Decent digital cameras already have the same visual resolution as film cameras, and in many cases, their color fidelity, saturation, hue, tone, and dynamic range are better than all but the most expensive film and development processes.
Now, as for blowing up a picture to "full page" or more, any 6-8Mpx DSLR camera will generate magazine-quality images at 8x10, assuming you've got a decent photographer who is reasonably adept at working his/her camera.
And what about quality? Will film ever be as versitile as digital? If you don't develop the latent image on the negative correctly--or gods forbid, fuck it up--how will you ever recover that image?
But the real question is how can you make it. Well, to make it on-line as a musician, this is what I would do:
Make sure your website has features to keep and gain fan attention. Make sure you have available media such as:
MP3s, WMAs, OGGs, and AACs of your music in lower but still acceptable quality. I'd say 56k-96kbit, so casual listeners can listen but true fans would want to purchase high quality (192-512k) copies and lossless copies. Doesn't even have to be all your music. Imagine it like singles played on the radio. You can even have a tip section for each song so they can donate if they feel like it. And since you're distributing these files, you could have an introduction where you thank them for listening and direct them to your website, and put meta-data tags (ID3 tags and OGG comments, and I'm sure WMA and AAC have similar info blocks) on the files so it shows your information in iTunes, Winamp, Windows Media Player, XMMS, and so on.
Maybe setup a Shoutcast, or IceCast channel. "All $MYBAND! All the time!"
Videos of the band. Again, low quality, Windows Media, Quicktime, screw Real Player. Make them stream-only for free and offer to sell downloads of higher quality copies.
Sell swag from your website. Audio CDs, DVDs of shows you've played, music videos if you're inclined to make them; T-shirts, hoodies, baby-doll shirts and all that crap that Cafepress will make for you. Turn album covers into desktop wallpapers, and have band photos for download. Make cell phone themes and ring-tones, sell those for $0.99 or even $0.50. Find a local starving-artist to help with the media if you want.
If you've got the time and energy, have a band blog, podcast, or even for have those for individual band members.
Promote your site with other artists and promote them on yours if you like them or if you think your fans would like them. A couple of banner ads on your site (provided that they're not obnoxious) in return for a couple banner ads on someone else's site.
Get signed with whoever you can, but make sure you retain copyrights and possibly distribution rights. Get your music on iTMS if you can. Look into on-line record companies/distributors like Magnatune or MP3 Tunes as long as they won't interfere with you hosting your music on your own if you want.
Make it easy for interested fans to find you, refer you to their friends, buy stuff from you. Make your website easy to find and accessible. If you're not so good with visual media or website design, you probably know of a geek or a family member who is good at that, you could have them make a site for you (Payment would be between you and them). Once you're big enough, see if you can setup some tour dates. Sell CDs there, give out business cards with your website URL on them. Give away CDs with a few singles on them. You can even have an introduction on the CDs and DVDs and direct them back to your website, especially on any CDs you give away. Put a data track on audio CDs and DVDs that has some promo material or music files for your band and a link to your website. Remember everything can be used to promote yourself/your band, so make sure you've got it there where you can. But don't be obnoxious about it. People understand self-promo
Yes but the MOST successful viruses go years before they kill the host so as to maximize their infection rates. Plus often when a virus kills the host it's because the virus became TOO successful. Some viruses, like some of the herpes viruses, never kill the host, thereby living as long as the host organism does.
I agree with the interface being pretty bad (Who's bright idea was it to force me to right-click a button to get a semi-related-but-not-really other button? And why are they still alive?) but how is it an improvement over the GIMP? I want some examples, not just vague statements.
Plus copyrights (theoretically) expire. Does anyone know of a DRM scheme that will legitimately allow something into the public domain 50 years after the author dies?
You've never known anyone who's gone through a really messy divorce with a really vindictive spouse. All it takes is one inviting the other in the most sweet voice that person can muster.
It's not a contradiction, but a misinterpretation.
The GPL version "2.2" is the DEVELOPMENT VERSION, which Prof. Molgen submitted to RMS for debate. To my knowledge, no one is using it (I haven't even SEEN it yet). The latest PRODUCTION VERSION is version 2, dated in 1991, the version that almost all GPL software is currently licensed under.
