On my recent trip to Boston, a scoop of Toscanini's ice cream was pretty much the same price as a scoop of Amy's ice cream.
I live in Austin and love Amy's ice cream, but Toscanini's was excellent and they had better flavors. Shrug. Also, the girls in Boston were more attractive and less rotund. The penciled-in eyebrows and burnt orange tan sorrority girl look (school spirit!) is far, far from attractive
Note though, that this only applies to the "special" audio CD-Rs. There/is/ a difference, but the only reason they cost more is because money goes to the RIAA.
Obviously this guy has a shitty contract. Apple doesn't pay the artists, they pay the record label that the artist is on. Supposedly, most artists make about $0.10 per song from the iTMS, although that only puts your friend at $10 a month.
Still, I'm not sure he/deserves/ that much. Seems pretty... assy.
Huh? You most certainly/can/ just mount an iPod as a hard drive. That's exactly how the computer sees it. To add music to the iPod you have to modify a database contained on the iPod or it won't know which files are music, but you can add any files at will.
Would it be best if I could give our people who do graphics Macs, and run our website off Linux, and provide the accounting department with the latest and greatest version of Excel? You bet, they would all love it. But then I'd have to staff the FTE to keep up with three different systems' worth of problems and patches and interoperability quirks and maintain up to date expertise in all of them
Why do you need three different systems?
Give the graphics guys their Macs.
Utilize Mac OS X Server for your website (What would you use under Linux that won't run on OS X?)
And give the accountants shiny Macs with Office v.X installed.
Uhh, the NeoGeo Pockets (and NGPColor's) weren't backlit at all. The games were around $30. There weren't that many great game,s but a lot were coming before the system's abrupt death...
the TurboGraphics Express was a backlit color portable, however, and it rocked ass for satan.
You should have gotten Super Monkey Ball, which is the only decent multiplayer launch title for the GC. NHL Hits is good too, but it's on the Xbox as well. I'd say grab it for the GC, because the XBox's controller is awesome*.
Since most of you who're slashdotting it right now might have seen this part, you'll know why I'm asking this question.
Why do console manufacturers use proprietary screws?
Now, in recent years, console manufacturers have let off a bit, but after the NES, Nintendo has gone crazy with the security screws. My SNK NeoGeo Pocket Color has one triangular screw that has prevented me from taking it apart. The GameCube has those weird things. I think the GBA has a full set of those wacky triangular screws.
Why do they not want me to see inside of it without marring the case? Is it warranty related? One of the first things I do with my things (after I've enjoyed it in its virginal form) is to take it apart. But I also hate ruining cases/screws, and I don't feel like investing the $35 it takes to get the proper bits for certain equipment.
Is there any good reason? I cannot imagine anything mechanical that makes a phillips head any worse. Has Nintendo or anyone ever commented on this issue?
>The MSAudio v8 codec compresses at half the size of MP3 at the same bitrate.
Uhh, no. Perhaps it maintains the same quality at half the bitrate, but size and bitrate are directly related (128kbps song for 30 seconds is 128*30/8=file size of 480kilobytes)
You must smoke crack. 94.5 just plain sucks. They play the same 5 songs all day long (not to mention the ads)...
Of course, all the radio stations in Houston suck. Listen to 88.7, it's interesting (NPR), and KTRU 91.7 is pretty cool sometimes (the rest of the time you'll wonder how much pot one has to smoke to enjoy the stuff they're playing).
Actually I'd say KTRU was the best radio station in town.
Back to my hole...
Erm, not to spoil your fun, but there's already a "." domain. It's what com, net, org, and all the other tld's are under. Try http://www.kuro5hin.org./, it'll work.
If.slash was registered,.slash. would exist, obviously.
This is also good for defeating most internet filters...
Well, I should hope that law doesn't really exist.
Reeks of the fucking Stamp Act. It would only prove further that this compa^H^H^Huntry is totally screwed up (I actually did start typing company, it was an accident, but makes a good point). There will be some sort of political revolution within the next 20 years, hopefully it will be for the right side (ie, not the big business' side). I'm all for free enterprise. It just makes no sense that a bunch of money grubbing fuckheads (the RIAA, duh) could tax media I wish to buy because someone else might do something they don't like with it! It would be one thing if they owned the patents on the medium, or if they were the sole supplier/distributor. But they want to bake a cake and eat it too. For most audio media, they're getting you coming and going (CDs cost an obscene amount, and audio CD-rs cost a similarly absurd amount).
