but it would be much cooler if he hacked an real jukebox to play MP3s and use the interface of the jukebox:)
Also, how do you even hear the music coming from that thing when you playing video games? wouldn't all his arcade machines, and the mame machine kinda drown it out?
How are they profiling you? They asked for a picture ID, you provided one that they thought was fake because you don't look anything like the guy in the picture (because you went out of your way to make it seem like a different person). So they take you in to verify your identity.
It doesn't help you any that you did it on purpose. By your on free will you made your picture look as much like anybody but yourself as possible. You only have yourself to blame for the grief.
Funny, I live in southern NH, I have many friends in Mass. The people that live in Mass have much cheaper insurance then I do, even when they have one or two more cars then me. Unless of course they live in Lawrence:)
At the NH, Maine, and Vermont boarders you can get into Canada with a birth cert. Even if it doesn't have a picture. I would assume that this is true for most of the boarder.
Yah, and then you go to a bar, or get pulled over, give the person/officer the license. Guess what, they don't think it's you, so now you can't go into the bar, or the cop pulls you in to do a background check and get somebody to ID you. Great plan.
"and I doubt anyone is going to track down the brilliant originals after seeing the shitty remake."
I did, and fell in love with the comic series, as did a few of my friends at the time. Another great example of something I probably never would have looked into if it wasn't for the more mainstream version.
everybody screaming leave it alone, the original was better, blah blah blah..
1. If you don't want to see the new version, don't watch it. Nobody is saying you have to give up your old version of Akira and trade it in for the new one. You don't like it, don't watch it!
2. There's nothing wrong with trying to make something better. Some people might find this new version better, some will like the old version. Not everybody likes the same things.
3. If anything, this will bring the story of Akira to a larger audience, it will get people to wonder where it came from, and they'll seek out the Japanese version of the moive, and the comic books. Then there will be people that will see it for what it was, and they may like it better, or they'll like the newer version better.
To each his own, and if something brings a story to a wider audience, one that would have NEVER seen it otherwise, I say more power too them.
And to the person that brought up La Femme Nikita and the remake (Point of no Return). I saw Point of no Return, thought it was interesting, found out it was a remake of La Femme Nikita, thought it was MUCH better.. and you know what, if they didn't make Point of no Return, I would have NEVER known about La Femme Nikita.
Or you could get many of the fine USB keyboards out there that have built in USB hubs. Even the apple ones that come with the iMacs have another port (yes, it's for the mouse, but you could plug a hub into that)
"what do you call the optical Sun mouse I have that has "1992" stamped on the bottom of it?"
I have one of those.. it requires a special mousepad to be used with it, and will only work on that mouse pad and nothing else. The MS optical mouse works on that, a normal mouse pad, a desk, your face, the cat, whatever you want. They are similar, but they are not the same. The MS optical mouse is much more useful and works better.
You want more USB ports, get a USB hub, they're cheap, their easy, and they work fine. I have 2 USB ports on my computer, one is broken, I got a 4 port USB hub, so now I can plug in my printer, scanner, CF/SM card reader, and my MP3 player. If I need more ports, I'll go get another hub, or a bigger (8 port) hub. USB has been designed this way so you wouldn't need that many ports on the computer.
More firewire ports would be better. I've never seen a firewire hub, and if they are out there, they're probably expensive.
And we all know how much the audiophiles listen to, and love, MP3s. Plus, how do you know this Zapstaion thing even uses a normal PC Soundcard, for all you know it might have a better S/N ratio
As far as 30-sec skip, I like the fast forward, then when you hit play it jumps back a couple seconds better (as do most tivo owners, if you read the tivo forums).
I find that you tend to skip into a program with 30sec skip and have to rewind a bit, while with tivo you watch the commercials super-duper fast, as soon as you see the program hit play, and it jumps back to right when the program starts.
"more like him buying into open reel VTR, now thats a dead format!"
Hah! You'd be suprised! When I was working for WMUR in Manchester, NH (during their move to a new building, I ran cables, wired up patch panels. Not a bad part-time job right out of high school). They still got commerical reels and ran them from the real. As late as 1999 they were still doing this. They were converting to running them off of a computer system (some propritary thing that they had custom built, it was sweet) but they continued to have problems with it and would turn back to the old reel units.
"In some cases, people are not even asked whether they want the software. It just installs on the hard drive--a particularly troublesome tactic that some have dubbed "drive-by download."
What programs do this? I've never, ever seen a webbrowser that automatically installs stuff. At least not until you specifically specify for that site only (like MS Updates, or Station.Sony.com)
"But those horror stories are the exception. More typically, software makers are simply using the downloads to distribute legitimate products."
Legitimate products don't automatically download onto my computer without my concent.
Now, they can find out who's putting this shit on the P2P networks, go find them, and arrest them for copyright violation.
