Maybe "third-world" countries are just less litigous than the USA? Here in the UK we have had people suing their primary care trusts to give them cancer drugs which have not yet been fully tested on their demographic - it'll be interesting to see what happens when said middle-class litigants experience side-effects and want to sue someone for that too. I have no bias, just an observation that might be relevent to the kind of society that sues companies for selling them coffee that is, *shock*, hot.
cdparanoia? with the right options it produces a lovely log file with all read, re-reads, jitters, etc. just waiting to be read by an quality analysis program (qaparanoia in my case).
would anyone actually pay for this? do they type in all the meatadata for you, or just rip it from musicbrainz? i honestly cannot believe that even lazy moneyed fuckwits would pay someone else to do such a simple job. why not pay someone to put your cds into the fricking jiffy postage bags too? tell you what, send me your cds and i'll rip them for you for free (whilst i simultaneously build up a monster media/metadata collection which I will sell at a high price to to to others - http://muze.com/)
Once I figure out this newfangled web system I will put putko and amalcon on by "friends" list. Either you are with me, or are subtley taking the piss out of me and I'm too naive to notice - I'll go with the face-value support for now and regret at my leisure when I work out the nuances of responding to a sarcastic post with a sarcastic/ironic/honest reply.
For some time I thought that "podcasting" might be an ingenious way of linking mobile music players through an ad-hoc wireless networking scheme which allowed one to disseminate an audio stream through a multicasting protocol which would utilise some kind of peer-to-peer filesharing technique to reduce end-to-end bandwidth.
Imagine my disappointment when I learned it meant "putting an mp3 file on your homepage". And for those those still caught up in the rapture of tech-newspeak, a "blog" is what we used to call a "homepage". Believe me, renaming them has not made them more interesting.
is this not just treacherous computing by another name? "You're downloading Debian?! That's not allowed! *bleep* *bleep* illegal operation *passing details to NSA*!"
Wow! Who changed the definition of "audiophile" whilst I wasn't reading the Hi-Fi rags for the last 8 years? The audiophiles must have really lowered their game, seeing as CDs were never really good enough for them, and now they are content with 128kbps lossy compressed versions of said CDs. Maybe the compression makes it "warmer" and more like vinyl or something;)
Ha-ha. Shouldn't make post-pub postings to Slashdot.
It was meant to be tongue very firmly in cheek - so I was quite suprised that it was at 4, Insightful this morning, I'd expected flamebait with a hint of funny. I'll never get used to the moderation on here;)
I'm wearing a turtle-neck right now. I don't have an iPod though.
Microsoft Office doesn't really support the needs of blind users. It is the screen reader companies that have spend lots of time writting custom code so Office works with their software. Who would have thought they would spend most time trying to get the monopoly office suite working?
If there were better (and I'm not a windows user/developer so I'm going on trust about such assertations) API hooks for accessibility (see the Peter Korn article) then they would be able to support _all_ suites adequately rather than having to spend all their time making MS Office work.
Because if MS don't support it and the accessability lobby prevent uptake of ODF then MS will still be in use and Mass. citizens will have to get Windows/Office?
In the Massachusetts case it doesn't just have to be OSS in use. Surely some office software vendor will provide support for OpenDocument AND accessibility.
I mean there is more than one office software vendor isn't there?
Erm, bad news for you dude, but it is without CHARGE! Without trial would be one thing, but they don't even tell you why they have imprisoned you. Then they get time time for a fishing expedition on your data. Kafkaesque, no?
Great. Posting this probably puts me on the police state's little list now. See you in a month or three...
Having just downloaded^Wbought, yes, bought, not downloaded at all, a Van Zant Brothers track it would surely be better all round if the Sony rootkit just stopped you from playing the VZB CD - _period_. Maybe it could prepend $SYS$ to the physical CD so that when your friends came round they wouldn't be able to see it and ridicule you mericlessly for buying such crap?
I work for a fairly big independent music distributor. We provide digital distribution as well as physical.
I wrote some scripts for ripping from CDs (with cdparanoia & friends) and entering metadata in XML which feeds into our, er, really advanced content management system.
Then we just encode out to AACs, WMAs or raw WAVs for delivery to retailers.
I've visited other digital services people who do just the same (for example, if you want your stuff on MusicNet you either provide them WAVs and metadata or give them retail CDs to rip. Ditto with iTMS and their iTMS Producer app).
Just buy CDs, because that's what you're getting your AACs, etc. from anyway - trust me it really is!
Oh, and if you're having problems with the "copy protection" then get a Real operating system;)
If you object to rootkits on your CDs then don't buy the CD. Write to the record company and artist telling them why you are not buying it. If you buy the CD anyway because it won't harm your Real OS write to them anyway telling them they are dorks.