Something like that, but have you seen who the Executive Producer for the show is? I think it's more than someone who found a piece of paper with Gene's doodles on it.
Actually, that is a show called Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda starring Kevin Sorbo and produced by Majel Roddenberry. But they had to remove the Trek part, but just substitute "Federation" every time someone says "Commonwealth" and you'll know what I mean.
Alright fine then, how about opening the protocol that SubEthaEdit uses? Let someone else write the application that can talk the talk. I use my iBook regularly, but for long coding/writing sessions, it's much nicer to use my Linux desktop machine.
There are ZeroConf daemons for Linux now (mDNSresponder) but they don't help with the individual application communication protocol.
I believe he was referring to the 1D MkII not the 1Ds MkII. Those are physicially different cameras. The 1Ds is the one with the 35mm full-frame 16.7 megapixel sensor. The 1D has a 1.6 cropping factor and an 8.2 megapixel sensor.
Actually, if you have the closed-source Cisco monitor tools, you can upgrade/downgrade the firmware from that (I did it with the 340 card I used to have in that machine). The machine I've got it in doesn't even have Windows installed.
And I've heard of buggy firmware revisions from Cisco as well. I believe the latest firmware they recommend for Linux is 4.13 or something like that. Strangely enough, I'm running 5.30 on mine and it's rock stable, so I'm not messing with it.
Cisco sells the Aironet line of cards that are completely (As much as I can tell) supported by Linux. I run a Cisco Aironet 350 (And a 340 before that) for my WiFi internet at home and the drivers are built into the Linux kernel from 2.4 onward (I'd recommend 2.4.24 or later though because prior versions of the drivers are randomly unstable).
The monitor software for it is written by Cisco and provided gratis (No source though) for Linux. It works pretty well on my system Fedora Core 2 with vanilla kernel 2.4.28). But it isn't needed to get the link up and keep it up.
Possibly, but how do you compare this in an automated fashion in real-time like they claim to be able to do? If I have a HDTV recording of a show and encode it with XviD, I'd like to know how you plan to compare that to the original and make results available immediately, with the option of firing off a C&D or filing a lawsuit without the huge liability of suing someone who's doing you a favor by poluting the P2P pool for you.
I'm sure they want to minimize false positives as much as possible to avoid looking like complete asshats in the media the next time they sue a 60-something grandmother who's never even HEARD of the artist or TV show she's accused of pirating.
They put up some BitTorrent, eDonkey, and other servers that make copyrighted content available (Bait files). People will search for and download that content. Due to the nature of BitTorrent and eDonkey (Among others), clients that are downloading files also upload that content to other clients that make requests for it. They'll have other servers then make request that content from clients that they know are downloading from their rigged servers, so no matter what you name it, it's the same content which they can then easily verify with automated methods (md4 hash in eDonkey and SHA1 (IIRC) in BitTorrent). They keep a database of what IPs uploaded what parts of their bait files to their clients so they have evidence against those people if/when it goes to court.
It would be, if they were law enforcement officers, rather than a private firm, and if they were coercing you into downloading the file. They'll just say that they can't force downloads so anyone who has the content they provided did it willingly.
That won't work with this (At least not according to TFA). It looks like their servers make the content (at least partially) available online for people to search for and download, then other servers make requests for the content and will snag the IP and content blocks that people upload to them which they verify is the content and store for later prosecution. If all you're uploading is a string of zeros they won't have evidence against you.
Because it singles out Evolution, specifically to discredit it as "a theory". It doesn't state that Creationism or "Intelligent Design" is a theory as well.
It costs less than hiring more cops to follow those "suspects". Besides, it's not like cops don't have money from all the auctions I'm CONSTANTLY reading about in the paper.
As for cameras, that only works in a fixed location. Once teh "suspect's vehicle" leaves the scene, the cameras are useless (And also expensive).
If that were true, why include the encryption and the encrypted BIOS? Why not just include unencrypted flash and bypass all that DRM circuitry to begin with? Leave THAT out too.
