and when I end up buying a book I tend not to ever finish reading it. This would be great for me. I'd be able to google a book that I had interest in for the minute, read enough of it to satisfy my mind, and then move on to the next! Google.com is the best!
I've been having troubles with Samba allowing my windows computers to connect to it. It always says that the shared drive is not accessable. I've set the drive with all privilleges and that it's open and visible. All my XP computers can see it, but it won't allow me to connect. I've shut down the firewall too. It's still a bit clunky for me. I'm sure there's something in a files somewhere I forgot to change to allow access. I just wished I could right click, share, allow privilages, and connect and do what I wanted to do. Maybe I've just really missed it on this one. New features could include, click, share, set privilages, and connect.
Horror movie about a hand transplant?
on
The New Face Lift
·
· Score: 1
Wasn't there a horror movie about a guy that receives a convicted serial killers have after he's executed by the death penalty or something? If my memory serves me correctly, this guys hand starts to take over this receivers soul and he then starts killing people on a mad rampage. Just imagine what would happen if the same thing happens to the face!?!?!
Scary!
Re:Let me just say that... In response...
on
The Chumbawamba Factor
·
· Score: 4, Insightful
why in the hell is the music business so fired up to make nothing but hit records instead of providing people with access to music with artistic integrity?
You happen to have answerd part of your own question. They are, after all a businesses and they exist to make money.
Regarding artist integrity. When was the last time you heard an artist really singing about artistic impression and look at the lyrics of any popular song and hear or feel any of that? The new hip-hop artist of the day for example. All they sing/rap about is how many Hoes they can or have slept with and how much money or "bling" they have. Most of the music out there is about the same things. Why? Because that's the kind of music people are interested in.
musicians who actually create the stuff should be making at least as much as they do because without the artist, the business is nothing.
Have you seen how many of the artists out there write their own songs? Not too many. Artists are the expendable part of the business. You've got song writters and producers that are doing all the behind the scenes work. The artist themselves are just the pretty face that has to go on tour and loose their "private life" to people like the you and me that want to know everything about them. I'd like you to find a songwritter (mostly nameless and faceless to the general public) who has done songs with popular artists that donesn't have any money. If Brittney Spears decided never to return to music, they'd just find another pretty face to sing all the same songs.
Ahh, my rant is now over. That's my 2 cents for what it's worth.
Sounds like something I heard someone on TV last night say. There is a group of roomates that live in a rather large house. One guy and a girl really like each other. She's fallen for him completely and he "wants his cake and wants to eat it too." Explaination, he wants this girl as his backup in case he can't find another girl to bring home from the bars or whatever.
With the RIAA using filesharing while trying to shut it down seems a bit odd to me. Recording artists for example are being "ripped off" by downloaders. Right? Well, the very same companies that are supposedly trying to stop the illegal downloading of music are using that data as a way to market or create new media.
Something else I'd always wondered about is why pirating Adobe producs was so easy. I'm using the GIMP now, but back in the day all you had to do was download and get a key-gen and Boom! You're in business. I almost wonder if Abode looked the other way in order for people to get used to using their product so that later or in a business type arena, the artist/developer would request that the company chose Adobe's products. I've got to get back to work.
...give itself a haircut. All the old grey hairs are getting the axe. They don't want to have to deal with their shit anymore so they give them an "alternative" to being let go for being old and slow.
I was begining to worry about Linux because it wasn't bothering me with warnings and errors etc so I decided to just move the folder to/usr/sbin/scp and not tell any of the other programs. Mostly just to shake things up a bit. Now I feel better when things "can't be found"... Ahhh, errors, they help you know you're alive.
Is it really "RIAA Says P2P Encourages Illegal Downloads"??? What it seems to me is that the RIAA is actually encouraging more pirating by making it such a big deal!
Take for instance a study that I read not too long ago on suicide. (I've not been able to find a link and do apologize, but it was only a few months ago) It basically came down the the psychology of what drives people to suicide. It stated something to the fact that once there was a suicide by someone that was broadcast on the news, radio, or in papers that there were statistically more suicides following the dissemination of the news. The concluded after much research etc that it was the sheep mentality, where someone may be feeling really bad, depressed, or whatever and not thought of suicide until they heard about jon or jane doe last week. They decide to follow suit and committ suicide. It was an interesting article that made very good points, and again I apoloigize for not being able to locate it.
