How does a mac address filter only keep out the idiots? Its not a deny list, its an allow list, so they'd have to already know the mac of a machine inside my network... a machine already in my home, and at that point I have worse problems than an idiot trying to use my wifi anyway (and so does the idiot if I'm around).
Hey, is there any hard drive problem where the drive works fine, but gets CRC errors regularly while moving large files over a wireless network? Could it actually be the network (although no other pair of drives/computers exhibits the problem)? I have this laptop, and if I move files to it that work on other machines, some files have CRC errors. If I move files that work on it to the other machines, some of those files have CRC errors. I don't know what the culprit is, but its getting aggravating.
I think 128k MP3 sounds like crap too, though I have never listened to an AAC file. I originally ripped everything I had to 128k years ago when I had a Rio, and needed the small file size to fit roughly one CD to its 64 MB. I've got a CD player in my car now that plays MP3 CDs, and file size isn't that much of a limitation, so I decided to re-rip everything. I can't tell much difference above 192k on MP3, but I went to 256k just to ensure that I wouldn't need to rip again at some near point in time. Even with the large files, I can fit 7-8 CDs on 1 CD, which is great since I can make discs of all tracks from most bands. The player can read folders 2 or 3 tiers deep too, so I just burn the files exactly as they are stored on the computer, and everything works fine.
There are some CDs that sound like crap no matter what is done with them, that could probably be encoded at 128k with no quality loss, but I like to standardize.
I can't understand the success of iTunes at all. Ripping CDs is a totally hands-free business, short of changing discs when they are done. It takes no skill and no great amount of knowledge, only time near a computer. I ripped all of my discs to my laptop while at work, while working on several other projects, without even really thinking about it. No effort.
Do people really want a reality TV fix, or is that just a negative stereotype that we nerds have put on everyone else? I don't know anyone that watches them at all, but I don't really know a good sample for that question since none of them watch TV anyway. I just can't imagine anyone wanting to watch that shit.
Not that all TV shows are bad, I was just driven away from it by the incessant marketing. Futurama and Firefly are fairly awesome, and both of those have come and gone since I quit watching. DVD redeemed them both.
As for DVD ads, I have seen a handful (maybe 1 out of 20 that I've seen) that have trailers crapped between the pointless FBI warnings and the title menu, but I've yet to see one that doesn't skip them if I push 'next chapter' or 'menu'. More common are studio logo screens that are a bit longer than they need to be and totally unnecessary logos for variously supported fancy audio systems. They irritate me a bit, but they don't actually affect the watchability of the content. And since they come before the menu that starts the movie, I can safely mute the TV and walk away while they're running, assured that I won't miss anything.
I'll stop buying DVDs when they either put commercials in the middle of the content, or put trailers/ads/crap before the content, but after the 'start' option from the menu. I see no need to be a captive marketing audience, and while I enjoy a movie/show from time to time I don't have any real 'itch' to watch them, so as soon as the ads really irritate me they're gone, just like TV.
Hey, I still have a Wang laptop from '87. Granted, I didn't buy it, I got it from a giant pile of old junk that was donated to a school I once worked for. Don't have a battery for it though.
I don't need ads for truly useful products. If its truly useful to me, I've already identified a need for its capability, and gone in search of it. Ads are only necessary for crap products: things that nobody needs, and things that nobody normally wants (say, entertainment products that aren't good enough to market themselves).
I can't even understand why we still have some types of ads... vehicles? When someone needs something that expensive they do a lot of searching and comparison, no need for ads. Soft drinks? No change in major brands in my lifetime, why are they still advertising? Drugs? If you're not dying, you don't need them. If you are, cope with it or see a doctor.
Ads do have some positive effects though. I got so sick of soft drink marketing in college that I quit drinking them. Somewhere between the giant banners at events, the college & vendor branded t-shirts, the exclusive deals with food courts and dorm vending, and the ad saturation that they already have I just decided that I hated them all.
At the risk of not selling any more DVDs? They must realize that not having commercials is half the appeal of the DVDs to begin with, and they make tons of money from them already. I don't think they're that dumb. But I'm waiting to be proven wrong.
You just ruined that for me, I actually hadn't realized they were a real product. I thought they were just trying to depict the guy as having some sort of future shoe-nerd tendency. I like old watches and knives, why couldn't someone like old shoes? Really hadn't occurred to me that those were real. I do remember there being some blatant product placement for one of the parcel carriers, but I can't remember which one (so I guess it wasn't too effective, except to say there will still be some form of parcel delivery in the future).
