Recording artists are no different, they like the comfort of the labels and I don't blaim them. They should be paid.
Except that most albums fail to recoup all expenses and thus fail to pay the artist one thin dime. If the record labels consider album a work for hire, why is the employee paying the expenses rather than the employer? I can potentially see bringing minimum-wage laws into this.
Also, if you insist of trying to prevail with this whole no intelectual property idea, say good bye to biotech and your expected 100 year lifespans, who will bother without a profit?
At least patented drugs pass into the public domain while the inventors are still alive (20 years after filing, generally 20 years after it works in rats and rabbits), unlike copyrighted works (95 years after December 31 after first publication; may Sonny Bono rot in hell). A short privilege term promotes progress by forcing creators to continue to create new things such as the new weekly formulation of Prozac rather than sit on their as^H^Hback catalog.
But sometimes you may not feel that whatever you have to say is particularly worthy of such a boost (but you also don't feel like posting anonymously), so that's what the checkbox is for.
For some time back in November, the "No Score +1 Bonus" checkbox did not work for many Slashdot readers. Thank gosh it's fixed now.
Actually there is the junk fax law as the definition of computer will match any computer with a modem and printer attached to it.
I assume you refer to 47 USC 227, which requires "a regular telephone line" in the communication chain and thus excludes spam sent from a user on a cable modem service to a user on a cable modem service.
Then get the company that writes the software under contibutory infringment.
Some of these spammers run Free software packages such as Sendmail or Postfix under FreeBSD, Linux, or Cygwin. A judge would laugh your suit out of court on grounds that the mail packages have substantial non-infringing uses.
E$ is the name of a string variable in the Basic programming language.
Re:Different versions of the Euro...
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I guess [by 5.500 DM] you meant 5500 DM, not 5 point 5 DM?
Different countries have different conventions. For example, in some countries, a million times is written 3,141,592.65 while in others it's 3.141.592,65 . Scientific papers often use non-breaking spaces and a period: 3141592.65 . In Windows, try Start > Settings > Control Panel > Regional Settings.
According to Israeli law, a merchant may not refuse to accept valid currency.
So how are Israeli vending machines programmed? In the USA, vending machines are clearly marked: "Takes 5c, 10c, 25c, and $1 coins and $1 bills." Unless the law grants an exception to operators of vending machines, I bet they have to put a metric ____load of change in the machines every night.
AltGr is the right Alt key on AT keyboards
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Furthermore, what is an AltGr key?
Short answer: right Alt key.
AltGr (possibly for Alternate Graphic) has existed on nearly all PC keyboards since the first 100+-key AT keyboard. The bottom row of the keyboard runs Ctrl, Alt, Space, AltGr, RCtrl. On newer keyboards: Ctrl, Meta, Alt, Space, AltGr, RMeta, Menu, RCtrl. On some US keyboards, AltGr may be marked the same as Alt, or with different text coloring.
I just encoded a bunch of wav files with the command line enconder AND the oggdrop encoder and none of them will play in the latest version of Sonique... Is Sonique broken or the win32 version of Ogg
In Ogg, VBR is not a hack, it's native. We've been designing it that way for eight years. *VBR modes always sound better. Use them.*
I understand, but there's a reason for using relatively constant bitrates in some cases: common telephone modems are not VBR. They have a practical sustained bandwidth ceiling of 32 kbps plus TCP headers. Streaming really needs ABR with a relatively short buffer.
Making these work with Ogg Vorbis is probably very simple, moreover Ogg Vorbis source code is free. So why don't hardware manufacturers provide support for Ogg Vorbis?
The ARM processors used in many pocket-size MP3 devices have trouble even dividing integers, let alone doing the floating-point arithmetic that the current Vorbis decoders require. ARM processors more easily handle the fixed-point multiplications used in many implementations of spectral-transform (e.g. MP3 and Vorbis) and linear-predictive (e.g. ADPCM and Shorten) compression technologies.
If you want Ogg on pocket-size hardware, then port (or fund porting) the Vorbis codec to fixed-point arithmetic.
[EAC is six times slower than Adaptec's software]. Does EAC work better
EAC, like cdparanoia, may work better than other audio extraction software on scratched or "protected" CDs. A read error will sound like a read error, that is, a 1/75 second burst of noise, no matter what compression technology you use. The better rip tools will compensate better for read errors.
Should I be re-encoding all my audio every time a new RC is out?
If you're happy with the quality to data rate ratio that previous programs provide, you need not re-encode your existing wav files to ogg. Current ogg players can play any file encoded with Beta 4 through RC3.
