Now, unless you're taking a picture of an evenly-lit solid white wall, there aren't many seven megapixel images I can think of that will crunch down into 200KiB.
The noise that tiny, little CCD will produce will make very sure that the image won't compress well, no matter how perfect your wall is;-)
What I don't get is why music stores ask such a high price for their downloads.
If we assume that allofmp3.com doesn't pay any royalties, they seem to have a business charging 0.01 to 0.02 USD per Mbyte for their service.
Add about 0.10 USD royalties per song to this and you have your pricepoint. Yup that's between 0.15 and 0.20 USD per song for mainstream music.
Anything above that, and you are definitely being ripped off. Still feel good paying over 1.00 USD to the coke-snorting suits at the RIAA per song? (I live in Europe 1 EUR > 1 USD)
One of the great things of running Linux for me is that I don't *have* to run Photoshop and MS Office. There are perfectly good image editing applications on Linux already installed by default and free to boot. With the greatest respect to the Open Office / Koffice / Abiword / Gnumeric developers, I have always considered so called "Office Applications" broken by design. I use other tools, but I know that if I ever need them, they are all available by default and free...
This is research done by Apple using eye tracking hardware. The bottom right is the place the eye drifts to when looking for the buttons. Furthermore, this button order makes sure the "default" OK button is always in the same place. It may seem so-and-so to you and other-than-that to others, but in UI research, the way things "seem to someone" is often a bad indicator of the way things really are.
Local? You are about as local to me as any Japanese. In terms of cultural sophistication and it's effect on games, I'll go with the Japanese. Thank you very much, see ya later.....
I hadn't a clue the Theora project was as far along as this. The example payed without fault on totem (xine engine) on my Fedora Core 2 installation and looks (ans sounds) really good!
Good question. I assume that the way iTMS handles the indies could be a model for this. I'm not claiming to have a solution to this though. Many others have proposed ideas to address precisely this problem in a far more eloquent way than I could.
All I'm saying is that the iTMS system is a really lousy deal.
I fully agree, I don't think the artist gets 1 cent of allofmp3 downloads.
That's why I would gladly pay a few bucks more per album to support the artist (hence my 3.50 USD figure). At allofmp3 I normally pay about 1 USD per album (which I agree is too little), but they seem to be able to run a webstore+encoding+distribution business from it. The difference between the above amounts would be a fine amount to go to the artist (i.e. 2.00-2.50 USD).
All I'm saying is that the 15+ USD that iTMS asks is way over the top....
Since I'm paying less than 1.50 USD per album at allofmp3.com, I'd say it's unlikely the artist would be getting 2.00-2.50 USD.
What I am saying is that *IF* the cost were around the 3.50 USD mark, I'd buy from a (hypothetical) music store.
3.50 - (1.00 to 1.50) = 2.00-2.50 USD to pay the artist.
Happy?
I don't care about your favorite codec. *I* happen to like Ogg Vorbis, so *I* would like to make the choice to have *MY* tracks encoded to Ogg Vorbis which plays on *MY* iRiver player and *MY* Linux distribution. Allofmp3 offers me that choice, iTMS does not.
I was assuming that with allofmp3.com the artist gets nothing. Do the math (I was assuming you could do it yourself)...
Situation 1 (iTunes): I pay 14 EUR for an album (that's about 16.90 USD)
Situation 2 (allofmp3): I pay between 1.00-1.50 USD per album
Situation 3 (hypothetical): I pay 3.50 USD per album.
If you deduct the 1.00-1.50 USD allofmp3.com considers profitable enough to run their business (assuming the artist gets zilch/nada/nothing in Russia) and you are left with 2.00-2.50 USD to pay the artist.
The math works out to:
16.90 (itunes) - 1.50 (max cost allofmp3) - 2.00 (artist) = 13.40 USD. Therefore, I conclude that if I buy an album from iTunes I get screwed for 13.40 USD. This is not even counting in the disadvantages of iTunes concerning format and DRM.
Simply too expensive. About 14 tracks make 1 album. That works out to slightly under 14 EUR for an album for which:
1. I have to provide the storage medium 2. Is of less quality than CD 3. Has no booklet/cover 4. Has DRM restrictions 5. Won't play on my iRiver H-120
I fail to see the good deal here:-(
However, allofmp3.com never looked this good...:-)
1. 0.01 or 0.02 USD per Mbyte (depending on encoding type) 2. Encode to your own preference (Ogg Vorbis q6 for me) 3. No DRM 4. Plays on whatever device you have
I'm sure someone will tell me the artist gets screwed this way. I see it like this:
iTunes: I get screwed big time. allofmp3: The artist gets screwed.