My point is that maybe the P2P networks wouldn't be such a rampant pirates playground if they would let it die quietly. Maybe take care of the largest offenders, but quit wasting so much time and effort in harrassing software creators.
Ok, last time I installed Limewire it asked me to agree to not distribute illegal material or I couldn't use it. I've used BitTorrent to download Linux Distros. Yes that's plural, I've used it to download 5 different distros to date. I finally settled on Fedora FC4 for my laptop and it's running just fine. I think that the RIAA needs to realize where the problem is. It's not the software creators or distributors that are to blame but the end users. I guess it's harder to nab end users as we log on sometimes for hours or just for a few minutes. I'm fed up with the RIAA making noise about this stuff. They had success with Napster because it was keeping a list of all the illegal music and it's location on local servers. Ahh! It's just dumb. The lawyers time and all time spent persuing dead ends like attacking software creators for users illegal action ends up coming out and affecting me in the CD prices. I remember not too long ago that new relase CD's were anywhere from 12.99 - 19.99. The 19.99 were usually double disc sets! Music artists themselves my be at part to blame... "I just bought a yacth! I have to make more per cd"... But I think it's mostly the fat cats behind the desks spending money and resources on things that are not only wasting time but end up costing us more money in the long road to buy music. No wonder there are so many music and movie pirates!
Boy, that all came out in one fail swoop so I'm not even going to separate it into paragraphs. Maybe these software compaines should start messing with the RIAA and counter sue for costs the time and effort spent on trial expenses before the damn thing happens. Maybe that would slow them down if they had to pay a few dollars out themselves win or lose. Ahhh, it's late on Friday afternoon and the weekend is here so I decided to spill my frustrations onto this page. take it for what it's worth.
OH no no no. I have that still, it's just no longer occupying space on my hard drive. I still have it on CD. If GIMP works out well though I'd not need Photoshop again.
I've only used the GIMP on occasion because it was a bit awkward. I was used to the photoshop-esque look and feel. As soon as I heard about this I uninstalled photoshop (to remove all temptation) and am going to install the GIMP with this tonight. I'm excited to try it out.
Oh great! If this happens we may see the popup window ravage the desktop at all times. When you first sign in to Windows you may now get to see multiple credit card offers and all sorts of popup ads. Not to mention when you log off windows wouldn't let you shut down until the AOL portion of software imbedded has received all of it's needed updates! Damn the Machine!
Mumbles...and everybody told me that I'd never amount to anything playing video games.
Screaming from the highest Mountain Top: "Look at me now! I am the Champion of the UNIVERSE! I've got my own gamer clothing line, (No need for washing, play 24 hours a day and smell fresh as a rose!) my Own Cologne and Perfume, (No need for showering, smell fresh as a rose all hours of the day)" and my own line of shoes! (Nike and Reebook are still trying to work on the fresh as a rose thing here! First one there gets to have me sponsor it!)
I can't wait until I can get my next pair of cross trainer shoes sponsored by little Tommy Frag Master of the Online World 2006!
Hahah, It's only a matter of time before someone gets into the firmware and has a hack to ignore this problem. Just like the mods available for the Playstation, PS2, PSP, XBOX etc regarding copied CDs. There's got to be a flaw in there somewhere to be exploited.
It'll be like the liquor store parking lot as the weekend comes near. There will be hoards of "minors" outside waiting to find the one shady looking person who will buy them the booze... er, uh video game without question.
Minor: "Hey Mister, I'll give you 20 bucks to buy something for you if you go inside and buy us the new GTA video game."
Mister: "Ok, but you're not working with the Feds are you!? Cause if you are, that'll be the last thing you'll be able to ask anyone for without having to write it down!"
Does anyone else see this type of thing happening? I mean, c'mon. I don't want my young kids playing those types of video games, but if they want them, there are a myriad of ways for them to get them. Or at least get to play them say at a friends house.
Please don't take this the wrong way, I'm in no way trying to be a Troll or anything, but wouldn't it make more sense not to replace the bad drive with another bad drive? I mean, I can see you replacing the first with an exact (Brand name, size, same store even) replacement, but after the 2nd and 3rd drive went down I would begin to highly doubt the quality of the product and at the very least switch brands. It wouldn't take me 7 of the same drive to go down before I realized there was something seriously amiss.