After a couple more revisions, say RC5, will the encoder be so time-optimized that it has time to run a few rounds of encryption cracking after each second of encoded audio, in cooperation with distributed.net? (Get it? RC5?)
the point is there's no point in reencoding an mp3 to another codec, resulting in a worse file at a higher bitrate
Did you read rseuhs's comment at all? Can you hear the difference between wav -> 128 Kbps ogg and wav -> 256 Kbps mp3 -> 128 Kbps ogg, especially if you can't hear the difference between the wav and the mp3? Yes, it will sound marginally worse, but if you can't tell the difference, you can't tell the difference.
There are no restrictions on MP3 decoders the way there are on encoders
Not anymore. The royalty-free license for free(beer) software mp3 decoders appears to have disappeared from Thomson's royalty schedule. Winamp and XMMS as free products seem no longer legal.
Even then, hardware decoders have never had a royalty-free license.
General rule of thumb is to never re-encode lossy-compressed music.
Then what should I encode? Commonly available CDs are lossy compressed down to 1.4 Mbps (44 kHz 16-bit stereo) by adding "dither" noise in the 16-22 kHz band.
However, in general, I agree. Transcoding 128 to 128 will lose a generation, but 256 to 160 shouldn't sound too bad, especially if it's part of a remix.
there is no GBA(or Xbox, or PS2) docking station that lets me plug in a nice monitor
TV de Advance fits onto the back of your GBA and feeds the video to a nice TV. Think of it as Super Game Boy Advance.
keyboard, and mouse for my FPSs.
As Gizzmonic said, first-person shooters aren't the be-all and end-all of video games. But if you really want to play Doom Advance on your PC, use this docking station: Visoly Flash Advance Linker + VisualBoy Advance.
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With 32 bits you can address 4GB. With 64 bits you can address twice what you calculated.
Most PC motherboards reserve lots of the memory above 0x80000000 (2 GB) for purposes other than main RAM (AGP, PCI, ROM, etc.).
Remember if I can hear it I can copy it, through my Soundblaster Live it's as simple as record what you hear.
Not if the app turns on the Secure Audio Path in WinME and WinXP, which turns off all the card's digital outputs, including what-you-hear.
So long as the pricing is below some threshold of pain (I'm guessing $15/month but I'm no expert)
You mean like this service (which I don't work for)? eMusic.com is $45 for three months or $120 for one year to anybody in the USA.
Recording artists are no different, they like the comfort of the labels and I don't blaim them. They should be paid.
Except that most albums fail to recoup all expenses and thus fail to pay the artist one thin dime. If the record labels consider album a work for hire, why is the employee paying the expenses rather than the employer? I can potentially see bringing minimum-wage laws into this.
Also, if you insist of trying to prevail with this whole no intelectual property idea, say good bye to biotech and your expected 100 year lifespans, who will bother without a profit?
At least patented drugs pass into the public domain while the inventors are still alive (20 years after filing, generally 20 years after it works in rats and rabbits), unlike copyrighted works (95 years after December 31 after first publication; may Sonny Bono rot in hell). A short privilege term promotes progress by forcing creators to continue to create new things such as the new weekly formulation of Prozac rather than sit on their as^H^Hback catalog.
here's another trend to watch out for: actors that do especially well with blue-screens
So instead of going on strike, virtual actors are going to BSOD the computers?
I've recently started using trillian (www.trillian.cc [trillian.cc]) for all my IMing needs
Trillian is a Windows app, but it apparently works under Wine.
But sometimes you may not feel that whatever you have to say is particularly worthy of such a boost (but you also don't feel like posting anonymously), so that's what the checkbox is for.
For some time back in November, the "No Score +1 Bonus" checkbox did not work for many Slashdot readers. Thank gosh it's fixed now.
Actually there is the junk fax law as the definition of computer will match any computer with a modem and printer attached to it.
I assume you refer to 47 USC 227, which requires "a regular telephone line" in the communication chain and thus excludes spam sent from a user on a cable modem service to a user on a cable modem service.
Then get the company that writes the software under contibutory infringment.
Some of these spammers run Free software packages such as Sendmail or Postfix under FreeBSD, Linux, or Cygwin. A judge would laugh your suit out of court on grounds that the mail packages have substantial non-infringing uses.
Why would a defunct wrestling conference (once part of the defunct WCW (now part of the WWF)) be a world superpower?
Everbody seems to know what E$ means...
E$ is the name of a string variable in the Basic programming language.
I guess [by 5.500 DM] you meant 5500 DM, not 5 point 5 DM?
Different countries have different conventions. For example, in some countries, a million times is written 3,141,592.65 while in others it's 3.141.592,65 . Scientific papers often use non-breaking spaces and a period: 3141592.65 . In Windows, try Start > Settings > Control Panel > Regional Settings.
According to Israeli law, a merchant may not refuse to accept valid currency.
