The problem I see here is that you are locked into someone else's software. The plugin is probably only going to be available for MS Windows. Maybe Mac. Linux (x86 only) is very iffy. The idea of it being available for other platforms is absurd.
It depends on who implements it. If a Linux geek does it, it'll be available for Linux. A Windows hacker, Windows. The best solution would probably be to make the modifications an open standard for anyone to implement. Maybe this could be an extention to OggVorbis?
The main problem I see with this approach is, that even if you use digital signatures to verify that the recipient of the money is legit, it would be easy to hijack. First, get the raw music from the modified sound file--it's been said many times before, but no matter how good the encryption is, it will always be possible to get ahold of the enencrypted sound data (if only at the hardware level). Then, add your own recipient data and digital sig. Pretend that you were the artist who recorded it. Distribute, let money roll in, rinse, repeat. The digital sig will only verify that the person who added the payment info is the person who added the sig, not that they actually made the music.
As long as the intro is still actually part of the mix, it should be salvageable (if not at full quality). Subtract the ad content (as someone said in an earlier thread, the company will probably supply the ad on their site in hopes that someone will listen), then increase the volume of the intro to proportionally match the rest of the track.
Jimmy Hoffa didn't say "Bullocks to the ruthless company-boars, but ya know -- fighting for unions just gets people all edgy and stuff".
Jimmy Hoffa is a bad example. Unionism was already entrenched when Hoffa arrived on the scene. One of the pioneers of trade unionism would be better, like Samuel Gompers.
if you take the NY Post into your local library and copy an article for your friend, are you breaking the law?
No. That's fair use. People do it all the time while doing research. What do you think those copiers in the libraries are for? If people weren't supposed to be able to copy sections from books and magazines, do you think libraries would spend the money to buy copiers?
I think the artist that embrace digital music are the ones that will succeed.
Yeah. It's really too bad Limp Bizkit's music is so crappy. I'd like to see a band with some skill get behind Napster. (To be fair, Metallica is crap too, especially since they decided to become a whiny Alice in Chains clone.)
There's an article on this at sfgate. Your case sounds like Jane Hitchcock's--she was spammed and signed up for magazine and CD subscriptions by a phony literary agency that she had had a dispute with.
There's a watchdog group called Cyberangels that has a division devoted to fighting this sort of childish crap.
I got a message from AnimEigo a couple of days ago announcing this. I'd voted for AnimEigo to release Yuu Yuu Hakusho on VHS but not on DVD. Since they are shifting to all-DVD production, they sent emailsout to people like me who had voted just for videotape, to see if we wanted our votes shifted. I selected[1] "no", and sent an email to explain:
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000 tabulator@animeigo.com wrote:
> On our YUYU survey, you indicated that DVD was not > one of your preferences. As such, we are not sure if you > still want the title, and need some input from you. > > If you would like to change your vote to be one for buying > the title on DVD, please click on this coded url: > > If you DO NOT want the title on DVD and wish to change your > vote, please click on this coded url:
I am currently boycotting all DVDs because I believe the DVD-CCA and MPAA's suit over the DeCSS program is wrong and harmful. While I would like to see Yuu Yuu Hakusho released subtitled in the USA, I would not be able to buy a DVD in good conscience as long as this suit remains in effect.
If YYH is released only on DVD, I will simply rely on fan-subtitled videotapes of it.
[1]Submitting my opinion was a pain. The email assumed I could "click on the coded URL", assuming everybody uses mail clients with autolinking. Grr! Copy and paste, copy and paste...
IMHO the best way to rate mp3s is to link them one to another.
The problem with this, I think, is that it would tend to constrain people to genres. Unless a few people do some creative link-suggesting, ska bands will mostly be linked to ska bands for example. Not that this isn't helpful for most people, but if you're interested in expanding your musical horizons it isn't too useful.
A combination of the two would probably be ideal. There's no reason why you couldn't have both features.
I'm on UBB-based boards all of the time, and I've never had a problem with this. There are some things that disabling JavaScipt makes more annoying (like having to retype my password every time I post something), but it's still usable.
if things are to change, we must put our mugs on the nightly news.