What I don't understand about Gnome is how it can have so few features and take up so much memory.
When I read that, I just remembered the Sega Saturn's little whisper catch phrase. So, without further delay... To reply to your confusion of Gnome's memory usage...
I live about 90 minutes from Nevada. There are pit Bosses that now know my friends and me. They pay for our gas and usually give us a room and dinner when we go out there. All in all I head out with 20 dollars in my pocket and play a few hands of this and that (drink), wander around (drnik), play the nickel slots (drink), wander some more (drink)... etc. I have the players card, but I end up just being spotted at a bunch of tables and around the casino. Maybe go once every other month or once a month. I end up leaving most times with more in comps than I spent or even brought with me.
There's just a different feeling going to a Casino vs gambling at home. All of the drinks are free (As in Beer, lots of beer!) and so ar the Cigars if you gamble long enough. Besides, online gambling to me at least has the Shady, can I really win at this because who's governing a small island in the pacific's website to make sure I even have a chance, vybe. Gambling inside casinos is the only place I want to Gamble. Besides, it woudl be too easy to get COmpletely addicted if I could plug in to the Internet and gamble my life away.
I'll finally be able to run all the console emulators without the damned lag! Hoorah!
Does anybody buy this Bullshit?
on
Pornified
·
· Score: 5, Insightful
...drives the adoption of new technologies.
I'd like to know what technological breakthroughs were driven by Porn? Cameras weren't developed originally for Porn. Scanners weren't developed for Porn. Image viewers weren't originally developed for Porn. I find that to be the epitimy of Bullshit. Most of the continuing development of Computers happen to be for Highly Intense mathmatics. Video Games for instance are probably more of a driving force in technology's improvement than Porn! I can render all the porn I want on my DNS/Mail/Server. It happens to be running Linux and is only a 300 mHz pII. Yes it's old, and may take longer to render a picture than my Desktop, (1.8GHZ) but it'll never be able to run say Medal of Honor. Never! I just find that comment as ludicrous! Does anyone agree with me on this?
I liked the original Dungeon Seige. I thought that for an RPG it was pretty close to a mario brothers type progression in the game. Rather than being a wandering RPG where you go things dind't seem to progress much unless you were moving from "level to level"... Just my impression, I did however like going back through the game a second time and obtaining the Chicken Gun. It's still a fun game though!
Slashdot Mirror
"Damnit! Damnit Son of a Bitch!" -- Beavis
I wonder what all this cursing really did for Beavis?
and when I end up buying a book I tend not to ever finish reading it. This would be great for me. I'd be able to google a book that I had interest in for the minute, read enough of it to satisfy my mind, and then move on to the next! Google.com is the best!
I've been having troubles with Samba allowing my windows computers to connect to it. It always says that the shared drive is not accessable. I've set the drive with all privilleges and that it's open and visible. All my XP computers can see it, but it won't allow me to connect. I've shut down the firewall too. It's still a bit clunky for me. I'm sure there's something in a files somewhere I forgot to change to allow access. I just wished I could right click, share, allow privilages, and connect and do what I wanted to do. Maybe I've just really missed it on this one. New features could include, click, share, set privilages, and connect.
Wasn't there a horror movie about a guy that receives a convicted serial killers have after he's executed by the death penalty or something? If my memory serves me correctly, this guys hand starts to take over this receivers soul and he then starts killing people on a mad rampage. Just imagine what would happen if the same thing happens to the face!?!?!
Scary!You happen to have answerd part of your own question. They are, after all a businesses and they exist to make money.
Regarding artist integrity. When was the last time you heard an artist really singing about artistic impression and look at the lyrics of any popular song and hear or feel any of that? The new hip-hop artist of the day for example. All they sing/rap about is how many Hoes they can or have slept with and how much money or "bling" they have. Most of the music out there is about the same things. Why? Because that's the kind of music people are interested in.
musicians who actually create the stuff should be making at least as much as they do because without the artist, the business is nothing.Have you seen how many of the artists out there write their own songs? Not too many. Artists are the expendable part of the business. You've got song writters and producers that are doing all the behind the scenes work. The artist themselves are just the pretty face that has to go on tour and loose their "private life" to people like the you and me that want to know everything about them. I'd like you to find a songwritter (mostly nameless and faceless to the general public) who has done songs with popular artists that donesn't have any money. If Brittney Spears decided never to return to music, they'd just find another pretty face to sing all the same songs.