So how are Israeli vending machines programmed? In the USA, vending machines are clearly marked: "Takes 5c, 10c, 25c, and $1 coins and $1 bills." Unless the law grants an exception to operators of vending machines, I bet they have to put a metric ____load of change in the machines every night.
Furthermore, what is an AltGr key?
Short answer: right Alt key.
AltGr (possibly for Alternate Graphic) has existed on nearly all PC keyboards since the first 100+-key AT keyboard. The bottom row of the keyboard runs Ctrl, Alt, Space, AltGr, RCtrl. On newer keyboards: Ctrl, Meta, Alt, Space, AltGr, RMeta, Menu, RCtrl. On some US keyboards, AltGr may be marked the same as Alt, or with different text coloring.
I just encoded a bunch of wav files with the command line enconder AND the oggdrop encoder and none of them will play in the latest version of Sonique... Is Sonique broken or the win32 version of Ogg
Your copy of Sonique may contain an obsolete Vorbis decoder. Try Winamp with a recent 1.0-complete decoder plug-in.
In Ogg, VBR is not a hack, it's native. We've been designing it that way for eight years. *VBR modes always sound better. Use them.*
I understand, but there's a reason for using relatively constant bitrates in some cases: common telephone modems are not VBR. They have a practical sustained bandwidth ceiling of 32 kbps plus TCP headers. Streaming really needs ABR with a relatively short buffer.
Making these work with Ogg Vorbis is probably very simple, moreover Ogg Vorbis source code is free. So why don't hardware manufacturers provide support for Ogg Vorbis?
The ARM processors used in many pocket-size MP3 devices have trouble even dividing integers, let alone doing the floating-point arithmetic that the current Vorbis decoders require. ARM processors more easily handle the fixed-point multiplications used in many implementations of spectral-transform (e.g. MP3 and Vorbis) and linear-predictive (e.g. ADPCM and Shorten) compression technologies.
If you want Ogg on pocket-size hardware, then port (or fund porting) the Vorbis codec to fixed-point arithmetic.
[EAC is six times slower than Adaptec's software]. Does EAC work better
EAC, like cdparanoia, may work better than other audio extraction software on scratched or "protected" CDs. A read error will sound like a read error, that is, a 1/75 second burst of noise, no matter what compression technology you use. The better rip tools will compensate better for read errors.
Should I be re-encoding all my audio every time a new RC is out?
If you're happy with the quality to data rate ratio that previous programs provide, you need not re-encode your existing wav files to ogg. Current ogg players can play any file encoded with Beta 4 through RC3.
After a couple more revisions, say RC5, will the encoder be so time-optimized that it has time to run a few rounds of encryption cracking after each second of encoded audio, in cooperation with distributed.net? (Get it? RC5?)
the point is there's no point in reencoding an mp3 to another codec, resulting in a worse file at a higher bitrate
Did you read rseuhs's comment at all? Can you hear the difference between wav -> 128 Kbps ogg and wav -> 256 Kbps mp3 -> 128 Kbps ogg, especially if you can't hear the difference between the wav and the mp3? Yes, it will sound marginally worse, but if you can't tell the difference, you can't tell the difference.
There are no restrictions on MP3 decoders the way there are on encoders
Not anymore. The royalty-free license for free(beer) software mp3 decoders appears to have disappeared from Thomson's royalty schedule. Winamp and XMMS as free products seem no longer legal.
Even then, hardware decoders have never had a royalty-free license.
General rule of thumb is to never re-encode lossy-compressed music.
Then what should I encode? Commonly available CDs are lossy compressed down to 1.4 Mbps (44 kHz 16-bit stereo) by adding "dither" noise in the 16-22 kHz band.
However, in general, I agree. Transcoding 128 to 128 will lose a generation, but 256 to 160 shouldn't sound too bad, especially if it's part of a remix.
America's favorite car is probably some piece of shit Japanese sedan. America's favorite SUV is probably a Ford Exploder. Who cares?
Mass production reduces the price of the finished product by up to 90% in some cases.
I'm still waiting for someone to do a Linux/XFree86 port for the GBA.
With only 288 KB of main memory (not counting ROM)? Not likely.
there is no GBA(or Xbox, or PS2) docking station that lets me plug in a nice monitor
TV de Advance fits onto the back of your GBA and feeds the video to a nice TV. Think of it as Super Game Boy Advance.
keyboard, and mouse for my FPSs.
As Gizzmonic said, first-person shooters aren't the be-all and end-all of video games. But if you really want to play Doom Advance on your PC, use this docking station: Visoly Flash Advance Linker + VisualBoy Advance.
PS2 supports USB peripherals.
But why doesn't the Sony PS2 support PS/2 peripherals?