Why has nobody sent this in to the events calendar at the San Francisco Chronicle? If I'd known about it earlier, I would have gotten it to one of the editorial assistants in charge of listings. Too late now...this weekend's listings have already been sent to the print shops.
Please, if anybody is having interesting seminars, give the major papers in the area a heads-up at least a week ahead of time. It's free promotion!
Thinking a bunch of hackers can just auto-magically create the greatest user interface in the world without finding out what users want is just plain arrogant. Oh wait, if hackers like an interface, everyone must, right? Vi must be the pinnacle of UIs.
If you're SAG or Equity (that is, in a union), you get paid. You're also at that point not allowed to work on non-union shoots/shows. Sux for you if yer in an area where most of the work is non-union.
Didn't they recently change it so there was a limited number of nonunion jobs you could take?Part of the merger with the extras union, I though.
Yeah...Slashcode. No joke. Think about it: what is moderation but a form of collaborative filtering of comments? With a little hacking, it shouldn't be too hard to turn Slash into a collaborative filtering system for MP3s on a website.
We all know how broken moderation is, and how it can be abused. But it's still remarkably effective at weeding out the garbage.
It's not that they don't have access to mail. It's that mail quickly gets expensive when you're sending lots of packages. Note that an indie band selling directly to fans must mail a separate package per fan. They cannot take advantage of bulk delivery rates. On the other hand, a major label can send a whole bunch of CDs in one shipment to record stores for very little money. There's a little markup of the price due to the record store middleman, but the labels don't care about that.
Argh! "Irregardless", if you insist on using that word, is a double negative ("ir-", which is a modified form of "in-", + "-less")--logically, it should mean "not without regard" or "regarding". Don't use "irregardless" when you mean "regardless"!
I know I'm being a complete pedant here, but this word always annoys me. Thank you.
Heiroglyphs are boring. The real news is that, according to the Unicode Proposed Characters Page, the Klingon alphabet, and the Tengwar and Cirth runes (from Tolkein) are under investigation for being included in Unicode.
Of course, KDE and GNOME are desktop environments, while the examples you list are window managers. Apples and oranges. You can use just a window manager, or just a desktop environment, or both together.
A mouse with force-feedback, like the Playstation Dual Shock controllers. A hard "bump" when you hit the edge of the screen, perhaps, and maybe a light "buzz" when you try to click on something you can't.
I'm red green colorblind. I am actually a little worse in one eye than the other... these leads to some head splitting experiences when reading green text on a red background.
My advice? Never go to a 3D movie using red/green stereoscopy.
I believe there is also a yellow/blue colorblindness but I've never seen this.
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It depends on who implements it. If a Linux geek does it, it'll be available for Linux. A Windows hacker, Windows. The best solution would probably be to make the modifications an open standard for anyone to implement. Maybe this could be an extention to OggVorbis?
The main problem I see with this approach is, that even if you use digital signatures to verify that the recipient of the money is legit, it would be easy to hijack. First, get the raw music from the modified sound file--it's been said many times before, but no matter how good the encryption is, it will always be possible to get ahold of the enencrypted sound data (if only at the hardware level). Then, add your own recipient data and digital sig. Pretend that you were the artist who recorded it. Distribute, let money roll in, rinse, repeat. The digital sig will only verify that the person who added the payment info is the person who added the sig, not that they actually made the music.
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As long as the intro is still actually part of the mix, it should be salvageable (if not at full quality). Subtract the ad content (as someone said in an earlier thread, the company will probably supply the ad on their site in hopes that someone will listen), then increase the volume of the intro to proportionally match the rest of the track.
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Jimmy Hoffa is a bad example. Unionism was already entrenched when Hoffa arrived on the scene. One of the pioneers of trade unionism would be better, like Samuel Gompers.
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No. That's fair use. People do it all the time while doing research. What do you think those copiers in the libraries are for? If people weren't supposed to be able to copy sections from books and magazines, do you think libraries would spend the money to buy copiers?
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Yeah. It's really too bad Limp Bizkit's music is so crappy. I'd like to see a band with some skill get behind Napster. (To be fair, Metallica is crap too, especially since they decided to become a whiny Alice in Chains clone.)