I don't know about you, but I wasn't hatched from an egg. I have the usual compliment of parents and siblings and they look to me for technology information. If they hear the truth about HD-DVD (Un-copyable, no backups of your $70 Star Wars wide-screen edition, etc. they will listen. And they'll tell other people. That 3% market share goes up quite a bit.
And that's even ignoring the fact that most normal people think DVD is acceptable quality already, and don't want to shell out for the new rig to play HD-DVD.
You mean besides the giving up of control, the Microsoft-specific lock-in that they have spent billions of dollars to establish and maintain?
Microsoft doesn't care that they're the biggest and baddest of the 800lb gorillas. They want all the toys and the deed to the sandbox. They want to rule it all.
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Decent digital cameras already have the same visual resolution as film cameras, and in many cases, their color fidelity, saturation, hue, tone, and dynamic range are better than all but the most expensive film and development processes.
Now, as for blowing up a picture to "full page" or more, any 6-8Mpx DSLR camera will generate magazine-quality images at 8x10, assuming you've got a decent photographer who is reasonably adept at working his/her camera.
And what about quality? Will film ever be as versitile as digital? If you don't develop the latent image on the negative correctly--or gods forbid, fuck it up--how will you ever recover that image?
True, but tell them that. They certainly propegate and reproduce like they think they are.
The recording industry ARE a bunch of greedy bastards that are just in it for the money, so any place they can squeeze out a few more bucks, they'll do it. And they know the power of Intellectual Property © ® and all the fists full of money that can generate, so they do everything they can to extend and expand copyright, so they can retain monopoly rights on something they paid someone to create but somehow they own.
But the real question is how can you make it. Well, to make it on-line as a musician, this is what I would do:
Make it easy for interested fans to find you, refer you to their friends, buy stuff from you. Make your website easy to find and accessible. If you're not so good with visual media or website design, you probably know of a geek or a family member who is good at that, you could have them make a site for you (Payment would be between you and them). Once you're big enough, see if you can setup some tour dates. Sell CDs there, give out business cards with your website URL on them. Give away CDs with a few singles on them. You can even have an introduction on the CDs and DVDs and direct them back to your website, especially on any CDs you give away. Put a data track on audio CDs and DVDs that has some promo material or music files for your band and a link to your website. Remember everything can be used to promote yourself/your band, so make sure you've got it there where you can. But don't be obnoxious about it. People understand self-promo
Yes but the MOST successful viruses go years before they kill the host so as to maximize their infection rates. Plus often when a virus kills the host it's because the virus became TOO successful. Some viruses, like some of the herpes viruses, never kill the host, thereby living as long as the host organism does.
I agree with the interface being pretty bad (Who's bright idea was it to force me to right-click a button to get a semi-related-but-not-really other button? And why are they still alive?) but how is it an improvement over the GIMP? I want some examples, not just vague statements.
Plus copyrights (theoretically) expire. Does anyone know of a DRM scheme that will legitimately allow something into the public domain 50 years after the author dies?
You've never known anyone who's gone through a really messy divorce with a really vindictive spouse. All it takes is one inviting the other in the most sweet voice that person can muster.
It's not a contradiction, but a misinterpretation.
The GPL version "2.2" is the DEVELOPMENT VERSION, which Prof. Molgen submitted to RMS for debate. To my knowledge, no one is using it (I haven't even SEEN it yet). The latest PRODUCTION VERSION is version 2, dated in 1991, the version that almost all GPL software is currently licensed under.
Something like that, but have you seen who the Executive Producer for the show is? I think it's more than someone who found a piece of paper with Gene's doodles on it.
Actually, that is a show called Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda starring Kevin Sorbo and produced by Majel Roddenberry. But they had to remove the Trek part, but just substitute "Federation" every time someone says "Commonwealth" and you'll know what I mean.
Alright fine then, how about opening the protocol that SubEthaEdit uses? Let someone else write the application that can talk the talk. I use my iBook regularly, but for long coding/writing sessions, it's much nicer to use my Linux desktop machine.
There are ZeroConf daemons for Linux now (mDNSresponder) but they don't help with the individual application communication protocol.
I guess it's possible they wouldn't work right on FC2 or 3, but I'm running them under FC1 with no problems.
