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Living Room / Re: Microsoft Backtracks on phone home WGA ...

« Last post by nudone on June 13, 2006, 06:16 AM »

But I thought onboard graphics didn't allocate that much RAM? If business machines are really set up like this they are unlikely to have large amounts of memory either - I'm sure system admins won't want 50% of available RAM allocated to Vista (which seems to require 512Mb as a minumum standard).

I am running Vista Beta in VMWare ... compared to Windows XP running in the same environment it is

S....O    S.....L.....O....W and that's without access to Aero (since VMWare only has an emulated 16Mb graphic card)

and talk about making you click windows to confirm absolutely everything ...

"Are you sure you want a toilet break?"

"Click here to confirm that you just confirmed you need a toilet break"

"Toilet breaks have not be tested in Windows Vista - please confirm you understand the implications of going for a toilet break"

... Damn now I need to change my pants!

"Are you sure you want to change your pants" etc.....

-Carol Haynes (June 13, 2006, 05:37 AM)

hehe, that's kind of kinky. never thought vista was going to be that much fun.

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Living Room / Re: Collection of funny signs (high-res!)

« Last post by nudone on June 12, 2006, 01:06 PM »

nice banner there, mouser.

but i notice that there is a strange shading effect going on with cody's body - rather than it being a gradient effect it is a solid grey tone.

which program did you use to make the sign, mouser - i'm just wondering if the non gradient effect was intentional or not.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting tad bit - MS Windows Genuine Advantage Phones Home Every day

« Last post by nudone on June 11, 2006, 12:31 PM »

I understand everything you are saying however, being I only use my PC for Graphic art
http://thunder7.deviantart.com/
http://www.artwanted...=24645&SetBG=Yes
http://www.artuproar...om/?profile=thunder7

you've got some great looking fractals going on there, thunder7. 

(and i love ms windows, just for the record.)

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Best Music Service / Re: tech crunch article comparing music services

« Last post by nudone on June 10, 2006, 04:54 PM »

i agree. and i would assume that most people on this forum will to. we've felt compelled to donate to the software authors around here because it was personal and we can be assured that the donation is going to the right place.

i would love to see a method of donating or paying directly to an artist or band to show how much i appreciate what they are doing. it isn't news to say that their are plenty of musicians already doing this - it's what the internet is perfect for.

i hope we do see a time when the individual or small collective can compete with how the dominant corporations run the industry - i thought it would have happened by now but as it hasn't i obviously have no idea how complicated the music industry is.

maybe it is artificially complicated so that the organisations can continue to exist. maybe people are too lazy to seek out artists unless they are force fed to them by the music industry - in which case the industry deserves what it charges.

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Best Music Service / Re: tech crunch article comparing music services

« Last post by nudone on June 10, 2006, 04:01 PM »

So, if I'm understanding you right, you wouldn't have any problem if AllOfMP3.com were free? In other words if people weren't "paying criminals" but just taking stuff from them for free?

- Oshyan

-JavaJones (June 10, 2006, 03:36 PM)

correct.

whilst allofmp3.com isn't illegal in Russia (because of the digital media technicality it appears) there are obviously changes taking place - pressures from outside the country appear to be working - this seems obvious to me that allofmp3.com have conceded that they were/are a bit naughty in the way they do business.

what javajones said about legality just being government endorsement can be applied here - but it seems completely irrelevant to me. if allofmp3.com were a UK based service that had the full backing of the law but used a technicality to avoid paying the correct royalties to artists i'd still consider their business unfair/immoral.

let's just see what happens around september time. if allofmp3.com's prices go up then i think it will be fair to assume the royalties will be going to the right people and that they weren't before.

here's another link for what its worth: http://www.ifpi.org/.../press/20060601.html

can i just ask everyone if they are actually bothered whether the artists they are downloading from allofmp3.com get paid royalties or not?

if the general response is "no, we aren't bothered we're just glad that it's a cheap service and we really don't care who receives the money" then i have absolutely no argument here.

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Best Music Service / Re: tech crunch article comparing music services

« Last post by nudone on June 10, 2006, 02:29 PM »

quote from BPI General Counsel Roz Groome: "AllofMP3.com’s claims to be legal are false … Neither artists nor record companies receive any payment from the site." taken from http://www.out-law.com/page-6985

i won't post any other quotes as you'll easily be able to counter it with quotes from the same article.

i look forward to when it's absolutely certain that allofmp3.com are paying the artists and not just paying a token amount to ROMS.

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Best Music Service / Re: tech crunch article comparing music services

« Last post by nudone on June 10, 2006, 11:00 AM »

"The organisation asked Russian authorities to take action against the download site, citing breach of copyright, in February 2005.

