If you’re a napster user, you’d better get your download on. Napster could be forced to shut its doors if the RIAA gets the injunction it’s seeking… The best I’ve heard it put:
“Music is the healing force of the universe. A true artist is going to want his music to be heard through whatever medium. (read the article here)
Are you sick of ‘dotcoms’ taking all the credit for a ‘new economy’? Are you tired of sad, poorly designed websites that cost millions to build, have Flash intros for everything, but give you little in the way of actual information? Well, here’s a a site for you.
Check it out. They’re a lot like we are, only they don’t cuss. Brought to you by 37signals, the folks that brought you eNormicom.
According to this article, Scour, Inc is being sued by not only the music industry, but the movie industry as well. Scour lets people download music and movies (I’m assuming in QuickTime or VCD form), just like Napster spreads MP3s. Apparently, Scour’s president, Dan Rodrigues, is surprised. Lord knows why. If I were running a company based upon the trading of copywrited material, I wouldn’t be surprised to be sued.
Not that I think Napster or Scour should be sued, I just think they should have been a little smarter about trying to make a company out of their software. I mean, come on, if I had been the one to originally write Napster, I would not have thought it a good idea to try and start making money and seek funding to further my illegal software. If Scour and Napster were still just a couple of guys in a garage, the RIAA would not be all that interested, let alone would they try to sue.
Just in case you haven’t seen it before, check out FuckedCompany.com. Enter in your favorite (or actually, least favorite) dot-coms and watch the points roll in when they fuck up. No word yet as to what the points or for, or what they do, but it sure is fun to get ’em!
1- 2 of 3 Models of G4s are now dual processor at same price point.
2- Brand New Cube G4 Macintosh
3- New Flat Panel and CRT Displays
4- New Imac Colors
5- Cheaper Base Imac Prices [$799]
6- New iTools Functionality
7- New “Buttonless” Optical Mouse
8- New FullSize Pro Keyboard
9- iMovie 2 for Free on all Mac’s
… and I know I forgot something… oh yeah, the new harman kardon sattelite speakers.
Go drool at www.apple.com/store.
According to this article the newest generation of game consoles is about to be released by Nintendo and is apparently ‘Mac based’… I think because the video controller is ATI and the CPU is PowerPC it would only make sense to use a low level MacOS to get it booting and rendering. All in all good news for the Mac gaming community.
Stever Ballmer is nervous. Or at least that’s what he told the audience at Comdex Canada during his ill-fated keynote address. Apparently, he fumbled through demo after demo, and compared the future of the internet to a hockey stick, apparently trying to get the kanucks to like him. What a goofball.
You can try to view the keynote here, but don’t even try if you’re on a Mac. It’s in Windows Media Player format. Surprise sur-fucking-prise.
What a dork.
This is an absolute must see. End of story.
According to this article, certain hackers have hacked their hearts out, and have cracked the Sega encryption mechanism for Dreamcast games. If you burn a certain software onto CDROM, and run that in your Dreamcast, it allows you to run games downloaded from the internet that you burn onto another CDROM. The only problem: Dreamcast games come on discs similar to DVDs, and some games won’t fit entirely on a CDROM. The answer in most cases? Just remove the soundtrack. No word as to whether DVDRAM drives will work to burn DVDs with the games on them.
So you can spend $400 for a low-end computer, $200-$300 for a decent burner, $300 on a Dreamcast, and pay upwards of $80 a month for DSL so that you can download the games within a reasonable amount of time.
OR you can just spend the money on the Dream cast (which you’d have to do anyway) and simply buy the games you want for like $50 or something apiece.
The latter option seems much easier.