I believe he was referring to the 1D MkII not the 1Ds MkII. Those are physicially different cameras. The 1Ds is the one with the 35mm full-frame 16.7 megapixel sensor. The 1D has a 1.6 cropping factor and an 8.2 megapixel sensor.
Actually, if you have the closed-source Cisco monitor tools, you can upgrade/downgrade the firmware from that (I did it with the 340 card I used to have in that machine). The machine I've got it in doesn't even have Windows installed.
And I've heard of buggy firmware revisions from Cisco as well. I believe the latest firmware they recommend for Linux is 4.13 or something like that. Strangely enough, I'm running 5.30 on mine and it's rock stable, so I'm not messing with it.
Cisco sells the Aironet line of cards that are completely (As much as I can tell) supported by Linux. I run a Cisco Aironet 350 (And a 340 before that) for my WiFi internet at home and the drivers are built into the Linux kernel from 2.4 onward (I'd recommend 2.4.24 or later though because prior versions of the drivers are randomly unstable).
The monitor software for it is written by Cisco and provided gratis (No source though) for Linux. It works pretty well on my system Fedora Core 2 with vanilla kernel 2.4.28). But it isn't needed to get the link up and keep it up.
Possibly, but how do you compare this in an automated fashion in real-time like they claim to be able to do? If I have a HDTV recording of a show and encode it with XviD, I'd like to know how you plan to compare that to the original and make results available immediately, with the option of firing off a C&D or filing a lawsuit without the huge liability of suing someone who's doing you a favor by poluting the P2P pool for you.
I'm sure they want to minimize false positives as much as possible to avoid looking like complete asshats in the media the next time they sue a 60-something grandmother who's never even HEARD of the artist or TV show she's accused of pirating.
Sure.
They put up some BitTorrent, eDonkey, and other servers that make copyrighted content available (Bait files). People will search for and download that content. Due to the nature of BitTorrent and eDonkey (Among others), clients that are downloading files also upload that content to other clients that make requests for it. They'll have other servers then make request that content from clients that they know are downloading from their rigged servers, so no matter what you name it, it's the same content which they can then easily verify with automated methods (md4 hash in eDonkey and SHA1 (IIRC) in BitTorrent). They keep a database of what IPs uploaded what parts of their bait files to their clients so they have evidence against those people if/when it goes to court.
It would be, if they were law enforcement officers, rather than a private firm, and if they were coercing you into downloading the file. They'll just say that they can't force downloads so anyone who has the content they provided did it willingly.
That won't work with this (At least not according to TFA). It looks like their servers make the content (at least partially) available online for people to search for and download, then other servers make requests for the content and will snag the IP and content blocks that people upload to them which they verify is the content and store for later prosecution. If all you're uploading is a string of zeros they won't have evidence against you.
Because it singles out Evolution, specifically to discredit it as "a theory". It doesn't state that Creationism or "Intelligent Design" is a theory as well.
It costs less than hiring more cops to follow those "suspects". Besides, it's not like cops don't have money from all the auctions I'm CONSTANTLY reading about in the paper.
As for cameras, that only works in a fixed location. Once teh "suspect's vehicle" leaves the scene, the cameras are useless (And also expensive).
The best one I saw was at my friend's condo. Someone closeby has an ap which is broadcasting the SSID "Stealthy".
If that were true, why include the encryption and the encrypted BIOS? Why not just include unencrypted flash and bypass all that DRM circuitry to begin with? Leave THAT out too.
I don't know about you, but I wasn't hatched from an egg. I have the usual compliment of parents and siblings and they look to me for technology information. If they hear the truth about HD-DVD (Un-copyable, no backups of your $70 Star Wars wide-screen edition, etc. they will listen. And they'll tell other people. That 3% market share goes up quite a bit.
And that's even ignoring the fact that most normal people think DVD is acceptable quality already, and don't want to shell out for the new rig to play HD-DVD.
You mean besides the giving up of control, the Microsoft-specific lock-in that they have spent billions of dollars to establish and maintain?
Microsoft doesn't care that they're the biggest and baddest of the 800lb gorillas. They want all the toys and the deed to the sandbox. They want to rule it all.