So to play it on my Sansa, I have to reboot into Windows (Linux is my main platform), download via iTunes, burn a disc (probably a rewriteable, so save cost, so I need to erase it first) and then rip it to MP3.
Nice. That's SO convenient. I can't believe I've been blind all these years. You've helped me so much.
I have also tried to play some of my old favorites and been disappointed. There's been a few that have stayed fun, though. Off the top of my head:
Super Mario Bros 3 F-Zero
I bought F-Zero for the Wii's VC the other day out of nostalgia. I was amazed to find it was actually still a fun racing game! I was almost sure I'd wasted my money before I tried it.
But the ratio of classics to crap is about the same these days. I'm going to look back and think: Man, I loved playing Prey and Samurai Warriors, but they are so clunky now. And I'm sure there'll be a few (Oblivion perhaps?) that I can pick up in 10 years and still enjoy. But the vast majority will pale in comparison to the new games on the market.
The article suggests that this technology makes 1 core run twice as fast by basically disabling the second core for a while. They go on to 'prove' how effective it is by running a photo processing thing that they don't explain. It runs twice as fast this way.
So... If they can have 2 cores at full speed, or 1 core at double speed... WHY THE FUCK do they have 2 cores in the first place?
I didn't include the ones that fit these filters below, because I didn't have the company names on them. You might like them as well. I find they take out a TON of ads, and I've had no problem with them removing real content.
I'm not saying your choice of music sucks, it's just that there are TONS of people out there that do like it, and this is all directed at them.
I applaud your choice not to download illegal music, even if only because there's none you like.
Unless you're saying that you DO download music, it just isn't the reason you don't pay for it. In that case, you are deluding yourself because you obviously like the music enough to listen to it, so you are breaking the law and lying to yourself.
I don't really care what laws other people break, as long as they are honest with themselves about why.
No, it's not wrong, merely confusing to those who haven't heard the term before. For example: Florida State University is usually just called 'Florida State' when talked about. When talking about the actual state, it's said 'The State of Florida'. Always.
NC State is the same way. Any time the government is talking, they'll call it the State of NC. NC State will always be the university.
I wonder if the RIAA will ever stop and realize that if they'd just fought this war fairly, most people would have been understanding with them. That if they'd did all the legal work they should have, and caught people with fair tactics, that jurors and the general public would be on their side. Because it IS against the law to download Intellectual Property you don't have rights to.
But instead, they decide the law doesn't apply to them anymore and use as many underhanded and illegal tactics as they can. Now it doesn't matter if the RIAA is right, nobody in their right mind could possibly side with them.
This is completely disregarding the entire concept of following the advances in technology instead of trying to fight them. If they'd simply tried to embrace technology and make it easy and quick to buy music, instead of doing everything they can to make it painful and slow... Maybe they'd actually be making more money than ever.
Instead, they've now got entire countries talking about legislature to make the copying of intellectual property legal.
Hmm... Yeah, no competition. I'm going to say it. "But they did it with YouTube, so no problem, right?"
YouTube IS comparable. DoubleClick is the biggest, just as YouTube was, and DC is NOT the only internet advertising out there. Here, lemme look through my adblock filters. These were all created BY ME, so they aren't just added randomly. I actually saw and was annoyed by these ad companies.
Are you serious? 'No business getting a credit card'? She was in COLLEGE. If you can't handle a credit card by the time you get to college, you have no business being let out side your own damned house.
She didn't get 'a credit card'. She got more than one, as well as borrowing money from 'money lenders'. She obviously had a real problem and managed to hide it from her family and friends. Her mother DID question the new clothes and such, but that only led to hiding them better.
After the first credit card, the Samsung one that cut her off, she KNEW what she was doing.
I suppose you were trying to say that the last credit card issuer had no business giving her the card, but that's not true either. At that point, she was still paying all her bills. They had no way to know she wasn't, especially with her tendency to lie on the applications.
Money-based companies (banks, credit card issuers, etc) have some damned shady practices, but I have a hard time holding them at fault on this one. I've had a credit card since I was 18 and I've only paid interest on it twice. The first time I got overzealous and bought a bit too much. The second time, I did it on purpose, knowing exactly how much extra it would cost me not to wait a month. ($10.)