What gets me in a lot of generic action movies (of which I Robot was better than most) is how many of them devolve into 2 hour ads for H&K. Underworld comes to mind, although it was awful for many other reasons too. Someone in hollywood has an H&K fetish or something. I want some diversity, some Saabs or Steyrs or Sigs or FNHs. Or better yet, they should make their own guns for movies (say, the awesome pistol from Blade Runner). I was really creeped out when I started seeing MP7s in movies before they were available; I mean, who is the target audience for that product placement? Does the government watch the same crappy movies that we do, and say "must have neat gun!" ?
I dunno, I grabbed a copy when I saw it for $15, and I think its one of the greatest games from the recent console generation. It was fun, absolutely absorbing from start to finish, had gorgeous colorful graphics with style, and had neat characters, all of which are more than I can say for most games.
As some random bastard on the internet, does this opinion necessarily mean I have been bribed?
What if I wrote it for Gaming Prophecy Weekly?
Where in the transition from random bastard to journalist is one forced to become a crook?
Maybe the journalists (I am, obviously, not) realized they played a great game, and wrote honestly. Not all of us can be crooks all of the time.
Now for some hypocrisy! I'm almost sure UbiSoft has been paying for positive reviews on all of their Tom Clancy crap... that shit is terrible, and those crooks should be axed!
On second thought, maybe all of these "opinion" things are totally subjective and its pointless to hurl them at each other. Or maybe the point of opinions is being bribed. You might be on to something there. I'm gonna go see if the domain name GamingProphecy is taken...
I did the exact same thing, although I was sleep deprived and sick at the time (I probably shouldn't have gone to work to begin with, much less stayed late). Almost made it home, crossed the road and nailed a ditch about a mile out from my house... I didn't hit anything though; I stopped because the ditch was bigger than my car, so after it bounced around it just ate dirt. I didn't know what was going on until I was off the road, at which point I "woke up", had just enough time to wonder why I was looking at ditch, and then got thrown about for a bit. I was sort of surprised that my Metro didn't collapse into some sort of tinfoil ball of death. It turns out they're far more durable than I expected (still totalled though, was only worth $700 at the time and the front axle was damaged). I'm really wary of what's going on around me now too, I keep myself alert by focusing on every car around me, jumping focus between them fairly quickly. I tend to drive just a bit slower than other traffic too, so that the cars around me change periodically. Not that there were other cars around when I crashed, but I don't live in the middle of nowhere anymore, so I tend to be around cars most of the time now anyway.
Yea, its called Outlook Web Access, and its been around since at least 2000 (when I first used it).
And there have been plenty of city/school/regional web applications using "AJAX" techniques for years now, especially for GIS data. Google has refined it a lot and made some impressive javascript, but they hardly define it.
Nope, it still used plugin memory cards. Granted, they were wierd VMU things (Visual Memory Unit?) that had tiny useless screens, tiny useless buttons, and tiny useless batteries to power said features, but they were still just memory cards. The one neat thing they did was that (if you had batteries) you could plug two into each other and manage save games without needing the console.
You're right about the 'controller as memory card' idea not really being all that original though. I don't even think it would be desirable. What do you do if your controller fills up? And I'd far rather cram a memory card in my wallet than a controller in my backpack/coat/really big pocket/etc.
Yea, and if the Dreamcast VMUs had actually had better screens/input/battery life. They sort of sucked. Though it was really cool to be able to transfer saves between two without needing the console, at least until the batteries died. Fortunately they still work as memory cards without batteries.
I would happily buy a version of Windows without MSN Messenger. I actually sorta like WMP 10, but Messenger is an irredeemable piece of shit that I don't want on my computer. Even truly allowing it not to be installed would be nice. I want the next Windows installer to be more like the newer Office installers, where I can actually set components to 'not available', not just 'not installed' and never have the OS even look for them.
Well, you could boot your shell off of Taskman, and run a minimal GUI, only running Explorer as an application when you need to. Don't know of any means to run a newer Windows off of CLI only though.
Always cross things off and comment contracts, being sure to initial and date by anything you change. Half of that stuff in a contract is only in there because some lawyer assumed that you would just sign and not look at it. Assume the same.
Now, software EULAs... those really irk me, because they're a totally one sided dialogue, and there's no way to negotiate or change terms. Arrrr.
The continued existence of Real has confused and infuriated me since at least 1999... seriously, how can the company function? And how can you be so sure that their days are at an end when there has been no compelling reason for their days to be at all for so long? I do hope you're right though.
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Out of curiosity, how did Direct TV find out that he bought the programmer?
How does a mac address filter only keep out the idiots? Its not a deny list, its an allow list, so they'd have to already know the mac of a machine inside my network... a machine already in my home, and at that point I have worse problems than an idiot trying to use my wifi anyway (and so does the idiot if I'm around).
