I'm not up to speed on the plausibility of such a device, so I'll put it out to the/. brain trust.
Would it be possible to create a micro-Linux distribution that did nothing more than process.mp3 or.ogg streams for playing through your stereo similarly to this hardware product?
Technology is getting to the point that the old 486's laying around the house gathering dust are now being joined by old lower-end Pentium-class systems. Surely a Linux microkernel system compiled with your necessary soundcard and NIC drivers, along with the vorbis decoder would be small enough to fit on a floppy?
The whole "Tom's article on the heat sink falling off" bullshit is silly. If the water pump in your car fails and you keep running it then your motor will burn up. Luckily we have temperatore gauges on most autos to let us know when our car is overheating.
AMD CPU's, for the most part, kick mule all over Intel's offerings at the same rated speed. If you follow normal precautions with your CPU (i.e. fasten the heatsink properly) the likelihood of the heatsink "falling off" is next to nil.
They can easily work around this by simply putting a small notification somewhere on the jewel case that says that it will not play on a computer CD-ROM drive, as they have done in Germany.
The vast majority of sheep who just listen on standard CD players will not care about this, as it does not bother them and the labels know this. Those of us in the minority (and we ARE a minority) who want to copy our CD's so as to store the originals and submit the copies to the hazards of life are going to get screwed. And this is why we need to do something about it.
And then they came for the N*SYNC listeners...
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Damnit, what is it going to take for the minions of Slashbots to quit cracking the comments about the copy protected artists not being worth copying? I was getting ready to Moderate this damned thread but I kept finding myself modding posts down so I gave up.
I do not care whether the copy protection is on an artist I like or one that I dislike. The point is that this travesty is creeping into the mainstream music industry, and if nothing is done the cost of adding this protection to future artists you might care about will be so insignificant that it won't be an issue whether they do it or not.
So get a damned clue people. This shit needs to be acted on now, either through letters to the labels involved or through active cracking of the protection schemes. The audio passthrough cables don't count here, as we need something that is so painfully easy to use (recording one long-ass wav file then editing each song out is normally fine for most studio works but try doing that on a live album with no breaks. I've done it and it sucks) that it's almost seamless in its operation.
Don't get complacent about this shit, because by the time they copy protect YOUR favorite artist it might be too late to stop them.
From what Sister Mary told me in Catholic school the size of the screen that you're using to look at pr0n has nothing to do with why you are getting bad eyestrain.
Not to be anal (but I will anyway) but you don't own a hot water heater. You technically own a cold water heater, otherwise it would be rather redundant.
Yeah, this guy is a real hero to the recording artists out there. Check this statement out:
"Yes, I have. I've used Napster, and both my kids have used Napster."
What this guy is saying is that while he was downloading Jim Nabor's songs during his permanent unemployment from the DJ business he realized that those recording industry executives probably didn't like this whole file sharing thing.
Being that most of these execs are still convinced that there is a really small needle that is used to play compact discs he realized that there is probably a lot of money in creating a "copy protection scheme" for audio CD's using a technology that uses a lot of technojargon with just a hint of smoke and mirrors.
By the time this copy protection gets bypassed by someone in his youngest childs daycare class he would have already pocketed hundreds of millions of dollars and can then work on the latest release of his product which uses higher quality mirrors and a different color smoke.
Bravo to him for moving from turntable flunky to recording company fleecer.
Oh, and a correction. Those aren't speedbumps, those are the folks that are buying CD's and trying to use them in a legal fashion.
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Ugh, can we avoid the whole "Holy War" thing. I'm rather CNN'ed out right now.
Call it "Infinite Debate" or something like that instead.
I'm not sure about their Malaysian fab, but the one in Austin was only producing Durons at the end, with all of the Thunderbirds coming out of their new Dresden, Germany fab. Dresden was built to encorporate copper interconnects into the chip, and Austin was never upgraded.
Last I heard Dresden wasn't anywhere near capacity, so I guess that it's not too surprising that they would move production over there with their future lines.
"I was wondering if anyone out there had any ideas on how to turn all that passionate talk on Slashdot (how I love it) into a political force that people will pay attention to."
Yeah, submit stories with all the usual/. trigger phrases and link to the website of the group who you are trying to pressure. After a days worth of the/. effect people tend to become much more willing to listen to your demands.
I tried to go to the announcement instead of the empeg home page, it appears. Nevertheless, not updating the product home page to show such expanded functionality was either a dumb move or signs of impending death.
One actually did try to get to that site but it was/.'ed for one pretty quickly. One instead went to the product homepage and found nothing other than it played mp3 files.
One would think that if the manufacturer was going to add features that they would put it on the product page in case one wanted to actually consider buying the product.
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I'm not up to speed on the plausibility of such a device, so I'll put it out to the /. brain trust.
.mp3 or .ogg streams for playing through your stereo similarly to this hardware product?
Would it be possible to create a micro-Linux distribution that did nothing more than process
Technology is getting to the point that the old 486's laying around the house gathering dust are now being joined by old lower-end Pentium-class systems. Surely a Linux microkernel system compiled with your necessary soundcard and NIC drivers, along with the vorbis decoder would be small enough to fit on a floppy?
Maybe call it the LInux Music Project?
If Taco was this pure wouldn't have have instead backed up his home CD collection to .ogg format instead?
A Linux user logging into AOL would be like an MIT professor showing up on Springer.