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There's an article on this at sfgate. Your case sounds like Jane Hitchcock's--she was spammed and signed up for magazine and CD subscriptions by a phony literary agency that she had had a dispute with.
There's a watchdog group called Cyberangels that has a division devoted to fighting this sort of childish crap.
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As I understand it, some DVD players won't play unencrypted DVDs. I could be wrong.
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I got a message from AnimEigo a couple of days ago announcing this. I'd voted for AnimEigo to release Yuu Yuu Hakusho on VHS but not on DVD. Since they are shifting to all-DVD production, they sent emailsout to people like me who had voted just for videotape, to see if we wanted our votes shifted. I selected[1] "no", and sent an email to explain:
[1]Submitting my opinion was a pain. The email assumed I could "click on the coded URL", assuming everybody uses mail clients with autolinking. Grr! Copy and paste, copy and paste...
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Hmm. The car should probably be a Q-zone while it's in motion. No sense in disallowing calls when stopped.
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...using cellphones while driving. Will public highways start setting up Q-zones?
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The problem with this, I think, is that it would tend to constrain people to genres. Unless a few people do some creative link-suggesting, ska bands will mostly be linked to ska bands for example. Not that this isn't helpful for most people, but if you're interested in expanding your musical horizons it isn't too useful.
A combination of the two would probably be ideal. There's no reason why you couldn't have both features.
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Zardoz has spoken!
I'm on UBB-based boards all of the time, and I've never had a problem with this. There are some things that disabling JavaScipt makes more annoying (like having to retype my password every time I post something), but it's still usable.
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Why has nobody sent this in to the events calendar at the San Francisco Chronicle? If I'd known about it earlier, I would have gotten it to one of the editorial assistants in charge of listings. Too late now...this weekend's listings have already been sent to the print shops.
Please, if anybody is having interesting seminars, give the major papers in the area a heads-up at least a week ahead of time. It's free promotion!
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Of course it isn't.
Emacs is! :)
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Didn't they recently change it so there was a limited number of nonunion jobs you could take?Part of the merger with the extras union, I though.
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Yeah...Slashcode. No joke. Think about it: what is moderation but a form of collaborative filtering of comments? With a little hacking, it shouldn't be too hard to turn Slash into a collaborative filtering system for MP3s on a website.
We all know how broken moderation is, and how it can be abused. But it's still remarkably effective at weeding out the garbage.
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Zardoz has spoken!
It's not that they don't have access to mail. It's that mail quickly gets expensive when you're sending lots of packages. Note that an indie band selling directly to fans must mail a separate package per fan. They cannot take advantage of bulk delivery rates. On the other hand, a major label can send a whole bunch of CDs in one shipment to record stores for very little money. There's a little markup of the price due to the record store middleman, but the labels don't care about that.
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Argh! "Irregardless", if you insist on using that word, is a double negative ("ir-", which is a modified form of "in-", + "-less")--logically, it should mean "not without regard" or "regarding". Don't use "irregardless" when you mean "regardless"!
I know I'm being a complete pedant here, but this word always annoys me. Thank you.
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It's a hole that can't be plugged, either. There's no way, under current copyright law, for a copyright licence to restrict the author.
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That would be kana, actually. Kanji are the ideograms borrowed from China.
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Heiroglyphs are boring. The real news is that, according to the Unicode Proposed Characters Page, the Klingon alphabet, and the Tengwar and Cirth runes (from Tolkein) are under investigation for being included in Unicode.
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Um...it's a laptop. It's portable.
Granted, he might not want to cart it back and forth every day just so he can look at QuickTime videos.
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Of course, KDE and GNOME are desktop environments, while the examples you list are window managers. Apples and oranges. You can use just a window manager, or just a desktop environment, or both together.
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A mouse with force-feedback, like the Playstation Dual Shock controllers. A hard "bump" when you hit the edge of the screen, perhaps, and maybe a light "buzz" when you try to click on something you can't.
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My advice? Never go to a 3D movie using red/green stereoscopy.
It exists, but it is very very rare.
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