Even though me and a friend knew this thing was a hoax (well I did, he still isn't sure), we were actually gonna go up to CMU sometime soon to go see the guys who run/fake it. Anyways, F2k has helped me make many decisions, and its decisions have always been dead wrong, but they still helped. I think the funniest thing that came from it was when my friend was bitching about playing drums in a school play, and PeterB replied, "go smoke some weed, then play drums, it will help". Also, when presented with questions about asian girls PeterB's "Mmmmm...asian girls" comforted me while Jet Li's "STAY AWAY FROM MY SISTER!!" had me scared to talk to any asian girls for a long time. F2k made me stop using it after Dr. Laura accused me of being raped by an asian nanny, that's just wrong.
Each Q+A is on a different page. It's sad how some companies try to get banner impressions. As far as play on dreamcast goes, I wouldn't be interested until Sega gets off their asses and gets us an Ethernet module (yay 30ms ping on SDSL) for network/internet games. Also play on the gamepad could be difficult, but couldn't you use the dreamcast keyboard that sega.net/AT&T provides? If I buy a DC, it will be for games like Crazy Taxi, not Q3A.
Agreed. Food Network has plenty of entertainment value, and it teaches you things as well. Iron Chef is one of the few shows that I can watch along with my entire family and that we can all enjoy, and that's one of the most important things about a show to me, as most of the stuff I enjoy is not what gets watched. But as far as representing me, foodtv isn't that either, but would you really want to watch a bunch of people just like you all day on TV. I think that seeing something that you aren't really a part of, weather it be Japanese cooking or the law system, makes it all the more interesting, and you may decide to take up a profession/hobby in what you are watching. Unfortunatley, most TV these days isn't inspirational, and is boring, and does nothing but try to go for a cheap laugh.
I watch anime on occasion (just the dubbed stuff on CN that you real anime folk scoff at:) but its just for entertainment. I usually watch it as part of what I call background vision, it's similar to background music, but just having a TV on and not really watching it, and anime makes great background vision for me. As far as anime like Serial Experiments Lain representing the technical/geek/nerd/whatever culture, possibly, but I don't think that anime as a whole represents much more than a way to make cartoons. It's a medium, not a genre.
George Clinton was the lead member of the funk band Parliament, he has created some of the best funk on this planet. I'd reccomend the "Tear The Roof Off: 1974-1980" 2 cd set if you can find it. Good stuff, many of today's rap artists sample clinton's funk of 25 years ago.
GAIM doesn't do this if you are using the OSCAR protocol, check the latest version, its a checkbox in the connection tab of preferences. It can get the away msg w/o sending any IMs this way...
The link to flatplanet.net is/.ed already it seems. I assume that they are distrubting advertisments in what appear to be files that people are looking for. I'm sure there's something to differentiate them from the other legitamite files on gnutella. flatplanet's gnutella nodes most likley report themselves as being a very high speed to entice users for example. Also, aren't the images that are really adverts going to be a fixed size, I don't think many people expect their porn images to be the filesize of a banner ad.
How about Qualcomm's PDQ. It does analog+PCS phone and has a Palm (III I think) built in. Lets you use the palm address book to dial numbers, etc. I'm pretty sure you can use the net over the cellular coverage. No MP3 though, but I think you could hook up a serial GPS module. It's also about $800:)
I don't care too much about cellular phones, considering the high cost and lack of good coverage in the suburban areas of the US. What would really entice me to go wireless is a portable 80x25 terminal, in the form factor of a very small laptop (sub 2lbs) which would have encryption and a reasonably fast link. I mean, everything I do on my computer can be controlled over a simple terminal in linux, you could even browse the web with something like lynx, or even better w3m. The closest thing I see to this right now is the RIM, but that only does e-mail and isn't able to stream a connection.
