Now that you mention it, why aren't there free versions of that type of music online. There are a hundred orchestras, they can't all charge, and the music is not copyrighted.
This is not national favoritism, dude. Every station does this with every show, and they have since the beginning of time. They wait until their magic eight ball says they'll get the best ratings or ad revenue, then they show the show.
The networks just haven't brought their marketing department to the realization that cnosumers now have a choice in this matter now.
I'll watch the first 10 on sci fi, but after that it may well be that I'll download the rest, as I don't feel like waiting 3 months to resolve the inevitable cliffhanger sci fi adjourns on every season of every show.
No doubt, I made the mistake of getting an xbox without doing research, and discovered there's no game on that piece of crap that takes more than 2 weeks to beat.
I miss these old games too:( I used to love king's quest games, space quest, leisure suit larry and all those games that were really really frigging hard, but made you feel really good once you finished them.
I realized I have only bought a couple games in the past year and with the new consoles looking as they do, I might stop buying games altogether, as they are not meeting my entertainment or budgetary needs any longer.
Actually I agree with the GP, the second movie seemed to be going in a certain direction, then the third one just simply dropped it.
The entire second movie seemed to be gravitating to the revelation that zion was just another separate part of the matrix designed to keep the troublesome free willed people away from the rest.
But then the third one came around and looks like the writer got smacked with a retard stick. Essentially none of the plot was ever resolved.
I must concur. I've been using a trackball for about 7 years now (trackman marble). You can put it on your knee while you navigate so you can sit back and relax while you browse/.
Also it discourages people from borrowing your computer. Sure you can use my computer, but all I got is this damned trackball.
As soon as I heard the name of the studio behind this movie I knew it would suck. Except for the first superman and batman movies this studio has never released a good comic book movie, despite having access to all of DC's comics. They cast jack black as the green lantern and halle berry as catwoman for crying out loud.
So this shouldn't even surprise any of you. My boss is excited about the new batman movie, but I am willing to put money down on a sub 30% tomato-meter rating without even watching the promos.
Wow I did not know about that site, I had been having trouble downloading my weekly dose of naruto because my isp banned the isp the tracker is hosted on (for spam related offenses).
It could also have information on number of seeders/leechers, by using the protocol to connect to the torrent. I think.
The one thing I'm worried about is that the quality of torrents will be low. How can you be sure that a torrent is legit/worth downloading if people throw trackerless torrents filled with ads around all day or compressed passworded archives, etc.
I'm interested to see what sort of rating system they have to decide which ones are the real deal.
What I'm worried about is how do they advertise beyond the initial hype. As it stands now, when I want a game, I go to the gamestop and look over the shelves at all the games that are available.
If every pc based studio goes to its own steam clone distribution method, it will be hard to know what games are new, and how to differentiate games which were made by quality companies from fly by night studios just looking to make a quick buck.
I used to be an avid opera user until I was hired by a company that does web development. I had to switch to firefox to evade ridicule.
I have found extensions to do most of the things I liked about opera. But there is still stuff missing, such as reorganizing tabs (supposedly taken care of next ff version). The quick prefs thing is a really big thing for me, but for some reason firefox users don't care. FF doesn't let you control cookies as easily as you are able to in opera. The disabling of images is something I used a lot more than I thought I would. Saving sessions was awesome. I'm sure there's an extension for that somewhere. Crash recovery was nifty, though crashes were rare. Opera also overrides the replacing of the status bar text, so you always know what you are clicking on before you click on it.
And the transfer window is a big pile of crap in mozilla. Seriously that would probably be my number one gripe. That and its habit of saving files as.part, and delete them if the file fails to transfer fully. Redownloading a several hundred meg file is irritating, so I find I use wget just to avoid going through firefox whenever possible.
Another thing that aggravates me is when I'll open a bunch of links in separate tabs to read in a few moments, then 2 minutes later a window pops up saying the server couldn't be reached. But when I go over to the tab, the url bar is blank, so I have no idea which links I clicked on that couldn't be reached. In Opera, even if the page doesn't load, the url bar still has the location you tried to visit, so you can see if the link was typoed or if you even care in the first place.
