Definitely. Nice sound quality at least for listening at home (on my PBG3), and I bet even better with stuff like AudioSport. Plus you can put all yer crap on the iPod.
I've seen many a DJ with a PB as well as the turntables; and a friend of mine who runs a small recording studio uses a G3 desktop and a PBG4 with excellent results.
Mr. Perlman takes an engineer's pride in
describing the company's solution to the
problem of converting the contents of
compact discs into MP3 files that can be
stored digitally.
Moxi has designed a specialized device,
which would be rented to consumers on an
hourly basis, that uses powerful
microprocessors to convert 100 CD's an
hour and store them as digital files.
He said Moxi had taken significant pains to
protect the digital rights of music and video
content producers. The system uses
cryptography extensively to place barriers
against illegal sharing of copyrighted
material, the kind of trading that got the
Napster music-swapping service into legal
trouble.
NYTimes talked today about how this would address the "problem" of MP3 conversion by somehow limiting MP3s to the box itself. Which of course makes it useless.
Meanwhile my Mac+iPod works fine. And DVD players are, what, $150? I don't see why this is of any value.
DVD City sells them. Here's one by Daewoo. More expensive than a plain old region one, but it works with NTSC and PAL, or so they say.
Friend/Foe and Moderation: Suggestion
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I doubt that this will be implemented, but here it is anyway: Friend/Foe should be disabled while moderating. Comments should be moderated based on their quality, not whether you're someone's freak.
Also, in that vein: there should be one-button view preferences (-1, Nested, Newest First) for moderation. Too often the +3s get modded to +5 while the interesting, new AC comments are ignored.
I make political speech all the time. On slashdot and elsewhere. I am very active in politics in San Francisco, often in direct opposition to our elected leaders. Never have I been harassed in any way for this speech.
Maybe it's because I don't smash Starbucks windows?
John, I love ya, good article, Ukraine is right, BUT:
Massive loss of privacy != POLICE STATE.
In police states they throw you in jail for political speech, shoot you randomly, whip you with a rattan cane, cut off your hands, etc, usually in a highly arbitrary fashion. This is NOT what is happening here. Claiming that it is severely weakens your case.
Developers/publishers have the option to release their expired/retired/obsolete code. I personally think it's a good idea to release it, and under a relatively free license like BSD, but it's really up to the publisher.
BrettGlass' objections to the GPL are just that - GPL specific. Really this is easy to work around; (1) if you don't like GPL, don't release it that way; and (2) if you don't like GPL, don't use GPL code, including obsolete code. The publisher can and should decide which way (GPL or something else) is better.
What I don't see is the downside. What possible harm could come from code being out there? Sure, it's harmful to competitors, but so also is newly written GPL (or BSD, or...) code that's out there, free as in beer/speech, and in any case protecting competitors shouldn't be our business.
If it's bad for the publisher, for example if it increases support costs or cannibalizes sales of the current product, then of course the publisher may choose to trash it. But if it isn't, there's zero (0) harm to anyone else, so let's encourage this behavior!
Fuck that. Hundreds of mp3s on my iPod, more as soon as I get around to ripping them, and they want me to use an incompatible format? I suppose their license required it, but it sounds to me like it's being set up to fail.
MP3 is the standard, end of story. It's as much a standard as CD is. People will switch to.NAP, WMA, or even OGG... oh, I dunno, just as soon as they switch to DVD-Audio, which will be well after we are all dead.
The immediacy of online raving and ranting encouraged a perpetual, streaming critique of Ion Storm. Flame Thrower and Bitch-X were the most nasty and vociferous gossips, running daily doses of rumor, innuendo and even fact. It's a typical media paradigm: put somebody on a pedestal and then kick it away. Their venom made the news irrelevant; the point was to bring down Ion. Everybody at work read these critics, argued or agreed (or perversely sent them the inside scoop), and the attacks didn't contribute to an optimistic
environment.
I was disturbed by the hate and bitterness on the message boards.
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I've seen many a DJ with a PB as well as the turntables; and a friend of mine who runs a small recording studio uses a G3 desktop and a PBG4 with excellent results.
From the NY Times:
Mr. Perlman takes an engineer's pride in describing the company's solution to the problem of converting the contents of compact discs into MP3 files that can be stored digitally. Moxi has designed a specialized device, which would be rented to consumers on an hourly basis, that uses powerful microprocessors to convert 100 CD's an hour and store them as digital files. He said Moxi had taken significant pains to protect the digital rights of music and video content producers. The system uses cryptography extensively to place barriers against illegal sharing of copyrighted material, the kind of trading that got the Napster music-swapping service into legal trouble.
Forget it.
Meanwhile my Mac+iPod works fine. And DVD players are, what, $150? I don't see why this is of any value.
Not much of a dot com auction then.
DVD City sells them. Here's one by Daewoo. More expensive than a plain old region one, but it works with NTSC and PAL, or so they say.
Also, in that vein: there should be one-button view preferences (-1, Nested, Newest First) for moderation. Too often the +3s get modded to +5 while the interesting, new AC comments are ignored.
You mean someone everyone tags "Foe" and ignores? That's certainly true.
What DVD-Region is Middle-earth?
Does anyone, anywhere listen to that? Just asking.
Maybe it's because I don't smash Starbucks windows?
I agree. Massive loss of piracy is not something we want, for all the reasons that it's bad on its own.
Massive loss of privacy != POLICE STATE.
In police states they throw you in jail for political speech, shoot you randomly, whip you with a rattan cane, cut off your hands, etc, usually in a highly arbitrary fashion. This is NOT what is happening here. Claiming that it is severely weakens your case.
BrettGlass' objections to the GPL are just that - GPL specific. Really this is easy to work around; (1) if you don't like GPL, don't release it that way; and (2) if you don't like GPL, don't use GPL code, including obsolete code. The publisher can and should decide which way (GPL or something else) is better.
What I don't see is the downside. What possible harm could come from code being out there? Sure, it's harmful to competitors, but so also is newly written GPL (or BSD, or ...) code that's out there, free as in beer/speech, and in any case protecting competitors shouldn't be our business.
If it's bad for the publisher, for example if it increases support costs or cannibalizes sales of the current product, then of course the publisher may choose to trash it. But if it isn't, there's zero (0) harm to anyone else, so let's encourage this behavior!
(A .com in my building "moved out" just before Xmas - 100s of Herman Millers went into the rent-a-truck. Glad I wasn't an investor.)
Still05
Whatever.
Still06
Beta software.
Still07
Whatever.
Still08
Whining.
Why respond in detail when you can comment like this?ây
I was sick of all those static web pages and mailto forms on movie websites.
Try crapster
I suggest "Wake Up"
MP3 is the standard, end of story. It's as much a standard as CD is. People will switch to .NAP, WMA, or even OGG ... oh, I dunno, just as soon as they switch to DVD-Audio, which will be well after we are all dead.
I was disturbed by the hate and bitterness on the message boards.
Doesn't read Slashdot, does he?
I love how they don't list the dates of the big domain name sales. Wasn't Drugs.com sold like 3 years ago?
Microsoft's server market share is at its highest level ever, with much of the increased share coming from Apache.
... which is why the OSDN toolbar remains in common use, despite slashdot users' grousing about it!
Depends on how many partners you have.
(P.S. I don't actually care about VOD, let alone (shudder) interactive TV - DSL is enough for me, but I'm not the tv fan that some here are.)