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Mysterious notebook ASUS X52Sa
I have seen this notebook in the shop (Interdiscount, here in Switzerland) and I like how it looks and feels. Here's the short specification: Intel Core 2 duo T9300, 2.5 GHz, 800MHz, 6MB L2 / 3072 MB DDR2-SDRAM / 250 GB / 15.4 TFT WXGA, 1280x800 Glare Type / ATI HD 2600, 512 MB
The price here is 1800 CHF (~1700$). What is strange, I could not find any official reference in Asus. Support page for that notebook exists but completely empty.
Long live eMule! Bright side of P2P file-sharing. / 22 April 2008
I’m not supporting piracy, first of all. P2P networks are mostly known to share myriads of copyrighted materials including tons of media junk. Some copyright protecting organizations see that as a problem. To me it has never been a problem, because I believe the owners of truly popular stuff are rich men anyway (popular stuff is junk in 90% of all cases), therefore no moral problem here. Besides, Pink Floyd in 128 kbit mp3 is not exactly CD quality, technically speaking.
But, alas, p2p community is constantly targeted and punished as if it was the root of all troubles in art and mass media.
What I want to do here is to talk about some useful, bright side of P2P file-sharing, which is maybe not that obvious for everyone.
Sometimes you need to find some rare things, like a book which was printed years ago or a song that was once on the vinyl your dad had. ...
To be continued
About piracy / 29 January 2008
Antipiracy strategy is based on fear. That’s a big mistake. It would be more helpful and effective to point out that collecting music, for instance, does not bring satisfaction by itself and should not be a self-sufficient goal. You can only listen to one music composition at the time. It takes time to understand truly profound works. That’s why omniavailability is ultimately a very miserable thing, as you become a bored “god” and loose taste of life.
Yet most movies and music nowadays deserve to be pirated. The most valuable thing in them is often their glittering package.
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