Re:Good... down with Real
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Two people. I also went to check it out (before reading this thread). I'm not one to defend Real. I don't use their player, and when I have in the past I have found that some of their practices *are pretty annoying. But the "find the free link" issue is really not that bad, as the headline of and much of the ranting in the article would lead one to believe. It does take just two clicks. Furthermore, the two yellow "Download Now" buttons each have a label below them that say "$19.95 one-time fee". The "premium" and "basic" sections are also well delineated with appropriate headings. Misleading? Perhaps. Deceptive? No.
I don't have a cell phone yet, but that sounds like a great feature. Are they all like this, or in this day of paying a dollar to download and use an annoying tone is such a feature difficult to find? If the latter, what model do you have and do you know of any other models that have it? Is there a general label for this feature that I could look for when phone shopping?
The reason is that value is generated only in the presence of a risk/reward ratio. An idea involves no risk. Therefore, the numerator of the risk/reward ratio is zero, and its business value is zero. In contrast, execution involves risk, which is why it leads to reward.
This would seem to imply that is the reward increases, the value decreases. Or maybe I'm missing something...
I think my favorite part of Revolutions is that when the credits started rolling, there wasn't some garbage Rage Against The Machine song playing. At least they came to their senses about that.
If you find the perpetrator yourself and the police can't help you, there is but one solution: vigilantism. Make the person suffer in one way or another for their crime.
Perhaps the DOJ should hire David Rocci as their website designer. Their new site looks like something that was designed by a Middle School student in 1993.
Indeed, if you are interested in a good fictional account of such a world, read The Giver by Lois Lowry.
Re:Secrecy failure in the entertainment industry
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Distributed Security
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I'm not an expert in the history of cryptography, but from what I have read, public key cryptography was invented in 1976 (or maybe '75 or '77) by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, so it is unlikely that the Enigma machines (or any other cryptography used by the Germans) was that.
I think that those devices were a sort of stream cipher that used an initialization vector, but I could certainly be mixing up my terminology, or even just plain wrong...
If anyone is interested in a fictional work that deals with the logical end of this kind of legislation, read The Giver by Lois Lowry. Although a novel for children, its subject matter is very applicable to this situation.
I found the article at upside.com to be misleading. The first nine paragraphs mostly support the 'OS-X is half-baked' argument. Then, finally, it states:
But an oversized majority of our jurors -- around 80 percent, according to our poll -- said Apple was innocent of delivering a half-baked operating system.
If 80% of users polled think that the OS is OK as shipped, I don't think it deserves the title of 'half-baked'...
I've actually been wanting a list of players that DO support CD-Rs for a while now. (Besides playing audio CDs, it's useful for VCDs.)
Go to http://www.timefordvd.com. They have comparison charts that, along with a lot of other data, tells you whether a given DVD player will read a CDR.
Hmm. I haven't had that problem. On my machine at work, it takes about 3% of system resources to play. And compressing a track generally takes about 40-60% of the track length in time, the same as LAME. This is on a K7-700/128M.
Hopefully we all give this the big middle one, and use OggVorbis, unfortantly it's not done, and currently performes like crap.. at least for now. hopefully in the future this will change.
Have you even used the latest version of the ogg encoder (beta 3)? I have encoded about 10 full CDs and have only heard one major glitch (at the very end of _The Shawshank Redemption_ by Thomas Newman). I'm not saying that it is totally ready for prime time. Most notably, the present encoder / plugins are missing facilities for tagging, and the present encoder does not accept wildcards. But I would not say that it "performes like crap", or even "performs like crap". In most of my listening tests, I cannot tell the difference between a Lame 3.83 encoded MP3 and the OGG file.
vbr encoded files almost always have problems (in players) with time elapsed and time remaining; in the display portion of the decoder.
Recent encoders actually have a tag somewhere in the MP3 file that explicitly sets the track length. I believe this was started by the Xing (ick, don't use it) encoder. I know that Lame 3.83 does it. The Ogg Vorbis encoder, which currently only does VBR, also does this, and the plugin for Winamp picks it up.
Someone else noted that VBR doesn't stream well. I don't personally listen to much streamed media, so this isn't a problem for me. However, I recall a friend of mine at Real Networks stating that VBR makes streaming very difficult. I am certain that this problem is being worked on by a number of companies and projects...
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Two people. I also went to check it out (before reading this thread). I'm not one to defend Real. I don't use their player, and when I have in the past I have found that some of their practices *are pretty annoying. But the "find the free link" issue is really not that bad, as the headline of and much of the ranting in the article would lead one to believe. It does take just two clicks. Furthermore, the two yellow "Download Now" buttons each have a label below them that say "$19.95 one-time fee". The "premium" and "basic" sections are also well delineated with appropriate headings. Misleading? Perhaps. Deceptive? No.
