For what they are, CDs are still pretty good, but only having 80 minute capacity is something I've felt has always been a limiting factor. CD players that supported data CDs loaded with MP3s always seemed like kind of a hack to me. In the meantime, I've discovered compression formats like AAC+; perhaps it would be a good idea to update the current uncompressed format of audio CDs to include optional AAC+ (or other high-quality, low- or no-loss) compression? Seems to me like a good trade-off between sound quality and the ability to stuff a standard 700MiB CD with 12+ hours of music. Otherwise? I haven't regularly used audio CDs on a regular basis for much of anything. I'm either using an MP3 player or some digital format stored on a hard disk -- or listening to Shoutcast, as I am right this moment. That being said though when I want to purchase music, I'm more likely to go purchase a physical CD instead of purchasing a download, mainly because most downloadable formats are in MP3, not AAC/AAC+ or better (I don't like or use iTunes).
That's quite a lovely Utopia you're living in, there in your head my friend, but for what it's worth I wish I was living in it, too. Really, it sounds nice, but it fails to take into account a constant in the capitalist world: greed.
Thanks so much for going out of your way to destroy internet radio. Broadcast radio hasn't been worth listening to for years and years now because the entire recording industry-at-large produces more crap than a dairy farm, and internet radio offered some programming that I was at least willing to listen to, but since you're a bunch of greedy bastards you just had to go and ruin that for everyone, didn't you? As a result of your short-sighted actions, I will NEVER listen to broadcast radio again, starting with the day that internet radio draws it's last breath. Furthermore I have NO intention of purchasing any music from any RIAA labels ever again, instead I'll give my money directly to independent artists and recording labels, or otherwise buy my music at used record stores so you don't get any of my money ever again. I'll also be urging anyone who will listen to do the same until you greedy fat bastards get the message that your business model is outdated bullshit and you need to change with the times and stop trying to screw everyone!
1. There will always be people who refuse to pay for content if they can find a way to get it for free, regardless of what you do to "protect" it, because they're wired that way.
2. There will always be people who pay for content regardless of whether they can get it for "free" through some technological means, because hey're wired that way.
3. NOTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE THAT, EVER, SO FUCKING GIVE IT UP ALREADY AND ACCEPT THE FACT, WORK AROUND IT!!!
So if I'm reading this correctly, they essentially created a measuring system for how much power a swimmer is generating in the water, serving the equivalent purpose of the power meter that is commonly used by cyclists?
Didn't we go through this very sort of thing in the 80's with IBM? Didn't the proliferation of IBM-PC clones create the ultimate dominance of the PC in the marketplace? Apple would do well in this situation to appear all righteously indignated over some upstart company selling Apple clones, but in the end let them get away with it, because ultimately it will increase the demand for genuine Apple products.
Gimme a break here, will ya? Rather than go on for a whole paragraph with the usual soap-box rhetoric on how it doesn't matter if they try to censor the internet, people will find a way around it, I just cut straight to the Firefly quote for once. Well, fine. You get the long version then.
So the Italian government is trying to make themselves look good to their constituency by "blocking the bad 'ol pirates". My my, wouldn't Moussolini be proud. Seriously? You're a bunch of idiots. The tighter you squeeze, the more P2P will slip through your fingers. The RIAA still hasn't learned that lesson regardless of how much MediaSentry gets spanked for picking on broke college kids, little old ladies, and soccer moms who don't even know or are able to comprehend what P2P means or what BitTorrent does, let alone have any MP3s or know how to rip a CD! Sure, why should you fascist bastards be any different than the RIAA? Go right ahead and waste taxpayer money and time that could be spent working on solutions for REAL problems and REAL crimes. Or better yet, why don't you get a collective brain, wake up and smell the coffee? People will ALWAYS find a way to share files and music, even if it's sneakernet -- even if it's SneakerNetOverCarrierPigeon -- so give it up because you can't stamp it all out, ever!
..or, like I said originally: You can't stop the signal, Mal!
I'm done now. Go right ahead and mod me down to -1, Troll or somesuch if you like, because I really don't give a flying fuck, you little tin-plated dictators. Get off my lawn.
I like this idea in theory, but that thought can only exist in a utopian world. I'm sure I'm not the only person who can see that there will be all sorts of abuses of a system like this, no matter how well encrypted it is. Redirect unsuspecting motorists into carjacking traps, for instance? One would hope that drivers take with a huge salt-lick-sized grain of salt what information they receive over such a network. Hard to say though from the lack of information from the original article.