But Moscow prosecutors decided not to pursue the case because Russian copyright laws do not cover digital media, reported the news agency Tass." from the link i provided http://news.bbc.co.u...tainment/5061610.stm

allofmp3.com keeps trading on a technicality. if 'digital media' was part of copyright laws in Russia then that would be the end of them - or, maybe they'd get off on another technicality.

does anyone believe that allofmp3.com methods of business would work in they were based in a country with more up to date copywrite laws? doesn't that indicate there is something dodgy going on?

i'm not defending the people that run the music industry. i really don't care if 'digital media' is paid for or not.

i just cannot understand why anyone bothers to pay allofmp3.com at all when there are alternatives. just get on with it and download it from a peer 2 peer program - or borrow it from your local library. steal it from a friend - it's none of my concern.

but, why justify allofmp3.com, does anyone believe the royalties are passed on - the company has said themselves that they are in negotiation with artists to sort things out - why bother doing that if everything is sweet already.

i wouldn't doubt that there are plenty of dodgy things already going on in the music industry but how does using allofmp3.com make that any better?

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Best Music Service / Re: tech crunch article comparing music services

« Last post by nudone on June 10, 2006, 09:51 AM »

javajones, for what it's worth here's my 'real' opinion on allofmp3.com

i'm not at all interested in how much the online music services charge. i'm not interested in how much they pass on to the artists they are selling.

i've never used one of these online services but i was tempted to use allofmp3.com because they are so cheap to use.

i'm still prepared to use allofmp3.com (or any other company that wants to offer such low prices) but only if i know for sure that they have the blessing of the artists they are selling.

the difference between allofmp3.com and the rest is that the artists have obviously agreed for their music to be sold using the other services. whether they receive 1% or 99% royalties is none of my concern. it's the job of the artists to strike out better deals for themselves or move onto other methods of distributing their music - yes, i'd like to see them break away and find a system where they can be paid directly, but for the moment they appear to be content enough not to want to try.

my only interest in any of the allofmp3.com debate is that i find it odd that people are willing to defend a company that (according to the news articles) is just a load of high tech criminals selling goods that they have no right to be profitting from.

it's so simple i don't know why i'm repeating it: (assuming the news articles are correct) allofmp3.com are a load of thieves. they have absolutely no right to sell what they do. i don't care what the morality of itunes or napster is - it's completely irrelevant to my point.

my point is simply this (and always has been): why pay someone when they do not own what they are selling? why pay someone when they haven't the consent from the manufactures of the goods being passed on? why knowingly pay a criminal for stolen goods?

i don't care where anyone obtains their music from. borrow it. tape it. whatever. all i can object to is paying criminals for the pleasure of getting your music.

where such good mannered fair play appears to exist within the DC community, where everyone here understands the point of donating for software so that the coders are rewarded for their efforts - i have to say i'm absolutely astounded that this isn't reflected in paying musicians for their efforts. even worse is that strange contortions are justified in paying a bunch of criminals in Russia (allegedly) that don't appear to honour any agreement in passing on royalties to those they should.

as soon as allofmp3.com start appearing in the news with headlines like 'musicians love allofmp3.com' then i'll subscribe to them straight away. whilst i keep on seeing 'allofmp3.com are a load of criminals' and then reading the related article does indeed convince me that they are criminals then i'll consider it immoral to use them.

my honest to god true opinion is that i don't really care if musicians around the world don't make enough money from being in the music industry - it's the life they've chosen for themselves.

all i ask is why stick up for a company that behaves in a criminal manner. any company. why champion allofmp3.com, why should anyone defend them when we know they are doing wrong. i'm not preaching for itunes and the rest. i don't care if you copy all of your music collection from a friend, i don't care if you've still got 500 gigs worth of mp3's from the old days of napster.

if there was an online service offering software for sale that they had no right to sell because they didn't pay the authors then wouldn't you think twice about paying?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Great little app for sharing/transferring files to others (or yourself?)

« Last post by nudone on June 10, 2006, 12:26 AM »

sounds great.

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General Software Discussion / anyone used netlimiter pro 2

« Last post by nudone on June 09, 2006, 01:46 PM »

i'm going to be using netlimiter to control my download rates at different times of the day - but i'm wondering if anyone has used its firewall feature.

i currently use zone alarm (free) so i'm expecting the netlimiter firewall to very similar.

i'm curious as to whether anyone has any bad stories about it, i.e. does it crash - i noticed that the previous version of netlimiter, without the firewall, would sometime crash on my system - if the version 2 is just as likely to crash then the firewall isn't going to be of much use.

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Best Music Service / Re: tech crunch article comparing music services

« Last post by nudone on June 09, 2006, 11:06 AM »

more here: http://news.bbc.co.u...tainment/5061610.stm

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Official Announcements / Re: Contest - Come up with a novel idea for DonationCredits

« Last post by nudone on June 08, 2006, 01:48 PM »

nice idea.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by nudone on June 08, 2006, 06:36 AM »

hehehe.

that's why i wanted the triggers out of the way at the sides of the screen. i'm not really using it in the same manner you have been doing. i've just got that layout of the triggers at the edges like i posted above.

the transparent button dragging method you describe does sound like a nice way around the problem you mention. definately worth implementing.

i guess 'gridmove' is still in it's infancy as there are several ways of how it could work - i still hope that you can somehow implement all the different ways but allow the user to select which they want. maybe that's going too far and there should be another program like dialogmove?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Flashget is now freeware

« Last post by nudone on June 07, 2006, 01:55 PM »

thanks for the info. always liked flashget.

