Another factor to consider is that the code that was on Nullsoft's site includes RSA code that is not only NOT GPL'ed, it is under a license that is incompatible with GPL! (Take a look at the MD5 code).
I goofed, and grepped for "gpl". "gnu" would have been a better grep term.
However, there's still the rsa directory, which contains stuff not compatible with GPL. (Which puzzles me...since waste is GPL'ed, why didn't they use gmp for the math, or whatever gpg uses?)
I just download the source and took a look. No COPYING file. No README. The string "gpl" (case insensitive) does not appear in any of the files.
Worse, there is an "rsa" subdirectory, and the files in there all say they are copyright RSA Data Security, and all rights are reserved. Worse, the MD5 source files contain a license that is incompatible with the GPL.
I'd stay away from waste until they straighten this stuff out.
taping something off the radio and then trading it or selling it is not technically within your rights. Just like you can't make a copy of your cd's to give to friends
It's legal under 17 USC 1008, part of the Audio Home Recording Act.
So, why should Apple lower their fee? It's already cheaper. The only way the Real model gets cheaper is if you download more than 50 songs a month, every month you're subscribed
You overlooked listening WITHOUT burning. Throw that in, and Real's prices look a lot better.
But why buy? if you're already planning to keep the subscription going, renting is the same as buying
I'm assuming that renting would lock the files fairly tightly to a specific device, and that buying would allow more flexibility, such as making a CD for the car, or making a copy to play on the computer, etc.
you dolt...if apple went out of business you have a bunch of files that still work!!! why? because you OWN the files dumbass
Well...until you want to transfer playing rights to another computer. You know...the part where it asks for your Apple account info and verifies it using Apple servers. What happens then if Apple is gone?
First, note that $120/year is cheaper than $7500, no matter how long you plan to subscribe, because you can generate $120/year by sticking $6000 up front in any safe investment that earns 2% interest. Yeah, I know that would be a silly thing to do!:-)
Anyway, I'd prefer a rental system with an option to buy. I could then fill the device with rental music, and when I decide I like something enough to want it permanently, I'd buy it.
I wonder if push came to shove, how long it would take them to prep an emergency launch for a rescue?
Better would be not to rush a rescue, but rather rush finding a way to resupply Columbia so it could stay up long enough to wait for a non-rushed rescue.
With all the military launch capacity, plus various other country's space programs, it would probably not take too long to get something up that could deliver food/water/oxygen and whatever else is needed to keep things going.
You're forgetting a key componet of being a songwriter -- the MUSIC. Without it, you are just a lyricist
For writing short lived hits, you are right, but for those songs that will be remembered for a long time, the lyrics are important.
When college students 100 years from now study Bob Dylan's works (and they will), it won't be his music or singing voice they will be studying. It will be the lyrics.
I'll do this the same way I did writable DVD...wait for Apple to pick one (DVD-R), and then go for the other one (DVD+R), since it will turn out to be technically better, and win in the long run.
These new MP3 players (yes, that includes iPod) have too many features. I don't care about integration with iTunes or whatever the vendor's equivalent on PC is.
On my computer, I organize my MP3s using the file system. E.g., if I want to listen to "Dark Side of the Moon", it's in "music/rock/Pink Floyd/Dark Side of the Moon". I've got xmms open, and I keep the "add dir" window opened, which has a nice tree view, so to play an album, I simply double click on it in that window, and hit play over in the main window.
So, for an MP3 player, I just want something that I can copy my music directory to, and then access via a simple interface.
This is what I like about my Archos 15 gig, which was $180. It simply works the way I do...it doesn't ask me to buy into some grand unified vision of music management like the others seem to.
The iPod works with just one hand (size helps here too unless you have mutant freak hands or TK powers). Hold it and work the wheel and buttons with your thumb. It's very tough for the 2.5" hard drive based players to compete with that
Some call me...Tim (you can check at the website listed under my name in the header).
So...how did you know this? I don't recall knowing anyone named Mike who was at Digital. Did someone who went from Caltech to Digital spread this story, complete with the name of the hard link (/etc/safefromtim), or am I just getting senile and failing to remember that I know you?
I have memories of places I've been to in games that I can't tell apart from memories of real places.
For example, I've got vague memories of tunnels under buildings, that I cannot tell if they are memories from exploring the steam tunnels at Caltech, or if they are from some random Quake level I tried.