This isn't a failure of the system, it's a failure of the person. You can't hold the entire system responsible for a single person's ability to deceive everyone around them and get into trouble.
I didn't notice they were from the same companies, but I -was- getting them at a rate of 2-3 per week, all of them disguised as 'important notices from Sallie Mae'... Why does Sallie Mae let them spam?
Even worse than your ineligibility? Mine is now paid off, and I -still- get them. (Not as many, though.)
I was gonna say 'Has that come out already!?' but I see they are still 'planning to take pre-orders'... Hmm... Vaporware still. Even their stupid 3-key keyboard doesn't improve my outlook on things. Ah, it's got a price now, too. $1500. That's pretty far off from the $200 they originally suggested it might be. $200 is 'wow, expensive, but still must-have' while $1500 is 'are you crazy?' Add to that the fact that it isn't likely to have Linux support, and the pricetag will discourage anyone from buying it to MAKE Linux support, and I think we can pretty much write that thing off as a bad move.
Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000. It has just enough of the curve to be more comfortable, without the huge separation between the middle keys. It's fairly quiet, but still audible. And I like how the keys are -just- hard enough to push that you know you've pushed it. And it's only $20. I've spent well over $100 for a single keyboard looking for the right one, and almost always been disappointed. To find the perfect one for $20... Amazing.
Just playing Devil's Advocate here for a moment...
The US has several different cellphone frequencies. They refuse to share the same network with each other. This means overlapping coverage from multiple sets of cellphone towers. I think it could easily make up the difference in the sheer number of cellphones.
Poland and Spain still tend to refute this, but their cause may be something else entirely, or just imagined.
Heck, it could be something completely unrelated, like the poles of the earth getting ready to flip and throwing all the wildlife into chaos. I am -so- hoping that doesn't happen in my lifetime, and I'm hoping we invent anti-aging before I get senile.;)
It's not just Vim, but everything else I do as well. It's hard to imagine going back to being careful where the keys are... I've had plenty of times that I just kept on typing while I was looking at my boss (he was talking) or I got something in my eye and just needed to finish a sentence that was in my head.
On top of that, I've -never- seen a Dvorak keyboard. I'm sure I could find some online if I looked, but I'm -very- happy with the feel of my current keyboard (I own 2 and a wireless version of it now) and don't look forward to trying to find a Dvorak layout one that I like.
There's still just too many reasons not to switch, and only 1 to switch: It's supposedly quicker. (Last I heard, it actually wasn't enough quicker to care.)
Yeah, we heard about this months before Vista was even released. I think MS said they'd be changing the EULA as well, since they apparently hadn't realized it. (Or, in an uncommon fit of caring, listened to their customers.)
Yes, but that doesn't stop the previous owners from being evil. It does, however, give them 3.1 billion dollars with which to continue being evil.
I think it's fairly obvious that Google can de-evil Doubleclick if they want to. I think it's also fairly obvious that it won't happen overnight, and that entire time Google will not be following its slogan.
Ah, but here's the tricky part: None of that 90% THINKS it's part of the 90%, and will agree that 90% of the population are sheep. So while in actually there's an insult, nobody will admit that the insult applies to them.
No, actually, I think Stallman is a good counter-balance to the 'earn money at all costs' types out there. His extremism balances out the other extreme and let's us normal people see both sides of the equation more clearly.
I may not like the man, and I may not like his zealotry, but when looked at as a piece of the whole, he needs to be there.
Or maybe we could just follow the guidelines of modpoints and use the for positive stuff most of the time, and negative stuff sparingly.
The real trolls are the ones who bother to get upset when they are called 'legos'. First, it doesn't matter. Second, it's still mainly a kid's toy, and kids call them legos. Third... We all grew up calling them legos before we learned to be grammar nazis. And finally... It's pointless to try to get people to stop when they KNOW it simply doesn't matter even a tiny bit.
And how are you helping the situation by adding in 'mod down the legos sayers' before the flamewar has even started. Isn't that just more pointless noise?
