I have two questions:
* Do you use Apple's AAC encoder for both of the AAC styles or only the one going to iTMS?
* Have you seen hydrogenaudio.org's listening tests, especially the last multiformat test here? http://rjamorim.com/test/128extension/results.html
I don't think even MS could afford to give away free music (or very cheap), but even if they did, people are stupid and attracted by shiny objects. MS hasn't shown themselves to be as good as Apple at industrial design, so they'd have to overcome that.
It's only three at once. As long as you deauthorize your old computer first, you can transfer to three new ones.
Personally, I don't take Downhill Battle seriously on iTMS since I saw their first page about it. There was a graphic recommending people download using giFT/Poisoned (which gives artists zero cents) instead of buying from the iTMS (which gives artists whatever the RIAA gives them).
Also, have there been any public statements from actual RIAA artists, instead of random internet websites, on not being paid enough? I don't recall seeing any.
I said "realized"; since MS hasn't started a store yet there's no way to judge how well their approach will work.
There's a definite market difference between selling a music player and an Xbox, since the Xbox has its own games, but iTMS and MSMS will sell most of the same music. I can see going down to 79c, but at that price I don't think most people will care very much. It would probably depend on whether whatever player MS makes is as good as the iPod (and doesn't violate any of Apple's UI patents on it).
Why would they do that? It's not illegal to use a public QuickTime API (BeginFullScreen() in this case). "QuickTime Pro" only unlocks a lot of extra features in QuickTime Player.
For instance, I wrote this fullscreen tool.
This is known as the "analog hole"; no, there's nothing you can do about it, but their assumption is that people won't accept the loss of quality.
DVD reencoding to lower bitrate MPEG-4 (or VCD.Shitty.Movie.INCREDIBLYMACHOANDLEETGROUPNAME.a vi.vbs.exe.mp3.txt as the case may be) is sort of an analog hole (just cracking the CSS and burning to another DVD-R isn't); so is burning an iTMS song to CD and reimporting it.
GCC is capable of optimizing divides by constant integers, but nothing else. Also, AltiVec has a very fast float-to-int method which we used in the LAME Altivec patch (which I still haven't submitted because of changes in the upstream; I have some binaries if asked).
There's a great thread about optimizing here at Ars Technica.
Also, Shark is great.
The library is actually called "KWQ", and it's a bridge between things like QString and the Cocoa stuff that does the same thing. WebKit handles the UI, I think.
At the beginning, I think the idea is just to get the apps running on QT/Mac effectively. (KDE already links into OSX's printing, since that uses the open-source CUPS, although it still uses its own GUI.)
BTW, your email address seems to have stopped working, and I need to ask you about someone (xoot) who I think you knew and seems to have vanished off the Net.
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Why are you quoting free? Just because you personally can't use it doesn't mean it's not free.
MPEG-4 Part 10 (AVC or H.264) is in no way mediocre or obsolete. It just hasn't got any implementations :(
WMA 9 Pro is certainly better than MP3.
I have two questions: * Do you use Apple's AAC encoder for both of the AAC styles or only the one going to iTMS? * Have you seen hydrogenaudio.org's listening tests, especially the last multiformat test here? http://rjamorim.com/test/128extension/results.html
It's not like you're helping people learn about legal free use either.
Me? I don't dance because I can't dance, though..
Why, oh why, do so many denounce warez while a conspiracy of silence remains on the subject of murdering?! Am I the sole voice crying in the wilderness??
Because they are the ones who made the stuff that the warez groups are distributing.
I don't see how this fits into "Your Rights Online". I don't think it was ever expected that we had the right to be in a warez group....
I don't think even MS could afford to give away free music (or very cheap), but even if they did, people are stupid and attracted by shiny objects. MS hasn't shown themselves to be as good as Apple at industrial design, so they'd have to overcome that.
Almost all of Apple X11 is in XFree CVS. Also, the Darwin team has several FreeBSD members in it (for instance, the head is Jordan K. Hubbard).
You should also look at OpenDarwin.
It's only three at once. As long as you deauthorize your old computer first, you can transfer to three new ones. Personally, I don't take Downhill Battle seriously on iTMS since I saw their first page about it. There was a graphic recommending people download using giFT/Poisoned (which gives artists zero cents) instead of buying from the iTMS (which gives artists whatever the RIAA gives them). Also, have there been any public statements from actual RIAA artists, instead of random internet websites, on not being paid enough? I don't recall seeing any.
I said "realized"; since MS hasn't started a store yet there's no way to judge how well their approach will work.
There's a definite market difference between selling a music player and an Xbox, since the Xbox has its own games, but iTMS and MSMS will sell most of the same music. I can see going down to 79c, but at that price I don't think most people will care very much. It would probably depend on whether whatever player MS makes is as good as the iPod (and doesn't violate any of Apple's UI patents on it).
And this is the RIAA's problem and not Apple's.
Why would they do that? It's not illegal to use a public QuickTime API (BeginFullScreen() in this case). "QuickTime Pro" only unlocks a lot of extra features in QuickTime Player. For instance, I wrote this fullscreen tool.
And then Apple will release a new iPod.
Apple is about the only one who realized that you can't make money by selling songs only, and are using it to back up their iPod sales.
If Microsoft starts a successful music store it will only destroy all the other competitors (like Napster/Real).
Darwin's Mach has been monolithized. The BSD parts come from FreeBSD 5.x and NetBSD something.
Why are you posting a page about QuickTime 4 (a page that doesn't even render in Safari) while talking about OS X?
You're complaining about Fink being incomplete but not dports? I'm confused.
(Also, did you ever look at the "unstable" tree in Fink?)
This is known as the "analog hole"; no, there's nothing you can do about it, but their assumption is that people won't accept the loss of quality.
a vi.vbs.exe.mp3.txt as the case may be) is sort of an analog hole (just cracking the CSS and burning to another DVD-R isn't); so is burning an iTMS song to CD and reimporting it.
DVD reencoding to lower bitrate MPEG-4 (or VCD.Shitty.Movie.INCREDIBLYMACHOANDLEETGROUPNAME.
GCC is capable of optimizing divides by constant integers, but nothing else. Also, AltiVec has a very fast float-to-int method which we used in the LAME Altivec patch (which I still haven't submitted because of changes in the upstream; I have some binaries if asked). There's a great thread about optimizing here at Ars Technica. Also, Shark is great.
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The library is actually called "KWQ", and it's a bridge between things like QString and the Cocoa stuff that does the same thing. WebKit handles the UI, I think.
At the beginning, I think the idea is just to get the apps running on QT/Mac effectively.
(KDE already links into OSX's printing, since that uses the open-source CUPS, although it still uses its own GUI.)
BTW, your email address seems to have stopped working, and I need to ask you about someone (xoot) who I think you knew and seems to have vanished off the Net.