Opera never registers right clicks on web pages that pop up those copyright notices because it interferes with mouse gestures. There's no way to disable that in firefox that I'm aware of without finding the javascript options in prefs.
Lastly, I hate that firefox doesn't obey normal unix copy and paste rules. There's no option to right click in a text field and delete everything in it without highlighting the text that is already there. In opera you just click in the box and type ctrl+U. This is particularly annoying when I'm messing with phpmyadmin.
But at the end of the day, here I am using firefox. What can I say. The price is right.
I never tried the knoppmyth, but gentoo myth was a sinch to setup. I had more problems with card drivers than anything. Also works on amd64.
As for that guy who was having dropped frames, he could probably get rid of them if he removed a filter or disabled the commercial detection.
I found that the commercial detection added about 20% cpu usage on my amd64 3400+, the deinterlacer added about 10%. As it stands with both commercial, deinterlacing, recording, encoding to mpeg4 and playing back a recording, I use almost 60% cpu, which means I can emerge my system or do pretty much anything else in the background without any problems.
As a mythtv user, I gotta say 60 a year is excessive to me. I realize organizing all that crap is tedious, but it just seems like too much for what I get from it.
Also, I loathe monthly payments. If they don't have a discounted like 30 bucks for a full year, I'm not interested.
I don't own a ps2, I never had the money to be able to afford it before I left college. Now I find myself with tons of money, but no ps2, and an unwillingness to fork out 150 bucks for a system that's about to be obsolete.
A backwards compatible ps3 would, on the other hand, be absolutely perfect for me.
Besides, the original xbox had hardly any good games as it was, why would I buy into an xbox2 which has even fewer?
Also once you get that big heavy sword somewhere around the middle of the game, that thing pretty well wastes everything else I met for the rest of the game. It made it almost too easy.
I've always had the feeling that genetically, the code behind your pinky toe may be very closely related to the code in your other 4 toes.
So that its just easier (mutationally speaking) to leave it on than to remove it.
I heard that neilson only polls 5000 people to determine the ratings for the entire country. 5000!! That means each person represents the tastes of 56000 other people. I live in St. Louis, that means about 6 american idol watching morons are effectively determining what shows live or die. I am simply incapable of believing that this system is so infallible.
I think when this system ceases to exist, the quality of television will go up, even if the amount of money in the system goes down.
We have already proved we'll pay for television without commercials (I already do). I just wish it would happen a little faster.
How much you wanna bet the system would require some proprietary software to use.
When I can play that stuff with mplayer, then maybe I'll drop blockbuster.
You know, I always hated that. I watched people at my college plug quarter after quarter after quarter into the sc2 machine day after day. They almost always played the single player modes.
They never played against each other because when they did, one of the dumber of the crew would always button mash his way to victory an uncomfortable amount of the time. Not always, I once witnessed a short black kid use nightmare to knock off about 30 people in a row, but that was the sole exception.
In tekken, on the other hand, luck was not such much a big deal. The better player was going to win 90% of the time, and that's what I loved about it. No one ever played the single player mode. No way, it was all about the one on one action.
I really did try to like sc2, but in the end it just seems like another game for people who have no time.
Wonder what would happen if non-corporation drafted legislation and then lobbied for it.
You know, like say the EFF drafted one protecting this or that right, gunned for support from various sympathizing blogs around the net, attempting to draw support.
And if they pirate episodes of american idol, what are we gonna do, bomb them?
Why does slashdot even report this stuff. It is just another pr piece. The only purpose behind these press releases is to get people to read them.
Slashdot Mirror
Now that you mention it, why aren't there free versions of that type of music online. There are a hundred orchestras, they can't all charge, and the music is not copyrighted.
Maybe I should start looking around.