So anyways, although I'm fairly sure such a law does not exist, I feel it would be our civil duty to break such a law if it existed. The effort against piracy is almost halfway legitimate, but the real reasons are so obvious (to us, the educated consumers) that their moves reek of Orwellianism. I certainly don't want to live in a country where I can't record a CD without being accused of being a pirate...
Okay, I'm a little upset today, and this whole issue is such utter bullshit that I may have gone a little ballistic. But fuck the RIAA.
What difference does it make if the recording is analog or digital?
Really now. If I watch a vcd that was recorded from a VHS +vidcap, is it any different than if I watched the same movie that was ripped from a DVD? The MPAA is still losing the same thing (err, what was that, again?). I'm still watching something I didn't pay for.
The MPAA and RIAA are just using digital as an excuse to make everything illegal. It disgusts me that I have to pay extra for audio media because someone else might (might!) use the media to copy protected works. I sure as hell don't think it's fair to charge me more for hardware copy protection just because someone else might do something wrong. This is anti-American. Both of these organizations describe themselves as American, but they're really just greedy bastards. They're already rich. People are going to buy to their stuff anyways (some, nay, most people actually prefer that formulated junk). It's been pointed out before, but the easy distribution of high quality material often increases sales, not decreases.
It's stupid. Hopefully the FCC won't screw this up.
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either you're a troll or you've got the stupidest girlfriend ever. at worst, all she had to do was reauthenticate her computer.
On my recent trip to Boston, a scoop of Toscanini's ice cream was pretty much the same price as a scoop of Amy's ice cream.
I live in Austin and love Amy's ice cream, but Toscanini's was excellent and they had better flavors. Shrug. Also, the girls in Boston were more attractive and less rotund. The penciled-in eyebrows and burnt orange tan sorrority girl look (school spirit!) is far, far from attractive
Uh, isn't it pretty obvious that we already did?
I mean, that software package is directly aimed at the market that Apple owns with FCP/FCE and DVDSP.
His lab team is all female except for him. It's pretty weird, but a couple of them are fairly attractive.
Girls!
hampster versus hamster.
Oh shit, you're dumb!
Maybe because this isn't a Plasma TV, this is a DLP (as in projection) TV.
So, you're wrong.
Note though, that this only applies to the "special" audio CD-Rs. There /is/ a difference, but the only reason they cost more is because money goes to the RIAA.
Obviously this guy has a shitty contract. Apple doesn't pay the artists, they pay the record label that the artist is on. Supposedly, most artists make about $0.10 per song from the iTMS, although that only puts your friend at $10 a month.
/deserves/ that much. Seems pretty... assy.
Still, I'm not sure he
Huh? You most certainly /can/ just mount an iPod as a hard drive. That's exactly how the computer sees it. To add music to the iPod you have to modify a database contained on the iPod or it won't know which files are music, but you can add any files at will.
Why do you need three different systems?
Give the graphics guys their Macs.
Utilize Mac OS X Server for your website (What would you use under Linux that won't run on OS X?)
And give the accountants shiny Macs with Office v.X installed.
Simple!
Yegsh. I saw one of these at Fry's once. Slow pixel response and poor color. Again, yegsh.
what's the deal with the word 'tweening' ?
is interpolation too big of a word for the average person? why does the word 'tweening exist' ?
i hate the word.
The Secret Service has had this for decades! They guard it pretty well though, maybe their implementation is a bit more expensive?
Uhh, the NeoGeo Pockets (and NGPColor's) weren't backlit at all. The games were around $30. There weren't that many great game,s but a lot were coming before the system's abrupt death...
the TurboGraphics Express was a backlit color portable, however, and it rocked ass for satan.
Uh, whoever they were, they were morons. Bandwidth and latency aren't the same thing, more bandwidth won't do jack for your response times.
Bluetooth may (I'm not sure) suffer from latency issues, but 1Mbps is more than enough for a mouse.
You're wrong about the RAM, but overall I think you're right.
The GC has, I believe, a total of 42 MB of RAM. A smaller quantity of that is the really fast stuff, the 1T-SRAM, although it is the majority.