The MPAA seems to be going after the wrong people, and I believe that they are going after them simply because it is easiest. If the DVD pirate 'scene' didn't have DeCSS or DoD Speed Ripper they would simply input the DVD into a video capture board like they do to pirate screener tapes. The MPAA obviously would have a much harder time cathing these people because they are, unlke the OpenDVD people, operating underground. The MPAA is losing more revenue from the guy selling bootlegs on the streetcorner and the huge pirate industry in countries like Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Jordan than they are from some guys decrypting a dvd for personal use. The MPAA is simply looking for a way to make people see any type of circumventing protection as evil and wrong.
I know that Caldera/Corel cater to the newbies mostly, RedHat/Mandrake for the mid range users, and Debian/Slack for the advanced users. Where does SuSE fit in? I've used all types of Linux distros, and found that the newbie ones are very limiting and you end up customizing them to no end which usually screws the package system. I've been wondering about SuSE and TurboLinux which are the only distros which I haven't used as far as where they lie on the difficulty/customizibiltiy scale.
Yeah, but (correct me if I'm wrong) the GHz Athlon in stores is using a 1/3 L2 cache divider, so any Athlons past 700MHz quickly lose their edge to Intel's chips. I'm assuming that the mainstream (Compaq, etc.) machines aren't using the Thunderbird based Athlon, as I don't see any Duron based machines in stores, which was released at the same time.
Well, the fastest CPU you can buy in a machine these days would be AMD's Athlon @ 1ghz, Intels ghz PIII is nearly impossible to get your hands on. Personaly I'm fine with my Celeron 300a which I only clock to 464 for playing games and watching DVDs. I'd much rather spend my money on a new hard drive, memory, or even a new video card before I drop a load of cash to get a new CPU/MB
A chewed up bic pen A gutted SGI Indigo R3k case with XS24 logos Fundamentals of Database Systems A 1989 Sharp 20" TV A Fender Mexican Standard Strat A Goldstar 14" Monitor An empty 2 liter of Diet Coke Perl CD Bookshelf Pioneer VSX-305 reciever with broken input selector One New Balance 712 Sneaker Pair of dried up contact lenses 1gig Seagate Medalist 3600rpm with bad sectors $2
I'm in the Philadelphia area, and the Republican National Convention is in town (gak). I was wondering if there are any groups protesting issues such as the mentioned act which would prohibit information on drugs, as well as things like FBI's carnivore which are violating our rights. I know some guys from the ACLU were down there today, but I don't know what they were marching for offhand.
Music files don't come with little tags that say whether or not they're copyrighted.
Actually, the MPEG headers have a field, called, you guessed it, "copyright". Of course it seems that each mp3 encoder randomly decides weather to set it to 1 or 0, so its of no use, but if people actually used the field as it was meant to be used, napster could filter pretty easially.
Are you a troll or is this seriously how you think? I've really been wondering, as the last post I saw of yours was obviously trying to bother people. Look, I mean you end your post with "Thank You" If you really aren't a troll, then please try to keep from looking like one. There's room for everyone's oppinion on slashdot, but starting arguments isn't what this is for.
The problem is that none of those other methods of filesharing you mentioned have either the users or ease of use which napster did. Out of what I've tried IRC is good if you're on the downloading side, but the beauty of napster was that it made the sharing part easy, running an IRC server isn't something that Joe User is going to be doing. Gnutella shows a lot of promise as well, though the last time I used it my connection speed sucked, but its distributed nature makes it much harder to get shut down.
I've decided to stop buying CDs from bands on the RIAA (as have many), however I'm still looking for a way to purchase music. One way would be used cd shops since the RIAA already got their share. The other is to buy from artists who are not on major labels. So, I'm looking for good non-major-label artists to spend my money on. Anyone have any to recommend? I'm open to almost any kind of music (or even 'noise') so if anyone has anything they like which isn't RIAA please drop a reply here.
I'm not really a big fan of anime, but I see that Cartoon Network may have quite a market considering how big their Toonami section has grown. They could have a pay channel with uncut (but not pornographic) anime. Audio would consist of the standard MTS stereo channel with english audio and the SAP channel with japanese audio. Subtitles would be obtained using the caption signals which would be broadcast. This would allow one channel to please almost all the anime fans, many of which can't get the movies very easially. Of course, multiple channels (one sub, one dub) like HBO has would make things easier, but might not be possible for a startup network.
