not using Linux these days.
If he does not want to use it, then do not do it, but do not flame the author for doing it, and tell that is not a respectable behaviour! it seems that the most notable figure of Open Source has acquired a Not-So-Open State of Mind.
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