I start buying at a 3.50 USD pricepoint for an album and I get:
1. choice of Ogg Vorbis 2. no DRM 3. no MacOS or Windows requirement 4. no device (e.g. iPod) requirement
That leaves about 2.00-2.50 USD to the artist per album when I subtract the allofmp3 costs. I think that's fair (and a helluvalot more than most artists are getting now)
Just an anecdote, but all people I know who switched from OS9 to OSX have lots of trouble locating files on their systems.
This is partly due to the UNIX like layout of the file system and partly due to the new finder. These same people never had trouble with the old, spatial finder.
I for one quite like spatial Nautilus in Fedora Code 2 (test3).
LOL, I'd mod you up as "Funny" if I had modpoints and hadn't posted here;-)
On a more serious note though, apparently the/. crowd is getting large enough to have the likes of iRiver, Creative and Neuros releasing their players with Ogg support.
The thing about "the chicken or the egg" problem is that if a few break the loop and there are enough of these people with a little faith, a chicken can be created out of thin air.
If you'll excuse me, I'll go and listen a little more to my eggless chicken now...
http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~m.heijligers/i po d/compared.html
Distortion for the iPod is reported to be 0,42% (which is quite some), where the iRiver measures 0,04%.
From a C'T review:
Battery time of the iPod (30GB version) is reported to be 8h, the Zen 10,5h, the iRiver 13,5h, and the Philips 15h (twice as long!!!).
I won't go into the Ogg issue. The iPod simply doesn't have it. Just Google around the web and you'll find plenty of references to the poor sound quality and the low battery life.
Slashdot Mirror
virus vendors... ???
You can restrict the commands and arguments allowed by ssh. If you don't restrict this, though, you are in deep poo.
Examples at: http://sial.org/howto/rsync/
Nah, a law of Physics is a flaw of Physics until somebody discovers it.
Now, unless you're taking a picture of an evenly-lit solid white wall, there aren't many seven megapixel images I can think of that will crunch down into 200KiB.
The noise that tiny, little CCD will produce will make very sure that the image won't compress well, no matter how perfect your wall is ;-)
Hmmm, seems pretty accurate to me. What do you consider missing?
LOL, that's still 0.29 USD for the music store, while allofmp3 can do it for 0.05 to 0.10 USD.
;-)
But agreed, the 0.70 USD goes to the RIAA private crack fund
What I don't get is why music stores ask such a high price for their downloads.
If we assume that allofmp3.com doesn't pay any royalties, they seem to have a business charging 0.01 to 0.02 USD per Mbyte for their service.
Add about 0.10 USD royalties per song to this and you have your pricepoint. Yup that's between 0.15 and 0.20 USD per song for mainstream music.
Anything above that, and you are definitely being ripped off. Still feel good paying over 1.00 USD to the coke-snorting suits at the RIAA per song? (I live in Europe 1 EUR > 1 USD)
Try compiling a tarball on standard Windows. No really, I dare you...
Ok, repeat after me:
* Users install packages using their package manager.
* Developers who like to twiddle things compile from tarball.
Really, I have yet to see more than 50% of windows machines (desktop/laptop) work 100% out of the box. You must be one lucky guy...
One of the great things of running Linux for me is that I don't *have* to run Photoshop and MS Office. There are perfectly good image editing applications on Linux already installed by default and free to boot. With the greatest respect to the Open Office / Koffice / Abiword / Gnumeric developers, I have always considered so called "Office Applications" broken by design. I use other tools, but I know that if I ever need them, they are all available by default and free...
This is research done by Apple using eye tracking hardware. The bottom right is the place the eye drifts to when looking for the buttons. Furthermore, this button order makes sure the "default" OK button is always in the same place. It may seem so-and-so to you and other-than-that to others, but in UI research, the way things "seem to someone" is often a bad indicator of the way things really are.
"Remember when buying local was a good thing?"
Local? You are about as local to me as any Japanese. In terms of cultural sophistication and it's effect on games, I'll go with the Japanese. Thank you very much, see ya later.....
I hadn't a clue the Theora project was as far along as this. The example payed without fault on totem (xine engine) on my Fedora Core 2 installation and looks (ans sounds) really good!
Keep up the great work!
Good question. I assume that the way iTMS handles the indies could be a model for this. I'm not claiming to have a solution to this though. Many others have proposed ideas to address precisely this problem in a far more eloquent way than I could.
All I'm saying is that the iTMS system is a really lousy deal.
I fully agree, I don't think the artist gets 1 cent of allofmp3 downloads.
That's why I would gladly pay a few bucks more per album to support the artist (hence my 3.50 USD figure). At allofmp3 I normally pay about 1 USD per album (which I agree is too little), but they seem to be able to run a webstore+encoding+distribution business from it. The difference between the above amounts would be a fine amount to go to the artist (i.e. 2.00-2.50 USD).
All I'm saying is that the 15+ USD that iTMS asks is way over the top....
Since I'm paying less than 1.50 USD per album at allofmp3.com, I'd say it's unlikely the artist would be getting 2.00-2.50 USD.