I don't have a cell phone yet, but that sounds like a great feature. Are they all like this, or in this day of paying a dollar to download and use an annoying tone is such a feature difficult to find? If the latter, what model do you have and do you know of any other models that have it? Is there a general label for this feature that I could look for when phone shopping?
The reason is that value is generated only in the presence of a risk/reward ratio. An idea involves no risk. Therefore, the numerator of the risk/reward ratio is zero, and its business value is zero. In contrast, execution involves risk, which is why it leads to reward.
This would seem to imply that is the reward increases, the value decreases. Or maybe I'm missing something...
Like this one? I became vexed by the damned thing in college, and I rarely use one now. clock
I think my favorite part of Revolutions is that when the credits started rolling, there wasn't some garbage Rage Against The Machine song playing. At least they came to their senses about that.
Don't forget "Fred Basset"...
Point taken. I was, of course, referring to the vast majority of pop and modern country music.
If you're listening to performers like that (those that don't write their own material), you need to broaden your listening horizons.
If you find the perpetrator yourself and the police can't help you, there is but one solution: vigilantism. Make the person suffer in one way or another for their crime.
I'm glad to know that someone out there besides myself reads (and can quote) _The Boomer Bible_.
Or similarly (worse actually), leave it all in the hands of the government. I'm sure they'll find the best use for it.
Actually, they are working on doing just that:1 60,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,956
Perhaps the DOJ should hire David Rocci as their website designer. Their new site looks like something that was designed by a Middle School student in 1993.
but Lin emphasizes this request is reasonable since it is based on (government users') necessity
What is this? Does anything go if it is based on necessity? Are we equating need with reasonable and right?
Indeed, if you are interested in a good fictional account of such a world, read The Giver by Lois Lowry.
I'm not an expert in the history of cryptography, but from what I have read, public key cryptography was invented in 1976 (or maybe '75 or '77) by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, so it is unlikely that the Enigma machines (or any other cryptography used by the Germans) was that.
I think that those devices were a sort of stream cipher that used an initialization vector, but I could certainly be mixing up my terminology, or even just plain wrong...
I was going to post this exact thing. I picked up the book at a half price books store years ago, and thought it was a pretty good response to 1984.
If anyone is interested in a fictional work that deals with the logical end of this kind of legislation, read The Giver by Lois Lowry. Although a novel for children, its subject matter is very applicable to this situation.
Semisonic (http://www.semisonic.com/) also publishes their lyrics on the web, as well as tab.
Konquorer has an option built in to do this.
I found the article at upside.com to be misleading. The first nine paragraphs mostly support the 'OS-X is half-baked' argument. Then, finally, it states:
But an oversized majority of our jurors -- around 80 percent, according to our poll -- said Apple was innocent of delivering a half-baked operating system.
If 80% of users polled think that the OS is OK as shipped, I don't think it deserves the title of 'half-baked'...
I've actually been wanting a list of players that DO support CD-Rs for a while now. (Besides playing audio CDs, it's useful for VCDs.)
Go to http://www.timefordvd.com. They have comparison charts that, along with a lot of other data, tells you whether a given DVD player will read a CDR.
Hmm. I haven't had that problem. On my machine at work, it takes about 3% of system resources to play. And compressing a track generally takes about 40-60% of the track length in time, the same as LAME. This is on a K7-700/128M.
Hopefully we all give this the big middle one, and use OggVorbis, unfortantly it's not done, and currently performes like crap.. at least for now. hopefully in the future this will change.
Have you even used the latest version of the ogg encoder (beta 3)? I have encoded about 10 full CDs and have only heard one major glitch (at the very end of _The Shawshank Redemption_ by Thomas Newman). I'm not saying that it is totally ready for prime time. Most notably, the present encoder / plugins are missing facilities for tagging, and the present encoder does not accept wildcards. But I would not say that it "performes like crap", or even "performs like crap". In most of my listening tests, I cannot tell the difference between a Lame 3.83 encoded MP3 and the OGG file.
vbr encoded files almost always have problems (in players) with time elapsed and time remaining; in the display portion of the decoder.
Recent encoders actually have a tag somewhere in the MP3 file that explicitly sets the track length. I believe this was started by the Xing (ick, don't use it) encoder. I know that Lame 3.83 does it. The Ogg Vorbis encoder, which currently only does VBR, also does this, and the plugin for Winamp picks it up.
Someone else noted that VBR doesn't stream well. I don't personally listen to much streamed media, so this isn't a problem for me. However, I recall a friend of mine at Real Networks stating that VBR makes streaming very difficult. I am certain that this problem is being worked on by a number of companies and projects...