This is not national favoritism, dude. Every station does this with every show, and they have since the beginning of time. They wait until their magic eight ball says they'll get the best ratings or ad revenue, then they show the show.
The networks just haven't brought their marketing department to the realization that cnosumers now have a choice in this matter now.
I'll watch the first 10 on sci fi, but after that it may well be that I'll download the rest, as I don't feel like waiting 3 months to resolve the inevitable cliffhanger sci fi adjourns on every season of every show.
No doubt, I made the mistake of getting an xbox without doing research, and discovered there's no game on that piece of crap that takes more than 2 weeks to beat.
:( I used to love king's quest games, space quest, leisure suit larry and all those games that were really really frigging hard, but made you feel really good once you finished them.
I miss these old games too
I realized I have only bought a couple games in the past year and with the new consoles looking as they do, I might stop buying games altogether, as they are not meeting my entertainment or budgetary needs any longer.
Actually I agree with the GP, the second movie seemed to be going in a certain direction, then the third one just simply dropped it.
The entire second movie seemed to be gravitating to the revelation that zion was just another separate part of the matrix designed to keep the troublesome free willed people away from the rest.
But then the third one came around and looks like the writer got smacked with a retard stick. Essentially none of the plot was ever resolved.
I must concur. I've been using a trackball for about 7 years now (trackman marble). You can put it on your knee while you navigate so you can sit back and relax while you browse /.
Also it discourages people from borrowing your computer. Sure you can use my computer, but all I got is this damned trackball.
As soon as I heard the name of the studio behind this movie I knew it would suck. Except for the first superman and batman movies this studio has never released a good comic book movie, despite having access to all of DC's comics. They cast jack black as the green lantern and halle berry as catwoman for crying out loud.
So this shouldn't even surprise any of you. My boss is excited about the new batman movie, but I am willing to put money down on a sub 30% tomato-meter rating without even watching the promos.
Wow I did not know about that site, I had been having trouble downloading my weekly dose of naruto because my isp banned the isp the tracker is hosted on (for spam related offenses).
Thank you!
It could also have information on number of seeders/leechers, by using the protocol to connect to the torrent. I think.
The one thing I'm worried about is that the quality of torrents will be low. How can you be sure that a torrent is legit/worth downloading if people throw trackerless torrents filled with ads around all day or compressed passworded archives, etc.
I'm interested to see what sort of rating system they have to decide which ones are the real deal.
What I'm worried about is how do they advertise beyond the initial hype. As it stands now, when I want a game, I go to the gamestop and look over the shelves at all the games that are available.
If every pc based studio goes to its own steam clone distribution method, it will be hard to know what games are new, and how to differentiate games which were made by quality companies from fly by night studios just looking to make a quick buck.
Ask and ye shall receive. I'll be sure to look into these, thanks.
Much thanks :)
I used to be an avid opera user until I was hired by a company that does web development. I had to switch to firefox to evade ridicule.
.part, and delete them if the file fails to transfer fully. Redownloading a several hundred meg file is irritating, so I find I use wget just to avoid going through firefox whenever possible.
I have found extensions to do most of the things I liked about opera. But there is still stuff missing, such as reorganizing tabs (supposedly taken care of next ff version). The quick prefs thing is a really big thing for me, but for some reason firefox users don't care. FF doesn't let you control cookies as easily as you are able to in opera. The disabling of images is something I used a lot more than I thought I would. Saving sessions was awesome. I'm sure there's an extension for that somewhere. Crash recovery was nifty, though crashes were rare. Opera also overrides the replacing of the status bar text, so you always know what you are clicking on before you click on it.
And the transfer window is a big pile of crap in mozilla. Seriously that would probably be my number one gripe. That and its habit of saving files as
Another thing that aggravates me is when I'll open a bunch of links in separate tabs to read in a few moments, then 2 minutes later a window pops up saying the server couldn't be reached. But when I go over to the tab, the url bar is blank, so I have no idea which links I clicked on that couldn't be reached. In Opera, even if the page doesn't load, the url bar still has the location you tried to visit, so you can see if the link was typoed or if you even care in the first place.