Hey, is there any hard drive problem where the drive works fine, but gets CRC errors regularly while moving large files over a wireless network? Could it actually be the network (although no other pair of drives/computers exhibits the problem)? I have this laptop, and if I move files to it that work on other machines, some files have CRC errors. If I move files that work on it to the other machines, some of those files have CRC errors. I don't know what the culprit is, but its getting aggravating.
I can't stand 'prolly' but I like (and occasionally use) 'probly'... it needs a 'b' to be the same word to me.
I think 128k MP3 sounds like crap too, though I have never listened to an AAC file. I originally ripped everything I had to 128k years ago when I had a Rio, and needed the small file size to fit roughly one CD to its 64 MB. I've got a CD player in my car now that plays MP3 CDs, and file size isn't that much of a limitation, so I decided to re-rip everything. I can't tell much difference above 192k on MP3, but I went to 256k just to ensure that I wouldn't need to rip again at some near point in time. Even with the large files, I can fit 7-8 CDs on 1 CD, which is great since I can make discs of all tracks from most bands. The player can read folders 2 or 3 tiers deep too, so I just burn the files exactly as they are stored on the computer, and everything works fine.
There are some CDs that sound like crap no matter what is done with them, that could probably be encoded at 128k with no quality loss, but I like to standardize.
I can't understand the success of iTunes at all. Ripping CDs is a totally hands-free business, short of changing discs when they are done. It takes no skill and no great amount of knowledge, only time near a computer. I ripped all of my discs to my laptop while at work, while working on several other projects, without even really thinking about it. No effort.
I like this, and while we're at it, make the fines based upon % of sales, instead of small fixed figures.
Do people really want a reality TV fix, or is that just a negative stereotype that we nerds have put on everyone else? I don't know anyone that watches them at all, but I don't really know a good sample for that question since none of them watch TV anyway. I just can't imagine anyone wanting to watch that shit.
Not that all TV shows are bad, I was just driven away from it by the incessant marketing. Futurama and Firefly are fairly awesome, and both of those have come and gone since I quit watching. DVD redeemed them both.
As for DVD ads, I have seen a handful (maybe 1 out of 20 that I've seen) that have trailers crapped between the pointless FBI warnings and the title menu, but I've yet to see one that doesn't skip them if I push 'next chapter' or 'menu'. More common are studio logo screens that are a bit longer than they need to be and totally unnecessary logos for variously supported fancy audio systems. They irritate me a bit, but they don't actually affect the watchability of the content. And since they come before the menu that starts the movie, I can safely mute the TV and walk away while they're running, assured that I won't miss anything.
I'll stop buying DVDs when they either put commercials in the middle of the content, or put trailers/ads/crap before the content, but after the 'start' option from the menu. I see no need to be a captive marketing audience, and while I enjoy a movie/show from time to time I don't have any real 'itch' to watch them, so as soon as the ads really irritate me they're gone, just like TV.
Hey, I still have a Wang laptop from '87. Granted, I didn't buy it, I got it from a giant pile of old junk that was donated to a school I once worked for. Don't have a battery for it though.
I don't need ads for truly useful products. If its truly useful to me, I've already identified a need for its capability, and gone in search of it. Ads are only necessary for crap products: things that nobody needs, and things that nobody normally wants (say, entertainment products that aren't good enough to market themselves).
I can't even understand why we still have some types of ads... vehicles? When someone needs something that expensive they do a lot of searching and comparison, no need for ads. Soft drinks? No change in major brands in my lifetime, why are they still advertising? Drugs? If you're not dying, you don't need them. If you are, cope with it or see a doctor.
Ads do have some positive effects though. I got so sick of soft drink marketing in college that I quit drinking them. Somewhere between the giant banners at events, the college & vendor branded t-shirts, the exclusive deals with food courts and dorm vending, and the ad saturation that they already have I just decided that I hated them all.
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At the risk of not selling any more DVDs? They must realize that not having commercials is half the appeal of the DVDs to begin with, and they make tons of money from them already. I don't think they're that dumb. But I'm waiting to be proven wrong.
You just ruined that for me, I actually hadn't realized they were a real product. I thought they were just trying to depict the guy as having some sort of future shoe-nerd tendency. I like old watches and knives, why couldn't someone like old shoes? Really hadn't occurred to me that those were real. I do remember there being some blatant product placement for one of the parcel carriers, but I can't remember which one (so I guess it wasn't too effective, except to say there will still be some form of parcel delivery in the future).