If they are not giving you what you want then don't buy it and tell them why you don't want it. It's not like it's basic foodstuff or anything. You *can* live without carrying around 10 billion tracks with you all the fricking time you know.
FTFA: "The beauty of software is that we are always making breakthroughs. We will have more in the next 10 years than we have had on the last 30," he said in an exclusive BBC interview.
The column is tres formidable. Francois! bring a bottle of the Gevrey Chambertin '98 so that we can sit and talk about how marvelous the cheesey writing formula is!;)
In Windows, they just double clicked an EXE and the thing worked! BIG DIFFERENCE GUYS!
Yeah, then they realise they just installed a fricking virus/trojan/spyware (or rather, they probably don't).
Personally I have never suffered a virus infection or lost any time to expunging spyware or whatnot from any system I have administered. Well, expect deleting virus laden crap from my mailbox sent by clueless people who think that someone loves them and has chosen to display it by sending a blatantly titled email.
Yeah, maybe there's some inconvenience by having to spend an hour trying to figure out that I have to follow a series of steps to get something to work, but it's more than made up for by not having to spend a couple of hours de-lousing each and every machine I have to look after.
I, too, curse when the new distro I just installed won't play an mp3.
But, then I remember this is not a technical problem, but an IP problem.
If you're not paying anyone for the software then expecting them to take the heat for patent violations rather than yourself would be a bit rich. Not a dig at you I must stress, but thems the breaks with FOSS.
I just remeber to take my statically linked mplayer binary with me from system to system so I can play mp3s, aacs and most videos at the drop of a hat. Then I just add the big zip of binary codecs for most everything else:)
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Maybe "third-world" countries are just less litigous than the USA? Here in the UK we have had people suing their primary care trusts to give them cancer drugs which have not yet been fully tested on their demographic - it'll be interesting to see what happens when said middle-class litigants experience side-effects and want to sue someone for that too. I have no bias, just an observation that might be relevent to the kind of society that sues companies for selling them coffee that is, *shock*, hot.
heh, yes - something of a superfluety(???) of vowels there, and 'to's too. doh.
cdparanoia? with the right options it produces a lovely log file with all read, re-reads, jitters, etc. just waiting to be read by an quality analysis program (qaparanoia in my case).
would anyone actually pay for this? do they type in all the meatadata for you, or just rip it from musicbrainz? i honestly cannot believe that even lazy moneyed fuckwits would pay someone else to do such a simple job. why not pay someone to put your cds into the fricking jiffy postage bags too? tell you what, send me your cds and i'll rip them for you for free (whilst i simultaneously build up a monster media/metadata collection which I will sell at a high price to to to others - http://muze.com/)
Teh article is a spoof - a copy of a Nielsen article about frames with "frames" changed to "ajax" and a few other minor alterations.
Still, probably raises some pertinent questions and caveats anyway.
AJAX good for writing an "web application" but v. bad for writing a "web site" I would think.
Once I figure out this newfangled web system I will put putko and amalcon on by "friends" list. Either you are with me, or are subtley taking the piss out of me and I'm too naive to notice - I'll go with the face-value support for now and regret at my leisure when I work out the nuances of responding to a sarcastic post with a sarcastic/ironic/honest reply.
It's just another meaningless press hype tactic.
For some time I thought that "podcasting" might be an ingenious way of linking mobile music players through an ad-hoc wireless networking scheme which allowed one to disseminate an audio stream through a multicasting protocol which would utilise some kind of peer-to-peer filesharing technique to reduce end-to-end bandwidth.
Imagine my disappointment when I learned it meant "putting an mp3 file on your homepage". And for those those still caught up in the rapture of tech-newspeak, a "blog" is what we used to call a "homepage". Believe me, renaming them has not made them more interesting.
Rootkits are rarely seen on linux boxes
Rainwulf is not misinformed, I simply posted that message after I rooted his box.
I didn't RYFC, so we're even :)
is this not just treacherous computing by another name? "You're downloading Debian?! That's not allowed! *bleep* *bleep* illegal operation *passing details to NSA*!"
--
No, I didn't RTFA. I didn't RTFSummary either.
But true audiophiles want iTunes
;)
Wow! Who changed the definition of "audiophile" whilst I wasn't reading the Hi-Fi rags for the last 8 years? The audiophiles must have really lowered their game, seeing as CDs were never really good enough for them, and now they are content with 128kbps lossy compressed versions of said CDs. Maybe the compression makes it "warmer" and more like vinyl or something
Ha-ha. Shouldn't make post-pub postings to Slashdot.
