I can never figure out why Sony didn't really push these more/harder. I made tons of my own discs (akk, mixed tapes!) and they sounded great. hey could be recorded over thousands of times with no sound quality loss. I really liked them. Sadly, caught up in the iPod current, I too left them behind for the lure of Apple. I don't understand why Sony didn't put them in every computer they made though? They could have been used as a CD replacement.
As I mentioned earlier, I searched the old articles here and could not find the piece on Infocom's raid. I know it was here, I meta-moderated some of the comments from it about 7 days ago. Did someone force Slashdot to remove it?
Wasn't there a story on \. the other day about the Govt. raiding an ISP that mostly served Islamic sites? I have searched for it here, but cannot find it now. I was wondering now if they did that because they had some idea that something big was about to go down??
How'z about launching a Napster server into orbit that communicates to a (mobile?) ground station? I think they have the money for that, at least for now.
For many reasons such as; the ending scene. After the fight with Fayd, paul uses his voice and knocks him almost a foot into the floor! That's bad-ass! Secondly, the new series completly short-changed Paul's sister! She's quite a creepy character, and they didn't really show that as well as the movie did.
This is so totally true. It's like some people think they're voting for their favorite football team. As if any one party is totally right, or wrong! And that's who's in the voting booth punching out those little dots with the most confidence, the true fans!
I was one of the vast non-voting majority, until this election. I attribute my apathy to two things; first was my lack of good choices in the candidates running (leading). Second was my lack of trying to find out more about the options out there. Our current system plays up the two major parties candidates, and tends to shun the fringe players. I believe that if the truly apathetic put in some effort to check out all of the candidates, they'd find someone out there that is saying something they can believe in. We need to give up our notion that we have to vote for one of the "winners". I know too many people who say that they won't vote for a minor candidate because he/she has no chance of winning. Every vote does count, and now more that ever it counts when you vote for someone other than the status quo boys. This year Nader gets my vote because he really does have some good ideas that need to be heard. Hey, he won't win - I know that already, but if I don't vote for him then I'm just counted as another non-voter, instead of a voter who's dissatisfied with the usual offerings
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Aldous Huxely's vision of a world where we are so overwhelmed by information that we become numb to it. Apathy may be the result of the tidal wave of media available on the net and elsewhere. How can we begin to sort through what is meaningful and what should be scrapped?
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I can never figure out why Sony didn't really push these more/harder. I made tons of my own discs (akk, mixed tapes!) and they sounded great. hey could be recorded over thousands of times with no sound quality loss. I really liked them. Sadly, caught up in the iPod current, I too left them behind for the lure of Apple. I don't understand why Sony didn't put them in every computer they made though? They could have been used as a CD replacement.
Mine was cut off at midnight Fri/Sat. Nothing but blinking lights on a useless modem now. I have to come to work to get my 'fix'.
As I mentioned earlier, I searched the old articles here and could not find the piece on Infocom's raid. I know it was here, I meta-moderated some of the comments from it about 7 days ago. Did someone force Slashdot to remove it?
Wasn't there a story on \. the other day about the Govt. raiding an ISP that mostly served Islamic sites? I have searched for it here, but cannot find it now. I was wondering now if they did that because they had some idea that something big was about to go down??
How'z about launching a Napster server into orbit that communicates to a (mobile?) ground station? I think they have the money for that, at least for now.
For many reasons such as; the ending scene. After the fight with Fayd, paul uses his voice and knocks him almost a foot into the floor! That's bad-ass! Secondly, the new series completly short-changed Paul's sister! She's quite a creepy character, and they didn't really show that as well as the movie did.
This is so totally true. It's like some people think they're voting for their favorite football team. As if any one party is totally right, or wrong! And that's who's in the voting booth punching out those little dots with the most confidence, the true fans!
I was one of the vast non-voting majority, until this election. I attribute my apathy to two things; first was my lack of good choices in the candidates running (leading). Second was my lack of trying to find out more about the options out there. Our current system plays up the two major parties candidates, and tends to shun the fringe players. I believe that if the truly apathetic put in some effort to check out all of the candidates, they'd find someone out there that is saying something they can believe in. We need to give up our notion that we have to vote for one of the "winners". I know too many people who say that they won't vote for a minor candidate because he/she has no chance of winning. Every vote does count, and now more that ever it counts when you vote for someone other than the status quo boys. This year Nader gets my vote because he really does have some good ideas that need to be heard. Hey, he won't win - I know that already, but if I don't vote for him then I'm just counted as another non-voter, instead of a voter who's dissatisfied with the usual offerings
Aldous Huxely's vision of a world where we are so overwhelmed by information that we become numb to it. Apathy may be the result of the tidal wave of media available on the net and elsewhere. How can we begin to sort through what is meaningful and what should be scrapped?