Glad to hear I'm not alone in that snobishness. I absolutely hate the english dubs on most titles and I prefer to hear it in japanese and read subtitles.
I rented Samurai X from netflix and was horrified to find that there was no japanese audio. The voices and sound effects were so bland and wooden that I stopped watching part of the way through.
I remember this show. It wasn't bad until some kid asked him to recite dos verbally in binary, which he did. After that I stopped watching.
Actually I think that was 20 minutes into the first episode.
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I'm curious. Someone should write a version of itunes that prices based on demand for independents. Music starts free, then gets progressively more expensive the more popular it is, up to a max point of two dollars, which would be the standard for mainstream music.
That way bands without billion dollar companies behind them get immediate exposure and (if the music they write becomes popular enough) immediate income. Itunes wins because it doesn't have to pay a very large percentage to those bands, so they will have a good profit margin.
You assume that nothing is gained from a hobby. Imagine if all you ever did was work day in and day out. Most jobs cannot fulfill a person mentally, physically, and socially in a way that will make you into a better person. So you need to supplement it.
Playing is just another word for training. We are wired to train when we don't have pressing concerns. The only thing is that in this day and age we've replaced a ball and stick with a controller and a mouse in some cases.
In my small town, they removed a "regulation" that isps had to lease their lines to competitors at a fair price. So now my town went from about ten isps smaller isps to four or so, and it is continually shrinking down to two. Comcast and Verizon. And the only reason they won't consolidate is because one is cable and the other is dsl.
But surely these companies are bastions of virtue who would never dream of putting a squeeze on google, yahoo and microsoft for kickbacks. I'm sure Verizon would never ever block skype. I'm sure Comcast couldn't possibly have a reason to block bittorrent. There's not the slightest hint of conflict of interest and anyone who says deregulation in this instance is bad must be a commie/hippie.
I have a problem with that theory. What amazes me is that what, 2 years later people still talk about techtv. They still remember the names of the hosts. I see it here, on fark, on every random forum on the internet. Yet it was hemorhaging money.
I can't understand how a channel with such a large high income demographic could possibly NOT make money.
I can only come to the conclusion that nielson ratings are not accurate in niche markets. Think with only 5000 users, 1/4 watching at any given time, splitting that audience between 30 channels. I find it hard to believe that an accurate metric can be obtained in such a manner. It is the only explanation.
It probably simply checks all files it will need to overwrite to see if it can delete them, and if it can, then great, but if not (about 80% of the time probably) it will force you to reboot. But at least they're trying.
Thank you. Finally someone agrees with me on this.
People say, "Oh, well it was home consoles that killed arcades." Bullshit. That may have been a contributer, but it was mainly the fact that it now costs you a 75 cents a play for a game to kill you in under 2 minutes often times. Some arcades like Dave and Busters in st. louis are even worse.
When I look at the arcade today, I see two types of games. Games like tekken, where it costs 50 cents to play, and if you play against someone else, you will get about 1 minute 30 seconds enjoyment out of it. Then on the other side I see soul calibre. In one player mode, it is very common to see people play upwards of 10 or 15 minutes. Guess which one gets played?
They basically got greedy. Really greedy, and now it is a dead business.
The flash plugin is moronically still using oss sound. It seems oss only had the capability of being used by one program at a time without a mixer such as artsd or esound. So if you are running either of those, or xmms in oss mode, they block each other.
If you aren't amd64, use the aoss program (alsa-oss in gentoo portage) and run 'aoss firefox' and that will force all plugins in firefox to use alsa even though they think they are using oss. You'll have to disable artsd though (or make it use alsa if that is possible), and change xmms to alsa driver (as well as anything else if possible) and make sure you have a recent enough version of alsa that supports mixing out of the box.
Yeah, I had this same problem too when I first discovered pandora.
I got a job out of college in a small town and I've been planning a move into a city ever since.
There are more problems with small towns than are immediately obvious. Besides the fact that there are few stores, bars, and women, there are also few choices of where to work. I like my job, but I would be hard pressed to find a better one in the area. Anything else would be a step down or require a move. So they can get away with paying you in peanuts.
It reminds me of when I got an xbox. I got ninja gaiden and then when I went to get more games, I realized it was all sports, racing, and ports from pc games that I'd already played. Not going to make that mistake again.
It is becoming increasingly obvious to me that sony is the primary force behind the riaa and mpaa. They develop the drm technologies and fight for changes to the laws that favor them. So from now on I won't be buying any of their hardware.
If you give companies a way to use closed source drivers, that is all they will ever use, because that is the way they've always done it. Linux presents a serious change to the way hardware vendors do business, and in the long run I think it would be better for everyone if they would embrace it.
It is just that once you open the gates, they won't ever be closed again.