Ahh, my rant is now over. That's my 2 cents for what it's worth.
Sounds like something I heard someone on TV last night say. There is a group of roomates that live in a rather large house. One guy and a girl really like each other. She's fallen for him completely and he "wants his cake and wants to eat it too." Explaination, he wants this girl as his backup in case he can't find another girl to bring home from the bars or whatever.
With the RIAA using filesharing while trying to shut it down seems a bit odd to me. Recording artists for example are being "ripped off" by downloaders. Right? Well, the very same companies that are supposedly trying to stop the illegal downloading of music are using that data as a way to market or create new media.
Something else I'd always wondered about is why pirating Adobe producs was so easy. I'm using the GIMP now, but back in the day all you had to do was download and get a key-gen and Boom! You're in business. I almost wonder if Abode looked the other way in order for people to get used to using their product so that later or in a business type arena, the artist/developer would request that the company chose Adobe's products. I've got to get back to work.
...give itself a haircut. All the old grey hairs are getting the axe. They don't want to have to deal with their shit anymore so they give them an "alternative" to being let go for being old and slow.
I was begining to worry about Linux because it wasn't bothering me with warnings and errors etc so I decided to just move the folder to /usr/sbin/scp and not tell any of the other programs. Mostly just to shake things up a bit. Now I feel better when things "can't be found"... Ahhh, errors, they help you know you're alive.
Is it really "RIAA Says P2P Encourages Illegal Downloads"??? What it seems to me is that the RIAA is actually encouraging more pirating by making it such a big deal!
Take for instance a study that I read not too long ago on suicide. (I've not been able to find a link and do apologize, but it was only a few months ago) It basically came down the the psychology of what drives people to suicide. It stated something to the fact that once there was a suicide by someone that was broadcast on the news, radio, or in papers that there were statistically more suicides following the dissemination of the news. The concluded after much research etc that it was the sheep mentality, where someone may be feeling really bad, depressed, or whatever and not thought of suicide until they heard about jon or jane doe last week. They decide to follow suit and committ suicide. It was an interesting article that made very good points, and again I apoloigize for not being able to locate it.
My point is that maybe the P2P networks wouldn't be such a rampant pirates playground if they would let it die quietly. Maybe take care of the largest offenders, but quit wasting so much time and effort in harrassing software creators.
Rant over.
Ok, last time I installed Limewire it asked me to agree to not distribute illegal material or I couldn't use it. I've used BitTorrent to download Linux Distros. Yes that's plural, I've used it to download 5 different distros to date. I finally settled on Fedora FC4 for my laptop and it's running just fine. I think that the RIAA needs to realize where the problem is. It's not the software creators or distributors that are to blame but the end users. I guess it's harder to nab end users as we log on sometimes for hours or just for a few minutes. I'm fed up with the RIAA making noise about this stuff. They had success with Napster because it was keeping a list of all the illegal music and it's location on local servers. Ahh! It's just dumb. The lawyers time and all time spent persuing dead ends like attacking software creators for users illegal action ends up coming out and affecting me in the CD prices. I remember not too long ago that new relase CD's were anywhere from 12.99 - 19.99. The 19.99 were usually double disc sets! Music artists themselves my be at part to blame... "I just bought a yacth! I have to make more per cd"... But I think it's mostly the fat cats behind the desks spending money and resources on things that are not only wasting time but end up costing us more money in the long road to buy music. No wonder there are so many music and movie pirates!
Boy, that all came out in one fail swoop so I'm not even going to separate it into paragraphs. Maybe these software compaines should start messing with the RIAA and counter sue for costs the time and effort spent on trial expenses before the damn thing happens. Maybe that would slow them down if they had to pay a few dollars out themselves win or lose. Ahhh, it's late on Friday afternoon and the weekend is here so I decided to spill my frustrations onto this page. take it for what it's worth.OH no no no. I have that still, it's just no longer occupying space on my hard drive. I still have it on CD. If GIMP works out well though I'd not need Photoshop again.
I've only used the GIMP on occasion because it was a bit awkward. I was used to the photoshop-esque look and feel. As soon as I heard about this I uninstalled photoshop (to remove all temptation) and am going to install the GIMP with this tonight. I'm excited to try it out.