In an earlier story, someone had noted that Apple was likley to fill the 6th space in their product grid with a tablet/pda, I'm assuming this will be more of a webpad/tablet computer than the failed newton. Or is Apple likley to simply allow pen input on the powerbook in addition to keyboard (think Vadem's Clio which would flip over itself to become a tablet)
This prototype is using the new Memory Stick Duo format which Sony designed for smaller devices. Of course (AFAIK) its not compatible with the regular Memory Stick, that's Sony for ya.
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Even though me and a friend knew this thing was a hoax (well I did, he still isn't sure), we were actually gonna go up to CMU sometime soon to go see the guys who run/fake it. Anyways, F2k has helped me make many decisions, and its decisions have always been dead wrong, but they still helped. I think the funniest thing that came from it was when my friend was bitching about playing drums in a school play, and PeterB replied, "go smoke some weed, then play drums, it will help". Also, when presented with questions about asian girls PeterB's "Mmmmm...asian girls" comforted me while Jet Li's "STAY AWAY FROM MY SISTER!!" had me scared to talk to any asian girls for a long time. F2k made me stop using it after Dr. Laura accused me of being raped by an asian nanny, that's just wrong.
Each Q+A is on a different page. It's sad how some companies try to get banner impressions. As far as play on dreamcast goes, I wouldn't be interested until Sega gets off their asses and gets us an Ethernet module (yay 30ms ping on SDSL) for network/internet games. Also play on the gamepad could be difficult, but couldn't you use the dreamcast keyboard that sega.net/AT&T provides? If I buy a DC, it will be for games like Crazy Taxi, not Q3A.
Agreed. Food Network has plenty of entertainment value, and it teaches you things as well. Iron Chef is one of the few shows that I can watch along with my entire family and that we can all enjoy, and that's one of the most important things about a show to me, as most of the stuff I enjoy is not what gets watched. But as far as representing me, foodtv isn't that either, but would you really want to watch a bunch of people just like you all day on TV. I think that seeing something that you aren't really a part of, weather it be Japanese cooking or the law system, makes it all the more interesting, and you may decide to take up a profession/hobby in what you are watching. Unfortunatley, most TV these days isn't inspirational, and is boring, and does nothing but try to go for a cheap laugh.
I watch anime on occasion (just the dubbed stuff on CN that you real anime folk scoff at :) but its just for entertainment. I usually watch it as part of what I call background vision, it's similar to background music, but just having a TV on and not really watching it, and anime makes great background vision for me. As far as anime like Serial Experiments Lain representing the technical/geek/nerd/whatever culture, possibly, but I don't think that anime as a whole represents much more than a way to make cartoons. It's a medium, not a genre.
heh, you've obviously never been on dalnet eh? ;)
asl plz? do u study? r u frm amerika? u want 2 cyber?
Maybe I'm just in the wrong rooms
George Clinton was the lead member of the funk band Parliament, he has created some of the best funk on this planet. I'd reccomend the "Tear The Roof Off: 1974-1980" 2 cd set if you can find it. Good stuff, many of today's rap artists sample clinton's funk of 25 years ago.
GAIM doesn't do this if you are using the OSCAR protocol, check the latest version, its a checkbox in the connection tab of preferences. It can get the away msg w/o sending any IMs this way...
The link to flatplanet.net is /.ed already it seems. I assume that they are distrubting advertisments in what appear to be files that people are looking for. I'm sure there's something to differentiate them from the other legitamite files on gnutella. flatplanet's gnutella nodes most likley report themselves as being a very high speed to entice users for example. Also, aren't the images that are really adverts going to be a fixed size, I don't think many people expect their porn images to be the filesize of a banner ad.