The problem with supporting binary drivers is that binary drivers can't be fixed. They can't be tweaked. They are often buggy. They don't play well with other drivers. Companies insist on installing gods knows what into their drivers and since they run as root, they have unrestricted access to your system. Would you risk installing a driver from sony on your system? Will you have a choice?
And once a binary driver is available (even if it is crappy) it will make it that much less likely that someone will take the time to create suitable source drivers.
I wish I could simply ban certain domains from my search, ie ign owned sites, experts exchange or whatever it is called, etc. If I had to login to make this happen, I would happily. After a few thousand users start reporting the same sites over and over again the obvious move is to start demoting them. An infinite number of algorithms could be run on accounts to flag trustworthiness.
That would cause commercial sites to drop like flies, making google ads more valuable, and it would definitely differentiate google from the other engines.
I'm sure they've thought of this and decided it wasn't worth a go.
I don't know why I got trolled with my comment. When I want to watch something I have to pay for it. If I want to listen to Stern I have to pay a satellite provider. If I want to watch some anime that isn't butchered, I have to pay for netflix and deal with the associated annoyances or spend a lot of time pirating it. If I had wanted to read science fiction, my parents had to pay for it, because the school disposed of its science fiction section while I was there because they didn't portray good christian values, I imagine.
I spend hundreds of dollars paying for content I'm interested in every year and why? Because someone else doesn't like it? Fuck that. It is like a tax on taste.
It is not uncalled for. This man is a menace. He is a big part of what I believe is wrong with the world today. He shifts media views against you. He threatens to bring the law down on you for not being like him. If he had stated his opinion and left it at that, then I would disagree with him.
No. He hates us. Why shouldn't we hate him back? More importantly why shouldn't we take his power away from him, and by that I mean his creditability, and ultimately his career. Could we complain to the Bar the same way he complains to the cops, the fcc, congress and the news networks? We have as much justification as he's ever had.
Forgive my ignorance. But I'm curious as to how you came to this conclusion.
If the number of votes a state has in the electoral college is directly related to its population, then how can states in the bible belt have any more power than states like california and new york?
The only reason I hate the electoral college is because I live in illinois which was 80% democrat, so an additional vote from me for that party is essentially wasted. If popular vote were enacted, it would push a lot more people to vote, and I have to wonder just what direction that would go.
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Eh nevermind, I didn't think this through before I wrote it.
Why not make the attribute only work by default when the server listed is the same as the page you are visiting.
Glad to hear I'm not alone in that snobishness. I absolutely hate the english dubs on most titles and I prefer to hear it in japanese and read subtitles.
I rented Samurai X from netflix and was horrified to find that there was no japanese audio. The voices and sound effects were so bland and wooden that I stopped watching part of the way through.
I remember this show. It wasn't bad until some kid asked him to recite dos verbally in binary, which he did. After that I stopped watching.
Actually I think that was 20 minutes into the first episode.
I'm curious. Someone should write a version of itunes that prices based on demand for independents. Music starts free, then gets progressively more expensive the more popular it is, up to a max point of two dollars, which would be the standard for mainstream music.
That way bands without billion dollar companies behind them get immediate exposure and (if the music they write becomes popular enough) immediate income. Itunes wins because it doesn't have to pay a very large percentage to those bands, so they will have a good profit margin.
You assume that nothing is gained from a hobby. Imagine if all you ever did was work day in and day out. Most jobs cannot fulfill a person mentally, physically, and socially in a way that will make you into a better person. So you need to supplement it.
Playing is just another word for training. We are wired to train when we don't have pressing concerns. The only thing is that in this day and age we've replaced a ball and stick with a controller and a mouse in some cases.
This is just the way I think about it.
Oh come on, that was funny.
In my small town, they removed a "regulation" that isps had to lease their lines to competitors at a fair price. So now my town went from about ten isps smaller isps to four or so, and it is continually shrinking down to two. Comcast and Verizon. And the only reason they won't consolidate is because one is cable and the other is dsl.
But surely these companies are bastions of virtue who would never dream of putting a squeeze on google, yahoo and microsoft for kickbacks. I'm sure Verizon would never ever block skype. I'm sure Comcast couldn't possibly have a reason to block bittorrent. There's not the slightest hint of conflict of interest and anyone who says deregulation in this instance is bad must be a commie/hippie.
I have a problem with that theory. What amazes me is that what, 2 years later people still talk about techtv. They still remember the names of the hosts. I see it here, on fark, on every random forum on the internet. Yet it was hemorhaging money.
I can't understand how a channel with such a large high income demographic could possibly NOT make money.
I can only come to the conclusion that nielson ratings are not accurate in niche markets. Think with only 5000 users, 1/4 watching at any given time, splitting that audience between 30 channels. I find it hard to believe that an accurate metric can be obtained in such a manner. It is the only explanation.
You're right.
It probably simply checks all files it will need to overwrite to see if it can delete them, and if it can, then great, but if not (about 80% of the time probably) it will force you to reboot. But at least they're trying.