;)
It was meant to be tongue very firmly in cheek - so I was quite suprised that it was at 4, Insightful this morning, I'd expected flamebait with a hint of funny. I'll never get used to the moderation on here
I'm wearing a turtle-neck right now. I don't have an iPod though.
don't buy their content!
But you will, won't you. You attention-deficit, attention-seeking, aspirational, apple-loving, consumer media whores.
Also, in case the message wasn't clear, don't steal/borrow/"share" it either.
You wouldn't eat battery farmed eggs, even if they were free, would you! (would you? urgh).
Go back to riding your litle silver scooters, ipods and turtle-necks. You people make me sick.
Microsoft Office doesn't really support the needs of blind users. It is the screen reader companies that have spend lots of time writting custom code so Office works with their software. Who would have thought they would spend most time trying to get the monopoly office suite working?
If there were better (and I'm not a windows user/developer so I'm going on trust about such assertations) API hooks for accessibility (see the Peter Korn article) then they would be able to support _all_ suites adequately rather than having to spend all their time making MS Office work.
Because if MS don't support it and the accessability lobby prevent uptake of ODF then MS will still be in use and Mass. citizens will have to get Windows/Office?
In the Massachusetts case it doesn't just have to be OSS in use. Surely some office software vendor will provide support for OpenDocument AND accessibility.
;)
I mean there is more than one office software vendor isn't there?
Yes, yes. I am new here
3 months! WITHOUT TRIAL!
...
Erm, bad news for you dude, but it is without CHARGE! Without trial would be one thing, but they don't even tell you why they have imprisoned you. Then they get time time for a fishing expedition on your data. Kafkaesque, no?
Great. Posting this probably puts me on the police state's little list now. See you in a month or three
Having just downloaded^Wbought, yes, bought, not downloaded at all, a Van Zant Brothers track it would surely be better all round if the Sony rootkit just stopped you from playing the VZB CD - _period_. Maybe it could prepend $SYS$ to the physical CD so that when your friends came round they wouldn't be able to see it and ridicule you mericlessly for buying such crap?
Amen.
;)
I work for a fairly big independent music distributor. We provide digital distribution as well as physical.
I wrote some scripts for ripping from CDs (with cdparanoia & friends) and entering metadata in XML which feeds into our, er, really advanced content management system.
Then we just encode out to AACs, WMAs or raw WAVs for delivery to retailers.
I've visited other digital services people who do just the same (for example, if you want your stuff on MusicNet you either provide them WAVs and metadata or give them retail CDs to rip. Ditto with iTMS and their iTMS Producer app).
Just buy CDs, because that's what you're getting your AACs, etc. from anyway - trust me it really is!
Oh, and if you're having problems with the "copy protection" then get a Real operating system
If you object to rootkits on your CDs then don't buy the CD. Write to the record company and artist telling them why you are not buying it. If you buy the CD anyway because it won't harm your Real OS write to them anyway telling them they are dorks.
If they are not giving you what you want then don't buy it and tell them why you don't want it. It's not like it's basic foodstuff or anything. You *can* live without carrying around 10 billion tracks with you all the fricking time you know.
FTFA: "The beauty of software is that we are always making breakthroughs. We will have more in the next 10 years than we have had on the last 30," he said in an exclusive BBC interview.
For breakthroughs, read patents.
Non, non, mes amis!
;)
The column is tres formidable. Francois! bring a bottle of the Gevrey Chambertin '98 so that we can sit and talk about how marvelous the cheesey writing formula is!
In Windows, they just double clicked an EXE and the thing worked! BIG DIFFERENCE GUYS!
Yeah, then they realise they just installed a fricking virus/trojan/spyware (or rather, they probably don't).
Personally I have never suffered a virus infection or lost any time to expunging spyware or whatnot from any system I have administered. Well, expect deleting virus laden crap from my mailbox sent by clueless people who think that someone loves them and has chosen to display it by sending a blatantly titled email.
Yeah, maybe there's some inconvenience by having to spend an hour trying to figure out that I have to follow a series of steps to get something to work, but it's more than made up for by not having to spend a couple of hours de-lousing each and every machine I have to look after.
I, too, curse when the new distro I just installed won't play an mp3.
:)
But, then I remember this is not a technical problem, but an IP problem.
If you're not paying anyone for the software then expecting them to take the heat for patent violations rather than yourself would be a bit rich. Not a dig at you I must stress, but thems the breaks with FOSS.
I just remeber to take my statically linked mplayer binary with me from system to system so I can play mp3s, aacs and most videos at the drop of a hat. Then I just add the big zip of binary codecs for most everything else
I'll bet Marcel chuckled when he realised the poster had spelled his name wrong. What's the chances of that happening!
From da sig ....
Because you can't spell "slaughter" without "laughter"
And you can't spell Man's Laughter without Manslaughter!