Here's an old tip for you, and everyone else: DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS.
I think you're a bit confused. 'Security through obscurity' has to do with software, not personal data. It has to do with obtaining personal data through bugs/holes in the software, not by someone posting that info on a forum. If you think asking for my password makes you a hacker, I'm not only not scared of anything you could ever do, but I'm happy to know that fast food restaurants will always have plenty of employees.
Also, I never said that earning a buck was a bad thing. You simply assumed I was like the drooling FOSS fanboys. Nintendo's reasoning is sound and correct. It just has absolutely nothing to do with hacking and everything to do with money. I'll say it again, so you don't get confused about that: Earning money is not evil. There is plenty of room in this world for Nintendo, me, and every other programmer that wants to earn money at it, as well as everyone who wants to donate their hard work to the free software movement. I'll even be doing some of it myself in the future. The 2 things are not mutually exclusive, not even in the tiny minds of human beings.
Security through obscurity does not work. The reason that they don't open the source has nothing to do with that and everything to do with making money. They don't want someone to be able to make a WiiPC and skip their hardware altogether. Unlike the other console makers, Nintendo make s a profit on each and every console sold.
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So to play it on my Sansa, I have to reboot into Windows (Linux is my main platform), download via iTunes, burn a disc (probably a rewriteable, so save cost, so I need to erase it first) and then rip it to MP3.
Nice. That's SO convenient. I can't believe I've been blind all these years. You've helped me so much.
I have also tried to play some of my old favorites and been disappointed. There's been a few that have stayed fun, though. Off the top of my head:
Super Mario Bros 3
F-Zero
I bought F-Zero for the Wii's VC the other day out of nostalgia. I was amazed to find it was actually still a fun racing game! I was almost sure I'd wasted my money before I tried it.
But the ratio of classics to crap is about the same these days. I'm going to look back and think: Man, I loved playing Prey and Samurai Warriors, but they are so clunky now. And I'm sure there'll be a few (Oblivion perhaps?) that I can pick up in 10 years and still enjoy. But the vast majority will pale in comparison to the new games on the market.
I never said they were about 'fair'. In fact, I'm pretty sure the majority of slashdot knows their entire history.
I said I wondered if they'd ever realize their mistake.
I don't OWN an iPod. Tell me again how it's easy for me?
There are no 'justifications' for breaking the law. There are only reasons. Reasons are enough for most people.
The article suggests that this technology makes 1 core run twice as fast by basically disabling the second core for a while. They go on to 'prove' how effective it is by running a photo processing thing that they don't explain. It runs twice as fast this way.
So... If they can have 2 cores at full speed, or 1 core at double speed... WHY THE FUCK do they have 2 cores in the first place?
I didn't include the ones that fit these filters below, because I didn't have the company names on them. You might like them as well. I find they take out a TON of ads, and I've had no problem with them removing real content.
http:///banners/*
http://ads./
http:///adlog/*
http://ad./
http://chkpt./
http://.ads./
http://advertising/
*/ads?*
https://ads./
*/adview.php?*
*/ad.*
http://adzones./
*?clickTag=*
*/img/ad_*
http://adserver./
*-ad?*
*/ad/*
*/bnr/*
*/ads/*
*/AffTrack.*
http://adserver/
http://partners./
*/phpAdsNew/*
*/klipmart/campaigns/*
*/advertisers/*
*/adverts/*
*/Adv/*
*/sponsors/*
*/smartserve/*
*/ad_*
*/pagead/show_ads.js
*mediarevolver*
I'm not saying your choice of music sucks, it's just that there are TONS of people out there that do like it, and this is all directed at them.
I applaud your choice not to download illegal music, even if only because there's none you like.
Unless you're saying that you DO download music, it just isn't the reason you don't pay for it. In that case, you are deluding yourself because you obviously like the music enough to listen to it, so you are breaking the law and lying to yourself.
I don't really care what laws other people break, as long as they are honest with themselves about why.