Thank you. Finally someone agrees with me on this.
People say, "Oh, well it was home consoles that killed arcades." Bullshit. That may have been a contributer, but it was mainly the fact that it now costs you a 75 cents a play for a game to kill you in under 2 minutes often times. Some arcades like Dave and Busters in st. louis are even worse.
When I look at the arcade today, I see two types of games. Games like tekken, where it costs 50 cents to play, and if you play against someone else, you will get about 1 minute 30 seconds enjoyment out of it. Then on the other side I see soul calibre. In one player mode, it is very common to see people play upwards of 10 or 15 minutes. Guess which one gets played?
They basically got greedy. Really greedy, and now it is a dead business.
The flash plugin is moronically still using oss sound. It seems oss only had the capability of being used by one program at a time without a mixer such as artsd or esound. So if you are running either of those, or xmms in oss mode, they block each other.
If you aren't amd64, use the aoss program (alsa-oss in gentoo portage) and run 'aoss firefox' and that will force all plugins in firefox to use alsa even though they think they are using oss. You'll have to disable artsd though (or make it use alsa if that is possible), and change xmms to alsa driver (as well as anything else if possible) and make sure you have a recent enough version of alsa that supports mixing out of the box.
Yeah, I had this same problem too when I first discovered pandora.
I got a job out of college in a small town and I've been planning a move into a city ever since.
There are more problems with small towns than are immediately obvious. Besides the fact that there are few stores, bars, and women, there are also few choices of where to work. I like my job, but I would be hard pressed to find a better one in the area. Anything else would be a step down or require a move. So they can get away with paying you in peanuts.
That's why making jokes about the powerful (ie. Southern white folk) is ok
I assumed they were fair game because they were illiterate, not because they were wealthy.
It reminds me of when I got an xbox. I got ninja gaiden and then when I went to get more games, I realized it was all sports, racing, and ports from pc games that I'd already played. Not going to make that mistake again.
It is becoming increasingly obvious to me that sony is the primary force behind the riaa and mpaa. They develop the drm technologies and fight for changes to the laws that favor them. So from now on I won't be buying any of their hardware.
If you give companies a way to use closed source drivers, that is all they will ever use, because that is the way they've always done it. Linux presents a serious change to the way hardware vendors do business, and in the long run I think it would be better for everyone if they would embrace it.
It is just that once you open the gates, they won't ever be closed again.
The problem with supporting binary drivers is that binary drivers can't be fixed. They can't be tweaked. They are often buggy. They don't play well with other drivers. Companies insist on installing gods knows what into their drivers and since they run as root, they have unrestricted access to your system. Would you risk installing a driver from sony on your system? Will you have a choice?
And once a binary driver is available (even if it is crappy) it will make it that much less likely that someone will take the time to create suitable source drivers.
I wonder if I could make much profit scalping a couple.
I wish I could simply ban certain domains from my search, ie ign owned sites, experts exchange or whatever it is called, etc. If I had to login to make this happen, I would happily. After a few thousand users start reporting the same sites over and over again the obvious move is to start demoting them. An infinite number of algorithms could be run on accounts to flag trustworthiness.
That would cause commercial sites to drop like flies, making google ads more valuable, and it would definitely differentiate google from the other engines.
I'm sure they've thought of this and decided it wasn't worth a go.
I don't know why I got trolled with my comment. When I want to watch something I have to pay for it. If I want to listen to Stern I have to pay a satellite provider. If I want to watch some anime that isn't butchered, I have to pay for netflix and deal with the associated annoyances or spend a lot of time pirating it. If I had wanted to read science fiction, my parents had to pay for it, because the school disposed of its science fiction section while I was there because they didn't portray good christian values, I imagine.
I spend hundreds of dollars paying for content I'm interested in every year and why? Because someone else doesn't like it? Fuck that. It is like a tax on taste.
They aren't my values. Why am I subjected to it?
It is not uncalled for. This man is a menace. He is a big part of what I believe is wrong with the world today. He shifts media views against you. He threatens to bring the law down on you for not being like him. If he had stated his opinion and left it at that, then I would disagree with him.
No. He hates us. Why shouldn't we hate him back? More importantly why shouldn't we take his power away from him, and by that I mean his creditability, and ultimately his career. Could we complain to the Bar the same way he complains to the cops, the fcc, congress and the news networks? We have as much justification as he's ever had.
Forgive my ignorance. But I'm curious as to how you came to this conclusion.
If the number of votes a state has in the electoral college is directly related to its population, then how can states in the bible belt have any more power than states like california and new york?
The only reason I hate the electoral college is because I live in illinois which was 80% democrat, so an additional vote from me for that party is essentially wasted. If popular vote were enacted, it would push a lot more people to vote, and I have to wonder just what direction that would go.
And make sure you have drinks to offer the firemen.