The whole "Tom's article on the heat sink falling off" bullshit is silly. If the water pump in your car fails and you keep running it then your motor will burn up. Luckily we have temperatore gauges on most autos to let us know when our car is overheating.
AMD CPU's, for the most part, kick mule all over Intel's offerings at the same rated speed. If you follow normal precautions with your CPU (i.e. fasten the heatsink properly) the likelihood of the heatsink "falling off" is next to nil.
Just like a guy to go back for one last fucking.
They can easily work around this by simply putting a small notification somewhere on the jewel case that says that it will not play on a computer CD-ROM drive, as they have done in Germany.
The vast majority of sheep who just listen on standard CD players will not care about this, as it does not bother them and the labels know this. Those of us in the minority (and we ARE a minority) who want to copy our CD's so as to store the originals and submit the copies to the hazards of life are going to get screwed. And this is why we need to do something about it.
Damnit, what is it going to take for the minions of Slashbots to quit cracking the comments about the copy protected artists not being worth copying? I was getting ready to Moderate this damned thread but I kept finding myself modding posts down so I gave up.
I do not care whether the copy protection is on an artist I like or one that I dislike. The point is that this travesty is creeping into the mainstream music industry, and if nothing is done the cost of adding this protection to future artists you might care about will be so insignificant that it won't be an issue whether they do it or not.
So get a damned clue people. This shit needs to be acted on now, either through letters to the labels involved or through active cracking of the protection schemes. The audio passthrough cables don't count here, as we need something that is so painfully easy to use (recording one long-ass wav file then editing each song out is normally fine for most studio works but try doing that on a live album with no breaks. I've done it and it sucks) that it's almost seamless in its operation.
Don't get complacent about this shit, because by the time they copy protect YOUR favorite artist it might be too late to stop them.
Wow, they really DID call us Linux users "Freaks". I was giving them the benefit of the doubt that the Babelfish translation was just a bit off.
I am, however, glad to see that there was a translation problem that created the exclamation "Linux and Windows on a PC - as simple as never".
Doh!.
Nice ad placement, ATI. I know it's random, but there's got to be settings somewhere to avoid such things.
"Thank you. All your base are belong to us."
...not to mention the midrange and whatever is left of the highs after compression hacks the hell out of them.
From what Sister Mary told me in Catholic school the size of the screen that you're using to look at pr0n has nothing to do with why you are getting bad eyestrain.
She wasn't a fan of simian abuse.
Not to be anal (but I will anyway) but you don't own a hot water heater. You technically own a cold water heater, otherwise it would be rather redundant.
They won't take back defective product? I'd love to know the name of this music chain. That's insane.
In case anyone is interested, FuckedDistro.com is available.
Yeah, this guy is a real hero to the recording artists out there. Check this statement out:
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"Yes, I have. I've used Napster, and both my kids have used Napster."
What this guy is saying is that while he was downloading Jim Nabor's songs during his permanent unemployment from the DJ business he realized that those recording industry executives probably didn't like this whole file sharing thing.
Being that most of these execs are still convinced that there is a really small needle that is used to play compact discs he realized that there is probably a lot of money in creating a "copy protection scheme" for audio CD's using a technology that uses a lot of technojargon with just a hint of smoke and mirrors
By the time this copy protection gets bypassed by someone in his youngest childs daycare class he would have already pocketed hundreds of millions of dollars and can then work on the latest release of his product which uses higher quality mirrors and a different color smoke.
Bravo to him for moving from turntable flunky to recording company fleecer.
Oh, and a correction. Those aren't speedbumps, those are the folks that are buying CD's and trying to use them in a legal fashion.
Ugh, can we avoid the whole "Holy War" thing. I'm rather CNN'ed out right now.
Call it "Infinite Debate" or something like that instead.
Will Canada just come over to the States and buy the dishes, only to get the signal for free across the border?
Cool, another "Card Hackers vs the Corporate Programmers" battle. Those make such good reading.
I'm not sure about their Malaysian fab, but the one in Austin was only producing Durons at the end, with all of the Thunderbirds coming out of their new Dresden, Germany fab. Dresden was built to encorporate copper interconnects into the chip, and Austin was never upgraded.
Last I heard Dresden wasn't anywhere near capacity, so I guess that it's not too surprising that they would move production over there with their future lines.
"I was wondering if anyone out there had any ideas on how to turn all that passionate talk on Slashdot (how I love it) into a political force that people will pay attention to."
/. trigger phrases and link to the website of the group who you are trying to pressure. After a days worth of the /. effect people tend to become much more willing to listen to your demands.
Yeah, submit stories with all the usual
I tried to go to the announcement instead of the empeg home page, it appears. Nevertheless, not updating the product home page to show such expanded functionality was either a dumb move or signs of impending death.
One actually did try to get to that site but it was /.'ed for one pretty quickly. One instead went to the product homepage and found nothing other than it played mp3 files.
One would think that if the manufacturer was going to add features that they would put it on the product page in case one wanted to actually consider buying the product.
Now what would be COOL would be a car player that played more than just mp3's...like one that would play .ogg and .wma files, too.
Wouldn't that be spiffy?
No, it's not just you. Securityfocus is just as slow and ugly as you are. ;)
Husband: No, it wasn't an affair, per se. I was actually conducting some Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Assesments on her.
Boy, was she vulnerable! Glad I was able to help her out, really!