What I am saying is that *IF* the cost were around the 3.50 USD mark, I'd buy from a (hypothetical) music store.
3.50 - (1.00 to 1.50) = 2.00-2.50 USD to pay the artist.
Happy?
I don't care about your favorite codec. *I* happen to like Ogg Vorbis, so *I* would like to make the choice to have *MY* tracks encoded to Ogg Vorbis which plays on *MY* iRiver player and *MY* Linux distribution. Allofmp3 offers me that choice, iTMS does not.
I was assuming that with allofmp3.com the artist gets nothing. Do the math (I was assuming you could do it yourself)...
Situation 1 (iTunes): I pay 14 EUR for an album (that's about 16.90 USD)
Situation 2 (allofmp3): I pay between 1.00-1.50 USD per album
Situation 3 (hypothetical): I pay 3.50 USD per album.
If you deduct the 1.00-1.50 USD allofmp3.com considers profitable enough to run their business (assuming the artist gets zilch/nada/nothing in Russia) and you are left with 2.00-2.50 USD to pay the artist.
The math works out to:
16.90 (itunes) - 1.50 (max cost allofmp3) - 2.00 (artist) = 13.40 USD. Therefore, I conclude that if I buy an album from iTunes I get screwed for 13.40 USD. This is not even counting in the disadvantages of iTunes concerning format and DRM.
Simply too expensive. About 14 tracks make 1 album. That works out to slightly under 14 EUR for an album for which:
:-(
:-)
1. I have to provide the storage medium
2. Is of less quality than CD
3. Has no booklet/cover
4. Has DRM restrictions
5. Won't play on my iRiver H-120
I fail to see the good deal here
However, allofmp3.com never looked this good...
1. 0.01 or 0.02 USD per Mbyte (depending on encoding type)
2. Encode to your own preference (Ogg Vorbis q6 for me)
3. No DRM
4. Plays on whatever device you have
I'm sure someone will tell me the artist gets screwed this way. I see it like this:
iTunes: I get screwed big time.
allofmp3: The artist gets screwed.
I start buying at a 3.50 USD pricepoint for an album and I get:
1. choice of Ogg Vorbis
2. no DRM
3. no MacOS or Windows requirement
4. no device (e.g. iPod) requirement
That leaves about 2.00-2.50 USD to the artist per album when I subtract the allofmp3 costs. I think that's fair (and a helluvalot more than most artists are getting now)
ROFL! Darn, my mod-points just expired, otherwise +1 funny :)
Just an anecdote, but all people I know who switched from OS9 to OSX have lots of trouble locating files on their systems.
This is partly due to the UNIX like layout of the file system and partly due to the new finder. These same people never had trouble with the old, spatial finder.
I for one quite like spatial Nautilus in Fedora Code 2 (test3).
Ah, you're doing the famous Windows mind-trick again; who do you think you are, a Jedi Knight?
You're confusing robustness with features.
Just what we need, the entire third world running unsupported Microsoft OS'es. I thought Microsoft wanted to stop spam, not encourage it...
Anyone going online using one of these computers in a year or so will find out the hard way what the term "HaX0red" means.
LOL, I'd mod you up as "Funny" if I had modpoints and hadn't posted here ;-)
/. crowd is getting large enough to have the likes of iRiver, Creative and Neuros releasing their players with Ogg support.
On a more serious note though, apparently the
The thing about "the chicken or the egg" problem is that if a few break the loop and there are enough of these people with a little faith, a chicken can be created out of thin air.
If you'll excuse me, I'll go and listen a little more to my eggless chicken now...
Ouch, that is some tortured logic....
First of all, I wasn't saying that the iPod didn't have any of these features. Even so:
FM radio is a yes: iFM Comes standard? Didn't think so.
The iRiver iHP-120 has the best audio quality? says who?
Stereoplay (10-2003) rates the sound quality at 37 points, with only 33 points for the iPod.
And Yes, they can drive larger headphones (i do it all the time) I stand corrected, apparently only the European versions are restricted.
No Ogg, but mp3/AAC Ok, but the iHP has WMV, WAV, ASF support (and the iPod AIFF, I know I know).
Oooh, I've been moderated as a troll, goodie.
i po d/compared.html
http://www.reviewcentre.com/review31485.htmlp ://www.zensbikeshop.com/
You want references? Here ya go....
http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~m.heijligers/
Distortion for the iPod is reported to be 0,42% (which is quite some), where the iRiver measures 0,04%.
From a C'T review:
Battery time of the iPod (30GB version) is reported to be 8h, the Zen 10,5h, the iRiver 13,5h, and the Philips 15h (twice as long!!!).
I won't go into the Ogg issue. The iPod simply doesn't have it. Just Google around the web and you'll find plenty of references to the poor sound quality and the low battery life.
http://gear.ign.com/articles/452/452815p1.html
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etc...