Opera never registers right clicks on web pages that pop up those copyright notices because it interferes with mouse gestures. There's no way to disable that in firefox that I'm aware of without finding the javascript options in prefs.
Lastly, I hate that firefox doesn't obey normal unix copy and paste rules. There's no option to right click in a text field and delete everything in it without highlighting the text that is already there. In opera you just click in the box and type ctrl+U. This is particularly annoying when I'm messing with phpmyadmin.
But at the end of the day, here I am using firefox. What can I say. The price is right.
Nintendo always sells out in Japan.
I wonder how big of a market Japan has compared to the rest of the world.
Disregard, I had set some bizarre browser option long ago that screwed up this page.
I agree, I can't even read this. It cuts off too much text at the bottom, and there's no way to scroll down without skipping rifts of text.
I never tried the knoppmyth, but gentoo myth was a sinch to setup. I had more problems with card drivers than anything. Also works on amd64.
As for that guy who was having dropped frames, he could probably get rid of them if he removed a filter or disabled the commercial detection.
I found that the commercial detection added about 20% cpu usage on my amd64 3400+, the deinterlacer added about 10%. As it stands with both commercial, deinterlacing, recording, encoding to mpeg4 and playing back a recording, I use almost 60% cpu, which means I can emerge my system or do pretty much anything else in the background without any problems.
As a mythtv user, I gotta say 60 a year is excessive to me. I realize organizing all that crap is tedious, but it just seems like too much for what I get from it.
Also, I loathe monthly payments. If they don't have a discounted like 30 bucks for a full year, I'm not interested.
I don't own a ps2, I never had the money to be able to afford it before I left college. Now I find myself with tons of money, but no ps2, and an unwillingness to fork out 150 bucks for a system that's about to be obsolete.
A backwards compatible ps3 would, on the other hand, be absolutely perfect for me.
Besides, the original xbox had hardly any good games as it was, why would I buy into an xbox2 which has even fewer?
I must agree.
Also once you get that big heavy sword somewhere around the middle of the game, that thing pretty well wastes everything else I met for the rest of the game. It made it almost too easy.
I've always had the feeling that genetically, the code behind your pinky toe may be very closely related to the code in your other 4 toes. So that its just easier (mutationally speaking) to leave it on than to remove it.
I heard that neilson only polls 5000 people to determine the ratings for the entire country. 5000!! That means each person represents the tastes of 56000 other people. I live in St. Louis, that means about 6 american idol watching morons are effectively determining what shows live or die. I am simply incapable of believing that this system is so infallible. I think when this system ceases to exist, the quality of television will go up, even if the amount of money in the system goes down. We have already proved we'll pay for television without commercials (I already do). I just wish it would happen a little faster.
How much you wanna bet the system would require some proprietary software to use. When I can play that stuff with mplayer, then maybe I'll drop blockbuster.
You know, I always hated that. I watched people at my college plug quarter after quarter after quarter into the sc2 machine day after day. They almost always played the single player modes.
They never played against each other because when they did, one of the dumber of the crew would always button mash his way to victory an uncomfortable amount of the time. Not always, I once witnessed a short black kid use nightmare to knock off about 30 people in a row, but that was the sole exception.
In tekken, on the other hand, luck was not such much a big deal. The better player was going to win 90% of the time, and that's what I loved about it. No one ever played the single player mode. No way, it was all about the one on one action.
I really did try to like sc2, but in the end it just seems like another game for people who have no time.
Wonder what would happen if non-corporation drafted legislation and then lobbied for it.
You know, like say the EFF drafted one protecting this or that right, gunned for support from various sympathizing blogs around the net, attempting to draw support.
Bleh, probably just a fantasy.
And if they pirate episodes of american idol, what are we gonna do, bomb them? Why does slashdot even report this stuff. It is just another pr piece. The only purpose behind these press releases is to get people to read them.