Oh great! If this happens we may see the popup window ravage the desktop at all times. When you first sign in to Windows you may now get to see multiple credit card offers and all sorts of popup ads. Not to mention when you log off windows wouldn't let you shut down until the AOL portion of software imbedded has received all of it's needed updates!
Damn the Machine!
Screaming from the highest Mountain Top: "Look at me now! I am the Champion of the UNIVERSE! I've got my own gamer clothing line, (No need for washing, play 24 hours a day and smell fresh as a rose!) my Own Cologne and Perfume, (No need for showering, smell fresh as a rose all hours of the day)" and my own line of shoes! (Nike and Reebook are still trying to work on the fresh as a rose thing here! First one there gets to have me sponsor it!)
I can't wait until I can get my next pair of cross trainer shoes sponsored by little Tommy Frag Master of the Online World 2006!
Hahah, It's only a matter of time before someone gets into the firmware and has a hack to ignore this problem. Just like the mods available for the Playstation, PS2, PSP, XBOX etc regarding copied CDs. There's got to be a flaw in there somewhere to be exploited.
It'll be like the liquor store parking lot as the weekend comes near. There will be hoards of "minors" outside waiting to find the one shady looking person who will buy them the booze... er, uh video game without question.
Minor: "Hey Mister, I'll give you 20 bucks to buy something for you if you go inside and buy us the new GTA video game."
Mister: "Ok, but you're not working with the Feds are you!? Cause if you are, that'll be the last thing you'll be able to ask anyone for without having to write it down!"
Does anyone else see this type of thing happening? I mean, c'mon. I don't want my young kids playing those types of video games, but if they want them, there are a myriad of ways for them to get them. Or at least get to play them say at a friends house.
Please don't take this the wrong way, I'm in no way trying to be a Troll or anything, but wouldn't it make more sense not to replace the bad drive with another bad drive? I mean, I can see you replacing the first with an exact (Brand name, size, same store even) replacement, but after the 2nd and 3rd drive went down I would begin to highly doubt the quality of the product and at the very least switch brands. It wouldn't take me 7 of the same drive to go down before I realized there was something seriously amiss.
Maybe you had purchased the 7 drives all at once?
When I read that, I just remembered the Sega Saturn's little whisper catch phrase. So, without further delay... To reply to your confusion of Gnome's memory usage...
"it's thinking"
those damn airplane laser flashing idiots!
I live about 90 minutes from Nevada. There are pit Bosses that now know my friends and me. They pay for our gas and usually give us a room and dinner when we go out there. All in all I head out with 20 dollars in my pocket and play a few hands of this and that (drink), wander around (drnik), play the nickel slots (drink), wander some more (drink)... etc. I have the players card, but I end up just being spotted at a bunch of tables and around the casino. Maybe go once every other month or once a month. I end up leaving most times with more in comps than I spent or even brought with me.
There's just a different feeling going to a Casino vs gambling at home. All of the drinks are free (As in Beer, lots of beer!) and so ar the Cigars if you gamble long enough. Besides, online gambling to me at least has the Shady, can I really win at this because who's governing a small island in the pacific's website to make sure I even have a chance, vybe. Gambling inside casinos is the only place I want to Gamble. Besides, it woudl be too easy to get COmpletely addicted if I could plug in to the Internet and gamble my life away.
I'll finally be able to run all the console emulators without the damned lag! Hoorah!
I'd like to know what technological breakthroughs were driven by Porn? Cameras weren't developed originally for Porn. Scanners weren't developed for Porn. Image viewers weren't originally developed for Porn. I find that to be the epitimy of Bullshit. Most of the continuing development of Computers happen to be for Highly Intense mathmatics. Video Games for instance are probably more of a driving force in technology's improvement than Porn! I can render all the porn I want on my DNS/Mail/Server. It happens to be running Linux and is only a 300 mHz pII. Yes it's old, and may take longer to render a picture than my Desktop, (1.8GHZ) but it'll never be able to run say Medal of Honor. Never! I just find that comment as ludicrous! Does anyone agree with me on this?
I liked the original Dungeon Seige. I thought that for an RPG it was pretty close to a mario brothers type progression in the game. Rather than being a wandering RPG where you go things dind't seem to progress much unless you were moving from "level to level"... Just my impression, I did however like going back through the game a second time and obtaining the Chicken Gun. It's still a fun game though!
I don't want to have to trust the Mazda to do my driving for me!