I've got many memories of beautiful sunrises and sunsets over forrests and mountains, that I'm not sure if they are from childhood trips, or from Everquest and Dark Age of Camelot. (If I can recall what I did there...I can tell where the memory came from. E.g., if I recall eating there, it is from real life. If I recall killing things, it is probably from a game)
Many times I've woken up and realized I was dreaming about someplace, and the place seemed familiar, but I could not remember if it was familiar because I'd been there in real life, or in a game.
One reason for 3D acceleration is probably to be ready for a 3D virtual desktop manager. There has been some research on organizing workspaces into a virtual 3D space. Poke around at Microsoft Research, and you might be able to find a video showing this.
It isn't like anything in the Longhorn betas, but it would not surprise me if the Longhorn people are anticipating it.
any of you old-school Linux users remember pulling the plug or hitting power on your Linux box back in the day and immediately screaming "OH SHIT!" when you realize you probably just corrupted a whole slew of data? I do.
Sometimes it is nice to NOT have journalling. 1982. Caltech High Energy Physics VAX. Sunday morning. I am working on a program that has a config file in/etc. I want to delete the config file. Out of habit, I automatically type "passwd" after "/etc/". Oops.
Solution: run to the VAX, and hit the power switch. I caught it in time!/etc/passwd was still there after the fsck.:-)
Alas...the next time, I didn't run fast enough, and lost the file, so had to restore it from backup.
The next time after that, the other sys admin got tired of that, and so made a hard link to/etc/passwd so that we could just link it back after I'd remove it. That was fine until I accidently copied something to/etc/passwd instead of rm'ing/etc/passwd.:-)
So, finally they made a cron job that checked/etc/passwd every few minutes, and if it was good, made a backup, and if it was missing or appeared to be trashed, restored it.
And by the way: when running perceptual tests, whether it's wine tasting or audio equipment, you need to do an "AAB" test
Here's how I tested when I was deciding what MP3 encoder to use and what settings to use when ripping stuff for my jukebox. Anyone see any problems with this?
I wrote a program that I can give two files to. The first is designated R (for reference) and the second is T (for test).
For each test run, the program picks one of those files, and that file is designated X. I can ask the program to play any R, T, X, or whichever file is not X. I freely play any and all of these, in any sequence I want, listening for differences, until I decide if X == R or X == T. I can then tell the program my decision, and it tells me if I'm right or wrong, and then random picks on of R and T to be X for the next run. Repeat several times. The program then gives me stats on how good I was at identifying X.
When the program plays a file, it throws in a random delay before starting playback. I did that because I noticed that.mp3 playback has a short but noticable startup delay compared to.wav playback, and I did not want that to provide a clue. Next time I revise the program, I'll throw in a small random volume variation for each playback, too.
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Look again, this time in subdirectories.
Another factor to consider is that the code that was on Nullsoft's site includes RSA code that is not only NOT GPL'ed, it is under a license that is incompatible with GPL! (Take a look at the MD5 code).
I goofed, and grepped for "gpl". "gnu" would have been a better grep term.
However, there's still the rsa directory, which contains stuff not compatible with GPL. (Which puzzles me...since waste is GPL'ed, why didn't they use gmp for the math, or whatever gpg uses?)
Now if you can just explain away the RSA code that has the license that is incompatible with the GPL, everything will be fine.
Worse, there is an "rsa" subdirectory, and the files in there all say they are copyright RSA Data Security, and all rights are reserved. Worse, the MD5 source files contain a license that is incompatible with the GPL.
I'd stay away from waste until they straighten this stuff out.
It's legal under 17 USC 1008, part of the Audio Home Recording Act.
That didn't bother anyone much, because it is self-limited because most people have at most a dozen or so friends they might trade with.
With something like Kazaa, you are NOT trading with your friends. You are trading with millions of strangers.
You overlooked listening WITHOUT burning. Throw that in, and Real's prices look a lot better.
Big whoop. DVD+R is the one approved by Sony and Phillips...not to mention Dell, HP, Ricoh, Yamaha, and a little company named Microsoft.
DVD+R/+RW is better technically, and doesn't require different discs for different purposes. It will easily last as long as DVD-R.
I'm assuming that renting would lock the files fairly tightly to a specific device, and that buying would allow more flexibility, such as making a CD for the car, or making a copy to play on the computer, etc.
Well...until you want to transfer playing rights to another computer. You know...the part where it asks for your Apple account info and verifies it using Apple servers. What happens then if Apple is gone?