Think about it, if they can do that, then they don't need all this stupid other shitty laws out there. Then they can do what everybody on here says.. Only go after the people that are violating copyright, and all us out there that still use MP3s legally for our portable players and such don't get screwed.
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And why was this modded as funny? it's a real sleep pattern that people use.
but it would be much cooler if he hacked an real jukebox to play MP3s and use the interface of the jukebox :)
Also, how do you even hear the music coming from that thing when you playing video games? wouldn't all his arcade machines, and the mame machine kinda drown it out?
Still neat.
How are they profiling you? They asked for a picture ID, you provided one that they thought was fake because you don't look anything like the guy in the picture (because you went out of your way to make it seem like a different person). So they take you in to verify your identity.
It doesn't help you any that you did it on purpose. By your on free will you made your picture look as much like anybody but yourself as possible. You only have yourself to blame for the grief.
Funny, I live in southern NH, I have many friends in Mass. The people that live in Mass have much cheaper insurance then I do, even when they have one or two more cars then me. Unless of course they live in Lawrence :)
At the NH, Maine, and Vermont boarders you can get into Canada with a birth cert. Even if it doesn't have a picture. I would assume that this is true for most of the boarder.
In NH you don't need auto insurance at all.. It's not required.
MS did this for OSX? I did not know that..
I did, and fell in love with the comic series, as did a few of my friends at the time. Another great example of something I probably never would have looked into if it wasn't for the more mainstream version.
1. If you don't want to see the new version, don't watch it. Nobody is saying you have to give up your old version of Akira and trade it in for the new one. You don't like it, don't watch it!
2. There's nothing wrong with trying to make something better. Some people might find this new version better, some will like the old version. Not everybody likes the same things.
3. If anything, this will bring the story of Akira to a larger audience, it will get people to wonder where it came from, and they'll seek out the Japanese version of the moive, and the comic books. Then there will be people that will see it for what it was, and they may like it better, or they'll like the newer version better.
To each his own, and if something brings a story to a wider audience, one that would have NEVER seen it otherwise, I say more power too them.
And to the person that brought up La Femme Nikita and the remake (Point of no Return). I saw Point of no Return, thought it was interesting, found out it was a remake of La Femme Nikita, thought it was MUCH better.. and you know what, if they didn't make Point of no Return, I would have NEVER known about La Femme Nikita.
Or you could get many of the fine USB keyboards out there that have built in USB hubs. Even the apple ones that come with the iMacs have another port (yes, it's for the mouse, but you could plug a hub into that)
"what do you call the optical Sun mouse I have that has "1992" stamped on the bottom of it?"
I have one of those.. it requires a special mousepad to be used with it, and will only work on that mouse pad and nothing else. The MS optical mouse works on that, a normal mouse pad, a desk, your face, the cat, whatever you want. They are similar, but they are not the same. The MS optical mouse is much more useful and works better.
Yah, and my 4 port USB hub was only $12.. I would much rather have more firewire ports onboard, then USB ports.
You want more USB ports, get a USB hub, they're cheap, their easy, and they work fine. I have 2 USB ports on my computer, one is broken, I got a 4 port USB hub, so now I can plug in my printer, scanner, CF/SM card reader, and my MP3 player. If I need more ports, I'll go get another hub, or a bigger (8 port) hub. USB has been designed this way so you wouldn't need that many ports on the computer.
More firewire ports would be better. I've never seen a firewire hub, and if they are out there, they're probably expensive.
What's so hard about writing down what time they called and if they call when they're not suppose to to send a letter?
As far as 30-sec skip, I like the fast forward, then when you hit play it jumps back a couple seconds better (as do most tivo owners, if you read the tivo forums).
I find that you tend to skip into a program with 30sec skip and have to rewind a bit, while with tivo you watch the commercials super-duper fast, as soon as you see the program hit play, and it jumps back to right when the program starts.
Hah! You'd be suprised! When I was working for WMUR in Manchester, NH (during their move to a new building, I ran cables, wired up patch panels. Not a bad part-time job right out of high school). They still got commerical reels and ran them from the real. As late as 1999 they were still doing this. They were converting to running them off of a computer system (some propritary thing that they had custom built, it was sweet) but they continued to have problems with it and would turn back to the old reel units.
That's from the article.
What programs do this? I've never, ever seen a webbrowser that automatically installs stuff. At least not until you specifically specify for that site only (like MS Updates, or Station.Sony.com)
"But those horror stories are the exception. More typically, software makers are simply using the downloads to distribute legitimate products."
Legitimate products don't automatically download onto my computer without my concent.
Uhh, I use word, save stuff as RTF, and edit them in Abiword all the time. Never had a problem.
What's wrong with RTF? It looks nice, and it works in almost everything.
Think about it, if they can do that, then they don't need all this stupid other shitty laws out there. Then they can do what everybody on here says.. Only go after the people that are violating copyright, and all us out there that still use MP3s legally for our portable players and such don't get screwed.