How about Qualcomm's PDQ. It does analog+PCS phone and has a Palm (III I think) built in. Lets you use the palm address book to dial numbers, etc. I'm pretty sure you can use the net over the cellular coverage. No MP3 though, but I think you could hook up a serial GPS module. It's also about $800 :)
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Damn, seems like netscape is falling back when it comes to keeping up with standards.
I don't care too much about cellular phones, considering the high cost and lack of good coverage in the suburban areas of the US. What would really entice me to go wireless is a portable 80x25 terminal, in the form factor of a very small laptop (sub 2lbs) which would have encryption and a reasonably fast link. I mean, everything I do on my computer can be controlled over a simple terminal in linux, you could even browse the web with something like lynx, or even better w3m. The closest thing I see to this right now is the RIM, but that only does e-mail and isn't able to stream a connection.
The MPAA seems to be going after the wrong people, and I believe that they are going after them simply because it is easiest. If the DVD pirate 'scene' didn't have DeCSS or DoD Speed Ripper they would simply input the DVD into a video capture board like they do to pirate screener tapes. The MPAA obviously would have a much harder time cathing these people because they are, unlke the OpenDVD people, operating underground. The MPAA is losing more revenue from the guy selling bootlegs on the streetcorner and the huge pirate industry in countries like Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Jordan than they are from some guys decrypting a dvd for personal use. The MPAA is simply looking for a way to make people see any type of circumventing protection as evil and wrong.
I know that Caldera/Corel cater to the newbies mostly, RedHat/Mandrake for the mid range users, and Debian/Slack for the advanced users. Where does SuSE fit in? I've used all types of Linux distros, and found that the newbie ones are very limiting and you end up customizing them to no end which usually screws the package system. I've been wondering about SuSE and TurboLinux which are the only distros which I haven't used as far as where they lie on the difficulty/customizibiltiy scale.
Yeah, but (correct me if I'm wrong) the GHz Athlon in stores is using a 1/3 L2 cache divider, so any Athlons past 700MHz quickly lose their edge to Intel's chips. I'm assuming that the mainstream (Compaq, etc.) machines aren't using the Thunderbird based Athlon, as I don't see any Duron based machines in stores, which was released at the same time.
Well, the fastest CPU you can buy in a machine these days would be AMD's Athlon @ 1ghz, Intels ghz PIII is nearly impossible to get your hands on. Personaly I'm fine with my Celeron 300a which I only clock to 464 for playing games and watching DVDs. I'd much rather spend my money on a new hard drive, memory, or even a new video card before I drop a load of cash to get a new CPU/MB
I think it was like $250 new, but its a few years old and the bridge is messed up. And I'll throw in a Mitsumi 24x CD-ROM
A chewed up bic pen
A gutted SGI Indigo R3k case with XS24 logos
Fundamentals of Database Systems
A 1989 Sharp 20" TV
A Fender Mexican Standard Strat
A Goldstar 14" Monitor
An empty 2 liter of Diet Coke
Perl CD Bookshelf
Pioneer VSX-305 reciever with broken input selector
One New Balance 712 Sneaker
Pair of dried up contact lenses
1gig Seagate Medalist 3600rpm with bad sectors
$2
I'm in the Philadelphia area, and the Republican National Convention is in town (gak). I was wondering if there are any groups protesting issues such as the mentioned act which would prohibit information on drugs, as well as things like FBI's carnivore which are violating our rights. I know some guys from the ACLU were down there today, but I don't know what they were marching for offhand.
Actually, the MPEG headers have a field, called, you guessed it, "copyright". Of course it seems that each mp3 encoder randomly decides weather to set it to 1 or 0, so its of no use, but if people actually used the field as it was meant to be used, napster could filter pretty easially.
Are you a troll or is this seriously how you think? I've really been wondering, as the last post I saw of yours was obviously trying to bother people. Look, I mean you end your post with "Thank You" If you really aren't a troll, then please try to keep from looking like one. There's room for everyone's oppinion on slashdot, but starting arguments isn't what this is for.