Anyway, I'd prefer a rental system with an option to buy. I could then fill the device with rental music, and when I decide I like something enough to want it permanently, I'd buy it.
Better would be not to rush a rescue, but rather rush finding a way to resupply Columbia so it could stay up long enough to wait for a non-rushed rescue.
With all the military launch capacity, plus various other country's space programs, it would probably not take too long to get something up that could deliver food/water/oxygen and whatever else is needed to keep things going.
For writing short lived hits, you are right, but for those songs that will be remembered for a long time, the lyrics are important.
When college students 100 years from now study Bob Dylan's works (and they will), it won't be his music or singing voice they will be studying. It will be the lyrics.
I'll do this the same way I did writable DVD...wait for Apple to pick one (DVD-R), and then go for the other one (DVD+R), since it will turn out to be technically better, and win in the long run.
Shouldn't that be a translucent plastic cage?
On my computer, I organize my MP3s using the file system. E.g., if I want to listen to "Dark Side of the Moon", it's in "music/rock/Pink Floyd/Dark Side of the Moon". I've got xmms open, and I keep the "add dir" window opened, which has a nice tree view, so to play an album, I simply double click on it in that window, and hit play over in the main window.
So, for an MP3 player, I just want something that I can copy my music directory to, and then access via a simple interface.
This is what I like about my Archos 15 gig, which was $180. It simply works the way I do...it doesn't ask me to buy into some grand unified vision of music management like the others seem to.
My 15 gig Archos works fine with one hand.
Speaking of John Williams... does anyone else find much of the original Star Wars music to be rather similar to parts of Dvorak's 9th symphony?
Some call me...Tim (you can check at the website listed under my name in the header).
So...how did you know this? I don't recall knowing anyone named Mike who was at Digital. Did someone who went from Caltech to Digital spread this story, complete with the name of the hard link (/etc/safefromtim), or am I just getting senile and failing to remember that I know you?
For example, I've got vague memories of tunnels under buildings, that I cannot tell if they are memories from exploring the steam tunnels at Caltech, or if they are from some random Quake level I tried.
I've got many memories of beautiful sunrises and sunsets over forrests and mountains, that I'm not sure if they are from childhood trips, or from Everquest and Dark Age of Camelot. (If I can recall what I did there...I can tell where the memory came from. E.g., if I recall eating there, it is from real life. If I recall killing things, it is probably from a game)
Many times I've woken up and realized I was dreaming about someplace, and the place seemed familiar, but I could not remember if it was familiar because I'd been there in real life, or in a game.
It isn't like anything in the Longhorn betas, but it would not surprise me if the Longhorn people are anticipating it.
Sometimes it is nice to NOT have journalling. 1982. Caltech High Energy Physics VAX. Sunday morning. I am working on a program that has a config file in /etc. I want to delete the config file. Out of habit, I automatically type "passwd" after "/etc/". Oops.
Solution: run to the VAX, and hit the power switch. I caught it in time! /etc/passwd was still there after the fsck. :-)
Alas...the next time, I didn't run fast enough, and lost the file, so had to restore it from backup.
The next time after that, the other sys admin got tired of that, and so made a hard link to /etc/passwd so that we could just link it back after I'd remove it. That was fine until I accidently copied something to /etc/passwd instead of rm'ing /etc/passwd. :-)
So, finally they made a cron job that checked /etc/passwd every few minutes, and if it was good, made a backup, and if it was missing or appeared to be trashed, restored it.
How about the robot elders from planet Capek?
Here's how I tested when I was deciding what MP3 encoder to use and what settings to use when ripping stuff for my jukebox. Anyone see any problems with this?
I wrote a program that I can give two files to. The first is designated R (for reference) and the second is T (for test).
For each test run, the program picks one of those files, and that file is designated X. I can ask the program to play any R, T, X, or whichever file is not X. I freely play any and all of these, in any sequence I want, listening for differences, until I decide if X == R or X == T. I can then tell the program my decision, and it tells me if I'm right or wrong, and then random picks on of R and T to be X for the next run. Repeat several times. The program then gives me stats on how good I was at identifying X.
When the program plays a file, it throws in a random delay before starting playback. I did that because I noticed that .mp3 playback has a short but noticable startup delay compared to .wav playback, and I did not want that to provide a clue. Next time I revise the program, I'll throw in a small random volume variation for each playback, too.