We'll keep asking for more code and updated code and documentation for free and in open ways but any bit is a start. Complain all you want but also praise them because it's a good start unless it's completely useless code.
I don't care enough to chip in for a torrent membership deal but you're right. I thought of downloading this to replace AbiWord on my ICBM (iMac intel) because AbiWord and Rosetta is like molasses. OpenOffice with X11 is OK but takes time as well. It's a shame I have to use TextEdit and have no real choice.
What I don't get is why these people have power...as in my future kid couldn't go into a store and get the 'adult' game. I like the rating systems. I like TV14 and all that. I think it's good to categorize content but not to limit what people can access as in movie theatres doing that (R requires guardian to be WITH you) and games now. I've been playing Doom and all that for a decade and I'm 21. I just hope these ratings don't turn into more actual restrictions rather than recommendations. Recommendations are always fine.
I played the first game's demo when i was using PC's and I liked it a lot. I had trouble staying in the shadows because there was so many cool ways to murder people that I couldn't resist attacking immediately. Awesome game. One complaint I had, funny, was it was too dark (bad gamma). When Thief 2 came out I left the platform but I heard it was good. Too bad.
i've said this before: the government needs some data to be able to protect us from crimes. would you rather have it have more data or less; more protection or less? that's like saying would you rather have fewer cops. hey, i hate it. i really hate it. i want 100% encrypted SSH-tunneled locked signed privacy. but i can't have it. not yet. for now we are adjusting to this digital stuff. there's cyber-crimes galore and on top of that there's a lot of dangerous criminals adjusting, terrorists, to our favorite medium. once they move on we'll take back our privacy online and the cycle will continue. the government, as a system, as a living organization, is consuming the Internet as much as possible along with our personal information. that's how it's dealing with its fear of the internet. it's going to get as much as possible organized into it's proprietary, perhaps poorly guarded databases. for now we have to let the monster rampage our data until it's happy enough to do it more safely.
everytime i hear about microsoft and bill gates i have this negative perception. then i read from a microsoft employee's blog about what's it really like there http://www.qbrundage.com/michaelb/pubs/essays/work ing_at_microsoft.html
honestly, between gates and jobs, it's hard to think of them as real people. very hard. i'd like to just go up to them on the street and not be overwhelmed with fandom or anger. it's very very hard to shake the politics i've been exposed to for a decade. it was hard enough to stop viewing jobs as the bad guy when i switched to a mac!
gates contributes billions to charity, competes with many companies, pushing technology forward. he's got a great house. he works with apple too. it's not so black and white. but emotionally, it's very hard to not hate or love jobs and gates:(
Should be good for everyone. If you were going to make a driver you can still make a bad one but there's a bonus for those who make good ones. Too late for me because I left the platform but my mom and dad will benefit from more stability. It's about feedback and user participation once again and that's so cool, efficient, and makes us all feel like we're being listened to. Yay.
Sorry for being redundant but why buy digital downloads when you can get DRM-free lossless files from the CD, possible DVD content (which if can be ripped into WAV or AC3, etc. etc.) and there's discount CD's at YourMusic.com but not of Weird Al. I own 2 Weird Al CD's and it's good to know they helped him out because in elementary school he was very funny...we even played his stuff at dances!:) It's within his right to complain and these contract rip-offs will always happen in mysterious new media.
As someone who used to own 2000 CD-R's;) I've had experience. UniKeep CD Safety-sleeves are my current choice. I was happiest when I put them in a Keepsake plastic rubbermaid thingy and divided it alphabettically with a real jewel case for each letter of the alphabet and one for the #'s category. Yes you said no thin sleeves but this is a mix. I use the Nylon albums for my CD's but moving and re-ordering them is too much work. You can try to space out extra for each letter if you go by letter but it's still a guessing game. With sleeves and dividers by letter everything fits in a reasonable amount of space IMO.
spyware is a crime. they are hiding things and forcing them onto our personal property. the government should not be the only protection but it should make these crimes prosecutable.