Wow, what a coincidence that China would bust out with a "plan" like this, just as the Olympics are starting! "Hey world, look at us, we're being good to the planet!". What a bunch of horseshit. It's purely a PR stunt, and I'll bet good money that soon after the Olympics are over and they're back to "business as usual" in Beijing, the whole thing will get dropped.
The real problem is that you allowed this to happen in the first place. Get your data back, and don't let anyone have it again. It's bad enough that more or less any government agency likely has access to ALL your data right now, that any talented hacker likely can GET access to it, and that Google could be SELLING your very personal data to the highest bidder. Put in on a secure USB flash drive or something.
Get Tivo. TV commercial problem, solved. Movie theatre commercials, on the other hand: Utter, complete nonsense and crap, crap, crap. I seriously resent going to the movies and having to be subjected to that bullshit.
..because if they can make people believe they must have blu-ray, then they're at least halfway to convincing them that they need a HDTV to go with it -- which is what they really want to sell them.
They're myopians, which is another well-established fact, though: You can't stop the signal, Mal is the mantra I keep repeating; it doesn't matter how much they try to stamp it out, people will continue to share files. They need to stop wasting everyone's time and money and just accept that this is the way things are.
Nice idea, but I'm not going to hold my breath. My chosen sport is cycling, and I like to ride long distances, the faster the better. If, on top of the training I do, this pill improves my endurance and other attributes similarly to what it did in mice, and it does that with no life-threatening side effects, then I might consider it. However every "miracle drug" that has ever come along has always come up with some long-term side-effects that shorten life spans or even kill you outright. I'll stick to my workouts and training rides for now, thank you very much.
I can't disagree with you, considering that I've been modded down as a "troll" just because someone didn't agree with me and likely wished they could silence me as well.
That's a completely bullshit statement. Don't paint with a broad brush, damnit! Not ALL cops are violent assholes, but if we took your statement to heart then they would eventually all be forced into ACTING like violent assholes.
I see no reason why this person, AC or not, was modded down to -1 for his statements. It would have been nice if he'd've posted links citing actual examples, but he's not off-topic or off-base either.
TFA basically boils down to this single statement: "We've got money and some shiny toys to play with, wheee!!!!". It doesn't say anything about what their long-term intentions are specifically. I for one reserve judgement on the issue until I see something more concrete -- with the exception that I agree that nothing of any real substance will come of this for at least a decade.
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For what they are, CDs are still pretty good, but only having 80 minute capacity is something I've felt has always been a limiting factor. CD players that supported data CDs loaded with MP3s always seemed like kind of a hack to me. In the meantime, I've discovered compression formats like AAC+; perhaps it would be a good idea to update the current uncompressed format of audio CDs to include optional AAC+ (or other high-quality, low- or no-loss) compression? Seems to me like a good trade-off between sound quality and the ability to stuff a standard 700MiB CD with 12+ hours of music. Otherwise? I haven't regularly used audio CDs on a regular basis for much of anything. I'm either using an MP3 player or some digital format stored on a hard disk -- or listening to Shoutcast, as I am right this moment. That being said though when I want to purchase music, I'm more likely to go purchase a physical CD instead of purchasing a download, mainly because most downloadable formats are in MP3, not AAC/AAC+ or better (I don't like or use iTunes).
Reading these makes my brain hurt. I think I'll pass from now on. :p
That's quite a lovely Utopia you're living in, there in your head my friend, but for what it's worth I wish I was living in it, too. Really, it sounds nice, but it fails to take into account a constant in the capitalist world: greed.
Sincerely,
Disgruntled
2. There will always be people who pay for content regardless of whether they can get it for "free" through some technological means, because hey're wired that way.
3. NOTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE THAT, EVER, SO FUCKING GIVE IT UP ALREADY AND ACCEPT THE FACT, WORK AROUND IT!!!
So if I'm reading this correctly, they essentially created a measuring system for how much power a swimmer is generating in the water, serving the equivalent purpose of the power meter that is commonly used by cyclists?
Didn't we go through this very sort of thing in the 80's with IBM? Didn't the proliferation of IBM-PC clones create the ultimate dominance of the PC in the marketplace? Apple would do well in this situation to appear all righteously indignated over some upstart company selling Apple clones, but in the end let them get away with it, because ultimately it will increase the demand for genuine Apple products.