No, it's not wrong, merely confusing to those who haven't heard the term before. For example: Florida State University is usually just called 'Florida State' when talked about. When talking about the actual state, it's said 'The State of Florida'. Always.
NC State is the same way. Any time the government is talking, they'll call it the State of NC. NC State will always be the university.
I wonder if the RIAA will ever stop and realize that if they'd just fought this war fairly, most people would have been understanding with them. That if they'd did all the legal work they should have, and caught people with fair tactics, that jurors and the general public would be on their side. Because it IS against the law to download Intellectual Property you don't have rights to.
But instead, they decide the law doesn't apply to them anymore and use as many underhanded and illegal tactics as they can. Now it doesn't matter if the RIAA is right, nobody in their right mind could possibly side with them.
This is completely disregarding the entire concept of following the advances in technology instead of trying to fight them. If they'd simply tried to embrace technology and make it easy and quick to buy music, instead of doing everything they can to make it painful and slow... Maybe they'd actually be making more money than ever.
Instead, they've now got entire countries talking about legislature to make the copying of intellectual property legal.
http://www.google.com/search?q=online%20advertisem ent
Hmm... Yeah, no competition. I'm going to say it. "But they did it with YouTube, so no problem, right?"
YouTube IS comparable. DoubleClick is the biggest, just as YouTube was, and DC is NOT the only internet advertising out there. Here, lemme look through my adblock filters. These were all created BY ME, so they aren't just added randomly. I actually saw and was annoyed by these ad companies.
qksrv.net
atdmt.com
bns1.net
adquest.nl
atwola.com
tribalfusion.com
burstnet.com
falkag.net
viewpoint.com
imgehost.com
interclick.com
valueclick.com
maxserving.com
interpolis.com
belnk.com
zedo.com
advertserve.com
netshelter.net
intellitxt.com
contextweb.com
So tell me again how there's no competition in this market?
Are you serious? 'No business getting a credit card'? She was in COLLEGE. If you can't handle a credit card by the time you get to college, you have no business being let out side your own damned house.
She didn't get 'a credit card'. She got more than one, as well as borrowing money from 'money lenders'. She obviously had a real problem and managed to hide it from her family and friends. Her mother DID question the new clothes and such, but that only led to hiding them better.
After the first credit card, the Samsung one that cut her off, she KNEW what she was doing.
I suppose you were trying to say that the last credit card issuer had no business giving her the card, but that's not true either. At that point, she was still paying all her bills. They had no way to know she wasn't, especially with her tendency to lie on the applications.
Money-based companies (banks, credit card issuers, etc) have some damned shady practices, but I have a hard time holding them at fault on this one. I've had a credit card since I was 18 and I've only paid interest on it twice. The first time I got overzealous and bought a bit too much. The second time, I did it on purpose, knowing exactly how much extra it would cost me not to wait a month. ($10.)
This isn't a failure of the system, it's a failure of the person. You can't hold the entire system responsible for a single person's ability to deceive everyone around them and get into trouble.
I didn't notice they were from the same companies, but I -was- getting them at a rate of 2-3 per week, all of them disguised as 'important notices from Sallie Mae'... Why does Sallie Mae let them spam?
Even worse than your ineligibility? Mine is now paid off, and I -still- get them. (Not as many, though.)
I was gonna say 'Has that come out already!?' but I see they are still 'planning to take pre-orders' ... Hmm... Vaporware still. Even their stupid 3-key keyboard doesn't improve my outlook on things. Ah, it's got a price now, too. $1500. That's pretty far off from the $200 they originally suggested it might be. $200 is 'wow, expensive, but still must-have' while $1500 is 'are you crazy?' Add to that the fact that it isn't likely to have Linux support, and the pricetag will discourage anyone from buying it to MAKE Linux support, and I think we can pretty much write that thing off as a bad move.
Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000. It has just enough of the curve to be more comfortable, without the huge separation between the middle keys. It's fairly quiet, but still audible. And I like how the keys are -just- hard enough to push that you know you've pushed it. And it's only $20. I've spent well over $100 for a single keyboard looking for the right one, and almost always been disappointed. To find the perfect one for $20... Amazing.