i support this 100% even at the cost of bandwidth. always go over the limits of what we can use. give us 192khz audio and uncompressed resolutions. don't hold back.
more important is Apple. there's the RAZR iTunes phone but what about Apple? MacRumors.com has a page 2 link about a patent that Apple may have issued on an iPod video/iChat AV/cell phone. how will it get battery life? the batteries will shape the device.
i agree because i'm 21 and when i was growing up i was a big sci-fi fan, still am, but i'm getting tired of all the stuff like Earth 2 and Star Trek: Enterprise because I don't think we're close. Zef Cochrane isn't alive in this generation. I see SeaQuest as more realistic. Yes, we could build self-sustaining underwater colonies. It would teach us a lot about what's down there and give many people independence. It would ignite entrepreneurship and the studies of these colonies would help the space program greatly as they already do. There's already an underwater hotel! Personally that makes me nausous but if I didn't have a fear of sea creatures I'd be doing more than watching a TV show about that future. Space is expensive. The ocean is right here. We have precise maps of it. We have many choices. Anything can be done underwater. There's no zero g to worry about. The known risk of decompression is not as big of a problem as the danger of repeating another shuttle mistake that makes the craft explode. It's easier to rescue a submarine than a stranded moon colony. Will underwater residents survive in a nuclear war? No. No one will. Everything will be poison.
you need authority not promises. if there's someone who can fire you and ruin you then you're already fired and ruined. you need power over people in your work place. you need to not give a shit what they do or think because in the end you're in control and only you can mess up your career. allow yourself to risk their jobs? that's what they're doing to you by making you have no job security.
just like in dating, unless you are both virgins in your first true love relationship then be brutal. you both will screw each other harshly at your first opportunity because that's what we are designed to do. don't get caught in a fantasy of your own. it's just you who believes you're safe and secure in your job. just you.
how many people wonder if there's a satellite or two holding onto a nuke or two just in case? ours or theirs. this nuclear R&D program could cover a new standard size and make of a nuclear weapon more suited to space just as much as earth combat.
p2p is just beginning. when people start buying big HD video files your ISP will expect that kind of huge traffic on your account. people make money off showing people how to get torrents through advertising, etc. there are tons of countries where piracy will be growing for years, countries without legal alternatives or the money to participate in them. people want to try out movies and albums before they buy. i paid $10 to watch Aeon Flux but walked out because I didn't like it but if I choose to I will download it and finish it. until movie companies release films in sync with demand the pirates will beat them to the market much earlier. we need simultaneous releases for your home theatre and the movie theatre with no crippling of quality. we demand it. apple's iTunes Music Store still says "music store" on the left side of iTunes when you go to it. there are opportunities for both ad-based pirate business models and high-end quality legal stores for movies. verizon offers 15mps download speed through fiber service in NY for under $50, faster than my college's internal transfers over Direct Connect. there are so many people who are not yet on the Internet who will come on and steal their media. when you need a file and you don't have it with you but you own it, like when you forgot to bring your favorite album on vacation, you WILL steal it. i have no time to figure out how to find HD programming on my TV even though I pay for at least 10 channels of it...it might be easier to download it if you have a fiber connection, with the commercials already edited out. just yesterday i taped Windfall and the DVR wasn't smart enough to ask me if I wanted an HD copy. in fact my favorite part about all the tv shows i've downloaded is the wonderful effort the rippers go through to remove the ads. i really appreciate it. people will find a way to rip DVD-Audio again even though it's been over a year since the crackdown because people are getting 5.1 speaker sets for under $300. many people think that beyond ISP and hardware that's all they have to pay for their computer system, that to buy warez would be a joke. with the money they're not spending on media they will be getting better audio and video equipment and seek DVD-Audio and HD quality over P2P and I'll benefit from the tools I need to utilize my own store-bought media; to add them to my personal hard drive which I'm not able to now.
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We'll keep asking for more code and updated code and documentation for free and in open ways but any bit is a start. Complain all you want but also praise them because it's a good start unless it's completely useless code.