What is the PS2 game with awesome water you speak of? I'm pretty dang impressed with WaveRace...
You should have gotten Super Monkey Ball, which is the only decent multiplayer launch title for the GC. NHL Hits is good too, but it's on the Xbox as well. I'd say grab it for the GC, because the XBox's controller is awesome*.
*handcramp inducing
Since most of you who're slashdotting it right now might have seen this part, you'll know why I'm asking this question.
Why do console manufacturers use proprietary screws?
Now, in recent years, console manufacturers have let off a bit, but after the NES, Nintendo has gone crazy with the security screws. My SNK NeoGeo Pocket Color has one triangular screw that has prevented me from taking it apart. The GameCube has those weird things. I think the GBA has a full set of those wacky triangular screws.
Why do they not want me to see inside of it without marring the case? Is it warranty related? One of the first things I do with my things (after I've enjoyed it in its virginal form) is to take it apart. But I also hate ruining cases/screws, and I don't feel like investing the $35 it takes to get the proper bits for certain equipment.
Is there any good reason? I cannot imagine anything mechanical that makes a phillips head any worse. Has Nintendo or anyone ever commented on this issue?
>The MSAudio v8 codec compresses at half the size of MP3 at the same bitrate.
Uhh, no. Perhaps it maintains the same quality at half the bitrate, but size and bitrate are directly related (128kbps song for 30 seconds is 128*30/8=file size of 480kilobytes)
Nice Try.
Yeah, and paint them with a nice concentric circle motif...
You must smoke crack. 94.5 just plain sucks. They play the same 5 songs all day long (not to mention the ads)... Of course, all the radio stations in Houston suck. Listen to 88.7, it's interesting (NPR), and KTRU 91.7 is pretty cool sometimes (the rest of the time you'll wonder how much pot one has to smoke to enjoy the stuff they're playing). Actually I'd say KTRU was the best radio station in town. Back to my hole...
If you used Software Update and had 10.0.2 already, 10.0.3 was only 1.6 MB. The 15 MB version includes the 10.0.2 fixes as well. -tsunake
If .slash was registered, .slash. would exist, obviously.
This is also good for defeating most internet filters...
-tsunake
Well, I should hope that law doesn't really exist.
Reeks of the fucking Stamp Act. It would only prove further that this compa^H^H^Huntry is totally screwed up (I actually did start typing company, it was an accident, but makes a good point). There will be some sort of political revolution within the next 20 years, hopefully it will be for the right side (ie, not the big business' side). I'm all for free enterprise. It just makes no sense that a bunch of money grubbing fuckheads (the RIAA, duh) could tax media I wish to buy because someone else might do something they don't like with it! It would be one thing if they owned the patents on the medium, or if they were the sole supplier/distributor. But they want to bake a cake and eat it too. For most audio media, they're getting you coming and going (CDs cost an obscene amount, and audio CD-rs cost a similarly absurd amount).
So anyways, although I'm fairly sure such a law does not exist, I feel it would be our civil duty to break such a law if it existed. The effort against piracy is almost halfway legitimate, but the real reasons are so obvious (to us, the educated consumers) that their moves reek of Orwellianism. I certainly don't want to live in a country where I can't record a CD without being accused of being a pirate...
Okay, I'm a little upset today, and this whole issue is such utter bullshit that I may have gone a little ballistic. But fuck the RIAA.
-tsunake
What difference does it make if the recording is analog or digital?
Really now. If I watch a vcd that was recorded from a VHS +vidcap, is it any different than if I watched the same movie that was ripped from a DVD? The MPAA is still losing the same thing (err, what was that, again?). I'm still watching something I didn't pay for.
The MPAA and RIAA are just using digital as an excuse to make everything illegal. It disgusts me that I have to pay extra for audio media because someone else might (might!) use the media to copy protected works. I sure as hell don't think it's fair to charge me more for hardware copy protection just because someone else might do something wrong. This is anti-American. Both of these organizations describe themselves as American, but they're really just greedy bastards. They're already rich. People are going to buy to their stuff anyways (some, nay, most people actually prefer that formulated junk). It's been pointed out before, but the easy distribution of high quality material often increases sales, not decreases.
It's stupid. Hopefully the FCC won't screw this up.
-tsunake