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Best Music Service / Re: tech crunch article comparing music services

« Last post by nudone on June 07, 2006, 03:11 AM »

worth reading: http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1212

as it says in the article, point 5 is the most interesting...

5. On September 1, 2006 the changes to the Russian copyright legislation will come into force. Since January 2006 the site has been making direct agreements with rightholders and authors at the same time increasing the price of the music compositions and transferring the royalties directly to the artists and record companies. The aim of AllofMP3.com is to agree with all rightholders on the prices and royalties amounts by September 1, 2006.

looks like allofmp3.com is heading in the right direction. i hope it's all true.

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Best Music Service / Re: tech crunch article comparing music services

« Last post by nudone on June 07, 2006, 01:36 AM »

that is a good point but i doubt it will influence the industry. maybe if allofmp3.com had the backing of the artists that it was selling it would work.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Create your own Tool Tips

« Last post by nudone on June 07, 2006, 01:33 AM »

i'd love to see an example of this in action - maybe someone could take some screenshots of it in use, or even better maybe josh can make a little screencast movie of it working if someone can send him some example files.

-mouser (June 06, 2006, 07:30 PM)

that would be nice i have to agree.

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Living Room / Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.

« Last post by nudone on June 06, 2006, 05:25 PM »

sorry, i understand now. i didn't read your post in the correct way.

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Living Room / Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.

« Last post by nudone on June 06, 2006, 04:06 PM »

This animation is cool had to upload it
http://img343.imageshack.us/my.php?image=index0vy.gif

-thunder7 (June 06, 2006, 04:00 PM)

you've provided a link to the .gif i mentioned earlier on - on a different site, of course. i'd still like to know it's origins and i agree it is cool.

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Best Music Service / Re: tech crunch article comparing music services

« Last post by nudone on June 06, 2006, 02:39 PM »

however legal they are in russia, after all i'ver read, i still wouldn't want to give them my dollar when it appears they aren't passing it on to the artists. to me, it still blatantly seems anyone doing business with them is paying a load of thiefs. if they were allowing you to download everything for FREE it wouldn't be as bad as charging you for stolen content.

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Best Music Service / Re: tech crunch article comparing music services

« Last post by nudone on June 06, 2006, 01:33 PM »

the death knell http://news.bbc.co.u...tainment/5051826.stm

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Living Room / Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.

« Last post by nudone on June 06, 2006, 12:57 PM »

still going through the links - the one on http://www.stickdeath.com/frameset.htm called 'tax time' made me laugh.

the .gif file i provided above still feels to me like it's a few levels above everything else - animation wise. i'd love to know the origins of it.

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Living Room / Re: Animator vs Animation - one of the best flash animations i've seen in years.

« Last post by nudone on June 06, 2006, 12:47 PM »

thanks for that, Edvard.

i shall investigate those links. 

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Living Room / Re: June 4 Podcast

« Last post by nudone on June 05, 2006, 04:47 PM »

well, i have to admit i was pronouncing your name as 'super-boy-yack' in my head until i heard the correct way of saying it on the podcast.

but what should i do now. i've been training myself to say 'super-boy-A-C' but maybe it's more fun when everyone has more than one way of saying their name. hey, aren't we complex enough people to have different names?

i was also in the habit of saying jgpaiva's name as 'jeg-pay-va' even though i assumed it must be 'jay-gee-pay-va'.

at least, now i know i should be 'jay-gee-pie-va'.

jgpaiva, i think your correct native pronunciation of your name it fantastic - i've not heard anything like it i have to admit.

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Living Room / Re: June 4 Podcast

« Last post by nudone on June 05, 2006, 02:22 PM »

just finished listening to the podcast. marvellous.

i must say it never ceases to amaze me. hearing the DC members is like opening up another universe inside my little reality bubble.

i've mentioned this to mouser before regarding obtaining software over the internet but it kind of applies to conversing through chat programs and forums too - it often feels to me like i'm simply communicating with my computer. it's easy to forget that there are 'real' people at the other end of software downloads and forum posts (maybe i have a mental problem) but hearing your voices provides a big reality jolt to make me realise just how wonderful all this technology and ability to communicate through it is.

as for the pronunciation of my name...

it seems there is now an internal fracture within the irc channel regarding new-doan vs. new-dun..

to be honest - 'nud one' is the least glamorous sounding so i'm very happy to respond to any other pronunciation.

(i thought the sound quality on the podcast was quite surreal at times - not a bad thing as it adds atmosphere and that all important gritty realism feel.)