I don't care enough to chip in for a torrent membership deal but you're right. I thought of downloading this to replace AbiWord on my ICBM (iMac intel) because AbiWord and Rosetta is like molasses. OpenOffice with X11 is OK but takes time as well. It's a shame I have to use TextEdit and have no real choice.
What I don't get is why these people have power...as in my future kid couldn't go into a store and get the 'adult' game. I like the rating systems. I like TV14 and all that. I think it's good to categorize content but not to limit what people can access as in movie theatres doing that (R requires guardian to be WITH you) and games now. I've been playing Doom and all that for a decade and I'm 21. I just hope these ratings don't turn into more actual restrictions rather than recommendations. Recommendations are always fine.
Thanks. Amusing. :)
I played the first game's demo when i was using PC's and I liked it a lot. I had trouble staying in the shadows because there was so many cool ways to murder people that I couldn't resist attacking immediately. Awesome game. One complaint I had, funny, was it was too dark (bad gamma). When Thief 2 came out I left the platform but I heard it was good. Too bad.
i've said this before: the government needs some data to be able to protect us from crimes. would you rather have it have more data or less; more protection or less? that's like saying would you rather have fewer cops. hey, i hate it. i really hate it. i want 100% encrypted SSH-tunneled locked signed privacy. but i can't have it. not yet. for now we are adjusting to this digital stuff. there's cyber-crimes galore and on top of that there's a lot of dangerous criminals adjusting, terrorists, to our favorite medium. once they move on we'll take back our privacy online and the cycle will continue. the government, as a system, as a living organization, is consuming the Internet as much as possible along with our personal information. that's how it's dealing with its fear of the internet. it's going to get as much as possible organized into it's proprietary, perhaps poorly guarded databases. for now we have to let the monster rampage our data until it's happy enough to do it more safely.
everytime i hear about microsoft and bill gates i have this negative perception. then i read from a microsoft employee's blog about what's it really like there http://www.qbrundage.com/michaelb/pubs/essays/work ing_at_microsoft.html
honestly, between gates and jobs, it's hard to think of them as real people. very hard. i'd like to just go up to them on the street and not be overwhelmed with fandom or anger. it's very very hard to shake the politics i've been exposed to for a decade. it was hard enough to stop viewing jobs as the bad guy when i switched to a mac!
gates contributes billions to charity, competes with many companies, pushing technology forward. he's got a great house. he works with apple too. it's not so black and white. but emotionally, it's very hard to not hate or love jobs and gates :(
Should be good for everyone. If you were going to make a driver you can still make a bad one but there's a bonus for those who make good ones. Too late for me because I left the platform but my mom and dad will benefit from more stability. It's about feedback and user participation once again and that's so cool, efficient, and makes us all feel like we're being listened to. Yay.
Sorry for being redundant but why buy digital downloads when you can get DRM-free lossless files from the CD, possible DVD content (which if can be ripped into WAV or AC3, etc. etc.) and there's discount CD's at YourMusic.com but not of Weird Al. I own 2 Weird Al CD's and it's good to know they helped him out because in elementary school he was very funny...we even played his stuff at dances! :) It's within his right to complain and these contract rip-offs will always happen in mysterious new media.
As someone who used to own 2000 CD-R's ;) I've had experience. UniKeep CD Safety-sleeves are my current choice. I was happiest when I put them in a Keepsake plastic rubbermaid thingy and divided it alphabettically with a real jewel case for each letter of the alphabet and one for the #'s category. Yes you said no thin sleeves but this is a mix. I use the Nylon albums for my CD's but moving and re-ordering them is too much work. You can try to space out extra for each letter if you go by letter but it's still a guessing game. With sleeves and dividers by letter everything fits in a reasonable amount of space IMO.
spyware is a crime. they are hiding things and forcing them onto our personal property. the government should not be the only protection but it should make these crimes prosecutable.
i support this 100% even at the cost of bandwidth. always go over the limits of what we can use. give us 192khz audio and uncompressed resolutions. don't hold back.
more important is Apple. there's the RAZR iTunes phone but what about Apple? MacRumors.com has a page 2 link about a patent that Apple may have issued on an iPod video/iChat AV/cell phone. how will it get battery life? the batteries will shape the device.