What gets me in a lot of generic action movies (of which I Robot was better than most) is how many of them devolve into 2 hour ads for H&K. Underworld comes to mind, although it was awful for many other reasons too. Someone in hollywood has an H&K fetish or something. I want some diversity, some Saabs or Steyrs or Sigs or FNHs. Or better yet, they should make their own guns for movies (say, the awesome pistol from Blade Runner). I was really creeped out when I started seeing MP7s in movies before they were available; I mean, who is the target audience for that product placement? Does the government watch the same crappy movies that we do, and say "must have neat gun!" ?
I dunno, I grabbed a copy when I saw it for $15, and I think its one of the greatest games from the recent console generation. It was fun, absolutely absorbing from start to finish, had gorgeous colorful graphics with style, and had neat characters, all of which are more than I can say for most games.
As some random bastard on the internet, does this opinion necessarily mean I have been bribed?
What if I wrote it for Gaming Prophecy Weekly?
Where in the transition from random bastard to journalist is one forced to become a crook?
Maybe the journalists (I am, obviously, not) realized they played a great game, and wrote honestly. Not all of us can be crooks all of the time.
Now for some hypocrisy! I'm almost sure UbiSoft has been paying for positive reviews on all of their Tom Clancy crap... that shit is terrible, and those crooks should be axed!
On second thought, maybe all of these "opinion" things are totally subjective and its pointless to hurl them at each other. Or maybe the point of opinions is being bribed. You might be on to something there. I'm gonna go see if the domain name GamingProphecy is taken...
I did the exact same thing, although I was sleep deprived and sick at the time (I probably shouldn't have gone to work to begin with, much less stayed late). Almost made it home, crossed the road and nailed a ditch about a mile out from my house... I didn't hit anything though; I stopped because the ditch was bigger than my car, so after it bounced around it just ate dirt. I didn't know what was going on until I was off the road, at which point I "woke up", had just enough time to wonder why I was looking at ditch, and then got thrown about for a bit. I was sort of surprised that my Metro didn't collapse into some sort of tinfoil ball of death. It turns out they're far more durable than I expected (still totalled though, was only worth $700 at the time and the front axle was damaged). I'm really wary of what's going on around me now too, I keep myself alert by focusing on every car around me, jumping focus between them fairly quickly. I tend to drive just a bit slower than other traffic too, so that the cars around me change periodically. Not that there were other cars around when I crashed, but I don't live in the middle of nowhere anymore, so I tend to be around cars most of the time now anyway.
I am Batman?
Yea, its called Outlook Web Access, and its been around since at least 2000 (when I first used it).
And there have been plenty of city/school/regional web applications using "AJAX" techniques for years now, especially for GIS data. Google has refined it a lot and made some impressive javascript, but they hardly define it.
Nope, it still used plugin memory cards. Granted, they were wierd VMU things (Visual Memory Unit?) that had tiny useless screens, tiny useless buttons, and tiny useless batteries to power said features, but they were still just memory cards. The one neat thing they did was that (if you had batteries) you could plug two into each other and manage save games without needing the console.
You're right about the 'controller as memory card' idea not really being all that original though. I don't even think it would be desirable. What do you do if your controller fills up? And I'd far rather cram a memory card in my wallet than a controller in my backpack/coat/really big pocket/etc.
Yea, and if the Dreamcast VMUs had actually had better screens/input/battery life. They sort of sucked. Though it was really cool to be able to transfer saves between two without needing the console, at least until the batteries died. Fortunately they still work as memory cards without batteries.
Hey, this might be a dumb question, but how do you get to the bootup menu when playing a PS1 game?
I just got a PS2 a few months ago, but I do have R-Type Final and Einhander, so it would be awesome if it could upsample them a bit or something.
Any ISP that offers me a disc containing Real Player gets their office burnt down.
I would happily buy a version of Windows without MSN Messenger. I actually sorta like WMP 10, but Messenger is an irredeemable piece of shit that I don't want on my computer. Even truly allowing it not to be installed would be nice. I want the next Windows installer to be more like the newer Office installers, where I can actually set components to 'not available', not just 'not installed' and never have the OS even look for them.
Well, you could boot your shell off of Taskman, and run a minimal GUI, only running Explorer as an application when you need to. Don't know of any means to run a newer Windows off of CLI only though.
How does Sam's have a legal right? Is it something in the terms of membership?
Always cross things off and comment contracts, being sure to initial and date by anything you change. Half of that stuff in a contract is only in there because some lawyer assumed that you would just sign and not look at it. Assume the same.
Now, software EULAs... those really irk me, because they're a totally one sided dialogue, and there's no way to negotiate or change terms. Arrrr.
The continued existence of Real has confused and infuriated me since at least 1999... seriously, how can the company function? And how can you be so sure that their days are at an end when there has been no compelling reason for their days to be at all for so long? I do hope you're right though.
Wouldn't intelligence tend to follow a lognormal distribution rather than a normal?