Just playing Devil's Advocate here for a moment...
;)
The US has several different cellphone frequencies. They refuse to share the same network with each other. This means overlapping coverage from multiple sets of cellphone towers. I think it could easily make up the difference in the sheer number of cellphones.
Poland and Spain still tend to refute this, but their cause may be something else entirely, or just imagined.
Heck, it could be something completely unrelated, like the poles of the earth getting ready to flip and throwing all the wildlife into chaos. I am -so- hoping that doesn't happen in my lifetime, and I'm hoping we invent anti-aging before I get senile.
It's not just Vim, but everything else I do as well. It's hard to imagine going back to being careful where the keys are... I've had plenty of times that I just kept on typing while I was looking at my boss (he was talking) or I got something in my eye and just needed to finish a sentence that was in my head.
On top of that, I've -never- seen a Dvorak keyboard. I'm sure I could find some online if I looked, but I'm -very- happy with the feel of my current keyboard (I own 2 and a wireless version of it now) and don't look forward to trying to find a Dvorak layout one that I like.
There's still just too many reasons not to switch, and only 1 to switch: It's supposedly quicker. (Last I heard, it actually wasn't enough quicker to care.)
Yeah, we heard about this months before Vista was even released. I think MS said they'd be changing the EULA as well, since they apparently hadn't realized it. (Or, in an uncommon fit of caring, listened to their customers.)
Yes, but that doesn't stop the previous owners from being evil. It does, however, give them 3.1 billion dollars with which to continue being evil.
I think it's fairly obvious that Google can de-evil Doubleclick if they want to. I think it's also fairly obvious that it won't happen overnight, and that entire time Google will not be following its slogan.
You'd lose that bet. I block Doubleclick but not Google because I don't find Google's ads to be invasive and annoying.
Ah, but here's the tricky part: None of that 90% THINKS it's part of the 90%, and will agree that 90% of the population are sheep. So while in actually there's an insult, nobody will admit that the insult applies to them.
;)
No harm done
Or maybe this almost-human brain could be directly hooked to a numeric processor and have the best of both worlds.
It's time for that 'overlords' quote, I think.
No, actually, I think Stallman is a good counter-balance to the 'earn money at all costs' types out there. His extremism balances out the other extreme and let's us normal people see both sides of the equation more clearly.
I may not like the man, and I may not like his zealotry, but when looked at as a piece of the whole, he needs to be there.
Or maybe we could just follow the guidelines of modpoints and use the for positive stuff most of the time, and negative stuff sparingly.
The real trolls are the ones who bother to get upset when they are called 'legos'. First, it doesn't matter. Second, it's still mainly a kid's toy, and kids call them legos. Third... We all grew up calling them legos before we learned to be grammar nazis. And finally... It's pointless to try to get people to stop when they KNOW it simply doesn't matter even a tiny bit.
And how are you helping the situation by adding in 'mod down the legos sayers' before the flamewar has even started. Isn't that just more pointless noise?
Here's an old tip for you, and everyone else: DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS.
I think you're a bit confused. 'Security through obscurity' has to do with software, not personal data. It has to do with obtaining personal data through bugs/holes in the software, not by someone posting that info on a forum. If you think asking for my password makes you a hacker, I'm not only not scared of anything you could ever do, but I'm happy to know that fast food restaurants will always have plenty of employees.
Also, I never said that earning a buck was a bad thing. You simply assumed I was like the drooling FOSS fanboys. Nintendo's reasoning is sound and correct. It just has absolutely nothing to do with hacking and everything to do with money. I'll say it again, so you don't get confused about that: Earning money is not evil. There is plenty of room in this world for Nintendo, me, and every other programmer that wants to earn money at it, as well as everyone who wants to donate their hard work to the free software movement. I'll even be doing some of it myself in the future. The 2 things are not mutually exclusive, not even in the tiny minds of human beings.
Security through obscurity does not work. The reason that they don't open the source has nothing to do with that and everything to do with making money. They don't want someone to be able to make a WiiPC and skip their hardware altogether. Unlike the other console makers, Nintendo make s a profit on each and every console sold.