i agree because i'm 21 and when i was growing up i was a big sci-fi fan, still am, but i'm getting tired of all the stuff like Earth 2 and Star Trek: Enterprise because I don't think we're close. Zef Cochrane isn't alive in this generation. I see SeaQuest as more realistic. Yes, we could build self-sustaining underwater colonies. It would teach us a lot about what's down there and give many people independence. It would ignite entrepreneurship and the studies of these colonies would help the space program greatly as they already do. There's already an underwater hotel! Personally that makes me nausous but if I didn't have a fear of sea creatures I'd be doing more than watching a TV show about that future. Space is expensive. The ocean is right here. We have precise maps of it. We have many choices. Anything can be done underwater. There's no zero g to worry about. The known risk of decompression is not as big of a problem as the danger of repeating another shuttle mistake that makes the craft explode. It's easier to rescue a submarine than a stranded moon colony. Will underwater residents survive in a nuclear war? No. No one will. Everything will be poison.
you need authority not promises. if there's someone who can fire you and ruin you then you're already fired and ruined. you need power over people in your work place. you need to not give a shit what they do or think because in the end you're in control and only you can mess up your career. allow yourself to risk their jobs? that's what they're doing to you by making you have no job security. just like in dating, unless you are both virgins in your first true love relationship then be brutal. you both will screw each other harshly at your first opportunity because that's what we are designed to do. don't get caught in a fantasy of your own. it's just you who believes you're safe and secure in your job. just you.
how many people wonder if there's a satellite or two holding onto a nuke or two just in case? ours or theirs. this nuclear R&D program could cover a new standard size and make of a nuclear weapon more suited to space just as much as earth combat.
p2p is just beginning. when people start buying big HD video files your ISP will expect that kind of huge traffic on your account. people make money off showing people how to get torrents through advertising, etc. there are tons of countries where piracy will be growing for years, countries without legal alternatives or the money to participate in them. people want to try out movies and albums before they buy. i paid $10 to watch Aeon Flux but walked out because I didn't like it but if I choose to I will download it and finish it. until movie companies release films in sync with demand the pirates will beat them to the market much earlier. we need simultaneous releases for your home theatre and the movie theatre with no crippling of quality. we demand it. apple's iTunes Music Store still says "music store" on the left side of iTunes when you go to it. there are opportunities for both ad-based pirate business models and high-end quality legal stores for movies. verizon offers 15mps download speed through fiber service in NY for under $50, faster than my college's internal transfers over Direct Connect. there are so many people who are not yet on the Internet who will come on and steal their media. when you need a file and you don't have it with you but you own it, like when you forgot to bring your favorite album on vacation, you WILL steal it. i have no time to figure out how to find HD programming on my TV even though I pay for at least 10 channels of it...it might be easier to download it if you have a fiber connection, with the commercials already edited out. just yesterday i taped Windfall and the DVR wasn't smart enough to ask me if I wanted an HD copy. in fact my favorite part about all the tv shows i've downloaded is the wonderful effort the rippers go through to remove the ads. i really appreciate it. people will find a way to rip DVD-Audio again even though it's been over a year since the crackdown because people are getting 5.1 speaker sets for under $300. many people think that beyond ISP and hardware that's all they have to pay for their computer system, that to buy warez would be a joke. with the money they're not spending on media they will be getting better audio and video equipment and seek DVD-Audio and HD quality over P2P and I'll benefit from the tools I need to utilize my own store-bought media; to add them to my personal hard drive which I'm not able to now.
What I like is you don't force copyleft on a publisher and that's the key, just like with torvalds' GPL (voluntary code sharing contract).
Cute but as far as a Tapir, "Their closest relatives are the other odd-toed ungulates: horses and rhinoceroses." (from the link)
There's a PBS article on the evolution of pgymy animals and humanls. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3209/01-di amond.html
I like the image of an elephant the size of a St. Bernard as the article referred to (Komodo Dragon food, it said).