So the Italian government is trying to make themselves look good to their constituency by "blocking the bad 'ol pirates". My my, wouldn't Moussolini be proud. Seriously? You're a bunch of idiots. The tighter you squeeze, the more P2P will slip through your fingers. The RIAA still hasn't learned that lesson regardless of how much MediaSentry gets spanked for picking on broke college kids, little old ladies, and soccer moms who don't even know or are able to comprehend what P2P means or what BitTorrent does, let alone have any MP3s or know how to rip a CD! Sure, why should you fascist bastards be any different than the RIAA? Go right ahead and waste taxpayer money and time that could be spent working on solutions for REAL problems and REAL crimes. Or better yet, why don't you get a collective brain, wake up and smell the coffee? People will ALWAYS find a way to share files and music, even if it's sneakernet -- even if it's SneakerNetOverCarrierPigeon -- so give it up because you can't stamp it all out, ever!
I'm done now. Go right ahead and mod me down to -1, Troll or somesuch if you like, because I really don't give a flying fuck, you little tin-plated dictators. Get off my lawn.
I like this idea in theory, but that thought can only exist in a utopian world. I'm sure I'm not the only person who can see that there will be all sorts of abuses of a system like this, no matter how well encrypted it is. Redirect unsuspecting motorists into carjacking traps, for instance? One would hope that drivers take with a huge salt-lick-sized grain of salt what information they receive over such a network. Hard to say though from the lack of information from the original article.
Wow, what a coincidence that China would bust out with a "plan" like this, just as the Olympics are starting! "Hey world, look at us, we're being good to the planet!". What a bunch of horseshit. It's purely a PR stunt, and I'll bet good money that soon after the Olympics are over and they're back to "business as usual" in Beijing, the whole thing will get dropped.
Non potete arrestare il segnale, Mal!
You can't stop the signal, Mal!
The real problem is that you allowed this to happen in the first place. Get your data back, and don't let anyone have it again. It's bad enough that more or less any government agency likely has access to ALL your data right now, that any talented hacker likely can GET access to it, and that Google could be SELLING your very personal data to the highest bidder. Put in on a secure USB flash drive or something.
..welcome our new useles-iPhone-app overlords.
Get Tivo. TV commercial problem, solved. Movie theatre commercials, on the other hand: Utter, complete nonsense and crap, crap, crap. I seriously resent going to the movies and having to be subjected to that bullshit.
..because if they can make people believe they must have blu-ray, then they're at least halfway to convincing them that they need a HDTV to go with it -- which is what they really want to sell them.
Is Neal Stephenson one of their contributors? ;-)
They're myopians, which is another well-established fact, though: You can't stop the signal, Mal is the mantra I keep repeating; it doesn't matter how much they try to stamp it out, people will continue to share files. They need to stop wasting everyone's time and money and just accept that this is the way things are.
Fair enough.. I should have cited some examples of what I meant by "miracle drugs": things like cortisone, or fen-phen.
Dang it, that is supposed to read "Have your cake and eat it too". Sorry, Slashdotters. :-/
Nice idea, but I'm not going to hold my breath. My chosen sport is cycling, and I like to ride long distances, the faster the better. If, on top of the training I do, this pill improves my endurance and other attributes similarly to what it did in mice, and it does that with no life-threatening side effects, then I might consider it. However every "miracle drug" that has ever come along has always come up with some long-term side-effects that shorten life spans or even kill you outright. I'll stick to my workouts and training rides for now, thank you very much.
I can't disagree with you, considering that I've been modded down as a "troll" just because someone didn't agree with me and likely wished they could silence me as well.
That's a completely bullshit statement. Don't paint with a broad brush, damnit! Not ALL cops are violent assholes, but if we took your statement to heart then they would eventually all be forced into ACTING like violent assholes.
I see no reason why this person, AC or not, was modded down to -1 for his statements. It would have been nice if he'd've posted links citing actual examples, but he's not off-topic or off-base either.
TFA basically boils down to this single statement: "We've got money and some shiny toys to play with, wheee!!!!". It doesn't say anything about what their long-term intentions are specifically. I for one reserve judgement on the issue until I see something more concrete -- with the exception that I agree that nothing of any real substance will come of this for at least a decade.